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| THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1916. _ BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW “OUR OWN VERDUN Copyright, 1916, by The Presa Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), Blare and Hurrah of Old-Time! Openings Absent at First New. York-Washington Game. | Congright, 1016, br the Press Pyhil whe New York Evening Wor THE SOUL SOB OF THE BASE- BALL FAN. Oh, yesterday the sun was bright The grass was growing green The infletd was a lovely sight As ever yet was seen, | PUTTING’EM OVER With “Bugs” Baer , 16, ty The, Preas Ruplishing C8, Cov Ae Nie Fork *tivening World.) ‘RABID RUDOL “avro— Se LAN OU CAN'T hit the ball for .300 if | you only jit the hay for .239,” There are a lot of good losers, you never saw a bad winner, {and @ nix da | minute, athe U. & weak out Oay Season only two days old and some folks claiming it needs a new set of castors a To-dey the dawn was duit and | They shot seven more legs off thal drear, centipede, Villa, yesterday. And everything seemed punk 8 No more the shining sun can The Giants’ caps make ‘em look cheer, | like engineers and you know who the Our hearts have dropped, ker- jlety etwaye blames ter « baba plunk! Amaigamated Associa tf American Chea | Champions w Ja tenefi ines mpster® } . We had three “pennant-gravding — | injured in ex teams” a i That looked tke sure first: NARROW POEMS FOR EASY placers, PACKING. Rut now, from all the dope it a acoms | ~ A — 4 ZB Just a minute, That they are only “chasers” aa | : Gz Scurvy knave, bi s Ged2on Makes Error Woes BOSTON, Apr 43,—The world enam | liek Cleopatra f OOKING over the Polo Grounda | EZ pion Red Sox opened the season with al for Calhoun etinched the i Needs a shave i OH the. cherie day wa were f : 2 to 1 victory over the Athletics. hth by oubling an tmpressed with one thing. The Diare and the hurrah of opent was That Gives Senators Game ae. < enincevons Kok, warn serve Rutgers baseball 1 was swamped] yyy by a bombardment of hits, which gave} Ar Princeton a victory by a score of 9 to 1, | pla [Hal ® Dy. DALLAS, Tex., April 13.—The Tex: Base -time Was prominently absent. It ke sitting through a ¢ played in) mic Yanks’ New Second Baseman, Who Washington Manager PITCHER RAY KEATING sensor Even th pendid ork of the o teams L all League opened its season with drill, Although ne he hag Can't get into clint entirely thew cor tee pwt™*! Claims Righttully Belongs to shoe Tetiek Gootnict |- — penne Wac playin a Fort Worth, Shreveport | v unable to pi Shaun asennh i HI at Dallas, Houston at Beaumor id San{ aa > ere danse and arouse them to the enthusiasm of| Hi8 Club, Drops Throw in k 'Unbroken String Alexander Even aa tak | CHEVELANG, Gy Anal tt-—teistam rere (daeamiee Only one reason that 1 can see, The | Eleventh That Allows Visitors eisai eh GONNA os AAS tik CHICAGO, April 13.—Coveleskle, the | nou Pant played tn the quine Seat days: Soubrettes good 2, "i Yanks have a holdout in their exhibition mames have taken the edge! to Win Opening Battle. camp. It i# Piteher Ray Keating off public curiosity. The desire to Ho Was not satisfied with the con- Mitte Son eS By Bozeman Bulger. tract offered him, which called for This should be a great season for| It was with unconcealed glee that 'f es" money than he got last season baseball, on interest will. sett! Of Golf Tourneys, Proves a Puzzle {pe over, na3° sour ity ons more than he allowed the whole Chicago team, dh po CINCINNATI, April 13. — Toney’s| fir fF Dono- 1) Any golfer who expects to compete] PHILADELPHIA, April 18—The| witness, so he returned it, Man, 4 Clark iMth watched the work of be coupled with ragged flelding ' teccae ye Cor vin the two Jou Gedeon in the opening tilt be- fb scan prin pelted loge in all the tournaments around New| Giants are bent on wreaking rovenge|by the Cincinnati Club at critical times sues, w » c pd by | Ye 6 pease! » wal : i ‘ paris (de itlances at the Federale it'wony | tween Yanks and Senatore—watched or two, |York this season might Just as welll upon the champion Phillies to-day. | and some exceptionally timely hitting b ting Was injured carly tn prepare to close his desk now and] ‘py Ne Y the bs, enabled Chicago to win the A make a muff of an easy thrown uM he New Yorkers tossed away the : f June last year and was allowed tof) keep it locked until some time in Oc-|inaugural battle, that 1, Ralph | pening game by a score of 7 to 1 | } that brought defeat to New York J return home, drawing bis salary ' ome, dra s salary for }|tober. Starting with the invitation] ¢ ry u& hard-fought eleven-inning | the entire season. He was not of- || meet of the takewood ‘Country Club Stroud, the young pitcher, tossed it] sT, LOUIS, perl eat Louls de- urgh in the opening gan Loud guffaws from the Wash- red a cont t this spring, as the Jon April , there will be a contin-|“Way for them. In the ninth with | feated Pitts! | putticient ciivat ke e to make J! uous string of tournaments given by} two down he walked Milton Stock, |in a pitchers’ battle between Doak and be dulled by constant reports of mo: squabbles between magnates nd other magnates, clubs This year the GAM thing, | — ngton bench w he waa in : i ‘ ; c good condition | the leading clut ete 2to 1. Errors were respon- | ; LY ¢ anita. + [ied ‘ he leading clubs in the metropolitan | allo Kantlehner 2 ’ ILLY IN admits that ow ihe players felt, again, Manager Donovan learned J district. Of course the two big eehibgr henry ed iene Beene) sible for the runs made on both sides. Ig picking Jack Geyer for Mad Grittth beon given the entire to his satisfaction at Macon that score the winning run on two wild events will be the annual metropoli- The winning run came in the Cardinals*| Pir n the Dublin Giant's reappe jYank squad from which to select a J Ketting was in shape, so when Ac e' - 01 a “4 Ye carne bet Meld bh a once at tho Stadium to-night he! man to make that error Jog Gedeon | ibe club returned home he was of- | starting June 7 and lasting threo| Alexander was the eame old enigma! ang a base on balls. Poe een ae al’ Jon tiesdiee, See. FACTS NOT WORTH KNOWING, wasn't looking around for the hard-| would have been the player nom- ss days and the open championship at] for the Giants, | 3 retary of the league. finey sold his : st niade Va Goule Had: Hare Jnated, Joe belonged to the Senators | ne = Garden City beginning on July 13. Hungry for baseball, more than| ANNAPOLIS, Md. April 13—With) joston “club to Perey Haughton, the Whatever may have been his iy " stylet two years ago and Grithih » 5 dates for the leading tourname: : core 2 to 1 in favor of Cornell at! famous Harvard football coach, and al 4g Capt, Kidd didn’t play gol } Geyer should be hard enough. a8 Fe) thavhe ought to belong to hint now, (ao, and Caldwell wax a duel of real in the metropolitan district follow: | 1%000 fans stormed the gates at noon, | the pening of the inning ‘the Midship- [syndicate of Hoston business mon seve] faMbie, Caphe Ruld ddwe play goip Country Club of Lakewood, spring} 4espite the fact that the sky was|men. passed their opponents in thelr er WEST POINT, April 13.—Bob Neyland, C Starting April27| To Benny Kauff \si'iies eect tes iota As a result of a b: A report Is current that James €.| Reds Dooin is working on a new tan amateur championship at Nassau, | Pitches. The score was 6 to 4. Gfover naire of the ninth. Wagner got three hits| wis » score tronelia’s raight” pitcher of the sa n, probably will not Iped her chew, om Saturday against And the chorus n injury ived on he was kicked by at Feet elevens nines y in th vard while eh St. Loitis won by @ stove of 6 tod tty beeiuse the Indiana could not, But necks too rough Groom, ex-Federal League. pite See those girlish Speaker fielded spectacularly and hiske ked three times, being passed pur- Whiskers ely twice, Mayor Davis pitched the At the college et ball Boys’ Tableau, eball conference : National League headquarters yester-| Although it can’ nx, Ed Reulbach, the pitcher, | Tria Speaker, the Mou foston Braves this| for $2,000. wher retu ch ro the News| The Giants 1 by to-day's pas tions with | pers that the season started yesterday. t x Power pitcher ney Her owner OF the ston | catchers mask that won't leak 1p ‘ates from Barney Dreyfuss, Dreyfusy | rainy weather, in this city yesterday and attended al months ago. A waiter can’t put his thumb in tournament, April 27, 28, 29, heavy with rain clouds and a cold Garden City Golf ‘( fs fighting in old-time form, Wh Ole Fe he could only irse his} Caldwell did not may he was good, buck in 1911, he was} wounds and walt for revenge. Atl and intelivonee, Hie ent ell ub, invitation} wind blew across the field, Before t go0d enough to knock out Gunboat| came quickly tournament, May 14, 19, 20, . not up to his standard, but t ‘ Bree edie he the formal cerem to Smith in nine rounds 4 ufterward| In the cleventh inning with a man on | li 4 due to a continual ederton Tuxedo Golf ¢ fnyitation tours | anes en cruneeiutes tice ght @ ten-round draw with the) first and one out the blow fell. Me-| his part to work Ina slow ball that 24ment, May 30, dpening of all well regulated base- Gibson says Chat he re-) Bride drove a sharp grounder toward | was wonderfully effective when he |, akaey! Country Club, Westches-| ball seasons, the Giants in general an offer from the West for al third, which Baker handled neatly | got it over, Johnson needs little act. | te” County championship, June J, 2, 3.)and Benny Kauff in particular satis- By John Pollock offey Ge yer matoh, and he thought ana nals Ww to Gedeon jence, His bullet ke speed ta sufti- ones. DT aed Nassau] fied a deal of curiosity, the fight would be joo nough | in ample time for a force out, if not a ctent ‘ountry Club, June 5, 9 10, After the ‘ Not since boxing was introduced in) Wins this 5 * re, where Geyer had been wo double play. In his hurry to make, Clark Grifith complained as he! APawamis Club, invitation tourna. | 4), er were not Nalt so cariece ke| oklahoma has it enJoyed such prosper- Hl ing. it should be good enough for] the double Gedeon allowed the ball| came across the field that a decision |ment, June 15, 16, 17, Se GREE ee ene en as peasat. mils aiweon i New York, Geyer gave Carl Morris] to bounce from his hand, and both | at firat base by Umpire Owens, one |, Sleepy Hollow Country Clup,| Benny Kautt, proud possessor of ality aa it does at present. 7 ¥ ti «hard fight here years runners were safe. The Yanks still| calling Magee safe, was responsible | “father and son" tournament, June 19,| National League batting average of | received a telegram to-day oc Anyhow, this is Co! ©, of ey's comeback, | had a chan » When Johnson flied out, | for the two runs in the seventh in-| Fox Hills Golf Club, Invitation | -0000 for his firat day's activity in real| maker McClintock of the Tusla A and there are lots of people in } | but Morgan came through with a ning. But for that he says Johnson | tournament, June 2 major league company, passed out of] Tusla, asking him to go to Chicako to York wh be glad to see him beat| single that scored the run, sank our} Would not scored upon, Junior champions! Inglewood | the gate almost unnoticed. meet him so that they can arrange @ anybody—anybody at all, Just to get| hopes and the game was over. But |. “No tea license to beat |Country Club, June 2 Benny had four chances to drive the| ten-round bout between Jim Coffey, the led up the line again Johnson,” says the Washington man-| Sleepy Hollow Country Club, invi-| ball 4 mile. | Three times but 5 F an-| &§ * =| ball &, mile, pe, t weight, and Carl Morris, are still getting a good Inugh|the eleventh and called on account of “ANY time they do It Is an accident | Open championship, shote came down | ctiahoms ms rden City] F anti-aireraft shots came de 7 Ve 1} attract a out of the “mass meeting" at} darkness jor a bad break in the luck. There Golt Club, July 13, 14. th well out in the fleld, and thae| pattie between the men wit att for that muff by pon the fight he di the < t . ch a cher y " Yoffey will get} of ‘arnegie Hall called by a cer-|. While the unfortunate mishap was W&s never such a pitcher In all the | National Goif Links of America, in-| enabled Larry Doyle to skip home| $30,000 gate, and that C Aovteodated ft ; Carnegie Hall called by ® cer-| vtansely anusing to Gritty and| Matory of the game vitation tournament, Aug. 17, 18, 19, | With the first run of the year over] close to $10,000 for his end. "Gib" said] of | n evening newspaper for the osten- “G F the Philadelphia plate. ki hie sed ReP members of the Washington 1m, ‘Griff’ appeared to be more dt Rumson Country Club, invitation] Anderson wae the firat rell that he will probably take the bout if sible purpose of blas tng boxing right] think of the heartaches it must have | turbed ut that decision at first—|tournament, Aug. 24, 25, 2 the Glants, but. after two. innings Sf] sim stops Jack Geyer to-night out of existence caused that boy Gedeon! All spring nd tt was ac than all other] Piping Rock Club, invitation tour-| savage bombardment by the Quakers "i h 7 But it seoms that we were slightly|2@ has been fighting to make good, ¢vents tn the pt. 14, 15, 16, be waye way to Stroud. Ase rescuer! sem Wallech wm there mot tn the ro { f : : 50 as to show Griffith up for having Club seniors’ tourna- roud was well versed in his part, | port that Leach Crom Milburn mung’ a 4 iu error yesterday when we stated |fe. him go back to the minors a yeur| ‘This afternoon it ts the plan of the 19, and it was not until the ninth inning Pevare matched for a ten-round bout, Me furth } ‘tat about 40 peowle turned out for|ago, He was wall on the way to do| Senators to pitch Gulia ond Bill] Arcola Count b, invitation! though the Phillies reached: nite’ for | sated that Leach bas ao Intention of mtuming } that free show, while 11,000 struggled Palag ee is, Fornacaperod it hers c | p i an is pretty apt to use Ray] tournament, Oct. 6, 6, 7. one run tn the gixth, the ring (sd is be he aaa utamobile tres, 1 to wet into the Garden at from $3 to/Con’s bat that drove in the run that) Fisher, mere 0 ak _—. | of selling cloaks and ruite and autom $25 a seat when Willard and Moran| prought the game to @ tle, Then Peer i itaens Mary Donahue, the fast lightweight of Peoria ' voxed, We regret any inaccuracy of] But such is baseball, and Gedeon oni tes ein il matt te, given tu. who defeated Dick etere at the Stadium A- ' this sort exceedingly. Last ning| must bide his time. His chance will| COaching comedian of the C."on Saturday ight, was matched today f ‘Tex Rickard set us right. We should | Come. | Young Tek Ne eee ceed flgniar of that : i said that about 13,000 people as wel meet Johnny Neale ® Mrtoual A, ©, pest B i struggled to Ket into the Garden, tn-| | The epentng frolic, aside trom practically ‘ iiss © cba ins bo Wil be mh i stead of 11,000. showing the t: matche the first half of the ey cb, Wo. 1% 7 b ay 0 magpie pene “And not only that," said Tex, “hut| has proved conclusively that the | by Nie antics around third, Calae (L imtig: £ Pau Nem. Vork , $ 1.005) New York wih tee Bebidas fat 0 ES © $20,000 more would have been taken] Yanks’ owners made no foolish | well could not pitch for laughing "28 hou : Loon Piteabareh’ Jack Curley, one of the managers of Jem Will nat the gate but for a mistake in in the purchase of J. Frank- and even Umpire Tommy Con- Lous, 1 0 1.000 Cleveland St 1,000|C i ‘ard, leaves for Denver to-day, where Lie'll ma‘ ‘udgment on my part, We wero| lin Baker. “Cap” Huston and Col, nolly had to turn his head so as ‘arrangements for the chi Opening with the ‘iven permission to sell a certain] Ruppert got their money's worth to appear serious. Sawyer did Results of Games Yesterday. Helle Ploto Cirous at Wichita, Kan, Api 20 tumber of standing room tickets, We] in a single afternoon, Their fa | flips and clown Is that would Washington, 8; New ¥ Philadel 8: Curley says that be will not try to be Lick Giardea: tot we, ekeuld have: sea | “'Ehat Youne man, ewinging a | far Guy ale mol eetannece I] et Mludl, Ghebld | Se eee * e ad | ‘ 5 rom Baker the new coac' ; Whiladeipbia, the circus season next fa | sket offices at least a block away.| hefty club against the rifle-like saullv the hapa’ ct dhe attemaen Si, Louls, 6; Cleveland, 2, wilcago, 7; Clictupatl, 1 Pollok and Tan MeKetetek te } ‘The police captain in chare of hand-| shots of Walter Johnson, leaped Nick Altrock and Germany eee er the Federal League tall } jing the crowds told me that it was] squarely into the hearts of New Schaofer, the recognized come. Games To-Day. Throskiya, It ia their intention to put on some | impossible to let people »pproach the| York fans with his firet appear: dians, could only stand and gl: New York at Philadelphia, | big boring matches and other aporting events at Garden without tiekets, for here was| ance at the bat, and grew more at the young man who —h Boston at Brootly a the ball grounds, ‘They are now trying to ar uch a tremendous desire ta the great] and more of a hero as the game | epped right in and stolen their Chicag Pittsburgh at At, Louls, s match between Dillon and Moran for the | crowd to get in that the yush might] proceeded. It was Baker who got | tuft. Sawyer is a good infielder Coisego at etae foe | break down the doors, We sent men| the first clean hit off Sir Walter, / “ ‘ out into the crowd to sell the standing ¢ WAS Gal who drove in t | toe = ita ica ica na —o EA Patterson, the nF manager Lit end i om tickets, but were go t Yank run with a second ps 69, Johnson 96, O'Brieu 91, ‘Total, | O'Brien and other boxers, has arranged a match : azy to buy them that t n were | and put another runner in The man of the hour in the game STRIKES AND SPARES. Lirpbook (ti 2) Mo. St-Uites. an, 5 Vfor the Yonkers lightweight for Philadelphia or } if killed in the rush and were gladj position to score on Gedeon's long | OVer at Brooklyn was Sherwood Ma- Rodewald 68, ‘Langdon 25, Mugler 60° "Povaie | Saturday night, O'Brien's opronent will be get back alive, withou: elther| fly, It was Baker who stole the | x#«s ntly suspected of “going SCHEDULE TO-NIGHT. ne Kxidio Wagoud, the Quaker lightweight, 1f O'Brlen ! kets or money. ‘If wed had ace| only base, It wae Baker’s beauti: | tnck.” It was intimated to him loss Prey Ke — ae sere A SD ' mmmod tions for 100,000 people we) ful step of @ hot grounder that han a week ago that this was his HIGH INDIVIDUAL SCORE. ' could have sold every seat that{ would have saved the game but [chance to be a star or take the to [Jamer Start. Onawa na | night.” for Gedeon's error. It was Baker | bowian back to the minors. ‘There HIGH TEAM SCORE. | The “reform wave" has dwindled! who saved us in another inning | will be no toborganing, In four times | columbia ast fo a mere splash. Hut it did some by @ wonderfur running catch of up “Sherry” mauled the Hrooklyn| Central Brooklyn (2), J, Conotauld vod, It brought out the fact that] a foul ball, | pt 8 for a three-bagier and two} (9) Homestic, Dock Department (2) opponents of boxing in New York To get right down to the ca: | si ‘most winning the game . Sid aM cap Hey rth ai Res. U. & Fat. Off i are few and scattered, while the poo-| it was a Baker afternoon, | single handed ford Park (2), Jupiter (8), Lincoln ee at. OF ple in favor of boxing are in a very - | > - National Bank (3), Metropolitan B. U, sate Ki large and indignant majority. The pitching battle between Jonn-| pave Gymanete meine vithes, |G. (4), Bt. 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