The evening world. Newspaper, July 10, 1914, Page 10

or, = ey Sa ag » during the day. Every American Would Appre:| ciate the Immediate Adoption of the Metric System by the Athletic Solons. aegy. BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1914. _ YORK LISTEN To ME, GUNBOAT -- RITCHIE LosT WS TITLE WHO SOTA HONS, 2a oed Wena ae Om HE Olympic Committes, having finished its work of compiling two complete acts of world’s Fecords, using in one the English miles and yards and in the other the metric system, publicly declares that in five years there will be no further heed for two sets, as the metric ays- com will be in universal use. Why should we Americans, who claim that progress is our living prin- ciple, wait five yeare? Every American schoolboy knows that the inch, foot, yard, rod, mile system of measurement is absurdly clumsy and that the metric system ts better in every way. The ancient English system of measurement was slowly evolved dur- ing the slow progress from barbarism to civilization, It is a confusing, in- tricate system, as clumsy as the met- ric system is simple and handy. The metric system is the modern system. used in all the countries of the world except those dominated or in- fluenced by England. In time It will be used in all countries, So will the metric system of weights and me: ures, which is vastly better than our complex scale of grains, drams, ounces, pounds and tons, and of gills, Pints, quarts, gallons and barre! If our athletic Solons wish to have the honor of starting an improve. ment which will be appreciated by every Am: n, from sctoolboy to in, they will at once adopt the metric system in athletics. races of 100 metres, 200 metres, 400 metres, 1,000 metres, 2,000 metres, &c., as reer do in Europe, and meas- ure weight throws and weigh the ite metrically, Then, with every lc achoolboy in the land figur- ing metres and grams or kilograms, it won't take long to throw the obso- u em of measurement “Co Olympic Congress to it in five years, The says we're coming Why not do it now? HE Gunboat Smith-Carpentier match bas aroused a wonderful amount of Interest in England. Tickets have been on sale at the Waldorf in London. The Dally Mi ror, commenting upon the match, said on June 26; “By € o'clock last night £700 had been taken in by the booking clerks It now seems prac- tically certain that the contest will constitute a European record as far Jas ‘gate money’ is concerned, if it “does not actually surpass the takings of the Johnson-Jeffries match.” The English critics, after watching Gunboat’s trainin, e of the opinion that the Gunner isn’t very clever, but that he nas a certain fighting shrewd- negs of his own that discounts clever boxing. That's the only way they can explain hig victories over Wells and other shifty boxers. Dick Burge says: “That man is a better boxer than people give him eredit for being. ‘The Daily Mi 2 authority on box- rugged rather easy flow and ri aitiete of quick action, and from h deep set eyes one can appreciate the intelligence of the m In practice the things that impress me are h virility and power. Never was looser muscled, deeper ch fellow than the Americ And on Carpentier: beautiful fighter as a boy. Now he is a boxer and a fighter. We have seen him beat the Bombardier twice, and at the National Sporting Club it was over in a breath almost. But when a few weeks later gave one of the fastest exhibitions at Mr. Bettinson's testimonial that we have ever seen a heavyweight, people said: ‘Now we understand,’ That's why I . Have we yet seen the beat of the in an actual young Frenchman Ogh' ARPENTIER is @ remarkably clever boxer, and more than that. He's the unusual com- bination—boxer-fighter. tm ike Terry McGovern years ago, lining for a knockout from the first blow to the last. He overwhelmed ‘Wells and knocked him out tn seven- ty-three secgnds. He knocked Jea- nette down for a nine-second count in the first round of their recent fight. ‘The Smith-Carpentier fight is likely to be a matter of landing heavy blows rather than of tap-and-get- | away boxing. Whatever h it'll be « thousand times more excit- ing as test than the Johnson- Moran affair, or any other bout of the senson. —<——— Fogler to Race Morrettt, Joe Fogler of Brooklyn will meet Caesar Morretti, champion of Italy, in a| teh race at ol before he ea ©) was 8 professional strong man with « of Italian circus performers They wo in three Of & inile each eee St Seer the Brighton Beacl Nf He plunges | SHON WE AMAN COMING IN TIME To Ducts AND I'te Sow ‘You A KNOWS WHAT'S WORLD'S CHAMPION! HELPFUL HARVEY—HE MAKES A SEER OF GUNBOAT SMITH Copyright, 1914, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World.) GUNNER GAZE INTO THiS CRYSTAL SPHERE AND Sea The MYSTERIOUS 4 Fine! WEN Tuy SEG WHAT KIND oF Pia WERE GOING To Roamer Looks Champion Among Three- Year-Olds After Great Derby Race Must Beat Luke McLuke, How- ever, to Get Undisputed Claim to Title. By Vincent Treanor. ITH Luke McLuke under sus- W picion with cracked heels, Old Rosebud out of commission and Pennant on the shelf temporarily at least, Andrew Miller’e Roamer feems in a fair way toward the three- year-old championship this year. However, this doesn't go if Luke M Luke's heels get fixed up, for the writer holds to the opinion that Roamer must meet and beat the Shorr colt to be acclaimed the cham- pion. Up to the running of the Brooklyn Derby, Roamer wan regarded simply ‘as a star among the sprinters. Nearly everybody agreed he was too sinall @ colt to pack weight and run the han- dicap route with the top notche ‘The aon of Knight Errant and Rose Tree Il. not only did this yesterday to the sur- prise of those outside his immediate connections, but he accomplished it in a manner that made him stand head and shoulders over thone who op- posed him, He might have won the | same way with Luke McLuke in the race too. the contest is never over with him Until the finish is reached. He is al- Ways putting forth his best efforts, and as Trainer Tom Healey saya, “You never have to worry about Joe not doing the right thing. Butwell is of the McCahey type. His rid Ww id Sun King y id his finishes on nd on Belle of Mawr last Thursday, when a less energetic ride on his part would have meant victory for Sonny Boy. Turner has bad few opportunities since Conning Tower injured him by crashing through the fence at Bel- mont Park, but he has made the most of them, McCahey had three mounts y day and won them all. Butwell had four engagements and finished first on three of them. Between them they el 1d the card. Incidentally Me- 's three winners made him the leading jockey of the Aqueduct meet- ing, with 18 winners. Buxton is sec- ond with 17 and Butwell third with 14, Kaskaskia, the Yankee-Kiamesha filly which was beaten by Watertown in the last race, was handed out as tho hottest thing of the day. It is said she had outworked Phosphor, the Schuyler Parso. colt which won the last race Monday; 1 to 2 was con- sidered a good price againat her. If! Trainer Karrick had ridden his son Kenneth instead of Buxton the filly might have had a successful debut. Scallywag is a regular scallywag with light weight up and McCahey on his back, and the ride he got to beat Agylade was perfection. Somebody asked Walter House in the paddock before the third race it Faithful would stay in at the turn. “If you could assure me that she Originally this work w: believed to | would, Lr geet pe. I'd give | in| You @ good piece of money.” House | have been # mile and ® quarter, also added that if the filly would not 2.08, It afterward got down to 2.06) run out there would be no finish, #0 and finally to 2.05. We don't know | far off would she win. which he really did, but we do know that in the actual race he ran the mile and a quarter in 2.05% over a dead track, won by eight lengths and looked if he could have gone on and layed down an extra six furlongs in 1.18 flat. That single performance makes Roamer compare favorably with any man's horse, and perhaps it is just as well, for the sake of Pen- nant's reputation, that he ts on the sholf at present, Luke McLuke ran a mile and a quarter in Kentucky In Rumors of exceptionally fast work} by Roamer were responsible for his being made an odds-on favorite. Frank Bryan after straightening out all the dates and arrangements for the hunt club meets took a day off and ran down to Aqueduct. Every. body who knew him mitted Frank in @ gladsome way. First of Canoe Trials To-Day ‘The first of the trial races to pick 2.02 this spring, but there are no/® sailing canoe to defend the inter- means of comparing hin performance | national trophy will be held in Graves- with that of Roam: in the Derby. | end Bay to-day. Five candidates, Leo Friede, James W. Newmat an D. Hi Many a race is lost by overconfi-| Murphy, J. Meycra and F. Walters | dence on the part of the jocke | ir. will likely start their canoes in the it seems that Jockey Buxton preliminary races. Trial contests will ficted with s kind of a b also be held to-morrow, | ‘The races will be held off the club- La Un Prat ance Re te Past | noure of the Marine and Field Clay at the foot of Bay Thirteenth street, as far as he and his mount are con-| Beach The international tac ee ete cerned, He seems to relax his efforts | held over the same course next Friday | then, The day that Polish beat Gaelic | and Saturday. Friede, who successful Puxton, sailing along in front on the| defended the trophy againat Ralph H. brown volt, started to look back at| Britton Inst year, hopes to have a Turner on Polish when he was four chance to sail against the same lengths in front. The result was that | ‘ballenger next week, Guello, evidently thinking his end of) eereeene ag rrrrenerene eufell tw Sell Polo Po {the job was finished, stopped under | huxton, With Azyaide it was much| LONDON, July 10.—Three of the k the same, only not so strikingly 8c.) polo pontes which helped the British | Many en thought the jockey | t international match are tossed this race away, thinking he|to t ttersall’s next Monday. | was winning by @ safe enough mar-| ‘The elocity, Gozo and Flying gin, only to be caught at the post by| Cinders, and all are the property of F. the ever riding out MeCahey. Grenfell. Aivonather there, will be ex | On the Oneck Stables’ Kaskaskia ponies sold, White Sox. Dig sailed Huxton's bump was again in eviden the Jeighth pole with a three length lead, |the jockey evidently thought every- thing wae staggering behind him, and began to ‘easy ride” the filly the rest of the way. This time Butwell caught | up and with 9 hing - Dene —— ranges lalongside of him before he knew It. Kaskaskia couldn't be rearouset in| ‘The Pir lost to the Phillies, | time, and as a result Watertown won| to 0, because of Tincup's effective {the race, in which Kaskaskia should) pitching. ‘The losers only made five ‘have “walked home” had Buaton gony| hits, of which Hans Wagner banged Psinclbibaenteabcuall BASEBALL NOTES. Sam Crawford registered a single, a double, a triple and a home run in the two games at Philadelphia, L . chal + te BG pith WRB: 8 8 lab. I. 5, Club, x. $ eH ‘burgh, rooklyn. . Kas Pit § ONAL LEAGUE. ; New Yor Clocinnatt, 6 nya 4. ¢ a tmdtanerolies’ v.11 tmaings 5 Bt. Louis, O. puiao"at 7 St “3 noridence 40 RESULTS OF VESTERDAY'S GAMES SCHEDULED FOR 70-DAY. | Ciup. AM, wW. Phila obia 44 pation t GAMES. AMEMIUAN LEAGUE, eveland, ir tle Becond gut | i} | | | | 1 j Hoenester, 1. Rint game. Rochester, 0. Second game. AMEIUCAN LEAGUE. nd at New York, Amy gamen, LEAGUE. \ ; ens Local Lightweights Practically Matched to Box 20 Rounds at Vernon July 28. By John Pollock. OHNNY DUNDEE and Leach J Cross, the local lightweights, have practically been matched by Tom McCarey, the Western promoter, to meet in a twenty-round bout at the open air arena of the Pacific A. C. of Vernon, Cal., on the night of July 28. Cross was to have fought Jimmy Duffy of Buffalo on that date, but as the latter hurt his hand and was com- pelled to call off the bout, McCarey offered Dundee’s manager the match and he has as good as accepted it. If the bout is held the winner will be igned up to fight Joe Rivers on or about Aug. 11. Instead of losing weight while train- ing for his contest with Georges Car- pentier in London on next Thursday night, Gunboat Smith, the American heavyweight, has taken on several pounds, will enter the ring weigh- Ing about 186 pounds, which will be about ten pounds more than the French champion. The American jackies at Vera Crux time there on July 4, for thelr number, Soldier Simpson, Seventh Infantry, met Jim Smith, champion welterweight of Mexico, in a ten-round bout and knocked him out in the sixth round. Uncle Sam's fighters were so elated over Simpson's victory that they carried him on their shoulders through the streets of Vera Crus. Tommy Walsh, manager of Joe Mandot, the New Orleans lightweight, ‘a in'a letter that Mandot will be 9 of the principals the first twenty-round bout to be held in New Orleans under the new law and that Dundee to Take Duffy’s- | Place Against Cross Willie Ritchie, the American lights! weight champion, will be made # big, lees to fight him: |, From # source which Is reliable it is jltarned that Iredale Welsh, the j Norid’s lightweight champion, intends to make this country his home after the first of the year and that he ex- pects to locate In Los Angeles, Cal., where he owns some property. Two clubs hold shows to-night. At the New Polo A. A., Dick Stosh of; Cleveland will take on Johnny Martin, | the east side lightweight, in the main | event. At the Brown A. C. of Far! Rockaway, Willle teecher will hook up with Eddie Fitzsimmons of York- ville in the star bout. Billy Gibson, manager of the Stad-! jum A. C,, announced to-day that wo has decided to match the winner of| the Joe Jeanette-Battling Jim John. | son ten-round bou: which takes piace at his club next Wednesday night, with Sam Langford of Boston for ten rounds two weeks later, Young Mike D: van, who is box- ing in the best form of his career at present may be matched in a few days to fight elther Mike Gibbons or George Chip in a ten-round go ut show to be brought off by the Sta jum A, C. on the night of July 22. Billy Gibson has wired both Gitbon: and Chip good terms to box Dono- | van, A match was clinched to-day be-| tween Johnny Harvey, the Harlem/ lightweight, and Danny Ridge of the lower cast side. They will clash in a ten-round windup contest at the néxt show of the Rockaway Beach |! A. C. on next Tuesday night. Philly McGovern, brother of the famous featherweight Terry Me- jovern, will get another ch:.nce to show his skill in a bout to-morrow | night. He will tackle Kid Sullivan in the main go at the Bergen Beach Sporting Club, ‘Tommy Rowan and Eddie Moran box in the other ten. round bout. ‘The Giants have now lost four straight games, their latest defeat be- ing after a thrilling struggle of thir- teen innings against the Cardinals, The Braves cid the New Yorks # ood turn by beating the Cubs, which foot the latter from gaining more headway in their fight to the top. Heinle Zimmerman, the Bronx boy, fs having his troubles with the Cubs this season. He has just received hig second three-day suspension of the year, and by way of rubbing it in Manag Day has fined him $50 in addition to compelling him to go un- on about his busines out three There are juat four Jockeys here- | | about who seem to take their calling riously these days, They are Me- , Butwell, Turner and Tommy | Davies. The latter boy rides few mounts outside of thono of his em- | ployer, Capt. . but The Brookfes are jubilant be- se of their suce 8 Against the from whom [they won four st Bakes hs TRANSFER DESI A set of ten embroide inet ‘ree % leg over @ borne, whet! lieu etake event or @ race, ten of next The Pittsfeda play at Brooklyn to- paid while he ts laying off. The Pirates have signed Pete Fal- ‘gey, who has played in the Yale out- |fMeld for two seasons. He'll join the {elub at once, Manager Dunn, \Internationals. cor.tinues to sell his atara. The Red Sox just grabbed three from him--Pitchers Ruth and Shore and Catcher Egan. Putting ’Em Over the Piate { of the Baltimore Koestner to San Francisco of the Pa-| cific Coast Leagu Tie Tigers have now won just rel many games as the Athletics, but have lost five more. This sure is an unfortunate year for Ty Cobb, the Tigers’ star, His record this year is just an alterna- tion between accidents and injuries. While practising in Philadelphia yea- terday he ran into @ wall and hurt his head, which will keep him out several days longer, He was about ready to return to the game mixup with the butcher troit. ] | It must burt Cobbs vanity to see his club win both ends of a double- | header from the world’s champions without bis services. It was Eddie Cicotte’ the r the White | Rox what proved to be the winning ‘run in their third straight victory over the Red Sox. Cicott A Another Double-Header To-Day Just Because Hartzell Lost Teniper & A Whole Afternoon’s Work|*'te-out is new stuf hereabouts. r, co - Th is hard fe e 4 Wasted Through Roy’s Smash | maiser ana Hit Dineen this mornin, Th Ti Al G Sita i. we come about by Fritz > a, ya i ieking ill’s whiskbroom out of at Tied Up Second Game. |e igen Ump was about jto brush off the Plate. Fritz. w: very angry about an alleged atrike -, teat had been called 4 him and as By Bozeman Bulger. he dared not kick he vented his SUDDEN fit of jealousy, envy| wrath on the little broom. As Bill and even rage seized Old Man| would ri uch for | Frits would kick Roy Hartsell after he had seen | (Fulh and the crowd was t tani erry Turner also a vet ot tone ke book on when Bill would get to it when the umpirial dignit standing, clean up the bases with al could stand no more, : vated three-sack smash, He could hardly| He didn’t say he would punch Fritz wait his turn. in the nose, but when Bill stuck out von if Lean't win myseit Pi not {D8 Underjaw hy mumbled something {that must have been important, fc let that guy win," said Hoy, dog-in-) Maisel it kicking that loom the-manger. and in a @gimilar| 4 ound rig... then and ther> and kept manner he smote the ball in behalf of /"%'.Mty quiet the rec: of the after- the Yank cause, tying the pi noon, It 18 feared they will n tune UP} be friends again. e ks in a double bow knot, where it re- mains to this moment. When Outflelder Graney dropped a Now see what has happened to us| fly ball in the second inning of the Just because an ola friend could not Bre sacs sod i ia bites ig i > ss m the Clevelan: nel control his temper: They played the/inat’ joe Birmingham fined him $25 thing until it got too dark for Bill! This seemed to take all the heart out Dineen to see Fritz Maisel—Fritz be-|of Graney in the cecond affair, and ing the smallest thing on the grounds, |/he struck out once with the bases that has become the standard test forl run” if it is Birmingham's policy to . EDITED B ROBERT EDGREN jcame the case. | Lajoie combinatt umpires—and here they are going to do it all over again to-day, A whole afternoon's work was wasted, every- bedy missed their dinner and tho double-header hasn't been decided yet. Operations are resuming at 2 o'clock, but not where they teft off last night, as was the case in tne famous Philly- Giant game last summer. No, indeed fhis one is going ro start all over again amid loud acclaim from telegraph operators and the peanut bcys, they being the only part of the equipment that gets extra pay for double time, ‘The Naps are going away from here in the cellar, no matter what happens, but, as Joe Birmingham says, with ithe full Knowledge that a lot of base bail had to be played before such be- en if the Jackson- should make +a double killing to-day the Yanks will still have their heads an inch or so above the surface with plenty of breathing space for a day. In case we should take two Chance and his men can pack up their things and ricve right along up the ladder with- out immediate molestation, We might game and 6 have won that second ved all thin trouble if Birdie Cree hadn't worn himself out ning the first o After taking 2k at two pitchers in one inning and then spoiling the delivery of young Mr. Morton in @ succeeding round Birdie was tuckered out and couldn't do a thing toward helping Hartzell capture the second. But he promises to be freshened up to-day, Which will be entirely satisfactory All that stuff in the twilight battle was a waste of time, anyway. > © One of our baseball actentists showed conclusively a year or #0 ago that the system of winning the pen- nant is to Ket the greatest possible number of runs out of the least pos: fible number of hit and this ft look awful bright for Frank Chance. Ip one inning yesterday his athletes Ecthered six rons on two hits which, Sccording to all calculations, Is a little fetter than bo-ie, In that inn g— [itwas the harvest round of the first game—Charley Mullen even scored a run with a strike out and started the rally, Not only did he reach first fafely when O'Neill let the ball get away, but went tight on to second, \Muties, being a newcomer, ;robably does not know that a two-base A Secret Recipe Known only to Lea & Perrine has made the famous LEAcPERRINS: SAUCE THE ORIGINAL WORCESTERSHIRE Unequaled, and the World's Greatest Fish, Condiment, Try it on Soupe, Fish, Sold by Grocers Everywhere the} fine players for making crrors we can now understand why they are hav- Ing so much trouble keeping away from that cellar. It's all right to fine a man for pulling a “bone,” but ;for the mere dropping of a ball—well it may not be any of our business, anyway. Out in the Texas League the Austin successive defeats by dropping twen- | ty-six games in a row. Not that they have any Intention of going after the | mark, [note that the Giants have dropped four, and there is plenty of room. | Fritz Maisel's greatect value to a Ing, is his ability to draw throws to the bases, He made Steen throw to catch him off first eight or nine times in one Inning, and then had the pitcher's’ goat s0 com- plet that a wild heave resulted and Frits landed on second. ‘Two major league races are begin- ning to tighten up in a way to dig up a lot of interest that was said to be dying recently, The Tigers trimmed the Athletics twice and the White Sox have beaten the Red Sox three in a row. In the National League the Giants have los’ four, the Cubs two and Pittsburgh three, ‘We may see Carroll Brown In there this afternoon. LITTLE CIGARS ine paccage brany aunerin= auality AT ALL DEALERS Te 1S: Club has tied the world's record for} but it may be of interest to) ball club, outside of his base steal-| REDS AND DODGERS HANG UP SAME SCORE AS ON OPENING DAY This Time, However, Brook- lyn Boys Carry Off the Bulk of Honors. Special to The Bening World.) | CINCINNATI, July 10.—Hattle 2 of the Red-Dodgers series wi duplicate of No. 1 as to the final score, but Brooklyn was on top this time, the Jinx of Reulbach proving, tor # wonder, not powerful enough to knock him out of @ victory, probably be- cause he’ was derricked in the thick of the atruggle. Reulbach had the Reds nicely stopped and giving @ fine imitation of Siberian serfs until the fourtr jstanza. Then, after two were gone, j Ed's regular jinx overtook him and |bit him on the wing. The tall and |soulfur Mr. Reulbach gays he was handed a gigantic citron by the um- ‘pire—that he had Groh struck out, | but the erroneous bark of three balls was heard, after which Groh lammed {a single. A pass to Hobby ensued; \then Dr, Miller poled afar, accumu- | lating three bases and driving in two (people. La Ross fell on the globule jwith violence, and tn came the Doe. After which they troubled Ed no more | tll he was derriched in favor of @ pinch batsman. Douglass had things as pleasing as in Oriental banquet till the sixth. Then he walked Dalton, and Hoblitzell dropped Doug's assist on Wheat. Cut- shaw was futile, but Stengel delivered a slap that took Dalton over. In_the seventh the telephone rang for Mr. Douglass insistently. After McCarthy had fanned feebly, Elber- feld extractial a pass while acting aa pinch performer, vice O'Mara and Hummel cirelet, then Douglass him: er Dalton's ladylike bunt. Hi 'y Wheat and Cutshaw followed, and four runs were in, when Mr, Douglasa went away and Yingling checked his |formes pals. Hits by Herzog and Niehoff and a long fig scored one of the Reds in tha eighth. In the ninth, with Jack Rowan pitching, Brooklyn got one that proved of exceeding value, Hummel triple and Egan's single being respot sible. In the ninth Mr. Twombly, ja a new uniform and a halo of popu- larity, clubbed for three eacks and scored on a pinch biff by Bergham- mer, after which the tumult died and it ended, with the Reds etill one run rh; ‘Straws '/, Price | All $2.00 straight brim 12 Please Remember — Every hat in this sale is from our , own stock and the reduction is made only because we do not want to | carry over any straw hats, The same care is taken to see that you get the | proper style and fit, just as though we made a profit on the hat. $ Now RACING Empire City Track BET, YONKERS & MT. 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