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eA NR ep eet: pa THE EVEWING WORLD, FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1918. ’ BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YOR NOW IT APPEARS THAT ON AND AFTER JAN. I THERE WILL BE FEW- ER GOOD JUDGES OF BAD WHISKEY. SOMETIMES THE HIGH COST OF GIVING WILD WOMEN GOOD TIMES MAKES SOME MEN THE SAME ab Indications Now That Gar- den Will Be Sold Out for Great Boxing Show Tues- day Night. Orne: Mow YouT brane Won NTHUGSIASM for the Army Ath- letic show is growing in New York. Late yesterday after- noon the tickets were put on sale, and although former shows brought out no demand four or five days be- fore the event, Bill Wellman reported an immediate demand for several boxes and good seats amounting to , Mout $500. This ts a sure indication that the Garden will be sold ont. So come early, fight fans, before the wtanding room only sign goes up. Benny Leonard came in from Up- ton to secure boxes for Gen. Bell and Col. Howard. Gen. Bell is greatly in- terested in the boxing part of the programme, Upton is supplying sev- eral soldier boxers. And how those Upton boys can “go!” I know, I've ween them fight In the ring in camp. “THAT REMINDS ONE OF Wwrcwer ..2-. Dempsey Gives GETTING READY FOR THE ARMY SHOW Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). Mise The otc, Gen. Carleton has sent three cham- wernvant in ns way tom come | ACK Hare Jr. Not a “‘Stayer”’ T oat nore T Don't Bust AMITT ON THe GUNNER “War's ALL. TM GOING To NEED TEM WOH THIS Gy t A\SKe HAS ALOT OF RESPacT FoR. —— Benny Leona ts ih Town “TopAY, UNDER ORDERS “ro PUT AN EDEE ON His SPEED FoR “TUESDAY NIGHT'S CONTEST. ia Mrs. Gavies Hub s Husband Says She'll Drive an Ambulance on French Front in Fall. CHICAGO, July 12.—Mrs. W. A. Gavin, the English golfer, who has been play- ing exhibition matches in this coun try for the benefit of the Ambulance Fund, will drive an ambulance on the French front this fall, according to @ letter received to-day from her husband, Mrs. Gavin's brother, Capt. Dudley Ryder, is a prisoner in Germany. Deal Golf Club of Deal, N. J., has ar~ ranged two events for the’ near future calculated to add a deal of money to both the American Red Cross and to the Army Athletic Fund, The Red Croa@ affair will take place on Sunday afters noon, July 21, and will be in the naturé of an exhibition best ball match, in which Patrick Doyle of Deal and James Donaldson of Norwood will meet Gilbert Nicholls of New York and Wilfrid Reid of Wilmington. About two weeks ago these sides played at Norwood, when Nicholls and Reid won after a brilliant exhibition, ‘The event set aside for the benefit of the Army Athletic Fund ts the invita- tion tournament to be held Aug. 1, 3 and 3. Entries for this tourney should be made in writing to the Chairman af the Gold Committee, Deal, N. J., and accompanied by full name and address, metropolitan or club handicap, par for home course, and entrance fee of $3) and should be in the hands of the com= mittee not Inter than July 29. As many sixteens will be arranged for in the match play as are warranted by the entries, WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va, July 12.—In the semi-final of the Green- * ~ brier summer golf champlonship, George Clark, the medalist, played almost par } {| 1 Donaldson To-Morrow golf, winning from J. lL. Gavin of Ine For Junior Honors tive cise ci tier ae feated J. F. Vanderen of Lexington, 8 and 2. ( f way. The tall Brooklyn youth ts al- anisation o " Some Rare Tennis Is the Pros- most UncAtiy In thio respect. He ia|_,200 feorsanisation of the Yountaka® t. " 7 ~ Country Club, situated at Nutiey, N. J, pect in Finals at the Brook-|*!ways quick to admire the good), progressing at a rapid rate, Last wine Lost: All Hope. RUMORS AND BLOOMERS. poor Maud Muller toiled to-day, There'd be naught to alarm her yet, ian Gp Because each jay, who passed her wa) Would take her for a farmerette. IT’S ABOUT TIME. #@' Taylor with Sergf Ross, one of the best middleweights in the army, ld Hi Sn vene wera oicrane| SO TRree- Year-Old Honors ers is Joe Lynch. A splendid match Seater: To Date Go to War Cloud | Buffalo is to meet Lynch. Loadman Oo a as is a small Ketchel in atyle. He re- j i cently knocked out Kewple Prtle, Py ‘xceptional ! ff \ Lynch knocked out Kid Wiliams.| Mile at Top Speed Applegate Sevarea eet the ability: to go the | , Both claim the bantamweight cham- (er It”. Li it. J d b Hi rest of the journey wasn't in him. | pionship, and both are better fighters} COlt'S Limit, Jui ging by His War Cloud showed a wonderful per- | than Kid Herman of New Orleans, Showing in Dwyer Stakes. forma in winning. If he hadn't 2 he club had its club house cora- lyn Terrace Club. but, like any other champion, habiitte been in grand condition he couldn't 2 plays the weaknesses for all they |pictely destroyed by fire, Nothivg é the third claimant. ‘This match ts have done it, and as it 1s, he is en- ELCOME, welcome, little tax, a are worth. daunted, a group of loyal members drew J the best that could be secured In the By Vin t Tr titled to a fairly good cli To what we wear upon our backs. * class, and good enough for the star 'y Vincent Treanor. three-year-old champion: p ‘ event in a topnotch show anywhere [ole APPLEGATE'S Jack Hare| as the season has gone. He may still go on the rest of the way and finish in the country. Jr. la @ good, game horse, and | ihe voar on top of the heap. He, how- Jack Dempsey came into New York|* Welght carricr—but he is not 4| over, is a colt which needs made to yesterday and at once renewed hia|foute traveller. If there was any| order conditions, Mud usually beats | jim. training at Billy Grupp's gymnasium |‘oubt about the latter assertion, it m | on iisth Street. Dempsey is the most} W®* removed yesterday at Aqueduct. he epmereniales tee Wate bev magnificently proportioned man of|He tried to make a runaway race Of | runied off by his showing in the his height I havo ever seen, He in| ‘he $6,000 Dwyer Stakes, but weaken-| stake. He ran a distant third, He Before they could be pacified. 6 feet 1% inches tall. I put him on|¢d Just enough in tho final sixieenta| trailed off the pace, as every one i the scales after his workout, and his| ‘0 let War Cloud win by a comfort- Hct tag Wee attaaeranine | THE FINAL SNICKER. weight was exactly 195% pounds, He| Able thargin, If Jack Hare Jr. bd) Which was aupposedly his forte, he ENNIS is a lady's game— is down fine from the training for|been @ stayer ho couldn't have lost. trailed back still further, Robinson It makes some laugh to say it; three fights last week. In these three | Evidently a mile at top speed is bis| had to whip him in the first quarter Which) may all! bey bubi saat tel same; limit, or a mile and a sixteenth if ais] Of 4 mile. Some say he sulked. A} aang He ua at ae carapaee lan't of stake calibre. good bores sboulda’t sulk, Ble race) It takes a man to play it. hts. . Koes a good way toward proving our Devere at Joplin in one minute,| It would have taken a Roamer, Or] contention, often expressed in these ERALD EMERSON, the strip-| As usual, Emerson was wild, and it|up a scheme for land purchase on the Some things we all wear here below ( ling blonde tenniser of Orange, | Was such weakness that cost him the |property, which had only been leaswd if match and, possibly, the champion- Should have been taxed long, long ago. N. J. who has bid strongly for! snip, because he would have reigned| tng the purchase been completed, but the premier honors of the junior met- | as favorite over his more youthful ad- already 175 members have been elected, Topolitan championship, is no longer | Versary, Cecil Donaldson, had he sur- . pitta @ threatening force in the path of|¥i¥ed his go with nonin pee At the instance of Mrs. Grantland 4 Anderson played a crafty £aM®/ Rice of No. 450 Riverstce Drive, Jerome Frank Anderson, the sixteen-year-old | mrougnout the match, keeping Em- |p. vers 1s a Possessor of two important titles and/erson continually away from the uet.| match at the Wykagyl Country C the near winner of a third. Emerson 1s @ marvel as a boy at the | Aug. 17 to swell che Comfort Fund tor Emerson essayed to win the junior| inside game. He also excels with 4 aveen poiness resutane ie bend oe event this year on the clay courts of bate igre Real de satd Grantland Rice, now overseas with an a 7 I the Terrace Club of Brooklyn, but . Travers and Max Marston will p= artillery regiment. In all probability It is safe to assume that any other | yfr. Soon realized that in order to accom-|opponent than Anderson would have | pose Oswald Kirkby and John Anderson, plish such a feat, he would have to| weakened. But he didn't, and fro: oe play through and meet young Ander-|U4ly this steadiness played haves | GQQ1 FIELDS OF TROTTERS Son, who holds the Long Island and} qnjs leaves Anderson to contest} AND PACERS RACE TO-DAY. North Side titles, which he won play-| with Donaldson for the title, and the previously, with the result that not only TICKLED TO DEATH. N case some pitchers got a card Which said they’d been reclassified, With cheers they'd quake the old ball yard knocked out MoCarthy at Tulsa in|an old Rosebud at his best to head the columns, that he is not the wonder| _. Most of those Hackensack gamblers admit now that they took an awful/ing through a field of adults, some of match will take place vo-morrow...| CLEVELAND, July 18.—Thirty-nine wome experts have thought bi chance, whom were his senior by many years,|_ Steve) Schlessinger 0 nick’ ioe ate. ee bh one minute and ten seconds, and|Applegate colt yesterday up to the #0n0 epee 9 Baye jal a ‘The crucial test of the week's play [Docker tame, became the boys’ met- trotters and pas rs have een hata . , ; 3 ; rig} to start in the four races on the Gres! " knocked out Porky Flynn at Atlanta ue pole. me toa maerics bd ae 1.00 1-5, was good, simply bocatiso of It begins to look as if the Kaiser's scouts found some promising ivory| yesterday was the defeat of the|rimmmun Shamplon, by virtue Scaes’ | cusuit ectsnwey: card at Novis Ranta at one setae. Seas vapie ack piarés bacemaking. The track) fight here in our own bushes. youthful Orange man by Anderson| Schlessinger became the to-day. 7 00 free-for-all pacts © “Jack thinks a fight is long enough! Owyer Stakes he fairly flew, with a record is 1.49 2-5, held by Borrow. TA tha PAIL CARI, Meese RCIOE Wine aitlnl MIMtOn ane MEN@AK: ’ if it goes two rounds,” chuckled|smooth, ground covering stride that —— e % r80! (j the feature event of the day, will bring Austria is beginning to publish the box scores of the Piave werles with- nm | belng favored by the consensus of ther Miss Harris M., William, | iN Manager Kearns. made the action of War Cloud, two! A pleasing feature of the Dwyer! pltgpenal asd . ‘ entered the match with all bis cha: D his superior itussell Boy and Baxter Lou. out deletin; rrors. aes opinfon on account of ; r i ‘Dempsey wants it known that he is| lengths behind him, look awkward. | Stakes, was the rejuvenation, as it is her own eotanldlle speed ubnseree: wih be form in almost every department of and ie 1s expected (0 develop, into one were of “Happy” Buxton, This ordi- y plans ol, e gam ol the speediest contests eek. travelling under his real name, and| He ran from the break like a quarter) nary good rider has been in such! ~ IN SPITE OF ALL OUR BARREN MENUS, YOU CAN ALWAYS | attack. The result was that Emerson| The dopesters have figured that| The, first three have records of twee is proud of it. His full name is Will-| horse and reached the sixth eee bad fo! all seuson that the talent | FIND A GOOD STAKE AT ALMOST ANY RACE TRACK. was eliminated in straight sets, 6—3,| Anderson !s Invincible and that nis est field of the meeti | jam Harrison Dempsey. “Jack” {s a}mark, 1.10 flat and then ran on to|has steered clear of anything that he| seree ee unina’ the anion title lalciemciites sboen tecrarea inc ine nual T nicknam a the mile in 1361-5, Ordinary porses | has ridden lately, “Oh, Buxton's up, | 4. ro not seriously threatened by his|trot. ‘The 2.10 trot has drawn nin ples Tor tial hsccagdecnieh Rett ry aan aera? | that killa him,” has been a common Many have tried conclusions with | busly threatened by Rit |with the same number scheduled to #6 and his people all came from Vir-| behind him would have been stagger-| expression arourd the track when- Anderson, oMly to discover some ove: foal Bg ole ‘Anderson has the| in the 208 pace, the closing event of derso! § e a as ginia. His father is of Irish deacent]ing in the pursuit, but let tt be ssid | ever “Happy” had a mount, “After rson, oMly to r 8 r-| would and his mother of mixed mace, Scotch | right here that his chief pursuer, War| “Happy” had won with War a ‘loud, whelming fault of style which the|call, although Donaldson ta capable | ‘he meet. many were on hand to c The Swiss have begun to practise war economy by shooting bigger holes| champion either guessed or actually!of making him play the best tenn's and Cherokee Indian, ‘There's fight-|Cloud, ts no ordinary horse, Jack) Many wore | Ate canmTRt img blood all through nim, Haro led ever until well into the in their cheeses, observed before the Match was under at his command, he keep up the good work. Some of ir ‘Miske is about the best fighter in| Stretch, where his backers had almost | these were his most persistent knock- As usual there will be very little peace for some who spend their vaca ” ‘ ‘ eviously, After the race Bux. the country,” said Dempsey, “but 1 | begun to figure up their winnings, but | ¢rs previous’ 4 tions at summer hotels operated on the European plan. feal st an honor to be asked te fight | War Cloud was always within striking chine ae a Fimpeononyy is him jn 4 cause like this, Jimmy | aigt >t aeanila. wall na e Coffroth has been trying to match | Wim nana ee APPArentY welll from the very start, us on the Coast, and we had to wire} ¥!thin himself, him yesterday that he was too late,| When a fast horse reaches the limit is aafe to assume that those Chicago golfers who finished their round lanterns were desirous of keeping the ball in sight. ——— TWO MORE BALLPLAYERS MUST “WORK OR FIGHT.” Two ‘Met’ Titles|Old Trainer of | wasmsatox, soy 12—nrwara Ainsmith, catcher of the Washington : : Tli Myers of the Robins might meet himself somewhere between Fiat- American League Club, has been pes At7AED at the, Hoblne salent meet Rane Will Be Decided| Yanks to Look ordered to engage in some useful occu- Elmendort was added to the Dwyer * . pation or be pl: “4 draft, by his locai draft as New York beat him to it by a day. | of his endeavors and begins to “fold| Stakes, not with. any. intention of er how the Senate handle the Probittion quertion, « man will almays make bis last 7 ‘o-morrow Night After Aviators}: RL ee eda Ho oe ponres crn ea 1 pould os up" he does it quickly, and that is} Winning it, but just to show his owner stand Go ier —_——_ baseman of the club, has been served a urse, bu rather meet hin he elongs. . for ecthing, to do something worth| What Jack Hare Jr. did. It didn’t re.| Where he belongs. He showed hin while for th purse.” 4 finished his train- ‘ After several attempts Regal Lodge 4 Narre i day, dropped in to | i* wasn te sone ot ue Sonne ies ran to something like his Western ‘a glimpse of his hardest rival,|@ Great burst of speed after follow-| form and won the third race for Sam i ~ ra tt was “Hello, Jack,” and “Hello, ing such a killing pace. Instead it} Hildreth, ce nity. i pim out GRinee ho kao ee Seer SOME FOLK ARE TRUE TO Billy,” and then silence for a long | was a case of a tiring horwe in front ft J minute, Finally Miske remarked: | coming back to him. Lyke tried vig- STilOnah i Felain NIERT SrRUE. Rocing always gives June, July and August a lot of ti tance tiiies, “Jack, you look bigger to me than] orously to arouse Jack Hare to make n him up to $3,000. Inciden- Hep yste “f Gust a lot of summary literature} in the plunge for distance Charlotte you did in the ring at St. Paul.” | him lest, but It was no user Thea ° 000, concerning past performances. Two metropolitan swimming cham- r all right, TRAFF! with a similar notice, ba F e Doe Barrett, trainer of the Williams soldiers, than get any|quire much effort on th se ot (oe RAFFIC TERRORS i 4 plonships will be determined at the | College athletic teams for the last twenty Brixton to catch his pacemaker then. b all gam: most terrific clip ds i. Is oft productive of a sudden slip. Winter Pool, Brighton Beach, to-mor-| years and care! been elected Captain os tne Rena- Ker of the New York) selaer Institute track team of Troy for row night, when the Women's Swim- | Yankee cripples for several years during | next season. THe ts one of the best ming Association stages contests for|the regime of Frank Chance, has re-| distance runners the Institute has pro- the fancy diving and plunge fur dis-|Ce!ved his commission in the United | duced in the last five years, and figured States Army to look after members of| prominently tn the success of the varaity the flying corps and keep them physi-| team this season, winning the two-mile 1 tally A cally fit He is now awaiting orders|run in both the Union and the Hamil- “I'm growing bigee raid Demp. " Kegal Lodge marked the first Boyle, the National Sprints cham- to Join the colors for foreign service|ton meets and being placed second in ! poy. That was al. No blutt or vad REP f Jchpny Movemmar pipes Be Few of those tho succecd in making a Mt, seldom succeed in making [P10 and also the national champlon | and expects to be sailing for France| the mile event. | Ile alse made a splene bluster, Going out Miske sald to me: | wouldn't consider myself a cham rode an excellent race . ”| another. and world's record holder for the| within a short time. Saeeenountty Fane AIA le A tinaiae Meanie thate AL Tee welte to \f 1 barred any lightweight. 1 - plunge, will defend her title against a of the class of 1920 ak the institute, ‘ ’ “ f ” nly wouldn't bar the toughest of " e 1 3, When Walter Camp proposed his plain| taking the mechanical engineering need them Tuesday night, ‘ A Y Hank O'Day displayed almost hu- c Mo h mn field of well known tank plungers, taking: Misko fights Gunboat ‘Smith to-| (yma y 2 cause like this, He'll d0."! maninatinct at the post in the third Pe ape reies pulseless man in baseball before he got het up over! ong them Mildred *Kirby, {tlta| for securing leading college trainers to | Course. slat night in New Jersey. Then he takes 2 He crouched down for a spring j Greenfield and Elsie Sultan, Misg| look after Uncle Sam's men Barrel Sallors of the local training centres, Bartley Madden, over across the 2 - tme it looked as if 8! was he first to volunteer his ser-| , a iN @ & Grate a fiver, Mike is Just as busy aa Demp- Porc COMMISSIONER EN-| (10%, wey nbcut to relense the hie’ | When boxing was permissible in this neck of the woods, the fighter who | Hoyle’s record In this event is 62 feot | 7a one of the tira ing the ( 8. Granite State, sey just now. He's fit and fine and RIGHT has issued an order] per, but in nearly instance | made the biggest strides was t rl ‘on edge for any kind of a mix. calling the attention of the po- chen wheeled ou line up. Dempsey and Miske met once, in| lice force to the games at Celtic Par!,| spoiled things for the old gelding Don't think for a minute that the ball player who lumbers to the plate ‘| Me >, bed , a > champltonship at Brighton Beach. it his duue vith the St Paul, and fought a gruelling ten-| sunday, July 27, held to raise a fund| Hank O'Day's enxtety to get away | 1s composed of the best timber, Knock wood! a Pe ee eat pate | pve tite round bout, with little advantage oD| era ‘Martin Sheridan memorial oy | (00K, & lot out of him in the some- ae One of the prettiest water cm Williams athletes, but now nat his com- either side at the end. . Bhs ortal. what lengthy stay at the barrier, but of the year will be the fancy diving | mission has arrived he is prepared to d that the police fore Ti tanto nan a peed rane kacales Man wants but litte hers below after being presented with @ coffin and the den! to the pot contest in which Josephine Bartlett, | part at any ume. INCE Johnny Dundee broke his| the erection of & suitable monument | *econd to Regal Lodge, hand at Cleveland three first- vices, The Williams Athletic Counctl promptly granted a leave of absence, one who took the fewest, in 61 seconds, and her followers he- Neve she will successfully defend ber) since tiling his application, Barrett has Iham Ray Naval Training Station, Federal Rendezvou 11 Street, Brooke lyn, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and crews of the whatever battlesht be anchored in nearby waters, wil chance t © competition 17, Mrs, eltuns, founder the Sailors’ Club and Athletic Field, the metropolitan champion, will com- situated at the foot of West Ninety= in honor of a man who has 6 cantar ‘da G Justin L, Smith of Oakville Conn, gixth Street, has charge of the meet class lightweights have been|the «reat ci possible teenie FA Roche ts through racing, The HOW SHOCKING. pete against Hilde Grat, Sed uf ae idered as Leonard's opponent| department at home id abroad,” | Brighton stable has presented him to A chauffeurette named Susie Sweeter recent Long Beach diving champion- none i said the Commissioner, “He was a|the Government breeding bureau, Was in love with a bar fly named Pe! ships; Edna Cole, runner up to Miss 5 Tuesday Bish, Pinaiiy Wulle Leeks man of the highest Integrity and a But the company canned her Bartlett in three metropolitan cham- * son was selected, 8 splendid type of police The conditions of the fifth race yes- When some women panned her now for Willie to accept, He Is to} central figure in the terday for non winners of more than For finding Pet arrive in New York to-day, He has| ternational Olympic ( one race since June 1 seemed made to been training to fight Dundee on the| Sintnence that the hence eles Pres Jorder for Deckmate and ho was mad 18th—that fight being called off enly|py the Amer: Mis lite wan yesterday. id example for the youth of Over the phone Benny Leonard was asked if he'd meet Jackson, RACING AT EMPIRE CITY TRACK LOCATED BETWEEN YONKERS AND MT, VERNON fond of athletic spo ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July 12—| ST. LOUIS, Mo, BEGINS TO-MORROW | July 12.—Rogers “Any one| meet him with Sheri¢ Nuteracker's victory {i cio last Jick Britton beat K, O, Laughlin in Hornsby, shortstop of the St. Loule Nas |SWimmins Association, a 00-yard Mf Fmpirg City Handicap scone $2,000 Frivolity Stakes were held. Martin Sheridan. took | event proved, as Trainer Hilly Karrick eight rounds at the Elks show in the| tional League team, who has been or. |Scratch race for men, In which Lev your title,”| much interest in police sports, For] sald, that he didn’t run bis ra pionships, and Helen Wainwright, the twelve-year-old marvel from College Point. Miss Bartlett seeks national manila gatlehc!catytannet LAUGHLIN LUCKY TO GO |ROGER HORNSBY APPEALS | onor ins samo and bor diving bas brought Dan along and spilled the LIMIT WITH BRITTON “WORK OR FIGHT” CASE| °C" so‘sara no F Heicseh beans. ‘A 60-yard novice race for girls be- ; tween members of the Women's feet on the met Commisstoner Enright always was the Atlantle City Sporting Club last niht,|dered by his local draft board to quit|Glebel of the N. Y. A. C. will make OD Bs OF Ese A 3 ane Batted a i vedipce fe AT 2.90 P.M, \ 4 Jackson is a} several years he was largely respon-|day Jusqu ‘Au Hout beat him, He Riritton hit Laughlin when and where he | baseball and engage in an essential oc-! nig first appearance of the season at mecnhant iat Sand t tl Fe Rawnar” tralna ead Dn. Grai pean within the lightweight limit.| sible for the success of the police| had worked well since then and was pleased and had Laughlin hanging on suppUon of be shifted rom Glass 3A to Brighton Beach, a 220-yard tervals. NI ‘Alno via Went m is a dangerous puncher.| games held annually to raise a fund|in better spirits in the paddock yes- to at ‘the limit. 1A Int work or fight” order, has rig! » and 20 way to in razate stent erring (to a, onda Staiton: “Soro *.. thence ‘by Feu remember hom, he knocked out |to take care of the families of police: | terday than heretofore. “itutts” Fair. ——— Rioard. ‘Hornsby wires this Iatformetion scratch race for men in the servine of Mf ‘orome avs, eal te Mra Ro Wandin Sato judged ride y . Yan-|4o Branch Rickey, President of the local the United States Army and Navy |(% GRAND STAND AND FADDOOK. 83.0; LADIES. 81.65 (Inctu ina round.” men killed in the disch: thelr brother gave him a all right,” duties. and he came bome alone. w War Tas.)

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