The evening world. Newspaper, May 25, 1916, Page 12

“D<j..| BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK- if a Dozen World’s Records Stand in Danger of Being Fractured Beyond Repair in the Intercollegiate Track and Field Championships at Cam- bridge. Soorrets "Ree York ivenlnn Worse intercollegiate track and field Cnampionships ontested at Cambridge this week-end will ing out the greatest collection of | thietes ever scen in one inclosure. | If a dozen world’s records stand in i of beins fractured beyond re- Cornell should retain ber su- macy, but the wonderful perforn of star athletes from other col- in early meets give promise Cornell wil! not capture all of| feature events. Yale, Harvard, yivania, Sianford and Califor- are likely tu cut into the Ithican Pennsylvania's star performer Ted Meredith, who is likely to the world’s record in either tho or the half mile—perhap: th, Windnagle of Corneil ran at jeredith’s shoulder when Meredith je a new half mile world’s record the Penn Reluy Meet a few days and orack his record. Johnny, erton of Yale is a favorite in the fe. Wilson of Stanford ran in 4.19 Michigan, and may go faster under ure. Worthington of Dartmouth, 0 won the New England champion. ip last week with 24 feet 3% inches, favorite in the broad jump, while; jason of Stanford ts only halt a foot so behind, any many others hov- ing around 23 feet. Among the great athletes who will missing from the lists are Andy Hy of ‘a! fastest sprinter America to-day, and Simpson of igsourl, world’s champion hurdler, pt. Murray, the 6 foot 4 inch Stan- entry, haz run the high hurdles 15 seconds flat and should have a chance to win with a new meet 3 The Stanford team, while not show- better than Cornell in all around ength, is quite likely to furnish as it a’ sensation the Stanford ¢id last year the Hudson, it came within a yard or two capturing the big race. When we “OUR Giants. ILLIE RITCHIE, formerly the world's lightweight cham- pion, has been spending sev- al weeks in Chicago playing golf.) Wie became a golf bug shortly ter he beat Wolgast for the cham- ship. He thinks golf the be: door training for a fighter. Billy json has just offered Ritchie a toh with Kid Lewis in the Argen- e, and Ritchie immediately wired ok terms and a provisional accept- of them now we said Ritchie yesterday in Chi- . "d like to meet Lewis in uw h fight. He may be able to out- int me in a ten-reund bout, as 1" wer been a fast starter, I grow | nger and faster as a fight goes) ne, id I think those who saw mv ith Lewis in New York will admit fat I carried a pretty hot pace right the finish, My only regret that I didn"t have a few Lewis will sult me, a finish fight, but I don't bar any ht that Gibson cares Bitt’ Brennan, the “Chicago Celt,” scored his twelfth con- secutive knockout night before laat when he finished tough Tony Ross in cight rounds, Brennan hasn't made any boast, yet, that he can whip Jess Willard. But he deacrves more consideration from the fight fans than some heavyweights who have been claiming all sorte of things and producing very little of “the goods" to back their claims. Perhaps Brennan would even fight Jack Dillon! ND by the way, Dillon has one challenger. Yep, some one ac- tually desires to mingle with “Man-eater.” Here's the very Speed + Safety \ f Practically every rac- ing driver of note uses pIXON's Automobile LUBRICANTS With life, limb and success at stake, they take no chances on lubrication going wrong. Can you afford to be less careful dealer fer the Bina Lubtieating Chart JOSEPH DIXON CRUCIBLE CO. Latablinbed 1827 Server City, N. J. » and may possibly beat the great, all the The mate It w show side, come ni ex note, chall Mr. 1 to isy no! wi ity Lav! “J 1 | weight champion of the world, Wel | the the | fui fully, comers newborn New made no record like that of the Giants. proved are to be reckoned with as an Im- portant factor in deciding the cham- pionship. with every club in the league now and | The sensation of bareball t have Smith, that Wolgast, plonship weight, The argument won the world's lightweight ehame | bout THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 191 THE “WILD WEST” IS TAME ENOUGH NOW by The Presse Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World), = ’ ‘ AY , Win v. a) MAI Wife lace etm ae Yanks’ First Real Road Test Next Week, | When Western Invasion Winds Up To- Day, Local American Leaguers Having Withstood Siege Suc- cessfully, Holding Third Place Against All Comers and With Stars Out of Lineup in Half of the Games. | By Bozeman Bulaer. ITH the Western invasion wind. | ing up to-day, the Yanks have withstood holding and with stars out o Mnoup in half of the games acid test has shown rial. It is tho real thing. The York Americans have the siege success- have Yanks as unnecessary. conclusiytly But they that the They have played a series @ good margin on the winning Their first real road test will the latter part of next week, when they hit the Western trail, That the public is appreciative of the efforts made to build up the club to a fighting standard is shown in the an- ment that the attendance has ed that of any previous year for ae much of the season as has passed, third place against, no phony! game has not | memory of present day fai They Hit the Western Trail The Finn, 4.. Short ¢ Slumber If, mboll, 5 . Probable Owner. Jockey. . Belmont. Butweil, . C. Hallenbeck Schutting » Herz, Keogh, O. Talbott. Notte: STRONG FIELD IN METROPOLITAN HANDICAP Probable Odds. or, Burlingame. BELMONT MEET ON WITH STROMBOL HAA CH RAAD Q sas The Metropolitan Is Feature of | ¢¢ qv HE Real Opening of Racing Sea- Giants son in New York. Are Coming Back to Open i By Vincent Treanor. i pe Ther WLMONT PARK opens to-day.| 1916 Season in To the turf world this means the East,” the real beginning of the racing | season in New Yor the nt-day | bah dhe at Jamaica being regarded’) — goems to be a consensus of opinion simply as a preliminary of big events! ame Jack Dillon. that. he is @ to come. Here the equine kings and pretty good fighter, queens make their ‘season's bow at 1 ba he ty ine elbow Jamaica, Tho sport was of the most fant an ordinary sort. ‘There is @ certain glamour about iH a Belmont ing beside whic! opened there were about sixty secon elmont opening beside which other |." Cobbs in it who lasted just about ee wy bi When the American League seasat ’ McTaggart, te Garr Elkwood Park Stable, McCahey. |] Grumpy. 4 100 C. J. Brockmiller, Hall. winnieg ||] Spur, J, Butler. McDermott, , " E | Indian Chant, 3 93 F, P, Koene, Lyke, May f—New 30 1 8 8 i *Belmont entry, xButler entry. ino a8 i 7Z 2 a 3 7 4 5 2 o 1 1438 w 4 “4 2 5 6 s o8 o 2 } ‘ o Nog Nddle- + the 7 Jimmy Clabby, the American middle-+ emoeational Enalish fighter, knocked out et 1b Anderson T! weight, who i’ atill in Australia, scored | Eddie of Milmaudee in the thirteenth round Ll aa 11 4 Peeritt another victory at Sydney recently by 4 the Dastow Gymrastic Cob last nicht. Lewis Brita 140 19 os "a0 getting the verdict over Dave Smith, lomonstration of boxing, and punching = ND d_ Browns had finished many fans sat in the grand stand hoping to get the inning at Cincinnat ng feat of the Giants, a clean sweop of the West that has turned all predictions topsy-turvy and made them favorites in the bet- ting on pennant chances. Last | night McGraw's club was quoted at 3 to 1, with the Dodgers and | Braver at 4 to 1. | anridine on- | im over the Giants since they won the pennant in 1305, There is much rejoicing among th nks and thelr followerm, tee ay jover the return to form of Lee Ma- Kising in his wrath at the way dard Luck bas been mauling hin | around, Lec shook the slump from bis shoulders The remarkable performance of going through the West, playing every team, and winning every n equalled in the We have reports of things like that having been done back in the yesterday and_ practically} | eightios, but no modern club has | put the game on Ice with a single and + \°" handed the ‘@ complete |home run, both wallops coming when blank. This winning of thirteen | runs were needed. ‘The moment Magvo straight on the road ie all the moro aetonishing in view of the fact that the Giahts have won but @ at home all season, left here thoy had won two games and lost thirteen, Tho other gam yes won on | started the rest of the club fell in Une and the mighty Weilman was slaugh- |¢ The elongated Brown twirlor suffered the worst defeat ho has ex- perienced in many moons. | The Dodgers having finished | up their drive against the West, — |“ come back still in the Icad and | The local intore: of _yesterda: gamo wasin- | Evening World, see that it is hard to get men fight Jack Dillon, but he won't to go beyond me. recently—not only backed him up after he had handed mo every- thing he possessed, but had the best of him in the last four rounds. I hope nobody judges me on my last two fights. When I fought Weinert I was only ten days out bed after having pleur- , and I had only twelve hours’ tice for Lovinsky, I never dis+ sipated In any way, and I'm going before The men ake one big. spurt from the ring want to fight unboat Dillon and t, and MW fight Frank Moran for char- Yours, JIM SAVAGE READER wishes to know if Ritchie was ever world’s light- weight champion, Ho argues Nelson, Gans, Erne and igno never held the title, Says he. ack McAuliffe was last light- next one, Kid Lavigne best Jack | Burge, but Burge welghed much over | kiovking him out Ughtweight limit, and as a cham. cannot be lost except at this battle naturally ax a contest for the title. is wrong. Lavigne re 1 gave | him the hardest fight he bas had The march of the Dodgers was not so spectacular as that of the Giants but it brought home the bacon, The Brooklyn pitch- ing staff, led by big Jeff Pfleger, Sherrod Smith and others, is, perhaps, the best in the league, 5 pounds, Lavigne weighing about 180, A few days before the bout Burge announced that’ he wouldn't inake less thag M45 pounds. Pessy Hettinson, manager of the National Sporting Ciub, at once offered to let © cancel the match. Lavigne It ts not often that a piayer ty | City. Mr, Rettinson, “it! |cheered uproariously as he comes to|t \ y to expect you to risk on a judge tho tweive-rou Danay Mo and the club officials acc ‘The Pioneer Sporting Club om West Forty-fourth - Strect will hold another boxing show to-night, Manager Doesserick has arranged a card of two | AbAWalnis unks yestemMay by o up and 2 oral ieliminaries for the |to play. of Baltimore on Monday been ot fast twenty round contest. the Australian middleweight, at the end ofa victory will probably enable him to get return battle of twenty rounds with Leo Darcy, the middleweight cham- pion of Austral Pat O'Keefe, of Ireland, whe hs middleweight championship of BE This held the | # Johnny weight pust fought a Kubane, devision, a draw, fs no longer the bolder of that timportant aging over the ropes, He surresdered bis claim w tt a few! pig Brennan of Chica to Bandosne: New York baitled to a ip @ twenty. 8B a wook te in this country, has been nd outs and . In the two i tackle Young It n+ Milly Bennett 19. nigut Frankie ituted for who te al either Johnny Couion or Hete and kidie € yorting Club of | fastest and. best 3 re earywelght ba on hy would hate eared | «ni Lactate . the premier referee of boxing elected to battle between Jack Brit jon, and Mike O'Dowd, which will be decided | | tem rounds Eddie Campi of California will 80; goor | against A! Shubert of New Mextford, Maas, while ) iv the semi-final Jimmy Murray will ewap punches with K, 0, Bexerw of Frankie Brown, the promising east aide ben: | peuvoT PARK tamweight, will meet Lo. tana of Philadelphia | \ The wate. tna fifteen round bout at the American A. A, | Lowisiava has | ¢,/ Buns of Jersey | Burns is aiso signed up to id Sim: | for the utle this y at Mo ¢ lant wight, which electrified the club tember tenound bout at hight, the result being, according to newspaper The firme two rounds were rather tame, but after that the contest ing owe, Kilbane was several ti for a few | fOr punching his opponent wiea he bad Wailace ud Andre And ae in tivelve ‘Tie bout was one of the eter seo in Anderson had the nivantage ef twen- @ pounds, and in the first six rounds set the — F. K. ROBESON RETAINS SCHOOLBOY GOLF TITLE. came a warned, bunds Filmore K. Robeson successfully de- fended the pionship, defeating J. 8. Hons | in the tournament, rolda *Hevdle Her. 1d Interscholastic golf cham- Dean on the | maidens; oo irate ae ToT Dean tee 107; 4 a Only eight players competed rand it was almost day, though, is the record break- For half an hour after the ; wh ery proepect of slcking lean will take on mew pak MUL oEA hei ha ane cise ‘bd lil a oe ere for some time. “Robbie , }won had w lead of two hol 8 op : hus the goods this spring and it a = sues (pen He was around in 63. wicks written in his own hand by the|Pionshly when he defeated Burge.| — ywilt take aome mighty mauling | tery Mrmmaatns manne es aa | acne Dean took 86. In the atternone . Robert Kdgren, New York | into at tho Engilsh ligneweignt mite, 1% Giants to distodge him, |e club on Seturdas night, 10 the main go ot |S Elen. could as Ree ae ate ae | BELMONT PARK ENTRIES. RACE TRACK, N (Or WWPiOrrOW'® Raves are y. Whi a veight lc bat without having done some ; may of New Orleans (or fiftwea foun tles, four bad your American weigh am i e some par. | ma ; 10: Wil | lonship. We will announce that the | Uculariy, meritor tot tag | neat oe use 12, Whee, “io title Is not at stake, as Burge refuses |f6W preceding tminu' at is why | Silent Martin, wh has been improving in every 4 npward to make the weight." the ovation to Walters, the young | contest that he has been taking part in for se Comels, 115 “| don't care What he weighs,” said| X48 catcher, was all the more ime | rs! months, bas been signed up to fight some god sale,’ 120: lene, “Let the fight go for the | Pressive. In the elghth inning the|middieweisit at the Broadway Sporting Clud of < and up title | fans arose and cheered him for his all- Hrookl June 3. Huy opponent will most | *t H Fr it a orthwood, The fight was billed as for the|#Und good work during the after- | Jel yars, tuts ine jenark flehter, whe te) Soret fen Hat ia. ottioner lightweight championship of the | @O% and to show his appreciation -—— . RACE. -h na world, On the night of the fight | the boy promptly slapped out anothor |. Marty Crow bas beeo Looked for another fight ‘ . Bur sed to weigh in at all, La-|Sigle. During the game Walters |>y bis manager, Sain Wallach, He will tackle | went t him and knocked. him | “48 all over the plato, If a bad throw | title Nugent of Nutley, N, J. im the wind-up | out, although he must have weighed | ®t by first he was there to wtop it | the nest laine show of the Vamps 2. A | About 150 pounds. and the samo thing haproned” wt |<f,tistem, om Monday ight. tn the, other, was lightweight champion |t@itd. One of his backups saved a [tam clampon™ will box Matting Mer, run on one occasion and perhaps stopped more. His throwing was Aas accurate as a sharpshooter and. he Umit to win the championship in any | Plt as woll as the sluggers. ‘Tho fans | y \clas, Lavigne became world's cham= soed peeeoall Fen taay ate it pion when he whipped Burge, Clear | 4nd Baye the young fellow a tremen- eb RUERE Oise | id. He well deserved it, Snyland, A champion can lose a Htitle if he is overweight, although a| ho ifiebter must be within the weight MH |title te the world's halt 3 In passed from Lavigne to Erne on a ref | bat boy Bill Donovan bas landed one erve's decision. Gans succeeded Erne by | °f the best catchers of several years. n one round, Nel- tee gon kn. from ut ¢ Wolgast won val Knockout, It would be difficult to imagine a more sanguinary and general hu the fight being hen Nelson | battle than ing between Giants Was helpless on from Wot. ad Dodgers imm iT gist on a foul, and Welsh won from | return from tha West © schedule Rotehie on poli in a twenty-round | 448 willed It a litte different, but they will be here for the Fourth of | Juiy games and all of Brooklyn is viet le 15 Results of Ga: +15 20 429) N. York. Ih... 12 20.375 | Bosto: making preparations for an assay on the Polo Grounds ns | Qk Doc Crandall has haa se! | opportunity to show himself since his return from the outlaws, but he ap- once as a plneh Litter for the ns yesterday, and his old ad- mirers almost tore up the stand: |'They will never forget the “Old Do: vy jin this town, } mes Even without the afd of Home Run Maker and Roger Peckinpeugh the! Yanks managed to smother the ne aker is suffering from a t knee ckinpaugh has a ame — buch and Bauman proved very substitutes: +g, Military, Bay. Als abipe, at Albert tier 1 Cuverr Basdoud mado good tn k Lous us es Italian, Joe the for tnree boxing again, He easily beat Young Otto , which was hie sixteenth ‘He. cians | of the year, 06) owt of thane ma: ASHBY 24. LEXICON 2% wn. ARROW COLLARS FOR BIG TUCKED-IN-END BOWS ABooy & Co. ° Jans, ‘ind bunt Yoyog Ahearn has) & engagement with Zulu Kid, Jimey Duffy decided to rest the Franco Swisa welterweight, Me first start here againat s, will make lia wext appearance at hington Vara in Brookivn on Decoration Day In the return ‘de Itghtweight, eek at Atlantic City hes. Ded Mid" Lowa, | ‘ Inc., MaKgnt bas intor: lao ‘by Tolle; Spectal Cars rved TO-N : Reiliy ves Bills Beny ang Reiliy + a trian *tdale'cittords & 5 Club Sr BELMONT PARK TO-MORROW THE WESTBURY 2 Mille Steeplechase and 4 Other Good Races BEGINNING AT 2.80 P, M, for ett, ory Paddock, DRTING ©) ie Beane Wall, Wy Bren .j tion in any event. of Brookirn, Montreal last things in a racing way resemble side that long. shows, It is America’s most beau- jtiful race broad |. First the sporting writers pick @ {stretches are run events whieh an m to win, then thoy pick it to nually adc history of Pieces. | the thoroug The cream Baseball Is making great strides in Japan and Chine, where the players |v "As has been the custom for yeare,/are too gentlemanly to accuse each | Belmont’s opening feature is the Met- | other of being yellow. jropolitan Handicap, one of the three - of the year, rank-| » with the Brooklyn Jand Suburban, race fixtures which in {the heyday of racing meant gathe: lings of 40,000 people at the courses teh they were run, jot the racing world is seen in action | ther ing & sharp glim on fpfield, “which looks ebeut ready There would be some excuse for a marathoner if he owned au mobile. Then every mile he ran he war's Metropolitan is the | would be saving a pint of gasoline. twenty-third renewal of the eventy' 1 ine tunnten thine in the WOM le 8 hich was first run at old Morris; q About, the funnies thing : K in Westchester in 1801, Up tolinte ais motuch ‘worm om | * 1esueere 1897 it was a mile and a furlong race, but in the latter year the distance was reduced to a mile, Since 1905 the classic has been contested at Belmont Park every spring excepting 1911 and 1 SHORT LECTURE. It 1s possible to understand why a man will go to sleep on an English when anti-recing legislation |tea-table insisting that he is a New aused the tracks to shut down, England boiled dinner. Of the fleld na di ht barrier in this It is possible to comprehend why a ke Stromboli, | ear's win-|man wil! hound a perfectly neutral public with a crow i # been spe rite. | peanut for five mile , + prepared for the r: Trainer Sam} You can understand wh: man Hildreth, If ke ion and fast | will suddenly go Democratic join trials mean any , he should be|a society for securing more privacy hard to beat, “Always considered aj for canary birds, os But who can tell what motive festers in the cupola of the cranium cripple who mobilizes of his own volition. and pursues a golf bull around in a rain storm, thus making the golf ball an accessory before tee fact? on | racehorse of the-highest type, this » y ts ready} [of the illustrious Fair PI jfor his five-year-old campaign better fitted than ever before. No other starter in the race has worked faster than he, and, ridden by the capable Butwell, bis chances appear second to | none Racing, however, has tts uncere| ue caeagt SOT re taintics, Post positions, a bitd break, | _hittimr®, Chicam, St. Taser and Cine a jam, a cut off, and racing luck wilh+the Dartunellss, Some ay ara’ beat the best of them. ‘These things make a stake of this kind more or less open contests and furnish oppor- tunities for surprises for which thor- oughbred racing is noted, Stromboli will tind worthy opposi- The Finn, for in- stance, which lost last 8, Kings County Handicap by after running an exceptionally good is in fine fettf® and ready for the big question. So is Short Grans, | the long striding English horse, who Iseems particularly suited by the long |turns and reverse way of running at Belmont; James Butler's High N a sprinter of the | President Hempstead saved a lot of hotel bills on this Western trip as the Giants didn’t stop anywhere, Every series was a whirled serice in the West, A golf fan bo that rain can’t S prevent golf. No golfer is afraid of rain unless it happens to be in @ | glass. . oe on, first rank, is as fit us can be too, At six furlongs few can show faster performances than High Noon, but to-day the journey is a mile, — — -—— WOODBINE ENTRIES. WOODBINE, y tries for to-morrow's races a lows: 1, Stepiachann andy nHearta t “You can’t tella Kaufman from a high-priced hat’’ Choose your new straw where variety | is unlimited—where style is unsur- passed—where you get real $3.00 qual- ity all for $1.50. Tokio PANAMAS 2 75 |Reauaeae 3 50 f Worth $5.00, o)° Unusual Value, - Manhattan’s Man Hatter Stores Everywhere