The evening world. Newspaper, December 5, 1916, Page 14

i : yi ne at Ee TTA TT aT —_>— Darcy, the Australian Boxer, Was Under No Obligation to Enlist, as Compulsory Mili- tary Service Was Voted Down} in His Country. ENNY LEONARD cap't box for a month because he has tnjured| his left hand. Bad! But not to be compared with Freddy Welsh's plight !f he injured his left foot or sprained his private referee, J‘ DILLON'S eagerness to fight everybody seems to have oozed away. Now he has “postponed") @ dout with Battling Levinsky. Dillon ‘used to regard a bout with Bat as a fair day's training. | J*= why Los Darcey should ba} roasted for leaving Australia is| more than most people can un- derstand, Compulsory military service wns Dut to a vote a few weeks ago and the Australian people voted it down, Bo Darcy was under no obligation to en- Met. Probably, like @ great many other people, Darcy thought Australia had done more than her share of England's fighting already, Through the first year of the war Canadian | and Australian regiments were sent to | the front out of all proportion te| troops from England. Heing physl- cally far superior to the half-fed, d@ull-brained men from the crowded manufacturing districts of England, they were shoved out to take the} brunt of the fighting. And they did) their work heroically, The fate of the “Princess Pats” was an example of the way the En used the men from the colonies to Many Reforms Promised In Baseball Next Year Public Will Be Benefited by New| crowding, he knows that there will be ers Are Sharpening for®*Tilt|taiked over. Among the mana With Owners Next Week. By Bozeman Bulger. HAT with the National Com-|>runt to bear, are already framing up New | ors York, londed down with now | pensos via salar forms of contracts, a new and cheap-| And in the midst of these many THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1916.~ EST SPORTING PAGE. IN NEW YORK FIGHTERS WHO LOST THEIR GOATS ~ HAS WILLARDS GOAT «+ CARL IS THE ONCE MAN WILLARD EVER. MET THAT JES Courpn'tT nine games, and, consequently, much World’s Series Plan—Option| room ister on. Already the baseball clans are be- Clause One of Weapons Play-| ginning to pack up for the trip to New York, where these things may be ors now in town are Mathewson and nd Wilbert Robinson wrote y that he would arrive two days ahead of time. Tho managers, who have the real nation to pli bout the cutting down of ex- take the hard knocks, This was the er plan for holding the World's Series | discussions there has arisen a buse- firet volunteer regiment rushed to England from Canada, atepped to the, music of drum and! fife, They were seasoned hunters, trappers, woodsmen, athletes. After @ few weeks on the extreme edge of the fighting line there were thirty-six whole men left. Jack Monroe, the fighter, was one of the thirty-nix, when he was shot down and carried back to‘an English hovsital, Shortly ported that there were but twelve men left of Canada’s most famous twelve hundred! carried the weight of England's blunders and were wiped out so fast that it was hard to send men along to keep the regiments up to their full strength. Magnificent men—these Australians. There are hundreds of thousands left in Australia who haven't yet vol- unteered and who probably won't Bo why should Les Darcy 4 out for attack? Australia was fined $125 for writing him a letter, The charge was “communicating with an enemy of the realm.” Which, to a t® I peaceful outsider, looks a good deal like frothing at the mouth, We haven't heard whether or not “Boakem Yoakum" 4s going | “ | lof the commission. back West “with a couple of (fie ty ny $5 for a mC able to get in the yr e he paid! ofover- for the tlt next week horse: DARK mystery surrounds th whereabouts of Sam McVey, although Jack Johnson is cabling anxlously from Barcelona that | he wants to hear from Sam pronto, it mot sooner. Sam seems to have missed a chance to hold a little he might be able to hand the Span had &@ Christmas present if he hus- New York will soon be having another six-day bike race. Oh, |near future. can make arrange who has beon fighting for his country | wing stanley ¥ © the War started, to secure a|for ® punobing bag. Leonard and White admin to come | treed CCORDING to the Bridgeport va | Bay Ohne th sporting authorities Hugh Ross |t? thi# country to fight Willard, Jess's Palay Cline, the new eavation tn the a} | = = > trimming Friday night. Ross put|to sign articles and hopped aboard | Naoual a. v, of F O’Hegan down for the nine count) the first train for home,” well, everybody needs a little gleep the exci baseball and football ment of the jons. ates lever gave Jimmy O'llagan a twice, “J don't think John the Barber will | dodged Jet O'Hagan box Ross again, 48 h6)| probably about as much “afraid” of iy Willard = boat Al MoM) wits jolben ‘ ran, Fulton and Morris ve ae ee 6 ring in one aft sould try to wip ats by Dillon before he talks | ttteen, Nenging Willard. men sekiom bh knows the game pretty woll,” writes Rose's manager, “but tf be will, I'll afraid of m be glad to bet him $500 that Ross can beat O'Hagan any time. No bull } this. If you'll hold the stakes and act | jn tho sa as judge I'll send you the $500, will do to alb the middleweights just what he did to O'Hagan and Al MoCoy.” Botting not being legal in this State, with we're not holding any stakes. But we'd like to see Ross in action, if he’s ae g00d as the Bridgeport writer pays ho Is. from New York; he ran away from Weinert,” writes Man- eger Harry Poiiok. | “By this Miske becomes fledged member of the afrald-t Weinert club, of which Jess Will is President, and Fulton, Mora ris, Coffey and Levinaky are « members, Misko showed that didn't relish boxing Weinert when he Bamed $6,000 as the figure that would get bim into the ring, Then he came “B TILLY MISKE difdn't run away and ball already swinging seven. after that, I remember, it was re- a fixed amou| jwardless of the gate receipts. favored suggestion in that re- not is that the players on the win- |asked, “If the owner did not exercise ning team be paid $1,500 each and the | that option?” But as an offset to the} “Why, why," he hesitated, "You impending squawk in that regard it|know 1 am a@ manager new, and it is suggested that @ percentage of the | might not be proper for me to discuss * all the |those things; but, offhand, I should to the|think that If the option was not most At the Dardanelles the Australians ® losers $1,000, proc players tailenders, is bo distributed am¢ the World's Series hav to turn over a percentag: ftw to the respective FTER Darcy sailed @ man tn Commission bi on the other clubs should also share | optt in the big melon, iajowner would have to pay him u that fixing of the amount a player is | much, or the option would terminate There | Therefore, w ito cut the salary they wi $1,500 or $1,000. will be many a Wall about the $3, {that the Hoston Red Sox player got | cally terminate the contract and the back yonder in 1916, ven In the face of this utter dia-| Vi tress on the part of the players Mr,| The possibility of star players hav- Fun will not shake hig fist in the fac Instead of hav.|to the highest bidder would make aw he will t at a alls Moreover, In ca: ——<———_—_—_—_—————— hero Thankagtving party with Johnuon, but! more, Willard. has been negotiating with Jess champion, as UUe- ton, the Grok winning «@ twelrecound dec in the | Brown fought two furious twentycound bouts d, Mt 49 understood, | "4 Lae Darcy to Austria, nts for Carpentier, — sting a peanut condition could out the | tHanse youeh he'd fe nif he bad to, | pour hates any cir tw | will mo tn an it wor- Oklwhoman's Wit | Bast. will ey ageiaiat Benny ng afmadd of ball lawyer who has pointed out a very interesting clause in the pres- a ery man/at salaries, next week promises to be|ent contracts under which the ath- wes a six-footer. Canada boasted that a lively little spell for the boys who | /etes are held in r ne twelve hundred finer men ever make tho two-base hits. This new plan for the World’ rve, This clause gives the club owner the option on @ player's services for Se-/the next year at the same price as ries, by the way, also has a clause | shown in the expired contract, aimed to benefit the dear old suffer-|_ 1 ws#ked Mathewson about this last ing public in prices to the big g night. Now that he is @ manager, proposes a reduction | Matty is no longer a member of the mes, but, In a| fraternity, but, naturally, his sym- way, makes it up by suggesting that|pathies are with the players as far ot It proposes to pay the players! the contract,” he sald, “It is known for their services ro-|as the option clause, It gives the olowner the right to sign the player as bis position will permit. “Certainly there is such a clause in for another year at the same salary.” “What would happen, then,” I exercised, the contract, with all its al years past the clubs in| clauses, would terminate.” nrequired| And there 1s something for Mr. rof- | Magnate to think over. the| If Bill Smith, for instan was un «| der contract and the owner had the » on his services for another |year at the same price, then th t n the ov er will be free to offer his ser- es wheresoever ho wills, pli ing a chance to offer their services an owner hesitate about cutting This option clause is one of the apons the players are sharpening price for this battle is ald to be 960,000, Kuockoot Brown of Chicago and Tob y will meet at the Unwdway Sporting Club ti hight. They fought over (wo youm ago in How Tt peeme that all the leading lughtwelglia are dui, the Denver lightwoisht jere rubbings to him recently, Iriel wright ia ‘tho ranks, Who bas won seventeen steal creck mt Yoakum dehia Saturday night lula to take On Priday night at New Haven Joo Welling Fulton, Moran and Morris have all | rill bor Pil Bloom fifteen rounds, ‘There la 4 jy | Dlg advance malo for thle bout, which will be oan ducted by the Marlin A.C, Hugh How and Milly Hi and Dave Medar and Charlie Vite meet ten round bouts on the same card, ™ printed incorrect reyorte of the Larry Hanwen-Andy Cortes bout at Allentown last week the bout August King, manager d6- | of the club which magn! the whow, slmel Man iser for MALCHOS | sea up wH box edther George Chaney ar Kaidie Moran | Mey Chrisman afternoon nover asked for a chance to fight Jim Savage stopped] The City Athletic Club will etags the Yot ho should | timinary contests in ite fmt chal- | tournament this evening. Al+| bed in five clames, 108 and (wo Drizon W Shown any | clam, (A trophy will abo be given to the club . Coffey | tat hes the greatest number of competitor, | The finale will be decided oa ‘Thurmtay wight. Wont | Por the first time in twenty years the New Pol AL A. of Marien deat club in Now Yor ase to mim ite shown on Friday 1 in the future will ings, For the fi age Joho Kirk bas arranged Haye of Chivago and now of Philadeljuia, w hee fought al) the lading lightwe! ne with Jimmy Finn of Loug Ialaad, Vulaar, tanwoiiat champion, Ine epecial b lrué) foathorwele'!!. will take op Jory Mur GoW’, accepted terms, made @ date! Morris tian of aby other man Livang. phy. soother Ln testber Copyright, 19 NEW HAVEN, Conn,, Dec, 5.—The election of a new Captain for the Yale football team will be held to-morrow night, when a banquet will be given the football “¥" men by the Yale Ath- letic Association, «1 men eligible for the captaincy, choice undoubtedly will be Arte- Gates, who played end the part of the season more important in pix feet tall, welghs 180 pounds, at Hotchkiss School. Black of this year’s team probably will return to college next year to comp! his four-year That he would have been re- tain if he had been willing to accept th Overton of Yale, for national honors in the sen. to be held over the urse on Saturday. ory of cross-country champion turned around and captured national title, but that is no rea- why Overton should not tura the trick this year, Jay Gould, court who recently squash yeste match between University Clubs in the interclub jould was.on the Yale handily by a score of 15—9, 15 ja Club won by & score of fiv matches to two. la's Intercollest- vKe of the City of Ne dual mateh of th ail team plays ite yn Polytechnic luinbia five will line ‘dis the only until after the holi Dumow of Dulu end during the past sea Athletle | valists who ar leavoring to thelr efforts. still seeking a now that he sale of Mnadt- Friday befor wait until after tes in twelve romnda owt of | which | cut to taken frequently in tho future, The proposed trip of Fannie Durack | kwimmers of untey | This | y reasoned wore ppainted mang SPORTING. by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Fvoning World). Foraet Jim TUNA, Interstate Leagu ITHACA, N.Y, collegiate wrestling will bs basketball team, ‘The inte ext sping cording to word recelved by the athletic manage- ment to-day, The meet waa scheduled to be held at Columbia, but the lack of interest there caused ‘the transfer to Ithaca, Leonard Howlson, the Canadian cham- pion, defeated ph Mayer, the former amateur champlon, In the first block of their 1,500-point billiard match at Daly's Riltiard Academy Inst ni a difficult h would have won the game Howlson made a high run of wave him the necessary 300 points. PITTSBURGH, 1 Carlson of Fayette City, Pa team. patred Grenda and Goullet hi the annual six-day eye f begins at Madison Square noon Dec, 17 will continue there until De 23. This tea won th race a 1914 and finished first this year at Hos- ton, te 1914 Grenda and let. b more records than any.in? al tean and carried off the ater pa of the prize money Fredd Hill of Boston and Peter 1 1 of Poland were al» Coupled yesterday and are expected. to be strong yntenders in th race. Th eames, together with the rules a the r will be annow PHILADELPHIA, Pa. De ard Berry, Penn's fullback, ¢ yesterday that he would be’ unabl the Red and Blue football sudena, Cal, where it will niversity of Oregon eleven on ra Day. accompy team to y the bf pla: New view of tt The Boned of I National Trotting. Association will open its reg- ular half-vearly meeting here. ‘There is An unusually heavy ket of cases to he tried which have accumulated during the racitig season Inst summe ee > — KENOSHA, Wis, Dec. 6 ing of Chicago knocked out Frankie the fhth round of their se y at the finish. OHIA, Dee %— Johnny York and Johany Til apolls fought ai fast bunds here last night. Dundee wa rouNed to the. verdict, but. Tillman gave him & great run. WOONSOCKET, 1 Blades of Woonsocket ry Willie Jones {youn last nigh battler showing to better every round, Dec. 5.— Young ‘on the denial Hrooklyn at th the Woonsocket dvantage in Danvy ‘Rat ‘Lavin ve. Javote. Murray va Bigger and Better Than Ever. {to the In¢ t by 300 to| have 5M. Clifford | has been | cted Captain of the 1917 football | tram at the University of Pittsburgh, He is a Juntor and plays on the Whrney of Cedar Rapids last night in{ duled ten-) ECENT Carnival in Cht- cago Was Very | Successful. ATI caped, Soon be time the swear off, Won't |drink anything they can’t lift. oite of the efforts of Amert Pe Sigh St cate tet 8 Viscult to’ Harvard can have all the football é championship soup that she can hold on a fork. YEA, BO! Welly can't ear lotion are gett! digestion at any work's Dave Fultz's contention that the magnates are picking on the players ly true, The magnates expect play baseball in between meal LOW BRIDGE Baliplayers don't want a schedule. They want a menu. Trew Dison aan Wewenr’s NUMBER. AFTER, ICNocICING WA oot oF THE FUNG e Ehren" eto a o WEINERT Says HE'S The bird who goes to @ fight PoractTen (T NOW = and expects to ace a fight te old- fashioned, A guy like that must Only Better Team Work From Town Resemble One Immense Rink. By William Abbott. n town resemble one immense rink, 1oor many p with the demand, on recently added to the club's course. Are United States G: ational championship the we eason will meet in New York to-day for that purpose. Miss Alexa Stirling, line national champion, and Mrs. Bruce Smith, ropresenting South and West, F Miss Marion Holling of N Miss Eleanore Chandler of Philadelphia. staternents as to thelr choice as chance of landing the tournament | tee round bout. Welling pummeled Whit- ney, with about every blow known to th profession. UNTON, Mass, Dec. S.-Mel Coo Pit} Kiln had the’ better of Preddly the Taunton Nghtwelght, | in. thelr twelve-rosnd bout hi Tast night ane 4 the fight to and had the lead boy tn a bad Had Samuel J. Graha Conn, been able to hin best efgh: 3 of the recent Lakewood tour- Hent to be Used a# & championship n he would have carried off th Atech play he waa pitted a y Harnbill of ‘ard journey in laying against Max I tusrol, whom he def: b tin which gives him a best eigh teen of 69, four strokes under the qual ifying score Which won the medal for | vardiner W. White of Flushing. The Tin Whistles medal play tourney twelve select b ms plaved at Pinehurat, N. C., yeater ALTOONA, Pa, Dee, §.—-Joo Jean-| Hyannis with a net 43. A triple t ue, the | colore ayweipt toaulted for ive second prize among ¢ ny Rosa of Newenatle, Via a L. Becker, Wordland; Parker Whitt: ting and then knock in. more, Brookline, and’ Donald Parson the th und with ¢ yt ounkstown, each 6¢ whom had a net hin. ‘The 4] 40 Whittemore’s rowed of 78 was the pled for ten rounds. beat of the day and efwallet the best GRAND | POULTRY SHOW DECEMBER 5 TO 9 ALL DAY AND EVENING GRAND CENTRAL PALACE | | Lexington Avenue and 46th Street | Prize Winning Poultry from all over the United States Pigeons, Ducks, Geese, Turkeys, Pets and Song Birds TWO MAMMOTH CAT SHOWS) TUESDAY TO SATURDAY Admission, 50c, Children, 25c, EMPIRE POULTRY ASSOCIATION ! atill hold hia membership in the League of American Wheelmen, IF WE MAKE THIS PASS, WE'LL HOOT THE WHOLE NICKEL! Skaters Are Flocking To Indoor Arenas Brooklyn surg took sixteen 8 of bone out of a bey ‘s head and ruined hie career as a baliplayer. Now the boy will have to work for a living. ‘That ain't steam, That's the janitor This year the ica has at- tracted many Every afternoon and ¢ Jack Frost Needed to Make whirling crowd of # All the football heroes are home round as if they again, but mother atill carries the here skate with 2Gal up from the cellar. No. tickot’ sealpere were Killed Jn the rt wea | Mifish Fanciore’ \atjon of Te sekitich ENRIUs ia New York lan woes, had just come anxious to learn that the private tutors services of | are enlisted, nvigorating sport ORE rinks, hockey games be- tween women here and teams from Canada, there's appar- erftly no limit to the skating craze that {s luring thousands of New York- ers to the ice, There'll be at least ten skating this winter to every one who put on the steel runners’ last year, judging from present indica- tions, Only better team work is od from Jack Frost to make the attractive through the introduction of] , 167, dance steps. In the centre of every (teeth like a shark. YOU SAID IT. Solty tas Sette te the Eat Ble, lad to they are joing to. eres marathons. Were Opp te capital punishment ourselves, WAUFFOOF OOF! T THAT WALRUS A PIECE OF 1etting with the grace of exhibition dancers, Perhaps the strangest part of the latest sporting fad is the interest of ain't j women in skating, For the first time| two teams of wom have been organized, and they have shown unexpected skill handling the long sticks, The ma hockey players ment of the Rink has practically can- for a series of most formidable ms here and in Canada, ey season will be a@ hum. | never bas to ask any! mer, though it tions in the Dominion be Impatient at the coming of good cold weather, the skaters are flocking nay. Three new rinks 1 opened recently, and for surg the efty had only one |rink, which was sufficient for all pur- %. That was before the strenu- ous winter sport became so popular, Now the rush to buy skates is so t that manufacturers cannot keep games between t Connie Mack denies that he teams to allow his liplayere te jein The Ama- | fraternity, ci eague and the college promise to supply haen’t got any. BUST THAT CURVB! au polag getters MSs Se Ranak ane ot mostly of veterans, has been practis- ing at the St, Nicholas Rink. Tigers this year expect to regain the nors that were theirs when the sensational Hobey Baker used to wield @ stick for the 00, Charlotte, the little Hipprodrome skater, really started the ice craze jast winter, Toward the end of the 1915 season it was quite the thing to have skgting parties in many of the —_——————— GOTTA STOP FEEDING ‘EM MEAT. Orange and BOSTON, Dec. 5.—BM Carrigan, Whe \led the Red Sox to the world's cham- jPlonship in both 1915 and 1916, may be leoaxed out of retirement. He imtt- jmated as much yesterday to a Besten made here so far this ‘ons Was 36 and i prevented the play ‘The Marine and Feld Club this Sat- irday will open its new 18-hole course | 84% for play. Winter rules will govern the} or¢ of tho tle: ying over the nine holes that have land, will eave for in’ Carrigan’s company in charge of the golf cour a resort a fow mpa. A new holes were reconstructed from 1) Dyker Meadows lnks and the still require forther conditioning, so members are requested to play with |whether there was any chance of returning to th will not promise anythin holes of which the first of the 1 nine shortly afte be completed by ve year and the segond | the teem f6e ist C08 Mme Ram of the women selected by the f Association to desig- nate a coarse suitable for the holding of ext CHICAGO, Dec, 6.—Hugh Ward, with Harry Frazee hoa purchased Boston Club of the American And will come Into formal on Do Cubs Release Mordecat Brown, the Nationa! the Federal, once famous three-fin-| gered pitcher of the Cubs, hes been re- unconditionally by Weeghman, President of the Chicago ty, Brown 1s thirty-elght years old. | t o ie Ci iT ry that_ the Cubs fulfil ¢ to the Cubs tn 1904 from the that, the Cubs fulal t the war ends. TAMPA, Fla., Dec. teiation wired 3 ot be able to be present. ‘Those Ghiokan Chis eting will be Miss ny Osgood of Boston, Chairman; York and as part of the Jack Taylor. nda and stands, Although the women have made no ot, Mt eema now that the Shawnee Country Club. on the Delaware River, has a fine AUTOMOBILES. ups to be found. In the first round {ills and made the Everybody’s Riding Motorcycles and Bicycles Judging from the 4 holes, club handicaps, over the number one course, Tho first prize Was won by W. 5S. Milliken. day and even slimpee of the 1917 model Ractive ase on cic ar ae nate NATIONAL MOTORCYCLE, BICYCLE & ACCESSORY SHOW a vies too, in attending the show, inspecti models of parcel delivery’ care with a ciet to solving the problem of low-cost driven moto! lay of accessories i ermething of intereet peinet ee yaad Only one week, remember—d from 10 a. m. to 10°30 Pm. Wrestling Spectators boys to aD yion afte’ thts A mm A knuckles on the pipe. | ’ t way to get picked for the All- ican is to have twe rows sce tos eet Eye else to oat In iret place, per man who has spent a day for the purps of aacertals club nex! but {may possibly soneent te 14, is plannt to ajor league baseball’ as caue ae —The Secreted ident Wesentnaseee dent Weeghmi tho National League that the asso Tampa Basebdal the amount ft hi ig crowds of out, 5 ck Madison fenn ee ig, anxious for their firet lew at the joodly numbers are @ view delivery