The evening world. Newspaper, May 21, 1919, Page 18

MIN | ODDS AND ENDS OF BASEBALL " | DONT UNDER STAND \T- WERE WaN Rickard Going Back to Toledo To-Night to Complete Plans for Dempsey-Willard Fight Arena. Oorrient, IYTY, by The Ire Habtihing Ov. = (The New York Bvening World.) HESE are busy days for Tex Rickard. He has been taking jumps from one end of the goyntry to the other with about as much concern as commuters entrain t@ different spots in Long Island. Poinight Tex intends to return to to complete his plans for the of the big octagon-shi for the Dempsey-Willard bat- on July 4. has instructed the architect to for 120 rows of seats, The theatre probably has some two rows, but the distance the ring to the last row at the Will be about ten times greater from the stage to the capacity wil eo of seats will rahge from $10 to ‘There will be twenty-eight rows seven rows twenty-one htwenty ala ie at $15 (M THE LEAGUE weo BE 15T~- Pitching Phenom of Reds Fails to Check Giants And Is Driven From Box Roy Mitchell Also Forced to Retreat ‘by Hard Hitting Local Batters, Who Wreak Oy ffries tight the day is may have is on lilacs at the gate for him when he started downtown. The Giants apear to have adopted &@ new style of sliding, probably due to the presence of Hal Chase on the always a controversy as to an ad- says he feels better than and also hopes to get on matches Jack Britton and Lew. Tendler. O-MORROW night ig going to be a big night at Greenhut's, The Red Cross is going to @revent handsome medals to the: de- tho Boxers’ iawesbore of at the regu i", Fis ‘ear many of the juied for the Se. ‘war heroes. those boxers who have fought ity: or more times for the i aX be rewarded, HEN the Reds drove a nail in the Giant winning streak and then tried to rivet it yester- ‘undlanketing the best pitch- had in the stable, it beet mighty bad. o Nmee Red it was out there uncurling himself for their second downfall. To let you in on the secret, it was none other than loa” Eller, the Phenom who has not been trimmed ll season. But the Giants saw not, ‘They were blind to the fact that he y has, | M#® pitched the only no-hit game of the season; that he had not been scored om in twenty-three innings; that he had been sent out of the West to stop all this noise along the coast. In thelr anger they simply got in hand, summarizing his mer. deeda up to the moment of He py J knocked out of 474 x before the game had iefsacy and Roy Mitchell, who fol lowed, caught in the back wash He reached the shower almost in time the hot ter with Horace, Breasier to hold the tat This Bressler by the way, tered Haare UR, Zea ond eu it ard action, Had he been lorace Eller might have been saved a lot of that clerical work t rear vantage in sliding with the out- stretched hand toward the bag in- giond of. the spiked foot, Hal Fred Merkle and Charley Hareog were the laat, of the big } ie players to use Saat: oie Gate slide, ned few tt 0 be getting jar again. ak the old days King Hotty and a lot of the ancient stars used the head first style of hitting the dirt. Art Fletcher, the best outflelder that I happen to know of, had a real deep blue afternoon. His fingers got but- tery early in the pastime, and to save his life it seemed like he couldn't make a shot stick, Finally he caught a high foul and the crowd gave him a good-natured round of applause. A ball game can't look very good when bh ota has a bad day—and that one My Bressier, the Red left hande?, for a few tnaings, had the Giants bieary eyed with his cross-fire delivery. He stretched out so far that the ball ap- peared to be coming from first base. On one occasion Heinie Zim thought the first baseman was try! to throw @ runner out at the pla Plainly peeved when Hank called it a strike, This peculiar de- livery of Breseler’s is more extrome than that of old Eddie Plank, Earl Moore also had something like it, though he was a right hander, Champion Benny Leonard will y | ing, BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORKDUGISAIN * By Thornton Fisher SLEEP MY LitTAL ONG~ SLEEP MY PERTY Revenge on Reds. ait atavt" sre fon mane wens || Cinderella Races Like Wicad tage.” |Sae eis ee ere A Champion at Jamaica Chase, |W. R. Coe’s Filly Shows Great Form Winning $5,000 Colorado Stakes, By Vincent Treanor. [NDERELLA won the Colorado Stakes at Jamaica yesterday like # sweet filly, She showed a tremendous burst of speed and fin- ished the five and a half furlong route without taking a long breath. In galloping home in front she made the best juveniles that have been shown so far this year look like the cheapest kind of platers. But, despite her gallant victory, it 1s too early to proclaim her a wonder. York sporteman to ‘There are a jot of good colts nt sities fae feel esta eatt ts roman od in several barns which are yet don silks, William Karrick says she is another Elfin Queen and that as- tute horseman is not of the bluster. over-enthusiastic kind, and judgment of a filly is as good any man’s, Therefore, what he says must be taken seriously, but before crown- ing her the queen of her age we pre- fer to wait and see what Harry Payne io fetherteighh in thetr twelre-round bout af the Pine ©. of play his boxing skill for the first time in another big city to-night. It will be at Trenton, N. J., where he will go against George “Young” Erne, the Buffalo lightweight in the main event of eight rounds at the big theatre in that city, Erne has been fightihg in ult P Roxing bres the wounded though some of just ore ‘thelr temporary ap- in mee 80 as to get Ae in prin error in fielding the overheated ball it there ad any number of lads| Larry scored and Kauff went to third. league, which is headed by the| Zim, the Bronxite, promptly accom- Morgan, the founder, , modated with a two-base smash and unselfishly been boxing for uft registered. Causey also sin- on hig record, Larry Doyle started the attack with @ hard single and Benny Kauff Thanks to an peeled off another. Harlem Yaidio Kelly, the tocal name, whe recently stood off Champion Benay Leonard and back the disabi; Britton, for instance, has boxed ti Bo has Joe Welling, Johnny Dundee an P ers but mostly youn, are wil it fame or perhene | gled, but was out trying to steal, and | Burns fanned Three runs would ordinarily seem enough, but, as I said, the Giants were mad, and as Horace Eller showed no disposition to budge they went right back after him in the next ways operated) inning and pumped out three more, — Ty John O'Brien and otbere league coming to the rescu money for carfares, othe: se. thene boxe: ‘the Red Cro expenses. It sure h=3 been noble pie tbe After Kauft had hit safely for the second time, rolling in an extra run or so, Pat Moran took Eller away with Pe ang | from there and the Giants looked up to ace Roy Mitchell on the mound, Even that made no difference to Heinie Zim. Bang! Another went Whistling past the Infield and the re- doubtable Benny scored, That is jabout all. ‘The rest was merely af- ternoon, Even the delight over ruining | Bller’s record did not altogether drive ‘a certain’ line of care from the face McGraw, He viewed with concern the pitching of the boy who has been guns so far, Despite his feffut past record Causey handled himself somewhat like a kind hearted old lady, Not only was he wild and ungertain, but when he did manage to | get the ball into the groove a Red bat was there to meet it. It was a bad |day for this jad. Finally his aim got |so bad in the eighth inning that Mc- aw had to remove him and make a chanee for Winters, another comer, The scene that faced young Winters was neither peaceful nor bucolic, “Why,” he observed, “the bases are all fuil and everything, I wonder if ‘Mac’ thinks Tm ger Crandall?” No, Mac di first good ball pitched by Winters be ent 0} to the outfield for a long single Kopf and two more runners scored, ahs hill was @ little too long for the ds to climb or the outcome might ed been sorrowful, After that Winters and everything was lovely, Pep Young, our hero of the past week, simply outheroed himself yes erday and got one niche nearer, the held by Ty Cobb r. By a wonderful good form at Trenton for some time, and as the fight fans wanted to see him pitted against a real topnotcher, Matchmaker Cluxton decided to put him against the world’s lightweight champion, Slim" Brennan, who refereed the Leonard-Ritchie fight at Nowark, will most likely be the third man in the ring. Battling Lahn, the sturdy little foather- welght of Brooklyn, ie the latest tim to announce his retirement from the ring. Lahn has been boxing for many years and ff hitting managed A week ago Labn to (he conclusion that it was a bi jo keep training and he told his man Leo Flynn, he was through with the game, Ho ino cooper by trai Bill Brennan, the Chicago heavyweight, je another one of the big fellows who i» matched up for a fight with Billy Miske of St. Paul. They were matched to-day by raph to meet io an eight round bout e Rialto A. C., of Bt, Louis, on June 2, Brennan is to receive a guarantee of $1,500 which is big money for bout of thie distance, and no decision, Lew Tendler, has placed himself under the man- agement of Silvey Burns, It looks as though Kelly bas made a whe move in going to Bilvey, ‘as the latter should get him plenty of work, “Wild Bun Kenow, lantic Qity by folk, the colored hearyweight, night, Tom Cowier, knocked out ‘One Round’ wil! hoak up with Joo Jeanotte, battler, at the Veledrome A, C, of that city in = ten-round bout ‘The boxing game in Connecticut promises to be ‘& financial suctess for the promoters in that State who Intend to hold boxing shows this sam. wer, as the opening entertainment at Bridgeport last week drow a gate of $2,800, For the next show there, on May 26, Promoter Terry Lee ea pocts that the gate will go orer $3,000, as he in- tends to put on an attractive card of boute, “Chick” West of Holyoke, Mass,, land, Jp signed up for two mo lay’ 23 he will Bridgeport, Conn. lass. and on May Frankie Burma of Jomey City bard job beeting “Dutch” Brande, the HOW NATIONAL LEAGUE, WoL, PC.) Club, 14 8 737] Pitteburgh ... | 14 8.636] Phi 27 632] 8 HL 600] Bt. Lout GAM mB YESTERDAY, Mew York, 7; Cleslanath, © had ouch 8 NATIONAL LEAGUE Phitadelohia, 6) GAMES TO-DAY. Cincinnati at New York. catch in the fourth innin, sure hit and ¢ Broos- Marlboro, Water “Butler ‘ot’ Boston “or Mase, Wek. PO. YESTERDAY, Chieage, 2; paltastoni, 1 Boston, 6; Bt. Louis, 4. New York-Cleveland (rain), Detroit: Washington (rainy, GAMES TO-DAY, New York at Chicago. Gosten at Detroit, Washington at St. Louls. Philadeipnie at the local heavyweight who made big hit with the fight fane of At. kwoeking out Jim Henle, the colored “heavy' in the second round there a tew weeks ago, has been booked up to meet Kid Nor. for eight rounds at the mext boxing show of the club to-morrow the Wnglinh — flahter, — who Davis, the Buttelé fighter im one round at the Queensberry A, O, of Buffalo several woke am, le to ment a real tough customer at Buffalo on Friday night, He the colored who holds the welterweight championship title ot New Eng- JAMAICA SELECTIONS. | First Race—Mile. Daisie, Pokey jane, Aerial. 4 Race—Hindoostan, Toad- stool, Aogercre Wiske. kine a ree Out the Ih Race—Toots, St Quentin, Juveneacence Fifth eRace—Albert A, Favour, Millrace, Sixth Race—Betty J., Marie An- toinette, Northward. es Whitney, Samuel Riddle, P. E. Clark, George Widengr, Joseph Widener and| R. 'T. Wilson uncover in the way of fillies. All of these sportsmen have several high bred misses in thelr barns which promise great things Howara ry the latest New up racing, colt was beaten by Thunderclap and Tipptty Whitchet in the second race, but that did not detract from hi tnesa. He should have won a 6 did what a good horse is apes to do—come on through the home- wretch. That he was defeated was due to a poor ride by little Johnny Callahan, This lad weighs less th: @ hundred pounds and Translate is a big, heavy headed colt and while rac- ing Callahan was unable to do him justice. He got him away last and then took him on the outside of his field all the way. When called on in 7 stretch Translate came with a rush and was running over his horses at the end, Mr, Marshall saw the race and was enthusiastic over the colt’s good race. He intends to build up quite a stable and with such a competent iner as Jerry Carroll in charge of his horses, fis colors are likely to be seen flash ng down in front in many @ mac ths season, ‘Tom Healey thought exceptionally well of Old Gold, the colt which spread-eagied his field in the last race, He told all his friends that the colt had done everything he asked him to do, but he was em- phgtic in declaring that he was not another Campfire, which won the Futurity for him two years ago, That racing has come back to its own was demonstrated yesterday, when the Metropolitan Jockey Club Announced that at its June meeting at Jamaica all purses would be eub- stantially increased. Walter Edwards said that the handicaps would be at $1,000, $900 and $800, and that all overnight events would carry at least $00, He also declared that at the next meeting the programme would be so arranged aa to give all horsemen an opportunity to race al! of the thoroughbreds they have in training, There will be more con- dition races and the selling affairs will be ranged from $3,500 down to $800, Col, B. B, ‘tt, whose famo' colors, the We white and blue, were carried to many victories before the war, was at the track yesterday. He THEY “iscave" STAND an ss uastiatatthd ni Vs ve was as enthusiastic as ever over the thoroughbred and announced that he would be pack in the game again in a year or two. tl S27 cua Sealey age former trainer not to sign an; time contracts with any other horse- man, Simon now has a string of two. rene. belonging to Willis @har iimet nd Trite, a four-year-oli belonging to Major Robert K. Cas- satt, a brother of the Colonel, Bec a Levinsky Defeats Logan, » Pa, May 21,—Battling Levinsky, Nght heavyweight champion, defeated Tim Logan in six rounds be- fore a crowded hous the armory had golf is being sacrificed for great dis- by the Pross Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). War WHE Digging of Trenches Willard’s Challenger Has Un- lesen collecting driftwood, helping usual Start at Work Because of Storm Along Lake Front, (Special to The Evening World.) ‘TOLEDO, O., May 21.—-Flooded by one of the hardest “blows” Lake Erie has experienced this spring, the low- land surrounding the Overiand Club, where Jack Dempsey is training for the championship bout July 4, was a miniature luke yesterday morning and the club house was cut off trom the surrounding country, save by telephone, for a few hou A shift in the wind fr ortheast Be Cena adout 10 o'clock yester- rning drove much of water back into Maumee Bay whence it came, but left behind house boats, boat houses, sections of docks, drift wood and boats of all description, while the Toledo Beach Road, which leads to Dempsey’s quarters, was covered for miles with debris. The storm did not prevent Dempsey taking to the road, which he did by helping build a bridge of planks to the high ground. Accompanied by his dog King and Jack Kearns in an auto- mobile the nger jogged for a few miles before lunch. Following a rubdown Dempsey ca- vorted like a kid on the wrecked By William Abbott HAT’S wrong with American golf courses? Donald Ross, one of the best known links architects who ever de- signed a trap, says our latest courses are too long, that the real idea in tance, He argues further that the much longer American courses are not a@ diMcult as some of the best, known English links, Ross will find many that agree with his contention, The profession~ als especially are of the mind that the American golfer would rather make a tremendous clout off the tee than @ ekilfully played iron shot or @ difficult putt. Some of the older “pros” like Alex Smith, Gil Nicholls, George Low and Davey Hunter have seen our courses the latest models range around the 6,500 yard mark, More ang more the yers—and the een for greater ith the wooden clubs, with @ proportionate neglect with the other clubs. The complaint is gener- ally heard now that there's too much walking in the game and too little club work. Years ago drives of 170 yards with the old gutty balls was considered something of an achievement. With ‘modern high-speed balls hard hitters like Jim Barnes, Walter Hagen, Bob McDonald, Francis Ouimet and others come near reaching 300 yards | with their longest tee sho! The increasing demand for dis- tan will eventually wind up in a crisis for clubs adjacent to big citle: where real estate is already at a pre- | mium. Some of shese courses are flung out to the point where no more land can be secure: What will be the solution to the problem? To the writer it seoms that the day is not far off when directing official: of the game will get together and de. last night, Levinsky showed great form, Chovetnn.' ls Area Sas He AES, ria aed |edit sali selanels vise standardization of golf balls, Bither this or ie links will no doubt eo atage where play~ . : THE ATHLETICS” DoWT Know SEASON HAS BEGUN Jack Dempsey’s First Day Ot Training Includes ‘, hoy ew nies AND Ciieceaills Hews However, PLAY IN BAD LUCK LOSE TO CUBS Bat Opportunely and Field in Sensational Style. { By Richard Freyer. ROOKLYN lost the third game of their present series wtb Chicago through inability to bit safely when hits meant runs and through perfect fielding by the Cub Players, The visitors won because thetr clouts were registered at op- portune moments. of swats recorded for the mine, of which seven were wasted, Against their opponents’ six, two of which did not figure in the runs. The ‘The total terry od final score was 3 to 2. were still somite water as motor cars Jack John Lester Johnson, Denver Jack Geyer, the Jamaica Kid, eran handler, the} house, and when salvage property belonging to sum- cot finally taking « hand in digging “ditches, for the water to drain back to the bay. By night all the watee had disap- p:.ed although the glub grounds to and Kearns has ordered Dempsey’s sparring hee ners to come on at once and Bill nd the vet- Jimmy DeForest of Plainfield, are expected here to-mor- row and Thursday. Spider Kelly of San Francisco has been invited to join the camp and will act as jollier and pal for Dempsey. He will also be in the challenger’s' corner July 4. ‘An outdoor arena is to be built in the next few dayg near the club- mits Dem; Twill "do ‘hie’ wery te ipeecy \s im the open. baby He also plang to swim considerably and to spend some of his time row- ing. The Overland Club boasts a splendid bathing beach, and Dempsey safely, Hed the Hardly raised a cry about the pre- vailing prices Without any intentions of offering an alibl for the Dodgers it can be sa! stated they played in hard luck. The lead-off man in the first four innings hit handed catch by ficlder, of | Brooklyn of a run in the first stanza. Tn the second and third innings the home players could not send the min on base across the platter, The following inning Magee led off with a single and scored on Wheacs triple to deep centre. There was but one out at the time, and @ sacritice fly or infield out would have probably scored Zack. at bat fouled out and the following ly but a wonderful one- Mann, the Cubs’ teft- Grifith’s long fly ro However, the next man batter was retired on an ey grounder, Paskert, Chicago centre fielder, robbed Kreuger of what looked like a sure triple in the fifth inning, while in the ninth stanza, three men at bat had either shi or beat out infield hits, bases with none out, the best Broo! lyn could do was to send home one run, This was due to an unfortunate cident at second base when Magea, the fourth man at bat tn this innio: hit to the Cubs’ @hortstop. Olson w: on first at the time and ran for sec- ond on the rap. He was called out and Umpire Harrison, who was ficiating on the bases, ruled that 0! son had interfered with the visiting second baseman, preventing him from doubling Magce at first, and ci after the first joa filling the also latter out. anybody has for good can have his choles of rowboats to clothing! PYearns to-day. rheectta Bie tees, Poor stuff is so high that ment that his plan for conditioning Dempsey will be to worl a week and loaf a week for at least four weeks. This, he figures, will bedi Dempsey along without danger gOing stale and leave him two weeks to put on the finishing touches. politan Association for June 12, 18 and 14, These dates were originally allot- ted to the St. Albans Club, but owing to general course changes the club good stuff like ours seems (and is) most reasonable. A fair profit on actual cost is all we ever ask. We are our own manufacturers. Rocers Peet COMPANY at 13th St. ae at 34th Ot. Aly Oe eumien, ar aee oe pre ples Fifth ree-day urnament shoul juicy apply to A. H. Pogaon of the Metro. | Sewawes at 41st found it impossible to hold its tourna- ment this season. The dates arc now open, and the first club in with a re- quest may have them, ‘The popular Sleepy Hollew tourna- ment ts to-morrow. This meet always attracts a big fleld of golfers who love to play the hilly course on the Hudson, The qualifying round will only be at eighteen holes, and the entrant may select his own time for starting. Match rounds will be run off Friday and the fi Saturday. —————— NEW INTERNATIONAL LEAGUB. Club, stretched out hundreds of yards unti! | ReMie Newark, 8) Binghamtea, 1. "Til" olber games postponed— Rain Games To-Day. Jermy City at Binghamica, fewark at Rochester, RACING TO-DAY JAMAICA $2,000 LONG ISLAND HIGHLAND STAKES CALIFORNIA HANDICAP And 4 Including War Tax Other Good Races BEGINNING, AT 2.30 . M. me Mtation: Sad Strand Teh latbuah Ave.. Brookly! ‘and at intervali up to i ia Lex. A eave Leto Dw BELMONT PARK AMERICA’ TOMORROW" $5,000 Sere srectay nach tt Foonaylvania Station. 5 minutes iater, reased to thi te Ae) duplicate John D,’s stunt of @ bicycle between sh: Grand Stand OPENING i8QUE RACE COURSE. The 1 “ovis (THURSDAY) ¢ New York Steeplechase iG’ DAY ONLY. by trolley, 1,55 P.M. rf