The evening world. Newspaper, June 2, 1915, Page 12

2 , og NR ary AND TIMELY GOSSIP) OF SPORT WORLD Gibson, All Upset, Wishes Coffey Had Fought Smith In- ‘ead of Flynn. F I thought Jim Coffey, with two good hands, couldn't knock Jim Fiynn out in four rounds, TA make him quit the fighting game Tight now,” said Billy Gibson early ‘to-day, “but.” he added, 00 anybody, no matter what weight, put the tough ex-freman away with @ pair of busted mitts such as Coffey fought with Monday night after the Becond round. No man,” went on Bill, “can be expected to strik blow with broken bones." is very much upset over the oe. of the Brighton Beach scrap. wishes now that he bad taken on Gunboat Smith at Kbbets Field for ‘the $8,500 he was offered, instead of @ g00d fellow and helping out Brighton Beach proj with services, He didn’t get any- like $8,600 for the hard fight Flynn, and with Coffey now in repair shop he is forced to cance! matches that looked promising im @ Gnancial way. ACK CURLEY, manager of Flynn, takes a more philosophical view of the Coffey fight, not forgetting to remark, however, that, consider- ing what Fiynn did with one hand, and Coffey should be thankful the Fireman couldn't | something like five o1 ley is kind enough 6 showing, and doesn't ex- Joss Willard. The trouble with , thinks Curley, ts that he was to believé that he‘ must knoc’ out in a hurry or be terribly in hia climb. toward th, ip. When he found he "t LA what Re ag around had Jed him to believe was easy, overanxious, As a result ‘up his usually clever at ynn at the Fire- ows goes, which ia no way to fi @ man of his bulldog style. URLEY believes that Coffey has i reached the stage of his career | Where he requires nursing and caret) matchmaking. His friends expect too much of him, idea champlonsh! fteda’ his tesa ehoulen't be ale to enter his bead just yet and should not be allowed to uader- any eppovent. PRCULIAR thing noticeable tn all of Coffey’s bouts is that he appears to be hurt by any ; ‘g00d punch that reaches His lege oom to shake under 4 and he seems about to care in) wallop on the jaw, but just a friends begin to fear the worst | and | ifty is in Aght- is youth and onponsible for Tecuperative power, but why he apparently crumple #0 svg 4 i Tusnight between Leach Cross and Ad Wolgast at) the Bt. Nicholas Kink will de- | -fashioned slug- ae woven Key te that Wolgast | ous has b aint When the) Where why didn't you awiteh and let |} tit. A few month ago th was set for a meeting between | two days before the his hand, The | ." Bverybody is hoping Us ts ao, use it MeUns A Kreat AexBion of | BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK for were te > JOLLN CHALLENGERS ) SOME cuouwv Witt BE ON HAND TOLL ME AY 6 OCLOED THERES GONNA BE Ie GUYS IN THIS THING AN’ | INT GONNA LOSE Se as It Sweeney Taken Manager Donovan Heckled by! Fans Because Slow Runner Was Kept on Base at Critical Stage of Game. By Bozeman Bulger. ‘© « baseball manager the prac- tice of “second guessing” Is the most contemptible crime that can be charged to a fan, and Bill Donovan is authority for the state- ment that @ crime wave of this na- ture is just now sweeping over New York, The fact that Bill has man- aged the Yanks into third place ap- pears to have been forgotten in the disappointment over losing @ thir- teen inaing game. Before Wild Bill could escape to the club house after the tough de- feat at the hands of the Red Sox he was surrounded by 4 platoon of these second guessers and heckled all the way acroms the lawn, That, he anys, what mukes*him so wild. Neither Webster's nor the Century @ definition of “second "but in the baseball lexic a be found in the subdivision of the word “pest” us follow “A reprehensible person who awaits result of & managerial move and then explains to the manager w! ever, the move turns out badly, In other words, the manager has to make guess aod ohaney ‘wecond jucawe: 0 chane one Ko Wrong, he knows the answe tix a lay- man it is an epith He ean say nothing wo “Bay, Hill, when you found that aac- rifles hitting wasn't getting you any-| uy 4 f your men bust the ball?” was ond RuEHE- parried Wild William, “and if ter had hit into @ double play | you would have 1 didn't make hin a al | ‘The reat of the card ls made Kon an family k Kear tackle FISTIC NEWS By John Aisdoush Freddie Wels Wer otters for Nadie! Benen New Orleans Mileeuher, Cine Merry Potion, bie moneem, eriker that be hes tot eign ter "ME the Houvet fig Rien Ne Gite Nhe OR. tery pre Wediad, “or @ tages wil Hharor 4 Woe he Te Aen cham wn bende WF Denwind wet Bemiomen Hives os the Smedialt for Keating?” "Why did you put ley Mullin a8 pineh hitter AND GOSSIP Pollock manager A Billy Morey wollt) Med Wotan, th ted dow Bowie the Colitorwia smitdie Caltorwia Pune gt or Bowe re om Momtan wedtes, Daw tsties. tu 7 rer te Canad be 1 4 EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 19:5 GOLFERS COMPETING FOR “MET” CHAMPIONSHIP Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Wor'd). Had Been Out in Ninth When you took him off first because you said he couldn't hit?" "Why did you make Boone try a steal when you wouldn't let anybody else try in the other innings? They came #o thick and fast that Bill, still retaining his sintle, covered Up for protection. Then suddenly the smile vanished, ae t you put High tn to run si he ninth inning?” wie Bul showed his toetih et out of here you sec: ora,” anuried Donovan, bie pation, having become ex. want a Job go and That one got under Bill's skin, be- cause he realized that such @ move Would have won him the game—if he had only known it in advande; if he could have taken the second guess, Sweeney, a slow runner, was on first in the ninth, with one out and only one run needed to win. Some of the oldtimers looked for Donovan to put on a substitute runner—a fast man— but there was nothing doing, Frits Maisel immediately smashed @ lon, single into right and Sweeney starte for third. It looked linpossible to get him, but He hurriedly fleiding the ball, i marvellous throw that da ely in the third baseman's nd Sweeney wan ont by inche no doubt that en safe and nt later and Dody re n did Donova nd y as he marched fold. Besides that, he cou b across the was sore, “{ suppose,” Donovan romarked to @ friend near him, “L should have taken out my most available catcher “1 scored you wouldn't bay ded a catcher,” shot back one of the second gueasers, and, luckily, out that time Dor n Was at the exit wale atid excaped, “The answer.” ho maid, his smi I've got to get off thin field every afternoon that we lone before the crowd gets on.” And was right, McGraw has adopted that system for years, atlases DORVAL ENTRIES. DOKVAL PA ada, June resuming tK MONTREAL, Can. » entries for to-more mas — hy = Vee Viet ceca OSWALD KIRKBY MET” CHAMPION Shi JEROME. D: TRAVERS AMER ICor PRESS AKIN BELMONT PARK TRIALS. Fast work marked the training gallops of the horses at Belmont Park yesterday. The best trials follow: ADDL, ML, three-quarters, 1.16. Le REE EV is, half, 49. quarters, 1.20, mile, 1.44 K three-quarters, A IER, three-quarters, half,’ 63. IGINNY, three-quarters, 1.25. FLYING FAIRY, mile, 1.41. FUZZY WUZZY, three-quarters, 1.18. FAIR COURT, GOODWOOD, th GARBAGE, mile GIPSY, half, .53. HUGUENOT, mile, 1.44. HYDROPLANE, three-quarters, 1.17, HEDGE, mile, 1.46. uarters, 1.17. HOLIDAY, three-quarters, 1.19. three-quarters, 1.23. se juarte: ‘three-quarter: three-quarter: Jockey Butwell Explains How Roamer Met Defeat Rider Said He Pulled Him Up in Stretch Because He Had Be- gun to Spraw| in Thick, Muddy Going. By Vincent Treanor. NDKEW MILLER'’S good four- A yeur-old Koamer ts laid up temporarily as a result of bie race in the Kentucky Handicap un- der conditions (ar from suitable te bim, It may be a matter of 4 week vefore his trainer, Jack Goldsborough, can throw @ waddle op him, The gelding is euffering from bruised beels and several minor cut if-inMictod when he tried to negotiate the heavy and sticky imud ot Louleville inst Haturday Jimmy Butwell, who rede Koamer iu the Kentucky feature and who ar rived in Now York to ride Viitter- gold in Mondays Tobogsan Mand. cop, im explaining Moamer's defeat, pays be pulled bin up when be found that the gelding Wae sprawling and defeat sovmed corvain etriding bores inches from ihe around under favoratie condi Keutuchy stake we ob in the etrete, abd ure the track by vy mud Moms ae he com he can get u who lifts that viace like Little olf Mew ie (he fret jocks “ Dugan, rode Warrington, on , very close im the wiret f the fret + afterward that Kade 4s bet, and even wit Tie judgne wality the fow ne Daw Hands du Wor wad 4 hin nchene Jockey Mat ender wa fale on OA malt yout Guy that was tov fur for Uy idinge Wacker Henderson rece yertectly and imade rlgnt time, but ‘atier oyluion poe | might have had | etrides, | Of the jockey who uses a hy? | wing Wo bin Jockey, Im Wraps when he reached the fiat, In Rich Kentucky Stake and rmitted Frigolee to run lapped on him to the finish, when Old Salt might have won by ao half iogen lengths. Anything migh pened to Old Balt ‘atte tien to beat him out with Henderson if Old Sexton’ it Balt had ht to be om races without whips and they get better results. If War hadn't a whip with him In the race Hunds Of Bome jockeys o1 Aap © he cleared the final jump in front, or Frigoive t enough rua ieft the lust couple of It would have gone ‘ard peen le ride might Dg tun might have won ine wu of being beaten out in u drive by Damroach, Under hard ride Warrington seemed to have Dugan beaten in the final bat, with the result that iaxteenth, but fc wome reason or other he went for th. | bis shitting tly both. an extent that ° the race right "oe MeCahey ts an exauiple on rare occasions, but when he feel very that he must he knows how to apply it He brings down the bat with stride of bis mount and not the in the rap fashion of the average riser Veaterday Mo the whip on R ouch # way that Amalt's epace-dov Long shot play terday when Hay o” rt hie race tn » price. had an toning nt, Aprint O'Hullivan, a) more oF lawn neg nany O14 Rait after the Jumping rere was entered to be offered for sale a Mr © land ran thie wp to 690, at price he got himaeif 4 fatr kind timber topper Thor wT Trey ¥ June burn from Mary woten | ol IKE OF TROY PLAYERS, owt frames Mets | Oy noteall Chub, mentors of FRED HERRE SHOFF © Amsmican PRESS ESth BALLPLAYERS STRIKE. GRAND FORKS, N. D., June 3. HE players of the local ball T team of the Northern League went out on strike yesterday. It was the first pay day of the season, and when the players found they had not been allowed expenses from their homes to this city they refused to work. Practically all the minor leagues have adopted a rule that cuts out this expense. IL ck of Facilities Our Boys IVE eight-oared crews of hige school boys took part in the re- | atta of the New York Rowing | Association the other day. There; | would have been five times five crews | if the lads had had half way proper accommodations for training or a half way decent river to row on, And it Is but the cold truth to say that the lack of facilities for rowing is keeping thousands of our growing boys from enjoying the finest of outdoor sports. | But there is more than sport in | rowing. It is an especially good pas- time for growing lads, since it incul- cates u love of hard work, of the spirit of self-sacriftice—for the crew is every- | thing and tho individual nothing—and above all, a boy learns in # racin boat better than anywhere else that the spirit of never suy die is the spirit) that winw in everything. \ “I wish,” said President Rich@rd | Sturcke of the New York Rowing As- |woctation, “that The Evening World would siart one of its crusades for the benefit of the growing boys of jow York, by getting them a chance to row, Look at our regatta to-day five crews out, cithough the boys have not had & penny to spend for boats, ours, boathouses or for a coach to teach them the art of rowing. if whe elty of New York would! spend $200,000 on Improvements in| Felhain Bay it could eanily muke one | of the tinest rowing courses in the! world. All that is needed lv a dain | at bach end of a mile and « halt! course and 4 little dredging away of | reefs that stretch part Way acrows) the char at the turns, Then we should have a body of water clew! and fresh, not like the Harlem, fully of sewage and occasional typhoid, | Keeping Thousands of From Rowing President Richard Sturcke of New York Rowing Association De- clares That This City Would ‘Greatly Benefit Its Budding Manhood if It Spent a Comparatively Small Sum of Money| >xt Providing a Suitable Course in Pelham Bay. with lots of room for the boys to row and no passing traffic to bother them, “Let anybody look at the Schuylkill at Fairmont Park in Philadelphia, or the Charles River course at Boston— see what those cities have done for the growing youths, and contrast it with the utter lack of rowing oppoF= tunities here. “What makes the contrast sham ful is that New York has spent $6, 1,0) in making the Speedway here along the bank of the Harlem River for the benefit of a few rich horse- men, They have their trotting matches on {t and no one else gets any benefit worth mentioning. All we ask & mere $200,000 for improve- ments in Pelham Bay—already with- in park limits—in order to help count- less thousands of our boys to grow up into strong and useful men, “In pure fresh air, lightly clad and breathing deep, the oarsman takes his exerciee under conditions that are ideal for the upbuilding of vitality. ‘Rowing makes demands upon the nerve will power grqater than any other form of sport. No matter how much the oarsman mayb 1 ing the strain of contest The blade must be turned with precision, the catch must be mad ar ind true and in perfect time with the others in the crew, while the body swing must be to a fraction of an inch with the other men. “The punishment ts self-inflicted, } but tt is heroic, and a man feels proud of himself when he conquers his muscle by the determination of bis mind, even through he may not con- quer bie rivals, A true oarsman never akes defeat mournfully or considers it a disgrace. “Abo ear wince one of our local clubs gave a dinner to a jsht-oared crew that won a race in open contest thirty-two years ago, Every man of it In alive and hearty and occupying a place of e distinetion in the world, In the strenuous ire of life it ie the healthy man that wins,” In the ‘‘Me fying scores | tuginn, Maman. 4 ratte, 0. 8 Wi “0 j" Antone 61. “omen Pr Per} KM Apmwmen ot “ 'Cards Turned in by Big Field t.’’ Golf Tournament EIGHT PLAYERS WON MET” GOLF TITLE SIXTEEN TIMES, Your Links Winner int-—-Garden City; MM. Marnt- man 1900- *geme - Jountry Club; Waiter a wm ~hpoweas Vindiay & Doug. ia-—Tusedo; Waiter J wie. Deal, Findlay # low y, u t.ciers: Apawemis, Waiter EDITED BY _. ROBERT EDGREN t BEHR LEADS ‘MET’ 4 FIELD INTHE FIRST = QUALIFYING ROUND Baltusrol Club Player Springs” Big Surprise, Turning In a Card of 76, (Special to The Brening World.) " APAWAMIS CLUB, RYE, N. Y.." June 2—Max Behr of the Baltusrot | Club, led the fleld with a 76'weore tp | the first qualifying round for the metropolitan golf championship ever the Apawamis links to-day. . Béhr's unexpected showing was the Inet of Many surprises that marked the opéh- ing round, " \ The Baltusrol star was aimobst last straggler to turn in a card: fore his arrival there wad @ | handed tie between Jerry Roy D, Webb, J. 8. Parrish Peroy Platt for the lead, with’ scores, Ly Behr, under unfavorable weatb@ conditions and over links that heve been recently made moro difficulty came within five strokes of the(pouinae | record. rs) Behr had a pair of 38'’s—a wonders ful showing. He. had one alight set! back at the 612-yard ninth hole, where @ missed putt gave him a 9, one ever par. Behr’s greatest showing was at the 16-yard fifth, where he laid a tee shot dead and ran down a 10-foot putt for two. Behr’a card: ] Out 56532443 1-8 In 343464 4 5 5—38—TH There was a hot fight between Jerry Travers, Roy D. Webb, J. C. Parrish and Percy Platt for second honor: These stars were all tied with strokes. One stroke behind this group there was another tie between Oswald Kirkby, the defending champion, Max Marston and Gardiner White with 79 cards. ° Just behind came @ big sprinklink of eighties and eight-ones. The low scores caused a big 3! prise. The field of 120 starters bey moving around the course before 8 o'clock with a nasty wind blowin, Toward noon time the wind increased in force and low hanging clouds gave poor light. Despite these ob- stacles the early arrivals turned in good scores, an indication of what was to come. Roy D, Webb of Englewood, who a lwon the qualifying medal at Garden City two weeks ago, closely followed Travers home with another 78. Webb, who, had jumped sensatien- ally to the front rank of golfers dur- ing the past year really deserved a better score. For the first eight holes. Webb went under par for two strokes. The 612 yard ninth was @ trouble maker. The Englewood star got off a dandy drive but the second shot was short and dropped in a brook, Webb wes forced to play safe out and required three strokes to reach the green, tWo putts brought the total up to ewe, over par. Except for the setback here Web would have returned a better , The homeward trip was peeled off ih 39 strokes, with only a serious take at the seventeenth, where wind sweeping across the high bluew the drive into a trap and recover cost two additional shots, d Percy Platt rned home almost at the same time, and their cards showed good, steady moll OSWALD KIRKBY DID WELL TO GET A 79. Oswald Kirkby of Englewood, the defending champion, displayed a lack of practice und did well to get 4 1% irkby occasionally had trouble the greens, cepecially at hole, where he missed an easy try to #8, Douglas, wh ptuped Met” trophy in 1901 over then links, scored an &4 to-day, while Wi ter J. Travis of Garden City, anothe former champion, had wn —_—_—_——-— Hope Vrom © the Jor naon-Willard prbe« Hales, 4 youns € f ne here to-day on the Maps Havana to take up the pv n of white hopl Me b bis feat of throwing a bull fet om * be cell Andros bn twenty 180 pounds und is THUMSBire te "tehice il Aton’ SPORTING.