The evening world. Newspaper, May 18, 1918, Page 8

a THe EVENING wusbsh SATURDAY, MAY 186, 1918 Ga" SEMA) BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK |- Ay QU; HE CAN'T EVEN FILL HIS OWN | nani TORPEDOED TWICE, THIS iY PT os Gee TREAT DEGWuING a SO TLE TODAY ATOSSY enemas | Final Match of Tourney a Mat- ter of Accuracy and Steadi- ness Against Youth and Championship Speed. DON'T JUDGE A MAN BY THE CLOTHES HE WEARS; SOME OF THE GODS DIDN'T WEAR ANY. i Son of Eugene Corri, Noted English Sportsman, in Navy at Thir- teen, Has Had Some Thrilling War Experiences, Including | Two-Hour Midwinter Swim in Mediterranean—Tried Flying | Too at Sixteen, but His Superiors Said He Was Too Reck- less for That Service. By Robert Edgren. and steadiness can be Coprtight, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) A as efficient foils againet HILE you are reading this out in the Atlantic a transport is head. Hd plonship speeé, ing eastward, carrying its capacity load of American fighting men Bassford to the battlefields of Flanders and France. It is a ship with @ strange history of Plea se Once It was Russian, but when the | Holsheviki seized the Government of retahehd Maat 4 Russia {ts crew deserted in an Eng aritg a . mn pe bier i baddarshai ° lish port. There it lay, accumulating | 4 a ae (wore le rust, until the Admiralty took it and | Tilden w ter the turned {t into a transport. And now, fi AY the veteran clay COL like a great number of other steam. | atcher as tt ‘al favorite, al rs, it is flying the American flag and | gh Bassf local ad doing its share in the world fight for # who reasbede | he freedom of all lands One of the officers of that ship { o English lad whose name is known | wherever the English flag files. He} 'e Kugene Corrl jr. His father tr Eugene Corri, famous for many years as the referee of championship box. ! ing matches at the National Sport Club of London, the oldest boxing club In the world If young Mr. Corri is to be taken as a type, England will never jack fighting men while there is a lad left in kneebreeches, For Gene we me neatness and t into on THe Susmarine © he Birtish Navy at the tender age of thirteen, and has already served threc JEERED Commi And strenuous years. He has been torpedoed and his ship sunk under him Hip MEN, AND LEFT twice, and the sight of a hostile submarine long ago lost its nove velty THEM “To Drown. Tho first time young Corr) went?—— through the « jence of being tor-| ¢ pedoed was in the Medit where ho was on dw his occasion the vessel was fast sink- ackle ran through. ‘Then he was | anean,) the w and the up-ended be On) falling on him, gashed his left th For a long, long time the boy held his breath and struggled. Ax he cu dn it was beached, eo that t ne F ing when it was beached, hat the) iy a drowning sailor caught his head loss of men was small and pushed him under. He came up urney is dete But the second time, which was alagain and took a long gasping breath maakind Ao ie and another drowning man ng | him and dragged him down, + Year ago Jan, 5, off the ocd jand, Corri didn't come off so and Gossip who gives hiv n his relentless he was nearly strangled with the \ It was exces ally cold mid-winter| water, Again he came up, ‘The # By John Pollock With aia tains wise War Baron went}had gone on, All around him th wt water was full of struggling men wearing lifebelts. He swam to one cer. He was fifteen yeara old then,|whom ‘he recognized ava. stow The first boxing club to close down | during the summer months is the Na jown, Hugene Corri was fourth off- "ain" While Bassford is a much less spec | five feet ten inches tail, and a splen-| fu, % TAMIA sakance . sally Waw vaten humble | onal A+ A. of Philadelphia which vcular player than his youthful ad Ric atnlote. His Cather, being a atest Q ne mn ane ue uld recov ae, winner never really knows how good he {s until he has eaten humb! Wil Held Ite daat entantainmentto veraary, he y as adept in ERO ae RT add “Help me, Mr, Corri, I can't swim, night until the first week in Septom Seon Ek boxing, swimming and other branches Called the steward, Jess Willard has a trick memory if he ts threatening to retire. Jes: | ber. Herman Taylor, manager of t ty Enis match should of am r athletics, and he bad You're all right; you ro a belt,” | retired after licking Jack Johnson club, has come to the conclusion that st gallery of the w won championships in boxing and/answered Corri, and ew: on, Turn. — |the fight fans do not attend thes») c contestants at the to swimming whilo in the public schools.'ing to look for the ship he saw that From the way the Giants are faring {t looks as 1f the Western elubs| Shows In the warm weather, espe-| | ctrides, some excellent tennis is pro Young Corri had just been assigned|her headway had carried her along | will have to come Kast to lose a few games. uly when the contests are held othe Wa Paron, which was an for several Bandred yards, f nd as he pislte arent | rs, and tor that on he hag. f those, who have watched American oll-bur butit on |looked the War Baron slowly rage on Toronto is net showing much smoke, although they have a | Si’en uP the idea of st more ore we a th Street and Kighth Ave seen in him the brilliat of a of them until the coc the Pacific Coa rved weather, In coal burning » keen ‘oom of the oll-bu MAJOR\ LEAGUE AVERAGES Compiled by Moreland News Bureau Warhop on their team the meantime the clubhouse will b: had ®! Germans Jeered — Jenlarged so that it will have a seat @ to $5,000 persons THE HAS- BEEN. wd t On noon day At Their Victims. grees In the it. “Renny Val. | f out Corri went off at 4’o'clock former major leaguer rt er. will hook up) American Lengae Gatting Averages.) National League Batting Averages. end told the office etieved him|, And now, through the win ask, | Lay stricken in a trench | with uaale Lewis of “Philly for six| ea eres ‘aca alased wo bs |) anaes vats lao wes tind we 4 h : thought Towa gua the German submarine came #low Satd he, “Oh, Death, where ts thy sting? ounds. Wate ue ee nine eas ebiaat eg Pat {poking through the wreckage. About | I'd rather give your bell a ring 5 Sevens Piasers and ( G. At. H, Ave § and G, A.B, H, Are, | CO} " : Moer,| twenty Germans were on her decks Than die upon a bench.” Till Prennan, the Chicago heavyweight, whe rr new 3 FY] us 1430 | 4 H L engine|and they waved thetr hands at Cor Ph eis en not foutit in sereral wevia om en Cievela 2h q ne . ate bei and shouted wiv t the me With tas ae ; . en -ankle which he rereived in his wit a f nd ere To , ® drowning in the icy Corr was) thank you. 1 pee Bilg oo: ‘ 5 Demeney at Milwa again able t 7 f Beye: < Gt by e- tor-{tempted to shout back, put he knew | UNI you and aor h te (4 Daa as the Germans would shoot him with —— mi a. On ert Thum radi ny arateristic "He Grosse j ! ha then, [their revolvers, so he stopped swim Always pay your telephone Lill; you might lose your reputation as a #2 #etinet Qeoar Anderwn. the heavyweight ¢ ' Si] the champlon in any sport, and proves on : (yd men. ming and, rolling slowly over on his | Scrapper, Denmark, at North Adams, Mus,, and the follow 3 § 4 the ancient adage that one ounce of maine toa other (back, floated with only his face ou SENS ne vight he oxen I Moran ten rounds Fa ematian a pound of ig Soa ee Lburner | of water, expecting a bullet Svery “Make ‘om fight,” says Bug Bee Johnson about the players who have | eS Cron 4h Mecieca Ravers Gerdee if ff 1 ae ak ane a by arnies a er créw and 4 few minutes the sub- | jumped to the Shipbuilding Lea Last winter Ban Bee war « F Dick Loedmas, who knocked ont Johnny Py ra ae aetleannad the f68 ‘orri several minutes to find | marine Rone Jexempted hecause they are t ayer mn three tonuils recently, lise just wen mater q > ball takes a ta nd ext what he wanted he Ming had been seen from | to meet Pete Hei f New Orleans, the ba 3 heav After a glance the engines the | shore, wireless signals had beer tamweight cham min at a whew to a ray ie Yeturned effec: ttokeshold, |tWO hours before they arrived ane ne heen Pheer 2 : not dead for th mngine room, xoing | found the survivors In the black win. | Jeas Willard threatens to retire : ty rorinds ‘ 1 { t dead ft re bulkhead, | ter night. They were two desperately Of such a chance there's no dout © it he cone 2h M aneatord “southpaw racquets t 1 t | & ‘old hours for the men in the water One must retire at any time ‘ . 4 6 3 Bassfo outhpsw | e the time, Tt] Wn Champion Bene + Fr employs a powerful 8 as thirte «py | Corrt said that he was tempted to take en one hay had a blowout ain Califor 1 hoe SAGrERI. GEOR (Court AOON never forge ® says ‘off hin vont, for hi it interfer 000 0 ies When Bassford is right he can make 1t was cleo 1 in the | With swimming OW Binghamton continues to clean houre in the Interna Leage will figure in anoth f thease hor ; : { a ball do everyt but talk, stoke-hold—no dust or grease or | that it would r without the] which ig only natural for a Parlor City. ecrapa at Camp Kearney, Ban Diego, Ca i } Tinakes his opponent see a dozen grime. “You could wear white gloves | Coat, #0 he kept it on eat Walneslay night, The receipts will be t , at atead of one. However, he i as d Gene in describing {t G aera! rl ty vera DUBE AS The only difference between a railbird and a barfly is that one thini ver to the camp afficials, 4 Hy gainst a den tae ad just noted the way in which | the cold no longer hurt, and when he| ‘ne ponies are dandy, while the othe 1 * brandy | The ten-round bott betwe ; ; a an oppon repu te eprayed into the fire when | Was, picked up he was’ delirious and | ‘B° # a ) | ther is partial to pontes of brandy. Toe ten-round bork tet nt 8 i bli the chief engineer cing up, re-| didn't know much about what was ; . ©hicaao and Rivet abel of 4 “ws i narked, casual! happening War Baron had gone | Nowadays it's hard to tell a railbird by his feathers unless they whom are i present tn the Usit if 4 “It would be a long climb out of | down in two minutes, Corri excaped | are all dow agi prowg "% hore if we were torpedoed.” deuth by the ten seconds or xo that 13 ul INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.’ The Chief F t t was in the stokehold, for the engine Books figure largely in the affairs of race traoks and offices; the for- a PG, ordot to room crew wa Pifty-seven men) mer make ‘em, while tho latter keep ‘em | 3 7 ‘ “Knock Wood,” were lost wound in Corri's leg| ’ ‘ p | ae i a j “ . became infected, and he spent : : — cae EybaRe aN | Jack Dillon was 40 peeved after his detest al mH Oo OR “ * BRO eregte, ; Corri turned his eyes up to the long | months In a hospita tue bands of Frank Farmer, the light heavy 7 ft if nal Lengae Pitchers’ Record aiaresseee 3 adder that Jed to th feck, ‘ThrOUER | But you can't « sh boy aeight champion of the Coast, et Tacoma, Wash Hee Ge | (Up to May 15.) : he hatch at the top he just caught a! in these daye, Wh, vered he fa few nights ago, that Le boanted the fit train (a a ; ony of one of the stacks. He| determined to try fi father | Chat city for hie Rome tm Indignapelie. | me ay eee , ypened his mouth to answer the chief hame White nim, and] : 7 | Jack was to have fought two mom fights out an League chers’ Records, a: 2 oo a “ ud. : Ce ipplied for a comission, | QYIOULD the Stanhat boy 8 wae his third one-hit gamo this | on the Paciti it he cance! tet 15) 5 3 2 CRASH! | ee 1 examinations and tests and be- | ,*9 rooter find the bail games played | season | aying tha e did wot agree with tn, | Jib er ee Syracuse el A vally Rta St cabin actly Prt t Wlyin by his favorite teams a bit tame| A le of Surprises wore handed | Litste Jo! the Bt, Pa b i gw ‘ 0 40 Bistiinorm at 0, gasmenly ip. ign ney acrambled| Corps, Hi Was stationed at one) ang untnteresting, and should he be| 9% ho fans « will not be able to bor again 4 ‘ 8 8 Toronto: OU acces ciel pididanih ghadiaa of the avia pr the coast Ge-| 0c) Oo ce ee Ne 198 One wa ! the rn Jas he is enffering with an abscom fn his Voneling ce oy } og he Ae & gone!” shouted kround wh ja n t handed to Brooklyr ep aces’ ae y ¥ 9 14 18 PORT % a RG eg ae i 4 thirty) Ger thing-doing-every-minute kind, a trip|dohn's Prep and the ot Ae - i ; ‘ 1 SPORTING. Sisad, Corn with ‘Rios cout r, ‘The Wnalish| to the Parade Grounds, B , will) sided victory by Hamilt over | toadman ou ai a i fy 2 & neck and ne TODAS | ordered up, satinfy utmost craving Over, Bvander, the prospective P, 8. A. L. | times, makivg {t lege oll \ * 7 . ) y i lle ae forced down ‘egal carne has {ta/ch4mpions in the M attan-Bronx- | ordered him to stop boring un " ar on i, ae, no live steam in the Germans be- | sohooll ate ten Island divisi Neither ono ¥ rf 2 8 H ah ; ‘oon y posit tense moments, owever, the Man-/ of the victorious teams waa the ry . 2 Soa 4 , oO: surpassed ¢ tat a wi ve jon , “ + gike room fi eat be =n {n ny » a «| pected has happened and’ to-day | a ft ' 1 ld steel hi “ef has so far taken place ng a 3/4 . f : en H “phe door! « . " Hamilton, with re C4 1 r!” gasped the Co from A, I. ball game, A free-for-all was|that are far wt ; ; amnon' m | and the ¢ € ‘ selves “ p t i 3 : ; " ‘ 5 om the door in the ead between Ate staged. No one was re PROR EN, ready tv 5 3 r i Bey 4 in | he engine room Riouakela| nal one took a hand, spestato 1 play-|' mpionship | i H 1 fi LONG ISLAND perans ft shut as ; ‘Vers = | he eoldiers quartzred at wit | Herat H 1 H \@ $2,000 SUFFOLK STAKES Sal | and thes c i It had its beginning in ee ‘ 1 of Evander must | set an ooportunity to oS wieass § io i ; 4{ 80\—P CLARENDON HANDICAP water struck the tried ut) ini when Ump t put} very rouble in | Mua wach, } ‘ ngs , i i ; and Four other Good Races rom its hinges and buried it in, AN‘ fro gam Put fF if Frederick, New Utrecht’s ide ating Hamilton or he wouldn't | % Tar ; tate ' 3 BEGINNING AT 2.20 P.M, ights went ov In the darkness th s a we? “ yut of the game for making some u have ¢ onen Jomian, an outfielder, to Psat! ay ‘ 1 0 (1 hs BPECIAL RA TRAINS poe Gerri and ya he d ntlemanly remarks to his umps, | (0. th®)) tw) ela at. 1 io iN ' : Lo leave, Penna, Statio the ladder. Up they climbed { ina al the game progressed it became|the way the Hamilton tea a twxing 1 ¥ nee \ it hosts ee ‘ Course also perate haste Corri could te tha a8 e that trouble was brew- | offerings all over the Hadtivon aN 4 7 1 1 r 1 4 | feached b¥.4 e, chief's big hand boosting him UB as not until the y took some tim aba |fE Grand Stand, 83.001 Ladies, 81.0; y¢hind when he missed his footing wes tn | ST eSBee EaC TORRE his coach, fo 0 Da Inctuding War Tax tie, steep ladder in the inky blackn Se etnpa Galan, Whe moored Larry Molean to Lead’ cc LL ORC of that roaring p' ; | a re y 1 Ne Coa § . On deck he reported at once t se ©, bo A filled with ks and » put a pitcher In the x F i a : OLYMPIC FIELD aptain and was sent to take charg caer 'S oH being aimed at the umpire nen took gad busden, slate plicher on t | is boat. The sailors were already . o Mr. Thlcklor calle @ ane | titd Opposed to him, in Tierney, « ble : anak an a big dou rf " wand th Ay lambering into it where It swung on | Was 4 Ko Ki a) th 5 Dieser | ” a th Wlot the best schoolboy ie Wilson Captains Team, will n elr first apy f bleshender with. tt mous | he davits. In the wintry dusk they; Pe too recklew al, and the free-for- | Greater N it n t | Samy Wilson, a former prc ona the se city : a of Havana, C ° Two 9 ons sinking fast. Corri took his place and 1 can," said Mr, Co He's only | _ ops cleared the grounds, ling playing the F the capt w ° 1 Ak kame Big Padron, the star twir | ordered: ‘Lower away.” sixteen, M eran bine z be tha. onoialaeall Me cahcmane nine, which: t alain 3 eae Kingsbridge team, \ i 1 by Cyclone | As the heavily loaded boat started — “What!" exclaimed the « Be| The chat ut Man Vin gina cee eee 5 will poe Willams, Who will t and | CUBAN STA RS down, suddenly the tackle broke, The is supposed to be nineteer owing to the umpire's decision, ts ve Eames practising for ita season's Lit i dn the i faded mss ‘were Purled into tho water, “He's oi wixter credited with a vietory. Juceam und Me Fe aD obliohing Maer _ BRE ic t a Dir nn orri could hear the shrill screech of Corti,’ “and he goes back » the pitched a star game, allow only > of these can: eee players on the team 4 meses aa Ste tol ats I 1 i : | DYCKMAN “OVAL Dyck Als Sty ine blocks ae the ropes of the bow navy," one bit and etriking out ten men. first inning Costa? the well known composer onan iki, Tada, So°—Adh, for the home team. McLean's All Stare—~Kinwwbriase “Awe J 4 i } { = . ‘