The evening world. Newspaper, April 26, 1915, Page 12

1 NEWS AND VIEWS AND TIMELY GOSSIP OF PORT WORLD Fe@era! League Magnates A Waiting for 0. 8. to Make Next Move in Movement to End Baseball War. Prep ? STRADDLE BENG By Vincent Treanor HE rival tesevall magnate have euddenl) ceased boldina their peace conferenors But ile Goes Dot indica'+ that the move ee ee feat to bring about an end to the Daseta)) war har been ebandoued Phe officials of tie combatants dave Bietened to theo ents and know | OW What each will have to concede @ bring about a erttiement. The! Peders! learu: te dentale that $f wants to end the trouve. bas nott Be the men of two bl gues just what is wanted, and the O B Magnates are now talking It over among themselves, In a few days, that is, after every club owner tn the Nationa! and American Leagues has been consulted, something may he learned. There ton't a club owner | fim the three leagues now at war that) ‘Beating Wal fi on the question of who wil! do the @etating. The Feds have announeed their plans. They are ready to stop fighting if the two other organiza tions will seo that those of the Fed eral League who cannot have clubs fm the big show are taken care of. This, they point ont, oan be done if two major leagues of ten clubs each | ter Johnson Has Acted Like Magic Tonic on the Yankees THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, APRIL 26, 1915 ~ BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK — REVIVING THE GRAND OLD GAME OF HANDBALL SWAPSHOTS TAKEN BY THE EVENING WORLD PHOTOGRAPHER AT THE WEST SIDE Y MCA @re organized. In this way four of the Federal League clubs can be token care of. The next move must be made by the 0. B. magnates. ACE in baseball will seal the doom of the players. That ta| ‘to ony, it will put an end to high @alaries within the next two years. It fa the high cost of maintaining teams) that started the movement to end/ the war. Even with an increase in| Patronage this ycur the Feds will be, Was losers and there isn't much hope for better times in a majority of the Gitien that are in the National and ‘American Leagues. The magnates Fealize that their only chance to put Baseball on a dividend paying basis is to reduce expenses. And this can only be done when the leagues are Working in harmony, HINGS are running good for Jesm Willard.| It was re- ported last night that he has Been offered $1,000 a day to appear &@ Wild West show that ts about to @tart a tour of the world, It is a con- tract that will run for more than @even months, That is more than he an earn if he continues in the show business. Donovan. By Bozeman Bulger. standing of the olubs first think it a mistak look Walter Johnson in the eye with- worst trimming, your information that Bill protty near speaking the truth, HE Giants have at last found something they can beat. Larry Doyle took the New York un- \\ fortunates to Paterson yesterday and ball 3 SF% FP & Dall Bame by @ score of! sant have to pitch, Another bright spot on the ¢a- cutcheon of these heretofore despined workmanlike mannér. In the recent his shoe laces would send t Yanks N the mean time the Yankees are It Has Instilled a Confidence That Will Keep Them Up With the Leaders, Says Manager F you will kindly take a look at the in the American League and note care- fully the identity of the candidate @itting in second place—you may at but it tan’t | —you will understand why Wild Bul Donovan amiles and just what we mean by the “renovated” Yanks, They are there, gents, and Bill says they the going to stay there. Naturally we couldn't co am fur as that, but if you were not of the 17,000 who saw them out blinking and then give him his we will state for comes ‘The fact that the heretofore hitleas and pitcher-fearing Yanks beat Bir Walter is secondary. The important feature is that they were not afraid to try it and went at their job in a past the sight of Johnson's glove or to the club house a beaten crew. He can play any other pu infield as weil as first will be many Umes when b in handy. will come It ls Donovan's plan to pitch Ray Fisher this afternogn, and the Sena- tors are in for a father unpleasant afternoon, ‘The Vermont schoolmas ter haw shown wonderful form tn bh two starts and ought to be able hold his own with anything tha Washington has, especially since Johnson and Shaw are out of the way, An the Yanks are progroasing the Glants are having @ tough time on the other side of the bridge. With a start of threo runs, Matty was beaten | Saturday, making the seventh straight defeat for the former champions, Just what is the matter with the club, nobody seems to know. Tho players thempelves are at a loss to under- stand, Undoubtedly it is the condi tion of the pitchers, as the batters are holding up their end pretty well Tho pitchers in both leagues are backward in form, and Larry Doyle saya the Giants suffered the most be- cause of the weather conditions that To See Her boat re will compete with Yale eights in the time Yale crew authorities have ever from spectators, The course will b> nd the Springfic Yale freshmen, Yale to Charge an Admission | ERE'S a new departure in rowing—paying an admission to sce a How can it be done? “Announcement has just been made that three visiting crews will be held on Lake Whitney for the first time in years, banked by a high fence and admission will be by ticket only, the first Rimon Boat Club of Springfield, Mass, will send an F alnst one of the Yale class crews. The Central High HDRE 18 now a general craze elphia will send an eight to row the first Yale freshmen, }) for handball, The strenuous 1 High School has entered an eight against the second |} sport has suddenly recovered In addition there will be a Yale interclass ra ner of which will meet the champton class crew at Harvard. View hALEW -|Handball the _ For Too Mu lIt’s an Exercise That Should Appeal to All Corpulent Per- sons—Y, M. C. A. Helping to Revive Grand Old Game. Crews in Races Read on, annual spring regatta \ The lake je been in a position to get gate money one and seven-eighth miles, . the win- J} all its former popularity and the rush {to hit the litte rubber ball has been so great that clubs have been com- held them back at Marlin. It was thought that Marquard had atruck his galt when he pitched the no-hit gaune at the Polo Grounds, but in bis second start he also lacked the punch. None of the pitchers has a sore arin, but they simply lack strength, —— IMPROVING BELMONT PARK FOR RACING SEASON Engagement of 900 Stalls an Indi- cation That Sport Is Com- eetting a pace that has everybody talking. They are playing @ rand of baseball that has long been wanting in a New York American League team. Donovan keeps his men Sighting all the tite, and it was this qualifeation that was lacking when Frank Chance was at the helm. Last year and for several years back the Yankees would go to pieces at critical @tages of a game. They Incked the fighting opirit. They didn’t have a feader that could rouse them to action, Donovan, however, has every man on the team believing New York can win the pennant. Last year when the Yanks is their defense, Realizing that hita off Johnson would be few and between Donovan and his gang # about to prevent the Senators from getting on the bases, figurt that without a run they couldn't be ten even if Sir Walter struck out the whole gang. The plan worked out ac- cording to specifications, For the past week the infield work of the Ruppert-Huston team has been good, but on Saturday it reached high wi mark. Buch plays as Pipp, Maisel and Peckinpaugh de in the tight places would have taken the heart out of anybod: Luther Boone not up to form, and but for his @lip on a hot grounder Caldwell would have got @ one-hit game. Incidentally Caldwell got about as ing Back Strong. The extensive plans horsemen are now making at Belmont Park is a forerunner of @ prosperous season on the turf. Nearly 900 stalls have been engaged although the season does not open untli May 2, The present de- mand for atable room from owners compares favorably with the days when the thoroughbreds were in their prime in New York State, Of the more prominent owners Harry Payne Whitney has applied for twenty-nine stalls for hie wonderful string of racers. Thomas Hitchcock To Race Champion Three-Year-Old Last Year Is Sure to Be Assigned Top Weight at Churchill Downs. Andrew Miller's formidable stable of race horses, including Roamer, champion last year in the three- year-old division, have been shipped to Louisville. Roamer will be pointed for the Kentucky Handicap at Churebill Downha, This race will be in Rich Derby worth more tha: $10,000 to the win- ner. It ls @ race at one mile and a quarter and the son of Knight Errant and Rose Tree II, will be assigned top weight. Roamer has wintered well, and if he trains well should win this rich stake. Lady Rotha, Bac, and the two-year-olds Bt, James and Qui Vive were also shipped South. Lady Kotha has developed into a racy three-year-old and will be Mr. Miller’s entry in the Kentucky Oaks. Trainer Jack Goldsborough also took along Coquette, the three-year- pelled to install extra courts, indoors, on roofs and even in vacant lots. New players have been quickly de- veloped. Interest reached the point where matches are arranged to decide the inter-sectional city championship. The first of these tournaments was between Fred Staddieberger, a ve ran, who came forw: the title E; ose to- | holder of the West Side Y. M,C. A. reeeyany sy Pei Aer i drelsd which was equivalent to being the hext” August. Amoug ‘the oredis! Dest handballist on the upper west about to close are: The Amsterdam 82. and the Mohawk, at one milo; the) VETERAN TOO SCIENTIFIC FOR Catskill, at seven furlon| the YOUNG OPPONENT. Boneca, at six furlongs; the Cham-| plain Handicap, at one mile and an! Staddleberger's oppone was J. L. r h, Verstraten, who represented the clghth; the Saratoga Cup, at one|pwenty-third Street branch of the mile and three-quarters; the Sara-| y. M. C. A. The match was played | on the Van Kelton Field, next door | to the West Side Y. M. C. toga Handicap, at ono mile and al quarter, and the Mer ants and Citi-| ‘ A. The zens’ Handicap, at one mile andj day was very warm and Ve straten | three-alxteenths, soon decided that a light running suit | was the best uniform to wear. This Included in the four two-year-olds! didn't appeal to the veteran Staddle- in the barn of A. L. Aste at Graves-| berger, who tips at 190 pounds. He end is Decimal Point, a brother to! danced out on the concrete courts In | Ten Point, While Decimal Point ig a double suit of heavy woollens, and a large and exceedingly well-muscled he hadn't played but a few minutes youngster, he lacks much of the, before the perspiration poured off in helght ‘Ten Point possessed as a two-! torrents. year-old, | Handball requires one to be fast on FISTIC NEWS AND GOSSIP By John Pollock Gundoat Smith, the hearywaight of California, @ contract, mye that he will get out an injunc. and Jack Dillon of Indianapolia, who fought «| tion restraining any club from using him in bouts dard battle in Milwaukeo several weeks ago, af | unlew under his management. Pierce broke away fing to Bare it out again tm another ten-round| from Julian and has placed bimself under the bout Real Cure | ch Waist Line his feet. To the big gallery the light and athletic Verstraten seemed to have a big advantage over biy more cumbersome opponent. But Staddle- berger, now in his fortieth year, knows all the sciences of the game, He can make the little ball perform all Kinds of magic feats. The match started with the youth- ful Verstraten very confident. He knew ho had lots of speed and planned to wear down his heavier op- Hut it soon developed that ing. The idea in handball is to hit the ball up against a wall and have it land in the court where the other player can't return it. That's just what the cunning Staddloberger did. He continuously walloped the bali so that it would land out of Ver- straten's reach, The youngster ran around in circles to connect with his opponent's returns, but he didn’t suc- ceed in getting many back. Without extending himself Staddleberger won the necessary three matohes out of| five and a silver cup that was of- fered. HANDBALL PRESCRIBED FOR MEN WITH BIG WAISTLINES. The Verstraten-Staddleberger match, played outdoore, had but one wall to the tournament court, The two con- testants played the single wall, the all landing into the court much in the same manner as tennis, except there isn't a net and the handballists use gloves Instead of racquets. The game with all its activity ap- peals to corpulent persons who are nxious to reduce. The West Side M. C. A, courts nearly every day are crowded with players, and many of them point with pride to a smaller waistline and give the credit to hand- ball. So if you want half an hour of good, strenuous exercise, or know a friend who's eager to reduce, take a shot at handball; tis’ great sport, Eddie Campi Too Good for Fitzsimmons Eddie Campi, the bantamweight ~ EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN "TRAINING THESE DAYS ~ FOR COMING REGATIA Nor ] 1 ' ae Has 1 wane well rep with an etght, a four, and tw the Procession The junior four of the Nonpareus Janxious for the Rogers Cup cy which tt already has two legs, is now rowing: How, Georke Mullen: 3 Roberta; stroke, M, MeLoughlan; coxs Jwwatn, J. Melaushlar The Union Boat Clit) has decided to enter for the It 1 Its four wo omeated follows: 1, Loe sm 4, Gulla; stro’ conswain, Willaims; Substi+ Kalbe and Thompson They are being viched by Willams, a dmistunt rowing coach at The Union quadruple sell crew is coached by John Kemp. 1 « Jo. 6 of the 1897 eight, was one « ape younger talked more it 1 ching rowing oarsmen on t of times wh rksome and 1 has been of Inte years. anta junior four-gig erew ha shifted so that it naw rows Owen at stroke, Hewitt at beck at 3, Sullivan at bow, an Tyler or Kelly as coxswain. Coach Jack Smith has chosen a genior double for the Nassau Club. rren A. Kohler will row bow and X. Deering stroke. The Metropolitan Club has opened its shelter to the Hawatha Canoe Club, whose house was destroyed dur- ing the winter, They will prepare for the Memorial Day contests from there. Coach Atkinson of the Flushing High School boys reports that they are improving nicely, and will make a strong bid on Memorial Day. May 16 has been set as offictal opening day for the Wahnetah Club. John Rogers has been elected Presi- dent and George Kelly Captain. Pinan and ct DAVIS WINS GOLF TITLE IN TOURNEY ON COAST, SAN FRANCISCO, April 26.—Harry K. B. Davis of the Presidio Golf Club, San Francisco, won the Panama-Pacific Exposition golf championship yesterday by defeatin fteinrieh Schmidt of the Claremont Country Club of Oakland, at the San Francisco Golf and Country Club, 1 up. The match was the closest of the tournament, the result wavering until Davis won on the thirty-sixth een, Schmidt, formerly of New Eng- and, has an international reputatio: having compoted in the British ami ament. He put Charles stern champion, out of the present meet. Davis is not well known outside the Pacitic st States, but and wor © popular than The Ata been with Whit- either with splendid golf won his matches handily in the present contest, eliminat- ing H. Chandler Egan, formerly nas tional champion, in the semi-final, —__—- REDS AND CUBS IN FIFTEEN-INNING TIE. CINCINNATI, April 26.— The Chicago Cubs and the Cincinnati Reds played a fiftcen-inning game yester- day, which was finally called on ac- count of darkness with the score a tle at 4 to 4. The game was replete with marvellous catches, Benton, who started the contest for Cincinnat!, was taken out of the box in the fifth inning, after Chicago had made five hits and scored three runs. Cheney, who began for Chicago, waa taken out in the eighth. He had one ‘bad inning, the sixth, when the Reda made four hits, which, with a base on Yankees saw Johnson-in the box it was @ case of write your own ticket thas the Washingtons would win, But hag engaged room for twenty horses, J. B. Widener for fifteen and Goorge Widener will be represented by eight thoroughbreds, Management of Al Sibberna, who has him signed old recently acquired by Mattie Cor- Up to @ two-year contract bett, Roamer has grown much since last season and is at least one bun- dred pounds heavier than when he balls, yielded four run: fighter of California, showed too much class for Billy Fitzsimmons, the Yonkers featherweight, in their near to @ no-hitter as a pitcher can get without actually entering the Hall of Fame with the other twirling im- mortals. Vadkty Donnelly American Sporting Club, flows tn Salzee’e Park to Harlan, bas signed the English Gol for Baltasrol. LONDON, April 26.—In addition to Vancouver, [ritish Columbia, te the latest its Gifferent now, particularly since they il ing the champion pitcher when at & more propitious time. He got on the doorstep, but will have to ait there and wait until While stable hands are busy with preparations, many improvements are being rushed at Belmont Park for the is best. the is work. use At to outbox Leonard. eae BROOKLYN CELTICS ‘Fhe Brooklyn Celtics, ) finals last week, took the fleld at Mar Reca to aveni of the Yonkers F, ity in capturing a ea in the U. 8. of ( pas Me dy Ite a e bet on nks to finish in the first di- New York this week to box against Benny Leonard, a young- | ter of Harlem, who shows every in- | dication of being a champion some day. Kilbane will have to step at top peed or he may lone the popular verdict. But the featherweight cham- can fight if he settles down to And this means @ good ecrep, Leo is an am- Ditious youngster and will take many chances. ‘Kilbane will have to be very pe KILBANE ie coming to BEATEN BY YONKERS smarting un- Gar the defeat sustained at the bande | of the Scottish-Americans in the } American Football Association cup-tie @uette Oval, Brooklyn, yesterday after- fo themselves at the ex- Cc. in the round of the Southern New York League cup-tie series, but lost 8 goals to 0. ‘The Celtics have one more oppor- championship. . 8. A. cup-tie which competition they are a het ela ial Ea It can be suid, however, that the Senators didn't make a clean hit dur- ing the afternoon. Their first one was a high bounder that struck Cald- well on the wrist and was deflected opening, Painters are brightening up the private boxes tn the grand stand and the clubhouse, The administra- uilding has been renovated en- as have the jockey house and so that Boone could not play it in| paddock. time to head off the runner. The} A great deal of attention, too, has next Was & grass cutter that Boone been spent on the track. In past years owners often complained that its hard surface was injurious to the legs and feet of many horses, espectatly in the early morning gallops, ‘To remedy this all the top dresainy has been removed and a new coat of loam and soft nature applied, —————_ CHANGE OF COURTS FOR YALE TENNIS TOURNEY. The tennis tournament of the Yale Alumnt Association, which 14 scheduled for May 8, may be played on the courts of the New York Lawn Tennis Club at overran and let get by him And Caldwell was not in shape, at that! Duke Farrell, the old oonach, de- clares that the elongated telagrapher couldn't use his fast ball at any time for the almple reason that he had nothing on ft. Finding his punch lacking and no #p on his fast one, Caldwen fares hie Teotirosttilpase ‘depending en' on curves, Wit the count two and Tee on the bat- ter, he would take a chance with the bender rather m shove over a straight one that could be out of the lot. That fellow ta a piteber, Mr. Fan, — Kinwbridge. ‘The Kuimes aro booked at As the esason moves along the fol-| the, Palham Country lub. but it ie \ of the Tanna are Degioning to| coueTul if these courta can be made realise more than over ovan's | ead wisdom in playing Pipp at first Base. .| It was his two healthy wallops that started the fireworks on both the cocasions that resulted tn two runs. All season he has been hitting the) ball hard, and no particular fault can be found with his fielding. Probably | he is not as good a fielder as Mullen, | because he makes technical mistakes | tly. Pipp is in need of big! lence, but the only way in the big league, as he} fe What little mistakes he makes will be fully offset by the runs he drives in by long wallops. At the eame tine a hae that he Cleveland, 8) Detswit, 1 Chioago, by Bt, Lous, 6. ss eto Cleveland at Chicago, Po tach A a GAMES SCHEDULED: FOR ‘TO-DAY raced last. Sam Hildreth has shipped the Bel- mont horses to Belmont Park. The track at Queens ts now in good con- dition, ‘The Butler string will be sent to Belmont Park in a few days. Among the arrivals at Belmont Park last week were the horses of H. C. Hallenbeck and Ed Hoffner. — Iron Duke and The Finn, Mr. Hallenbeck's recent) purchases, are already in’ training. Mrs. Payne Whitney's horses wi} start training to-day. Federal League Standing. W. fe BOO Cl, 5 on Buttelo, 1. 14 innings, Lanne vis "Shicago.'2. Becond’ guise. STANDING OF THE CLUBS GUE. NATIONAL LEAGUB Wee POT Chu Louis, weawo,, 4 1 innings Lito Rosion at Mhilada Pbureh at At | : piace where toxing bouts will be permitted by the law, The jrumotem out there are trying to ‘ign up Soldier Hartfiel! of Brooklyn and Frank fighters to battle tn the main bout at the opan- ing show of the club on the aight of May 14, Johnny Dundee and his manager, Scotty Mon-| Barriev, the orick walterweight of that city, Ulett, leave for Buffalo, N, Y., tonight, where [fF the firwt ebow on May 10, Dan M the Malian Lightweight i# scheduled to meet | "Ante $1,500 fo artfield before he will accept Rocky Kansas of that city fm a ten-round bout at | match, the Queensberry A, ©. am the night of May 8, Kansas has been steadily improving in bis fight ing during the last six monthe aad be will prob- ably give Dundee « hard pestle, Jim Buckler, who has been manager of ‘Tommy Murphy, the local ightwelght for several years, told the writer last tired from the eing fo give up the gaine,” ere that he was Ganiner Brooks, the bantamweight champlon of back in every ttle that New Rngland, who has engaged tp thityfour | ing (ook in during the last tw months, battles, winning twenty-two of them by knock | wWrgn Wile Beecher beat bim I was more coo Ath, seouna to have been overlooked by the man- sgom of the different local clute, for be hae only in two boute here since he arrived tn New York, Brooks te a clever youngster aud is o god unoher, vinced than erer that he \ |, When Billy Gttmon was that Bob McAllister, the California light-heary weight, had takon the piece of Tom M: and bad outpotnted Tom MeMahon, the * throug," Id on Saturday night ‘Three ten-round bouts will be staged at the | bunh at the Broadway show of the Tong Aore A, ©, to-night, The | Sporting Club, ho ead: ‘That ts strange, I gave men who will battle are Irving Margollen and|him monay on ‘Tugeday to retum to San Fran- Ralph Kose, Battling Pierce and Vrank Pastor ‘was leaving on that day for ‘and Joe Bailey and Young Franks, was hie manager Johwny Bolsderg of Brooklyn, who bas been bat- Although Jobmng Dunn, the uew manager of fing in good form in St. Loule, will take on A}, McOoy of Brookiyn, tas deolered thet be | Johuny Hatie, the promising bantamweight of will gladly mata MoCoy to fight any of the top) pitiwaukee, in @ ten round bout before the South eotchere whe will make 168 pounds at the ring. | Aide A. 0. of Milwaukee to-night, Brtle bas won side, Jotmny Bas evidently father not to algm Al, up wit Dunn bas been aidestqpping many fights recently. ANOTHER SHIFT IN CORNELL VARSITY BOAT ITHACA, N. Y¥., Apri Several shifts in the Cornell Varsity crews have been made by Coach Courtney. Morgan, who has been bow oar tn the second combination, will have that position in the varsity, ‘Terriberry going to No. 6 in °F who looks after the affairs of the California bantamwelgnt, te taking a big how! over the refusal of the man ager of Kid Williams, the bantamweight cham, top, to give Campi @ chance to meet Williams in @ bout for the ttle, ‘Campi is ended to a Hight with Wil * grid Engel, “for in the first place be cay make the requured weight, and beside he has beaten many good youngsters, 26. Harry Plorce, the Brooklyn lightweight, the second eight and Fernow going to not be pennitted to box at any of the local bow tn that combination. clube, Marin Juin, whe bes Lim pines mp te apothes man ip the varsity, | Bird will bo f ten-round bout at the Fairmont A.C. show on Saturday night, and as a result he won by a big margin, Al- though dofeated, Fitzsimmons was not disgraced by any means, for he kept right after Campi and slowed him up a few times with his heavy wallops to his stomach. Campi dis- played great cleverness, and it was his fast, accurate hitting with both hands that won for him. Tho results of the other star bouts held on Saturday night are as fol- lows: | At St. Nicholas Rink A, C, Ralph Grunan defeated Dick Peters, and Johnny Drummie won from Willie Warren, At Broadway Sporting Club Bob| McAllister easily outpointed Tom Mc- Mahon, At Federal A. C. Abe Friedman and Teddy Jacobs fought a draw, At Irving A. C. Harry Stone and Kid Graves boxed a draw. At Brown's A. A. the referee stopped the bout in the eighth round between Barry Hill and Mickey Dunn because they were boxing too tamely, At Queensboro A. C. Andy Cortez had a shade on “Chick” Simler, —— ENGLISH TENNIS STAR | KILLED IN BATTLE LONDON, April 26.—Kenneth Pow- |, late captain of the Cambridge Uni- | ity lawn tennis team and who rep. resented England at the Olympic games | killed in ac- Ris defeat of His" best | LO} Harry Vardon and Edward Ray, two more of the leading English golfers will sail for America on May 16, Geo Duncan, the Hanger Hl! profession and C, H. Mayo of Burhill having nitely decided to compete in the open champlonship at Baltusrol in June. Tira package Leer the TF advertise! erenow THUMS Pirlive SPORTING, A. 814-390 Grand @,