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Pca | Leonard Would Probably Have Knocked Out Lewis if Bout Had Been a 12-Round Affair. , Caperigtyt. 1018, by The Prem Mubtinting Co, (The New York Evening Word.) ED LEWIS believed he beat Benny Leonard in Newark oD Monday night. He sald yester- aghat it was the casiest victory he agored in his career, There @re many fight fans who think the #ame way, but (hey are in the minor- ity, Leonard won and if the bout Bad been at twelve rounds instead of eight Lewis probubiy would have Deen knocked out. Ile was in distress » im the seventh and eighth rounds and showed it. The blows he receive Pit of the stomach made him and a few-more would have him up sufficiently to allow fo get over a wallop on the that would have ended the bout he knockout route h fighters deserve credit for giv- | all they had. At times the bout | slow and to the fans who @ slugging bee to a scientific ft was not a good fight. But &@ good and clean contest. Both layed cleverness, offensively | defensively, and worked hard second of ‘every. round le the contestants earned praise Management deverves all and of the censure already heaped it. It did not protect its patrons if it weren't for the timely ar- | of Commissioner Smith many a! who bought and paid for a seat id have had no chance of seeing ee ee eet THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1918,: BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK OLUMN A SEPTEMBER SUNDAY ON THE COURSE By Thornton Fisher ' eat Ss all Aa it was hundreds . “ jepr! of their proper seats. | a were not sufficient ushers net | twondi A. A. U. Arrang ~4f private police protection at ra es es and entrances to the dif- we A try R Getmioner saith care onn| CUES ountry nuns throat he mado attor the bout, it . e | ely that the men who ran the ye; yi i ed or boys in e Vet Ex, a big bout in New Jersey, He i Ee € ervic | eteran eee the sport too much to ara aaa | sats ip | od | Ot oF «ee tae eke ents : «aay | Yer trophics will go to the winnin ing in it but the dollar, Hill and Dale Championship Will | ‘cams. sd Macomber Horse in Roslyn Bhcnerin . ‘i ‘a = _—_——s "i ag pi siecceaarmacceresennoyaeenraes 1 | ‘ ‘se Bikey Witt be plenty 62 teats Be Decided by Point System The National “A. A. U. | Champlon- {Chicago for a tryout. He seemed to * ‘ ’ “4, [ship Committee awarded the National i ; ay Try| wes " | Handicap Displays Speed Leer ac oaty ot tetballl ony Jan, 1, When Races WIRIZ S, Cniiterre: tty Yeuheesn | Organized Baseball May Try | reign, hous pieeix-tve pounds, Be] dicap Displays Speed ‘< Pie » Mor. pint th Je . 4 7 3, H bi nest be beh ee ] ic 4 WK 5 a different basis than In former| Be Held in the Largest Cities |:™'= side Atniee club of} Plan of Forming Clubs} hung below the lobes of hits eara | Which Old-Timers Say re. Every student, irrespective of o $n Bundey, Oot 27,” Ghariee, Porse: ihe . " ¢ i “eardrops. (These were later re Would Have Beaten A iw anchor one pean | Ot COUNTY: |;mationsaé:imile champion, will bo ohe of Composed of Local Lads) moved” rie chicago team was com: | ou ave Beaten Any : ne 10-miie run ‘ : posed of giants, with Anson, Willi S 4 Tae . will be eligible to play on the Scie Under Eighteen Years of|fon and Suen telows, Grif wax sent| Star on the Track. ty toans, For this proper and ; Critles procial , ‘ | per an B Prociaim tha three-day out to pitch, and « woman seated be- pos y¥ move the West deserves all y Alex. Sullivan. which cloned at the Great Age. hind the press box remarked: pa tee ar eurnen ons | HERE'S nothing better than] fc ever hel by the Amateur Adideth eae | “Lvs @ shame to put a little boy out By Vincent Treanor. a move rosea tee | Olen 4 < e With afl those grown men.” ‘LOU Hlibs and took steps to change the roxs-country running to im-| Unto " t with a & a AR CLOUD ts back in his best Several of the big Western prove the “wind.” That !8] avery Brundage. the veteran star of By Hugh S. Fullerton, — | ocmianand te was iestion, ecrorts| form and from now on untl Fersities already | have granted | why the Championship Committee of |the Chicago, Athictio Anscclations who | ore Mts Tvctine Wea es °°! Ho was went back to the buahes tor | Walter Jennings sends him coaches permission to use first|the Amateur Athletic Union has de-|%°" the all-around champions piltetiygs further seaso! nd afte: eason | int . » will be a ha mba ‘On: thelh ‘Abel. teatha and eh Ps Le : Nt } Lit Gar oo aca Hine witnin: cane van ‘AJON league ball club owners, | 0") "hair el ths ly = meen into winter quarters he w be a hard hs will take similar action Gerore | promote several events over] stripping a feld of ten. starters, Jost In despair over the outlook for] or the prem eee l horse to beat. He galloped all the @ end of tho wee hill and dale for the boys in. the|ten pounds in’ weight while competing : premicr pitchers of the country. |" , me Gates in the gruelling teat of ten events whist their business, are planning an way in the Roslyn Handicap at Aqu Be erese es cain ecortn rte | ace: in the gruelling test of ten events which | oroeriment which may be the means| PILL BRADLEY, who later was|duct yesterday and made Kashmir Bear catia ihe cee eee erence 14 ene Of the moat, neo- | plete. of réviving their one of the greatest third base-|Papp and Matinee Idol 1 uy r statement st Ai Aine ta creda 4 Be AGS sop Pnigs de Missaoeadl Ft : t : hen he | ed by Col. R. 1; Rees of the Gen ee ete ne ey aces att ssc! |The full programme of sports. con: game. Vians for|men the game ever has known, was} they were ea bette TOHHBY t ashington yesterda e f of athlet- d by the High Schools Games th atio shtee ‘ rom. passec judges, John Weennounced that inasmuch as the|ica that tend to make a soldier's|Committee of the Public Schools Ath- he deodorisalion jnot eighteen when he got bis first BIS) | or way more tired than th t Sed erat Cub HIEESAT damtitate | Veoetnita soearatue atroreer are of | eetiiem ota utr veeme 14 80 e and fumigation of|jeague job. ‘There is queer little} 0° US NY Lhe! ; Thi ' SL ratalively amort fg apparatus stronger are of|continued, according to a decision their business and| ya i ae eel in fact War Cloud didn’t show th : y time, 4t WoUId| vaiue in helping to win the war reached by the committee in its. first yarn connected with that case. The f ile Johnny feasible to allow all men to par- |‘! 6 ar monthly session, However, while the & gencral house-|Chicago club had signed Bert Briggs,| [east bit of fatigue Lid Mtl bees te in all athletic contests, He| No doubt all the clubs throughout football, — basketball and. swimming cleaning are under F : was distressed from holding the colt : that it was the desire of the |the country will follow the National| schedules were in the hands of the aay. ute who afterward became famous 88110 chock | Ne rament that all students should|A. A. U.'s lead and will arrange |foverning body, approval of them was ay, Dut dist i) 'Battons,” a lanky kid pitcher, who . eteran turfmen de , physically fit, and sports were the | cross-country races for soldiers and |U0pyred Wnt next spring only part of the hired be he:a(cuck: Aneon|| sen cece ee cy thing to make them fit sallors, ; rhe (Comeulttes looked with tavor Fa naconmery seCortal (orn hake ha on, cat, cerve [baila [oer tine teas G2 BOR NIE: f . . : on the recommendation of Harry Saar ‘0 out three times on fast curve balls ‘ » lope ‘ — \it. is planned to hold the United |Hfverman,. ‘Chairm Aga! wd vi tiie ‘Glament (prone Jobren, Sun Briar and Sunny Slop } ; CK ELLER, the world's greatest | Staten service cross country, champion: | Country” entttione het. tev ganna 7 \ ithe bixgest prob-lin an exhibition game at Little Rock, | were not in tho race. It was the bdurdier, is back from the front.|of the Av A. U. on-or botore Jan. 1. |year ee The hentative’ date: te *New, ah HY De to Kelly pelieve. Briggs was about cighteet| unanimous opinion that War Cloud fy He arrived yentcrday with low. |. These championidiing in all probability ME aks tase arar layers. ‘The si-land fast ax a streak of Tight. "The | would have beaten any or all of (hem § soporte of the pro : 4 | will be fn this on, Vth School cour: ’ mam never NM} minute he got vig league job he youte | t f a rekorta, of the prowene of tho |deiphia, Pittsburgh, Hullimory, Chi infos Bie. Bliverman assured ‘the come 8) stand for teams|r an” he got a big leag b he} without much trouble yesterday. ' ; Bay Sitalin Wance are ihe.bsae | Pace tiie eee Mrleuns, mittee that In all probability seventeen annomed of piay.| Cerne _erese eaenting Bradiey, Whe) All of the Macomber horses ere} i ser eee In France Are the best | Baeaae ‘ity, Camp, Cody. Ban Dieya achoola, the aracord field to, mart IAs] oo. wns tailed Paes ” bal belonged to the same kid club at} rounding into the best form. Almost) ; thelr military prowess to their —_—— vate Yi ae preter peso sO te ees ihg|Cleveland that had developed Brigés. Jevery day the famous red and white | ‘ meee peillty. He said that a gaine wad poe? dry it ia . eae S% UNS} He enlisted me in the cause, and the} stripes of the « alifornia sportsinan | ; ‘ Gover Wen by dot and eonard. ewis ou j onllapte. ani se hools ap pana next year we tried hard to get Anson | “re racing down in front, _vemertay bal oF ] 0 ne only rec 5 ) te svored. aw double victory, for be-| i shock. ba t to give Bradley a chance. Anson) (Or. \ ‘ Ne a Hole 4 ¥ C ground in sig! el to b h y fore War Cloud won the Roslyn, ;. ; hile in France Killer was a phys- loamae ha es haa go Fa re the army) i vaily told us to get Bradley to come} lister sped home ahead of a ple me cirector, with the YM. ck In Newark Dr 34 0. 4 eres ape x pyoy he nee ent | '° the Clev@land grounds while the field of sprinters in erg highwetght) : oad a in the w 2 Now comes 4 e which might|'9 the aes ore, | handicap, Carrying 134 pounds he| jee Department. Wo ‘expects to é ’ be interesting and which would have| Chicago Colts were Playing TINT | romped away from his field when 1 Me his police work immediately, iNet Is “| been successful hud the owners been|sion, He sent in word to Anse, but | Loftus lat hilt down ena von cased j ’ weight qf Malden, Maw. motes ow Tom | Wise enough to close the parks on| Anne wan busy practising, und sont| UP by ® lengin Ane ® Dal iH For Twenty-four Minutes’ [ a eee Milwauker, reached Camp Aug. 8 ‘Nhat'is, to organize teams of Word back that he was too busy t0/" Joe Marrone has re-ensaged A a Oe Frees ei : Meade, waere Cibtone i4 ine civilian Posing | boys under cighteen yeurs of age to look him over. weasley heh di8-| aolinetli to train his string of thor hibiting Leonard Received) ie tc vostro coy thst ther at ween ae | DIY Yegular schedules and keep the | Wer ae a calreniion cughbreds, The Tian err a 4 ! $11,908.40, Lewis $8,500— areh thst thay: vould Oe eaeiber: # 600 at | business alive and, beyond that, to| when Pat beau, then manager of! wood 2d, which he thought he ‘ j , th camo, sbica tvs would bet tat Gibboas | develop the future stars of the game. |the Cleveland club, cume along and| havo won, und as a result he deel te Nearly 14,000 Tickets Sold." seinen aad deca: | Whether large crowds would attend rd the story. | - to replace A retto with Motin yA : : euch games or not is uncertalo, but 1|, "come om Kid” we auld, “FI look tcill, | Molinsili hud charge, of ates | match betmenn goat lightweidila was af | be ah te : you over fone'a horaes several times, and on| te | By John Pollock. anged today, ‘The fighters wlo w believe such teams, representing the |” tie put Bradley into a Cleveland | each occasion saddled many winners. | B 1 maar thormiatiy follable source | we tay Toker: ioe wt) Various cities and recruited on the| uniform, watched him practise for wa | 4 a C SOUFCE Pate, Nd. ant Vande Callahan of nok |home lols, each player coming from |f(tcen minutes, and then sald aha race of Ninety Simplex in the] ¥ the writer learned lust nigh They will exciangn we ia on eight-| the district in which his team is lo You play the bug to-day, kid.” | fifth race was one which deserves the PF that Benny Leonard and Ted) roumt erep at te ing show to te uid &7] cated, would attract a | : And from that on a great ation of the stewards. ‘The horse it Lowis fought for a percentage of t Ariminy A. At demey 1 0m Monday eve | CALC: attract a lot of interest, ‘dvveloped, Probably there, are first-rate selling plater, but ne} ross receipts, instead of guaranter ‘et. 110, Tuohey renmnuy pat up 0 great | ANE is certain that such teams/dredsy of youngsters In the never was as good Torchbearer, | i ' “Wide Snes Path ak Saware, B.|°o oon Wee sehen Gente would have more speed and “pep"|States who could make good if they | which won the ra But he should t J M rT ‘night According t * even if less skill and experience than | # the chance. At any rate, it{ have been nearer to tho winner. : on Monday nigh ecording = idewre. fahion, the ones that were tousbd into. ihe| MANd. Re Rich clean enone wilh low | Jockey “Ones rode him, and afte + the informant Leonard got thirty> | wae wien, mated | discard ’ he | Saluries and a lot of speed buna! ne a the start never allow 1 o five per cent, of the recel which | maker of the Oyingia A, A, of adriphia to | 7 aCere nian nim to do his best, [t was one of the 4 | made ‘end $11,908.40, while ALowin | fat in tow weeks, ‘he tld Wank tha mene se cn o HEY are telling a yarn of a sol-| Worst rides DF ene ypaT ene He make : | ° van my train ry at a com ied n@ question as a ea Aled nings Wo eral layers boxed for twenty-five per cent. which | M"%, tan baw us re at 8 i ee ase a et dier lad in France who had a| thinks, Worse, ee vances at all, ; ove him $4,806.. The entire rec mar Poioome Oar! Pedi hae n on one foot which during] took all the be y could gather on An hooking up the *Com-| ainounted to $34 The State tes ume ot oer ee nigaa major Was | marches gave him exquisite pain him at 7 10 10 thitd, and then gradu. ite’ idea with our ton per cent, of the receipts, w yoia Mera fore to 3 | th 4 At Chateau-Thicrry a bullet struck | ally boosted his t ot ier new | te per « of th “et . hat Clark Griffith was pitching aie jihad Sago ruck | they were offering as RoC > ‘all Derbi h P TEW | cigured up $3,402.40. The tickets sold | aise tenia bet PIED Vic neo and when hoe cue to at a | E erbies, we haven't said] ;.- tne show were q " Schade hospttal the doe had removed the} Whist 24, which won the steeple fi 1 not rete one amt for| seventeen. Johnny Kvers broke into one started to commiserate | eh 1 f he might deveion much about fast color. So|at $1, 1.426 at way to Han Mreocim and meting |the Chicago intield before he w ante ana 1 frase, Teal good crome-oountry } 1 > 1, t ; yo fan Wrnncine apd. ment vid and he said "| into a real good eross-co' ne we suy it now! They’re fast | * #3? 4t $6 and 1,000 at ee ered: i” eighteen, and that fall played twen "Weil, thank God, that corn won't} He Nus a good turn of speed and mee —- absolutely proof] suc ne mame mo of eres Me ot ee | y-two games without en error'and| ONE me Shy more | | EMME Ln Doane reTly Bien ; i though Ja manager ot : Fgh may opted pnb meer alr Arg j minds ie of poor Rood ol | hereabouts season, J, Rows ; against fading. ina to ‘Brome marae ft ie | ie Cada. Dames 8 fu fee (baited Wel Up. HUN Daaien WAR WILL |i Denebuc, tHe DEAS BAAKALOR | whe lant LD eet eee Oe ena : that a fighter is worth no more than by mM Wire (wef np Uahets tran lotta. icugo Club three years berore | paseball ever saw, ‘Tim was as Irish | try, took him to the front soon after Built on the law of averages, Ft) 7 ae ae e rat |e. ae see eee tra Muiladed he could legally sign his own con name and full of sympathy |the start and had no difficulty ir Be manded © guarantee of $9,000 f Stipe St PRASS CAM ADIEDE wae Deadly Aor During ()4 winter'Char- | keeping him there to the end, As he ra a * Amines eee Loe wen he started, Babe th was , one of the finest of passed the judges he was running Rogers Peet soft hats. sed whee me ee | Cal Deawy, the Clevela a areat player before he wax elghisut 1 cate wal Glen Unden| seetne and looked as If be could #o| Stetson soft hats, pride of |« wr» gine wo sare 0 mr Sune tase Chas fir ceventoonth birthday, Pass archer CPN © ens | Ga Or Mater HU Stetson shops. need Tice tevin ie sak net Batior Vrialaun, witere are iany number of players around the ‘eircull. to condol=| After His Sister ambled home in * lig twvight ‘8 ten. round | who were holding steady jobs in major) Cees afd sympath ront 0! rig fold of platers in the Bverything men and boys wear. |tne Netional Ay ¢ of Puiladeina 0 | gm to be Drought off af ox Joagues before their eighteenth biril on Ane yay ca pean | Mene Oe © Ble Held GE platene 1h the) ting Goods, too. day evening, Oc 9, | 1 ‘rlie,”? Tim remarked after| first race, Dick Miller claimed Wer morrow night Delaney was fin Droug! ys came around. doit is stran, 4 time, * re thing sure, they'll | from Fi erick Johnson. His er *Registered Trademark ‘“ | champion J Kiane and Jimmy Dune Re | that #o many of those who broke In| ne 1 you on the feet as you|{a a clever Uttle fily, and if properly Tommy Burns, the former manager, ae an dev ar at tender years have among . . ‘ ea) G0: 1 in nm now on eed will Win several ra t 6 weignt champion, who ia pow 8 ai the greatest players gaine a | WRoceRs Peet COMPANY [Tyihjuo Any, dao | =, they developd IM’ was a great character, and) James ¥ pe tthe ‘camp ot Prince of demey City 1 é “The Bepedwey |csered. 0 hi t te ah the Doxing abow staged for the NEVER shall forest the first time Giwayy ready with, sympathy | Me Reo it Bde A ine Bg nell cated Oe feet " and advice, We had an old player | claimed from him Four bere, Bee Murdap afterance. Tommy met : 4 4 T saw Clark Griffith, who, by the| {ry Me enteral ' for $1,850. ” “Te ler, & heavyweight, aud Moched him © clu giadly hie club akin | who had just received ten days’ notic Cox vers" Fe A oe eee eee oe ea Cos ruin | (o the common ia charge of tbe Catertalment, | Wey: Was taught pitching by Rad-| oe sisase and who was fecling sad J. 11, Kermath, wim t a th at 41st St | scrap. ‘and the following well-known boxem will | bourne, who came from the same| Wel, Jack,” aid Tim, “we'll all| horses for LM Maye My reined, the — tn bouts: Frankie Burne, Frankie Gallahso, Jack town, Norioal, Jl, Griffith was found miss you. You Were a darned good “ot 1 + BAe Sven. BB When the false repart which was circulated « New wore gn Ges SemT Benepe, tae mission & » seein hr Soares. Yous Otto, Johonie Drummie Joo by Radhourne, Ble pow HW eouldn't pley mit deanous, Darticy Madden end Clay fume, who fold Jim Hart fallow, even ify about him, and Mart brought Grif to on of trainer for the year. od 2 earteie we wabbenane | War Cloud Invincible : In Present Form, Declare RACING SELECTIONS. AQUEDUCT. t Race—Albi, Gr 1 Race—No selectic rd Race — Barry Sha Judge Wingfield, High Olympus Vourth Race—-Elmendort, ~-Josephine Pen Rose HAVRE DE GRACE. Belle Roberts, Pi Thornbloom, Euterpe Fourth Race-Ross@entry, Celto Fifth Race—Benevol aya \ by Jury bf Race — Hayden, Sur Up e—- Thrift, Eddie Knowing, as word des of clothes. Equally servic tional suils at 834,50 as those $52.50, Army off Men's Sho; Entrance, 1 ‘perts of Turf mate boxers of soe west 5 puse, Quincy non, Hannibal, —sylvano, Joan of Are Except us amusing reading, the average men’s clothing advertise- ment interests you little or not at all. what's what than any shop-bound designer ever could, no long-winded pription is necessary — one Jook will inform you whether or no Best & Company’s are your kind lomelike in appearance are the excep- sive materials ranging in price up to made to measure at reasonable prices. Whipcord Uniform to measure Whipeord Uniform to measure Naval officers’ uniforms iust as reasonably priced, Men’s Nettleton Shoes, $8.50 up. Best & Co. DRECTUM EQUALS HS RECORD OF 20814 NRO FAURE Only Entry in the Four Stake Races to Win in Straight Heats. COLUMBUS, 0., Sept. 25.—A card that comprised the best day’s racing | so far of the present Grand Cireult meeting was enjoyed by the targest crowd of the week. Of the four stakes ‘on the programme for # total distri- bution of $16,000 only one was in straight heats, even the three-year old colts in the Western Horseman Futurity trotting some extra miles before a decision was reached. Directum J. tripped off three win- ning heats in the 2.06 Board of Trade pace, equalling his record of 2.03'% in the last heat, witb Little Bate | chasing him out. Ante Guy did an erratic first mile in the 3:12; Buckeye ‘Trot finishing tenth jbecause of a bad break made at the first turn, She trotted to a new record |for her of 2.04% {n the second heat and won the third handily. Prince Mores and Heir Reaper set so hot @ pace jn the fourth mile that Murphy laid up Ante Guy, while Geers won with He Reaper. She came back strong tn thr fifth and winning — /DUNDEE WINS DECISION OVER BRITT IN BOSTON. BOSTON, Sept. 25.—Johna) ot New York won the decision ove Frankie Britt of New Bedford ta the twelve-round bout at the Armory A. A night. ‘The New Yorker was pi we with a silver cup by the Bar \Kssoctates of this city just before |ment on with fis opponent. Dundee staggered Britt with rights lthe Jaw in the sixth, Te had the be of a Cast mixup, too, fn the ninth an Showed much of his old-time clevernes | throughout Dundee | — Went Side Star Killed tm Action. | Joe Smith, the popular trainer fo: Rattling Levinsky, recelwed the sad |news last night of the death of his Private Lewis Klopfer of th 4 New York Engineers, who wa killed in action July 16 last. Klopfer enlisted with the 3&th New York Er gineers in January, 1917, and ts the fire me er of the new West Side Athi Club of New York City to make the supreme _sacrifi Before the wa was one of the heat know! Last 3 Days OF AUTOMN RACING AT AQUEDUCT 6 CLASSY CONTESTS TOMORROW, INCLUDING THE $2,500 Oakdale Handicap 2-Mile Steeplechase SPE leave Penn. 1A RACB TRAINS Bd Bt. 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