The evening world. Newspaper, December 26, 1916, Page 10

BEST SPORTING PA ‘THE EVENING WORLD, YUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1916. GE IN NEW YORK Les Darcy Is Lucky to Have) Such a Good Sportsman as} Tex Rickard to Advise Him) Here. Ina Ov, Cmrrstts WU Peed bventne Wert ™ ES DARCY ts busy seeing New York. New York is getting a 00d look at Les. The Austral- jan champion is being entertained by Tex Rickard. Tex isn’t Darcy's man- ager, but it's a safe bet that nobody have more influence than Tex Darcy is looking for advice, This ts a lucky thing for Darcy. Among fight promoters and manage: Tex ts a unique person, His word od for whatever he promises. lonor ranks above money with Rickard. Money ranks above every- thing else in the world with @ ma- dority of his rivi A little incide: Rickard’s career ia typical. He matched Willard and Moran. While talking over the af-| fair with Moran, early in the nego- tiations, Rickard said he'd give Frank 50 per cent. of what he was to pay ‘Will |. Later the Willard crowd held Rickard up and forced him to ad- vance his price, Moran's contract Was already signed and Moran was watisfied with the amount agreed Ped But a day before the fight lckard notified Moran that as Will- ard was to get more Rickard would Yoluntarily raise Moran's end to 60 RS cont. of the new Willard figuri ickard’s strict regard for his spoki word cost him about $2,500, But that the kind of a man he is, WOULD like to see another pro- moter of boxing bouts who would! voluntarily pay an additional §2,500 | merely to make good a verbal agre ment for which a specific written con- tract had been substituted, I know @ bet of ‘em who would suffer a com- plete loss of memory on much slight- €r provocation than that. 5 SAYS THE MINEST > THING HE BVER SAW WAS 4 Te Starve of Linerety Darcy wan nis Z PIRGT GLIMPSa OF ~~ IN NEWYoRK's STREETS BIT SLIPPY, Y’ rrNow: OTHER Wise I SHOULD AV BLoomny’ Weu KNocKen tis Baw Buoac OFF Wit MY Buoomin' ‘ook Dancy ts" seenme new York® = INCIDENTALLY NY 15 T, SUNT AT Dance. ie ts Colgate Gets Three Places on Camp’s All-America Eleven Famous Yale Football Au-| teams. ts is 4 Leaving out the West d Pitts. thority Awards Two Posi- burgh players ‘Ar. Campa aolections tions to Old Eli. “THe AusTRAUiAN Caammon witt Wte. Work Bi ey closely follow those on The World's Jastern eleven, which made up as follows: inds, Coolidge and Mosele; a uUTTis PORT WE FIGHTS += +> BLY A LIT TLG TURK IN SREFINGD VAUDEVILUG Y tack- ARCY saya the finest thing he| Colller's All-America football clevei utes and McLean; guards, Black | ———— ever saw was the Statue of| selected by Walter Camp of Yale, who oe oe Sithe, ate | wn; backs, Liberty as it joomed over the | through lon, re has been accepted| fey iphant, Pollard and bow of the steamer that brought kim ah tong yours has been accepted | Berry, on all aides as one of the leading au- thorities of the game, is published in the current issue of Collier's, The first eleven le made up as follows: Keferring to the season as a whole, Mr. Camp says in part: “py there te in run fron into New York Harbor. However, Les has no fault to find with Miss Liberty as pictured on the American dollar. 1916 SPORTING RECORDS BASEBALL. are cortain potball play ke formation marke: Last yea! rth AN'T blame Les for appreciating SEEING NEW YORK WITH LES DARCY Coprrteht. 1916. by The Prem Publishing Co. (The New York Breniag Werld.) jot rowing in this country would be Big Fight on Be National Amateur Rowing Body | May Expel Mercury Foot Club for Electing Famous Coach to Life Membership. HERE t& @ big fight on be- tween the New York Athletic Club and the National A clation of Amateur Oarsmen just because the former recently elected to fe membership Eugene J. Gian- nini, for twonty-one years its ath- letic director, Under the 1872 con- stitution of the N. A. A. O., Giannini, who recently resigned as assistant! coach of the Yale crews and ls now engaged in Wail Street as an insur: ance broker, is a professional Upon @ protest being lodged against the N. ¥. A. C., the governing body | compelled to reject all entries in ama- teur regattas from the club, and also would have power to expel it from membership. Furthermore, the situation is com- piloated by the fact that the New has Diet" view GE Libey. Ends—Baston, Minnesota and! oat Yeuture or ine attain. (fle str Ke The Boston Red &0x easily won the World's Series by defeating the meant real liberty for bien Thy | Moseley, Yales tackles, West, Cole | cures this year Aan giown: however, |] Brooklyn club, winner of the National League pennant. Tris Speaker led dauger of being went back to Aus. tralia was over. And naturally Le: fan't anxious to go back to Australia, He wants to take an alibi with him gate and Horning, Colgate; guards, | with it t) Black, Yale and Dadmun, Harvard; | centre, Peck, Pittsburgh; quarter- threat of the fe In case the last mi fs known to be ar ‘ally simplifies the problem all batters. Ty Cobb, for the first time in etght years, lost the highest hitting loners. Grover Alexander and Walter Johneon were the premler pitchers fn both major leagues, The Glants, late in the race, established a when he returns—a wooden Tee: or ®| back, Anderson, Colgate; halfbacks, tiga tli Kod P tally. tht Oa for consecytive victories by winning twenty-six games without phot * _{Oliphant, West Point, and Pollard,|the various methods of thinnime tie |e erent ASKED Darcy about the report! wrowns fallback, Harley, Ohlo State, |*fenmive line--that Is, ‘forcing. the ‘The game won renewed popularity, both the National and American that he waa training in Aus- back by” the || Leagues reporting Increased attendances for the year, Gale s.nn avian Colgate gets three places, Yale two, ie AGA Kids . nation and at the ATHLETICS, op Intended to ehline nnd become an | While Minnesota, Pittsburgh, Har. ation and aviator,” he suid. "I began to etuay |Yard West Point, Brown and Ohio polling the ace Ted Moredith was by far the greatest athlete in 1916, He created @ State are represented by one e: up on motors and such things, but! Mr. Camp picks three elevens and Oe atater tinier foe Se new world's half-mile record of 1.62 2-6 and a new world’s quarter-mile I've never been in the air, 1 left home | Princeton gets only one pla Capt, and thus make thrusting « record of 0472-5, Robert Simpson set a new world’s mark of 0143-5 Just four days bofore my twenty- | Hogg at guard gn the second eleven, | plunkin hore tive, The for the 120-yard high hurdl first birthday, 1 wasn't of military Cornell and Syracuse are not repr Jniversity tsburgh, under War- age. In a fow days I would have |sented, while the great Pittsburgh |q{t, pile simplest method of Wille Kyronen at Van Cortlandt Park won the sentor national cross- had to report for military training, |backs, of whom so much was heard,|Of the backfield, Thies were not ean. || country champtonship, John W, Overton of Yale won the intercollegiate There is no conscription, but every |are not Included. In fact, Pittaburgh| plicated, and they Involved the pring | cross-country ttle, man in Australia between twenty-one |gets only two places on tho three rect pas m THOROUGHBRED RACING. Friar Rock, owned by August Belmont, captured the Brooklyn and Suburban § aps, the first three-year-old to win both these fixtures the same y John Madden purchased Friar Rock for $50,000. Camp- fire, winner of the Futurity, was the best two-year-old of the season, and thirty-five is ordered out for training. After that he can volunte or not, as he chooses, They d Give you much peace if you refus oft Fistic News sonn ARCY shows one sign of evi-| dent ring ability, He has been| Tex Rickard has received word from; Mtation! Rogie banam, as be can easily TENNIS, through many long fights with | Paris that Georges Carpentler's signed | Me 112 te tne whith waight Wild Rf. Norris Williams 2d of Philadelphia won the national singles cham- good men, and he isn't scarred. | contract to tox for him in this country | Mi #l ements wa plonship from William M, Johnson of San Francisco at the West Side He has no thickened ears or Hp*lagainst the best men that can be | Sen Wallac announces that in mw || Club after one of the inost sensational struggles ever witnessed on Ameri- and there are no white lines along! secured to meet him, 1a now on Its way. | (82? ef leach Crise varus the Manhatian & can courts, Willlam M, Johuson and Clarence J, Griffin retained the hig eyebrows. His nose ts straight. | iy thine that ‘ib ¢alavine the| fer ue hoe between the $1,500 guaract natlonal doubles title, Miss Molla Bjurstedt won the women's national mil: bo ay with, S08: and) famous Wena heeesarataet f rg this 1 ver cent. tn te Harvey bout has! f singles title. wi uen w jon in his thers favor by th. . a ri y Among ‘Oghing men. of gy country 19 @ hitch in regan’) to obtain- tania wean a Sie coe | A striking feature of the tennis reason was the development of many were Ketchel, Terry McGovern, Billy |ing a sufficiently lengthy furlough so Albee or deny take eather young players of championship ability, ‘Toward the end of the year Papke, Al Kaufmann, Kid McCoy,|that he could get in proper condition it to the juiy, It ie mow se two leading stars, orge M, Chureh and Harold Throckmorton, sailed Tommy Ryan, Joe Gans, Young |for a battle for the championship here. weal from the Pacific coast to Invade the courts of Japan and Mant! Corbett, Joe Walcott, Tomm West ae: ir tek 6 ene GOLF. an rt cst Rickard expects to hear any day now| 3 we, the hard hitting local welt : Tree: atimmons, who all went |e Gerpentier has engaged passage | ies, burt Ci» and cent exciting tea. | Charles W. (Chick) Evans of Chicago won the national amateur ahd belng marked. Terry McGovern used |for New York, Lae an Aver Baud, wut be will oe | T nattonal open champtonships, the first American amateur to capture both to say that he kept the other fellows so busy thev didn't hav him. national titles the same y » Oswald Kirkby of Englewood annexed the |] metropolitan amateur title at Nassau, Walter Hagen of Rochester won the metropolitan open at Garden City after a three-cornered play-off, The Western amateur went to Helnrich Schmidt and the Western open to Walter F Miss Alexa Stirling of Atlanta, Ga., won the women’s natlonal cham- One of the moat important light heavrwelaht | doev't ex poute that has erer beca wtaged in this county hae been arranged by Domtnick Tortorteh, thy | New Orieaua promoter, for the now Lauisiana Auditorium for Feb, 20, It will be between 1) tion aod Miske, ‘Thene stars, who recently fought » fo box for at foast th) sountry for a rewt time to hit That may be Darcy's way too, | | wees and ie goitg Us the Kod wutght Moat who ARCY'S plans will depend en- tirely upon Rickard, It is Iike- ly he will walt for Co PeNtieEr | alasbing ten-vind bout in Brooklya, will ex plonshlp, to ogme to this country, Rickard ex- | change punches ovor the twenty round route, In BOXING. pectB to have Carpentier here before | jw recent bouta Dillon lise shown aigoe of oink 6 very long. There have been negotia~ | tack whil) Miske bas been steatily improving tn Jeas Willard, at Madison Square Garden, successfully defended the ats by Eastern champlonship in dispute between Pittsburgh, Colgate and Willard, Such a| ceatiy, das been signed uy for two t is willing to fight tone over srranging & furlough for | nis ring work, world’s heavyweight title by defeating Fran's Moran of Pittsburgh. Freddy Wemted time with ansihing But tite big | _‘TeMy dahobe, the” eal side bantam, who |] Welsh retained the Nehtwelgnt title with a victory over Charley White, inatches, He ien't a promoter of pre- |#aded Dutch Rranit of Mrookion to a hur FOOTBALL. Vminaries or tryouts. Dare he | ricane bout at the Broadway Sporting (his | | | a 0 ilo State Won the confere! iddle West, Madeh would simply be lausined ut It | manazr soe Sah. Ha ll Yor w retry Yat i West Point, Ohio State won the conference title of the Middle would be an absurdity. Willard said | with Braudt on Saturday nigit, Jan, and two “gs See as BILLIARDS. ~ present Sent Dillon Pethere De. bey ed hava Kary Lg eyes Waite! At the Ploncer Sporting Club Frankie Willie Hoppe successfully defended all his titles in professional bil- eet terce let op Bums. the crack Jersey City bantam |f Mads, ge W, Moore won and successfully defended three-cushion Atstralian match, scaled 158. He in|, Matchmaer Moan of the Pursont &. &% i who seems to be Just ax speedy now as|{ title, Edward W. Gardner won the National Class A balkline amateur aepelier than Dillon, by at least ten | fidget ae “a feciues fe HI was u fev years back when he was || ttle. AUTOMOBILES. pounds and is no taller, Bi ‘f terror of ht and Pal \ i ’ foe, th &. Paw abt lghtwewr js ANG " loore Carpentier’s fighting weight when | De hos. the we Jof Memphis, boxed an exc sedingly. tae Dario Resta secured the American championship for professional ky ‘ee Be sill tor Tommy Bs rat phar vie og boop Tarivers on the A. A. A. point-score system and won about $60,000 in pounds. He may te heavier now, but | Ye" HJohnay Dundee, landing many times. at |p purses: inny Aitken set a new world’s speed record by averaging 105,95 he'd probably train down to 175 for|°! #4* 9 long range and often causing Burns to | miles per hour in a 100-mile race at the Sheepshead Bay Speedway, ring purposes, With Darcy at 165,| Neth saturday ie Queeeabore 8. 0.1 Troe paniig reat atane have any | HOCKEY. a resh from a long line of v wil pat om the beet promramme that it bee} nial ea ¢ alg yas A teur Hocke: champtonsh r torles, the advantage would le with | wanes’ (his season, Bi) Been re Ch The nemictinal W ayaa RAT Rosi on A ‘ won Amateur. He key League champlonship, Ha the Australian, It must be remem. | cog bearweieht, vill Ime up with dackltwo veteran heavy weiwhta, Ave bv T rated the best of the, college teams. bered that Carpentier has been Under | Kestag Posada and K. O, Joe Daly will | Jim Smite and AL Meo SWIMMING. . or thi yoy Smith round fativ arguweat,| beth, boxing ten victo! aa 4 am. 2 Py Beret eve SHAR FOP the past | Wow Beer Rais le pues! former, alth new kno Norman Ross created a new world's record of 2m, 21 for 200 fighter. Within the past few weoku |, us® Ros. ‘amplon miMiiewisnt of Cony winning yards in a 100-foot pool, Herbert FE, Vollmer set new worl ee he has been exposed to gunfire con- | mrigc, “Srorue Chao nest Sateelay night ¢ —— 100 and 150 yards and 800 metres. ently. THe latest mention of Cars| \ton he toam Jor Borrell of Philateibia, iow] White Eastly Defeats Perce, ROWING, Reng, 2 tbe Order of the Day cone | nus 91 tart te edo aa errant deta Up be phosioilt Syracuse varsity elght was first in the Poughkeepsie vegatta by Risemeant Carpentinr's courage in| ue ‘2 Balser, Perr ln, time ol crockiyn'e hard. hittin Pievee, |F gereating Cornell, Columbla and Pennsylvania, Thomas J, Rooney jr. bly commended. In the recent | guroeeed Tem McGovern, koting uRer how's | tho Clermont Rink yeaterder ater togt {| won the national sculling title, the air over the ens my trenches tor |" Re lib Gites wloheran aie 3 ancity ty OR TINA, s. The Elena took t four hours, freque flying at a| ‘The local clude have sledy started 1 “FEO rag Retr eras ee cial ‘The Aurora won the Astor Cup for sloops, The Elena took the. Astor ight of only £00 metres to direct our | for law Dare ® services. Tie firmt | M1 White's ‘sleop ailon, oul 9 Cap for schooners, and the King’s and Cape May Cups. The Miss artillery fire, returning only when his | ls the Froatsay ‘ olrenson the battle was wil’ TP atinneapolls captured the Gold Trophy for motor boats in record time. airplane was seriously damaged, once | 7.40 t mee ¥ esting BICYCLING. when his equippage had been struck | omer is next ar veee Mena sabaicnalititlas Tok z in; thirty-two places by shrapnel,"" | forward. 5,000 Mit Frank Kramer retained the national professional . John Stachie y ere’s a real war hero for you~ he re ab oy) a 2 4 In an effort to curb the evil of Sum won the national amateur championship, Carpentier. The only question about | Vllek sud Dan MeKe mer busedu'l Cornell has made a radt a Carpentier-Darcy mateh is whether be Wagner, tI an hentem, obo CH! chanke in t clegibility rules for | = ae memimeamees _ eS TT o¥ not the French authorities will | bors Jobnny Couloi ex-ianta uw year, Under the new rul grant a furlough for the purpose of | siampon, vtgtie Pioveer Pg whi poffoct on dun, 1. 4 Me ty Seores In ani, re vi , aytamane Wiss Decision, Allowliig him to fight Darey, who left | Monday alte Boo, ease tot the reaam ttt i ; Fao a iates eee | At the Onmpis A. £ eh a Pees fe 7 Larry Austraiia to avoid enlistmen But | decided to BMuro’ to the ring was to see if ho on Bt een Affair rely heavyweight, knocked out Tim|Hansen, the battling Dane of Brook perneve after Carpentier Aght| could box sowsliere veer as well an of vow. Ht Der At Which adnate | Sullivan of Boston In the round, |Iyn, defeated Phinney Boyle in twelve icy would be welcomed Jn France | we thet if be finds that be can stand the gait) charieal to eld or stand, except as and W Astey out 1 Young |younds, Referee Larry Conley of Boston ef an addition to the Fore Legion, | again he wii eves @ match with Jimmy Wile, te uw uieinber of Lue college team, Merino in @ feet bout wiving him the decision, York Athletic Club by electing Gian- nint to life membership has violated one of the cardinal principles laid down in tts constitution by the foun- ders in 1868, In Article IIL. of its constitut! National Association of “Amuteur Gata. men defines its inembership as conslist- ing of clubs which adopt the definition of an ba vende viz, to be ne who as never taught, pursued or Qssisted in the pursuit of ‘athleu er cles a8 & means of livelihood; * * * and tt ides further that “the term | oarsmen shall apply to and designate all bona fide members of amateur rowing | clubs. In tha same manner the New York! Athletic Club desixnates nine classer of | membership and provides that no. per-| fon shall be eligible to mem! bership in any of said classes unless he be an am teur, and further provides _an amateur | 1s “one who has not * © * instructed, | Pursued or assisted in the pursuit of| athletic exercises as a means of livéli- | |hond or for kuin or any einolument |,, There is no doubt therefore that) by the letter of the Inw Giannini Is a pro- | fessional and that the | by electing him to menibership has not | only violated its own constitution. but) also has violated the constitution of the |} A. U., and laid {itself open to ex. | pulsion froni the rowing ranks, | ew York A. C.! But there is another aide to the ques- |tion. In fact there seem to be many jother sides. In the first place, there ts the one big reason, and that'is Glan- |nini, the man, ‘Then there is the minor | [reason that In this day and generation | |4 national organization with a constitu- | tion which arbitrarily governs the con- duct of ils constituent members is in| |need of overhauling in keeping with the| | spirit of the times, | It is unfortunate that Giannini ts the | victim in the nt situation, All who |know him recognize in him @ man of! | true worth, whose character 1s irre- Santa Tex Dion't ceave ANYTHING IN THAT LITTLE WILLARD Bor's GTocKING, tween N. Y. A. C. And N. A. A. O. Over Giannini Lown seeking, MEREDITH’S AMATEUR | STANDING IN DANGER. ‘Ted Meredith, world’s greatest middle distance runner, ts in dan- ger of losing his amateur stand- ing because on Sunday last he allowed his name to be used over a story that appeared on a local sporting page. This ts in viola- tion of clause D of article X. of the constitution of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States, which says, in part: “By grant or sanctionin, the use of one’s name to adver ti by engaging for pay or financial benefit in any occupa- or transaction || or value rom the publicity given, to the rep fame which he ha: reach is cause for disbarment, the rule grants the Board of Governors power to || pardon him for the offense: i. ¢., “upon it beinir shown to the satis- faction of the said board that such person has ceased to commit any of the acts or to engage in any of the pursuits or practices set down in said clause.” When several athletic offictals were approached on the subject they were unanimous in their opinion that the act, under the clause, was sufficient to cause his dismissal from the amateur ranks. When the constitution and bylaws of the union were recodified by the specially appointed legislative body recently particular stress was put upon the construction of thts rule. It is certain that the local office of the Amateur Ath- letic Union will Inv fate Mere- dith’s breach of the rules. pronchable and who always has been a! clear voiced exponent of amateurism. One need go no fubther to investigate the character of the man when It is known that his recent election to life membership in the club was not of his but came as a token of | uppreciation from a group of the most | prominent members of the club, who Betieved “that no. gift, would. be’ m Welcome to the man who served twenty | odd years as athletic director than a life membership in the organization, | Knowing When they put Giannini's name on the membership rolls that they. were throwing down the gaunt: | let to the A. A, O. there seems little doubt that the Board of Gov- ernors of the club is prepared to defend its stand, If on no other ground tha: personal. popularity, Glannini's will be sustained by the vot- | reip of the club if the igsue demands the (eat, and it is said that proposals to amend the constitu tion to prevent a similar situation arising within the club will be placed | before the Board of Governors shortly. Penn Planning Monster Stadium | The University of Pennsy planning a big stadium, and if present ideas of the stadium com- |mittee go through tho Quaker insti- tution will have an arena with a | Seating capacity of 100,000, larger by ike vania is 000 than the famous bowl at New | Haven, The committee has been busy for some time collecting data as to avail jable locations and the expense cf Jerecting such a structure, ‘The trus- tees of the university have been no Ufied of the work of the committee and a conference will be arranged ‘0 discuss the plans, probably short! after the Christmas vacation, —————-. {HARVARD WOULD HOLD | INTERCOLLEGIATE MEET. | Marvara is ali ig to enter ja bid for the intercollegiate track and |fleld champion next’ May, The! [Crimson is Taunching no campaign to | insure the eward of the classic, but the event has always proved a tnoneymaker |when held in the Stadium, and Harvard |has expres#ad a willingness to stage the |champlonships. ‘The first outdoor meet for the Crinison team is at the Pennayl- Vania relay games ut Philadelphia, April 28-29, The Cornell team will face |Marvard at Cambridge on May 5, and the dual meet with Yale will take place lin New Haven a week later ie Scheda With its indoor prac jafter the Christmas holidays, Fordiam University. has brought its baseball {plans for the coming season almost to completion, Although the schedule ean- | hot be announced until approved by the | Graduate Board, the lie will be the | longest the Bronxites have attempted in some years, Twenty-five games have | already airanged and it 1s. prob: able that the Maroon management will! fdd a few more dates if they can be lobiained on the two trips, |BIG CHANGES WILL BE not be on the Hat of Metropolitan clubs holding golf tourna- ments In 1917, not because It does not Ardsley will wont to act as host, but because the work of altering its course, which will amount to almost a reconstruction, will be in full swing next spring, The ardsley tournament last spring | was one of the most popular. of j season and the field was a. big | The accessibility of the Ardsley Cl a big factor in the popularity tournaments, and it always can ¢ | on the presence of many of the lending | golfers of the M olitan district | Donald Ross s architect. of the | new Ardsley cou which includes a | large part of the old links as well as last spring. He is the layout and the ed probably will in the vicinity of New York City ——— CAMPFIRE AND HOURLESS ARE PUT ON SCALES. | T. Wilson's Campfire and August Hourless, — two-year-old R Behnont's | tan Football League by @ score of & 1s of last season and who are x-|gonls to2 At half time, the visitors cted to be among the best of the|led at 2-1. syear-olds this season, were re | 1, the st. Thomas tennis tournament ently welxhed by T. J. Healey and! nt Pinehurst only the final of the men's amv Hildreth, their respective trainers. -"'ngtea was played yesterday, Allan Hourless, which stands just 15 hand: @® of the Ravislow Club, “Chicago, and 2% inches high, 18 a quarter of an | winning the trophy by defeating Card- inch’ taller, but Campfire is a tritte |p of the Orange Lawn. Tennis longer, Hourless weighed 1,018 pounds | Club in three straight sets, 6—2, 9—7, and around the girth is 70 Mehds. | 75 nire weighed 1,054 pounds and 1s — Inches around the girth. | Hourlena ts nearly black and looks smaller in pro- portion to. his actual measurements JUAREZ SELECTIONS, than Campfire, which 1s @ rich chest- ee nut, —o M GOING OUT TO IMPROVE THE STREETS,” HE SAID. Bay Point, Cal., has a munici- pal saloon, the profits of which are paying for street ments, improves | fuss and he wasn't disappointe TER Seeing A What Will- ard Wants for a Fight, Lloyd George May De- cide That Peace Is Cheaper. The six-day race is over and we don't hear anybody yodelling for an encore, dont mee what Joha I Johnaon, the Druuetie hearyweigut, wants ‘o— Pe Ay eR THAT LESTER oatiat TER MUST BE A YEA BO! Ban Johnson didn’t expect any Christmas presents from Barne; Pa: abit. vo Git a btank pltxkd Oat As Uaioe pot A six-day race is always enjoyable until the band wakes you up. YOU SAID A FORKFUL, Out West it snowed right up to the people's money pockets, but that won't affect the wrestlers any, Only about 299 shopping days te Christmas. SHOP LATE AND AVOID THB BARLINESS. One of the six-day racers slept for * two days after the race was over. Some of the spectators beat him by four days. ais A ballplayer can't eave his head. No bank will start an account that small, LET'S GO. University of Penn starts the New Year right with football in Callfornia, That makes the ney year right for us, but tough for California, You're seen dallnlavers trying to on ermis, eure een trring to eave put dtdva erer eos a balipiaver trying to Hiren, if Jom Willer only gure « thin dime te tg en Ohrstmas would have cost im $8.00, When Lloyd George and Kaiser William get ready to compromise, won't they please include our ice hockey season in their peace pact? SHAKE ’'EM UP. You never saw a guy playing soll- tatre who ane delieve that a emall y tle but class; Junior Indoor ;--~- Tennis Tourney To Open To-Day Robert F. Putnam, referee of the na- tlonal juntor {ndoor lawn tennis cham- pionship, has arranged for the first round of thirty-six matches and the second round of thirty-two competi- tions to be decided to-day at the be- ginning of the record tournament with its entry of 100, at the Seventh Rogiment Armory. ‘The entry that nearly doubles the list of a year ago caused Ben O’Brien, the court keeper, to have @ equad of rookies completely clear the floor of mp gear from the Mexican border. O'Brien had all of the national cham- pionship courts, seven in number, marked out for the total of sixty-cight battles, which Putnam designated as the programme for to-day. It will mark the biggest day's work tn any national indoor tournament ever held in this country. Ace tu the fully up to the parkable and unexpected enuy of formidable juniors from the coll Kiliott H, Bingen, the playing thro hampion, Who represents Fordham University, will meet W. W. Hastings, from Ridgefield School, in the first a. roUther important matches of the round are: F. M. W Ras At eels m ‘ountry Philadelphia; Irving Piitt, tne Newtown High School boy, who played so well in the national cham- plonship last August, meets Fred Ma' thews of Ambhorst; the luck of draw did not favor Columbia, for lard Bottsford and Rowland B, Haines, two of the best of the forces from Morningside Heights, meet in the open- round, Benjamin H, Letson, the ‘ational boy champion, meets Goddi W. Saunders, — members of the All- a soccer team which visited Scandinavia in tbe lne-up, the United States eleven could do no better than tie at 1 goal all with the Continentals in the first of the annual series of international matches of the ‘ootballers’ Protective Association at. Lenox Oval yesterday afternoon, four Philadelphia soccer players represent= ing the Allied Amateur League proved their worth in’ the inter-league game, which preceded the international mateh at Lenox Oval yesterday, by defeat the eleven selected by the Metropolf= First Pickett, Second Race Belle ~~ Bermudtas Bird —Pickagain, Gen. Cousin -Mack B, Eubanks, Fascinating, Olds. ~Tempy Duncan, Cue , Jefferson, “sixth Race =~ Hastena, Chartty Ward, F ce Eugene, Barn: urtl mobi Fifth Rave