The evening world. Newspaper, June 15, 1914, Page 12

UP-TO-DATE FULL OF NEWS The Result of Saturday’s Polo ~ Game Was the Greatest Sur- prise Ever Slipped to Uncle Samuel. AND < ~ Coowrtynt, 1934, by The Pree Fubiishing Co, v ew York Evening W ) T looks very much as if England! would have revenge this summer for the many hard knocks we have @iven her (in a perfectly sporting | Manner, old top) during the past ten Years. The result of Saturday 10 @ame was the greatest surprise ever | slipped to Uncle Samuel. Two to one on in the betting, the American team was beaten with such ease by * the fleet and skilful Britons that the game was entirely one-sided, Lord Wimborne said a few days, Ago that the team having the best, * ponies would win. This was thought to be an alibi. But, if anything, the English ponies were better than the American. In every chukker, from ret to last, the English outfooted @howed the superior speed of the English ponics, Wut perhaps they shad superior speed because they car: ried an average of ten pounds per | man leas weight, ‘That weight matter, by the way, @idn't prove an advantage, us ex- * pected. When Harry Payne Whit- yi Bey was on the field last year, hurry- fmg and driving his teammates at top speed every second of the time, using @uperior strength to override oppo- tion, the weight may have helped, t in the gume played Saturday it @ handicap. The English players took the ball easily down the neld, from one to ther, an Ei player always t English om the right spot to tap it aiong with Reat little poke, that it's no wonder Americans were half paralyzed ls scored within ‘© of the English Their teamwork was perfect, | rs went ahead or foll back, and @lways to the right point for attack or defense. The Americans were | ir ce Was Most desirable, ‘The Knglish very | , Seldom missed a shot or lost the ball! ‘when they once had ‘it travelling to- Ward the American goal. Tho Ameri- players missed often and over i giding were unable to turn quickly @nough to cover their misses, while Warlably there was a swift moving glishman coming along just in| ; the nick of time to get the bail away ‘Th English ponies were much quicker fn turning and starting. In the matter of dash and deter- ation there was little to choose. the Americans rallied, near the it looked aa if they might hi achance but for the quick # in the first period. But then the h cut loose with a lightning attack and scored twice at the finish Age easily as they had in the begin- | t -mMorrow comes the second game, ‘he American team will have to X much improvement over it» day form if it is to have a t to win, Mr. Whitney i# much not only for his individual ‘ ing but for his generalship. ver, polo is an uncertain and the series is not Jost until | lo q o eS or the other wins twice | the impression that Sir Thomas Lipton’s Shamrock IV, ts likely to give us a hard run for the cup this us. Every long race down the field nd the many gre time. A number of poor matcnes have | "Fp EPORTS from England give us! Fear, too. The only ovata, we are @ure to win in the near future are # tthe baseball “Worlt's Chueh Ahip,” | Played between American teame with | @¥en the Cubans barred, and the track | cigar Try them No Effort or Expense Has Been Spared to make the best | ever offered to the ICCADILLY LITTLE CIGARS ie based * the experiance of years of cigar ing — they are the last ward in lke athletic champlonships, On the track America is still invincible, although from the wonderful improvement shown in various European counter; 8 developed | for different ev not likely to have such a walkover in the Ber | lin Olympics as we've had in other meets, nt OXING came within a single vote | of being barre! in the city of San Francisco a couple of days, ago, The Supervisors voted 9 to & to | revoke all fight permits. Ten votes were necessary to carry. Coffroth and other fight promoters in San Fran- cisco have expected trouble for sume | caused a feeling of weariness to ov come the fight following public, O8 ANGELES Is the boxing cen- tre in California, Ad Wolgast is leaving for that city to-day and will box Rivers there, and, if he wins, Tommy Murphy, Wolgast ts popular on the Coast to-day as when he was champion. Renson--he always does his best. Other boxers take no- tlee, HERE Is quite a little betting on | Moran in Paris, Americags who | have watched the trafhing of both Johnson and Moran agree that Johnson, who has trained down to 215 | pound taking off forty pounds of fat, looks as good ax ever. But they think Moran's youthful stamine will | carry him through. HE intercollegiate rowing races | at Poughkeepsie this year will | probably be the best ever rowed | on that historic Hudson course, Jim | Rice has the best Columbla crew he} ever turned out, and they say Pop ‘ourtney is almost satisfied with the way bis Cornell boats are travelling. Jim ‘Ten Kyck has strong hops of | tuk nother championship with a Syracuse crew, and. Pennsylvania, Washington State and Wisconsin all expect to show more than ever be- fore, whether they win or lose : -—— Reecher Defen: han. Willie Beecher continued his winning streak at the Broadway Sporting Club of Brooklyn, defeating Frankie han K ‘alla f Hrooklyn in the main event artied the fight to Callahan rney at Apawamis, come to be regarded gen- erally an the most impor a fen tlon tournament of the. y Metrooliptan district will le mages on the last three days of this at Apawamis daca: ittle cigar public, art. and be convinced. The AMERICAN “TEAM. [Giants finds them fairly on the way ; toward another, and it looks as if THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JUNE 15,1914. EST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK AT MEADOW BROOK — yyrieht, 1914, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World.) WAS USUALLY Seen FRom THE REAR. When an Ss AMERICAN MISSE! OME ENGLISH PLANE WAS ALWAYS Reapy - EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN ‘You MAKE ie Ont, Pirates to Help Giants Celebrate Winning of | A Third Championship + The New Yorks Have a Commanding Lead for Their Fourth | Consecutive Pennant, and the One Thing Manager McGraw | Has in Mind Right Now Is to Get Them to a Point Where | They Can Beat the Athletics in a World’s Series. ' | By Bozeman Bulger. HE raising of the flag to-day to celebrate the winning of a4 third championship by the rescue of the East, which, in the lon: run, means, of course, ‘the Giants | Three days ago the Reds were within @ game and a half of the lead. To-day they are two and a half awa: T ‘The ball players inte ing streak of the Reds ning of the break expected. ‘They sa worked his few good pitchers too| much, and that he hasn't the second strength to tide him over the bad Spots. If this proves to be a real cracking of the Reds it means a cinch | for the Giants and the loss of a lot of interest in the rac rpret this los- as the begin- at has been long that Herzog has nobody could do anything about it. The Pirates are here to see what a pennant looks like, but they are not nearly so much interested as a month ago. At that time Fred Clarke had his club well in the lead, but when the Giants and Rede came along things happened. If McGraw can win this fourth suc- cessive pennant and break the record he will Mave achieved hia life's am- bition, but @t that he has begun to feel that a mere capture of the pen- nant will not be so much of a merl- torious performance aa it wan a year ago. Notwithstanding the command- ing lead of the champions, the man: ger is far from satisfied with their work. If they do win it may not be necessarily a proof of added strength, but @ result of the other teams hav- ing grown weaker, At the same It ts a tribute to McGraw to know that he has kept his team up to normal strength while other managers have permitted theirs to flatten. ‘The one thing McGraw has in mind right now is to get his team up to a For, perhaps, the first time tn i years the teams ted for third place | in the National Loague have only | been able to break even in their| games. Think of it~ohly two teams in the league have won more games than they have los | In trading Jimmy Walsh back to| the Athletics for Pete Daly Frank | Chance evidently figures that it ts a| case of “heads I win, tails you lose.” | Walsh has been a disappointment as a hitter, the very thing that the Yanks needed, If Daly can hit at ull he can hit better than Walsh, and it| he can't, it doesn’t make any — ence, It's pretty soft, though, for Walsh! to get back on the athletics with an! almost sure chance of cutting in on !the world’s series money, Under the | new rule, you know, every eligible | 1 ' point where they can beat the Ath- | DEW, Put cA an le Ina a series, Nobody | Player must get @ full ahare, The Notas ane re thait the Glants {1ump sum Is not to be given ‘to the! winning players for them to apportion | | Ubut the losing of the World's Cha ete eee et Mdgment. tn the | plonship last fall is what has taken some of the excitement out of hoist- Ing a pennant flag to-day The Giants now have passed the have been given but a fraction of one share, the bulk going to the regulars. | & i Pitcher Schultz of Yanks Jumps to the Buffeds. Two more major lea jumped to the Fed: They are Outfielder Marsans the Reds, who played his first game for the St. Louis Feds yes- terday as a shortstop. He did nothing with the bat and made two errors in the field. ‘The other player to jump is Joe Schultz, the Highlander southpaw, who has gone to the Buffeds. Schultz served Manager Chance with a ten-day notice on June 3. Bid Federals $25,000 Year for Collins CHICAGO, June 15.—Eddie Collins,| caw Polish, the two-year-old son of; mainstay of the Connie Mack infield, has been offered the largest salary ever pald a ball player to play wi the Brooklyn Feds, according to his own statement to-di He adn ed that he is considering the offer, but said he had no Intention of leaving the Athletics until the expiration of his contract next fall. Collins was taken in tow last night by Walter Ward, son of President Ward of the Brookfeds and spent several hours in Ward's company. He would not name the exact figures, but intimated that they reached few thousand above the $25,000 a year offer made to Walter Johnson Walthour Wins 30-Mile Race in Record Time Bobby Walthouf, the American cham- pion pace follower, won the 80-mile tor-paced match race from @ field of picked riders at the Motordrome in Brighton Beach, His time for the dis- tne was 3%.891-5, which will stand as a new American record made behind a Percy Lawrence of San Francisco was half a lap behind the winner for second place; Menus Bedell of Lynbrook, L. L., half-way mark In the Weatern inva-| Notwithstanding aefew days’ bad| was third, and Freddie Hill of Boston sion, and the record is not a thing of | luck, George Burns still leads the Na- | finished fourth beauty. ‘The best that the chaips/ tional League hitters who have played| | Five of the best of the professional could do was an even break with the| in a majority of the games, For 41/ bicycle sprint racers will make their Cardinals and with the Cubs, and| games bis percentage ts Ifam- MVedneatay Lake Ta ae they must finish up with the two|mell of Brooklyn has an rage of race! strongest Western clubs in the league At that, there seems to be a question as to which is really stronger— Pitts- burgh or St. Louis. The Cardinal: this morning are tied with the Pirates | for third place, with a percentage of | 500. ‘This is being pointed out In the St. Louis papers to show that Miller Huggins got the better of Fred Clarke in the famous winter trade. And it looks as if they were right. .856, but he has been tn but 17 games. Pete Daly, the new Highlander, has played in 27 games for the Athiotics and has a batting average of .244, while Jimmy Walsh has played tn 47 gamen and has hit the ball—or failed to hit the ball, as you please—for .209, With the exception of two young- sters—Kantlehner of Pittsburgh and Aitchison of Brooklyn—Old = Man | Mathewson still leads the National | league pitchers. He has pitched | \eleven full games for a winning per- centage of .833. a Baschall, Polo Gronnds, To-Dn: Giants va, Pitteburg.--Ady' In tho mean time the Reds are showing signs of crumbling. on though the Giants have had a disap- pointing experience with the West- erners, the Reds have done even worse against the Easterners, Bos- ton and Philadelphta came to the 30 P.M, heehee LEAGUE. ti ein es Re'uoute, 9b ao “ann i BULL Pitteonreh 38 447 Toronto. 24 22 RESULTS OF YESTERDAY'S GA! NATIONAL LEAGUE, eo scheduled, UL LECT re, 9. 2eeagy. ome " Hitato, i Bt % lanabolle, ii; Pittsburgh, 4, foutresl. 4? GAMES SCHEDULED FOR TO-DAY. NATIONAL LBAGUB MERICAN LEAGUE , bt Rou iow vet rit, Shietan 9 nent oa i , , | Broadway a 9th St. vs Awaeon, erty. champion of the world; Joe Fogler of Brooklyn, who was a member of the winning team in the last two six-day races at Madison Square Garden; Fred Hill of Boston, George Cameron of New York and John Bedell, member of the famous Bedell brothers team of Lynbrook, L. hey will meet In a point race, to be run in three heats, at one mile each, with hu- man pace for two-thirds of a’ mile, Saturday night the first professional championship bicycle race held here in inany. years will be run over the two- mile distance, Kk Kral ' thirteen times American chi Walver Rutt nt world's cham- pio Fred Hill, Alfred Grenda and others already have entered for thi The Bi cap for amateurs also about one hundred starters. The race will be for Brooklyn ridera only and Will be the firat of @ series of apocial Contests for the amateur bicycle racers. 'Madden’s Polish May Be ; g Youngsters al. ONLY HAD ANOTHER: “BAD ere" ENGLAND MIGHT Do au THe SCORING Fast Time Is Reminder of Nov- elty and Sir Martin Impressive Victory in By Vincent Treanor. AS Jolin E. Madden, the wizard i of Hamburg Place, uncovered | another elty, the two-yeur- {old sensation of or a second Sir Martin, the n of 1908 and winner of | This thought | flashed through the minds of many at Heimont Park Satu y when they {Ogden and ‘Lady Glitters, come home | winner in the first event in real race- ‘horse fashion. Folish ran the five i turiongs in 69 seconds. ‘The time has [> ualled only once this season, tand then by James M. Butler's M jion H. the day she t the highly ought of Masquera: yepotieh Won wich ewse after having stood a long drive to cateh Gael th ne regarded ag al [tainty in the rac ‘The victory was the most impressive scored by any wo-year-old so far, and stamps Pole ish irdinary two-year-old if 4 champion to the speedy ellous how Madden, rother Vakabira years b is mar { after giving Richard T. Wilson jr. the [pick of his vearlings and furnishing ther owners with color bearers, is good a bi s he stands able to develop still othe to bear his own silks. A of successful thorough alone. Although many are of the opinion that Haubert was best in the Keene Memorial Stakes urday, eonsider- ing that be was giving away @ lot of weight to his opponents and then lost only by a neck, the writer is of the opinion that Comely would have won the race further off but for the addl- tlon of Marion H, to the fleld of starters. Comrely was ra under restraint, apparently, to let Mario: H. win If possible, and when Mot on Comely saw that the stable mat "t equal to the t aie the purse, ‘The writer be IHieves that as the race war run l@omely could have run over Marion H. at any time after the first furlong, and would have if they had been tn different colors. Gaelic, the chestnut colt by Celt and Belle Fleur, was a trifle short Satur day and may do next time, providing John Madden doesn't start another Polish against him elic was well backed and had he won would have mado the second good thing in two days put by former Jockey over Odom. On Friday all Odom's friends went to Coquette and cashed. They went to Gaelle with tho same confl- dence and, just as it looked as if they were to have a second celebration, along came Polish Little Steward, the negro who rode Amazon home to his maiden victory, js a miniature Joe Walcott and as black as coal. Ho didn't take any chance of being caught by the “white trash” jockeys behind him, but kept riding Amazon until he was past the An ‘Exceptional Chance to Test Arnheim Values!) This may be just the opportunity you’ve been waiting for, to buy a two-piece Suit from fine imported cloths that would seem reasonable at $45 to $50, Made to your measure, styled to your liking and fitted and finished with infinite care, silk lined throughout—this week only— Coat and Trousers, $22.50 Star Amon ish is a! AL MPCOY QUITS JACK DOUGHERTY Danny Morgan Is Now Man- ager of the “Middleweight Champion.” ” By John Pollock. L M'COY, the middleweight A champion, has become a “Fed- eral Leaguer”—that is, he has jumped his old manager, Jack Dough- erty. The Brooklyn fighter ie now under the management of Danny Morgan, as a result of a conference brought about yesterday afternoon by the title holder's father. McCoy broke away from Dougherty, #o it is sald, because Billy Murray, whom he fought last Thursday night, got more money than he did. He thinks tl a champion should always receive a larger share of the purse than his opponent, and for that reason con- | sidered tt poor management that the Californian should “outbox-office” him. Another reason for the change, #0 it is alleged, ts that McCoy claims that he was too ll to fight last Thursday night and wanted the bout postponed, but Dougherty insisted that he should go on with tt. Mor- gan, who made a lot of money for Knockout Brown, who is a boxer who fights after the style of McCoy, with richt foot and right hand extended, thinks that he can improve the | Brooklynt yle and also make many lucrative matches for him, Al Reich, who meets Sailor Fritts of Broo ‘at the Stadium A. C. on . : Thursday night, has won bis last four judges, althougs he had four lengths | wents via the knockout route, He ts | eH SCROT ASU Stataenthe confident that Fritts will be his féth | victim in a row, The men stopped by ‘onny Boy 18 certainly no even Soldier iteacnee ia ie ney horse after his race behind | helen Davies, in one FOUNd: Kil em [followers of horses na bearing w M Fortune Ryan horses. | Carter, jh cheap horses he met last Thursday pointingly then he expressed hope of being in the money Saturday ‘True to his erratic nature, it seems, Campaigner n in layers quoting fancy him ‘The victory of the latter was another source of jubilation for the Irish trainer of the Oak le, otherwise the ‘Thomas thought Dain- gertield had a good chance among the but because the old fellow ran disap- little second with the prices against one round, and in one round, At the Rockaway Beach Athletic ‘ub, which holds shows at Hammels tion to-morrow night, Jack Dri ‘Al McCloskey, the Ne are scheduled to app al event, In the other ten-rounder Eddie Fitzsimmons of Yorkville and Tommy. |Sullivan of Brooklyn are slated to hook up. Walter Mohr and Knockout Brown, the east side boxer, who has had a@ | good rest now, will be the headliners ht tho Broadway Sporting Club gn alert . ye Saturday night. Mohr is regarded an If it Ao sn’'t rain Tuesday or | one of the best Ightweights that Nas nothing happens to interfere with the One Of The ve Klyn in yeare, aad | second Polo match, racing at Belmont Tepresen’: to go some to whip | Park will be started at noon, as it Kye was Saturday, [f, however, rain | im : 1x68 A postponement of the polo 6 Jack Dillon-Hob Moha bout game the racing will begin at whieh waa mupponed to, Bava: talae | usual. place at Butte o} y last, was second victory Progressive stamps Frank | selling plater: —— Local Golfers Play Noble. A of the Huntingdon Valley cludes Wednesday over the course at Noble, Just outside of F delphia, One of the best known ing trophies in the United State: Lynnewood Hall cup, Is at stake. Phi has been up for competition for many ars, but has never been won more ly than twice by any one golfer. | tering to the Fatima blend. For it’s the blend not the package which gives to Fatima a sale totalling ov. 1,500,000,000 a year. RACING To-Morrow (Tuesday finish in time for SPECIAI General Admission, $1. Grand VIRB AR atte. bMo, St In a row for Brown's colt as a very useful horse among the| number of metropolitan golfers | have been invited to play in the four- {teenth annual invitation tournament Country Club, whieh begins to-day and con- club's \TURKISH BLEND CIGARETTES The many imitations of the Fatima package are very flat- At BELMONT PARK Racing Begi Basing gins at 12 noon and will ESTAR ee. pe vuse of some trouble tn ps and will probably urday, For that rem fon the bout between Dillon apd Charlie Weinert at the Broadway Sporting Club for June 23 will prob- ably bave to bo set back a week. postponed be the mining ¢ be held next Manager John Heisler ts staying awake nights planning how he can / get elther Charlie White, Johnny Dundee or Ad V st into the ring with his lightweight, Willie Beecher. The latter has been going along like a streak winning bouts since ‘John the Barber” assumed management of teisler has posted a check of $1,500 with the management of the Broadway Sporting Club as a guar- antee for either of the three boxers mentioned to box the east sider. To-Morrow to attend Polo Game. ind