The evening world. Newspaper, July 6, 1918, Page 8

ee a et ie ' 1 N. EVER POSE AS A COUNT AT A SUMMER RESORT UNLESS SOME HEIR- * ESS LETS YOU CO UNT HER CHANGE, HE EVENING WURLD, BATURDAY, JULY 6 - BELIEF IN FATE WINS QUT IN MANY STIRRING EVENTS Rickenbacher, America’s Fighting Airman, Feels He Can’t Be Killed Till His Time Com Couldn’t Lose With Baby’s Shoe in His Belt—Fitz, Walcott and Nelson Had Their Superstitions, Too. Copyright, 1918, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Drening World). HERE is an old saying that “Fools rush in where angels fear to, | tread.” But sometimes men who'can’t be called fools rush in, too. A superstition may account for courage and audacity that has all 4 es—Jabez White Thought He the appearance of foolishness, from the viewpoint of an outsider. > poleon believed in his “star.” The | Freneh even have a legend that on the night before Waterloo Napoleon's star fell from the heavens. Perhaps it did. Zz 191 BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YOR Lieut. Eddie Rickenbacher 1s one of America’s greatest fighting air-| men. He ts @ man absolutely with. | out fear, His exploits rival all in sheer daring. With only a short ex- | perience of flying he became aston-, ishingly successful. A short time ago Eddie sent a friend of his in New. York a number of snapshots taken | when he was up to fight the German | Dlanes and when he came back after battle. There was one where he was | examining the wreckage of a Boche flyer that he had shot down. In every picture he was laughing. The most other little experience.” Rickenbacher 1s a fatalist. He believes implicitly that he cannot be kil and that when his time comes he wil! die, no matter what he doe desperate risk, to him, fs only “an- | until his time comes, | to fight against Fate. The belief leaves him free from worry. Eddie Rickendachery belief in Fate first became known after an automo- bile race he competed in at Sioux City July 3, 1915, In that race C. Cox was driving close to Rickenbacher on @ turn and ran into him, The ma- chine Cox was driving left the track, crashed through a fence and was wrecked. Cox was killed, Ricken- bacber's machine skidded from the track, plunged wildly for a moment, came under control again, and Eddie finished and won the race at the same desperate speed he was holding when the collision occurred, It Wasn't Ricky’s “Time.” Baddie didn’t know Cox had been killed until he stepped from his ma- chine after the race. Then one of his \ pitmen told him. “Eddie, you were tucky! Wonder- fully lucky!” exclaimed his assistant. “It's a wonder you weren't killed, jot a bit," @ald Rickenbacher. “It’s not my Ume. 1 can't be killed until my time comes.” Rickenbacher was in several races im which people were killed. At Santa Monica, Cal, Lewis Jackson's car leaped from the track and killed three spectators and its driver, At Sheeps- head Bay Speedway Carl Limberg and Roxey Pallotti were killed, and Rickenbacher, who was clase behind when Limberg’s car smashed up, went on and won the race. At Sioux City in 1914 “Rickey” won | the 300-mile race in a Duesenberg car | purely by extravagantly reckless driving. After the race he told one of hig friends that he had taken all sorts of chances because he had only | $20 in the world—so his car had to} win. He wasn't worrying over re- | sults, He felt that his “time hadn't come” to be hurt When Jabez White, English light- weight champion, came over here to fight Jimmy Britt in San Francisco, he brought a little knitted shoe be- longing to his baby boy. All through his training White car- | ried that baby shoe tucked into his belt. “[ can't lose a fight while I have that,” he told his trainers, “It's my} gendcot.” ‘On the night of the fight White en- tered the ring, took the shoe from his Delt and tied it carefully to the top in his corner. All through the fen, which was fairly even, White turned his eyes toward thi litue shoe, Every Lime he looked at it h fought with fresh courage. Britt was & great lightweight then, and a tough man to hold off. ‘As the end came near Spider Kelly, second, began to worry over tee. jor reg He watched ‘White closely, and saw the confidence with which he fought after each glance at his corner, Slipping around the ring dering the nineteenth he managed to Steal the shoe. As he walked back “after the round White missed it. Throurh the twentieth round he was worried ‘His eyes kept wandering toward his corner, as if he expected to see the shoe dangling there from be upper rope. And just before the end of the round Britt caught him with a clean hook on the chin saa knocked him out. Bob Fitzsimmons had a litte su- tition in his makeup, Before Perery fight Bob went to seme black- ith shop and made a horseshoe. He fmade one just before he fought yBrien in the West—the fight in| ‘hich he lost his last championship itle. While Bob was on the road one | [of bis trainers took the horseshoe and mailed it over the door of the training Pauarters “for luck.” When Bob came fi2 he was furious, The horseshoe had {been nailed with the ends down. ©. “The luck has all spilled out,” said » furiougly, and rushed away to another horeeahoe. No doubt Fitasimmons's defeat by O'Brien was @aused by the fact that he had be- Qome too old to fight and nature had #iven out, for he collapsed between rounds. But you couldn't convine him of that. “I'm as good as I ever | was," Fitz said a month afterward. “Re tke to Jay my ‘and on the fellow nailed up that ‘orseshoe.”” When Bob made a horseshoe for one of his friends he always welded a bar across the open end. Joe Walcott was once whipped eo badiy by Tommy West that he quit. Walcott had taken beatings before, had shown no lack-of sameness. accused ef ‘laying down” Joe sullenly; “Ah knew dat cross- man settin’ back éf my corner wasn't goin’ to bring me no luck.” Other explanation he refus Battling Nelson had a belief that Was almost a superstition. When ho had lost on a “foul” to Gans at Guid. Geld, had been through a slump after- ward that made it look as if the Dane had lost his iron endurance at last, I told him one day that no man can | last fagever and he might as well be satisfied with what he had done in a! fow yearn of fighting. | Bat put on a dogged look and said ‘That's all right for other fighto but not for me, ‘There's son: in me that isn’t human. I ain man and I can't be knocked By Alex Sullivan, HAT the boxing world is outao- ing itself in its efforts to do ita bit for Uncle Sam is evi- denced by the plans announced for the big show to be conducted by the War Department Commission on Train- ing Camp Activities which wilh be held in Madison Square Garden some where around July 17. A definite date will probably be dectdeal to-di Although all the details are not yet ready for publication, sufficient in formation ia at hand to assure the lovers of sport of Greater Now York that th @how will be “the daddy of them all.” Both the Red Cross and the War Hospital Entertainment Committees put on interesting shows in the big amphitheatre, but the coming event is the most promising affair of its kind ever held tn the world. Till Wellman, the boy promoter, who has achieved many big feats in the way of promoting since he first entered the arena and arranged his |first show, is in charge of the ar- ranging of the programme, If there is one matter that Wellman can at- tend to better than another it is to |met up @ list of events that will pieare Ube p happy faculty of: being able to sense the public's taste in the matter of | sports—and he always gives jt what jit wants, not some counterfelt, or |“Just as good” article | Washington had to be consulted im onder to secure Wellman's ser- vices as Bill was recently inducted linto the army and was busy at Spar- | tanburg learning the manual of arms Jand lots of other things when the |request was made for the loan of his services, There's one thing that Wellman doesn't have to learn in the army— and it’s the thing that most rookies find the hardest of all to get used to ~getting up early in the morning. Wellman is celebrated for his abil- | that during some of the six-day bicyele grinds in the Garden he |went along forty-elght hours at a time without closing on eye Bi | ought to make a good sentry» | Moreover, he is just the man to have on the job for the approaching show in the Garden, the money derived from which is to be used to purchase athletic paraphernalia for the New York soldiers here and abroad. Weill- man can be depended on to stay up Rickenpecker's “TIME HAONTT Toe Waresrt’s WAS A CRoss- SYED Man AT HS CORNER-, Garden Boxing Show Assured Success With | Bill Wellman Directing es Well-Known Promoter Arrives From Spartanburg on Leave! From Army in Order to Take Charge of Event to Raise Money ? to Purchase Sporting Goods for New York Soldiers. MAJOR LEAGUE AVERAGES Compiled by Moreland News Bureau al Leagwe Batting vers who have Recoris of viayers who have vi Wednesday. July 3, Mayers and Clubs, Mayers and Clubs, Merakle, Chicago . Burna, Athletics ..... Milan, Washington 30 bound to be the great held in the big sport many great shows in its day, Feats, New York: Sporting goods," said Young, New Yor mp is sadly inn {Peet feet tits and the Like 23 | sturer’ “The Dope, old poy, the Dope. If] Bx | SOU mix it with a jitue common sense )| you can’t lose,” answered the Op- ice I know what it is k sporting paraphernalia, 60 you can count on me to work harder than {4.4 Hellinan,’ Detroit the suldier's terest at heart from personal experi of the fund. nothing but boxing | %, & ae, Waw neta, Lightweight CI eight champion, | McFarland, the big loca! Neale Cineinnal kiopatuh. New York 483508: ) BETEE: | wie. Washington cope oration Major William times holder of the national cham- | plonship, is arranging with Charles |} P, Dixon, one of the greatest of the | English players who ever competed avis Cup, for a series of in- | Larned, seven TEE SABES, Allen” Cineinnatt Gonzales, Rt Tania E52, nao, Waahington be decided on turf in in the vicinity of London the Red Cross, Ingland, prob- . July 6.—At a meeting of nimittee of the United awn ‘Tennis Assoc it was decided to ar- nts to be held in|, it the country The receipts of the tourn- ts will be turned over. to the ath. letics activities of the American troops e and for the soldiers and sail ntonments here, National League Pitchers! | American League P| Pitchers art Clute, . Pitchers art Chute, n September. ICAGO, July 6—W. T. Tilden, fr., of Philadelphia final round of the national clay court championship; Hayes of C) ‘Tilden will now Arles Garland of Pittsburgh for the 1 The lator eliminated Pdward elsner of Chicago to-day at 6—0, 6—2, ity to go without sleep. They say |6—3. anetes. feating Walter T. Jacobe, Phiiadetahla ates Kinitnea, Reok!yn r who has been cre @ furore in Boi & 5 8 r 8 jown because of nto the courts, A the partner of Kashiro in the doub to announce North Side Cham, ee ZeTDEBESSUNSTSENATAe jonship at the U ar the champion- ship title will be decided this after Renedict and Randall meeting Frederick G. Sosiie- ee serenosre ve cemienesiHs Anderson jr. night and day, if it is necessary, in order to arrange @ programme that will make all other pievicus programmes look like minor league affairs, It is 1400 | ingham. Detroit 2,2 amen: first, ae BE She ersoniice-iasse-1-— eure Perry. Shick Let SOME SPORTING WORLD SUPERSTITIONS Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). THE WIDOW WHO DISPLAYS THE MOST WEEDS WOULD RATHER BE CRUSHED A LOT THAN HOEDA LITTLE. Bat Neon Taecrey Taar He “Wasn't HOMAN # ‘Dope’ and Common Sense Make Races . Optimist Tells Pessimist Racing Friends Have Pro and | Con Argument on Day’s Events at Aqueduct. By Vincent Treanor. ‘a OW long has this racing thing | been going on? If it | wasn't our old friend, the race track Optimist, we'll eat your j hat. He had just come into the New | York t n from Aqueduct, and with this ejaculation he spied a man in a cross seat on the “sunny side.” He slapped him on the back. Who was | the man but h old argumentative racing displeasures, Seen you this year, | fares all season, 8 an | them run once, anyway.” ‘Well, it must have cost you some- thing to-day,” said the Pessimist. “I should timist with emphasi. How could you miss?” 08, ) $l all da he asked, timist, ppler in th y said the Pe first rai simist, » her a 7 to 10 shot? und in her last for me start, eh?" oo do you play next wer r consulted his programme—“why, played the best horse, but I got noth ing. Now, don't tell that Eve | wasn't the best horse A RACE? > | Ontimist, |horse that always talking ab best horse-—« judges eall firs: awi | pre and be Irma F to im |air of finality. > “Are you alibying Jack McGin- nist? Why, that was the worst form reversal of the year to me," ‘friend, the Pessimist, who has kept | many a trainioad interested in his “Where have you been?” sallenly inquired the Pessimist, “Haven't a | Why, I've been saving railroad ey announced the Op- in the clty, To-day I had nothing to jy 0 and thought I'd come out to see ay not,” replied the Op- “L cleaned up. »|,.The Vessimist regarded the Op- | timist with a look one might bestow | on an observation patient at Belle- | vue, "Why, I couldn’t pick a winner Where do you get your uppose the Dope made you bet} did she ever do to She quit e, didn’t r sie looked like she was No quitters for mine, old 1 just passed her out of my mind, when L saw what ‘Tom Shaw was laying, and dug into the Dope omething else. I noticed that ‘Tippler was beaten In better company in his last race, and went further back, Then I found he had run fourth to Teddy Rousseau, Hohokus and Lit- tle Maudie. Some chance, this one, I remarked to myself, and looked the Programme over again, Oh, boy, when | saw how he was bred, it was a case of me for this, Watervale and Tiptoe? What more would you want? How his mother could run! And with that money rider, Taplin, in the e fool layers quoted me our kidding and go on with ard luck story.” It was plain the Optimist didn’t enjoy the loud- mouthed humor of the Pessimist. "What did you go to In the second In the second?"—the Peasimist st WHAT IS THE BEST HORSE IN “Well, my friend,” answered the he best horse to me 1s the rets home in front—the one I cash on. ‘Those fellows who are ut the best horse don’t get anywhere, There ain't no the one that the “If you want to know it, I bet on Arnold in that second race,” re- sumed the optimist after a long breath, “He doped, He didn't get in his last race, and in his race vious to that they anchored him {with 118 pounds, He was knocked out of it early besides. But go back to other races, Didn't he run third to |Startling and High Noon with 113 pounds up at Jamaica, five and a half furlongs in 1.06 1-6, and didn't he win t Coluinbine, Gloomy Gus, rank and Whimsey previous /to that in the same time? He only 4)) | nad 108 pounds up to-day. Don't you 460 |ever pay any attention to BEST form at all? asked the optimist with an Easy to Beat, the Pessimist, “Some guys can get away with murder while those high- brows in the stewards stand are dis- cussing next year’s election in Nac:- sau County.” turned the Optimist heatedly. I met Jack in the padduck after the face and he was trembling all over. He told me sadly that he det every- and started to explain further, but I walked away. ‘It’s all in the game,’ I told him as cheeringly as possible, ward that Tom Costigan had a good bet down on Arnold, but that has nothing to do with my pal Jack. Cos- tigan is supposed to be a real good handicapper. “Well, I mipnose you have nerve enough to tell me you bet on Conduit in the third.” This with a touch of sarcasm from the Pessimist, promptly answered the Optimist. “I didn’t play that race. 1 didn’t like aged Little Nearer, wita 118 pounds, especially in view of Con. duit» mood race last time out, and besides, 1 understood Jimmy I.tz looked at that race.” you?” asked the Pessi mist. replied the Optimist, “I knew Jack Hare had nothing ‘to beat, but I couldn't see my: lay me oda 1 looked interested.” OUT A RACE TRACK, “Well, I wish I had judgment like yours,” said the Peasimist. “Doe his work of fight law affect you tact, fifth,” he inquired of the Pessimi over the track,” “Sa: in a year." came in,” said the Optimist, “I years ago.” The Pessimist couldn’ isfaction, it seemed, but he asked, ever do? Why th has been better all the false fav: the falsest I'v other hand Cr; Played, has be starts, How could you pa a “Dope, my friend, and a little con friend down light. up and they started for the doors, ftth rs thence to the es ROLLER SKATING ulator, NOW OPEN Kntire Foust) Floor for skating ADMISSION 30c. Admission Includes Ska‘ Splendid Vloore—-Pertect V. lation, ‘OPEN EVERY EVENT Use 47th St. Batrance, _ | Merion’ Cricket Club course this af ning to morrow, when Gil Nicholla, |Namara, Tom Kerrigan and Will Ro ertson i Cross four-ball match. Entries ‘Close for ‘I'm not alibying anybody,” re- | “Why, | thing he had on Arnold last time out, | | Tourney Tonight “Johnny Brady informed me after- | You couldn't play anything to | beat Jack Hare In the stake, could “[ certainly couldn't and didn’t,” laying five dollars against two dollars with those lawn | destroyers, whose business it is to ‘That was another race without being financially WHERE COMMON SENSE HELPS latter remark was meant for the | listeners, but the Optimist gracefully | let it go over his head showing fine “Didn't you back Benevolent in the in an unruMled manner, “There was one that couldn't lose. It wag all ,”" impatiently interrupted the Pessimist, “no dope cotlld make you) play that. Why he hasn't been out “That was where common sense looked them over in the paddock and a fine collection of Beagles they were. I finally got a peek at Benevolent. He outiooked everything by 100! per cent, I didn’t ‘need any more! information, although 1 got in gobs. It was like stealing money to bet on him. Look back at his form two | et any pat- ne persisted, “How could you stay away from! The Boy in the last race? Didn't | he look like @ good thing to you?"| | “Good thing? The Boy?” nalvely| ssimist broke in,/asked the Optimist. “What did he ve tried with him threo times now, and he never han second, Of} was one of n. On the| Ford, the one I n doing things. Ie has won two out of his Jast three 3 hin mon sense, and you can’t go wrong,” addiat_ the Optimist with an evident intention of letting his pessimlutic “You have me licked,” dolefully re- plied the Pessimist as the train slowed ee you to-morrow—cheer up—I may make you win a good bit on the sald theOptimist in reply as he made his way to the stairs and GRAND CENTRAL PALACE Ward’s Jazz Band et Af Tosper an semndiiathinn Francis Ouimet, World's Fa- mous Player, ls Now a Second. Lieutenant. BOSTON, July 6.—Sergt. Francis Ouimet of the National Army, the Western amateur golf champion and one time national amateur and open champion, has been notified that he had been commissioned a Second Lieutenant and assigned to the Quyar- termaster’s Department here. Quimet was made a Corporal after he had been at Camp Devens a few months, and later was promoted to Sergeant. Mrs, Thomas Hucknall of the Forest Hil Field Club, the new metropolitan champion, set a new woman's record for the Morris County Golf Club. The courss is 5,981 yards long, the outward journey being 2,878 yards and the inward 3,103, She went out in 41 and returned in 43, & score of 89 for the course, Oswald Kirkby has been asked to a As captain of the amateur combination that will take part in the team event under the auspices of the Professional Ifers’ Association at the Inwood Country Club on July 8 only @ ay Will be devoted to this affair of three as originally planned, 8 are that Kirkby will be 9 surround himself with play le of holding their owa in any. That quartet of well known amateurs, Max Marston and Jerome avers against John G. Anderson and Oswald kby, Is scheduled to play over the noon, The match will be at eighteen holes, as will the one at Pine Valley be- tween the same four the following day. at Quaker Midge are pl 0 cate of a In Oftie: lan= @ crowd to- ‘Tom Mc- pair up in a thirty-six hole Red Junior Tennis All young tennis stars anxious to | display their skill in the Junior Met- ropolitan Championship which starts Monday on the courts of the Brook- lyn Heights Club should burry in their entries, The closing time is to-night and all entrics should be sent to the club. The meet promises to be the most successful of its kind ever attempted and jt should uncover considerable |new tennis talent, for the racquet |game is appe simmons fancied Barry Shannon. I|to th ng more and more © younger generation. Already many of the most promi- nent of the juvenile stars have en- tered, but the club is anxious to en- ter every youth who thinks he has @ chance of winning the landsome cup that ha “red Alexander, Ider of the hamplonship. MADDEN SELLS FRIAR ROCK AND 25 MARES FOR $100,000 John F. Madden has sold the thor- oughbred stallion Friar Rock and twen- ty-flve mares to J. If. Rosseter of Ban Francisco, ‘The price {8 said to have been $100,000 for the lot. Friar Rock Was the only three-year-old that ever won both the Brooklyn and Suburban Handicaps, and it is well known that Mr. Madden paid Major Belmont $50,000 for him, Mr, Kosseter's « id. known as Wiklup “Rancho, located near Santa. Rosa, Sonoma County, ( and is in the im: vediate vicinity of Jack London's place "Valley of Moon." RACING SELECTIONS, AQUEDUCT Firat Race—Wheat Cak Adel Empress, —No selections, Saniord entry, Lord Nn Barton, Fourth’ Raco—Miller entry, Hen- drie, Borrow if Fifth Race—Past Master, Phalaria, Puts and Calis. Sixth Race—Terentia, Sanford entry, Ballet Dancer, LATONIA. First Race—Brimful, Braceup, ter Qu Gipsey Hoffaker Fourth’ Raco—Viva Ame ford, Grundy h Race—Major Parke, I Blushing Beauty. fea, Bu- Sixth F Verde, Alert, t Poseventh Race Wllow, KI Filzabeth I. RACING AQUEDUCT EVERY DAY BEGINNING AT 2.30 P, M, MONDAY 2% MILE STEEPLECHASE ASTORIA STAKES & PLATE AND 4 OTHER SS¥ CONTESTS 5 TRALNS a 3t and Teh hush Ay... Irooklya at frequent intervals to 1.55 + Special cars reserved for Ladies ‘on all Mace Trains, Course al reached by trolleys, AND STAND 83.20, LADIES 81,65 Including ‘War Tax Olympic Field ANGth St, @ Sth AY, Toomor., 1.20 vs ROYAL GIANTS