The evening world. Newspaper, June 13, 1919, Page 22

" World, uJ igs. ; New UYIN + wtlil a dig gamble. illustration of this 4.) |G thoroughbred yearlings is No better fact at the Jamaica track yesterday after- noon. Robert L. Gerry, the well- known New Yorker was represented two races on the programm: Show the Greenfield Stak 3 were carried b; van the Terrible lodges exhibition of all the qualities Sitch ‘go. to * and Feodor finish lucky at tha ow tale: Shoal cost Mr. Gerry the jignificant sum of $100 as a yea ing and Feodor was considered rgain at the same age at $15,' jor has racing relatives which ve distinguished themselves on the rt, principally Hodge, a near cham- of the West and winner of many es. Shoal had no predecessors any account, hence the difference aes sale prices at a time when h were babies. “Blood will tell” is an old axiom \ ing turfmen and breeders, and or- inarily it does tell. In this particu- instance, however, it didn't. ~ It is just possible that as both colts #0 on, Shoal may prove to be just What his selling price indicated he Would be id that Feodor may de- take winner. One race or unmake the reputa- of a two-year-old, but it helps ome, OAL had been to the races be- fore and had the benefit of “edu- cation” while Feodor was ad- mittedly green. The fact, however, Mi ~priced yearlings 't always prove the best when it in the business, always Maintained that $10,000 is fabulous price to ey for any year- Ro matter what his breeding or lente may have been. Not one ‘of them in ten makes good, according to Fitz. On the contrary, the me- dium-priced youngsters are as a rule the ones which furnish epochs history! a OME time thi afternoon the i Army and Navy and Civilian Board of Boxing Control is gcheduled to meet and take up the impo. ant Ene ye of who Is to ref- @ree the ilard-Dempwey fight at ‘Toledo July 4. The board was to have held a preliminary meeting last night tthe Union Leagug Club, but in- iry at that home of Republicanism led to reveal any knowledge of iajor jog Biddie, Chairman of the Box- Board, or his announced meeting. It was suggested that probably th | Union Club was the meeting place. ‘The Union Club was approached soft fashion, but the poy qually unknown there. So It iid Beem that the discussion of the jt ree subject until this after it had been Fi storm of disapproval caused ‘noon, nouncement that Jack Bkelly’ supporters w become busier than the Yonkers man be selected to he big bout. Skelly's name eide been and he is the East is concerned, Last night messages were sent to Dempsey boom- You'd think he Rickard, Willard and ing his‘ candidacy. was mation, Jack's friends ¢ the indorsement anager t Wil le objections to him. ledo in ove’ ng the gubernatorial nomi. of Jack Kearns, ‘un with would-be ref. ° frees for the big occasion. They hav gfone in person to the fight scene to ir respective causes. Skelly Be: fi | Foweve silence at home. He doesn't den that he would like to have the honoi id the prestige that ating at such a record-breakin wporting event, but he would prefe: that the job seek him, Rickari KELLY, however, resents a re cently printed statement that bh doesn't believe in deciding away & qbampion's title in a close fight. “I am for the man who piles up a Jead." he says, “but so-called shades Wouldn't go with me. A single extra " tead might give a man a shade in one » Found, but it wouldn't convince me That in the absence of any other dem- tion of superiority, he would be titled to a decision whi 4@ cham- ship is at stake, ilions of dollars of the public's y will hinge on the decision in fight, and J think it behoov referee to consider e possible ‘ture of the fight before iding it way o the other. Of course a gekout would simplify matters, but can foresee that with any de- ont Ainert- ' ~ Victory of $100 Yearling and Defeat of One Costing Same Owner $15,000 Show Uncer- tainty and Luck of Racing is needed after the racing happenings a brown colt by Danger Rock imirr, and in the last race his Feodor, a son and Nannie Shoal won his race after a make up a good horse tg @ poor third and re is the jarring element of lar Major by Magor Drexel's unofficial an~ he favored Billy Roeap for the job has caused army of friends and ever in thelr recommendations that 8 prominently mentioned in con- * nection with the referceship ever since ¢ articles of agreement were signed i In the lead as far as im to have of Dempsey, and they say Fd cannot have any reason- Meanwhile, . has maintained a dignified go with of- ‘knows where to reach him, he suys, EST SP SH-H~ ave & O- (Bu-u-) DROPPED (se) Mar PINS THE GALLERY WORKED ON Mike Braoy's NERVES JESS WILLARD ALREADY DOWN TO. FIGHTING WEIGHT FOR BOUT WITH DEMPSEY ———++. By July Fourth Champion Expects To Be Even Lighter Than When He Won: Title From Johnson in Havana. By Robert Edgren. Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) TOLEDO, O., June 12. ESS WILLARD sprung a surprise on me yesterday when he stepped on the scales and proved that he is already down to fighting weight. — At a little after 3 o'clock, when his hard day's work was over, Jess sealed exhctly 252 pounds. In Los Angeles I weighed him twice. The first time he balanced the beam at 260 pounds, A week later he weighed a pound and a half lei Coming East on the train, Josing five days of work with the first day In Toledo included, he may have gained a few pounds, but he didn't weigh. ‘The importance of this announcement may be judged by the fact thie j}on the day of the fight with Johnson in Havana Jess weighed Just 249% pounds. He is only two and a half pounds over the fighting weight at whioh he won the championship of the world. Jess was delighted at the showing of the scales. When he talked it over he said: This is fine, The hot weather here is getting me down much faster than I expected, I intended to be at about 250 pounds an July 4. Inst I think I will Weigh 245, 1 wM be in much better shape than I wi Havana, There isn't a doubt about it. I feel better right now than I did at any time before the fight with Johnson, Then I had a lot of things to worry me, Now there isn’t a thing in the world I'd like to have changed. I'm easy in mind, Never felt in better health, Everything 1s coming my way. I feel that luck is with me in everything. At first, after leaving California, I thought the hot weather here would bother me, It did bother me for a few days.” I felt oppressed by the heat and tired easily, But now | I don't tire any more, The weight.I have taken off has cleared my whole system so that my wind is all right. I feel fast and full of pep and endur ance, By July 4th I'll be on edge and in much better shape to defend the | champlonship than I was to win it four years ago. “Of course I welgh 252 now, just after having sweat off about five pounds, I suppose I will put on three or four pounds over night, But to- | morrow I'll take it off dgain, and I may go under 262. I'm not trying to) take off weight. It's coming off naturally, and I'm pullding up strength at | the same time. That's what Jeffries ad me to do in California, you | remember, I don't care if the weather hot and muggy. It makes eat more freely, and I've reachba thg point in my training where it doesn't make me feel tired, ‘Willard. surely looks a picture of perfect health. His face, which was round and smooth ti California, has changed outline amazingly, I saw him do all of hhw tr Min Havana, and can say that to-day in outward appearance he is the same gaunt, high-cheek-boned, rugged, sunburned giant of a man he was down in the Miramar, Willard’s Sparring Partners “Pu neh Drunk.’ Willard's sparring partners are showing signs of being what some one described to-day as “punch drunk,” Although Jess goes through his dally fhree rounds with Hempel and his three rounds of fast sparring with Mona- han, he doesn't tire or slacken speed in the least. And at tne end of thr rounds Hempel js fairly staggering with weariness, and Monahan is little better, Between rounds the sparring partners rest, But Willard doesn't rest. He walks 6r dances around, shadow boxes, waiting impatiently for the call of time. There is slill a slight thickness of his body at the wnint- line, just as there was in Havana until tho final two days drying out just before the fight. His muscles are long and smooth and soft looking. But he never shows any ridges or knots of muscles, He has pretty soft, resilient muscles that are particularly good for sharp, fastybitting, In his workouts he can easily hit faster than either Hempel or Monahan, and Monahan is a clever boxer and a very fast hitter, In all the boxing to-day Willard specialized in swaying with blows and avoiding them, He seemed to do it easily, no matter how fast they came. He was a novice in this in Havana—when bis skill then is compared with his skill to-day, Willard is either growing more serious or he is practicing a “fighting face.” Yesterday, whenever he dropped his defensive work and attacked sharply, he stopged smiling and put on a look that was almost ferocious. He reminded me of a remark made by Jim Savage, one of his trainers at Havana, “T'm afraid of that big fellow,” sald Savage. “Whenever I happen to get in @ hard punch he shoots over a counter before I can get away, and he has a wild look in his eye that gets my goat.” That's Willard when he is on the offensive, Usually the mildest of men, smiling broadly with good humor when the gloyes are flying about his ears, as soon as ho attacks he changes entirely. ‘Then he is almost fero- cious. His sparring partners~know what 1s coming, and they do their best to weather it Willard Will Kriow He’s Been in a Fight. 1 spent part of the afternoon with Jack Dempsey, to go on with his boxing, but the cut over his y ir Poor Jack is eager . e is only half healed, and ORTING ‘WHEN HAGEN WON THE NATIONAL OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) PAINE A Oe tee Copyright, 1 ITS NICE BUT { WONT HAVE ANNTHING TO PUT IM (T= PA \¥, vUNM 18 Bracy PuT UP Kile WHEN HAGEN _ AcKeEo! UP & STUB .FROM THE 7 Green J. SHUCKS! ANOTHER POINT FOR PROHIBITION. THE NEW CHAMP COMES FROM A ORY TOWN CpeTRoir) Walter Hagen Enters British Open Tourney Scheduled Next Spring Sensational Professional Who Won His Second Open Title by| » Beating Mike Brady in Excit- ing Play-Off at Brae Burn to Practice Two Months on Eng- lish Courses and Is Confident He'll Win Classic. By William Abbott. rARRY VARDON, dames Braid, George Duncan crack golfers in ingland hi not content with winning the Na- has entered the British open tourna- ment next spging and expects to wade his way through an opposition on the other side easier than he came through the playoff for the big profes- sional trophy at Brae Burn, Shortly after his sensational vic- tory over Mike Brady in the 18-hole extra round yesterday Hagen told the writer of his plans to invade England. “I have sent in my entry,” said the happy title holder, “and will be gone two months next spring preparing on English courses for the British Opea Championship. Don't you think [ ought to win it? Vardon and the other British champions are getting along in years and w ge@ing pretty good on this side, aren't we? “Say, do you know I was lucky to tle Brady's score and beat him out in the playoff? All through the cham- plonship I couldn't putt. I just lost the touch, As a rule putting is a strong part of my game, but some- thing went wrong in this champton- ship, Many times | didn’t know where the long approach putts were going, Frequently I felt like lifting my head to get @ new line to the cup, so uncertain was my touch. “Mike put up @ good battle, I im- ran down on three greens coming in would upset me, On the contrary, made me all the more confident, because I was in the lead at the time and it was a cinch if he couldn't pass me after shooting everything he my position wag pretty sweet, “Still 1 was fortunate to win be- cause of my own putting weakness, Those desirous of becomin+ efficient competition players shouldn't over- fook any bets on the greens. There where titles repeatedly change hand: “Golf strain,” said Hagen in ai ewer to @ question, “is probably greater than any other sport, with the single exception of billiards. I p all games and was considered a crack semi-professional baseball nervous strain golf has stopped. ous, like baseball, boxing or tennis and the golfer who miscues has con- leven rubbing & glove over It would open it again and keep him out of the ‘4 ring for another week, Meanwhile he gets what satisfaction he can from punching the heavy bag, He tears into this as if Willard were inside of it, _| hitting continually with both hands and putting his heart into every blow. Dempsey 1s a wonderful athlete, man, He is more muscular than Willard, but his muscles are flexible, is like a panther In action, soft-moving, quick as a flash, suddenly aggres- sive, and filled with endless energy and tireless strength, Although he can't box this week, he goes through the heavy bag punching and shadow boxing in the ring with a suppressed fury that is impressive, No matter how big Willard is, or how trong @@ clever, he will know he is in @ fight within four seconds after the gong rings for the opening round. 1 think that nearly every one I met to-day asked me who 1 was icking” as winner of the bout. I am not picking any winer, If I do so at all, It will be only when both men have finished their preparation and ow the form in which they will enter the ring. And then picking a winner in this contest isn't going to be a snap for any one, no matter how close to the fighters or how experienced in affairs of the ring. Billy Miske will join the Dempsey camp ten days before the big bout. Dempsey counts on Miske to give him the final trying out, to give him the fast work that will put him on edge for the encounter. To-day Willard will have a new sparring partner, a 190-pounder coming from New York. He is known as “Ketchel,” and is said to have a pretty fair fighting record while in the marines, Manager Archer has turned down the offer from Maxey Blumenthal to send Al Reich to Willard’s camp, Ho says Ketshel oe.— ade, had already been engaged, and the staff is satisfactory as it stands, 4 all other} gets on your trail in a tournament, ad | 9@!d Gil Nicholls, a noted warhs soon better seek cover, Walter Hag@, | Hagen. agine’ he thought those long putts he! Conditions that giake most golfers go blooey only make Hagen play harder, He always seems to have mething in reserve. He plays both with his head and great hitting strength. Famous as a long driver, a favorite Hagen trick is to let op- ponents lead him from the tee to the point where they start.pressing in anxiety to rub it in. Then the De- troit wizai simply lets out a few kinks and its good night for the fool- ish golfer who thought he could out- isanee, the Swat Mulligan of the inks. “That bird is an Indian when he himself, when referring to Walter “He can do everything in the world with gulf clubs and he is tional Open Title for the second time, |@Pt to bust out any minute with sume sensational stuff. He gets in a bunker and you think you have him sure, but he'll probably recover better than if he was on the fairway. He's a tough bird, no nerves and all pep and tine shots.” Mike Brady holds all records for getting into tles And losing them. He has been in seven such encounters, but the battle with Hagen yesterday was the toughest for the Boston home- bred to lose. Mike was only one down at the fourteenth and going trong, but the brilliant Irish pro spilled the beans on the sixteenth | with a wild mashie shot, He had « great chance on the seventue when Hagen hooked into woods, ball being almost buried in soft mud. Walter's recovery, however, was one of the greatest shots of the entire tournament. The directing committee helped to make the Hagen-Brady play-off one lof the most exciting matches ever staged in this country. It seemed Hagen lifted a matchbox before making his third shot on the tenth, After the hole was played several committee men notified the surprised Hagen he had been penalized two strokes for this breach of tho rules. 'There was a confab every few yards, lthe big gallery lending a hand in the j discussion, H hey’re trying to give Brady the title on a technicality.” exclaimed many. When the wrangling was at its height a good friend tipped off Hagen to the fact that his opponent had illegally lifted a stone while playing the uphill ninth, This caused more scanning of rule books and measuring around the ninth green for evidence. The committee, after much delay, decided to withdraw both pro- tests. For three holes no one knew the real standing of the match, ————— Reginald Wert! mee SHAWNEE ON THE DELAWARE, layer up New York State, But for oo 8. Wi D p hut forlpa., June 13.—Reginald orthington The action is not continu- of the Home Club, won the qualifying ound of the annual golf tournament for he Buckwood trophy here with a card siderable time to worry and unsteady.|of 76, George Hofftner of Bala, with a I never saw a finer speciman, of a | himself before making the next stroke. |77, was second, and Eddje Styles, Phila- He Spectators at a match see many has- | delphia, third, with a card of 81, AT re oT GE IN NEW YORK a CIGARETTE one RUSH ON THE. SPORTING GOODS STORES NOW THEY'RE 0 N TOP. YANKEES ARE LIKELY 10 REMAIN THERE Unless the Western Clubs Unearth a Bunch of New Pitchers the Local Club Should Stay Permanently in First Place in American League Race. By Bozeman Bulger. N Duffy Lewis's home rur wallop, aided and abetted by other sharp shooting, the Yanks climbed into first place, and unless these Western clubs are able to dig up quite a -string of New pitchers the Huggins family is going to begin fixing up the old place as a permanent lodging. The Tigers have used up pretty nearly every brand of pitching they have handy and the Yanks go right on pasting them as fast as they show. No amount of science can beat a good, healthy wallop and, right now, heft seems to be our long suit. Tho Mur- derer’s Row, at last, has proved itself the damgerous institution that its friends have claimed, Whea Daker doesn’t slip in the haymaker it ts Lewis, and when Lewis has a day off it 1s Pipp or Bodie, and when things are slowing up all around Peckin- paugh, Pratt or Hannah are liable to pop one right in the stands at any minute. ‘The Yanks are neither nifty or fancy 8 base runners, but they certainly can “bust that old appl It must appear as funny to Detroit as to our own prolctarist to hear the ‘Tigers talk about anybody else as the heaviest’ hitting club in the League. For many years they had that distinction themselves, But with Sam Crawford gone even Tyrus Raymond Cobb can't carry them all on his shoulders, Yes, to-day the Yanks are the acknowledged swat- ters of the League. And it is well, ‘ But don’t ¢gWe all the credit for the important victory to Murderer’s Row. Shawkey had to pitch the hardest game of his life and it_was his resourcefulness, gained from years of experience, that saved him, Every time he looked around the Tigers would be cluttering up the bases, Even this did not disturb the cagey veteran, He would tighten up, become a little more deliberate than ever and wiggle away just Jennings thought they had him, In the seventh Flagstead slammed a home run into the stand and) they got the bases full afterward, ‘Only two runs were needed to sew things up and a wallop would do the trick. Young worked hard and there were frequent quarrels over the new ball \ards on the links, but they don’t ithe chief one of all—the player's {nerves. The only game similar to |golf strain is billiards, which easily | gets the player's goat. Like Benny Kauff in baseball, the ‘new open champion has extreme con- fidence in himself, What's more, he can play every shot and play them best’ when the tension is hardest. | Sm, Ver Miko Brady, early home on his final | Catcage round Wednesday, strolled out on the | pi : links to see what his closest rivals | "erm were doing. He picked up Hagen on the fourteenth, Sliding up to the De- troit star, Brady in way of encour- agement, wised him up ito ‘the fact that Hoffner and Tellier, two danger- ous players, had blown badly, “I ant not going to blow,” was Hagen's con- fident retort, “Watch this shot, kid,* and the new champion walloped a brassie shot that made Brady gulp. GAMES YESTERDAY, Now York, 2: Clacianati, |. Pittsburgh, 5; Brooklyn, 4. Chieage, 3; Phitadsiphis, @. St, Lowle, 3; Boston, | GAMES TO-DAY, New York at Chicage, | being soiled—the umpire had to change it—but there was nothing THEY “isicor" STAND AMERICAN LEAGUE, w. doing. Shawkey took the second pure white pill, worked it around in his perspiring hands for a moment and then shot one over that Young popped up to the catcher for the third out. That's the inning when Col, Huston almost crushed his black derby and rooted so hard as to el- bow his guests out of the box. Shawkey deserves more credit for that victory than any he has earned for some time, It was the first game in which he has frequently been trouble. He proved that his n is solid and that he knows ways «of escape. Great pitcher, that boy. Ty Cobb again had an unlucky day in that he didn’t get to win the game singlehanded. He was trying from the jump but could not do {: alone. Out of his four times up ne got a base on balls and beat out un inficld hit. The crowd broke into ‘great glee when the Georgia Peach was thrown out stealing second. It was the first time the Yanks had nailed him cleanly during the series. De) Pratt’ is playing a wonderful fielding game during these days of success and in the excitement over other matters much of his work has been overlooked by the casual ob- server, It was a wonderful stop by Pratt in the seventh inning yester- day that probably changed the status of the whole game. During t seventh inning rally of the Tigers Pratt went back of second, scooped dp a hot grounder that seémed im- possible gnd shot it to first just in time to put the New York Club back on its feet. A miss there—and it would have been excusable—and the pastime would have been in a. ter- rible mess, reliance CELEBRATION OF FOURTH TO BE VICTORY FESTIVAL Committee Hopes Wilson Will Ac- cept Invitation to Speak Here. Special efforts are being made by the Mayor's Committee on Welcome to make this year's celebration’ of the ourth of July a big event because it Will be in the nature of a Victory fes- tival, It 9 hoped ‘that President Wilson will re#pond favorably to an invitation, cabled yesterday, to act as speaker at exercises to be held in the City College Stadium the evening of the holiday. It is expected that Gov. Smith, Ate rney General Palmer, Secretaries Dan- and Baker, Maydr Hylan, Major Barry, commander of the Eastern Department, and several members of Congress will also speak, A pageant illustrative of the achteve- ments of the United States and the Al- lies is being arranged, and opera and po, |theatre stars will sing with the orches- ari\tra of the Metropolitan Opera House aa ‘The regular Fourth of July athletic 342 | gamen are expected to be more interest- SYVAD MANUF. CO, Hoboken, J ing than ever, William J. Lee, Super- ccna Visor of Recreation and Director of Ath letigs of the Park Department, is Chair maf of the Committee on Athletics am phe, 0. eaten come rerta§ SHEEPSHEAD BAY SPEEDWA\ iy Washinaten, 4. [Fifty serien, of contests have been ar: AUTO A ranged in all the park playgrounds an GAMES TOBAY, © grounda of the city. Thirty | AL MGLEMULEVS SWEEPSTAKES Detroit wt New York. | nd entry blanks are ready for dii le eae. 5 a ion by Boy pou i choo OMI’ Be le 142s rl athletic clubs ai ranches 0 na oo Woehlngta, YMC. A SSION'— $4 THE K. OF C. ORGANIZES’ BOXERS’ FLYING SQUADRON. of Under the direction Michael 6. Hogan, Supertivor of War Activities, the Knights of Columbus have Organized 9 flying squadron of boxers “to entertain tne men In the army camps in this and other cities, The supervisor and Jimmy in charge of this | __ By Thornton Fisher \Twyford, Secretary lbranch Of the welfare work, are |ping out an Itinerary that will tak lsix nights @ week and several after- joons. n ‘The Journey to and from the various eames, when possible, will be madé via the Knights of Fleet.” The fi Columbus “Great White t exhibition ta ile, N.Y. thousand conval: there. Island, camps Upton and Mills and the ‘base hospitals are to be visited at least jonce a week. —_—_— Lynch Boxes at Bayonne oads lead to the Bayonne Sport- Bayonne, N, J. to-night, Lynch, the international box- Meets Mickey Delmont of in the main attraction of etght Lynch should have his hands full trythg to outpoint the tough Jersey bantam. 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