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a New York Are Han- dling Tickets for the Willard- Dempsey Fight. other agencies and all report a lively interest in the bout as judged by the wales po far. ‘The MoBrides have already dis- posed of many tickets and so have the Tysons, but the latter firm for wome reason or other refuses to say just what it has on hand for the public or to even intimate how many weats it hopes to dispose of. “There certainly is a lot of interest in the fight, as judged by our trade,” said a representative of the firm to us, “but we don’t care to say just how big a batch of tickets we arg han- dling for it.” From Toledo come reports that the advance sale already is in the neigh- of $300,000, which means that Rickard is on velvet now. He esti- mated with us just before leaving for the battle ground that with every- thing counted, including the $127,000 which goes to the fighters, his ex- penses would reach $225,000, 4 IAT good is size to a man if the other fellow has the more speed?” A good judge of fights, @ man who has fought himself and has seen many important bouts dur- ing recent years, asked us that. ques- tion last evening. We let him answer his own question, and he did it in ‘his way: “Jess Willard,” he said, “has more overcome than Dempse: in this dght. In the first place, al bulk and strength will be of little to him before a man who has the speed that everybody knows Dempsey Willard will be just as jumbering before his small oj nt as Frank Moran was before him. He was @ 1 to 10 shot against Moran because of hia speed. This time it will be the other way round. “Willard will find this Dempsey boy « human dynamo, before whose at tack he will crumble, and when he begins to crumble he will crumble fast. All big men do because they are abnormal and have weaknesses. “Jess may appear fast in bouts with ‘Walter Monahan, whose every move he kno" from hundreds of sparring exhibitions with him, No wonder Monahan can't lay a glove on him Unless Willard wants him to, 46°T°HEN there is another thing which must be taken into consideration, Dempsey {s @ natural ter, likes the game and just bub. thought of @ hard battle. His gyi vastum bouts show that. He can't even spar with his trainers. He brings the same fury of attack into his bouts with bis sparring ‘tners that he uses in the ring. He can't be restrained. He simply must fight. In this respect he is like Bob Fits- simmons. There was a natural ae who loved fighting for the jeasure he got out of It. “Now take Willard, Is he a natural fighter? is not. He just hat ts gst rnb pp) it at nie 8s ht- ng is purely @ financial pr. ton and the chances are if Ttckard, hadn't turned his head with an offer of $100,000 he wouldn't have agreed to this match. He's a champion be- cause of the money there is in it and for no other reason, “Take any two men and get them mixed up in a fen. Let one bo fitty pounds heavier than the other, Who's going to win? Why, the fellow who fights naturally, even if he ts the smaller of the two, Yes, sir, it will be the same thing with Dempsey an wapare. The natural fighter will wi “Wait until the odds get to be 8 or 4 to 1 against Dempsey, then put a bet down on the boy with the epecd and the natura! tnelination to tear in and annihilate the big fellow, who smiles in order to keep cool,” EW YORKERS who are planning to wee the big scrap at Tolelo on July 4 couldn't go a better way thon on the special train Billy Gibson of the Bronx has arranged to fll with igh: enthuslasts, Gibson has already si cured a choice block of ringside seats for his guests. The special will be | THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 10 BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK IAPHOEPAM a cig 8 OR PALMAS GREATEST HIS RRCORD CF 17 MILES AN HOUR WITH & LIBERTY MOTOR LAST FEBRUARY RALPH AND DARIO RESTA WILL TRY TO SETTLE SCOR AGAIN NEXT WEE. |ELMONT SELECTIONS. FIRST RACE—Brynhild, Sadie D, Pokey Jane, SECOND RACE-—No selections, THIRD RACE—Marchesa II, War Kiss, Ballet Dancer I. FOURTH RACE-—Over There, Roamer, Crimper, FIFTH RACE—Abadane, The Por- tuguese, Arrah-Go-On, SIXTH RACE—Wildair, Rover, Feodor, - @OLUMN AMERICA’S. SPEED HOPE STUNT was es RacPH DEPALMA 2 AMERICA'S DEFENDER —— OF INTERNATIONAW SPEED Honors Quakers Throw Bomb Into Gia a isitors Do Some Deadly Execution With Wagon Tongue at Polo Grounds. By Richard Freyer. GANG or rough ball players, hailing from Philadelphia, threw a bomb under the front porch of Mr. John McGraw's Polo Grounds ball park yesterday after- noon and caused great excitement, When an examination was made of the inferna) machine it was found to contain twelve base hits, one of which was of the deadliest variety, a home run, The casualties included the loss of twenty-three points in New York's percentage as well as the loss of one perfectly good ball game. With the exception of Mr. McGraw's feelings no one was burt, Final score, Philadel- phia 7, Giants 4, Ferdinand Stubblefield Schupp, who does a great deal of port side finging for the Giants, started the game. Bchupp does not seem to be ready. He could not control the ball and the Quakers had no trouble solving his delivery. In the four innings he was in there working the visitors nicked him for a total of five hits. He also issued three free walks and allowed six runs, Ferdinand was removed In the fourth stanza after a single by Sicking, a hit by Woodward and a circuit clout by George Whitted sent three Phillies across home plate. Jess {Barnes acted as pinch hit for Schupp and Toney finished the pas- time. - Schupp’s successor pitched stgady Now that the warm weather is here the clubs throughout the country that) Intend to stage open air boxing shows have alrealy started to do business, In Philadelphia to-night the firat open air | entertainment of the season will be put) on ot Shive Park, the home of the Phila- | detphia American League Baseball Club. Phil Glassman ts conducting the show and he has booked three star bouts of) six rounds duration. Lew Tendler meets | George ‘Chaney of Baltimore, Johnny ~f . all aceommodation train and will carry | Dundee hooks up with Joe Tiplits, for-| the New York delegation in political convention style. It is planned to leave for home immediately after the battle, and little time will be lost on the jour- ney back to Manhattan Isle. RACING at AUTIFOL BELMONT PARK merly of Brooklyn, but now of Philadel- | phia, and Matt Brock of Cleveland will | take on some good lightwe! Willie | Jackson was to have fought Brock, but | was forced to cancel the bout on account | of an accident. | K, © Loughlin, the sturdy welterweight of Aten | been doing some great fighting tm ving utpointed Joe Kagan of Bos | aukee, Marty Cross at Wilkesberre, Han Downey ot Canton, O., and last might, at ‘Tulse, Okie, be knorked out Johnny Colmers of | | the colored Young Bub ‘Tokde, O., in ihe ent round. TOMORROW $2,000 GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE—3 MILES BALDWIN HANDICAP AND 4 OTHER SUPERB CONTESTS FINST RACE AT 2.20 P, M. SPECIAL RACK TRAINS Jack Doherty, manager of “Duteh’ Brandt, the Brooklyn featherweight, bas Mus signed Op Brandt for another battle op June 20. This scrap will be| |rrith ily Bevan ot Wilhestarre, Pe.. for ten | rounds, #{ a0 open air boxing show wo be siaged | | at Wilkesbarre. Brandt tases om Frankie Buros of dares City to an elgbt-rouny the Hayoune & & of Basonne, MN. J, om next Pridey night, Jake “Young” Ahearn, Who is making Boston his home, is now a full flodged middleweight, He has been (aking 00 flaoh eo fast that the lowest weight be can fight pounds, Ahearn refused pounds for a bout with Jack Britton Mass, and Dan Morgan, manager refused to take Britton ap to Lowell and box * Alearn, | rounds in Philly | sessions be will make hi | | gate for these fighters, nts’ Standing ball and held the Quakers scoreless four of the five innings he twirled. In the last stanza three singles netted Jack Coombs's aggregation one more run. The contest was featured by sev- eral remarkable plays. who played much baseball arougd second base for the Phillies, made a great one-handed stop of ‘a grounder off Fletcher's bat in and got his man at first. Larry| Doyle did not want Pearce to think he had anything on him, and in the ninth inning robbed Baird of what looked like @ sure hit when he rabbed his grounder, after a run,| in his gloved hand and sent Pearce back to the bench, Chase also | played a wonderful game at first) base, and it is doubtful whether any other first-sacker can pick what look like wild throws out of the dirt in the same manner as Hal, Woodward was selected as Man- ager Coombs’s flinging artist, and after the first inning Mr. Woodward | did considerable flinging. In the opening stanza, as the Burne’s double to left field, a free ticket to Young and a home run smack by Doyle into the upper tier of the right field stand, three Giants scored, Woodward then settled down and allowed the home team but four more hits during the remaining eight innings, The Giants added one more tally in the fifth inning when Meuse) made a two-base error of Burns's fly to centre. George went to third on a fly to Cravath and scored as Chase was thrown out at first. No hits in this inning, and no fault of Woodward's. up's eacemor pened aieay fai ot Wondwardi ne | (istic News tom totocx and Goss ideau, also of Philly, Frank Darey of Avstratia, brother of the late famous Les Darcy, is seriously sick with influenra And his followers have slim hopes of his recovery, Young Darcy was a promising fighter and was fated to box Tommy Urea for the middioweight champiouship of Australia at the reopen) the Sydney Stadium, but on account of iis ‘le new Jimmy Clabby, the American, bas beon sub- stituted, Jess Willard, the world’s heavyweight cham. pion, has just announced bis real age, The big fellow says that he is thirty-five yoars instead of thirty-three years, he having forgotten a couple of years when he began fighting,’as he Mgured that by making himself two years yousger be would get more bouts, Dick Curley bas sigved up hie crack boxer, Paul Doyle, to meet I'hi Bloom is « teo-round out at New Loudon on June 14, Phil Glassman of Philadelphia, fight promoter and manager of Lew Tender, the crack Philadel. phia lightweight, 1 #0 sure that Toudler can de feat Champion Beany Leonard that oe has just wired Billy Gibeon, manager of Leonard, an olfer of @ guarantee of 812,000 to box Tender six and if Benny laste the ax & preseot of an addi- {ional 62.000, which would make Beany's end “One Round” Davia, the Buffalo heavyweight, who was knocked out in two rounls by Tom Cowler, the Muglish heavyweight, bay quit ue training camo of Jack Dempsey at Toledo, Davis was acting as on of the sparring partners ter Dempsey, but as Jack puneoed too wari avis packed up his baggage and departed, Il) was early knocked out twice by Dempsey 16 two days, ‘The grom receipts of the kK, 0, Joughlin. Johnny Colmars fight at Tulsa, Okla., on Mon- day night amounted to $4,600, which is ® good Loughlin received 30 cent, of the money, which made nis ena 470, while Colmare drow down a guarantee of 9500, Loughlin is & great farorise with the dight fans of Tulsa as @ rovult a be good figsting there in several battles, the sixth inning| Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World), DEPALMA WAS LEADING FIELD AT INDIANAPOLIS RECENTLY WHEN AN ACCIDENT TOS CAR BLIMINATED HiM— By Thornton Fisher WILLARD MAKES Bla nll WITH FANS BY CONDITION | HE DISPLAYS IN- WORKOUT After Training Stunts Are Over the! Champion Declares He Thinks) Dempsey Fight Will Prove. Easi- est of His Career. By Robert Edgren. Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) TOLEDO, June 4 = | PSS WILLARD'S first workout in bis new training camp at Toledo J convinced two thousand spectators that the big champion Is going to be entirely fit to defend his title on July 4. ‘The champion's quarters were not ready yesterday morning, so Jess hired a big car, took one of his sparring partners along, visited stores, bought a dozen heavy quilts to lay under the ring canvas, outfitted himself with everything from a gallon of rubdown stuff to a bandage tape, and drove out to the Casino, In half a minute Jess was in the ring, He directed the laying of the quilts, witich were tacked down well, had the canvas stretched over them to his satisfaction, and then tackled the ring ropes,, The posts, he decided, were strong enough, but the wires were slack,” One of his volunteer helpers went to get a wire stretching appa- ratus to tighten the guy ropes. Four more tried to tighten the ropes by hand. Three pulled and ‘the other took in a few inches of slack. “That isn't half tight enough,” declared Willard, when the job was done. i -“It's as tight as those fellows could pull [t without tackle,” said, the man at the guy rope apologetically. “Shucks,” roared Willard, “The trouble is that there were no MEN on that rope, Give me @ chance at it.” Throwing off his coat the champion hurled his huge bulk against the rope like an elephant moving a pile of teakwood, The ring ropes stiffened out like iron bar, and the posts creaked under the strain, Willard's herculean tug pulled in at least two feet more slack than the three men were able to get. Jess reached around the corner post and made the rope fast himself, Willard to Train Under Conditions of Contest. “I’m used to roping and riding broncos,’ he explained, grinning. As soon as the ring was ready Jess skipped over to his dressing room and in a minute or two was back, in his boxing costume, ready to work. By this time a great crowd had gathered. There is plenty of, room for spectators, for Willard’s training ring is placed in a wide canvas-inclosed field facing the lake, There is no fence on the lake side, and several large oak trees shade the grounds. The ring is not shaded, for Willard wants to work out every day, under the conditions of the contest, without protection from the sun or wind, While the cameras snapped and the crowd moved up closer to the ring, Willard went through a lot of shadow boxing and a little fast work with an elastic exerciser. He threw his body around almost viciously, He is as limber as a circus acrobat, and his twisting torso, his huge chest Attempted Clean-Up Fails, Proving Good Things Rare, As Usual, Defeat of African Arrow Brings Dismay to Hundreds of Backers. By Vincent Treanor. “ HE good thing which failed” might serve as a title for an occurrence at Belmont Park yesterday which recalled the Bet-a- million race track days of the late John W. Gates. The scene was enact- ed before the fifth race in the club house and on the gun baked lawn. Few among the layers heaved sighs of relief until the race was run and over with. African Arrow was the good thing. When prices were quoted Fell Swoop was the favorite, with African Arrow a 6 to 1 shot. Then the news circulated, African Arrow was a bottled up good thing. Only the good- ness of bis trainer’s heart in scratch- ing him enabled Arrah-Go-On to win a few days ago; he had worked like a streak, He simply couldn't lose, Good friends advised one another to go and bet on him and get themselves some money. Then the players began to write their slips, They shoved them into the hands of the layers in bunches. Down went African Arrow's price to 4 to 1. More slips, and then the run- ners were sent scurrying hither aad thither, 3 to 1 Arrow now, but that didn't stop the flow of wagers on him. Sg 21-2 to 1, and then came a ul Meanwhile the logical cholce, Fell Swoop, was almost a drug on the market. Nobody wanted him. Those who had wagered on his chances be- fore the African Arrow news began to spread, wished they hadn't. Some even went so far as to hedge on tne Arrow horse, The horses went to post, After little delay they were off. African Arrow shot to the front. A back slapping tournament then took place among those who had bet on him. “Didn't I tell you so?” was heard on every sid “Why, the boy has him a @lready counting their winnings. The Fell Swoop backers looked on in silence. There was African Arrow sailing along a couple of lengtha tn front on his way to the stretch. Sud- denly a cry of alarm went up. “What's that running second?” Af- rican Arrow’s backers asked one anott or, “What's that thing in yellow, creep- ing up from third?” Before either question could be answered Jusqu'a Bout and Fell Swoop had closed up on African Ar- Jess Given Big Hand by Fans on Race Track row and groans of despair were in order. Before the stretch turn was reached African Arrow was collared and shut off from vision behind Fell Swoop. Jusqu’a Bout meanwhile had tried to run out. Butwell, on Feil Swoop, then came on in ground sav- ing style and was never thereafter in danger. Guy Burns finally straigtt- ened Jusqu'a Bout in time to come on to take second money. African Arrow finished sixth. Moral: There are no good things on the race track. Jockey Wessler made Wyndover look as if he were a “‘lobs’ in the open- ing race. He got away badly from the post and raced twenty lengths be- hind the leaders in the run to the stretch turn. Then, when too late, Weasler let Wyndover down and he ate up ground to be an easy third. It certainly wasn’t Wyndover’s race. Ambrose seemed to ride an all-too- confident finish on Star Hampton in winning the Westbury Handicap by a nose from Balustrade. Looked as if he could have won by open daylight, but on the return to the judges’ stand it was noticed that Star Hampton was nodding badly. Everybody agreed that Paul Jones was a legitimate 1 to 2 shot and so he proved. He won the Bouquet Stakes as te pleased, He has a nice way of going. BASEBALL. The Giants lost to the Phillies in @ weird game at the Polo Grounds. The Brooklyn Robins and Braves split another double-header -in Bos- ton, The Bostonians annexed the first game, putting over the winning count tn the tenth inning. The escore was 2 to 1, The Robins took the second, 4 to 3. Bunching hits in the third inning and taking advantage of two errors, Detroit won from Chicago by @ score of 7 to %, making it three straight, Cleveland and St, Louis broke even in a double-header, St. Louis win- ning the first game by @ score of 14 to 6, after overcoming @ five-run lead, and Cleveland taking the second game, 8 to 5, ‘The Yanks trimmed the Athletics 10 to 9, it being an uphill and down dale battle from start to finish. ‘Boston took the second game of the series from Washington by @ score of 4 tos. Chicago made it three straight from Pittsburgh by shutting out Sometimes it is the smile of a hunter stalking his game. And then, as Jimmy Dougherty remarked, is a good time to duck, Who Saw Him Work. He looked quick WIL TRY TO WN RMGEFORUS. Famous American Driver Will Receive Stiff Opposition From Resta at the Bay. De Palma ts America’s leading land ace, Last February down on the Florida Coast his American’ made sight that made it possible for his record-breaking feats last February. GRAND PARADE IS WINNER OF REVIVED ENGLISH DERBY Waldorf Astor’s Buchan Second in Turf Classic Run at Epsom First Time in Four Years. LONDON, June 4.—Grand Parade won the Derby run at Epsom Downs to-day. Buchan was second, ind Paper Money third. Thirteen horses ran. Buchan is owned by Major Wal- @orf Astor, son of William Waldorf Astor. The winner ts the property of Lerd Glannelly. The Panther, the favorite, finished eighth. The stakes is valued at 6,500 sover- eigns (about $31,600 at mormal ex- change rates) and is for colts and fillies of three years old. The course is about one mile and a halt in length. ‘Theré™were 234 entries originally for this years race. ‘This is the first run in four years on the Epsom Downs course, ‘The last one was won Durbar Il, own American, the late He: Athletic Parade to Feature Drive For Boy Scouts, Ol4-time celebrities tn the world of sport have joined hands with “Big Bil” Edwards, Chairman of the Greater City Campaign, to send the Boy Scout drive, beginning June 8 and ending June 14, for 335,060 adult members in Greater New York, over the top. The outstanding event during the drive will be the Atb- letic Parade, which will take placs on Wednesday, June 11. In it every of outdoor activity for keeping the EVENING WORLD'S OWN SPORT HISTORY What Happens Every Day the | 6—4, Willard finished with six minutes of shadow boxing. and shoulders and arms, his trim waist, and withal the vehement aggres- siveness of every movement, made the crowd gasp. Here was no fat man, no man weakeyed by a life of ease, Jimmy Dougherty and half a dozen other well known experts in.ring affairs came to me and whispered: “Why, Willard isn’t fat. He isn't flabby, as they said he was. He isn't the forty- year-old hasbeen we expected to see. He looks like a fine, boyish college athlete, Look at that hand—like snapping a whip, isn't it? That fellow oid? It's a joke, He's as gocd this minute as he was at Havana.” Then Jess began boxing, He went through four rounds with Lavin, the stout boxer who was with Dempsey last week. Willard was merciful to Lavin, I have followed his career from the start, and I never knew him to do his fighting in the training camp. Even at Havana, with a world’s championship fight coming, good-natured Jess was careful not to inflict any injury on his training staff. It was the same with Lavin, Jess moved about lightly, shot out lightn'ng fast jabs, and now and then made a flerce face and drove a solid left uppercut home, sending Lavin slam- bang back against the ropes, As soon as he saw Lavin was bewildered or badly shaken he eased up, clinched, and laughingly pushed around until hig man had recovered. There is @ world of good nature in Jess, But although be smiles al) the time I can't say that the emile ts always gentle. nd soft movi: ‘as a big cat. Always his glance was directed down, bo to Fite A man of ‘Dempeoy’s height would be. In imagination he was seeing Dempsey there, for his smile was the hunter's smile now, and he hooked and jabbed with a vicious energy he didn’t show at all when his blows were directed at his rotund sparring partner, ‘When Willard left the ring and ran lightly back to his dressing room he received a big cheer from the fight fans who had watched him. Grin- ning with good nature, the champion waved an apprectative hand, Dempsey, taking a day’s deserved rest, drove around the lake shore in his big touring car, Manager Kearns went along to keep the speed down to a safe notch, Dempsey likes to make time, It was & hot day, al- though the sky was hazy and the eun didn’t burn through with the blister- ing glare of the past few days. After his workout Willard said he was well satisfied with his quarters, bis condition, his prospects and everything else. “Honestly,” he told me, laughing, “it may sound foolish, but I can't help thinking this is going to be the easiest contest I ever If every- thing goes through tn a clean, fair, aportsmanlike way there isn't a doubt in my mind that I'll win, That's the only kind of @ contest I like, and } hope Dempecy fecis the came way.” ‘ health of young America up to thr proper standard. Pirates by 1 run to 0 in a pitching duei between Martin and Miller, The Brown nine went to Sok Field and administered another de- feat to Harvard, this time by a score of 6 to 2. ks Yale team was decisively beaten by Holy Cross 10 to 2. GOLF, In the qualifying round for the A K, Fletcher Cup on the links of the North Jersey Country Club, only two strokes separated the first ant eighth men to qualify, and two were tied for eighth place, TENNIS, The round before the semi-finais was reached in the Metropolitan championship tournament on the turf of the We Side Tennis Club at Forest Hills. Mrs. George W. Wighty~ man easily beat Mrs, wie Pritchard. The score was 6—0, 6—0. Miss Bleanora Sears worked away through closely fought games to de~ feat Mrs, Milliam H. Brown jr, at @—1, §¢—0._ Miss Eleanor Goss easily beat Mr: é—1. Fred Anderson was eliminated fro. the New Jersey State championshi at the Montclair Athletic Club by Oakley, an upknown among tourna: ment players, the scores being 4. 8S, Howard Voshell and Walter Mj Hall will meet Frederick and Major Harron in the final of th Country Club of Westchester invita tion tennis doubles tournament to- day, following their victories in th¢ semi-final round. »The Quaker Ridge doubles tenn\a) championship, curtailed by rain last} week, was resumed on the courts of the New Rochelle Tennis Club, Ale: Ter and Leon Croley reaching ‘h final round. y Joshue Brush by a tally o the Longwood Cricket Club announced to-day that the Philadelphia and Ne York lawn tennis teams would play si singles and three doubles matches at ib on June 13, a Chul = iC ie Fiiersoly xara ne vk