The evening world. Newspaper, June 12, 1915, Page 8

—-— mon’ Has Big Advantage ‘Over Contenders for Heavy- after losing never quite BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK THE EV ENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 19 WHY WILLARD WILL BE CHAMPION FOR A LONG TIME DeLiveReD Hoon INTO Wie arcs \T DIDNT STPP HIM a SECOND. Pirates Lead Country in Fielding; Athletics Have Poorest Record A funny thing about the latest big league averages is that int the Club Aeiding records tho leading clubs of the three leagues all have the same marke—.| in the Ameri: Pittsburgh t# on top in the National League, Detroit and Baltimore in the Federal Leagua The Pirates have mado the fewest errors of any team in the country—67 out of 1, total chances, ‘The worst flelding club in the country is the Athietion, Mack’e men have made 100 errors. ‘The Yanks rank second with a percentage Th fifth in the National, with 955 and the Dodgers Inst, with .926. Giants Ought to Have Pennant Cinched Now, Declares McGraw ot Giants are hnson} ™=)New York Manager Says His Team Is Still in the Race Because the National League Players This Season Have Been Drawing More H aul if Et | od Tm the first place, he has a vast over all present contenders the matter of physique. He ts t! in the ring to-day. He a half foot in his hard training, it compare that Money and Playing Less Base- ball Than He Has Ever Seen Since Breaking Into the Big Show. By John J. McGraw. ORE sand lot ‘baseball has been played in the National League this season than I have ever seen since breaking into the Big Bhow. If there had been a real dall club on the ctroult, or if one club had played real ball, it H would be so far @head by this time that the race would be practi cally over. It is eriminal—oriminal, that’s all—that the Giants haven't the pennant cinched now, A lot of college teams could have been lead: ing the league this yoar if they had been in it, The players are drawing more money and playing less baseball than tlever before in the history of the game. It used to be that a man could ik, | keep on playing unless he lost a leg. I recall once, when with the Balti %| more Orioles, that one of our men y ht. te ares xing. in Ris poorer fights he showed ef form that promised a great ~apture, eee ILLARD’S great improvement, \ which those who missed th Havana fight know little about, began when he first had a chance to Foy Johnson, At once he fixed his % upon learning how to defend Rimeself against the foxy champion's uttacks. Once, some time ago, John- jeived Willard a» a sparring part- + Johnson made the mistake of be knew all about Willard that, ana that the Willard he'd pht in Havana would be just the old Tring | Willard. But bij Rot oe ake He kne mi SJobnson fought, and with 1 ‘ing part- seronel Soret seer fs sot himself tho of deveiop- a defense and Offense that 2 a dic rag ade Ww a ee as cones fe Polish the satay it, calculations of Willard’s coaches RCH mG pd been drilled into bim. And be there was one thing more—and haps the most important of Witiara tremendous resist~ that would dro eight doesn’t ae time in the Havana ene ‘Willard must go ‘ale ead Seaver. had something the matter with one of his lamps, He was inclined to be lazy, too. He was around complain: ing to Joe Kelly and me one day. “My eye is bad. I don’t think I'll be able to work to-day,” ho said, hat eye you've atill answered Kelly. “Don't quit for @ little thipg like that.” And the player didn't. He went ow and played good ball, even though he had a ‘oak ara . But now, ita Big Leaguer has a bad toe nail, must laid off to see a chiropodist about it. ere have been more men drawing bank presidents’ salaries this season caught Willard with « tremendous left book on the jaw that knocked him @ yard to one side and bent him over, Instantly Johnson shifted and swung bis right with all his strength —a lightning right—squarely Willard’s jaw. ‘That blow drove Wil- fall shook his head, caug! and dived into Johnson with a furious drive at the negro's body, The failure of his best blows seemed to affect Johnson's confidence from that mo- ment on, It's a discouraging thing to pound # man you can't burt. Another punch of Johnson’ ing squarely on the solar plexus, made ‘Willard open his mouth for a second, but only brought him plunging in with @ flerce counter attack, Yes, as long as Willard keeps his eat strength and stamina he's g fig'to bee hard man to beat. Th po fighter in the lists to-day, white or black, who'd have much of a chance against him. a es DAY, 3 P.M. N, Psitckons Foie pee ery for sitting on a bench and keeping one finger dages than there are the game, almost. tuff now pulled by is nonsense, and going top it on my club even {f it leaves me in last place. In the old days, when a player knew that he had to show you something or be fired he stuck to his knitting. There is more “bad acting” in base- ball this season than there has been sinoe the days of the old Orioles and some of those tough clubs, A player meets some friends one night, and the next day he you he is alok and can't work, Th hanoes are that he can't even see the ball. These cast- iron contracts don't prevent a man- Oger from fining and suspending with- out pay, and a fow of these birds should have something dropped on them to wake them up, The Cubs didn’t lool when I waa in Chicago. about as hard up for pi And Roger is having hi to mo aban is reas 1 am. roubles man- aging some of his boys who have the long-term contracts, t CUBS HAVEN'T THE COP FLAG, ‘The Cubs haven't the dash and pep- per to cop the flag. They will be up in the race for a time, but I think the real hot weather will pull them back. My club looked pretty good in Chicago and we looked very bad in our opel in 8t. Louts, showed ER TO gave him @ big lead in Bt. he eased up so much that he "t get working again in time FISTIC NEWS Harry Pollok bas decided to siege another bis open-air boxing show at the old Brighton Beach race track ou either July 8 ar B, and bas already matched the two lightweight champions, Freddie Weigh of England and Willie Kitehie of America, (0 clash Wp the star bout of ten rounds, The men will battle at 135 pounds, weigh in at 2 P, M., for @ lange percentage of the grow reoripte, Rit chie, who is showing at Portland, Me,, this week, wired toxlay that he had accepted the terms, Ho will train at Glenwood Springs, Col, Nate Lewis, manager of Charley White, ie to meet Harry Pollok today for the purpose of try ing to complete all arrangements for the baite for the lightweight championship of the world between Freddie Welsh and White at Deurer, Col, om the might of Bept, 27, ‘The local boxing fane will have an opportunity tonight of witnessing three ten-round boute at the Fairmont A. C. in the Broux, Matchmaker MeAndie bas Billy Fitesimmons fighting Walter Brooks of Yorkville, Bouny ‘Troubles of Chicago will take on Maul Doyle, and Young Bose will exchange Wallops with Young Benny, Joe Lery, the fight promoter of Cincinnati, te to town, He came bere to clinch some import. fant matches for his club, and has already prac: tically signed up Johnny Dundee to box Frankie Callaban on either Juno 21 or June 28, Lavy has ale got the consent of the managem of Peddie Welsh ond Jimmy Duffy to let they men fugit at his future shows, Billy Roohe has been welected to referee the tea- round bouts between Charley White of Chicago and Young Brown, the east side lighoweight, and Joe Rivers, the Mexican fighter of California and Johnny Harvey of Harlem, whlch will be beld at the American Sporting Club ot Sulaer’s Park next ‘Deeeday night Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World), 1) Wad WHERE (T S@emMeED Cirery WILLARD WOULD @w tKNocITED OUT +*** went ++ THEN SUIUNG A Bint Lert cok on = Terriric LIFTING Sue vaw oo erees RIGHT “To Hid CHIN~ HOW) SOMNSON FELT AFTER, mo ROUNDS, Double Shakeup in Syracuse Freshmen Crew to sto; e) POUGHKEEPSIE, N. ¥., June 12— a cape cf careienenet. Te was simply | sero was a double shakeup in the 1 just hope we get another look at|Syracuse freshmen crew to-day be- this pitcher Mendows, whom Hug-|fore the shell left the float for the Re hae Drought out this year, and) morhing practice, Ryan was placed lasece.” phik, \eakuer who wears! se No, 7 in place of Williams, and # ere favor, at least, He ts Monet mbeut| Port at bow in place of Blanchard, It A lot of them are in the game|Wwho ts suffering from bolls, who ought to be wearing “cheaters,”| Coach Ten Eyck sent his crew Ray Teo taal Abey are under cover | down the river.for four milem and lon’t know it. And I woul ‘ Uke to see a conple of ump! their retura trip pitted them aga! them on, except If probably menldeg|each other for @ acrap until @ cha help much. Glasses can't benefit the| of wind interfered. Se ina sua] a neue, Torta <a Ee oF del wh stream me by ite “showing, Moree ea then’ rowed ‘up the river, above. the been getting more pitching than any | start. giving ihe men about att Mahe other ‘manager 1a the league. I think he has the best boxman on our circult this year, and I am not sure he is not the beat in either big league. I mean Grover Alexander, The American ers who made the trip with Alexander last winter on the all-star tour claim that he is better than Johnaon. Bancroft has been a big help to the Phillies, and, under Moran, the team ia showing real fiehting spirit. Stallings ts still asking every one to wait. “Wait until my pitchers are right and Johnny Evers gets back in the game," says George. “Then we will come,” GREAT YEAR FOR DARK HORSE TO WIN PENNANT, Stallings has said that Evers won't be able to play again for another month, which will hurt the Braves very much. What a great year for a dark horse to step in and grab that flag! The race was just made for a dark horse, because none of the en- tries Is running true to form. The Phillies might be that dark horse. ‘Well, it is a tight race, and the bad baseball played has made it tight. As I have said, any good club could have gone out and broken up the league by this time against euch opposition. The old Cubs would have made it look sick, Any team which could play consistent baseball for a month or so. would have them all backed into the corner, But it is lucky for us that there was so much bad baseball. gave tho Giants a chance to stay the race, and we are still in it, be sure of that. ( still out of the senior s! Fimo ite bolle, and. Manabaek 1s taking his pl Coach wiskens f junior crews ou juniors ft four leng he re tie seniors, the time for the two miles being 10.05. games od Wednesday, June atting Averages. National League Players, > 4 F Ohieeso ce Hine! 1015, by Wheeler Byndicate, Ine, AND GOSSIP 7 Scotty Monteith is eo confident that bis great Nghtweigbt, Jobnuy Dundes, te going to defeat Leach Cree in thelr ten round bout at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn on mext Friday mighd that has advised ail hie friends to be sure and have « Bice bet down on Johnny to get the newspaper decision, Sam Wallach, manager of Crom, le ‘Mal ae certain that Leach will be victorious, =! & g : : : bgp peontseewpesssuset Rs cesSeseus ses Aes ace RESB TENET ARETE ft. Tau * Gincinnatl ‘Chiloago cs BogtestBrsas' SBM a sus RHUy SALAS SSSUSSE eecererensasseausaenucssubweuscenesesseessesarers® $28 4 3 4 + National League Pitche Pitchers. Clubs. ¥ Pier: nieago Btandridge. George Chip, the Pittsburgh middleweight, | jitter, whose mispension of one month from boxing in | \! Uale State will end soon, has been secured to | fy meet Gallor Grende, the California Clghter, in a Mx round bout at the Olympia A, A. of Phile- deiphis, on Monday night, Grende bas been showing up weil io his bouts in the Quaker City, 3 peoceeye mebrahesrssesesestateeeksesasteraies. 37 Hale Page Sieatown’ Bt, Lawes: Niivauns 8t. Doula... Mitoum “Young” Saylor the crack Indianapo. | Cruihet, ‘Ms lightweight, who will make his first appear ‘ance in @ bout ip this city with Benny Leonard at the 6t, Nicholas Hink A, ©, on Wednesday ight, will Jack Dillon, who also | ¥ boxes some good Light bearyweight at the same show, will accompany Baylor, pita aaaeirSsSoe2SS=2 4S aSaE8S: Willie Beecher, the local lightweight, and Frankie Nelson of Hoboken have simed articles ef agreement for @ fifteen round bout to be held at the American A, ©. of Haltimory ou the wight of June 22, en hi ee, St a Rae. Phgdeip his aasetitren” Cnkeago ‘Tee Holling bill amending the Wisconsia ten- round no decision boxing law #0 a8 10 provide | that no bouts shall be held in any city of less than 10,000 population and in mo other city ex- cept Milwaukee without express permission of ‘the common coune!!, has been pasted by the lower SaSsoxs—sten house of the Wisconsin Legislature and now gow to the Governor for approval, The Gov- eroes hes camured Wedding thet be would sign it, detector tote SNS ARE AATRS RIT-NMIARTS TORS DUD Caeser mee setae ssa secgenane semen SOS gy SPs sarwErsssaewsTssSAAIISaASEAAVESISASSALASLSS= tes Marston Has AND THe ANILLARD - * wees One-Hole Lead Over Webb at End Of First Round of Finals Both Contestants for New Jersey State Golf Championship Title Play Sterling Golf, Each Returning a 73 Score. (Sperial to The Bening World.) Essex County Country Club, ‘West Orange, N. J., June 12. AX MARSTON of Baltusrol and Roy D. Webb of Engle wood had a stubborn fight in the 86-hole finals for the Jersey State Golf Championship here to-day, the first round ending with Marston hav- ing @ one hole lead. Both contestants played sterling golf, each returning @ 73 score. A blazing hot sun made things uncomfortable for both players and a large sized gallery. ‘The lead alternated four different times, so close was the match. Mar- ston finally worked to the front at the sixteenth hole and held the lead until the finish. Webb made a sensational start by walloping a 220-yard drive dead on the first green and holing out a long putt for a 2 to Marston’ ‘The Baltusrol star squared the count on the third, where Webb trapped his second shot. ‘The fourth and fifth holes Marston : won by superior work on the greens. Webb reduced the Jead at the 400- By 4 18T American League Pitchers’ Pitchers. Clube. erent, Be Lal. yard ninth, where Marston took 3 putts for a 5, At this point Marston waa only 1 up. Turning for home Wobb squared the match at the eleventh. Marston here was in serious trouble and needed 6 strokes to Webb's 4. The Englewood man even gained the lead himself at the thirteenth, where Marston was guilty of poor putting. The Baltusrol youth, playing cau- tlously, evened the score at the fifteenth, where he outdrove Webb by thirty yards and was home In 3. At the sixteenth Webb sliced his drive into @ trap near the green and then ovreran the cup on the recovery. Both halved the seventeenth. Marston on the 165-yard home hole overdrove the green. Webb followed suit, his ball going nearly to the telegraph office. Webb's second shot was over the green. aMrston played a great sec- ond, the ball stopping within 10 feet of the cup after passing a bench and rolling down a bank. With a fine chance to win the hole he missed his putt, which permitted his opponent to square the eighteenth. The cards: ton MAJOR LEAGUE RECORDS Compiled by Moreland News Bureau. The following records are compiled from official scores published In the different cfties and Include Bush, Athletics. 1 Federal League Batting 143 Averages. i : i i i 7 o Ss BSraati ato eslaaBSa eFTae TES wok a TBsts, Susbesasate= 3 SSesneetacEsceEesecussesseseczeurest ac Cheng Sari edtont, Whutialo, farne, Witisburgh sine baltimore. "yo Chie 133; tan eeneuet an iniemeertessedeoriasso Iemma dy teem e see eetneiitweaeraetmenemmne cee OOr EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN ONY THRTEEN FAVORITES. HAVE WON THS WEEK Five of Public Choices to Win Have Been at Prohibitive Prices. — By Vincent Treanor. LAYING favorites hasn't been # very nourishing pastime at the race track this week. Since last Monday up to the running of to- day's programme Jamaica only thirteen of them have delivered the goods for their backers, Of these thirteen Tralee was a 1 to 4 shot, Etruscan, 8 to 6; Friar Rock, 1 to 6;’ Distant Shore, 1 to 4 and Libyan Sands, 11 to 20, anotner evidence that layers in these days of personal wagering are not giving much away. The beaten favorites of the week were: Monday, Distant Shore, Fiit- . tergold and Syosset; Tuesday, Miss Puzzle, Blue Thistle and Devonshire Dolly;' Wednesday, Libyan Sands, Kaskaskia, Bally Bay at 1 t0 4, and Housemaid; Thursday, Yado Peep, Amalfi and Mahasset; Camellia, Sprint and He day, ? % 2 The names of in the long run to pla; time out. oe FULTZ SAYS PLAYERS CAN SHORTEN GAMES. Official recognition of the time oon- sumed this season in playing baseball games in the big leagues was taken to- day when David Fultz, President of the Baseball Players’ Fraternity, sent an open letter to the directors of the major league clubs, The fraternity head de- clares the players themselves can eradi- cate many of the features which lead to long drawn out contesta. He emphasizes the necessity of hurrying tto and from thelr playing poaltiona between innings, deplores lengthy arguments with tl d_ requests pitchers to con- time in preparing for their, neh TIME ROW FOR HARVARD VARSITY EIGHT TO-NIGHT. RED TOP, Conn., June 12.—A time row for the Harvard crew is planned for to-night and Yale expects to row against the watch also if conditions perils The Blue will go on the rivor ra it All the Crimson crews had light prac- tice this forenoon, the distance bei two miles down stream to the nayal station and return. The first warsity elght was given starting practice. In the rowing order to-day the only change was in the freshman four, in which Cabot went in at No. 2 in @ of Burr. ———— BLUE BONNET ENTRIES. BLUE BONNET'’S RACE TRACK, June 12.—Entries for Monday's racea are as follows: FIRST RACE- \ied; — two-year-olds reuse Weta ‘ ics; feet mt, 112) BI : arden, 88; J. , ‘Tar Bow, Vigaine, 101 Tai 110. WiTTRD HAC iL $00. seided saline: threed D. olds and up; si” furlongs, —Gol + ; “est bas ail i ‘atin 4 i! Tork Wellg, 114; 0 ‘Anne, 108 SGlenerat Ben Led, i fa ‘Aaa Kea, tad, ddl ith HACE $800. added three iar, 108; Stalwart a. 06; ; 4 7 TRAC 800 added: mlling: grt, uaward; about le a Pee rah a ’ "ogr spong hy is, A Crews Have Easy Workort, GALES FERRY, Conn, June 1%— All the Yale crows had an easy work- out this morning in preparation for a time row, on ,the evening tide. The o down to » mle ate lively swing.” She freshmen four rowed a mile against @ head. wind and head tide and covered the distance in 6 min. 10 sec, eee THUMS SiMe aha tin ote Binet SPORTING. i JAMAICA MONDAY $1,000 Greenfield Stakes The Ohio Handicap and 4 Other Attractive Races FIRST BRACE AT 2.30 PF, M, SPECIAL RACH TRAINS Jeave Pennaylvenia Station, 834 St, and Tee 4y,, also Flatbush Av., Brooklyn, at 12,80 and at intervals wp to 2 P.M, Coury also resched by Trolleys, GRAND STAND, $3, LADIES, $1.50, ‘MUSIO BY MILITARY BAND, - NIGHT, ano Bd tea bes Bheepsn lod: ° eae ‘48° age i