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- Benny Leonard to Follow Cus-! tom and Enter Vaudeville tor a Few Weeks. Consriaht, 1917, by the Prem Pobiiahing Co (The New York Evening World.) | “a SEE by the papers” that Benny Leonard 1s to fall for a few! weeks of that dear cla vaude- | ville, and that Billy Gibson ts already opening negotiations in which vast sume are mentioned, Oh, well, they all do it. The war will last « long time, | but vaudeville dates for a new cham- | pion are good only while people are | talking about him, And Benny may | need a little nest egg after the war, if he should come home ininus an | arm; not but that he could whip a| ‘ot of ‘em with one hand L REICH may be an “Adonis,” but I fear the most optimistic | of his followers are convinced | by this time that he never will be a fighter, ‘Unfortunate that so little | tighting spirit should go with such a | great body. Can you imagine what the combination of Bob Fitxsimmons’s eld fighting heart with A! Reich's magnificent body would avcomplish among the modern heavyweights! Willard wouldn't be chanipion long. And as for the rest of the bunoh— they'd last about as long as a bag of peanuts at Coney Island, When Al began boxing | sir amateur athlete, He mateur bouts in sensational sty! aving no opponents of much class Then he turned profesviosal and whipped Sailor White in his first was on a few Sheridan, who was one of the greatest (hletes in the world “Al looks like a comer,” I remarked ) Martin, “With that bulid and his peed and skill he ought to be a bampton.” He'll never beat a good ian,” sald Martin positively. “He hasn't a fight- ers heart. Why, even in a shot put- | ng competition he goes to pieces if | ink ome other fellow he could beat easily fighter.” Martin had tt right a lot of talk to the t the cireus peopde are weary of having Jess Wi- | Carl ard along, and want to hire Morris instead, All of this pi will eventually lead up to a lot of challenging between Willard and Morris, and possibly to a mateh— dated next year. Every circus needs \dvertising. ME Ulinois Legisiature is like! a to pass the boxing bill that Willie Ritchie was working so iard for until he went back to Cali- fornia to enlist in the aviation corps, Wilile did effective work at the capi-| tal, I'm told, He made a great tm- pression on the legisiators. And why not? If all boxers were like Wille MWitehle boxing would have to be classed as a gentleman's sport. The boxing bill if Mlinols has been favorably reported out of comn n the State Senate. It is patterne! on the Frawley Law of the grapplers, When they can't get away with it any longer anywhere else they hike to Chi—which is the tumble city fo nat urtists, Even the Hack-Goten thing didn't kill wrestling in Chi cago, although it put @ severe kink in the “sport.” If the boxing bill passes and be- comes a law Ohicago will lose in terest in grapplers and spend its spare coin to see boxers, It always works that way. Even in New York wrestlers. were welcome until the yoxing law came in. I suppose wher he Frawley Law vave to content grapplers with the in. Tough prospect! N deseribi the Moran. Morris fight in this column I wrote; “Af ter a few rounds Moran's body vegan to sag, so that he was a bi flabby and thick-waisted." It printed: “So that he was a bit flab! and thin-walsted.”| Funny that a mistake of a couple of letters could INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE, STANDING OF THE CLUBS. Clubs, WL. PLC, | Clubs. Woh, P Newark.,.23 12 .657 Rochester.20 18 Prov'ence.24 15 615 Buffalo. 1 Baltimore 24 17 .G85 Montreal .14 Toromto...22 18 .550 Richmond 1 RESULTS YESTERDAY Ridimond, 6; Newark, 4 Baltimore, 4; Providence, 3. Rochester, 3; Buffalo, 1 GAMES TO-DAY, Newark at Richmond, Toronto at Montreat Roches! Buffalo, Providence at Balti THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JUNE BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK INN KAUEP 18° PULLING STUNTS eS Yes, PReovig ~ WAS A WONDER ~ ClLeveresT /N THE worvp, Bur I tnew T coun Box RINGS Now Tey wawt Cane Mornus to Go wim A Circus. ALL OFF WITH ThE GRAPPLERS IN AS IF Boxing MIGHT Come WW. WILL SOME KIND TIGHT PROMOTER. FIND AJoB FoR P.S. Nor A FIGHTING JoB PS. AGAIN VUET SOMBTHING IN) | Tile ADONISING LINE.) Macomber Pays $20,000 to. “They bay Cr A Few w OF THAT DEAR OL” VAUDEVILLE. * 2, 7, 1917. ~ LATEST SPORTING NEWS TOLD IN CARTOONLETS Copyright, 1917, by The Press Publishing Co. BENNY 16 To Fat rom Win Derby fight. ‘That evening -« met Martin | Three-Year-Old Is Sold to Mil- lionaire Under Extra Conditions. With ALM. Dick | handicapper's away weight to all his opp ious to his appearance k, AIM, Dick started in At Pimlico and National League. W. LL. PC. Cabs. 32 Cincinnati 20 622 Brooklyn..14 Clubs, W. LP. 435 || Boston....29 13 .696|Detroit...18 24 429 New York 23.1 By Vincent Treanor. nt to Kentucky to start In the Latonia Derby, he! reasonably good bet- ing his first appearanc nd tracks, beat out the sp 20.524) Pitts’ on the’ Mary ¥ RESULTS OF thousand dollars looks like worth every y is to train th Brooklyn vs. Pittsburgh GAMES TO-DAY. Cleveland at New York. is run on June 16, gets in a good heave the first time | Macomber has bought the Dick Fen up. He's a nice fellow, but he's no | nell colt from f with a lot of conditions, which would indicate that May considers the colt's ond to none in the York at Cincinnati, Brooklyn at Pitisburgh Hiadelphia at Chicago, Howton at St. Louis, er to Walter Macomber trainer American League. Clubs. PC. Chieago., .30 14 .682 St, Louls..17 26.395 New York 23 19 .648 Wash'ton, 16 27 .372 Cleveland 26 23.621 Phila.....14 26 .350 GAMES YESTERDAY. Cleveland, 6; New York, 1, Washington, 3; Chie Detroit, 3; Boston, 0. Philadelphia, Detroit at Boston. Chicago at Washington. St, Louis at Philadelphia, (The New York Evening World). “DONOVAN NO HOUDINI 22228222 real regular In a signed agreement governing the ,000 for hie and half the winnings of agrees to pay May $ there have been numerous offer « of clubs for a battle June 18 not to se May half the win Nobody, even a miliional ever shown 4 disposition to give away \ {something for nothing, #0 it's 1 ably certain if Bud’ inseparable Schwartz brothers, forward with his bid for two topnoteh- bill of sate the « West and win May's portion’ in actual of Brooklyn is the | contest Al M. Dick has impressed New York Jt above the ordinary hing quality of drable In a racehorse, races where only a 1 him in front,| % racegoers as a © 000 for the men nds, within 4 ten-round bout cond of the track 000, | Batty o nard will receive li the difference between thick Weismantel received word (o-day guarantee of $100 nner cirele of had Blac the “contenders.” hat 1 can see von has prom Weismantel an answe bout within the next twenty- ' son t 4 no reason ank very near Jackson shouldn't got a fight with him for the title, Of} leaving BP Ce igs am. Oo » others won't knocking out Dundee and skill how anuch W he knocked out Chick Sim rounds at Hoston with an option « MONTREAL ENTRIES. ‘as Danny Mor | MONTREAL great favorite Vrenkie Mason cans ve, Ciwreiaud, + > be tra special mt Anthony McGowan will stack Pagal ‘aslor and in th other Ha Smith will moet Georgie Brown of the weet side crack Chicago Woxer, 1 up to-day ot hinaton, nicage ai Minneapolts to-nigat esigned from the field for this | sporting Ciub, both of the Marten and st announced that he| way bra Low Rea Club, ‘The first show under thelr managemen will t lace to-morrow might, with Jimm, the west boxing Faidies Dorey, and | Minn. ho lost been mat ok tro ft, Fulton will prob ably do siuing for this important battle this ity, where he is wow located, Now that Will Mish, he will probably in Dundee, 1 agley, Jackson's mana heen holding $4,000, in view of t fact that the Dopey ising his pr: services are wor! ) agai Stanley Yoakun, w he saye was due to illness, pointed Faldie Wallace at the Fairmont Club Saturday night, starts tieining to-day for his ten roid bout with Jimmy Duffy of which will be held at te Pioneer Sporting Club next Tuc MoParland, farmer ) Live roglatration reoos Joliet emer prize ring sta mn headquarters Jim Coffey, We training at t Harlem pros Among ¢ noted boxers training with Coffey are dack Britton, Bob De yere, Irish Vatey Cline, Bill Brennan, Chiet Turner avd Marty Cross, | New Volo nael to hi Harry Segal, the k K. 0, Faw the likely rom s. the semi-final, al» of ten rounds, J Je of the D8. C., will take on Kid ¢ ie movie actor from Washington Helghis, The Mridge)ort promoters are trying duce Burns, who many teganl t B 1 the country, to box Ko park in’ Bristg Nuh ) a renaational ba: decisively whivied ¥ ride, Monday nig Baseball at the St, Nicholas Rink for another mateb He will take jmockout artist or, Mich,, on July 4, White is 4, known in boxing circies as *‘Job Harlem ron tackling Eddie Sbeamon Wt here recently, bas ond in Boston one Jackwon dias knocked 0 Chick Simier, @ stunt that such boys aa Leonand 0 hia demands | regard to a guarantes for a vetum bou| wi |baseman's back surely calls for @ neat baseline painted up the: second || Ne {uit the Samo owing to the fact ard to aleer clear ¢ inflated ides as to Cline, the clever Haarlem \igat nly poor fight all seamon wan tha’ "4 who handily out ban started © Burus-kygers ‘Annual Westchester County | Tourney Opens With Qualify- | ing Round at Scarsdale To- ¢] Day. ¥ | | an nearer | The annuat Westghester County golf competition, involving players from every club in that district, will be started to-day at Scarsdale with |the qualifying round, Only golfers members of clubs in Westchester are jeligible for competition, but since \there are several of national impore* 4 ance a strong field is expected, BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 7.—Hllmile nation play reduced the fleld to sixteen » players in the championship diviston of the annual tournament of the South- ern Golf s.ssociation. T. M. Palmer, State champion of Florida, lost to W. A. Dewees of Chattanooga, In his after~ noon match Palmer turned In a card of 3, equalling the amateur course record Tue NXAC 1S ‘GOING TO GWE Bawa held by Chick Evans, Bobby Jones and |Perry Adair, the youthful Atlanta play- A CHANCE To BREAK THE MILE WAL jers, won their matches, as did Reaben CO ge RECORD AGAIN, | Bush, the title holder, and Bryan val | Heard, runner-up. In view of the fact that the open com a patriotic tournament without any prize n lof the United States Golf Assoclatlo! | “Otherwise He Might Have Pulled the Yanks Out of the !#* decited to waive the $5 entrance fee for all professio: ‘This is Ikely to Sack They Were Sewn Up In Yesterday”—“Those cause some of the “pros” to alter their Giants Are Shaking Those Reds Like a Mouse Shakes 37.00" Wnsicnaee 8 a Cat.” ' Twenty-seven members of the newly jformed Stationers’ Goif Association By Arthur (‘Bugs’) Baer. competed in the first tournament over Copyright, 1917, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). [he links of the Richmond Couaty B* DONOVAN ain't no Houdini, Otherwise he might have pulled the Country Club, and it was quite fit- oney, the Executive Committee Yanks out of the sack they were sewn up in yesterday. Bill only ME tat 4. Wvernard Faber, founder manages a baseball team, Sometimes he doesn't. Yesterday Bill's|should be returned the winner, He team was managed by a bird named Lambeth, who shakes a mean pitching | had a card of %—I3—82, which gave himg fin, He held the Yanks down to two anaemic basehits and one dumb run, | # Net score three strokes better than ‘ ? “ 3 | L. Phillips, playing from scratch, hi Lambeth knits a very fast curve, and the Yanks had @ tough time hitting |1(,0' iy aq seven man on the Meiropolle \ his crocheting. jtan handicap list | ‘The Ina spe yst for Fisher by making twelve of : — them, ‘They didn't have any more trouble getting on the bases than it is} tress Wi Tee oineia bie nome ri : peace: petganth ioe players, won the point for the best | |to horn into the Aquarium, And busting into the Aquarium requires about] 776.5 goore in the one-day tournament f jas much influence as It does to get a spank on the nose if you don’t stand junder the direction of the Women's p up when the band plays the national anthem, If you require any more|Metropolitan Golf Association at the information relative to the reasons why the Yanks were bilked out of the |APawamis Club. She went out in 53 game you must have a vacuum under the hat. You get that way from being| 87d, home in ode Or ea 6 : 8 a * brought up on the vacuum bottle. ‘The Yanks did all their registering |{. Cc. Stockton of Karitan Valley, who Tuesday. Didn't have any left over for yesterday at all, They only scored |had 61—63—104, because Catcher O'Neill thought Magee was trying to steal centre field, | That's where he threw it anyway. Score, six to one, with Bill Donovan going out to shoot a flivver in the dark of the moon and wearing the left hind wheel for luck. da no-hi BROOKLYN-PITTSBURGH. SOUSED GROUNDS mun Seer he AWS See ee met Dr, William Rosenbaum, the nation | al Indoor doubles champion, in the thir und of tho Bronx Patriotic Singles on Ne courts of the New York Lawn Tennis a Jelud at Columbia Oval, When the battle Nevertheless, those old Reds curled another one over on the Giants|was over E ' Even a worm will turn, But just because he turns that doesn't make nim an alligator. He's still a worm, ; h emerged winner at 6—t, |and knocked ‘em colder than a yearling pancake, Those Giants are shaking|6—3. Elliott HM. Binzen, the national those Reds like a mouse shakes a cat. Chessir. They swished into Cinney |J¥840F Indoor title holder, won a place expecting to gobble the Reds, boncs and all, Instead of that the Reds | 17, No Semifinal round of the singles He started badly against 8. 1 that the ground. |net for a set before Bingen died to snuff off the drives. Once Bingen began to block successfully the end came quickly at 4—6, 6—2, 6-4 ecinated ‘em twice with the serum of defeat, And The Reds had one fat inning, ‘The fourth. It was so long keeper had to wind an eight-day clock twice before the Giants put them out. They were about as easy to put out as a forest fire, men got four runs and the verdict in this epe in Cincinnati Me Matty's young Having mislaid two games | raw has nothing to look into the mirror about to-day, Miss Helen Gille udeau and Mrs a Charles. Vernon Hitehins wo: 7 By spilling the Cubs, the Phils clattered into first place. The plates in the AHA) Patrioule “cert: Giants are second, with the Cubs third. The three teams are as ate round of the Women's Middi close as a Scotchman States Igen tennis tournament the i turf gourts of the Staten Tetand > lies Club, at Livingston, Each of is|the semi-final battles was foughi through the limit of three ¢) Alexander again permitted the Cubs to lose yesterda. When Alex right he Js correct. And yesterday he was very right te, If Manager Donovan had more signals for three-baggers and home — Fa runs the Yanks would cop more games. Good sign, | There is nothing so nutritious as a robust two: | HANS WAGNER UNABLE , Surely, a team as wealthy as the Yanks can afford to have TO RESIST THE CALL more signals. OF BASEBALL DIAMOND. There aren't enough baselines in baseb right for baserunners to scoot around, but th lines I, The oid b © all PITTSBURGH, June 7. — When game has deviated terrifically || 18@ Dodgers line up against the irom the original formula, Sherwood Magee ankles in so often to chin |{ Pitates to-day, Hans Wagner, the | with the umps that he should have a baseline trom left field with veteran pl facilities affording easy conversational access to the umps fi Will be covering the locals. When the on opened, Honus, for the first time in twenty years, was not in rminal The Brooklyn | pitchers should also have an individual baseline from the pitcher's box base fo: to the shower baths here is enough traffic to make this new t " lew baseline || the Pirates’ bi ;, route imperative, When Alexander is in shape, the batters should have w|{ said pigs fi oe order. Some baseline from the plate to the bench. Johnny Evers wears his own baseline i as because his salary had |from his position to the umps, Ty Cobb's habit of galloping up the second || oo en Teduced: ethers declared that sit er’s spinal column, Heinle Zimm gets the alr so often from the umps || ‘at he bad found coal, ofl, or that Heinie would appreciate baseline from his position to the gate. something on some of his property {When Walter Johnson feels good the batters should have a baseline fron, || The Pirates have seemed tik | the plate to the waterbucket, If they stepped into the grandstand instead, |{ rudderless ship without Wagner the umps could call ‘em out for running out of line, The old adult base, || this season. Last night Haven, \lines are all right, but we also require some new young ones. Ne rpinciia te DIY BAN ~ ‘olle Jarry Herr- mann, Chairman of the National Hans W sner is again two-stepping around the shortstop plaza for the || Pirates, They tried to fill Hans’ boots, but those shoes only speak one | Commission dialect. “Finding the call of baseball too strong to rr | desire to continue to play the game 1 love, and to which | owe alll 1 possess, and | hereby pet tion the National Commi By Yoforeing to the letter the rule the Garden was $30,000 paid by Wille ion forbidding scholastic and college ath- itm Bradiey for the stallion T to grant my request for reins 4 letes from representing an athletic). The Kegistration Com i statement, so that | may play club in championship games within frecroneut an Awsoclation pro: with my old club.” a period of three months of thelr bes |ters utter the siento gs headauar- coming members of that club, the had adjourned. It was ne Ps Commities = junior Championship Committce of | prize’ winners’ in’ thay mode the the ‘Metropolitan Association of the) Field Club road tacer with we cient pacers J) A. A. U. dealt a heavy blow last of the first eight men to Anish and Pat | = — night at the New York A, C. junior! ())0i the winner of the fast Ume prise RA s team by disqualifying five of Its best fituye dute nace courNe again at a G he es at were oO: performers. dered held up were the te a Aaaeie The five barred under the rule which |second fast the rede, (cam novice AT BEAUTIFUL was adopted by the A. A. U. at its ue ' last anoual nveniton "wie DB.) HEITIN, June Aidipen BELMONT PARK Boynton, the Cornell miler; Victor | ald, ihe American joneaee reenre Woodruff, Tom Farrell and Bart Kun. |, Special permit to ride in’ the kel aliof the Central High School of ))t\x Hambrg last Sunday, he wi sue MORROW Newark, and @. J. Murray jr. of|fave penn aces and race track patrons Newark, any odruft is entered in thel mount nerae tring why he did not STEEP! ce BROOK half mile, Farrell in the running high|man in the 100,000-murk event. iy PEP], ASE jump and Kunkel and Murray in the Tnal ‘of Berlin. Monday. “ar WESTBURY HANDICAP aie commander of LITTLENECK HANDICAP ~ Army Corps vetoed the appea Paul Kuhn, a gr ppear Ind,, pureh sig La and THREE Other Good Razes dealer of Terre ed The Harvester ‘Ovnent BEGINNING : iv0 at the disposal sale of the | 1 eld won the feature GINNING AT 2.80 P.M, ev D-yard sw t BPLVIAL RA TRAINS Billings | arness horses |§! yard swim wt the Inst ine | jenve Pena Muth Tad eh hee Nu i Madisoi FAT DAYAL OF season for nF lutbush AV. Bro nm in Madison | A tho pool of the Melee | AND a Ttbuah Avs EOOitERe py ay Women’s Lifesaving League PN al corn reserved for ladlee, |= This is the highest price ever paid | Sees : Couric a bye treite for a trotter at auction in this city, NEISCO, June 7.—Wladek Grand Ste Poland, took a flying 1 ire + » and one-half hour wre 1 ond only to the price paid for |ana the . In 1904, in Boston, when sold ! 000. The previous record for