The evening world. Newspaper, August 15, 1914, Page 6

by the Way the Braves © Ase Walloping the Giants Even f » RACH CROBB may be a vet- Isn't Half as Certain ‘Some People Think. 1814, by The Prom Publiditng Os. (The New Tork World), Boston Braves came down ‘here with a long record of vic- tories over other teams, to play Giants. Naturally it was thought ‘winning streak would come to ‘ But it didn't. The Braves @ Walked away with the first two pee of the series, and now we're ‘where the slaughter is go- te stop. In the middie of the se: it looked as if the Giants would | w@mother easy snap and would | Dost season serivs | ‘with the Athletics, And now, pulled down to four! and the Boston! it the consent of their Have to stay and battle oMicia! war despatch trom 3 ane now known ns heavy; e'll be rapidly piling up ‘avolding punishment.” A “point victory” is expected, HB real, * George Chip again on the afternoon of labor Day in ag where he took Chip'’s mid- fat title away. time it will probably be McCoy” instead of . “Good MeCoy.” While the champion the eorriest possible stow. me a F with Billy Murray in two dode- i Gnd running matches, Chip has been Knockinytoue Sailor Petroskey a whaling +) ly on the Pacific coast. was able to ing left to Chip’s ol ; if McCoy can land! kind of a punch on the) cove he may win; but nly chance. MKE MAZIE ‘s coming up. very rapidly among the light- weights,’ Of course, Mike’ is right nam it's & good mgm ene to fight undet. “Mike's” '& famous Staten Island @ blank account twice Mike's record. He didn’t; to be a fighter, knowing that innkeeping would, ‘be a better business. But) ‘way. He liked fight.) baby he'd nee: nt in . trai and he had @ ¥ that he could beat any of them. ensie At around the cam; t trade when he m busy learning 1.27 lobsters and fricassee He wanted to be Bo after a few successful which he showed quite a he went to Jim Ruc! intimated to Gunboat Smith’ taat there'd be @ lot of mon & lightyeight champion, if Mr. ‘Buckley would kindly 1 experience, champion, ind, where appreciated. Hever, you know. mixes some cleverness in wi a fi ‘ing. In @ short time he will the. other way and fight in| ja, which is the best school | world for @ fighter who wants hia way up to championship! ning. | Be ¥., he's just c fly @ran, but he ehows no sign of “Soy “on the slide.” Leachie ever, judging by his over Joo Rivers, Croas) merve in taking Rivera on| wing been trimmed by him 1 round bouts. The tw { was sure to be decis! te better in @ long fi ‘& short one, especial! who'll fight him inst and running, like Freddy for Marty Brown tn the at the New Fae Athletic |« of York rou rounds by Chick ‘welterweight. r ‘omin, eof the better of Joe @ bout thet went DODGERS DEF jon, merely’ “stay-| naiton,cf.. Daubert, 1b Myers, rf he daylights out of, Whee. Wl. Alexan Bare “— 10. Three-BasesH\ts—-Myers, 2. ae Hite—Dalton, McCarty, rt. Btolen Bases—Dalton, Whevt. Vlay—Goeta to Daubert. hg and Lincoln, and two triples and « WINDBOR, Ont., Aug. 16. tries for Monday's races are as fol- "gb Pure nowerd eel ‘ie f it PHILLIES EASILY NFRST CANE Al McCoy .wit ngne| Visitors’ Pitcher Was Ham- mered for Five Runs in the Third Inning. BROOKLYN. R. H.PO. ‘A. loooe--now NN ONONGew leomsecenae ----ceooce 18 27 PHILADELPHIA R.. H. PO lecosono-u? ~ ee CueHo-e | ewe nnanae = ~ = Firet Base on Halls—Ragan, *, By Struck Out by Alexander, 3. Brooklyn, Sacrifice Hits—Daul {Special te The Evening World.) EBBETS FIELD, BROOKLYN, N.! 16.--Although the Phillies! batted Pat Ragon hard in the curtain! rainer, the Superbas found Alexander Aug. made the! ¥ proposition and era took al nt. The Q early lead but were unable to hold it as the Dodgers pounded out five! ¢, runs in the thrid from #ix hits. M carried off the honoda with a tonal one-hand ns: ab of Magee’ in right Meld in ¢! ingle, WINDSOR ENTRIES, he en eet | Re Tie 4 “a 3s. Chree-s enrol. ant Cas a ry Poly K.. 00; |wame, gettl: tarto mn breat Heit: \three Raga? dt even the Vtaer t} 4 Ditter, He omappn, Ti ii bad hs ies: a Fy " ae site 2 threes az teenth na, Bt E, | service. Philadelphia, Umpires—| Attendance— | yers! long third frame Sti erie owls Improved sience two nets ak | BROOKES HOW LEADS» WLAN IN FIGHT FOR THE DAS CUP (Continued from First Page.) urn. Williams then banged two balls out of court, @iving the Aus- tulian the second game. Brookes yun completely fooled Williams by his service and took the third game 0—0. In three games the defender only got one point, due to an error by; Brookes. (Brookes had little trouble! In handling the American's speedy . Both had many errors In ‘the fourth game. Williams tried har) jto keep Brookes from the net after O)the score went to deuce three times. ppiled off a wonderful nt, aiving him the game, his’ of the net. Brooker, on his opponent's habit of |driving over the base line, captured the fifth game. Williame serving had a lead of 30 Ojlove, when he became wild, making 1|{Wo double faults, Brookes for the {third time mado his service a love *, giving him the first sot a 22 0 Brookes .. .4 444 10 The Australian started the secnnd set with a rush winning the first game Up to this point the young Ameri- can was no match for his older oppo- nent, Brookes atking things easy, had , tue trouble handling the best the | defender could send back over the net. | HEL-LUP! Copyright, 1014, by The Press Publish! Co. (The New York World). 48 Ral Newark . 5 rovidence @t 44 (R@h! Montres i Age BAT Gaal ertely.. BY 49 “Ney Jersey Civ, BA TB “B18 RESULTS OF YESTERDAY'S GAmés. NATIONAL LBAG ft: ‘ork, 3, " Me oe. pcan ow 6. GAMES SCHEDULED FOR NATIONAL LEAGUE, ‘ 4 TIONAL LEAGUE, RY Broo ‘Montreal, 2, TO-DAY. AMERICAN LEAGUE, ont, at Boson. Ht. Lonw, \detphia, oa, 1ONAL LEAGUE. Louis Winans’s Racing. Colors Registered Here —_—— and refused to extend himself at any Fameus English Sportsman to Race His Recently Acquired Two-Year-Old, Polish, in the Futurity at Saratoga. Capt. Cassatt viewed the races alt- ting in a carriage in one corner of the paddock, A broken finger on hia left hand was tied up.and one of his knees was in bandages. The Captain's fall off his saddle horse was quite a seri- ous affatr and he will be on crutches for some time. Evidently the Cap- tain thinks he is still a kid. John Madaen finally saw The Finn win a race here after three attempte. Yesterday the followers of the colt had to take 2 to 6 in the betting mar- ket. Madden says The Finn is not a By V.ncent Treanor: Saratoga, Aug. 15. HE racing colors of Louis Wi- nana of England were regis- tered with the Jockey Club to- T WILLIAMS FIGHTING HARD IN t LAST CHANCE, Brookes for the fuorth time didn’t give Williams a point on his service. Then he caimly broke through the; American's: service and captured the, third game. Once again Brookes, whitewashed Williams on hie service. | ‘The American had made only three) points in four games, The gallery) + continuously applauded Brookes for Nis sensational work. ‘Williams finally won a game when| Brookes netted two ballsdn the fifth. Brookes, however, retalinted by making the sixth a love game, but the veteran Australian came right back and made hin service u love ame, giving him the second set. Points score escond set: Williams 201040 4-0-1 Brookes 444414 0-421 Willa ai the third set well and captured the first game, Brookes driving out two service shot The American couldn't hold his lead, Brookes making the vcore 1-all on the! second game on the defenders errors, Williams, fighting hard won the third on three great placement giving him a love gam (WILLIAMS PYTS UP A NEAT GAME AT LAST. After several spirited rallies Brookes evened the score on the fourth game, |whon the American was too eager to play the side lines. Williams, im- proving, took the fifth game, whea Brookes walloped over the base line for the deciding® point ‘Tho Australian's service still ro- mained a mystery for Williams, and Brookes made the score Sal! by get lting a love game. Williams cam: | back apd forged In the lead on the seventh game, His service was be- ginning to bother Brookes, who made ‘only one point {win “or the first time handled the invaders’ serve in the eighth lead of 40-30, when care and tossed away points, allowing . Brookes ¢ ore in gaines, Wélliams's ‘serving captured the ninth game, Brookes Ketting only a single point, ‘The American's game at th's point immensely over the first ir} in| ae ne | Me ue {he got Williams played best when hardest pressed and he made Brookes fight for v \every point. The Americ as within HY two points of winning the game and ‘inet when Brookes forced the score to ids | deuce. four times and then finally won the hard fought 4 vhen Williams lost on a net and a drive that went 4 now fi Williams had slight revenge when | he took a love game from Brookes, high class horse, but just one of th game, honest animals that ts always doing his best. him right yesterda tempt to wait with him, but rushed him off in front and kept him there, Larry Carey, representative of the Beverwick Stable, and J. BE. Dwyer, owner of the Belle of Bryn Mawr, ternated in bidding up Working Lad after he had won the third race. Working Lad was entered for $1,000, but Carey and Dwyer didn't stop until they had run him up $800 more, when the stable retained the horse with the customary bid of §5 moro. When Working Lad won he apiiled the beans for Fatty Anderson and his followers, who tried to make an old- fashioned cleanup wtih Yadopeep. This filly was bocked down from 20 They are red, white and black. it be carried for the first time in th.s country by the two-year-old Polish in the Futurity, run the last Saturday of the meeting here. ‘ Polish ia the coltitwhich John E. Madden sold to Witians, along with Vanitie, for racing purposes abroad. Vaniti is already in England, but the shipment of Polish has been de- layed purponely, with the Futurity in view and also because of the foreign war trouble Winans is the same sportsman who four years ago bought Sir Martin from Madden in the hope of winning the English Derby. ‘The colt ran in the English blue ribbon event, but fol) ata crucial point, when bis chances of victory looked rosy. i na» peen ambitious to win on word's famous stake with one of his breed, and un! something oes amiss with Vanitle he may see his ambition realized, This colt Mad- | Gen himeelf says was the beat two- year-old that he ever owned: Winans, although 4 renldent. of é y years, is th vere’ hie one of the must of turfists abroad, and if ican-bred horse is to be chiefly day. They wi to 1, in some instances almost clean off the board. She broke from the barrier like a quarter horse and seemed to be winning by reeif at the eighth [Ped when Butwell sud- denly shot Working Lad up on the rail and nailed her in the final six- teenth, Spun Glass is one of Jimmy Rowe's Futurity eligibles. She won her maiden start from a common lot, but she won in commanding fashion and is probably due for bigger things in ders a racing way, en another Amer win the Derby it through his efforts Little Nearer and Easter Star were two good things that went over the plate with precision, Both were heav- It seemed that everybody had a wager down on will yhile this year's Futurity is re- | noe aw usual, as the two-year-old | Clageic of the season, it suffers in im- portance when compared to the Hope- | ful, which will be run at the Spa one \ week from to-day. Nearly every two- Year-old of clase In eligible for the Hopeful, whereas the entries of the Keene bred horses now running in James Butler's colors have been made jneligible to the Futurity through # ecemingly foolish rule that makes void ent the death of the noml- pator, It's a lucky thing in this par lar instance for tbe other nomi- ors, for Butler, would weem itonola hing Futurity hand with Peb- ie iy. iligh. Noon, I Coin # high cliss string. ENTRIES FOR GOLF TOURNEY CLOSE MONDAY. ‘The United States Golf Assoctatton } announced to-day that the time limit for entries of players who intend to compete Jn the amateur golf cha apion pt. 6, pires Monday, with John old, Secretary of the United States Golf Association, No. 70 East Forty-Afth no a bles, Comely, and others of hi are members of players wh clubs belonging to t tion and who are rated on the nation: handicap lint of 1914 wre eligible the championship. All entri must be made through club secretart and must be accompanted by check for $5 as entrance a to when he galloped home jeap, third yest | Ma previous race he had not an ounce Braneed and galloped behind a lot of slow horves in a mile Yester- ay he ran up with the pace In good {sprinting company, and when his | Jockey. Butwell, was ready just rolled my Howek. Benny knocked out ‘Tommy Houck of Philadelp! round of their hia in the seventh round bout at the| have pia Y¥. Ajthe fans _—_—_— Ae ae pete aie. a as hae Micienee THE BRAVES FOR SECOND Y TIME OUTCLASS GIANTS nw Feensn Swe. |Matty ’s Had Long Rest | \ | ' —o The Bostons Displayed Greater Superiority Over Giants in Second Battle Than They Did in First, So if Old} Master Can’t Beat Them It) *#* reauired to decide it, Looks Like “Good Night” to’: National League Pennant for |e New York. j By Bozeman Bulger. | ELL, McGraw will sick the Old Master on to these upstars frpm up Boston way to-day, and if they can tear off the old boy the Giants are quite willing to ad- mit that there is really room for another club at the top. Stallings has been admitting it for some time. Matty has had a good long rest from his baseball as well as his golf and ese made up his mind to look into this matter that has been stirring up Jour town. « ) “They have looked mighty good the | past two days because they have been wetting a lot of hits,” said Matty last night, “and they have had an unusual amount of pep because the New York fans have been pulling for them. York has the fairest minded fans in the world, and they always puil for a hustling club, whether it happens to be home talent or foreigners. But don’t you worry. Tho Braves can't keep this up, and when they do fall they'll fall hard. Just the name, the Braves put it all over the Champs in the second gume and showed as much superiority in class as they did in the opener. Play- ing as they did yesterday, no team, in the world could them. The went at Big Je! they thought him a pitcher just out of the bush. Spitball, faat ball, al one or curve was all ¢ them. In t m-bang battl champions we! imply overpowered. And now what do you suppose they are talking about up in the Brush stadium? They are discussing the chances of the Braves in rid’s series with the Athletics, th all. Yes, sir, the old-timera up there aro now firmly convinced that Stallings is going to cop the National League pennant—when the Giants lose a couple they always feel that way— and those who saw the Braves take the bit in their teeth y lay think y can even overpo' Connie yk. sald im don't ser any three pitchers who have anything on Ru- dolph, James and Tyler. Three ts all we need to win a world's serie ‘ian't any joke, either I tol The best real yell the New York fans got out of the gloom was when the figure 4 was hung up on the scoreboard to the credit of the High- landers, who have been almost for- gotten in the lullaballoo at the Polo Groun Beginning next week, the Yanks will have the board themaelves, and we'll have to see just how well they jaunt in foreign climes. One of the most remarkable plays ever seen on @ diamond was Brscher's catch of @ long fy after it had bounded out of Robd- ertaon’s hands, Maranville hit the ball and it started like a shot between right and centre. Bescher and Robertson both went for it, but Demon Dave got under it, The ball struck squarely in his hands, and bounded tn the air, Beacher happened to be run- ning by just at the right time, and made a fair catch of it, Notwithstanding the rough and turnble doings that kept the old Stadium in an uproar, Umpire Bil! it has been the easiest umpire that ‘There hasn't kick in two da: "poth the Braves and the.Giants have taken the decisions as they came and ied real baseball—the kind — ‘The Braves are sow four and a Even! |carry them, ! And Will Try to Stop Braves in Game To-Day half games behind the Giants, and there is a chance them catching Up on the coming tour of the West. On the jast invasion- the Bostons made a better record than any club in the league, gaining more than four games on the leaders. If they should come back neck and neck with the champs the windup between the East- | ernera will be the best thing we've had since 1908, when an extra Whether the Braves get uny closer @ pennant or not, this has been a big week for Dick Rudo! The Bos- n star, Native of the Bro ven so many presents to get an extra suit case In which to Then, to add to their appreciation of the honors he has brought to the fatherland, they ga him the sult case. In starting on thelr long Western trip the Giants at least have one ad- vantage over the Braves, They get & whack at Pittsburgh first. But right now it, désen't seem to make much differerce to that Boston gang whom they tackle. =e Every time. Big. Bil Jomes pitches a good game Gow. Tener enjoya a quict amile. The Gov- ernor cloima to have been the fan who frst discovered the greatness of the Roston fteirler. Long de- fore the youngater had won a game Mr. Tener declared in an interview, @ year ago, that he was the best young pitcher he had seen start since the days of MacMahone In answer to the much expressed; opinion that the Braves can not stand the strain with but three good pite’ George Stallings saya: *V'd like for you to show me any other team that has more than three. The Giants have kept up there with nobody to depend upon but Mathew son, Marquard and Tesreay, and one of that trio has not done as w either Rudolph, James or Tyler. While rumors m not always be relied upon, it retty well known that McGrew is figuring on a deal which will bring to the Giants one of the best pitchers in the game. Some say the man ts Rucker, but Cha: Ebbets saya no. Unless he succ in getting @ man soon, the Giant manager will start Rube Schauer, Dr. Bert Bell, at one time a \~ ball man down South, came into the preas box with a crash—a crash sult that could be heard all over the park. It ia the Doc's opinion that the Braves will fall down on the coming Western trip. For that reason he was cor- Gially welcomed into our midst. Pitcher Wellman of the Browns weakéned In the ninth and the White Box took away the laurels, 6 to 4, Although only getting seven hits to the Reds’ fifteen, the Pirates won by ‘The winners got a score of 8 1. their runs in clusters of four, game) SPORTIN FISHING EENIF ESS FH SHALL BE CAUGHT New York Anglers Using the Lightest of “Tackles with Success, n of “more sport and less fish" has travelled from the Paciqe coast waters around the Gulf of Mez- feo and now has reached the Atlanuw shores. Incidentally it might be temarked that the East has gone the West and the Gulf one better for Jamaica Bay. which is fished by thousands of New York anglers, harbors a club that fishes entirely for game fish on the lightest of tackle. The gai include the erratic tha In order to win membership tn this club it Is necessary to catch on a light rod one of these species using No. %4 cotton thread to bring the fish to the landing net. Already the membership of the Cot- ton Thread Fishing Club of Americn is close to 160. The largest fish caught so far welghed 6 pounds aad 14 ounces and was taken with a light rod and cotton thread in the hands of Jam 1. Jordan. Mr. Jordan has also to his credit a weaktish of 3 pounds 12 ounces and a third weakfish of § pounds # ounces. Here is the way Mr. Meister tells of the sport of angling with cotton hread: | “Have a light five-foot rod with # flexible tip; the lighter the rod the | better the chances of landing your fish and the greater the sport. “Wind a spool of ordinary 24-thread has been | Spool cotton (6 cents a spool) on a t he had | #mall ree! provided with a light drag and click, “Attach a small hook with a short Single strand leader to a loop at the end of the thread, Weight it with a | tiny piece of sheet lead bent over the thread sbout « foot from the hook. “Then batt the hook with a single |shrimp, a bloodworm or a piece of shedder crab. Cast the hook into the water and slow feed off about 35 feet of line (sometimes 50 to 10 feet), and by gentiy drawing your hook forward with a sidelong motion of yur rod at right sales, you ket the bait ih natural motion,” vhing of game fish on cot- (| haw spread to several other long ago Mr. Cleary and Mr. Meister. jfishing in water from 40 to 50 feet deep, vsing trout rods and cotton ‘thread tackle in the Atlantic Octan. six miles evst of Parmeous Island, off the coast of Virginia, took mullet and weakfish weighing from two to three pounda each. ke the weakfish, the white mullet or “croaker” (the local name) 4i ame, fierce, resisting muscula: yet with trout rods welghin ounces and rangely sinkers y enough to carry the shedder crab bait to the bott nen had no trou. i 1m several dozen fish diu- y's sport. ily each fish would race \ away with yards of the tender white thread and the rods would bend most double, yet so expertly was each one handled that very few fish were lost, and the weakfish and kiogfish , landed practically were lifted in an exhausted state out of the water, ‘To take fish with thin kind of tacwle! requires that the rod should be abso- lutgly resilient and the merest prea-~ sure placed upon the reel—the lent . drag or the “click” only, Says Mr. Meister: “When a fish sttikes he Js allowed to have full iine, tut not a slack line He {s then played until he Urowne himeelf or wears utterly out, Pregsure upon the line at the moment. the fish strikes will cause the line to snap instantly.” Probably the lightest tackle ever, used to land a weakfish was that used - cone day by Mr. Jordan as an experi-s .. ment. He tried No. 200 cotton thread,} which in much finer and mucky, 4 delicate than No. 2% cotton ¢ and on thin cotton thread line he brought to the boat a woakfish of 1% pounds and another of 1% pounds, Oa a TR | Putting ’Em Over the Plate | —— Shortstop O’Mara of Dodgers Breaks His Leg in Two Places and First Baseman Daubert Strains His Knee. ANAGER Wilbert Robinson bas surely been running in tough luck in Brooklyn this season. Not only has his pitching staff been shot full of holes all season, Nap Rucker, the star southpaw, being the ton relieved Bluejacket and fanhed the last two men. ghianders are giving the Red surprise. Their club is in second place and the Hub fang have been counting on three straight victories over the New Yorkers. Al- ready the home team has been beaten two straight and it wouldn't be sur- priaine, Oo see them drop the fina? ttle to-day. First Baseman Charlie Mullen’s batting won the game for the hance men. Three pitchers were used in the 7 ‘to 6 victory, Brow! Keating and Cole, Fy, Otome ‘The Hi, Sox fa Both Cobb of the T; !jole of the Naps, two notable example of his Inability to get) stars in the history his twirlers into form, but to cap the climax yt day his crack young shorjatop, O'Mara, broke bis leg in two places, while his captain and first baseman, Jake Daubert, strained his knee. The Docgers should have won from the Phillies, but lost, 8 to 7, Pitcher Allen and Second Baseman Cutshaw threw the game away. . The Brookfeds continue to climb, '|'They are in third place, only four points behind Baltimore and sixteen points behind Chicago; the leader. The Brookfeds won yesterday by scoring perk woah up-to the ait.” With three up air. men on in the losers’ half Bea- game, got two hits apiece in tl Cleveland, The Tigers’ cera ting and errors by the losers brought victory to Hughey Jenninga’s banner, Hans Lobert, third base: d Phillies, was the chief nwattes yee terday, getting four hits in five times at the bat in the game at Brooklyn, i This dso Nedonal race i@ @ remarkable one, wit! the tallend team, havin; a pereenh of 455, and New Yi be only .885. or She loam SPORTING, OTORDROME ee ei