The evening world. Newspaper, April 24, 1916, Page 10

THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1916 | BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK Wew Yorkers Will Get an Oppor- tunity to See the Latest Hu-| man Step Ladder, Fred Fulton, Mingle With Al Reich in a Few) Days. a N a few days the latest human atep ladder will attempt to show vee 4 New Yorkers that no ordinary Foe cae — human heavyweight has @ chance. Fred Fulton, only a quarter of an Bau FRom iach shorter than Jess Willard, but OVER Te HL much less Impressive in his other di- ou 470 © Mensions, will stoop to mingle with are? * Al Reich, a midget of merely 6 feet ‘ 8 inches. Mr. Fulton's reputation will not be Fore ® fully established if he beats Al. Too many others have shown that the former amateur is a softer mark than Be looks. Fulton will have to go Tight along 4:4 beat some real mean fighters before any one will take seriously his claim that Jess Willard fen't the “undisputed” heavyweight i! of the world” while he's Bat one thing may make Mr. Ful- ton's task a short one. That one thing is the chance that Al may hit Bim on the right spot in the first round. When Al starts in a proporly encouraging manner he's likely to do nything ina fight. He has a| que that gives him little excuse | not being world’s champion bim-, gelf. Up to the cars he's the equal of any fighting man living. And some- when he forgets himself and his natural inclination to live and let Hive he's positively dangerous. He's Yemarkably clever as boxer, and srownca sete Sensation of the Major Leagues __Is the Sudden Rise of the Cubs MAJOR LEAGUE RESULTS AND STANDING titles with. It's when Al has time to that he loses out, Sometimes when winning handily he stops to gure just what will happen if by amy remote change the other fellow i Joe Tinker’s Combing Combination Have! Pa bes had about twenty.| Recovered From the Early | hts and won wares & eight of them with knockouts. I forget the| Slump That Seemed to Doom) Steet Saurea, but thats about what! Them to Tail-End of National an estonishing knockout knack.| League and Now They Are in! “tor gg sake don't tell Ale dt might spoil & perfectly Second Place, Close Behind Fulton has been handed the| the Phillies, assortment of lemons evel and he hasn't yet knocked out vyweight whoee name is known By Bozeman Bu!ger. vat Re ee ne es | QI TARTING in the third week of a He knocked out the famous weather bedraggled season the Andre Anderson, who was also sensation of the Major Leagues off—in two rounds—by Ch8-| ts the sudden rise of the Cubs. Re- ‘Watnert last week. covering from the early slump that ECORD-BREAKING in amateur | threatened to mako them chronic tail- athletics is beginning early) enders the Fed-Cub combination un- this season. Saturday an Jowa| der Joe Tinker have taken an amazing college student ran 220 yards on A/spurt and, shaking off the dust of urved track and was timed in 21 2-5| tho second division, are now nestled seconds, and out in California a Stan-| under the Phillies in second place. fora University student equalled the | The Cardinals are dividing the honor world’s best mark by running the/ with them, but theirrise has not been 10-yard burt in 15 seconds flat. |#o sensational, Following close on ‘The West is developing & Number | thoir victory over the Rods Saturday, ‘ef remarkable hurdlers. Cheek, Smith- Kelly, and now Murray—the new firaling’’ wonderhave all had a|leod and won out with Mike crack at world's figu |4n the role of pinch h the 1 The students of Stanford and thel ours jumped into th University of California have a great advantage over dents, in being able to train com- | @part. fortably out of doors through the —_ winter. That is one reason why they} George McC jonnell, former Yank, perform well early in the spring. former Brave and former minor — leaguer, tossed about from year to Evening World,” cd | BEF in The Virates over ras a failure, performed the re writes a reader of oura, “that |Markable feat of letting the Pir: Sena down with a single hit, that the Nassau County officials aap j drive by Viox. It was a wel rved| telling Mr. Belmont to do away w! shutout and tends to confirm Tinker's the one dollar field. I've been a lover judgment in holding on to McConnell of borses for thirty years. There are the league w many men like myself who like to giving him the afternoo [ and) — gp leg ine epee pur- | In the mean time the Philtica pose of gambling, but for sport. We| femain securely in the leadership Pant afford to pay $%. That's well| of the National League, with lt enough for the rich, What right has| tle danger of being ‘dislodged while the Yanks hold onto r lead in the American by a slender thread, It is possible for any official paid by the people to tel! | any corporation to charge us more? | I hope you will see Mr. Belmont induce him to change his mind about) @ defeat today to knock them raising the price and give the com- | general rungs down the ladder mon people a show to see something) = ae tailenders—the Athletics and Giants—have little prospect of 00. ———— | rising for two or three days, __ SPORTING. | GIANTS Wee crane PHILADELPHIA | 3.30 P. } with it renewe the Sunday or whi tered t 2. A remarkab Was the territh In| Ind an auch = Excess of drink than excess of food or work or play. is no less harmful The long-headed man applies mod- eration to all four with a net result of happiness. He’s pretty apt to order a mild and mellow Whiskey — Wilson — Real Wilson — That’s All! The Whiskey for which we invented the Non Refillable Bottle FREE CLUB RECIPES--Fiee booklet of famous club recy aged drake Addy Wilson, 211 Filth Avey NY, That's Aut BAD L ony BaD 447, With ME = THE FELLOW SAID There WeRS 3 on 4 more CLuss T REALLY MUST Have To Play Te Game! ers for three hits, two of which w home runs, in which they overcame a six run} & n| 1-] tern college atud-| Sunday and practically tore them| line | playing condition is FIRST THING IN GOLF-LEARN WHAT NOT TO BUY | Copyright, 1916, by the Press Publishing Co, Are You SURE hy 5s THe Best fo BEGIN WITH, “haat LuTTeS FAT one’ (The New York Evening World.) Taat's Jimmie “THe CADDIE = HE ONLY HAS A MIDIRON AN Games To-Day. New York at Washi Philadelphie at New York. m. ‘Boston at Philadel Chieag Brooklyn at Boston. Pittsburgh at Chicago. ‘St. Louls at Cincinnatt, Columbia Leads College Nines} |. York. ‘ rd Fase: 3 © 14a Results of Games Yesterday. Golf Rebellion Over Ouimet: ?, Ha combed opposing pite Mo Reds have run into tough luck the Cardinals be to 1 in a twelve ‘This happen fact that Hal Cha: ru in a row, duplicating @ feat accom plished by 1 ppears to have Kot a fresh his baseball prowess and should be of great benefit to Charlie 1 if they only succeed in keep- ing hia temperament down, ting them withstanding the three hits m earlier in the wee Until the intersectional games » it will be almost impossi- » to get a line on the relative strength of the Ki Western teams. » Western teams in the first division of the National League and two in the American, This gives a slight edge to the West- erners, but it is very slight, the Reds and the Braves having the > percentage, astern and here are now 5 club His in eit say, the ot 4 at the Polo In the two Grounds the Phillies appeared to be in midseason form, It may be dif- ferent when they face the Glants to- | Baseball is a@ changeable old | in the spring Pat Moran is not so sanguine about his outfield corps, as is evi- denced by his signing of Claude Cooper, late of the Feds. Cooper was formerly a member of the and jumped from New to the outlaws, McGraw made no effort to get him back, being overstocked with such men as Burns, Kauff, Rousch, Robert- son and Kelley. At the same time McGraw thinks Cooper an exce player. When he first re ported to the Giants three or four ago, McGraw often re- marked that Cooper was the best looking prospect he had seen in Benny Kauff grows more of a favorite day by day. In the rush has not lost his love for tiqures, however h called game Friday fact now hitting on akbbe Bvee wk evry Bale oy fay avw Ar dug "Trabwea wae Loew evaseried revue te as vountsy ‘Goea ausiaee | present feeling ¢ Woodland Golt tion of the L clation in dec lar ing Franc Paul Tewksbury and John i, ineligible to compete as amateurs, a little rebellion may be born. L. B. Folsom George is leading the league with a batting percentage of .600, has been said of late about the veterans Wagner and There is another. Eddve Plank, another forty-ycar- older, pitched agains? Cleveland Saturday and let them down with two hits during the seven innings he remained in office, esident of the club, tors contemplated doing in re, Oulmet's case, he sald: “We do not know what we will do in answer to Mr. Whitney's lett Paddy Baumann, pinch hitter ex- Yanks, already has | his first month's salary and {5 | O01 Cook do the run- inary of the content to let Doe 1 throwing until our club to suit ¢ pine N hitter, Baumann went in and won his second game with a two-base smash just as it was getting too dark to play. The Giants le MAKING WAR MATERIAL MAY CAUSE SHORTAGE OF TENNIS BALLS. ai f i sown after fe lay’s game and give wa: fo th Wana who return home to play the Red Sox. The Giante will ti br4 Just at a tlme when every one banner season a crapunitions 1 fore and case The making of a tennis Fistic News and Gossip By John Pollock Vor the first time tn months there champtonship | one of them being| » While the other 8 fought at London, serap at New Orleans will Lewis, the fast Eng Tnanufacturing of sn dics are used, > seems that sporting goods 1 facturers are losing their Utles fought to-nigh times four times as much A matter of a ¢ now of this city, round bout at 1 for the legitimate welter- championship honors, 1 will be for the fly- “ot. labor didn mortage of balls before the season Wilde of Bui older of the English ¢ = : GREAT MEDDLER IS DEAD. I battle twenty Mackay's great inclu ive Meat and Baltinore |b Lverything looks Newman received a wire from Talking of Golf’s Growth Champion Travis Advises Players ¢ on Improving Game {tong drive will cheer the player | Popularity “a Be Scotch Game Amazes Veteran, Who Thinks} New Courses Will Not Begin to Supply Demand This Season. OW LL, I don't know where they are all going to play,” re marked Walter J. Travis, metropolitan champion, referring to the hundreds of new golfers who'll try their luck on the links this year, The veteran champion had been asked to ag a few hints for the newcomers, answer gave an indication of leaps that may be encountered summer by many who haven't \ny eiub conections, but still want to gull. “The game of golf 1s still in tts In- fancy,” said Travis, “but its sudden bound in popularity has amused every one. New courses are being laid out when asked what the Board of Diree-! around New York, but they won't be- ard to| gin to meet the demand. The city’s | pub nlic links fall far short of supply- | tng those who cannot secure club Yet there will be ma: on the je natural and don't get dis- courage “Drive as hard as you want to; the Birger, will come later. t ‘afraid to hit the ball tance for direction.” Walter J. Travis tells the novice to ce nothing. He advises the be-! ginner to whale away with all his might. The satisfaction of getting a | i links this year ant they should be able to improve their by observing the following sug- WARY, (T BRowe | howl Bareihr SOMETHING Ne WITH | TNS. ouTrit! | | | “TuRoW THE BAG oN Too, Ki - I WONT One. We ONWY ; 2Bainst future mistakes, even if the ball does go off in the woods. The metropolitan title holder figures that after a fair amount of practice swing- ng with his driver the beginner will begin to gat good direction, Playing the irons, the short game, the veteran star advises the novi hot to be afraid to hit the ball, Many mers on the links when they approach the green seem timid about playing their trons, but Mr. ‘Travis cautions against this by suggesting that the player hit with sufficient force and be sure to take turf with the club, the idea of hitting under the ball instead of over it, There are no set rules for any one to follow to putt like a Travers, Oul- | grow the Heavy- | weight Division.” PUTTING ’EM OVER With “Bugs” Baer Courright. 1916, by Th Preee (ubitehiag O% York Evening RABID D_ RUDOLPH. é66TQIGHTERS’ Only Hope Is That Jess Willard Will Out- The best thing about this cent: gallon gasoline is that you can’t be Pinched for making over seven miles an hour, Now that the Athletics hare woa @ game the League is ‘all over, The rain last week piled up a lot of doubleheaders for Battling Lee vinsky next month. creased pr! iy body in Chicago, Can't fi in Chicago The fan who yo for a player to hit the dirt do ‘t know that players buy their own uniforms, | Sherwood Magee broke his wrist and feels very queer being put out of the |} game without being fined. They say Jim ly going to uy Sixmond that’ will need ‘a groundkeeper, A rainy Easter is about ae funny as a sand bunker. trl Following President Wilson’ to Philadelphia, Connle Mac! announced that he retui | one Inch from his firm eighth place. | JIM BOOTEM. | Jim Bootem was a hick league star | Who banged ‘em high and smote m far, He maced the ball right on the nose And knocked the fielders off thelr oes In Hicksburgh. Jim Bootem went to New York town Acclaimed by scouts of great renowa, ‘And every day he smites the ball For triples up against the wall In Hicksburgh. faye thie cowsh can touch @ Wie runcer who leaves lus the purse i uate, Now up to Ban Johnson to allow coaches to touch runners at second base. Blood may be thicker than wate: but luckily for Amer! t ain't wide, SPORT ALPHABET. for golf links I duffers go With asbestos bunkers And caddies aglow. FASHION NOTES. J. Evers isn't wearing his chatter quite so loose as formerly. v8 It ts correct to bawl out a team on its early showing. This prece+ dent was established when Colume met or Travis, who are all particularly fine shooter's on the greens Styles assortment of stapie weaves shown are not marked at $3: Broadway and Ninth Street Suits to Measure, $25 Spring and Summer bus claimed he would win a pene nant in the Discovery League, In addition to novelties, our $25 line contains a complete and patterns. Men who have never bought here will be surprised that the $25 Suitings 5 to $40. The value is imme- diately apparent. ‘Every garment we make must be satise factory to our customer in every particular. The Same Price at Both Stores ribet d Street Bet. Fifth bes Mad. Aves, Exclusively Custom Made Clothes *20 to*50 OPENING EASTERN AUTO RACING SEASON $20.000 in Cash Prizes Also Queens Cup Admission, $1. Race, 50 miles. Coney Island Cup, 2 Wm. 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