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en ee ee pee oe RT TE ET . — so ro _______* HE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JULY 26, 1915. ' EDITED BY BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK = [noseut*20Shen IN THE WAKE OF THE NEWS ~ .—_|FAILURE TQ PAY - CONTRACTS VOID That’s Reason President Gil- more Gives for Federal League Signing Many Améfe ican Association Jumpers, UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY —_>—- Willard Needn’t Have Any Fear of Losing His Title to Young Ahearn, CHICAGO, July 26.—President Git~ more, of the Federal League asserted to-day that certain American Associa- tion players had become free agents through the failure of their clubs to pay their salaries for a month or six weeks. “Tam informed,” said President Gil more, “that the players, holding that this failure has rendered void thetr contracts, believe they are at liberty to sign with us on any one else, “I have not heard that Burk and oor ie Tock Ereane Word OUNG AHEARN ia a nice, clever boxer and a clean and forceful hitter, but he won't prove a David among the Goliaths—at present. Ahearn outboxed Boer Rodel with a ase Saturday night, making the Boor ? a Jook as clumsy as a dancing bear. He ¢ Giten stepped in with a light left and drove his right over flush on Rodel's ¥ . Kelly of the Indianapolis team have Pa? chin, a A Mig-ng nd hea AHEARN “PopreD one” jumped to the Pittaburgh Mederals, but 5 a and hard. He hit much harder ON Rover's JAW 11 understand that several Association 7 than the Boer, although, according to eve! players who, we hold, are fi nt i " the weight er pa at, Anearn WOSN flees have been offered places’ tn Our pounds to Rodel's 182. H he jarred Rodel he as said at Federal League head- in any real dis- quarters that Wortman, the Kansas, two or three City Association inflelder, had been of~ fered a@ contract by the Brooklyn Fed- erals. LOUISVILLE, Ky., July 26.--Sanford’ Burk, Indianapolis pitcher, has jumped tab club of the Federat cording to @ statement made » to-day by Manager Hendricks of |the, Indianapolis American Association will beat a lot of middle- _ es but Willard’s throne is still e. ‘THINK Soldier Bartfield is the foul- eat fighter I ever saw in a ring. He Janded at a rough estimate about a AHEARN IS ELUSIVE the team last night Columbus,” Hendricks sald to-day, {ls son for doing so is unknown to me. | Sacctch:|\Chicago White Sox Have Lost —|2arly Matches Pennant Fight Becomes _;2).):ssars,ss.rewaet from t outs tional ahr on. tonatben, a6 at Longwood KANSAS CITY, July —August eee” eae aaa ‘ ’ T ; ; Closer as Giants Prepare |x: crt fi eat »But ae if this were not enough, a 8 Co b Are ne-Sided * . ep {offered a contract by the Brooklyn roar ae ats Punch ar and Pep,’ Si ys *y b vosrox, Jay waive ran wit] = OK Trip Round Circutt tics ists intath te deliberation bit after th he got away with it all, in. | hiladelphia and New York American ing thrown out : - x schedule is against us. Chicago is up| seek to square lawn tennis accounts L » clubs have de offers for referees na’ bs. Sheald hans Charhpion Batter Predicts Slump of Comiskey’s | againa: practically the same proposi-| with the West In the twenty-tfth 7 F Worman, He came bere from the ‘won't win many fights ‘ | ton, but Boston will have almost all] annual tournament of the Longwood | Double Victory of Phillies Pre- | cither. Every game has been a tougd | eavannah., Ga. club. the rules are saforced. T F Now O: da Neck-and-Neck! 0 September at nome, and i€ it ever| Cricket Club, fight, For instance, Rudolph had to ——— ust be @ great comfort to Bart- cam From Now On, and a Nec is going to win the pennant that will] Nearly all of the forenoon matches Climbing Into | PAC, ®, We-bit affair, Saturday to ‘when his manager is manager of Race Between Tigers and Red Sox for the Mag yn EN a were decided in straight heats, only | ented Dodgers Climbing Into | win by a score of 1 to 0. AMERICAN JOCKEY WINS the re! 's salary. tw a counting jouble-headers, of| three contests juiring more th: irs men gosh si : 4 Wick, J have. no available record, the| two ‘sets for a “decision, ‘All of tho| First Place—McGraw’s Men! among tne so-called handbooks $25,000 RACE AT HAMBURG + Manager of -#even games at| favorites carded came through with: around New York the Braves and the | ‘Qual American League Flag. home between now and the close of| out difficulty. The summary: Close to Leaders. | Giants are even money on § EREE ried Hi £ boat Bmith, thinks the “Goo- uestion | RG, Gi ye July 26 f the season, or nearly twice as many | Longo! singles, first round: ba th which of the two wlll win Or fechas ee iean ia teen ner” will have little trouble in Fab airolt. E have counted the Tigers'| 4 U; "Wheelwright, oston, beat FP, Jackson the other. The betting against each |@nhus! Hamburg Grand Prix, the secon Jim Corbett's new By TY COBB, double-headers in with the twenty, | &,%. 6.0, bs . of them Winning the pennant is 2% to | Moxt important turf event of the year, tg » and when Boston's bargain days are | Proviinen 64 weg oat RN. Dana, By Bozeman Bulger. 1. And a funny thing about the bet- | Ws won yesterday by Baron Alfred “The Gunner ia in fine shape,” says World’s Champion All-Round Ball Player. figured up it, probabl will be found ation, New (York, beat U.P, Karrie, ‘a y veiade enels. tong | ti2s people ix that the Phillies as yet | von, Oppenhelm's Masher, ridden by, Buckley, “His hands are all right NLESS I am greatly mistaken, much of the punch and pepper 88) nasties on tharewe it, Trane aan ig be Nettom, beat HU, Mot, Boston, | eg ce tone this afternoon peda fii ate et gids Against | Hantels Albula, ridden by Jockey Oe ee AD a one eae oot tae tants lnaving tna| Besion oer sie avad chieenaPinys®, OF|neualty Mpegs Met WF. wriutown,| “and will move Westward wo) 00” © ten eal, {0 ictory th heer aa he ali <7 Reme eer out for the Rowland club to slip gradually out of the meet Lahn ripe pH goad pega ita ‘lt ‘gaver, Wo ton, beat F, W, Cole, Hart-| morrow after having made one of the] ‘The pgures show that the American| Sunday. The a nd Prix in valued at og r wi Gun- field to Detroit and Boston, which outfits promise Athletics, two clubs that hay ved|. l: 8, Martin, Lowell, bent KE, Buel, B strongest stands against the Western | League base run: this season to be |" —— figisting that night, but he was wave proved |, %, 5, Martin, Fi E. Bueld, Boston, 6 battle right down to the bitter end, ioe Red Sox this year, TM. Underwood, Moston, be Chicago did not make nearly so successful a stand is now facing its hardest cmd, Pomipt. 6. 4. & 8 test of the season, at | Nettleton, New Haven, beat H, KR, against the Eastern clubs as it had expected, and the! brace six of the ca sm» eo, . ubs that ha doesn't know himself, He FM, Otm.| ou! He right. If he doesn't beat Cow- might as well retire. But I ex- him to make good this time, T want Langford and Wil- He beat Langford fair the firs: have pocied him the vn this aea-| nearly 50 per . better than their aoe eon a han ane. [rivals in the al. The American’ FOG DELAYS START OF son, Not one of the invaders : have stolen 832, against 600 / “ra gg ceeded’ in winning a majority of the fonal. These figures, incl- RESOLUTE-VANITIE RACE. awful boating that the Red Sox handed Rowland when | and that includes twenty-two games| CpG gait. ges sd, "SAN | games from them, and the, only |dentally, being ap a iano catchels| — pwpowh ToT D daw teectt ‘ : ere will be two double-h % + Bundy) Boston, beat 3, Cummings, Bos | chance for this record to be broken Is . y NEWPORT, » July ot joavy. they took four in five is bound to have its effect. The eaders in| wn. 6 6 banka of for delay the starting ¢ day of the first of t three schedule: tS rd, “oi Hranciaco, beat P, Rob. that have it on him, Detroit already has demonstrated this by winning od thet ship wie be woll-nigh & grievance against ten games in fifteen played. The White Sox might be able to overcome the} as the Tigera are Seen wo ee Says the ancient Bat-|andicap of their inabilty to hold us, but they hardly can expect to top some. b ck to Navin Field with our both Boston and Detroit, when both have shown conclusively that they CO | EE waceue je are the masters of the Comiskey people, club for club. peta es " Of course Chicago has not lost 40 very °————————————————————————————————— rye wg NELSON writes that he Welsh. > e 4 prior is it true Cleveland and one in Ph: Se ie . Pirates to win two this after- he Nationol ay tter or Is \ Sox really started to silp just after they came buck |Chicago ix also about rpetlet x Hate. ba Mea Niles, Cow ree chat chele base punnere ae, realy he throe acheduled ! B tiebeey, ‘hoston, beat F. Witte i ” ; the thre from a phenomenal Eastern trip and lost three games | tral ‘oahee Penk samen than we (Boer aga ey va Wert, Boston, |"“irhe double victory of the Giants, /yartous runners declare the National te and Vanitie off Brenton’s Reef in four to the Tigers in Detroit. That took a lot of from the East, while we py cree the Dodgers and the Phillies on Sat- Koamie Man ore. fast mee Shae the 8 te yer Ot aie San 3 thelr confidence away, and St. Louis gave them an-/ fo the Windy City and also to Clave. satrmngenee. beat BP, Lamet,|urday served to make the National | Hire nee ce papects of « postpones other jolt by winning the Independence Day double header on July 5. | have to be on re eic tetecace ee, will Wiothroy, beat A. B, Roteh, Mu-| League race more of a problem that | National or that the runners are less | ment Boston put the finishing touches on the slump by going over and/of the time they are away, or alse FHiin, Ban Pradclon, deat J. W, Poster, ever, and right now it would - ens Srabitioua' “SREe. FAW Fle HAMILTON ENTRIES. cleaning the Sox right on their own South Side grounds, It was a bitter) ent REIT to go Into No H., beat R.A parAtivaly sey fe fae ge eat PI a i at Fenway Park, against any y ‘ blow, and it must have proved to Rowland that he is fighting two clubs| wil! get #o far ahead that the Maen ad think would win the pennant. An evi- ble a “dl to be ures bad AL Ld RAGE Puree, 8500: two-reazoides Serves regular scheduled game is | BSE a i York, beat W. Ht, Tavis, | Hfth places, are ae Tt points behind | t¢ ted by the losing team. The score | ant uy Shama. fhladgiobia, teat Ht, D, Mar Hee prastigaily all season, With the | Was § to S. ‘The losers claim that, «| flee oy oF ee ‘Nas 2 hia, . D. » Ps runner, declared out at the plate by) Uy" juvalides, 106; Northern Light. te vel exception of the Reds, who appear to {ie ympire, sould have been called | Ite, ils: Shem, 102! bevanas 106; Cal, be completely out of the race, there ite because of Interference. If the | dell, 14 are less than 100 points between any vad howd’ thi | RI) RACK—Wuree $£00; four-vearolde and much ground, and tf It should strike) and myself were with the club whi Of the other clubs. The Cardinala, ua Bie ees ene shoul eo BAMO |p; selina: be {lone Hiren, iors ; Seer wii nat oi etn Cnitee teat ||| FISTIC NEWS AND GOSSIP ||\iriteiacctisette tte lS oo or he a rivals were slumping it could easly) “re better prepared to endury 0 Bevel Be . af ‘protests are not considered unless a strain than men who haven't had are still but 9% points away from iON ON ste ON , take another large lead, But tho| f.rtn, than men wie meen fire. By John Pollock eat Ue cokiy i leas than tanh | tie Kore existed at some time during | : ae gee moral effect of the recent beatings 18| Gur club is one that rises to emer-| Milly Gibson, who te priming Jim Coffey, the) ment {a Mickes Donley, the prowising Newark | S@!es behind, | : Protests are based on | 112), Dodae, 18; aTaka, I bound to be heavy, Once a club loses! genciés well. In fact, that always has | Irish heavyweight, for a battle with Jess Wil: | featherweight, who Tihs a jong list of newspaper common sense, The size of the score RACE. -Purse $600; three-yeanohds ste . 5 1 for the hearyweight champtonahip title, evi: | decisio ered john While the majority of fans through- lo with it If the h " jue-alatowa th co ith in itself it cannot go out and| been a characteristic Tiger trait. bs p title, isions to is credit, Jobn thinks so well of “ é has nothing to 4 h it e los. , 9 Meh the same dash that char-| Every time we have been engaged | stir intends to keep big dim tuay in the | Donley that be has aigoed him up tor five yen, | Ut, the country appear to believe | ing teant is deprived of chance of | pitvnt® ro" sirinties 101! Ruwwey, ; pay bel ee eee oepired by (2. ® acrcaited I" werien we | ure for be Des already algned bm uy for tvo | Donley ig only lglitegn ears okt ad can easly that the race in the National League | winning by an erroneous decision allen, 14 acter! ° ay: i mt wi ith Sat ke 122 pounde e. A " be rt s y Pe tt the belief that it was unbeatable, | HAYS Played our best ball. Against | pesuon for twelte rounds at the Alas A A] oo Between the Taraves and the Giants, | (Py) ane Ie bee ee ie . of Boston on 10, aud lis second with} Jim Stewart, the Brookira heavy there is no real groun: petley Sk ee py bg What proved to me more than any-| to fight harder and show more ginger Sie saan sai | 7 Safran the: Senekire: ae Tere ee ne ore meine to blow an | chance of winnlny “orac! 7 Arthur Dotky, thing else that the #ox had “cracked” | than axainat some foundering second | (0% Tai, to bw ought oft ai| wl got Unt eonortums eat Satuniay ight at| that they have not the stuf to pull was that they tossed off a couple of ‘ . Maren, Conn,, om the night of Aug, 20, D, . He will take on Jack! them through, Their pitchers are games of the Boston series by er- bey inking Wingioee CEE we | oud fey i aetting into condition for both contests] Hemple, the Californa fighter, who has scored | SOing better now than at the first of |)” ratio fielding. it is a sure sign that) win all the pennants, s at the New Polo A, A, of Harlem, mx knockouts in succawion, Stewart is training | tho season, and the rest of the team club is feeling the strain when it} Jennings is trying hard to impress ane land Lake, Sullivan County, wita Jack| is backing them up just as weil. Alex- | a After many attempts, Miah Murray, the , ander pitched a ahut-out guine Sa begins to boot easy chances. on bie players that a game won from mar ab teams te eee es a urday against the Reds, and was fol ween o | dom Rivers will probably be lowed up by one almost as good by op : through the mill of a pennant-win-| 4% one Wrenched from Boston oF Chi- | tug joogdiatance telephone last wight, They | Denver lightweight, in a ten-round bout before the| At the time this double victory was |i) 0%. “Oot a question of rules. For hing campaign and know what it] Cao 1 think that he is waking the | wih pate for twelve rounds at the Ata A. A,| Colorado A. C. of Denver, Col., on the nigat of [Scored by the Phillies their leader- |DIAy we out in the nint fact that one term was well in the Head makes no difference. It. should understood, how: that there , W rotest of an umpire's de- {| on & question of judgment, If he declared there Was no interference, that ruling is final, Appeals can be ce, if an umpire declared a ee bod: _ club up to the necessity of battling ekonomi ‘Avg, 16, The club bas offered Rivers $000 with | Ship was endangered, and they knew | instance, 1 t at th acent wade ofina and Badie | hard against everybody. Fine hte fons. ths ealy eet chantt | a priviingn of 20 tee cont of the movigea Out Bos | it GUll they fought thelr way j runner out at Hine Bene shat conision SWIMMING INSTRUCTIO Murphy has been on an American| We will need all our fighting spirit | woud wake, Laga, manager of Rivers, wants the guarantee to| through without allowing Brooklyn's for PROP. Ai PALA 4 Nag. League champion. I purposcly 0! before the end of the season, too, for — be Increase! to 8780, double win to disturb them -in the shor hand .W mele. That would indicate the real [en the Ed Wals! name because, ho after this Sunday we will have only! geotty Montieth, manager of Jouany Dundee, | Kalpl Granan, who male a Wg imyreaton with stuff that wins pennants, If the Phil- ;runner cannot SPORTING. yet to prove conclusively that he is| twenty games to play at home, 1€ | deolared vo-day that he looks for Jack Britton to | the local boxing fans cecently by the eas cr e ble- ,|base on a passed } and the um-| ~ SA AN ry tobe depended on. ies We always have been & ood road | give bs fiahting Hall « Barder tate than any |n which be ootodimted Jor’ Arrrdo “in a battte| Heeoitaath the She Gouble header to | ie allows. hin wo, then there in Detroit also has several players] club, we do not o © tO | of the other ligttweights have given him when 2 St, Nicholas Rink, hae beeo i * ound for appea who have fought their way to (he top.! win as regular | at the icholas Kink, hae been sevurat by | first place. ground on the trail as we do | they meet im thelr ten-round go at Madison Crawford, Bush, Stanage, Moriarty at Navin Field, so we admit that the | square Garden on Thureday night, "Britton ts ek MeCarthy to meet Kid tu: volinrneienn. for. 08 tonnes at ‘The best showing made by any club |tion In the last There is no such rule as you men paragraph of your RACING] | ome of thore fast, clever boxem,” said Sootty,| of Far Hockaway on Fri y ts t week was that of query: “and Vesides ia an accurate hitter, durlag the pee woridia tne ——— a AT | 7 — remaining in the cellar for two w S. Vs 8. 6. Vets Row Ten sien, | STANDING OF THE CLUBS, | The Olympic A, C. of Harlem will hold @ box | Kid Williaws, the bantamweight. came out with & sudden rush, ‘The oarsmen thal représented the ing Siow tomight Which ehould be productive of | Jom Welmmantel to-day have won ten out of the last twelve | New York A £1888 vowed ten penty of hard fighting, ‘The ten-round contests | to witness the four bantal games, It iv the same kind of drive | miles yesterday at Travers Island, The + Ranty Bharp of Cleveland va. | bets Field, 1 Brooklya, \ fhey started last July, and won for! \oe.rans Were in fine physical condition, Piokey Bums va, | the bouts have already been clinched. They aro{them the championship. In this|twenty-seven years after thelr racing ‘ apres - Dutch Brandt vs, Loutsians and Battling Heddy|gtretch there have been no snaps, | days Marshal) v . rv fa rabval) |v, Young Solsberg, Welssmantel will clase for —_ 7 = | Mine Loretto Hoag, ie his manager and will ad | the other two today. Eddie Cama will probably —— ecw = By Empire City Racing Ass'n | vise her brother from outside we ring, be hooked up with Patsey Rrasnigns and Eddie | braced O'Keefe with Battling Lahn, s Battling Levinaky is booked up for three fig! — On Aug. 2 be meets Jack Keed of Toledo 872! Montroal. RESULTS OF YESTERDAY'S GAMES, SIX STAR ATTRACTIONS INCLUDING THE | | ————————ESS More Remnants Reduced Billy Rodendach, the former amatenr beaty- NATIONAL LEAGUE, AMERICAN LEAGUE, | Bhenandosh, Pa,; Aug. 5 be goes against Colin | Weight chamoton, is of the opinion that Tom flere oad oeiaiee & ne wits “Aaaee | bette wheather mat at the St, Moholen ex 125—-$35 fabrics 128 —$48 fabrice | 4 I. ton, 8. | aug. 36 P Punches with Arthur | bettle sad FIRST RACE AT 2,90 P, M, an baila 4. ifeaia te || ia 0 tomround baile | oe Wednesiay night. Billy lo getting: Cow fabrics 46—$50 fabrics Sveclal_ ‘Traine leave Penna, Staten, ; rer Cit fit poy gh Ry er) eee ae All now $18.00—-Suit to measure—fit, finish and satis. si ta Fg, At ae Fina Pr ngvisrcaaty: second func, Wells, w Naser Kanes the Butfaio hehe vill be faction guaranteed. 7 e ae ‘rote Boulevard ; DAY. been signed’ us Joe Mandot's next opponent, Charley Murray, $ GUAND STAND 83, GAMES SCHEDULED FORK TO-DAY, A Garg he Coat afid Trousers $16 MUSIC mY LANDER O® : ; ©, of the Bronx, today matched the | manager of Mandot, to-day stating that ax Kansas No games scheduled. ‘meek for Len rounds at a show to be bold | defeated Ad. Wolgast there, the tea:round go be- teen Kansas and Mandot oo Tabor Day wet | Broadway INT ATIONAL LEAGUE, det will drmw ome of the bigwest ctowds that hae orer mituensed bout’ that elty, @® 9th St. ear eS pute Aeon PR n