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") #ome ono cr o ser ie “as ho __.>— In the Garden. oT pa ert, 10:2, yon we Oe, ) te be held there. fia Now York State. Meech about tho game as any man, « and bas refereed at least once a week, Pereunsive way in which he makes Domera “deliver the good If they Gon't deliver—out of the ring they go, Bm Brown, Who Is Probably the * Best Referee in the State, to Officlate at the Boxing Shows ” Brown is to referse bougs at the Garden, beginning * ‘with the next boxing show “Bill” is probably the best referee He knows as “if his own club, for the past ten or ‘Pwelve years He is famous for the THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1918. | , ES: SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK HOW TO SP END A HOT DAY Copyright, 1915, by The Preas Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) LT’s AWFULLY HOT SITTIWWG HERE — ead it doesn’t make any difference te “BI” whether they’ro champions Bill's” deci- instantaneous, and un- In another way “Bil” Brown will present a great contrast to many ref- @rees. He's as well trained as any famous “Bill Brown's Farm" at Gar- figon, up on the hills beside the Hud- eomes to town only once a week. As for “Bill's” honesty—nobody ever Around New York fighter in the ring, for he runs the gon River, opposite West Point, and they say, when they npst Brown.” After that there's noth- more to be said. certainly is her game. Here's lady's letter: | “Mr. Robert Edgren: + “Ian's recent tasue of The Eve- ing World you published a car- @ long way toward uplifting to @ plane where belongs. box office and get t! }, thereby keeping it right in ily. 1 don't let any of 188 LOZETTE HOAG, manager of Clarry Marshall, says she fan't a ouffragette, but that By Vincent Treanor. (Bpecial to The World.) BARATOGA, N. Y., Aug. 2—A month of what promises to be the best racing of the year begins here this afternapn. All the turf kings and queens of the East and West are among the 1,500 thoroughbreds quar- tered at the track and the inter- scotional rivalry among their owners $100,000 hinges on their result, The question now is whether or not the major portion of this will go to East- erners or be picked up by color bear- $100,000 at Stake In Meeting at Spa — Starting To-Day Fifteen Hundred Quartered at Track, and There'll Be Twenty-nine Feature Events Run Off in Month of Racing. |They usually gather enough money | | Thoroughbreds viduals, The Cavanaugh Special, which arrived at 7 o'clock last eve- ning, contributed more than 600 to the Spa's population and the night boats and trains from Albany this morning added about 1,500 more, Signs of activity were noted o sides. In the big hotels crowds g ered in groups and talked ho: while others sought out the pagodas and the like to kill time listening to the music, Ordinarily a Sunday at To the natives the racing season here is the biggest thing of the year. in one month to keep the wolf away for the other eleven, and this year | STANDING OF THE CLUBS, LEAGUE, Club, Intekgee: HY at ie oe A Vashing’n 47. 4 INTERNA’ Clad, 4 Pruridence ‘eh Bg} “ 440 Hutfalo... 2 HOS titers 3 AMERICAN LEAGUE. Fa OR jo Fs | nochester. ete fichmend | Jersey Cite RESULTS OF YESTERDAY'S GAMES. E, onan, par AMERIC AN LEAGUR, No games wheduled. INTERN fat Non ae N, ONAL AC City, oN, LEAOUR Hadeiphte, eee hmond at Buffalo, Weakness of Pitching Squad Ruining Giants’ first pair of skates, year furnishes the exception which entries from the rank: as I am concerned, I Saratoga is the dullest day of the fs iS roves t ‘ hi orites for the event boxing bouts. I'm my |!# Already Intense, There are twenty-| wook, but last night thero was all the ° ve ta me Cascio? aia Soha fo uk : wee in thie same connection 191 8re George, Bperl, the, long distange nine stakes and handicaps to be won| buzzing excitement of a busy Satur- B ; . : champion, who Won the thirty-mile his | ni kes and hand to be won| busal r fa busy 8 ne SThoy never gave us any credit Jast | Proved th efact that something 1s| champ! i the thirty-mil and lost and something more than] day night. es n ag ace —— McGraw’s Men Have Failed to thta theory wha: to win pennants. As a refutation of | t do we find? a Good Team, Best Player. By Ty shadowed. Boston right now seems bent on thing for the profession in general. a few days ago. The Braves had won consistently for @ week or ten days and the Trojan was bubbling over with mirth and happiness. He was every bit as happy as a boy with his year «ill wo trimmed the Athletics. Every one said in view of our start this season that we were @ fluke champion, “Now, Ty, we are no ‘cheese’ Yankees and Has the Nucleus of Wortd’s Champion All-Round Ball Player. I’ 1s a mighty fine thing for baseball that the world’s champion Braves have once more assumed a prominent position tn the National League . race, Otherwise the main point of a fine moral lesson might have been SS and tne tee da Jackson, the club in these unsettled times is a great bobn fndeed. here is altogether too much indifference in the ranks as the result of term contracts. I saw Johnny Evers in New York @ Braves Prove Spurt Last Year Wasn’t Fluke, Says Cob Bill Donovan Doing Well With nen'nictwestotn champion arrives Declares World’s| Cobb. it A most fitting climax, Anything that spurs on bustling in a erating a major league team will part with any one who could possibly be! of value to himself, let alone any one | else. The action of Connie Mack this needed further than culling stars in- diseriminately, Comiskey went out where others failed and plucked Eddie Collins and Eddie Murphy from the Athletics, But it does not follow that EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN ‘TWO STARS DEFAULT MATCHES IN WESTERN TENNIS TOURNAMENT Clarence Griffin and Dean Mathey Unable to Appear as Scheduled To-Day. | CHICAGO, Aug. t.—Two stare of national prominence defaulted their matches in the Western. tennis tour- |mament to-day. Clarence Griffin of |San Francisco sent word that Mis match with R. Norris Williams at {Longwood would prevent his reagh- ing Lake Forest for his round mateh j with E. A. Knoche of Shicago, and Dean Mathey, the Cranbury, N. Jy player, was called to New York on busine Mathey will be here next week for the national elimination | doubles. Out of town players who reached the Onwentsia courts to-day Inaluded W. M. Johnston of San Francisco, whose match with Heath Byford, D- linols State champton, scheduled for this afternoon, Is expected to be @ feature of the meet. George M. new Northwestern champion, arrty In the women’s singles and ‘me singles, good progress into the second and third rounds waa expected, White Sox Make Joe Jackson CHICAGO Au | Big Offer for 2—The Chicago red several play- Cleveland slugger, according to @ The fight of George Stallings’s team through the story published here to-day. The story second half of the 1914 campaign was one of the ¢ wonders of diamond history. for this sensational spurt was the overthrow of the |on & hunting trip. vaunted Athletics in four straight games for the world’s championship. Even yet there are any num- ber of people who regard the great Boston drive of | to-day that any offer had been re- last year more in the nature of sheer luck than of ex- ceived from President Charles A. Co- ral ceptional worth. While Boston was in the rut this |miskex of the Chicago Americans for could not be confirmed here in the ab- sence of President Comiskey, who ia CLEVELAND, ¢ Aug. 2.—Vice President E. 8. Barnard of the Clevé- id American League Club denied utfielder Joe Jackson of the Indians, year, the opinion grew that the success of a year ago was merely a fluke. |as was reported in a story published vindicating the reputation for game- |! Chicago. ness and etick-to-it-iveness it earned last season and that is a mighty fine . Barnard says Jackson will not be sold or traded to any club, plbsicdelE iscsi MARATHON TEAM RACE AT BRIGHTON TO-NIGHT. A Marathon team race will be the feature of the big programme at the Man- Brighton Motordrome to-night. ager Edward Harvey has Brighton Derby Saturdi Bill Hamilton, who finished only four feet behind Sperl in the same rac There will be an Australian pursuit race of ten laps open for profession- night, and three-m: je mati als only, and race ; is \ ; a h n—and we will be in the next [the White Sox will cakewalk home |hetween Steffano Quachanelil of Milan, weit Kentucky and | re. ty promising ke they were ast| Gain on Present Tour of Brgpdy a aa epee Philadelphia, | World's, Serios as ure as the sun with any’ pennant. Chicago has alttaly, and Sam Mengerson of Detroit o| . H -night. There 1s more|team that will be dangerous so long eke ok PAI p MBS MUS sa. | eant'nabthe sae: ine | Aumaete A bottom of the list in club batting, |WIN set to-nis as it t watching Jess beat ‘horses in years tothe mooting| It looked ns if every mother's #on West, and It Looks Like an) wnio me woak clubs siand at the |clase to our pull When Stone, “a tar | Rowland iso ran teaneaione on th Al Norton, at the Mpa this season and untess they|and daughter of the village wero at head. ‘The heavy hitting cluby aro| year awo and now we aren & tse pitching and catching. but in spite are very much overrated the Eastern| the station last night when the racing Off Year. it. Louis, Chicago and New York, stables will bave their work cut out to beat them. Not in five years has a season here the pulled in and unloaded bs." For half an hour carriages and automobiles were running here, in the order nam: Here 1s another one which may count. We have been winning games with small scores, You know as well as I that that is the real tip off on of Collins's wonderful stick work and defensive skill, the team, collectively, does not pack such a punch as the H Neloust! held such | th H h AY aera By Bozeman Bul, serve to gun up all of 1 ay | any club's calibre.” Red Sox. YESTERDAYS HOMERS: started so auspiciously nor held suc! ere and everywhere wi grip: x of our well es- . Gh off Doak, Cards, East, and I | promise of success, Everybody who| laden passengers bound for hotels and y Roseman 2H per tablished theories: If Brooklyn, Phila. | ,, There was clear reason in Johnny |TiGER® NOT WORRIED OVER Williams, Cubs, off Alexander, Phils, these gentlemen have | is anybody in the racing world seems|boarding houses, and for the first D*« ITE the numerous propn- Evers's arguments, It ofa delphia and Pittshurgh have the beat pitchers why is it that the other clubs are the best hitters. Also, how is it me every courtesy, off Henning, Kaw- to be here and to-day Broadway isitime since last August the hackmen WHITE 80x. my brother and I have [alive with prosperous looking indl- grit and spirit and fight to win by one reaped @ harvest, run than to win by five runs. The ecies, based on past perform- have arranged five all of which wi Lickey —there is nothing on the face of the returns to indicate that the Giants that St. Louls, New York and Chi- cago, with supposedly weak pitchers, keep the leaders from hitting as well close, wphill struggles are the ones calculated to test real championship gameness. But I thoueht, as I parted We Tigers are not worried over the White Sox. We never were afraid of them since early spring. But Boston commands our wholesome respect. The collapsed Cubs, with young Mr. Adams on the hill, everl led the Phils, with Mr. Alexans wi doin, remely fortunate | 5 the labor, Anything can last be he chosen tow | #@ they do? with Evers, how extremely That is the only outfield that could , ald oie we a Se "|“*ono’ baseball managers long since|was George Stallings to have such hope to match the Tiger trio, OUF|C2cfiing comment ee when it comes to deciding the PeO-| nave given it up. 2 conscientious and earnest captain |infeldy ‘shape ‘up avout even tn nant or that the Yanks are going to ie the Keystone King. I wondered | treongtn, “Baeton i think, ha» more By John As © consequence of the frightful hot weather ef the Lact few days, the teu-round bout between Johnny Dundes and Jack Britton which was to have been fought im Madison Square Ganten to- morrow night has been postponed wntil the first Pollock. bouts, but his manager dectinet them beoause of the hot weather, Battling Lahn, the Broklys bantamwetgit, and Johnny Harvey, the Harlem fighter, are other scrappers who will not fight on eccount of the heat, finish in the firet division. ‘The long looked for opportunity has come to the Glants for the second time only to be rejected, Though they wandered up and down the standing of the clubs for a week or 80 the cession, in ter le The Yanks finally managed to win @ game from the White Sox, and it all came about through Ra: well's ability to strike out Cald- ‘ournier, atting Frenchman, three times When the heavy hit- stopped the club stops with him. if I would be so enthusiastic and en- ergetic after I had seen so many ruelling seasons as little Johnny Evers, He is a monument to the na- tional pastime, The National League id well to overlook his irrelevant re- marks about the closeness of the race incompetence of the um- good pitchers than any other club in major league circles. is little likelihood of any battery col- lapse in the coming drive. We have four reliable performers, however, and three won the 1914 National bunting and a World's Series emblem for the erefore there |!" rn gently, but g and rolled ‘all over the Dodgers. The Giants and Cards didn't do ody an: od by splitting a twin ty and the Braves/ Detroit, I ettll feel confident, —— With many boxera of | week im September, Dan Morgen, maneser of | rommy ‘Taylor, the Tani dantamwetght of the| they have not gained @ point in per-| Fred Merkle now bas Jake Daubert |pires. Johnny's tongue waxe freely wil) bé there ai the finish with the Kawfeds are perch champions, Ih Britton, bed the contest put beck this thme, He “. of the k ft thea f Mynen he ia under the excitement of a] Red Sox al League to-day, ome Valuable pointe that | muted Matchmater Billy Wollman that the| ‘uit OMe: mio montis lt. fh yey safer ae eg aoe aap ed tn tonal "Loa ru oagh have tee oars Tense situation, But no one quicker |Our team realizes, however, that It altimore, Feds is dow ar out Wo pion KKK » to in t rt in a - A a A wi eo New: th Bla” We nar hie nm pov borg peggy = wy Md a demand by the varia boxing clube. thmushout mca ies Ty leak Oe ee Pelagls bid centage of .825, So anxious is Mc-|than this same Trojan would resent) will have to fight every minute to Whipping the Chicagos twice the Pack> as tour! extent nable to for the ute, with 50 per cent. of a match Battling If I had my let every woman fan in to see the bouts, and I’m not ff e, either. “LOTETTE OA, "Manager of Clarry Mapsball, a featherweight boxer, scrap, ‘Thie l# the eecond time the contest has Deen wet back, Kyundee being responsible for the first postponement beoauso of @ out ee, John Welsmantel, who ts staging the open ir shows at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, told the writer last night that he intends to bold « tournament bevween lightweights at the same place on Tuesday evening, Aug. 10, He further ‘stated that he intends to arrange two of the bouts the country, Silvey Hurns, Taylor's manager, ts At present considering an offer from New Orleans, where they want Taylor to meet Peto Herman and Artie fimous, Young Wagner, the clever wet aldo feather. weight, was matohed up last wight by hie man ager, Silvey Huma, to meet Eddie O'Keele, st Philadelphia featherweight, in a ten-round bout at the American A, A, of Baltimore, Md,, on the night of Aug. 10, ‘Tho winner of this the two games in succession before they will have won as many gamen as they have lost, That will not win us that pennant, The sudden fall of the Cubs gave MoGraw's men a golden opportunity but there was nothing doing. Then Brooklyn suddenly began to slip and jraw to strengthen the walloping of ‘the faintest breath of supicion against ‘his outfield that it is said he is think- ing seriously of giving Merkle a try- out there if he finds Brainard able to the been one glo esty of the ga game. Evers's long career has ving tribute to the hon- me and the profession play firet base, Merkle always has wanted to be an outfleaer or a pitcher. While official records aro a handy fhing to have around, the mathemati- cal end of baseball plays some rather in general. DONOVAN MAKING GOOD PROG- RESS WITH YANKS, To get back to my own league: the owners of the New York Americans are nobody's come-ons. If I am not keep within stxiking distance of those sturdy pace-making Red Sox, I have heard there Was serious dissension in Carrigan’s ranks early in the season, but this has all been smoothed over now. I was told recently that a clique had tried to undermine Carrigan, but |that Tris Speaker's loyalty discov- ered the plot and afforded the chance of remedy in time, Whether this is tl ers marched into first place and sat down. Chiet Bender started at Kawfeds and suffered his usual hang mering, We've forgotten whether against the Chieftain has won a game aii Jumped to the Feds. mates, the A) dunmereifully, 2 interesting pranks. The leading 4 ac so I do not know, for I have never “ ; o « to-day, Phd Bloom, Radic Wallgge and Htaipt | bout will be matched against George Chaney at the | (here was another chance if they had| pitchers of the National ‘League, for | mistaken, or tiers tak te 1c apt | been inquisitive includ house politics, C, Herzog sore. ie ch mom contort nye Oowler “ds a pootehig be cigned up Ne mot other | cheve club the last week in August, but stuck steadily to thelr knitting, | Inetance, are Bul Ritter ‘and "Fred een before he ts much older. The argument between Washing- ‘ he did. He helped get paeien: arity, tho Ayractse lightwelght, who| No spurt was needed, It so hap-| S°huppe of the Giana, ext 10 them | taxes time to build up a club so badly | ton and New York for @ place in the | b nase in the papers for a Tater Dame, te Fog Wher yong management of bul Lewis, | pened that as the other clubs lost) who rank fourth and fifth are two mualeree of tented wih nes Natl or the interesting sidelights of our F wee! must bp 0 gree mocked ot Rabie . lls ps Sane ‘ : MeGodtty, the American boxer, im the gixteauth ing for Dita, Lewis chinkg | HOF toe-hold and wavered, the} rather industrious youngsters by the) Yor Americans seems pulling to-|race, We are all rooting for Wild| Howard H. Henry won a handles on WILLARD ts already being | round of & twenty round batt ve @ terror among the ight-|Glants, instead of remaining atation-| 2mie O° sate we to believe? {gether to simplify the task, Bill, of course, and T think he will) ine Oakland Golf Club links yesterday ticized for not fighting. He has | tele, on Setuntay, Prior to he regaing his old-time form, ary, tumbled with them, The men backing Donovan's team Take sect: Fae thes, (oame 9 oe by a margin of one stroke over HM cetved the decision over Jett Bunith, f ; 2G . have been most liberal and generous | league—St, % |b argin of o heen champion less than four] tlre the decsion over Jett Ae Gantner Brooks, the #06 Try as ho will McGraw can not] Frits Mainel, who has been suttor. | have ben Herr teone nancial aup- | Phiiadelphia—serm’ to have Posigned [ophaim, The, beat gross acore. ot ths. Other champions have taken | mer". She same ct Ae tie EE | Lowell, Mase, il; tie manager, Jerry Pelton, | got his pitchclng staff In rellable|ing from @ slight fever, was much| I MOE Oy eferment of the New| themselves to fate in ao far as this |who Anished fourth. Brown, more time than that to gather | perey tm five rounds in their first bate, having had to call of many tnoortant bouts. | working order and the weakness of better jams alget, £08 & fe ey ee york situation. ‘Their ecouts have | season is concerned, They are begin- | ———————— i Dam the sheckels after winning @ big ~ Broke alowed such Mosational form saninat ) uitting by Snodgrass in centre bas! thing base this afternoon. beaten other major league sieuths to| ning to experiment with reorults, @ eer ie 4 and getting the title, Even], Merng fe ge BD age be'd uray t Kid Willams in ® 20-rouod| made things worse, It looks ike a oe pes oreethe eréng the number|next year” alibl is ready for thelr KING TO-NIGHT at the OF Pio CLUB as mmons. fond of fighting as he| iia) to call off his twelve-round bout wita [bts bad year. You needn't be looking for any bar- | itu’ shiney Mogridge and Tipple. | patrons RN orminouio Sign agt Winer a ee 4 Wes, didn’t take on a real match for| she Gover, the Boston flier which was a: led Fe tee nev anon by] “Donovan prefers youngsters that) (Copyright, 1915, by the Wheeler z ch, yt okney lat, es two yoars after knocking out|ulei for to-morrow night at the Adas A. A. of UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Tho Yanks also have failed to take L e. The Yanks haven't a ein he can educate into his own theorles Syndicate, Inc.) Meader. High Class Preliminaries pe od ‘fat Reno. Jeffries fought | Beton, Gover bas been Aisappotaved tor tne advantage of the faany opportunities | ¥eaeu eh 6 Sine - ; d oftener than wins wi his championship than Jeffries any of the lard would ty if he followed And, judging from tecond time in lew than ten daye for @ fight at the triple A club, ‘The Oiymple A.C, of Harlem has & good main teo-round battle Mitehy Kyan will hook up with NINE OFF ON LONG TRIP. CHICAGO, Aug. 2.—The University night for a trip to Japan to play the offered and bave slipped from the first division, not because Wasbing- ton played better but because Donv- ix easily said and also easily done, postponed game and there will be no double-headers, —_—_————— TO SPEED UP WESTERN CHICAGO, Aug, 2.—Play In the Wes! consequent! rather than aging veterans who are set in their notions and style,” Capt. Huston said to me a short time ago. “T think he is right in that.” bet Pipp has made good at first. . ° : \anvblerowd played ‘worse, Donovan eet ee ee OU cain ia’ sist in V acation ( ‘lothes ieee Live soon of the other heavy. | bat bovked for ite regular weekly Loring show | of Chicago baseball team, In charge of] admits that the two places he must thinking so. Donovan has the nucleus y tn who might be matched with | Saat ‘The fighters who will clasd in it al peor, C, W, Wright of the Political] have ‘strengthened are the outfleld TENNIS TOURNEY TO-DAY.) (or a grand club. Fritz Maisel 1s a he'd be in no more danger of | ey eee, oe nee tutie other [Heonomy Department, will leave to-|and behind the bat, fo got new mon real third baseman-—one of the very At Half Their Worth “ put to get better ones than those el .} Boone and Peckinpaugh are adamant A vm Dare Meader, All four tien atv in good siaje [threo leading untversities of that coun-|PUL, {Me soy is another question, (er? tennis championship on the On- | Modbedie ang could be carried tc Remnant Sale—suit ends—$25 to $50 materials. i ge em for their sera aii try. There wore twelve players in the| "Spe Cook has beon severely critt-|Wentsia Club's courts at Lake Forest | 0m, “Dt aantage if the. outfell no ete sr palit pres . F TED PRO GOLFERS IN, Jim Stewart, the Drooltyn twaryweignt, re {DA's Gnd the plans include a num-| ised recently for his flelding work in|Was speeded up to-day, and it ts ex-| measured up to tho standard of hit- mei ly. Your suit—y' ice of materiale— - E PHILADELPHIA TOURNEY. turned to the ring again on Saturday night at ber of exhibition m nos between Chi- right but, tell us, where can Wild Bill pected that an unusually large number efficiency. The club needs some made for you--$18, New ends added daily. tin inmont A. ©, of the Bronx, and wae |Cage and the Coast, A stopover of ton|fnd @ better man? of matches will be decided by evening. teal outfielders, a catcher or two and v i re Dn. tek ae ch Eames dare GAA bo made te tha amallan oem Sixty players are Hated for the singles|q couple of competent southpaws. Coat (@ Trousers, $16 J Ma 2nd John, J. MeDermstt | he Celsormia tahiar, in the alxth round of vhai |Isiands, and the party will arrive in| | A complete upset of what baseballlang fifty teams are scheduled in| And the only way to get them ts t 3 * ‘open ‘golf on ‘mptonship | ¥a# to have deen @ tec-round contest, The blow Japan about Sept. 21, The Maroons will| men alway® have believed were the | qoupies. Out of town players have been | develop them from minor league ma- “ y 2 t'that starte Thursday at the |laaded by Memple wes co platuly foul that Nef-|mect teams of | the Universities of | winning factors in the game ts to be| it ginoe the last, twenty-four | teria ‘ Broadway a eree Billy Joh immediately stopped the bout and | **eda, Kelo ond Meiji. found in the club batting averages |prriving, during tho | taal. Tere on the | It is #mpossible nowadays to go out 4 Aiequalified Hemple, up to the end of last week, Heavy [Rours, 4nd Wuany oC its matches alter. | promiscuously and buy a champion|(@, Oth St. —_— Der, 2. wy, y,| hitting and good pitching are aup- with the ingles ln the play te- king the pick of rival clubs. In Young Vrowa, the woul Doses, was ctlered two sursans tt, Colougs: Pole Gis, Limwbis aah, powed to be all the qualities needed : wa ‘fret place prec ‘Du one OP iaeisinieaiaiioeiitainssh cn aaNet