The evening world. Newspaper, December 22, 1914, Page 16

_THE EVENING WORLD, UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY wn aot BEST. SPORTING PAGE IN NEW TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1914 YORK .. EDITED BY “ROBERT EDGREN epee Se WITH THE “CHAMP” Copyright, 1914, by The Preas Publishing Co. (The New York World). —_—— Sohiff, an American Boxer _ Wust Returned Here, Says { Behneon Will Be as Good as Ever for Next Fight, With Two! OVER LOOKING = ant: [Ss uw . IRE’ the latest “dope” on Jack Johnson, and probably the most authentic recently published sgemes from John Bchiff, a feather- boxer who has just arrived in York from London. Schiff in an » from Los Angeles, He to Australia and fought five there—then travelled to Lon-) where, finding no boxing going | the clubs, he went to work with Johneon in his show and spent Weeks in Johneon's company fan’t all in by any mean fat, but he | it on hip feet BA Re can hit a» hard as ever, Hut! Like fat he's carrying he's in good He expects to do two months work before his next fight, T think that will make bim as he ever was, Ho handled the and French heavyweights | Babies when they came up to! Pal dear es wi it Lev that he hasn’t Tor- Tounnson is very FAT, BUT HASN'T LOST ANY OF HIS SPEED, ' “Wild Bill” Donovan Is Slated‘ To Manage Yanks for Ruppert due back here from TY t -day. RUPPERT WILL BE GRAND He mye clu wi placed 1h that city In 1 in the meanwhile ADDITION TO AMERICAN ‘LEAGUE, SAYS JOHNSON he gays that he in preparing to wage | ‘ A groat legal battle to force Walter Jobnaon to pitch for his league next | ee eee. peanon oF not at Va BY BAN JOHNSON, American League President, CHICAGO, Dec. 23.--Mr. Ruppert will be a grand addition to the American League. Mr. Farrell ee out with hips. The DETROIT STAR, WHO IS LIKELY TO MANAGE “YANKS.” That Part of Agreement in Sale of Highlanders Is Said to Have Been Settled in Chi- cago Conference To-Day. ribaker, of the Bay City, Southern Mic ———— Wigan League. THE “JUMPBACK” OF WALTER JOHNSON PUTS Vey here, ‘ey. al pMght McVey boto: ve changed « ind he re Will : Three Utility Men of White}] price vas most natietactory te CHIFEDS IN SAD FIX.|£ ™ adage been fairly troated, and | am ? rake oy pear broke. Sox, Detroits and Boston fure he ty pleased with the turn By Boze Bulga — 22 te eupport hi other ‘and some nephews, and hee og and a chauffeur and his found of course to close out the sale #0 that the ney owners might not be hampered in their plans for the coming season. 1 um sutinfied that they will not apa expense to give the fans of 3 York a team represontative of the merits Red Sox to Be Part of Deal| of — Farrell's | Aide from the $6,000 advanced to | Walter Johnson in cash, the Federal League promoters in Chicago are said |} to be in a worse fix right now than it| Johnaon had’ never decided to leave | in Transter Stock. vered with jewelry, wo h the iron men scarce in He has plenty of money, to have a fow fights and aity. Organized Baseball at all, Charley | * ‘eott! of that fino cit to diner Havenk ae bg aa? | edhe Weeghman, it is said, has a lot of 2 _ — 4 Ke hi ceitive ts than Naw Vark | things to explain to thoxe who bought 3 Johnson is in the condition qe. {American League Baseball Club it HOW WOULD THIS TRIO | aeamall blocks a stock A be chi-| WILD BILL" DONOVAN % condition de oon a was public * " ae M1 mitted to-day that \ ii sarees Paoely ee re ahead re py somite ite about time bite Highiani if had been te Col. STRENGTHEN | THE YANKS? | nounced that the “Speed King" wa PROLOOTEDPOOOGHNGOEE D aountry ee the peerle | Ruppert and C Huston, with re are three players mentioned to. | to cast his lot with Joe Tinker, ‘The ‘ ry th Aga ae He'll Nave Gow details te be threshed out. Frank We thore why nury cone to in the stock, according to re. ‘ iy “ ate eo new ono . intere MN we TIMI Barrell waen't to be seon, but Sec- ‘They were utility men Dor from out th Bisrentes, j down the clever black chan r how big and strong lard | ~ FISTIC NEWS AND GOSSIP By John Pollock. enough buyers to raise $75,000 to be ved in operating the team. ‘This o,| tito helped to settle the question of 21 How the $48,000 was to-be raised to 23) pay Jounson in case the public did not Come across With sulticient patron. retary Tem Dav town and @ very busy mai every net gone to Chie 2 reported. Kink “The to be fixed up ff ten nd evident:| HUGH HIGH— Mr. Farrelt'e| feegrd last, seneo, ? | boxing Avi Detroit outfielder. n Ing experience he | AB. RH. HA. SH. 88.88.80. | uge. Colored (ighters have just been dealt another bakers are confident that | | 6 fas" 35 46 Bere yA in up to ar. Wes there: | salet plores waite, the blow being the don't think to w rag regarded the story that) | aocwilie 44 Average a fore, to get Johnson at any cost, | midett of ail, for it will prorent them frum even A lol ee eM e vette “ wer pon. 104 5 taking on ten-round | Mathewson weuld be the new man-| record leet sensi palo Be ve se 4 fie eucceen aindon patie teas Col eset prenpaens with any of the heavies weve ager of Yhe Highlanders as a joke 9, OF i ot oF: 28. He Oy. 88. 90.) ¢ Inited States, tng h, Bewides refusing to grant a permit Tf they are content thee gut! | and John ®. Foster, Secretary of the! Rae te an time the new stock | to a cli in Milwaues to stage shut between ot Glante, just laughed at the report. jhelders want to kn Saw MeVey and Sam Langton that uo colored man will be anor | Wf they they also declared ld give Willard hin dozen workaut bouts. | this consideration was being threshed | rr ’ . * . es Probably the biggest attempt at | state of Wisconsin, a make even a CHICAGO, Deo, 22.~"Wild Hill" | gut in to-day'a conference raiding on Organized Baseball was! Wont reached — eae ourne, they're Juasti= | on, whose pitching helped! “Progrens’ made a few months ago, when an tesched here to-day from Chicego to the : ta ke ing him in hiding until he Progress” waa the moat that| Seer vis weat to Chrlet Mathewson | fet that about 100 fight fans of that clty bed . goa th to Aght Johnson. But in Detroit champions of the) President, NM would report, DUt| Offering a mail even ereeton then thet | awa’ annoutced their intention of coming 4 @ase they can hardly expect ¢ an League several years ago! 1), “ " few nained over) paid to Walter Johnson to Jump. pnterday's league meeting were} Matty save that he agreed to hear the ten-roumd battle det wevo ek Chicago lightwelgbey and ge many wise American fight fan: at the ringside when Wilend 4nd who of late hax been tu ning out te i deni | ; 4 4 ot the proposition provided it was ne which will be staged im th champlonship teams at Providence in| hopeful that their attempts to mBet| rite yunne. tte promptly declined | (aMea on Dec, 24, White wad his manager, Nate - the International League, will man. conditions of the proposed sate! it, but insisted that it should not be | waren (Dice Lomight for New Lurk, YY, manager of Jim Fiynn,|age the New York Americans if the . Writes that Gibson shook hands | deal for the aale of that club is with him over an agreement to | cummated vaaful, ‘bE could have umd Donovan stead- given to the newspapers. By that insistence he robbed the new league of one of ita best chances at adver- Hue curtain on the. bo Was Ting Guwo, vearued that x ame im Catiforuia op Briday and It Bas Deen a ‘Tihin waa the moat define | ily at Prov maid Joseph Lan-| tiwement ge ie ie RL, Coffey and Flynn after the! ite plece of infofmation that leaked | nin, President of the Boston Ameri-| “It was a Mberal offer, all right." rae. de; Bmith bout, whether Coffey it He says Flynn in tow Mey at any tine and at he lak « mitted yesterday, at” Oaklaud, Mi nk of accepting iC] contract to the |) the big pitcher “but 1 couldn 1 am already out of the conforen B. . Johnson, to-day between President of the who was the last af the league ve “But when a, 16. eo boring a twenty soutut owners to purchase players think the demands re yntly made 206066 O5-2 3 jowed 10 box in the | ‘s —— === fis; CHARLESTON ENTRIES. It Will Be Several Years Yet | Before University Will Enter Big Regatta. IORDHAM UNIVERSITY — will have rowing next year, but will not compete in any intercolle- giate regattas. Fordham’s first races on the water will be inter-class con- tests and possibly a couple of brushes with some of the local rowing clubs. ‘The report that the university in the Bronx would develop and send a crew to Poughkeepsie for the annual in- tercollegiate regatta was nothings more than fiction. Perhaps in future years Fordham, if its rowing exper- iment next year proves successful, may be represented at the Hudson regatta, but it is only a remote cance. The idea to have rowing at Ford- ham originated with John Mulcah: member of the class of 1894. Mr. Mul- | — Enter Event at’ Seventh Regiment Armory. | King Smith, referee of the Metro- politan Juntor indoor lawn tennis championship, announces that the entries of the leading schoolboy players had begun to come in for the tournament which begins pext Mon- day morning. Two of the Brooklyn stars, J. H. Finney and L. M. Banks, were the first on the list, Among the others are H. W. Forster, the remark able junior of the Park Hill Club, Fordham to Start Rowing With Inter-Class Races Stars in Indoor Tourney All Leading Schoolboy Players] HARTI CASCA WO AT CHARLESTON NABI GALOP Track Still Heavy, Giving Mud Runners Another Inning. (Special to The Brening World.) RACE TRACK, CHARLESTON, Dec. 22.—The track was heavy again this afternoon and mud runners claimed the attention of the players. The third race served as the most | promising event of the day in the absence of a stake feature. It brought out a good fleld of two-year- old sprinters. Martin Casca proved |an easy winner of the opening event | after leading most of the way. FIRST RACE. Selling; maiden three-year-olda four-oared| 4nd upward; six furlongs.—Martin Casca, 107 (Murphy), 9 to 5, 7 to 10 Gna 7 to 20 firsts A.C. Healy, 104 expense on the university athletic) Willy), 6 to 1, 2 to 1 and even, sec- association, jond; El Blod, 102 (Pool), 8 to 5, 4 The Bronx university never had to 5 and 9 to 20, third, ‘Time, 1.17 1-5, rowing of any sort and Mulcahy's| Frontier, Zali,_ Margaret’ Meige, offer was gratefully received. A few | Chaser, Bunice, Transformation, Sal- of the more optimistic maroon sup- V@dora, Mineral Water, also ran. porters saw in the move to have row-|_ After a short delay at the post all ing a chance to send a crew to Pough- | Were off to a good start. Salvadoi keepsie. The athletic authorities A. ©. Healy and Bunice were frown on the idea of going in on a | pacemakers to the half, when Martin large scale and declare that it will be Casca rushed to the front. He in- a long time before Fordham will even creased his advantage at every pole think of the plan of competing on the and won by six lengths from A. C. Hudson, because of the great expense | Healy, who finished a head in front that is necessary to properly equip ajof El Biod, who showed to be much crew |the best as the race run, pUcorgetown tried to enter a boat at ws ‘oughkeepsie a few years ago, but Lobert Confers With McGraw was forced to give up the attempt on | Phillies’ Third Baseman May Come account of the enormous outlay o money. Fordham, knowing this, isn't to Giants Instead of Jump- ing to Federals. anxious to meet the same fate, en- CHICAGO, Dec. Hans Lobert, pecially at a time when the students | are just taking up the water sport. Ithird baseman for the Philadelphia Nationals, who has been reported as According to present plans, the un- dergraduates will be invited to try! for the first crew after the holiday! vacations. The candidates will report to Coach Mulcahy at the Atlanta Boat Club house, which will serve as about to sign a contract to play with the St. Louls Federals, met J. J. Me- awd, manager of the New York Nationals, here to-day. McGraw was believed to be seeking to keep Lobert in organized baseball. cahy, who ts very fond of pulling an! offered to coach a crew, supply the shell and housing facilities without saddling a penny of | | hondquarters for the maroon oars-| ‘men. | Hope to Develop Tennis The courts will be open to the| Details of the conference were net, uniors for practice to-morrow and) j.ade pub MeGraw arrived last ‘Thursday at the Seventh Regiment |night after Lobert had had several ta RELAY RACE TO DECIDE LOCAL CHAMPIONSHIP. Relay runners of the Metropolitan clubs are shaping their traintng-work tow the team race at the Seventy- first Regiment games in the Armory, Park Avenue and Thirty-fourth Street, Armory. Only those boys will be | tks with Federal League officials allowed to play, however, who have duly qualified as entrants with the referee. Several tentative entries ave been received from Pawling, Mann, Columbia Grammar, wrenceville ‘and other preparatory schools as well as a number of en- tries from the high schools of the city. Raymond D, Little and other mem- bers of the executive committee are taking great interest in the tourna- ment, as it is expected to develop| New Year's eve. The event carded at some youngsters of the McLoughlin | this style of running which will attract type. The entry list will close with | the of the men of this territory ts King Smith at the armory next Sat- at one mil urday afternoon, at which’ time ie and a handicap, which wilt singicn ‘will be drawn, ‘The doubes | Raturally, give each, of those ongaged will be drawn on Monday. The tour- ‘he teams of the New York A.C, n ent will continue until Thursday, | the Irish-American A, C. have reque: 1, at which time the champion- Dec, that they be placed on scratch in order ship finals will be played. The regi- to give each an opportunity to lower LIN Provision for a three game serios with j both Yale and Princeton, to be played out notwithstanding the result of the firat two contests, is made in t schedule of the Harvard base! all team for next year. The third game in each series. is scheduled here, but it is thought that the third contest with Yale might later be transferred to Boston. line schedule, which comprises thirty gamer, is as follows, the games to be played at Cambridge unless otherw! ., , i} ‘The Evening World) | American League, and Jacob Ruppert | 4 Player has served his big league] New York club, and, besides that, 1 — Apectal to 4, ss e, iT | Ee | 7 LESTON, &. va have | and T. 1. Huston, prospective pure | me as steadily as Donovan did, and he 470 desire lea f the le Fie qkdttle, Johnny Daly. who as wou tie twol RACE RAG: CAREW ON: F thei ma which has made me what 1 us wo" the n jes To ; ee ae pat " | coasere of the Yankees. hen Good as a manager, I be-| oid ike to be officially connected are as follows With the managership question | eve he is entitled to promotion when] with a big league club—preferably Billy Gibson deploring t " 1 and with uo full apology « actically settiod, the American | {he ehan pmes, If the deal goes} New York--when my pitching daya promise for a leaders who met here in % ugh Donovan will go to New ere over, but L hope that ts a long | Siealewas ‘We hal, 4 1 ‘ork without any string attached to} Hime away pre Mf: . Teede hid, Michael Ange 7 tin With | "Beclal wommion yesterday felt that] 38k - E sam Lanaferd hip manager, oe Wi ny | Wastrade, i a cenmaan alte tit would be| other conditions precedent to the sate |" | Matty saa, by the way, that | bere tetumel, to Moston, trom alltorn arial | __gbCOND Rac wm BH; “aigjatte: Better business tu try to match aw Wark Chin oowd Barly in the afternoon Rup | he ts not the representative of the i fghwr whow he’ wii| ios; “rou a 4 Me Po rd with € 1 eee Huston, J.J. MeGraw and J. J | Players’ Fraternity on the Giants, |" eat the bine taoeel’ tae Bess | fon, Ls a iia: Bt Connor, oe Hed an adjuatment of they in teft for New York. | Merkle haw the job mow,” Re | wi anima, Out ml te ha be ‘eet | Fi Haelicting, WALI RITCHIE has wired the club and a chance for sen in| SMR “DUE Tam still a member, and gO atting “dateate v | Mee ne Wicnolans that tc | the new Ruppert and Huston have been in| of ge 2 ] Will accept an offer from) who ordinarily would not be for «ale rhat for the club since taat fall, ore fair and suet.” 1 ont Tate OF thee tot Jobnaton and fight Welsh y+ was learned that none of the rei didn't age eel until een ie tate in thee Bae: | fea d 8; in February. Whether or not iu owners were willing te part with {CHANCE loft the te nt Robert Be Ward saya he | ety 9: ‘of Harlem to on any ‘iB * is in the same frame of MINd 44. youl atarn of their organiations, #8 ©S@FbItant value of a half milion | ® Seitben lente ite | BETS ee Yee cs Tein et ee (| npediues five ond o tall f ie knows, In any Welab 1nd rumors that men of the highest | oilars on the club, which wae with ing anything one way or the other, wm the the middle of peat 105) Ohetier. probably demand ‘ out grounds and only thirty odd play-|the Rube ta enjoying that $1,500. If —— Ritchie, or at the bes rrade Were to be “turned over" to M Jena and baltic MoMabon have decided to post When Willie bo: @ four- | jtuppert and Huston were squelch: #8 and the good will and franchiae to} he sone the Beanie at Marilee, Mr ae arte they hed eqheduled fatins owt with Dundee on the coast 4. the mon most interested rive in return for the money paid, {the "Ntw York club? itw"a cinch 2% sind fond il be feet betwe tly he waa, from all publinied "he men aa areees Ruppert and Huston were only will-| Rube won't have it on hand at that br Ne gl eid ‘ te, oreqentes with of ett Sai Seen aa nd MK 10 Pay $450,000, but the magnates, | time from present Indications, jconant tnd twtees Reavy and AN | baseman, two or three pitchers # jon. it in wald, agreed to collect the other He has been fattening UP perhaps av good catche yl a atilit John Foster says that the New whe hasn't been boxing. T day | hr ne Ba “eels bits Uf | 850,000 #o as to make up the sum de-l york club does not know officially | gif ywelent, and Ue arm Ne ee eee ee ine | ee ew York team, but what indi.|manded by Merrett, | that Marquard ever dickered with the | fis Ne een Om ycoaese form iaplayed, If ean) the New York team, but what indl- i" iagthat tub) caw * | Feds. ae mie ‘st bred elt : Into Aghting condition again at) viduals were considered in this con- sold tha new owners are) All we have to go on in hie signed | Serr OMe MMnning at the Olrmite &. ConA afl It will be only with a great deal of willing to spend a half million dot tract,” says John. “He ha 4) ong vf thane, ant Lutting, “rusia Wine Over K. 0. B I 0 ade known, Goi a aa ols | eontract,”” says Je fe Has mad | biliott iy ome of th 1 hitting, ver K. 0. Brown, ‘work and through u number of berene ee ae auane at te lars for a new home for the club and | nothing Lo ua, and there '" no way of | Shortt i have to eto) cums to th eaner eee) Leni of Baltimore f , on enric y : “ [us knowing that he has broken” his} " soe iimten Stmericann sami ugh igh "Moroney lated | at eet Una he ale ""venor “a | ah Meo, arog guamacy, qu | won ever Keontout Brown i the en MeKay Levee, Ge the Wine. | who “subbed” in the Detroit outfield | Forty Atth. Street Marlin when ordered. | Ban “he eth mate. fe ute fenaste Souder round beetle ot He Sang Aste eS. » who has been knocked ‘ pegs ek . — Bartlet, ‘eno anudidien an x for bas quit in more batties than any |! eeanon, ax most probable re nen season the Yanks will again! connie Mack picks the Poston | igo gid, bout gk the {nadeey Shab Brown kept tearing, into Lenny and pushiet, had cruite to the outfield, while Joe Ber! aid by Farrell, but it te learned that | Americana to win the next pennant, | the a dub several wens ine | smashed away at his stomach and face wer of the Chicago Americans Was! jonnson himacit leased the grounds | end ft cannot be said that he is pick: |saye, be bil Rake deals alert 6 ew ore | i noth hands. After the atxth round few | mentioned for the infield utility post. for 1916 a0 as to force Farrell to sall.| IME afte, NOP. Senate alee Joo Hyland, the local ight Brown seemed to slow up as a result of The acquisition of these men and) MoGraw Intimates that the Yanks | $20 ot eeapen, | Vigtagng Joe, Ta Mees Leyes ere ere nea Laat then MAE the others nepded to strengthen the|may train at Cuba next spring be- | M0: er » | Rosacea te lend on him repeatedly with heavy add. | cause :} One can not help wondering what O, righ! w. Brown was in a bad eaters se "Sra ae a Far etiam oe ote ae Calc Pere reds itd | uk SRS Brahe GeeksPe P| eur he smi nod tah run Se man rence mente of Ruppert and Huston, gad ‘Qumore of the, Fede tol if PMO" ie i manage the eo te ° Lanay'e Wows. ‘ all Westone lt Hit, ek A ose Wee oe DG hy vi grate. Gea Bhi THE FIELD OF | world’s champion Boston Braves, a new Yonkers, and J. B. Rosenquest of the! ment has offered handsome cham. | the existing record at this style of Weatchester County Tennis Club," pionship cups in both events ‘14-5, was made by the Winged Fost eee Inland June. 1, 1912 team at Travers The conditions involve the running @f five men ona team, each to race Ste yards, and as each organization in this district can muster teams of five ablo to travel this distance in sterling styte, a slashing race is anticipated. Mitts il tats SPEAR AND MATHEWS WIN AT CLASS C BILLIARDS. SPORTS stated: April 12, Boston Nationals; 13, Bowdoin: 15, University of Maine; 17, t West Point; 21, Annapolis 3,22, Cath University at West Point a His y 1, Amherst Miverity of Verinonte toi] ‘The firat game in the final round of Worcester; 12, University -of| the national Clasx C balk line tourna- open: 18, Holy Cross:)ment was played yesterday afternoon mouth: in; JL. Brown at Froviz|at Doyle's Forty-second Street Acad- dence. i emy between George H. Spear and 2, ‘orge T. Moon Jr, the former winning by a score of 200 to 189. The winner had an average of 3 23-59, whfle Moon averaged 3 16-58, In the evening C. P. Mathews won from F. A. Unger by a score of 200 to 143. Mathews played « 18, Prince: New Haven Fork. ‘ale it New n at No York; 22, : 28, Yule; 26, Yale a With Kellerher, e star guard, out of | the kame with a threatened attack of! stendy ading throughout. “He typhoid fever, the Fordham basketball and made high runs of | team went down to defeat at the | 3 nger had an average of hands of Yale last night in the Twelfth | 3 42-37 and made runs of 17, 13 and 10. Regiment Armory. ar T. App! q L. A. Servatius, while the festa The P School Athletic League re- | kame will bring. together G. 'T. Moon fused y rday to sanctior high | and A. Unger. Welker, the youth- school hockey tournament because the | ful profession will referee to-day's oc w Rochelle High School, which ia a | Kames. | Momber of the Hockey League, is not a | ee 4 er of the P. 8. 4 Tl | Team inne siseey “aniocinto" ate | DREW ONLY STAR SPRINTER Curtis, Morris, Stuyvesant, Clinton and Commerce. Dick Rudolph, the Bronx boy and one | of thes most prominent members of the De wit’ NOT IN MILLROSE GAMES, All the best sprinters of the United ” States, with the single exception of Howard Drew, who could net spare the time from his studies to come East, have acepted the invitation of the MIl- eu . slag twoe: ith Boston club yi is no chance. fe contract famous pitcher, aé the contract ‘he rose A._A. to compete at thelr all-star signed had the ten day clause eliminated, games in’ Madison. Square ‘Garden an Th ers of Brasmus Hall igh allstar list te Done Line & ne “0 eth allestar list i Don" Li School ted oft the bl Univeraite of Bares Plo ee in the University of Pennsylvania, the inter- collegiate champion and Olympic recerd holder, who will represent the Mendow- ‘A. A. of Philadelphia i \° yurd dash and 30-yard ‘run, | ‘he % first of the sertes of thi h Morris High School for the sub-target championship of Greater New York, on the former's ranges yesterday $50 to $40 Materials, $25 We have made a big cut on many foreign and domestic materials—stylish heavy-weight cloth, suit- able for any place at any time. Have a Suit or Overcoat made to There is much sati: exactly right. 5, e f our measure. faction in wearing clothes that are Broadway @® 9th St. SAI REL pirat