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oe B jp to Military Authorities Whether Harvard, Yale and, Princeton Will Have Football, Teame This Fall. Oeesrignt. 1918, by The Prem Fubie:'a he New York Breaing Work.) OOTBALL at Harvard, Yale and Princeton this year will depend | mostly on a War Department decision. What remains of the great student bodies at these three institu tions will be under the direct charge of an officer from the army here's time for football while college under- graduates ure being converted into! soldiers tt e will be played, otherwise nothing doing. it is ip to the milit Fortunately the army is particu larly strong for football. The nerve and stamiu necessary on tue grid- irom, discipline developed through teamwork and the whole theory of the game makes football the best sport preparation for the final touch | down against the Germans. Appli- cants at Plattsburg and other train- | ing camps invariably had a better | chance of being accepted if they had | footiall experience. With the proved | valde of the strenuous autumn game | it is unlikely that army officers will | automatically suspend gridiron opera- | tions this season and deprive this tralning benefit to many husky youths | who next year will be with the colors. West Point and Annapolis are ar- ranging busy schedules. Many col- | leges, while very short-handed, in- tend to form elevens and play the | game as near as posible to the real thing. There will be so man vens at army camps that the thu punts will sound like artillery preparation, The chief interest in college foot- ball, however, is Harvard, Yale and | Princeton. They are justly called the big Three. Football without them would be like having a fliv minus @ motor. OXERS themselves know be: the value of boxing for the de. Yelopment of soldie The theory of boxing has been used in the modern school of bayonet fighting. Uncle Sam, profiting from. early mistakes mado by our allies, quickly made the teaching of boxing com- palsory for American soldiers, At no Ume has the supply of boxing and athletic equipment been able to keep oi with the demand. Down at Camp ix there is a big shortage of sport materials. To help remedy this un- fortunate situation there will be held in the Second Regiment Armory, at Slizabeth, N. J., this evening, a Camp Dix Athletic Carnival. Naturally the boxers were first to respond. Clay ‘Turner, the fighting Indian; Battling Lavinsky, Jack Britton, who has don yeoman work in war benefits; Frankie Burns, Soldier Bartfield, Frankie Callahan, Ted (Kid) Lewis and other ring stars will be on the job. It will be ONE big night of slam for Jersey HE aoldier nine doesn't give a whoop where the sailors use Marquard or Grimes or any cne else as long as they are eligible for the championship Army-Navy base- ball battle at the Polo Grounds to- morrow. The Camp Merritt team merely inquired of the Brooklyn | Navy Yard nine if Marquard and (rimes were eligible, Far be it from | the soldiers to kick about aay navy stars. Thy expect (o silence Mar- tuard or any other pitching gun the tailors unlimber. LD boy Shylock and his justly) celebrated pound of flesh will | have nothing on the weight vontroversy now brewing betwoen B. Leonard and T. Lewis preparatory to their championship melee out in New. | firk Sept. 2%. Lewis says he'll tip lighter than his famous opponent Leonard can't wee it this way. The two rival champions have down to ounces. The best argument in the ring, however, wil! not be weight, but who | packs the best-working wailop. | now come HE World's Series, like a “Dud” shell, failed to explode baseball enthusiasm either in Boston or Chicago. Aftermath stories tell how the contending players are | | much how rust!ing off to shipyards, war | factories and other lines of essential work Baseball's swan song was cold and bieak, like the weather, It is to be hoped that professional baseball. will clean house during its period of in- act'vity and be ready to make a fresh start when the game may be played again in happier times. © one had to interrupt play tn the Beni: Golf Tour nent at Apawamis to register yes- terday. The old boys tipped their age when they entered the unique meet, The number of their years is Unquestioned. The Seniors just played thelr game while 15,000,000 country - men fussed around to get a little blue card. Happy 1s the lot of a senior golfer on registration day only. ERAL new officials of the Met- ropolitan A. A. U. are to be named at the annual meeting Monday night at the Glencoe A, ©. of Harlem, The tmportant changes will be in the Secreta: y-Treasurer's office and on the legisiration Committee It develops tha: Herman Obertub- besing, for sevontcen years indentitied with local athietios, has declined to Accept renomination, Obertubbesing was clected at last year's meet- ing, after having been handicapper for the local district for seven years Previously he had served as Seore ‘Treasurer for ten years. setting now ent declares business /AdeKT sey UP. YoUVE GOT ALL —— PERSONALLY- | SAY ALLY FOR MYSELF | —————— (— UM: WHY Man - jeer to be noticeably timid about rene Ni Lon’e USE +3 HM-1T May - \ THIS PUTTER IS aR aaa |wetting into the real arena on the BALMS Stick oF | 6 GE ALRIGHT BuT “(TOO SHoRT=! ( YOU REALLY L——. ELLON: SMITH SPORTING Be eee rete Woahthe ko ailke, WHO Sy Wrours= \\prie ree ?— ell ee sa SAY, YOU LOW-LIVED CROOKS , letter from bance, It was . 7 LO Ti (OU. |shortly after his ent had d a | THem or ae come uP HERE AND GET~ ite ‘tiret real war fare Mike “has Suat YouR OLD CLUBS- ITS AN gent another letter to this uifice and Jin it he tells about : the full co He remarks that the frighttulne of the ¢ mans on the battle d has made him blood- thirst and he hopes to take the te of many more before tbe is | throu ‘Now YOURE ALL FIXED SriCkS YOULL COLUMN AFTER THIS THE REST IS EASY - - - - - - - - - ~- By Thornton Fisher Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Bvening World). THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, APA: GOSH-OOFIE A COUNTRY CLUB g 2 SEPTEMBER 13, 1918, — Vt | BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK TWELVE BOCHES ': “PUT TO SLEEP” BY Oo WELCOME UM- DID You OLD-TIME FIGHTER GLAD Pick THIS ORIVER. our YOURSELF & eer re Mike Donaldson, With Old 69th Regiment, Says Yanks Will Soon Reach Berlin. , L A of a ring fighter when he wore the padded mitts around these parts some ten years ago, still Mike Donaldson of Haverstraw, friend of the late Stanley Ketchel and also ardent admirer of Benny Kauff, is proving that he is a real fighter in France with the Old 69th. Mike may | not have set the world afire as a | boxer, but most of the lads who have showed considerable prowess in the | squared circle througnuut the country By Alex Sullivan. LTHOUGH he was never much | Mike been through severe fight- ing since he wrote last, especially around Chateau Thierry and he wanks to notify his friends that he came out PROFESSIONAL ‘NOW DEAD AND BURIED “The Last Gasp of the Busi-| ness Came at the End of the World’s Series in Boston on Wednesday,” Declares Ex- pert Fullerton. By Hugh S. Fullerton. Copyright, 1018, by The Prew Pubtiabag Co, ne New’ York Evening: World.) § official Coroner and undertaker, I hereby pronounce the busines! of professional baseball dead. Not only is it dead, but it is buried deep in the slime of selfishness, the mire of mercenary motives, the muck of commercialism and the quicklime of sharp practices bordering upon crookedness, the fracas ail right, or as be says, is “still in the money.” xt only does the lad who used 7 8 himself “the Haverstraw j Terror” tell about the number of | Boches that he has sent to their long sleep, but he e: sses confidence : Ves ban - inital nan on that the Yanks will soon be in Berlin, and he hopes to be back in this , | - - ™ 0 |eountry in November. He declares | that it will be “Heaven, Hell or Ho- \CFistic News sonn Potock and Gossip ))\\’.' ise : Truly Run at Bel ont) The rumor which has been circu-|0t Bowton on Tustay night. will go again ince The Evening World gave me m 3 ; ed effect |Ptle Nelson in the main go of eight rounds) that nic te-up nave receive lated all over the country to the effect 171s) Jeney City basebsll, grounds wo-mght.| hundreds of letters that I can't an ses that Tom Gibbons, the crack ight-| Nctson has bee fighting for a few yeam and tas swer, You'd think that T was Gen heavyweight of St. Paul, brother of] on some fought batt lo the sem! Pershing himself I've become suc! Other Events on Card Either Horses Bolted or Jockeys Fouled. In Hollocher played almost back of third, expecting him to hit close to the line. He drew a pass and tripled in the second game, bis triple being a long line smash. He singled and was hit by a pitched ball in the third game, und his being hit resulted in Victory for Boston. He drew a pass in the fourth game, and the pass won By Vincent Treanor. ACING at Belmont Park yester- day was the most unsatisfac- tory of the season. Only one race, the steeplechase, was truly run. In the others horses bolted or jockeys the game. He singled in the fifth id wd was Bume, but that time his luck failed| Cue’. A bis holiday hd Lap ‘ him, ‘as he was doubled, and it was|Present, and when the throng wa: leaving the track they heaped the se- verest kind of criticism upon the offi- cials, Jockeys and horses. To begin with, the official timer gave Pen Rose an American record, his bard line drive that was muffed by Flack with two on bases which gave the Sox the game and series. In the fleld he made two startling catches and muffed one easy fly, Each of his catches saved a game and his are cont not .. thing. jhlso che mis-/when, in fact, her performance was played a line drive, kicked it far ‘ 4 8 away, and that did not hurt bis team CMY ordinary. OfMcially she was timed for five furlongs in 55 but hundreds of expert clockers held watches on her, and they agreed that the best she did was 58 2-5, a@ bit . When things break that way the pe is upset entirely. Also the fact that Thomas was The last gasp of the business came at the end of the V ld's Seriec in Boston Wednesday. The players, who have stood between the game and ab- solute crookedness, strove to their ut- most to make the obsequies respe ble, while the officials of the game were busy disgracing the business they have brought ipto disrepute time and again. The players were wrong in their strike, yet there was some justifica- tion in the attitude they took, At least they were entitled to a hearing, and the strike was the result of the fact that the majority of the National Commission persisted in ignoring them for two days and then, when the mat- ter came to a climax, were not in condition to attend mectings or to de- cide cases, even when they inade a belated effort to do so. If tne players could have been given the hearing for which they asked on Tuesday morn- ing, the commission merely need have referred them to the club owners, and there never would bave been the final smear on the fair name of the game. ASEBALL as a business in its present form is dead, and it never can be revived, war or no war, until those who have mismanaged it ar¢ eliminated entirely and sportsmen’s substituted for so-called methods, ‘The bitterness of the Frag against the ball live long after the war, gust of the fans with the owners and officials never wiped out The sport itself will be resurrected | after the war on a finer and greater scale than ever bef but the busi business soldiers in players: will and the di methods of will be hess myst remain in the mire in which it chose its grave HE series which just ended is perhaps the most remarkabh ever played. The dope Was right on sone points, but went sadly wre on From the first the dope dicated that the pitching team was entirely out of the class the attacking force of the other, and 80 it proved. Iso the dope figures indicated that each team would work pitchers who were supposed { stop the strong players of the other team. They did, and the result: was that players supposedly weak in at tack all tae better of the oppor tunities, and If you will examine the scores you will discover that th games were won by Shean and Whiteman, really saved able but ne wild throw although stuffy Me two games by remark spectacular catch and won two by time hits. However, McInnis, being right-handed batter against let. handed pitching, was entitled to hit Whiteman, the dark horse who over- turned the entire series, hit well and hard, but, oddly enough, It was more luck ‘than bard hitting with him. His les in the fi \° spe, agin ts ae Az: fae eto granted leave of absence from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station | to play third base for the Sox strengthened the team, He was a bit off in his hitting in the first two games and seemed out of practice, but during the series he made three’ fine stops and throws, and two of them it! is doubtful if either Coffey or Schang could have touche Chicago Jost three through overeagerness to i:n the} bases, and was exceedingly un- fortunate in the giving of bases on| Was the best horse in the race balls, It seemed impossible for the| In the third Right received Cub pitchers to give a. pass without | the long end of the purse when the Pen Rose 1s a speedy little filly,| probably the best of her age and sex, but neither she nor any other juven- fle, colt or filly, is capable of ruaning down the five furlongs straightaway on a day like yesterday in anything like 55, | oppart ties pearsuns The second race was the jump andsthis went to Babcock because he losing a game, In fact, of the six| best she should have got was third gamen five were lost by giving bases | Place. While rounding the turn into on balls and one by a batter being hit. | the homestretch Wise Man ran wide In my opinion Barrows won the| and carried Barry Shannon with series when he sent Ruth to the slab] him, When straightened out for in the first game. It was believed he | home Lyke bumped Wise Man into Barry Shannon and almost knocked the latter down, These foul tactic: cost Barry Shannon the race and de. prived Wise Man of second honors, While Wise Man was working on | Barry Shannon, Right — slipped! through on the rail and saving @ dozen lengths managed to pass the | judges a length and a half in front, Barry Shannon undoubtedly was the best in the race and would have won if he had not been interfered with, would start with Bush, although the majority of his players urged Bar- rows to open with Ruth. It was a big gamble to pit Ruth against Vaughn, because Vaughn figured to win that game almost certainly and was in superb form, But Ruth won it and gave Barrows the upper hand, Tne Cubs were under a handicap in five of the six games because their breaks gave Boston the first scoring and threw them back on the defe sive, besides encouraging the Red Sox. HE fact that the players fought burd, tried all the way and public the best they somewhat relieves the disgrace fallen upon the major ‘The players were wroug in their demands for money, 1 much of the wrath of Sam Hildreth, owner of Wise Man, did not like the way Lyke rode his horse and agreed with the owner of Barry Shannon that the jockey should be punished. No complaint was made, however, and the stew- ards took ‘no action, gave the had that leagues, 4 way in ) has Sun Flash 2d took down the purse in the fifth event by a head because at they tur Jockey Bell on Tom McTaggart did the public upon the National Com. | everything except throw Johnny Lot- nimwion and the owners by surrender. ter. Star Master an Bie Se ones i Hara, | Was the favorite and much the best ne their point and vy playing hard, | in the race, but Bell carried him wide Jean ball | , honam | itt the head of the stretch and then That old de mortuis nil nisi bonum | routed him all the way home, As a stuff don't go in this case, ‘The busl- | iocuit, Tom McTaggart, which fin news 1s dead, but tho sport lives. ished third, was disqualified and Bell suspended for the remainder of the necting. $30,000 Futurity TOMORROW At BELMONT |WORLD'S SERIES IN A NUTSHELL FIRST GAME. o1 0O00 Huth and poo t O00 vi hillifer SECOND GAME. tater ees PARK bute LAST DAY of AUTUMN MEETING voann arte iiaaatind) ALSO THE GREAT $5,000 Brook Cup Steeplechase $2,500 Muricipal Handicap Scuthamption Handicap and 2 Consolation Kents, root 1% NOK AT 2.10 P Special Kace Trains FOURTH GAME, a ee we UO OLO 4 Wyler anid Williter V"schang 0 6 and Agnew; | nny Fiat a Witte | SIXTH GAME. le Std and at lntery lenicage RACING SELECTIONS. AT BELMONT, t fellow that they are now “r my birthplace, I came of the last battle O. K an meets ains, Yo oung It an importa arguing 0 Mike Gibbons, and also civilian box- ing instructor at Camp Meade, had r 2088 round scraps, € eth jue y oY Serine Ae : Hildreth entry, Juck | been knocked out by Tommy Robson, Bit Sioa abst ois rs ttle birds were again singing for Becond Race—No selections. the middleweight of Malden, Mass. te tates | Mike. T have taken one dozen Boches Third Race joomy Gus, Strom- the sixth round of ten- d foday. will sat | and Lexpect to take a few more. Mike bolt, Regal Lodge, Wed KESULIWOMLES. Fasmlli cinewee Tee age sontesta, Hut iis a bloodthirsty fellow now, but the ‘ourth Race — Starry Banner, bout at 3 aukee recently, 1s not Bs Ss those terrible German« ar against s made me vicious. Buckboard, D Fifth Race— working faithfully for Uncle comunander at the station haa agree! to hare ume off in which to get into caa- | Hiton for bouts, Brencan will try to at on « kmate, und Swell, Antoin- true. Tom Andrews, the well-known fight promoter of Milwaukee, tele- graphed the writer to-day there was m out to got nator Crow, Min- Old Green Devil are the ite Mane nae, hot a particle of truth in the report, | {iio fof bouts, Brene ramest gang of men that the world : and that furthermore, the men did | "% dst Dem Benes tiny donlisear aaeLarte HAVRE DE GRACE. not meet. Tat ight) 4 “The Knights of Columbus are do- First Manoeuvre, Talbot —- veen diwharged from the army « tap ofl heats i s entry, Sunningdale. 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