The evening world. Newspaper, July 21, 1916, Page 8

--2- Will Miss Matty Most VATHEWBON, known y #8 manager of the Cinetn Matty assumes charge With Matty on Opposing firing line, little olf York will bardiy know iteeit years Matty bas been regarded one of the most famous New York as I When his remote future m! Mentioned, people always liked imagine him aged but still busky eheerful, potter around the Grounds, giving the young Giant & bit of good advice. It was iy @upposed that the New ball club would place Matty on Méclong salary—it he wanted it. It bard to realise the Polo Grounds Matty, And what in the ‘will John McGraw do with his McGraw has been Matty's WHI be bie natural enemy. it at all, For sixteen years and Matty have been like two to $024. py. "7 on even eGraw how to play golf! a for checkers———! - @nnouncing the release of Christy DT stterecees at bie own request, President Hempstead gummed up he mental attitude of the Giants be said in praise of a man? HRISTY was a lim college boy when he joined the Giants in " 1900. The first season he pitched @aly three games, and made no wi | @erful showing. But the next year he damped right to the top rank of gAmerican pitchers, Hie pitching in | the years following was largely | @trumenta! to helping the Giants to National League pennants nearly seventeen years with the ite Matty has won 871 games, lost an average of .606, ‘TB great news,” wae Matty’s comment when he heard that be very much a “live “And Christy Mathewson woul it hard, after ° | hee oe firs _* EB SVSHING WORLD, PaiDaY, sUL1 BEST SPORTING PAGE IT’S VERY DISCOURAGING Niehing Ce (The New Tort Rrening World WATTY MAY PITCH, TOO, FOR CINCINNATI REDS, eH depene: fevie ond what Ww Operate 18 ty the Prone ¥ here ere ce (heh eT work oo | SON ANKS | Both Manage Spratt on Crutches,” talon, Cea ™ | ohably will sun Cineinnat! eon” COLUMBIA TO CONTINUE INTERCOLLEGIATE ROWING Cotumbta wii! eon'e memory the concrete in the aia tribute, but rough POSEN Peg Motion het Be cprrighe on continue tntereot legiate rowing und disregard the rec- ommendation of Francie #. Manges | Hogue, tor ¢ rectors of the ore that the @port be discontinued tem. porarily, if pot for all time, ‘This deot- sion Was reached at & meeting of old Columbia rowing m Committee on Athletic of the crew and the Captain of the 1917 eight held at the Columbia Uni- vereity Club leat night, Horses Fool Their Trainers |National League Race In Two Events at Empire Prince of Como and Nephthys | Net Surprise Midgely and Fitz- simmons by Winning. By Vincent Treanor. ORSDS often “run in” on train- ere; in other words, they win at times when least expected. ‘This was never better exemplified than on two occasions at Empire City track yesterday, In the first inetance Teed: ft wae Prince of Como who surprised hie trainer, Wille Midgely, by run- Ring away from @ good field of aprinters, which included High Noon, Matty Welcomed Chance to Get Away From Salary a for Simply Bench Warming 1 Has Felt More Like a Pensioner and Condition Was Unpleasant. By Boreman Bulger, H® coming hitherward of Her. fog end Wade Killifer may 83°33 Between Dodgers and Says McGraw aside from breaking away 18 Looe and leading t merry chase to @ new record for “about six furlongn” distance of the herald tidings of the big deal with ‘The departure of Curisty the greatest of all pitch- oe Ge Greatest individual tao- ie t ever gave color to a New|’ York club, has struck, in tie town,| naZPs oriPpled con © Bote of sadness. We wam Hersog, which the Cubs are tar away the| We want Millifer, We also know that ty’e pitohing days are done, but Braves, Giants’ Manager Says Any One’ of Six Clubs, Including Yan- kees, Has Chance of Copping American League Pennant. By John J. McGraw. (Manager of the Giants.) F I COULD ose some pitching for the rest of the season, I would day that the Gtante still bad a chance for the National League flag. The ctub, as I predicted, has been going much better on thie Western trip than it was at home The Brooklyn club has held up well eo far on this Western trip tn spite of my prediction last week that Robbie's boye had a chance to win, which ts usually enough to copper it} the prospects of any olub. le getting more all aroun out of hie bunch than any other man- Geer Te, tae teneree Se Peceiving, amd lub te dependable, He the credit for thie, because, in the used to be the flightiest team in the league and guarantesd to blow by | June. if the flag races were finished im June, the Dodgers woul @ pennant in the past. Robbie ts get. ting the pitch! hitting, @ combination to 1 h I had it myself. He has tar and away the best chance to now, and I repeat, if the Giants don’ win, I would rather eee the club come through then eny other gone. 18 would not be surprising to hear within the nezt few days of Markle having hit the toboggan. dition of the Yanks & stage where it lose for us the pennant. Sox are comi: and even Cleveland Ib. for pace will be too Moran’ To-day it looka to me as Af it were between Boston or Brook- I cannot eee any particular im- Provement in the Western teams, of o been made in 1900, @ eecond instance of @ trainer's lack of faith in his charge was in the third race, when Johnny Moran Nephthys caught J. eenth and like @ oyolone, coe ane game one way or the other hange the leadershi Donovan is doing Seat Be tan, but What cna Sen t the star men on the Mttle chance of their J. Linie tn the hand went on to win @ horses were on their way to the if a ing up professional bicycle ridi 7 marked that he didn't think Ne rong could beat ber ae of horses be Nepathye would not have won” Wood that te getting aii the|” have won i¢ th fi had then, according fo an excited fan who called on the “Breaks? he eaid, and posed for attention, “why th y bave broken a leg oF eometh! fw mearly every fled last time Maree Henry. fearful lest the Prince woulda’ the same racing luck that he had in bts ous race. What “aid Prince of Como do? ee Midgely wee also Prank Stevens and Irvin Cobb were ‘ear gun under the Yank disaster, and Bill Donovan happened along. oran evident!; thought $1,600 a good price for the Gilly or he May aly have let hi useful plater in ordinary ety cuit, and yet hi pany at @ mile ILLY GIBSON wasn’t caught! napping by the sudden accept- the Welsh-Leonard Knowing that Freddy was fighting oftem and was in the best Dosatble condition, and thinking that there might be some chance to match Leonard with bim, he sent Beany up to Mt. Kisco to train, several weeks ego, Benny te eaid' to be down to the lightweight limit now, ie in much better condition than when he met Johnny Dundee a few coke Then he ry too fat to fying eo much Jooked thic! Quivered like a ever he esenyed @ dancing O-NIGHT may make the Welsh- Leonard bout entirely unneces- Welsh te to box Charlie White out Weat, White, as usual, te trained fine and in excellent condition. And it ts folly to say that White haa knock Welsh out. i ‘To sum up the Am: tuatio fight to-day 1 tiTaukecas Cleveland and the Red hicago, Washington and je offing and each ‘T'll get you ‘without leaving the grounds.’ ———— EVANS CONGRATULATED BY LORD NORTHCLIFFE. ‘Tom McTaggart, George Odom's mamed after the Uke one of the good Detroit trating in th carrying @ chance end a punch. Of the fatter three I think the Washing. ton Club has the slimmest p him absolute charge. He starts salary bocatee the Cin- assumes his contract with the New York lub which calls for something like $10,000 a year, York Join the Mr, Herrmann and the direotors give io Grimth toughest weather in the league in (*Chick") Evans, who recently won the national open golf championship at Minneapolis, to-day exhibited « note from Lord Northcliffe, editor of the London Times, congratulating The English edi- ot tell you with what pli “walked” in under « pull. Tommy te proud of his namesaki was to have ridden him the day colt broke ale but at th a yuls are the two worst towns on tl Soutts for midsummer going, and there are two here nth: For a manager wi he must collect a good lead before the real hot weather breaks. It looks ike Cleve! ought to fing those bo; Go on, you Yan- i] (Ceprright, 1016, John N, Wheater, Ine.) ye e ahead. over, because the Boston olub is im in either city notoriously etrong finisher, as Tings fae a. (good patching etait if hy a ing @ ting on ell ite oyt to give the Phillies breaki that the public anybody to take his place, ju feel toward the old Master. In his years he never kicked on a story that appeared in the prints, whether it wae in his favor or registered | 4! was always ready to help out @ young reports to put him “right” on ry of to “Josh” him. For a lon, fer ee se! y peneite the fact Odom barn In King Baggott, who won w colt ts named after King Baggott, tho pioture actor, hla body fairly of jelly when- wae at the trac it King Bamgott, tells a story of Astor Hote! who bet $10 on t! 5 the result on the ticker, jy began celebrating by spilling the grape. When he after- ward saw the price the colt paid, and 4id @ little mental arithmetic, found he owed himself money, Miss Pussle led Malaoh| Sprint right imto the last her last race, at a mile, but few ro- membered this yesterday and the Butler Filly was at « fanoy price, “about #ix fur- ave been played, 28 hia namesnk: a cham pionsh of 4 inglishman. over aring and condu 0 Wi J QGunboat Smith, the heavyweight, has been suspended indefinitely by the State Athletic Commission for failing to go through with hie contract and meet Fill Brennan, the Chicago fighter, at nd|the Flower City A. C, of Rochester, Smith sent word that would be unable to box Brennan on ac- count of bolls on his neck and hands. As Smith would not permit a physician sent by the commission to examine him, his suspension followed. 2 I ‘The coming of Heraog, though, is a big thing for the Giants, genuine chance for the Nonship, But for the di loGraw was on the world's tour—the one that sent Hersog to Cincinnati— the Giants would have won thi Freddy has ebown an edge of superior speed, in former bouta, that enabled him to evade the White wallop, But White te oue of the cleanest nard hit and he's likely to unless Welsh watohes him every sec. ond of the tim was a conten, mpionship at Ba: 0 ———— i i if i} rr i Hi it 1H George M, Church won the Cedar- hurat singles cup yesterday on the turf courts of the Rockaway Hunt- t Cr longs” and should At that ehe was lucky to last to nose Hauberk which came with great rush right at the end, @ tight squeese passing the wire, Mre. J, Shilling’s Conning Tower will win a race one of these days after he has everybody broke, ‘Tower has been last three starts, found that Hersoy Tillie Shafer would not play he al- ve up in despair, raw has never been personally fond of Hersog, but always he has ae ‘e ran talk gone and that Ht i I should = knock Welsh out, at welg where would Leonard be? Leonard and White are matohed to it Washington Park, but collected Fredd: ht become as g at a the final round of the nament Church lowered the colorg of the young Californian, Willis E. Davis. The ecore was 7—5, 6—4, 7—6. ON-DELAWARE, July 21, nce Clark 'Corkran hi that ‘“Hersie" oGraw never lets his said of or Me eeiander willbe & wort ce help to the olub. The Yonks, in the mean time, got a walloping at the hands of the Cardinale, after marshalling what was left of their crippled forces, and their defeat probably marke the sit SCONE mere’ career as @ dig league pitcher, epring (it looked ag t all dosh, feeling get the ent, and the samo ard to corner Welshman has been since he Ritoh "good thing’ in his There was a wild scramble to got aboard Cudgel in the final event of He went down to 7 to 10 Dut just as quickly receded there waa @ rush to money which drove if i stan’ of the Fal ed H.” Canal Aitoon BF Kathryn Gray iiawlon by Admeo hird, while Gudgel | ™ pulled up next to last, Won the race in handy fashion. Asked what happened to Cudgel, MoTaggart who rode him remarked in disgust, that he was no account and nearly wont down with him at the three-elghth pole. Training Trials at Local Tracks JULY 20—-TRACK FAST, ASS pre canna ROL TON three artes E i j 2 sett E hia opponenta he American League Gabe W.L PC.) Clubs. W.& Po. Results of Games Yesterday. Gt, Loals, 4; New York, 2, Gloveland, 4; Philadephia, 2 (1et game). Philadelphia, 2; Cleveland, @ (24 game), Weabington, 4; Chicago, 8 (let game), ‘Washington, 3; Chicage, 1 (3d game), Detret,2; Boston, 2 (13 innings) Games To-Day. Champion Al MoCoy Un'e friends and the Brooklya clared for a year that if McCay the middieweight title will change oy) HAN And one alah, 1.06 5 8 Tork, © (10 innings), IMPORTED Gin e rAle litle bantamwelaht of Brooklyn, nk Menny of the eaat side in the main | @ of ten munde at the club's mext boxing shox to ie semifinal of of the east side som on with ound Norman of Hidgewood, 1° rchant or Grocer at Home : Ora r for U Brown's Ad As Far Rockaway, uly | __Joey Tipiits ‘Chicage at Washington. Pais Bee Shar Sout a p00 ip ry 9 and Villa Les Dasey oi cisims ta 1 oot ae, Davey in at 48,000 ts Writer says that Christy M Hi endure as | how. sae Beavutul Mparivon ete red Fult i iT n on Sethe’ LIKE Maton le vetting Aviator ts bothered by pockets in e air, while wrestiing promoter ta annoyed by air in the pockets Bor's clever A swan sings just once before he croaks, but Chariey Murphy seeme to have bad his ewan song made into 4 graphophone record. Shei Se ose rete ADD TO GREAT BRITANTS BLACKLieT— Bport shirts. pee Apartment house wonors, No decision bouts, or) Champions by, defaute, Work. One-armed golfers may get away with ft, but not one-armed fisher- men, who need both arms to show how tong that six-inoh catfish really was. Oscar Ege was Sin hed ee ing for living. Oscar would have @ fat chances of being elected with that name, POTS Pe © same See Penced “Conat New rf jo Mack. brary opened up within two miles of this ball park. SLL os the courts have rived Columbia’ University, ef $0500.00 bequest it looks ag if the 1017 ath- letes will be easily amateurs. F. Skiddy von Stade will rush to the defense of his country fust as fon as the polo season ts over, We cant go yet as we still have to pay forty-nine installments on our En- cyolopedia Britannica, OUR OWN ARMY, General Disturbance. Corporal Punishment. Private Office. Australian pursuit race fs all right fer bicycling but very poor for boxz- ing. Baddest feature about Frank Gotch his leg while wrestling ts in't clamoring for ANSWERS TO QUE! Smurk—Cincinnati won a pennaat or just about the time ie in 1 Pittsburgh writers started to that Hans Wagner was getting old. Always Sey—. Empire City Track (YONKERS & MT, VERNON) TOMORROW; $5,000 East View Stakes Yonkers Handicap And 4 Other Brill'ant Contests FIRST RAC! Pai \SBORO A. Cy TO-NIGHT, Ton Round hen eee: IWAN Vs, tg Club. 138 at. bet Te BONN 4 rte ve, Neto Chink tar Young Ketabell. Adiuiasione ing Tov! 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