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os BEFORE EATING DEMPSEY’S WAIST IS 34 INCHES. EXPANDED, 48. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUERS SEE POLO GROUNDS GAME ——— ‘This Organization 1s About the Only One, Outside of | the Major Leagues, Still) Feverishly Awaiting Washington’s Ultimatum. By Hugh S. Fullerton Ooorriety! 1018 by The Prem Pyblwh'ne Co, (The New York Bvening World) in desperate counter attack a atmed to postpone the demise of the ASEBALL spent yesterday business portion of the sport. at Cleveland the American League doc- patient in spite of Dunn's announce: ment that = rigo! “ mortis had set in bi . “tthe & ns “forces were . 2 ing the situation anew, having Hl finda ppealed to ( all directions rant a reprieve at the last minute The been tors were striving to inject nitro glye- erine and keep the breathing Jim r At Washington administration study- n n from National League, warned that | Gen, Crowder had mercifully granted | the big leagues until Wednesday to| Joined camp was a_ riot swarmed upon the retary Johnson, demanding that they be given their transportation home, declaring that they were liable to be |put in Class A and forced to fight | rhey didn’t want to wait even a The play manager and (This does not apply to all of th A few laughed and they were ready when needed would stick to the club until the Government calls them for any line of duty.) Meantime the long distance tele phones were busy with players ber ging for jobs in the shipyards and steel league teams. One player, who only a short time ago was offered $3,600 by an ex-employee f the Browns to go to a shipyards ball club was asking that club to give him a chance, Evidently fighting with ball player: Players running out on their teams to take belated jobs in the army or navy or in the Government industries fs not popular | are reported from various parts of the |compass. It is doubtful whether the players, even if the Government grants the leagues exemption from the work or fight order until fall. A sad part of it from the stand- point of interest in the races is that |the Red Sox, practically has dis- | banded following Owner Dunn's in- sistent declaration that he wants :o stop the season at once. The Boston Hew Sox 4 some ol the stronger tenms may hang together fairly well and the Giants can hold quite a bail Jelub, the chances being much doosted because Hollacher and O'Far- ca everday the navy and. Killifer an- nounced that he was going immedi- THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JULY 1918. SPORT WORLD NEWS OF ALL KINDS Rermarkable Golf Shots by Experts KUMAGAE TO PLAY. 12—By Bobby Jones (Southern Champion) e ly : a file nem belets (|. @ ony Mee aay | ety How a Shot From a Stone Quarry Wona Match in 'G ry moved the date of their called meet- | ‘ e eesti : ri * A Sab Geos Wednendey to today, bad] gut She ace of Be otnatem. te the 1916 National Championship and Made a late yesterday all the owners and | to the lead of the rac 1ounced the Big R SOB JONES those interested were scurrying to- | purchase Fred Toney from the g Reputation for the Atlanta Youth. 5) ward Pittaburgh, where the meet-! Cincinnati Reds. (The changes in a a CN ORAL SER we oO ing will be held, instead of in New (these two ts rfean practica ee eters peat ‘York, where it was originally planned | cinch for the Giants to HBN a player under trying conditions make particularly goo — - | to gather tional League pennant t . golf shot it can be safely said that it is quite remarkable. 1 The American League magnates | continue, and the Red Sox, with well remember one of these situations during the national cham met in Cleveland, but with the tele-| Cleveland smashed, ought to wade) |, bade HS pee One: be net cleuere Box Scores of graph busy from Washington they | through to victory. Pionship at Merion two years ago. It was my first appearance North and it | Pl wore notified that Secretary of War| Without desiring to quarrel " h the was the most important championship I ever competed in, Naturally 1] Games ayed Baker and Provost Marshal Crowder |Giant management, the purchase of| wanted to i ia ial see set ate cession and the obeer- | Toney and the previous purchase of| “ented to make & favorable impression. By Local! Clubs jng word came from the men who | Bob Stee ave rather a tid ra in | Things went nicely until my match with Mr. Fownes, a veteran former | ‘were at work at the capital that base- | one’s mou: ney is under a heavy | holder of the natio tle, 1 nip and tuel ni, Reachin our pall might. be permitted to continue |cloud and Steele Jumped once to the of the national title, It was u nip and tuck fight, Reaching t | er, vous uw, | XBW YORK (a) until October. | shipyards and came back when the} enth, I promptly sliced a brassie shot badly and my chances of wi ng een | 1b ye 8 Gen. Crowder’s announcement that | Giants bgught him. oked considerably slimmer, The long fourteenth at Merion is a treache Valdwell of 8 2 $ 0 the baseball interests have until — ons hole, a deep stone quarry being ‘especially dangerous for sliced shots. Sormther SoS. fF 2 8 10 Wednesday rather cast a cold gloom HE other element which the own- | Into this wonderful natural hazard went my bull, My opponent walked over 0 Hyatt $47 oe over Ue optimista, and further jarred ers appear to neglect in their | aud, seeing my predicament, asked if I was going to pick up. Foal 8B oe the sensitive intellects of the athletes, nasty plans to keep tho came alive Being only fourteen at the time, my temper rather quickly came: to the : $0 Beale, if B 3 £22 afound tor fear they Will have fe is the attitude of the public. If the | set face and I flashed this reply: “Pick up hell! Watch this shot.” With these Houck,’ p13 0 1 30; Walem, e-.3 1 6 38 BOOT a engin aouitie -—aehibh is cone | poblio eta the iden (Hat baseball le worasis let dy with & powertnl nmlsk) the atals clin head Just ealahing pannel ¢.. f i H oy ered quite an honor in some quar-| slacking or that it is not trying | the ball right The shot was made a little easier because the ball was Pinneras. p.. 0 00 to help the Government, keeping on | lying in a small pateh of soft dirt between two ledkes of stone | Mogridae, 9. 0 9 9 99 |will be worse than quitting the bre ‘The stroke was timed accurately, the ball risins quickly and easily, Hltnooieg il g 90! ASKBALL is feverishly attempt-|#on entirely. I have an idea that! eteariug the top of the quarry bank. It sailed t for the n, about Ue rreagie 8 ges. Pople, Would, supnert baseball 159 yards. The ball sd within seven feet of the hole, maki wassy | Totale i ieee 13 Lfadd ng now to lock the stable door Would jgupnort paseth | 190 yarda, The ball stopped within " » ma an easy af totals ,....52 14 06180 weiter the horse has escaped. The | teams ane ssed of kide and vete-ana | Outt. P po nh ord Veron | *Ran for Hyatt im the eugtsth’ innine, American Association has closed, the playing. but that the fans will give Mr, Fownes wa surprised that he missec 8 putts, which gave mo | for Hannah in the ninth inning, Fastern League has closed, and the| terrific roasting to players of the Aifficult hole. 8 shot was directly responsible for my winning (ae | for Mogrsiae in the mined ining. x Zs ee draft age who continue to play, even h and it supplicd reporters much material about the wonderful 00011001 COvb oe International is hanging on waiting| nde the Government — sanction. shot from a stone quarry made by the youth star from Atlanta Satie: calins\ ca Aleehisk: 62 Gavia ° a) r par developments. the entire International L ctically was at the Polo Grounds yesterday watehir the Yankee the St. Louis Browns battle fifteen torrid innings to a tie There is a real chance that the Gov- ernment may ext nd clemency to the major leagues and grant them until September or October to conform with the work or fight order, But even if such a reprieve is granted, the baseball business is practically wrecked. The magnates, having through their complacent belief that thelr game Government to their shorisightedness interfere with, was too important for the and in forcing al decision without presenting their case fully, now are striving to do in a day what they ought to have been doing ‘weeks ago. E’ in convincing the Federal au 'thorities that they should be permit-| }ted to play out their schedules, the | more or leas of a joke} races will be from now on The owners may vote (and National League, through Dreyfuss announces that they will vote) to if the club owners succeed the Barney continue the season, but they reckon without two other rather in sapere ant items—the players and the | corking aibnc. ? "he major league pmyers within| which he did with great agility, ‘Truly | within the next the draft age and of deferred claasifi-| they looked better than the majority | Join the naval ton who would be affected by the Crowder omer are in a state af panic. Pipp_and Githooley disappeared from the Yank camp prior to Yerterday's game and several others were on the running point In the camp of the St. | Browns Saturday and eirenuous. Manager Lou Sunday were Jimmy Burke spent the greatest day of tis mana- gerial career striving to hold a enough players in the fold to be sure to obey the orders of Jonson to play the wled until further orders. Saturday night in the St, President mames as ached- Louis There are symptoms of that already. Browns played yester- HE Yanks and fifteen torrid day and finished tied on account of | darkness, It would have been better to call it on acgount of exhaustion or wet grounds. \Ping Bodie almost bomred down in Wet grounds his own perspiration. It was not very good baseball and it was evident that the minds of thc players were not on the pastime |They fielded as if every batted bail was an exemption, but they hit as if | reclassified. The eff to keep un |the “pep” and spirit of the old |was rather painful in spots. | game started under a cloud. The teams warmed up and were all ready to play when it was discovered that there were no umpires on the ficld vana and Hildebrand were supposed \to be on deck to officiate, but Evans hastened to Washington Saturday night amd it is supposed he Is one 9 thase who are busy striving to keep the leagues alive, After a time Looie Bierhalter, the an umpire and trainer of the St Browns, and Mike Donlin, the nt etar, were dragged out into They aid and Mike innings from \ Loui old € | the swelter and umpired. jo of ampiring, lot of close ones to handle, had a of umps who have worked on the Polo Grounds this season. Thormahlen and Wright and pitched weil, but wilted heat. grabbed the lead, eighth and ninth mered out enough rune to tie ft up. \Then they battled six upeless rounds, | with sadly patched up and reinforced teams, and although there was a lot of daylight left, amateur umpe decided to conserve as much of It as possible. It fen’t fair to make volon- teer umpires work fifteen tnings with the thermometer at started in the and then the Yanks ham in the MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE, CLUBS W. TL. Po. Cinein 44 ABT Y,. «tb 4 | Boston, 4m 430 Pitts ..44 30 | Bkiyo 47 420 Phila ..39 43 476 | St. L.. 35 52 402 GAMES YESTERDAY. Pittsburgh, 7) Boston, 2, GAMES TO-DAY. No games scheduled, | AMERICAN LEAGUE, CLUBS W. L. Pe. [CLUBS W. L. Pe. Boston, .65 34 .618| st, L...40 45 471 Cleve ..50 42 .543| Chieago.d0 47 455 Wash 4|Phila .86 49 424 N.Y 0 | Detrott.36 50 419 | GAMES YESTERDAY. |New York, 4; St, Louis, 4 (15 innings; ealied). Boston, 1; Detroit, O (Ist game), Boston, 3; Detroit, 0 (24 game), Washington, 3; Chicago, 2, GAMES TO-DAY. |Bt, Lonte at New York, | Detroit at Boston, Chicago #t Weshington, HOW THE OTHER CLUBS MADE OUT NATIONAL LEAGUE. At Pitubureh Bamton Ha 6 ocaadt 000908 " 000504 rer—Nebé and Wilson; AMERICAN LEAGUE, At Boston -Firt petiole ey BO% 00000 000000000 R. Co) = Batteriee—James and Spenene; Agvew san and At Rowton Benne RH B, ( oO 4 mer L00000010-4 0011000001 312 1 tterler—Bece “kad elak: Harper’ and ‘Pict ‘ eT ‘The Browns came from behind, | Diamond Dust ), CINCINNATI, July To strengthen his shaky pitching force John J. Me-! |Graw has bought Fred Toney, the big wi pr for Matty’s Reds last year | ‘Vhe amount paid was not given out, but| it was declared there, were no other] yers involved in the deal Toney bee KON poorly 1 Red d, and the change to a New York! uniform m do him good, He has lost nine of his last ten games, Last year he performed brilliantly, winning twen- ty-four and losing sixteen contests, | with an earned run percentage aga him of 2.20 runs per nine inning gam | CLEVELAND, July 23.—James, C.| | Dunn, President of the Cleveland Club | who on Saturday announced that the peal park would be closed after Sun- |day's double header, sald to-day that Indians Ww lay its scheduled game here to-morrow, provided the Status of the "work or fight" order is| efinitely settled by that time, Other-| w he said, the Cleveland team. will) not play its game with New York on {that day. The game scheduled for} veland Philadelphia. to-day h been advanced, leaving the Cleveland tcam idle until to-morrow. First Basoman Walter Pipp of the New York Yankees left for his home ir Grand Rapids. Mich. yesterday, as he| | will be called into the National Army| few days, Pipp willl branch of the aviation | | service JAMPSTOWN, . oe. Erickwon, pitcher on the | Detrc American League team for the past two years, left to-day for Camp Dix July 23 pete | | with the local draft contingent. | | PHILADELPHIA, July 23. — Scott Perry of the Athletics alowed the Ph adelphia Nationals one scratch hit an exhibition game. ‘The only run o the game Was sca by the Amer on @ pass, out, and single, The game was for the benefit of the family of the late W. G._ Weart eretary of the Rasebali Writers’ Association — of | | America, and morp than 5,800 persons | were present | INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Juty 23.7) Cobb and Christy Mathewson have beer asked to manage two all-star baseba teams to play In ten of the largest cit of the country withia Ue next month as apart of the athletic programme of the International Patriote Athletic As sociation, Under the plan suggested a kame between the two clubs, the pls tra on which would be selected later would be the principal feature of one day during. the six days’ tourney planned for each of the principal cities of the country this sea The tour- neys will begin next month, | ATLADELPHIA, the Phijadelphia mare making arrangements to obey he “work or fight” order. P Kilmer Jacobs says he intends to Ko to July Yat Members Levgue of t his home in Missouri and |brakeman on the Iron Mol road. Catcher Jack Adams Hogg, Prendergast and Ovschger and | |Inficiders Bancroft and Hem: | Ineway are making ments to ac- | cept. jobs with @ Delaware River ship building company, Cy Williams will go buck his. Wisconsin farm, Ju I 1 will he ships at Ma t 6 Eddle work ina fish Cal; Outf at M has appited tor a position in th ov lds of Southern California, Milton? Stock will look for work in a Mobil (Ala.) shipyard, and "Dixie" ei in the navy. Davia has | SMOKER OF HIG The blending is exceptional AKERS OF THE HIGHEST GRADE EGYPTIAN GIGARE lray, who twic | Harry C. TURKISH GIGARETTES ARE MADE ESPECIALLY FOR THE DISCRIMINATING AND EXPERIENCED TURKISH CIGARETTES TTES INTH ~ INBIG TOURNEY T GREENWICH Many Other Tennis Stars Ex- pected to Compete, Begin- ning Friday Kumagne, t New York ate sing! ip title on the courts at Utica the leading lehiya winner oF ung will t ompetitor in in vitation tournament which will begin jon Friday it the Greenwich Weld Club, Greenwich, Conn Lindley Mur- famous here the It is expected that RK. © defeated the Japaneso player when he two years ago; Beals C. Wright, former national champion; Nathaniel W. Niles, Theodore Roosevelt Vell, Johnson and Walter Merrill Hall will also be competitors A special series of round robin com- petitions has been arranged for the women's part of the tournament. Miss Molla Bjurstedt, the national clam- pion; Miss Marion Zinderstein, Mrs. George W. Wightman, formerly Miss Hazel Hotchkiss, the national cham- pion, and Miss Eleanor Goss will pi ticipate in this event In addition to the singles ments for the women and the men ot |the top ranking class there will be doubles and special exhibition mateh- es to fill out three days on the courts tourna- The entire proceeds of the tourna nent will be donated to the War D- partment Commission on ‘Training Camp Activitie | Cudgel Given Top Weight for Handicap at Spa Weights are announced for the toga Handicap of $7,000 at and @ quarter to be run on ‘Thurw Aug. 1, the opening day of the summer meeting of the Saratoga elation at Saratoga Springs. named, Hourless won’ —_—_—>— NEW INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. mid- Asn Although Games Ye oogene 4; Buffale 8; Bufiaie, ‘Toromto, Gamen Vo-Day. ‘Toronto at Jew City, Bufialo at Newark Rechewtar at Ra)timore, H GRADE face to They are just like meeting your Best Girl REMEMBER—The others like your “BG.” LONDON, July 75. HAT should you watch at @ The ball Keep your eye on the ball, If you do that you will hot miss much When the pitcher. He He throw it You can { fifty to the bat from the with @ bat the ball. 100 It s game will starts, watch bow! the throw it hard, llow it with your eye. feet o go before It com tr. You can tell the batter or he is the only man You can see him swat at not will the ball If he misses it, it counts one strike, Maybe he will not nit | CASINO). Way Ait at it and yet the umpire will call out ff Gomely"\es AT) trike.” ‘That means it was a true | ‘aie ELUMDSI Be 12008 | ball, right over the nome plate in | Ponalar Mat, Wed. Rex. ‘Seat, “ee front of the atter, lower than s mt Bway, Bes, 8.90. shoulder and higher than his knec ASTOR Gis 5S 350, Nee | Three strikes put him “out.” Fou: Rock-A- Baby” “ites wide or wild balls thrown by the Teumo | pitcher give the batter first base. You can tell when he hits the all It may soar high and go far. It may drive swiftly along the ground — It may fall not far in front of the batter In any case he dashes off as fast he can run for first base, If the b soars and is caught he is ‘ou! can see that. If the batter is not caught out It becomes a race for first base. If he gots there before the ball can be stopped and thrown to tho first baseman he is # In suen case he will stay on first base, ready to try nd base when oppor- tunity offers, then perhaps for third base, and even eventually back to home base, hia starting point. He must put “o to score, get there before he ic "by his opponents, the fleld ing team, and before three other bat- | ters of his side are put “out.” Three men “out” retires a side for one of the nine Innings of a game. if the runner fails to weary and intermittent co the base which pi at the four corners of the big diamond, he does not score, Nothing but passing omplete his ae around the home plate makes a point in baseball. Watch the runners, You can sve one of them get to first base, You can tell when he reaches second. No one will need to tell you he ix well on his way to score when he gets to third. And if he come straining and sprint ing for ‘home” and gets there with- out being touched by the ball in tho hands of one of the fielding ten, you will know it—you will feel it You will know that means one sccre for the side that is batting, The teams wear distinctive uniforms, You re he! ed. = Y. iH [ritatanich one han aeored. Way iil TIGER ROSE af » oly. —————— ith in loud app! Losaad 5) DI HUDSON* Sat ry RACING SELECTIONS. BERNARD es | YONKERS. TIRBEOTY Waaia | piinn, Race. Koh-t Noor, Paddy replat Yara et, : | Pecans ema || “GOING UP”; He | prhird Race —Gnoland, Trophy, oer b 70N e, A Isidore, Han- Rout. Hamilton A., Cobalt, Fifth, Midnight Sun. Sixth Race-—The Tramp, Taras- con, Peter. face, FRED FULTON HAS A REACH OF 84 INCHES, PURSESIDE, What London Daily Mail’s Expert Thinks of Baseball Some people Watch the streak from 1o. Most Americans @. ball as it goes like the pitcher. Watch %® when the batter smashes at it. Keep your eye on it.when he hits it, See? | the fielder stop it. Watch him threw © it. The ball and the runner will Be apart, Keep your eye on the balk” You will see the game if you do. That is the way to see baseball. THEATRES. OTH ST. iss, wie Woe Wed Rats EYES OF YOUTH iii Woof Bway, Eve, BROADHURST MAYTIME. John? Gatien "thats & Perey Wood. ROOF CENTURY THEATRE AT L190, CENTURY GROVE “inxjorr Keaatifal Girt a - - A BIG nr. Move RING. SHUBERT 0,9.) 9 yg, Be, im Mat! Wel, & saé,, Blanche BATES Holbrook’ RENIN in GETTING Ha Hal OOTH #8... ttm 7." ta, Wed The Stuart Wa Te ate, Wate SEVENTEE naton's Comex! & at za th ST. 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