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©., ta at least half a Packey Mo- Farland. The McFarland halt of fs on his left side, Johnny's an¢ band are an fast and as rm trained us Packey's left. His is merely ornamental ex- When he uses it in blocking bet Leach Cross, although landed half a dozen good soaks and twice had Grif- about a bit for a few @ very well-built near- he scaled 127% Tae pri tbe ~~ it. Cross weighed 136' went ten rounds, In the used his left snap- und Leachie with deft and swift as Mc- the third Cross a aro customary Cross wan wings whistled r ears, and two or three go well that Griffiths rocked. finished the round by rushing into a corner and swinging until the bell ran, blocking. ‘The | to ring the gong jept on \ retores Tushed in and to their corners. irprise was worth Gal | 3 rail ae i z H ¥ hie} work in the sadue (ook a slump and ac-| regarced so muca of a good thing it} su.ue reaaon oF a pulled away bh} victim of circumstances over which » To pil in the last rend Grit. $4 3 isites dt will be rememvered that Heffner THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 191 BEST SPOR Tim ‘Too VALUABLE A PLAYER To wags MY THe On A "1 T00. SALARY, TING PAGE BALLING UP BASEBALL Copyright, 1916, by The Preas Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World. I Got Ta wwe 15,000. on & QUT CoLod, See? 1 DONT CaRe IF IT Busts UP, THE CLuB Teo YOU .CAN STICK AROUND at 4375. & Yeanir ‘fou WANT To -- I've peaveo I mow Wuere McKee SILLY Te. Set ME FoR. # 30, IN NEW YORK we 000, “HINKING (T OVER, BeTTER MAKE (7,400. Dodgers Give Us Fresh Hopes For World’s Series in New York Brooklyn Team Climbs to Within Two Points of Lead- ers and it'May Be Setting Pace To-Night—Tigers Press- ing Red Sox Hard for First Place. : Byrne Was Discharged By Hallenbeck Stable For Indifferent Riding Ed, Hefner, in Explaining it- | mse Ana wn missal, Said He Feared Bad)"0"" “seston Work of Jockey Would Be a William F, McCoombs, Chairman of the National Democratic Committee, and Roy Rainey, brother to Paul, were among the visitors at the track yesterday. ana| has Tom Healey, trainer of the R. T. Wilson stable, is atill running in hand luck. onth igeaeetay he dost a hard race loaming, an esterda: Tralee failed to deliver, Tralee was’ Tralee back at three different stages | race and finished with her legs, badly gashed. An odd feature of the | race was that Tralee, Black Beauty | nd Mollie Elliott, the well played iorses of the race, all finished out- slide the money. SARATOGA, N. Y., Aug. 20. | Polarius, Dave Gideon’ the High in thy ‘OCKEY JOB BYRNE is out of Job. Ho didn't sever his connec- tions with the Hallenbeck 8! He was chargey, fired, or any other wi Want to put it. of the stable, is authority for the ulled up| latter statement. He says be. wants pies 7 age lac’ spans Bee wrecker | to t q nted ani Gh he chad ee ee orite | Polarita hasta hoboitag ene cant His right fore anki ways the jockey had uo He war taken back beyort choice in the matter. the field stand and destroyed by Dr. | Hoffner didn’t go into details in ex- | McCully, plaining Byrne's, dismissui, but he did intimate that the rider had not given him satisfaction, He was al- Ways pulling up horses at the barrier or being bumped and knocked out =| rter in| eight Handicap, p ully, ‘son will sail for Eng- with a commission i $50,000 worth of thoroughbreds | 10 be raced in this country by Frederick Johnson and C. K. G. Billings. Patter- son will return in about six weeks. contention so much, said Helfner, that ne began to fear his would be a refiectionsen him. tactica was himself suspenued by the stew- ards at Belmont Park during the Kimpire meeting for toe queationanie Tunalng Of Hue OL Bis OTses, DOD ‘bn Pind. fe Was SavsrqQuuly fer Mutated by law Saraivye vain e+ CAuNe LOY Was & reMtObMuW duUuds Ok Wrompuving OL his part Byrhe sates luo season Very Buc- COeaiuily. Be Puce aay winners uod made himself a pudiuc favorite | Win recegvers generuuy. Then hi MONTREAL, Aug. 20.—The King lor & purse of $5,000, ‘s with marks of not 08 will compete, is the! feature of to-day’s programme of the | Grand Circuit meeting at Dorval. | Flanking the main event are a 2.08; pace and @ 2.10 trot, each for purses Rorees. (Of & thousand dollars. are sure to start in each race, the e race Tofmy Murphy’ $20,000 stallion Peter Scott wil be a starter and likely the favorite. The weather is clear and the track fast. De LOGAN {Ooiny races On ood Ho Wat ou Conuiug ‘ower toe day Meybourn was tae wediam of @ kill- ng 1D tue wane Face. Comning ‘Tower had Won three siraigut races wou Was that he was a i to s shai Power waa sn frout in ta ping of tue rave, Dut War moved up towurd bim Jonning: rly run= weybourn yrne, for ure of the season, to be decided at the Locust Valley course of the Piping Rock Racing Associat in October, promise a notable race, annually. donates rum the rail, le. aveyoourn through and ne won tm & gallop Reybourn has had two chances ping to duplicate the performance, but he basn't run within pounds of that nominators this found the names of se rumen who never before have figured in tho untry aport, and the entries thus Iready in excess of The following en- have been ved: | Superhur. Garter Buckie, Allode, White Metal, coe Vitir, Dolly Madison, "Hydroplane, A! ‘There will be no extension of the} Heeves, Flolemy: Chivalry, Bil Dudley as was expected. It 5, carl, Blewpl Hustler, bl ‘our Ace mr, Seiginally, goveduied—e | King, “Arcturus "Fiyh Ye Potween the wind-up a a aere and the beginning of the fall Hs meeting at Belmont Wark sept. 1, The villagers here wouldn't come acroas with th Acial assistance the association uested to run here two extra days. It is said the om- cials domanded $6,000 frum the city ts, but tne best the latter could do was to raine $3,000. Chicle, byrne, after all, may be simply « he had little contral. Hie friends | $@ prefer to believe this way ruther than otnerwise, Melvin Sheppard, Captain of the Millrose Athletic Club, arrived home last might with several of the athletes who prised the t ‘that hi Ponama-Pacite Lxposition BSrol’ the latest two-: la y @ good horse, he was lukewarm choi market, te ‘was rumored before enough an: Seeded tim, was in im, He seemed to “loat’ when he fot around the stretch turn,. but when Tommy McTaggart hit him a coupl of times with the whip impressively. Chicle w: being sired by Spoarmint. is Lady Hamburg I. [I typlea! Hamburg ar-old, he tl the Arthur Chapple, the speed king, las: nigbt won thé Metropolitan Sweepstakes the Brighton Beach Motomrome The out from ten to five miles ngine trouble. Soe handicap of rogained at the finish ni rar etek ‘an hy ree Ham: OOK BEC. mn Prane irebe George Mi © TACe on ac ‘The winnerr in trouble. GOSHEN, N. T., Aug. 10,—A world's 4 Lise | NEWS OF SPORTS TOLD IN SHORTS E> 0D 0D 0-<EED-(0) <1): | Good ftelds | ' By Bozeman Bulger. OPES that « world’s champlonship Western Golf Tourney Won wii yet be payed In New Fork By McNamara us: sign when tne Dodgers ranve the Cubs and jumped to within two points of the league leadership. The Phillies dropped a game to the Pirates and are now hanging to the top rung by a thread. Everybody now expects co @ of 904 to 72 holes. A. Cunning- \t® see the Dodgers setting the pa -night. All Robbie has to do is tu th Radome chp ly GO hee alee {win tongs and keep on rooting for ond, with 08; George Sargent of! 46 pirates to tear into the Phillies Washington, D. C., was third with). oii, 307, Fourth and fifth money was) ‘The National League race js not the prided eee i bg May only exciting fight just at present. aston, Mass.,.and Wal lagen of ' change ing place in the Rochester, N. ¥., former national 4 eM gape tg per open champion, both scoring 309, | American League. Brady yesterday broke the course body was shouting Detroit record of 72 holes for the 6,800-yard sults yesterday carried t! bg link, with a splendid 3%, 35-70, and Tigers to within two points of the won @ special prize for the best 18 Hed Sox. This surely ls a memoral ~ holes. Gilbert Nicholas of Wilming- year in baseball. It looks like a fight ton, Del., metropolitan open Tight down to the wire, pion, finished Just outside the mo rates f with S11. The few local amateurs entered did not play well, Charles Evans jr. and William Rautenbusch scoring 324 and 428 respectively. The course is a dim- cult one by nature, and the brisk north win under a hot sun, made lightning té Few of tho 's appreached par‘ figures, 75, while many scores ran well into the eighties and even nineties. A newcomer in American Cunningham, who arrived CHICAGO, Aug. 20.—Tom Me jamara of Boston won the Wester open golf championship at the Glen: Oak Country Club yesterday with aj| it with Giants rd an Kelle whose claim to fame so far lies in t! fact that he is Old Blil Lange nephew, was not a pronounced sui cess, but Kelley will not be a great ball playe: In vane first place you want to remem- ber his name is KELLEY. In the cond place he cuts at the ball like @ man who takes oat ne ee I it, Al ther reasons than to me y Hn 'Weat™y..th the rules. 40 the third place he o from handle: beautifully, and » Where he went from St. An- once usness, pain- drews, was not counted on to contest | fully apparent, ill likely settle the title until late in the meet Hej} down and prove to had an 81 for the second round, or| there is yet a chance for the Irish he might have won handily. in our national pastime. ‘The decline of the Irish in baseball bas long been @ chief source of sorrow to the Giant mana, By the way, this Mr. Kelley without a feeling self-reliance. “I wish you fellows would not refer Bill Lange as being my uncle,” he aid toa group of us, “and cut out all that stuff about me being his nephew. I am, and proud of it, but 1 Kelley that’s got to make good and not Lange. Get mo?" The debut of Kelley is another in- dication of McG 's new plan to duild Up with youngsters regardless of the battle now waging for a pen nant, The occasions are very rare when McGraw has given a youngster chance like that his first year out ‘The one other occasion that I can re- member is the historical trance of Larry Doyle. And, believe us, Lar- ry’s debut is a terrible thing to look back pol Compared ith that memorable debut, when Doyle kic! three grounders into two-baggers and threw one into the grand stand, ley’s start was really a polished pe: formance. ir, Kelley was handicapped vis Doeanent a piteher-—- whd played with him on Jub in Victoria, With both make good it was amusing the ttle of wits when Kelley went to the plate. It was equally interesting and instruc- Work-Outs of Horses at Saratoga. SARATOGA, N. Y., Aug. 2 Evening World ALL SMILES, m ADROIT, half, .4 BROOMY, three-fourths, 1.18, mM, FLOWER, three-fourths, BEECHCOMBHR, three-fourths, CARMBN, three-fourths, 1.17 ARTER MAT Ie ei 1-8 appearance First Basem: no! record. was smashed at the races y: terday afternoon. It was in the mile dash to high wheel sulkies. The three contestants were money winners lh the 2.12 trot on Tuesday, Harry J. 8., draw- ng the same sulky which John R. Gen- we won wae. i@ paced a mile in 2.07%, fe uated, hr gi and Rafflos. The Frederick W. Rubien bas sent word from San Francisco that he has made arrangements with the expositi: fletals to conduct an international ame. teur boxing tournament in October, The dates will be announced later. Five of the best amateur boxers in New York, three from Boston and two from Cleve. land, will be sent by the A. A. U. to compete. A tr t here decide who wlll’be sent, °? Bela wd ai anxious to see t are ‘again, ina dai 3 action there The following trials are reported by The KASKASKIA, three-fourths, 1.16, LIBYAN SAND, half, .50, LORD ROCKVALE, five-eixhths, LADY HILLINGTON, half, .b2. LAST CHANOS, hal MOONSTONS, half, MENLO PARK, three-eigh: MAMIE K, Ave-cighths, 1.02 3-5. MONEY | i three-fourths, LLIVAN, mile, 1:42 3-5, IN BOOTS, three-fourths, 1,17. o¥ MO, three-fourths, PUSS ape & 1f, 58, paseo 2.09 3-5, RocHee tion “threes gins, +36 26, SMOOTHBORBE, b8, STARTLING, Balt bi, SAND. MAIBH, three-fourths, SAM 'M'MERKIN, three-fourths, 1.17, SLIPSHOD. three-tour ACKBON, fiv | JIIDDEN 5AM J. 7 2-5, +37 3-5, + (preps, thepe-fourthe, 4,17, | «TANG, theee atthe, ree atoaliiyenie ‘ait Laos sh eae rare the 102, that does not mean tbat) McGraw that| STANDING 0) g 4 4s 46: Clap. Nowark. (hieago.: UAMES SCHEDULED FOR TO. oy a fi ‘tou a Dicer % et i tr Louls at Rants City at all iifoago ‘at Buffalo. to watch Scout Dick Kinsella, Kei- discoverer and champion, che' Up two score cards and a newsp: as he watched Mcikennery get the best of it. Im scouting out that way it seems that Dick, being absorbed in Kelley, evidently did not get a good slant at the Cryer! youngster who etrayed into the dragnet of the Reds 4 to fall upon our Giants with a thud. tive 5 A_yeek ago every- | acs ‘The re- |, MeKennery pitched as neat a game as could be ex ve cted of a seasoned teran. eld =McGra: men on balls and would have scored a | shutout Sut for the home run wallo: |of L. Doyle. According to Bill Ph McKennery is a Canadian, a British subject, may have to go to War and a@ lot of other things iike that, a narration of which would only tend to excite the calm New Yorker. As the Reds tore part for the second time in rapid succession there came to the mind of the New York fan a faint idea that these Reds may be going somewhere after all, It isn’t much of a jump for them to get out of the cellar at their present rate, of speed, Out of the last ten games jthey have won nine. | planation of this spurt is that he got him back and gave the youngsters a s 405 [Wasting Hi down to five hits, did not give a base| F THE CLUBS. #2 gut Se beats. IN puNATIONAL LEXUS. cae B33) Srehure 81 32 Beats New Yorn pu 4, Rata, TRTERSATIONSL LEAGOEe at , 0 Rochester, 2. aloe lace... oe iat lef f Se GAMES, 405. trea { AMERICAN LEAGUB. gen, York i it . Two games, rin Wy ie ulecerpne ? and pes Jereey Ri Providence at Hi isbung. Montreal st Buffalo, Toronto at Rochester, chance to show their enthusiasm, in two cases he is right. Williams and per | Gritfich each potted the ball for a | two-bagger and triple, According to Gov. Tener, the Ban- ton case will not be decided until next Tuesday. The chances are that New York will win out despite the fact that the Giants are maidens when it comes to getting the best of @n argument in the National League, “The facts," said Mr. Tener, “are jsimply that as President of the |league I received Benton's contract with Cincinnati, and it was assigned to New York. I notified the Pitts- ; burgh Club of this, It is ti only contract I have received. 1: hink ; the matter will be satisfactorily ad- | | justed when the directors meet.” | a | ‘The jmpliry 40° Cateher Miller, who | was bit In the eye with a ball dur- / ing practice yestes rove a setback to the B they are on the the front. Miller ts Robbie's most de- pendable catcher, and has done won derful work in handling the youn pitchers, He was taken to the hospi tal last night, so as to be under the care of an expert. The doctors have ! gone down the eye will be found to rid of the veterans who were holding be not so badly hurt as was feared) at first. oO} FISTIC NEWS EP (0) DO ED 0: ‘While the bout between Leach Crom and Johnny Griffiths at Ebbets Field, im Brookiyn, last night was just the sort of » scrap that the fight fens Uke to see, they did not turn out im large num- dam. ‘The gros receipts only amounted to $2,075. Of this gum Cross received $802.00, which was 80 per cent, of tho entire money, while Griffiths drew down $535, which was 20 per cent, of the receipts, The managers of the fighters declared after the bout that this was the smallest amount of money that thelr men here received in @ long me, It wae learned from « reliable source that Frank Moran, the Pittsburgh bearyweight, ts to receive a guarantee of $5. with the privilege of acoupt- ing 30 per cent, of the gross receipts for hie ten round bout with Jim Coffey, the Irish gery weight, whieh will be fought in Madison Square Garden on the night of Oct, 19, Moran will leave in @ few days for Saratoga to get into shape for the battle, oe It Eddie Reddy, the former manager of Mike Gibbons aud at present matchmaker of the St, Paul A. C, of St, Paul, Minn,, will give Leach COrvas & guerantes of $2,000 and $200 for expenses, Sam Wallach will agreo to let Cross fight Obarley White of Chicago for ten rounds, tn St, Paul, dur (ng the week of Sept. 6, Reddy offered Crom a much smaller guarantee, but Wallach wants the abore mentioned sum, AN details for the bout between Johnny Dundee, the local Italian Hghtweight, and Ritchie Mitchell, the Milwaukee fighter, have finally been settled, “Phe men are matched to mect for ten rounds at the reopening of the fall boxing season i Mil. waukee on Aug. 90, Dundeo and his manager, Scotty Montiotl, will leave for Milwaukee next Monday, Another much hereided fighter from the We Oshkosh, Wis., who make good by defeating Johony Hi ot saa tenround bods as the Bi | five of the ite and Johnny Seymour will tackle Eddie Siegel while im the star bout Johnny ‘Kid" 1) swap punches with Bobby Gardner of i fl | further states that he closed down the club during [the hot weather, but will resume his boxing | shows the mbldle of next month, Hermie Straop, who looks after the aftaim of Jobuny Griffiths the crack fighter of still om he replied: “As far as Dundee i con corua! it is, but as Promoter Billy Wellman of ‘Madison Square Garden does not seem overanziou. to sage it 1 am inclined to believe thet s te off, If Britton will make 183 pounds at the Dundes will mect him at any tune,” Mike McTeague, who clakns he ts the middieweigit of Ireland, has been meet Walter MeGirr of the Bronx in bout at the show of the Olympic A. C. of on next Monday night, In another Mike Gibbons says is hook wo with Happy been battling jong enough to be retired sion, is signed up for another scrap, nent in this go will be Danny Ridge, side lights ington on the afteruoon of Labor Day Men are sluggers, they ought to put up @ dattle, ‘eaihipliaetpelecewcaist UNIQUE RACE CARDED AT \ BRIGHTON MOTORDROME, Five leading moving picture stars are to take part in @ unique race at the Brighton Beach Motordrome to-morrow night. The event will be a two-mile race for tandem motorcycles, and will be run in two heats and a final, Miss Marguerite Clark, Miss Pearl White, Miss Claire Whitney, Miss Mary Miles Minter and Miss Dot Bernard are the movie stars who will be coupled with leading ‘drome tare. cls X. Bushman, another film celebrity, will also ride an exhibition by bimself. Aside from the events in which the film artists will take part, the ten-mile | ;of free for all Sheepshead Bay Special | should furnish interesting competition, There will be six starters, including Arthur Chapple, the speed king; George Mercier of Brooklyn, Stephano Quac- einellt of Italy, Sam ‘Henderson of De- troit, George Hamilton of Buffalo and George Sperl of Brooklyn. EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN AND WILLIAMS WIN AT NEWPORT | As Result of Semi-Finals This Pair Meet for Casino.Cup To-Morrow. NEWPORT, R. L, Aug. 20.—R, Nor- ris Williams 24 of Philadelphia, the national champion and Maurice BH. McLoughlin of San Frapetsco, the former title holder, won their matches in the somi-finals of the singles ten- nis tournament at the Casino to-day. Williams disposed of C. J. Griffin of San Francisco in straight sets and McLoughlin defeated N. W. Niles or Boston three sets to one, The winners will meet to-morrow in the final round of the Casino Cup competition, McLoughlin defeated Niles 3~¢, 1, ; Witttarms won easily from Griffin jin stri it set The score was 6-2, 6-2, bes Senators to Pay Indians $20,000 For Joe Jackson CLEVELAND, Aug. 20.—Outfeléer Joe Jackson of the Cleveland Amertoan American League baseball team, ts to be sold within a week to Washington of the same league for $20,000, accord- ing to authentic information obtained here to-day. It is possible that a player or two may also come to Cleve- land from the National Rot been fully decided.” Ut ‘mle ew ry eh cackeo e information issued night that | Jackson had been signed to ee clad contract for the season of 1917-18, | This step was preliminary {t 1s said, and was taken his ‘value as @ prospect. the Cleveland teama aed hemes, | the Clevelan the Dio’ de tine meee oeae ing @ finance! which Owner Charies We tsex US fas Rimeelf ie result of large amounts money during Past two seasons becausejof the poor showing of the local club. joiners’ faire are hands of bankers. “Jackson, oni Cleveland from New Orleans in 1910 and has been one of.th in the league ever of the Cleve- Shortstop Chapm: | lands is also on the market. Anderson Leads | at 150 Miles in | Elgin Auto Race Herzog’s ex-| hopes that when the swelling has/ ELGIN, Aug. 20.—At 11 o'clock Fred Wagner, the starter sent the con- testants in 301-mile rame here away at thirty second intervals in the fol- lowing order: Justen, Brown, Ds Palma, Henderson, Anderson, O’Don- nell, Cooper, Alley and Oldfield. De Palma went out‘ of the race on his sixth lap with a broken rocker arm. Cooper, who led at fifty miles, averaged 76.42 miles per hour. An- derson was a close second and All third. Henderson, O’Donnell and a _| field were about four miles behind ‘oper. At 100 miles Cooper held the lead. The elapsed time of the three leaders was: Cooper, 1.18.45; Anderson, 1.18.54; Alley, 1.23.34. Cooper's rate of speed for the dis- kena was announced as 76.65 miles an jour. At 150 miles, half of the race, the leaders were: Anderson, 1.67.54; Cooper, 1.57.57; Oldfie . Cooper's average was 76.80 miles an hour, the fastest ever made over the course, The previous record made by De Palma last year was 75.53. iepieenalitieneeeees WINDSOR ENTRIES. WINDSOR, Ont. Aug. 20.—The free, for to-morrow’s races are as lows: a Oaklaen Red ‘Crom, 108; Bill § 100; Reinper ‘Balgart hh "Strlexiomt 100° Also” eesti Gales Winthe, 06; Matrix, 108; FOURTH, RACE—George Hentria aie,” 110 “ae ‘Maes 1 Shs “Apprentice ‘allowance claimed, ‘Track fast, SPORTING, BROWN": FAR K, ¥ CLUB, tink Pome: A NRREARAUA ana, MONG ASEM, Shar tity SEAS, 2° PTopaid "HEALS, ota Fos / A

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