The evening world. Newspaper, June 14, 1916, Page 12

RET pac N COLLEGE livperie L Row BY Moon Liaut Diu ADD ANOTHER. INCH To THAT BicePs ¢ petiipe itll __No Other Athletes Go Through ™$uch_a Long Grind for Such a Brief Struggle for Glory as Do wes { Coiiege Oarsmei. | Coprright, 1916, by The Prem Publishing Co. | Th: New York Evening World | MAGINE training a ye for al | igre hat will last a little over} twenty minutes! That's what the college oarsmen do in preparat for the annual events on the Hudson or on the Thames, No other athletes In the world, amateur or professional, go through such a long grind for such @ brief struggle for glory. The college varsity candidate is never entirely out of training. He works through the summer to strengthen his muscles and gain power for next year's race. In ie fall he rows and runs. When winter closes down and it becomes too cold to work out of doors he goes through ® long grind of gymnasium work, sometines Including rowing exercises in a roofed over tank. As soon 43 the ice clears away and there is enough open water to drive a boat through without danger of smashing it he is sent out to row again, to row interminably, to row miles and miles without even a lone spectator to cheer him up. This is pure grind, A man who goes through it without Josing enthusi n is game, Later | in the spring comes more and more rowing, aily direction of the coach, who gradually whips his ¢rew candidates into something ap- | proaching regatta form, There are | a few races against other college crews, regarded merely as try-outs, | Two or three weeks before the) THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE ' BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK | Copyright, 1916, by STRICT LIMITATION oF Taw Ears”. The Press Publishing Co. (The N IF T pots Yo,0oo Times A Dav I can GeT MY STROKE ur To 46, AND AL FOR This | great race of the year the crew men | fre sent to their final training quar- ters at the course. Whether it's at Poughkeepsie, Red Top or some other rowing rendezvous, they lead a lonely ey No excitement is allowed, Noth- is to take their minds off the ‘Hello, Gib. Say, tHere ain't nothin’ doin’ with the Scotch-Wop. 1 tora up th’ contracks.’ Gib sees Welsh's manager and they fix up @ match. Then Johnston butts in an’ notifies Heed BECO Ne Sean ceria |Gib that he's got Dundee feedin’ out limited study hours. They get up at| Of his hand again, an’ the match with daylight and go for a long walk with | Benny is on for Monday night. Gib the coach. They eat training table|says he never signed no scrap of meals, carefully selected, They rest | pane othing, and there aint no bh eeriain length of time after each| match. ‘Why,’ says Gib, ‘you said meal, take their walks or runs at) you torn up th ks’ ‘1 know,” certain hours, see few visitors, spend 1's a contrack a certain amount of time on the n friends? water, where the coaches drill and ‘ » down to th’ Commish’, says drill and drill until every man ts as) the Hoy Bandit, ‘an’ seo what Freddy his intelli- | Wenck has to say about it’ ributes will, "They go to mmish office t hour, very) Wenck listens evidence as every man {s/spieled out by Johnston, looks wise, must go. There is; an’ decides that as Gib has talked no questioning n'a orders,| with the Boy Bandit he needs a writ and no oarsman ever thinks of ques- tioning them. On the day of the big race every of habeas corpus to keap out of the booby hatch, and that when Johnston tored up the contracks he only de- | man is supposed to be on edge--ready | the paper an’ not the intent to give his one greatest possible ef-| th ‘It's a oriel contra saya fort to win. There is a long dragged-| Wenck, ‘flattenin’ Gib with some of dragging afternooa. | ‘The | The out morning—a ‘At last the crews are called out bor ro at the starting stakes that legal lingo he learned runnin’ the Yale Law School football team. has to fight Dundee referee's call, “Are you ready, Colum r an’ his manager bia! Are you ready, © ‘ornell!" &c.,| gets wise to a chance for an out, and echoes over the water, The puff of|they notify Gibson that Welsh and amoie from the starter's gun leaps out spitefully, and before the report reaches the waiting oarsmen every long eweep is bent like a bow tp the first smashing drive. Leonard never was mi can take Leonard for all Welsh cares.” “Did Gibson have Welsh and promoters tied up with a written con- hed, an’ Gib For a year ,energy, akill, determi-| tract?” [asked the eared Sport nation have all been bottled up. And] “Nix on that he replied now the bottle is upturned and the}They had one of them oriel con. year's gathering is being lavishly|tracks made in the presence of the poured out again. Commish.” | ‘Twenty-one minutes or so—and the} “Then won't the Commission decide | pouring is over. In that frantic in-|that the match will have to go on— terval—that glorious physical and|lke the Leouard-Dundee affair?” mental epree—the year's work is jus- tifed—or lost. And after that—for those who are still eligible for the crew-comes an- other year. 4“ uu can search me," said the Tin- eared Sport, “I've quit: makin’ any future book on the Commish,” — Bout on Foul, June 14—-Frankie Russell 8 Was given a decision tn with Ad Wo of) ma foul In the fourth ex-ehamy hi - sr, LovIs AY," sald the Tin-eared Sport, /of New Or ‘did ya see the mysterious Iast night's bout swat somebody handed the Cadillac, Mich Welsh-Leonard bout? That was af fOUPd. the geet time ihe reformed funny cne, eh? Gibson talks about notin @ position to see it, When Rus matching Leonard with Dundee. Jim. | Stil Kot Up Wolsast fought wildly and my Johnston meets Gibson and say. ast again landed low and the deciaton in ta (vor of Kussell followed. La Sultana The kgpremm an Joracce Corporation of America nd paint him pink | the} Russell | ' Bigger Fields anit. cael | Belmont Meeting Ends To-Day With Keene Memorial Clos- ing Feature. By Vincent Treanor. | ACING at Belmont ark will come to an end this afternoon. To-morrow the scene shifts to Jamaica, After the latter meeting comes that at Aqueduct. Those who enjoy making tndivid- ual wagers at the track wil be mighty glad when the racing starts at Jamaica, The sport has been far from good at Helmont, { jamal) tlelda which ha ' post in most of the races, | An epidemic of coughing among the horse: ered Inside the park jand also because many horses suf fered from bucked shine caused the searcity of entries, Of course, with the flelds #0 lim- ited, the price on the favorites has been very short indeed. The fact that amall fields provailed has c: big falling off in the at since Memorial Day. The public, which likes favorites, is do- prived of a chance to bet in cases puch as yosterday, when Cheer was owing to the gone to the Jack Dillon of Indtanapolls, legitimate Hight heavyweight champion and also the destroyer of the hopes of many am- \oitious heavyweights, has arrived in jtown for ten-round b with | Prank Moran of Pittsburgh, which will |e fought the Wash |ington Dark Sports Club of Brooklyn on |the night of J Dillon was a 1 by his manager, Sam Mar-| and Gus Ch his ttle n the open air at who will act) as one of bis boxing partners during his training for the scrap, Dillon will do! his Work fur the contest at Washington | Vark, | Minium Young! Sa the crack Indian . twelg iif Who cauend a ronsation in bor: | jes several montha ago by hooking the B ey night, He 6 against Harry Plewe, tae hard bitung rook abt, for ten rouuds Claiming that Ha bad no rgb! to on Mf the Henny Leonard Freddie Welsh bout, wh was bon ton Park in Brookivn thie week, Milly gor of Meonand, ease tha’ fo will go batons State Athletic Commiaston and ash that he be comeied to bold the conten two after the Dilon Monan baitle he ten-round bout Kil” Lewis au) dummy Coffey Harlem weiterworg mf Harlan Sporting Club on west Wriday might bas Ween ds 4 off owing to the ver ees of Coffey’s wife, ‘The neat contest | a the Cub will Le beLmees Benny Leonard and MAJOR LEAGUE RESULTS AND STANDING Games To-Day. the promising | ing (nc League New York for Races Are Expected at Jamaica 4 1 to 10 shot in the first event, in}! which four horses faced the barrier, The $5,000 Keeno Memortal features | at the card crack two. this sprin Belmont to-day, Six r-olds are named for event, which Indications point to ten starters in the Excelsior Handicap, the classic which will feature the reopening of Jamaica, The Finn, with 124 pounds, | carries top weirht. Rose's Sand Marsh, winner of the Paumonok Handicap, will make his debut over the mile and sixteenth route and will carry 109 poun Roly's impost will be 111 pounds, having picked up five junds by his victory in the Quogu landicap yesterday, Other starters will be Sha Flying ¥ Benevolent, Half Rock, Chickle, ( andria and Grumpy Roamer is being slowly pointed to the Brooklyn Handicap, which will be the big attraction at the opening of Aqueduct. Jack Goldsborough gave him his first workout since his return from Latonia and he breezed @ mile in 1,47, The finish of the steeplechase yes- terday was unusual, Welsh King, the favorite, being the only ono of the f: starters to cover the cou horses fell and one refused, Three CFistic News sonn Potts and Gossip ) Nic Moran of New Orleans, on the nigh a night of Mike O'Dowd, the fighting welterweight of st Paul, will rt in another battle at the special boxing show of the Clermont A. C. of Bivoklya tonight, He whl go against W of the Bronx, Ia the other ten-round Stump Hofim ALC, will ange Wallops w The indications are 11 Will deretop nto one at for box E Commision there ha: Dust paswed aw sing the number of rounds of bouts from eight to twelve, which ao Joubt will be Wie means of adding interwat to Lie i Champion Johany Kilbane eonguered another mc nteht. The at the msterry A.C, ot Wi wid Kilbane nearly O'Leary out iu the ffs aud ea@bth roundy. \ waa cousuinmated last between | Shamus O'Hrien, the rugmed Lighew f You mand Jimmy Flynn, the gas wuier of Long Island City, They w main event of (om rounds a we held by the Qui | Lang island City on Satu hoxt rw AL Having coms to the couchision that h OARSMEN WORK A YEAR FOR 21 MINUTES’ RACING iew York Evening World). I DonT Need AN can - T Just as Well That Cubs Leave Polo Grounds After To-Day’s Game With Giants In Two Days of Sharpshooting Tinker’s Men Have Made Thirty- | Five Hits, and Inch by Inch They’re Wiping Out Distance Be- tween Them and New York Club. took a dive into right field, felt PUTTING 'EM OVER With ‘‘Bugs’’ Baer want, 1018, by The Pres Puplishing Co, (The New York Evening Word.) ILBERT ROBIN- SON Is Prepared to Put Up a Stout Resistance.” T. Roosevelt is like the man who Just had three strikes curved over on him, He didn't rin either. | Magistrate took finger an riastue rs will insure Moran- Dillon | $100,000 inst Be they could oniy insure it against complimentary pass mooch- ers, Germany Schaefer sugg the promote: of the Moran-Dillon fight also insure it against snow, sand storms, icebergs, boll weevils and submarine s that Anybody who saw Molla Bjurstedt win the woman's national lawn tennis title wondered what she Was prac- ticing for. About time for ¢ jriitith to start his 1017 ering drive “world's champton | Tooks as if the Jess Willard singles, is bat it doubles go to Langford and MeVey. in ATHLETIC AILMENTS. BALL PLAYER'S DOME—Otherw known as charleyhorse of the hi induced by pulling a | front under thi 8 apt to snare second base with thr |on, boot a groun for a field goal or raise o sacrifice fly with two out. When the victim pulls a bone his) crown shrinks to a mustard seed, but when he drags off a star play you, couldn't get his head into a garage, About the only cure is decapitation. | You are always home fee they are wiping out the distance |} waded into Giant pitchers—and the | best, is over the} five and a half furlong course. | | By Bozeman Bulger. | JT may have been the promotion of iT the one time warlike Zimmerman to the dignified rank of captain, Jor It may have been the cleaning out old-tim to give Young America chance, but the fact remains that the Cubs have eaten ravenously of some hitting powder, and inch by between them and the Giants, In two ys of sharpshooting at the Polo Grounds that gang of Tinker's has too—for thirty-five clean wal- lops, enough to have lasted them @ fortnight earlier in the season, ‘As viewed from behind the catcher, {no fault could be found with the | nitehing of either Benton or Stroud. {The fast ball came over with @ hop and the curve broke as nicely as one could ask. In other words, it was exactly the same kind of pitching | that made the Cubs take to the tall and uncut a month ago. At the Polo Grounds, though, they could hit any- thing. The same balis that fooled ithem before were like picking cher- |ries yesterday. ‘The Cubs have sim- ply started on a hitting tear, and, at) present, there is nothing in sight to) [atop them. It is just as well for the | Giants that they go away from here to-night Though fandom may not have known it, Christy Mathewson, pl ing the role of Old Marster, pitched Ja full game while the Cubs were in action, but the best he got out of it was the exercise and an occasional |eommendation from the bi erites | on the right field side of the stand. | When Benton began to wabble Big Six started warming up, and kept right on until Ralph Stroud relieved | the lefthander, Immediately a few | potshots crippled Ralph, and the Old Marster, without much ado, resumed his practice. On through the after- noon he pitched and still he got no} chance, Finally, when Schuppe came | in to twirl the last round, Big Six/ packed up his tools and called it a| day and the worst of tt." Matty last night, erything out there. But, you know,” he added whimstcally, “there are some golfers who can drive wonder- fully at dandelions, but fall down when it comes to smashing the ball off the tee.” said | “is that T had ev-| Juat one play took the heart out of the Giants, and but for that the plavers believe they would have had a chance despite the slugging of the Cubs. In the fourth inning New York had one run in and runners on second and third with two out, A single would have tied the score, And Rill Rariden made a single—only it did not count. Bill whopped a scorcher between first and sec ond, and the fans were proclaim. ing the two runs when McCarthy SPORTING. 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