The evening world. Newspaper, September 15, 1915, Page 14

Lost His Title, Carey te Vat aces Want? WHAAAMS bas lost bis world’s bantamweight cham- Pionship on « foul. When he Johnny Mirtle of Mt Paul, out the referees oMctally decided that ‘Williams lost on » foul, and the Box- Commission of the Btate sustained ‘e right to make that dect- only Arcrua 4 My are two ways in which o can lone his title in @ Btate decizion is given at the end One way is by failing to | f i H C Z the weight. Ertie, accord- report, weighed In at 114 pounds, & genuine bantamweight, al- Williams had made the match to suit his own conven- It makes no difference how loning champion weighs as his opponent is at weight. time 4 champion enters a opponent who's at decision bout, he risks it ts possible that he may out or lose officially i z J = ny i Latest Aspirant for Honors on Links Fairly Smothered Pea- cock of Princeton in Final Round—Other News. GREENWICH, Conn, Sept. 15.— Francia R. Blosson, a junior at Yale, was an easy winner in the final match for the intercollegiate golf championship yesterday. Peacock, tho Pringeton repreaenta- tive, was beaten 11 up and 9 to play in the thirty-six-hole match, Blos- som had @ lead of § in the morning round and from then on the outcome was never in doubt. Blossom was particularly strong on putting. He had no less than six one-putt grens on the first round. He massedvonly one putt on the first eighteen holes. ‘The Yale man played brilliant golf throughout the tournament. In the qualifying round last Friday his score was 153, going around in 77 and 76, The new dbampion is a native ot Chicago and a member of the Exmoor Country Club. He ts a junior at Yale and never before has ed in this competition. In fact, Fie’ wolt was @o underrated that he was simply @ reserve player on the Yale ee hi The card follows 1S hasn't shown the lity of his earlier deating Johnny the title. Two or three he has been within an ace of | He fought his wioning fights atrength and fighting ag- for bo never developed akill with the gloves. He have a hard time in- title bolder to meet the’ hammers have stopped flying and the knockers waiting to catch their sec- the spectators at the Mo- Farland-Gibbons bout are showing up real opinion of the public. scores of letters from people bout, and without a sin- exception they express their satis- ith the goods delivered. It ‘the spectators really do a clever boxing bay: now Es re ffs it a 3 i kk 43-208 gné then. Surely there wasn't a man ir fn the arena who failed co get his 8 sa-8 qoney’s worth, whether he sat in a $5 ae seat or @ $1 chair in the ry.’ tho Deeree cg teen sold an prise ranging down from $50 or from $25, as _ tm many big fights, it might have been _ -@ different matter. But none can say the spectacle wasn’t worth a five-spot of any man's money. Mrs. R. H, Smalley and Mrs. W. Randall of Yountakah Country Club won the leading pri in the golf tournament at the Forest Hill Field Club yesterday. The best scores were: rage ‘Small Younta kab. a The youngster in the metropolitan Forest ‘The Junior tennis championship at er season Shag sag etd hg = Hills set @ fast pace yesterday, and oon tek cannes when the seasion closed for the day there p Beaten Behr, Williams and Mc-| very only sixteen contestants left ‘Rousblin tor the tonnis champlon- | jegaing honors fell to B. J. Benjamin, @ mip, and the golf title has gone) freshman from Harvard, who eliminated it belongs, and Mike Gibbons en Packey McFarland have fought ive worth, was the terrific bait» Matty Taylor of Fordham Prep, one of those who had been regaried as form!- dable contenders, in a three-set matoh. @asting contest. Many enthusiastic | Benjamin was better able to # fishermen no doubt ee aise the re-|heat and took the third sot as he @alts with baited breath. pleased, as Taylor was almost “all out. The scores were 6—2, 3: 6—0, Ben- jamin played a very speedy game, and ability to place bis shots not only gave him the aces but wore hia opponent down, Charles in @ hot fight at the Gar- “fighting shy” of Jack Dillon. ” Bavage says thai just to slow rie in the right place he'll fight Mr. Dillon for Weinert, and when he has whipped Dillon he'll be pleased to take Weinert on again. @avage surely isn't a bit Dillon is a slugger with a slugging Pecord. Didn't he whip Weinert @uce? So if Bavage can beat Dillon 8. Garland of y youngeter; Louls M, Banks of Adelphi! Academy and Robert Rand of Rye all entered the fourth round, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. 15.— Wolfolk Henderson of Lexington, N. ¥., the 1914 national amateur target champion in singles and doubles, and also the winner of the Grand Amer- Pittabureh, Sochdineenemmemnaiiiiceescte el Grant A.|i/0 Cending “he AWwes doe + Fur asovr rou GAS Bares Blossom, Yale Junior, Reserve Player on Team, Won College Golf Title V atm. C. A. Dickson, Forest Hill... 04 10 Bee Pea HH dn. Ww ‘ fel 4g 8 7 reat Uy w ff Mra, Mie The first round of the women's golf championship at the Ridgewood Country Club was played yesterday. The dumtehas will be continued each Tuesday until the club title has been settled. The results 7 ire atarigs baat J. 8, Stokes fr apd 1 to play: Mra, J. Nootan’ beat Brechett, a K GW. Hams ‘Mrs Mes. OT, Cowperthwaite, 4° up’ and 3 to play & i ; i E"Bnsdor beat) Mise in, Summerville, Edna Muna, olen, + gh uD) Mm L: aw” THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 EST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK KEEPING UP WITH THE NEWS 18. COPY, 1914, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New Tort Bremng Word) itt a f STANDING OF THE CLUBS. L. pot Chat B al hener at Lavale, AARRtt tet New Yor! w - AL te cee RESULTS Ma, a ar NATIONAL LEAGUE, nent, more at Pittal ; ctu, SW OF iEseanAe GAMES, ome; ave ) Yanks’ cxominipinsnon But the “Rookie” From Des Moines Showed He Has Nerve and a Curve That Will Make Him Famous Later On, | | late of Des Moines, didn't win his gamo against the Tigers should not be taken as a reflection on his pitching. That long, left hand. ed gent ts about the neatest looking Southpaw that has been turned loose in the Polo Grounds since the good old days of Rube Waddell, He hasn't the speed of Wa’ tell, of course—no- body elso ever hau—but he is a real pitcher with the nerve to curve a last strike over on the best batter in the league. Just one blow, oor that 2 grate a at y ter from the bat of Ty Cobb, settle: af Boiletatnta ithe hatte, It should also be borne in ATIONAL LEAGU! {mind that Mogridge had the mighty Fy acl at lth » Cobb right under his thumb all tho Bontreal, rest of the game juttalo, anti With runners on second and third and only one out the Yank infield WiMpMICAN LEAGUE, R FH rt Non . * wa in So “Bhd Phila NAJIONAL LAG at ‘ogi! Monugat 8 4 Bile 7 4 6 “406 Iie 0° heater 7 dem Jermey City By Bozeman Bulger. HE fact that George Mogridge, AGUB, RICAN LEAG 1 at ew York. AOC Race Track Several hundred horsemen and train- ers left Belmont Park last night for Havre de Grace, Md,, where @ four- teen day session starts to-day. It is expected that at least 500 more fol- lowers of the sport will make a trip on Saturday, when an exceptionally attractive card will be offered, Chicle, thought to be one of tho, best two-year-olds in Jimmy Reeves's string, was beaten yesterday at Bel- mont Park, Whimsy and Achieve- ment beat him home, Chicle couldn't give away the weight. Notter got him off well, but in the stretch he stopped under punishment, Whimsy, the win- ner, was purchased early in the spring from W. P, Whitney, who owns Chicle, Schuyler L. Parsons has decided to retire Sharpshooter and Phosphor for the season, They were the principal winners for ¢he stable, Phosphor started in eleven races this season and scored eight firsts, one second and one third, Being unplaced only for the runner-up honors with 147 targets. CINCINNATI, ©,, Sept, 15.—The tri- State roament yesterday nar- rowed down to elght men in the singles event and to seven contestants in the women's singles, Mra. Loula Feld jr. of Chicago being the first of the women to win her way Into the semi-finals, Miss Hjorstedt, who is the, American. ampion, played one matoh against Evelyn Luere of Cincinnat) and nly one game in each set. The s Were 61, 6—1 With the score 6% to 6% In favor of Piping Kock up to the last minute of lay, Harry Bast, the star player of the trad ‘®, clinched the game with the Rumson White Wings at Rumson, N. J., yesterday with a pretty goal, makin; 1 ™% to 64. It was the secon of th Rumson Country Club nent d the festest match played on Herbert Field this season, PHILADELPHL 15.—"TMhree Harvard Princeton h from Dartmouth, sylvania and Yale, survived t) round in singles for the intered tennis champlc late ip yesterday on the S jon Cy R js Williams 24 of Harvard, the for- national titlehold won his mateh the firat round of ault and in the pond round defeated K. ©, Kennedy, ty % Leonard ican Handicap last year, led the field in the Westy Hogan opening day shoot yeuterday, shing 148 out of be, quota of 150 target jeune B, Young of Chicago In any case, @here’d be action in a Savage-Dillo, ‘fght tea with @2a Pri the former na- onal interacholast champion, won from Hopkins, Yale, 6-3, 6 , and de- foat §. Pfaffman, Harvard, A JAUOPUATL J0'Usial “HL b4000 nn By Vincent Treanor and Paddock once is @ creditable record for this three-year-old, Sharpshooter in ten starts was unplaced only once. He won one race, Jimmy Rowe's entire string of two- year-olds and handicap horses were shipped to Red Bank this morning. For the next four weeks Rowe will bo busy at the Brookdale farm breaking in thirty-nine yearlings. It was announced yesterday that the Surburban Handicap will be one of the autumn attractions at Belmont , Park next year, Thia means thet this turf classic will not be run until @ep- tember, The value of the 1918 Futurity, which closea next January, will be about $30,000, August Belmont, it ds learned, will bring the added value up to $5,000, an advance of $2,500, Pleione will be the star of the Cochran etring which Trainer Midg- ley is to campaign at New Orleans during the coming winter. hae about fift, number of He will be busy from now until the opening at New Orleans bregking in these juventies, Jockey Mack Gainer, who proved himself a good lightweight during the ast six weeks, will not ween at Havre de Grace. Gainer is now on his way to Kentucky to report to J. 1 Holland, who has Gainer’a con- tract. This means that the lad will ride on the Kentucky tracks and then go to Now Orleans. ‘The latest from the camp of the Fea- eral League intimates that John J. McGraw will be offered the leadership of the Fed club in New York, and that Jawn can't refuse because he ts to be guaranteed $200,000 for fi ears. Some publicity stunt, this, It is only hoped that, McGraw will not pass up this king’s ransom. Please pass the matches, William Baker, President of the Philadelphia Club and formerly Po- lice Commissioner of New York, is perhaps the happtest man in ‘the Eastern States, While in New York for a few minutes he declared that his club will surely win the pennant, ond that his delight lay in the fact that they had been able to do #0 without the aid of the players who Jumped to the Feds. Mr. Baker is strong for Pat Moran, “By the way," he said, “you New York people are constantly wonder- ing how the Phillies will be able to with Alexander doing most of BASEBALL BRIEFS to work him too here Pot Fistic News and Gossip By John Pollock Mike Gibbons, when he arrived at his] with his provost bout with Charley White in Mil home in St. Paul last night, deniod the | "uke next month charges will be lodged against Teport sent out from New Orleans that | Mm with the State Athletic Commission of Wis. he had signed articles to fight Young | ‘omls by Promoter Tom Andrews, Nate Lewis, Ahearn there the second week in Jan- Grey Mpos dp wren nr wary. Mike further stated that he did SF HRRS SP not know tho first thing about the match. Gibbons has received offers from Milwaukee, St. Paul, Boston and Den- ver for bouts, but has not accepted any of them, Jim Coffey, the irish heavyweight, who bas not fought since be boxed Jim Flynn at Brighton Beach last June, will get into ection again to ight. He will go against Jack Reld, the To edo hearyweight, from the match, Young Brown, the local boxer, who defeated Phil Brook tn @ bout at AMfinneapolis two weeks 40, has been od for another contest in that city, His opponent will be Frangie Whitney of Grand Rapids, Mich., who is @ likely fighter, hey will clash in @ ten-round go on the night of Oct, 1, and Brown is to receive @ guarantes of $000 and expenses, The State Atbletic Commission at tte meeting held yestorday socepted the report of {ts inspectors on the receipts taken in at the MoFarland-Gibbons contest at Brighton Beach Saturday night, inapectora’ report stated that the gross receipts smounted to $55,000, that 26,002 held tiakets for the bout, and that tho State received $4,355.17 ‘Thio i» tho largo sum that the State has thus far received from @ boxing dow, AD dotatla for the scrap betweo Charley White of Chicago and Glibert Gallant, the Hos ton Mgltweight, were arranged over the long- distance telehone last night by Promoter Miah Murray, Tho men will come together in a twelre-round bout at the Atlas A.A, of Boston om ‘Tuesiay night, White ts to receive — suas Antes of $1,250, with the privilege of 80 per cent, of the receipts, rs & Billy Wellman, matemaker of the boring shows 0 be held in Madison Square Garten tn tho future, anid to-day that he had atven up all hope of staging # show on Sept, 20, and that his next attraction would be the Shugrue-Ritchie bout on Oct, 4. Wellman also announced that ho has signed up Charley White for @ contest with one of the good lightweights, Goltter Barfield, who ontpotnted Mike Gfb. bons in @ bout at Ebbets Field, in Brooklyn, on Memorial Day, has been engaged to fight Frankie Notter of this city @ ten-round bout at the Broadway Sporting Club of Brooklyn on Batur- day night, ‘This will be their second meeting, Notter having given Bartfleld « hard “battle in thelr first scrap, Tex Kelly, the Bronx middleweight, and Tommy Robson, of Yorkvitle, will be the stars fu the windup at the next show of the Fair mont A. C, on Beturday night, In the other ten-rounders to be staged, Johnuy Fisso of New Orleans will tackle Abe Friedman, aud Red Mack of Newark will ewap blows with Jack Real, the pitching, He doesn't do anything of the kind, Just look at the number of games our club has won, and then look at the number Alexander has pitched, and you'll see that the other pitchers have been quite busy, For instance, they have won four games recently, and Alexander has won but one of them. No, they are “ going Oi eta das a sensible fellow and knows what he is doing. We have already pald Alex- ander a bonus for his wonderful ‘Jimmy Jobnaton, Rink A, ©, has RS SOT, acaladad Soe doruigin, tal next Wednesday - 3 4 en for Two Days wo! and, elleve me, we were PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 15. mighty glad to do it. He would jor work oftener than he docs if Moran| Wil! Pe no major league would let him." The bombarding of Marquard for the second time was a tough one for Robby, and puts him back a little fur- Saturday in a double-header, T, fier in the race with the Braves and|row's echeduled game with Cloveland Sieg, | Bote, Sonne he Pig | will be played on Sagurday. ‘The Ath- letics will play exhibition games to- Ree Bave eas Mant Sol aay end to-morrow io Delaware na e ern trip agpeans 0 4 lagen delayed, i. a. Maryland, games in Philadelphia to-day or to- morrow, Tho game scheduled for to- day hetweon the Philadelphia Amert- cans and St. Louls was played last p>mor- | Fimtt Day oF The Foot Bac bEANON. \Ty Cobb Put Dampe On Debut of Mogridge, New Southpaw ‘threo EEG | fl) ‘ i is Way Jue | wantep “To Come UP For @ Dain by dike —& / (oNr i. Cond r waturally moved in to make thie Uiey oir regular ald ap i hand Great pitehe 4 could do ea Kan blow by the “Georgia Another serious acle in the Way of Moxridgo's success at home Was the pitch of Lowder- milk and Oldham on the other side. The Yanks made but four hits all afternoon, which is not considered bountiful in the way of helping a & pitcher making his second start faust company, It is really not Mo: &ridge's first appearance in fast com pany, for he once appeared with the White Sox only ek for seasoning x Ago In the ovan ts delighted with star despite th ‘rk of his young defeat, Th now Tigers have eighteen games to play while the Red Sox have twenty-two. The Red Sox being games ahead will he necessa na much larg on the road hom can do it “This th being able to win on the road," said Manager Jen- nings last night, “is all bosh, Do you realize that we won two of our pen- nants a few years ago on the road? We went down t Philadelphia and trimmed the Athletics on their own erounds, and I think we have an ex- cellent chance of doin the same thing to the Red Sox. We have kept right on thelr hip for the last month, and if we should happen to win three straight from them it would be a dead hea at this writing for the Tigers to entage of thelr han the Red Sox Jennings thinks they 1 don't. of not The Detroit newspaper men trav- elling with the Tigers say they look for the end to ¢ rat Boston, That series will decid “It the Red Sox beat u ir, Beasly sald yesterday, prise home,’ t be sur- f our papers ordered us back One of the most remarkable plays of the year was made in the latter part of the Yank-Tiger game when Birdie Cree was sent in as a pinch- hitter for Peckinpaugh. Birdie caught @ curve squarely on the nose and started it over second base like @ bullet, Like a shadow Bush flitted toward the bag, made a one-hand stab and came up with the ball. An equally wonderful throw nailed the runner at first. It was a wonder. Moreover, it meant tho game, as the next batter followed with a single and there would have been an ex- cellent chance of beating the Tigers out As a big league catcher Alexander 1s growing better every day and his sreatness 1s beginning to show in the way he has worked out the weak- nesses of the opposing batters. He handled Mogridge so perfectly that for three times up Cobb could not get 4 semblance of a hit, “Id rather have a quick-thinking cate said George Davis, one of the scouts, as he watched the young fellow work, “than a marvellous thrower, For instance, Snyder of St, Louis is one of the best peggers in the world, but nobody will say that he is a better catcher than Schalk of the White Sox, Schalk is a thinking catcher, and in a class by himself when it comes to double-crossing base runners, He can outguess the runner seven times out of ten, ‘This Alexander, IT believe, is going to be the same kind of a catcher," The Giants apparently have shot their bolt and are content to play out the rest of the season just be- cause the rules call for it, Can you imagine a man with the speed of Alexander Schaner heing hit for giz. teen blows by the Red: . and the worst of it was he was beaten by a youngster whose name ts absolutely new to the National League. It is hard for a team to fight when there is absolutely nothing at stake, but MeGraw's men asem to have lost heart altogether. = Ale en ‘pound w York admint tered a beating to Johnny Nelson. of thin elty in six fast rounds at the Dauglas Athletic Club here last night. Fulton's hard b bi Nelson velmod § Fulton of Ne EDITED BY | ROBERT EDGREN a nn, COLUMBIA SQUAD STARTS WORK WHEN IT GETS UNFORMS —— Metcalf Expects Have a Regiment of Cam didates Report Sept. 23, h to The wibin ft hell squad om och Metoalt red rounding up all the * to hove a fee 08 for the firet arias jumble hee hed is tea t has been due to the the mon have to be sorted ts taken for her colleges, and White hed to order oe ne begin (he season 1 thin prevented the equed wetting out earlier than the twenty-third yt and their measureme uniforms t the tw overyt ke the | from CORNELL. N. ¥., Sept football erday ITHACA f ning S.—There candidates the heat. re Was a drill morning and afters ty-four despite pt. Charles Marrett, whose pros bation has been removed by the Core nell faculty, was in uniform, with nome doze season, inc other veterans of Iast uding Shelton, Cool, Am- deraon, Tilley, Bailey, Eckley, Collins, J ewet and Jamison. HARVARD. | CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Crimson gridiron Rept. 156— didates ap- 1 1 in rowing shirts for football practice erday, heat the men practised falling on the ball, Dunean Dana, a former Har- vard end, joined Coach Haughton tos day and will remain for the season. YALE. NEW HAVEN, Conn, Bept. = Alex Wilson, the Yale football cap. tain, Will probably set a halfback pos! tion, Wilson weighs 196 pounds the coaches consider this too much Weight for a quarterback. If the weather permits there will be some scrimmage play on Friday and Satur- | day. PRINCETON, PRINCETON, N. J., Sept. 15.—~The Princeton squads had a short workout yesterday afternoon in defensive and offensive tactics, The practice was particularly hard on the men because of the heat. Coach Rush intends to have some actual scrimmages to-day and on Saturday will select two teams for a short game. All the assistant coaches, with the exception of Jim Cooney, are here. The latter is ex- pected Friday. Major Leagues to Draft Minor Players To-Day CINCINNATI, ©,, Sept. 15—Many Prominent baseball men were present when the National Baseball Com- mission opened {ts annual meeting here today to consider drafts sub- mitted by major leagues on eainer league players. This annual drawing for the chotee of minor league players is of keen interest to baseball men in general and always draws a large atten- dance. When the Commission con it was believed it would follow the same plan as last year and not make public the names of the pla drafted, This plan was adopt outwit the Federd@l league and give the clubs of the National American leagues opportunity sign we players alloved to by the Commission, pen LEVINSKY WON FROM BOSTON, Sept. 15.—Battling Levin- rky, the New York heavyweight, al- though considerably handicapped im ‘welght, won the decision over Sandy Ferguson in their twelve-round tout at the Atlas A, A. Inst night and dy « big margin. Sandy looked like a giant com- pared to the New Yorker. Ho was at Joast thirty pounds heavier and more than @ head taller, Most of Sandy's punches were efther locked or went around heck. Sandy's style was go Into a elneh, and when he did he fared badly asa rule, ee JOE TINKER TO STICK ___TO END OF FIGHT, CHICAGO, Nept. 15,.—Joe Tinker, manager of the Chicago Federals, wii not submit to an operation until the race for the Federal pennant 1s decided, he told physicians attend terday. Physicians had urged an ime mediate operation, Tinker believes the Chicago club has more than a fighting chance for the flag, with only two games separating his club and Pittsburgh, the leaders, He says he feels that his absence from the game during the driving finteh might coat Chicago the flag, but because of thell SANDY FERGUSON, sx: ing him yous,