The evening world. Newspaper, July 14, 1919, Page 10

iN NEW YORK IAKOGPSYS.” By’ Thornton Fisher TIRING ALREADY OF: 4 HEATH FE Champion Says He'd Rathlér Fight Before Leaving for®** Los Angeles. nme * CHICAGO, July. 14.—Jack Dempeaye heavyweight champlon, left for Los An- Seles thst night after spending a day-te Chicago and announcing that this olty would be made his headquarters the Western trip. His manager, J Kearns,’ occupied virtually all’day ing with promoters and agents of trical and circus concerns, anxious to have Dempaey sign contracts for tons. But Dempsey said theatri | was tiresomerana he trould-muelt to As to meeting Georges champion, or ING P « - Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Wrening World). na |BEST SPORT ” *- - - sd gy “Combing the Country” for Dempsey Opponents Popular Pastime of Fight Managers Now. "Row Yooh rena’ Wena) HB old time custom in sporting circles of “combing the coun- try” in search of a man to beat the now champiin has been revived since Jack Dempsey’s sensational de- feat of Jess Willard, Wily managers @te on the lookout everywhere for men with physical requirements, and itl & year prospective title holders BIRD Bumes MY Gare In MOAIR- BUT. HE CLUB LADIES GET & Few. THRILLS out” we MISIT EANIWASY A. B. F. Boxer Seeks a Bout With *r er Jack Johnson knocked out Jim with: Ukely to be as numerous as the b Hopes who sprang up all over ries at Reno. Billy Roche, the feree, already has a man in view » with @ little more experience, may eventually develop into a worthy rant for titular honors. He is iy gene Tuney, a Brooklyn boy, be iP ing to the heavyweight cham; ih abroad, aooreng this lad Tuney has ali the ear- of @ come: he could beat Geo: ver, has more sense 6 would have an: , but says he is think heavyweight prospect he has Sn ts a tony tse in fact Roche be- rges Carpen. , the French champion, right now, howe than show best HROUGHOUT the West candi- Chicago Lichtenstein Burke is is ble to |-You-8o detract ons more correctly le calls our at- ent he made a battle, which tie the Dig, txt Delly 5 iy own with @ ‘The secret of the fighter i, Wil makes condl- ttle. is mind, Youth EOE ie worst of it by the referee, Others thought Moore was entitled to the ct, Ano them Jem Driscoll, seconded ide. There is con- able interest in the fight on the other side as well as here, ACK WELSH, who not so long ago ‘was connected with the Cohan & Harris theatrical productions, is going to take a shot at the racing game. Jack, or perhaps we should ay his wife, has bought from H. B. Dalley of Washington the good three- year-old War Spirit for $3,500, The horse. will run in the name of Beatrice ‘Whiteford and very likely will carry the commission’ of the theatrical dis- trict whenever he starts in his new colors. The Frivolity Stakes To-Day’s Empire Feature HE Frivolity Stakes, valued at. $2,000, and with six speed de- mons entered, is to furnish the high spot in the card at Empire City to-day. Luke's Pet, carrying 112 Pounds, is the burdened one. Orm- urday, only to go the selling route a few moments later, is to start, os well as Shoal, Améfrican Boy, Mo- many, Germa and Kewer. The Seld must travel one mile and seveaty yards before a winning snout pops under the wire. ‘The fifth, at a mile and one six- teenth, for three year olds is going to be a jolly old mix-up if all start. No way, to get them off winging unless the good Squire Butler widens the track @ little, as! twenty-four pranc- ing thoroughbreds are down for the dash, Paddy Dear is assigned to top weight, sarrying 117 pounds, Poacher comes next with 113 on his back. ‘The sixth should furnish the pret- West race of the day. Styled the Bryn Mawr, it is over the mile route, with Balustrade, Phantom Maid, Daydue God. Prackess Lace furnishing the Odd thing about Empire City is that. ine seems ‘to want to start horse over the bandbox track. Big fields always prevall at Mr, Butler's pet course and just when one expects a few scratches not a man-jack of them draws the biue pencil through his horse's name. Rough riding is going to be one of the outdoor sports among the jockeys unless the stewards get on the job im a jump. There was enough bump- ing, intentional, mind you, in Satur- day's dashes to have caused several fatalities, and unless these unadver- Used 101 Ranch tactics bobbed right now, some good boy is hot com- ing home in the saddle. This is especially true of several promising youngsters, who are not physically able to ride off their tormentors, If the buckeroos are not bridied now, re ane for spills and almost certain jeaths. it up on this track. No matter what his past performances for the sea- son are, you can count on the black bird towroping @ field or two on this path. And how he loves to take a bust at that barrier! What o pity that all thoroughbreds cant learn, as old Hank seoms to have gleaned, that the STANT is half the race won. Cunning old codger, Hank O'Day. Doesn't seem that Vince Powers five-day suspension—ON THE FLAT NATIONAL LEAGUE. Ciwe, ; GAMES YESTERDAY. flew York, 8; Pittsburgh, 2, Brockiya, 3; St. Leyla, GAMES TO-DAY, at New York, EMPIRE SELECTIONS. a Race— Afternoon, Héad eee Habart, Adele, First Over Hi ourth “Race—Germa, Like. Pet, ‘ ith Race — Mountain Rose 24, - ‘Race—Balustr D ‘Phantom Maid. a eee is going to wreck his whole racing it Powers could ding on his Loft is authority for the fiat the deal” between a1 D. (Curity) Brows, for ark race ‘at Ha- ood and all. I ‘about New York . Loft and his as- tion drop is t! fiavana. proposal fone doo ts that Brown Wiahed "te in- clude in'the transfer men ations remtviog to, bis, certain’ Aub house and betting ring concessions. the reaso1 sociates have Jack Britton, the welterweight cham- pion, and Ted “Kid” Lewjs, the former holder of the.title, are going to fight again, They have been signed up by John Jennings, manager of the Armory A. A. of Jersey City, to meet in the main bout of eight rounds at an open air boxing show on Monday evening, July 28, According ‘to the articles, Charley Harvey, manager of Lewis, is to take 66 per cent, of the gross receipts, and be is to guarantee Britton $2,600, with an op- Funny how old Hank O'Day whoops | “ Or in Pittston , | Jott Smith at Kaume City money taken in at the show amounted to $3,600, which 1s good for that chy. the same as Loughlio got, THE OAY THE AEROPLANE LAMOED ON THE couRSE AND semi neypene GUMMED THE WoRK Ss. EVENING WORLD’S OWN SPORT HISTORY. What Happens Every Day ALL The Yankees seem to have hit the toboggan at last. After nearly two months at or near the top they have begun to slide, and it will need some great effort to take the t back to New York even in third place. They logt by a score of 6 to 4, the Tigers beating them out in a thrilling nine inning finish, Worst of all for the visitors, it was their big pitching ace, Bob Shawkey, who came to grief, ‘The Robins defeated the Carii- nals by a score of 3 to 1. Leon Ca- dore had a refining influence on the wild Westerners, They fourid it in- advisable to pull anything crude with Leon.on guard and didn’t raise |! {8° Much as a good honest argument. ‘Their ponderous battfng melted away to six hits, two of which were com- piled in the fourth inning for the only run gracing their record. Cleveland defeated Washington by @ score of 6 to 4. The Indians ac- quired an casy lead off Craft, but Gill held them in check while Wash- ington tied the score. A triple steal was pulled with two out in the gf? eighth by Cleveland on which Wambsgess tallied the winning run. The Browns won both games of a tie IH a4 ii fe ERE f i z F F ! | § ; 8 i i i i | iF : i z e i lj i | i if ts} eer | Hd > FEFE it I : i He & F "| when bo mosis Jako Bohiffer, known es “the In. Hildie Mead, marmgar at Joe Loush, the inter. panonad eoneation, is in rmmmkx of bantamrmotsiit, |. [an offer from Ieaunter Cochrane of the. National Downey also received Loudon, for Lymeh to meot the . of Tow. Peto Her | junior four Varu «|golt champion, - | Hn! -jat the thirty-seoond hole. *.Jon the mii double-header from the Athletics by scores of 4 to. 3 and 5 to, 4. Sothoron had the better of ney in @ pitch- er’s duel in the first. In the second the Browns won the game in th eleventh inning after the visitors had tietl the score at 4-all. Parry opposed Koob at the start. Koob was later replaced by Shocker when Phila- delphia started hitting -him. The White §ox defeated Boston 14 to 9 in an excitin, lugging match, Faber pitched in fine form until the Chicagoans had a ten run lead, when he eased up. TENNIS. - 2) plas annual aay. potedy® yore’ nis Jam pios ips which opens a ‘William T. Tilden jr, Phila- deipbia, national champion, and Wil- iam +M. Johnston, San Francisco, former champion, the former fresh from his victory in the sectional championship at Cincinnati, won easily in the eatly rounds. 8, H. Voshell of Brooklyn, metropolitan champion, defeated Evan Rees of Dal- jas, Tex., one of the best players in the Southwest. Francis T, Hunter, the former captain of the Cornell team, won the. Pastern New* York State lawh tennis spamplonship “by defeating Harol Throgkmorton in the final _of the ourhament at the Mount Pleasant “Club at Pleasantville, N. Y. by @ |score of 2—6, 6—4, 7—6, 6—4. Later |in the day the former Cornell captain won another Eastern New York Stato title. “ Paired with A. J.. Ostendorf, Hunter defeated Alexander ler and Leon Croley in the final match of the doubles by @ score of 6—1, 4—6, 6—3, GOLF. ; Arnaud Massy, former French won the interallied golf championship on the La Boulle 8, Paris, by defeating M. Deuse n= jner ed a steady and consistent game throughout the morning and afternoon, taking 131 strokes for the thirty-two holes. 4 R. C. Kennedy defeated C. H. Conk- lin in the play-off of the golf match for the President's Cup over the links of the Hackensack Country Club, The scores were: Kennedy, 83—13—70, and Conklin, 92—12—80, MISCELLANEOUS, Fifteen thousand bicycle fans packed the Velodrome in Newark and saw Arthur Spencer and Frank Kramer finish in a tle for first place lin a four-cornered match race, in which Alfred Goullet and Raymond) Baton tied for third honors, ‘This tle resulted after four heats had been run and the final summing: ap was Kramer and Spencer, 23 points each; Eaton and Goullet, 13 points each. J. A. lL. Barrington won two bine *| ribbons in the first Mght harness rac- ]ing matinee of the midsummer mee! ing on the Harlem, Speedway. He held the reins on Kenwood, a gray gelding, in the 1.16 class trot, and Little Kate, @ bay mare, in the 1.10 class brush. Frank Conway, the new sprinting sensation of the local district, came through with spectacular perform- ances in winning two events from weratch in the monthly members’ games of the Morningside Athletic Club at Macomb's Dam Park. Con- way sped over the 100-yard distance in 108-5 seconds, while he was Clocked in 884-5 seconds in winning the $00-yard run. Morris Pels turned the tables on alter Braunstein in capturing the 00-yard special run &t the members’ games of the Glencoe Athletic Club, held in the City College stadium. Seven faced the starter, but Pels and Braunstein were speeding out in front after the starting gun. Pels .| stole a lead on his rival, taking the . which advantage Braun- was able to make up. Smoothly, gracefully and with ma- chine-like ‘precision two Bayonne Boat Club crews swept to decisive victories in the midsummer regatta of the New York Rowing Association sweepstake course of the Harlem River. The Jersey oarsmen showed at gheir best in the senior four barge @vent, in which they de- feated the Woodcliffe crew. In the 6 race, Bayonne de- fs t Club, hed ielahtirss iadihe . \ sharp tu stein ne 4 Mate after lead- and a Giants Thanks to Benton, . Have Edge on Pirates Up to the Sabbath Battle, Which Locals Won, Rival Clubs Were Tied at Three Gantes Apiece. By Bozeman Bulger. FTER looking this Pittsburgn Club squarely in the eye and giving their record the once over there is no particular reason for feeling of Aisgrace at having our Giants Knocked out of dst ‘place by their actions on Friday. And, mind you, this is said while still in the glow of that trimming the Giants gave thein on the Sabbath, Do you know that it took that Sun- day victory to break the season's tie between the Giants and Pirates? In jother words, gid it ever occur to you that up until yesterday the Giants and Pirates had met in six games this season and that each club had won three? bic And, still, we refer to the Pitts- burghers as a grazing ground on wh.ch 60 fatten averages and club standing. * Until Rube Benton gave them a larruping before the biggest Sunday crowd of the season the only other Giant pitchers who had beaten the Pirates were Causey and Ba.-nes. Benton beat them once before, aud, of course, ew how, but those four games are all] that New York hag won. On the other hand, Adams, Hamfiton and Cooper have each taken the Giants on their knee and taught them their placey ‘This afternoon, it is understood, Mr. Bezdek may enter against our slipping champs one Mr. Ponder. Ponder shut the Giants out two years ago, allowing them but two hits. He rested on that performance, however, and joined the He has been a flyer of note over in France and has Just dropped his khaki to rejoin the Pirates, Being somewhat of a wag, as those things go, Mr. Ponder says any time hereafter that a ball club puts him up in the air he'll know what to do. Right! The Giants nibbled at Hamilton some time before they got in a weav- ing way, and when they did—well, there was many a gli®nce toward the scoreboard to see if the Reds were playing, Unfortunately they were not, and we only gained .a couple of inches, ‘The thing started when Fletcher got @ single dnd Baird walked, Benny Kauff advanced them with an infield out, but everybody else started “bustin’ the old apple.” Heiniezim, Chase and Gonzales each flicked out singles, while Burns and Young lammed ‘er for two sacks each. Result: Six runs, five hits and a ball game. nm That rally waq not without its side attractions, In a heated argument on the Giant bench, in which Adam's apples » fluttered violently, — Art Fletcher and Rube Benton squared off for a very hectic scrap. Unfortu- nately, or fortunately, the other ball- players jumped in and separated the belligerents before they had done more than to shove each other around a bit. It must have been a highly ‘barbed verbal engagement for either of those lads to do a thing like that, Neither Benton nor Fletcher is, ordinarily, easy to anger. This is the first time in many years that’ two of the same team have a, were both mig sorry about it after the game, crowd did not appreciate the o! gp because, despite every effort at rubbering, they could not get a peek inside the dugout, The Piratey have cwo other addi- tions to thi fighting ranks from overseas, fooks Warner, the @- fielder, and Harold Carlson—there's &@ good name for the paragraphers and ‘the pitcher, are back with ane club after quite an exciting Dp . trty road, 7% ‘ (Pltcod Coseees jan, all worked up joment whén he announced that ik Mjl- ler had never won a game on Sunday in his, life. But he ruined it by add- ing, Neither rae es one, be never has played on the Satbath.” Poll Perritt is rather diconsolate. His arm, he says, is simply in a luvafix, ‘Ive done everything that I knowed how,” he said, as we walked home together, don’t neck is due to looking up to see when Cincinnati was to take that poss dive that’s been promised #0 long. The trouble with that annua’ “blow” of the Reds is that Cincinnati, under Pat Moran, has got a better ball club than the public had figured, They are stronger in pitchers, right now, than either the Giants or Robins. Larry Doyle thinks his right pedal will be in shape to get back in the game to-day or While Baird has been 4 eon work the last fow days old wallop Is missed: ° ° Mathias Wins | Long Distance Yacht Race PUTAN-BAY, O, July 14~The new Class R yacht, skippered by Carl Mathias of Toledo.and owned by Commodore Emil G. Schmidt of Des Maines, Ja., was winner in her class in the long-distance event, which started from Bob:Lo Island, Detrott River, to Put-in-Bay at 5 o'clock yesterday morning in connection with the Interlake Yachting Association regatta here, Sixteen boats, repre- senting several classes, contested, St. Elmo of the Edison Boat Club, won in the 21-foot class; June, of the Detroit Boat Club in the. class for yawls and in the catboat class, No. 7, of the Detroit Yacht Club was the winner. One hundred sail and power yachts are here to participate in the Victory regatta, A squadron gail and review of all yachts was on this afternoon's pro- gramme. Bat es N. E. League @ Four-Club Circuit Now. LOWELL, Mass., July 14.—A four club clreuit has been arranged to re- place the six-club circuit of the New| England League, which closed its sea- son Saturday because of the withdrawal of Lowell, Lawrence and Lewiston. The Lowell team will be transferred to Lew- iaton, remaining under control of An- pa Dempsey. Bob Martin, heasy2? to obtain a match hese, in saya, he will return to Armoties: baad attempt to meet Jack Dempsey. Willard Now at His Home in Law- rence, a LAWRENCE, Kan, July 14—Jems, Willard and hie wife slipped quietly into Lawrence last nii %! flagen' and Partner Win Exhi- bition Match at Garden City From Mike Brady and Tom McNamara. ~ At the Cherry Valley Country Clum, Garden City, Walter Hagen, national and metropolitan open champion, and which no title taches. The event in queation Buckwood Shield at Shawnee try Club, and, *accordt to litan open, To-day the stars be practismg at Shawnee and morrow the tournament will begin earnest. 'd ‘Two important amateur events on the calendar, the Westc! Association, Apawamis is the that has been selected this year °) Kirkby of En, honors in the latter event. ifying round for the phy competition, an fixture ‘the Flushing Count was played. J. B. DeWolf the low card—8. Joe Lynch to Umpire Game. Joe Lynch, the star bantamweight the west side, will umpire,the big bi ib va. Baseball Vion ‘will be the added attmetion the first annual plenic of the Murphy-Mike Wagner-Joe elation at Manhattan Casino op Mead and Silvey Burns. pesca ta NEW INTERNATIONAL LEAG men Yesterday. Jersey City, 2 (first game), Buffalo, 6; Jersey City, 2G Balilmore, RACING. Empire City Track (YONKERS & MT. VERNON) TOMORROW THE $2,000 TARRYTOWN ‘TUCKAHOE HANDICAP THE PUTNAM PURSE And 3 Other Attractive Contests FIRST RACE AT 2.30 P, M, Special Hace Train le Mariem Division veri Oth Ave, Et ‘ence by trolley from ‘Woods