The evening world. Newspaper, September 20, 1918, Page 14

76 THE EVER ‘EVENING ‘woRLD, Busy Over in France In- ‘troducing Baseball to French ‘Soldiers, in Addition to His {K. of C. Activities. lege ts me ‘OHNNY EVURS, along with his Knights of Columbus work in France, is « busy litle missionary iatreducing American baseball to the soldiers, A letter fust re- im this city from Evers relates how he's holding baseball classes near “Bvery day « famous French Gen- fal drives in for me," writes Johnny. is sixty-four years old, grizzled and d drives his car like a Van- lit Cup winner, We whizz out to Warters, just outside Paris. ‘Twice day 4 hg lessons to his staff off- ne: in for baseball like Es wator, It's fine the spirit ‘show for our national game, he other day in Paris! played on @ervice nine. We won, 9 to 6. It almost like @ World Series game, keen was the rivalry and cuthu- ‘of the crowd, composed uf our on furlough and an excited ich populace. lave McGaw hustle up and bring world’s champions over here for series of games. It would be a t treat for every one on this We, had an uneventful trip Southampton before comin, Read in several pape Frevce, home about the change in the tages, and will present m/self at recruiting office in Paris and try @ place in the army.” edohnny Evers, just over the thirty- physical power, is jong on grit, year mark, is hardly material for army, His left arm, because of ous disorders, is practically use- The little Trojan, while short | national A. A. A. champion- ships begin to-day at the great Lakes Naval Training Station and wilt last over Saturday and Mon- Hundreds of athletes, practically ‘men in the service of Uncle Sam, compete in various events, to the er of which means national au- y. early every camp in the country be represented.’ It is safe to say no previous championship meet Attracted the crowd which is ex- to witness this year’s com- ons, which include not only the track and field standard events the all-round and relay cham- ships as well. Fifty thousand seldiers will be on hand each day, 60,000 civilians are looked for des. Just think of 100,000 at an tic meet. Looks as if the war has deen a boost instead of a crimper fer athletics, talk of a match race between I Roamer and Sun Briar reminds ‘us of a letter recently received from J. H. King, the popular Su- Perintendent of Police of Saratoga Springs. The letter tends to re- move all doubt of Sun Briar's mile there on Sopt, 11 last in 1.34 thus beating Hoamer’s pub- Mely made time of 1.344-5. Mr, King ‘was one of the timers on the occasion. ‘We had mentioned, in commenting on trial, that it was ludicrous for @ perintendent of Police to attempt ‘time a race and that anyhow all timers are unknown to the rank file of racegoers. The Superin- at read our remarks (and he t have hit the ceiling). Here Is ys in reply. It's good stuff: 1 suppose you call yourself the , rank and file—all right. Now you will do me a favor if you will ask Thomas J, Healey, Thomas Welch, James Rowe, A. J. Goldsborough, Edward Heff- ‘ner, of the old school and honest trainers of thoroughbreds (and | not the drug store kind) if, in thelr judgment, this particular Buperintendent of Police is cap- able of starting a watch at the drop of the flag and stopping it when a horse reaches the wire, 1 have no interest in Sun Briar nor his stable connections—I went to the track on this occa- sion a spectator, fully convinced _ that no horse could beat old Roamer’s time, and for my own satisfaction timed this trial. I stood on the track on @ line with the finish, No one con- jnected with this horse knew that 1 was there, or had a watch Somehow they found it out, and came to my Office to interview me, and got my statement, which It's Human Everybody is so enthusiastic over the war news that we all want to cheer up, brace up and dress up. Here are the new Fall suitings. you fancy is waiting for you here. Your Suit Made to Order $30 to $60 Fine tailoring, correct fit, Regularly. | RUB -6-0U8 -0UB- TREG MEN \\ \ a UNK AW AY To Clear Various Colleges Don’t Seem to Know Whether It’s Ad- visable to Pursue the Game This Season or Drop It. ly William Abbott. HE intercollegiate football situ- ation is now in a fine young | year, it is not impossible that he might) — for some non-combatant | muddle, Washington and Jeft- ervon and Williams, two colleges which didn’t plan for football this announce their intention of forming teams and arranging sched- vies, Pennsylvania, one of the first to get busy on gridiron matters, has veered off on anutber tack and has temporarily suspended its tentative schedule of gamer, And so it rows all along the line, Harvard, Yale and Princeton—the Big Three—are on stationaty post patently waiting | developments, ly, the entire subject of foot- beyond the control of various colleges. It is absolutely up to the War Department. The activities of colleges this season and as long as the war continues are under the direction of the Government, because of the formation of the Students’ Training Corps. ‘Time for study, time for drill, time for recreation 1s all regulated by the military, And here ls where football enters, If army officers will announce that one hour each day be allowed for football practice there will be foot ball, lots of it. Nine out of ten col- leges are willing to go ahead and Play footbalt and make te moat of an unfortunate situation as it. re- la to only a few who would be available for varsity teams. But before going ahead with any sort of & programme, the college people tn- stet on a plan whereby students; would be certain of Ume for practee, This has been the reason why of- ficlals at Harvard, Yale and Prince- ton have refrained from announcing | any football plans, These _instit ball i I readily gave. However, for your further enlightenment and edification [ will say that from 1878 to 1894, when you were no doubt cutting your first tooth, yours truly ate with them, slept with them, and took his ‘bitter With the sweet in that school of experience, "The Thoroughbred,” from stable boy up, and am proud of It. Te boost his favorite pastime— bowling. Joe was very much pleased to see some bowling news on our page, and quickly wrote us his appreciation, Speaking of the loss of members of the United Bowling Clubs in the eighteen to forty-f draft, Joe suys the ranits of bowlers lave already been depleted in order to fill the ranks of Uncle Sam, and more are ready to go. “However,” says Joe, “we who remain behind have one great satisfaction to console us, namely, that the boys who have received such good physical training shooting the mineralite ball with ac- curacy will give a good account of themselves shooting for the glory of Uncle Sam. They have won many trophies on the alleys, likewise they will bring back many valuable prizos the and above all prize, VICTORY!" Good old boy, Joe! SAVE it to Uncle Joe Thum to perfect satisfaction. BROAOWAY & NINTH STREET AND —dJdoin the Army of Home Production—Buy W. Nature. The very color and fabric TWO STORES T., BET. FTH & MADISON AVES, ‘A ny ANY 6UN CUGHT TO BE FIT FOR THE TRENCHES AFTER PRELIM MARY TRAINING FOR FOOTBALL SO WHY mot ENCOURAGE IT — Up to War Department Muddled ___ Football Conditions Qe tions, in a praiseworthy endeavor to keop alive sports, wouldundertake to- morrow the formation of football squads tf the War, Department would only say the word. The uncertain attitude of the mili- tary is all the more perplexing be- cause the War Department from the outbreak of hostilities bas encburaged the maintenance of athletic games ag the best developer of soldier material, And football, of all sports, has thé most appeal to army men because of the rugged nature of the game and the discipliné learned through the playing of @ well balanced eleven. Only the other day Col, R, I. Rees, of the War Department, made it clear that the army has no intention of putting an end to intercollegiate sport and that it did not contemplate placing a ban On football. This an- houncement gave consi couragement to colleges throughout the Middle West and hurried plans were made on football s¢hedules, Here in the Bast more of a watch- your-step. attitude has been taken. College officials have been inclined to wait the arrival of the War Depart- ment representative, who will direct In affairs of the inetitution. . Yet bod onal the football problem up to indl- ual officers would quickly cause widespread confusion. Some institutions would have strenuous autumn = sport; othe: would not. What is badly wanted a general ruling from thé War Depart- ment, from retary Baker himself if possible. This decision would be tie only way of settling the indeciaion that now prevails in intercollegiate football, for outside of West Point and Annapolis and various army and navy camps no one knows what's what concerning the gridiron. OLUMN A LITTLE ABOUT FOOTBALL AND ALL Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). Raw!) Gow) Ww Copyright, 1918, by The Pr Mey TO Ger MATERIQL (T THERELL BEA VAN LOAD OF SERVICE ‘ FOOTBALL TO KEEP THE GAME HEALTHY ANYWAN WITH HE ENGOGED BECOME NECESSARY TO ROB HE erie. Leonard 1 hed 18m. Wit Second’: 4; Rat Benny Leonard entertained a party of sporting writers and some 500 fight fans at Grupp's Gymnasium in Harlem yesterday afternoon, It was @ gala occasion all around, for the world’s lightweight champion real- ized he was being keenly watched and went through his training stunts with a vim and dash that augurs {ll Ted “Kid" Lewis, the world's wolterweight champion, whom Benny meets in an. cight-round bout in ‘Wiedenmayer's Park in Newark next Monday night. The boxing session was the most spirited Leonard has ever engaged | while training for a match. He took on each of these’ prominent battlers for two three-minute rounds. The champton eliminated the rest period, taking on one boxer as soon as he finisher with the other. As a result he boxed eighteen minutes contin- uously. MEETING for the purpose of organizing the Manhattan Bowling Team will be held at the Manhattan Bowling Alle: Man- hattan Street and Broadway, on Sept. 45. The Mauhattans, when properly organized, will take part in the prin- cipal tournaments of the city. The winners of prizes in the recently coupled Sterns Individual will also teraive their awards the same ning. Manager Endreg of the White Ele- phant Bowling Academy announces that the American National Tourna- ment, the premier tournament of the City of New York, if not the United States, will get under way with at least twenty-one teams on or about the first or second week in October. The best bowlers in the city are ways to be found competing in this event. Maurice Wyman has made arrange- ments to start his thtee-men team tournament at the Columbia Alleys, Colunbus Avenue and 104th Btreet, about Oct. As in former years there will be either twenty-one or twenty-seven teams competing. Billie Amann of the New York al- leys, Third Avenue and 65th Street, will have bis alieya in perfect condl- tion for the opening of the big five| men event that has long been a| feature at his place. He tx planning] having the tournament open on the 15th of November.. Mr. Amann| believes that he will have litte trouble! in securing the same number of teams io bowl in the tournament, Joe Thum's individual championship Is to start about the Ist of February at the White Elephant alleys, Broad. | Way and Sist Street. Tho best bowlers | that can be secured will be brought) together in competition in this classic. The Eastern alley owners are to get together and talk over the holding of an Eastern individual champlonsbip at the next meeting of that body which will hel their head- Two big league attractions will be staged at Olympic Field, 136th street and Fifth avenue, on Sunday next the opening game at 1:30 P, M Ray Keating, the Yankee twirler, will pitch against the Lincoln Giants, who will depend upon Lankford, ‘their spitball artist, to win. Dan Grine Brooklyn ard Bhip Defy Will Attempt Long Swim, William J. Duffy, formerly a well known swimmer and now Deputy Col- lector of Internal Revenue, will at- tempt to swim from the lrooklyn Bridge to Coney Island to-day, He jump off a police Jaunch ‘under ridge and will be accompanied jub, will lead the Stand- d te will the | which In the final! the star pitcher of the) quarters, No. 1241 Broadway. Many bf the stars will be missed from this season's events, as they are either in the service or will be by the time the tourney starts. George Reiger, President of the Long Island Alley Owners’ Associa- tion, announces that the Swedish three-men team tournament will open at his Crescent Bowling Alleys, Fifth Avenue and 52d Street, Hrooklyn, about the first Monday in October, Many of the big tournaments of Brooklyn will be decided on the Ra tional Bowling Alleys, which are rap- idly nearing completion in the old Mathews Building, on Fulton Street, Brooklyn. Lee R, Johns, who will manage the places, states that he is anxious to install the Western idea of league nights at the Rational, It is almost @ sure thing that the matchmakers of the clubs in Phila- delphia will not offer any more of the topnotch fighters a fabulous guarantee to battle at their clubs, as officials of the National A. C. lost close to $4,000 on the special show they staged on Wednesday night at which Lew Tendler and George Chaney wt tn the star bout. Neither ‘Tendler nor Chaney was entitled to receive the money he id, Tendler $4,000, and Chaney $3,000. for a guarantee of $1,250 when he boxes at the clubs there, and there is no reason why Tendler or Chaney | should have received any more than! Leonard. The receipts of the show amounted to ogly $4,000, All detaile for the bout between Harry Grob of Pittabureh and Clay Turner, the snmations! Indian light bearyweight, were clinched today | over the long distance telaptione, The men will come together ic a twelveround bout at the | Armory A, A. of Boston on Turmlay evening, Oct, 1, As the men have already fought two slashing battles, thls one ought to bo another ot the hair raising hire, Battling Levineky, the clever Hebrew light heavyweight, today received permimion from the | manager af the Lake Torpedo Boat Company of Bridgeport, Conn, where he is employed, to take eft & week to ex into cosdition for hie tout with Jack Dempery, which will be staged at the @hilndetybia baseball grounds on Halunlay afternoon, Set, 28, Lerineky will probaly do his traiming at Sheeedead Bay, Dave Dro! mavager and owner of the New Jemey Exhibition Company. ite box | ing shows at th Champion Benny Leonard asks only| _ OUIMET WON'T PLAY GOLF AGAIN UNTIL THE WAR IS OVER Since Receiving His His Commis- sion He Can't Spare the Time to Visit Links. BOSTON, Sept. 20.—Lieut. Outmet announced here to-day that he will play no more golf for the period of the war. Since joining the army about @ year ago he has participated in many matches for the Red Cross and for the Camp Devens Athletic Equipment Fund, raising a large sum of money. Since receiving his com- mission he has been finding it difficult te spare the time for these contests. Miss M. 8. Conroy of Fox Hills won: the net prize in the first half of the two-day tournament, under the di- rection of the Women's Metropolitan try Club, her reading 99-10-89. Only three out of a field of about thirty starters returned gross scores under 100, the two besides Miss Con- roy being Mrs. 8, A. Herzog of Fair- view and Mrs, William Chilvers of Dunwoodie, with respective cards of 95—2—93 and 96—5—91. NEW BRITAIN. Sept. 20.—Robby Jones of Atlanta, seventeen-year-old golf star, broke the course record in a golf match at the Shuttle Meadow Club when he turned in a card of 71, against the former record of 72. Jones and Charles (Chick) Evana, the na’ teur Spen champion, “defeated Max Marston and John G, Anderson in a team match, Sup and 4 to play, ‘The match netted 13,000 for the Red Cross, Althongh Jack Ditlon has gone away back in bie fighting, be fe attll looking for bouts, He bee just ot effet that he is to mee rod, the Pittsburgh light hearyweight, round bout st « boring oF to be brought off at Charlestown, W, Grebd ought to hay fo trouble. tn outyointing Jack, Matchmaker Frank O'Brien of the National A C, of Philadelphia should make his prew agent tell the trutt about the reconis of the fighters who are boxing at his club on Saturtay night, The untruthful prewe agent says that Pra Brown, the New York bantamweight, bas di feated Frankie Burns, the Jemey City bani weight, The real truth i Bruen waa Rn out by Bure with @ stomach punch ty the third round of'@ bout at Adbany, N, Y¥,, om Feb, 19, 3017, Johnny Dundee is the fistie profemion who is trainin | De Forest's gymnasium a¢ Long Branch, |for bouts, Johnny ie working out there for twelve-round go wilb Frankie (Young) Britt |the Armury A, 4, of Boston oo next Tieday pother one af tne stare of at Jimmy night, ‘Ted Lew ie getting into ‘oalitios fur bin femportant baitle with Champion Bruny Leonard, Willie Jackwon, Dick Stosh of Ci ladelphia on ext pisbt flaw hes fought some good bowie in the last |tew months, be making a real good fight ayainet © Philadelphia lightweight recently, which renpouible for bin being sigaed up with Jaca. wn, Tro eight-roand main bouts will be ateged at a regualr Wevkly boxing stow of the Kast am A, A, of Long Branch, N. J,, tonight, In the first go Leo Jounson and Sandy Taylor, ths colored lightweighte, will wap ting while in the other KO, Egwem, the bardabite focal battler, will go against Jack Traoy Brooklyn, a aod Malian Joe Gans, the Brooklyn middleweight, new manager, Ho ia Joe Carlo of this the launch, Du {, ts sixty-five years Arnheim Axtams, | is nd eight years ago he accom: elve minutes, aes Mart holding indoor boxing shona, city, who koown the boxing her thor. oughly, Carlo Law matched Gans to meet Biook yante ‘Tomm) Mumvhy of Chleago for eigiit lished the euetma im five hours end dae ‘The moment he sigs the Jease be wil (0 be fowl at th Amory A, A, of Jamey Chy wmemow aighs, EX- CHICKENS CAN SHINE ale ‘ 6 hate Francis} the Golf Association, at the Arcola Coun-| (Raw!) (Raw! Raw! i Rau! RAW GIRLS IN WAR WORK: THE icenrons Fier" BEST SPORTING PAGE | IN NEW YORK By Thornton Fisher AND QUIT CROPPING CIGAR CORPSES ‘ROUND JAZBO JOWES SANS HIS’ WIFE OUGHT To BE Good AT FOOTBALL - SHE'S ALWAYS BEEN A BEAR AT KICICING Three Fillies Noses Apart Furnish Best of Finishes Oldest of Racegoers Never Saw a Better Contest Anywhere, By Vincent Treanor. lust race of the day at Aqueduct yesterday, a five- furlong dash for two-year. old fillies, non-winners of $2,500, was the best race the writer has ever seen—yes, the best thut almost any- body, no matter how far his racing experiences go back, has ever looked at. For a whole sixteenth of a mile three of the fillies raced so closely aligned that a string might have been pulled from rail to rail straight across their noses, showing none an advantage. At the finish after a drive that caused thrills and heart throbs, Ophelia was a nose in front of Looking Up and she @ nose in front of War Kiss, with Blushing Beauty a neck back, How the judges [ever separated them is a mystery. the short drive from the six- tant pole each of the three jockeys, Walls, Callahan and Taplin, looked a winner and each appeared beaten it different times. The closing stride was all that decided the contest. There have been Futurities, and Suburbans, and Brooklyn Handicaps, but none in the memory of the oldest of racegoers on hand yesterday ever resulted in such a race or finish. Certainly none ever provided such blood-tingling sensations nor gener.l excitement, Of course, it was a horse race all ay from far up the chute, but +* was that final sixteenth, run in fu'l view of the grand stand, that had the men and women present on their tip- toes, some cheering wildly, others (With their emotions suppressed, and all with eyes glued on the finish line, which seemed us if it never would be reached, Only when the numbers went up was the tension relleved. Jockey Ensor has been set down for the balance of the meeting and the punishment may yet be extended for his bad-looking ride on R, T. | Wilson's Umbala Wednesday, Ensor got the gelding away badly, and then in the stretch steered his mount through puddles of water until the horse resented it. Previous to this Ensor rode Judge Wingtield to defeat and didn't make any friends by his exhibition. Ensor started early in ithe season like a house on fire and {promised to be the development of the season. He is in a peck of trouble now, from which It may be hard to extricate himself with honor, A. K. Macomber has another two- year-old entitled to rank among the | | RACING SELECTIONS, AQUEDUCT. First Rave--skyman, Florence L., Precious Jew: Second Race—Gath, Joyful, Sher- man A. Third Race—Toto, Peter, Balus- trade Fourth Race—Quincy entry, Jyn- tee, Regal Lodge. Astin Fifth Race-Jack Mount, Barry Shannon, Past Master. Sixth Assign, Point to Point, Typist. HAVRE DE GRACE. First—Jill, Tommy Waac, Left Fielder. Second—Candidate 2d, Bravado, So Long Letty. Third—Katie Canal, Biermann, Dr. Campbell, Fourth—Helen Atkin, Nigel, Mediasa, Helen M. Atkin, ory Belle. May W., Keziah, Wood Fairy Legend, Tootsie, Johnson. He is best of the Juvenile division. r yesterday's Pe ner of i800 Babylon Handicap. He came from behind as good a youngster as Sweep On, and easily. won in the cood time of 1124-5. Taplin gave him the most competent of rides, lay- ing off the pace to the final sixteenth. Sweep On, which had been away from the post last, had run around the field and into the lead at thé strétch turn, When straightened for the run home he looked the winner. Taplin, however, hadn't asked War Pennant the question yet. Ho delayed this until the final sixteenth, when he let | his mount run. Sweep On tried gamely to fight off the challenge, but it was no use. War Pennant went to him and past him in a gallop. Lord Brighton in this same race, an added starter, showed a flash of bis early season's speed by running in the lead to the stretch only to stop) badly there. Somebody circulated a tip on Sam- uel Ross's Ballymooney in the third race which steered many-away from the ultimate winner, Koh-I-Noor. The filly had worked well and Mr. Ross had come up from Washington | to see her run. There was nothing | HA N D | CA P to the ce after the barrier went up. Koh-I-Noor stepped out in front, led | Ait the way and’ won in a fomn. “The | Bushwick Steeplechase tip struggled ina poor third behind Right. Koh-I-Noor looked a legiti- fmuncinies aon mate 8 to 5 shot, but the “Info” on back to 3 to 1. “Ballymooney was knocked about a lot shortly after the start and after the finish was shown to have been cut down, but it ts doubtful if she could have beaten Koh-I-Noor even with @ good share of the racing luck. | | Ballymooney caused her price to go} | ay BRICKLEY'S TEAM PLAYS 11S FIRST GAME TO-MORROW any Famous Harvard Player Has Organized an Eleven at Em- barkation Camp at Hoboken, By Alex. Sullivan, HEN the football season rolls round they just can't keep Charlie Brickley, the famous Harvard player, off the gridiron. The best part of it this year is that the fans tn these parts will get a chance to see the famous kicker participate in several games, “Brick” is an ensign, under the direct orders of Rear Admiral Gleave, Port of Embarkation, Hoboken. Ha is already in good shape for e strenu« ous season, Brickley has organized a team of players composed of sallor lads who are used as stevedores. The boys are a husky set, and they have already given evidence in practise that they would give any team ever put to- gother a stiff argument. Charlie has charge of the squad and he daily puts them through a lengthy Practise session at Stevens Field, Ho» boken. He expects before long to have team work down to perfection, and then they will try to arrange games with all comers, ‘The first game of Brickley’s naval team will be played to-morrow afters noon In Hoboken, when they will meet the Naval Rendezvous team of Ne York. Charlie will play at fullback, He has been doing lots of practising hime self at drop kicking and kicking goals from placement. Those who have seen him work say that he is booting the ball further than ever in bis career. Working under Uncle Sam's guid- ance has done Brickley a world of good. He is enthusiastic about the service, While playing for Harvard Brickley was easily the greatest all-round |player on tie team and won several |champlonship games by his great work, particularly his kicking, A cablegrain from France just tee ceived conveys the pleasant intelligence that Ti Huston, half owner of the New york Yankees, has been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. * as he is familiarly known to his friends, organized a nent of railway en neers from his home town, Cincinnatt, immediately upon the outbreak of war and accompanied it to France as Cap ltain of Company a. 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