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u THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1918. DURING THE LAST FEW DAYS THE PIRATES AND REDS HAVE BEEN MAKING 'EM LOOK LIKE GIANTS. A Dan Morgan Plans to Enlist for Active Service and Urges His Fighters to Do Their Full Share for War Funds, Goprright, 1018 by The Pres Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World ANIEL MORGAN is planning to fo to the war. He thinks be could at least lead a gas at- tack. In the past Daniel bas been famous as a muster of the art of talking so much about his fighters ‘hat the newspaper writers were forced to print at least a few para- Sraphs daily of the eight or ten col- umns suggested, However, Daniel ts in earnest about | that going to war thing, He always Was @ scrapper, and he naturally fevls as if he'd like to get into it, or gear enough to it to toss a fow band @renades into a German trench and vhallenge the Kaiser to meet Battling Leyinsky, Meanwhile, Daniel js busy doing things for the soldiers, A couple of times @ week he leads a ooxing show out to some army camp and his box- ere always fight better for nothing than they do for money. Dan brings them up to have a contempt for the supp “almighty” dollar. Daniel has a contempt for money himwelf. He runs his financial affairs on a eet schedule. He can retain posses- sion of @ dollar for three minutes, a hundred dollars for three hours, and * thousand dollars for three days. He never yet gained possession of a sum that could last him three weeks, A few years ago, when Dantel was cleaning yp 4 neat sum daily at play- ing poker, or something of that sort, he started home every night with his pockets well lined. It was three blocks to th station, At each cor- ner Daniel met a watting crowd of aoesininstanesinates - ~ = TH GeT-away Was WHEN DoT Stary BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YO HOW TO HANDLE DRAFT DODGERS > Copyright, 1918, by The Press Pubiter pus NCL Xov' Easy ! ING) Hand for the First Day’s Sport. ee By Vincent Treanor. VERYBODY of any racing {m- neody friends. They waited for bim as a dog waits for a bone, And’ when Daniel revched the “L' steps he was lucky if he had enough left to buy breakfast. He couldn't refuse a re- quest for money, from any one ip need. Of late Daniel has turned his genius for giving things away to giving en- tertainments to the soldiers, Natur- ally, he is one of the many who are helping the Red Cross drive next week. Here is letter from Dan: Dear B.: Will you kindly try to get elther JACK DUMPSEY or BILLY MISKE to fight BATT- LING LEVINSKY, the ligh heavyweight champion, ten rounds at Madison Souare ‘Gar. den, on May 24, for the benefit of the American Red Cross? LEVINSKY WILL FURNISH ONE ROUND TRIP TICKET TO THE OND WHO 18 NOT AFRAID TO MELT HIM. While you are at It, will you so try to get TED (KID) LEWIS or SOLDIER BARTFIBLD to fight ten rounds on the same evening with Jack Britton, the American welterweight champion? Make it a rule that night no sparring partners allowed, for the boys In the trenches ARE NOT PICKING THEIR OPPONENTS; neither are they asking any guarantees or percentages, Sincerely, DAN Pretty good, Dantel! Espectally Levinsky’s offer to furnish a round trip ticket to bring a guy like Demp- ney, or Miske, over to fight him! And Levinsky will be paying his own fare down from Camp Ayer, where he ts Army Boxing Instructor, at that. In our opinion the Battier {s a real patriot, ORGAN. O you know bow we feel about sporting news these days? Like everybody else, ‘© interested In ANY KIND OF SPORT ‘THAT HELPS AMERICA WIN THE WAR. And apy kind of sport that doesn’t —wellywe may feel mildly interested just mildly interested, and nothing more than that. For instance, we can't arouse any enthusiasm over any star boxer who dodges all responsibil- ity and stays at home on his Kansas Yarm when he might be touring the country doing a world of good by working for the Red Cross, the Train- ing Camp. Activities Fund and other splendid American enterprises. have no respect for the fellow with great ball playing ability who dotyes the draft by taking a fake shipbu ing Job. We don’t care for slackers. and when the war is over we hope that every slacker will be dropped by the sport-loving and patriotic pub- Me into the absolute obscurity he deserves. UNDAY, May 24, Camp Dix and Fort Slocum have their inning at the Polo Grounds. A track, baseball and boxing meet will be held. No admission will be cnarged, but @ col- jection will be taken, The Fort Slocum baseball team will have Ray Fisher pitching, and their opponents will be the Duffalos of Camp Dix, a colored regiment team made up of former “Cuban Giants.” While the track events are going on, boxing contests will be held in three rings, one behind the home plate and one each bebind first and third bases, ‘Three fights at once should give the epectators an eyeful, One of the chief pontestants will be Robert Fitzsim- mons, the tall son of Bob Fitzsim- Mohs, greatest champion the ring has ever known. Young Bob is now a soldier at Camp Dix. He ts a splen- 4id boxer, and but for a determina- tion to fight for his country, might We) portance seemed to be down Jamaica way yesterday and apparently all hands were glad to be out in the open once more at the start of a new racing year, Auto- mobiles by the hundreds filled the parking space behind the grand stand and the stand ttself was well| crowded by enthusiastic men women, A tour of tho lawn, through th paddock, and tn and out the club- house was a continuous handshake and a seri and) of exuberant hellos on! all sides, Everything seemed made to order for the occasion, The weather was at its best, just cool! enough to be exhilarating. Young Dave Gideon, who racing horses before most of us were knee high, was greeted by friends! old and new, With his hands dug| deep down in his trousers pockets, excepting when he was mitting some one or other, Dave was all over the place. Years leave little trace on him. Roly Poly Gene Woods had & smile and a nod for everybody (whoever christened him Gene has him right. He's the most genial person we ever met); good old Fire Chief Lally, now retired, and Billy Clancy were having a talkfest on the lawn in front of the club- house when Airplant Casey hove to with a new yarn; those two cronies, Tom Welsh and Jack Joyner, held @ recoption along the paddock rail. Tom confesses to having lost ten ponuds since Inst fall, but tt hasn't changed him noticeably. Jimmy Fitzsimmons was in and out the crowd in the paddock wel- coming his many friends and be- ing wished lots of luck in return with his public training stable, Jimmy, by the way, has tw> sons on the Job for Uncle Sam, One of them is “Over There” in the Avia- tion Corps, and the other 1s either there or on his way to be a machine gunner, Jack Gillen, the Rockefeller of Greenwich Village, and Bill Mo- Cormick, the Beau Brummel, shook hands like a couple of political can~- didates till they almost lost their grips, John Sanford was out too and tf he his Yurucarl, the favorite in the | last race, he didn't show It while he and Andrew Miller stood on the jon the back and incidentally getting jin the way of Tom Costigan, Upstaira in the club house old fa- millar faces were to be seen wherever one looked, There was Maxey Blu- menthal, immaculate and debonalre Johnny Walters, rotund and good n tured as ever; Jimmy Beattie from Sheepshead, who finally is wearing “cheaters,” with which to scan bis programme; Morty Lynch, with his "9 to 6 to you, air,” and Billy Koch, |with # bankroll ‘a hound couldn't cool and jump over, collected, no matter how “they ran in.” Paul Shane, splo and span, but with a straw hat that looked suspiciously like a “repeater,” spent most of the afternoon renewing acquaintance with his millionaire friends Out on the lawn there was the same old crowd; Eddie Ryan, who looks fat, despite his dieting and all that; “Whitey” Beck, Tom Shaw, if Racing Season 8 Opening At Jamaica Like Reunion To an Enthusiastic Crowd » rest of the boys who would make|Plonship title, and Johnny Tillman of Everybody of Importance in| Turf Circles Seemed on} * Was disappointed by the showing of| blue blankets, emb) clubhouse stairs slapping each other | ‘em all 8 to 6," uulne reunton Ali told, it was a There wasn't o close finish durin, the entire afternoon, Dottie Vi cakes won cleverly because Poach had all the worst of racing luck; Lady Gertrude shook off Home, Sweet Home and caine on alono; Old Koen\¢ made High Noon quit in the stretch and breezed the rest of the way in| limit, the Paumonok; Royce-Rolls had no trouble after shaking off Frederick the Great, and Lion d'Or won by | eat: himeeif after following the pace of} man 22% per cent. Both men are re- Different Byes until the latter ran out fa the atretch. My, but m't Willis Sharpe Kilmer | getting gay now that his name hus |, been enrolled among the owners of Kentucky Derby winners? Mr, Kil- mer sported his green and colors in the ribbon of his straw hat, in the shape of a green and a gold cross feather, V. W, J. Salmon, well known in real estate circles in New York, is one re cruit to racing who admits he doesn't know it all. to it than any business I have ever Wa* | been engaged in,” he said, “but like! the mated ts clinched the men will clash in the it. To me it is the ultimate thing in) sport, and 1 don’t think I could en-| thuse nearly much about anything | else. Being a successful owner isn’t the luck of everybody. A man must have a good trainer, a good Jockey and a good horse, and I'll admit it's) hard to get all threo at once.” Mr, Salmon had a starter in the last race, ‘Teddy Rousseau, named after Mayor Mitchel's popular secretary, ‘The colt isa fine looker by Assagai—Mountain Mist, and had shown as much speod a# anything in the race in his training trials. Ho had little chance after the break yesterday, Both Trainer Tom Healey and Owner K. 'T. Wilson were disap- pointed at Campfire's showing in the Paumonok, The colt didn't get to running soon enough, but when he did get settled in his stride ho ap- peared to be overhauling Old Koenig iad High Noon, He, however, ap peared not to relish the chase in the stretch, Johnny McTaggart couldn't explain the colt's race beyond saying he seemed to tiro at the three-six- teenth pole. However, Campfire came back to the scale without showing the elightest sign of being tired. “Wo were whipped” was ail that ‘Trainer Healey would say, Jockeys Denyse und Wessler sut- fered bruised logs by being put on tho fence during the afternoon's re but neither was seriously hurt, al- though Wessler appeared to get a bad tumble, Jimmy Murphy had to subtitute Rowan for Denyse on Adele in the second race, which meant that Adele carried 110 pounds instead of her allotted 95. Bert Reilly has a lot of new clothes for his horses, They are fino light oned with a monogram A.A. K., which looas like ap odd piece of lattice work. “If you want folk to know who owns those horses you'd better get rid of that Chinese laundry mark you have on their blankets," remarked Jimmy Fitasiminons to Reilly as the horses were walking down the stretch from thelr stables to the paddock. | | | Fashion Note-R. T. Wilson 1s wearing a mustache. None of our business, but he looked better with a clean shaven upper lip, A few more exhibitions like those | on Dahinda and Yarucari, and Kelsey, the Sanford jockey, will have to find |nimself a new job, Hoe was left flat |footed on Yarucari, which, by the | way, was a short priced favorite, - Britton Boxes Draw) Daly Wins. SCRANTON, Pa, May 17, — Jack Britton and Tommy Ferguson boxed ten hard rounds (oa draw here last Inight at the Town Hall A. ©. before a ilarge audience. “Joo Daly of Brooklyn defeated Eddie Walsh, featherweight champion — of %} round bout, to a decision, for the alveer “roiled” in the first; Wheat-| Welterweight championship. "The con- Bold racing | oext week, aro aett "Racing bas more angles | bout between Johvoy D (Cristic News som Fo and Gossip Denver, Col., will be 4gain to-night of another legitimate championship fistic battle. The men who will meet in this important scrap are Ted Lewis of England, the pres- ent holder of the welterweight cham- St. Paul, who is one of the best fight- ers produced in the West in years, They will come together in a twenty test will be fought under the auspices of the Columbine A. C. at the big stockyards auditorium there, Tho men are to battle at the welterweight 142 pounds, weigh in at the ringside, Lewis to receive 37% per of the gross receipts and Till- ported as being in the best of condi- tion, Jim Cottey. the be Western heavy wetaht of Chicaao, weight of Chicago, Irish bearrweizht, Joe Bonde, ‘Tommy Murphy, the middle. and Joe Welling the light- who are to appear in bout into condition for thetr con. tevte at Billy Gru Gymnasium, Coffey and Hoods are to battle for the Red Crom at Medison Sqnare Garden and Wolling fighte Ritshio Miteheli at Milwaukee on Friday evening, An effort in being made by Vioent Reina, the promoter of New Haven, Conn,, to arrange a the focal Italian Mabtweight, and Billy De Foe of St. Paul, If main bout of twelve rounds at the Riverside A ©, in the big arena on the night of June 3, De Foe haa taken om 0 much welgit that he te now forved to meet the lightweighis, Dare Wartnik of Baltimore, who recently ser ered bis connections with Kid Williama, the for- ‘mer bantamwetght champion who he was manager of for several years, has just taken under his man- agement Allie Nack, the local lightwwight, Like all managers, Wartnik belioves be has the makings of @ champion in Nack, Allie has fought many BALL — © SAM SAYS RE UNDER ORDERS To DRIVE 10000 the scene, LOTS OF ANG LERS ARE THERE WITH THE CAST, BUT IT’S ALWAYS HARD TO TELL WHICH IS THE FISH. <r eee ST ee a U ne Co, (The New Work Evening World.) ( ORDERS FROM Te ? BIG Boss - va \ orm PUT YouR. Baru WHERE'S THE DRAFT HtAD ZL Wants, INTo Ta! Oldfield Celebrates His 42d Birthday by Wedvenday night for Battling Clay Turner, the | Indian light heavyweight, a fifteen-round be | Bridgeport, Coum, ‘Turner received nearly 6760 | for bis eud, ‘The gross receipts figured up $8,000. ‘aul Dovie, the promising local lightweight, and Phil Bloom of Brooklyn were matched to day to meet in a ten-roud bout at the bia bor. ink show to be staged by the Riverside A. ©. of | New Haven, Conn,, on the night of June 3 Doyle bas been winning many boute in succes. tion in the last fow months, and be onght to ive Bloom the atiffest kind of @ battle, Famous Driver Makes Surpris- ing “Come-Back,” Defeating Louis Chevrolet, the Present Speedway Champion, in $10,- 000 Match Race at Union- town, Pa. Ponent because of a wonderful play of nerve. | rolet, the California speed demon to g Litdle Johnny Rosner, the Jove) bantamweight and Eddie Lavery, a Western bantam, will have it out in a twelve-round bout to a decision At a boxing sbow to be brought off at Akron, O. on pert Thursday night, Rosner has been anxious to get on bouts with the other bantams, and if he can get the decision over Lavery may be matched to fight Jonay “Kid” Wol of Cleveland, turn, One of the other features of | Sweepstakes, which Ralph Muiford. five heats of twenty-four lapi | winning time in the final was 1 By Alex. Sullivan. jan average of 101.1 ARNEY OLDFIELD sald he was going to do it, and he has done It. Recently the “grand old man” of the auto driving sport sent word on here from the West that he was going to take another fling at the racing game this season, and if he wasn't able to “come back” he was Going to quit the game forever, Old- weit it fire ia 4 title next monid,| field's showing last season was poor Wile Ma opponent wil ot be Whar. tO! in comparison to the records of auch heary. will face him in the squared circle, ee| Stars a6 De Palma, Chevrolet and Tom Andrews, the fight vrumoter of Milwaukee, | Resta, He was a tallend proposition ts trying to sign up the men, Both have sig] ai! the way. See, er ener eae Novody looked for the famous Las | sain Angeles pilot to make good so early in the season, but yesterday at Union- was won Milton third. ro heavyweight, who is Pelham Bay Pasi and Jos Bonda, another big scrapper from the West, who is on the Granite State. lying at the foot of West 96th Street, are to battle for ten rounda at the big boxing show to be held at Pel- ham Bay Park on the afternoon of June 4 Benny Leonard will also box at the same show, It f# almost certain pow that Fred Fulton, tho ahallenger of Jess Willant for the heavy: welght title, wif figure in @ battle next month, been coming to the front raptdl: the auto driving sport during the three years, had from serious injury, The rear until he brought the halt at his pit. The meet at Uniontown was last in which any of the star dri Bay on Memorial Day afternoon, the Pennsylvania city. Dave Astey marted t Oldfield’s ability ining to-day at the New West Bide A, C. for t two matches for who: pion, in the $10,000 match race on the| Probably has met speedway there, incidentally hanging up a new world’s record. Barney raced "Chevy" which measured viows with Phil Franehini of the east side and oo June 1 he Will stack uo against Baltimore Dundee in a return mateh before the Pickwick A. ©., in the Oriole Dall Park of Baltimore. in 4 ten-round bout to a decision op « winnertake. ll basis, jot his long years five laps, | than 102 miles an hour, which broke the old mark for @ mile-and-an- | eighth track. classic here, at Uniontown proves Jobmay Rosner, the American firweiaht cham. factor to be reckoned with In the pion, would ike to box Pete Herman at the Red bouts at the local clube with varied succoss, Harry Greb of Pittaburgh, who realized $060 by defeatiog Al, McCoy, the Brooklyn middle weight, in @ ten-round bout at Cinciuoatl on last Monday a! srabbed off close to #00 on Crom show, Rosner has ap international revuts- ties having fought Jimmy Wilde, the English sensation, at Liverpool: Pete Herman, the present king of bantems, and Benny Vaiger, tho Freoch champion, Rosner prefers Vete Herman. but would box Joe Lynch. Kid Williams of Johnny Coulon, the cx-champion According to reports, It was one of, One of the bi ‘i the most exciting duels between high-/ever did tn Wey oo wa powered cars ever seen in this coun- | peat Jack Jobnson when the col try. ‘The finish was so close that| heavyweight was champion. The Barney crossed the line less than & wag held at Sheepshead Bay at ear length In front of his rival. | Oldfield only defeated his clever op- | purehny “Tee pot th, Meni Philadelphia Phantom Scalps| Two Highly Touted Favor-| ites After Gruelling Ses- sions By Bruce Copeland, | ILLIAM TILDEN, the Philadelphia Phantom, justly earned the’ sobriquet or “iron man" yesterday by emerging from the third round and semi-final matches in the spring tournament of the Harlem Tennis Club with the scalps of two highly touted favorites after a most gruelling session on the clay, in which Tilden Is “Iron Man’? of Tennis Tourney; _ Has Only Bassford to Beat in Final "se ves cow vse ou |Johnson had an Idea he could | Oldfield, as be was then a “bug” at driving, but Oldfield made him Johnson appeared so ridiculous jhe never again tried profess | was in bad with the automobile thorities because of his than Harrison H. Hathaway, who un- tl yesterday had proved that only one arm 1s necessary to call it a per- fect day on the clay pasture. So, while the tapering Tilden was polish- ing off Vin Richards In one of the/ semi-finals, the veteran Bassford | came up smiling with the rigtt to contest the Quaker ghost in the finals to determine the ownership of the Harlem ‘Trophy Cup, credit to the game that he was fi ly reinstated, Champ, and Capt. Von Ber- muth of Columbia Tilden’s Victims, jtloned auto racing | thought of Oldfield. one ‘Ten years the most tantalising corners of the | 2alBh De Palma, most consis h r ner | y er safe conduct through the semi-final |Diace his machine on the star! lines, Perhaps the recapitulation of | {ing for the liarkness Handicap. mn |the match would describe his supert-| sprint champion came in from A. F, Von Bermuth was the first of jority better than words, ‘They played tho titled tennisers to reach the clay, | as follows: | and was reclining beneath a comfort- | FIRST BET. | H. Wellman, who his championship calibre never missed |an opportunity to riddle the opposing attack, ‘The tall, tapering youth from the City of Eternal Sleep put the dimmer | on one college star and then proceed- ‘ed to eliminate Vincent Richards, the schoolboy champ of Yonkers, who had been picked by many to go through the touranment like bad news through a@ catty neighborhood, A. F, Von Ber- muth, Captain of the Columbia net- ters, was first to go the way of acan- celled stamp, Then the puerile Rich- ds got his'n While the famous Tilden tadpole was putting fast hops on his serve and making his overhead returns like a champion knitter during the rush hours, another favorite hit the soapy chute under the baseline barrage of Henry H. Bassford, who, unlike his famous brother tenniser, casts his Pennsylvania, in ten rounds here last anything taller than’ ev Maurice now be listed among the topnotch heavyweights. Bob just turned weaty-one, No shipbullding for ima, McDonald, the best price maker Greenwich Village ever bad, and ail A) { night. ny, 3.45 P.M ONLY. Yank POs Urounde, "Adu, be, — Ady Baseball va, Be. Louis, | vote at Pleasantville, N. ¥., not Harts- he was kind enough to In- tennis experts. Bassford's opponent was none other Vincent Richards, Schoolboy) Sas? saftnc ane! merle waied thle dis- In order to pass Chev- h to the top of the high-banked track, where he passed him on the last the |card at Uniontcwn was the Liberty by The drivers raced The 82, miles an hour, Eddie Hearne was second and Tommy y in past & narrow escape axle of his car broke, but he held with bulldog tenacity to the steering wheel machine to @ the vers will apear previous to the Harkness 100-mile handicap race at Sheepshead | Who !s {n charge of the Governmen The men expressed their cars to the track here immediately after the races in to come back is big ifeld to jored race the cent | Speedway that {8 now located there. beat fast look | as though his car was standing still. that jonal feild au- appearance this nal- Time was when tf any one men- instantly ago he was the kingpin of ail drivers, tent soon wil ting The the to Breaking World’s Record Ira Vail, the Brooklyn lad who has h' manager, Joe Jacobs, has slaned him uo, On| town, Pa, he celebrated his forty-! the bigest kind of a surprise to auto} May YO, at the onening show of the Penns-| second birthday by beating Louis facing fans. He has been seventeen rove A. ©., Peonaarove, N. J. be will exohange; Chevrolet, present speedway cham- Years engaged in the sport, and with fewer acci- | Ma dents than any other driver, Because |®"¥ of them who are In class Al T of nerve-racking | contests it was thought that he didn’t lightly more than| Possess the “pep” to shine once more five miles, in 3.18.61, a rate of more | among the stars, but his achievement that he is a Bay” track to-day and arranged for | a conference with Promoter Wiliam | Stands ready able awning when Tilden arrived on | 84 PE | tempt him with the richest offer ever the scene with all the paraphernalia | Rie; 7 4 {| dangled before a driver's eyes, of a youthful tennis champ in quest | 40 2 liman last night received the of cups without saucers Richard: 3) d entries for the Decoration Day pati a long day ahead for the | of Dan Hickey and “Red | delphian a ie scented victory, | . Fetterman, two very promis- t 5 ed in the scores of the seta by games, . ¥ promis. | routie mntrat, the, ulllble Columbia | The hore of the Ast set 19 ae foulows; |i young drivers. Hickey finished | | you ‘o an early ch before the J t kness Trophy rac expert spectators had arrived, It | Tivea ...0.2 2 2 20 2 m6 fou ganar ea ed eapert fpectators. Dad gon serorrd 2 8 o'2 § ct last season, man, a Pennsyl was work in what the base- | Risards...;0 0 0 0 1,0 Oc) |, vania boy, twice won the Grand Prize cbled Mae Calls the Dinches that en-|Hichane’'"s:0 6 T 1 0 00 1 0-3 at Uniontown, Pa abled him to win from tt e of} rn 5 Psy ulso served him with a fast werkous {throughout the match and weakened |ing field for the Harkness Handicap under the strain of Tilden's pdWerful | now numbers eigh tho| service, Jt was the Philadelphian's |°™ ™ a cleverly manipulated —_ placements which served to take the fighting} heart out of his youthful opponent, | although the latter was game all the way and Jost like a good sportsman, The respective victories of Tilden and Bassford put them in the front rank to contest for the trophy, which to ali intents and purposes will be | waged tomorrow afternoon on the club courts at 185th Street and) Highth Avenue, Tilden has every in- | dication of @ champion, although the match should prove a thriller for the for his coming match with ptrvenu Richards, whom he thought |was a TNT bomb camouflaged with a |yport shirt, Tilden had hardly taken time be- tween matches to accept the con- gratulations of the gallery when the mbkin Richards went stoclally to the slaughter, and the living image of Willis Davis at twenty might just as well have thrown his raquet onto | |the court to take the mateh, | | Richards, the schoolboy terror, was as far off his stride as Jess Willard is from public opinion, although he dis played occasional flashes that made SPORTING. Grand Stand $3.30 Tilden's remarkable (almost un-| counter’ sho d prove worth ganny) ability to place his shots into' many @ mil to witness, comin RACING TOMOR AT. JAMAICA Lon’ $5,000 KINGS COUNTY HANDICAP hin conqueror — acclaim generous | devotees of the clay patch, ‘el praise, Hut there wasn't a moment| Bassford ts a number of years old- fi Ta'the whol folres “that the Fea e | ot ener dentand ise player of wice fy aud Five Other Good Races, Beginning at 2:30 P, M for championship didn’t fail to make |experience and repute. But there is ' IAL RACE TRAINS DIRECT TO COURS! the most of his opponent's errors of | something spectacular about the Phii- | Start 4 Tth Ave. and al Ash A¥., Bikiya, concession and incidentally, commis-|adelptia boy which Bassford seems ast No Ye milnuten intr? Aloe eactaat (om Nostrand ay sion. to lack; but at any rate their ¢: INCL : We td WARK sire to impugn the motives of the players who have gone into this | work," Mr, Johnson sald. “Some of | THE DARE DEVILS THE SPORT WORLD S WORKING HARD. FOR RED ChOss Baseball and Boxing Leaders Busy Night and Day Plan- ; ning Features to Raise | Money for Big Drive. The sport world ts working with | great enthusiasm for the Red Cross. | n the haseball and boxing leaders |are busy night and day planning f |tures which will help raise big sums toward the $100,000,000 fund. ‘The announcement that Col. Rup- pert of the Yanks was going to donate 10 per cent, of the gross ceipts of the entire series with Clevi land met with the hearty approyal | of local fandom, The dates of these | games are May 25, 27 and 28. On Monday, May a big Red Crosse Field Day Yank management and Arthur B, | Asbforth, Chairman of the Red Cross Entertainments and Benefits Com- mit.ee. will be conducted by the | Frank Moran and K. 0, Bill Brens |nan were matched last night to box in one of the bouts to be held in connec: tlon with the bie Red Cross entert: ment to be held at Madison Square Garden one week from to-night, |"In addition to this match, Charley Harvey announced that Lew Tendier, the latest boxing sensation in Phila phia, had volunteered his services and will be matched with the best man in his class who ts ayailabl According to William Fox, who te Captain of the eighth team in. the drive, the meet at the Garden will be one of the bii st affairs of its kind ever held in. this city. Beside the boxt bouts there will be several other f | tures, Dave Astey and Frankie Burns will be principals in another match which ws made. ata. conference be y Hars Masters of will ween the boxers and Charl vey and Joo Humphries, Ceremonies, Astey and’ Burns bow ten rounds. Ships No Longer Help Players Escape Draft Apparently there will be no more scandal regarding baseball players Joining shipyard teams to avoid the draft. It is sald that Kopp and Geary of the Athletics, who left their team Wednesday night, intending to report to @ shipbullding company at Wilmington, Del,, changed thelr minds after a talk with Connie Mack, man- ager of the team, Ban Johnson, President of the American League, declared tn Chi- cago to-day that he had taken up the question with Charles M. Schwab, shipbullding programme, and that the er assured him that no overtures would be made to players in class Al to engage in shipbuilding work. “The American League does not de- them’ are patriotic. But if there are hope Provost Marshal General Crow- der yanks them from the shipyards and steel works by the coat collar and places them {n cantonments to prepare for future events on the west~ ern front.” Sune ot TWO MORE DRIVERS ENTER HARKNESS HANDICAP RACE. Ralph De Palma, most auto winner of all time, reach a decision whether he will place his machine on the starting line for the 100 mile Harkness Han- dicap, star event of the Decoration Duy track meet at the Sheepshead Bay Speedway. The sprint champion came in from the Bay track to-day and arranged for a conference with Promoter William H. Wellman, who stands ready to tempt him with the consistent will soon richest offer ev dangled before a driver's eyes, Wellman last night received the signed entries for the Decoration Day races of Dan Hickey and “Red Flash" Fetterman, two very promis- ing young drivers. Hickey. finished fifth In the Harkness Trophy race last season, Fetterman, a Pennayi- vania Boy, twice won the Grand Prize at Uniontown, Pa With these two additions, the starting field for the Markness Hane dicap now numbers elght RACING SELECTIONS, JAMAICA, First Race— Elected IT, Mine Sweeper, Frank Shannon. cond Race—Felicidad, Ideal, Babette. Third Race—The Portugpese, No n. Camt h Corn Tasse ifth Trac Irma Frank, Whim- atin, — Stellarina, e—The Wonderer, Mi Pe On the Hou Packing MADISON sou Boontar cee Hons a Ta Now of GARDEN. - SPORTING, ROW LAND Ladies, $1.65 |