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NG WORLD, THURSDAY DECEMBER 81, 1 SPORTING PAGE IN NE NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS Copyright, 1914, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). 1914, EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN JUNIOR INDOOR | TENNIS PLAYERS REACH FINALS Metropolitan Championships in Both Singles and Doubles Will Be Decided To-Day. ° © Lone tte Srna penn Prepees HERSELF WoT To Tanao MORE Tan 52 HOURS @ LAY of 17 bars a weerK ity Tak FUTURE _ White Will Probably Beat All the! Strong, Rugged Lightweights, the Fast Ones Like Shugrue Will Go Right Along / Beating Him. The finals in both the singles and ae doubles of the metropolitan | junior indoor’ tennis championships | will be held to-day at the Seventh | Regiment Armo: singics will be d L. Bowman of Mount Ve | and Maxwell Hanks of Adelphi Atad- emy, Brooklyn, will be opponents ta | this event. B. E. Van Raalte and William Katz will meet R. 8. Gold- man and J, W. Wolff in the doubles. The semi-final rounds produced many reversals of the sensational {order. in the singles Banks, & | slightly built lad from Adeipht Acade wreeked ail of the staré who had been predicted as prob- able finalists, He started off by beat- | ing Matthew ‘Taylor, the star of the ¥ordam Prep forces, at | 6. Taylor, a left-hander of the R. lf idiey Murray type, made @ thrilting fight for the place. His plunges for ihe net and Ris smashing were fine en spectacular, Banks'a good judg- | ment eventualiy pulled him m through ‘against a player in many ways Bip superior, After his gruelling with Taylor the (boy fought an even better matoh ‘against R, B. Haines of Horace Mann hol in the semi-final round, Haines ‘is a protege of James Burns, the pro- fessional. He failed to steady hiwelt against Banks, however, and the youngster won at 7—5, 7—6. Haities is a boy of the McLoughlin build, and he endeavors to imitate the Califor- nian in his dashing, bard hittin style. When he brought his tremendo shots off, Banks could not touch the |ball, Haines was given to streake of dness, and these cost him dearly, \for Banks teased him into poundin: ithe ball and winning on his nets: Towne Pius a FoR SPORT AND nave m PosT . SBASon Series PEDERAL U se See | Goprrient. 1 dy The Pree Putdighing Co. (The New York Evening Worid), HE differences of opinion on the Shugrue-White fight were not severe cnough to bring up that Feferce-decision question, Nearly yO who saw the fight had eyonight OR4 judgment good enough to watinty Ke: that Shugrue won, There were ye who thought every White punch danéed, and who didn't, couldn't or Wouldn't nee Shugrue’s high-guarding Glove slip awiftly into perfect Ng position every thine White's : etarted, a the first rown wasn't much of a diffe Hhugrue and White. Shucen Nearly every punch he # “dy he ataried one every few records. Minged mont of his, and wtarted Uvely few, Shugrue fore Mahting, did vt least two- thirds landing, y rat White in yee pitfling des | Chicago boy showed up Shugrue. & BLUARDE Bare MAS SWORN OFF HAMING Hrd + CUF FoR ONG YRAR 7° B MAGNATE = But only DREAMING ——— Only Three Yank Piavers Not Signed Por Next Seas. n, Dec ares Farrell It seems to } the Yankees are tnac all of the men w ption of Capt. others are under contract. Says Farrell: “Thre are only three players unsigned. Roger Peckinpaugh is one of these. The two others are not so formidable. | | Not PICK ON JESS ON GUNAT aN THe REST Of THose Po Lee “WHIT braves Also Contident of Securing Lobert, Phillies’ Third Baseman NOSTON, Dec, 81--Mahaner have practically completed arran nts for the Lobert, third baseman of the Phillies. He wever of the World's Cham) Vt given up hope of landing this star, fact Is he in confiden ring him, Gaffney said to-day “I'm going to get Hans Lobert for the Braves, if | can pos 1 am camping on the trail of President When I get hack to New York to be able to come-to some sort of an MeGraw of the Giants ia supp) acquisition of 1 Jim Gaffney, Pre “J general impression in baseball e ar, President lar: cles that few of 1 declared to-day Peckinpaugh and two Lg agreement on this matte “It'e eafe to eay that the name of the Boston Braves who will go to the Phillies as part of the Sherwood Magee trade will not be known until | have had several talke with Manager George T. Stalli in Georgia, next week or thi k after. Possibly the namen of the players to go will not be made known even then. You know Stallings runs thie ball club as far as players and playing 0 ind | do what he says.” out exception these are ironclad term instruments. Sw meker, Fisher, Warhop, Maise!l, Boone and a dozen more | could mention offhand are signed, but of course | do not care to name the two beside Peck who are still on “ outs: tically has accepted my term: ' Fiorida, but he had left before the letter’ reached him and it wa: returned. 1! do not believe there will be one holdout, tet alone a deserter, from my club.” Pat MCDONALD Has SWORN OFF OW BREAKING Pore VAULT HLH JUMP AND 00 YARD SPRINT . Recorps i ais NOW how it looked to me” asked one famous old-timer, “Weill, ith 1 as if White ring #0 much about what Wonder he in that he thought every eye in the house was on him all the What’s Going to Happen Walter Kinsella Takes N.Y.A.C. to Demand Investigation| and he was us full of pores ana ‘moving picture hero, Ho junt leaned Bhugrue and then looked around rior sort of a way as if he! ‘Hee? This fellow can't If Farrell Says ‘‘No’’ Of Charges Against Platt Adams Deciding Squash Match juts. onto “kids,” who hardly know ho} fo hold a racquet correctly, were tl \sensation of the doubles, ‘The re | markable pair was made up of Gold- lman and Wolff ‘They atartad +he There was not a ruffle over the ques- | © tion of Feron's blocking Kinsella | from the ball which had caused some | ute in the earlier contests, Feron made good use of his corner | shots in the first game. He hit low and compelied Kinsella to frequently | pick the ball off the wali as he stroked | for twisters in the rallies, Ki nsella | seemed to be measuring the court at this Stage of the game, with the result ae held lead ail the way | To To Proposition to Seli? President Ban Johnson Likely} \ to Lose Hold on Other Ameri- can League Clubs if He Isn't Able to Engineer Sale of Yanks To-Day. isin of the eye and the brain, 4% knowing that the celebrated Just apeedy footwork and fast we might say, notorious sale ing. owner We bad worked or of the Yanks has got to a point where Frank Farrell must say yes or no to we were in postion to hit, and we Meanie wropoalon. 4oc6 there iw atill one thing left wide What's going to happen if ny Ban Jobnaon'a reputation a league leader is at stake in this mat- ter and, having gone so far, there in ho backtracking, After putting his pe Wore malched for lone Renta [1208 down on this proposlt if the ty or twenty-five rounds, @id a] #ald proposition should sllp from un- percentage of them didn't go] der the prewid . how ts Han Former Holder of ‘der of English Lau- rels Wins Professional Cham- pionship by Defeating Stephen Feron, American Title-Holder. y by defeating Jabish ae J and Wadsworth Dunn, at 64, 10-5, They finished by palniay 8 the round by polishing off R. G and: William Platt, the St Marks Scliool champions and boys twice their size, ut 3—6, 9—T, 6—3. Coldman and Wolff did not reveal ony true tennis strokes, Neither arp \they marvels of team work. But | they got to the ball every time aty pushed rather than hit it back adro! the net. Rand and Platt wrought {their own defeat by trying for the |fancy shots. Matthews Lost Game Through Nervousness World-Famous Broad Jumper | Sold Athletic Prizes. HUGRUB lake Just ono thing,” | said Frank Erne, who didn't 80 to seo the bout because he Just what it would look like. Gvoan't hit hard, because while Bitting he's throwing himself in. | thas no base to hit from. He a and perpetual motion, t uso the inagnetiom that wi final | Rand all right. L have for a long time and would add lot of strength to my m." Lobert was in town all day yesters day and last 1 spending most of he thine with MeGraw, fa the morn ine he had a talk with President Mik nd Manager Moran, ‘They consented for him to deal with the Giants provided everything was right with Mr. Char HE New York Athletic Club wiil demand an tinmediate investi- tion of the charges mac yesterday that Platt Adams, member of their team, converted prizes that | ho won on track and field into ea: h. | Three affidavits ave been made to this effect and Paul Pilgrim, captain of tho N.Y. A.C. team, demands that Adu be tried at once by tho | Registration Committee of the Ama tour Athletic Union, If it ts proved | that Adams sold prizes received for) athletic vies it means his expul- sion from the amateur ranks The char against the who won States in caused Memn- Y a great burst of speed Wolter) Kinsella, a former holder of the Snglish laurels, won the profes- | sional squash tennis championship at the Princeton Club, defeating the American champion, Stephen 1. lreron, in the final match Sf their series, 10--15, 15-12, 15—7, 15—8, Feron won the first match at the Harvard Club two weeks ago. On his home court at the Squash Club, Kin- sella won last week and repeated the {performance on the neutral court yesterday. Because of the many differences of opinion which have arisen at the matches as to the interpretation of jrules, there was a corps of officials on hand for the deciding match, 10, Kinsella let himself out in the sec- ond game. His sn he front vall, mixed up pastonal Ker to the cori f Keron on jump. T d at terrific ed in this wane. Kinsella always was a trifle faster than his opponent and avoided setting of the aces by | winning the same, at 15—12, In the third and fourth games Kin- sella smothered Feron by his speed in jthe railies, He only used straight strokes and did not depend upon any of the frills to the corners or die- At this stage Feron wis out- two to one, ror Kinsella won 7, 15—8, and took the litle. A purse said to amount to nearly $1,000, subscribed by clubmen, went along with the victory, st class were in the gain it we matched our sked McUraw und Loburt to come over to. day Hainly, 1 would dike to come to 2 York,” aaid Lobert. "I have always wanted to play for MeGraw, Al the sume time Lam not one of those players ny too aoxtous to leave Philadelp Tho owners, the public and the newspapers have treated me nicely there, and it is my home. But ft think a change doe: anybody mood Tf it ts ter 1 tage financially LF will certa ry By Bozeman Bulger. Moved to make the other fellow move HERE ts some satisfaction in We wanted him to, We used the of blows. of blows waa was played yesterd cally. day in the class C amatetir balkiini tournament now in progress ai Doyle Forty-second Street acad: emy. Louis A. Servatius, the vetera Brooklyn cucist, defeated Charles 1 Matthews by a score of 200 to 166, It was the first defeat incurred by Matthews and materially affects. hla chances of winning the tournament, as he will now have to defeat you Appleby to get into a tle for fir place, whereas a victory over tl Columbia student would have as- sured hi highest honors, Matthe' ing upon the game, wa nervous throughout the co it was more his fear of losing tha any lack of ability that caused his downfall, He missed many shots! through sheer timidity, electing play the surest way and leaving the: balis hard for Servatius, and wi treated in kind by his more settled) adversary, Servatius, carrying no weight, played in his usual nonchalant man- ner and, executing many dificult on and three cushion caroms, played steady, consistent game of billiards, running out in his fifty-eighth in- ning for an average of 326-58, thews averaged 2 50-55, with a hi run of 17, Bervatius had the nigh | run of the evening, a cluster ot . Only one game will be played to- day, Matthews and Moon meeting in} the afternoon gh —— Only one game Frank many the b wensation in bers of thy N.Y. J cuss ho matter for. publi ans pros- {cept that they didn't believe the Loague, | charges were true. tak with Lovert | According to the attidavits, Adams made him a good | is sald to have sold two prizes which ptally ran tno ‘he won in competitions, ‘T. 1. Glynn, | wed him to/in one of the published affidavit I thut he |atatea that he botght for 96 a gold | Quad | ring with (a diamond from Adar |G W's chance through his feronce with the third no nool20hor—n0——— FISTIC NEWS AND GOSSIP o—————0onor=— Ay John Pollock=——a0no ‘recdie Wi ¢ rounds even a to vary the monotony, Mr, Gilmore had a in Chteago and offer dim 4 PLATT A DAMS! jSUll has in his possession. Adams emphatically denied the Jeharges Inst night. He said the also says he frequently were the “acts of sore heads who k Street! were trying to cause trouble for him 4 an if the Giants | jeweller and that the joweller wonld, because he got the best of a business have thelr star third sacker jaccept Adams's prizes and charge | deal with the | bw {them uj ‘gainst his account, Adams does not deny he sold rings | In rumored that in addition to} who also makes | te his users, as charged, but he | Milton Stock, Hobby Bescher | charges kreat athlete, ‘asserts that the rings were not prizes. probatly Kddie Grant will, be | states that Adams told him he had a | He added that there. was nothing on over to the Phillies, ‘The | case full of prizes that were useless | the rings to prove they were prizes: Iphia Club can take tho to him and he would like to sell them, declaring he had bought them with |inen or wait and see what they want| Peter L. Shenck, who also signed, money out of his own pocket. out of the fifty-two atht natjan affidavit, said that he bought a| “As far as any charges go that I | McGraw will take to Marlin in March, ring from Adan which he| have sold any of my prizes,” sald $$ a ~—————— | Adams, “they are entirely without grounds, I havo all of my prizes in my possesion and can show them when the A. A. U. asks for them. I hope that the A, A. U. will take up the matter and then I will vindicate m With regard to the alleged am. ‘aavit of Glynn that he accompanied {me to a Jeweller's place and I there disposed of prizes, my only answer is that it Is up to bim to prove his case.” skE the league when the owners get ob- gone have compared White] streperous? Heallaing the» predica- te Joe Gans, because he stands) ment ho is jn, it ia kad that Johnson straight and ts oxtremely cool and |has offered to put up a goodly sum es, he stands |of his own money to shove the tran’ nd, But |S along the auiniiatity enda, Kor all he Tank ate action, Gans Was quick as ° Mash with hia coupters und ready | they ohh ay th. Raye soueb) te vie Strike the instant he saw un open- |!8 doingethat, They wars together White holds back when he hae | the great part of yesterday being slow A wlart, io} "The thing that ts holding every- too tong, thing up." aid a man very clone to baaa't ‘any of | Han Johnson last night, “ls a lot of) Could box |quibbling over details, and 1 don't aud beat mind tolling you that the quibbling is timing waa |is not being done by either Johnson we siege what White or Capt. Muston, For the reat of It most, t! @ biow | you can draw your own conclus! , He didn’t hang fire. White | It took Capt, Huston quite a wi to get worked up, but he went at t ably beat all the | matter hammer and tongs yesterda ightweights. The fast | Not only wax he ready to go through, | elah, Shugrue, Mandot, | but he had his attorney with him all will go right along beating |day ready to close up the thing as soon aa the others sald ready Col, Ruppert was not in the con ference that came near windin . the world’s lightweight eham. is much interest in 4 punied Adams to a Job Ww. Charley White, Lien crack Chacagy |e Toferee, will Strdge’ the tos fe: vent revently pacticinaied in a terrific 4 in Milwankee, wil hare it out again im Vit another ten-round contest in Madison Square |} Ganien on Wednexlay evening, Jan, 18, match was arranged last night” at a conference lieid between Harry Pollok, manager of Wels; Nate Tawi, wlio looks after the affatre of Wate, nd Jimmy Johnaton, matchmaker of the Sho" Tom McCarty the Mo ane Hearne ant wy Aseciation, which eonducta the boute in the ti great treak of, Garden, While Uie manage of the men Would jn Papid’ eue: eset ~ in a et not make known the terms of the match, they sleriuen 4h grt ack (a thet admitted that the weight would be 186 pounds, ssainst Sailor Fritts, the Bros re! M, Both fighters will begin Ulu ‘atin St mista today, | wleo bas @ right p is meewer soe Gas Parrell hax asked for time | tock hi dere together, but | cast ona tur now. tring to Ub fore. tight wet! weigh in at 3 training for Because Joe Shneruc, the dewey Clty light: | 3 weight, neste @ rest after Ine campeign of battles inside of ait works, Pete Te iy manager, hag decided to lay him off for abou tgs weeks, That is the reason why Fiissorast did not make an attemt to matoh Jow with Welsh for Jan, 12, Siugrue hap drewa down over $7,000 out of hie five battles, “h ibe ie hie tbe pera 10 ees SSL Nim miter Xen An attempt to expand the Intercol- legiate Hasketball League from a six college to an eight college circult hus hot met with approval from those col- which form the league, The emont Will be revived ne ‘ore being 36 to 18. Adama threw nine goals for the Navy. Smith not so successful in the scoring, bi hia dribbling and passing led up to many of Adams's goals. te, an Mecur 8 guars 1, eter are ” (ry ie, (or ihe Brahe © baal dak 5) — “4 c bety Dominick 'OUNG AHEARN fights Jack Dil- ‘The threatene! fatic war between in intimat Jon in Philadelphia to-morrow afternoon, Philadelphia writ @xpect this to be a remarkably inter- battle. Ahearn and ~ Dillon ina stant communication with hir may At one time the whole thing a peared to b up hie roc off, and Ban Jobnson at the Belmont sral college would like HI in, 1 among them, As atands, the Columbia, Cornell, reve Vennayl- 25 Women See Fierce Bouts at Baseball Rumors Still Lively as ‘Tortorich, the premier fight prumoter of New Or- leans, and Tom McCarey of Lae Angeles, who ar- rived in the Crescent City recently (or the purpose Mf opening up A fight chub, won't take place, Throngh mutual friends te two promoters made up, and in the future will Work together in staging iklleweught, entertainment on the night of Jan, Jes Willind in already doing ne work at Harry Smpasium in Chicagy for ‘Johnson, Faklie Metioort). le Fighting Bit) Murray) tho San Big Meet to Clone Year. Cyclists, runners, Jumpers and weight, throwers will have their fual irtes this year at the records in the keeping of Father Timo in the armory of the Sev- f@ both been fighting in Quaker- of late, Dillon recentiy beat rt there, and Ahearn trimmed and Houck. Ahearn doesn't luck confidence, He | all the best mi ta, including Mike Gibbon lon he is taking on one of th and hardest hitung light heavy- in the country, Dillon weighs de and is doing some great 1p fact, is fighting so well there ts talk of matching him Langford. Ahearn weighs he will be giving Dillon quite ‘The Danci: and announced that he was Kolng to aia test Franctwo middleweight, 40 a tenwoumd bout in Chi 0 on an afternoon train, Then Atilwaukee on Jan, ¥, is boxing with Willard et ‘s eym, ania, Yale, Dartmouth and Pri ton seem to have full control of the something arose that caused Ban te! college tithe, and many believe these miss his train and scurry down to the | ay not Rt LP tes gone ibace Walcott, where they went at it Amin. |in the Bast | In the mean time our gallant nol wore hot-footing It enty-first’ Reghnent to-night when the guardsmen and athletes of the metropol-, ftan district wil! aid in ringing down the non track and field sport Free Treatment Piles | ‘Sam; ne sailed” re of Pyram! Rem Hise. fer trie’ soe ‘eulet, Stone, i ee olds and Lat the big bouta, This means that New Orlesua will bo the scone of many important batues, Old Year Dies The Wards, backers of the Brook- Brown’s Gym. With twenty-flve women looking | on, Willle Catton and Kid Burns, the lyn Federal League Club, are report- west sido fighters, fought @ terrific ed to b behind the movement to -round battle at the Brown Gym- | establish a new minor league in New }nawium A. A. jast night. Catton had} England, which is expected to prove 5 sald y has refused the better of the contest as a result}a good “farm” for Federal League | ett tah Argh ite ony of the severe punishment he inflicted cast-offs (Sed tobe ir Wan,” Wie om dane fa, | chao. oan eat on Burne in the last three rounds.| Several Federal League agents have | 8) afte; tha ie he * there “tno fast Rien ihe oth men slugied each other from | been in Worcester, Mass, the past pattie in, the vo oo the frst until the final bell, and al-|fow days, which gives a’ semblance 4) fail paca ek, Sane anv om though both were badly battered, only |of truth to the report that the out- fight with Web one woman left the gymnasium dur- [law re to establish a minor league ing the encounter, of their own, The ten-round go between Frank} It is believed that the new circuit RACING SELECTIONS. Wagner of Jermay City and Jack | will be composed of four sition of the a Dempsey of Portlind, Ore, was an- | present New England circuit ang four other alugtest, In ‘the tirst four from the Eastern Association, The CHARLESTON, Race—Change, Goldcrest Charieote, Race—Cuttyhunk, Vniees Tommy Walsh, manager of Joe Mandot, sie down his demand of « guarantee of & vn. the Mighigan light the Porta A. C. of bean promised a fight with Jim Coffey th. it he siccveds in de Vueblo firemua the 6 Hannon fancy diver, who ta te be ¢ features at tae annual Sport At Madison Square Gard |Raturday, will dives on’ the opening hibit Misa Ha. from of the conferees, who evidently trying to throw them off t MH serbes 6 . Sam ‘fat Wa! Hon « Sow Willing to give bim $1,000, whieh begs two orteinal | of thie ex n has named were | postpone his 4 Tndieatione ‘ores that 3 ie fried un ork janet Testrain Minti after Ive fare amy, the fast tthe, Oalifora ow signed up for two. bout hehe will take on Kid Suiliran of Brook. Broadway Sporting Club of Brook! Tout and oo aan. 4 he il honk, Kirk, the promising Pittsburgh bux nda at the Southern A. 0, of Pitts hes will meet at ts, ft nee money. as pretty safe bet, however, that rell and his stockholders de cide to sell Probably the mos it important base- and | ball deal of the yee ie ou Joval toe | manager the transfer o » Lobert of the in Bngland after ac-| Phillies to the Giants, and very likely 3 | it will go through to-day, Dillon it will be | Manager McGraw in now in Phila- im to think of | deiphia with Lobert, where they went In that case he'd be | this mor ing t Mr. Chanler, the | vers princips! owner of the Philadelphia | the Club, ane deal will mean a transfer of well an players if it goes “But, right feather: On Sat Reult and dangerous the muale of the composition of the sar hame. ‘The dive ts made eldawaya to the left after an apparent etart in the opposite direction. Phere ts one somer- bauie im the ain want . ind the ty tly beneath the board: net rounds it looked as if Dempsey was) cities suggested are Lowell, Law- going to be put away, ax Wagner yonce, Lynn and Worcester of the handed him a bad lacing. Dempsey | prosont New Engiind League circuit; xrew stronger after tho seventh round Springfleld, Hartford, New Haven and his great slugging from that/and Bridgéport of the Eastern Asso- time until the finish gave him a! ciation. draw. It 18 an open secret that the Fed- jeral Tea vith ‘that organiaation conducted the Co- lonia! League list season, Al Winn, formerly manager of the Lowell team of the New Engi was agent for the league. eraeats Fire iir Re oa “alethumpian, Third Race— York Lad, Karl, Tom Hancock. Fourth Race—Col. Hoxer, True as Steel. Fifth Race—Balfron, Nash, Patty Regan, Sixth Race—Banjo Jim, Baker, Heartbeat. er Zali, air My ia havin, ig “nie cr © basket f Toronto Uni ait 4 i whieh tour of Viited States, Will pray the team the Buinmi M,C, A. at Summit, J. to-morrow night lf Lida arrian bi Tom Green, sea Reecher-Mack Bout a Draw. vF MAVEN, Dec, 31,—Willle Beecher of New York and Frankio Mack of Beachmon: nt weigh! fought tweive fatge FyRAMID DRC fee) 616 Py Piss. with your full nem Hytiting Levinaky and Gunboat Smith, wo are | fo fait e twelvecronnd bout at the armory Conn: tosmoriow alterngon, batt Navy's re) “amith, werenmse pane | st ay ot Senet aph: Billie