The evening world. Newspaper, October 17, 1914, Page 7

| | Traffic Suggestions tion of the traffic regulations GEO.ROBERTSON, ANSWERS TO LETTERS. Aratomobile Biltor: Ie it advisable to run in wet weather with skid chains on all four wheels or fe it not all right to use them only on the rear wheels?. I saw an advertise- ment which recommended the use of these in all four wheels. Kindly tell me what I should do, JAMES GREGORY. ft fe In the best Interest of every one Coneerned that you use your chains on all four wheele. By so you wit be enabled to hi your machine under perfect contro! at all times and especially under all slippery conditions. Automobile Editor: My father has promised to make me @ present of @ medium-priced machine. ‘What ere the chief points about a car any, ia the advantage of a six-cylinder car over @ four-cylinder? WILLIAM BUELL. ‘There are many angles to thie car proposition. | myself would favor a car which first ha comfortable as wel @ Good appearing body; one the chassie of whieh is generally conceded te be-of standard design, being equipped with eelf-gtarter, electric lighting generator, vtire pump, &c.; third, having a sensible tire-elze requireme: fourth, one hav- take Into consider. Regarding the six and four cyl- that this Is ing. ation. finder preference, would sa) ramator of personal |! Automobile Editor: ‘What can I do to overcome the small unnecessary squeaks which the mud- guards, the body, &c., make? I have Just Rought a new machine and I find It Squeaks everywhere. My wife is very much annoyed and will not ride with me tm the car, Your advice will be appre- elated. JOHN WILMOT. 1 believe that the squeaks you men- tlon occur because of the the car. You will find, fifter the car has been washed several times the soap will run down Into the cracks and joints and act as a lubricant. The fiberal use of an oll can at the places will also help considerably. Automobile Editor: Kindly let me know the best route and distance to Mineola, L. I., via Ja maica from Bedford and Taslen ave- ‘gues, Flatbush, Brooklyn. EDWARD SPENGEL. Up Bedford avenue to Eastern Park- ment, con- Automepile. Extitor: ose) tell me the best route and dis- tance’ from here—Yonkers, N. ¥.—to tie City, N. J., and oblige. ae J. P, SOMERVILLE. Yonkers for New York City, are nd Ferry to Staten nd, ther to tenville to Perth Am- oy, N. Jj then on to New Bruna Trenton, Bordentown, joun' Hoty armenian, ag Harbor, then on to Atia ity. Coming home you ma, te ae au cthe coast road: The distance is about 132.6 miles. Automobile Editor: t Do you recommend the installation of ° Ford? Wouldn't It Sate things ‘ensler for my daughter ence? If idea what it. “JOHN BLING, A eelf-starter on your Ford machine invenience. — It Is Welle ei eOlo tet ane starter do the to get out in the mud the work yourself. uipment your daugh- le what ver ft tl hine. In price from $15 to high priced ones, how- Some of these me ever, are very practical, Automobile Edi know through your opaeit 1'Gould’ license a ty order foParive ‘my fat! car for busin purposes. {am eighteen yoars of axe. Also gt _me know where to apply for inatructions as to regulations of run- ning @ car. ‘WALTER MAKONEY. ther hi put 3 practical ex. fou must have your photo Breqent It along with your Editor: should be ‘What to safeguard and preworve tires in cold weather? Is done BRITTON NOT ABLE -TO BOX HARRY STONE. What You Want to Know About Your Auto and How » To Drive It and Keep It Expert Advice How to Keep Automobiles Running Smoothly end the Best Way to Remedy Machine Troubles— to determine its merits, and what, if | L: ft | boarders at THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1914. NEWS OF ALL BRANCHES OF SPORT ROBERT EDGREN EDITED BY and Pleasure Routes for Evening World Readers. —_—_—_———__, By GEORGE H. ROBERTSON. D*s- are often very careless in Temembering that there fs a se which provides that a vehicle waiting ‘at the curb shall give place:to a vehicle arriving to take up or set down passengers at the position of the waiting vehicle. A vehicle shall not be left in such Position as to prevent another vehi- cle from moving close and parallel to the curb in front of an entrance to a building nor so as to prevent an- other vehicle already stopped near the curb from moving away nor within ten feet of a fire hydrant. This rule of the Traffic Department is an important one and one which should be observed as much as pos- sible. There are several machines run- ning around the town showing lights at night that are colored. The law distinctly requires two white lights visible for fifty feet in front. The subterfuge of pasting colored paper over these lights may be the means of getting automobilists in serious trouble. It @ good policy to buy extra tires “A NOVICE, Tirgs should be kept properly Infi ' order to secure the gre me em Small cuts and stone bru all times be strictly looke Will find that It will pay to pi @ tires, They carry the rand will wear much tong a lowout is less terlally by thelr use. Automobile Editor: What would you suggest as a pleas- ant week end Hp from New "york Clty rohan weight Phe ove bet ¢ dma. at this time of the season, and roads still remain in condition. rece HERBERT REUTER. uld recommend a trip to Pitt Mase, The roads find, and nee erful. The fall of rt of the country lew York for Yi rely Manor bury, ittefield. way hinebeck, continue down thi Hudeon River to New Automoblle Editor: ‘Will you kindly explain to me the meaning of a “one man top?” I ha‘ often seen some of these advertised ve in ‘the pment of vari would like to know very much what it mean WRENCH STOWE. €o1 ems which fold down and whigh the up wnen the top | stiffen into @ solld brace wi ie up. The front end of the top fastens to the top of the windshield. Automobile Editor: will To kindly print in your column where i can find a tire agency the = est to Spring street and Broadwa: what would the tire (3344 and skid 324314) coat? Ww. There are seve ft 7.55. The plain. tre y 16.75, the non-skid price Is $19.60. Automobile Extitor: Can I drive my father’s car without icense and may I drive my own? I am seventeen years old. I would like to know whether I am allowed to meet our station with the car and if lam old e to take out a chaut- feur's Ikeense;) , JACK MASON. The motor Vehicle taws require a per- gon to be at eighteen years of age before he can pecure a Hlcense. It, will probabl HT right for you to drive Jour father's car without a tlcense, Automobile Editor: fe et tee Please let_me know the best route from New York City to Washington, D. G., and if the roads are in good shape at this time of the year. ‘Go from New York to to nton, Camden, Chest ‘Wilmington, ‘Balti continue on to Washingto Should be In fine condition. Ban Not to Blame For My Trouble Here—Stallings George Stallings, manager of the world's champion Boston Braves, ar- rived in town last night, bound for ms Southern plantation at Haddock, Ga., where he will spend the winter. The Miracle Man displayed displeasure 'Y | when asked about the story which had been published here to the effect that he had blamed Ban Johnson for his dismissal as manuger of the New York American League Club in 1911, “I wish you would deny in the strongest terms possible,” de clared Btallings, at I ever said that Ban Johnson was responsible for my dis- charge by the New York club. While Mr. Johnson and I have not always diy, I have never sald a word against ‘him and I am positive that he had nothing whatever to do with me se ing my connection with Mr. Farrell's club. Mr, Johnson's ability has always commanded my re- ct and I sincerely hope that that ect is mutual, “] visited Mr, Johnson in his offices out with Hal Chase and from what he told me I was convinced that he had League. son for 1914 has passed into history, I am perfectly satisfied with the showing the Boston Braves made and I am willing to retire quietly until another season rolls around, “We shall all be out again next sea: son trying to repeat this season's suc. cess, I really bel win again, as I hi young, energetic and game to core.” ea team that Is the in Chicago when the trouble broke | Dick Rudolph’s New Mascot, a Baby Girl, Born While Braves Were Beating Athletics) of Disappointment Upon By Bozeman Bulge: F YOU should go into that strange country called the Bronx in search of the World's Series hero do not make the mistake of inquiring. for Davison avenue. I wasted two frult- less hours at that and was just about to give up when a small boy came around the corner on roller skates. “Young man,” I asked, in despera- tion, “do you know where Davison avenue is?” “No, sir," he replied. “Who is tt you want to see? I might kno. the name.” “Mr. Rudolph—Dick Rudolph.” “Oh!” he gasped. “The man who licked the Athletics?” and at my nod the boy’s eyes began to flash real en- thusiasm. “Come on!” he in an awed tone, “I'll show yo he did. That's the only way to find Dick. In comparative prominence, Davison avenue is a total stranger. “There!” said the boy, pointing to a pretty little brick house,.with a verandah around it. “That's i “Doos he own this house?” I asked, “Sure!” replied the boy. “Bought it two years ago, just after he joined the Giants, I heard that he paid down"—— By this time I had rung the bell - {and as a partially bald head stuck through the crack in the door my guide backed up to the gate in awe. It was Dick, all right—in his shirt sleeves, without a collar and with a piece of toast clutched between his fingers. It was exactly 12 o'clock. “Sh-h-h-h!” he cautioned, holding up the piece of toast warningly. “Come in,” he whispered, “but don’t make a sound. I'm just having my breakfast. Had a good night's sleep.” “Say,” he added as we tip toed through the hall, “it’s a girl, and she's a pippin. The mother is great. She and the baby both asleep. Sit down while I finish this coffee. Talk in whispers.” Dick's brother, who is a well known lawyer, was there and it was quite a job keeping everybody down to whispers. IT HAPPENED WHEN DEAL WAS MAKING WINNING RUN. “Saturday,’ id Dick after a mo- Bin ane with apps on the conversation. day—about 3 o’clock—just as Deal was making tl winning run.” The brother a I looked at him blankly—inquiringly. “That was when the baby was born,” he in his stage whisper. here. Couldn't even come on Sunday, because we were on our way to Bor ton. Now, you know why I ducked the banquet given to the Braves an tore out for home after the game.” Dick got up from the table and \looked cautiously up the stairs several times and then came back. “Wish I could show her to you, but there's no chance. They ordered me to stick down here d I guess I'll have to. Oh, but she's a pippin.” Finally Rudolph got his collar on and took us to the porch. There he came out of his whispers and began to talk baseball. Then it was that I realized what a strain the new base- ball hero had been under while pitch- ing the Braves to a final victory, “L was thinking about home and that baby all the time,” he said. “But I knew I had to beat those fellows and went at it the best I could, To get my mind as easy as possible I called up my home on the long-dis- tance phone just before the game, and they told me that everything was fine and dandy. I wanted to be here. George Stallings offered to let me go, but as long as everything ail right at hom knew it wouldn't be fair to the jt of the boys, I'm glad now that I stuck, “Have you last decided that we have a good ball club and are not sim- ply lucky?” Rudolph suddenly asked with a grin, There was nothing to do but admit the corn. None of us be- Heved it a month ago. jay, let me tell you something,” he went on. “I don't know how those Athletics played in the past, but the: were the worst suckers on a curve ball I ever pitched against in my lif was so surprised when I saw them missing ordinary curves that I could = them many spitbails, Most of that was bluff on my part. At that they were helpless before James's spitter. Evidently they haven't got many good spitball pitchers in the American League now. A few years ago they didn’t have anything else.” STUDIED HARD WHILE AT MOR- RIS HIGH SCHOOL. Just then we were | terrupted by a messenger boy. It was a telegram from the principal of the Morris High School. In fifty words he told Dick how proud the school was of his suc- cess. He also declared that Morris 11 claimed him as their own. id Dick with a little show bration over at the old schoo!. You know, that is where I first began pitching. I went there and @ haif and the teach | you that 1 was @ good student even \if I did play baseball most of the | time, I realty studied hard and made good marks in my class.” Rudolph had made it everybody in the ni | all went to school with him. he was born in {itanton hattan, Dick went to the Bro: | he was two years old and has never moved out. | “Talking about school,’ “I went to Fordham College a year. | My father wanted to make a lawyer out of me, but I won so many ball games up there that I never had time to monkey with the law. The old my club will! gentleman did the next best’ thing| aed made a lawyer out of my brother ere," | Rudolph's father ts a compositor i hardly believe my eyes. I didn’t pitch | nd they had quite a cele- | Boston Pitcher's Mind Was Centred on His Little Red Brick House in the Bronx During Big Series, a Daugh- ter Being Born Last Saturday—Baseball Hero Tells How He Played With Morris High School and Fordham and Release From Giants. in one of the big New fork news- paper offices where he has operated a notype machine for eighteen years. Can you imagine how the old gentle- ; man felt the other night while “set- ting up” the story of Dick’s now historic work at Philadelphia and Boston? “Come here,” said Dick, “and let ; me show you a photograph of our: kid team when I was going to Morris High School.” Right there in the front row was none other than the smiling face of Heinle Zimmerman. “gure, he played with me,” said Dick. “And he was just as much of a fighter then as he is now.” “Ever since I pitched for that school,” the new hero went on, “it always has been my ambition to get in a world’s series. The greatest dis- appointment of my life was when I was let out by the Giants without a trial, because I felt sure they would win the pennant. And they did— bad times—but I was not with them.” It was evident that something .in- side Rudolph rankled when he thought of the Giants, and he was prodded on. “T have never blamed McGraw for letting me go without a trial,” he said, “because I don’t think had anything to do with it. There was another man on the club who did it. I always have believed that he told McGraw I was a ‘groover,” which is to say that I thought the way to have control was to put the ball over the middle of the plate. I know McGraw always thought that and I know somebody gave him the tip. But it'’s.all night now. Rudolph said he had heard of McGraw having bet $1,000 that he, Rudolph, would win the first game he pitched in the series. That seemed © yee him immensely. es,” he said with emphasis, “and| Next Monday will be the last oppor- tunity for the amateur mitt artists to T always) onter the amateur boxing tournament wanted to play with New York be-|of the New York Athietio Club, which cause it is my home town, but they| will be held in their gymnasium on Oct, The weights to be con- As Rudolph rambled along, recalling | tested for are 110, 120, 130 and 140 pound I could pitch just as good baseball when I trained with the Giants as I did in that World's Series! wouldn't let me.” his first days as a pitcher, he told us how he had faced Eddie Coiling, now of the Athletics, in the first game he ever pitched away from home; how he thought of it when he struck Collins out at Philadelphia the other day. At the end of his first year in Fordham Rudolph got a job pitching for Rutland up in the Vermont Inde- pendent League. RUDOLPH HAS ALWAYS COM- MANDED GOOD SALARY. “The first day I worked we were playing Plattsburgh,” he said, “and the first man to face me was Eddie Col- ling. I gave him a curve and he knocked it over the centre fielder’s head for three bases. It was a ter- rible shock to my pride, but it turned out that he didn’t score. We finally beat them 11 to 0." Rudolph is one of the few big leaguers who never had to work for small money. As a kid he got $200 a month from Rutland and at the end of the season went to New Haven and recetved $200 for playing seventeen days. From there his climb was easy, He went to Toronto, where he was paid $325 a month. It was his pitch- ing that was mainly responsible for Toronto winning the pennant, “Now, that's what gets my it,” he said, recalling those days. Thad a better pitching average than .600 for four years in the Eastern League (now the International), and I think that certainly ought to entitle a fel- low to a trial with a big league club. But I didn’t get it with the Giants,” Though Rudolph is baldheaded, or partially go, he was just twenty-six years old in August. He has played ball for ten years and has been a professional for eight. In that time he has saved up enough money to buy his home in the Bronx and has a good fat balance in the bank. “I want to sell this pl he explained, “and get me In the country.” “What do you mean—country?” I couldn't help saying as we looked over |, bare hill across the way. ‘urther in the country than he said. “I think I would like to live on the water.” Rudolph ha: ‘elephone in his house and it wi wood thing. At the Elks Club on the Concourse the telephone had been ringing all morn- ing. Everybody in town, it seemed, wanted to sea him. Every few min- utes would come a call from his brother's home next door, saying that some one wanted to talk with him. At least a dozen banquets in his honor are being arranged in the Bronx as well as one or two cele- brations downtown. Dick, you must realize, is the first native born New Yorker to have becn the hero of a World's Series. “Wait a minute,” h. said, as we had about run out of conversation. “Wait ‘til I go up and take a look at the baby, and I'll walk down to the car with you." I left him trying to sneak home, with a crowd of admirers in hot pursuit. | _ LAST YEAR’S SCORES OF TO-DAY’S BIG BATTLES The leading games to be played on eastern gridirons to-day, with the scores of 1913, where the same college teams met, ure as follows: Notre Dame at Yale; did not play. Navy at Pennsylvania; did not play. Taterette at Princeton; did not play. ‘Tufts at Harvard; did not play, though,” bungalow Colgate at Army, 6—7, Carlisle at Pittsburgh, 6—12, Trinity at Amherat, 14—0, Bucknell at Cornell, 7—10, Vermont at Dartmouth, 7—38, 3 did play. Rochester at Syracuse, 0O—6, Springfield at Williams, ¢—0. Klin and Marshall at Swarth- more; did not pla’ Worcester Tech, at Holy Cross, 0—70, Mupeaburs at Rutge not NEW YORK A. C. TO HOLD ANOTHER BOXING TOURNEY. Band %, 1914 at the jat the finals. A. C, and Wert Harlem A. C. are classes and the prizes to be given are: Diamond ring to the winner, gold watch to second and silver medal to the loser in the semi-final bout of each cl The beautiful trophy that was put up t tournament will be awarded The Unton Settlement for the lead with 5 points each. Entri will be received by M. P. Halpin, Chair- man Athletic Committee, New York A. C., Fifty-ninth atreet and Sixth avenue. AUTOMOBILES. ______AUTOMORILES. High Cost of Boxing Told By Gibson, Who Has Given York $450,000 Of It New Fighters Get Most of the Money HEN Billy Gibson announced a fow days ago that other business interests made tt compulsory to retite as a promoter of big glove contest belief became general that Gibsor id made a “big clean up” on boxing and, finding that it was no longer profitable, was getting out. But after looking over the books of the Fairmont A. C., which has been"m existence for six years, it is plainsthat the man who id more to keep the sport clean than anyone ever connected with it, is lfortunate to break even financially, The only recompense for hard labor and the loss of many hours of sleep fe that he has achieved his ambition, having placed the glove game on a clean and sportsmaniike foundation. Since his connection with boxing Gibson has entertained more than 700,000 people at his club in the Bronx, and the receipts were about $450,000. The first show was von- ducted May 22, 1908, and with the exception of four weeks there bas been at least one show each wok. In the three years that the boxing law been on the statute books the te has received from this club more than $10,000 in revenues. This alone means that upward of $200,000 has been handled in admissions at the Fairmont A. C. since the Frawley law became operative and indicates ‘an at- tendance of about 300,000 people who paid to see the boxing exhibitions. One can easily add to this 20,000 people who didn't pay to enter. Under the “club law" the Fairmont A. C. showed in exhibitions some of |in° beat known and cleverest boxers in the world. It played to capacity time and time again and the receipts jduring these so-called war times amounted to about $260,000. Glanc- ing at these figures one not familiar with the situation, would expect enor- in the Game, Says Promoter Who Has Entertained 700,000 at One Club—Packey MoFar- land Alone Got $40,000—State Tax Amounted to $10,000. mous profits, But there were no pro- fits. It all went back into the mill and fell into the hands of the boxers nd to the la that was maintained, heat and printing. Out of about $450,000 handied dur- ing the regime of the irmont A. C. more than 65 per cent. went to the boxers. The balance went for expenses and to cover deficits on many shows where the guarantees given performers were often twice as large as the receip' Mr. Gibson, in talking of bis expe- rience as a club owner, pointed out that he expended close to $7,500 for legal f Packy McFarland leads all boxers In amounts received for services at the club in the Br about $40,000, force of help rent bill, light, other stars who proved a heavy drain on the recelpts were Owen Moran, Jom Driscoll, Tommy Murphy, Sam. Langford, Silke. Gibbons, Freddie Welsh, Willie Lewis, Abe Attell and Jack Goodman, Big losses were sustained by the club when it failed to conduct the Langford-Ketchol bout five years ago and, also the Kaufman-Lang bout. Mr. Gibson called off both these events nooner than have trouble with the police. He returned more than $19,000 in advance money for the Ketchel-Langford match and lost sev- eral thousand in forfeits posted to assure the boxers that the bout would be held. In tne case of the Lang-Kaufman match the club was crowded to ca- pacity and the receipts were more than $15,000. When the police threat- ened to break their way into the bulld- ing Mr. Gibson called off the bout and returned to the patrons every dollar paid for tickets. His loss on this event alone amounted to $2,500. It was six months before he could locate every” member who had pald for special reservation. A check waa sent to @ Prominent man whose home was at the Waldorf-Astoria. This gentleman left town before the letter could reach him and the check followed him abroad and then back to Atlaatio City, where it was delivered finally. AUTOMOBILES. spent in touring. Therefore, all Europe has turn- ed to this light, short wheel-base car—the type adopted by thirty- nine of the leading suse motile manufacturers of Europe—and now introduced in America by the Peerless Company. 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