The evening world. Newspaper, May 1, 1915, Page 8

AND TIMELY GOSSIP OF SPORT WORL Feds Likely to Start Sometting Real in To-Day's Meeting at Waioort. Vincent Treanor ARK bark! The ¢ bark the Fete are To-day at the War eee ee ting even for Henne uring jue do, but we Be orem bet thet ther secon wu @meunt Ww mere thee the we Oo feed “Keuff up,” directed at ibe Otent> Gilmore hasn't burrietiy eummoned @ Bis clud owners to New York for It looks as ESPATCHES from Chicago quote Ban Jobncon, President of the American League, as saying (Bat Bennie Kauff is an out-and-out Blaghdisted player, and even after MMe forma! application for reinetate- Ment, can't possibly be restored to (@e0d standing for three years at least. “Tie doesn't jibe with the remark (ede by Manager McGraw of the | Glapts to the effect that Johnson told Bim some time ago to grab Kauff if be could, and that he would stand by Bim. And as we come to think of it, ‘Why should Kauff have to wait three Years for reinstatement? Hal Chase wee reinstated within ax months a few years ago, after deserting the Kt and rushing away to ball on the Pacific Coast. ' racing season on the Metro- Dolitan tracks is gradually draw- » Ing near. Pimiloo begins to- day, and after ite windup the old familiar bugle will be heard again at Belmont Park. Not in years has the Park ie already well taken up, and ), toward the end of the Pimitoo meet- tag “The New Market of America” should shelter more horees than at ‘any time since the anti-betting legis- » lation put @ crimp in the thoroush- bred sport, HAVE often wondered why Joe Humphries, in announcing weights from the ring, says: “Bo and So, 133 pounds in full ring @etume, and Who's This 133 strip- | Bed.” Why should there be any differ- ee in the method of weighing? The in the bouts hereubouts to Jump on the scales one way ‘under @ uniform system. HARLEY WHITE, America's foremost referee and close stu- * Gent of boxing, ie fearful lest , Whitman in appointing the new Commissioners will not name Ratives of New York State. Charley ‘Wants to see New Yorkers get the ere te. firstly, because they are them, and, secondly, be- Bales, ef tho he says, New York can boast best boxing experts to be found Native son atuff is almost (8 Orecasion with Chari EMMY CLABBY and George Chip J met in a twenty-round bout in : Frisco nearly a year ago and ‘| Clabby won under wraps. The other ‘might they met in Marinette, Wis, * tp @ ten-round contest, and Chip got the popular word. This wouldn't i hare any particular significance if it ‘ "t been noted that Jimmy John. g0n has the pair matched up for a bout at the St. Nicholas Rink in th near future. Can it be possible thoy ere handing one of those things to ‘the usually astute Jimmy? “middiewe!ht champion,” over in Brooklyn next week, and the odd thing about it is that MoCoy thinks he will win. Some one told MoCoy in the gym. the other day tpat he was in for a good pasting, but he couldn't » “it Clabby will stand still long enough,” aid McCoy, "I'll hit him like I did Chip, and then maybe the sporting public will take me seriously,” Corsi is to meet Al McCoy, the} HE bigzest e ina fistic lino on the culendar just now Ix tue clash of Jim Coffey ptertainment and Al iteich, This bout furnishes Reich with dis long-sought oppor funity. He and hiv manoxer have been pestering Coffey and ply man ager, ily Gibson, for ay Coffey | players heard Bim make this been accused of being ufraid of|as the tearm got In trom | ee ex-amateur ever since they had/ night, and indorsed it hearil @ little setto in the sy und Which, {fact, #0 heartily that a repr take |: from the Reich camp, almost | soine of tho expressions, f Fesuites in the Knockout of © Dub-/they are, Would not go throv Mn giant. Since then Coffey has/ malls made a record that would have been, ‘The Yanks will be with us for eight to John L. in his palmicat|days, with the Athletics as the th Y while Reich performances tar and Will then muke the West have been far from startling. That ern cireult, returning wround thy there is a tremendous interest in tho | frst of June meeting of the young huskies iy toy Hartwell, the veteran of the evidenced by the betting on the re- | club, Who bias se: F and sult, which is more spirited than on|svlng of many us| apy bout since the Horton law days, players an Kanes ares thi Maxey Ilumenthal, Reich's manager, Mectet of the Y ly succems fm grabbing all un Coffey money in due, te. tw aggressive t, a d there is seemingly no lack - vy wt Ye tren at yt [reve ' wit ¢ oie meet ' \ UP. ns ~~ DAWEOWMIT, SOME PLAN Gorm STROT SUMPIN Tt BRODIES GoUTINVG. Lowly Yanks of Year Ago Developed Into Team of Savage Pennant Hunters 4 Spirit of igsteaiinee Is Car- tying Club Along at a Pace That Is Sweeping Away All Opposition in Their Dash for the Lead. a By Bozeman Bulger. N the excitement over the Kauft case, the coming war of reprisal or whatever they call it—anc the assembling of Jim Gilmore and hia fleld staff, we are almost on the point of overlooking the fact that the Yanks are back, smothered in jJaurela and ready to show us how they beat these clubs that have never been beat before, They got in last night. On every one of these Yanks there ia a smile patterned after those beam- ing affairs that divide the faces of Capt. Huston and Col, Ruppert, and they are anxious to be noticed, It is also the first pay day, which may have something to do with the smiles, and the "Cal who carries the treasury bankroll, declared lust night that every one of his charges ought) to have an extra slip shoved in their pay envelopes. Why not? in just one-half a month these lowly Yanks, accustomed as they are aying around the cellar door, |have taken a shot at the American League from the rear, and look where they are! | The club sitting directly below) the Tigers, enjoying the position of runner RB by ae margin and la- belied ew Yor in the official standing, !* none other than the team formerly used for wo other purpose than to bo beaten for other towns to win the pennant, No, indeed, it is not a typographical error With @ weakened oulf 4 couple of crippled pitehers and no standing at all in the handbooks the huppert Huston boys have combed the Ch, pion Athletics three out of four, beaten the coming champion Hed Sox two straight and have broken even with Washington after getting aw bad start In other words the Yanks nave won| eight out of twelve games and are ready to prove that It was not a fluke by tearing into the same Ath- letics again to-day, All right—shoot! Instead of the old feeling of hav to play ball through the summer because the schedile called for it Yanks have taken on a now a spirit of cockiness says they u but that he c that can mi m end to feel spirit that has um and It, Both men are tratning. as. if|t the Possession UD Witter thelr lives cen t on the outcome. betas ' hi MON. Y. Amer. | “This fellow Pipp has broken up Kats, bcs! many ball games for us,” be says, LY 4 toe ee ‘ES SVEWINS WoRLD. SATURDAY, MAT EST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK GIANTS ARE HAVING THEIR TROUBLES comem by The Freee Pemsehoa Co (The New & Bventog World). / meme) — ph -— amon G w, GIT * 1 eee wr on ( AweN FROM | ( ME- 1GoTTA \ Use THIS ' nowt!) urs ALuens Gcermwe . NANOMAL LE@GUE Bors ExciTe0” GEE WHIZ. EVERY KICKS & GUY WHED ES Cow. Kauff Turns Down Money Offer Made by Carroll of Brookfeds Bennie Kauff is tho big noise in basoball just now, But for him there would be nothing of an exciting nature to record in connection with the national game. The Giants aro determined to hold on to the star outfielder and batter and the Federals are using all kinds of means Pe so see ne ‘morn: 07 to get him back. ough « lefthander, he has hurd against the southpawe as the There was an interesting scene at the Marlborough Hotel lest night. - others. And right behind him is Cook, | who has just begun to get right with that atick.” Hartzell didn't @ay so, but Frits Maisel added: “And, take it from me, hat old bird Hartzell {s just as good * any of them. If you had seen him hit that pill in Boston and pull down long drives you would have thought him @ young phenom Just breaking As Caldwell was to have pitched in Boston yesterday, it iy likely that he will have the opening assignment againgt the Athletics this afternoon, Good morning, Yanks! Dick Carroll called on Benny Kauff and tried to induce the player to repudiate his agreement with MoGraw. Carroll waved a big bundle of money under Kauff's nose and said: ‘This te all yours if you come back.” Kauff apurned the offer. Columbia’s First Opponent Will Be Stevens Eleven This Is Only Game Arranged, 3 fie. sa tadtt no" ie coaching . the N vi BI le Blue and White Experiencing hivoare’on Golumbie for taratne Him fact that jadrift In 1902, after he had coached In the mean time the Giants have tending excitement down delphia to await developments, Mc- Graw insists that he has a perfect right to Kauff in view of th he had no contract, properly signed,| Much Trouble in Making Up) three crackerjack teams on Morning- by the Brookfeds, and that if the side Heights, or whether it le just National Commission will reinstate] §ohedule. Rutgera’s desire to get a game with Henny ho will be right in there play- fe a big university, ie not clear. At ing centre fleld for the Giants. a any rate, it is believed that Rutgers “I signed a contract at Brown's Wells," says Kauff, “but when it got to Rrooklyn Mr, Ward didn't like the amount of salary and refused to align it for the club. On top of that he would not give me another contract, and after giving him notice in writing twice that I wanted « definite under- standing and receiving no answer, ! thought myself a f agent.” will not find a welcome on the Coftm- dia achedule this year, because Co- lumbia feels that it will not have been educated up to a brand of foot- ball comparable with the Rutgers style of play by the end of 1915, But 1916 there may be a different atory. Vol LUMBLA is meeting with a lot ( of unexpected difficulties In ar- ranging a football schedule for the eleven which it will put on the fleld next fall, the first in ten years. Many of the undergraduates, and not 1 few of the alumat, believed that the to get @ game with elther Amherst or Pons ee oa unbla would give a great deal) lei EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN —— WAR SUFERRS 1 “SHARE RECEP ATBELMONT OPEN \ sicr Racing Associat. in, Money Taken In May 20 - — ' e Aw s a portion of “ “ Lafayette 1 1 i t - " ' he \ an ts. will f ster Rucing As: King of College Pitchers Snir ea ye Also a Boxing Champion ' and Football Sensation ——-sneisifeeeneeenneen Bob Neyland, Winner of Eighteen Straight Ball Games for West Point, Declares a Term Contract Would Be Only Thing That} Would Induce Him to Quit Army and Join Major League |, ' Club. Last Night's Sco 1 se 104, We ont Oy sek N.S Ap ae ea Rains Saal 60, Cote eB N Cadet Robert R. Neyland West | Point possesses the most remark- able athlete that ever represented @ college, and unlike Jim Thorpe, the Indian, Neyland is the rare exception | —he is an all-around star that can | play ball. The record achieved by} Neyland in the pitcher's box is the ereatest ever made. If ho pitches) the Army to victory to-day over | Georgetown it will be his nineteenth straight win, which will tic Rube) Marquard's world’s record. However, NEYLAND’S RECORD IS VERY REMARKABLE, CONSIDERING ROUTINE 6.00 A.M.—Hops out of b 6.15 A. M.—Reports for rev. front of the barracks, 6.30 A. M.—Breakfast. ©. Mutehing 9, Tok dat, Pott ee 08: Oe roar te , Otteneiser 90, his record is even more remarkable | 5. “te | than the Rube's, as it extends over|| ® 3) Murr | three seasons instewd of one, Ney-|| 6 39°p.w.~ Supper 0° land is not only a wonderful pitcher, | but he js the champion heavyweight | voxer of the West Point Corps. He | is algo @ star football player, as be | proved last fall on the gridiron. When interviewed to-day by an] caton, and maybe before I graduate Evening World reporter, Bob was} I'll tackle both of these a asked if he had any thoughts of be-| “As 4 game to lovik 7.30 P.M. to 9.30 P, M.—Study hour 10.00 P, M.—Taps. Notning to do until to-morrow. |ScHOOLBOY GAMES IN 71ST REGIMENT ARMORY. . “ ball most, but I'd rather tak 7 coming a professional ball player, | "yh 8 her take part in ” ” “ ” ootball game than in a diamond Roosevelt District Athletic League ‘I might,” he declared, “if the offer! conteat. I tind it more exciting and Mf the Eighth and Twelfth school diss were sufficient. The only way that} interesting for the player—if not for | ericrs of the A 1. will hold games |I'd ever think of turning professional the spectator.” t the Seventy-frat Regiment At this stage Neyland was asked if would be on a term-contract. he had any particular ambition, He! id: “Aw yet 1 haven't received any of- ‘tera trom the big leagues, and it would take a lot of money to tempt |me to leave the army—as much as 1 hools on m Fours ture included one except to win all my) xamos, minde up of cons Neyland started his great pite tests dn inter intersechool iT baseball. Baseball is too much record after he lost a Hitious enens |e foal trait ack ind {of a gamble, while the army te a eure|to Walsh of Fardham in 1913” te | Meld wmmee ies eee fi won the last three games that season, | ATAMMe fin Douthat te mes by instance, I might go out to-|and last eight. games | or ceesiiny hand at siete ploces frou morrow and sign up with the big|two of them shutouts. So far this | Libis ay) Public School 21 wat tan gues for a year. In the very first] your he has won seven gamos, threo of thom shutouts. His last conquest me Lt might break or strain my we ~ Williams for Thanksgiving Day orjarm, and then where would I be? I|was Lehigh. Not a hae ae c MoGraw had the case passed on by| minute the announcement was made| (ns Saturday. following, These two| couldn't go back to the army and my|earned off him this year YANKEES SECURE lawyers before he would sin Kauff} that football was restored to Morn-lteams finish thelr season the week! gouse would be cooked aa far ax the! Neyland ta not only a great athiote, LEFT-HAND PITCHER. to a contract, and there the matter ijcuide Heights there Would bo a rush| before the holiday and Columbia, it diamond is concerned, No sir, they | but a brilliant student. His first yout Aida bebe’ Prosident Hempstead of the Giants | of college football managers to lstt oe voy to bear on them to extend thelr ix quoted os saying, however, that 1f| games on any terma that Columbia fA" ,y one game. it is probable that the Brookfeds have a regularly signed | might be pleaved to name, Thanksgiving Day would be the pre- contract with Kauff he has vo desire| Gre game has been definitely set-|ferable day, because the Saturday to get mixed up in dt. ne ene id {11 conflict with the Army-Navy J ted upon by the! committee, which |date will contiic ¥ game at the Polo Grounds, is believed, will bring all ite persuasive can't get me unless it la on # term | at West Point ho finished seventh in ema ne Yank - \contract, and even then they can't Mis clans, while this season he stands ee a ae We ensnare me until I graduate trom | about fifteenth ina class of 125. If he ee 2 ‘West Point next year. keeps up this way be will be sure of a place in the engineering corps after he graduatés, | Neyland is a likeable chap. He stands six feet and weighs 175 pounds. He is as straight as a poker. He Is ‘ “T havo fond hopes of landing in the aldwell and Ray Fearing that Organized Baseball [is working out the Blue and White [®" sy jexceptionally good looking, being | engineering corps and then rema hand last has other Taide Meminds President |schedule, and that is a contest with| ‘he matter of selecting & coagh tal Very? dark, with small features. He army working for Uncle Bam one Gilmore has called all hia magnates | Stevens Institute, Columbia almost [also one that 8 ores ear @ not) iis a friendly amile and a hello for 6 rest of my life,” remorked faye that with experie into conference here to-day at noon, | invariably opened its weason with ala little concern. The fact that the| everybody. Nayland. D Fineman ought to be ono of the bes They are said to be planning a war{same with Stevens In the old daya,}eoach must be a member of the) when Coach Sammy Strang, the| “I didn't play football my first year| #u!hpaws inthe league, of reprisal--somehow they seem tofand it is probable that the Stevens)faculty by appointment will mit the) ox Giant second baseman, was told|in the Army,” said Neyland, “because ee ee like tha! word--and let it bo won by |eame this Year will mark the re-en-|field considerable, but the type of! that the writer would like to see Ney- were well fixed for ex- 5 Defeats Baker, the fattest pocketbook. We can now] trance of Columbia to the gridt man that Columbia is searobing for|iand, he said: perienced and able pi rs. L was 4 ake out loud cries of "Hour! Hear!” | Rutgers is only too anxious t is not to be encountered without @ from the players. with the Blue and V Let it proceed, 450 High School Students in 13-Mile Walk To-Day. game i hunt START 1:30R™ CENTRAL FARK WEST | "We haven't been beaten this year yet and Neyland hasn't lost a game aince 1918, but Juat as soon as you fellowa come around looking for tn- terviews, it means that defeat ir on its way, eure.” ‘When Newland came over from his barracks Strang shouted: “Throw out your chest, Bob. You're mber of t 3 rt member of the squad, though. I felt bar Ge De okees ema sure that I would make the team in my second year, but [ got mixed up |i a@ hazing incident and the autboricie made me ‘Walk the area’ for punish- ment. ‘Walling tha area’ is” some punishment. I had to walk up and|and Freddie Was ané Young Tabby down the space in front of our bar- | battled a draw. racks on Wednesday and Saturday af-| = vaibianiiaea stata going te get your name In the papers |ternoons—which are our only after- €°FRYTHING FOR again.” noons off-—-from Sept. 10 to April 10. Billiards yaenyr Bowling In spite of his great record on the} “Last year 1 went out for the team ike-Coll 29 to 36 Woet 2d 3t, Near Broudwe| won a battle wight It was Marty Cross that di the trick this time, he Kiddie Baker tn a tens round « tat the One Hundred and ‘Thirty -nfth Street Rporting ub, Frankie Brown won from Mickey Duna. diamond, Bob hasn't the semblance ae nay, : See ewalled head. Ask anybody at (fie come Save any trouble making |Weat Point and he'll say the anme thing-that Rob W the most popular man up there. yland and his teammate, Merril- re regarded the most aucceassful users of the forward pass in the coun- try. | NEYLAND, A TEXAN, PLAYED B82. BALL SINCE HIS KID DAYS, |. ;The colleke nines thet ho pearrparys ain ee FY Li Newland wag born in Greenville! fer throuen, and I don't rey thie in| THUMS Bowling end. Billiend Academy 28 4 _— Texas, He was sent to West Potnt|a spirit of bravado, but only on ac- : aud le fs owt FY from the Fourth Congrossion! District |Sount of my record, had better nat; uenemeeenn) aaa jof the Lane Star Btate, You had bet- |e too sheertill ast havea yor SPORTING. enn mm, ter hear in his own words something| brother, Mayo W., also a plicher, w - ~ Anne al m. Me ee re seer af the teeuent anntar |e cane hit choot ine Gite times nt AEAPROHO AL Gag tion of the sporting world unte, At present he ja inakin Is... ia 1 HUDSON wave “ive alwaye iked baseball since {hit in the Texan bleh school world | Tens-5—TO. NIGH 5. Tenses | wag knee-high to a grasshoper. | I) and E think he will make a much | YBa Tomy acd ini: i d School No. 62, Bro. 4! He proposed that Dr. Nicholson of| can't remember when I didn't play the | better twirler than Tam.” 1 i ary ung First 25 Lads to Finish Will Be mass ot Reon) ea " aBaNaY at th Washington Heights Evening | came, althougi It Waan't always a8 | PLAYERS FOR THEIR ONLY | MkiAitsstoN so chNrs. RINGStDR. a j samy f : | High School #ee what he could do t Itcher, When I atten: high schoo! = - mere Given Finley Medals, While|xo siong Broadway and One Hundred) ward planning « walk across Man-|{ twirled for the nine, ‘Then Lwent| TRAINING IN ACTUAL GAMES. |FEDERAL A. Cy [ii.0!{! praciun | : and Sixty-second Street, then follow, hattan, with to-day’s long hike as alto a small college and caught for the| "Up here you just have to pitch 3 ve Phat aad the Next 10 Will Be Awarded |st. Nicholas Avenue to One Hundred | result, team, I pitched semi-professional | yourself into condition. We don't have and Tenth Street. ‘The lads will walk| Prizes go to the firat thirty-five to| ball for @ time, and won my frat two hours 9 tise, and st) j west to Central Park, along the park] finish. The first twenty-five to Anish | game, 3 to & seems # team |is impossible est Ol it. The Sunday World Trophies. (i "*i.1t,cnintn street, ease to Fifth | Wilby wiven the Finley medal, s| was only able to algn up one catcher, | shape unclor t} ona, van BRK ey Avenue and along to One Hundred} handsome trophy designed by 41 when he waa injured I was sent} Neyland was asked if he ever had boas and Tenth Street, whon thoy will hike| giver, Mr. Finley. The next ten to| behind the bat. I sta; there for ajany thought of joining the White . RINIC TO. — west to St. Nicholas Avenue ard then ‘another back- crosa the mark will be given a hand- There are 460 entries for the first|turn into Convent Avenue to the new| some silver medal, doni by the) atop, and then I took up pitching eae Bie, nd bring buck the title to | walk of evening high schoo ontatatadiuin of the College of tho City| Sunday World. again. " asians, 4 APART Varo ELS 1} atudentay | ee Now York The schoolboys have been practis-| "When I attonded Texas Agricul-| “I must confess that T never had | which will bo held thiy afternoon.|°" whe idea of thie walk originated in| ing walking Sundays and nights after tural and Mechanical College I cov-!any thoughts along those }i and The walk will be over a rou thir- the mind of John H. Finley, head of teen miles jong. The start will be the State Educational Departments they got through thelr studies for thig ered first base. eng Wolly - oa every time, until they secur Hope ranks before Jack Johnson lost Bot ‘At West Point I've merely took up the sport because I but third and like it as a means of exercise,” ——