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

THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, AUGUS OTHER “SURE THING’ GUYS ........ (Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World. Bie act Now. BY CHIMINIE S, pouT You sTeT TIL LL, 1GET ME OER ( von mice teh een, FRONT | | | | | Lewis-Leonard Match Talked | Of, the Biggest Pugilistic | 7 F Event to Come. T as we suspected. There is & { a J real match in the making, It} AUTO will bring together Benny Leon-| RACING WOULO ard and “Kid" Ted Lewis, the lght- RE A Pipe FOR weight champion and the title holder | Hie. among the welters, Leonard knocked out Johnny Kilbane in a handicap match and now he is after the honors | ; in the class above nim. ‘This match | (9 9- 100 é an . has been talked about ever since | Leonard whipped Freddie Welsh, but | (yoa- “768 ce because Lewis was hooked up with Jammy Johnson there never was a chance of its being clinched, John- fon insisted all along that Lewis could beat Leonard and mado all kinds of concessions in the weight line on behalf of Lewis, Leonard and Bily Gibson, his manager, turned the deaf ear to all of Johnson's offers and ' what looked like the best pugilistic attraction possible always went -glimmering. Now, however, condi- | tions are different, Johnson is no longer manager of Lewis and Gibson feels that he can go ahead with the! (F SPORTS WERE PLAYED ACCORDING match without a thought of Johnson, | The result is that the match is prac- TO Faire HED U wind | ny m WALI tically on, Leonard never had the slightest fear of Lewis and his re fusal to meet him was Just a matter . - of principle. Benny fecis that he wil WouLOdT SeaarP UNLESS I} Berane able beating. the wellar Pt RO |Scandalous Steeplechases weight champion than he has had ple WAS SURE OF A 100 Gop tere ye Ce it -——— At Last Spur Stewards -. 220 wn ten ae ee the ntweight champion can beat wicca ates) rom Championship Now oe date set for the Leonard-Lewis fight and we don't know who will promote the bout, but It looks like the biggest ’ Se In Mann with ¢ ‘abb: pugilistic event to come, Giants’ Hopes of Pennant ith one hand, grabbed at the urther Investigation Be-| see. ball, bounced tt out, ot his hands! cause of His “Raw” Ride on| Two track recor Were Reviving When Chi-| twice and then But in the eight out when Killifer sin | handing by Frankie Robinson, won en-Money Favorite, |the fifth race, a da ran the course in 1 7 and| Two we Cut Loose and) two aero. OLF champions have atruck G many vicious shots on the links} Cago Boys q this summer for the common : , i Tnda Hits ligad te catise, Taeut, Francis Cumer, white} cnowed Them Under With] ater } on short furloughs from Camp| Hits and Runs. fun, j Devens, has computed in nearly fif- has eee a Denney By Hugh S. Fullerton. — |‘"°, || and Mann walloped drew a pass, Flack ney to the limit, then 1 sent home Chicago's first he hit was o that Doyle, in 3. would have handled PAR ATCO A QUE: @ By mut he did not get near UBLIC opinion, the mighty lever. | nis side, duo to skin trouble, anc ‘hen Hollocher singled n Bound in 1910. teen benefit matches has aroused the stewards here | j)undering, incomp Chick Evans, devoting much of his hit to right and who represent the Natlonal|saddie by McAtee, got home in fr 4 Cnrsieht yeaa Thttidhine Co, ‘hearer { ne ” 0 : y Mc , Bot home in froat } time pain Bae work, PA tee en- (The Evening World ile id ey wap call iy, Was KTOKEY | Steeplechase and Hunt Association | for the last race by a nose and place¢ tire list. ‘The young national ama- WO were out in the eighth inning, | Mtop the a ‘ bang of gihi siya etlo! e chas the new record for five and a hal cur and pfofessional title holder stop the assault, The call came too |!nto action, The steeplechases at Sara~ | ruriongs at be the Chicago Cubs we beaten a}iate. P: were again | the streak showed. | Reddest, the Heavily Backed smashed. Corn Tassel, under perfect | — -— i of a milo, and 1-5, clipping a ond off the mark hung ar Realm, despite big blotches on | | ‘t do it him- — eae N othing Can Keep Cubs . Into Action at Saratoga tent work in the ting out thel the } T 6, 1918, BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK | + » +. « SY Paornton Fisher’ DB} {GUESS | BET ME %1Q. ON COT Horse MIT FOUR HED WANT TO BE SURE THAT THE NAGS IN THE RACE HAD BROKEN LEGS EXCEPTING HIS Own SPERM ME TO SPRESENT THE FIRST \ pene FoR Your Branuant victory! Cor THE REST OF (OANr s me FIELO jin their thoroughbreds instead of ynes Suspended Pending] (i, Yresent prevailing idea to foster AND AGAINST A FIELO OF INVALIOS HEO GRAB THE COVETED eUuP ier, he might have a knockout, for in the nth hth rounds he fought Moore from 0 post. Sharkey had the better first three rounds, He. stalled the n In t and as he n| and bad days, its the odds against Wa the horses that prove more perplex- ing to him than anything els fe| pillar had a “tip” on Corn Tassel, and, walk- | of the ing up to “Little Buck,” a commis- | durin sioner for lavers, said: lw a| “Hoy, Buck, w is tho price | a against Corn Tassel “Lil give you 4 to 2. Mr. Sharkey,” | id the polite Little Buck. * AUTO STARS “QUARRELLING replied Sharkey.! QVER CONDITIONS OF RACE giving vent to his powerful lungs in 4} "You will’ not, orer : pais neat of . “You can't 3, \ shows forty-eight matches to hie] ; ; ‘askert sin toga this season havo been little |recent record made by his stable| Seain ti : Ralph De Palma, world's. champion if redit, which have earned well over | to 0, the Giants’ faded and wilted | runs came across, short of a scandal, Harsh criticism | Lace Work, by @ fifth of a|/@alp the nrico on iinet brave land record t ‘and. Louis Chevro: t $100,000. hopes of a championship were begin- | ** ES J | of the jockeys who rode in them could | ouek can get all the 7 to § I | jet, specdway k of 1917, now want \ i J ar . The victory of the Cubs sent them | 's victo proug' want, | to ‘decide the condit the Inter i Dine played Te pa0.000" fens | Oe to revive slightly when bing,| six and a half games to the lead in| ard morning and night, but the | Wien te locas elanine lat ‘tol py All right. Mr. Sharkey." said Little | national Sweepstakes, on Saturday’ af | raeneel 5 bang, bloole! the| the National League race and pra rds, believing’ the Jockeys, like | ¢ a This is the greatest | Buck. Eve eS e Tay Rota ek tigi entries ihren stort: locate ' ie settled doubt as to the out- bp dibia - ellow, u ave 7 to 5." ac r entries in a ort to ob- Laverty tournaments, special club hits rolled off the| {ically settled all doubt as to the out kings took no heed of mutterings un- number of 8 won by any one| “474 a can have 7 to be sction| tain their demands, De Palms insists | ca ie Feud inaioe avant bats of the Chi-| Clints have ceased t Gs muons The | ti yesterday. Then they camo out of since the opening of the racing | Sharkey’ ve srded the bot 14 to 10,| that the race be in one heat from 100 F 118 season should realize fn whe heer Acnae ee @ ceased to be 8 ‘ fi t the Jamaica track. Besides / ‘ . ) miles, The Italian speed demon Seeman aera ise ce cagoans, ‘Toney oi their trance, for the riding of Red- dut Hucka’ grin was worth Just 81. these events, Billy Karrick, who ‘is Yanks are wabbling through | dest, the even money favorite, was 80 | trains for H. K. Knapp, ho ir final Western trip. They| “Faw” that even they were compelled | victories to his credit, a total of twen war chest. faded, wilted, its dropped and was | t © ridiculed as being a good four other! SHARKEY PUTS | UP GREAT ee lared to-day that pis victories in » Harkness Handicap at the Bay on and in the Liberty Handieap nati on July 4, as well as in lady'a acusement, leade all sports dragged out, and|did not lose yesterday because they|to take action, They suspended B. | ty-two winners. | No other trainer has BOUT AT SHORT NOTICE. the, sprint “meet ‘nt cnicago “June” 28, i poses. bs ale Cecil Algernon) played the game a day in advance, |#aynes pending further investigation, poe ing approaching this record this | Pcie ILA AL Gntitle ‘him fo the Hight to name con- Causey — Was|and to-day they will stat the final| Reddest, Crest Hill, Infidel 24 and | Jack Sharkey, the west side bi —— ier -—. HP Japs have been noted as thrown into thelscrios in the West at Chicago, Huge | Barly Light were in the contest, with | hose are strenuous days for Tom|!* one of the most remarkable boxers) Ronde Womld, Fight Dempeey: {} hustling imitators ever since rear guard ac-| ging is in rather desperate straits.|the first named heavily backed and | Sharkey sailor pugilist, who once | ! ieee Le Aig Las lod took On | tached to the navy ne . i the day Commodore Perry paid tion, and an in-| Ho had figured that the season would| Crest Hill well supported just before | Upon a tin loomed up large as Moet, tbe clever MAmipn ie vaipee |e ve) | i his famous visit to the little brown stant later the 0 Aug. 20 and that he would | post time, From the atart to the fin- lente roeoee: atarkas’ In monet AA. of Jersey City, and, according | 4 en j men, This Oriental trait 1s manifest- , ancient and hon-| {7% 4), kel (rough with the fow te lish the horses merely galloped, the | jucky picking winners, and som many Ne honores Be that as ie may, | ie Ween Shale ing itself in sports, Tennis and golf Kits cradle Dode Pas-| expected decision of the American| time, 4 , being 27 seconds behind | not quite so | appeal especially to the Far Eastern- é kert bumped him | League to bow to the bs of the| the record, All the jockeys judging ers. Ichiya Kumagae, most capablu| for a single that sent two more runs| Ni al and extend the season until] py the way they rode, had “waiting” Labor Day knocked his plans sky h p ten of the Jap tennis p {high Now he has not enough play ers, gives plonty | acroas and wrecked McGraw's last orders. Keach rider kept looking at ra > " Matty’s team has smashed, thro and practised the latest model of] these surpriving Cubs, who can’t hit] internal differences which nave ruined | caped having his license tennis playing, particuarly the metho of choking Ta ott at the-nate 4) (any one can prove that by the|the team that at the start of the| claiming that the orders bh ' | of proof how his countrymen copy! hope Jers to carry on through tho r \his neighbor as much as to say: | "a ae oe pe lB Yr nm through the remainder | | their foreign models, Nothing but a train’ wreck or an|of tho season, and is skirmishing for) “Don't let me detain you, s ‘Two years ago Kuma e mp a hing but F y go K ae competud y : keep the | Minor league talent to help out Is Soaan lta sth cal 1 vs, an | Wl tae fatlonal charaplonenis er ror. | insunetion it now seome can keep the | Sinar inague talent to help out. | || Despite the slow pa ynes, an | est Hills, His was the old traditional|Cubs from winning the National) agy' and in spite of the fact flint thal (Gln teat Sk ein Or deat neck | English ‘game everything from the! League championship; and the | Dodgers were trimmed and shut out| twelve lengths in the rear ind kept | a baseline. Ms system got the little | Giants are get rid of them.| by the ls yesterday, the Chicago-|the horse there until the last jump } brown visitor past two rounds. ‘Then | Much as likes Robby, he] ans are liable to get d much harder! when Reddest began to close on the } Mr. Kamagae encountered Orge| probably is glad to wish those Cubs| git on the other side of the river) leader, Crest Hill, but the half-heart- Church, who plays the aggressive net | off onto his old side kick in Br than they did on this, cd effort camo when the race was i game 80 popular with American stars.|iyn with the hope that the Dod ‘The saddest part of the final game| practically over and Crest Hill won H @ Jap was a 6 scouraged and path-| may repeat the dose they gave Ube | of the Js in Brooklyn was the fight neck, with Infidel 2d second, ! etic little figure as he chased around | Cubs out in Chi between Earl Neale and Lee Magee on vgtha in front of Reddest. This ii the court first one side then the other tho fleld, ‘The fight seems to be aclimax | is not the first time Haynes has been it trying desperately to compete with ITH a view of what may hap-|of the troubles that have arisen in the| suspended, Last year he. prevented | one} a aligin ay 0 ¥ 3 . s we 7 ‘ gutting the b i cust nutter renal pen if a World'y Series really) Cincinnatt club and seems to mark| Expectation, owned by J. B. Wide i iting: the ball Just oot of | ls to be played, it may be interesting [the beginning of the end of the man-| from beating ‘Trumpator ¥ P. He went back to his Flowery Kingdom | to study the habits and the system of | \f rial carcor | iristy Mathewson.|G, I. Weidner, Both horses were ie trained by J. H. Lewis, Haynes es- | Kumague is back among us again, |Zigures), who are weak (which also | Season Ngured to be tho best In the} from Trainer Lawis hoy racquet wie ‘shows in the dope), and who are not] league, with the exception of the! pectation caused the troubl tournament just | dangerous, mve in pitching, With|Glanta. The team has not been hurt about the defeat of ‘ung to the {much by the draft and stands as an-| but pitch and {other monument to the failure of the | whe s by bring mount | a greatly improv In the Metropolita srasic ha Gut loOAe with all kinds of] tile. tenn, Wh ing ewarda of the Jockey Club— | shots, The Jap was the most polished | dope, can do n hi L H player in the championship and had|cateh, Mitchell has managed to lead cnystom ndling ball] Messrs, Knapp, Hitchcock, Miller, | little trouble winning the t the | and in the final challenge vewson must d tho] Sanford and W —n n the Club the failure, but it is not} Hou h iring the aftern Now Ichiya intends to compete In| Serle team has whipp beaten | | ‘he National Ament later in the aad Oltgeneralled the Giants a Mat ho or any one else can| Krank Keogh, who | : onth. Kun «18 Now @ real yel- [every point and at every stage of the a Cincinna ub under the] Herz and Joseph BE, Widener | tennis courts, pane present ownership on, Was refused a iicen: yw perii—on t ' iE United States has start to experience the same misfor- ie triumph 1s more that of a rent and his application to-d ral than that of a skilled army denied. No reason for this ¢ ell revealed the re efulnes ivanced by tho Stewards, but ramor | 4 Ht revonied che resnuroerines | NEW INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE) sia that he was bong punished be- | | tunes that have befallen Eng-| tac y again on the bunting ga cause he had violated th | land, Australia, France and other merman was on. first rule which prohibits $04 if fA teeta aifumplactie scan ‘ had shown that the bunt retin, Hj A Brod i r py Aes foe game would aniah bie attack The Jockey Club Stewards sent a | | ; < if Healy, ott 822) Phe Giants broke away with the lead request to all racing selations who j Colu team age the! smashing out two runs in the fr will hold thoir meetmgs this fall to i ate baa ai, Rae Bee8! inning, and | ut they added an tone place on their programmes @ race of j ty Base Hoapital No. 34. He! other the yfifth when’ Toney wal Y at Toronto, | at least and a quarter each mn only twenty-three yeara old and| Oped out # terrific doubl day stewards believe by such only twenty-three yeara old and) “Meantime the Cubs had been peck p,|methods that trainers will devote ing away at the ( defenses and | Mt ounds. iving to breach them ‘in various ways. They bunted, and sometime rm a et ya we ise ert] MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS e N 1ONAL LEAGUE, ‘AN ‘ aes, ore lad. Ja, tein ungatOn Vad: | ATIONAL LEAGUE AMERICAN LEAGUE, rey was | CLUBS WwW. CLUBS W. Lb, Pe uns w, Adm. more time to developing endurance jCLUns we Ly Fannie Durack, world’s champion going’ we Was good. hls | Chieagos si Oo [Cinelm Pe CLUBS Mi te Bes 8 LW ds Fee) Se Pa eS Mme er SON Ment wane Gehan eee Whiyn 3) Cleve BX AL nad |st 45 parred from swimming in this coun-| Then Mitchell decided that be | Vite 4 jBosten. » 430) Wash 8 45.550) Detroit 44 56 try would try to wear down the big fel- | PMlle-..44 St 408 Int, 1. ANS) N.Y. as aD aon [Phita,,.40 50 Miss ‘ as the victim of a low, who was vi wilted by the | GAMES YESTERDAY, | GAMES YESTERDAY, small-time ma It seems that heat. Jt was evid ev carly |Chicage, 5; New York, %, Voileged ‘ s a fellow by name of Unmack sixth inning that Toney was Cincinnati, 5; Brooklyn, 0, Ane eae Gi Chicago, & nt her transportation, but when uch of his steam and that he Philadelphia, 81 Bh Leule, 3 other scheduled for yesterday | she landed here they had a falling veakening, but the Cubs kept roar 1s Pittaburg' played on Sunday, out, with the result that she returned hitting at Fletcher and Fletcher was | a To. ta him the money he had advanced, plaving great mune at short. They GAMES TO-DAY. GAMES TO-DAY. started to assault in force in the sey. Simemants ae dew Kus ” st Chicnso, enth, but Burns balked them by one Chicaga at Brooklyn, Boston at Detrolt, of the finest catches of the season, by Pilteborgh at Philadelphis, Washington at Cleveland, which he blocked a line drive by St, Louls at Boston. Philadelpile ° St, Lovin “wie Lake Erie Breczes Blow Thru Our Shop Windows <3 §killed Mechanics, Machinists and Foundrymen Spend a Profitable Summer on Patriotic and Comfortable War Work in Our Big Permanent Plant. If now on Government work, stay on the job. “OPPORTUNITY HEADQUARTERS’ DURING AND AFTER THE WAR ERIE . PENN. | Jett Smith, civilian boxing instructor at Camp Iistic News and Gossip By John Pollock Weather permitting, the big opem air boxing show, which was postponed twice list wee vn account of the rainy Weather, will be brought off at Shibe Park tn Philadelphia to-night. There will be four six-round contests between topnotehers, and as tt Is the most important show staged tn that city since the Benny Leonard-Johnny | Kilbane battle, the indications are | that the gross receipts will figure | close to $18,000, as the advance sale |i st night ainounted to nearly $9,000. |The fighters who are to battle are Harry Greb and Battling Levinsky, | Irish Patsey Cline and Willie Jackson, | Sam Langford and Jack Thompson, colored heavyweights, and Jack Brite ton and Soldier Bartfleld. All detaile for the six-round bout between Jacte ty Miske at Shite Mark in Phila iia on Aug. 20 were finally completed to-day, bey will bottle fur @ quarauteed pune of $16,000 Jot which Deeimey te to receive $10,000 and Miske 000, Jimmy Dougherty of Letperville, Pa., \s offering the purve, Any aod all profite Jerived rum the how are to be placed in a fund tor benedict of suldiem and ailuw ad Phila~ el and Delaware who may retura fnee broad phywically unfit to ara a living for Cems veltes o¢ their families Demos ant B Jobnny Dundes, who bas not fonght for eorered | works on account of a cut eye, wil got inte | action again tomight, He will take on Frankie | v¥onng’* Tieith te crack lightweight of New Tedford, Mam, in the main erent of twelve | rounds at the Armory A, A. of Iketon, As @ decision is to be rendered by the mfere, Johnoy will fight tue hardest in onder to got the wandiot, Clay Turmer, the sensational Indian Leht Beary. weight of St, Paul, is getting into condition a Jimmy De Forest's gymnasium at Long Reaneh, S.J, for his bout with Harry Grob, the legiti- mate middieweigtt champ of the army and pars, at the deney City Baseball Grounds om Friday night, weer ralime he will have to be in eulendid shape, es Greb is one of the gratest | fghtem there is io the busines, he baring won his premnt title recently by gettiog the dectaiom | over Biidie MaGeorty | duck Dempsey, ‘Ted Lewis, the welterweight chameon, end Jobany Dundee will lave op Thurwlay fue Chicago, where they will engage tm fourround bouta with good fighters of mir waht at the big open air boxing show for the benefit of the Salvation Army Fund which i¢ te aiaged at thy White tor Baseball Grounde in tat ety om Satanlay afternoun, Nate Lewis Tom Gibbons, the crack middleweight of Bt, aul, brother of the (amovs middleweight Mil ttbons, ls the latest batter to seek @ match Jack Demyeey, Tom i civilian boxing instructor at Camp Meade and to-day wired @ challenge to Demyeey offering to donate the greater portion of bis ahare of the receipts to the Knights of Columbus, Mile Grobuns challenged Dempey w & match belome ~ | Jack rouge Fuiton, Dix and one of the oent middlewrights in the country, haa notified Matchmaker Dave Driscoll of the New Jersey Exnibition Company that he will not be ready to box Johnny Howard for a& least two more weeks, and he has asked to put the bout back until Friday evening, Aug, 28, Champion Ted Lewis, bolder of the welterweight title, announced to-day that he has received two | otters for fights which he ia at preent con- aiering. ‘They both are for bouta with Tommy Tete, the middleweight uf Malden, Mam, the Armory A. A, of Doneton wanting them to meet for twelve rounds in two weeks, and a cidb at Atian a, offering him a guomates to fight totwon Tater Ramey Adair, the oral lightweight, and Young Gradwell of Newark were matche! to-day to meet fn the main event of eight rounds at the Bext boxing alow to be staged by the Paterson A. A. Vatersm, N. J... on Saturday night, Ip the o runder Young & of Patersom will # against Wide Suliivan of Pamoie, dence, who detented we” 1 to the Frankie tara y City on Peiday stat, today to met Victor Ritehie of in the semifina of «ix rounds to @e tetwea Harry Gib and Cay ‘Nanee City basotel! grounds on next Ser pent in 4