The evening world. Newspaper, July 3, 1915, Page 9

GOLF TOURNEY AT FOX HILLS What You Want to Know About Your Auto and How To Drive It and Keep It ‘Supert Advice How to Keep Automobiles Running Smoothly and the Best Way to Remedy Machine Troubles— Traffic Suggestions and Pleasure Routes for Evening World Readers. By GEORGE H. ROBERTSON. HERE are several traffic conditions in this city that should be rem- edied as soon as possible in order that heavy travel over busy thoroughfares may be handled with speed and safety. I have no- ne ticed at certain important points it is the habit of drygoods houses and express companies to back up their bene to a ae aoe aa ta hes GILBERT. NICHOLAS J.M. BARNES ‘ L. TELLIER ic more ian half o! At Lafayette Street near Astor Place ee do} Be ine arogeeenre, wr tanat = there'll be an extra haSeecten, in the an express company occupies | 8°! McDonald Smith Will Defend | “Met” champion. He won the titie| armed golfer 6 ee ee Sahel Sty timo | Seay Sl Ste sible for vehicles to pass each other His Title at Fox Hills | strokes for 72 holes of medal play.| most two-armed in both directions, At Sixteenth in heldee:| fremenaees’ Setiabe 2nd 2 Street, between Third and Lexing- Next Week. A. from his Ce are a pie ton Avenues, the same condition exists, except that here there is a quality for the nal ob more severe violation of the traMc O many prominent golfers are en- | %&P #¢ pee and unless Smith's| ' score, laws. The vehicles are backed be tered ren the metropolitan open better he’ pats a ‘ ned Peres will bea feo-tey the curb in this street on the south | cathe egg nage Phe etree big Oo sup of pros headed by| best total score winning. the tk eh GEORGE ROBERTSON ‘Ht nd Several waEOnA Aro UUM ace actared "the national |daeiacelle. us fronghe dro | fhe her ile Unke at Chfton, B rb, al- noe roo! Jub; ol ja,) measure abou! os Ss standing along the rorth cu tournament at Baltusrol ts likely to Hagen, rhs their peculiar hills and delis they lowing practically no room for even one way travel. hile these con-|D° Te-enacted. There will be over oh open title tht ik; | form what, is known Be emery ese » eo °: in - | course, ere wi There can never be a quick and safe line of traMe while 100 professionals from the metro- Tots ‘MeNamara of Bostea| many of the hills, @ condition which 1 politan district with a sprinkling of/and Tom Boyd, the Fox Hille etar,| caters to luck, for a ball is like to ditions are allowed to prevail. ANSWERS TO LETTERS. motor, all the connections must b@) amateurs, whose golf this season has been bril-| strike a stone and bounce far off the In Apionpding a long, steep hill will seas, RAlttor: With #0 many fine players compet. |{ tanvortor = eben, dey cok ot] Mtne fourth and thirteenth are con. you please advise me as to the best} Kindly inform me the direct road | ing over such a tricky course as Fox mm has a great chance of winning.| sidered the feature a. A sliced to Fallsburgh, Sullivan County, N. ¥.,) Hills it is a waste of time trying to! In addition to all the star talent’ drive at the long fourth will go out of starting from New York City. —— i MB Arc: °, y HERBERT WATSON. 1 BLOCK. ham oN New York City to Yonkers to Dobbs ‘way to handlo the car on a grade of this eort. it to | EE BVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1918.4 WS OF ALL BRANCHES OF SPORT - METROPOLITAN OPEN GOLF TOURNEY ATTRACTS MANY STARS|Giants Must Take aty! Entry List Biggest in of New York’s Blue Rib- bon Event. History bounds. A pulled tee shot will land in @ deep crater, which means good for a low score for the hole. thirteenth, or hell's kitchen, lives up to ite name, Intervening be- tween the tee and green t treacherous depresel: oa mn with a the middie of| but @ few days after the season atarted until I broke my leg. Then I Burt) bow! tered ” kee awe it two or three times trying to practise too soon. acat! ight just as well throw away is vlubs once he gets in the kitohen trouble, Issac Mackie, the former Fox Hills who knew inch of the course, once mad which stands as & record. When descending a steep hill it is ce corene well to release the clutch and throw | Ferry to Tarrytown shen Roney e ro) fe) n a ete 6 Ay okbargh to Ellenville. $9 | a s n Se ind befor urgh. Awtindly inform me the dest auto| Being @ Historical Incident In the Career the all important game. It looked as if there were no chance for the Yellow Jackets on the day of route through the pecmaniter ee of Jerry Hopps, Pitoher-Extraordinary Unfortunately, however, a batboy employed by the Yellow Jackets, while Hoosic Valley. MRS. J. for metropolitan lellaws taney be obtained by [serch Advice you to by oi” Seer of the Famous Limber Feet. boss. He figured, correctly, that it must have a piece of steel " ‘What is the best route from Bay- onne, N. J., to Stamford, Conn, 5 BY BOZEMAN BULGER. hift lever in lew, throwin: ° ; hein ition ewiteh and letting In | Awommbiie Batter: vy way of the west bank of the bs a, Editor: also the distance? JF, 'HAT'S ever become of old Jerry Hoppe?” asked the Veteran Tt WIT ABA OF, yes Hoppe had great difficulty in con- ‘Wil ‘you tell me what is the most] Bayonne to voreey City, to_Eng! ce Bout of @ group of baliployers who, seated in a emoking te bite @ > trolling the ball, and that he, himself, 10+ | weed joaters, Ti Moe could not tell exactly in whioh direo- yy on the bench Wr ous savios ih be pores | Necekc catea teeny ee fo ." compartment, had been discussing the relative merite of the||NEAD y* tion it would hop. All. thi, of| 2° Le didterence in the elub, ciated. JAMES K. MONTGOMERY. | Eimsford, te White P: “kmuckle" and the “emery” dail. , course—this counter-planning — was \° ford. it is sie peer. rant te she eect in to Stamfo Hod at the grounds one morning, saw this ball in operation and reported it to his concealed somewhere beneath the cover, Naturally it followed that to get that piece ot 1 next to their bats something must be put on the wood to attract it. They secured a plece of lodeatone, but it was auffictent for one bat only. The boy also reported that Jerry THE CATCHER HAD 70 “Jerry Hoppe?” spoke up a young isha te Old Jerry and the Lim- part the autemobile 4 and in order to obtain con. pe, Nore, pitcher, “I never heard of him. And thus it happened that when ne tents cont wil you kindl let me, know, bg Who's he?” Jerry, toward the finish of the big ower it! nest route from ‘New Yor! ‘ats- There was disgust in the Ol¢ o game, decided to run in his famous te Feseseary to eee pall we werves kill, N. ¥.? H. BROWER. dca scaabre hopping ball he was wild and walked wertins pe New York te Yonkers, Hastings, to rv ; two batters, As yet, mind you, the Dobbs F Tai m, Oselning, fi , “You've got @ lot to learn, young Yellow had not used their Automobile Bittor: 1 Peekskill, Newburg! Reugnieepels, Fe a fellow, And you claiming to hove lodeston ed vat 9, pereon beers fivegnre to shitting nisenen Seaver cn Ar bei @ ‘hop’ on your fast one!” ; Now was the ti and a young tomo : his gears? It is puzzling sometimes) “Wii you please let me know the i “What's the hop on the fast onc ' 7 pints foag | Seba atthe yt we to know just when to change. best road to Waterbury, Conn, from WALTER SHONTS. | best road to, Wat Bixty-second Btreet got to do with itr” ita, L he stepped to the rubber he saw i Hf the naive: hosing: o fpber wis and Broadway? oO. “Nothing,” replied the Old 'icout, “ ~ ge nt feet! via at in high gear and opening Fo “Not! , except the word ‘hop,’ on imps on first, ly to start nore. nee | New York to New Rochelle, to Port ‘Nothing, pt the P, tae cochtnd ta auction tae dels to Stamford, to Norwalk, to to Stratford; turn left to \ Derby, to Seymours, to Naugatuck, to Waterbury. Automobile Bator: Please let me know the best route trom Brooklyn to Atlantic Highlands? A READER. @ fast one, got its name from Olt ef power avail- ry to shift to a disgust. “And I don't suppose you if Will you Ibindly inform me whether | ma) rive m; othe! rv without Neenee? 1 am. ninet years of! Ferry from | Sixty-fifth Street, exe, A, | Brooklyn, to wt en ind; grpes with @ batted ball?” ae. a a se Reid y to Now The younger element, pointing | Chauffeur, the law permite you) M d 19+ h K to Ni tie Highfande, Automobile Editor; Will you kindly inform me what te Automobile Eéitor: the best route to Barryville, Y.? T have @ 1912 Ford on which I use i. B electric lights for my head lights di- Fort Lee fer to Hackensack, N. reot from my magneto, Recently I! ) 19 ry , td shat cat fore, Nak oy amta founaland Beecham to Frankl tha ‘7 ~] f Furnace, to Franklin, to Aekerson, to r, on the shoulder, did, I think my magneto is getting Branchville, # Layton, to Hainseville,| 7hev did. “You're out.” yelled the umpire, weak, to Milford, to Port Jervis, to Barry- — and the decision was correct, because that I can rem: Maine rl etey, thous tening tie ' Jerry Hoppe, as clever a pitcher as ever drove a spike into the dia. | Jenkins had been hit by a batted ball, out of the cur? Is this trouble due | Aetemoblle Raitor: mond, was a trickster at heart, Fortunately, for him, he lived and played | But walt: After skimming off Jenkins's shoulder the ball, gaining in momen- tum, took another crazy hop and hit Ase Hempstead squarely on the top of his bean and from there shot toward third and nailed Zeke Huston in the knee. “You're all out. The side's out!” screamed the umpire, his voice sound- ing over the roar of the maddened crowd, The crowd was maddened, because it could not understand that peculiar hop on the ball, A triple play had been made by @ to a weak magneto which has lost), Can you tell why tires are usually }in the age when baseball trickery was in flower. He was also tavored by some of its magnetism? ‘ the eames On 6 cart an elasticity in the rules which per- FORD OWNER. mitted a more pertect working out of electric lights run from |. 7 i une | of his plans; but that should not de- note of Mhis, model Ford on moat cars: role very | tract, In the least, from his ingenuity, Se Sanita ore: in’ thy | Jerry Hopps was a profound thinker, front and rear shoes with the aver-| His life work was with the famous ht distribution. If two sizes|old “Limber Feet,” @o dubbed for one must carry two their ability to run, twist and equirm ou the base paths. Turning to the page on which was me! recorded the incident that gave to Daseball the expression, "Hop on a connecting par' fast one,” the investigators discov- tl ALEXANDER GROBS. ered that this remarkable game was fast one with a hop on it—hence the i ti pl d between the Limber Feet and name. the Yellow Jackets, the crack teams The umpire knew that something ‘was wrong with that ball; but before he could reach for it the third base- man had tucked it away in the blouse of his shirt and had substituted an- other, The Limber Feet won with ease, Jerry Hopps scoring @ shut out. “Yeu,” maid the young pitcher to the Old Scout when he had fi reading, “But where do you stuff about a batter getting of their day. For some time Jerry Hopps had been unable to st heavy hitth because of a loss of speed. ® point where they are weak for the rear wheels they may have ample strength for the lighter 1 gueiee at ren ee 4 Wi] Ay? end couldn't get anything op his fast one Beac! ve fro ros, ich are in bette: m Beech Moterdrome. Ore3% 52; condition, may be placed on the rear| and the Yellow Jackets knew it. + wheels. That set him thinking, After numerous experiments Jerry discovered that by ripping off two inches of the cover on a baseball he could insert a metal weight of secret design that would cause the ball to lean that way when in motion, By skilfully resewing the cover it could not be detected. The catcher had to ‘Workouts of Horses in Training The beat workouts of horses at local tracks as “clocked” by The Eve- Bing World expert follow: “Listen!” demanded the Old Scout, RY ' CANDLE, one mile, MISS PHILBURN, one the ball out of the hands of the um- tte ee 5 MR. SPECK. one-half, pire before the wonderful device would be discovered. When thrown rapidly, “well, when Jenkins’ 1492-5, MARY WARREN, Hopps discovered in practice, this ball would start like any other ball and he Miss P then begin making weird dips and plunges. By practice he got #0 he could x make it take a loop of two or three feet just when approaching the plate. R Racing at San Francisco, BAN FRANCISCO, July 3.—A racing meeting for thoroughbred horses of COURTNEY TO CONTINUE AS CORNELL COACH “RED” MURRAY RELEASED; MAY JOIN BROOKFEDS Charles E. Courtney would n another Cornell crew were 4 night, Courtney has one more year to serve under his present contract. What his unconditional r August, at the Panama-Pacific Exposi- tion was assured with the organization of the Golden Gate Thoroughbred Breed- Ti BE! ph th: if, 4! other question, He may decide to retire is! At RY ot Murray an ‘ror aa to wine a, 1,01 EAD) «outfield, rr ont Mages inside: ward with their index fingers to their eara,| Jenking’s bat met it. It was a resounding whacl made a rotary motion of the handz,|toward'the fence to see it disappear were disappointed. That is where the indicating wheels in the garret. plotters had miscalculated. They had neglected to reason that if the ball + 2 would take a hop when thrown it would also take a hop when hit. ‘Look up your history, Look up Inatead of going off on a line the pesky thing dipped down in front of reo Old Jerry and learn something for yourselves, That's all I got to say,”| the plate and bounded, Jerry Hopps ran up to grab it for a put out, but I foundland, to Stockholm, to Franklin | ordered the Old Scout. the ball swerved away from him and, shooting sideways, hit Jenkins, the Ing Association, announced yesterday. | ne will do after his term expires ts an- | Dato, Old Jerry took a big windup, gave Jerry. That's all. Smart lot of ball the hopping ball a whirl over his|°! players we've got these days, Y head, and started it toward the plate. “No," he added, with additional It looked to be two feet high, but Jenkins waa not to be fooled. He was ever heard of a batter getting a swoop and he three-base hit for hitting a runner the drawing Drepared for the downward| be 80 could depend on ects of his lode- Sure enough, the ball dipped down- base hit by hitting a runner with @ batted ball?’ with scornful emphasis. batted ball put three out ain't he entitled to a hit on each one, He can't be given but one time at bat, ac that makes it a thres- base hit, don't it? You young fellows ought to go and learn something.” “Any tim inner with a batted ball the runner is out and the batter is peculiar break and but those who looked Leading Pro Creliste in Big Meet, ‘The firet all-star professional bike meet of the season at the Sheepshead Bay Velodrome will take place to-night, the B ove tare fe ti arta the Pa , Veteran outfielder of the| thirty days’ duration, beginning in| ITHACA, N, ¥., July 3.—Rumore thet/ the fastest sprinters from all parts of ing part in tee various eile ast ped hearing Big Brace to Win _ Flag, Says McGraw “I Am Disgusted With the Way Some of the _ Players Are Going,” Declares New York | Leader in Discussing National League Pennant Race as It Now Stands; ' By John J. McGraw, Manager of the Giants, HNNY EVERS cannot sit confortadly on the bench if good leg under him, and this impatience is Mable ¢o cost ‘the 5 E i | Braves repeat. If he is soon, Should Evers be , the season without betng a: Stallings has a great chance to land. if et a4 iit i 4 H i f fl ; to go with it.” “You'd have broken up the league long ago if you had,” I told him. “Well,” he went on, “after we won the world’s championship I had'to get pneumonia fast winter, which pulled me down. I hadn't been going “That's just what you are going to do now—tearing game soon,” I warned him. wregh bs T cant elt on the bench any longer,” he lied. makes nervous.” i) " ay ‘That is Evers's biggest weaknese— pis Overanxiety—a rare walty fae It player and one whlch wish some of boys carried, The most | to a a don't realize John's true we alo’ of him. the rn 10, not be~ to admit ho is playing better ball! nave made and the sn because Drere is alongaise of ol thinka he has another what fie dees Aimaett, “Hut Sonny | BEQWR (& Zabel makes lo Of ittorence Xo tee ather men a ad riske of being hurt, capaci ily wha fusne in ‘sucha’ way that?he tales EVERS AND @TALLINGS WORK the team. ball club on edge oT dont thioie the. raves wit lon’ ty raves will win the championship. In view of such a bald statement I su readers would Iike to bave,me say who I do think will gral further and concede I don't believe fhe Giants will unless there is considerable im- rovement shown in some parts of he machine, I am disgusted with the way aome of the beon going. The Cubs have a ce to cop the pennant. ia customary for fight mi iti i i ‘hed fi VO- Ber appears in certain Gepartmonts, very soon, If it was not for the poor baseball of this season the Giants would be race now, and so would , too, Any first-class club 6 that pennant won now if it had etuck to its Raising, One reason the St. Louls Club is uch ‘. good je ages ia be- made up mostly o! that if they don't show fomathing they won't hold thelr jobs in the Big League, and they hate the “bushes” even worse than they | Kid hate St. Lou! Most of the regulars on Huggins's club have been traded there by other teams, the trading manager thinkihg he was taking a AL beh iF oF il PT star away from the wily little St. paseo 5 championship tts, Louis leader, When he came to ex- | june) hee training for the pass amine what he got he usually dis-| #¥ monthe fo fast 00 fast and covered ho had traded a ten dollar | (ot 9 be nee lous ade title to Wille gold piece for a five. Huggins was aly rr fight ln the fall ond these men lon; bes to Johnny Griffiths's right feet will him from Jou Mandot at i fi I its g ified i: nity RES l i : E l i i+ ‘The play- ore naturally used It as a club to the best they could. I don’t blame ther I would have done it myself if I had been in that end of the game. ‘The club owners in the old league were not good gamblers, They were bluffed. As soon as they read or heard that the Federal League was 4 star, the owner dashed to him and mede him a@ big offer, frequently r than he could afford to pay » returns from his investment. It is my opinion that a lot of the layers who threatened to jump would Bave stuck had it been put squarely up to them to remain at a certain, reasonable salary or go over, s not for holding down players’ ‘but neither do I like to be ing to be so for the boys after these con- tracte run out, and most of them know it. It will, however, be a good for baseball, The Giants played better baseball in the seri with the Braves than they have shown at any other time this season, One of the most encour- wine clubs which have rd- eat battles in past seasons are tho Bt. Louis Cardinals and the Braves. He beat the Braves in a tight game, and he looked ke the Matty of old. my heart when the old bird ien't At to work any more. It won't seem like the Giants without bim aboard. But I believe be ought z i i! | if 3a i 3 i i i | if it H it i 3 ae HT il ef fig 5