The evening world. Newspaper, July 11, 1918, Page 12

4 ». ee ee ee ae ae See T= intense interest in the army ~ IT MIGHT BEHOOVE SOME OF US TO MAKE A LITTLE HAY WHILE THE SUN IS RECLINING. JULY 11, 1918. BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK SULT A WEATHER Many Prominent Men on Honorary Committee That Is Conducting Big Boxing Show in Garden Next Tuesday Night. Cxgrright, 1916. te The Pree Wins Not $k Boca Wao. show at the Garden next Tu day night, which is being held Under direction of the War Depart- ment Commission on Training Camp Activities, to furnish athletic equip- ment for New York soldiers tn our camps, is shown by the prominence of the gentiemen who are on the Honor- ary Committee. Mayor Hylan, when asked to serve, Accepted with pleasure, stating that he ts glad to do all he can to further a@ny such patriotic cause. Hon. Alfrod E. Smith accepted with equal en- thusiasm. Gen. Bell of Camp Upton telegraphed: “Will be glad to act on Your committee. Military atbletics and boxing are of the utmost import- ance as an auxiliary in training men for tasks they must undertake on the battleficlds of Europe.” No finer tribute to athletic sports, including boxing, was ever written. Gen. Carleton of Camp Wadsworth not only Wrote a splendid message of Beceptance, but is sending three of Wadsworth's champions to compete. He wired: “I heartily, approve of tho proposed military athletic and boxing Meeting at Madison Square Garden + Under the auspices of the Commission on Training Camp Activities to carn money for troop athletic equipment. Will co-operate in any way and will eend cohtestants from this camp if the military situation permits.” W. H. Edward, better known to his thousands of friends as “Big Bill" Edwards, accepted the position of treasurer and is enthusiastic over the event. So iy United States Marshal McCarthy, who has been a bard Worker in many patriotic shows this year. William Fox not only se on the, Honorary Committee, but 1s giving the show publicity ‘on the Screen in all of his moving picture houses. Charies Dana Gibson und Harrison Fish tbe famous artists, who have made many of the finest War ‘posters of the year, are both Sreat boxing enihusiasts ‘and rarely miss a chance to see a goo beard B00d boxing NE of the big star bouts ts worth @ $20,000 purse, Jack Dempsey and Billy Miske are two of the best heavy- weights developed in this counwy fn many years, Dempsey, Miske and Fulton will eventually fight it out for the heavyweight title, now that Willard has announced that he 1s “through with the ring” and has re- | tired to his Kansas ranch to raise cattle, Billy Miske hasn't been given quite the amount of credit due him, He started as a middleweight and grew out of the class, He comes from Mike Gibbons's neighborhood, and Mike gave him some of his first lessons in boxing. Miske made a big hit when he first came to New York, for he trimmed a lot of fighters who bad more reputation at the time. He went right up the line until he got the best of them, giving Jack Dilton a beating that made Jack a has-been, and taking on the giant Carl Morris and trimming him throughout ten hard rounds. Miske mever did care how big they were, His lates: { was an aggressively fought battle with Fulton. Critics found it hard to pick a winner when it was over is the most sensa- tional he yw ht in many years. He was a minor only He made his first Deating Gunboat Morris in San Francisco fo pouts. Then he cam and | stopped the Oklahoma Giant at the Queensberry A. Buffalo, handing out a hammering that fully convinced big Carl } ver become 4 champion. t was Carl's exit. Dempsey anxious to fight Fulton. He he op Fal ton even in und Jack Curley, who ought a first-class fudge ‘of heavyweight fighters, de clares that Dempsey can and will knock Fulton out in two or three rounds. Th ha 10 date both Miske and Dempsey been absolutely invulner- able to punches. The way in which they happened to be matched for the Army show was almost an accident. Both Miske aud Dempsey, through their manage offered {o “meet any heavyweight the promoters of the show selected. Bo the promoters, thinking it over decided that the best man tu meet Miske was Dempsey, and the best man to meet Dempsey was Miske. Miske was notified of the match first. “I didn't think it would be Demp- @ey," demurred Manager Reddy. "Why, that’s a $20,000 match.” “But you agreed to have Minke meet any heavyweight selected,” said Bill Wellman, biting off the end of ave his cigar and looking out of the win- | dow. “That's right," maid Reddy. “Wwe @ldn't think it would be Dempsey, Dut ag long as you feel that way sbout ft you can get out your posters, ‘We'll be there, Miske doesn’t duck man will ‘announce ax © or two, THE SLICKER NEVER HAS TO CONs VANE TO DETER. MINE WHICH WAY IS SOUTH. TWO GREAT HEAVYWEIGHTS IN ARMY SHOW Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) MiKe PUNCHED CARL MORRIS AND HIS "REP* CHUCK FULL of Hores — 3-Year-Olds Have It Out For Season’s Honors in $6,000 Dwyer Stakes RACING SELECTIONS. AQUEDUCT. Race—Lady Vulcain, Jack Hare Jr., Johren and War} Cloud Should Furnish Firs Um- Emerson and Anderson Meet in the Semi-Finals or ‘‘Met’’ Title For Juni Winner of This Match to Play Cecil Donaldson for Championship, ERALD EMERSON of Enst (ei Orange, N. J. and Frank T. Anderson of Brooklyn, the Long Island and North Side cham- plon, will meet this afternoon on the clay courts of the Terrace Club of Flatbush in the semi-final round of the annual Metropolitan junior lawn tennis championship singles, ‘The swinner of this match will face fourteen-year-old Ceci] Donaldson of Borough Park to-mgrrow afternoon for the title, Emerson came through yesterday by defeating Gerald Donaldson, Cecil's elder brother, by a score of 6—3, 6—2, while Anderson accounted for Frank Rosenthal at 63, 6-0, outplaying his opponent all the way and giving splendid exhibition of volleying, smash- Ing and fast driving. leasuring up the past records of the two, it would seem that Anderson ntin, Rare Racing Treat. selection k O'Day, Woodtrap. —Jack Hare Jr. War Cloud, Johren. Fifth Cum Sah, Starry Banner, Deckmat ce—Coe entry, Elfinhart, N Har Hilly By Vincent Treanor. HE $6,000 Dwyer Stakes run to- a day at Aqueduct will decile the three-year-old champion- ship to date. At the present time it les between Jack Hare Jr, War C! nd Johren, with pror year-olds of last year, like Papp, Sun | Briar, Lucullite and one or two others yet to put a finger in the pie Sun Briar of course was tried out and found wanting early in the sea- son and probably 1s out of contention | entirely, but the others may yet prove Race — Clara Martin, | thelr ability to cope with to-day’s att Sophia Gatewood, winner in stakes to come. However, Fen Shadowlawn. | the Dwyer is a three-horse affair, ac- cording to overnight entries, and the! cing that one which proves himself best this} put he has a defeat of Johren on his afternoon will have a reasonably good C t This was in the claim to the premiership among] first half of the Preakness at Pitnlico, three-year-olds for the present at| yon Me sen e the latter fin least. fourth, War Cloud has been Will Jack Hare Jr, beat Johren? exceptional fast for to- }That has been the big question and while he lacks the " race under his belt, will among racegoers for a week or more! 5 "4S the post fit as time trials can and now the possibility arises of|make him. War Cloud's beating both of them. | |The lope isn't very illuminating on the matter, still when one considers past performances Jack Hare Jr. seems to have the edge on the other two, | tight now he is at the top of his n't LATONIA. Race-—Lady Manager, Say Kiker, Race — Verde, Bille B., —Camoufieur, Mant- tett o—-Marse Mouse, aw, Bon Tromp. fth Race—Free Cutter, Rancher, ban, ixth) Dr. ought to eliminate Emerson to-day and qualify to the younger Don- aidson in the final round. In the boys’ singles Sheridan Gtbney Feached the final round, by @ victory over Jerome Lang at 7-6, Young Gibney will meet Steve Schlessinger for the championship this afternoon at 4 o'clock, Schloasinger_ having achieved his final bracket on Tuesday. ‘The lat ter looks like the logical winner, hav- ing an unusual assortment of fine strokes at hia command. Rosenthal, @ tall, slender youth, Anderson a few anxious mo- nts in the first two or three games having a severe # pevdy backhand drive ti ball across the court at 4. As soon as Anderson d. down, however, and char vr the net position to take the returns on the volley he began to forge rapidly ahead The young Long Island champion was in a particularly happy mood overhead, and his smashing was both | hard and extremely accurate, so that Rosenthal, who was inclined to be! erratic, had small chance of gaining the pointe Emerson, who always hits the ball hard, combined excellent control in| his match with Donaldson, so th held ‘the lead at most ‘stage smashed and drove with great ei Eight-Ounce Hostility (Busgested by the official attitude towanl the cass of Pitcher Perry.* is to lawf: the magnates love Each other like the merry smallpox. In public they extend the glove— In private what they say is all knocks. The one will wish the other well As long as he remains in sight; But miles away, he starts to tell The other to stand up and fight. e He slams the other on the beak With columns in the daily paper, And then he smites him on the cheek | With appercuts of heated vapor. | And when he thinks he’s dealt enough | Of punishment to keep him quiet, | The goat will call the other's bluff A bunch of bull and then deny it. | Hare and Johren have, a whipps sharp ang had stead Willie Midgely finally put Fairy 4 over and now the Cochran filly among such distinguished Gazelle winners as Regret, Bound, Markette, Flip Flop, ion and others of earlier times. Fairbrother gave ber a good But when the magnates get together They're meek as unsuspecting lambs. | form and apparently improving with Paioeathet ware ee oe |each race, He has been beaten only BY He should give Anderson a stiff fight | Fo Eee ene and for the honors to-day They'll only talk about the weather Sans fear of pugilistic jams. Big League Rulers Refuse to Say Anything Further Re- garding Baseball Crisi ATLANTIC CITY, Juty 11,—Netther President John K. Tener of the Nat League nor Garry Herrmann, Chairma: of the National Baseball Commiss) to-day would discuss further the acut baseball situation brought about by President Tener's statement that he was through with the National Comn unless {ts decision in the Scott case was enforced. Perry Jack Kearns, had gone back to Chi cago, intending to return to York on the 16th. Wellman was un Jable to locate them, so sent a wire i 4 Smith, the famous Wastern p and writer, asking him to see y and tell him he » box Bmith did, and De rns immediately jumped on a | train and started back to have a f days of training right on the battle ground. Dempsey will bo hard at work to-day in New York. Manager Kearns got on the long distance telephone before starting, “We said ‘anybody,’ he chirpex 80 Miske suits us. Jack thinks bh a tougher proposition than but we aren't looking for any soft } ones," J New York yesterday with one hand in a plaster cast. Jured it in a bout with Matt Hrock at Cleveland, and has been forced to OHNNY DUND returned to the chance to box Benny Leonard | But he offers to referee Benny’s bout | “I wa the 18th," he said, “and I had to call jit off. Jackson would make a good match for Benny." Three possible considered, includ Jackson, “Now Up to the Other Fellows,” Dectares President John K. Tener + onal Herrmann 1s continuing his policy of New| Fulton, | He in-| the other players will address the crowd call off all his matches for a month. | Dundee ts heartwhroken over losing | ¢o to fight Willie Jackson on| umpire, to call the game opponents are being | §, Woll-| the thi his chotce in @ ae, | twice this season, he appeared to tire a bit, but those| | Let's look over his record. Last time behind her had become, Just as leg, 3o| Weary doing the chasing, jout, on July 6 he picked up 130) iy Wand won with something to |pounds and galloped home an|scara easy winner in new track record time of 144 2-6 for a mile and a sixteenth, He had only Orestes, Nep- | perhan, Kashmir and Matinee Idol| behind him, d didn’t beat much, but it was his manner of winning left ap impression, He led past le post that day in 137 4 But let one magnate cross another, With miles between their outraged views, He'll be altered so his loving mother Won't know him if she reads the news. THOSE WHO FAILEP TO LAY A BET ON RBA DUCT ON TUESDAY THOUGHT 1B WAS ALOUT RPADY CAN, Walls continued his win- terday by riding two winners, Star Spang and ‘Tuscaloosa, He had to hustle tne former to the front early and keep | hunching to retain his advantage, On |'Tuscaloosa ne had a bad post posi- and) tion, but it didn’t appear to make was just romping at the time. In his! uch ifterence to him or his mount race before that Jack Hare also| tie got away well and reached th shouldered 130 and breezed six fur-| end in a contending position. There Jongs in 1.12 8-5, beating among/ yo ‘took command and was never others Dr. Johnson, Jusqu'au HeeAa bapa and Everest. He ‘outclassed this |" field, Befo' that he also won, this THE FLY IN THE FINGERBOWL time with 126 pounds on his back, with The case of Pitcher Perry Hecount, Matinee Idol, Orestes, and Has revealed a mildewed berry others behind him, In tho pudding of the National Comm(otion), arene. Face Ww Johnson says John Tener hid it— Hoh . rt Tener says Ban Johnson did it, but this may be a for by th . fact that it was his first e in aj In the mother tongue of buccaneer devotion. month, or since May 21, when in a| six furlong handicap he conceded SOX DID AT Jumps of weight to everything in the] THE >8 WERK |tce and ran third, beaten a length it 4 Bor: THE UMPS WERE | aia a half and a nose by Motor Cop| dis on 9 Geta rene, The sid and Flags, He would have won th hitney gelding haa been running se but for being shuffled back 4 1 races la ir FROR aT he cnet east neinie worn ‘nt, but yesterday be made good run around the others th This was Jack Hare's firs |the Metropolitan tracks, Br lhe won at at A MILE AND | SIGHTH at Pimlico in the secor s nat Jot the Preakr akes, | ba distance in 1m 8, leading | day way. nose behind him w | Kerensky and Porter, Kate Bright, Tromp I |Iie may not have b |Nepperhan and Recount, I | under more favo: home in two races before that, hould have a mile at Pimlico and the other at six | is duo for a brac furlongs at Havre de G Just | ——. AQUEDUCT before that Nepperhan beat him in a TURNS OVER five and a half furlong dash at a $5,070 TO RED CROSS. | difference of twenty-one pounds, | Johren’s record doesn't. compare Fred Rebberger, Secretary of the Queens County Jockey Club, reported | with Jack Hare's as far as the number | of winning races is concerned, He | that Red Cross Day at Aqueduct last Friday netted $5, for the good came up from Maryland in the sprin cause | a very ordinary colt and started hi winning ¢: r amaica, He has is the largest sum so far re-| this season for any specia lost only once since then, when he ran }fourth in the Withers St Be} Red Cross Day sot aside by the various associations Jmont Park. After t James Shevlin, President |Suburban, the Beln |Derby and Monde has beaten a better c club, said smilingly: “Everybody pi that day, including jockeys and train- ers, and I'm glad the amount was so pla ate Na AT AQUE- silence in the matter and flatly declines POR THE even to admit that baseball come to It’s a cinch that the Kaiser will not have to explain why he let Rube von Kuehimann go without asking for waivers. Although adroitly sequestered, New York's mail, is nothing more to be said, sident Tener. “I have state my position after long and serious ¢ sideration, and it ts now distinctly up to the other fellows.” — Willie managed to put his stamp on July 11,—One mo: Added to Glass 1 in th * Fred Anderson, who to-day notified by the home board that his Classification 4 had been| changed to Anderson, who has | a wife and # been se he Bout “she's around th tn” was all we could hear paddock in the last race The wis set meant Pigeon Wing, Harry Payne Whitney's filly. She | was made a hot favorite, but the best she could do with Frankig Robinson ying bis level best, was @econd be- hind Tuscaloosa, to 2 shot, a ten-year-old, and at that, was Borrow’s dent ission my) aughter ot And sloppy, moing Demaree, Sallee, Perritt subject to quick’ call In the dri the Holy Cross rookie; Jack Swarthmore collegian ree Ben Antonio your ABOUT ALL THAT W THE | THK POLO GROUNDS WAS TO BUCK WIE OFF HIM, WHITEL EVE) Al Smith, while nt mother, A ana 1, has a dep July his’ ass UCAGO, and 11.—Charles W clates in the ow yo Club of the Na- i not Hable fi Side Ball Py 88 on @ nin ding to @ decisi r The court 4 e bill filed by Charles W. Mur- phy, former President of the club. From all appearances, the Yanks stationed men at first and third to | coach their guests how to win, to Ambrose evidently or else he has lost a lot of He has been beaten orses lately. Yester. self practically left on tinished the ruck. ea Pirate onditions, but peen closer up, He From a desultory glance at the batting avera; the only thing they haven't hit must be a slump, Jo lard | anes ts in s of the Cubs h k wal on & he got t infleldars, ne It seems quite natural that the Kaiser should have made Hintze what PHILADELPHIA, July 11.—dita by | » ehima: ee Shannon and Dugan beat Detroit by a on Been on had hott ore of to lin the final game of the ried, making # out of 6 for the Atn- ucs. The Germans are so elated over conditions at the front that they are beginning to dam the Rhine, BUT NOT IN A BATHING SUIT The chronic hash-hound always feels Like swimming after heavy meals. THOSH JERSEY SKEETERS ARI THD PROSPECT OF HAVING COFFEY one at| he Manager Miller Huggins and the mem- bers of the Yankees Will appear in uni- form on the steps of the Public Library at noon to-day to take part in the Over- seas Recruiting Drive of the ¥, M. C, A. The Yankee leader, Home Run Baker, Slim Caldwell, Roger Peckinpaugh end SAID TO BE OVERJOYED BY and urge enlistments of men over draft WITH THEIR TRIMMINGS, age for the Red Trian Pratt Adams | will preside at the noon meeting. BOSTON, July 11,—Boston made it ur out of five from Cleveland by. win- ning by a score of 2 to 0 in five inning: rain then compelling Hildebrand, the With one out in the fourth, Strunk singled and scored th's triple to centre, Ruth on Whiteman's single to right outhit Boston, but three aided the home tea time in the series thai uth resulted in About the only things that the Austrians have emptied since the war are their nosebags. ved ap. of horse Whenever McGraw has to face a pitching problem, it might be quite interesting to know whether he uss addition or subtraction, lean ee ae ne eee }War Cloud in the Relmont, Jockey | Loftus has been set down since short- | | ter that race for what is said to| A LOT OF OUR BEST LITTLE LOSERS WOULD BE WHALES, AC- ||¥ Miter that rine tor mat handling | CORDING TO OUR WAY OF THINKING, If THEY DIDN*T BLUBBBPR of the Macomber colt on that,say. foo muCu, a er aS eae ng yee aN SnD Bak: Naas a8 A lot of gamboliers play such a long shot that (heir jack never bas @ chance of coming back, on noe | 4 \ QOKS.@ + Kerrigan and Dowling to Meet McLean and Macfarlane in Bastile Day Celebration at Deal. The Hollywood Golf Club, Deal, N. J., will celebrate Bastile Day, Susé day, with a professional exhibition best ball golf match, in which Tom Kerrigan of Siwanoy, now a member of the Naval Reserve and stationed @ Pelham Bay training station, with Jack Dowling of Scarsdale as his partner, will meet George McLean of Great Neck and Willie MacFarlane, now a private instructor to D, Gug- genheim. The entire proceeds will be given to the Red Cross, Jerome D, Travers is arranging . four-ball match at the Wykagy! Country Club on August 17 at the instance of Mrs. Grantland Rice and for tne benefit of the Comfort Fund for wounded soldiers returning to this country. It is a most worthy cause ahd in all probability Travers will pair up with Max Marston against Oswald Kirkby and John An- derson. The match should draw, too, It will be a hummer, This year’s tournament for members of the Seniors’ Golf Association will be held at Apawamis Sept. 10 to 18 No announcement has yet been made as to whether the long-looked-for match with the Canadian rivals will be brought off this season. If not, however, a meeting will in all probability be arranged for next year, Gil Nicholls, the wetl known “pro,” has arranged to team up with L @. Robeson, the North and South amateur mpiong against Jerome Travers and Tiffany in a four ball led Cross ch at the Elmira Country Club on ). Nicholls will have to rder to fill an cngage= owing afternoon, Members of the Whiteha) Golf Club will take part in thelr third one-day tournament of the season at the Knoll- wood untry Clud on July 16. The Usual events will be wehrdulcd—a four ball match, War Savinis Ds eweep- stakes and season compe'ition Dart of the proceeds will be turned over to the Red Cross. CHICAGO, Juty 11,—Lanterns were necessary to finish the sun. ment of the Exmoor Goif Clu last of the field of thirt n the eighteenth green a In the latter part of th layers were d_by two lantern wearers who ac rievers for the bails, which could n seen tn flight, while a squad of three, with lanterns, Were ahead of the ficid' to,indicate th course. hurry went at — Espionage Law Responsible for Trainer’s Arrest LEXINGTON, July 11.—Peter Wim- mer, one of the best known trainers of thoroughbred horses in the country sev- eral years agy, has been arrested at Covington, iky., charged with violation of the Espionage Law The arrest was made by U. 8. Mar shal H. C, Cox, and Wimmer was held 000 bond for a_ prelimi ‘ore U Commissioner B ton to-day ris a to have made statements that reflected on this coun- . He ls seven r trained some of the history of the ing Imp, blaek~ whirlwind: J liday, Kinley Mack, Broomstick and Garry ‘Hermann. handled Kinley Mack in 1! the good_hi and the Su e trained 6 J Bh, American turf, incl el K. OF C. HAS JOBS OPEN FOR BASEBALL LEADERS. 1s declared non-essenttal General Crowder, If baseball by Provost Marshal the managers and players not within the draft age need not worry about ding a suitable position unt!l the war as the Knights of Columbus have h secretary jobs open to accom- all the men thrown out of em- know little else bat cor McGraw of j w of the Christy Mathewson, and oth famous diamond men, would mense service to the boys ove The Knights of Columbus 1 have two thousand acung ad pea retaries by the (of next yearpe* Tohnny Evers, the Cubs’ great second baseman, is the t famous diamond’ men to retary abroad for the K. of C. a Ramson Wins Polo Match, RUMSON, N. J, July 11. — ilaying rt of a fast polo match in a rain the Rumson tea rs of of 8 gol led by RACING AQUEDUCT TOMORROW Six Diversificd Contests For **Get Away Day’”’ INCLUDING $2,000 Myrtle Stakes FIRST RACE AT 2 My SPRCIAL of m= thera, nd to bi score and Tth Brooklyn, niervalg £6 rH reserved tor Course also LADY CARTES $1.05 HL reached by trolley GRAND STAND 83,30, Including ‘War