The evening world. Newspaper, December 23, 1918, Page 8

THY a WG WORLD MONDAY, DECEMBER 2 BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK By Thornton Fisher NO WONDER THE SQUIRRELS ARE HEALTHY by The Prees Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) YEA- | GUESS Lt NEED bey u OF SHELLS— May Come Back Big, but Shipyard Patrons Will = Listen to Rooting for the Real _ Heroes of the Game. PSASEBALL may or may not hav [a big season next year; ehances are it will have, but, as ‘are reminded, there ts going to be ‘Variety of rooting. No matter what the shipyard patriota aren't to measure up in public esteem | the boys that didn’t wait for the | or fight order issued by Secre- | fy Baker of the War Department. You “4 aan ne the scene with a “THEM r tossing them up at With whom ts the gang “the Ha will atsiks us to root that Han! si Hank has 4.65u) HE SETS THE ALARM FoR. AND GETS ONE DUCK, & STIFE HECK, & NOUNG COLO @ND A idn’t wait for eer ‘t hesitate, He didn't result of Ban Joho- snication with the War jet the season be fin« as scheduled. |“ | duty ay he done | public isn't one to remem: rs rr) AND HIDES HIMNSELE RYE reed about bow the pat ASINK BOX FOR TWo HOURS player and that ball player is coming back to do Bis bit for | Baseball. Some of them hi e od side and some of — ae THEATRES. Empire 2 ty’. To-night 8.15 Ast Met W Gillette isotable capacities, but ogre the tor Phat have been in the thickest of yi are going to get the plaudits ee | National League Imbued Fistic News \\Lindley Murray Heads tn 3. M, BARRIE'S CENTRAL andlatinecs * IND SATURDAY. SOMEWODY'S SWEETHEA PLAYHOUSE 4%, 97 2, Ati Wea = kt ia ST. TITTLE Pee «tal Ab ADLSON % SINEAD) | To-Night 4% REPUBLIC West 424 St Bron at 838 Mata Thurs, and Sat, 280 FLORENCE REED in ROADS or DESTINY HUDSON "5, “8,5 een, bs cane Lescad TT f2d,8 TONIGHT, 628 ELTINGE ‘Visc'*rnure “ana dat, 200, UNDER ORDERS LONGACRE Ee i me oi. Oe tieR™ MoROSt Sch 8 Es MOROSCO Sica‘ Eos £8 IAL POPULAN Price MAT. ¥ BETROTHAL By MAETERLINCK, Author BLUE BIRD. COMEDY "Wenz k8k; "Hath Ete uur. Peers Mopking A PLACE ane SUN CASINO pa.2523 aay With New Life and Gossip Since eee Grant, the old time Giant, St Riven at 8.15 List of Tennis Players By John Pollock New Amsterdam {is A Merry Must eal Romance, 1 "WIR: ats, Erlanger’s New Musical ‘Comedy. The Girl Behind the bun 10, T, B, Pell, New York, N, ¥. Tilden and Richards Best Double Team—Miss Molla Bjurstedt Jack Dempsey, who got $4,000 recently for punching Carl Morria into an uncon- Heydler Took Reins SMieage, iL GB, Doyle, Washington, D.C. BELMONT 55. 5,237 Ba hie Fri. & Set, WHITESIDE,* 1» Little Brother with TYRONE POWER. scious condition in one round at the Johnion, Boston, M: inion, Hoxton. ‘Mare, ERDAM THEATRE ‘Alor NEW AM! extremely promising pitchers return- For Ti 8 hose Who Dine Without Rush JEGFELD MIDNIGHT FROLIC Veteran Organization Has Been Pulling Many Popular Stunts Since the Election of a New Louisiana Auditorium at New Orle: was matched to-day by Charley Murray, the fight promoter of Buffalo, to meet Dan Dalley, the giant heavyweight of New Castle, Pa, in a ten-round bout at the Queensberrry A. C. of Buffalo, N. Y., on the night of Dec, 30. & big hit with the Buffalo fight fans when he won from Carl Morris on a foul in the seventh round at the Queensberry Leads Women Stars. By William Abbott. INDLEY MURRAY, winner of the national singles, is awarded the honor position in the 1918 official ranking of the country’s lead- ing tennis players. There was con- ing to the Brooklyn club (ten of their pitchers went into service jast year) Coombs would be invaluable as # Coombs always has been @ sinart fellow, a emart pitcher and a@ great deal of his gam He can sit down and tell you.as much about pitching and one in baseball, possibly excepting Fred Mitchell. a Dempsey made Coprrighs, 2 » Ae te Pres Wel ans Co, By Hugh's. Ss. Fullerton. batters as an» JOUN TOUTS New ‘Atasieal He is square BOOTH" ° y. Kve, 848, 0 Xmas EXTRA MATINGE. FRIDAY. savecoce* Be Galm Camilla vith, LOLA nyse 4 WALTER HAMPDEN. “PURE GOI siderable discussion whether Murray or W. P. Tilden, the young Philadel- LISTEN LESTER! Club over a year ago. As the fans have been begging Promoter Murray to put quiet and honest, and witir it one of the best fellows in the wi 8 ft possible that the old National League is coming back and going to make another effort to regain phia racquet wizard, would be placed His training as a sort of a at the top of the season's list, but the manager under Robby and hi ; on again at the club, Murray tnade Jack Kearns, manager of Dempsey, HENRY MILLER’S"e44"" 43d St. a TO-NIGHT AT 8.30 Mata Wed. "Ss Sat, 2 PA Fig mt ag PHONE COL. 95: Ane Sri ah National Association's Stperience under Mack bas cided that Murray’s victory over Til- e its place In base- an offer for Jack to fight Dalley, which FEE i Gilwert & Sullivan Comic 0 Nios, LHE GONDOLIERS he quickly accepted, met many of the big fellows, but he has Datley has already “BACK TO EARTH" ball? It 4s pulling jden for the national singles title en- titled him to No. 1 position. E HE boys are swarming back from some extremely popular stunts just i 360. COHAN Bete _wer wa be This year’s ranking is by classes, Bats Wed aa an ni not fought in over a 3 ; ae Mian PINAEORE ie ° training at Long Branch Murray and Tiiden being bracketed 1. (A biercle for Christmas, TO-MORROW, XMAS EVE, AT 8.20, now and seems to/| * in Class 1, The plaeing of players this in “A PRINCE scores of others are coming. BIJOU G2 ot ay. Bre, $30, Matchmaker Ai, Lippe of the National A. ©.| year resulted in a number of startling of Phiadeiyhis hae completed his cant of bouts th Seat the, onating changes, particularly the ranking’ of be imbued with I think that the Chicago Cubs have THERE WAS” ef h IRENE out in the alr and san, new life since Dad read m’: Would'like'te bev pulled the first unwise move df the for the enecial show of the cli on Obriatmas reconstruction in sending a represen- Ichyia Kumagae, the little Jap, who LYCEUM 588,05, BORDONI Jack Heydler as- sumed the reins ‘The appointment AN of the contaste will be for| Johnny Menley va, Franko Brown vm, Young failed miserably in his bold invasion ur. Feibats3 te of national hgnors. in Class 4, which is quite a comedown from his previous rating. tative of the club to Washington to try to use a little persuasion and per- haps pull to get Grover Cleveland e& Kumagae landed Boys’ Bikes, $25 Girls’ Bikes, $30 DADDIES & LYRIC ii Yona tnd sat 238: Make of “Colby Jack” Phillion, Yourg Terry MoGorern va Joe Koons, e the double teams, W. P.| pm "eth stvlee complete, with cnastertrates, Wee $48 Brine 482, Mata Wed. Thurs... Leonard mm, Johnny Hughie Hutohinvon a Joe Mendail, Alexander ts in the army of oceupa- tion, and the army will remain during Coombs as mana- ger of the Phillies Richards are together with Fred placed in Class 1, Frances Starr= most of next summer, at least. The Alexander and Beals C. Wright, 4 pair of veterans who can still take Jack Britton, tha former welterweight cham- not only takes) pion, and Silent Martin, the deaf mute middie weight of thin city, will clash in the main bout of eight rounds at the weekly boxing show of) the Armory A, A, of Jemey City to-night, This} will be Martin's fist appearance in a bout in/ sereral monthe and be is in fine phywioal shape In the natural course events ‘they Probably would get him, | but experience shows that efforts io use pull in such Cases react with dis- | astrous results, especially when the purpose is Avowed as in this case, away much of the| ANDERS dissatisfaction over the summary re- lease of Pat Moran, but in Philadel- phia, where Coombs for years was an care of the many sensational young- sters the court game is developing. Miss Molla Bjurstedt, as was to be expected, easily women tennis stars. The following list shows the first THEATRE. 48 6, ‘writes: ‘of Broadway. ‘Walter was a brother of our old Donohue, der in the New York Legis ature, As far as I none of the papers have PLYMOUTH Wo 3 er thiee Rina’ EXTRA MATINEE THURSDAY. JOHN BAR GLOBE, Bre, 6.20. Meta Wed & Sat, 220. idol, it 18 extremely popular and prom- ORE Besides thie go there will be matched Waiter even a passing men- three aixcound scrape between evenly six classes for men ses to put the Phillies back into their HE arny officers want to avoid the appearance of favoritism. and as he was the baseball manager of the Hamilton Cofepe and Martin worked for ‘The selection of Mitchell and SANDERSON | CAWTHORN| CANARY” in Tolnol's “* REDEMPTION” the bout at Billy Grupp’ PRINCESS ™9,Xnu,§ Pushes sh, B ete aye jr feam, os well as manager of vier h, practical and popular baseball Basketball tean of the mame wnie | Veech: Pract Las men, to run the Chicago club make Sam Hardy and Doyle & Dixon. Wost 424 St, Evenings Mstinedaw' and a howl might go up tf Alex was allowed to return and other less: fa- ‘The return battle “betwen Chy Indian ight hearyweight, and Kid Norfolk, the scree OH MY DEAR” |the ‘Cubs stronger in Chicaxo than | they have been since the days of cokured heavyweight af Baltimore, will be brought Yeraity, at which he was a stu- off ty the Armory A. A. of Bouton in te Grand oT eAteptio Seems ie vored privates retained, Further, ithe 1. ‘New VT Haye, ‘hcago, ne iat Rowton. th stominum “ot nickel fioiahs feof ne-plece: cold-drawn, a hery of Satis I Dre! to New York fof contests, officers and athletic directors of ntili- enth Avenue boy is Opera House in that city on Tuemlay evening, a Me z, NOR PAINTER 74" SELWYN THEATRE a ‘There is no doubt but that, for|t@ry units are quite as keen about Jan, & On account of the Boston arena being Bath! blasts detired, bie hi West 424 81 Tel. Bryant 47 eS THIS WER! twelve years at least, the ‘National | Denies to a little of the baroed to the ground last werk the officials of winning championships as aré the WEDNESDAY. FRIDAY & SATURDAY, League has been slipping back and allowing the American to take the edub will be forced to stage thelr shows in the future at the Grand Opers House, This fame goes with a mention on the major leaguers and it is possible that page they may want to keep the big fel- Z UGUTH Jane Cowl lead) No matter how much any one Ped kick on tho arbitrary relgn of ‘will be the alub's apeniog show, JR. JIM GAFFNEY MAY BUY I. DAVEGA, iz friend, Billy Newman, low to pitch them to an army cham- calls us up to ask that we tem- | Frankie Bums, the Jersey Oity boner accom- 125 WEST 125 panied by hie trainer, Arthur Dizon, will leare RED SOX FROM FRAZEE. QWiSsE Foo SWisE Fooiss.. an Johnaon, the fact remains that it| It is to be hoped that Alex and all The Crowded Hour the recent report that Patsy Cline, as gone to the proverbial OPEN EVERY EVENINO, ar this one-man power that has held| the stars in servico may be returned | to-night fee Portland, Me., where he will take ST COMEDY DRAMA SINCE “WITHIN THE LAW." the American League up and given it| to their clubs before the season opens, ‘The muddied baseball situation at on Battling Reddy, the jooal featherweight, West 48th St. ve. 8.21 Nothing like it, says Billy, In- the advautage, both in the politics of | It ts the policy of the War Depart. | two sixcound boule at @ apecial boxing bow Boston, which President John Heydler Pop Mat Wed- anor t 30 MAXINE ELLIOTT" the game and in tho playing field. The detertoration of the National nas 7° been almost entirely due to feuds be- tween the owners, which ha' league action, The tables may ve turning, for just now the feuds are confined mostly to the American ‘ League, and the National owners, for the first time in a double decade, are trying to pull together, ment to release men who were taken from high salaried jobs as quick: possible and allow th hea A) but bringing pressure on Washington to secure that result is another story, You remember that Griffith Ineisted 2. 4 dectsion tn the Amsmith case, Cline has been in temporary re- | it because of nose and able. He hasn't been beatin, en, or trying to, He wouldn't scording to Newman, As ct, aS Billy states tt, been under the care ote who has been treating bias nose and eyes, and within possibly weeks will be "we bap to tackle to be held en Christmas Day afternoon, Burus's bext opponent efter Reddy will most Hiely be Kid Mondo, the Buffalo boxer, fe twelve routs at te American Athletic Amoniation of Balti more on the night of Jan. 3, Harris fs anxious to book this bout for hia slab, Jim Coffey, the Irish bearywolght, fe finally Guing to fight. Al Lippe of the National A, 0, ‘of Philadelphia, in @ letter to the writer, says be hes signed up big Jim to meet Lary Williams, of the National League has been trying for several days to straighten out, may be cleared up by a new deal which is now reported to be under consideration. On the authority of some close Boston associates of James Gaffney, it is said that the former owner of the Bra may. purchase x, which Harry Frazee now has on thé d transfer the club to Braves CONCERTS AND MUSIC. @ Sdetieroi COHAN & HARRIS em to return, w. - ry ie at 8.30, sist a ORCHESTRA Modest Altschuler, Conductor, PAULIST CHORISTERS’ Father Finn, Conductor, Most fascinating mystery play ever written, VERS returns afte after having ee: West ry Bt Tel. 1470 Bryant, Bren £30, ERS THIS WEEK. waontsbak, FRIDAY & SATURDAY, A TONIC FOR THEATRE-GOERS, afor3 mrt RIVIERA a STANDARD | Bie foe 8, Predte oar “THE RIVIERA GIRL” MANHATTAN 0: 80.242.ot tray. Bore CHAUNCEY OLCOTT © lg nae Me THE VOICE OF Meco! ved 260, to $1.00, few front ay . if it goes through, is said, would remove the main diffi- culties which confront both sides, and worked hard for the Knignts of Columbus, and no sooner had he hit New York than @ writer declared Evers denied having written that the soldiers in France geainst baseball against the players who did not come to fight. The object of misquoting Evers in that manner {s not I have a dozen letters him, “written in France, in which he | ceatered the troops were extreme!y His fear was that they woult plaster their displeasure on al) bajl- players because some were guilty ot to the Paint and Putty He wrote me that at every opportunity he was trying to explain that the majority of the players were loyal, that a big proportion of them were in France and that the soldiers ought to realize the difference and In his later letters he aid he noticed a change in the atti- tude of the soldiers after they learned that a lot of the players actually were over there and fighting, t = in ‘his class. at out to be a the Bridgeport hoarywelght for ot the bouts to be held at his club on Now Year's afternoon, As Williams was reident of Philadalpa before be went to Bridgaport, the chanone are that @ big crowd will turn out to eee hun box the Irish giant, ‘Tommy Walsh of Chicago, manager of Pal Moore, the Memphis bantamwelght, whe won « do- cision over Jimmy Wilde of England, the world's fo @ threorgund bout at VERA JANACOPULOS Brazilian Goprano. HE genres in easbatl politics would be funny if it were not the cleverness gertous. Here is the National League | trying to get rid of Garry Herrmann, ite own representative on the National Commission, and Ban Johnson of the American League insisting that Herr- mann deserves re-election, The fact ONDER it Perey Haughton wa |that_ Johnson ds espousing the cause take any part in the manage- | tment of the Boston Braves? The old tonics, con boldly that Frazee and Ban Johnson, and, National Leaguers consider ‘more im- tt would relieve the financial ich has tugged 8o hard at the Mike Gibbons, and lacks onl: open of the K O. kind, it come to him dn time, as it did ny Leonard, long after anybody ted he had oe, one. Se Cowler. Scores Another K. 0. PHILADELPHIA, Cowler, heavywe: tralia, knock flyweight champion, Loadon recenuy, bas notified Sammy matchmaker of the American Athletic Aasocia- that be will let Moore box Preakie Barns in a twetvesound decision bout et bie club the third week in January, Moore ‘hae fought seroral guod fights in Baltimore and ‘a bate between him aod urns there ought to PHOTO PLAys. | PLAZ after his not remote @eclarations that Herrmann should go, | of course makes Nation: suspicious. They are suspicious of National Club, stopped his last five opponents in one Dempsey refused $4,000 tional Club to box Cowler ‘ Day #ix rounds, ig now trying to get Willard to mect tion of Baltimore, . . Ae IO aeerky 18 300 Le CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG In Her Greatest Play e|“THE COMMON LAW”| By ROBERT W, C Harvard football coach, who was ‘] President of the Boston Nationals be- | @nything that Johnson proposes. ‘The situation may result in the out- break of hostilities at the New York ‘The National Leaguers ap- pear determined to get rid of Herr- fore he went to war, is back home, Pwith everything but baseball to dis- He thinks the National League e only and the right thing § fa ng John Heydler as ite but further than that he ai aia foot ‘have a word to say about the Werner Armoroe Trio, Prelie's cus, Nat Vincent, Howard & Sadler, Rawson & Clare, The Valdares, otha Priscitia Dean ta Tt dooks as if the Olymufa A. A, at Philadel. phia fe again drawing tho same big crowds at timir hows that they did before the war started, Tho gate receipts of the recent Lew Tyndler-Kver Hammer bout figured up $3,200, which is some ‘money when you sop end realize that Hamuner has not fought io « long time, and, besides, was not known very well by the boxing fans of Phila deipbia, Tendier received lowe 10 $1,000 tor his| BE AMUSEMENTS. NAZIMOVA fr sEVE FOR ey aa juerite Clark He, Mise Howver EST! If the owners are interested in hav- ing @ lasting peace they will drop both Herrmann and Johnson. Bven/ if they admit that Herrmann and Johnson have worked long and faith- fully and that they are wise baseball ® successful eleven thie men, yet the fact that there always is now busy with the Blue and will be war in baseball while they are basketball squad, work for- at the head of affairs ought tc settle by Harry Fisher, the argument, Johnson may be able et” practice has ‘been euspend- to oust the enemies he has in the the Christmas recess, but when American League, but Herrmann has opens Dawson preecene to no such power and some of the owners stars give never will forg! @emonstration of the basketball brought 80 many championships Morningside aoe im the past. not blame all, Fred Dawson, “Whose coaching gave },; BROADWAY THE ‘HEART OF duit with DOROTHY, PHILA Contin: AM. to 1 >’ Orcar Relchow. has sprung a Hearing that Joe geo’ and Ex Klopfer had been se- verely wounded in France, he urged that the major leagues provide p:si- tions for all the players crippled or disabled in the war, making them HE appointment o of Coombs, how. secretaries or assistant man, ever, is the biggest news of a Daweon, jong time. Not only is he competent & box office standpoint, because the well liked as gold and silver stars th: Robinson will miss on the service flags of several clubs his services terribly as he has been’ next summer will do a lot to dissipate that will finally ke selected to the eainatay, of Brooklyn since he the idea that the players did not bear the vamsity, doined the club, With @ swarm of their share of the war, Having fallet to sign up Jack Dempeey for « bout with Tom Oowler at the National A. ©, on | New Year's afternoon, deepite the fact that the club officials offered Jack a guarentee of §4,000 for bis end, the manager of Cowler, who ie also the manedor of Jeff Gemith, i» ow trying to | — induce Dompey to fight Smith, There is no | chance of Dempsey and Sunith boxing, as the | ‘of boxing would not pay to eee such « | cueadad contest, Ne TY 20° CENTURY MAIDS vik DANCE TERRACE GARDEN PALACE, 58th St Tickets now on STRAND ORCHESTRA, near Lexington Ay. - 7 to 12. Sat, # Sun. 2 Aftractions Christmas Dancing Christmas Day, 2 to 1%, OLUMBIA 23% HELLO AMERICA* we) worth while even. from |r Loew's NEW YORK THEATRE M. to iL BROOKLYN. CGERALDINE FARRAR in” day ar. Fulton a GROWN. UP BABIES, wuoay WORLD wanr Grery Gunday. 2—BIG OONCERTS—2 uraged ny new ‘candidates Teported for and wise, but he is as l practice at the first call, any ball player. much is expected of the combina. Lem’ bis discharge from de € a irawanr a6 other jabest Price h St, Be. 350 40 FE tat. To-mor'w, 260 d WILLIAMFAVERSHAM MAXINE EL ny IT in “LORD AND LADY ALGY. { Th. STREET, nx THEATRE WEEK DAILY AT 1-3-5-7 9 PM SCARLET TRAIL ‘AS: TRIUMPHANT SUCCESS! A FRANK APPEAL FOR A CAMPAIGN AGAINST MOCIE MODESTY EVG 5° MAS & SAT MAT. 25-50% ALL OTHER PERFORMANCES 24° ST CHARITY. LEXINGTON THEATRE with the Musical Bota “ATTA BOY” with - Capt. 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