The evening world. Newspaper, September 27, 1915, Page 10

—_—— Kid Lavigne, a Wonderful Light- weight in His Day, Asks Aid in Form of a Benefit. Mr. Robert Bagren, New York Bvening World ane Mew Jersey two and he te solution of MUCH appreciated To-day | am ull above Yours e wenty ninetorn, A would be port, COLLINS the telegram from that And heres « manager of Jess eb newspaper ala Wows ee TRB BVEMs aG WORLD, Skreé THESE ARE THE BUSY DAYS AERO ABeT & CWO, men iL up 710,00 to Bo oe bres” Welsh an 000 for hie (Ad Wolgaat will a ever Marathon, route. Jones mays money w leposlted in ten days. T. 8 ANDREWS. Hope you don’t take Jones seriously, T. 8. Our own observation leads us to believe that he is filled with the stuff that makes balloons go up. Tom Wouldn't bet ten thousand toothpicks, except conversationally. ID LAVIGNE, once greatest light: | ight of them ail, is in hard straits. In his days the Kid) ‘Was « fighter, not a “busine an.” | Meer didn't stick to him, The Kid| = mer | eet i Friendt thought that if 1 and asked you how the Would be in regards to my aM Senerit in New York now going on in the Cit) York yo might be able to Athletics. me, wet know that By Ty Cobb CE warts eee (World's Champion All-Round Ball Pe Gi Player.) HEN my club went to Boston to play the last series of the season with the Red Sox, we all knew that the American League champlon- ship and a chance at the World's Se rles depended on the outcome = {f either team could | win a decisive vic- tory. We met the, most unsportsman- | |ttke reception from the newspapers, | the ball club and the fans a team has ever received since I have been in the Big Leagues, as far as J know. And this is supposed to be the "City ef Kultur.” I blame the whole riot (and | am calling things by their right names) on two baseball reporters on Boston papers. After the Boston Red Sox came home from thelr last Western | trip these two reporters began stir- ring up the local fans inst the Detroit Club by crticles in their pa- W BRE'S a chance | for the men who | have shown their ability to handle benefits, Surely the once great Kid Lavigne, who always fought to win, who never threw or stalled through a fight in his life, who 414 his best from start to finish, ts deserving of some kindly corner in Lat ve fan's memory. Lavigne was one of the greatest it- tle men that ever fought in a His wonderful fight with Joe Walcott, in which he was beaten and torn in the early rounds, only to turn defeat Ronan courage O74 (pach og neg against great will never be for~ until Myer] after the last man paw It ls dead. ‘This is the kind of a fighting man was. He went to England to Dick Burge, English Nghtweight a, for the championship of the Before the fight Burge noti-; the National Sporting Club of- that he would not weigh in at) jess than 146 pounds. Mr. Bettinson went to see Lavigne and Fitzpatrick. d ieee wea outs pe eee oe pers. These two men spoke to thou- ~ rg that he tore a the match sands through their papers each day Lavigne wis as he didn't and ran the atories that put the Fant “are would like to have the fant) THers In bad with the Boston publte. if possible, but would have it; It is baseball history that Boston Funliciy abnouncea trom 10 SiR peak won the pennant from the Athletics ye come in ten pounds over | in 1912 by “pegging” at batters. The | tweight Limit. players boast even yet that their ee sig tant wim it ne| Pitchers beat the Athletics in this) eta @ ton and if I don't lick him way. he can have the title.” Bettinson stared at Lavigne in amazement. It was well grounded fmazement, too, for Dick Bu remarkably clever boxer, s hard and generally regarded ai k gntwelgnt ever devoloped jan of the fight Burge re- iy all He was ‘pene near the 150 pound mark, wigne weighed in at the required 185 pounds, and at that time could make 180 without any trouble. He never stopped tearing into Burge, just as he had rushed Walcott, until knocked the big English champion out in the seventeenth round “We kept Collins and Baker on the | ground all the time,” declared one of | thelr pitchers to me after that sea-| son. “As soon as they would get up we would ‘knock them down.’” He meant that the pitchers would keep throwing the ball at the heads of the Philadelphia players, especially the two stars, so that they would have to drop fat to avoid being hit, endeav- oring in this way to drive batters away from the plate, The Red Sox pitchers always alm at the best players on the opposing team, Any time you meet Carrigan’s club you can hear the chorus from the ben “Dust him off there. By this they are urging the pitcher ICK BURGE is now a volunteer im the British army. His en- Hstment had a great influence on many boxers who began fighting fm the ring long after Burge had|to shoot fast ones so clone to the fought his last mill. Burge is ffty| batter that the ball dusts him off of age, having bee: Bh ha in| There is no excuse for this, unless a Red’ clitins that here as ft aa ri fel hitter is crowding the plate, which Of twenty. A few hours after Burge| none of our batters do, The Red Box Shilated he was followed by Da! Hob-| hit more batters and “pex” at more the South Wales welverweight: | than any other team in the league, It ack Goldswain, formerly |'# Carrigan's policy, and they boast ee ‘are in the First “Surrey Neither the Boston public nor Boston players nor the reporters n d GAMES SCHEDULED FOR TO-DAY, STANDING or THE CLUBS. ep RaY ta AGUE, ts fag Rt Lame + evelani a tm Um B44 Now York, Of 7h 40: thar 76 4TH Chicago,.; 0 7s 4h Tit ‘Or. YESTERDAY'S, GAMES, Mo games scheduled. 0: procgime, §. 12 innings. | potas feiss faker mS (ine postponed. Rain Boston Red Sox Won Flag By Unfair Methods of Pitchers, Says Ty Cobb Manager Corrigan Orders Twirlers Throwing Ball at Head of Good Batters So. That They Will Step Away From Plate—| Used “Pegging” Tactics in 1912 Against! = | this time. to Keep) think that ny team oF any individu. al players koing to curl up and quit at voanug’ tacues. Any Dik Leaguers with a spark of gamo- ss about them are going to fight all the harder as a result of tactics. ‘The responsibility for ensuing trou in this series the rests on the reporters and playo.s who caused the “beaning,”” had all worked hard to win it, au we all had our hearts in it, but if we! would have to win by the tactics used in Boston 1 am just as well satistied wants to win tehers have been peRHINE” ut batters all weason, In 1914 Leonard was always aiming at) the best hitters on the Athletics when- ever he was in the box against Mack's team, Perhaps some fans think I am try- \ Jng to alibi our defeat, Lam not, It} ts a tough strain Ina long faco tojdown a hard putt for a great 2. He fight all the way up to one critical 0! e serice and then be forced to play it| took 87 strokes at the turn, Coming under the conditions we faced In Boa. |18. the leader had lots of trouble with ton, It ac..ns to me it was a very the wind, Several of his approach bad way for Mr, Lannin to handle shots were short, especially at the | his club, hee rapes a There is no interest in the rest of lst three holes, where he took five chances. Tam in no mood to do it at! {Govvrigt, i018, Wy "The|Whester Gradients, tan)! the race ms are just| Shots playing ule. In’ my| Marston's card: next article I will take up the outlook Out4 8 4 6 5 5 4 4 2-87 for the World's Series and try to In. 3 4 4 6 5 8 5 5 b—89—76 show what I think of the Red Sox's! Quimet's game was consistently Cope eh 16 be The Pree Pebietan WILUis RITcHie ExPects ‘To stor Dunpee UNLESS Tonnies ANTICS PAAKE HUA ——“"THAUGH “Too HARD, ——— et Ue Tee ew Tere Bvening Were) Max Marston With 76 Leads All-Star Golt Field —_——<— + Sixty Mile Wind Interferes With | Now, in justice to many Boston i me —Ouimet coming in and took forty strokes, fans, t waht 10 ay that thousands) Driving of So! Dudley Mudge, the young Yale ie € ultur” are fair and i j H e: “ » wo criticised the actions of the Plays Consistent if Not Bril- | freshman, wio won the gold medal eacthe bord Ad BuKroune ie Dvivolt, played with the leaders after that game, ‘These i i : to-day when he covered eighteon t t Fame also eriticived liant Game, Gett ng a 78 | Howes in wey -eght, Moilip Carter, of the reporters who Ses }the interschouastic caampion, piayod dlagracetil: reception 16 the course tor the frst tine and | the Tixers in Lorton GREENWICH, Conn, Sept, 2%—)came home with a saventy-elg d Sox were treated fair and sick’ oD ot with a 76 tough he twice drove # ball into square In Detrolt on thelr lust trip| Me Marston of Valtuarol with @ 76 tye the many brovxs on the there, as always. Shore pitched 4{ score led an all star fleld at the end | cours Wonderful game against our club intof the frst qualifying round of tho! Gardincr White, who also had at weries and he was Liberally wy | greenwich Club’ | golf turna- | Seventy-euuht, was in good form, but, plauded by the fans in the stands) rwenwleh Club's annual & kw the others, he had trouble for his fino Work on that oocasion,|ment here to-day, Francis Oulmety ri yiny He won, ‘There war no focling shown, | Pnilip Carter, Dudiey Mudge and| ‘The leading scores were, as follows Ro cops, no rabid fans mobbing play?! Gardiner White ‘ished : Out Tn, sour ors, ac, #uch as we met in Boston. Gardiner White all Anished the round Hi I'l admit {t looks now as if the With 78 cards. W. P. Seeley, former Tigers bad blown the championship, | Connecticut champion, scored a 79 and the remainder of the small fleld made unusually low scores considering the sixty-mile wind that swept across the course from the Sound. Maraton shot about the same brand of golf that made him a factor in the recent championship at Detroit, The | Balqusrot youth was in great form on the first nine holes, At the 185-yard ninth ne laid his drive dead and ran good, though not over brilliant. The former champion went to the turn in Fistic News By John ing several hundred dollars apo air boxing show which he staged at Eb- bets Field, in Brooklyn, at which Johnay a; it hard-hitting avywelght Indianapolis light will meet Jim Si: of ton rounds, Dillon will train the ath, for be mat hed he resum ning for his battle with \t Binit Hink on Wednesday night ‘The only otwtacie that stands in the way of which will be staged at the 5 | Clneinnets ot Chinen matoh being arranged between Al, MoCay, the middieweight champion, and Soldier Bartiield the demand made ty Mariflakt's manger thet be r w Jersey heavywelkht, in the main go | of Brooklys battle at a local kymnasium, while Bav=| oo. the middieneg! Age will work out at Orange, N. J Young” Kurta, the Newark mis will coma together in a ten-wit Joe Mandot, the New Orieane lightweight, will Broadway Sporting Club of Brook and Gossip Pollock Although the chilly weather on last rretve a guarantee for his man, Matchaaker | Thursday night was responatble for | Weimmantel is willing to put on the bout, but Fight Promoter John Welssmantel lo» o will not give either man a guarantes ‘They must ta percentage wot Wolssmantel, wis oF not at “| Three tenround bouts will be fought at the | Du and Joe Mandot battled, he has | reaulay iy boxing show of the Olrmade A. C. | decided to hold just f these | of Harlem to-night, In the fire Danny Fields utd tainiainite ty | att ae A) Doyle, while in the wemt-final | nes ere WIT) Witte Jackson, the Harlem featherwelgt, will | weld on Friday night, Jack Dil0N | exchange punches with Dave Meader of tho west incipale in the main event will be de of the South and Jimay Mitohen A match bas jos urady wiglit ura le now being eee) Fee eet a, | _. ARTY Picroo the Trmoklyn Tighiweight, and | Knockout Brown of this city, who has not fought the promising M © Nightwelght, at Milweu for some time, have buen inked ty J hee, bind with elther Jue} in one of the two ten ! Welling at Duluth, 0) conteata Uo be contested at the show of the Oler et, 20. _ | ment A, © in the Clemnont Avenue Mink in AY eich arrived Woo Maturday lane, Ho| eostlon to-morrow night, Uattling Levinay end | Jim Piyen in it ein Kansas CH on last! Hu) MoKinnon, hear weight of Moston, and | remvs weigiit, sill not wit In a (welve bout at # show to be off at Glouces Maw, touight. As MeKinnon i anaious to get k into the pugilistic Mimelight again, lie will rs and knock out Sullivan i aegtttth Bei Hae abil all, inh, play. ‘Low Score at Greenwich: but had trouble con- shot# against the wind thirty-eight, trolling bis ba Mefonali, Aven Franceé KR. Blowom, Yale At Waterloo, la, Chick Evans jr. Western Amateur golf champion, was ahead of another record yesterday. He made the Byrnes Park course there in 84, two under par, establish- ing a new mark. ‘The Lesile Cup Merion Cricket Club, near Philadelphia opens on Friday champions, The Metropolitan golfdrs | are the present holders of the cup, and the m selected to defend the prive seems strong enough to stand off the | Pennsylvania combination, Jerome D ‘Travers heads the list of Metropolitan men who will tee up. The Richmond County Country Club has decided to start the Staten Istand championship tournament on Saturday Och & The second half of the newspaper championship wil! be played to-day at! the Scursdale Golf and Country Club. Grantiand Rice won the first round last Monday, with @ net score of 155, He starts to-day with a lead of 12 wtroken | over his nearest competitor. The qualifying round for the Army and Navy Cup and the first round at| |mateh play for the Captain's Cup was played yesterday at the Oakland Club. he summarie: Qualifying Hound " yt. Be Xe Army apd Navy Cup (fics fr ‘tlone beat Oharies Bogart, won from C. 8 on. won. troga’ Ht Dounell wou trom F Pa. Beatie Bt Dr, J HL Halloe fous Ly B. As tournament the Sands wsterday, Mrs. first prize with’ a net ‘ ond prize resulted ih a tle between L.A. Do Perceval and Hawthorne Howard at 42 each. | Peroe~ yal won the play-off by three holes In par after an exciting 1 match. In one of the semi-final goit matchos tournament at the | fo This competition has | \ attracted many champions and former | Anishing the |) continue th regular order even if one; not nead any rest, for the very good reason that he Is not tired as Ix £2,500, Whiee Wien Selling twoyeapolds; five and Tntentiog, 08) Muay” Joe, fs AN | Md., Sept row's races VIRST RACE hay five and ay Wu he entries for t as fall tree pene old aad U Nl ages: handicap. sung Varta, — Alweonder, us mn, 108 Went ‘ et Piel, 108 pe Beg olde it me ia natbog rect el one fits Be te, poeta! ng for the Preside aye Cup at, the Malba quale Club yeaterd Mra. W. V, Speier Mrs, G, H. Notter by 2 we and 1 claimed, Treah fast, - BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK | One Odd he ty Seis owe . The first ané pecond { te Women's Te 1 rvelope ‘ eiderat ’ enna be | epite the te f (he thir ty or more @ wer ree wets | Mise Hyuretedt, Mee Wightman and Miss Beare won the yalchee Withewt } diMeuity The summar | FIRST ROUND Mre. Nathe Niles, Roston, heat Mine yrenoe Malin, « York, w& | dete | Mies Huth Harrington, Boeton, beat (Me haw eworth, Moston, by & ~ | feu la 4 Mrs. T H. Cabot, Bow oat Mine Pe ‘ ) Hosamund Newton, Hostun, 6@, 60 Ke © ¢ 4 Dre, MoH. Meniten, — € ties Marwaret ‘ a c > oo} Lz Mie Marion Thom Hoot 6-1, 64 Seema a occ. — | Mise 1 is arn, Uh ” eat Mra JOrte Mates, Hoaton, by defuuit No Vacations for Star [athe titan A is, Sm Mins Abby Ml SOW Voth, 6-8 w am Amor id, Boston, ‘oxmen o Are Booke 1 td at ate a | tr Yon i y beat oO or in E i eries seg fa a, Hono eau Rai Et ' Hoe beat lias Hamuel Ion a Alexander Will Take His Regular "ess" BaP As Aiden nieasagat Turn Until Last of Season— aad wns , t Ph jteuptata a . by Garry Herrinat u Howton, by Phillies Will Have Advantage Sstonal Conse ne } " if Series Starts on Oct. 9 tii oS ee tes F : . goes over four, It € n th. rond round ran will o th a Mra. C, T. Loring, Bost ' + Mre. hie doing Rurger Wallach Now ¥ \« By Bozeman Bulger. Will enable fuu ‘ “8 SSPITE the fact that he bad! with Pir Minx Boston but thres games to win andlenet thi bes Fy Boston, cinch the pennant, Bill Carri- |! rain Mian EB Senre, beat gan of the coming champion Red Sox ba oi A Mira More Tay) New | York, declares that be will make no change | Yay "° LP yaaa meen In the routine work of bis pite That lee lot to ask of one pitcher, | wins Eneabe Me owen aoe staff, and ® bas acted wisely it teat to r says he can do it and In the past, with a ponnant in easy to take the ortrude reach, baseball mana de- ni tie, ether pended upon youngsters for the final Will wot & rush, #0 as te give the veterans 4 #0, 1s based on —, chanco to rest up for the World's ae HH ete Series. In the case of several star hon one pit in|, Mra Denny beat Miss Foster, 6 ee bse tt Mrs, Wightinan beat Miss Aloxar ic at ; natea oy der, & ey Ge ine ee . The much heralded Dan Tipple| Mi Boston, beat Mins theme to’ go sale, and mado hia initial bow to a New York f the hb Kames Was Without snap. crowd Saturday and Mes. r, Boston, beat Carrig therefore, seen no reason peaye clades ra Ed Us New York, wit, t ould Dog In i if ig POU jo noth we . Calista aieny metuserhe ta witbin| He allowed b {ise Fleanor Lindley, New York. Mhtse victoriak, OF the ag: He. will and with o little better b beat Miss Edith Pitkin, Hoston, 6—2 weuld have b rf in ,) Was one of the most eagerly sought Misa Mary FP. Winsor, Boston, beat eC Tne TReMNCRG, BILGH SORT ers in the mir ues, and the| Miss Isabelle Bumford, Boston, 36, py Ss lajeever outs got him by outbidding alé-—2, 6-3 Pat Moran also declures that he Lege ; ae aie will not lay off Alexander, ax mar oup of four. » sea aaa etn ny eee have advised, but will work him — | Mise Ros : . }|steadily. Moran says Alexander does 6—0, 6—2 Notwithstanding the tough luck he has b base { mean—still insist that Already! ihe sharps have begun 0) make one of the best pitchers in th vera W 4 to oall American League, He has all hie match with FE. H. Fitler of |natural stuff, his only fault being @)srurion in the special invitation tourna- lack of experience, George Dav it ravers was Joo Kelley and Dick Kinsella are na lone RACE TRACK, LOU! ISVIL Ky.,| enthustastic about the youngster, but) distance the Sept —The eniries for t rrow's| no more so than is Umpire Bill death of of his Farce are as follows Dineen, who is always interested in|fance, in New York new pitchers, Dineen suys he never | this morning Teaver saw & youngster able to put more tet, supe ie PHB od stuff on the ball than Vance, It ie) [RMA Rem io but is ex- eed i ‘Jonly a question as to how long it pected to reach to play in “¥4 will take him to learn what to 40/ the Lesley iday and with It. Saturday. With a little more than a week to play, in the standing of t cerned, the New York teams are con-| prprsRURGH, Sept. 27.—A new Hy winning five of their lest! jonas record fer the pole team was A games the Giants have crawled WOU?) Ten OM when JR. Me- :Jout of the cellar and should be able MmBCe ONIN St Mr ore Ross B. and ) finish sixth or #eventh, It Is un- On’. almile ut the Brunot's tele ‘The Yanks are wedged In fifth place and there is absolutely no chance of 10) Rng Moly Piet "aac hres ant] apart: mile aafl seventy. vars, Rmbroitery, 8F * 1u0; ‘Phe trader, 110; them reaching the first division. they should Win all their wames and) | $20 if Whol, ‘Tamerlane, basal ‘ea Ey @® 9th St. EDITED BY ‘MISS BIURSTEDI 1S WINNER AT BOSTON TENNIS. TOURNEY a @ shut- Tipple in both his last starts, men—players and the —_ Why Travers Defantted at Golf. (Spectal to The Evening World TEAM OF TROTTERS SET NEW WORLD'S RECORD. there is little hope for a change lubs so far that they can go higher than RBM stonG. he Evceann tee 7%, was made at Cleveland sev- rs avo by C. . G. Billings. driv. The Monk and Equity iat « C Oy on should lose all it would! COLUMBUS, Because ditference, Lt waa Dono- vy Taina which fell lastnight Vas ambition to lift his club Into rly to-day. the for. the the first division, but that will have trout. te postponed |to be delayed until another year, At until to-morrow that, Bill has done remarkably well === his first season as a big league man r, and with the new matorial BO Lula Should bufl@ up a strong club for Tonight OLYNPIC A, CTo-night hext season, He te at least entitled to LB ed oh Saal a good, long tral, «Sumy Athen. ‘Cost Reduced Satisfaction Increased Even ready-made clothing costs more. Why sacrifice the style and individuality when it can be had even at money-saving prices? 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