The evening world. Newspaper, May 7, 1915, Page 18

NEWS AND VIEWS AND TIMELY GOSSIP OF SPORT WORLD Tennis Now Second Only to Baseball in Public interest, Waving Developed From “an Od Maid’s Game” Into a Sport That Is Played by, ue ae Hundreds of Thousands of ans Sew People. | (warren YOO —_ , TAKE THis Tee | Yours BE INTIS te now second oniy to oer nds dP Uwetue To BUEN BEET & CARPET baseball as our representative national pastime, The sport that but o few yours ago was face. | tously characterized as being “an) O14 maid's Kame” ie now being played Dy Bundreds and the the country. No «es Gv Jove! J de all over ne in the United ible exception of BOlt, bas developed wo quickly and Galed auch widerprend popularity. needs Ko back but a short time to Femember when a few soattered elube around (he city were sutficient to supply the demands of tennis re. Then the sport was ridi ouled, Mut « magical change began faking piace. Thousande started to the court kame, The rush haw @0 great that the public courts fe the parks, club courte aed many | ately owned are inadequate to the demand in the suburbs the woods, apringing up where. Clubs have tried the exp ment of installing arc Players might sw the net in MANGE VIVIAN MICKeLLS, t the ball acroas | ——— wo that he can avoid thease ork'’s tonnin (angers, Had he nm ait modations. thinker, ho would not have left him- provided, (you saucy PENN'S ENGISH Coach 15 TRAINING ights wo that ‘Em ON vEa- MANBE -HuUH. Giants Pass Tennis has won the prosent popu- lf cet larity simply on it ri ternational Davis prowess of y eruite. It in an young and old, m » ine up matches and unK stare like y i@ Williams, Maurice McLough- | te Sleep. It was Coffe Min and other California luminaries | tune to b have accelerated the game's develop. | WhO. lack 7 ment, but it has been the discovery | Couldn't have missed if ho wasn't] BOSTON, May 7 that tennis is a mighty fine aport that has captured thousands of re- inexpensive gam Gia ane that may be enjoyed by the |!8 either hand and showed that ho! of the club, In the Ka and women, tairounds eo Oe the Dodgers in : Pennant Race being 8 good battling against a man aggressiveness, Reioh showing meade by the Giants the past two days us rained the es of the adherents foarnome. ‘The experience Coffey ined in thin bout should do him a jot of good, He hax a great punch | 6 yeutorday Teereau had a close call, The big can stand up under a hard wallop! and be as game as any man that ever NLESS Coffey meets with a aet-|PUt On the gloves, but his handlers | fellow was very wild at timos, but back during months or #0, he is almost sure | @hempion is finally forced to defend aIX | his defense. must keep Working hard to porfect | thie was offset by fast flelding and heavy batting HEN those Yanks started on what is now the well known | eral things they had to prove to the) doubting fans of this town before they'd come out of thelr shells und whoop. Hay night the evidence was all in. The jury, feeling satisfied of the culprit's guilt, let loose the biggest whoop you eented,” says Ban Johnson in|lcking tn the batting department, te Be Willard’s opponent when the “y AM being grossly misrepre-{ There never hax been anything Bie title. It is now up to those who answer to a report that he} From the at framing the future of the Irish | was negotiating with the Federal |men hw t of the fight McGraw's been walloping the ball it to wee that he is not spoiled by | League for peace in baseball, Still| hart, but all thix energy was wasted See much Idolising. Coffey ha» boon ie better in h just carefully as o pred one ‘ousrhout bem was being ‘pointed for the The fact that Johnson admits thin stor never waver P ohee: Carona Ow! “ood inenay to Re by afPCac® negotiations are well under |rest by hitting the ball er. Reich prov Pe ilght ard the redn {us| tions that they are making overture: affairs and fe handling the gust not forgot that ifn ga Aggressive man lands on Coftey's chin, ‘aa did Reich, it will be « ding te the aspirations of Jam motorman. Coffey must be drilled in defense ent but doesn't deny that he has hobnobbed | their own, In Philadelphia on Wednes to believe that he ts this ad ending the ex: |, It is no wonder crowds flock be- forethem every minute of the day. Unusual styles, values unequaled anywhere. the skipper of the American League! because the pitchers failed to hold with a club owner in the Federa z nie oe ; League and admita that the baseball! Stroud’s nerves were put to th war was discussed, but “only in an| test when draw wont him in informal way." againat Aloxander, Hut this young and the Giants did the much is the best indication that, the stru way. Despite denials by both fac-| MeGraw sald this morning that he jin not in the least worried about the t the club| club's chances, ‘It is still very early owners of the National and American |in the fight." said he, “and you know Leagues have called upon their {t takes a bit of time to get a crew in era to save them from further lonses, |ood working order, We didn't get Nobody ia getting any profit out of} much good out of that trip to Marlin: eball right now. A ma. in fact, the men had to play them, elu © only financial disaster if the | selves in r the sea~ fight arried on much longer, It} son starte nning home ia the name in the Federal League. | soon ft mes and Bomething must be done to restore |it won't e us long to climb itno the interest #o that the gamo can at| the first ion." least be made to pay expenses. ‘The Public is getting very tired of the Athletic Cham whole thing. OMcinla of the M HE battle next week detwoen| ciation are making arrangements for Jimmy Clabby and George Chip| the championship meetings which will will be the opening gun in g!be held early this year in order to series of contests that will clear up| have the local calendar clear before the controversy over the title in the| the national championships scheduled middleweight division. Mike Gibbons] for the Pan P, has already accepted t to come | August. Tei here and fight the winner. Nobody|the senior sround here believes that Clabby or] called a m id whip Gibbons, but it will y, and the day following ive. the patrons of boxing in New/t having the junior meet Fork a chance to see Gibbons in ac-jin charge will hold a session at tion against a good middlewelght. A. A. U. headquarters, it Is known positively mittee, has ommittee for Our window display shows you the smartest and best straw hats we've ever produced. The ‘Stadium! Adiamondshapehigh- crown straw that has proven the rage. The “Oliver Twist!" This is so good that we've already told the factory We want some more.” $1.50 each. IRVING STORES NEW veri. and PRINCIPAL CITIES ever heard in’ your life. It gave) at any wame like that?” A hands went up and the excited fans| pulled and tugged at each other as! they ran over the grass for all the world like stu Rah! Rah! Rab! dolefully, Bill Carrigan remarking: spring spurters I in the nose, ‘They're there and that's | all there is to it” the Yanks proved they could run. could hit, and now—and this the con-) clusive blow—they've proved that] ‘Y anks Proce Gameness By Tying Score in Ninth, Winning i in Thirteenth stash iss \At the Start of the Campaign They Demonstrated They Could Run, Next They Showed They Could Bat and Now They Convince Fans They're Not Beaten Until Last Man Is Out by Their Victory Over Red Sox. By Bozeman Bulger spurt there were somo sev- As dark 4 in on up last Harlem a worse jar than tt has feit time since the Giants won their first pennant, And it was worth it, “Fellows,” yelled a wild-eyed}; rooter, as he stood on tho ratling of! ono of the boxes, “How many of you| would gi tive beans to see another! ¢ hundred | nis at the finish of @ victory for that dear of varsity, The Rr time ins Sox, beaten for the third n, took it a little ess “The next time anybody tells me those birds are morning glories or going to hit him But back to the proof, In the early stages of the campaign Next they convinced us that they they can fight, ‘They do not and did not quit until the last man was out in the last half of the ninth, As exhibits during the afternoon the Yanks produced Boone, Cook and Pipp as hitting heroes, and oftered for our consideration the pitching of one Cy Pieh, Believe us, if that fve- round exhibition wax a sample of his art, Mr, Pich 1s one of the pitchingest pitchers that ever climbed out of a Yank dugout, He took charge when things were squally and sat right down on the coming chainpions with nee, in the eleventh when » Red Sox got runners to third and scond with only one out the elon- gated Mr, Pieh calmly took a hiteh in his pants, squinted at the catcher and struck out the next two battera, ‘To ki more emphatic he whiffed | Ruth, the pitcher, who had| all the trouble by his three hits, one of which was a home run, with an unexpected slow ball that came over the plate as big as @ watermelon, — Expecting a fast one Ruth almost broke his back with th swing. ‘Tdidn't seem to care nothing much about winning last year,” Pieh said to a group down at Savannah a month ag But I've got married now and things are different, 1 just naturally feel like I can win." If there are any more bachelor twirlers around the Yank coop, Dono- van had better open negotiations with @ marriage bureau right off. Pieh has everything that a pitcher ought to have, and if they can just give him a little advice-—not much, but just a little—on how to it, ho should be a wonder. In addition to | his speed, Cy exhibited a slow curve that kinked up like @ pretzel, and ts mighty decelving. In the five innings that hoe pitched the Red Sox got but two hits, only one of which was a clean slap on the nose, But all of this “apace cannot be de- voted to Pieh, even if he ta a com- paratively y discovery, Luther Boone and ' Cook were in there, | heroing in a way that must be talked | about It was Thoone's bat in the Inst halt of tho ninth, with two out, that opened the way for the crowd to go home happy. With runner on sec ond, MEaute” got hold 1 rammed a ty of a fast one THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1916. _ BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK WITH THE COLUMBIA CREW AT PRINCETON CAPT NISC RNE 8 EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN Beta! teensy’ HRGE bes! Mow her MuUSSEO UP TH FUTURE MOMIBALS Brine VE TH . REST OF ‘bal | Fisher to Judge |: Big Boat Race i COLUMBIA EIGHT IS DARK HORSE” IN TO-MORROW'S RAGE ' » and . ‘ problem ‘ being * kely winners, | dengerous 1 . , ‘ ue Cag. ie collewe tt , * prac y test, though nats na as New Low os beet ‘ Since Princeton al ta t vie- ed Quakers m Yale FISTIC NEWS AND GOSSIP By John Pollock nia will make | bas taught Goffey ail bh writer that Coffey KAUFF WILL BE BACK IN BROOKFEDS’ LINEUP IN GAME TO-MORROW. Henny Kauff, the talkative little outflelder whose jump to the Giants yenratice in a by can bit « hander mac than can | fl Zire package front fought Langford many t sensation last week, will be back lineup of his old club to- Kauff only ap- round go at the Une Mundred and. Thirty -tifth | Strwet Sporting Club ou May 1%, aud Jokuny Marvey morrow afternoon, peared one day form, although he signed with Me- Graw for three tonal Commission refused to re- instate Ki uf declaring him mround bouts Goong Kodel, the Boer sty Kellar of Califor. y will gv againat Corona Kid, tbe same oe, Oak ot pred Liang TIIT| Fackere ‘vend go with Ned Suet Cen Gatuniay. sigit — and Doma skal Ooffey to handle bim and Jum ‘Peddy Jacobs and Vote Haruay batue in the Jeanette avd Bi have it out tn hssodlie tar Mauer Pedic Morriasey obber two tan-round contesta, » was indefinitely su: nada, on the night of May 10. - | who la matched to fight Geonte Af Pittepurgh at the at, tohed up his differe: be kept buss fi and then wro' als, for ten rounde | Boshin's road house at will win by @ big margin over Chip tia ti sald Cabby today. as | will ve in better abape, doe Mooney and Wille Duyle ure niatelied to box a Orionne y fanter, for ton rounde at Joe aight of May 24, lyn club for the Johnny Kilbane, 1 Wm, who recently outpot m Tigelay night same iagid hae fumt beet sec & matched to moet Mel Coogan roukiyn on Bat. mi of Gewenpoint and hie city will be tue prune iither ten tinder Low Naytoond has resiguml as matchmaker of op te Bowery, He ant his officiaia of the clvb today Hayimond Me to te manager of a trouve of wrestler i tiwwt all Cure Wn oun lanl a, ke gxal showring pect by Hill ( Sarrigan after K was priors resignation tn to th It was left to the final hero touches, | pire was about to call the * Cook to put on As the um- tub, and bie showing wae > good ey secured him for Saldwin Got 81,800 for beating Murphy, feeinta amounted to &i 663 nd the Cine Hun ret v of darkness the old gently poked a ainglo into short right Winning run can- Frankie Wagner of Jermy City and Kid Queens M of Leng oe will claw Hite eee ee ADMIBHION, ug” Hi wih Cee ST, NICHOLAS RINK Msg Tatile, tered o In the mean time King Colo has} nut in the Middle | Renny Franklin 0 gone to his he | West to recuy | pitch when the club gets back home. | hanging around with such @ longing to get hold of a/ baseball and throw it that Bill Dono- van figured it best from temptation. 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