The evening world. Newspaper, June 26, 1919, Page 22

~|BEST SP SUMIN WILLARD IN TRAINING | hi z | | fi a i ‘ i E i Grime Joe Cue bene mns ve a ae FIGHT REFEREE QUESTION | 1 i | that because i z i 0 of I lt : pe 5 VELED IN NNSTERY [ Although It Is Said Officials Have Been Chosen Already for Willard-Dempsey Battle, No News on Subject Is Forthcom- ing—Jack First Challenger That Has Ever Ruled Favorite Over the Champion. By Robert Edgren. Copyright, 1919, by The Frome Publishing On (The Now York Bvening Wort®). TOLHDO, June 26 HERE has been an air of mystery about the camps of the boxers and ‘Tex Rickard’s headquarters at the Gecor for two or three days, With representative of the Board of Boxing Control in Toledo, Major Biddle, still absent, and all sorts of rumors on every street corner, this has ‘deen a lively burg. The referee question has had every one guessing. Local Sportamen enid Ollie Pecord was @ cinch, and the managers of the boxers looked wise and denied it, Tuesday afternoon there wes a secret meeting of managers with the board representatives, and it wes announced that the es § nen I i i 8 7 ! i il FE | Ha j 13 | & the referee matter was settled to suit him, As champion, Jess was supposed to de riding the high horse and dictating to everybody In .general, But if Jess was woryying over the referee question he didn’t show it. r 4 things to look after, Tex spend, ightly capering around a ring while Jack and Jeds paste each othe: Jempsey First Challenger to Be Made Favorite. » ‘This big bout is growing every day. A funny thing about ft is that in condition, all the money in sight is being offered on Dempsey and no odds! ! asked. It is the first time in the history of ring affars that a world’s cham- F pino ‘has not been made favorite, popular or unpopular, from the day the . match was signed up. + | couldn't leap over, and he has it in cash in safe deposit vault. He is offer- any amount on Dempsey to win, even money, and says the odds will go at least 10 to 7 by July 4, Dempsey favorite, Whether he is right or not ly time can tell, As a matter of fact, there is little betting of any sort for fight followers are on the fence and unable to decide whether Jack's Magnificent condition and knowm 4 > weight and punch will be the feature of the bout. Jack Dempsey boxed in a wet ring yesterday afternoon, There was a & Bb, spite of the huge proportions of the champion and his apparently very fair | to 1. x . THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JUNE 2 Copyright, 1919, ty the Press Pubiiching Os. (The New York Brening Worll.) bares pon KING? wre A Snorer Weer. = * EVENING WORLD'S OWN SPORT HISTORY Cleveland by @ score of 7 to 1 in the final game of the series, Thomas What Happens Every Day caught hie first game ef the season | Vc ak ONT er as! Boston by a score of 8 to 3 in a free- hitting, loosely flelded first game to- series from the Reds by & score of 3 to 1. Ring was hit hard in the seventh, when four hits and a base on balls gave the Cubs two runs. Bressler then went into the box and stopped the scoring. St. Louls evened up the series with Pittsburgh, winning by a score of 3 Philadelphia and Boston divided a double head: e visitors | winnii the first L Philaaay 6 game, 9 to 4, and Iphia the second, 5 to 3, La- derus’s home run in deep centre field in the eighth inning with two runners on the bases won the second game, Binghamton was wuthit, but defeat- ed Jersey City by bunching five hits for four ‘runs in the sixth inning. Schact was effective in all except that frame, A Jersey City rally was spiked in ie ninth after one run had ‘soore fighting ability or the champion's skill | been A triple by Letter and Cathers Single netted a 3 to 2 victory for when| heavy rainstorm @ little before he came out, But he slammed Phila. | through his usual day’s training, while Jimmy De Forest watched him yj anxiously and edged in close to stop him if Jack took a dangerous slip. it, | Jack did not present any one with a ten-second count during the after- noon’s entertaiment, but he did drop Bill Tate again, this time with a left on the chin, The other day Jack tried out his right. Now that ie his left is alwo working he will be ready for anything that comes. Dempsey pressed Tate\hard and several times landed blows that made the big fellow shake hie head as if bees were bussing in his ears. Twice Tate was a little groggy. Dempsey, who is fighting every day now, kept him and put him down with a hard left hook on the chin. If there been any counting Tate might have been officially out, but Dempsey De Forest lited him from the floor, and Jack waltzed him around with- out hitting until he had recovered his senses, After the round Tate sat down on the ground close beside the ring and entertained the crowd with remarks about how hard Jack is hitting. “I thought I heard them big Berthas busting again,” & veteran and crossed the seas and came back a sergeant, Impossible to Get Line on Jess’s Real Condition. Jess Willard worked about as usual, but put a little more pep into the going, If Jess had « staff of sparring partners who could extend him a PHO'S financing the Willani- e Dempsey asked said Tate, who ts ) Horton Law days and still a close , stadent of pugilistic happenings, ~ “Tex Rickard and his partner, Frank Wigurney of Memphis,” we an- “tT had/an idea it was Willard him- aif ang that he was just paying 3 to stand up and White Then continu- if 1 was sure Willard had noth- ‘ to do with the promo. of ‘Dattle, I'd like to have on “tpk of Willard beta | too bi ae all bunk. why. do you Uttle Joe Walcott, only a rm beat all the heavy- me Crnet Now if he sus — ty Y¥, partioularl it he is ppeety and hits as hard f say. “They all afraid of Walcott. 1 ‘ ~ ‘ emb we were ‘ing to B with o that any extra exertion is likely to deprive him of the services of one of his little old pals. If Jess only had some one around that he didn’t like it him during his climb to the championship and a fortune? As for Chip, he’s too smail, and Jess is ashamed to hit him at all. And Steamboat Bill is a war hero, and Jess can't bear the thought of smearing him inelegantly over the landscape. What Jess needs is some fellow about six and a half t tall, four feet broad, with an eighteen-inch neck and a mean dierenlan, ‘Then he could work. I happened to meet Jack Hempel, Jack looks thin and weary, I rather thought Jack would resent my saying that he is worn to a frassie and nnatfe to give Willard a hatd workout. But he entirely agreed with me “I'm about played out,” said Jack. “That's true. I have been boxing with Jess daily for three months, and I'll be mighty glad when it's over. It'a no joke to stand up to the big fellow. He's wonderful. I know wi is ohm 5 into a mat wouldn't him. Then told if didn’t wign for the match, going to unt him 5 on no matte | ate better not me,” Shar-|care of himself, There aren't many people who know what he has done oe answer to ‘Was, according | to right for this fight, and he doesn’t get credit for it, but we know Je. in the camp, and for my part I don't think Sena feee, Til owt he ene of with | (2.22, in the world to beat biane added wes a impossible to hit him when he doesn't want to be hit. I worked with him j ¥ stenoses Ray Archer, Willard's soa manager, ‘4 to talking about the contest, I asked Uttle we'd have @ line on his condition, As it ia, he cannot punch, now |/i" might be different. But how can he swat one of the boys who were with |™’ Dempsey or any one else has a a Newark over Toronto tn the first game, In the second contest Newark handed the Leafs an 8 to 2 defeat, TENNIS. 3. Howard Voshel was not called upon to undergo his second day of ling on the courts in order to ish out as victor against Alexander of Ter it was possible for Voshell to win a place in the semi-final round by, Jay Anderson, The score’ was . 6—4. ‘The two features of the day on the turf courts of the Lawn nis Club of Mountain Station, N. J. im the annual Middle States cham- Pionship tournament, were the defeat ¥ mares A. felhacnem ng el the New lersey State ‘pion, by Leonard Beekman of Princeton, and the ad- vance of Selichiro Kashio of Japan into the semi-final round. Eight players, including all the fa. vorites, remained in the men's sin- gles of the lawn tennis tournament for the Delaware State championship at the end of play. The survivors are Rodney Beck, Stanley Pearson, Harry ©, Johnson, R. Norris Wiliams, Will- fam T. Tilden, Carl Fischer, Wallace F. Joh and Craig Biddle. Clarence J. Griffin, the Caltfornia tennis star, was defeated by R. V. Thomas in the continuatien of the championship matches on the courts 6, 1919.. . A Ha Crack Boxman for Fifth Time Loses a Game, This Time to Yankees, Which He Should Have Won. By Bozeman Bulger. is not of record just what Scott Perry, he of legal fame, sald to Shortstop Dugan as the Athletics limped home last night, but there was ® glare across the breakfast table this A. M. “Doog, you are a pretty infielder,” we hear Mr, Perry remarked, “with all them one-handed@coops 'n’ everything, Pitcher Scott Perry Of Athletics Deserves rd Luck Meda ——— ain't yout “Well, I reck'n I'm gettin’ by.” is the at Wimbledon. The score was 5—7, 2—6, 6—4, 7—5, T—6._ Graves of the United States beat Smith Bingham of England 6—2, 6—4, 6—1. In the R Stat Willis Davis, Gall! Teall, Engl: 60, . 6—0; W. M. Washburn, Bouth abica tS tooo ee a ica, 5 ; and. Cannon, United tates, ‘best Btates, bea! Henty, England, 16, 6—1, 1 ; C. Gestand, United Biaten’ ad's by ee et Seater SOUR: OBES oleh ek 8 Fe Golf News From Out of Town PHILADELPHIA, Pa, June 26,~The Princeton University team won the championship East course of the Merion Cricket Club with @ score of 1,356 for the 72 holes of medal play. Harvard and Yale ran a close second and the crimson outpointed the Hlis by a single stroke with « total of 1,386 to 1.387 for Yale, Pennsylvania was fourth; Co- lumbla firth, tanced. A. I. Walker Jr. of Colum- bia had the low score for the 72 holes— $30, and T, B. Travis of Yale second, ORLEANS, June 26.—Among the favorites we walified for the championship fight in the Southern Golf Association tournament were: Bobby Jones jr, and Perry Adair of Atlanta, Nelson Whitney and Reuben, Bush of low Orleans, C. Dex ot aa, O. Carlton of Houston and Ellis Knowles Pensacola. Bryan Heard of Dallas, favorite, fell before Whitney of New Qrieans, 3 to 2% 8. of another Bouden there's @ possibility that he can lose hat he can do, He's better than he was in Havana, and he'll be at his best | ‘t will be because Dempsey is the greatest heavyweight the world ever saw, July 4 Don't forget it, He can tire out any man living. Nothing ean |®4 Jess and I wijl be the first to congratulate him, Jess ts a good sports- hurt bim, and he hits harder than any other heavyweight that ever itved, |™#8. He doesn’t think there's man living he can’t beat in the ring, but He knows ten times as much about boxing as he did in Havans and it's|'f 8"y man ever does deat him Jess will be the first to give him the eredit he'll deserve.” while Willams was out-| Ri At the annual business meetin Southern “Golf Assoctation at New One leans last night H. F. @mith, Nashville, we George SE, asp Ge, wore 4 side: an ce = elect Kee Presiden OTTAWA, June 2%6.—Oswald Kirkby of Englewood, N. J., and Gardner White of New York, rpresenting the Bast defeated Charles (Chick) Evans and New Sawyer of Chicago, the Wé stars, in the Red Cross game at the vermead Golf Club course in the morning, winning by two up in an eighteen-hole best ball foursome. A, HP . Secretary of the Metro- politen Golf Association, Inet might oz sued the programme for the twelfth open championship tournament to be held at the North Shore Country Club, July 10 and 11, The competition Is open to all amateurs and professionals ani is mot limited to Loy Ag LI the district. Entries must be made direct to the sec: 45 Nassau Street, retary, at No. city, and the list will close on Wedn day, July 2. this fight. %f Dempsey can beat him After that I met Jack Kearns, Dempsey’s manager 1s fairly buboling with confidence, “Jack will beat Willard as surely as he beat Morris and Fulton and the other big fellows,” he said. “Why, when Willard was to have met Dempsey for the Red Cross in a six-round bout Willard was to have been paid $30,000, and Jack and I decided we didn't want lckel, and told the people #0, Jack was ready to meet him for nothing, and Jeas wouldn't go on with Jack for $30,000, That's what Jack and Jess think of each other. I know how Willard has lived in the past four years di and how Dempsey has lived, and I don't concede Willard a chance,” ‘The heavy rain of the past two days has held sere. John 1] Archer Sure That Willard Will Win, dust as poritive as Hempel. "I saw Willard train : maid, “and’ be never wae as good as etaaat ereuaitiner the arena, but the work was started gaye it will be finished with back the building of Aitken, | finall; modest reply. “They ain't canned me yet” “But, Doogte, old boy, I'll tel the world you are no piker, When you DO make one of them errors you cer- tainly do make it count, don’t you?” And in face of the answering glare: “Well, a timely error is just as good as a timely hit—for the other club.” And so it was, After playing « meet, marvelives fielding game for two ys, Dugan ly made a bad throw of Ri 's bounder, there was @ flurry of fum- bling at first base and Truck Hannah —yes, indeed, the same pig catcher— scored all the way from ad. That being the way the Yanks won the ball game, But as Truck Hannah observes, they count just_as much as those that are copped with home runs—count just as much for everybody but &. Perry. Scott Perry's bad luck 1s now be- coming & matter of current history, according to those whose memory runs back into the dope. If that of yesterday is a sample, this big fellow should certainly be awarded f saw himself shifted into the loss column by two scratches unlucky enough to turn his hair gray overnight. The Philadel- phiang tell me that this is time that it has happened to Perry and as the days go by it gets worse. As we turned into the eighth in- ning the Athletics had a lead of two runs. Among the Yanks, hitting was getting to be a lost art. As a last resort Al Wickland was se! bat for Schnelder, but his be: puny fly to the centre fielder. then got @ hit. Peckinpaugh, our | champion, bumped * diMcult |srounder that Shannon captured be- tween first: and second. it was a great stop, Dut his .throw evidently Pulled Burns off the bag, as the um- |pire called Peck safe, That was the first tough break for Perry. Baker was an easy out, Then Duffy Lewis, syingee t was a Vick left centre, scoring both runners and tying the score. You have already heard what happened in the ninth. Scott Perry |s the athlete the pos- sesion of whom caused the big row between the American and National Leagues and finally resulted, directly or indirectly, in Governor Tener with- rawing from the Presidency of the old league. Perry was with the Bos- a and waiting large time margin and Builder |* ton Braves, but couldn't ‘a chance ru work and sralkea out By Edgren Connie Mack brought him up from Atlanta. Even then the Boston Braves did not claim a right to his service, But when Perry began to show something they did. The Na- tional Commission ruled in favor of and Connie Mack went to the regular “courts. As a result he ac- quired title to 8S. Perry and to the everlasting enmity of the National League. In the mean time Scott Perry is pitching good baseball and having hard juck. A peculiar situation arose tn the eighth inning yesterday ‘when Baker was at bat that the fans could not understand. Baker hit a hard grounder over second, but was ordered to return to the plate and hit the ball again. The answer was that Umpire Bill Dineen had turned to say something to the players on the Ath- letic bench and did not see the pla; ‘This was very much like the ti when Hai McCormick hit « single in the ninth inning and won a game for the its, only to be called back and forced to bat over because Um- pire Bill Kiem was not looking. Luck- ily, in the case of Bak: it made no difference. Pete Schneider had his first chance of the season against the Athletics, and despite the three runs made against him early in the game pitched good baseball. The Athletics didn’t get a hit off him after the fourth inning, He wag taken out to let Wickland bat for him and Russell, consequently its credit for game. Schneider's only fault was tendency toward uni ness. He got in geveral holes by giving free but always managed to extri- cate himself. Schneider pitched his last game against Brooklyn in the spring practice series. He got cold in his arm and had not Geen able to appear until yesterday. With Schneider and Shore both tn shape again, the Yanks have a rather formidable staff of pitchers for their coming campaign in the West. The Yanks ¢ secured two new players, They are Johnny Jones, an infielder and Fred Hoffman, a catch- er. Both of these young men have just been released from service in the navy and will report within the next day or two. We don't know anything about their ball playing ability, but they must have been good sailors or Mr, Daniels would not have kept them so lone. 4,000 CAMP UPTON BOYS ENJOY BIG BOXING SHOW. |: Brig. Gen. Nicholson and his entire staff, and four thousand others sta- tioned at Camp Upton, enjoyed a box- ing carnival last night in the K. of C, building. ,A dozen four-round bouts and @ wrestling match made up the programme, The show was staged by the flying squadron of boxers organ- jaed by the Knights. The trip to the camp was made in three of the autos of the “Great White Fleet," which is used to convey wounded soldiers to various points of interest throughout city, The men are workin; TBherary calling for five shows a week. Jack uliffe, the undefeated 1i; ‘welght champion and one of r ‘eek. ht ORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK CADDEDFOR PROS BOUTS NOW 1S CHAN OF ID GOLFERS Junior Metropolitan Winnes Harmon Will Try for Na- , tional Title Next. | By William Abbott. HE Junior Metropolitan title a@ ~ Siwanoy went to Pete Harmon, & tall, wiry, nineteen-year-old Youth. Winning the “kid” cham- plonship is merely-a start for this lad who caddied fer several star profes- sionals to better learn the game. He intends entering the national cham- pionship at Pittsburgh in August and match his strokes with the greatest club swingers in the land. That's the spirit of Pete Harmon, who Promises goon to make things very uncomfortable for Evans, Oulmet aad other big leaguers in golf. t The new junior champion when « mere shaver took to golf like ducks to water. He lived near the Hudson River club and became very nmch Attached to Willie MacFa: 7 club's professional, The ind, cones te master the inside tricks of the gam Ay try conelea for MacFarlan is important matches, and a brother several venta older Bas gan to make MacFarland, their tutor, © ag! to pull ahead. ‘ete preferred to take tht and the Junior Metropolitan at Bre Wwanoy was his first tournament, Then he captured the whole works, his lanky youth who spent much of his time on the public links at Van » Cortlandt Park, He started strong by winning the qualifying medal with 78. His succeeding match rounds were all decided by wide margins, so marked was his superiority over the other young stars, Harmon met George Bothann in the final round yesterday and came through with a 4 and 3 victory. Young Pete went so fast that he came to the turn in thirty-eight strokes and a lead of five holes, There were few miscues on this trip, a sliced drive to a road on the fourth being the worst. Harmon made this good on the 153-yard sixth, where he put his tee shot nicely on and ram down @ 2%-foot putt for a fine %& which was some golf. Bomann, try- ing desperately, picked up two holes coming in, but the smooth playing victor was never in serious dangers Harmon, asked what was his av- ‘age 6 driving, answered ‘About 250 yarda.’ Zowie! That's an average Harry Vardon and other noted champions would like to possess, but this young Harmon clouts the ball with aspow- erful kick. And Pete's other shots are about on @ par with his driving, They're getting younger all the time. Sharing individual honors with Pete Harmon was Charlie Summers, a stocky Mttle chap of thirteen years. This midget, not much taller than the driver he swung, actually got by the first match play round, only to lose on the next round to J. J. Trippe of Apawamis, the largest boy in the | Party. Summers, despite his extreme youth, knew what his clubs were for and how to play them. He dod; troublesome bunkers in a way that many Siwanoy members could imi tate. Trippe's greater distance, how~ ever, was too much for the “baby”? of the tournament, though Summers stuck to the job like a little Trojan. After losing 4 and 3 Summers got a beauty second shot on the sixteenth and the youngster couldn't refraim from exclainfing: “Gee! I get the shots when ¥ don't need them.” ‘The Junior Championship, open to boys nineteen and under, wi time- ly reminder how golf is developing the youth of the country into the kni of wielding clubs, The flock ‘of lads who played at Slwanoy are the-coming champions. Their start is just as promising as that made by the present top notchers. Members of the Knollwood Country Club began the celebration of the twen= ty-fifth anniyersary of the founding of the club with a golf medal play handl= cap for women, The festivities will con= tinue for the rest of the week, winding up Sunday, when there will be more If, Mr, George T. Wilson, Vice Presi- Sent of the Equitable Lite Assurance Society, who is the president of the club, was the master of ceremonies, an. Kept things humming, prise was Mrs. 3 who went aroun e el 115, She had a handicap guve her a net 95. ees There are about 100 couples entered in the father and son tournament which takes place at The Sleepy Hollow Coun- try Club on Monday. A large number of well known men, with thelr sons, are entered, including Justice Pitney of ¢j the United ‘States Supreme Court; Dar- | win P. Kingsley and others. A DARTMOUTH NINE ELECTS MERRITT 1920 CAPTAIN. HANOVER, N,, H., June 26.—Melville / P, Merritt, twenty, of Middleton, Mass, || was chosen captain of Dartmouth’s > Daseball team at a meeting of the let- ter men, Merritt played left Meld 4 ing the greater part of last season, b sides twirling in several contests, {s looked upon as one of the best utility men who ever wore the Green, and (s expected to fill in one of the vacancies \4 in the infield, left {orough graduation, ring. Merritt is al: @ strong | contender for centre on the varaity eleven next fall, 4 of 20, which vt next RACING AQUEDUCT] TOMORROW |" RACELAND HANDICAP ARTFUL HANDICAP AND 4 OTHER HIGH CLASS CONTESTS FIRST RACE AT 2.30 P, M, SPECIAL RACK TRAINS mien asd Bt and tin Look- Flatbuah Av, t 12-30, and at frequ P.M. \