The evening world. Newspaper, January 29, 1915, Page 14

—_—.— Has Every Game on Earth Beaten, Says McGraw, Play- ing on Links for First Time. 8s Wal evettng Woslsti™t > IN MoGRAW, Christy Mathew- |. @on and Mans Lobert are getting / ready for the coming baseball by playing golf in Havana John MoGraw golf as n means into good physiea! shape ie new idea. A year ago Johu golf as ono of the groatest & baseball player could be guilty And now rir ht to foo Soha, muin a wl va ty neon ool par 6 sas Lobert hits the pallid pill and it aky-hooting over palma of the Havana C course he's very near M. to fall t . Matty stayed Cees in retest ot lth * b ; Bo di 4 ight John McGraw gerve mo « lecture on golf and invited odore Blackton and myneif out us ale q a few turns arout course. only waiting for daylight to- morning. Yep-—regular goit John. is is the life,” eald McGraw we appeared. “For years I've my winter time playing billiards hd staying in the big city. din't 1 wan alive—that’ Why, golf has everything else on earth iwaye hated ‘a ttle t ve to And now ~ - never ie great! well up above the when wo went out. Not ‘was in the sky. it wan June day on Loug Island. it olf course wanders try. i i . oft ¥ 8 jevel group te house, with red- surrounded with palms Half a jediterannean, the surf pounds on * Overhead floated wit 5 I I i ij ; i 5 fi Ss ae EY dle would be hard to a terri blue and golden : t Ee 33 2 32! ay i i Eg there for sweep- ? i vod slowly up and haw eating sharka that glide k and forth below the Morro Caatle, McGraw as he swung hard on the pill and eent it slicing ‘into @ palm grove. “Well, what think of that? I'm #0 used to short at baseballs that det my arms out, and you have a froe swing at the ball in this tit yet. I'm only firet nine holes in © now, but I'll make it in 50 takes all winter.” And John jaw and hiked over into the ove for another ahot was taking « ball and driving He wan un de- box—nover tt me and enjoy the life,” auld toking right here iN get back a can't PMPATTY had a devoted following. fh The caddics wero all litth ho black-winged , roll in clouds of white | WGRAW IS NEWEST GOLF CONVERT “Tee Contae OF ATTRACTION || SLEEPY HOLLOW CLUB TO STAGE WOMEN’S OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP. te ham ir n of nba Slecey Hollow Country to chance to various clubs in es te run off invitation ire along lines best suited to the of the Bad committees. on, 0 matrabeittan title holder! B. in, Bonex M re, ger re Ry ecut injunction with | | Copyright, 1016, by The Press Publishi: 'Game Passing Through Most Serious Crisis Sin ce Its Beginning Organized Baseball Is On Defensive, Not So Much From the Federal League as From Itself, as Shown by Contem- plated Plan of Making Major Leagues Out of American Association and International League, By Bozeman Bulger. 11.2 recognition of the American Aswociation, and poasibly the Interational Teague, as major leagues is a convincing evidence that the sport of profesional baseball is now passing through the most serious crlain faced since its beginning. And this does not except the di of the Brotherhood war. It means that Or- #anized Baseball in on the defensive, not 60 much from the Federal League us fom itself, It means the tearing apart of what was considered perfe: ‘lon in organization and in the dis- McBeth and Igoe Badly Shown Up | tiard Table and Alleged Ex- ' perts Fall for It. J. M'BETH and Bert igoe, two of the headliners in the |W. ° newspaper men's pocket bil- Hard tournament now in more or leas progress at Doylo's Forty-second Street Academy, played their match yesterday, Doth players appeared carrying their private jointed cues, and after 4 long consultation with | Referee Runyon, in’ which both | showed @ surprising knowledge of the tvery latest rules, announced their | readiness for play, | That these by-playn were all pure | biumts wan immediately proved as the H t upon an English table ta ayers fell for i, The trying to pocket American poot bully an English table was vf the \funniest oogurrences thin far vulled in this now famous tourney, After battling for an hour the Sneore stood: Mofeth, jthe former obtained the lean yet expla Heth enploy darkies and baseball fanu from | 1 kinky wool to thei Heth winning by It inight be well tion that the fe “ y of 70 balls, while Igue's a was 74, William Abbott won from Francis 18S to 8M. any $50 Suit Ends Now in Rem nantSale,$18 The material alone is worth nearly what the suit costs. + Ifyou care for suggestions, a salesman will point out the » superlative values. Piece ends are added daily—irrespec- tive o! former cost. When you call examine our Special Overcoatings to + ) ‘Measure, satin lined, $25. See our new Spring styles. | | In Newspaper Men ’s Tournament wor » uae | Balls Set Up On English Bil- Nulger, who . managed the hud quite some difficulty in arranging the handicap, both play- Orn profeanine Utter Imnorance of the fume, After settling the figures Ab- bott went to the table for the opens whot and asked an attendant fer some taicum powder, Albertant {ms mediately protested and Bulger moved Abbou up fifteen balls for such expert knowledge, This afternoon's gamea will be Ed Curley vs. Frank O'Neil, Sid Greene M, 3. Martin and Frank Reddy Harry Williaa, Rubo Goldberg ‘ Tom Powers will compete Mon- ay. The Hockey Club Meets Crescents At Rink To- Night | The Hockey Club players will try to show the Crescent A. C. seven a few things about hockey in the Amatour League game at the St. Nicholas Rink to-night. The Hockey Club players, since putting up such a hard fight against the St, Nicks, are confident of wetting out of the cellur position be- fore long, and they think they will make a start by beating the New night. wenta, however, are fav- by the experts as likely winners, Capt, Tod Brown will likely be buck in the line-up, Had he been In the gumo with the Boston A. A. the Hab weven would have had a much harder thine beating the New Mooners, The Anal game of the week here between the Bt. Nicks and the Argo. ‘ to promines to be one © anxious te show Now t one Dominion -| same privilege of pr i | Weakened and this would carr) Be | Baga ee Integration the gaine itself may fall. Already the public is tired of wrangles and uncertainty, Without two major leagues—and two alono—working toward a world's series there will be no top to the lad- der—no ultimate aim for what is Rearest perfection in the sport. The| ee Series between the two best 1 tion, It in the minds of the fans Who look forward annually to the one big event—the climax. Tho tmagina- ton of the fans brought about The World's Series—not legislation, That was merely a detail, If the American Association, the International, the Pacific Coast and, maybe, the Western n0 taken in as majors it will hot strengthen those organizations nearly 0 much in proportion as it will weaken tho two major organizations. ‘There are barely enough expert play- to make up the two big and If the draft privilege is away from them every year how less. Besides, such cities a ©, Indtanapolls, Milwaukee, st. Paul, Buffalo, Providence, Baltimore and Kansas City can not be mude league cition by legislation. ‘Th been tried many times in years gone by without success, e@ public would not believe it, Major league citlon are such by virtue of thelr g graphical and civic Importance. For In@tance, jh powers of baseball might declare New Orleans in league but you couldn't make the fans believe the team that came from there a major league club. It was a major lei ment that financial Columbus, Frespot failure of last summer. They told it was a mejor league but they didn produce of major league strength. Neither could they impress the fans with tho belief that a city like Indianapolis, for instance, ranked in baseball importance with place like Brooklyn, It was impo: wiblo to arouse a sense of civic rivalry, which, after all, the real root of popularity in the national sport. Tho clamor of the American A, elation and the International Lea; for exemption from the draft i has been denied by the Nation: Commission for several years be- cause of a fear that it would weaken |nokis the two major ‘Alno era. If it were im. [Wels possible to let players advai further than those 1 2 there would be no elinite goal at which they could aim. All baseball people know that the cities of those minor leagues can not support clubs as can the major league cities, This would mean that the players, though reck- oned as major leaguers, would not get major league salaries, and there would be no eacape, It would mean that those ‘leagiies would have the ing on the little D organizations nd the National and the ten here would lubs through which they must be distributed, The whole fabric of baseball would be th ry wi of in- it a proportionate weakening terest among the fans, But now the National Commisssion has another argument tb face, and, api intly, they think it a sound one. leagues must be declared majors to protect them from the raide of the Feds, Or, rather, to show such strength as to make the appear ues is a classic, not by legisia-| ing Co. (The New York Evening World), BARROW DENIES STORY THAT INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE WILL QUIT. President Barrow of the Inter- national League sends the follow- ing letter to the sporting editor: Please deny for me that the Internatio League has any in- ig out of business new or Story published in an evening paper yesterday to this effect is sbeclutaly untrue and. without a League is in it ie ridious that men like Keever of Newark, thousands dollars investe: would lay down after one bad he City franchise. int focal peeple in Jersey City have ff to take over that club continue it in the Inter- national Eongee 1 will say further that, rather ration: @ are a last resort. Federals Will Meet at _ New Haven To-Morrow To Form New League Gilmore and Ward Hold Conference Here This Afternoon and Announce That New Circuit Will Be Selected From Sixteen New England Cities—Will Be a “Farm” for the Feds. | | | \ | A. will meet In New Haven to-morrow for the purpose of organizing a subsid- President James iimore, jary league for the outlaw organiza- tion, The new circuit will be com- posed of eight leading cities through- out New England, It will be used as a sort of “farm” for Fed players. Gilmore stopped in this city to-day on his way to New Haven for a brief conference with Robert bB. Ward, Vice-President of the league, After this meeting Mr. Ward officially an- nounced that several league officials would meet at New Haven to-mor- row and organize a new league. o will have sixteen cities to se- lect from,” said Mr. Ward, “and there FISTIC NEWS AND GOSSIP ‘After becoming exhausted telling the sporting writers of the New Orloane papers Uvat his heary. Twolght, Bateling Levinsky, was emtitled to a draw in hie twenty-round bate with Gunboat Smith Jon Wedneeday nigit, Danny Morgan eent the following telegram to the writer: “The fight fans insisted thet Levinaky should Ihave received a draw, The Battler and Smith Jae romatched and Levinaky Is alo signed up to ‘alifornia learyweight, . O, on Feb. 4, Heynolda of Whiladelpbia meee Matt rock of Cleveland here on Feb, 13, Kid Taylor lot Brookiyn fighta Young Coulon of New Orleans jon Feb, 22 and Jack Britton takes on Eddie Murphy of Boston Feb. 20, ‘There are only two veomoters doing brsiness down bere; Tortorich 1 ‘Tommy Hume, Burne has opened « new club, Tom McCarey has broken away from ‘Tor. torich and is just looking things over,” Billy Newman of Harlem, former manager of Cart Morns, the big heavyweight, has taken an. ouher bo yd hie mm er af ney C1 the of the wpper east aie, Cline went A ished him to look after hh a eget BM Oe ag Cline, thonghe, trot Meborald, wad noi, getting him enough money for nie contesta he left hie |= Burns, geese ey Prem orack vawelaht of has’ won, three faite at, New “houte, han. fust oven ‘taatched for Hig opponent wil Hime, the New Orleana yer wil halide meaty roude at : the opening. ehow. 0 Fee en Rep Ga Bobby Res will" alo fight twenty bantam, at uit hich hs p,. i 3 to po as nade fev ye world’s | Nghtwre Net, Minx Se i Jimmy Clabby have both ene eat tagrame. to Jimmy Fobnutn (nae ing him tom hem for Lt hte in Madison Square. Gi month. Johnston e with some fe Thott that” rowed eo) viet It fro ould inal) (probsbilty opponent. sala No wonier eveer. ome was murotisal when the receipt 82) for the Preidie ‘lsh. SiH of pat In “the “tianden were et ehaaively t Abearn, ing wit be Mike’ on cont #7 Ay as | ce ered to the Rollins of them $s FSW ag Saga RR | fhe “here il foe Then AGS Vion vacats. had heen sa ort at White was. {Ml and coukt mot Mehte HeM gt officials refunded suume at named shore, ny =| ves at ae fa at oung Ki C. ot, Wokden ‘sind ae scrap. | Crescent" we | between Max Ff mn Wednes. | tof the ‘eeate, By John Pollock at they would be o oy weight, Saaloe Federal League officials headed by] WIN AND ADVANGE TO: SENNA RO Brook and Cassatt Deteatéd im the National Racquets Chattie, pionship in Philadelphia’ 1 yea tant a —r— PHILADELPHIA, Jan . Gould and Wilson | Potter, afe vanced to the semi-final round. inthe National Racquets Champidaship.t= doubles now in progress at they 9am quet Club by defeating in -@ret round George 8. Brook and Ri? ity Cassatt. Gould and Potter won’ tm straight games, but every one of thea wae « keen contest in itself. In-tad: first game the losers secured 11 acéiy In the second 12 and last 12. oad Serving at the start of thé mat Brook secured two aces, but Pot! replied with three. Potter scored four aces in his hand and Brook an@ Cassatt each secured two on theits, and 1¢—7 was called. Cassatt, ini his next hands, added four more, but Potter ran out the game, 15—12. ‘The second game lasted bit seven hands, and with Potter Gould averaging a trifle better than two aces to oe service, they won .the Jory weaner, f gam Potter lost the service after spor. one ace In the third ye ond’ tt secured two, one in each of ids, Potter then fan nd after the next 1-6 in favor of Felon, han Gould and Potter. Cassatt here served himself out and Gould m the score 9-8. Eventually t! stood 14-9 In favor of Breok Cassatt. . 4 Both of them proceeded to themselves out after scoring at Tl Potter and Gould. In the other first roun Dwight F. Davis and J. sont the Racquet Club of At sent the Racquet Clul . La de ted Hugh Scott and G. R. Fear- ing of the Boston Racquet and nis Club, four game to three. The, scores were: 3—15, 16—6, 15-10, 6—15, 13-18, 15—9. = |. C, Waterbury and G. M. = scher, Tennis and Racquet Club, New Yor, won from P. Stockton and parte ner, Racquet and Tennis Club, Beas! ton, by default Cc. C. Pell and 8. G. Mortimen) Tuxedo Tennis and Racquet Cluty) won from N. W. bot and Racquet and Tennis Club, Boston, default. > should be no trouble in arranging matters.” Mr. Ward refuned,.to name the cities that will compose the new circuit, but their number will be made from New Haven, Portland, Manchester, Spring- field, Worcester, Hartford, Providence, Lawrence, Lynn, Fall “River and Waterbury. The contempinted circuit, accord- ing to present plans, will be in readi- ness for the opening of the poming baseball season. It will be another move the Federals have contemplated for some time in their fight against organized ball. is Sait BAN JOHNSON COMING HERE TO SETTLE FINAL DETAILS OF YANKEE TRANSFER. CHICAGO, Jan. 29.—Prestdent John- son of the American League left to-day for New York, where he expects to make final arrangements for the trans- fer of the Farrel! holdings in the local club to the Ruppert-Hugton ayndicate, He wilt remain for the “apring” meet- ing of the league next Wednesday. ——— AMERICAN ASSOCIATION TO PASS UP CHICAGO. CHICAGO, 5 nae oo i” CHARLEY WHITE TO REST = FOR THREE WEEKS. CHICAGO, Jan. 29.—It will be thres woeks at Ir before Charley White puts on @ glove. The little lightweight, Whose bout with Freddie Welsh waw called off when pneumonia stepped to-day he will take no chances a relapsi Mike Ryan Rates Coach. Mike Ryan, the Irish-Amertcan Ath- letic Club distance runner, who gained athletic fame by a victory in Athletic Association Marathon, and was sent to the Stockholm to represent this count! stance classic, is now an ment A801 cceeding Burton 8. Teslgned, and has already taken duties, i¢| American Association Inland City Plenty of Good Bouts Are Seen at Crescent A.C. ‘The large crowd of members of the . C, of Brooklyn and their friends who attended the preliminary the |held by the club last night were well repaid, as they had the pleasure of see- ing more knockouts than have been wit- nessed at any of these tourneys in some time. ‘The first three bouts terminated in the first round. In the opening session in the 108-pound class between J. Farrag, unattached, and J. Henderson, unat- tached, Referee Eddie Forbes stopped the milling in the first round to save Henderson fon fare, P ishment. The same ny jappened in forbert of the West Har- lem A. C. and W. Christie of the New West Side A. C, Herbert outclassed Christie and the bout was stopped in the first round. ‘One of the best bouts of the night was 118-pound clase between Gi of the Glencoe A. C., who holds York State title, and A. 1 . knocked Enz cold in the first round and the latter was given & two-minute rest. Enz can ck ‘trong during the next two rounds, and although the judges gave the champion the decision, Ing gave hia & hard battle, ILADELPHIA, Pa, r i |Charles 8. Dooin, former Manager of Let the Philadelphia team, has signed a tract to catch for the The salary is sald to be National 900) Demarest, 175. GLENS FALLS, N. ¥.. Jan, 29.— Marcus Catton defeated Calvin Dema- rest, 200 to 171 Players’ League match here. nd Yatton, 11 3-27, emarést, Avera, at; Retiring. CLEVELAND, ©., Jan, 29.--Freddie : Fla Belomeral ised major league classification rearrange its circuit with dropping one or two of the present f hicago at cities, will not invade this time. President Chivington said it ea nee. s that the St. Paul franchise will be assigned to a lai city, and that an- nae important change was contem- lated. “No action, however, will be tak he said, “until a decision has been dered in the suit brought by the eral League.’ view of | | “FOUR BELLS’’ tomorrow afternoon, at Madison Square Garden, the Motor Boat Show will open with a grand array of BOATS, | and small; ENGINES, for the smallest er or the largest yacht; ACCESSORIES, covering a vast list of pecemnary uipment—Band lay- in; flving, Girls and G t will be there. 2P. M. TOMORROW (Saturday) to 10.30 P, M. NATIONAL MOTOR BOAT SHOW MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. ‘