The evening world. Newspaper, August 4, 1916, Page 8

eee ay - Willie Ritohie’s Early Training Wit Make Him Useful in the Aviation Corps. ing camps in California Willie Ritchie te training to become @rmy aviator, Th & great deal of enthusiaam over military training fee Pacific Coast because of the wus joion that Japan may come over re some day and land an army oaet in Hitebie ta 4 bande to be ready to fight. only one of several thou fornians who are going thr | regular period of training for army work camp is at Monterey, “Ie fine and 1 am strong for it,” writes Kitehie, “I have joined the aM tion corps and have begun flying. T have been pr: mechanic of okies in this and all bustiers, hie's early trainigg will make ful in the aviatn corpe He © he became a fighter he w Automobile Mechanic, and as he haa kept up his interest in automobiles he can class as an engine expert, Ritchie writes that when his period of training is over he will ride from Francisco to New York tn hin} muchine, and settle down here for a | busy winter in the ring. . I aviators ts Georgen Carpentier of France, the famous light- heavyweight who twice knocked out Bombardier Wells, won from Gunboat Smith on a foul, and beat a number of first - class American middie- © wetchts, Carpentier has been on ac- o tive service since the beginning of * the European wi He rushed back from England when the war began ¥ and at once went to the front. At first he drove an automobile for one of the French generals, going through | HI most famous of boxer- | 4 | ee ey / Gree 0 Yon! Tey FOU Ca | # LT have Te Boor Te Act tut Hecows fe ! Feepove Waco SHULD HAVE ALITTLE / ARROPLANE OF WIS OWN: Lom ai AND a DIVIDE OPENING TENNIS HONORS Church Defeats Griffin 6-3, 6-4, While Murray Beats Washburn 6-1, 6-3. By William Abbott. FOREST HILLS, L. 1, Aug. 4.—The greatest tennis players in the country second match. fire serving enta, Ww ato om x game Washburn ome powerless to handle Murray's fast ones and was ateadily forced « expecially a fant er and the little © return, court the def ive, Murray seldom all | his opponent to rush to the net for his ( favorite smashes, consequently the first > a set was a walkover for him { + MIS FAMOUS ABROPLANE, Chureh continued to keep Griffin on STitue” +++ He CAN'T the run, the necond set going to th FAW out Because Fasterne six games to four, Chureh) ' uncorked ‘a great variety of atroken, | He's STRappep in. ov ARMY AVIATOR. . 1) o “AT DILLON. THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1016. * New Fork Bvening Wort) IN TRAINING AS = ic ) ANITA what v urt placement, Gri » Improve as the mate continued and Church had his hands full winning the second In the other match Murray contin- ued to handle Washburn with appar- ent ease, The Westerner’s terrific lefthanders had his New York oppo- nent chasing wildly over the court in National League Clade. W.L. PC! went into action on the West Side some stirring events and often be- * ing under fire, Then he wan shifted to the aviation corps of the French army, and after a few months of training was sent to the front, where » he has been twice decorated for dar- ing exploits over the German linen, NOTHER aviator, not yet In the service, is Les Darcy. The Australian fighter ts on the re- Perve Net and hasn't been called upon yet, but has been training an air man. An American recently returned from Australia says that Darcy is Much more anxious to come to America to fight with his fists eit to go to the war in Europe, Som his managers tried to smuggle fine out of Australia, once taking him aboard a ship disguised as a China. man, But he didn't get away. The report that Darcy ts coming to this corstry to fight hasn't been author- j ized in Australia, where no able- * bodied native is allowed to leave dur- ing the war. miny Hurns, former heavyweight champion of the world, has a contract turf courts here this afternoon to battle for the sectional championship of the United States, The Eastern team, led by former National Cham- pion R. W. Williams, was composed of racquet wielders from New York, Boston and Philadelphia, The West's team played under direction of Will- jam M. Johnston, the twenty-year-old national title holdet There were about 3,000 tennis fans in the sun-baked stands when Clar- ence GriMn of California and George Church of New York trotted out from the clubhouse for the opening match, Chureh, intercollegiate champion in 1914, towered over his stockler Weat- | ern opponent, who is an exact dupli- cate of young Corbett in build, Both yers indulged in a brisk prelim. | inary warm up and then quickly ewung into action with Church serv- De. with rey and believes that he will be able to bring him over for three fights, Burns friends in A lia, where he made A great hit during his fighting days, and if anyone can t Darcy away Burns can. He says that he will 4 dave to guarantee Darcy's return p- ithin @ certain period of time, lenge to elther Jack Dillon or J Battling Levinsky, Smith ie a clever middleweight, His best fight- ing was done in France, where he met © wpentier and many others, and in Australia, “I have tried my utmont to corner Dillon and Levinaky and sign them up, but without avail,” writes Smith's mannger. Why shouldn't Dillon or Levinaky aatisty this longing of Smith's, any- ® way? It might provide an interestin, entortainment for all concerned, Ani levinsky and Dillon must be weary of mosting each other, P'M invited by Clan Macduff to go I to Dal Hawkins’: place Saturday and see spoft—toas- ing the caber. t caber tossor EFF SMITH ta on out with a chal- 9 ” BOXING ‘RING “FOR SALE, seeerate! Thos rasta, Ot ree'd, Ot and sat * pal Raed ak 4 "coor bogan his Banting career up urch's service went over the net with the apeed of a rifle ball and Griffin could not do anything with it, the casterner making the first game & love one. Little Griffith flashed considerable apeed in his service, Church managed to return it, but his shots went out of court, giving Griffin the second game, Church again had his service well timed and won the third game, though Griffin was having better luck hitting the balls back. Church, rushing to the net, broke through Griffin's service and captured the fourth game. Griffin returned the compliment in the following game, when he earned the necessary points on three fine side line placements, Church, however, came right back and roped the next games on back court shots t fornian failed to get within reach of. Chureh finally won the first net three, giving the Ea, the On an adjoining court Watson Wash- burn of New York and R. Findlay Mur- ray, who is entered from California al. hough now living in Bayonne, con- big Ton. Carroll, in Call- fornia, The caber is a long section of a tree, It is carefully upended and balanced in a man's two hands, athlete runs, gives a terrific he and @ loud grunt, and tosses the log end over end, the object being to make the end that has rested upon the athlete's hands fall as far as pos- sible from the place where the toss was made, This ts a Scottish sport, In New York and vicinity the article toased usually isn't a caber, OHNNY DUNDEE, having had a J very unfortunate automobile ac- cident, is temporarily out of the ring, He has cancelled four fights. Dundee's car struck and killed a boy who jumped in front of It from the running board of a taxicab, If this doesn't end the popular little Italian's ring career at least it will retire him to private life for some time to come, The L : ‘COY writes that he is sur- mering on his farm in Maine, where he can fish, hunt and go swimming every day and forget all about fighting. am a bit lonosoms,” he writes, I do not hear the booing and hissing faa wenorally is accorded to me in jome town clubs,” ine and le regarded there as a ines product and the undoubted “It te somo relief to get here, but 1) Fire, “for | an effort to return the ball, Before Washburn realized what happened Murray ran up a lead of five mames to three. In the ninth game Wash- burn had a lead of 30 love, but at this point Murray got busy and won the nexa four points, giving him the game and wet, six games to three, Church won the third set and match. Griffin continued to play a plucky game in the third set, but his opponent's accuracy in placing shots was the deciding factor. urch stopped @ promising rally Now York, 1; Chtenge, 0, Brooklyn, 7; Bestea, 6; Clncinnatl, Soames) Caleage ot New York. MAJOR LEAGUE RESULTS AND STANDING OF CLUBS 56 .440 | Clovel'd....64 46 551 © 394) N Yor! Results of Games Yesterday. 3 45 bad 19 1% Deuwek, 2; New York, L. a Loule, 3; besten, 2 (10 inaings). Cleveiana, 3: Philadelphia 1 Weatingion va. Chicage (rain) Games To-Day. York at Deweh. / N@eDS To MAKE HIS COME: BACK PERE CTUYy SAFE (> ONG OF Those curries FLYING BOATS» Gamuel Ross’ Loses Racea Sprung, Tries Hard to Make Up Lost Ground His Mount Has Noth- ing Left at Finish. By Vincent Treanor. SARATOGA, N. Y., Aug. 4. AMUEL ROSS'S high class two- Ss first defeat here yesterday through somebody's fault at the bar- rier, Nearly everything in the race, flying, while Ultimatum was left al- most still. and Although He! year-old Ultimatum suffered his | especially the winner, was sent away | Roscoe Troxler, usually a most alert ¢ Ven Jens Wit ann Tatts UP AVIATION 8 Ultimatum t Spa Through Somebody *s Faultat Barrier | ready ~|Jockey Roscoe Troxler Not! tie uot wes tpi when Ready When Webbing 18 jump ‘his mount otter the tent ant field, this he did when the others were all of ten lengths ahead of him, In less than a gixteenth of a mile | Ultimatum went past his field on the out dike a “running fool, Every- body in the stand was amazed at the j flight of spe to cateh th stretch turn was “He'll walk hoi many said, but others knew different. ‘Troxiet had taken everything out of the colt in his effort to make up the ground lost through the bad break and had nothing left to take him the rest of the wa All things equal, Ultimatum ea easily beat those which opposed him esterday, He is a thoroughly good colt and it is the plan of his owner to send him after the English Derby next year if that rich clussic is re- vived. hat enabled the colt leaders: before the In the tenth game, When serving, post rider and noted for his ability on) The East vs the West. That's what he burned the ball over with so two- -year- Ids in particular, wasn't; the racing season here amounts to much speed that the Californian oat and up to date it is about an even could not get near it. The scores break. Yesterday, for instance, the were 6-3, 6-4, 6-4. Wes ners to aw an went down Washburn won the third set, six Jo Ti k f b D 1} Gic t |hook, line and sinker, on. Conning pee oo oe Tinker of Cubs ectares Giants |Nower here ‘and at citer: places Fistic News and Gossip By John Pollock Against the Kind of Pitching Jim Vaughan Showed,” Says, Chicago Manager, “Then We! Have No Kick Coming.” Although his bout with Johnny Dun- dee has been indefinitely postponed, Joo Welling, the crack Chicago light- weight, will be a very busy fighter next month, for manager, Jimmy John- ston, has signed him up for four more contests, On Sept. 1, he meets Jimmy Duffy of Lockport, N. ¥., at the Queens- berry A. C. of Buffalo, N. Y.; Sept. 14, Jack Britton at the same club; Sept. 22, Johnny O'Leary, the Canadian cham- pion, at the Armory A. A. of Boston, and on Sept, 28, Sam Robideau for six rounds at the Olympia A. A. of Phila- delphia, George Chaney and Packey Hommey, acconting to Eddie McMahon, each recciced $800’ for box! © tenround bout et the Empire A. O, last hight, ‘The gross receipts amounted to $1,002.60, The tickets sold for the show were aa follows 1,007 at BO conta, 685 at $1, 108 at $2, 60 at cash $12 and exchange $06, The state ceived $126.04, which wae 7H per cent, of the recetpta, Henry Bietser of Baltimore, manager of George Chancy, declared inst night that he had wired to Jimmy Dunn, manager of Champion Johnny Kilbawe, saying that he wae willing to mccept any referee suitable to him for the fifteen round bout between Kilbe Cedar i By Bozeman Bulger. HE Cubs may not aspire to a championship thia fall, heckled ae they have been all season, but Joe Tinker’ gang has just given the Giants the toughest fight they've had since the club was rejuvenated by the presence of Buck Herzog and Slim Sallee, It was a corker, They go at it again to-day, Joe Tinker declares with unusual emphasis that if he can beat th Giants as they are going now he can beat any club in the league, “That's the beat balanced club I over saw," aaid Joe last night as the gossip turned to the way Herzog and Fletcher engineered the infield de- fe “And now you can understand just how sore we were when we failed to land Herzog for the Cubs, “When a ball club can win out against the kind of pitching that Jim "| Vaughan showed, then we've got no kick coming,” added Tinker, “The luck {# with them as well as the abil- ity.” Joe's kick against the luck is a Just one too, Big Jim never pitched & better gamp in his life, and but for the one crack by Merkle—a long drive into the left Geld bleachera—the game might have been going yet. And, mind vou, if that hit had been a single, a double or a three-bagger, the chances are the Giants would not have scored, 't had to be a home run, and Billy Roche te to receive $500 and all hie ex Penaee paid for refereeing the world’s lightwelaht championship battle between Freddie Welsh and Charley White of Ohicago at Colorado Springs, Col., om Labor Day afternoon, Roche asked for adore amount and to-day he received a telegram from the promoters of the fight, eccepting his terme, ‘The Harlem Sporting Club, on Fast One Hun. red and Thirty fifth Strvet, will hold ite regular weekly boxing show to-night, In the two ten. round boule to' be staged, Monte Attell of Cali fornia will take oo Muddy Faulkee, the colored bantamwelght of Counectiout, and Willie Astey j will go againet Batting Chuck, the ruated colored bentamwelght of this city —_ SARATOGA ENTRIES. (Apecial to The Rvening World.) The pitching duel between Vaughan and Perritt was the mont artistic af- fair of the season at the Polo Grounds, And despite the fact that Perritt al- lowed more hite, he pitched the more ritt, but him. was the to {hrve reer olde ant | actentific ; FPoll's work in the pinches was a revelation even to the old-timer Few of us knew that he had the etuft he used when Cub .|Funnere threatened the plate, Fo tof |iustance, in one inning, when two ‘ was Tr thur Wilson at bat, Perritt pitched Just three balla, each of them a wide curve, and Wilson struck out, ‘This should be Interesting, In view of the Htuet that the Cuba have just bought Wilson on account of the need of an lother heavy hitter, To begin with, Perritt handed Wil jron a low curve, Ineide, Ho missed \{t, Tho next one was low and out- \eldo, and again Wilson slipped, Nat- urally, Arthur expected another one x Riocem | Nivenyear. in 0 fi Jae ante mie “ ; aitiean . ii we tod Chie OM 1 1p champion of the world, —— vale Breeas alan eecmniene ad nn ay the middle, Porritt cromaed him hooting a sweeping ourve around hte “shoulders, and with the “white “int the same if ) or a fast ono over Chicago men were on base and Ar- | Perritt Vaughan oce beautiful man, leaguer r] te let Jimmy Archer sidered a slugger, and he has a arippled finger at th. t. The loss of another Yanke—a beating at the Tigers—has occasioned genuine gret throughout the town, it a# a personal sorrow of the Yanks has brougnt more grief to rooters hereabouts than any ball misfortune of rec New York crowd was just beginning team, the frequent loss of games, due to the breaking of the team has made things deci, edly mournful Lee Magee, home to rest his injured ankles, sat in the press box with us yesterday and watched Pirates. badly broken up over the feats as are the fans, “L think my anklon will be all right in a week or two,” he only thing I am afraid of is that my eagerness soon, one ankle to see this time. did this and at times used it intelll) in the pinches "Poll" In trying for too much compel! Giants finally got him. It made us think | ' ently, putthought speed sionally lost control and to put the ball over as straight as a string, and that is where | hi Perritt ver wasted one when there was|f danger, The Cubs have picked a4 a mn the , 8 not think ai immy, you know, was never game The appreciate Donovan's who las bee the He savs the players will make I almost f me I think Baker As club toward the top. ween any ball LATEST CONTRIBUTORS TO THE MATTY FUND. Latest contributors to the fund to present Christy Mathewson with smembrance testimonial y York fans nowledaed ‘ans ta nt years, Giants beat start lke T would give the Yanks win out and Wort- iced =minor con- by’ the hands of the re- slump base. The and by accidents, in sent the are as Yank de- he said, “and too hooley will both return to the game soon, and when they do we ought to shoot haven't yet I in the from $578 06 Are. Are. Best Balanced Club He Ever Saw’: “ When a tan tb Can Win Out) that toiowed the aide went out trick repeatedly and fully deserved the ovation he re- ceived at the finish, of Matty in his halcyon days, Vaughan had more speed than Per- American League that has anything away ra on us.” Th in the American League race yesterday when St. 1 on 8 to intent & rainstorm pre ton. taken the lead in the race. Manager Bilt Donovan of the Yankee called Uri ocker, the spitball pitcher, from Toronto, and An he Cuban third baseman, up the International La won hax been hitting same eiroult, Done word that an haw star. lett | musel be here to-morrow. ————— Fan Suggests A Monument of Matty FromFund ‘. Letters fund to The Evening World’ to present Christy Mathewson with a remembrance testimonial arc ample proof that ) Giant hero, A number of Matty's ad- on fund be devoted for a monument o the great pitcher for Central Park fan, too. His letter: big monment of Mat Park which I believe @ hundred years from no: 25 cents and hope that bring his club in front next ye “ANDREW ESPOSE contributor to. th ould be Another writes: idea of a man and . P. and F. E, this “Inclosed you will find 26 cents stamps which we donate to the Matt fund. This certaialy is @ good pie of work on your part, We sugge My send York uniform.” H. M. Leonard write: “Inclose monial to Ghristy Mathewson any young man." | for Matty, His note Incloxed yor Matty fund, As Iam an admirer o Matty I wend this an a | friendship. name inscribed.” to the Testimonial Editor, World Park Row. White Sox went into first place | 1; vented Chicago from playing Washing- This is the first time Chicago has) we pinyers were | ors by Donovan | rac in his. side in|’ pw York fans are not likely to soon forget the former mivers suggest various ways how the testimonial should be tendered, and| fan even recommends that the idea comes from a Brooklyn “What I would) like to see is to make that fund for a longer length of time so as to have a| in Central 1 inclose Matty will nd “Inclosed vou will find A “or buying a portrait of Matty in a New| plenae find 25 cents ag my share of lan't muon, but will help, Christy was a credit to baseball and a model for | David Kaplan suggests a gold bat | will find 26 cents as a tribute to the token of In my opinion a bat of gold should be made for him with his Send all contributions and sugges tions how the tribute should be made Evening Moped Ja the country a shed, Conning T wer just 1 out Lady Tere Then another killing was attempted on Blind Bag- gage, but this didn't go through. Blind Baggage tried to make a run fit and did so until well into the stretch, where he began to {back up. Malachite, the hope of the sterners, had chased him all the way and all Lyke bad to do was to sit still on the Belmont colt the rest Jot the way to win by a comfortable margin, —o— FORT ERIE ENTRIES. TRACK, FORT ERI entries for to-m s are as follo | fue jd they RACE Aug. 4 arse $600 oP ean TY Nt Mi SECOND tae * aid a bait furion tos, Matin Anna Brazel Dominion Ha n owe, t | | a| | n a | u of Fs Order from your Wine Me itineer 107; | , 102} IMPORTED Ginger Ale INCIN NATL Team Are Good vi h Hitters, YOUNT wan tol bo te eee oe * Candidate Maghes hasn't owt chines, Brookiye is pertecty es [fed with b under the ade jon, rs Aithouwh he docan't know @ thing about Jules Verne's 20,000 leagues voder the sea, Jim Muejacket Bas pad & meal in all the oth the of a champion mea ive wi s between the « vrimatk that counts, tither shoe Having parks Skeets Watson, the demon says wouldn't be such it. ye didn't have % eat woll ne cloves afterward. Some guy's idea of exercise 16 to serve ae Gor fect ballast for @ canoe ‘ SALIENT POINTS IN JUSTICE HUGHES’ NOTIFICATION SPEECH. Laat to be eliminated from eee Clinehing to extradited from wrestling. eee | No doubleheaders under Republi- |can administration, | No Dem arate ump! to officiate lagainst Republican | Lightweights will be made to fight in between gossii . . No biting in West town football games. tarian rules to prevail. Six National League outfielders have eprained their legs chasing Jake Daubert's bunts this season. ‘The proposed MWillard-Fulton fight seems to be off, in spite of the fact that scientists claim limburger emelle worse than if tastes, Point-George- Strict vege- Casey Stengel has no more use for the ocean than Eva Tanguay has for a Wardrobe, Casey says the shark who gets him has to be somer hill climber, ei Catcher Rippy Williams teadly wing. His throw always the runner to first on a base on'balls, Manager McGraw has been of great assistance to President Taner ¢ year in helping the umpires to give decisions: heen defeated by & eporte The temperature in St. Loney: re- cently was 108 under an awning. They should pass laws prohibiting awne ings In St, Looe; ANSWERS TO QUEERIES, —1916 is @ banner year: for arrying It, Fitz—You might try taking a! sin months’ vacation twice a year, eee Week—Let your conscience be your ruide, Fed gue stock should be worth just what it is quoted at on Wail Street r heard of a dem!- lon. Simp— tasse wate Bobby Wallace is now a reformed umptre, if the Dodgers will be the rbers f tl Ray Caldwell was suspended fif- teen days in the hottest part of. the year. If Ray could show that head k in the box, a wi by, the erchent or + Grocer » compete with the tall ,