The evening world. Newspaper, May 11, 1918, Page 8

TH POPE PROBABLY MEANT THAT A BENT TWIG INCLINES THE TREE TO ALWAYS BE BROKE HOBEY BAKER'S AR TRUMHS UNCANNY AS HIS OTHER -+— Celebrated Princeton Football and Baseball Player and Hockey Champion Wins French Admiration by Bringing Down 10 German Fighting Planes--His Success a Splendid Recom- mendation for Athletic Training—Years as Star Per- former Give Him Fine Judgment and Make Him an Ace In Lafayette Escadrille. Oupyright, 1018, by The Prem Publishing Oo, (Th yw York Evening World) TEUT, HOBEY BAKER, Princeton University’s great star athlete of a few years ago, has now brought down more than TEN German fighting planes Plane News, @ paper published tn | Franco by soldiers of the American | Expeditionary Force, carrios a hoavy type headline across its front page: | “LIEUT. HOBEY BAKER TRIUMPHS | OVER THE BOCHE!" And under that: “STAR AMERICAN ATHLETE MAKES BIG RECORD AT FRONT." “Le Petit Journal, | says the ac-| count of Baker's triumphs, “dated April 11, makes notable mention of the valiant deeds performed in the air by Lieut. Hobey Baker, who re- cotved his training at this post. The item roads in part as follows “We must point out the valor of an American pilot, First Licut, Hobart Baker, celebrated football and hockey champion of America, who recently arrived at the front and now heaps up successes with uncanny regularity. “On the éth of April he brought @——————_____ down his fourth official airplane, and | during that filght put another out of /know Tenything soe wt ine first Ealing éomisiaaion, Publlo appearance was one fine fall | “‘Bince he hag become attached to| Afternoon, a year after he had grat |uated, when he flew to eral public t fayette Fascad Princetor fhe Lafayette Escadrilie be bas/during one of the big gamen nou | rought down more than ten Ger- {looked down to see if the Tigers | mans, but so far behind the German | Were doing their football bit in their lines that they could not be con. (UMM way. hammering at the rival | firmed. With luck—and Hobey alwaya | “On April 84, In the region of ——, two enemy planes were brought down together under his fir Two Double-Headers, April 3 and April 6, Going Some! The “uncanny regularity’ with seemed able to make luck come hie way—ho should carry the Indian head through as many winning fights us any other aviat moraine or of the famous Here's to Hobeyt watch them go down 4 HEROS, Long may he In smoke! LViN HE WAS FAMOUS AS A PRINCETON Footear / IN@ WORLD, BATURDAY, Way Al, 1918, BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK GOLF PAREN 'S ENVY THE FATHER WHO DRAWS AT LEAST TWO STROKES HANDICAP UNDER HIS SON HAS Now’ BRousHT bound More THAN 10. GERMAN FIGHTING PLANES. which Hobey Baker shoots down the German flyers {9 just what might be expected of Hobey Baker. No matter what sport he tried, he always be- came a champion. He far excelled all competitors at hockey, football and baseball, and might have been a world’s sprinting champion if he had been allowed to compete in another major sport while in college. He has all of the qualities that make a great athlete. Col. J. C. Miller Throws Up Sponge and Won’t Promote Willard-Fulton Match —_——-. o Unpopularity of the Two Giants position to the proposed world's To physical perfection t 9’ eavywelght chamionpship betw he adds a nimble, inventive brain, and Also Circus Man’s Ama- Champion Jess Willard and” Pr comibativenees, coolness and grt teurish Efforts Are Responsi-| tra'eh yo" Tuy & 2 have called ve ch e: ; A meat to © man of Baker's tempere.| 010 for Cancelling of the Big was my first effort in the pro motion of a boxing contest, and on my that Heavyweight Bout Scheduled for July Fourth, ment. As soon as he was out of Prineeton he took up aviation, and fn @ ehort time was @ skilful army part !t was — sportsmausnip prompted my effort “I went into it simply for the flyer. This was long before the war eNU TA Lactic “4 re ne cheney began, and Hobey Baker was one of By Alex. Sullivan, {ment is against it, due to the wa the few really skilled airmen aol ogee MILLER, who tossed nia um certain that T could have staged c ’ Tnited | 10 . sromoter the contest ax I had planned amare Senet. Spen when He Walle | In the ring ag @ promoter | "Here's what Willard had to say in States needed fighters of the skies, ral weeks ago, has thrown regard to Cok Miller's announcement It was the same way in hockey,|up the sponge, The Western citreus! “At the solicitation of Col, Miller [ He wae always getting through the/man announces in Chicago that he |Asteed to re-onter the ting and defend rival team and out alone in front, |has decided to abandon his efforts to! '% 7! annie Ried en on that It was bis style to play a “lone hand."| find a homo for the Willard-Fulton | the public demanded that [ fight, so 1 % bout. The Colonel found that the | consented. Now, however, It 8 Unole Sam’s Athletes public has other. things to. worry |that conditions have changed and that i f : ‘ Pati | the public doesn’t want me to bat Do His Fighting. about these times instead of listening | y haye placed the matter of 1 Baker's success is a splendid roc | to the squabbling of these two giants|ing me up to Col. Miller entlr ommendation for ath le training. \" to how much they are going to re- ts has pelle 4 off the bout T shall " { ye for boxing each other, how|»Y hia decision He was a stnr in several different Mk for boxing each other, how) ie be surprised to hear that Col branches of sport, His years on the|Many rounds they aro going to box! Miler has put out a circus. with gridiron and diamond and hockey | and where. | Willard and Fulton as his chief box Aetd gave him magnificent sudgment| After all, it t going to be a sate office attraction, May be it was ol and the perfoct physical co-ordination |and rane Fourth. Willard, for the|®® advertising scheme, anyway, that are now making him one of|t!me being, won't have to worry about | America’s greotest fighting men ridding himself of the superfiuous To become an Ace in the Lafayette | flesh he accumulated during his three ort Briefs Facadrilie a flyer must officially bring | Years of rather soft Ife with various | atc ac, Geren enpcaints, Grob uses, On the other hand, Fulton] ‘The National A. A. U. championship ably by this time Hobey is an Ace have to Klo Jack Dempsey, | Munee for distance event for women has He's bringing them down ao fast| Milly Miske and other formidable | ming “Associatc ow that one more seems just a part of | li ghts If ho wants to groom {competition will be held 41, the, pool o the day's work. To bring down an|bis fect to ft Into Willard's shoes | jure of & programme ‘scheduled | for enemy plane “oMcially” there must| "hen the latter retires from the ring| May, £5. "other evente will inulud foe at least two other witnesses to| fr good and andicun tests for both men wid v enemy's destruction, Baker has, Willard has only had one fight tn pata . l the thres . reper YOR, Mass., May 11.—Lteut. George cording to the French journal, four | rs since he won the titi) RAM Kan ofthe 01th intantry ha victor and “more than| fm Jack John at Havana; that} been appointed swimm ng instruc 4 a ch on hes | Was his r ‘o-decision bout {Camp Devens, Lieut, Meehan, wi en h The other planes | ¥™ 3 ho-decision b ut |, ine 18 in Boston, established a’ reputa wn were 80 far behind| ¥!t) Frank M nis clty two) as @ long-distance swimme nes that the |years ago, 7 4 of the big| Years ako when he won a race nfs n at t \ n , 5 Dig) ie Battery, Manhattan, to jy Hock r ert ers pr asons for his 1 arity and th “ bit of Lace PPS ether pega TON, N, J., May 11.~The an er daring, On the football ¢ sited holastic track Y 14 field Hobey wad always a roving |S4nsed for A Willard's baseball gam: the Tiger player, with a w faction, | P* ward suggestions | ¥! ) the, Newport, Naval He was extrem: popular in| ™ad i to help the Red Cross, /son High School of Jersey « 1 | college ¢ Army Athletic Fund an tmilar or. | tennis match tween Princeton and ollege. Ho had all the traits of aj Army Athi and similar or- | iiriveraity of Pennsylvania. make re mar With ¢ s fame as an| 8#"2 » ha ttered the fight | the rogramme of eve Dilata he never he puffed up. | £4n8 against him, Tgertown to-day. Mer On the other hand, Ito never | burg and Lawr favored in Being picked as A erican quar ni vara Sonuiie ; rulton baa ney Tl the Interscholastic mee ter nh Princeton's captain | eral of + made « ’ h ~ t Game Nota Moomee, a litt te a e ir 8 young | f J € knocke ie a And wher th friendly feelir thie untry were € ing to & play hockey | San sco 1a der their colors he stayed at home| When Col. Miller and played for a th on the St.|to bids for the be Nicks, just for the fun of playt be flooded w fe and ‘cleaned up" as regularly as|all th er | when he e Tiger strip of would-be te A more conceited man would have| hay t sone pla hockey or football | ma 1 4 r baseball and would have filled ala #' € few dozer rap books with news M came disgusted with the paper < s8--for Hobey was al-| failure of the East to x ' ways 5 nent on the sporting|his pet venture, so he was unbecoming K { pages—but he went down to Gov- | for West, cocksure t Charges were 1 againat ernor's | 1, very quietly, and be- tage the bout abo a the three, and All gap learning how to handle an air ared to in the wild and three appeared be a ” plane Here's what the Colone! save mittee, and each made a denia t t ‘ob a ee: ly “ al hie t the witnesses ag m fm fact, Hobey had been flying for Finding public sentiment in op-| was aocepted, * ‘ ae =- ’ -| Capt. Rev. W. f t| Henjamin Juceam Netted at Boxing Show (Special to The Evening World.) SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 11.—At the Civic Auditorium here last night the patriotic boxing show produced one of the largest crowds that ever assembled defore in the history of boxing in Call The only James W. Coffroth headed the committee of the most prominent citizens from Mayor Rolf down. The receipts amounted to about $19,000, with about $4,000 collected from the audience, making a total of $23,000, which will be turned over to the boys in the camps for the purpose of buying athlete equipments, The 10,000 people present cheered Benny Leonard, the world’s light weight champton, on entering the ring for fully twenty minutes, Mampott, on behalf of Mayor Rolf, presented the cham- pion with a solid gold card, also turning the key of the city over to him. Willie Ritchie recetved the verdict over Frankie Jones in the sem{-final. Tho champion had no trowble in defeating Johnny Me- Carthy in the final. fornia. Juceam of Manual Is Star Brooklyn School Pitcher @ Runs Have Bean | BIG LEAGUE MATERIAL Only Thre , sp heio . IN THIS YOUNGSTER Made Off His Delivery in 53 Innings of P.S. | A. L. Games, | ‘PHF outstanding feature tn the play for the baseball title in the | Brooklyn division of the P. 8. A. tournament has been the pitch- Nearly every ‘schoo! in this dl-| jon has on !ts pitching staff star box man, Erasmus has MePh Noys' High Thedford, Commerctal Hugeman, New Utrecht Cohen and | Manual Juceam. | Hach of these achoolboy stars has done much to bring victory to hool. However, | has been of such hig must be rated as th in the Brooklyn di \ it n School usa that ho usstest pitcher vision, | Pitehing for a Juceam established a re- |markable record. In fifty-three |nings that he has been on the mound team that is not strong this season bis opponents have scored only three earned runs. Ho has averaged more than ten atric outs per nine-inning and has held Ais opponents to an average of five hits per game. His most remarkable feats are two one two-hit The geome one-hit games, one three-hit game. registered against tronge |rame at the Parade Wednesday, by the se Grounds, of hoolboy teams in Greater t New York Eleven errors were 4 up. Juceain ig also @ good hitter, He| Seven for Manual and four for Eras ata from either side of the plate mus, ‘Phose errors, more than any , has compiled a batting aver-| thing ¢ were responsible for Man age of 833. ual's defeat Juceam is seventeen years old, 6] Wolfe and Juceam both pite! feet 8 Inches and weighs close | good ball, and Juceam, the loser, de to 104 pounds, in is his first y erved a much better fi V. Bot as a pitcher, although he has played| ting starred at the bat with two hits ther positt 9 act nine — He has another year at Manual and| Brooklyn Prep lost its first game he keeps on oving he un-| when it was defeated by the Peek doubtedly will develop into ble league| Kil! Military Academy at Peekskill material |N. ¥. The score wes 8 It wa ~— the Inability to connect with Perry's asmus regained the lead in the| offerings that caused the Rrooklyn Brooklyn division of the P. 8. A. L.' school ownfal baseball tournament by defeating star, striking out ten ¢ Manual {2 @ very boosely played batters, ~ HE’S CHAMPION IN THE AIR TOO yright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) —— Golf These Days Is Just One ; Continual Tournament for Jim Barnes. By William Abbott. 2 these days is just one tour- nament after another for Long Jim Barnes, the Swat Mulligan of the links, ‘The tall professional, whe {can wallop a golf ball out of alght, | Is 1n town and at work on a schedule that will take bim all over the big tratl playing matches for the Re@ Cross and othor war relief socteties, !As a sort of novelty Long James expects to meet Mrs. W. A. Gavin, the little holder of the metropolitam |champtonship, on the Wykagy! links ‘some time next month. , The competitive season for meme bers of the Paterson Golf Club starte Decoration Day with a thirty-sime handicap for the Vice President’a The final event ts fixed for Oot. he Cup. with some kind of a tourney al- AS ys on tap in between BY ae | . urdvy and holiday there wil « pes ERAS: sweepstake, the entrance fee bein, ] Pavck one Thrift’ Stamp and one 60-con ball, the winner having the choice of ull the stamps or half the number of ba Tho Greens Committee offers as & prize a box of balls to the Grat club member breaking the course record, which ts 69, ‘ Asbury Park ts the only dig Jersey summer resort now without golfing fac es. There is a movement on foot to rectify this condition, it — ee an {# reasonable to expect that Asbury 90a will boast of a fine golf club, Mrs, W. A. Gavin, undaunted et he eat from the wicked clubs of Out in Utah they let men support as many wives as they can hit with Ge a handful of lima beans, but the Governor evidently belleves that Willard w at Baltusrol last Sunday, y her nine-hole handicap propo- and Fulton might teach ‘em bad hab! sition against Bob White over the Montolair course this afternoon, ‘Th In the spring a tot of folk nee a bracer to keep ‘em on thelr feet, | Talc! will be for the beneflt of the Dut the Glant, out a chase have demonstrated that they cannot be swallowed with- ‘The first tournament of the Meiro- polltan Advertisers’ Golf Association Some of the greatest myste along the beaten sport trail are the will be held at Arcola May 16. Many trick names wished on some of the thoroughbreds. bers have been “limbering up” |their clubs at every opportunity for |the past few weeks and some record- omAROMAr. | Soeaking scores are expected. There If Omar were alive to-day |will be three eventa—a thirty-stx-hole He might enjoy his fam medal play handicap, an etghteen- “What's in a name?” they eays and yet A race horse and a cigarette \ hole medal play handicap and a four- dal play event. | . '. In the mornin rouna a novel Are thriving on his name. sme hag been devised $0 5 = the Y¥. M.C. A. This w The heirs of Omar might have been rich to-day if he had had { taxing contestants 10 cea enough presence of mind to copyright his name, for every stroke thelr net total ts in — excess par for the course. Tor ex- | No wonder the shipbutlters are tryt 1 playe! mple ar Of course, 71; handicap, pt ng to sign eo many hall players, 15! otal, $1; ecore of player, 98; difrer- | when so many of the athletes have proved thelr ability to fly sheets in the |.” wind. : player would be required to pay nts a stroke, or $1.70. It ts a uinty that ev layer ts going t ty ha h eve s sure t When spoken, Vail has an ominous tone {f one can recall However, the Brooklyn chauffeur sys that the S' Ra not be his farewell appearance. ONCE IN A LIFETIME. " There are no words of tongue or pen That hurt as much truth; 80 be prepared to feel a pang, For batting in the whole shebang le led by (strangest of the gang) at Nassau tn ust and Apawamis in Finishing the Inward half of the round 7 ‘okes less than she took i first nine holes, Mrs. 8. A, Hor- Arpltaherinamed) Bebe tthe irview returned the best rosy {din the first one-day tonrnament ot Babe Ruth evidently espouses the theory that a pitcher can startle he season, under. the direction of the Wor Metropolitan’ Golf Assoclas the tohole world by reaching first base. RE See Aa eee total of 52-429 Connie Mack throws open his gates to soldiers and sailors two days a w of Great 3 week, but Charley Ebbets hasn't enough baseballs to go round, PGA TOMT PA ELT AT gaet ) basen Mra. 1 ating Rari- After playing {na ball game at Chicago, Billy Sunday discovered that, t2 ¥! an old-timer can hit the sawdust tratl better than fast pitch partially - os a seat rile set- Nene team ma'ch Yale Eight in While many of the prominent boxtng| Jeek Ginty, the fight pre Jubs throughout the country aut bust- | Pa. has SG . tant t . | tighters will be kept unusually busy this | ah 7 will be bot s ur ace | Britton and Tommy Feranson of 8. year at open-air shows in amusement | on May 16 and the eccont wil parks and baseball grounds, The} ities where these entertainments w! ng wer Tebrew hearyy ve India: ting Lerinaky, the cl ot Clay Turner, Against Penn ged are Baltimore, Philadelphia, | May 9 11,ADELPHIA, May 11.—The Uni ©. Denver, Col, Youngstown, | sammy Ware, manager of the Pickwick 4, ¢,| Versity of Pennsylvania's etght oared nton, ©, Bridgeport. Conn., Pitts= | ot Baltimore, has just eon: winner of the Childs Cup re» Cine New Haven, Conn.,, with the owner of the Ta ‘ all indications: monaren Jand proba of the cities in the] 4 toring surveys In the rowing world, |State of Jersoy, as tt ts learned | % 1 ’ th nd etght of Yaio |that the New Jersey Boxing Commia-| urn wile fhe team te away from home, | nuylkill River this afternooa, 1 has changed {ts mind about not] opening one on June t TS The race will be watched with speolal ul es for open-air contests. | : ntore ft will mark Yale | Joo Warner, monazer of Jack Sharkey, te tn is peason, wise Now that Pal Moor, the tantamweteht, of | Molot of & letter from Joe Iivom ust until the anr . han fat ise nge to Pete Her| the game in an attemut to re the bantam pion, offering to| Some time aro Mt was } | Moore against him in @ twenty-round| drowned unon the torpe | ‘the title for a ite tet of 85,000 at| dost, Riven ts now 110 oF 118 pode, rngde, Walt fol] sate stated, the tent Herman, ing promoter of Clewla ‘Johnny Gritfithe, the crack welterwaiabt, ot | A Ahow of throw tensmund tonite ‘ Aron, O., and Young Denny of New Oriewns| 8000 of May 30, Mo signet ave fust been matchet for @ fiteen-round bout| 4s. clinching @ match . t tho Loulstana Auditorium of New Orleans | {hit city and Jack "Kit" Woite, ¢ Monday evening, May 20, Griffithe fe to re.| nd bantamvrigit, Hinkel w cive a gurantee of $800 with an option af/ #4 Irish Pateey Clive and V accenting 90 per ceat, of the gros receipts, | fF the main bout nny 18 to box for 25 per omt, of the r-| Leo Johnson, the lnal Preston Brown leet Matt we peal | ot 1 oa Gene 6k As BAtle McOoory aaket for more thme in| Syrugne'! Teriog ay went which to train for hie return match of ten) pritadelphis to meet in a sixrm TONIGHT ISOR-101S O-NIG sate ah Racing, Won re | 8S Mao May 18 TE wt ha | 25th Annual Picnic and Dance m furninbed eL. great p Maas Wanner, ik | sisny Jeheeey wil to let any one Manhattan Casino tron ta ue é 5 ecole. GF thats caw, | whi h Tol L . b h Street and Sth Avenue. Jack anion “has 1hath St, @ Sth As eed | ™ Kaufman, the fant | Prom making orer 92.000 fn slocity ot Gotared Ghamplonenin’ en Pa us roan fdaaait, te % fom, or tae oe | Lincoln Giants vg Irth Pateey Cline, who has not fought R ] . & i in Pai eet htt voi |__ 4NOYAl \alants pag et ughes alker #190, an Marry. v1 |i ora tn |DYCKMAN OVAL FiQoHAN ACH sa te ome that be wil) Gefent him decisively, Gromie, Adm We —Adrt. | Last week's