The evening world. Newspaper, May 27, 1918, Page 13

the seaso: ure of the major league owners’ plan| Cineinnati Ground: ‘ of active support by many officials) Our Yanks took a sweet revenge | pturing need of giving relief and| the game by heavy hitting. The two ams made the long jump to Cleve- who be recreation to the munition workers | ! and others justify the abandonment | /@nd and will get back at noon to-day | of the restrictions. Philadelphia, al- |‘ resume the series on the Polo ready ers, espe day baseball New York ¢ was the novelty of i and many of the best pe The major league owners are work- ing out plans for a baseball in ¢ Sunday may Red Cro: club considerably During the home stay the team was | 9 playing three weak clubs, and was in he Waite Sox around 263. Bince sta team has been hitting layed only one he ‘ tng West, and the pitching has been | The Red Sox good enough to win t games when the team | natural gait. Of cours ern manas pared them specially t ants Cleveland. Me ine SUNDAY BASEBALL HERE PRACTICALLY ASSURED Tremendous Success of Washington Movement Responsible for Active Campaign in East, as It Is Believed That War-Time | Necessities and the Need ot Giving Reliet and Recreation to Munition Workers Justify the Lifting of Restrictions. By Hugh S. Fullerton. |MAJOR LEAGUE RECORDS ois ton keane Wont FOR THE PAST WEEK, UNDAY baseball ror New York, Brooklyn, Boston and Philadel- phia seems a certainty before! wew York. is over in spite of the fail-| Chicago NATIONAL LEAGUE, eW.L RW, B LBOR 32 18 5441 41 19 421948 7 42 11 24772 9611 16 34 5 38 15 22053 7 33 20 510 48 9 4 4 ‘ in Boston yester-| Bostom da The action| Philadelphia. of the Govern-| Breekiyn ment officials in| % Loule...6 2 not only permit- | ting but practi- ly ordering | Sunday baseball | 5 6 A to start playing | Pittsburgh 4 6 6 6 1450 4 41 18 16 46 17 43 21 LEAGUE. K, H, E.LBOR. 2442 5 30 14 738 837 10 12 62 11 58 21 in Washington 26 02 4 43 10 has led to a r 12:37 631 11 newal of the} 13 37 9 30 18 Sunday baseball | 12 69 11 67 18 movement in the| "Detrell ...68110 98 429 8 Tle . ’ Dast and the tres game, Friday, May 24, mendous success | of the Washing-| bitting Cubs have tagged the Giant tom experiment has given them hopes, | Pitchers so hard is rather surprising, Everything was arranged for the| Ut otherwise the dope has run true Opening Sunday in Boston yesterday When one minor official declared that | will not go far, becausc it has a num- to play a game even with the sanc- | er of players who are aged and will tion of State, city and military au- S!0W UP after the weather gets good thorities would be a victation of the) to form. Mitchell has his team fight- ing and travelling at top speed. It y authorities and the State) 48 Killifer has been a big aid in| trip, and vafter the Decoration Day but the club owners decided | stay and entertain the Western ciubs. that it was better to postpone the) When they get back home the Giants game than to risk arousing active an-| will, {and manha is a big movement in New| been dumpit Sunday ball on the Polo id the clubs are assured them © that war-time necessities! Upon Cleveland yesterday, ily congested by war work- | Grounds. ally sb owner of the Brouklyn team,| will be a number of add has offer $ are in favor of nd is faster, ared| met each other club in the » be ter the novelty wore|through to a championship and handled and {excellent first division chance. Th ni more and more gainst th who has travelled r & score Wash- aid: “It was is the most| double plays. Its pitching me, e@ seen such good and he h Bastern city and next| he used it it was with terrif when G He bro harn nie over the down w tribe in the West pman, W or two other Chicago, it sec ying the game we to figure, and probab! The year, r condition than any of the other Z I 1 hittin. th is| tically all last son and 4 not horn ade nt the | really tle down and 8 fall. | hustling until early in sept \ e Overconfidence and miserable bunt ar below its normal because of thi i fi Civength of the pitching it|Ing seem the worst f 1 see the Glants have [shows that the punch ‘s lackin bad game since start-| where fo far as I winning eon: majority of jently on the hor unds, but w batting at its|not do so well on the road. ‘The ten ry saved pitcher lacks substitutes of class. Its pitch staff tanks high. f am m f the Sr uis Browns th b in the league on its pr I Blame the Woman Who Lets a Man Drink, ut the normally weak ¢ Says Druggist Brown : Hers a Simole Without the ‘Knowleder. runiard ar eecret, And ‘for ten ‘She saved. bin ak ae oe as ae eae ¥ Bee Bw ad aw Bb ab SPORT WORLD NEWS OF ALL KINDS Box Scores of Games Played By Local Clubs ad CLEVELAND, ‘Metropolitan Handicap Opens the Season; Belmont Park the Scene of Racing Triumphs‘ * p2oesszec-28 S2cou a mowees > B pew vooe: wn in the seventh wu Pipe. este ‘a AT “CHICAGO. a =e S oeme~sus* | cece es: a Niehoff and. Wolke Haon Hite “ott ‘Winning Pitcher Losing Piteher—Sallee, AT 8T. LOUIS, BROOKLYN (N) and hot, but the pitching staff is} strong, When Killifer goes to the Permits had been secured and | army the pitching will not be so good, | the milit Police not only sanctioned but urged | nding the Cub pitchers. the playing of the game, the receiprs|, The Glants are near the end of the of which were to go to the Red Cross splurge will come home for a long BELMONT or should, improve in batting ilo’ the teams that have A WORD TO THE LOSERS. If fortune does not heed your call And luck's against you when you play; If all your duoyant spirits fall And all your visions drift away, fellow next to you For what has been your sorry lot; Your years of vigor are too few, And what's of earth again must rot. Nine Days at Jamaica Just a Preliminary for Big Turf Battles to Come—Fine Field Named for To-Day’s Classic Which Ranks in Importance With the Brooklyn and the Suburban. Don't blame the rd employees, is! It will be Red Cross Day, or rather | Yous, Don't Ulame another for your fate ripe for the experiment, and Col. Eb-/ a special Red Cross di (You both began with equal chance) Buck up before it gets too late And start to mend your broken lance. Miss Fame is quite a fickle jade, Who likes to flirt before she’s caught; But lost is he who is afraid To face reverses as he ought, ‘and there | | d_features, | announces that his tes: will play ou | fungo hitting, throwing and. other | the Brooklyn Grounds next Sunday | pase for the t By Vincent Treanor. THIS is Metropolitan Handicap Day. the opening of the racing se Games To-Day. Jemey City at Buffalo, + Newark at Toronto, Baltimore at Bere Binghamton at Rochester a all events, and some special efit of the Red Cross, MUnte by HOrtre and cotharer eae | ‘The great majority of the army and| Kyn, Government oftic permitting the major league ball clubs to play on Sunday for the period of| the bases test. the war at least and the owners a eager to make the experiment of| opening this section for baseball. Po- be Hee officials generally favor Sunday | baseball on the theory that it makes} for order EE arel ty. rent | (ev e shington experim toate a toads! was 1h Youbt asto Sun-| The Yanks have been playing mag- especially in| Bificent ball, and now that they have gue would attract|they look to me as if they have an huge crowds and perhaps undesira- excellent chance to batter their way ble crowds. off {t would be eas would furnish recres sands who are unable to attend week day games Harry Edward with the Cleveland team f of years, speaking of the fi ington ga crowd | ever saw at a ga orderly and the best years past It used to be itions have changed e Jockey Club has felt that New Yorkers needed some and that 1s why we 4 a pearl tie pin’ as the prize in the fungo hitting, and a watch to the winner of the circling racing educ: have had nine days of the sport at the The Metropolitan Handicap is one of the year, holding its place in public interest and Suburban. There was a time when the Metropolitan brought out a crowd of w York, New Haven a e starting the ball a-rolling, Jamaica track AMUSEMENTS. : Cuetto AMERIC wie = ALISA Water Narf Heth Don't lag behind because you lost— Step high; and watch for every puddle. Don't stop to figure what it cost, Although it puts you in a muddle, the tumult with a will And ig your toes into the sand; i help you cat And put a cudgel in your hand It the event is limited to the Yank | players lay on Gilhooley. It would something of a test to have each Cleveland player circle the bases and each Yank to follow, as it would show | along with the Brooklyn 60,000 peopie, when they went by the ford up through W ning up Boston Road and thence Park wearled but enthusiastl old enough you re y hung on to trolley ¢: through West Farms Ovens May K > STEEPLECHASE fs FUNNY PLACE _ NSN OPEN CHARITY. You may not gain the heights of power You may not lead the fighting throng; They may not laud you by the and got to Morris fon rae heuc (chief fault of the team is its slow. if you hold your chin on high on the bases, which will count nh as the season goes on and the pitching gets | better. It figures as the slowest cluv on the bases in the entire league, | nest|Meaning that it will hit into many pneth ssed. 1 never| {8 much greater than was suspected, portsmanship and the faot that Caldwell pitched a ple in| Winner yesterday is very encourag-, Washington were present, The field|ing. His arm has been gore all spring | seat crowd was composed of 'work- men and minor department employees everybody's jory serves you right you can s backstretch r nerves out of kilter, nistar at the jumping through the barrier back. To-day that Bannistar Odom was the premier Jocke , Odom let Bannistar ing him as some of the jockeys do nowaday and that was all that You'll feet too good to heave a sigh; And more than even up the score, » kicking and » Odom on his #, but the day TO- NIGHT METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE Red Letter Night for the Great Red Cross Drive) The most astoundin, orge Odom i# among our foremost tr won the Metropolitan (we think it was in 1904) George and lanky for # rider have his own way instead of fight- | Mitchel went of the times. Benny Leonard accompanied him » but its hard fo make Lenox Avenue believe Odom brouy' whip in the stretch, was necessary. hit him once or twice with the 1 mechaniclan, Metropolitan 1 fortune would be the highway with op as been pitching with his] head rather than with his arm. Hel Himent Was a big suc-|as been throwing sidearm, and his the experime . best ball, the jumping overhand drive, which he makes bear down along the | Trial of Sunday | batter's knees, has been absent. When | je lights give the stare | ich_competitic he applied the To-day there » who was going to win will go to the anybody knew A good fleld a good horse FEAZELESS, wants but little here a boring show vmetimes they make e right back for more. Omar Khayyam uw | the favorite gauines ‘scheduled, The arm has been rezponding to| everywhere, the receipts to go to the! treatment slowly, fund Looking over the league at present, | —- Cleveland looks best of all the clubs; When the Giants started West TLex- that is, pected a slump, and figured that Kar Hamilton at Pittsburgh, Fred Toney at/ his throwing arm and twice has tried | Cincinnati and Vaughan and Tyler at to get back into the game before he Chicago would beat them. All four of | w the pitchers named have beaten the | q Giants. Some of the fans are in |) manently damaged, Cleveland ceases | rather needless p fall of the McGre There is no indication that the team yo to servic has Jost any of its fighting spirit or its) me, is not p prowess, although the loss of Benton |tcam seems overconfident, and its hit | and Barnes Will, of course, weaken the | ang run attack has been badly upset It has played bone ball on the bases Bante and Musical Celebrities ever brought together at a performance inthe GALA FAREWELL | BENEFIT let Un portent speed ALLIED TAEAT METROPOLITAN FIELD. hip last year in tiptop shape ney gets back into © 4 blood vessel in footlight trenches. noted. sprinter, hetall the inighty Omar he his stable mate will run ¢ ) win the historic top weight of Having run out of concrete, the Robins have begun to support Rube | Marquard with willow, ready, and each time has had to op out again. If the arm is per- use ia the world. ash and hickory. THE. DANGER PAIL. nbSsgAnss | must | to} sete MA of his opponents. ks of Andrew Mil st of stakes In ted to be goin left the old ball yard Alfred Viau eutey, 1Macomber entry, 85 AND 810. Alva at the Hotela] “Box Ottive Prices o the sporting pages we learn that Molla Bjurstedt has got | « would be more interesting to hear the condition of ner started again ber. | ults of the team, SHERIDAN MEMORIAL z GAMES DECORATION DAY. One of the greatest carnivals of game ever seen at Celtic Park will be steamed there on Decoration Day, the entire pte [ceeds to €o toward the Martin Sheridan | Memorial. Tomether with a Gaelle pre- kramme of three hurling games and two football matches. there will be-aa all-around weight-throwing, contes| which Pat yan Pat Mebionald, Matt Mctirath, Pat O'Connor. Joun Conway and John Cahill will compete Another feature of the games will be & quarter-mila relay between teams | from the 376th Aero Soaadron and the Pelham Bay Naval Training Btation. ‘The hurting teams to compete ate jand Kilkenny, Limerick and Offaly. and rk and Tipperary. In Gaelic football Iway and Cavan will clash for honors and Kerry and Kilkenny will battle in @ championship game, THEATRES. wT HP iti ie ee vermer. BARRYMORE » “BELINDA” Tero. by J. M. Barrie's "The lew Word, NEW AMSTERDAM \\'=: @.",Fum. CW APSTENO KY HE ATRE Wey) ZIEGFELD 11: EW MIDNIGHT FROLIC 1O-NIGHT—FANNIE BRICK. LIBERTY Sor $4," a, Tel, Bryant, 190, Mai, To-maurrow 2.13, “HER pea THE MAYOR” the most endsaivie evenings in ° seanon hay offered, Tremen HUDSON Wor $13 uk" th Pe the ory Bad ler with NANGY LEE .toreytaurssi HENRY MILLERS ,: SUEY, ma Bk, ‘Tel Wry, 7410, ew, 8.30, BILLIE BURKE | \in AM HENRY MILLER | of Convenience CORT fh. wet! Fite” % BG, FLO-FLO git, REPUBLIC 481.2 PARLOR BEDROOM BATH with FLORENCE MOORE, LYCEUM titan aM DAVID BELASC TIGER ROSE BELASCO fisu #3": Legnaro 8 90. pit:, POLLY "iui" PTA, Te colreiey, ae . M. wikx' ov THe Bi COHAN & HARRIS sx: $22,*%jtm. 20 A TAILOR-MADE MAN’ & ll Basinnce coal Please FRED, STONE 3 O'LANT| noe STANDARD "2" © om 8 Beli, SO LONG cetry WINTER GARDEN five, 3 1A | LOI LSON i, SINBAD | D& Woy, Bre & o. Wet ee Day 2 Rock: Be Baby = BROADHURST {{., °° five, bre. May TimM = c re eet hi ors Charles Puree Bway PRINCESS (iets, PB dE SemOH, LADY LADY"! BOOTH {i «Hvar t SBN Wal Doc Day & 5 The Stuart W mosis. Seventeen Greer We EY LION! Last”, Sue BanaVMone |." | Copperbeat Maxine Eliot's 5). rar mg ge MARJORIE RAMBEAtI in EYES OF YOUTH MOROSCO$)") "of teary LoMBa RBI lib: CASINO §)\.5 Dew. Day & Mat, S18 CLIFTON CRAWFORD in FANCY FREE Harry Conor Ray iaymond. Ma 39TH ST. View’ ‘Wea Det Day a hd we, {seilla Mullens oe AM ROVICLS, ue EFEPOLNS Ss every West-|Is a makeshift in several respects und PERSHING’S | CRUSADERS RACING SELECTIONS. AT BELMONT PARK iT cley ITALIAN WAR EXHIBIT pen Every Day, 2 to 11 P. M, Madison Square Garden Concert Hall, | | ADMISSION 25 CENTS For Benefit of ITALIAN WAR SUFFERERS. Captured Materials R iene IDE HENDERSON'S |CONROY & LE) MAIRE BAKER & CO nd tonsed the throws |W ‘ olan ong, tha d es not mea AT LOUISVILLE BURLESQUE MAT: DAILY | ake if PARISIAN BEAUTIES | tare BS Vay [OLY MAF THE BOMBS DROPPED BY IN BEAUTIE UL The Mischief Makers “A Cure for Cu 48TH ST. yr fot hwy. 2 tHe MAN w LOEW'S 7th Ave, TURN TO THE RIGHT! “CENTURY Grove res LP StG ver 1 ” pol t¥ sist ER RS ne DEN THE DOOLKYS? ant George White, HODGE His Yost Comedy ‘aTH ST. HEA CRE iid Mgntn, D. W. GRIFFITH'S sUrREM HE ATS OF THE WORLD Sur Tow he ra AMO. Pe se-8 80, Ne Oi PHOTO PLAYS. BROADWAY aint Tap aeow AY DOROTHY fas § Verlorinanore I VOL 1 a: ENAN jn ' n re Trouble, 1 AL TO FANS WARD Ticket? alte Orcheateg MADCE KENNEDY The Pair Pretender,” TRAN igantnnne Wud orapa,