The evening world. Newspaper, July 19, 1918, Page 8

DEMPSEY AND FULTON WILL BAT- TLE FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF WAITING TILL WILLARD IS TOO OLD TO FIGHT. wel THE EVENING WORLD, Taro ERR FRIDAY, JULY 1 BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YOR NO MAN LIKES TO HAVE HIS CON- VERSATION PUNCTUATED BY AN- OTHER GUY'S FIST. The Hardest Column to | Write in Fifteen Years. Courriety ( Tt NO Foad een Wa" Pm ITH this “Column” I am saying farewell to New York for @) time, ‘This is the last “Col- | umn.” We have been holding down this corner of The Evening World | sporting page for fifteen years—the | Column and I--and it will seom | Strange to-morrow not to get out the old typewriter and ratte the keys) for the customary 1,200 words, | But these are war times, and we £ to new trails, Where they may ead 1 don't kuow. Pirst it is to be @ ewing wround the army camps from here to the far Northwest, and then | | down to tho Mexican border. After | that, perhaps, across “with the boys.” | Se there will be no time for Column writing for a while, But wherever I wo I shall manage to write and Il- hustrate for this page one “feature | story” a week, to keep in touch with thousands of friends and with who: 1 ) beueve, after Ufteen years of associ:- tion, to be the finest, cleanest, fairest newspaper published in the wide world, if for a complimentary paragraph in yesterday's American. I don't mind saying right now that I con- der friend Damon the finest, squar- est, most intelligent writer in America, especially when he says such nice things about me 1 always have maintained that Damon possess- ed excellent judgment, It has been “fully vindicated.” If Damon wrote that way about us every day our hat wouldn't fit, but we'll admit that Damon is a frank and truthful gent. We did hateh out that idea of baving an Army Athletic Fund show in the Garden and fuss about with it considerably, and nearly broak our arm writing telegrams to induce the military authorities to send up Private Till Welwnan from Wadsworth to put the needed punch into the promotion of it, and induce the Commission in Washington to rush out and buy a lot of athletic goods on tick, depending upon our coming show to pay the bill therefor, and hustle said athletic | goods down to troops in a camp where we were re’ formed fifty thousand sad-eyed sol- diers were trying to entertain them~ selves with one ‘at, one baseball without a cover, and three right-hand | and two left-hand boxing gloves that | probably belonged to Noah when he ‘was using the Ark as a transport. Thinking it over, we figure that! we have raised or been an accessory before the fact in raising, a little | over $90,000 to buy athletic goods for | soldiers in the past six months. For about a yenr we have spent twenty- WANT to thank Damon Runyon ; old of six hours a day, on an average, in) in war work, and the rest of our time working for The Evening World and making a bluff at carning our salary. | Damon ia right. But when Damon we are “dad-gummed modest @aid Bill: “No more for me. When I run a show I like to have poopie under contract, and pay thom, Then 1 can teN ‘em when to be there and what to do, This matching up boxers to fight for nothing and having them drift in a couple of hours before the show and try to call it off because | they have a sore nose or didn't wleep well tho night before, as Miske did, © gete my goat.” the b gg JP rater 0 Into the tronchos any time than fight Demp- sey,” said Billy Miske Tucs- day afternoon. ‘Then you know what to do, Billy, ah. it o4 el camp tolls me that they having @ lot are | of trouble with Consistency Colin’s Son a Tribute to F there is any ra than the Quincy Stab! her name offhand. has started in just eight races since the season began on the local tracks and has won six times. Five of his Victories were scored in stakes, Pro- vious to the opening of the New York season Compadre atar' ond and ran unplacea, Wita no pre- tensions to top notch stake class, the colt has shown remarkable form has won in the neighborhood of ¢ ployers trainer er and knows the racing business aud the one dealing with betting, the early morning training hours to » day's finish five or ten dollar wage mit when he does bet, and he has t like a horse mighty well to back bia He season, and the colt's suc a good, honest little horse which will good plater to beat him over that dis- SOLDIER from a nearby army | tanc FIRST BLOOD FOR UNCLE SAM ! KADER TAIrES A 9 COUNT Gets uP GROGGY ¢ 1§ ALL IN AND SHAKY ON HIS PINS AT END OF FIRST ROUND . .. Loo LIKE A QUIcir (CNoctrouT AND A NEW CHAMPION , Extra: = Six Out of Eight Starts, Including 5 Stake Races, Is Record of Unbeaten Fitzsimmons’s Training. By Vincent Treanor. horse, with the exception of Penrose, which hae been more consistent this season ‘a three. ar Compadre, we can't recall hia or This colt, a son the illustrious Colin, by the Jul i three times . finished sec- Maryland, won on ad than any other individual He is @ conscientious work- its angles, with the exception of trom | long Fitz is no bettor, A is usually bis prefers to get his money from his are of the purses his horses win. ‘ita has kept Compadre on edge ali is in to his training meth- He makes no great He says he simply is if a tribute and ability. ims for bim July 18—Arrow Stakes July 97 furlongs; pura ished 7th, . ly Handle fahed 6th... May 18—Selling landic Total I Did you get Kelry’s hat as he stood in the broliing sun on the lawn? this season. money several was the first time she has been down in front since May &, at Pimlico, wher sho beat some good ones at six fur- and Nutcracker. ride yesterday from Johnson, kept her off the pace until the stretch | and then Jet her roll. getting right again, nearing the streteh turn, Simon of Compadre RECORD AND WINNINGS OF CONSISTENT COMPADRE Rockaway" —Highta: The Newtown, Jandalus was meant fi He was one of those in this spring at Pimlico, and although he escaped it required long and tedious work on the part of his trainer, over the fright he experienced and back to training. Healey, to get him a flash at Sammy It was one of those She has been in the times, but yesterday juding Johren, Sweep Up IL She got an exceliont ‘who Maybe Kate 's Jockey Sande, who made quite «| reputation at the winter tracks and throughout the Kentucky circuit, hal the mount on James Butler's Caddto in the Arrow Stakes. run, too, as far as he could go in the| pursuit of the light oted Compadre, ee eeeey. eer we on your van as fast and as far as he can and : = no further. We, however, will say | ‘Those who bet on Kohinoor to win = sR \for Compadre that he is one of the/the fifth race had to take a chance IIE American Army is all there.’ fastost breakers seen at the barrier |that she wouldn't bleed. She did, and In France to-day It is furnish-| this year. He is usually away on his |this made ber stop when in front Ing some of the strongest arma) toes, Kors right to the front as soon |after she had gono about a mile. Lit- as possible 8 there watil tle Cottage, who had been running ae the’ World, and down Jp Italy le) eh 2 Bix seeins to be|third at the time, then moved to the displaying its logs to great advan- Sy), jeather.” beaten in the [front and easily beat Sunny Hil tage. An American soldier relay! start previous to yesterday by 620d | home, team bas just run away with the! horses in a seven furlong race, but eo 1,600-metre race at an international valy after he had set them a da SEAN) Marana hocola’ waaay bat meet between athletes from the| pace for three-quarters, (The bird in tht last race. She was beaten by ‘American, Hnglish and Italian Ar-|hix furlongs” races at Yonkers afe/toth Joyful und Willian Shaw, after mies. | made to order for him. Tt will tak @/ running in front with the latter until She had the \rail and Lillian Shaw was on the out .laide of her. Whether or not she Clen Ryan, the Brighton Stable's| weakened Just at the time Lilian two-year-old, made good yestenity.|Shaw was moving past her isn't ex- the colored regiments, He won the second race, a five fur-/actly known, but she dropped back “You seo,” ho explained, “those) 1?" dasn, from start to finish, He- |several lengths as if she had been boys love to use @ razor, It’s their! fore post time it was said he was|suddenly pinched off. Lillian Shaw natural fighting weapon, They take| “sore” and he looked and acted it,/then appeared to have the race won to the bayonet like a duck to water,)put he must have run out of the/when J, Williams brought Joyful out But there's one thing they can't un-|soreness quickly, He went to thejof the ruck with @ rattle and passed derstand, and that is why regu forbid the soldiers to sharpen them, Every night those darkies slip out and pick up a stone for a whe and they sneak off and whet bDayoneta until they have a The officers have them all tho time. allow it, But great Scot imagine the Germans if they knew these negro in their razor | on th regiments carried bayonets as sharp| cheap jot, had to be much the best to| as cazors? Ther something about the idea of being sliced by @ razor|, hit in the run to the stretch, and that makes your Seah croop. eetcr le Wit didu't ae ine bet ‘liged by a ba rasor 1 have a -| front shortly after leaving the barrie tion should call for # dull edge, and| and wi him on stone, | chanc Can you! them sad home and drew never caught. Rowan bit » with the whip while in fron stretch, evidently to take no the y thin, g in front as if they were als sceeaebk RACING SELECTIONS. Pave Gideon, whose colors were eel YONKERS, ae to watch | carried to frequent Victories In the ald], Firat Race Harwood Bt. Capt Regulations don't | days but rarely are now, finally suw| Marchmont, Home sweet Hone |} — Second Raco—Minio 1, Starry brought home in front by| yanyoe nie Daedalus in the opening eveat Third Rai Barry Shannon, Daedalus, although meeting a very Minto Il, No Fourth K. lags, Star Span- win, He was buffeted around quite} gle’, Enfilade pies, Hace—clex, Jusqu'au Bout, lato @ contending ans O'her sade yonet with a! position until he straightened out for] ySi*jh, ace-Dablada, Sylvano, 90 id tO\ the run to the finish. He caught the oi : ok to early pacemaker, Bil) mid~ br a ores RY ON A ke He made him! AS WE GO TO PRESS Gor yright, 1918, by Toe Prom Publish ing Oo, (The New York Evening World), NATIONAL LEAGUE, } CLUBS W. 1. 83 42 5 40 CLUBS W. Le Pe. Chicage.56 20.68% N.Y. 7 | Boston, . Pitts ..41 HID St. F Phila 38 41 .481/ Iklyn GAMES YESTERDAY. jew York, 4; 8t. Louls, 5. Brooklyn, 3} Chicago, 2 (16 innings). Phitadetphia, Pittsburgh, 0, Boston-Cincinnath (rain), GAMES TO-DAY. | New York at St, Louls, | Brooklyn at Obleago, Boston at Cincinnati, Philadelphia at Pe. | 455 403 | 410) .307 Cinein teburgh, | NATIONAL LEAGUE. At Pittabureh Hadi 0000000000001 Pitan 0000000000000 Hatter Jacude and Durie; Schmidt, AMERICAN I.EAGUE. Fine game t Philadephia Ovo TOLOOO a HI) (ila HOKOLOKOO) BT Fie -Clootte and Sehaik; Grevg apd Me. | 7 nan’ peaked at both end affairs which plater, the great explorer Stanley in his f fs “riend wiff has to eew a new top|? he , have an opportunity to-night of se pation on our vest nearly every day| Compadroe is trained by Jimmy ees des Keat Afrion for toe Re ing two colored stars of the heavy- in the weok. blll woe Alpovan ho never thought the bonnet would aid him in wolent division svee BURCH SS, Jaci as been connected with any of the} searching for winners or digging up| ™4in bout of eight rounds at the box- B"«: ene ane 20a ee so-called high clasy racing establish- | dilatory losers, | ing show to be held at the Jersey City ing over the OW G0 conta. wink ¥ear In aod Year cur on pony | baseball ground. The big fellows} “the morning after,’ mony if not more races for his em-| Kate Bright has had many a try | who will clash are Joe Jeanette of of | Hloboken and Kid Norfolk who have both made themselves Prominent in the fistic line by their | wreat fighting. Jeanette has met all of the topnotchers, while Norfolk has ‘beaten Hilly Miske and other good jn vies.” J nette scored a quick knockout over an opponent in West Hoboken on Tuexday night, which shows that he ia still able to give th best of them a hard fight. A matey was armmnged today over the long Sistance twlephone Letwven Willie Jackem of this city and Pinkie ng" Britt of New ted: xa ford, Mam, ‘They wore engaged by Ivy Lewis, the ‘fight promoter of Moston, to clash in & | wwelve-round bout, to & decision, at the Armory A, &, of Boston men will tattle at 183 Tuesday ight, pounds aud sbould fur iki a lanbing fast bate | Johany Dundee and Solty Montieth have patted up thelr dilteremen and. from pow 0 feouy wil make all Wie maisten for Jobeny. jat together, Johnny q) ne recently, but al | thinking the tmatéer over for several days he de. | fled that be could rot get auother manager tho thas worked eo lant for his waxeas ao Sue ‘eth, JWrn Neister is} According to a mliable peron the Latest aa Lewis broke we than ten | mavager, It | lew $000 to art le eenoualy U Miah fighter certainly likes to get ‘There f@ no need of any colored fighter trying to get 0 eb with Tilly Mia e Bt, Pau Light beesyweigtt, as Billy that he| YU eerer fight any more neato fighters as long fas be is in the budnew, Jack Reddy, manager of Miske, was offered fights with Kid Nowfotk fami Harry Wills, but Mise told him perer to em him up for them bouts, Assemblyman Joseph F. Hurley of Jersey City. sponsor for the Hurley Loxing law, which governs boxing bouts in the State gone and done what Chusands of other good mea bare done for their country the navy and will report for service on Monday, Hurley haa been very jopular in the Legislatu daring his (wo terme in office, and by en {oe will make thowsande of frwh friends, oe Benny Leonard, world’s lightweight champion, [is eraduaiiy gecting down to ngbting wegnt tor MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS © HOW THE OTHER CLUBS MADE OUT, | Kline, | Hartfield Ho has enlisted in| | desiring medals, Ca Whitney Ip co- teri) | operating with De Forest Hick Chairman of the Red Cross Prize Com: | mittee. | With one of the best rounds evo? returned by an amateur on the links jof the Country Club of Glen Ridge |Frank Hoyt of Siwanoy won t' |prize for the best gross score in @ vompetition for golfers belonging to the ngineers’ Club at Glen Ridg. | Hoyt returned a score of 71, About fifty members took part, conditions call- ing for fourball foursomes on & handi- cap basia in the morn The winning pair were N. M. Garland and H, V. Conrad, with a card of 19-24-1060. tT yuu BEA | Golf clubs holding competitions in Fast Bochw “THAT CAN GET AWAY FRO contributed to ve through the which entrance fees a Red Cross will rec ited &§ ee if Association 6p a OUR CHAMPO - hed Cross prize medals. Capt. H. F. | Whitney, Secretary of the U, 8. G. A. cations trom cl | will take care of app Founded Back in 1868 by “Fath cock, It First Fostered Rowi Took Up Track and Field S Meet in 1879—Fiftieth Anni | cially and Athletically. By Bruce Copeland. IFPTY years ago the seed that pro- duced the noble New York Ata- | letic Club was planted in a lit- | tle suite of rooms in a quaint old structure at Mth Street and Sixth | Avenue, although the organization which bas always stood highest for AMERICAN 1 clean-cut, manly sports was not offl- G CLUS W. L. Pe. CLUBS W. E. Po. | cially founded until Sept. 8, 1568, Boston, 51 54 .600/Chicago.39 48 476] Some of the “boys” who 4 Cle 48 40 545) St, 1. .29 44 .470| that memorab sion held in the old N. ¥...44 39 590] Detroit. 36 46.430! Knickerbocker Cottage at Sixth Ave- Wash ..43 41 512 Phila ..34 47 420 nue and 28th Street, which later be- came Mouquin's Restaurant, will be right on the job next month to take an important part in the golden an- niversary of the club in the self- GAMES YESTERDAY. Detroit, 4; New York, & (first game), New York, it; Detroit, 2 (10 innings; 24 game). Phitadelnita ar Chiteco ® (2d gecsey, | 8ame building where the club wis Bt. Louis, Gy Boston, 3, born. Cleveland, 3; Washia, 1,| Others—many of the world’s leading GAMES TO-DAY. athletes of their day—have long since At, Louln at New York, gone to their rewards. Fifty years’ Detroi t Boston, leveland at Philadelphia, Chicago at Washington, time has exacted heavy toll from the ranka of the world's greatest sport- ing and social club, Most of the old Stars of the sculls, breast stroke, Game RHE, y f a at seba ) 1000000034 % % Symnasium, and later, baseball, golf, 6009000054 6 2 and tennis, are dead, But their mem- cod Perkin: Beek 98) orion still live. 01008101024 1% Half a century has gone down into 91011 0000-3 5 1 history since Willlam B. Curtis and Davenport aod Severeid; Bader and 7m ear nny, JohN C. Babcock, two of the earl ‘adhington: E ¢ aid 100010111-816 © Athletic pioneers, conceived the idea niet jforth in the magnificent edifice at Sixth Avenue and Central Park South. Next month this anniversary will be fittingly observed by a splen- did athletic and social programme is training hard to be at the Ingitimate | that will consume most of the thirty- ehitwelght notch of 133 pounds for the battle. | one days. evnard Ima been informed that radwell ia 001 Many of the club fathers find it y mark" and the chasiplon therefore te teaiesing’ his guacaiwad Geek °'| harder to smile these days than ever before, Athletic training makes op- timists of most all of Its devotees, but the shadow of the great was has Barney Adair, the promvang local lightweight, take part in another battle in Boston to- nelt. He will go agawet Terry Brooks, the good | Hahter of that city, in a twlve-round bout to a| fallen upon the aristocrat of athletic ‘vision at tho Commenial A. C., where be re | clubs. Most of the members have tate Pei . - er ticks Gee. ig? blood representatives at the front, at the Amboy A, C, of South Amboy, N,_ carrying the athletic message of thoir duly fathers right up to the murderous Jack Hanlon, the fient promoter of Philadelphia, | £¢ Some have fallen, others ma has heidad (0 stage an apen air boxing ahow at | thus deepening the shadow for thoso Shibe Park in Philadelphia on the night of July | at home, 0, ‘The cant of bouts which Jack ex n are an follows i nto put Willie Jackson and Irish Patscy Herman Kid Williams, Soldier Jack Britton and Sam Langford and on MAINTAINED SMALL QUARTERS IN 14TH STREET. Shortly after the great Civi! War, ‘when the Nation was seeking to re- cover from the wounds of fratricidal strife, Messrs, Curtis and Babcock maintained small quarters in Four- Jack Tho ‘The New Jersey Boxing Commission at ite re- cent movting granted the following clite a license to stage boxing shows in that State: Hudson County Sportamens Club and the Harrison A. C., no ig arbre N. J., and the Airdrome A. C, | teenth Street that was the mecca for and the National Sports Club, both of New 4 . , Nod. Paddy McGuigan, the okt-tume figuter ip | athletic men of the period, However, (he owner of t om A, ©, their establishment, crude and poorly equipped as it must have been, was frowned upon by public beneath the culture of propriety. “Tho man who gave athletic ex- hibitions in public was regarded local lightweight per of Barney Adair, the fast was offered a guarantee of $800 for Adair to box Charley White at Des Moines, Ia, in two weeks, but as Flynn claims it costs nearly $260 for expenses for him aud his tighter to make tho trip, ho tes wired the promoter inl try meet ever t in this count = for a guarantee of $750 for bis man, much the same light as the prizelon Nov. fof the same year, On Toile «50 a fe & fighters of that time,” explained Al-|Feb. 5, 1885, the club moved Into ita i" OD O4 POL Glassman, manager of Lew Tes : 8 On hoe Phiadelibie etparts to age a bie hose tne | fred H. Curtis, one of the early mem-| ROW duarters at Sixth Avenue and “ to stage ng |Fifty-flfth Street, and in 1887 they At the Phiiadeip'in National League Cha base-|bers of the club, and a member of | purchased the island in Loni Tstnet ier hse yh ~ beg herwd hf Ay ‘The bonts/the committee that will direct the | Sound which becar Travers Island, Cag ee Wei dette ate, ‘pie, Wore | great celebration next month, |in honor of its President. The club ( tat Brwck of Cleve ; . Aes house on that spot was erected in and ve. Bonny Valor: Lew Tendier vs, Johnay| But Messrs, Curtis and Babcock re- | tyep Dundeo and Billy Miko ve, Jack Thomgern, the|mained true to thedr athletic ideals,| ‘The present home of the N. ¥. A olarad bearyweiaht, and the pr ent organization blos-|C. was Dduilt and inaugurated’ in PRP Ee ort es somed from the roofs of their litte,|1898 at Sixth Avenue and Central apitie Cuulon, te New Orleans tentameviaht,| Sid gymnasium, where. many of the | Park Wests After the disnstroug Mey ructor ef Camp Dis, Wrishisiown, WN, 3) wi | O17? reandiathers were Wont to dis-/that destroyed the clubhouse at eae Walls teaae Philede! . port themselves when they were!Travers Island the edifice wa ‘5 on Walls Neigop, the Philadelphie fighter, in| young men with beaver hats and|stored in 1907. pase vf cight rounds at @ boxing show be brvght off at the Wrightstown Boxing Chub of Wrightatown, N, J., to-night, Several other good bouts will precede it mutton chop whiskers, After many new members had been initiated after the founding of N. ¥. A. C., the club used the old Joo Leouant, the fighting Brooklyn bantam.) Mair's Gymnasium at Second Avenue |Olympic games held at Stoc weight, accompanied by his manager, Mines {and Bt. Mark's Tlace, On Nov. il, |{n 491%” a ab (pteceneln $5,000 Empire City Derb; Burne, left last night for Syracuse, N. ¥,, where! 1868, the first amateur athletic meet - $5,000 Whirl Sta Leonard tacklw Young Brady of that city to-jwas held under the club's auspices at mgnnim oa HR. ah Gi dbauad [es Staxes night in & tensound tattle at tho Onandaga' the Empire City Rink a: Third Ave-| pW 'Dicherson who wee Presid AND VOTHER WIITIANT EVENT | A. ©. Before aring Burne clinched another|nue and 63d Street, which later be- | © } Was President F BACH AY are. Ps match for Lecoant, signing the latter to meet/came the American Institute Jot the Western Baseball League, dis- SP BCIA 2 TRAIN Al @hsthert of New Belfunt at @ new club in) Rowing entered into the pleasures Newport, Ht. 1. the date of which battle will be/of the club in 1870, and during that jected upon io a few dave. \year a boat house was erect ‘The National & has teen coord for ne eyed est Mar (welre-round bout M Harlem River. In 1871 the club used Wood's Gymnasium month or 0, will amd for the Werluenlay bi out with Young Gradwell at the Baud" aspoclaclon oh Jere" Oly" Monday night, Leonstd finds superfluous weight a handicap to Lie apeud and punching ably, and for Ubas see by egurng 90 wing Tomy Mebyon of Boston the St. George Hotel, ot Frank Carbous, the aggrensive local mid- ing the same onc. ita first outdoor al How New York A. C. Grew From Tiny 14th St. Rooms To Present Place in Sport opinion as | the | J along | bu ©. of Providence R. 1, which {the now famous water course on the |his knowledge of baseball as President at No. 6 East gain ana tchm@aker Jobu Doberty 28th Street, which is now the site of erson has ar the club,built ; etic trackyand Gran More than_reventh-five members the TraMc Cb of New Yorke: lered at the Hackens: }terday for th | petition of the season. | fan won the thirty-six hole net award | for ¢ A with 185—36—-149, while J. S. Marvin was the gross winner with }168. In Class B J. A. Barber had a thirty-six hole gross total of 190, while F. W. Smith had low net with 197— 42—155, Box Scores of Games Played By Local Clubs AT ST. LOUIS. NEW YORK (Ny, | er Bill” Curtis and John C. Bab- | ing and Swimming and Gradually ports, Holding First Cinder Track versary to Be Celebrated So- ST, LOUIS (x) b Co nen Fisuer, 2) Jfield at 130th Street and Harlem 18 | River, which is now the site of the | zinta, wire 8 6 foundation for the Harlem Bridge. It | Sicking Mod 2 | was there, on Oct. 21, 1871, that they | Thorpe, es ee Hormiy, a8 2 2 6 staged the first outdoor athletic meet Geuraies, 43en in the United States. Packard, 3 e190 WILLIAM B. CURTIS WON DIA- MOND SCULLS ON HARLEM. At that time rowing had become the | chief diversion of the club memb and on July 1873, William B. Curtis won the famous Diamond Sculls” presented by Eugene M. Earle, a | Horas. low club member, in the first I T,, eel. a florne7. G fiver regatta Cruse, Stolen Hase—Heathoote, Sa. Little by little the club overcame ce Fir—Rariden, De ice toward all forms of 's. ‘The club grew and beca | tionally famous, so much so ¢ and commodious clubrooms were the prejud le ob- tained at Broadway and Thirty-sixth Street in 1874. On June 27 of the same | ‘Pints inn.ng fn tw and one third ‘year, the club inaugurated its new | alae. Schupo,, 81 ty Remares, ; Id at Mott Haven, wi Winning Pitcher—Demires, | open handicap. athletic | tatne Pitcher Doak, wun Pitcher . he country was held July 2%|aT POL The club had produced some ex- ea es ent swimmers and on Sept. 30, DETROIT (A), | Sew yorm® (a). the first amateur swimming pug «@, P11? 4° spe es championships were held under the 333 auspices of the club, During the fol- Goby et. lowing year, the first athletic meet (un ji)" d in Gilmore's Garden, which ame the internationally fam- dison Square Garden, the tab- ernacle of sports, ‘ Aug. 9, 187), is an outstanding date Janie, p in the history of National athletic. On t day, the N. Y. A. C. inaugurated tho first’ cinder track in the United Thormadlen States, and also made the initial an- ff ets nouncement that thereafter rowing Nes owi’ 9198308 8 ok contests would be included with all — Ruae—Detrot) Bush, Cunaipgham, Heilman athletic events. fr, New York: Peckingaug, Home Rua Alfred H. Curtis had risen to the Waiter, olen Bh mlbeny, echt height of popularity among hia fellow jouble "Plage sat Sa Lat oe club members in 1882, and was unan- Baws New York Detroit, 1 Bint Ba imously acclaimed for the club Presi- 92 Eom New York, 1. Base on Balle on dency. it Mr, Curtis, realizing that [ttecont Whormalicn O'te ores tt ne Pa the club was suffering financially, saw Keating, 9 ts two inulog, Mi, by the need of a wealthy man with a Tormalilen 1 (K. Joues) 8: substantial following in the Presi-| Awe miter imma! | | dent's chair and summarily William | SPCOND Gare, R. Travers was vested with the title.| DETROIT. iW YORK (A) At that time the club maintained! 9... 4? a quarters at the old Crescent Gym- | R fone ab |Nasium in Twenty-third Street near Walker, cf | Sixth Avenue joan, Hs A |ALFRED CURTIS PUT OVER A | MASTER STROKE. Ries”: Mr. Alfred Curtis, who served as lce President under Mr, Travers, |then put over a master stroke that made the club stand out prominently ot 80 12°28 10 O'Totala in the affairs of the athletic wor! One’ out when winning mn was word, Ninile, talking one day with a mem-| phate for Hannah in elghth toning ver of the famous London Athletic mite for or fer Wal as | Club of London, England, he learned | NewYork 1b 0 00 0.0.0 8 8 Se jthat Bob Rogers, the English club ‘jiune Detroit: Walker, 2. N |trainer, was the best man of his Pim, Keating. Taotaw Hie Profession in the world, Sou. Uh. Bodie, Whree- Bue Bit » Mr. Curtis was told, however, that PP aeeeee eat inp Vigo. Pratt and? {t would be {mpossible to ‘wean 8: Detroit, 10. Rogers away from London. Never- Jase theless, he immediately despatched cable to that particular gentleman and was thunderstruck to receive |his acceptance on the following day. jIt seems that Rogers had just had AT CHICAGO, |& tiff with one of his club governors | BROOKLET (8) and jumped at the chance to come to this country, V8 Rogers remained as club trainer ar until he died, Aug. 9, 1884, and de- 4 | veloped many athletes who later be- came champions in their respective Pools,» | MWhes specialties, Grimes... 7 1 1 The club held the first cross coun Greatest of all the club's athletic Jachievements was the scoring of the greatest number of points by the wearers of the Winged Foot at the EMPIRE CITY TRACK: (YONKERS & MT. VERNON) TOMORROW lem Division’ muiar traina |banded two weeks ago, is going abroad as a secretary of the Knights of Colum. war organization, In addition to of the Western, Central, Rocky Moun- tr tate Leagues Mr, Dicks Band Sunway to W been identified with all § dereme Ave., thence by trolley direst) ches of athletics and was an editor t) on ‘olumbus, Denver an Rapids papers, Ladies ei:08) “aactuline’