The evening world. Newspaper, April 19, 1916, Page 14

Ouimet Violated Ama Golf Rules by Going Into Business for Himself, It Seems. Comore, 1018, Wt, hyemee ¢ RANCIO OUIMETM dinqualifion tion ae an amateur goiter, « though fone expected, ie the @aneation of the opening season The United States Golf A officially notified Ouimet no longer rewarded an & and hat Die entry for amateur te mamente ie no longer were ‘The reason for all thie te that Outmet, in partnership with John H. Kullivan fr, 1@ about to open @ atore for t enie of golf mupplies. The association's rule may hen new one, but If Oulmet be day he was a professic when he became famour thr ning the National Open Chamy from Vardon and Ray. Professionals, at Hrookline. At that time Oulmet had been work- ing about two years for @ sportin goods house, receiv @ week for hia nervices in the Koit foods department. ference is between al the on a salary for a sporting goods firm | and owning the sporting goods firm | that sells golf goods is # question fit | for a Philadelphia lawyer, To a mere outsider, interested the sport merely as a sport that a man who sells sporting goods can be as good an amateur as the man who buys them, The game is the thing, A man who plays any game for money becomes a profes- sional, Oulmet, playing for a cash prize, would be a professional, be- yond all doubt. But why playing tn the game for pleasure and selling | golf goods for profit should profes. sionalize any one ts a puzzle, Log- feally, the thing must be carried fur- ther. Ouimet @ professional golfer because he sells golf sup- plies, then every employee of his store is a professional golfer. Furthermore, every man who sells Golf supplies to Ouimet become: & professional golfer. So doe every in idual who owns stock in any firm making and selling golf supplies. So does the man who sells Ouimet electric | for the pur to show an d the postma: salary for carrying the mail which Mr, Quimet ni the sale of golf supplies. So does—but we'll stop here before we ourself into trouble by a knowledging that some small portion of our salary may be paid for writ- ing this note about Mr. Ouimet. It's an awful thing to be hovering along the outside edge of profeastonal ism, in jotiates for M glad to note that the Lawn Tennis Association has “deferred action" on the matter of Messrs, Mo- Loughlin and Bundy, suspected of be- ing profossional tennis players, be- cause they are in some way assocl- ated with the sale of tennis goods. 1 haven't the slightest doubt that either Mr. McLoughlin or Mr. Bundy would feel highly insulted if offered & cash remuneration for competing im an amateur tennis tournament, And after all, tsn’'t amateurism in the sport itself the real test of true amateurism? I football authorities for having the excellent good sense to back down from a hastily taken stand on the numbering of football players, Not long ago Yale flatly announced that her players would not be numbered this year, and the argument was ad vanced that people who didn't tako enough interest in the game to watch WISH to congratulate the Yale the team throughout the season and \ning for the Buffalo pair, He rolled learn to pick the players out at a} ' ea ae it] By Joh glaxce weren't worth considering, of) 4” if ne: free de , uy in course there are fe 1 the 40,090 or and owed with average, iP nolL d severed his connection with a that attend the biz games, who | the best performance y day. Chal- | Kid Williams of Baltimore, f r have time to make a close study of|eraft al led better than either | bantamweight champion, whom he man individuals before the event. The] Smith or Lindsey, both of these men} aged for many years, Sammy Harris tors are k interested in| Polling far below their usual standard, | issues as to the effect that what men make the rung!) With ut fourteen more strings t0 | Wiiliama is no to jo to make the es and the various plays, | he bowled to finish the match, seven | hantamwelght Limit pounds at the Heretofore football has been merely i night and seven to-morrow, and] yincside, and that the best welght he mixed up scramble to most of thoay| With Voth visitors rolling around 209, | O° Se mit Laban who looked on, But that is all to he) the loc ms have Little chance |“! do ts erweight imit, 1 changed, for the coaches and offi | to win vunds rings Jams and Har clals have announced that for the Jo” aa) ion ay Thad an ar r making weight | benefit of the je that supports th aruaun. 228 TSS) 200: f the I fellows, and when game players will now carry identify. 1 refused 0 80 they nearly low Yale's lead y Iams toll Harrie that he didn't want fairne sport | rota aria) NHN O8 his manager any lor It was) that caused Harris to divulge the! BOUT between Renny Leonard SCHEDULE TO-NIGHT. news about Williams's weight and Charlie White would come) Jamaica (), White Rose, | ha as if Ronuy Leon near settling which iy he best Orange, Haptist, Panny Hane, Good | ugiswg have lis « faetini th Counsel Cd, Germania i, A. Amichat | ine Hak Box The ing World free headpin > stronger serap than tournament at Thum’s academy was as an ton a few productive of but one fob winner last | months ago, at thie y cks of the Wood | shanco at Leonant 4 Bio as, end lawn lowest possible | fee 1 can best tlm Haven, Even though most place ell it exclusively Bottled by-E.8J.BURKE a salary of $16! Just what the dif. | Hing golf goods | it weems | THE EVENING WORLD, DAESDAY, APRIL 19, 19136 ARE YOU SURE YOU’RE NOT A “PRO?” COMTI, LI14, ty the Freee Pubitantn Nae ~ Po ‘. fewnen = teary Mev, oat fe On You more om! a Tee, Tm a Promessiona. | ' ' — anatoom Never pried a rr pes wt aa “ Det 1 our Lire ‘weiee AnaToons “Tier cnn Simon PURM AMATEURS - 1 Ace WAMTAAY S000 & veg To ® Comm Oe Past Auenet Vio Cooney a Tue Pomrter 16s oun GOLF B00Us Lome , New York Pays $804,101 AY A Year for It’s Boxing [Tax on Bouts Held Ad Held Adds $50,687] 0f these recetpts there was paid into! the State Comptrolier’s office 5 per to State’s Treasury, Accord- cent, up to May 22, 1915, amounting " to $19,248.07, and 71-2 per cent. after | ing to Commission’s Report. May 22, amounting to an additional $31,443.08, or a total gross revenue to the State for the year ending Nov. 30, 1915, of $50,687.10. “This is the largest amount ever received by the State in any one year since boxing was legalized by the Frawley law in 1911, It exceeds the previous years receipts by $18,- $40.80, The total recorded receipts from | boxing in the State from 1911 to Nov. | 30, 1915, amount to $8,435,812,26, Accomling to a report to-day sub- mitted to the Legislature by the State Athietic Commission, boxing during the past fiscal year netted the State of New York $50,687.10. ‘This sum exceeds the previous year’s income by more than $18,000, The total gate receipts for the year of all clubs was $804,101.10, Part of the report submitted to KUING Minis haw received elke] the Legislature in accordance with 4, | statutory requirements reads as fol-|_ The passage of the Malone bill on | 4 y 22, 1918, amending the Frawley | "7 Taw and Inereasing the State tax | "Phe total grons receipts from box- | fim gine want. to Ft wor ont, has jing in \ this State ending Nov for the fiscal year - 80, 1915, were $804,101.81, Buffalo Bowlers Have Big Lead MATCH that fs attracting na- | James Btant tlonal attention is being con- cluded at the Bergman bowling roved a great financial boon to the F, Pinkernagel 61, G, Franz Krick 00, Rint 2, Muvray Total, 408 Fob Winner, Woodlawn Marry Hendricks, Onawe High Team n Scor mannattan 2 ‘Termiual, !ton a professional, academy here. It is the ond half of a forty-two game series between H, Chaleraft and F, Caruana of But- Silent Martin | falo and Jimmy Smith and Mort K. @) uy L B Lindsey of New York, In the first U8 eo enz meeting here the Bison City pair) after atty-seven seconds of fght-| added 79 pins to the lead of 261 they|ing in the tenth and last round ae gained in the first twenty-one games| their battle at the Broadway Sporting | rolled in Buffalo last week. a. really last hight, Silent ‘The first seven games of the twen-| Hite middle I aad Gata Ml ty ne series to be rol clty were bowled last night at the Lenox Avenue alleys, ‘The Buffalo | bowlers surprised the fans by out- playing the local stars, Increasing | jaw thelr lead to 340 ping, a handicap | ni ting fighter of Butte, Mont right-hand swing into the stomach, quickly folowed nd hand swing with a pit of the by a left flush on the right QUIMET WIRES OPINIONS TO THE EVENING WORLD. ening World that | will competitive Under compete made tha winning the open title at Brook- line in 1913 and ' intend to keep my word. Personally | do not take the United States Golf As- regarding i are | | ruling pow- ers went to unnecessary lengths to enforce their new amateur rule. | have played golf because | love the game. It wasn't my in- tention to ca jze what suc- links. As destroying one’s amateur status | don't see how selling sporting goods is any different from selling insurance, stocki bonds, &c, FRANCIS OUIMET. have no time for golf thie season. no conditions would | IGNORE U. S. G. A'S RULING ON OUIMET | The United States Golf Association may consider Francis Oulmet of Bos. but the clubs up Already | two clubs In the Bay State and two in Rhode Island have asked Oulmet to participate in amateur tournaments that they are going to stage this sea- son, Frank L. Woodward, President of the U. 8. G. A., has issued a cir- cular letter requesting the clubs to New England way do not. to compete in thelr tourneys. Walter J. Travis has sent out let- ters to all golf players who qualified in the last two national championship tin this knocked out Leo Beng, the hard-hit: | tournaments asking for opinions as to| the action of the United States Golf Asvoclation in officially notifying Francis Oulmet that he {s ineligible to compete as an amateur. are Smith and Lindsey not likely to It is Caruans's work that ts wine Fistic News Sam Langford and Harry W Dear weights, are golng to fig! tine the battleground will be they will hook up in ap eight-round Kuture City AC. on the Bam MoVey Was to have ee ye | wo, mM) Fistkernage ‘Martin wark, No J.-Jackwon 71, Boh Kurta 88, McCann 1) 1 , Brooklyn, No, 8-0, Krick 72, H, and Gossip Pollock mving in his revent bout there on, Matchmaker Sullivan sub el Langford Miah Mu A. of Kosta matelonaker last night ¢ Mika O'Dowd, the and Joe Egan of Boston Armor A ® mateh be. tarwelght at the he mW of the club on ‘Tusaday night. O'Dowd bas taade goot in hin bouta at the local clubs aud int 0 to ‘beat Ragan Cleveland 8 another city where the boxing fame iy in a flourishing tion n The ten round comtest between dulinny Griffiths of Abron. . am, t K fighter of Lock wit, NY. at Gray's ast Week trew 4nd “oT 1 $22 while each n Jersey City te Young McAwiiffe of In no rounis at the Ba the night of A) fas at ay evening, Two ten ronid ten Billy Gibson for A.C. om Joa Tone wehtweigit | WELLS WINS DECISION ave been arranged by | OVER EDDIE MURPHY. the HOSTON, April 19, Matt. Weils, the fuse to allow ineligibles such as Oul- | erweight. | a0 (The Maw Tore Been a ot tom. Cow Not Thine OF ‘eye. Whew wave You Dit emrren we Patue) a ( dar “ony oe accwrtiun money 5 MALE Thucaan The MMP T IRE OF B (Fomdnue cars “ - BIG LEAGUE RACES REVIEWED | Athletics’ First Game Here Shows How Baseball Teams | | Rise and Fall in a Year would either be @ hit or the side would be out, | Only Last Season the Mackmen | Were Wellnigh — Invincible. | | Thanks to Their $100,000 | Infield, While the Yanks Were | ° second and landed safely at third, when the ball fell The ordi- nary runner would have stopped a Joke Proposition—Now It) “t**eent | Is Practically the Reverse. |sensation’ of the sprite "He mat | , thr \ more hits yesterday, and with ne these a i to the three he made By Bozeman Bulger. {the wame before, his record was six HE opening fight between the|clean hits in successton | | Athletics and Yanks furnished | The greatness of Alexander was | an interesting opportunity to not dimmed in the least. by ‘the| observe with what ease a great teata Braves. Without apparent trouble 1 é rise within the mighty twirler of the Phillics can fall and a weak one rise within the im é the short space of a year, It was al-| Pitched a shut-out and put an end to another winning streak. Rudolph was jin good form, but witn nobody | most pathetic ‘arly last spring Capt, Huston and! ting behind him his efforts proved Ruppert paid $400,000 for a ball! fruitless, | the remnants of which now eon | Charlie Herzog yaist of Pitchers Caldwell and Risher| ning to produce and Roy Hartzell, utility man, As &) boast that the Reds had the best teain it Was practically n Yester-| pitching staff in the league. Mc- day it had grown from a weak little! Henry, another one-year pitcher, ee to a fihting machine that) was turned loose against the made the once famed Athletics ap-| Pirates and triumphed in a ten: r ridiculous, It 18 a contender for | mpionship honors, inning duel over Adam | eran. Among _ Nation © League | t the time the Yanks were ac-| managers the Reds’ pitching staff quiring a new ownership the Ath-| is now feared as much as any in letics Were the strongest and perhaps! the circuit. valu collection of ball r assembled under a singh ‘Their $100,000 infield Since that time three- the most players ev management. as mo myth, rths of it 1 in actual the sensational Pitcher Mogridge, southpaw of the Southern trip, was nit on the nose with a batted ball in practice yesterday morning and will he out for some time, His nose was In | \y time that powerful broken. | has dwindled to an experimental sta- | — m for beginners, It has no pennant| At last the winning streak of the chances and few aspirations—for this! Red Sox has been broken. Again | \8 east. {pinning fatth to Harper, his young or more rapid fall from left hander, Grithth t him in| greatness has ever veen recorded in{against Shore, and baseball, But, when greased, the old! romped home with a com | toboggan can surely work fast, {easy victory. The heavy h Box | | jcould get but five hits off the young In the process of Tebuilding, Connie! southpaw. This might be a sugses | Mack secs just one quality of which he tion to Donovan in the selection of ay be certain. The new machine was his pitchers when they run against | porn with a fighting Instinct, and the the champs. | youngste do not quit. Even though outclassed and made to appear awk- ward and clumsy, the veterans led tho newcomers in a charge at the finish Notwithatanding his strength tn the | box, Fielder Jones of the renovated Browns has found his club very weak | that almost upset a score already on with the willow. To make up for |the books and ready to be delivered this deserepancy he been run. | to league headquarters. It turned out ning his men wild on the ba { be a great game. With an experi- What they lack in hits ts being ac- | enced pitcher and two of the old ins counted for in. speed, Rles being | field in action, things might have been! made to count fortwo laamere. Evie | different dently Jones is tryine to build a elub| ———- along the lines of the old hitless Notwithstanding the pathetic at-) White Sox of 1906, who won a pen- tempts of his raw material to hold their) nant and the world's champlonship ground in an uneven fight, Connie, on speed alone. Mack kept them at St, realizing that the! only way for a gladiator to get accu | Jones also has adopted a policy of | tomed to fire is to face It giving no hitters a chance to Nabors, his young pitcher, made two| break up his ball games. In one fatal errors of Judgment at the outset,| ame the other day he permitted but was not lifted from the hox peake chance came to substitute a bett rather to have three bases on balls than give him an opportunity ter in the seventh inning. ‘To begin! of smashing the ball with, Gilhooley, xtr rdinarily — of foot, hit a grounder to the neue Cn atl meri baseman, far off the ba Nabors Ed: Konetohy, formerly ald ted to cover the hag too tate| Louls, Pittsburgh and the Feds, 1 was easily outsprinted. A Little] is now playing such wonderful RA ROUnORT Was MEAL NAvOre WIN “nai ae geet fon the Zraues sae | Throw It to Stallings almost has forgotten the Yanks kept yelling, and the 3 S ahaanca Of UBUlSKE Bonmte Dicher fell for the oldvtrick, He thraw| te absence of “Butoh” Schmidt, tu second, but too late, and both run-{ tho retired at the end of last ners were safe. Those mis season the way for the Yanks to Nabors could not refrain from listen ‘ Interested spectators at the Polo unds these days are Umpires Brey an and Egan, temporarily knocked yut by the demise of the Feds. ‘They are both good umpires and could be used very handily hereabouts, Th National League has had mighty few better arbiters than Bill Brennan. to enc ad of h ne ny coaches ing own Connle Mack tn the mean time wore out a brand new pair of trousers slid- ing to and fro on the bench An example of ri | thinking was shown by Gedeon in a later | inning when he t from firat =» ea to third on a puny hit over sho Phila ante for ilante vay TMeketa on game, Noy chive Apr As there were two out, he knew i American League. » WL 2 Fl Aa Hoxton ° 2 4 24 4.000 St. Lout St. Loule Results of Games Yester day. ; Philadelphia, 2. tom, 4; Bowton, 2. trolt, 4. leveian petrol tieagor 7: St: Louis, 2 Games To-Day. Brook! New York at Brookiye sion at Philadelphia. 4; Boston, 0. New York vs. Brooklyn (cold) Chicago va. St, Loule (rain), BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK ‘some of the rookies will, { You rome a aor Ane epin’s rou A ™~ ee ok You'ee RunED You used to think | life would be a f ure without a 6 yacht about the of a charch: PUTTING’EM OVER With “Bugs” Baer The or Faplianing Oo oan World on “a; ying to av ANN a black eye a sprinting pugilist But | wise to the fact | the really big th Washington didn’t win a game al in life are the li Boston all last season, and it looks as! things: if they were going to win twice as) many this ye you suddenly can give the game one.” bo le clayors mi know who te fam bored to eversieal ng the bal | A schedule without any con- flicting dates would be appre- ciated on the New Haven. Sure, twelve years ts too young for a boy to be a prize fighter to be at work Rican Jack Dey He ough va mt An aviator dropped sixteen bombs on the capital Harr Harper also made a tw re Like MECCA! Ain't It Truth? nation's and 6 Vail of for $10.00 for ‘em e Hed Sox Sport Alphabet. FE stands for bobbles, Wild throws, boots and muff, But not for the fan Who won't stand for that stuff. Yale will number her football play ers if she gets any Must grieve Connie Mack to think that Frank Baker ain't twins so he could sell him twice. Every baseknock ia a boost Yesterday's weather was about popular as an envoy, as | on doubling the number of West Point cadets they ought to allow Navy to play ten men on the lin CIGARETTE | mintry that ain't on the level Sitter: | he cleanmt athletics in the world, | | No shipment gold from abros is handled wit greater care th Dan Morgan is to allow Bat Levinsky to go to Kansas City alone. 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