The evening world. Newspaper, June 18, 1915, Page 16

UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY — Draw Such Big Crowds. “+ grits es Voad ivtalne Works) i. oe “golluf” is the only game of t ct! @ its kind in the world, You could go out and knock a cro- Que: ball all over the lot for a week, and the only ‘would be the family cat. But take ‘all about a quarter as big, and a collection of queer shaped clubs car- Pied in a caso that looks like one of sthose recoptacios they used to put in the front hall to hold umbrellas, and be. kook that ball around over a bunch yo of nills and a collection of creeks and “"puddies and artificial hbillocks and gand pits that make the scenery look &@ battlefield in distress, and it 2,589 people will come in auto- mobiles to see you do It. 1 know, be- cause I spent yesterday at Baltusrol. “or gee y ie Presence of the well known Mr. Travers and derson, and Mr. Ohick Hvana, aaa Aue Oul- ‘a and Mr. Barnes of—not New id other celebrated gentlemen “and seeing Mr. the ball while tad held ite breath and from rising on its toes only fear its shoes might sane? —_. the ete ececinaton moe ee ee felt ou, about it, - or while Sees Sister tes it ing I fail to see where it asa galt bus thought fer several row, iene wrinkled the re qiuitade of the pia 8, gut, the, physical te Pubordinated ye intelicotval, whtcn ie of pares % » being Fegan 4 ee even durt "Shyatoal efforts, the merely physical efforts, Se ie Seine ot ait times a matter Sy wanta and not of physical stress.” ae there you are again, That's 'B—that is, the “gallery”—etood on the edge of a hill looking down into a hollow where Mr. ‘was about to apply a com- mental and physical siam to a and drive it about an eighth of mile—that being his habit. In front of up two attendants held a taat ee that no one could too near eener StF Jones Te his ea Wear While Mr, Barnes wan getting with the ball CY ee ia front euger + “Why doesn’t he hit i$?” forty feet the offender, look about hissed, re- “Waterloo was won on the ericket fields of England,” said » Wellington. Victors of the future will prob- ‘ably get their scrapping ability ‘dm golf, They have so much vx serience in the trenches, fPON'T know why this suddenty Geveloped interest in golf on my > part. Ordinarily at about this wtage in the “column” I'd be saying Jess Willard. ake a great golfer? leaning on pill with his trained hitting power. He'd drive it #0 far they'd be sending it back by maj) with about 10 yen worth of for- eign stamps on it, That is, he Would if be bit it, But Jess would have to practice a while before he could give it the wlam. 1 know from experience “mental hagard” tyied = golluft es in fact. that thing ts no joke. once inyself—we: A Kduracives it wus easy. 1 was playing A John MoGraw, Christy: "Bay, come over } inute. 1 want you to see Bob wlan ig ball. He can drive it a mile” Christy “came over.” set ny heels well in the ground, my hands, took 4 a pie of times und then swung it ith the intention of knocking that |“ e and piffling pill from Havana to bed dust on Righty grip, Waggled the driver was Provin! Belen! Zip! The driver grazed the top of the which gently rolled out along i to @ hard ¢' hy i Matty grinned a little and went down the course wathout a Lad Bo there you are again. a! id in the stroke, “Spont’ know why Te . 1 intendes Solves! & Golf Must Have Some Myste- tious Charm, or It Wouldn’t interested spectator 247 pounds of required mental As long as we were just fooling ulong and enjoying And then along @ Christy Mathewwon, John culled ry V'a forgot- ut the mental what-you-may- I should write the to write something ind golt- ww think ‘pole ie & great game re nity S Second Spurt Brings Them Games of Le Six Straight for Donovan's Men Closes Big Gap—McGraw’s Team Only Four From the Top Now. « By Bozeman Bulger. ‘HE winning of a! by the Yanks of three by the Giants has made it mathe- matically possible—though not very Ukely—for either of them to pile up five more victories and take the lead in thelr respective races. New York | basebal! remains on the baseball map. A week ago, when the Giants were second division, a prophecy that such @ situation could arise in so short @ time would have been pooh-poohed as preposterous, The fact remains, just the same, that the Philadelphia Nationals are now just four games ahead of the Giants, and the White Sox just five ahead of the Yanks. Even Bill Donovan was surprised when shown these and de- clared that, after a day's ‘\ay-off to give Princeton and Harvard a chance to settle their college argument at the Polo Grounds, he would go right out and grab those games, ‘ine that I expect to catch Bord x in one week or even in tw Bil. “But if we keep winning we'll | soon be ina t from which we can leap right on the necks of the leaders the minute they begin to stumble. We are right now on the most ad- vantageous rung of the ladder.” This unusual situation in both races is not due to the playing of excep- tional baseball, especially by the Giants, but to the general bad work of all the clubs. As McGraw sug- gested ten days ago, any club that had started out winning consistently would have had the race cinched by the Fourth of July. ing won ‘a opening game from FISTIC NEWS By John Admirem of pugiliam in this vicinity will have opportunity to-night of witneming two tmport battles between lightweights, one of the prin- clyale being the champion of that class, while two others are the best men in that division around these parte and are in line for « fight for the title, ‘The stars who will display their boxing ebility are Leach Cross and Johony Dundee of this ity and Freddie Welsh of England, the world’s bight- ght champion, and Johnny “Young’’ Lustig of Brookiyn, Both bouts will be staged by Jobo Weisamantel at an open-air show to be held at Bobets Field, The first preliminary will be staged promptly at 6.90 1, M. Jimmy Johoston, besides being matchmaker the St, Nicholas Bink A, ©., has Just been ap- pointed manager of the Velodrome A, ©, of Sheepshead Bay, which will hold open-air shows Jimmy told the writer to-day that he has sigued up Charley White of Chicago for four fights, the 17, White will appear twice in coutesta at the Velodrome A, ©, Johnny Griffiths, the crack lehtweight of Akron, O., will not be able to fiebt again for a montli, Me was thrown from a motoreyele at Akron, ©, « few daye ago and bis right arm was severely injured, Joe Shugrue, the erck Jemey City lightweight will be ready to box again in November, Hie Jezem. which were operated upon, several weeks a Dominioh Tortorich, the. New Orleans promoter, has already made Shugrue an offer to fight Pred. die Welsh, and hve lan accepted It, Two tantound bouts were arranged today to | bo decided at the St, Nicholas Mink A, C Werinesday ight, Bemay Leooant, te Harlem lightweight, will go against Harry ‘Thomas, of England, and Ted “Kid” Lewia, the Puglia boxer, Will Mook Up@with Johnny Mario the rugued went aide fghtel, in the main gy, Joe Hives may be seen in three more fights around here, ‘The Meaican demands a guarantee of $4,000 for the tires fights, but Jimmy John- ston ty confident he will sign him up for lower price, If Johuston is succomful two of the bout be staged at St, Nicholas Mink and the other at the Velodrome, clube will hold boxing shows to- Brown A. A, of Var Kockawey Badie 1%, Andy Corton and Kat “ited” straight games | © tallonders and the Yanks were in the| ! firwt to be held at the Bt, Nicholas Kink ow July | are getting better and his physician claims | ‘Uf will be entirely well by Unat time, | om of Yanks Within Five aders in Race Giants to 1 right over the Pirates and the Dodgers into the first divi- sion by rej eating to day, Of all ti in both leagues the Yanks hav own the test improvement. Bill Donovan put together a combination of young players with enough sprinkling of bs ns to keep them there seems to be litt being « first division only clubs that have stooped, therm them have been the ene Sox, the Red The most encouraging: ote. bs org Donovan's team, S Sae cee ite ability to mike? econd spurt and come back after having boon knocked down below Washington. ‘This shows that they have the heart— after Cn the most necessary thing In hing showing-up the Cleve- es in their opent: game, and the nk players are now it of cleaning up the series. of sticking to their regular mm of advancing runners by the t honored sacrifice hit, Donovan's crowd switched to the hit and run occasionally yesterday and whip- sawed the Indians both ways. The Princeton Club, which plays Harvard at the Pol attended the Yank. Grounds to- ‘eveland game Har- vard already has won two games from Princeton and nothing of moment hangs on the result to-day. Just the same, the Tigers will fight it out to @ finish, a result of giving up the grounds to the collegians, the Yanks and Cleveland will play a double-header to-morrow. > While going into second base, head foremost, yesterday, Lute Boone hurt his shoulder and may be out of the game for a day or two. He was re- leved by Paddy Baumann, who gave a very good account of himself. “Lefty” High continues to shine in centre and his batting is doing much toward helping the winning streak along. Against Cleveland he got two wallops out of four times up and drove in more than his share of the run: AND GOSSIP Pollock Keyes and Larry Wall vs, Young Wolf, At New Polo A, A. Bobby Evans ve, Tommy Me: Andie and K, 0. Smith vs, Eddie Oiffford, All the bouts will be for ten rounds, Jack McCarthy, who arranges the boute for the Brown A. A, of Far lockaway, today signed up Battling Levinsky to meet Colin Bell, the Aus tralian heavyweight, for ten rounds in the main go at the club's show on July 0, Levinsky battles Fred ‘Sailor’ Fritts at the same elub for ten rounds om the night of July 2, ‘Owing to the fact that Young Cohen, the Eng Aish Dower, met with an injury to his eye, ‘Tom McArdle, matchmaker of the Fairmont A, ©., has | substituted Dr, Schumacher to mest Benay Leonard in the main bout at the show toanorrow night, Joe Kecera and Jimmy Power and Frankie d Jack Irving meet in the other two tena, Johnny Drummie, the Jersey City lightweight, Terry Travers, nN Wrteer setae Copyright, 19: LEADING “hE AMATEURS, ‘Jerry pcs Only Former National —Barnes and HE finish of the firat twe a championship rounds for the national open golf title at Bal- tusrol yesterday was so close that the twenty-two leading players were all bunched within nine strokes of each other, No such crowding for the lead ever occurred in a golf tournament before, and if the close fight is con- tinued ip the final two rounds to- day a play-off will undoubtedly be necessary to-morrow to decide first place championship found Jim Barnes, the raw-boned Western open champion, and Louis Tellier, a diminutive Frenchman, from the Canoe Brook Club in Jersey, tied for the lead at 146 strokes, Mike Brady jumped into second place at 147 and Jerry pee tata f who mado the best amateur showing, was only one stroke beliind, with 148, Tom McNamara of Boston edged itn at 149, while the veteran Fred Mc- Leod tallied at even 150, Walter Hagen, the defending champion, and Alex Campbell both tied at 151, There who has not fought since he was knocked out by] Was & three-cornered te at 162 be- Johuny Dund ciobeta Field, has been matched | tween Chick Evans, George Sargent by his manrgpr, Pete’ Fitagerald, to meet Young}and George Low. No one could even McAuliffe of Bridgeport, Coun. for ten rounds|imagine a closer finish than this, At the Fairmont A. ©, show on Saturday evening, |The exceptionally hard-fought rounds Jane 26, Drummie started training for the con-| upset all the dope, It is nothing but ent today Kia Witt, the 5 hantamweight cham. Duteh Brandt, the open air aly | of his life, Jimmy Clabby, the Western middleweight, will don the gloves again on the afternoon of July 6. He will go against Jack Skelly, a middleweight of Terre Haute, Inui,, who is considered « Likely «nan, They will for ten rovnde at a show to be staged at By 1 ating Keddy, the side, in the Harlem Monday night, Young Sehwarts of the wort side, Jimmy Taylor, bantamwjght of this city, who has teen resting up for the past month, Monday night, Kid Wolfe of Cleveland and A}, Bhubert of Providence will box twelve rounds at the Hhode bets Field, tn Brooklyn, on June 25 Brandt has started training and is will give the champion the surprise lem bantamwelght, will meet Jack eyles, the Jocal bantam from the east main event at the Olymple Club of In the other ten-round bout Mickey Dunn, the Ghetto bantam, will meet | ts matched to meet Al Shubert, the New Ragland Shubert and Taylor will come together in @ twolse-round bout at New Belford, Mase, on a gamble who'll win the title Fhree favorites Gil Nicholls, Fran- cis Ouimet and Macdonald Smith— .452-5 for the event day. expert clocker, follo ACHIEVEME alt, CHINTERTON, hye: eights CHANL HSTONION, el gt ISTANT 8 HOR rh 06, BL C., thre BUKRIDG! EXCELSIOR, FLYING FAIRY || HANOVIA. threé-quarters, it HALF ROCK, thr HURAKAN, eg! one mile, “Las, Lavy 'Y. one-half, .54 3-8, SPEEA fF The end of the firat half of the | ¢, Workouts of Horses in Training Damrosch, who is entered at Jamaica, worked three-eighths of a mile Other trials, as clocked by The Evening ‘ genera Cham- pion Only Simon Pure Who Has Chance to Win National Event Tellier Tied for Lead at 146 on the Eve of Final Rounds—22 Players Within Nine Strokes of Each Other. were routed and are practically out of the running. Nigholls, who peeled off # pair of 71s in'practice Monday, couldn't avoid the traps on the first round Eg oi and took a 78. Then he went from bad to worse, finishing up with an 81 on the afternoon jour- ney. Francis Oulmet never did reach his best form. Two cards of 77 and 79 was far from the brand of golf the young amateur champion showed at Brookline in 1918, when he triumphed over Vardon and Ray, Oui » now 10 strokes behind the leaders, has about a 100 to 1 chance of leading the field at the finish. Mac- donald Smith, another before-the- nt rite, had two bad rounds and doesn't figure. There were five 71s made durin, ihe day by Chick Evans, Jim Barnes, Brady, Louis Tellier and Tom MoNa: was re- hth hole| cepted as new course records, Galleries at open championships al- ways give amateurs Mbera] appiauso for notable feats, The pros are ex- pected to pull off unusual stunts. So! Chick Evans's performance of doing a 71 in the first round was the feature of a day rich in exceptional happen- ings. Vardon and Ray after thelr tour in 1918 picked Evans as having the best golfing form of any one In the United States, His driving is ox- cellent, and no_one, amateur or pro, can equal the Chicago youth when It comes to playing the iron olubs, Evans is only fair on the greens, but LADY ATKIN, five-cighths, 1.05, five-elghths,' 1.03 1-6, Oo BUNLIY. A iN five-elgAths, 1,07, DALE, three-quarters, o mt rhtha, 1.36, tai 38. Pl BEBLES one eel Lal ‘ SPEARHKAD, one-half, , Sune & halt SCOTTISH KNIGHT, three-quarters, SOCONY, one-hait five-elshi WIL! Averels ye LN] i iaeiinde, ote B ‘THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1916, | BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK GOING OVER THE BALTUSROL COURSE WITH THE “GALLERY” by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). NATIONAL LEAGUE, Sk saat mm NATIONAL LBAGUB, York at Paaburgs. with all his playing qualities he seems to lack something. Call it tempera- ment, balance or luck, because it has never been satisfactorily explained why the Western star can’t succeed in tournamen: In his opening round Evans came to the eighteenth and only needed a par four to score a 70, With this won- derful chance ahead he proceedvd to play the hole like a novice, Evans decided to play safe, but he overdid He skied his tee shot so hig that into a ditch, fter falling back Evans again drove short, but he saved himself with @ sensational pitch to nearly ve feet of the cup. He had a to get his four, hut missed In the afternoon trip Evans cracked wide open and ran his score up to 81. “Tt was the worst golf I ever pave Chick explained after turn- in his high score. A big gallery WAS 90, Sorry at the way Evans abused his chances that it turned to other matches, leaving the Chicago star to complete the round with hard- ly any admirers in tow. chanc the putt. In strong contrast to Evans ratic showing was the fine, co’ playing of Jerry Travers, four times former national amateur champion. apposed to be a for- er- medal scorer, yet he went out | and peeled off a 76 and 72, which gave him third position, only two strokes behing the leaders. Travers has out play both Evans and Oulmet so far, and he {s the only amateur re- maining who can give the pros. a dose of their own sport, The two rounds were replete with brilliant Shot, Almost every con- je: testant had eat £68 oF two that were out of tl but Mike Order by the full name GUINNESS book for the signs — STANDING OF THE CLUBS . a lc LEAGUE, RESULTS OF YESTERDAY'S ¢ GAMES CAN LEAGUE, GAMES ‘SCHEDULED FOR TO-DAY MERICAN LEAGUE, and slow. ers. Tewiee Dea AT THe “TRUE ROBERT EDGREN ° THE SAND (ST HOLE - AT THE AT HOLE MIE BRADY LIFTED one Deo ye (T WITHIN SPeeT oF THe cur C arrgpeut On Request) EDITED BY JAMES BUTLER'S HORSES GETTING: His Stable Didn’t Fare Well at. Belmont, but Is Having Success at Jamaica. ING ONG By Vincent Treanor. The Butler horses are evidently fast getting into their stride after an un- successful campaign since the season started. On Wednesday the populat colors of the New York merchant were curried to the front by High® Noon and Miss Puzzle, and yesterday Paddy Whack scored over one of the best fields of two-year-olds that haa gone to the post this season, in thé youthful stakes, But for a bad break in the last race, Mr. Butler might AND a compact little filly by Ultimus and Markette. She was practically left, before Jockey Joe Byrne got her go- ing. He hurried her along and made up tho proverbial acre of ground to get into a contending position, The effort, however, took a lot out of her and when the stretch run-came, she had nothing left and stopped badly. s2AgSseus Bee) Trainer Dick Benson thinks the’ hoodoo that has followed the stable all through the Belmont meeting i» now off its track. He thinks Super~ the stablehands think so too. after High Noon had won on Wednesday, New Toh Wesrineant. 8 Benson says the Irish foreman came Goings. "Philadelphia, to him and said: “Boss, we are gol penton, fa | to wet luck ow that we've lost tha: pre ERE TATONAL LEAGUE, | fiddie-brained horse.” ‘The fia ficimondy 8, Ser | brained animal the Irishman referred gh Ap at Philade pala, Chicago: Mt es! ‘Boston, N, 107 ar aerator ot Montreal Beitale tt ‘Torvetor Two Strokes Behind — Pro Players in Open Golf Tournament Leaders in Golf Championship Tourney on Eve of Final Rounds These were the twenty-two leading scores at the end of the first two rounds for the national open golf championship: Jack Park Alex. smith, a om R. Mi ‘*Amateurs, Brady of Wollaston made a shot on the 270-yard twelfth that was a clas- Brady pulled his drive directly behind a tree, the ball landing about He either had to chop out on the fairway at the cost of one stroke or take his chanc ale, fifteen feet away. going over the tree. hesitated. Taking a h th ree and on to the scant three feet away from the pin. The gallery rubbed its eyes in amaze- such a feat could be ac- Many spectators who nes when he scored believe the big Western open cham- Re could eeu ‘hit a golf ball a mile Barnes, one of the most powerful drivers in the country, to, was tremendously long yesterday, and this was a great ad- | 1%. vantage, because the course was wet even the smallest things can unnerve the biggest golf- tarted his second round before Evans ripped off his 71 in the morning. He reached the third hole before hearing the news, surprised him that he took three putts But Barne: n five different greens should have had ‘but I couldn't make m; LEAGUE. ve the balla hard wallop. Shooting ht up in the air, tt soared over to was Superhuma which as claimed out of the selling race won by Albona Wednesday, The lucky | streak evidently started right away, for High Noon came out in the third race and galloped away from Top 0° the Morning and Phosphor. |. The Owners’ Fund has contributed | $2,000 to the Suburban Handicap, which wii be the chief prize cons tested for at Belmont Park when the Empire City Racing Association in- augurates its meeting next month. This will make the race worth $5,000 and it will be one of the richest stakes of the year for three-year-olds and upward. The Owner's Fund was formed in 1918 when racing was in.» period of depression and an endeavor was being made to rejuvenate it. A number of gentlemen contributed @ guarantee fixed events. Among those that helped to keep the sport alive were August Belmont, H. K. Knapp, James Butler, F. R. Hitehcock, Capt, E. B. Cassatt, John KE. Madden, George Eustis, John Sanford, Schuy- ler L. Parsons, W. K. Vanderbi ity R, T, Wilson, Thomas Fortune Ryan, Price McKinney, Alex Smith Cochran, Frederick Johnston, the late A. N. Brady, Samuel Ross, Thomas Hitcb- cock and Thomas F. Monahan. Bowling, and Billiard 7. sileys [30 tables Sint ot Wow. THUMS __ SPORTING. JAM ‘Al CA TO-MORROW $1,500 Long Beach Handicap The Texas or sig f & 4 Other Attractive R FIRST RACE AT 2.20 P, M. SPECIAL RAOB TRAINS nneyivanie Station 984 St. ee, Fiatbush Ay., Brook of Brady never 'y niblick, he green but @ followed Jim | 1 is round GRAND 8. MUSIC BY MILITARY BAND, EBBETS YIELD. Wi hove W000 F "clock, Wank Freidie Welel off the tees and it so A. ROCKA’ L Fddie, Fitzsimmons va, Andy Cortes, Ba (“Red ) Mutlon ys. 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