The evening world. Newspaper, May 3, 1915, Page 14

3-1 hs 5 at Pe ees Ss eet Terese sss NEWS AND VIEWS AND TIMELY GOSSIP OF SPORT WORLD — _ Fans Are Becoming Tired of Commercialism =n Baseball. By Vincent Treanor OMMENCIA . the Fans F the Sprctacie of « other for the ee and civic pride Baseball in « ‘The daily atte Parks are not what the * nd a!) be ow tine ow * Te ace the Mttest financially. The pin incidentally the mort important 4 @f baseball, naturally ¢ Money is und play accordingly Yours @gu, in the days George Gore and “Bmiling Mickey i @lai end of bal playing wasn't ap Parent. Those veterans were proud to represent Of course the Federal League may be blamed fur present conditions, but nee cane of the # t ite backers should not be censured | @ny too severely for butting ta on the bonanza t their rivals seemed to monopolize, To-day the Federal League is in the same position ax Was the American League at ite in seption, At that time “organized Oull” consisted aimost avieiy of the National League, and the American, | backed by the brains of Ban Johnson, | Was considered the nerviest kind of a8 outlaw organization fer even thinking about breaking ta on the Jong estabilsbed and respected tonal league, It was fougit and nai, and only money in iarge Bobs kept the opposition going. bine ally Johnson forces were recog- Bised, and to-day both jevgues) stand as doulbe-barrelied opponents) to the Federals, who are. only trying to do the sar thing the Johnson orgunization did y AKO. Personally, we don't think three bug Jeaguon are necessary to appease the country’s appetite for basebul, as things stand now (ie bederal League, with its collection of st ie as much entitled to conside tion and prestixe as either the ) tlonal or American, RRESTS to tost the Ant!-Betting Jaw are getting tiresome. Ono of these days they will result fa an upheaval of the recent decisions which havo given the Jockey Club much leeway in the matter of specu- lation on the result of horse ri On Saturday, at the Rockaway Club Bunt mevting, Billy Dubois we A dently the gout in an arrest, with @ome others, in which a bet was made | ey since | create wwful in New | actually under tho stakehol which proved #0 suc: Orleans this winter, A bet was made! and recorded by & stakelulder, the Yement to be mady attor the rave, | Naturally the sheriff, in a spirit of er condi @oncerned, and the case is now up to) Me courts again, Racing thrived last year under the credit system and would Professional element has to be con- sidered, hence anoiher test case. ‘The | fact that several layers finished up with a jot of bad debts last season shouldn't interest the racing authori. tes. All of the so-called layers made money, aside from the welchers’ debts, Racing, the thrilling contest among thoroughbreds, is more im- Portant than betting any day. ITEALING Maxey Blumenthal's stuff. That's just what Dan Morgan's efforts to match Jack Britton with Freddy Welsh amount to, Morgan, who has been unusually quiet for some months, is on the warpath again, He Insists that Welsh's seem- ing refusal to meet Britton is noth- img more that cowardice, Blumenthal ebarged Jim Coffey with the same thing, He said that Coffey was a coward, simply because Billy Gibson didn't fall all over himself in matching the Dublin Giant against Al Reich. Gibson is more than a manager where Coffey is concerned, and nature ally had the latter's financial interests as well as his claims to a chance f the championship at hoart, sented to a match with Reich only after months of goading that would have disturbed a less level headed man than the most popular citizen of the Bronx. Now Dan Morgan is using the same tactics in his pursuit of Freddy Welsh. IGHT off the reel Morgan de- nounces Welsh as a downright coward for dodging Britton. Dan goes along like this: sole. We scenes of activity. “Britton would knock Welsh out in| over the public links at Van Cortlandt rk, During the morning there was ten rounds as sure as he's allve and| VU bet all the money I can get to- gether on it, Welsh was afraid to box Ted Kid Lewis in England; in fact, it was fear of Lewis that drove Welsh to American after winning his title in London, Then Britton took on Lewis in the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Street Club and beat him all over the place in ten rounds, him cold in ten rounds, “Here's a proposition for Harry Pollok. Welsh’s manager: Harry wiil run the big open air club at Brighton Beach. Well, we'll match Britton against Welsh for ten rounds when- ever Pollok says the word, Britton will fight him in Pollok's club, with Welsh's own referee, and if’ Jack does not knock Freddie out tn ten rounds he won't take a cent for his Now let Welsh prove he's not THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, MAY 3, BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK THE OUTDOOR ATHLETIC SEASON OPENS -TO-DATE AND NEWSY Go TON) ve eee {/ (00 VEE ( Ye of @ SEA0r0 ) 14 eyelet Bieter MoveMler ; Wane FuarUREe OF MWe GOUMNC FOOT Bate Game reine THE Beare . ’ Por” WEEKS THeew ~& LOT OF bY ite SOMEBODTS Fac @. HE M0: UAE Me UP @ tle THE TIME KEEPERS LOOKEO LIKE ConventICOn OF THE AMALCAMATED JEWELERS ASSOCIATION. ‘Baseball M. D.’s Diagnose Yanks’ Case as Serious Aitack of Fenr w York \ JUDGING hoowne » Timo —0 A KOLEHMAINEN, THE OWMPIC (aunt SHOULO BE PERTURBED ABoUT HANDICAP Kolehmainen Shattered @rrE THE ‘ever, — a Kauff Insists Giant Contr act Is Binding And Hints at Big Baseball Scandal eee It Isn't False “Pep” That Put Donovanites on Top, but Time- ly Batting Combined With Same Fighting Spirit That Won Flag tor Braves. man Bulger. w this new spirit: of Yanks that you fellows Records at ogee World’s Champion Inaugurates | 1915 Athletic Season by Clip- | {i'n ping Over Two Minutes Frofh in tt He did, too, right to the an the Fifteen-Mile Record in| Event at Celtic Park. the pitching any | eight out and wine | Opening Meet with ‘the stick.” PaalcAl mils AEP mile he aoeciniors “Another thing,” Donovan cailed our | is ls some | ad of ours may hut there ivn’t 46 going to do much with us) sthe boys handie the ball thy since the season be- felding elut like a sprinter t keep that ones in the n Was feeling y fine and he never sli as he began to overhaul th With @ long, graceful strid Olympic champion runners as if they were standings still the makings of the!want to do is to play bi Federal League and look at way they have treated me; jevey with the) the allow me to play; @ grasshopper—he ought to go back to the clothing WU both in the Meld and) business; at the bat, and tuere is no chance of! getting Little Lefty High out of there, ; is about tho niftiest piece roken nose at's my | nL will Dee tb lay or two, but the way things are | have a (ough e breaking ite that outfield right Hartaell, High and Cook are ring so well that Donovan will; Glants tf they thoughts before! Hempstead middle name. us well as Lam ¢ weph Thomas, and bes} \ sugkestion if not a half saver. cards a Mr, er in action that will make Ty Cobb look like @ bush leaguer, 1 un tronclad contract with obliged to pay up to 1918, and | stion on my ser. ANNES KOLEHMAINDN opened | the Monument! Celtle Park with a new American fiftecn-mile inile mark, O. ¥. me a certain salar n they have an « IMS that calls f as 1 have be ording tu this contract or release im -'spring fever nor false it, try and picture this dittle scene: With a runner on base and anott much needed in the ope: Lute! of hase do with a fast ball and | to th came within one rters of a mile of mak- At_ the tenth mile he cut down the lead to nearly Flying Finn, heat Olymple eham- ta mark of 1 hour for the dis- two minutes Ml by Jim Crow. stick to their ovens and leave the national pastime alone; a lot of those vs employed by the |"! now a lot about law, ; but they know absolutely nothing | Kucss that is bad, eh! jabout baseball; {t's a wonder some], inst appear-\of the newspaper mien don't wake up and report things as they are and not jouk Like the oid Ati-|take the word of the magnates; no pitcher that I ever faced could keep i ;me from hitting if I felt right.” Above are some of the things sal@ mes on]! an exclusive interview with ‘n't the old| Evening World reporter by Benny plonship form, high-priced lawy magnates may Buvone conner LOST FIRST PLACE BY SMALL | throwing is extr run. Around the Indianapolis Feds, & When I visited Browns Wells, Miss., in the spring the Brook- feds asked me His final mite the first, but the Finn Just of nipping Le I marian A. A, ¢ youn sees | imp vy crowd the i ddown on! strongly agen Jumped up the rubber, and then, atter whirling | letic iL far over the | strilce Dutka of the Hun. who won first p Katz of the frish-Am- atirring fin- providing. that athletic fana took a season for three years. self-protection, arrested the purtios the Monument games yesterday atter- ked the opening of There were Inter- t sounds hollow. | re ts nothing inside, Notwithatanding hot such a vast differ n you look at They simply ha ap around, threw was alight |Th ertean Club furnished the 100-yard programme, nealthiy satisfaction wit running from: i the dugour and Uiey did a jigstep up and duwn the line, Heking spirit, of the 4 thelr approval enh Caled on the ‘ound good fellow. ‘Sure,’ says I. the outdoor ye even better this year the; esting short and long rac Katz ta built but t: seems as if the sprints and @ hot game of Gaelic foot- long and slender, and with a stride that measures yards, Catching Une rol- The only men missing aro Col-|Kauff, the little ball player who in CLAIMS TO HAVE LEGAL CON- ling and Beker, the outtield being ex. the past week has set the baseball Tt was his ex- TRACT WITH THE GIANTS, “L then drew up a contr rand Carroll an These remarks of the contident and the old | world upside down. have gone, it ts true, but the give a clear ides atronger—at least |deflant manner of the now world f » when he let | mou: RAN LAST MILE FASTER THAN | ground in ostrich fashton that oarned t calling an easy victory in the hundred, then did a handspring that landed he benen. tit at fnoy not strike you as unusual, use it was the natural thing for ‘oung fellow to do, but if baseball you willl ‘The fact that it was! natural makes it unusual, V bly you never saw a batter Loss up jus cap after hitting a home run in all your baseball life, ‘The average ball player, attempt- ing to hide bis reai feelings, usually assumes the atutude that a home run is un ordinary thing: tha y's work and that no one should be Ho grudgingly dofts applause as if it pained | ‘Of course he doesn’t feed that way, but tradition has taught him | rt r him to make you Hut Boone and the | so: ' > han been algae! wy by." fe twits, for which he bs to receive $12,000, wil be deff Smith, tho Mey- Mick King and Les Hawa bout witl Of all the various events the one terived recollection that imakes the t Ward would 0, K. document siwned at in is twenty-three years old, | | weighs 174 pounda and stands 6 foot 7.| home I has a pleasing face and a very sunburned complexion, hazel eyes and with a nose that {s slightly crooked, probably the result of being hit with sorate. invitation that was supposed to be a real fizht between Sid Leslie 4, of the Long Island A. C. and Mike Devanney of the Millrose Club, but wasn't any fight at all & healthy ¥ dn't have ntracting ry geal on it Federal League FEDERAL LEAGUE STANDING. | one could wish © of running, Olympic champion, former speed and ge ‘ the xignature of t head of Sid. ‘am just tired of seoing my name Devanne: ‘cian lite fee ‘asa in the papers,” said Kauff. loose and raced to the finish line like a acared rabbit. After the athletic games were over and Kilkenny other in a championship Gaclic foot-} Just seemed wround Like a well of machinery ed and his final mile waa club knew It too, “I wea told that on the opening day pdered the 1, but on he willing to giv tarters in the first batch to eveks, the forty- y L demande: FISTIC NEWS AND GOSSIP The Kerry and Kilkenny lads tined| without the con- introductions, The ecount of darkness, Casey kicked a goal for Kerry earl tn the fray. told me that hy me so muc! me a good cited about it up for thelr gam By John Pollock Western middieweigh his cap to thi Mr. Weeks, with his long ‘was a pleturesque figure in} was called on at city, ae the cheb offt- Eddie McGoorty, papers stipulated. gether I would be « rangement, ¥ | that it is proper As he contl ee Goan iach {9 a star At getting tg money let, Leach Crows, whenever he fights. am demandat $1,800 for Leach to fight Johnoy the One Hundred and Phiriy-titth on May 14 and he has he" Greenbentn, the new mateimakes of the clud, gare in to Sam and clunched the math Young Brown, the east skle lightwotght, and who now reside in Canada, will come together in a ten-nvund @ at thé Hovkeloge a both aw advil ng that he agree to my | Pelleve:chat Uiey: How deay den.ands; finally I got tred of being) registered, for ceipts, demar incident rather aptly trates the new spirit af these former | MeGoort tallenders, and it is that spirit that w York at the top of Street Korting gainal bis potnt, noon | | ded !has landed Apri! 29, to submit my | be for twenty round, of Thursday, hasn't got a #reat ball club, accord- ciflentions is laid down $n} Larney Lichtenstein, arrived In town last nigh: y le matched to fight J amaniod by his manager, terday he finished in 146. John Black Was second with Club openings, spoctal tournaments keptall the m 4 busy all day yes he refused and 1 Na- |i Zira package fronts, without the for of Oakland, MeCos, the mid- jumped over to who had be sud signed. They y us within a week ave given it to Crete alsogetin Polo m all honor: | fellows who've that they ean win, i k Evan and each finished ¥ Davis, younK that is better manager, Jou Reis. eights for the bout jnsteat of maxing the weigit 198 pounds, fiat the riugalde, response in a great outporing of the} | golfing army and p! | until dark was practic Nearly all the clubs opened their ular grounds for the first | tho sively dn fhie shape day and town cow at Beis Bs ollsy agreel to cate: shanically pound the ball, call it a work and then go home to thigk of something else The Yanks ar The Metropolitan Advertising Goit| day will feature for teams of four play ® Dunwoodle Country Club on | days. mid-season | May 18, Hundreds played ly continuous, | a ving baseball thear , thanager of deck night, sleep t up to the crounds Grounds, and thinking ablo men T didn’t press them for the | “Aflor I had signed Met to me, Bhook handy, Hamilton K. Kerr, Roy Webb have a ) invitation tournament to the Oakland Golf Club on May 13, ( fall and that has trica to toll lites such a lead \ National League, Charles Johns, one of the visiting! rxeball world me “1 don't know what 1 do know is Cam, but one Joe Wagner and Young Brana, 1am not a Young Dwimont attempted to drive off wi most at once. vide bautamoeia’t pntract to! J untess |i t oF I By beautiful Giants at the! the | Capanet eg resents Glants will be obliged to pay me my | At the Ardsley Club recently many sug Hector of Jersey I'm not under any legal nonts Dave ber vboue that h hoe Athletios," ovan, “ie that we satisfactory n made in the tire furwaya on fourth and home holes have| 5 and sveded, rds to the third of a drive} d Manor Club by of golf of 67 in a R. Buckland 44 playing a round Joluny” Marta’: t game with {it without what tohing. Cald New Home for Hudson Boat Clab, Site Committee of the Hudson home at One Hun- ‘Twenty -seventh River was destroyed by fire September last, hus reporte: ably on @ location’ between Two Hun- Street and Dyckman t, along the Hudson, and it hi practically agreed that home will be erected there Committee consisting of Messrs, Bester, Chairman, and William De Witt, Lee, John ‘Schultz, Bert. Stamler Norman, was appointed bers at a club meeting at 118 Manhattan Street 43 4 preliminary move in construction, pected that wit nembers of th report to t Tewaliture of Michigan teat week which called been harrowed Welsh is more afraid of Britton than) ‘e ever, He knows Jack would knock | |} » Well Was not the possibility aking to the left and rolling be- us been eliminated, the Hudson "It is funny how the Wards have Hempstead. over to him with without Ward's ture on it; later, I'm told over with the gai 1's signature, vat ® great shock by veto- rownted to him tor hie | reepousible for | STANDING OF THE CLUBS Bunker Dodgers” and th be the first! ‘There are nearly; names on the Ardsley | while the otal membership bas now passed 650, SAN FRANGISCO, Cal, May 3.-—| Walter Hagen of Rochester, the open golf champion, won prize in the tournament that came to | @ close yesterday. on Saturday Hagen did 140, and yea- “Brook Jumper Jimary Jobneton tol tho writer than he has Al Heiah to box Carl Morris in @ tem roand bout he wine of loses in bis oon Maxey Blumenthal ia he intends to avep Heid e is about to he whole thing in a, nutshell is| OLYMPIC A.C. evening last brought about becaus there'd be no chance of afterward, The Wards wai me a contract, because they gn me up at their e, who bag not boxed for soveral GAMES SCHEDULED FOR NATIONAL, LEAGUK, jetting me) Lona ho promising FoR for ten rounds the Queens | vera 4. G. of Uuttals, ‘The cnaiest wilh be held organization water makin, preparations for the various r In the 86 holes Pittabungn at € EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN “JIM RICE MAY ABANDON FRESHMEN EIGHT AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY " ralty w eave for Thurs ce ood wilh uve two fu " * on lake « ie tet the Briones 0 oa) Rigler Must | Quit League, | Says Herzog CINCINNATI, O, May 3—No ous pensions were received from National League headquarters as a remult of the fist flight between Rigier and H woe on Saturday. Heraog refuned to ay in game aud managed the tin the grand stand. ys either Kigiop or himself must the league. 2) ler broke up the cighth, when he tripled, sand Long. el Me == scoring Uy | KAUFF NAMES SOME Player Returned to Brookfeds by Hempstead Denounces Mag-|| conTRA R nates and All Concerned in His Jumping to Gianis—Says Cea A tai He Would Make Ty Cobb Look Like a Bush Leaguer if Allowed to Play With McGraw’s Team. WHO WERE REINSTATED. | | | Renny Kauff laughs when he | [thinks of the National Commis- 'Psion's reason for denying him re- instatement, The Commission de- clared that it woulda’t take him into the Organized Baseball fold because he is not a desirable, inase much as he has broken contrac. tural obligations, “If that is so,” pointed out Kauff, “what kind of mental gymnastics did they use when they rein- stated such pl rs as Marquard, Johnson, Win Kiliifer and Cuid- well? The National Commission talks throuch its official hat when it Kives out such a statement, ‘Hh has also been pointed out it it takos three years before y ean reinstate an outlaw. How Hal Chase's case three or four years ago? He Jumped the Yanks and went out to the coast and played outlaw baseball, but hey took him back just as soon | as he applied for reinstatement," own terms when the fiag of truce wae waved. With my Giant contract tn my pocket, 1 should worry, McGraw has ission by letter to play p thailand Lean earn cmonth by tals alone. ‘Then, £ al Kinds é ile offers, baseball's: my and I'd ike Giants to the pennant, Y need « couple regular p! % me in their 1 t want me, nd I'm going to ision, rad has told me that the okfeds Will assume iny Giant con- tract, and that he'll guarantee that they will, We shall If 1 don't the thing straightened out one | way of her by to-morrow Tin able by mus and a three-year) S0"8 to spring a story that will dell than Alto. . ng $8,000 Hie, | Ing up to Kee the Yankees play, |the National and Pederal League in ix city and have all the fans crowde “tt is absolutely true that both Ban Johnson ant Gorry Herrmann wrote hin to sign i newspaper advertisement, are now each worth ec cash, and you P. Lorillard Co.. New York C Established 1760 THUMS Byaiing ant SPORTING, } let JOE V YOUN