The evening world. Newspaper, August 14, 1916, Page 6

—.— Wt fs Lucky No Other Invading Baill Teams Were in Town Sat- y or We Might Have Lost City Hall, getting) that wae ne from the eu ee, our Dodgers were ily beaned, on the same by the Mostontans, and our were massacred by the Ath I's lucky 6 other Invading Dall teams were in town, of we might ave lost the City Hall EP, the Dodgers are going to crack at lani Before, during many weeks, and the lynites haven't cracked yet. Phat is, they haven't cracked any- Ging but the vail. Beeston won the two games Satur- Gay, but in ench game the score was enly 64. A trifling turn of luok Migdt have made a lot of difference, games are wo closely fought @ut Mo one can way that the losing tearb 10 in any way outclassed, ATT HINKEL again assures us that the Kilbane-Chaney matoh is at Inst “olinched.” Matt has been clinching it for months, @nly to find that when clinched, to all @ppéarances, there was some way in tho fighters were able to avold Mibane have each posted $1,500 for Sppearance, When a fighter puts 600 of his own money it seems that he intends to go through ‘With the match. I never saw a fighter - who thought any less of @ he did of his left eye, \ bs gee will be a decision ren- { Gered in the Kilbane-Chaney * pout, although it's only a fit- teerrgund go. Probably that's why ft hgs been so difficult to tle Kilbane dowp to business. HE mile-a-minute motor boat has appearec at last. And this time it's not only a mile a / minute, but over aixty-six miles an hour! And this has been done by one of Chris Smith's small racing boats wittt only 250 horse power. Smith ts a genius who builds and other craft in a little ry town up in Michigan—a place @allead Algenac, Whon you go to Algenac you step from the trolley @ar at the ma‘n sireet, walk two blocks, turn to the left a block and go into Chris Smith's boat building There Smith, his sons and ok Beebe, with a few other boat ders, turn out the fastest speed Boats the world has ever seen. Smith @an do with 260 horse power what, buliders all over the world have nm unable to do with 1,800 horse wer. His twenty-footers have Barton the best of the forty-footers and have broken their records. ‘A year ago Smith announced that he hadnt reached the speed mit yet, in spite of the great perform. | ances of Baby Reliance, Speed Demon | ‘and Miss Detroit. Ho said he had aj} ww idea in design that would enable to build a racing beat with mod te horse power that would go nev~ ate ‘mil hour. When they beard this racing people smiled a Meaning smile, placed the end of their right index finger near the temple and imparted to it a rotary feotlon intended to indicate the pres Fence of revolving wheels. But Smith didn't have wheels, For years, with Bpeed Demon, Baby liance and Miss Detroit he has won 4 defended the Gold Challenge jp (championship of America) with ense, Now he has built a Miss Min- ®eapolis, also a small boat with moderate horse power. Miss Mini Mis will try to take the ¢ Detroit in Sep- runs showe over sixty-two hour, where sixty miles aranteed. Wit in the Tntorlake Regatta at Put-in-Bay Miss Minneapolls haa! gompletely smashed all world's speed | Boat records for the mile, averaging & syed of 65.7 miles an hour in four 1 trials against time Her fas est time trial was run at tho rate of if mile in 27 seconds, or 66.6 miles jour. Severs! new speed boats have deen built especially to take the Gold Chal- Cup away from the Smith boats. will be plenty of speed in ti ces. But Chris Bmith has been to keep several jumps ahead/of titlon for the past four or tive » and any one who bullda a r boat than the farmer up at Algénac will be going some. $88 WILLARD hasn't officially J": but as he retired from boxing, shows a much greater fondness for the circus than for the ring, he has ‘practically dropped out as active! heavyweight champion, Willard bas offered purses big enough to tempt any champion, but bas deciined even easy matches. He evidently n't want to y more fighting. | rd always sald he didn't care| Pt about fightin r because he was bi Huse he figured he could whip John« fonsin course of time, He fought a Bumber of Aghts to learn the gar Uthen he whipped Johnson. His ion wae fulfilled. Since then Hing has interested bim buf get: ‘the money. ) nourish, | « THE EV T SPORTING THREE OF A KIND Insecurity of a Midseason Lead, No Matter How Big It May Seem, Was Never Better Ex- emplified Than in the Disas- trous Blow Struck Brooklyn by Boston. ly Bozeman Bulger. HE insecurity of a midseason lead, no matter how big it may seom, was never better exe Piified than in tho disastrous blow struck at the Dodgers by the Braves. Over night a cinch-like grip on the Pennant has been turned into @ nip and tuck fight, and Robbie's gang is im nervous fear lest a second deadly wallop hit them in the back. If they can be overhauled in the home atretch that now promises to be as exciting In the National as ts that rip-snorting affair in the American, George Stall- ings will have to be credited with a at even more remarkable than bis @onsational drive in 1914, This day finds Brooklyn just three Games in tho joad, and that is a nar- row margin when the runner-up is on the warpath, And the most ominous feature of the situation js that both of Robbie's star pitchers have been put out of the running for a couple of days at least, Feeling and knowing his advantage, Stallings will go to it with peck bowed and tail curled, The Dodgers need expect no mercy, Despite the explosion that shook Brooklyn's baseball populace, the form sheets show no real cause for Klarm, Unfortunately, though, pennant races are not always decided on form, It is @ trulam that the best club usually wins, and if the Braves do not prove the occasional exception, Robbie will pull through, With bis wonderful Genin staff and the hitting of Vheat, Daubert and Stengel, there is no doubt but that Uncle Wilbert has the strongest force in the league, Ball players recognize quite a dif- ference, however, in the spirit of u club that ts trying fo hold a lead and one that is trying to acquire it. The leader is at the same disadvantane as the early winner in a poker game, who struggles to stay in & few pots when the tide turns and still keep his stack from dwindling, It was a tough week end for Greater New York, hope being shattered throughout all boroughs and outlying precincts, The return to home cook- iia was exp to revive the sin ing Yanks, but instead @ turn for the better they wunk deeper into the mire an are now looking upon the Athletics with womething akin to ad- miration, There in & chance to the patient, but when nice, deli- food like the Athletics futle to Bill Donovan fears that he may soon have to call the baseball family to the bedside Lee Magee dragged his sow foot into the arena Buturday, but nothing particular came of it and Donovan re- fused to let him «o afore than one kame. To-day he will try again, with Hugh High pValescing to bi in the outfield, Baker's convalescing will be done on the bench. The advent of Urban nile neg soling affair for Wild With any kind of hitting behind him the youngster would have won with eane, He allow and one that Was questior the same me he with a no-hitter, by the Athletes early in the fight would have been suffictent, the see- ond being entirely superfuous, The pitching marvel of 1916 un- At Shocker, | William. | could not have won The one riyi made Braves Only Three Games Behind, Seriously Threaten Do 5, Coleage, 8. Lenie,0; Piusbared, a, Pitabergh, 0; Mm. Louis, 6. Who Were Unplaced, Ran Their Race in the Saratoga Special. By Vincent Treanor. BARATOGA, N, Y, Aug. 14.— Horsomen here are atill discussing the running of the Saratoga Special, the two-year-old classic in which Tumbler and Hard Cash, the Whit- ney odds on choices, ran unplaced. They evidently don't know whether or not to charge the poor perform- ances of the Whitney pair up to bad racing luck or to proclaim the win- ner, R. T. Wilson's Campfire, the best twoyear-old of the year, The re- sult of the race was more or leas misleading as far as it concerns ‘Tumbler and Hard Cash, Neither ran j his race, Tumbler, for instance, had none of the speed which enabled him to gallop home in front of Tom Me- Taggart in the Cohoes Handicap of Monday last with Bounds up as against Tom McTaggart’s 122, Bat- urday, at even weights, the latter ran away from Tumbler with ease, Hard ih, the other string to the Whit- ney bow, galloped home on Tuesday in front of a big fleld of two-year- olds in @ manner that suggested he was one of the real stars of the year, but on Saturday he ran pounds be- low this performance, Conceding that both the Whitney youngsters were away badly tn Sat urday's race, there was no good rea- son why they didn’t improve their | positions during the course of the | race, | Notter and Keogh, seemed to accept | defeat had been run, he could to the head of the stretoh, where the | Olambala put him away, After thal he was outclassed, ished second, |Cebenge...4¢ 69 480 || Clovetend.o1 65 .640/ Now York.65 02 .51 ite. Lemke. 47 Oh 485 meanetia |Catenge. (68 .203'104. Lemie,.00 63 .696| Palle, un, .33 61.216 Results of Games Yesterday. Games To-Day. Campfire Has Good Claim On Two-Year-Old Honors Neither Tumbler Nor Hard Cash, cannot express his pleasure at seeing th ’ Whitney’s Odds-On Choices, Hala of cpanra tone leone Hi 4 Sud Neither did, and their jockeys, before an elghth of a mile Hourleas, the Belmont colt which had worked like @ cham- plon in preparation for the race, was tive In remull, was a most | the onty one to offer real contention, He ran along with campfire as far as long striding son of Tom McTaggart made some pretense to fight it out with the winner but though he fin- mpfiro's victory was particularly Fistic News and Gossip By John Pollock dgers’ Throne While the match between Jack Dillon and Jim Coffey, the Irish heavyweight, is clinched for Labor Day afternoon, jit te not definitely settied where the | men will battle as Harry Pollok, mana- | |Benten,...03 64 .668 | Dewre,,.00 62.63 wer of the Washington Park Sporting Club, and John Weissmantel of the |@roadway Sporting Club, both claim they are entitled to stage it. Pollok's argument is that Dillon promised him he would box Coffey and he says that Billy Gibson signed up with him for Coffey to box Dillon at Washington Park, Wetsmante! says he has Dillon's signature to articles of agreement and that Dillon claims he will box for him or the match will fall through. It looks as if the State Athletic Commission will be asked to straighten out the tangle. 0G 60 860 | Wean'ten. 51 65.481 | Weta, 0, Vmenge, ‘Tho contest between Bettling Levinaky and George ‘Knockout’ Brown of Chicago which was to de fought at Memphis, Tenn,, to-morrow night nas been postponed om account of Levinaky having injured his feot while training, Gu» Ghriste, the western middiewsight, will mest likely be secured to meet Brown, Joe Amredo, who ts te meet Benny Leonard im @ ten-round bont at @ special boxing abow to be held at Conventi jell im Saratoga on Fri day tight, bas been engaged by John Welssmantel to bom the winner of the Pretdie Welsh-Charley iB bis historic Hpecial, That owner ira’ wet th @recie Rid Mitte to Wilson was more than anxi Levant. |the stake and the $1,000 gold” cup | Dn, SMM (© eres the aie 000 which went with it, was shown in| — the paddock while Campfire waa be-| Al McCoy, the Brookiye fighter, who stil) claims ing made ready for the race. As little | the middleweight title, is going to Australia, McTaggart approached the| He hae been slgmed up for thive houte, for which saddling inclosure Mr. Wilson ap-| be 1s to receive @ guarantes of 63,800 for cach proached the lad and, grasping hig) bout end traveling expenses fee three perms, hand, said: “Johnny, if you ever tried | McCoy te booked to sash fram San Francisco on hard to win a race for me, do it to-| Set. ‘The Olympic A. C. of Harlem will bold tte regular weekly boxing show to-night, Paul Doyle | acd Paul Kitwarda, the local lightwe jew in the final bout ef ten round: tie semifinal Jobnay Bush of Herlem will go sgeinst Chartie Woods of Philedelphie, Thive other contests will precede them, A match bas bees arranged between Joe Jeanette, the colored beavywoight, and Jim Smith, the Westchester white hearrweignt, who his only real contender, pulled out a | ends retumed to the ring after on aheence of bit from the rail to pit his finiahing |* fo™ years Ther will come together in the main powers against. those of McTaggart | © °! %@ rounds at the Arverne Sporting lub oe on Stromboli for that final drive to | Tumay night. In the eemifinal Johnny Hye. e grinned and re p] “I'l do my best.” ae The victory of The Finn, the long shot in the Champlain Handicap, , waa more or less due to accident, AL the crucial stage of the race, in the last eighth of a mile, Notter was in front on Pennant, when Stromboli ranged alongside of him. Notter, evi. dently regarding the Belmont colt as the wire. Up to this stage of the race | M8 of Ridgewood bores Battling Terry, The Finn had been safely pocketed, | ‘Chick Simler, the” Boranton walterwoight, with no chance of getting to the and Kid Burns, tho west side fighter, wil Mare front unless he came to the outside | {0 @ ten-round scrap at the Pioneer sport. of the other two, This move would | ing Club om West Forty-fourth Btrcet t-morrow have been costly, #0 Schuttinger ant |uight, Simler hae bono battling in good form snug on Tho Finn, waiting for an |for «few mouths, and Bume will have to exteod opening. When Notter pulled out |himeelf to beat im, Bobby Huboa and Joe slongelde Stromboll, | Schuttinger's | Lyuch wil) alse bate for ten rounds opportunity came, He shot The ¥ oa through. the email apace and while | We cris a een te See, Notter and McTaggart were "hooked | tet, Danty Lewis of Newark, N. J. have just up" he went on to victory. But for | 7%, seuss, URW JaNe Cary, the Aight promoter Notter's move Pennant and Stromboll | ot wonester N.Y. to mest ne ten-round tout Would have fought it out alone, and |{\ im Mr thom lo be held by Carey at hie the Belmont colt in all. probability | kdmme Quh in Wat city om Monday oren'ng, would have been the winner, AOE SL, Renttior bas Det 6 goed 0 eek ene ie © put up © great fight, ial INVITATION TENNIS sot Dos bette oe Mating Brae hee TOURNEY OPENS TO-DAY. meet Jack Beitton at Madison Square Garden next ‘eppearan: NEWPORT, FR. 1, Aug. 14, — Sixty. month, will make hie first ce at Rook. away Beach to.we row night in» ten-round bout four players, including seven of the firat ten in the national ranking Het, are ageinst Walter Mohr. the Brooklye welterweight, entered for the second invitation tennis Murray Defeats the Casino courte, "7" "| Tony Tennis Star R. Norris Williams 24, who won the competition for the Casino Cup last year, will be one of the contestants for| R, Lindley Murray defeated but did another leg of the trophy, while others| not outplay Itchiya Kumagae, the entered are William M, Johnston, the| Japanese lawn tennis champion and national champion; Maurice E. Me- holder of the New Yor! Loughlin and William J, Clothier, both! the nal round of Wats ERS Je + | former champions; R, Lindley Murray, | tournament of the Crescont Athletic Club at Bay Ridge yesterday after- noon, Only by the most desperate Nat W. Niles, W. M. Hall and -the| {] Japanese pair, 1, Kumagae and H. Mi- kami. cs | Playing did Murray check the little De y aud Plant Proved Stars) son of Nippon and beat him in Mike Devanney of the Millrose straight sets with the scores at s—é, Athletlo Association and Jim Plant | ¢—4, f the Long Island A. C, were the| In tho frat eet and again in th oub! ls old Eddie Plank, In| satisfying to his painataking trainer, |” ain in the firee vinita to the mound that olf [Tom Healey, and his owner, Rar, |Cemtanding Agures at the Brooklyn third tt was Murray's wonderful ro rent has pitched two two-hit james | yr), oO Se) of ‘bel he fra: | Athletic Association games at the|cuperative powers that enabled him find. one. one-hittor ~ | Wilson, Outside of being the fret | parkway Driving Club, to come from behind and win when land on his bist sti | Saratoga Speclal to be recorded to the D . Jushing haif-mile| BY seemed all but defeated, In each look like high sehoo! | credit the track's President, it evanney Won @ slashing hait-mile) o¢ these sets the Japanese player hud you, that bird has been @inging the | Meant the installation of Olam race from seratoh in the good time of| an advantage and needed only one daseball for twenty year the colt’a sire, among the elite o 1 minute 68 onds, While Plant ASEBALL TO-D, ames, PL, Pole horee world. Trainer Healey has. al ‘ays insisted that Olambala w game to win, but Murray, at the last | ditoh, forced him back, and by tak- ing three game in @ row captured the sets, Joped to an easy Victory in the special two-mile rum in 9 minutes 68 se onds. LD, MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1916. ST PAGE IN NEW YORK Comratt 8 te the Prem Pubtiahing Oo (The New Tore Prening wire) McGraw Says He Never Thought Seriously of Quitting Baseball Giants’ Leader Declares Reports That Have Recently Ap- peared in Print to Effect Originated From Remarks He Made When He Had Been| ¢' Sore, Overheard by Some He'd Soon Retire From Game One Who Took Him Seriously. By John J. McGraw, Manager of the New York Giants 66 A BE you going to quit baseball in a coyple of years, Mac?” & friend of mine asked me the other day after reading the reports that I would no longer manage the Glants after my present contract with the club expired. “There have been times,” I told him, “when I felt like, I wanted to quit, but the fecling didn’t last long.” Probably these reports have orlgi~ nated from remarks I have made when I have been sore, overheard by some one who took me seriously. “I wouldn't care if I never saw a ball fleld again,” I declared one day in the club house recently after the boys had blown a game in extra in- nings, “When I get through with this contract, I am going to take a reat. But I have never thought seriously of quitting, until I am no longer fit to hold a job, Of course, I don't think I would do at all as a bench manager beca Iam too nervous and restless during a hot battle. 1 would have to break out there on the field when an umpire called a close one against me or when one of my players pulled a bone, and you can’t do that unless you wear the “spangles.” any other club in our league, it Is 10 per cent, wtronger than any rival. That we will win many more games than any one else | have no doubt L mean, of course, more games from now until the end of the sea- son. But we might do all of that and still fall far short of the pennant, At this atage of the race In 1914 the Boston Braves were further behind my Giants than my club now ia be- hind the pacemaking Dodgers, By Labor Day George Stallings’ club had cut down all of our advanta, and had tied us for first place, George's team that year could not be- gin to class with the aggregation I now have. He was able to make his great gain because his club, such as it was, waa far superior to anything else in the National League. Our three-time pennant winner was fad- ing fast. Our pitching staff was worn and fraved. And my team, bad as it was, was about the only one that could put up a front against the Braves, It was an easy matter for Stallings with James, Rudolph and Tyler standing up bravely under a load of overwork to cut down our early advantage, My case, just now, {s somewhat dif- ferent. Brooklyn {s not the only formidable club ahead of me. Boston and Philadelphia, too, have kept close enough to the Dodgers all the way make matters interesting for t and myself as well, diviston clu I think Even the sero: aro strong enough to give their first division rivals a real fight any day, With the Giants, it is 4 case of hoping that those above may Several times I have wanted to take ‘a financial interest in different clubs and, In fact, was figuring on & deal with Capt. Huston before he bought the Yankees to purchase the Cubs. ‘This was two or three years ago, and the New York management would not release me from my contract. I love the game, and I love the Giants, and I want to stick to both. But managing @ ball club ts hard work, and it is discouraging some- times, especially when you see & ma- ahine that has won championships for you beginning to fade. The hardest Joo a manager does is to turn loose the old timers because they have committed no other crime than age in les.” Ene item ‘of gossip is that George Stallings and Johnny Evers and the rest @f the Braves are raving worse than ever at the umpires In spite of hil their ood resolutions of the early season, The Boston team ie all nervew and will make trouble in this race. Fighting clubs, like the Braves, are the most dangerous. There has been A ood deal of general complaining About the umpires this season, al- though [ have laid off them pretty will, However, where there ts “7 much kicking all around the cireult there must be some reason. You can't have a whole lot of smoke without al pape to the Giants’ chances in thin race, A baseball team can be no better than tt considers itself, Us- ually it can measure up pretty closely to its personal estimates, For that very reason I think my club, as now constituted, has a very good ahance for this season's National League ant. Pty team {# a good one. And it realizes the fact, It Is stronger than —————_———————_—— AMERICAN ATHLETES TO COMPETE IN SWEDEN. —EEE The Swedish National Gymnastic and Sporting Assoctation have cabled Secretary Frederick W, Rublen, of the Amateur Athletic Union requesting him to arrange for Meredith and other athletes to compete in Sweden any suitable. date not later” than Xt 16. Secretary Rublen has planned y have the team of athletes leave on the "oscar [L” on Sept An invitation heen extended to Ted Meredith, present national quar= ter mile champion and Loomis, Who holds the 100° vards national championship. favitation by telegraph, and ic ls like» ly that Loomla will pt, ag he Nae recently strongly ur, he be sidered in making up nto to Sweden, Meredith accepted the | indulge in throat-cutting while wo have a chanve to make the moat of our nalural superiority, My team at last scems imbued with real pennant amu eu “a long way, We have ecough games left with Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Boston to cut all of these clubs down to our measure if the Giants only con. tinue to play their best game, We may reasonably expect some aassist- ance from the second division clubs of the West, So far New York has proven itself by long odds tho best road club of the field, The four most prominent contenders are starting on their last long road journey. I figure this trip an advantage to us, The Giants should be out where lrooklyn is, We would have been but for some mysterious influence that destroyed the players’ confidence on their own grounds, This jinx was removed with the appearance of Her- zog. No club in the Tener circult has shown to better advantage at home than have the Glants during their last stand at the Polo Grounds, This, too, in spite of the fact that my club of late has not hit so furiously it aid earlier in the year, Charlie Herzog is the finest third baseman in the game, He makes my club the best balanced one tn either league. Hin spirit and aggressive. ness spur all the other players on to twice thetr earlier vim, For that rea. son I believe that Hrooklyn, Boston and Philadelphia henceforth will tind a far different proposition in the Gants. (Copyright, 1016, by John N, Wheeler, Ine.) 5th Week Bemnant Sale Ke} Cone f —~» [Perea er) | nats NA WS RABID RUDOLPH. ave ILL DON. OVAN'S chances are jut as scarce as yaes view te oll @ hermit a anes a) ta ™ wee od LER eee Vere Haughion elsime the ompe throw atr 4 at the other teame and oe the Braves. ore on ni" SM acal aah t's rumored (hat Connte Mack wilh wel Uv & petition signed by @ tele hone boothful of Athietio fane Peapeaneynaye-— pa py 04 We nae oe ea Frank Moran announces that Be » wad of blowe te Morris, What basebali needs are whe re just @e good travelling ae they are at home. MOST OF THE U ARS VERY POOR ON THB RO. OUR OWN PRTITION, ORVILLE BUG, KNOTT THAIR, PARTLEIGH GAWN, JOB GOOFUR, LUCINTHA BRAN, MAJOR TYRED, MISS TAQU This petition oan be used for thing. You can protest against home boys batti: with te papa. The above names are @ team of perfectly nimble protesters, Just get something to protest a and we will farm ‘em out te yeu fer the occasion. As he is going to compete in Bweden and Russia, Ted Meredith should practice finishing in eleven syllables. jon 1» yo the umpe mana ‘on over th | The motor cyclist who was injured j racing up Pike's Peak must have landed on his feet, nibee’riat diet tes tafuna Td have bom Clark Griffith Is still digeing inte Hoel bowl of pennant soup with @ ork. When the dome ts dumd And the skull is numd And the cranium ts lame, Twenty thousand fans With pen in hands And cach to sign hte name, Would surely stuff This space enough So we could reat our wrist \ That protest junk Would be fine bunk If we could print the Kat! RABID RUDOLPH. Wonder {f those 20,000 Rostonese protestora signed that ‘petition inside | Or outside of the baseball park? ANSWERS TO QUEERIES, Zad—A yacht ien't essential, but it comes in very handy during @ yacht race. ee Bhoob—That would be just as ap- Bropriate an giving a debutante @ package of shaving soap. WHO. ORIGINATED SILK COLLARS? BARKER! 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