The evening world. Newspaper, November 13, 1918, Page 14

DE VIE ae er ees = OS See age: 8S © ? vs ae ‘ ey ‘our watchword Jack Dempsey and His Manager Xearns Have Decided to Help Out the War Fund Drive Saturday Night. ws. ne ea Oo, batt] ‘Warld.) DEMPSHY, or rather bis Manager, Jack Kearns, has come threrth. le will fight for the ‘War Fund show at Madison Square @arden Saturday night PROVIDING Coftreth, the Director General of mation wide drive, can get hin opponent, And believe us Coffroth will get him an opponent, even if he las te search the various canton- ments for one. Dempsey will even fight two men-—the best among the the best among the may not, however, be out two such imen, re of less unknown ffroth may be able to get some with @ reputation as 4 pugilist. At any rate Dempsey will be one he many stars at the Garden show and he wil! be there to fight and not box an exhibition. No one cares whether he wins in a minute or six ee long as it is known that he | Be on the job with his box of pugilistic tricks He ts the attraction extraordinary, an admittedly great Mghter, and for such & good cause as the United War Work Fund drive New York is entitled to the priviliege seeing him in genuine battle, 55 = 2 ORHAPS we were a little too eevere with Kearns and Demp- wey yesterday when we inti- burew that they were ducking. i0-|Johnny Dundee vs, Loute Bogush they ‘were out. duck hunting, and |Willle Jacknon vs. Leo Johnson, Kid there ts a marked differoace between | Norfolk vs. George Robertson Benny the two pastimes. Kearns phoned] Valger vs. Irving Margolis, Battling Coffreth Monday night to that ef-| Reddy vs. K. 0, Eggers, Barney Adair fect &@ an explanation why his tele-| ys. Phil Bloom and hone calls and telegrams had not Been answered. We are glad to this fact in justice to both Kearns and Dempsey and we are fur- ther pleased, almost beyond expres- gion, to say that the both of then have mantully offered to do every- thing possible to help out in the drive for money to make our army and navy boys comfortable, Fairness is ETTING an opponent for Demp- sey, however, isn't as easy as one might suppose, All the big fellows with reputations are inclined to ide step him cr are matched else- where. Anyhow they don't want to be knocked oul. Joe Jeannette, the colored heavy- has expressed a desire to meet Took, but Jack may be p&rdoned for not wanting to take him on. Like Willard, Dempsey doesn't want to create ‘a precedent of fighting a colored man. If he did now he might later be asked to meet Harry Wills or some others of the colored fighters after he succceds Willard as the champion, He isn't afraid of any of them and possibly would beat them as easily as he would a white con- tender, It is simply a matter of Principle with him. Coffroth will institute a search for an opponent for Dempsey. Jack will meet him no matter who he may be, ‘The poor fellow, we are sorry for him, Dut the bout will show Dempsey to New Yorkers and add thousands to} the Garden's gate receipts Saturday night. t oy ones tells us that Fred Ful- |+ ton is going to get busy for the | raried et United War Work Fund drive ie Sen Francisco and against no less & Ppugilistic personage than Wilile leshan. it will be remembered that leehan got credit, not so long ago, for giving Dempsey a lambasting on) the and if he is as Fulton is in for a merry time. Coffroth had hopes of getting either ulton or Meehan Bast to fight Dempsey, but as long as the © cause, and that is quite satisfactory. ‘We can readily imagine how Fult will try to upset Mr. Meehan. If ty knock out the roly-poly heavy Feiene something Deinpsey couldnt do, the feat will put Fred back in the heavyweight championship runnir N unfortunate conflict football game has comp directors of tho military trap- shooting exhibition of the United War Work campaign to shift from their scheduled date of Nov, 13 at the Po Grounds to the New York A. C. rang at Travers Island, on Nov, 1 A great competition between champion trapshooters and exhibitions of fa smanship would have be with a na big hit In the spacious Polo Grounds, a|% lécation convenient to the travelling| public, if for no other reason than it} would have been 4 novelty to New Yorkers. J eceeecr MMUNSING. WEAR | | sands of dollars will be realized cision, Clay Turner vs, Larry Willla-ns, attached to Uncle Sam's navy, has just returmed trom Joe ronnd bout in Paris a fow weeks ago and was awarded the decision by the referee, be was only civen prepare for the batt tm good bape for the verap, Brooklyn lightweight and ale paring partne of Champion Benny Leonant, to-day signet ewe to amet Young Exe, the Buffalo light weight, in an eight-round bout A. ©, of Trenton, N. J, on next Monday night, Johnny Dundee was to have fought Hene, but Reotty Montieth demanded the club officials eubstituted Meese, weight of Memphis, Tenn., are now on their way to London, where they will go against good Bne: Linh boxers in bouts at the King’s boxing carnival to be held there on Dec, 11 and 12 fe another battler who will make the trip, and be will protably take on Georges Carpentier, flgtvter who Koocked ott Johnny Erte in the serecth round in Weehawken on Saturday night, was matched to-day to meet Jack Sharkey, local bantamweight the Annory A, A Monday evening, has agreed to give Joe Sharkey to pay at | ment, od as that | to quickly dropped Ned the | ¥ | MUNSINGWEAR is the standard bearer of all that’s best in underwear— OLIN ENS NR RT ER Ral ye ‘tiitst * ‘BEST SPORTING THIS PICTURE NEEDS NO TITLE LOONEY CNG AL OF BE So na ae mR 1 oy PAGE IN AY, NUVEMBER 13, 1 Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). stick TO y at Zia 7S tifa eS ye TAs FIGHTERS MUST FIGHT next SATURDAY NIGHT OR GET OUT AND GING ANOTHER GUY «a CHANCE « Fistic News and Gossip By John Pollock Judging by the vast amount of interest which is being taken in the blg boxing show for the benefit of the United War Work Campaign Fund at the Armory in Bridgeport, Conn., to-night, many thou- The Police and Fire Department officials of the clty have charge of the entertain- ment and the Governor of the State gave permission to hold the event in t! armory, Ten six-round bouts, all real fights, down on the card for de- Jack KEARNS DOESNT NEED A MAP TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT ROAD FOR DEMPSEY. Athletic Meet her contents, Eddie Nearing, the Chicag middleweight and 8 trip overwas, Exhlle says that he met Borrell, the Philadoivdia fighter, in a teo-| Homer Baker to Come Out of Retirement for These Games in Brooklyn, By Alex Sullivan. HERE will be many interesting athletic events decided to-night in the 47th Regiment Armory, Brooklyn, for the United War Work Fund, Ono of the real features will be the return to competition of Homer 8, Baker, half-mile champion three years ago, after a year's absence from sportdom, The meet ts being jointly conducted by the Knights of St. An- thony and the Loughlin Lyceum, A one-mile relay race between He claime days’ notice in which to but the hard work put him Tom MeArdie, manager of Freddie Rese, (tir at the Trevito: $1,000 for Johnny and Billy Whalen, the i. Paul Ritchie MitcheN, the crack lightweight Waukee ,and Pal Moore, the fast little Nahtwetaht, of Mik banttam- Harry Greb ROAD WERE ON Jacle- THAT ROCKY LANE WONT GET US ANYWHERES For United War Fund at 47th Regiment Armory We To-Night Grimes formerly of the Dodgers’ pitching staff, are among the players on the teams, Some of the other well~ known athletes are Garry Schmeelk and Herman Bergkamp, Venn State League stars; Joe Liarieil, St. Johoa's ; Lewis, Untversity of Califor- Sehilting, Fordham; Olsen, Cor- Jennys, Yale, and others, Willie Hoppe, Miss C. Katharine Haywood and Welker Cochran were the stars in the United War Work cam- paigh matches under the direction of the National Association of Amateur Hilliard Players the Elks Chib, Charles EB. W € ioppe’s average was runs % and 65. Miss Haywood had as her opponents C. P. Mathews and Julian Rice. Cochran at the Elks Club, Brooklyn, outplayed #@ and his top T. Henry Clarkson at to 3. The winner's average was 16912, His best run was 40, As a result of the competitions more t|was won in the par of 5, than $1,000 was added to funds which Loughlin Lyceum and Knights of St Anthony will thrill those who attend In the fal leg of this event Con mt, Shaughnessey, Junior and senior out- he door national champion, at the dis- fo an elgivsound Rest at ¢ ce, representing the nights, and _ of deney City Heigtts © Jimmy O'Brien, considered the best Nov, 25, | Promoter Jeanine Tniddie distance man of the local as- Weaver, manager °C) sociations, representing Loughl - 60 ter cont. of the rwoaiete and be W8) coum, will etru to bring victory aipy est of Shie pum to their respects organizations, Charley Waite, the Chicago Uebtweight Big Bill Edwards this afternoon will been detailed by the War Department stand on the Sub- . steps and » boxing to the audents of we B.A. f uction seats for Saturday's football Northwestern Univemity, his ie the first game at the Polo Grounds between me that a boxing watrotor has teen amined the Tigers and Camp Upton. 1 that’ position at a college, White bas tad ey the ‘an aerial battle, involv rience as boxing tnstructor, le ing three squadrons of United States wen shifted four times «ince his fint appolnt-| Army aircraft, consisting of eighty four airplanes, will be “fought” over the famous 155th Street grounds as an added attraction. Bill Secretary of the Na- tiona ve Sports Drive Com- mitt wishes it to be announced that ail clubs or individuals who pro- mote events for the war fund should notify Julian W. Curtis, Treasurer, at No. 60 Vanderbilt Avenue, just how much mone raised, so an accurate Lad | account ept_as to What Marry Wills, who is reganted as the beat) credit ts due sports in the big drive, colored! bewyy weight in the Jack Dempsey 1 sin town ready to meet anybody that ean be secured at aturday night's big boxing show tn It seems now that he Nereabouts 1 y, that all th heavyweights are scare al. plored pys are a ance, It is under- stood that an effort will be made to secure Jim Savage, the Orange, N heavyweight, who ix the trainer of the Friars Glub, and who 1s in good condition through duily playing hand all and sparring. Jin Corbett has offered his services to referee the bout betw n Benny ' Leonard and ik Britton, Nationally famous bask Frankie Burma, the popular little Jersey City as to ‘The main bout at the next show of te A. of Philadelphia on Monday nigit ween Jack Dempsey and Jack Clifford, xn Joe Bartiey Mod im, ‘The club officials tried eet ta Madden demanded $1,000 for h 1 10 meet Dempary, Clifford subs about ol for another (ai Tuomjeun, a Pitladelpiva to Mt rounds at che At Wriday aight, The men put up oily” «few months ago, whit | though sor t anxious t Now that the war ls over, the police authorities Baltimore will orbably give lermusion to y Horry aod Henry Bletzer, the boring Fred wage boxing shows arranged to-day ball etar iting Lightweghe : ut y uniforms, give pro.t hea Was inulin faved games to-night ou flabter, Jchn Jennings, saunas of 1 memes Lorine Araory Ae A. of dry Cy Mog Beh Macimait ry. nt by the t Mine Sweepe yous and the U. vs. Armed ( tate ard, under the auspices of the Amateur Athletic proceeds for the United War Campaign Rube Work UNION SUITS Marquard and = Burleigh | | Columbia and Wesleyan will meet }at football on South Field on Satur- i day 4 z fi ceording to an announcement best material, best workmanship, best f yesterday by Levering Tyson, fitting, most comfortable and durable ( Joe! Rinaldo of Joel's restaurant, has underwear that modern methods and efficient equipment can produce. There is a Munsingwear one, a size to fit anyone—m: tall, short, stout, or thin, Let Munsingwear cover you with satisfaction. Just received a letter from Jimmy Wilde, reat friend of his, stating nds to visit this country as war is over, to me 1» Herman for the world’s title, style to please every- an, woman, or child— "Uncle Jim" Whaley, | old, died yesterday at his home, No. 4200 \18th Avenue, Brooklyn. Years ago he Jacted as betting commissioner for the p}) | |late Mike Dwyer and had quite a stable lof his own, One of his horses, Bolivar, won at the old Brighton Beach track at 400 to 1, sixty-one years day. are being raised by the Sports Drive, Alfredo De Oro was unable to appear last night because of fliness. BENNY LeonNARd 1S GETTING (NTO SHAPE For SATURDAY NIGHT By Thornton Fisher KICKING IN THE FIFTH ROUND — BUT Dont FoRGET WHO O10 IT. So PUT SATURDAY NIGHT Dow) IU THE OL DIARY FoR MADISON SQ. GARDEN KID NORFOLK 1S BHADOW BOXING FoR. HIS SCRAP WITH JEAN ETT Language of the Game Being Made Over by Writers Who Are Over There. “Pro’’ Golfers in Close Foursome In a four-ball professtonal golf match over the St, Andrews Golf Club vourse, near Mount Hope, ‘Tom Kerrigan and Tom McNamara, of Siwanoy, defeated George Thompson, | Mount Vernon Country Club, and scribes when the troops get home, klija Horton, St, Andrews, by the More than seventy fellows who have pore of 2 up, with a best ball of 71 /ror years been writing baseball have No less than twelve of the holes |been over there during the past ycar and already they are beginning to were halved in par. Four of tie other six were won in one stroke under par, | make over e Tom McNamara had tho best indi- | war over (he language of the camo vidual score of 38—37—75, with two |We fellows who havo not had the holes of 2 cach to his credit, although [chance to pick up the French will he also had his bad luck, as he took a |have to study up or full behind. 4 ‘The emp is now the arbitre, the home plate tho plaque debut, the 6 on the seventh hole, which was halved in 4 and a 6 on the ninth hole, ; | catcher is the attrapeur, the bases are PLLA Ob q late aecoune premiere seconds and troiseme. Can a tournament was played at Pinehurst ¥°U !magine what some of thoso fel- lows are going to write? with the Interest centered in the co} Baseball has for thirty years been By Hugh S. Fullerton. Congright. 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), T looks as if writing is going to be hard on the veteran baseball test between C. L. Becker of Phil delphia and Franklin Gates of Hoft-| the moet ferti 4 , man, who had tied for the qualifying | ine, Tost fertile source of new words medal. Becker defeated Gates by 1 pressions in the English Up after going out In 39, Incidentally |language, It has given more words to Becker annexed the qualifying medal general use than any other element by finishing ? strokes under Gates's in the American language, Not all of ee re them are words originating in base- No Horse Ever Ran Better | Than Does Under Severe Handicap He Creates New Track Record of 2.31 1-5 for the Mile and a Half, (Spectal to The Evening World) BALTIMORE, Md., Nov, 13, F you were to ask the racegoers of Maryland which !s the best thoroughbred in America the majority would reply, George Smita, They would be right, Yor no horse in the United States has ever run a better race than he did in the Bowie Handicap at Pimlico yester- With 130 pounds up, four pounds more than the scale calls for, he won easily by three parts of a ‘iength from Omar Khayyam, to {Whom he was conceding fifteen pounds. He did something that no other horse has ever doa | the mile and a half in 2.811 | track record, | When ¢« considers that George Smith was bumped and knocked about like a pushball during the first five furlongs and that he had round fourteen horses, his stands out in hrilliansy r ord y efforts like a diamond lover paste. The Pimlico track is at the very least three to three and a | half seconds slow to the rile tn com- | parison with Saratoga. High-class horses have only been able to run 4 |mile over it in 1.39, Selling-platers |have raced @ mile at fi \1.962-5, so it will be seen from this | that had George Smith raced over the Saratoga track with the speed he showed yesterday he wovld have hung up a record that would have been a turf mark for years to come. The big crowd was treated to a novel spectacle, a struggle between three Kentucky Derby winners for the $8,600 which was the winner's share of the $12,000 stake. It was the | first time in the annals of thé Amer- ican turf that such a thing had taken place, George Smith had won the Derby in 1916, Omar Khayyam in 1917 and Exterminator in 1918, This trio raced up to their early prestige. They proved they | _ked the route by running away from their opponents in the last half mile, At ho finish Corn Tassel was fourth, aix lengths behind Exterminator. After being Knocked back to fourth position in the early stages of the George Smith | crippled by the action of the handi- | ball—in fact they are for the most | part lifted from other lines and ap- plied first to the game then to gen- eral use. track is more productive of new words than baseball is, but the race track expressions most frequently are grabbed by baseball writers and given | publicity, had only to sit still the remainder} ot the trip in order to win. The big surprise was the sudden improvement in form that Omar Khayyam displayed. For a month past he has been beaten regularly by selling-platers, On Nov, 7 Man- ster Toy won easily by four ‘engths, after leading all the way, and Gloomy Gus beat the “Persian Poet" half a length for the place. In the face of all his bad perform- nees Omar Khayyam is beaten a mall margin in track record time, Hie beat the old record. His change in form was in keeping with that of his stable-mate, Westy Hogan, at Saratoga this summer, After running like a lame goat he jumped out the following day and beat a fine field of handicap. horses. If a “killing” was meant with Omar Khayyam it was spoiled, orge Smith killed it at the finish, Before the start the “coup” was seems rather a shame that poor | could not have lived to get a chance at the Fvench words that will be adapted to Laseball, Seymour really was the inventor of the modern style of writing baseball, and was the first man to write light, slangy, narrative stories about base- ball games, The credit for this gen- erally is given to Lennie Washburn, who was his contemporary, I was so much interested in the argument us to which was first to use this style of writing that I went back to the old files of the Calcago Herald and the Inter-Ocean and discovered that Sey- mour wrote first by almost a year. He was not regularly on baseball, and Washburn took up the system, slung the slang into his stories and made them a popular feature. Seymour was one of the most brill- iant of @ wonderful group of writers in Chicago at that time—Pete Dunne, Griz Adams, Ben King, Eugene Field, Biff Hall, and later Ade, who came while they still were in their prime. Oddly enough, almost every one of them at some time was a baseball writer. But Seymour was the best, although Washburn, who was killed in a railway accident while at the height of his popularity, was better known as a baseball writer. I remember one of Seymour's clas- sics. The infleld had not been trimmed and the grass was rather long. ‘The batter hit a fierce drive ‘and the ball instead of bounding “hugged the ground,” and Seymour wrote that ‘it went down to short sounding like the hired man cating cee Campbell, who worked in St. Louis and became famous in Wash- ington, was one of the really great writers the game has fostered, He was an odd looking little fellow with a wonderful head. He wrote editor- fal paragraphs, poems, literary re- views and bageball,, One morning I met him on Pennsylvania Avenue, arm in arm with Sir Henry Irving, and I laughed until the tears came at the contrast of the stately, digni- fied actor and the small, unkempt, slangy reporter, Then I was informed that Campbell was one of the great- est authorities in the world on the history of the drama and had writ- ten books on the subject, He spent his money for two things —books and booze- while writ- capper for the mutuels. He laced Omar Khayyam In the field with several other also ran horses. This spoiled all chance for a big price McAuliffe Calls Turn on War Jack McAuliffe, the only boxer who ever retired from the prize ring with a world's championship, and who {s now in France as a Knights of Co- lumbus secretary, writes a very cheery, optimistic letter to John B. Kennedy, director of the K. of C. publicity bureau, Wabnetah Build- ing, New York, he war will be over before Thanksgiving,” says Jack, “Our boys have the Germans beaten to a fare- thee-well, Every boy in our service is a champion, and they are winning hands down. However, there's more work for Us here after the war than there ts during the war, because after the Germans surrender it will be a big task to provide entertainment for our two million boys. “It's going to take a long time be- fore the boys are all sent back home I think that it will take two years, with the reconstruction work they will be ordered to do and everything. “I've already put on some dandy boxing shows for the boys. They certainly love the sport. I predict | ing beautiful and perfect English in that when the war is over that the | one line, was the slangiest and most lads who are over there fighting for| expressive writer In baseball. I was race, George Smith ran around his opponents and at the end of a mile and a furlong had shot to the front and opened up He was nevor ft four | pe ee BY their country will exercise enough in-| sitting on his desk one evening and fluence with the Government to per-| he was bemoaning the fact that the mit boxing nationally, I hear my/| boss had ordered him to write base- friend Sinmay Sr yiore is on his way | ball it 3 and cut out here. le'll find plenty to do when the s! a traight Eng- does arrive,” , Usb” story im the machine and I ¢ ‘ 5 Asa matter of fact, the race) T ‘I Joe Campbell or Charlie Seymour | Baseball News Served With French Trimmings Fans’ Menu Next Year } glanced at it, He had written, “And Amie Rusie made a Svengali pass In front of Charlie Reilly's lamps and he carved three nicks in the weath Eddie Roth, that grand old mon: ment to the preservative power of salt 9 ur, was the Inventor of the “running | le story” style of writing baseball. unloaded a mess of words that would | Matthews to the dictionary describing each inning, His have sent Brander style was that of Henry James and his vocabulary had Henry like @ minor leaguer. Yet to my mind the champion writer of them all was an unknown genius who worked.many years ago on the Quincy, Ill, Heralé It was about 18 What that bird did to players would have made the Kaiser think people speak kindly of him, One day he wrote this: “The glass armed toy soldieys from this town were fed to the pigs yesterday by the cadaverous Indian grave rob- bers from Omaha. The flabby, one- lunged Reubens who represvut the Gem City in the reckless rush for the baseball’ pennant had their shins toasted by the basilisk-eyed cattle drivers from the West; they stood around with gaping eyeballs like a hen on a hot nail and suffered tho grizzly yaps from Omaha to run the bases until their necks were long from hirst. Hickey had more errors than Coin’s Financial School, and led the rheumatic procession to tho morgue. The Quincys were full of straw and serap iron and couldn't it a brick wagon with a pickaxe. They ran bases like pall bearers at a funeral. The Omahogs were bad enough, but the Brown Sox couldn't hold a crazy quilt unless it was tied around their necks.” I never know what became of him, but imagine some ball player killed him. G DRYDEN, Dean of Deans, has ¢ been one of the language makers for many years, and up to date he has Tennyson's brook tied and will go on forever, Dryden is one of the greatest humorists the game has adopted (not produced, for he was a humorist tong before he started writing). Also Dryden prob- ably is the only baseball writer who ever brought his when Pete Dunne hired him t baseball at union wages, He val to the office with his dinner pail and agreed to write basebail for the same money he earned in the foundry, $20 @ week, Six months later the union seale was advanced to $22, and ©. being a loyal union man, demanded the increase, Pete advanced him "4 a week, and when Dryden got the ent velope he walketl out of the shop and Was next heard of in Som 4; Tancisco, Strangely enough, Dryde: Bede years ago, and then for che first time Dunne learned why. thi quit so suddenly.” 7/8 baseball man RRAvEaTING to the French, it is going to be dangerous to write that way. I remember once that mistake. Our first baseman was burt, and dow Mertes, an out- Helder, was subbing there. Because of his inexperience at first no one criticised his work. One day in New York @ bull was thvown a trifle wild Instead of stepping out and he ball naXurally, h J for it backhanded, the’ bail hit the edge of his glove, bounced away. the game was lost, In descrilbing the play, I wrote that Sandow ought not be charged with an eror, but that if the game were played in France {t would have been a gaucherie, Two days later I met Sandow in a sleeping car, and without a word he swung his right and scored a knockout, On investigation I discovered that Sammy had received the clipping and “gaucherie” sounded wrong. He took the paper to Tom Loftus, the man- ager, and asked: “What is this guy calling me? Tom read the word and, being one of those sniemn kidders, sald: “Sandow, L wouldn't stand for it” “What is ne calling me?” demanded Sammy. “And he's calling {t to you in French too,” said Tom, accusingly, “I wouldn't stand for it, So Sammy waited his chance and “got even." This’ is merely a warning to the French school of baseball wi making * lend of the wa: looking | “NEW YORK WNCOBBAGAN 1% BATTERS ANERIGAN LEAGUE Tiger Player Has Won Laurels | Eleven Times in the Past Twelve Years. Tyrus Raymond Cobb, haseball player extraordinary and now Capt. | Cobb, U. S. A., in the Chemical War- |fare Division in France, is once again at the top of the official batting aver- ages compiled by Irwin M. Howe and announced by Ban Johnson, President of the American League. Cobb las now headed the lst of American League’ batsmen in eleven out of the last twelve years, Tris Speaker beat him in 1916, The official figures give Cobb a per- centage of .382 on 161 hits in 421 times at bat. This is just one percentage point behind his mark of 1917, when he led the parade witb .383. George Burns of the Philadelphia Ath- letics was second to Cobb with .252, al- though Griggs of Detroit and Jue Jack- fon of Chicago had higher averages, bu: played in only 28 and 17 games, respec: | tively. George Sisler of St. Louls was well up with .341, while Tris Speaker of Cleve- Yand was fairly well down with .319, J. Franklin Baker of home run fame and of the New York Yankees followed 'Speakee with .306, while Wally Pippy. also of the Yanks, right 6n Baker's heels with .204, be" Ruth, the hard-hitting pitchu- of the Boston Red Sox, just managed to squeeze in the charmed circle of .490 hitters, of which the Ameriqan League boasted thirteen in the abbreviated s son of 1918, Cleveland led the American Leacus in team batting, with the St Louis Browns second, the New York Yankee’ fourth and the Boston Red Sox, win- hers of the pennant and of the wortl's |championship, seventh, only a jump be- fore the lhiladelpha Athletics, who tn. ished last, PEORIA, Il. sured for next jov. 13.—Baseball ts as @ result of the entiment r at the seventeenth annual convention f the National Association of Profes sional Baseball Leagues which opened here to-day. ‘Madden and Corry Teamed | One of the most Important entries received thus far for the internationa six-day race at Madison Square Gar den the weck of Dec, 1-7 are Edd: Madden and Frank Corry. They wil: be known as the American- Australian {combination, This pair finished se ond to Goullet and Magin last ye after one of the most thrilling finishes | in the history of the big grind, | Six-day race fans that thronged th Garden the closing night last yous never will forget the game fight pu: up by Madden and Corry duriug the jlast hour of sprinting, They wer gradually cutting down the lead o Goullet apd Magin when the pisto shot announced the end of the grind There were many in the throng that | felt certain Madden and Corry would have won had the race continued one hour longer, | Madden and Corry are six-day vet Jerans. They won the Boston race |last. year, after a sensational sprint jin the last mile, by one point. Mad | den hails from Newark and has been a competitor in races at the Vailsbur:; track during the past four years Madden just at present {s employed |: a shipyard, but spends several hours a day astride his wheel. Corry 1s Australian, He came here 6 years ago with McNamara, Speer: | Byron, ’ plese fe oa a Margo! Johnny Howard of Bayonne, N, and Jack Britton falled to box t scheduled eight-round go at the Broa’) Street Athletic Club of Newark last night, owing to the fact that Howar| was ‘six and one-half pounds over- wolght. Howard welgned 166% nds Britton 143. Irving Margolies, the ex A. A. U. champion, made short work o Johnny Romans of Newark in the other Scheduled elght-round bout. The New Yorker belted his opponent from pillnr to post and knocked him out in ene minute of fighting. oS Dundee s Of a Wh \ BOSTON, 1%—Johnny Dundee Nov. started his drive of five fights tn five nights in five different citles for the United War Workers’ Campaign Fun at the Armory A. A., Boston, last night and boxed six fast rounds with Johnny Buckley of Boston. Dundee won easily and left for Bridgeport, where he boxes Louis Bogash to-night. > PIMLICO SELECTIONS, First Race—Belario, Fair aad Square, Triumphant, cond Race—Dolina, The De- cision, Whippoorwill. ‘Thin’ Race—Stockton entry, Max Meadows, Superhuman. entry, Gloor Fitth Race. Cirrus, Sixth Rece—Sky Pilot, Jack Mount, African Arrow, Seventh mata Thule, ce—Motor Cop, Ulti- Lucullite. CHARITY. Billiard & Pool| Exhibition Willie Hoppe-Alfred De Oro LouisKreuter-WelkerCochran J. Concannon-R. Greenleaf will display thelr skill ¢ “lil, @ skill for the petit “United War Fund Tomorrow Night, Nov. 14,at 8 P.M. the auspices of the Masonic ‘of the City of Grand Lode Room, 12 "weak say MP General Admission $] Reserved Seats $1.50 a agra te