The evening world. Newspaper, August 16, 1915, Page 8

Baby Speed Demon Only One Point Behind Miss Detroit for Motor Boat Championship. Ce, Rew Fok" Ererlne Wort DETROIT" had the heels of “Baby Speed Demon” in i the first heat of the Gold Challenge Cup races. Jack Beebe's Tatest creation has a world of speed, @4 after chasing him around thirty Le miles at Manhasset Bay y afternoon in the cup win- mer of last year, I'm in a position to know that the new contender for the Demon's honors is as swift, clean Punting, able a mpeed boat as ever _ Went after a championship trophy. _ To-day the Biackton “Babies,” Demon fad Reliance, will try to head off the flying Miss Detroit again. The _ Points in the race now stand: Miss ts Detroit, 7; Baby Speed Demon, | ‘Baby Reliance, 6. The winner of the /) Gold Chalienge Cup is the boat that ‘Wias most points in three days of Pacing, and the number of points is @ecided by the number of boats that Start. Saturday seven boats started. ‘The record still belongs to Baby Demon, for in the first race Detroit failed to come within miles an hour of the Demon’ Winning performance at Lake George | year, or of Baby Reliance’s time ‘im the first race, (ANHASSET BAY proved an ideal racing course, although it| might have done better if there dad been more deep wat The rush of the swift racing boats and tho passing of several steamers kicked up @ lot of rough water along the shal Places that made tho racing boat tremendously. It was this that Little Joker fiip over and sink. the Baby Speed Demon nearly the Touer's example while over y hour in straightawaye. Reliance ‘some leaps that must have brok- cleats lit in to brace against, what the leaping Demon did to that whon there was nothing to would make the mauling Jack Johnson by Champion less =Willard jook like a tapping match in a Y. M. C, A. gymnasium, troit bey who drove Miss Detroit, was nearly helpless 4n the last lap breathing the gas from the exhausts. But he gamely Stuck to his wheel until the race was over, ‘This was his first experience in a Yeal race, although he has trained “with Jack Beebe in Algonac, w bd ca MILOT, the De T" A FEW Sma CRUdERS EVERY Time THEY WENT PAST. a = ANCHORED IN “THE Way Ts CL RACERS AND Got A BATH BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK | IMPRESSION * Wiss DETROIT, AS T Saw HER FROM IMPRESSIONS OF THE GOLD CHALLENGE CUP RACE-~FIRST HEAT Copyright, 1915, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) Tre Basy Speed Demon . Jax Beepe, _~ WS SME Ten-Cent Baseball Is Admission of Feds’ Weakness Ty Cobb Thinks That Reduction of Prices Will Destroy What Con- fidence the Independents Pos- ‘sessed Within the Ranks. By Ty Cobb (World's Cham, can see no sense in the innovation, Bt was first launched. in All-Round Ball Player). E Federal League has just come in for a new share of notoriety. It has adopted a diet of 10-cent baseball for its bleacher patron: Those who have the interests of the great game at heart are some- what concerned over the movement. Naturally the| players are not the least interested, asked by hundreds of fans what I think of this most radical step and I have always replied frankly that I I have been | What prompted the Federal League to adopt 10- cent baseball I know not. But it looks to me like the last desperate chance to arouse interest in the league on the part of the public, which has been lacking in ady measure ever since the independent enterprise I interpret the movement as an -¢|@dm‘ssion on the part of the independents that they are ready to call quits a Deere were built and tuned up for | on their claims to major league pretensions. Sporting people are a rule unto 188 DETROIT, V., finishing first, second and ‘third in the first heat, are all boats ‘built by Chris Smith at Algonac. But of the lat- Erotic a the race. He me the Deron last year in the race at Luke George, and that in other championship that she won handily. There t anether man in the country who 3 rival Jack Beebe at either de- 4 _ agains or running racing boats. * T": second heat of the Gold Chal- lenge Cup Race will be run on (dng Manhasset Bay, starting at 4 © @’ejock this afternoon, and the final heat Tuesaday afternoon at the same “Rour. As a leading boat may break @own in either of these races, the Cu anic the and 't be over and the winner of ip decided until the last finish ie cromed. ‘9 a builder out in & neck of the Michigan to put his boats over 1, 2,8 in such a race. Against him were the most famous builders and naval P tects of the Kastern State: of the boats had more than . the power of the leading thre 1, supposed to the “las ad power, speed and goneral excellence, broke down even morning of the race, and were to start, Others were with. leg int the can ony the enough to + and so with- them et the last moment. N interesting thing aboyt this Face is the fact that the United ** States Government is now looking for a type of speed boat that carry a small gun and act as a destroyer. A boat that Sy ey at fifty mfles an hour as deadly to the submarine ewordfish is to the whale. It be almost impossible to hit a boat with gunfire, and| .; of Aftty-mile flyers scooting and ready to turn a rapid fire on & submarine the instant it A red its periscope above water fy era off from a year ago, T hear that i |) Would be harder to avoid than any| tarry Sinclair is advocating 10-cent Eiighltiaed ‘Rumber of slow torpedo boats and|hall for the bleacherites, If such a £ show 1, SILO) ree resale ’ Tho shell of @ submarine plan is adopted It will prove a boom. peesuraay | 100" Habs. Sister bt thin, and pierce ng, for that would b \- 4 fore 1° ne rr 1 if gine-pound poe mecien| sperm for that we e an admls-}him as one of the foremost riders in. th [ ubmarine to stay old sinking. themselves, ward’ their hirelings. champions of justice have found ways clad contracts before their time They fon found methods for unconditional release and for ealary cutting, Play~ ers with the opposition have been very bitter in thelr complaints, especially within the past two or three months. They confess, however, that they are powerless. They have no redress, Sor they are beyond the pale, In New ran } was something of a triumph for|troit's pennant winning days who is now in the Gilmore circuit. to talking of the pro major leagues that dicted, a “You tell the young fellows, Ty,’ this player sald to me, “to stick to the been to take a chance if hi assured, But the further this fight goes the worse it will be for the player major recognition, not there. The National and Ameri- world’s series would be decidedly un- satisfactory, even If there were a de- mand for a third major league, which |"* there 1s not, “had falth at first in the Federal League because L thought there was room for it. there is no city in the land big enough for three teams. jasm. “Until this year I thought the Fed- eral League might promote public in- terest. But the attendance has fallen ‘There ts Ni terest In the Anish of the Americas They are wise beyond thelr generation. troit for advantage, ills of with The alleged independent promoters to- a their hirelings: These so-called means to abrogate so-called tron- the fact ork a short time ago I would be rosy, across an old teammate of De- ¥ better than that. We fell ed raid on the more had pre- r & ha money is timate. It's all right f fot he long run. Lam convinced that Federal League can never gain Public interest is es have the upper hand in ‘9 series. A three cornered Lea) work With a ten-mile the special drome, Harvey has George Now | am convinced room, ‘There Is not a eeiiten Conflict is deadly, Our enter- prise has been the sufferer because |Detroit, Franz Krebs ur championship has no significance |Stephano Quaccinelil of compared to that of our rivals,|Chapple, the speed king; ¢ fo world's series rewards our labors {of Brooklyn and Bred or advertises our league, Playing to] Worth: | A empty stands is no spur to enthu- | each mile will be flax: ly to be no lack of tn- to lower the featur secured to the conditions t the last man at the end ed out until th but three left to flight IC out for the country, and with a litte more ence on the local track should be champion's colors, You can no more Baby Speed|cram down their throats the logic that a legitimate show can be produced Demon II. and Baby Reliance|at movie prices than you could make them take stock in the pretensions of big league ball at prices lower than any that ever prevailed in the lowest “sticks.” Already the Federal League has de- stroyed the confidence of those players who first hailed it as @ savior by Cup | turning out to be not the great cham- pion of right and justice that it claimed to be, organized baseball in dealin, players have been too prevalent in League scrap, however, Boston, De- nd Chicago have fought bitterly whole month with no appnrent The White Sox bumped into @ peck of trouble at Washington, but Rowland has a team that stood UP pretty well on the road trip in spite of the disaster it met at the hands of Griffith, and, once on his home grounds, he is likely to make up for earlier disappointments at the ex- pense of the Eastern teams. I have maintained all season that the team which could beat Detroit would win the pennant, Neve there is nobody going to nose out the Tigers. We are right on the cont tails of the Red Sox'In spite of that Carrigan Just coneluded a long b figured that if we could keep striking distance of the Hub ou'fit until they hit the road our chance: We have done mu On the road have gained ground. Boston failed to improve Its schedul has the advantage home this year, but I am certain that advantage can be offset if we are able to make the best of our own home op- portunities the next couple of weeks. once get owt in front a few games and we will not worry over the outcome of the last long road trip (Qovrright, 1915, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Ive.) pelt eae 10-MILE MISS-AND-OUT RACE BRIGHTON FEATURE. Now I be men have e etay, 1 thin we opportunities, It of finishing | at miss-and-out race an attractive card has been arranged for to-morrow evening af the Brighton Beath Motor- For this novel event Manager entries of George Mercier of Brooklyn, Sam Henderson of Germany, Arthur M perk a ‘able | *'#Xp AL LEAGUE, Di Club, N Club. WL. BG) C 586, la'phia BY 48 lyn. BT 48 4ee 457 7 “Ww. » PO ate Ms abrurah 38 8 i Kan, City 0 4! Fy RESULTS OF YESTERDAY'S GAMES, ‘eno, cme. i St, Louie, 1: Pew igs encage, B) Chicago, Bt, Taube, 9 PEET OF WATER. . SOME Jones BLAcKToN | Piao ee —_—- - IN “Bapy RELIANCE IE" + AS USUAL GoT The ON BVERY BODY AT THE START. Mise SS ump STANDING OF THE CLUBS, RICAN ; Hees UR OCR «ah 38 tao sen 2% nf ows. ot Ba $1 614 Phite’ohin, $391 UCTERNATIONAL LEAGUE, fi retro) ie Wash 31 C. + AS Bi | Montreal. | Mariah re AMERICAN LEAGUB, Detroit a San, Blevelaad,' 1: Bt" Towle, 0. INTERN, TION LEAGU! Py a ee . I. atte, GAMES SCHEDULED FOR TO-DAY. | | | | NATIONAL LEAGUE, | | News of Sports Told in Shorts CHICAGO, Aug. 16.—Play prelim- inary to the Western open golf cham- pionship tournament which will open on Wednesday was started at the Glen Oak Country Club course to- day. Practically every well known ‘professional golfer in the United States will play in the special events to-day and to-morrow so as to be- come familiar with the course for the championship competition. Six brothers, members of the Nelson family of Indianapolis, will strive to win the western championship. All ire professionals in various clubs throughout the West. composed of Lee, Wallie, Chick, Chess, Er¥in and Dick. The Jolly fami will be represented by three brother —Jack, Alec yo Robert. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Aug. 16.— Walter D, Mansfield of San Fran- cisco is the winner of the champion- ship of the national Fly and Bait Casting Association, it was announced day, In the national tournament which was concluded here yesterday he won the final event, avy fi; casting, breaking with a cast of 134 peed the association's record of 117 ‘eet, re CHICAGO, Aug. 16,—National crack shots, professionals and amateurs, numbering close to a thousand, to- jay gathered on the lake front for the world’s annual classic trap shoot- ing, the grand American Handicap. The programme calls for 200 and 100 bird events, with special ‘matches. —_——>__—_ WINDSOR ENTRIES. RACE TRACK, WINDSOR, Ont., Aug. 16.—The entries for to-morrow's races are as follows: VIMST RACE a ure $600; thret-year-olda: gell- ion; five furlongs *V dew, La Lang. }10j, Apaiety, 1Az7 SJowetina 100; tain Pearl, 107; *Dimity, 0d; *zimdel, 106; wdeticte As Tua teaming is hd eagle, cliche, 100; RNa 5, , . Sexier Morn 100; * fanfigan. 108; onwifint; [i Pure $700; year-olds foaled in Canada; joker; Vepper Sauce, 112 “tage Soak, m 112;"'Maator Nek, 02! 100; Surwre Tide, and uy seven furlongs, ry “ $500, Aiichlagn Handi. Rie edgar: os: ALT Mise fans, 118) 90 $00 Fanex Hapdican; @ half furlongs King ‘ ‘0; Gainol, 100, Heserve, 02; Antti 5 Jona In, 10k: Milestone, 100; Jack’ Mee PIPPI RACK Pure $100; three id and voward; selling: five aul a halt {urloogs--Lu- verator, 104; HU Meo Tt. tog’, *White! Croan, {eh Colle, 102; Perpetual v7 *Viley, 10; Brooms Kalas, 104 Gayle, Jot: Mies Ino eligible, rine Pat ‘The sextet 1s] 9" aumucys yexoum ERN jt, INTERNA’ TERNATIONAL LEAGUE, ier at , at 5 Favorites Win In Newport Tourney NEWPORT, R. I, Aug. 16.—Favor- ites won in the opening matches of the Invitation lawn tennis tourna- ment on the Casino courts to-day. The tournament was arranged to take the place of the championship which were transferred from Newport to New York last winter. Many of the coun- try's leading players were entered. Summaries: First round: Craig Biddle, Philadelphia, beat Preston Gibson, Newport, 6—0, 6—4, default, G. H. Wightman, Boston, beat F. C. Baliowey, Concord, N. H., 7—6, 6—2, F. B. Alexander, New York, beat Byeney, seayer ir, Philadelphia, 6—3, Robert Le Roy, New York, beat W. L. Pate, Re eee 6—2, 6—2, 6—' New Orleans, beat W. I, Pate, New York, 6—2, om, 1, J. C. Thomas, Newport, beat L. M. Thomas, Newport, by default. R. Dana, Providence, beat L. Beeck- man, New York, by default. H. D, Harvey, Narragansett Pier, beat A. Lovibond, by default, Second Round: B. L, Law, Philadelphia, beat J. 8. Cushman, New York, 6—8, 6—1, 6-—4, Richard Stevens, Hoboken, beat A. L, Hosking, Philadelphia, 6—1, 6—2, ly (4—1, default. LC, Wright, Boston, beat William Rosenbaum, New York, 6—1, 3—6, 6—3, 1—5. Wallace F. Johnson, Philadelphia, beat Re Capers, Atlanta, €—3, 6-2, F. C, Inman, New York, beat EB. F. Torrey, Utica, by default. Baseball Men Now Pick Tt Dodgers to Beat Pirates In Fight for Pennant sites frome Betting Men Have Installed Because of Their Good Pitch- ing Staff—Yanks Close to First Division. By Bozeman Bulger. HE free-for-all fight in the National League has reached a point where something will have to break this week or all bets will be called off while the gang stands back and waits, The men who fix the odds are having @ real run for their money, Last night the Dodgers, for instance, were tav- orites at 2% to 1 despite the fact that the Phillies still have a toehold on the top rung and Grover Cleveland Alexander is in excellont health. On the other hand the Glants and Braves are tied for fourth choice with odds of 6 to 1 against them. Even the Pirates are 4 to 1 and would have been favorites but for Saturday's double defeat at the hands of the Reds. ‘That double defeat, by the way, makes the margin between the first and last teams just ten games—the closest race the National League has had since Al Reach and Al Spalding were in there pitching and the second basemen wore side whiskers. The chances of the Glants, which appeared rosy just prior to their re- turn from the West, have turned a dark blue with the four successive defeats at the hands of the Pirates and Dodgers. They are now six games away from the lead though less than two games shy of third money, Fred Clarke evidently had a strong hunch when he called off a double header with the Giants, as he says, #0 | F as to save up his pitchers for the series with the Reds, At first that was taken as a blow to the pride of the Gtants, but it develops that Fred was wise for his generation, tie C NEWS Johnny Griffiths, the crack lahtweight of Akron, ©., who s to make his first appearance @ bout in this vieinity with Leach Crom at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to-morrow night, has arrived in town and is puttting on the finishing touches to his training for the go at & local @moasivm, Griffiths sald that he expects « hard battle from Cross, but i» confident of out- pointing him, After the bout Johnay will burry to Chicago, where he will belp Packey McFarland to get into condition for bie bettle with Mike Gibbons, Battling Levinaky and Colin Bell, the Aus: tralian heavyweight, are going to fight again, ‘They were matched today to battle for ten roundd at a show to be brought off by the Spa A. ©, of Saratoga, N, ¥., on ‘Thurnday night, Levinaky outpointed Bell at the Brown A, A. of War Rockaway ten days ago, Bell says he wae vot {n good shape when he met Levineky, bt ex- pects to be fit for this contest, ‘The Olympic A, ©, of Harlem will stage two ten-round bouts at its regular weekly boxing show to-night, Mato Farmer Sullivan will go against Al in the main erent, while in the other ten- Jimmy Duffy, the west side lehtweight, will take on Pete Hartley, the Broux lightwoight, Frank Moran, who is matched to fight Jim Coffey, the irish heavyweight, in Madison Square Garden on Oct, 19, to-day declared that it was untrue that he had retained Ike Dorgan as his ; | manager, Moren said that many candidates for tthe Job hed appeared, but that he hed decided to By John Pollock AND GOSSIP conduct his own business and in the transaction with Manager Wellman of the Ganlen he repre- tented himself, Moran leaves for Saratoga to-day with Willie Lewis, who will prepare him for the content, Carl Morrie will probably add another venlict to his record on Thumday night, for he te Wheduled to meet Al, Palaer, the Westen “has been” heavyweight, in a fifteen-round bout Muskogee, Okla, Palser lias not fought ver (ifteen months, and as his last battie showed that be has gone back, the prospecta are that he will be stopped, Out in Denver, Col., to-night, there will be « battle fought between lightweighta which should attract a large crowd of fight fans of that ctiy, ‘The fighters who will clash are Joe Rivers of California and Stanley Yoakum of Denver, whom it took Charley White nineteen rounds to defeat, Rivers and Yoakum will battle for fifteen rounds before tho Denver A. ©, et 185 pounds, weigh in ator, M, Jack Dillon will don the gloves again to-mor- row night, ‘This time he will throw his panches at Tom McCarty, the Montana light heavyweight, in @ ten-round bout at Lewiston, Mont, Me. Carty has been taking @ rest for several months and is fit and strong, MoCarty says he is com. Ing East after the bout for contests at the clube in this vielnity —eEEE—E BASEBALL TO-DAY.3.30 P.M, N.Y. Ameri: cane v4, Phila, Polo Grounde, Adm, 30c,—advi, Should have made it even stronger jAnd saved Mamaux for the opening. wat the Pirates twice in the same @ chance of crowding Brooklyn for | Second place. The Yanks, whose two victories over the Athletics have put them on the heels of the Senators again, fintsh up their stay at the Polo Grounds this afternoon to make way for the Giants, McGraw and his men take charge to-morrow and_ will have for an opening bill the Dodgers—those fellows who have forgotten their real station in baseball and have taken up @ notion that they can beat anybody, While we have exhausted practi- cally all the resources at hand for |Giants, there is a little hope left in the prospect of Davy Robertson get- ting back tn the game and doing some hitting. Yes, there is another, come to think of it. Matty has decided to use a longer stride in pitching the baseball and there is no telling what will happen if he steps far enough, Charley Dryden after profound re- flection declares that there are elght second division clubs In the National League, and we now have more re- spect for his Judgment than over, In the case of the Yanks, who are now within a short leap of the first division, the name of “Wild Bill" Donovan will be allowed to stand. Their ups and downs is what makes hirs so wild, ) GEORGE TEBEAU’S SUIT AGAINST FEDS ODSIMISSED. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 16.—The sult brought by George Tebe: owner of the Kansas City American Associa- tion team to restrain Federal League agents from making offers to his players, was dismiased in Judge John- son's Division of the Ctreult here to- day, John 8. Wright, attorney for Tebeau, agreed with C. C. Madison, one of the Federal League agents named in the suit, to drop action against Madison, The judge then said that as the other : 1 League agents named were not present, it would be inadvisable for Tebeau's attorneys to ask for a further continuance of the case. Tebeau's attorneys said a new suit would be filed immediately. - — RUBE BENTON WILL PITCH FOR GIANTS Rube Benton of the Cincinnat! Reds will join the Giants tmmediately. Renton, who was under suspension, was transferred to Pittsburgh. Garry Herrmann, principal owner of the’ Reds, says McGraw put in the first report to the Giants. The mixup oy Benton might have been due to the fact that Herzog had not been in- *| formed of the option held by McGraw, EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN On their first appearance the Reds Brooklyn 21-2 to 1 Favorite)» afternoon and knocked them out of\the Special here Saturday are pro- {explaining what's the matter with the/ claim for the pitcher and hé must] po at atenenatan anna FUTURITY WONT BRING OUT BEST TWO-YEARALDS Dominant, Bulse and Other Good Ones Not Eligible to | Rich Event. By Vincent Treanor. SARATOGA, N. ¥.,"Aug. 18, ‘HIS year's Futurity which te to be run at Belmont Park Sept. 4, is not likely to have an important bearing on the two-year- old situation for the very good rea- son that few of the good youngsters are eligible to the rich event. Here- tofore the Futurity winner has been regarded as the champion of the year, but it fs an even bet now that what- ever wins it this season will be easy picking for Jimmy Rowe's Dominant in subsequent races. Dominant is not eligible for the an- nual classic, nor is Bulse, George Smith and several others who rate highly among the season's colts and fillies, This fact makes the Futurity more or less of an open race, unless White Hackle runs to the expecta tions John Madden had of him before he sold him to the Shoshone stable for $19,000, Madden has had hopes of seeing White Hackie win the big race aa Novelty did in 1910. It will be re- membered that Madden sold Novelty to Hildreth about a month before that, ’ The ineligibility of Dominant, / which up to date looks the colt of the year, doesn't leave Jimmy Rowe without a candidate The clever Thunderer, which it is believed be is pointing for the Futurity. This colt, it is said, is very fast, but only Rowe foe how he compares with Dom- | inant. Horsemen who saw Dominant win claiming him the two-year-old cham- pion already. He won the Special in much the same manner as won the United States Iiotel Stakes—in a gallop by ten lengths. He had an outside position In the Special, too, one from which few horses have won here with the track in its present con- dition. It made no difference to Dom- inant. He shot away from his flel« in the first couple of jumps, and ha |no trouble whatever in getting th jso-called “path,” or rall position. Tommy McTaggart was puiling him to a gallop in the last eigath, while those behind him were really stag- gering from their efforts to keep any- | where near him Marsans’ Case Being Heard In Court To-Day ST, LOUIS, Mo, Aug. 16.—Armu- ments on the application of Armando Marsans, Cuban ball player, who jumped from the Cincinnati Nationals to the St. Louts Federals a year ago, for modification of dn injunction which prevents him from playing with St. Louis, were resumed in the Federal District Court here to-day. Marsans contends that the Cinein- nati club has violated the terms of the injunction issued on its application by not making {t possible for him to play with that club, ‘Attorney C. C. Madison, represent- ing the Federal League, declared be- fore Judge Dyer that the Cincinnati club was prevented by the rules of the National Baseball Commission from carrying out the requirements of the Injunctions, which provided that Marsans could not play with the Fed. eral League as long as Cincinnat: complied with its contract with him. 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