The evening world. Newspaper, August 1, 1916, Page 10

Bone of the Big Fellows Now Fighting Jess Wil- and all Fee! Sure Better Than Fulton. eS RL ™ the ig felows coming Up tm the boxing arene ne ‘onmrr talk abou! Menting Jase Wiiiert they ony they feel eure better than Fred Fulton, and Fred will fgbt them they'ti Ome ebeow the pubic eometding feason for not even thinking Willard ie obvious Wi- min feet seven inches tall, 3 pounds stripped when in fighting condition, le « very @lever boxer, and bite bard encugh to @iglocate the neck of any ord Rervyweight. Jess is afraid to as he can bolding because he Goran't want to + one He cut loose at Jon by @ punch and thing suggesting t ie a bruising johing bag, and decorated Al ax- ively. The new heavyweight crop fan't worried over @ little decoration, ee a fight with Fulton would bring @ Meat bunch of bills. ILLIE RITCHI® hae sent me @ couple of photos showing ‘Willie in khaki, standing on @uard with an army rifie and a bayo- net, Willie te training in the citi- @ens’ Training Camp at Del Monte, Gal. He believes in preparedness iS willing to do his share would be pornieteat ‘bayonet as he in with hi “maulios” ‘4 be a mighty ugly customer in @ trench aight. HE TraMfic Squad will hold tte eighth annual outing at Wit- ; sel'e Point View Grove on 6un- { Gay, Aug. ¢, and will bold @ set of athletic games. “There will be seventeen events @loeed to members of the TramMfic @aqued,” writes Dick Sheridan, Uf citisene observe the tramMo police- men doing stunts on their posts, like c, they will for their out- ‘@lso be exhibitions by mplon athletes, Pat Ryan @ammer, Pat McDonald in the it, Matt McGrath the 56- weight, Erickson and Gene the high jump and Jack hurdles. The boat icaves Weat Twenty-third Street FD, and after a sail up the will return to the grove." AMBS KENT, a new “heavyweight i : 4 3 F tit i 4 — Bineteen ware old. ten years Jim Kent will @ chance with Willard, Reading a few Ii ve that Jim Kent’ bera in County . & Spot famous for ite Aghting men, On further we'll reduce the limit, might have a chance with tm less than ten years, and ith Fulton any old time, i ofs z es u at HE ‘ Yacht Clubs are to hold a sail- ing race for yachte around ‘Long Island at the end of the Atlantic face week, on Aug. 2%. The yachts ‘Will leave Gravesend Bay, wail out to ea, up along the Long Isiand © round Montauk Point and back Into the Sound, finishing in front of the New Rochelle Yacht Club, A number of famous racin pe yawls and echooners that have been practically aid up for lack of competition will probably enter. OBR UNHOLZ, who died a short time ago, left ome good friends behind, Also, out in California, the Boer's friends jet their deeds take Jack Doyle of the boxers’ 23 Sn ARE: REE ROAD EI OE OORT St eee the place of words, ees Rudy's wife and three children, and has turned over to them the entire roceeds, $1,000 in cash. Wonder many fighters in the East would as well remembered! Fighting bere is a business, There's little @entiment connected with it. LETTER: would Mke your A opinion on @ question, A says that any powerful man could @astly kill a full-grown wolf with his Dare fats, B saya it ts impossible. re Jedd eco -% one blow of his fet?” Our opinion on the wolf matter ts merely an opinion. We nover saw the wolf we'd be willing to try it on. A wolf con easily slash the beat bull- dog to bits with his teeth, and we wouldn't even like to try to kill a bulldog with one mighty swat, It sounds impossible to ur. But if you don't fee! sure, why not go to Alaska, Sta in re- of find a wolf, and try it? Jeffries never killed ee) sas. He punched @ small one- hy ‘dear cub o: ee + hole clean through Je: ‘nearly putting Jeff out he HE New Rochelle and Atlantic |; Did Jim Jeffries ever kill a bear with |} ee AwerUL pera Gwe! Tessas ————— THB BVENING WORLD, TUBSDA BEST SPORTING PA ¥ HOW TO KEEP COOL ALTHOUGH A GOLFER wot Dav Te. ty the Freee Puntiey Giants as They Now Line Up’ Have All the Earmarks Of a Championship Team With Fletcher Back at Short, Herzog on Third and Outfield in Its Stride, the Club Again Wins a Double-Header From the Pirates. By Bozeman Bulger. HE Giants put a real firet divis- fon ball club on the fictd againat Pittsburgh in yester- Gay's double header, and it looked It. With Arthur Fletcher back at short, Herzog at third and the outfield in ite stride the thing hummed like a freshly tuned motor, and, believe us, it carried @ punch. After looking that combination over closely it would be difficult to locate @ genuinely weak spot. With Ballee on the mound to lead the de- fense and Rariden pegging with re- markable accuracy McGraw showed us what bears all the earmarks of # championship ball club, It may be too Inte for them to achieve what a combination like that deserves, but It at least gives fandom joy to know @ mot it, n instance of the force given to an infield with Fletcher at short and Herzog at third is that between then they started least two nd up the side jraw is eminently satisfied with things as they stand, though he admits he could use just one more good pitcher, The team is a trifle in noed of reinforcement in case of a allg- up by one of the regulara, Thou cGraw would not stand as authority for the statement, It can be said that a deal for another pitcher is pretty well under way. been a long time since ball play and fans suffered from the heat as they did through the torrid double-header, but in the excitement suffocating atmosphere was for- gotten, At every lull, though, @ plain- tive votee In the upper nd, In imi- tation of a bellhop, would “Call for Gen, Humidity! Gen, Humidity It was a uscleas call, though, The , |General was right there with us, both Johnston Meets” Armstrong in ROSTON, Aug. 1.-—-William M, John- of Han Francisco, the nationa lawn tennis champion, defeated W. M Washburn of New York in the upper half of he nemi-finals for the Long woo Cup at the Longwood Crucket Club yea- torday by the score of 86, G4, 67, ee) In the lower half of the semt-fnal U. U, Armstrong of Philadelphia de- feated 1, Kur . the Japanese chan. plc 4, 7 —b Waandurn court far played a aplendid back . and his deep drives to the ornere had the national ehample He was only: by geininy hitting wal n Maurice McLoug t of Mn’ | a The Armatrong-Kumagae match was a purely back courtatfalr, Under conditions It Was expected . Whose enduran the down the Ph the Jap cha pion Th the second set he nearly pred after Armatrong had kept rune of the court to collal h 190 He was within one point of winning the third set when Wid American Oppoe nent rallied, allowing three pointe in the uma it two games, Tennis Finals}: only ARTIE HOFMAN TO HELP THE CRIPPLED YANKEES, CHICAGO, Aug. 1.—Artie Hot- man, former crack utility man for the Cubs, has been offered @ berth the crippled New York Hofman was in receipt of 4 wite from Manager Bill Dono- van to-day asking him to sign, He haw not accepted as yet, but pated he will if he can n agreeable dicker regard- salary, At present Hofman is ning @ baseball rchool, foot up and toenails dragei Whew! But it was hot y Juat why Joe Tinker turned loose Frank Schulte is atill a Puezle to the outside bdascball public, but that curiosity has not interfered with Jimmy Cal- persed delight over the situa jon, Wildfire Schulte appeared in a Pirate uniform for the frat time yesterday and promptly squelched any rumors of the Dr. Osler theory by delting the bail for a three-base hit for a starter, In the outfeld ‘he covered the ground with that familiar deer- lke atride that was such a ter ror to Giant lovers back: in 1908, On his second start Silm Sallee got accustomed to his surroundings and pitched an excellent game, Ho says it took him some litde time to get used to a home crowd being friend. ly. He felt lonesome for the jibes of thoee St. Louls rooters who have been roasting him for the lust three montha, The Yanks are slipping, Five straight at the hands of the Rrowns has been @ teriffic blow to the spirit of the club, espectally after the way it fought back in Chicago and got even break. Yesterday at St, Louis the Browns beat them, ¢ to 2, it Leing victory the eleventh atratght team, the made in tean wue in 1916, It was about this ten years ago that Polder stunned the American League with his hitless wonder White Sox and by winning nineteen straight games rose from the second division to a ominent place in the race, He out Grif's Yankees for the pennant in the last week of the se. son that yeag and then vanquished the great Cub’ in the world's sertes. St. Louls now ts pretty much stirred up over the Browns, The fans r xpect Fielder to duplicate his of ten years ago. R. J, (Bobby) Wallace, former Americain League umpire, has signed to play the remainder of this se son with the Louls Americans, Vor several years Wallace was star rhortstop for the Browns, but two seasons ago joined the ‘American League ataft of umpires. It It thought that Wallace will play third base, r tunt Continuing as leading hitter of the league, Davy Robertaon overstepped himself and banged a home run drive Into the furthest corner of the right fleld stand, It only missed going into the bloachers by a few inches, Al- ready the measurement bugs are comparing thla walop with that fa. slam of Joe Jackson's that the roof of the right fold stand, But a few more victories now and the Giants will be tn position to chal. lenge the Braves. To a man they regard Stallings'’s club as their most dangerous fos. tga >. —— a jo Grounds, Adm, b0e.—savi, Nationa! League Cera BL FC) Cede WL PC Breckiye.t4 54 414 | Chvenge ..44 Bomee....48 16 671 9 to 003 \ n oa Bt howe New Yorn, 7; Pingvergh New Yok 1) Muster clares New York Manager. 'y John J. McGraw. (Manager of the Giants.) ’ 1 had started the race with the ball club I carry to-day, 1 think the Giants would be leading the league now, Golden opportunities wore booted away in the early part of the going, when any etrong, steady ball club could have broken up the rac I hate to think what the old Cubs or the Giants of 1906 would have made this kind of a field look Mike. The Boston Braves look like the class of tho league to-day, Stullings's team is showing the best bail and will be the winner unless somebody gets in and wrecks It, To beat Stale 473) Beste... Pins gh... 99 49 643) Chicoge. Game's, 26 57 we] Liever'a. Results of Games Yesterday. in ame. Games To-Day. McGraw Adm Hard for Giants to Win “if | Had Started the Race With the Ball Club | Carry To-Day 1 Think Club Would Be Leading National League Now,” De-| 5.000 saratoga Handicap nor Deer (The Hew Tere Brening Wert) MAJOR LEAGUE RESULTS ANO STANDING OF THE CLUBS) A uguest Belmont Not Present To See His Horses Capture American Leatae WL PC) Came WL PC 14 40 414) Dewei, ,.62 47 525 {8 42 467) Woon... 49 45 524 6343 .+52| 0. Lewis 48 49 49+ 6106 437 | Pame,....49 Th att Care. Richest Two Horses Break Down. | | | By Vincent Treanor. UGUST BELMONT took down the richest two purses, Harry New lowe Mim and three horses fin- elah Steeplechase so that they probabily A eenre..e @ ermene broken down Hever will stand training again, Add the fact the track hasn't held « big- eer, ore enthusiastic, nor more fashionable crowd ever gathered, you have in @ nutshell th tory of the opening of the racing season here yesterday Mr. Belmont wasn't on hand to see Strombol!, the apple of his eye, roll away from his competitors in the its It Will Be | Trap scamper home in front of a fine feild of juveniles in tne $7,500 United States Hotel Stakes, The chairman te at home, Now George ts re- |of the Jockey Club was at Narra- Ving the best twirling 1D the/ gansett Pier, ie | Tho uddition of Heraog will mean| But if Mr. Beimont missed ti» much to the Giants. He ls @ great! #ight of his colors borne home first natural ball player, and, besides that, in the two important turf features, he stirs up @ team the way Evers | Dame Fortune, by an odd twist, had does and Keps it on its toes. He is Harry Payne Whitney on to ot bis after the pitcher and moving the out-| peretofore unbeaten Regret trail in elders and working all the time.| behind w field from which she was With Hergog and Sallee and # little| expected to win in agallop luck, the ate have a splendid) “Phe steeplechase chance yet. 1am trying to make a} Compliment, Swish and Ex- deal for one more pitoher, and then! ton hobbled home after racing cour- Wo are going to press some of thom. | ageously every step of the two-mile On the last week in the American) course to the final jump. At this last League, the Red 8: to be the) hedge Compliment and Swish went most dangerous. jdown, Haynes, who rode Compli- been fighting gamely ment, escaped injury, but Wolke, on Kinda of odds, With a Swish, was so painfully hurt that he this season in the matter of Injured] jag to be hurried off to a hospital. players, Donovan should be a mi Compliment got on his feet tottering front now in that race, But things dh d have certainly broken against him,| @"¢ Swish limped home painfully: Out of Town Ball Fans o Matty Fund Rallying t Jim Corbett Sends Letter Prais- ing Famous Pitcher, Accom- panying His Contribution, v to The Evening World's fund to present Christy Mathewson with a remembrance testimonial, Up- State admirers of the former Giant piteher in the office of the General Flectric Company at Schenectady chipped In and sent @ dollar contri- bution, James 77 OF TOWN fans are rallying J. Corbett, the former udds $5 to the following letter: “Matty was @ credit to baseball and they may never have a Best wishes to hin always. heavyweight champion of the world, | who now divides his time uplifting | testimonial should be made, The fund | the drama and rooting for the Giants, | wo pres linga's club, some team should have | hve, certainly, broken against hint)” iexton, who had cleared the last plied up a commanding lead in the} pulling for them almost as hard | SUMp in winning fashion, was seen, to carly days of the race before hislas Tam for the Giants, since every. | Saswer after making his landing, He Pitchers could hit thelr stride. A} body must admire a game fight like| {epPen sports propped’ Nithawk ore Moston club's staff te generally slow | theirs, eine gone. in both. forelegs and in starting because of the tough, raw (Copyraht, 1916, by John N. Wheeler.) uld scarcely walk, jlis jockey, Williams, finally jum: from the saddle and led the racer the rest of the way to the stewards’ stand, It seemed a erime to expect the horse to even stand up. All three broken down horses were finally led off the track and the spectators were spared the sight of seeing the thoroughbreds destroyed right there. They, might be patched up and Jeurned ‘out, but tt ts almost certain that their racing days are over, There was no excuse for the dofeat of Regret in the Saratoga Handicap, | She broke tn front and had the track jto herself all tho way until she stop- ‘ped, which waa at the stretch turn. | She’ simply LATEST CONTRIBUTORS TO THE MATTY FUND. Latest contributors to the fund to present Christy Mathewson with a testinontal from his admirers tas far as she could ind the baseball tana of New || and then chucked It, Whether It was York: the close attendance of Trial by Jury ously acknowles ry or something else that caused her to FF Rammer es ST) uit will never be known. ‘The Cas Pirie Company, Shey oT watt colt romped alongside of her on can | | the backstretch and stuck to her ty |manks from there on, She couldn't is |i draw away from him at any stage 05 ter, If this made Regret stop made Trial by Jury, for he way in the stretch run. ‘Total 1 \cceeneeenennneeeeeeeene | pre room in the rin to the stretch, and eT aunt wemed safely t the former Giant {dol with | McTaggart soem f Matty fund with the | 4 testimonial i# intended to let Matty | P4 al “way on the rail know that New York fans won't | aap R a quickly forget his stellar work with reene syne Reserd, the Glants for sixteen yours, The| BOSTON, Aug. 1—Francls Oulmet nan Like him in the came again, | fans are invited to volunteer whether | gave an indication of what he might do the tribute should be a painting, as|were he permitted to play in tourna ext batch of subscriptions suggested by Mr. Mathewson, ay Anis aap there was this note from a fanette: | library, silver service or something | cou 1 at the . 1 know, Hut everything helps. | else, | try storday * add ghis su nt (18) Also the fans who hay been and is not m cents) to Malty fund, en for| to send In thelr contrib a condition, Outmet on | tuck. LENA EYN." | minded that the wery arson. dud Ais ceca for tw Contributions are slowly swelling | tor the receipt of jehawes 18 6nd etek Hh the Matty fund, but there «till re-| Send all contributions to ‘Testt-'Pespite’ the roughness of th main many of Matty's admirers who| monial Yditor, Fvening World, Park 4s, Oulmet went dow Checks, coin or stamps are ao- twice. The tenth hole he made in donations or suggestions how the cep twice, 2 To-day with Piitsburehy 2.40 7, have not ben heard from either with Row, { Stromboli Wins Saratoga Handicap, While Deer Trap Finshes First in Shillelah Steeplechase, an Event in Which Three | Johnny evidently was content to wait Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Aug. 1. | | Payne Whitneya Regret met, had a® pathetic | Purses at Spa patiently, but when he did get out of difficulties he took a chance. He came to the outside from third viGH | LEONARD, American erchante might jbeck at England by ashi Langford to white list Bom! Wells. wick Weide en to Snel tentag aaa” OO © about six feet, IN NEW YORK (im) mth Res Hal Bt We® [RABID RUDOLPH- al a Will Always Sup- port Wrestlers, It e til Takes Four ta » Movea . a “LH - LEONARD ‘or the firet oix tet the strongest guy we ever Pitcher Coffindaffer has ven the air by the Pirates, ave had to let that bird go @ at a time, ARCS ee Rumor that Wilbert Robinson # after Hans Wagner, That's get ‘em young and train ‘em, Johnny Ertie won hia champlenehtp on a foul. If you could win pennente on fouls it would be pretty eweet for Washington, FREDDY WELSH DIDN'T OFF BENNY LEONARD BY MUI JUST TWO FEET. When you figure that searty 1,000,000 American mules are extleé in Europe you can see that Clark Griffith's chances of discovering a balk aren't very fat, Articles signed for the Moras- Coffey fight stipulate that the wine ner. does not have to meet jack ilon, Looks as if Wade Killifer handed uncooked deal by place and made his run just before the home turn was reached. When straightened out for the final eighth \he came like the wind, although Mc- | Taggart reminded him of the fact |that he was carrying a whip. |. Ed Crump made a strong bid in be- lated fashion, place money, w second string to the Belmont bow, was along in time to beat Short Grass out of third money. The lat- ter did not seem to have his racing clothes on at any stage of the jour- ney, and those great strides of his weren't in evidence in the stretch as they have been in recent races, Campfire, the favorite in the United States Hotel feature, had no racing chance whatsoever, He had the rail position and was pinched off as the barrier lifted. He was blocked again and again after that, until Shut tinger, realizing a chase after the leaders would be fruitless, didn't per- severe with him. Campfire’s trainer, Tom Healey, had banked on having Johnny MeTaggart ride the colt, but W. R. Coe, who had first call on Mc- Taggart, intended to have a starter, | Hell's Fire, in the same race, Hell Fire was finally scratched, but mean. while Healy had engaged Shuttinger and had to ride him, Campfire will make amends for his defent late: Fistic NewS sor Johnny Kilbane, holder of the feath erweight title, fs the latest champion to draw the color line. Jimmy Dunn, his manager, made this announcement to- day in a telegram to Lew Raymond, matchmaker of the Harlem Sporting Club, who had offered Kilbane a guar- antee of $1,500 to box Lee Johnson, the colored Hghtweight, a ten-round bout in two weeks. Dunn further stated that Kilbane would meet any good white Mghtweight that Raymond secured for him the third week in September, Frank Moran, accoimpanted by his manager, tke Dorgan, and his chief trainer and adv) left last night for Tulsa, 0) where be is scheduled to meet Oarl Morris for ten Labor Day afternoun, Moran said that hie reason for starting for the hattlegmund fo early was to get into the beat possi ton for the contest, for his end, for the featherweight championanip mn Johnny Kilbane hant hitting have finally been will battle fiftern rounds Point, 0, rantee of $10,000, on Labor Day Chaney will box Dackey Mommey at the Empire A. ©, Thursday night, ‘The Harlem Sporting Chud of Hammels, Rock amy each, will stage another attractive cart of enite at ite regular weekly boxing show to-n| In the two main hots of tem rounds Jimmy fey, the Harlem weltermetght, will a Wee Weel? Marton, the colored tighter, Paul Dixon will take on Johnny Gin West and Young ‘Tracey box alk mnunda Bily Jimmy Wilde, the flyweught champion of Ene Jend, scored another knockout tn London last night by putting Jabnay 1 jeep In the tenth round of a twenty mund contest. Willy mum surely be the fighter he Bnglia’, " tm hin to be for he has won several selon with knockouts, Wille has Abe riedman, the faal littl eaally outye nthe east aide ed Preddie Reeve vein tent of ten show of the Milita t might, Friedman was too faat and Heese and had no trouble Im lauding hie ‘him in the majority ef the pounde, nts. He never even got a how the New York wotd"imr ase pinch tala for the piechon, They too say Ollie O'Mara’s hands ae all for @ ballplayer, which te Ainsmith the same complaint Edd! has. Eddie never holds better thas treys and aixi Vean Gregg and Urban Shocker look ike big leaguers in the Intere national and like International Leaguers in the big league, ou, a ANSWERS TO QUE Jibble—Take a good book and am 4 umbrella to the game with you, Mt/4 it rains use the umbrella and if 4 sennint Sages Aloe ie the tag with an RIES, 4 doesn't, use the book, ee Wankus—Don't like this sinister 7 silence from the lawyers, Looks tf another baseball league ts =f bust out. er Saphed—Our mili down 4 exioo tasted ot’ srotnd Tenaun A ers, Yep, America's a great A tok ANd Gos si; M EB Hl to meet Dutch Brandt, the tam, in the stellar event of ten club's next boring entertainment night, Jack Brantt,’« brother wil box Atump Hotfman in Une somata, i t il H i began in San Francisco « referee ignored the agreem up Camp's band at the end local boy having led out in Campi_was two pounds over the agreed and Coulon, weighing but 110, would unless the draw decision was agreed to Ever Hammer, the promising ight Chicago, will make his first appearane in the Kast at the Armory A, A, of ieht, He will go against Johnny 0’ Canadian lightweight champlon, for to & deciston, Hammer has fought battles In the West, hie last being @ © with Jotnny Dundee, Joo Areredo of Californie and Eide Marlem, and Joe Lynch and Mickey tams, are in good physical condition | their ten-round boute at the Paneer Sporting m4 | boxing show to-morrow night, in his bovt form right now, he having i 5 ff teke a5 i ; i f Hh i H doteated al) of his opponenta aince he retk of bi returned here from the her | Wine. away last Priday night Knockouts for Healy, Jim Healy, the Irish heavyweight |from Kerry, acored his eighth consecu, tive knockout at the Olymple A, Jest Ment. sending Jim Kelly of Greenwich Village to sleep with a lett fh th sixth round, Kelly was badly beater Mgnt want! the" aeagnae® the puniebe grt nishing punch wag In ine frat round Kelly wae twee tho ‘heal navingg himnet ARREE to" the SPORTING, Hostn fo Night, Jers Ooh RRS otters “odippele, ' SNS ual Vie nod Ub gO [Sf Ay CEN aT a uaTsl,