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ie at ear - + ‘ Bi P as i @lipped away from Rit 3 4 4 ‘a “HID MCOY'S CAREER sympathized with him when he told them he was a homeless orphan, him up for Coy didn't wait to learn what hos- pital they took the brak moved along. # sparring partner in some box cump. w niar bouts in ot nm ONE LONG ADVENTURE Former World's Middleweight Champion, Whose Lite Has Beer Like a Movie Thriller, Now Preparing to Fight in France— MoCoy Stil! Keen for a Scrap, Though His Old Ring Opponents Have Dropped into the Discard. ° cprriah’ Wit, tr the Press Puttening T= years # Oo (The New York Mrening Wort) Norman Bethy became “Rid MeGey The origins oa etage bore but thet @i@n't make ony dif t to febt Kid MeOoy” @ ference to Norman He lhed the name and be didn't w Eaves L voder bis own Mince that day Kid McCoy hes hed « life of adventure euch a8 no other Me or can boast world's champton has fought in Africa, Engiand, France and America He has travelled on brake beame and in private care He has sold dia monds, automorties and horses. And today, In khaki, he ts awaiting the chance for the “great adventure” be elde which all others are mere pett incidents of Iife. While MeCoy wears the khak! and is being hard trained for active ser viee, the others who fought him tn the great old days of the ring have all gone by and dropped from aight. I have seen McCoy, tall, wide shouldered, carrying himself with a military swing, leap into the ring to call for war volunteers (he had been a re crulting sergeant for the Seventy-first Regiment of New York) and som of bis old opponents peering up at him from ring#ide seats in sheer envy of si lasting vitality, of the youth that® still clings to him in spite of a hun dred lives lived in one bae been « Choynekt and others equally famous. He knocked Tom Sharkey down tw Where, by the way, are the men/ and then the Sailor broke the Kid in who fought McCoy? Joy Choynski ta| {WO with « awishing #wing into the Pt. jepie niiglgy z stomacy | & boxing teacher in Pittsburgh. Peter! Mocoy made a few fortunes in the ide Maher has been down and out for) ring. He lost them, as a rule, at the ears, Jim Corbett ts financtally| race tracks, MoCoy was a f “OQ fi Id ll d U xeceaati, but far beyond the aaven. [he tiny horses. Ie hiwaya thous | e alled Upon oP’ | he could beat the game that can't be turous stage that is dgiving McCoy! peaten, Incidentally, the Kid bas D fe d We a S ad favo the Ating lines, “Tom Bharkey| Pea inaciicgeant engl” Ait, bee To Defend World’s Spee is “tending bar” in Los Angeles, Cali- | adventure surely did appeal to him. ° e fornia, and is fat and stodgy and a bars ” began $9 alip & little a» a Championship To-Day wettled down, Gus Rublin ts dead. ae Sha cenese a uaintanton | ican ; Tommy Ryan has @ “club” in Byra-| ‘This paid very well, It's said the) tea | cuse, Many others have disappeared | Kid has no superior as a card player,’ Louis Chevrolet and Ralph De er be Whe M Stinson defoea: © forgotten entirely, ‘The| Then he sold automobiles, had a dia- | h ario Rests aul navatt pi a: theen They ar ica ba <, Neer a stock! Palma in Three-Cornered Mo- |," "Ginson wit etve me tenimicn | itty proker. ‘Tiring of trade, he went to} i, ‘1 4 Stinso! o en | Ail too old. McCoy 1# alone tn BI8| Xngland, where Jack O'lirion was| tof Race With Daredevil Bar- |r ner daring, performing somersaults olnse, cleaning up all the English heavies.| ney at Sheepshead Speedway |werks ago Misn Stinson. flew from | M'COY ALWAYS REAOY FOR | OJTeD tee trom et aetna! Thi Hutvaio to Washington, via New York, ‘oy appeared. ‘Brien always did This Afternoon. oink to the United, btaten hreane| ADVENTURE. think the Kid's poaching on hia pro- preohdad 0 ne ra a nee Totkes Adventure always did call MoCoy.| serves was rather unkind. McCoy — yee ee ross | e ay from home when a| knocked out three Hiwh | cham= NEW apeed king may be crowned . o1 poe Boal boy tn knee pants and rode| pions in one evening at the Wonder- A M4 4 A number of other speed races are land. After that there was nothing for him todo in England. He went! to France and challenged the cham- pion savate artist, It always has been an open question whether or not the skilful k could have landed his battling toe or heel on MeCoy, nd the country on brake beams and “side door Pullmans.” He was of a good family, and had been well educated, while his education lasted, Also he was of an angelic appear- ance, so that the hard, cruel trainmen |‘The Kid, using the nimble brain that didn't Kick him off the trains, but] had often werved him well before, won sheild before the Frenchman could start. Coe ie in aoe on eiyy | Aw they squared off, the Kid, adsum- him ham and eggs and coffee and jing 4 jook of pleased surprise, looked past the crouching Frenchman and asked: “Is that pretty woman your rned to box, | Wife?” ‘The Frenchman glanced over Somehow McCoy le e Ns shoulder. It was enough. Mc- Ho found out that he could hit one) 0.4 pow caught him just under the pight when @ brakeman tried to beat! ear, They brought him to one hour riding the rattler.” Me- | later, COME-BACKS FREQUENT FOR M'COY, went back to lone intervals after his ery time he showed some trace of old skill and resourcefulness, His always was away above the Ho outgamed and beat Jim Stuart, stopped big Jim Savage, and knocked out a big Eng- lish champion at Nice, ‘This was McCoy's last fight, It was a desper= ate battle, ‘The Kid found the going hard. He wan knocked down several times, and felt that his strength was kolng. But he saw a long scotch and ‘Adventure began to prod young] soda brought to tho timekeeper st Kid McCoy as soon as he achieved] the ringside. ‘The official set the glass some small fighting feputation, Helon the edge of the ring. McCoy edged New York and|around and took his xt knockdown walled to South Africa, There he in-|right in front of the official, reached troduced himself, quite privately, to|out suddenly, seized the glass and 4 sporting person who conducted |tomsed the contents into his sizling prizefights, This person fancied him-|interior. Within ten seconds he was welf as a boxer, He offered the slight,[on his feet and fighting again, re- slim, smiling Kid a tryout in private, |freshed and with new energy. Ho and ‘invited in a few friends to see|turned the tables and knocked nis him hammer a@ wandering American, |man out. McCoy half murdered him, He did it with a slight smile of contempt on his face. Tho battered victim decided hel wi ord be nan to, He In a few weeks he was ry And very soon after that he then He didn’t He got on @ MeCoy the ring at retirement *ride the rattle now, gular passenger coach, carefully ge- Jected @ ticket check from the hat of gome sleeping passenger, and went to averag young au Various destinations — unques- ed, in the next stage of hin de- velopment he paid fares. But that was after he began earning @ little money. America went into the war y was a moving pcture hero, pulling down several hundred dollars immediately that the Kid could trim|a week, Ho cut that out, enlisted in ti any heavyweight in Africa, kept it|the Seventy-firat, and went to the | t# occupant quiet, and arranged some’ matches|Mexican border for several months, with big side bets, Me did] Since returning he has kept in khaki, | Wil meet Miss Katherine Sti knock out one victim, but then some} He longs to round out his eventful | world's champton girl flyer, in a two-| one discovered that he was “Kid Me- | life by tinkering with a few Germans | mile alrsandsearth race fc Coy" of New York. So the Kid gath-|-—with the bayonet. Ho has become | prize of $1,000, The condition his carnings—a few thousand Jexceedingly skilful with that weapon | Miss Stinson to fly not Mare—and sailed home again, No|—as skilful as ever he was with that|ten feet from the ground, thus giving one else in Africa wanted his game. |famous "McCoy corkscrew punch" of his, Suarentee of $350, with an additional §75 for ex- se all the time. Ina similar test} when tho band was playing “Home, |. 7 Bins . | venses, ‘The weight will be 122 pounds, weigh RYAN LEARNED A_ BITTER Ess Pa __ ada | Sweet Home," they were a sorry Jot. | Porary. Weaty Hogan was in front] qundoet mith, who fecently showed Wo 19) in Gt tne ringside, dounde, welg LESSON. sa They had beon beaten to a pulp, }of them, and Gn his speed, courage t form in « bout at Buffalo, N.Y. w pales The Kid's first great success came our of the six real good things had {@h@ keneralship in tho Red Cross | iaicnet today by his manager, Jim Buckley, to! Joe Bedell, the old-time boxer, wit! retam to Sommy Hi I | gone wrong they wore out of | Handicap they depended to recoup | inet Kid Norfolk, the colored heavyweight, for! the ring at the Military A, C, next Monday heh be stopped Tommy Ryan, | Mis ews Oo orrs oO in orrs jen ee thelr losses and turn defeat into vic- | Bet BM nh open air show to bo brought off | uigfit, meeting Whi) Bloom of Brooklyn as & grea eh middlewelgh' .|tory. So in massed formations they | | A. Noctester, N. Y., on} = champion of the world. Kid McCoy They star for Revel mance: vers, Y | by the einirome Patt ceco ak 3 | Worked for hin aa a sparring parte| BOSTON, Aug, 18,—The Boston Na-|galned euch « the ‘Trask horse | galloped home the winucs of the first | Advanced against the layers, and the | yest fight, Sanity tha si08| Trish Patsy Cline, who boxe Timmy Dutty at t all tho hard beatings |tionals to-day announced the signing of |C?¥Id Hot make it up race at liberal odds. ‘This victory ne Wate, toon ike Curae, S| nant for boute recently and is certain that he | the Moneer Sporting Club Tuesday night, desires to i ha r an 8 : . i 44k onty Oga c ose, ica! bie big culored opponen know why Champion Benny Leonard is handed him and saying never eteran catcher for- | & who the Unitea | Convinced them that the track, which ny agreed, a ey charm will bie bis evading @ the man MeCoy has a grudg whe available to suc- | tion raise three am- | interfere with their handicapptag, ante Rae ane Ton M Te ROK WAS! arate tawle of Chi thew for a twenty-round tituler match, and says two against might as well order the flow- club's frate bulane heir last ap-|and they went at Crest Hil in the | hsieae ne TARR Bot ee ct Cart Morrie and Charley Waite, has just) jmonoiers are alter @ mitch Letwem tim ar! McCoy resigned, went y and ted WH pearanc Uonal singles | jumping race with avidity, In this | Hite the fay at the last minute and | (tom! wie manageaent of aavtier fighter, The | Wie champion. Clise hae been working 1 ers. McCoy resigned, went away an¢ inconditionally | tourname: at Gedney | they recolved a check, Crest Hil |outgamed the much heralded Western 7 1 Moor, the Memphis bantam-| Freddy Welsh, former champion, got backing and an offer of a match the Brooklyn Club a few) Farm ¢ Plains |champion and beat him to the honors! srpper te ® apes - oe tricks of the 7 ith Ryan. Tommy didn't know what rerthe arranged ;fttered in the final furlong of the | TIME Ale’ DOr the last race the | fe Lewis tas practically matchel Moure to | more the game every to make of It when offered real money -- |by Abraham. I Hartsdale, | {Wo and a hit toile race and Anished | ronowers of form 1 eat race te | cneet Frankia Bums of Jersey City for ten rounde| Coy, now re-resenting the west ai to fight bis former sparring partner BOSTON, Aug Miss Maryland many tickets ha already been th Dehind The Brook and Wolfer hate wien the Guest of the OF | at the Pioneer Sportiug Chub on Tuewlay evening, | tam . will q@wet Danny Freeh, 1 cla But ‘Kid McCoy w him letter| Browne of Caltfo defeated Miss | sold. ton, ‘They had been defeated and had | #etoack when, the Oe OP ne B08 I 14 cheayton, in the other teu-round bout, min tos Moray wrote Binh latigs Biursted flee ened | i foundered and victory went to Dan. champion, in at in the @nd of the purse a little bigger and ne oe ig of’ the won! les, at the fo refrain from “beating up” the un- 1 patriotic He lh) al 4 fortunate Kid too much. went at the Longood Cricket Club "You know what you can do to|esterday, It was the third straigat| me,” wrote the Kid, plaintively. Victory Miss Browne has scored over Ryan thought he did. He cut out |e national champion this season, | training and went into the ring fat] Lapaye yi Walter | and out of shape. He got the surprise | ° catcher for the of his life. McCoy, sneering and cyni- | Boston Br 4 ord eal, deliberately began to chop him {port here ns x ie SOF examination fe down, Ryan fought desperately, Mo- [te new National Army KeMMer Fe Coy knew his every move and had a | Pisced Hank fiowdy ns regular back: unter for it. He wanted revenge. | joined the Ohio } ard, efusing to knock Iyan out w had him helpless he cut ‘Tom BLAND, O. Aug. 18.—Walter en until Ryan's seconds thi dal! Grand Cireuit meeting and ponge incidentally. drove une. prohibitive After that McCoy fought the best |favorite, Mabel Trask, to defeat in tie | heavyweights of his time—ail but | feat event of the card yesterda Fijesimmons. Ho always said he'd |This race, the battle yoyal for troc- | Ser aint Wits was at eighty {tere with’ records of 2.05 or hettor, ears old before challenging him, Aa | Maher Mask, but Pop sewed Un for @aid before, McCoy had brains. He'Frisco, started his drive eatlion thay fought and beat Muber, Kublin, usual in each of the two mile » big auto rgces of the # ten miles has been arra the spectators a full 800 eet w Cor, Cope AS WE Loowen wenn He PeuoMT sunurey, RU AND MAME He this afternoon at the Sheepsiead | Bay Speedway, where id on an Eastern track, Oldfield will be called upon to defend his world's speed championship from the assault of Ralph De Palma and Louis Chevrolet, drivers will meet at fifty, thirty and twenty miles, As each In expected to xtra heat of wed for, lude any disappointment each driver will have two cars, one to These th nin his specialty, an Jer to pre used In case of emergenc: Oldfield, after seventeen year game, Is not eager to retire, but say; he will withdraw from competition if he is led to the wire from the record Chevrolet looked upon as his proba! ree this afternoon. the Franco-Swiss has n fastest time tn the practice trials. sides, Chevrolet won the two leading and he will use the same car in an effort to make it three straight and the world's sp championship, Jovial Barney, accompanted by his equally famous ci wheel his Iatest Invehtion accident machine, to classics of the year, of his “Goldwin ‘This ts algned to Barney's submarine td NATIONA' be, New York.69 26 (57 Chieage.. Phite..,..67 46 653 Brookly bi.Lowle..68 63 623 Hoste Cincinnati 60 66 617 Piue'gh, RESULT 4. Louis, 5; New York, 2 Ph ladeiphia, 3; Pitsburg, 0 Pit 7; Pittabure Boston va. Clea) 2. | Clube 1 M Louis at New York 1 Clneinnati at Brooklyn — Two Pittsburgh at Philade pia Chicago at Boston ason will be successor, , will be Submarine view MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS L LEAGUE. | game: on th Ralph prog the first De Palma, machine in an effort world’s records for on If suce Barney » and two the Speedway. leading | Arthur Chapple, the motor exiiibition against | time. also be several imy betwe world, Manager Wellman mptu In uniform guests, to amme for this afternoo! the short dist champion, will drive his high-powered | to shatter the net miles, tul ho will bag the prize of $1,000 offered by Harry Harkness of | | cycle racing champion, will give a two-mile There will! matches the foremost drivers in the | has Invited all| the boys wearing Uncle Sam's khaki | attend the races as bis| \ | FACTS ABOUT TO- BIG RACING PROGRAMME. Auvo Champtonship Match Ra Contestants; Barney Oldfield, Ralph De Palma and Louis Chev- rolet. Distances: 60, 80 and 20 miles, Extra heat, 10 miles, “Air-and-Earth" Match Race— Miss Katherine Stinson, world’s champion girl flyer, in Curtis “Speed Scout” vs, Barney Oldfield in “Golden Submarine.” Distance, 2 miles, World's record trials at 1 and 2 miles by Ralph De Palma for $1,000 Harkness prize. Looping exhibition and bomb throwing demonstration by Miss Katherine Stinson, Two-mile motorcycle exhibition by Champion Arthur Chapple. Track—Two-inile circular, fast- est in world, which meets high speed requirements up to 140 miles an hour, Cost of track, $3,500,000, Seating capacity, 100,000, Auto parking space for 20,000 or | more cars, = in the is ade the Re Three of That Lose at Spa Are Odds-On, By Vincent Treanor. at the ARATOGA, N. Y., Aug and D prevent rs have not got dea in the} count and four heavily bac ot | were defeated Before the first bugle call the which it can be turned over at the rate of | jooked like the easiest of the season. ninety mntles an hour without Injuring | On past performance nson, the |iike cinches, and @ special than | to jay odds against them, ers put up a courage us battle, of the AMERICAN LEAGUE, WoL. PC.) Chobe *) Clube WoL PG 67 64 13/| New York.54 55 495 62 56 481) 4567 441! 42 68 36 73 913)| Detrolt, 513 o, Louis, 42 8 OF GAMES YESTERDAY. New York, 4; M4. Louis, t Boston 5; Cleveland 1 Washington 9; Detroit, 6 Philadelphia, 9; Chica GAMES TO-DAY. New York af St Lonia Hosion at Cleveland Philadel phia at Chi hington at Detroit 58 65 Int game, 3. 2d game. kamen, 1119 is much gloom here to- I day. ‘The big crowd of over the driver and his assistant from be- | effects of the drubbing they received ing crushed tn case the car “turns| yesterday when form was at @ dls- turtle. outcome of his many years of danger- jites, th ous racing, The car ts completely cov ered with (hin gauge armor plate, and | ked favor- were odds-on, Reveler, Crest | Hill, Kathleen, Jack Hare jr. Westy Besides defonding his title Oldfield! yrogan and Queen of the Sea looked the crowd entered the fleld of battle prepared to eliml- ll for | nate forever the men audacious enough ‘The play- | Four Heavily Backed Favorites Beaten at Saratoga Track the Public Choices} 18, race- the card » but (REN, SARATOGA SELECTIONS. x, Star Gazer, eI Water. Second Race--Weldship, Bet, Mar- than, Third Olive Wood, Rosle O'Grady, work, 5 Race — Ilekety, Omar Khayyam, Sunbonnet Fitth | Little Nearer, Dove- dale, Fi sixth Mise 1 Me, Parlor Mai a y all of thelr ammunition. The defeat of Crest Hill was not a rout. To form players it was a slight rebuff which would be wiped out in he battles to come, And it seemed ; that way, for in the third race Kath- een apireadeagied fleld in the Salem Handicap. Then the crowd halted, but only long enough to de cide how much they would win on Jack Hare Jr, ‘To most of the crowd he was @ real good thing, and even the 1 to 2 laid against him seemed largo, Rut he fell befo derful charge of J. N Plevna and checked the rush of the “good thing” soldiers. To them the check was only tem- It the was Red Cross day, and when final event was decided and the jarmy of white gowned and red |crossed workers were leaving the field loaded down with trophies of their battle, many in the crowd re marked that they were in more need of financial aid as a result of their battles with the layers than were the “our boys" who are and soon will be in the trenches in France, —___~o Girls to Play Baseball, At Lenox Athletic Field, One Mun- dred and Forty-third Street, east of Lenox Avenue, to-morrow a new up to date athletic field, managed by Kid Carsey, formerly of the Philadelphia National League, a double-header will played. Kt Chelsea will play ) Nt. Michaels and the winners will meet the Bloomer Girls. Glants. two Gamer St. Louls, 180. Pol Grounds, To Day, Adm, 60c.—Aavi. THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1917. ;Dummy Bomb Throwing ai Camden's | 4. ©. | NEW KID McCOY BIG LEAGUE Christy Mathewson, Former Star of the Giants and Manager of the Cincinnati Reds t! fore a game with much more zest ’ espectally if the target could be Games Would Delight the uressoa up to took like an umpire | Bleacherites—If They Could This schome would also save pitch ps f ers’ arms, although in these days the Hurl "Em at the Umpires. jnaiviauai ts not to be considered if tain activities will help the United CONGRESSMAN, the other day, | States In the war A surgented it would be a gvod| Lieut. Elliot, before one of the ball {den to have a demonstration of | S4mes in Washington when Cleveland lummy bomb throwing before all the, W&8 Playing thera a couple of weeks champlonship ball games by Big | "€® stood at the home plate and at- League players | tempted to hurl a bomb down at seo- “Not only would tt tnterest the| ond base, the hapebinrqared Vg Peg ee spectators,” declared this advocate of| (oe. euimmet bean Racy ative the manly art of blowing up the Ger- |i tS heat bomb tonsers ia Europe mans, “but t would prepare the base-| 0. 10) tn this way they loo nt ball players for the more serious work pa We ‘bebe dis they may be called upon to do in|’ "Vo oraing othe man who ae and which they could 40/ ,115 544 me this yarn, the Lieutenant, : although rated an expert, did not Not a bad tdea—and, if tt would do |bit the bag at all out of several for it with a aera unt|throws, ‘Then Tris Speaker tried {t both fists. course anybody un-/ He depended on ‘the regulation toss derstands it would not help a pitch-|and landed on the bag five times out ers arm greatly to stand out and toss| of ten tries. The other five were very bombs for an hour or #0 before he Vee tote dt , actaned the started to work in @ game Nor| Australian expert, and he wanted to would it improve the accuracy of the | sign Tris up right away for a bomb- unning of the outfielders when aim-| ing squad. “You would have to loop HeS Varnes abt late them bit more, becauge it takes the Deen Sue vine bomb five seconds to “explode after As I understand it, the bomb used] you pull the firing pin. With those In the trenches Is quite a ttle heav-|!Ine, throws of yours the Fritses ier and larger than a baseball, The| Might have time to catch the thing bombs used here in St. Louis, usually |AMd) throw it back. | hat was the aimed at the umpire, vary in size andj and tho fuse. The ones we use now shape, Most of the disciples of this| with a fire pin explode too soon to system of warfare seem to prefer| Permit this when you loop them. bottle will do just as much damage|art was asked. asa full one when it connects with| | "I saw a follow stand in a trench an umpire's bean, and, besides, they|2nd loop them over for two hours ithout resting,’ declare this are cheaper. If you don't believe me,| Masiuct of the dvchen ee TMS ask Billy Evans, the American| “Good night,” sald Speaker, “Phat League umpire, who stopped one with| would Ici! your arm, tossing them his head several years ago and then protien te nay pe iron, oe stopped at a hospital for several Heinen ty rgeoerrae rs weeks, This occurred at a skirmish | * answered the instructor, "Id in St, Louis you can throw them as straight as throwers could be developed in the| If a ball player has all these qual- bleachers. These regular residents of|{tles of an incipient bomb thrower, the openwork stands have had con-|C@ you imagine what a product of the St, Louis bleach b siderably more expertonce and would | (Mine gat ton acres would be enter into tho preliminary sport be-' (cogriabt. 19:1, ty the Nell Kmndicate, At the Falrmont A. C. to-night Tommy | another good boxer of the name city, Frankie Tuohey, New Jersey's champlon light-| Hvrn# will be matched to amet the winner, ; , x Jimmy Paul, Harlem's | — weight, will box ¥ in| A match was arranged today between Soldier most promising boxer. In the matn A ~ | Barfield, the Brooklyn welterwelght, aud Jackie event at the Clermont Rink Mike Me-| Gat), o™ Bnenim weltenlent, ry ‘Tigue, Irlsh middleweight champion, 1s prey middleweight, who been showing wo in good fighting form daring scheduled to box Zulu Kid of Brooklyn. | tho tast few months, They will clash in a t tthe Ryan A, ©, of Syracuse, , om Friday evening, Avg. 24, ©. Sept, 10, | Dutch Brande of Brookiva and HK, 0, Mare Jacdaon algo boxes Joe Mooney at the Pioneer | the hart bitting little featherweight of Cincinnati, ‘Ane oh with Benny Valger, the French | lave signed articles of agreement calling for them Jampion who defeated Hilly Witaimmons Thar | to eet ine ten-round tout to « deciaon day night, facing Jimmy Kane, Olneianatt on Aug. 81, Brandt Is to receive « Frank Bagley announces that he b hie ar Uehtwelght, Willie Jacko y Oline at the Manhatten A u Kid of Prooklyn has been matched to box ; 4 the en { Malden NY | Binns Far Hockaway Met Lewis, the clever welterweiglit chany tov and Toumy Rodson, the likely fighter Mass, have been aizned up by Try Lewis, maich maker of the Armory A. A, of Boston, to come tea faa ‘emend bout t i ‘At the next boxing ehow of the abo next ‘Tuewlay nig next Friday night INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. Clube WL, PO, WoL. B.C, ‘Toronto. 56 63 457 Prov'ence.67 47 ‘B87) Buffalo, 50 66 431 Baltimore.67 47 .587| Riehmond.45 69 .395 Jyn will book Newark.,.65 47 580, Montreal..44 75 370 O'Brien of Yonkers in tensound t RESULTS YESTERDAY. Howe and Jack Kile clash {a the wom | Richmond, 8; Montreal, 3, x rounds | Rochester vs. Provide nee—rain GAMES TO-DAY. Bofialo at Newark. i club on ng 0 Rilent Martin. middle ill go against Walter Lautrett, the west and Frauke Calla up. with Bbaaais| of Bro to ite pat o deat mute ¢ Oyawia A. | nounced that the A. of Philadel club would resume holding boaing show day evening, Aug. 27, Fur the mai rrinds Haplon bas signed up Exidie O'Keefe, tho fast Wiledelpbla baniamwelsdt, lo mect Loustans, Montreai at Richmond, Rochester at Providence. A OC - BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK THE OLD AND THE by te P soon |" eal PERSHNS PROMPT TSE VAE OF SPORTS FOR ARMY iment in Dummy Bomb Throwing, Such Pastime Be- Ing Indulged In Because of Lack Athletic Supplies. Omer ther mon te " athlete gamer Sports afford both healthful reerea- ® cased Renting eMeleney loving the darkest éaye ¢ the re . Nelgionm end Prasee * apirite of the ¥ “armies wer hiefly matotained by a Liberal wee of rs Pershing has been prompt te utilize @perte to facilitate the traim- ng of the American expedition in ton leader Bae © regiment potnts im ath. | (he sports sly to dumey ane equipment finds almost aa thing —Dase- or ouutita, Dox. kind of sporting parm. will furnish healthful ¢ hours off duty. pplies will procured. for siready in France and man. for those who shortly Will sail for the battle front The Commission on Training Campe Activities, which will supervise all equipment purchased from fund pro- eds, is extremely anxious to outfit he Sixty-ninth Regiment with stand- rd seta of sport goods before the famous Trish unit sails. Here's @ regiment, one of the most popular in {the country, and it w leave for France without any facilities for |sport amusement, tnless patriotic New Yorkers quickly « to the |support of the Army Athletic Fund, Within a short t the sport world will the fund, but the class that think noth several dolars for a good sporting attraction--by contributing his bit could insure a full equipment of ath- letic supplies for the Sixty-ninth ®e- fore the regiment sails. Now is the ne a dig slice of be exhibiting for individual—the ng of spending time to rally to the support of the }fund. Do your share so that the fighting n may carry thelr own sport equipment with them, Let sport follow the flag. The Army At Fund ts the j official aned for the collection of funds in New York State for the pur- chase of sport goods for the soldier Athletic clubs that have sent jmany members to the service could Dest provide for the comfort and reer tion of their departed menybers by contributing to this fund. It_is the intention of the Training Camps Com- mission to use this fund to buy sport supplies for all New York boys in khaxt, If our soldiers are to be provided with baseballs, boxing gloves and other supplies, ‘they must come from the Army Athletic Fund, because jCongress has failed to provide the army with athletic paraphernalia. So th it over, Mr. Reader, If you are interested in the welfare of New York's fighting 1 for the Army Athletic Fund, and have the satisfaction of nowing that your contribution tras brought recrea- tion and health to our boys who are golng to encounter the hardships of the most terrible war in history, Send your contribution, no matter how small it may be, to the Ar Athletic Fund Editor, pi Fight Results Mike O'Dowd, the game St, Paul Irishman, although outpointed, again gave Ted Lewis, welterweight cham- pion, & hard fight at the St. Nicholas ink last night, ‘To add to Ted's annoyance he wan compelled to shoulder a handicap of 11% pounds, for in truth Sir Michael tipped the beam at a healthy 166 pounds, while Lewis could muster only 144% poun| The daryling Englishman was tir- ing by the time the seventh round arrived, He never lost the lead, however, and even when he looked entirely blown he would suddenly open up and bewilder Mike with his amazing speed n, do your bit Lee Johnson, the ne out Ray W: the Vanderbiit A. C., in Brooklyn. 1 night. A left hook to the Jaw sent We |into ‘slumberland, ‘The bout. betwer |Dutch Brandt and Young Limbo ended boxer, knock ond round Jin a near riot. Both boys had been roughing it throughout and refused. to jstop fighting when the bell rang at the jend of the seventh Jof both men jump: ats were julet was fied |. BU fat 4, ‘The seconds nto the ring and ying in all divect When tored the referee disqualt- Ambo, as Brandt said he bit him, ALO, Aug. 18. i rolypoly, was Anderson last slant Swede out Sam Lan still too much for night, knocking : a tha second roune | Anderson's courage ovged perceptibly at the the sight of the “Tar Baby," who brushed his weak jabs aside and banged ra, \u | him on the chin. . | y | BOSTON, Aug. 19. of Boston knocked out Mary Crean New York in the third round of their ‘Tommy twelve-round bout here last night, “It jwas a fast and furious battle. while 4t d Robson scored the knockout right hand to the Jaw. Both boys welghed in under 148 ringside, At Brown's Far Rockaway Club lm night Mike” Smith casily outpointed Paul Edwards, and Paul Doyle, who re- cently knocked ut Young \Bro - feated Willie Beecher, 'e Brawn, de \ SPORTING, ec, DRONON Fincp, o norm Bibwey, m1 Colon Council vs, Bt,’ Retis Atuietics, Dyckman Oval, } De Begxters (Tirol Y') 15° iment ie" ad hats HeNIEMt Clermont McTigue we, Balu enta Biway 8 a Lo=Ni Fairmont Ais rome, " ‘Tuobey, Petersen, va, dlauiy Pauly 7 i ie . ‘ : ‘. ove