The evening world. Newspaper, May 23, 1919, Page 22

Memories the Cause of | Many Losing Bets, Says the Old Sport. HE trouble with most people who go to the races and the reason the majority of can't beat them is because they whort memories.” The Old Sport, ‘Wise scout in his way, and a bear the post-mortem stuff, had just back from the Metropolitan! @t Belmont Park. There "t anything else of ‘any account! on and, as he explained it, be ‘went down for old time's sake. “Why,” he began, “it almost mda laugh to see a jot of wise fish ing around to get a wager down Naturalist, the favorite in the big No wonder there are no suc- Players like ‘Pittsburgh Phil’ “From the information I could get ©f the past performances that Naturalist wasn't thought to be ‘enough to win a six furlong race day and was a drug on the 1 know he fooled every- body and won then, but what did he 1? Abadanc, an odds on choice, mo more business being a than I had. ,” and the Old Sport stopped | two breaths in succession, isn’t a trainer on Rot even my old friend Tom can train a horse from 1 shot in a cheap field Motropolitan handicap favorite some of those fellows I saw, and they looked as if they it to know better, had re- ‘ that here was a horse who wasn’t thought good enough to beat likes of Abadane only twenty- hours before, would they have Pushing everybody else side- to get aboard him at 8 to 6? where the short memory stuff in” ‘The codger looked supremely wise he got that off, but he wasn't “Then there were others,” went on, “who were just as us to play Flags. Tell moe, did he ever show that he liked travel anything over six furlongs? “I am not what you'd call a regular, I remember seoing him cur! up at weven furlongs when he, was six Jengths in front and right there at it Park.” The Old Sport was nly impressing his listeners, “Why shouldn't you fellows look oR i id Flags?" he asked. “There was Laniuus, for instance, Any horse with a memory ought to he could mud. As a two-year- wasn't he regarded as a stake and didn't ne have Johnny leftus on his back, the boy who won the race. the winner outside of Naturalist | three biggest stakes of the year, | ng the Kentucky Derby and cess ? “Johnny is about tho best there is the fookey line Just now, and don't think that Old Jack Joyner fig- he had a chance when he en- him? Memory, boys, and just thinking and you all might Strune along with Jack Joyner. oid enough to know that he's no DESPITE THE WEATHER THE 1 PASSENGER GANGS Of Fas Feared by Mike Donlin, the Former Star of Team. By Bozeman Bulger. HE main trouble about these delays in the Giant advance, on account of rain, according to Mike Donlin, 1s that it lets the dice get cold. “Didn't you ever see a fellow get | hela up in a crap game while trying to make @ third pass because some |fellow couldn't make his change cor- rectly or because there were three or four bets left open?” he asked. Certainly I had. “That's the idea exactly,” he nod- ded. “If ever you let those dice get too cold on you they'll come out on @ couple of snake-cyes, sure as you are living, It's the same way in baseball.” Mike, now a real actor I under- stand, reminisced for severa) min- | utes along this Line and then, seri- ously: ‘Many a time have I seen a great winning streak of a ball club broken [because rain stepped in and stopped three or four games. After a day's rest it seems like starting all over again, and the men baven't the same eagerness to keep the old bail rolling. 1 don't think it can happen now, bi cuuse the Giants are too strong for the Cardinals, anyway; but, some- how, I don’t care for the luck of it It's a jinx." “You think, then,” I inquired that the Giants have the best club in the eu ‘ertainly I do, But say,” he in- i when it comes to sending a horse | terrupted suddeniy, “where do they one of those worth-while stakes, | get that stuff about the Giants being Tr) UT at that,” and here the Old Sport began shaking the in- finger of his right hand school |«they were all be fashion, “the Metropolitan run to order for Lanius as I dit. Naturalist and Flags real. Deat each other, or rather Flags Naturalist in the first five fur- | They ran off like a team, eaoh | trying to shake off the other as they were in a quarter of a mile It was only a question of which would crack first striding through teky goin| 4) “Naturalist, the unfit horse, chucked first, and Flags went on only as far he has always shown he wants to » Bix furlongs. When they both got ed for only the best to come on and win Lanius, with the level-headed us to guide him, proved to be that horse.” HE OLD SPORT admitted he en- fJoyed the day's outing, despite Jdrabness of the weather, but said had scen better Metropolitans, This explained was probably because rest of the programme marred © by wholesale scratches. Asa matter Of fact, there was only one other race ) aside from the stake that was inter- eating to him. That was the last wet the scramble of two-year-olds s Madden's Dominique won, “There was some size to that field,” said, “and enough doubt as to the ity of the starters to make it look pe beforehand Madden thought well of hiy colt ‘ Scanning the programme | no- Miloed that his mother was Berry Maid ZT remembered that she was about the est mudder of her time and that she Made the late James R. Keene lose Be of the few bets he ever made on fone of his own colts after a great duel h the stretch at Gravesend. . didn't bet on the race yeater. i but | watched Dominique ' 4 couid up that foolish with too old? Being a newcomer, I did not under- stand exactly. y, a month ago,” he explained, ning the fact e that the Giants’ players pid; that MoGraw b too many veterans. How do they get that way? As you know very well, the best club the Giants ever had was made up of old birds.” He was referring ww the famous club of 1905, on which Mike himself was a star, And Mike was no spring chicken, even at that time, We are likely to have some difference of opin- ic 1 the ct. but many of us 5 club was the best the Giants ever had. On that club there were Donlin, Sam Mertes, MeGinnity, Bill Dahlen and Dan McGann, as well @s Frank Bow- erman, Ww any of these birds youngst The younger men were Bresnahan, Gilbert, Mathewson and George Brown Kyen the were no flappers, Now tke a look at the present col- lection of superaifnuated athletes. Would you consider Doyle, Fletcher, Chase, Zimmerman and George Burns past the stage of usefulness? You wouldn't if you had seen those last es—not if you had seen the ry Doyle, Pletcher and Zim- merman were clouting that balf and felding, sirree! Doyle and Fletcher both are younger to me than they were three years ago. There is no use in discussing Kauff, McCarthy and Young. They are right now at the beginning of their great- ness. ‘There is a great inclination én my part to agree with Mike in “How do around he were all t of his mammy running through my mind. I saw him get off in front and run the rest of them dizzy, I couldn't help feeling pleased that he won be- cause Berry Maid won many a bet for me in much the same way, "You see if I had been in my bet- ting clothes yesterday what memory would ha lone for me. “Let me tell you again, boys, be a little long on the old memory thing and short on that paddock or feed box stuff if you want to beat these wonies. Your Uncle Dudley knows,” WERE THERE a4 oe play wer tM RVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1019. | Go PASSENGER. CAR AND NIGHT HAWKS Rain May Cause Break In the Winning Streak t-Going Giants At Any Rate That's What Is| ‘4%, #°t,that way The results, after all, would tend to uphold the Donlin contention. The departure of Jim Thorpe for Boston ends a very peculiar career on tu Giant I remember now that they have ended Thorpc's career with the Giants that way twice before, put somehow he always got At any rate, it is a good thing for Thorpe. He will now have a chance to play regularly in the outfield. and he may reach the goal that he has sought so long. Thorpe was never a good fielder, but there were indica- tions that he would develop into a great hitter. McGraw engaged hin on his foobball record, hoping to de- velop his great strength into a rej asset to the diamond, Several af tempts failed and Jim was sent to the minors only to get back and try again, Thorpe is a very likable athlete, and his teammates regret to part with him, One of his great virtues is of being on to himself. He never re- garded himself a great ballplayer and never talked about himself to others, It was with the greatest difficulty that he could be induced even to talk about his football experiences. Thorpe is undoubtedly one of the greatest foot- ball players that ever lived, and his days at Carlisle will never be forgot- ten. They will never be forgotten— at Harvard and West Point anyway. It ‘s Ikely that the St Louis and Pittsburgh games will give McGraw @n opportunity to try out several of bia pitchers that have been ‘kept in the paddock under blankets up to the Present time. Even if wabbly, they could be started against the Cardinals by way of experiment. and that is what McGraw will probably do. He is thinking of starting Schupp for tho first time this season. Perritt is also anxious to get a workout. Johnny Dundee, the fast Ttallan lightweight, and Benny Leonard, the lightweight champion have been practically matched to meet in a six round bout at an open air boxing show at the Olympia A. A. of Phila- delphia én the National League Base- | ball Park in that city on the night of June 23 or 28 Dundee gave out this information to-day, claiming that he has already accepted the club's terms and that Billy ¢ manager of Leonard, has practically given lis word to let Benny battle, peo, ‘The bout between Jack Hrittan amt Joe Well ing at the Olynmia A, A. of Syranume, N.Y int Monday night drow the largest gate that hae attended ® boxing ehow in that city in some time, ‘The money taken in on the fight figured tm) 84.468, Of the eum Britton @xt 38 per ce to $1.063,80, while Welling received which gave him $1,117, 2 por cout Megving been avtvient by the doctors at the nie Hospital not to box for eeveral weeks lay Indian Whoweigit, has for five weeks so that by Unt wil be boxing show of the season at Forbes Field in Vitu@urgh tomorrow night, i# already in that city, The rue of the police authorities there calls for the fighter to be in the Twenty. four hours belore the battle, Levingky te to re ceive ® guarantes of $1,000 with an option of accepting 2 per cent, of the receipts, Barney Adair, the Yooal lightweight who re cently knocked out Jimmy Regan in six rounds at Deo Molues, 1a, has beck matched to mot Mickey Sheridan of Chicago in » ten-roand boat ‘at Rock Island, 11, and Arlos Fauning of Okla. homa for fifteen rounds at Bt, Joseph, Mo,, oa the night of May 29, Pote Hartley, the Durable Dane, will be kept busy fighting as be is signed up for two fights, Ou Monday night he will take on Louie Hogash, the lightweight, of Bridgeport, Coon,, for eight rounds at the Bridgeport A, C., and on atay sv he will take on Jimmy Travers of Cincinnati yn = (heen sound Deut O6 the Bayles 10.) 4, Gi ’ ie ‘YOU CAN SEE ALL THE WERE NOT THE ONY Es THAT” FOLIKS You READ ABOUT AT~ THE METROPOLITAN HANDICAP UNTANGLING BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK HORSES WEREN’T THE ONLY ATTRACTION AT BELMONT PARK Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). By Thornton Fisher FIC AFTER THE Races AT BELMONT 1S A JOB FoR LEGAL TALENT Dempsey Runs in Sand To Strengthen His Rather ncemntiaaaen Marston Continues Winning Record With Victory in Sleepy Hollow Quali- fying Round. By William Abbott. LAYING through mist and over a course that was one huge water hazard, Max Marston of Baltus- rol, with a 76 score, won the qualify- Ing medal! in the invitation tourna- ment of the Sleepy Hollow Club. .The winner's score over an 18-hole route was three strokes better than Gar- diner White, the nearest opponent. Marston's feat at Sleepy Hollow adds one more counter to his remark- able string this season, which includes the qualifying medal and chief honors in the Garden City tournament and reaching the final rounds at both Lakewood and Atlantic City, The showing of the former New Jer- sey State champion yesterday was truly exceptional, as the weather man tried bis best to stymie tuod golf playing, Marston elected to wait until the afternoon, when it practi- cally stopped raining, and his tremen- dous carries off the tee and bis long tron shots were directly vesponsible for hia splendid heavy course. White, on the other hand, was one of the first out and played most of the time in a rainstorm, Like Mar- ston, the Nassau star was unusually consistent. His 79 under such unfav- orable conditions made the home club | 7. people rub their eyes in astonishment, Slightly over ambitious club showing over the} ¢ swingers entered the Sleepy Hollow tournament, but this number faded down to about fifty actual starters. Those who did venture out had to do some heavy sea going, for the links were 80 well soaked that the tourna- ment committee made two special rules which permitted contestants to pick up without penalty if a ball was buried on the fourteenth green or af- ter a drive from the sixteenth tee, Marston and White were the only fortunate ones to break 80, and their cards would give the impression that the going was smooth, but you should bave heard the many tales of woe that came drifting In to the score board. Johnny Anderson stuck in for the outward trip, but playing the tenth his club flew out of his hands, and he decided to quit. George Bro-| kaw of Ardsley, who was expected to | finish well up with the leaders, | couldn't manage to keep hold of his! slippery clubs and retired with bis round half finished. The unfavorable playing conditions actually helped several of the com-/ petitors, J. M. Thorsen of Sleepy Hollow, who admits his golf would) never startle anybody, covered his qualifying round in 89, which was quite a few strokes better than he ever did before, The scores of the first sixteen: Max FR. Marston. ©. Parrish jr Hamilton K. Kerf, Greenwich J. M. Thorson, Sleepy Hollow. Hi. V. Gaines, Wykagyl A. HE Johnson, Sleepy Hollow: Tatuing Reddy, who ts fighting tn great form under Fddic Mead’s guidance, boxes Louisiane at the Bayonne Spo Club in the feature event of eight rounds to John Roister matchmaker of the Tulsa A. ©. of Tule, Okla. is again uying to sign up BiU Breonan of Chicago and Billy Mieke of t, Paml for @ fight at his club on the after hoon of July 4, Joha waats the men to meet in © twenty round battle which be thinks will draw Loo Flynn, manager of Brennan, for Bronnan box Minko « sion boule Uxnorrow night receive the nice sum of Jack wil get thie mone at Jimmy McCabe, the Philadelphia welterweight, for six rounds at the Nauooal A. C, of Philadephia, Matchinaker Joe Dunfee, af the Otympia A S. of Syracam, No Y., has just armnged an her ear teut for bie regular weekly boxing show on next Monday night, ‘THe fighter who will figue in it am Harry Gr of Pittsburg and Tommy Hebwon of Makten, Mam. for ten founds, Both men have made a big hit with the boxing fans in that city and the chances we Umt an Unapense crowd will turn out to see men battle, Joe Lyne, the west side fighter who le re ceiving many offen for fights since he returned to Ue couitry from England, is due to arrive ome from Ue mountaing on Sunday, Lynch will wart training on Monday at Stiliman’s @mnasium in Harlem for his flirt bout in “Philly” which will be with K, 0, Joe O'Dea. nell at the Olmole A. A. on June 2, ‘The officialn of the Chortemen's Chub of New. ork will make another attempt on to bring sbout ap cight-round bout between Benny Leonard and Jack Britton, as they will mest Billy Gitwon and Dan Mongan at Trenton, N. J, (OF the purpowe af mdvang then to sign articles of agroument for the bout to be fought at the Fin Ieiment Armory at Newark, N, J, aa Monday evening June 9, Because there will be plenty of boxing both tn the Kast and West during the next fow months, Prank Bagley, manager of Willie Jackson, has de cided to postpone his wip with Jackson to San Francisco yntil the second of third week in Sep- rf All of the promoters out ‘to hat box for Ea bier HOW THE CLUBS STAND. NATIONAL LEAGUE, WL, PO.) Club, 14 5 .737| Chicago “4 2 110.524 GAMES YESTERD: All games postponed, Rain, GAMES TO-DAY, Club. yn Pittsburgh Civb. Chicago Cleveland Cleveland, 3; Philadelphia, 2 (10 lamiags), Detroit, 6; Boston, 3, St. Louls, 5; Wasbingten, 4, GAMES TO-DAY. New York at Chicago. Boston at Detroit. Washington at St. Louis, Pitadelpia at Cleveland, sieticeniailieaiaaeee RACING SELECTIONS, BELMONT PARK, First Race--Kirah, Merry Sinner, Betsinda. Second Race—Purchase, Toto, Rodgers. Third Race—Poor Butterfly, Fa- vour, Man o° the Hour. Fourth Race —Salvestra, Wyo- ming. Hendrie. Fifth Uncie’s Rac Lassie, St. “Quentin. Sixth Race—Betty J., Pegelepe, ——————__. ODowé Is Mustered Out. Mike O'Dowd. rightfully called the “Champion of Champions,” received honorable discharge at’ Camp Mil bringing his army career to an end, | and the popular St. Paul glove artist | is now on his way home to visit his | mother, who 18 said to be ill. The Twin Cities are certain to give the middle- weight champion of the world a great arrives home. 74| condition now and will require far less ®/bard training than any man he has ,|ever handled to fit him for the task he will face July 4. 4 cut into his speed, according to De ,| training to begin than this “kid from Slender Underpinning BELMONT CHANGE TO BRING RACERS NEARERPATRONS Grand Stand to Be Brought Forward and Finished for Fall Meeting. By Vincent Treanor. WMONT PARK is to be done No, there won't be any change from the reversed way the horses are asked to go at this and only this track, but there will be me big changes in the arrangement of the grand stand. All the altera- tions will be completed in time for the fall meeting, accordingsto present plans, Mr. Belmont went down to tee race track yesterday and after looking over the expansive structure decided it was time to make the ime provements, which should have been part of the criginal specifications when the track was built, The changes contemplated will move th stand out further, or nearer, to th track itself to give a closer-up vie of the finishes. It has always seemed too far back. ‘The front boxes and seats will be brought out a distance of som eighteen feet to what is now the lawn. The restaurant, which is now’ situated away over near the house, too far away from the ma- jority of the grand stand patrons, is to be located in the centre of the re- arranged structure, together with @ grand promenade fringed off with paims and tete-a-tete tables. Mr. Bel- | mont says it will cost at least $60,000 |to make the alterations restoring all |the beauties that were blotted out by | the incendiary fire of two years ago which left part of the stand looking like the Dreamlend ruins, over, Sandy McNaughton tried to rmg Camoufleur in again as a cheap sell- ing plater in the fifth race yesterday, but didn’t get away with it, He en tered the colt for $1,900, but Eugene Wayland, trainer W. J. Salmon, ran him ‘up to $4,005, at which price Sandy bid his horse in, Camoufleur was run up to something like $4,200 recently down at Pimlico. You wouldn't think he would have the nerve to try to get in cheap again, would you? Camoufleur 18 a nice sort of a colt. He won his race in 1.45 1-5, a trifle faster than the Met- ropolitan was run in, Tom Healy's Round Robin had worked fast enough to have a chance in the last race, but Tom was doubte ful about his mud-running ability, As Tom recollected, his full brother, According to Jimrhy De Forest the Challenger Will Round Into | Kildce, never did like @ heavy tracks Condition for Willard Bout Easier Than Any Man He Has Ever Trained. (Special to The Evening World.) TOLEDO, O., May 23. NOTHER downpour flooded To- ledo and the surrounding coun- try yesterday afternoon, pre- venting outdoor activity by William Hartison Dempsey, otherwise known as “Jack thé Giant Killer.” Refusal by Jack Kearns and Jimmy De Forest, the suge pt Plainfield, to let Dempsey work as hard as he de- sires, clouded the usually sunny Western Kid for a few minutes, but he worked .off his excess energy by staging a wrestling match with Max Kaplan, his companton, who is a Pretty busky individual himself. De Forest says Dempsey is in good Each morning Dempsey jogs for a few miles on the river road, which runs a short distance from the Over- land Club, ip which he is luxuriously housed, and then for a half hour runs up and down the sandy beach of Mau- mee Bay, which is within a hundred feet of the clubhouse. Running in the | sand i bound to strengthen Demp- sey’s rather slender legs and will not Forest. Wednesday afternoon and again | yesterday afterhoon Dempsey !oos-| ened up by shadow boxing for six or seven rounds, after which he took on! Battling Nelson’s dummy boxing part- | ner and battered it’ It is necessary | to let the challenger do something in | his line of work to keep him con-| tented, Never was a boxer more eager for) the West,” who looks forward to bis| battle with Jess Willard even as @ bride anticipates her wedding day, “I only wish we were to meet to- morrow,” he says time and again, and it is apparently on the level with him too, As for the struggle itself, he shows absolutely no fear and fairly oozes confidence. To all appearances he thinks no more of facing Willard than he does of taking on one of bis sparring partners, “Dempsey will not get down to hard training for at least two weeks. He is in good shape right now and does not require long weeks of hard work,” De Forest declared this morning. Tex Rickard returned from New York yesterday and reported a tre- mendous advance sale and reserva- tion, while Billy McCarney, who came back after a day in Chicago, said in- terest in the big bout there was un- precedented. Local opposition to the bout, which has been fairly well organized, has been traced to its head, it is believed, and it would not be surprising to learn in a few days that it has died out. Dave Fitzgerald, Bridgeport, Conn. referee, left for his own home town last night, leaving his campaign for the referee's job in the hands of Joe Mulvihill of the same city. It is probable that in order to safe- guard the public and because the public has always been protected, boxing has thriven here under Mayor Schreiber’s Commission, Tex Rickard will be asked by the Commission to ——_— ‘cane hold all money received from the sale of tickets in escrow and to de; one |for phenomenal, skfil against for the payment of all bills incidental to promoting the cham- pionship. Dempsey boxed two rounds yester- day afternoon with Willie Doyle, lightweight. Bill Tate and Terry Keller, sparring portners, arrived last night. Seat reservations for the battle al- ready have exceeded $270,000, Tex Rickard, promoter of the contest, an- nounced last night upon his return from New York. The entire gate re- ceipts of the Jeffries-Johnson battle staged by Rickard at Kei rew only a few hundred dol figure, Rickard sa test still seven weeks away, Rickard was unwilling to hazard a guess at the total receipts, but he said that if the seat reservations continued in such unexpected numbers, the battle would draw considerably more than $500,000, Rickard received one check for $11,000 from officials of an auto- mobile company, who purchased tick- ets for their agents. (rt lets MILTON AID TO AMERICAN DRIVERS IN BIG RACE The entry of Tommy Milton in the $35,000 International Sweepstakes at Sheepshead Bay on June 14 materially Strengthens the ranks of American drivers who will defend the world’s championship against Europe's invad- ing speed demons Milton is known wherever racing exhausts are opened in sprint competi- tion such as will feature the finest of international brushes on the Sheepshead Bay Speedway this season. Milton started his 1919 ha thrilling victory in the 112-mile aberty Sweepstakes at Uniontown last Monday. t year Daredevil Tommy bres d home first in t! )-mile cham- pionship at Sheepshead jay, but the {idges awarded first prize to De Palma because of an error in scoring. Just before this feat Milton captured the sprint races at Providence, shooting over the short circuit at a rate of 104 miles an hour. Before coming Kast in 1918 Milton entered the Pacific Coast championship at Los Angeles and showed the way home to many of the country’s fastest drivers. campaign | John Madden was very liberal with his information about Dominique. He told everybody who wanted to know that he thoucht the colt a aure thing and that be could fly in the mud. Judging by the way the colt ran he will do just as well on a fast track. John doesn't, as a rule, band out such good things so early in the season. All the local ball players were at the track, chaperoned.py both John McGraw und Wilbert Rotinson, the Brooklyn manager. What a husky looking lot of boys they are too Few of them are race followers, 6o the day was just an extraordinary out. ing for most of them: += Vincent Powers hadn't looked around coming over the last jump he might have won the steeplechase. At least that is what the majority of the spectators thought. Powers, how- ever, was applauded for his pluck in trying to scramble back into the saddle to get the place or hind money. It was too late when he aue- ceeded in getting on Tetan’s back RACING BELMONT PARK TOMORROW * $1000 WITHERS STAKES” $5,000 FASHION STAKES THE MINEOLA HANDICAP 2 WILE STEEPLECHASE FIRST _KACE AT 2,20 P.M. SeRCIAL (hace Tilia 1 ation Bt ana i} iahlag Piathusn “Av. “Brooke SC 4d.30 and at intervie > Sdeciat Cars Resery BOWLING AND BILLIARDS, FHOM Bray Gs k [eZ Ny Leater