The evening world. Newspaper, May 22, 1916, Page 12

Giants Have Now Won Eleven! Straight Games, Their Won-| dertul Comeback Being the) Sensation of the Season. ON Gs Yor ventas Worth HE wonderful comeback of the Giants is the sensation of the jason. Eleven straight! It Begins to look very much es if the “Cellar Champions” might crack that world’s record of twenty straight wing, made by Providence, National e, in 1884 | “The Giants are only going at their formal speed now,” declares John | McGraw. McGraw certainly ts deserving of & world of credit for developing the Giant machine. During the disas- trous weeks of the early season, when the Giants lost thirteen and ‘won two games, McGraw was called an overrated manager, but he didn't have @ word to say in answer to the many criticisms. He offered no alibis, although as a matter of fact the playing of the Giants was not by any Means so poor us to deserve such 4 Btring of defeats. It seemed that old hard luck was on their trai! until they went We And if I remember | right nearly all of the baseball | ) Prophets suggested a suspicion (hat the Giants would be handled worse on foreign fields than they were at home. on. risty Mathewson gives delight to all_of Big Six's old admirers, . The Giants seem headed for a whirlwind rush that will eclipse all of their former pennant winning feats, They are “running wild” on the bases. They have everything they lacked last year. They put over half a do: ateals where they used to have one. abead at a tremendous pace. Satur- ei hardly a daturday pisses ‘without sume new worid's recora. the University of Wisconsin threw the discus 155 feet 8 incnes, breaking au world’s records, including the bi marke of Jun Duncan and Nickland the Finn, Mucks t» . giant am the weight throwers. He in a bigger and more athletically built man than Of course it Is likely, and in fact very was Ralph Rose when the California, probable, or so of world's ag he might have been for Saturday's Clockers say 260 pounds in fine athletic condition, &!Ven any route works, all his trinls padth of having been over sprinting distances, old public as a rule nev ws such things until it has squan- ‘ed its money on the champion. @iant broke a doze records at shot putting, Standing six and a haift feet and weigiing over Mui has much greater b @houlder and length of arm than Jess put the poo: Willard. He has been gaining in skill every season for the past four years, and before he drops out of athletic competition will probably put the dis- cus throwing mark up where other athletes will shoot at it for years to come. Mucks |: great shot putter = asa din thrower, His discus throw on Saturday wa made from a seven-foo! circle, Dun- ean's world’s record, from a seven- feot circle, was ten feet short of; Muck's new figures. The record made by the great Finn, 156 feet, was in a throw from an Olympic circle, & feer! 2 Inches in diameter, which gay him an advantage worth about ten feet In a discus throw, WEEK ago Simpson of Me sour! showed himself the great- est athlete of modern times Deplicating his fea: of # week be fore, ye ran the 120-yard hurdles in 144-5 seconds, Smithson, Kelly and Garrels never were able to beste 16 seconds flat. Hesides equalling his own world's record in the high hurdles, Simpson won four other events, running the 220-yard htrdlex in 243-6 seconds, broad jumping 23 feet 6 inches, and winning the hun dred yard dash and the yard dasb in very fast time, running the 220 under even time, Kraenzlein of Pennsylvania was the only other athlete who ever came near this all around ability in run- hurdling and jumping, and e cept in t were better = than MONG other notable perform- ‘ances this pant week were the 220-yard hurdles in 24 seconds flat, by House of Stanford Univer- aity in the Stanford-Michigan ‘and tbe mile in 4.19 by Wilson of. ting # Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured. Enjoyed moderately in all we do— in what we eat and what we drink. The moderate man drinks that won- derfully mild and mellow Whiskey— Wilson—Real Wilson—That’s All! The Whiskey for which we invented the Non-Refillable Rotle FREE CLUB RECIPES—Free booklet of temeus club recipes tor tained drinks, Address Wilses, 31! Fith Ave, N.Y, That's Alt (“THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, MAY 22, 1916. _ _BEST SPOR TING PAGE IN NEW YORK | CELLAR CHAMPIONS, EH? Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World), Wert, Bors — MN STRAIGHT! Listen Cie '™ GoIN'T" . Giants’ Record on Road ' Is Greatest in History dern Baseball Of Mo eam Jumped Into First Division From Hopeless Tailend Posi- tion, and the West, Which Is) Conceding Them the Pennant, ls Wondering What Was the Matter With Them at Home. remarkable rejuvenation of Olly Excuse for Champion's Wigniea as Poor Showing in First $ Is Lack of Condition. seemed to have the By Bozeman Bulger. HE feat of starting on the road Train ng Trials at Local Tracks Jn, mile, 1.47 2b, r stable is off to a good son, In much the same By Vincent Treanor. F the showing of Champion Roamer an ordinary field poh rt of the year is any crite- HIB will be the greatest weason "On he is not going to have things his we've ever had in amateur OW" Way in the handicap position this athletics. While the rest of "€4#on, especiallyewhen he has weizht the world is too busy with war to UP keep on in athletics America is going OPPosed him Haturday to meet ye The Andrew Miller gelding has as! successful ‘being the big day for athletic Much eleven straight games and tak- {ing a running broad jump into the division is the road record for ball, and the Giants must Winning th \e "Fes, three-quarters, 1,17, Manhattan’ half, tard, three. uae out of four starts is | 4 feat on the race tracks these | Incidentally, t modern bas victories serve ner McCormack, | natured Dick | Butler string. | |home and laughed at abroad | weeks ago, they are now the sensa tion of the big leagues. ‘aw hit the West in 1911, |when the Giants, against heavy odds, | won the pennant. former record of the Giants made on daring ba with a slice of luck thrown in here and there, but this has been done on hard, clean hitting. Since leaving the Polo Grounds five of the regulars have bit about .300, as_utility man, is also ob- the New York pitchers held opposing batters to an average of a little less than seven hits to the game, the answer is apparen men who have served as heav half.” 50, five-euihths, 1.04 ‘iudstern, 1.19 8-8 mas boss of th MeCormack The clean-up popular New «in fine fettle, Sky Wilot, three q Kings) filly in a » field from a bad post first turn and shown} pounds sat lightly the way up the homestretch, but his performance minds of the spectators as to whether | County handi This last Saturday Arie Mucks of position tu the four-year-old. Ninety-eight 2 {prer:qiarters, 1.18 Kings County and Rousch, horse Saturday in Boots isoin's imported five-y didn't get to running until the Kings Inty Handicap wo Oscar Lew- three-quarters, 1.19 1 i?) 3 McKeehnie, nd Burns, .300. third to Capra and Kauff, Fletcher and behind, with) Fitzsimmons Armament on the wrong day ‘inside” good and but for a hust-| marks around . With the wakir team Matty has cor Henry J. Topping’s Playing Is Sensation of Golf World nie up of the whole to life with an things Saturday, eloped into! y's battle at) Cincinnati the Reds got but one run Sole paren off Anderson, and that a home run| horses who saddled The evidently ;mons, who, of the best trainers Greenwich Country Club Star Already Touted to Win Met- ropolitan Championship. hold forth at Si the City Club tourney will take place and the Metropolitan Ad ation will hav akewood on Fri- to! hay conceding New York the pennant tt begins to look as if George whereof he spoke when a month ago ants were the only club he had to} night have borne out F week end affair and Saturday. he declared | Stanford HE playing of Henry ¥. Topping of the Greenwich Country Club Fy , yiind Philadelphia yomen's championships will be played is the sensation of the Rolfing this week, the former at Brookline and. ¢ two tourneys the latter at White in the metro- Schaefer still owing that he made the| McGraw had ¢ Both prediction will begin t E In each case the present champ: helming favorite. the British girl, is not likely tributes his success to the coaching of to find any serious opposition at Bos- ton, and at Philadelphia Mrs, Ronald been conducted politan district--Ardsley and Garden -and he won both, bridg one new world's re bedded in the cellar atthlotes are got & ahead of the performances nearly everything but bammer ing and shot putting Topping at~ In the sudden excitement over the Giants, though, it is still of moment to know that the Yanks MeTaggart let him down in the stretch he came away easily the well-known professional, Macdon- | wallop often falls hardest are going right a job of wading thre ern clubs of the American Leag inding up with the wn ries which begins to an evidence of the way Bill Don- ovan's gare stands with the fans, a crowd of nearly 30,000 paid their way into the Polo Grounds Sat urday, establ anc ord for th gue in New York. This attendance fever appears to have become epidemic, The Cleveland club went out home to play the Sena- tors over Sunday and outdid all pre- vious crowds in size by nearly 10,000, | ton re Even though defeated by Walter |in Johnson the Cleveland fans went mad | have | 441 slants ie about aa nutrition. as as if Mr. Dunn, the new owner, has | ;jit@nt ant lie? hoth of em ‘overtake You, over their league leaders And it looks | stumbled into a fortune when he only expected to have a lot of fun. It out just as the wheel was turning. | ' Philadelphia's victory over the Cubs knocked Tinker's gang out of the first | Giants. The New York gang came from the tatlend so rapidly that their | new neighbors hardly recognized them, The raw nerve and assurance of the Yank pitchers Saturday did as much to upset Ty did the excellent work of the infield. With runners on second and third | and only one out Cobb came to bat didn't _expes that Fish: walk him. All pite that in the past a fact, it would have been the wise thing for the Yanks to do. But right there Fisher crossed the Georgia Peach. Inste on balls he surprised him by putting the ball over and striking him ont. 1 would play it ‘safe and '¢ With Tyler going good again | We hear that Mike Gibbons would rather no pl. the Braves look to have a good chance to win another flag, were it not for the Giants. The Bos- ton lefthander yesterday shut the Cardinals out, allowing them but | With the coming of the Rrowns the Yanks have their first breathing spell since the Invasion began That St Louis crowd looks easy when com-' pared with Cleveland, the White Sox and the Tigers, but you never can tell Just when it seems soft is when the EN i He Ho rapid has been Top-| ph) ,Biriow. ‘ Smith's retain ‘her title. eapects \\watentul eye that he ix now being Clarence H. Vanderbeck touted to win the metropolitan cham-/ In his short land putting Topping ts becoming al-| ‘A few more displays of kind that he gave at Garden City! should giv: al and final his rivals, development shown in the past by Yanke, the erstwhile plunger, John Flanagan, Ma James Mitchell, the national) is not expected to play layers if he Yanke is one of the shrewdest the | pionship. approaching After an absence from the ring of sam Mike (ibbone tos Ter Rid" Laws at the years and a tern fighter and former Dexter jr., the Southern | most deadly, week on his home course, a Vapke, the ¥ him a bie advantage over | » champion- eae begin to-morrow on the links r jof the Dallas Country Club, Dallas, such players as Walter J. Travis and) Tex, and will last for the remainder nd|of the week begin to refer to marvellous deeds on the putting green a8 being “just like Henry fopping does it.’ “Pittsburgh | The Southe! stunt in @ ten round bout of Brooklyn on last week In the semi-fin How Sam MeMeekin has depre-|pounds and golfers will forget that the Clermont A ‘Thuraday evening, June 1. matchmaker of apke to meet Johnny How- ard, the Bayonne, N. J. fighter, in the main go at the show. looking after the affaire of Papke and he claimy that the long rest whieh Billy has had will enable him to make good in Papke's last fight was with Louis on Oct, One rainy day he we Madden for are orted price of $15,000 signed up Pi club house at altusrol chilled through e broad jump. Simpson’s| and feeling anything but ch | ‘The two golfers of whom the Cran- * \ford Golf Club is so justly proud, Max |R. Marston and Edwin M. Wild, will Jerome D, Travers and Philip Al Lippe is now Jsale Sam MeM promising. thre kin looked th Vance, “how did it go to-day | as destined tor At Apawamis to-day the eighth an-| itt | nual championship of the Eastern In- lmatch next olf Association will be- | Sunday win with the qualifying round in the e first match round in ‘Tho team champion- vhip will be decided bythe scores made ;try to make up for that defeat next in the qualifying round, and semi-final rounds will be played | to-morrow and the final on Wednes- day will be a thirty-six hole affair, All bors Who are students in preparatory high schools in the Kast are eligi- » play in the tourney, shaking his head despond horses Sature finished third ‘aturday at Cranford, On| and Oswald Travers and % In the recent match at nd Carter were and the other two terscholastic | Englewood. ‘Hackensack Kirkby the winners, his opponents It was too late (morning and t meet, patting myself on the back f yund in that mud int ‘Ad Wolgast seems to be recovering his fighting form of soveral sears ago a few nights ago he knocked out Pat Gilbert, the heretofore undefeated Rocky Mountain lightweight Wolgast has been doing considerable ing for his last four Larney Lichtenstein, Out at Balt Lake City The second | Sunday whied his manager, | say is responsible for his many victories professional golf match at Dyker Meadow day George Low and Patrick Doyle ofeated Macdonald Smith and Harry Filly Gitwon is atill receiving offers from clubs Lover the country for fights for Benny Leonard, night from Kansas where they want Leonard to meet Ever Hammer, the promising Chicago lightweight ound bout the latter part of next month | eon has wired the promoter his terms score prize went to Low, with a total) The other scores were: Doyle, hoofs of tho reat of the field Several club and trade associations Injured herself te \ahe never raced sich am extent t are matched to m >, of Brooklyn on In the semi-final K, 0, Joe Daly 0k np with Jobnny Keyes fay night Dutch O'Hagan, the Al: | cashes with Willie Adame of Long main event and Happy 9 Jonny Mutay of Staten Inlan INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. STANDING OF THE CLUB: ‘-e ny 684) Montreal 10 * At the same | Richmo'dis 6 Balttmorel3 7 Provid'eet0 7 650 Roch'at'r 6 lym. dk ® 428 BAR Toronto 4 RESULTS YESTERDAY Montreal. 7; New 18 485 | Wash'ter 12 18 400 Restos. Results of Games Yesterday. ‘Row Derk 11; Cineimpon, 1 hes the fast west side Montreal, @; Newark, 5. QAMEB TO.DAY, ny Burt will meet Joe Cassia Baltimore at Toronto. Richmond at Rochester Games To-Day. Bt. Loule at New York Boston eland at Philadelphi ‘Chicago at War itting middleweight of . ipbie ot Chieage. foul rounds at 1 don, and after the bout be said: “I am greatly; ined at the poor showing of Giblona, If he flght any better than that Iam ceriain that T can defeat him because I don't think he te much of a puneher,” | At the Harlem Sporting Club to-night Jim | Farry, the Chicago hearyweight, and Soldier | Kerns, the mgged Brooklyn hearyweight, will box | six rounde in @ special event... Two bouta of ten rounds will be staged between Allie Neck and | Frankie Lippy, and Willie Astey and Battling | Hew. i Phil Bloom started training to-day for his ten: | rout’ bout with Vio Moran at the Harlem Sport. | with Ted Lewis, Young Brown and Bobby Saun. Tiv are billed for the ten-rounder preceding the 447 Ploom-Moran affair, Otto adapted for Sport Coats. | Broadway and Ninth Street PUTTING ’EM OVER With “Bugs” Baer ' |e JURY Turns || J ina Verdict | of Suicide When- ever jland Fan Goes Near \a Squirrel.” Can't see how Bobby Veach figures the Detroit management should pay . for having his teeth filled. It would / bankrupt a ball team if they had to pay for filling all the cavities in thelr players’ heads. his haireuta? “Why. he'd be dawled, And Rollie Zelder would work for nothing if the club promised to pay his chiropodist bill game went into almo: cantos Losing an or you can pay it that way The college nine had just been bested, Cash and glory from ‘em wrested, The campus green was clogged with gobs of wor, buck was passed up tg the coache: Proes once, The undergrads had dropped thew tough earned dough The H | Even though the dope had tumbled, coaches were not one whit humbled, their glims there gleamed enw lightment’s beam, hing a new attend- | Kasily they flashed the reason— A For the first time in the season They had played a student on the team! As | The mn ‘That invitation to Sir Tommy Lip- esting him t the 1916 Kiel rej been lost in the mail. Fven tho’ a mother didn’t raise her seems tough, at that, that Carley | hoy to be a soldier there is no reas Somers, after losing all his fortune |son why she should lower him to be while in baseball, should have to step /a euchre player. The United Sta‘ division and made room for the |had just hande The loser object “Vil take this higher ‘The critics who said the pennant ‘obb and the Tigers as|would be won in the West are right. The Giants are winning tt there now, Washington writers are olaimi and it looked like a sure score. Ty | ane ‘Nationale will be bs to hit the ball, figuring | simul hi Pp ers have done! been eliminated from the tourna- d, as a matter of pment. a of giving him a base, Manager Tinker decided that yer Tinker could cover more ter- ry on the bench, e for a demonstration. aT JAMA TO-MORROW 6 STAR ATTRACTIONS $1500 STUYVESANT * FIRST RACE AT 2,30 P. M. SPECIAL RACE TRAINS Penn. 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