The evening world. Newspaper, June 16, 1915, Page 12

UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY —_—_>— Charley White Used Just Five Punches to Put an End to Young Brown’s Aspirations. Prem Pypiising Oo. Morning Word) Gooreign:. 1018, YL Vs HE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, Ate fe: 1918. BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN SOME OF THE STARS IN OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP GEO. SARGENT, RACING LUCK SPOILS RUNNING OF SOUTHAMPTON Sam McMeekin, Sharpshooter and Lady Rotha Had Little Chance After Start. By Vincent Treanor. ITHOUT the slightest Ansire of taking anything away from The Finn, the Southampton Handicap run yesterday at Jamaica wasn't a truly run race, The Finn > won with something to spare to be NE ciean knockout, two or three sure, but he had most of the luck of hard fights and one shooting > the contest, while some of those re- _= | by @ “special policeman” lent e & garded, previous to the race, as con- ‘exci the boxing show at the had more hard luck than one ete AC. tam ales. } > would think a horse possibly could jean A. C. . have in one race. Sam McMeekin, for The knockout was delivered by] CHICK instance, had little or no chance two Charlie White of Chicago, who put) EVANS. Ad jumps after the barrier went up. He Young Brown out with extreme case and Lady Rotha came together with a bang an icMeekin nearly went Panes than’thres sinutes of fighting down. He stood stock still for « put him out so cold that he never second or two, grunted, and then went ‘Wriggied even when he was carried NO HITS IN 13 INNINGS. after the field. He might just as well $0 his’ corner. MAX have been in the stable, Lady Rotha, too, was shut off completely going to meen bas of the .prelimioaries Wap ABORS, a pitcher in the MARSTON the first turn and never could get between Joe Rivers and Johuny Har- Georgia-Alabama League, y aoe rounds, in which Harvey the fighting, but Rivers held pA. ree by doing the more effective established a new record in organized baseball yesterday by pitching for thirteen innings with- H.H. BARKEfe through during the rest of the jo ney. Then there was Sharpshoot evidently not ready at the start, blocked, carried wide, far back in the base bunch, who really never had clear sail- Ws snooung rn ceeeridong toe hey bale Day tore Ge “caced FRANCIS OUMIET ing until the stretch was reached. At Me wre Nabors. paused 4 moment to glance; According to re- Bet chore, without renson and with- there, without reason an \- out warning, sbot him down, The boy's name Was given as John Tracy. ‘The bullet entered his right side nae through his body. The 4 ial,” described 0 Bre disareoareds * a a tall, red-haired fellow, P r once deprived renew | policemen of thelr | Yet these “specials,” in many! aoess gunmen and ben as guards in various am Resorts in and. near the < ‘allowed to carry far more dead! ‘This shooting is not an There was another (E boxing show went through mci Wilmington Golfer, Who Had Card of 72 for To-Day, Now a Decided Favorite for Open Title—Eugene McCarthy, |, Little Known Irish “Pro” Three Strokes First Round Gilbert Nicholls Three Strokes Ahead of Field at Baltusrol at rao Fame French,” York. james A. Frain Gien ‘View sci“ Loielin “an SCORES IN SECOND HALF OF QUALIFYING ROUND. COACH NICKALLS MAY USE JUNIOR EIGHT IN VARSITY RACE Penn’s Rowing Chief Wrought Up Over Defeat of First Ban Johnson American League Leader’s Lat- est Move the Crowning Dip- lomatic “Bone” of Baseball— ’*§ Threat to Banish Cobb From Game Is Not Taken Seriously | the Western newspapers and in some of those in the East. Incidentally, there is nothing in the rules against the practice, even though it be un- sportsmaniike, Mr. Johnson, in the mean time, that stage, however, Sharpshoote: came with a rush that gave many the impression that he might have won with a fair share of the racing luck. The Finn, however, ran an excellent race. He followed the pace of the Nghtly weighted Garbage to the stretch and came away comparatively | easy. It wasn't his fault that some of he others suffered racing misfortune: 'e won in the manner of a horse fo which no excuses must be made, and no excuses are ever necessary when @ really great thoroughbred runs, James Butler's jockey Borel wasn't on hand to ride for the stable yestei day. Mr. Butler meeting Spider, the colored caddy of Borel, in the pad- dock, said: “Spider, where's your Jockey?” “Really, boss, I doan know,” replied | as paeewes to conan (eee hy Kn Spider. paged me ie ‘o Bo MTuseday evening and was over Over Star-;Evans and Travers Tied at 76—|} Michael pte © Crew in Four-Mile Trial. Yanks Make Room for Col- sensi in his" weekly vat a are sie Republican sore conve ena 5 which appear in e ening | Just then Dugan entered t! joc’ j SEN ae setteedga ten,» whiten Champion Hagen’s Score 78. ia ac legians To-Day. World Monday. iotide Comey, “Hello, Dugan,” said ‘ ae bia (Special to ‘The Prening World.) In his Washington statement the|Mr. Butler, and then Comely’s owner ee nes atected bey pe crowd. per, POUGHKEEPSIE, N, Y., June 16— American Leag' o President ie quoted broke into song something, like thi vey wore ’ hi All b ‘ollows: “Wha ugan do to apd when ar cna pet ai (pectal to The Evening World.) brilliant Chicago amateur was only | st Rowing history will probably be as was nothing doing. Ben waiked about the ring at minute intervals and made ite calculated to calm rising émpatience of the spec- sweltering hot in the Casino. fant"ot the mon had their coc :s off, SHORT HILLS, N. J., June 16.— Gilbert Nicholls of Wilmington, a de- cided favorite with a 72 score, had a lead of three strokes on the field at the end of the first round of the second qualifying test for the nation- one stroke behind Walter Hagen for the open title Midlothian last year and, his chances of wining this tournament | jesus are considered excellent. brilliant and at other times erratic. He played his customary beautiful Herbert Strvig. love, Evans was at times sensationally " Valter Forarsmier, Travers, mas Hoyd, Fox H. pe Monteiai made by Vivian Nickalls, the Penn coach, before the day is over, Nick- alls Was so wrought up over the de- feat of his ‘Varsity eight by the Juniors in their four-mile race last night that he was well-nigh speech- less, He spent the night trying to think @ way out of the muddle and has almost reached the decision that the only way to set matters right is By Bozeman Bulger. ND now, just as the Yanks have A fought their way back into the first division and everything begins to look rosy for the pastime In general, Ban Johnson up and an- nounces that he is going to run Ty Cob out of organized baseball—just “It it is proved that Cobb wrote the story which bears his signature and that he meant the White Sox when he spoke about ‘a certain team’ whose players have been atealing the sig- nals of rival clubs, it will go hard with him. If he is guilty on both | counts I will drive him out of base- ball. I don't care if he Is a great ballplayer.” “Why, he stole McCarthy's wife.” Sam Hildreth own: ¥ & balt.ts terest in'Bam MeMeckin. Yooterday he exhibited a check of $7,500 signed August Belmont and then ex lained that the chairman of the ockey Club had bought a half inter- eat in the colt, Jintao, amen Bien j dash oll game to the green only to lose this iy, Newark Van Viowk ‘ied advantage with horrible putting. | to depose the first "Varsity eight in its entirety and substitute the junior like that—provided that Tyrus admits Looks as if Roly scared all the con- you are. In the betting al open golf title on these links to- a neat Cope waa a prohibitive tenders out of the fifth race. It is taro hip of an article appear- estants numbe rien, Mansfield ‘Varsity eight for it In the "Varsity | ‘be authors! favorite, very easy these days for a selling Say: The contentante neater sixty: | Brand missed. ati least: three enay | the 3s “pate, “titTaeit! race ” |ing in this paper to the effect that “4) "“T9 Trederal League hates to hear|plater like Roly to get the reputation nine, the second half of the compet: | putts which prevented his score being certain club” was stealing signals. Ban js not going to quietly ask Cobb out, he is going to “drive” him! ‘The fact that Cobb's nai jgned to the story and that paid for the same should be sufficient admission, but Ban wants him to de- clare that he meant the Chicago White Sox. There is no doubt but The Juniors have been able to de- feat the ‘Varsity in two-mile brushes ever since they arrived on the river, but never before had Nickalls tried them out in a four-mile tussle. In the long drill from Crum Elbow down to Blue Point the Juniors hammered away at the ‘Varsity boat and suc- ceeded in beating them by three things Like that. of a stake horse. FISTIC NEWS AND GOSSIP By John Pollock lower than 76. The Chicago star began itke a wizard, getting a 3 on the 446-yard first hole, where two magnificent | shots with a driver and mid-iron and @ 18-foot putt gave him the hole in two strokes under par. ing fleld that didn't play yesterday. Nicholis's playing was the feature iclous | of the opening round to-day. His card was three strokes under Eugene Mc- Carthy, an unfamiliar Irish pro and #ix strokes better than Walter Hagen, emo Count i eeu, Pin, Shmond Cout * terwon Bon kek Barnet Montgomery teate lan- in the the barber to don't you tell River calls himself Spanish. At last, at 10.45, Rivers and Harvey the ring and prepared for ‘Where, oh where was t y| vers, the two leading amateurs, both i. sixteenth hole where he lost a ball in hree- | @ batch of wods and after a penalty the defending champion. Chick Evans and Jerome D. Tra- tied at 76. Travers most likely could have equalled the leader's mark ex- cept for an unlucky mishap at the took eight strokes for the hole. ‘Walter Hagen, who is defending the pace with James M, Barnes, the West- ern open champion, who is one of the longest drivers 4 nthe United States. Trying to do this, Evans frequently | \ got into bunkers, but he saved him- self each time with marvellous re- coveries, Evans developed the idea to keep} Evans was inot eo consistent and spoiled ‘his card with inexcusable | fm¥* misses. His card: jon, Byrne, Buvkwood (withdrew), SES wie wi thdrew boat lengths. SIN That is what roused alls's anger and he vowed that there would have to be a change. If Nickalls does put his junior eight in it will be the first time in the history of rowing that such drastic action has been taken on the eve of 1 championship race, although Jim Rive treated his varsity eight of 1910 in the same way on the eve of the race witb Annapolis in that year. _—————— LATONIA ENTRIES, that the Georgia Peach meant exactiv that club and will say so. The ball- players say that he can produce Bill jonovan and others as witnesses to prove that there was good ground for such belief. But that isn’t the point that amazes. Ban evidently has not taken into con- sideration the fact that the charges might be true. He's going to put Ty out just because he said it, whether it be true or not. Yes, he is—just like he put the Federal League out of business last summer, and like they drove Caruso out of id opel Not being eatisfied with having signed up Leack Cross and Johnny Dundes to meet in the main bout of ten rounds at the open-air boring show on Friday night, John Weismmantel also Signed up Freddie Welsh, the world's lightweight champion, and Johnny Lustig, the clever local fighter, I¢ is oad that Welsh is to seceive a uarantes of $1,000, with an option of accepting 1 perowatage of the gross receipta, Aitboud, th ols of te Anwcan Borda Club lost close to $2,000 on their show last night, eer tasel' emsiigs ts te Gearteuan We paying all the fighters, against Jim Savage, the New Jersey boxer, for tom Tounde at one of the local clubs. ‘The twalve-round ectap between Ad Wolgast and Gilbert Gallant, the Boston fighter, which ‘was to have been fought at the Atlas A. A. of Boston last night, was caljed off. Wolgast was taken siox yesterday. ‘The bout scheduled for tonight at the 6t, Nicholas A. ©. between Milbum Gaylor apd Genny Leonard has been called off. Saylor will be unable to appear on account of his wife under- @ing © earious operation, The Indianapolis fighter will appear at the rink at later date, Gundost Smith was visitor at the Jamaica . E TRACK, Baseball magnates and baseball| mounted to $1,200, They gave Charley White| race track, ‘Who are you looking for, Jim open title, only played ordinary golf| Out 3 $6446 6 43 hel; to make the damage complete ATED Eater for to-morrow’s | preside! have been guilty of some | $1,000, Joo Kivers $1,060, Charley Harvey $450 | Coffey?" asked Danny Morgan of Smith. Z and took seventy-elght shots to com-|In 4 $ 44466 sse—70| nae ths total for the timteonth was Le Oi AP nt ad io Hf . Pie plete the journey, Louis Tellier, a diminutive French- man who bad the national title in France four years ago, performed con- amateur title holder, recorded a 76,| after taking eight strokes on the 630-yard sixteenth. After negotiating | Jerry Travers, four times national} eight strokes. ‘The former champion quickly re- covered his stride and finished by sinking a fifteen-foot putt on home green for a 3. the follows: very inane stuff, by virtue of their lao break into print occasion- all; t this last snort by Johnson— it ‘Ye means what says—is the crowning diplomatic “bone” of the boniest season we have ever had to and Young Brown $500, so John Reisler, his man- ager, claims, Another club in thie vicinity obtained « license from the State Athletic Commission to hold open- ‘ir boring shows. The club is the Velodrome repled Smith, “but I only hope I will fet chance to get him in the ring with mo ‘gain, for my none is entirely well after the op- eration, and I think I will stop him sure,” Johnny Dundee w: ver: robably never more oom ‘Travers's card: A. ©, of Sheepshead Bay, which will shortly put | fident of ‘dng 42 opponent ‘than be is that be om mission, ade sistently well and equalled the mark|all the previous holes rfectly;Out4 43 6 3 5 & 4 4-37 endure. + ©. o 5 . ident of defen: at Fonte test pigs paat| eet by Evans and Travers. iiawien Wied on tht sixteonth teo|!9:.4 4 45 8 4 6-39-76 Can you imagine the magnates per- | (*, “2 fit entertainment, |The officials ere tr7 always begin not later than 10 2 " must have m some- ele last night—| bly in the i Morpheus. ere the semi- final wae ad ready to begin at a eleven. ‘The weather throughout the first round was uncertain. Threatening clouds, which gradually became darker behind the adjacent Watchung Moun- tains, tended to make a large gallery and sliced his drive so badly that it fell in @ stretch of woods. After a short search, in which the gallery assisted, the ball couldn't be located 18 score. Hagen wi fatter Hagen of Rochester, the de- fending champion, played a steady, conaistent game. His golf was war from being flashy, though it earned a long off the tes, exceptionally good at the short +{mitting the expulsion of a player who alone draws into the gates a daily average of 2,000 people over and above the drawing strength of his club? In any eity that the Tigers visit Ty Cobb is worth to the owner ing @t present to sign up Obariey White, the Chi- cago lightweight, to mest some other topnotcher 12 the main oo of ten rounds, succemdon last night by stopping Young Brown in will get the newspaper decision over Leach Cross at Field, in Broogiyn, Friday might. After Johnny had finished his training stunt yes: terday he tumed to his manager, Scotty Montieth, end said: ‘1 want you to bet $250 for me that I whip Cross," Joe Knscero, the Wester fighter who ‘hes L ermm yee first round, will go under an operation to-day. and Travers was penalized # stroke 1 AOE $1,000 a day, And this a lean season, | frown into a lightweight, is now under the m@en- nervous about wanderin¢ far from the game, but only fair on the greens.| ha x furlon too! These figures I quote from the| #* will have « amalj bone cut out of the middle | teat of Bob O'Donnell of the Bronx. Bt a cane and Harvey fought ten and distance, At the second green he messed up a} Niiman. iain i t of finger of bie right hand, ‘The operstion will keep nek rounds. Rivers showed all hie|>rotection of the spacious club house.| ‘This mishap @eemed to unnerve|three-foot putt. Hagen’s card: ‘eer ‘ure ir | EREARORE, C6 BD CODED WhO WAS GIE-| WA, ems Asati tt oe yar. ready to Dette ‘aain and wl bn em peed. lary con-|, THe Course, because of yesterday's| Jerry and he twice dropped into traps OutS § 3 4 5 5 & 4 3—39 iy later than last week. mapper °9 shortly in one \e ten row ute at tie Wale Deis apercaaive. Rivers landed heavy rains, was lsow and heavy.|on the way tothe green. Three putts In 4 6 4 3 5 6 6 4 4~39~—78 . 1, Who has Bot fought since he was| mont A, 0. @cores of heavy punches, Harvey ook them and walked in for more. This gave a big advantage to compe- tent iron players, for there was very Ouimet’s Strong Finish one and Cobb thinks that signal tipping has been ing on in Chicago and so do half the ball players in the American knocked out by Jim Coffey, the Irish heavyweight. will got. back into action again to-night, He will @ against Al, Norton, the California heavyweight, Tt fe learned trom @ source that ts suthentis that Wille Ritchie, the American lightweight "304; PY, ob, tof a t| League, In fact, several of the Yanks | for ten rounds at « abow to be held in Kansas | champion, i» demanding tat he and Freddie Bach scored a flukey knockdown. little roll to the fatrways. The greens ta ios; me " got after saneger Clarence Rowland | City, Reich showed up eo well while boxing with | Welsh battie a catchwelghts instead of 185 oF fust before the end of the last round |Wére not as troublesome as yesterday d 4) . D Kio ENi RACE: Belling: three yeurolds ang |@bout it ont ‘olo Grounds the} bls sparing partners thet the fight seas beve | Ot poe se track to the altorseee ot rvey pasted Mr. Rivers on the |and scores, as a result, ran lower ‘eature pening ay \» one, mile and seventy ya ay |e EAL OTR Wie comirey eee7. be: | Sade: Sie Se terete, Tuy 8 It te not likely that’ Harry Pollok wit so rr ver reac! Harvey and clung ‘The unfortunate, however, who hit Billy Gideon has taken another fighter under his grant Ritchie's request t HE most conspicuous feature of | tardiness, narrowly escaped being de- . | had to order it stopped. The charge " = — h TT Te ent? Be | off the line found additional obstacles the first qualifying day for the | f#ulted in the morning. His unfortu- | tyack good, has been made frequently in most of | "anewement, He ie Augie, Ratnee, tae vette | THUMS Ba sled Acad of gaved him a lot of trouble. Harvey's |in the form of ankle-deep water in national open golf title at Bal- | 22%? exPerlence rather unnerved him Resor alleys, 30 tablon, Sint at. & qmacunced weight was 134 pounds; Rivers’ 187, HE Whte-Young Brown affair | wasn't a fight at all, It didn’t last long enough to be a fight. It was just a short exhibi- most of the traps. Wet feet was a tell-tale of visits to traps. With the scores all in for the open- ing round twenty-five contestants succeeded in getting better than 80, Gil Nicholls, tusrol was the unusual playing of Amateur Champion Francis Oulmet, who tied with James Thompson for the medal with a 161 score for thirty- six holes. The great feat was only out by him to do, reeled during the first round, taking three putts first green, an exceptional thing for Then he got started and off scores around reaching the 62-yard seventh, where he took four wallops to get'on the He started on par the until ————————————— Ee, Workout of Horses in Training. The latest workouts of horses at Belmont Park and Jamaica as title in Ban Wrancisco by defeating three good amateurs, Gibson will start Ratner tn hie firet profewional fight by having bim meet Jack Ward of the West Side at the Fairmont A, ©, on Satur- day evening, June 26, Battling Levinsky fe matched for two more con- testa. On July 1 he fights Dan Sullivan, a Pean. Pose |.) RTING the Wilmington pro,|another proof that the Brookline|#Tea after landing twice in the|| recorded by The Evening World's expert clocker follow: s)lvania bearywelght, at Shenandoah, Pa,, and on Won by Charlie White, who struck|won the recent easte: ‘- rough. This was the poorest work NS, one mile, 1.64. MURPHY, three-elghths, ‘the next night be will hook up with Fred “Satlor five blow. and landed them all. ctanatl 8 ra open cham-|youth, who 80 sensationally conquer- | ho did in both rounds. His first round || Aditya trreccquarters, 1.17 2-6. MINSTREL, five-clghths Fritta, the Brooklyn heavyweight, tn the main bout here was a second long delay after|" ta Shawnee and twice/ed Harry Vardon and Edward Ray,| score was 78. Ouimet candidly ad- HENA, five-eighth, 1.06 3-6. MAIFOU. tly five-eighths, of ten rounds at the Brown A, A. of Far Rock. the Rivers-Harvey bout—probably to| “sled the record for the local] the famous English stars, in 1918, can| mitted he was lucky to get so low| er ee AND TUCKER, three- Srvror int esta ‘sno ana, 61. ‘away, Lerinaky is getting into ebape for we bouts allow Charlie White Lo count his |course in practice Monday. He was| still swing clubs with the best golfer | D¢cause his wildness frequently land- juarters 418 . 7 PORT LIGHT, Amt, 6 elehths, .36. Stratford, Coun, ey, too—although Mr. Rosenthal |in practically the same form to-day.|in the land od the ball in trouble, BAVERLY JAMES, one-half, .4! PERTHROC ve-el 1.08. Jack Britton will boa busy fighter for the next led for once to explain a about it.!mne Wilmington star didn't make a Oulmet’s ft ghowinw (ini the icant In Mw afternoon round Oulmet re- || BROOMY. ‘Ata. “ive: elghtha, 1,042 PAST MAS 1,05 2-5. 7] few weeks, as he is booked for three fights, He nm the men were in the ring a et's showing 0 testing Jast and ready to go on it lacked only ten minutes of midnight. The Box- ing Commission was still absent from aed if om the job was curiously single mistake and never took over five strokes for any one hole. Nicholis's driving was wonderfully long and straight and bis Iron play- a 73. round raised hopes in many quarters that he may duplicate his Brookline performance in ment, | teenth, the present tourna. | He played perfect golf eaters except the 520-yard @ix- where his second shot was |bunkered, and the recovery overran the green into the rough, where three coy, ne COATOMER, Chrec-etghtha, .87 2-5 DISTANT, SHORE, one mile, 1.48 § DADDY. CHOICE,’ oneshalf, 494 DR, ZAB, one-half, .49 3- BLA BRYSON, three: ~auarters, 1,20, ld PLUM fiv UL VIVE; five- signe ROYAL MARTYR, on: ROAMER, seven-cighthi 08 3-6. 54 3-6, 1,284 meets Mike Glover at the Atlas A. A. of Boston on ‘Tuesday night; Matt Brock of Cleveland for ten rounds at Akron, ©., on June 29, and Johnny Griffiths, the Akron lightweight, at Canton, 0., on the afternoon of July 6 TO-MORROW $2,000 Youthful Stakes The young champion's game | putts were necessary for a 6. Oul- EXCELSIOR, three-el, RENARD, one-half, .52. y White and Brown looked well /ing was the real escret for the great| was all the more remarkable because | Met's total of 161 was exceedingly PRORTY PACH, one-half, ‘60 2-6, SLUMBER I vofivecelghthe, 1.08, ' Sum Aatcens, the SO Oh revmeter of Mlb The Montana Handicap ed. Whit. © seient “Brownrs | 72 the best score made in the tourna: |of his atrong finish in the afternoon |Roteworthy, because the putting) | to top RGOLD, one-half, BT, ROCK, “dne-halt, 63." star lghtweights for bouts at nie chi next monte |] and 4 Other Attractive Races e Was much taller and |Mment. So deally was Nicholls's short! round, when he tallied a 73, which | that caused gonerally high scoring, FAIR COUNT, three-quarters, 1.17 2-6, SARSAN! i iP 55, Andrews is after « coi 7 White r im rescb and game that he rarely had to sink a equalled the best score of the day, and Ad, Wolgast and Leach Cross with White, FIRST RACE AT 2.30 P. M, ioag putt. His card: Oulmet was easily the star attrac. —_ Hate Aeteges coer ¢ nets expres Rinthle nf ‘While SPECIAL RACE TRAINS ie White looks like a master 558886 tion of both rou! The big gallery| Four amateurs — Francis Outmet, GOLDEN HOURS, Ae leave Pennsylvania Station, 334 ag, Nothing separates him : 345 4 3-37 practically passed up. the other| Oswald Kirkby, Max Marston and KER, three-quarters, 1 fam Pista, me as teen mansanr of ch || 44 TUR,AY; alto Pathan Av. Brood: newals tht championshi) srr 494434656 matches to see him shoot around with | Henry ‘Topping — qualified for HANOV EAS oneshalt. 60 4+ 1 Po vy BAe pry ella Iya, at 13:80 and at intervals, up : The Hvans-Barnes mates ulled out | Wilfrid Reid, the diminutive Seaview | championship. a very ood showing | HAM ice hall as Wea vee i jo, 1.49 2-8, CMe Ganson Se seabed 4 ‘ile pi pro, against the star collection of prow.’ | MBADWOKTH, one- ct a. OD ‘one mile, 1. 5 MILI: The |The r9Uns Sheyayp,PommwN Bf The MUSIC BY MILITARY BAND