The evening world. Newspaper, August 1, 1919, Page 10

7 BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK| THEY’RE OFF TO-DAY AT SARATOGA . . By Thornton Fisher = Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publish! ng Co, (The New York Evening* World.) On ated: gyi } : Holes, an Original Per- former in Golf. By William Abbott. FTER setting a new world’s record of 278 strokes for ‘ = seventy-two holes in Canada . / ‘ i k 4 “ ‘ this week, Douglas Edgar, an Eng- - eee * iN: lish professional from the Druid . , . Hills Club, Atlanta, can laugh Purchase Favorite in Feature raucously at his brother professlon- Race at Opening of Meeting als who were inclined to take him aa at of ‘ me 4 & false alarm at the national open at Spa To-Day. : ; championship at Brae Burn in June, esterase Edgar, @ newcomer to American golf, __ PROBABLE STARTERS TO-DAY Y \ @ropped into Boston several days é IN THE SARATOGA HANDICAP, GA ; THANKK GOOONE: WSSHIE1 ANT A before the big tournament. Asked how he defeated Harry Vardon the. last time the French championship was held, Edgar promptly began tell- ing about peculiarities of his own. game. He was so sincere about the efficiency of his particular brand of club swinging that many, rival pro-;” fessionals wanted to wager anything, from a postage stamp to Bunker Hil | Monument that he wouldn't Snish with the leaders at Brae Burn. This dope was right, as Edgar never flashed in the national cham- pionship, but the English star proved jhe had the shots this week when he completed his record-breaking feat in Canada. Edgar explained to the writer at Boston that he was not a natural golfer, that only long praétice and a Painstaking ‘system of concentration Bax developed hfs game, “I study every ‘| ‘e shot and know just where I'm going . |to place the ball,” said Edgar, “and Baseball Revolution | ie aa ac oa gives wonderful direction to all my Threatened Because of q Lie a," Mi. 4 Edgar is thirty-two years old. He bas only been in this country @ few months, locating at the Druid Hille Suspension of Carl Mays Gin ai ‘iets Jesse Sweetger, the seventeen-yenm —_—e! old Ardsisy star who is one of -the = Le. EVENING WORLD'S OWN-SPORT HISTORY. acts: ach tut‘trie Vat into acti w President Ban Johnson Riles} suon ie nad wo weeks in which| won Cup matches at Siwanoy. This. wil Yank Owners by Punishing |3i...o eae” Beatty Yank Owners by Punishing 2a yng ac What Happens Every Day Be © sarmaing np stunt foe the voutas raed big tel ty Myre ye Pa otic ter ere ng BASEBALL. for the national amateur title at Oak- Whom They've Just Paid a that have happened had Mays SEBAL ment by winning their fifth round mont. ve been ‘sold to Cleveland of another club? In all fairness and The Giants are on their way to|matches, Byford defeated —Fred| Sweetser is one of the most remark~ Cincinnati and the preliminary try- | J°sti#s, St. Louis, 78, 36, 6—4. able of a dig crop of young stars that without outs for the bottle-throwing cham-| MISCELLANEOUS. tA gg Mere RS Bo plonship of the United States will] The Colgate University Athletic AS-| 7 1hi4" vith the best-played rounds open at Redland Field to-day. It is made anywhere for some time. expected that enough amateurs will be eliminated in ‘the games to-day |1919, as follo Susquehanna at! Entries close to-morrow with e and to-morrow ¢o that the finals on| Hamilton, Oot. 4; Brown at Hamil-|ter Ri Hollander ‘the Bhetnoy hak Sunday will bring out those old stag-| ton, Oct. 11; Cornell at Ithaca, Oct.| tournament that starts next Wedness ers who never miss an umpire at less|18; Princeton at Princeton, Oct. 25;/day at Siwanoy. The s! nd class than forty yards, and who can maim| Dartmouth “at Hanover, Nov. 1;/of the field that will str to win a ball players for at least a week or| Rochester at Hamilton, Nov. 8, and log on. the magnificent trophy donated ten days at half that distance. The | Syracuse at Syracuse, Nov.’ 5. by Rodman Wanamaker is rarely seen Giants beat the Pirates in the final. ‘Worcester will in its “prestige | outside a national championship, Ev. ; | rhe .,nineteen-year-old pitcher, /as a rowing city to-day when the|#ns. Ouimet, Travers, Kirkby, Mar-, pitching his firs! me credit’ for r Na tal RELEEA ? i I 4 : y Eig tidi 3 i I mii ond quest! an answer in “a friendly ar the Colonel takes care to add “but not to sacrifice any of our legal righ A reply from Mr, Johnson is await- ed with interest, | If anybody not tat that last tuasi Y with the ite Sox thinks hag seen the worst base- | if i i if i i § fr 3 : fl | E é i H a ef zt i Hi g Fi 8 its BE j 4 i g é { iF races of the forty-fifth re-|ston, White, Sweetser, Anderson, #5 5 : ; 3 Hel for the Sox, gots ‘ the National Aspociatio: practically all the top-notch amateurs, = ._ Detrglt “BY two runs ‘to| Kmatear Osremen will be rowed. on | Will compete. 4 Pere eich eee ton tose: Tork run Srer aus tae ol me Lake Quinsigamond, Se * my any ow ‘orl ol Ri ib and clean up a fortune. But he twelfth one ruling by ire | Fhe race meeting at. Monroe has} The Glen Ridge Club expects soon wont, No, gentlemen, that moss up wine Johnson, the colored heavy- a @ Polo Grounds yes' lay was | weight, is to engage ‘@ promise to Harry Fraxee by tho paquestionably the musslost bit, of] tn sfaksoo tefore oy pradbgathy 3 f jeball ever seen. w 6 nal Yanks, e in.| 83¢, Tt really waan't baseball. The Spain. He is to fight Tom Cowler, the om Carl Mays ts guspended Waite Sox ast, took © $00 bola, English heavyweight, in a twenty- efinitely.” 6 wherever they want- ‘And that ts all that the American|ed to and then. when they couldn't pero rae Pyle eggnd had sald directly up #9 that they ran the bases as they owler, Fe- League potentate leased, It was awful. The Yanks | Celved the transportation for Cowler to o late hour last night. In the) fol) al) ‘apart and played as stupidly | to-day from the promoters of the meantioe the ‘Colonels pie, waxing fight and Cowler will start for the Harry Fraszeé “ ed battleground on Sunday, The pro- red in the face. Unless a better ahaa te eek Geioe ee moter, in a letter to Lippe, declares ware oan ge onngege bid made fo wrong. Then when | tat the bout will draw between there's ‘base- ; ° $25,000 and $30, th ee cay ta = can} tne got out, others did likewise. 000, as they want to Tt is well that the boys have that|s#ee a good big tell against only go #0 far with these good natured| one out of thelr system, ned Ackue Sg fellows—and there is mot a fan in |, Joe Jackson was distinguished by New York unwilling to turn Dolshe-| yo.) Surposely walked three times In viki on a set signdl, They're hot 19 succession when runners were on sec- ond and third. On his fourth time up In advance of further information fran, beens were empty and Pitcher : lwood, vice Shore, took a chance. the indications are that Ban Jobnson | > ptly pasted the pill against brand, who said that Ainamith in. S¢0®, brought to @ clone. The horses! to aturt fen Weil cock tency Gabe, tengered | with McNally between third) big meeting for purses of $3,000 each |Glen Ridge, like other clubs, held up The Reds shit out Boston twice| Wn! be,0pan Aus,'6 and continue the | improvenienia, during tne od at ies Hane, Closing games of thelr seriés by| “me Grand Circuit races at Colum- |links in tiptop shape. . bus, ©., were postponed because of Dhak pur re uaue Pitched well, and) rain, Yesterday's card will be raced Victor Ritchie Is Vie TENN. to-day and y's races will be ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., is, ‘ moved up to to-morrow, an open} At the Atlantic City Sporting C! William M, Johnston, the California | date. Inst night Victor Ritchie, the star, who recently won the nationai| The defeat of A. L. Walker’ jr. of| Harlem bantamweight, decisively out. clay court crown, defeated Richard|the Richmond County Club, intercol-} pointed Max Williamson, Philadelphia's Norris Williams 34 in the challenge |legiate golf champion, by William W. | sensation in that cl In, the other, “Vi match for the historic Longwood Sin-|Patten of the Mohawk Golf Club, |eight-round bout Corona Kid of New gles Cup. Johnston stood as de-| Schenectady, N. Y., 6 up,and 4 to| York outslugged Johnnie Maloney, for~ fender on the turf of the Longwood| play, was the feature in the second | mer amateur champion of this country. Cricket Club, scoring a remarkably |round of match play for the Isham brilliant three-set victory against his|Cup at the Ekwanock Country Club. rival by scores of 6—3, 6—3, 6—4. It|Patten played remarka teady y. marked the second leg on the trophy| golf, his medal score for the first for hid young plays rom the Pacific 4. been com- Leonard Beekman scored @ sensa-| pleted for the much discusse tlonal reversal in the gemi-final|bame at Meadowbrook “Hunt round of the cup singles on the courts|Club to-morrow, the winners of of the Sea Bright Lawn Tennis and|which will come in for much con- ‘oe prom: Tenet club at Sea Bright. N. J. | sideration im the selection of the team is sore, whether at Harry Frazee OF) the right field fence for three x eee a Pete Te antes con. |to bé sent to England ‘next spring to he aa of the Yeahs 0,0 oot | Cy en eS bal hi international $4, go, gm=k Wil | play r the tnearnational cup, C: know. fonret” HA ata ue Peni : jam T. Tilden 24 defeated Walter| fitchcock jr. and Devereaus Mil. are made; the goat. Tt would have been better at that, ; ee og te em rinal| burn will ine up for the Meadow- it that Ban’ action is merely an ©X- | for, & moment pages Zoee singled Y meet Beekman to-day ‘tor the cup. beige and sg gay rd four, who Frazee and another is that he wan! won the rn tens pion- ° Yanks had just one chasoe. 3 | E- E. W. Hopping, to be consulted about the deal. But |nngy tied the score in the first inning eee enact ea een’ | Stevenson and J. Cheever Cowdin. Md and then took a nose dive to the bot~ . ite vis, St. Paul, 4—6, 6—0, 6—! Playing for Consolation Cups pre- tom, The two runs were made when Miss Gould also holds the 1919 Clay| sented by W. Strother Jones in 1s | Peckinpaugh got on with a single and ; | Courts and Central States Champion- | Rumson Country Club polo tourna- Baker slammed the ball in the ht ship. Willis BE. Davis, San Francisco, ! ment, the Whippany River polo team field stand for a home run. It proved and Heath Byford, Chicago, entered defeated the Rumson Robins by the | our, yes v Maaeeai get a man to the semi-final round of the tourna- score of 10% to 6% goals. second er 4 Hl 3 ? ane i t af] Q iL iy lf alti, Ne E H sf i i i i H i be fi f, | ls i ul a e tf E Ht FE SREET ite payltt opt, il 5 erat i i "1 : i E ith E: i i ij i i Re Ns yi EF li ke trom come the Detrott Tigers and D i reg rae ft i sart the Hatae Snedee Valen tate [THe eee . STANDING oF )|D¢troit Leader to punish him again and has ordered THE CLUBS Is Suspended aa ‘will face the barrier in the] indefinite suspension. If he had de- mie event, while two dozen juveniles| sired to do that, or thought it iets el ‘will atart im tho final race cf the day, | Just, why did he not issue the onder ROWING RACES ATTRACT . BOSTON, Aug. 1.—Notice of his in- ; see 3. et y NATIONAL LEAGUE. definite ens eid ing for Mays? TOW E R. suspension was received by Fort Hancock Boys Enjoy Bouts, | "fi, "S’ statement sent out trom Chi- They started a horse named Spin- MANY FANS TO WORCESTE Ores. | cae ;|Manager Hugh Jennings of the Do- ' The Three Dubato Brothers, with cago President Johnson, professes as-| away in the last race at the Empire ‘wcaceetan, UGG Tay ’ troit Americans before the Tigers left ton De ae any, clu newotlating /city track yesterday and many a ineae, aocerated Ts, Rat icanenes | +4 this city for New York last night. ‘staged at Fort Hancock by the|@Walting punishment or while this|man in the club house and stands lined the mile and one-quarter course at ee This action by President Johnson of Knights of Columbus last night. Those grt vee sgusee = (aenes, believed that through this gray colt Lake Quinsigamond to-day | when the| GAMES YESTERDAY. the American League was a result of in amateu! ramen of erkea tes| the! a an argum ; baste op water > Catch Append poppycock. President Johnson knew | "® would spin away-on the green = sates ky Fag pear peel probed ty ays og Re ay ent between Jennings and -colored 4 Umpire Moriarty during the double- very well that the Yanks and other|magic carpet in @ rose-c prog: Rep J0 the Serer 8th Modus € bates. ¢ ed ae, y ie n gomery vs. Ray Smith, Patsy Finnegan | clubs, including Cleveland, were ne-|ress to Saratoga Springs, eS naan the onesie eal'te Philadelphia, 11; St. Levis, 4 | header here Wednesday, > -¥a. Willie Quinn, Young Richie ve, Mike| gotiating for -Ma: ten days. aro. . | completed to-morrow. Chipage-Breckiys (raia). The Boston Club announced the > Puendee, Danny Powers vs. Billy Van, Foreon ly I have the word aclub| The afternoon turned gray and eather conditions were heavy early in transfer of Outflelder Lamar, recently Regatta Committee an- aw 4nd Farmer Sullivan vs. Tommy Shea. |OWner who told him. He could very | threatened rain, and the thing that the day, but the Gauts 100A. le ‘The wrestlers were well have warned them if he had nounced that the raced would be rowed | uy vern at Cinelenatl purchased from New York, to the Y suns: Mundy sad) Contemplated such a move as sus-| Wil MPPet we sinavay was besten po. Ye a ii f ; Rochester Internationals, He will re- crews, warmed Up. in. practice sprints } turn to the Red Sox mt the close of a pending Mays indefinitely, but he|came about, Spinaway was beaten a waited until he was traded. nose on the post by Le Glorieux in a)’ ‘and starts before the noon hour, Philadelphia at St, Louts,| the International season, ’ —_—_—S—— May-Cl Bout. Tt seems that Mays threw a base-| whiriwind finish and many with bigh a petasageguneng7-Ad BOSTON, Mass, Aug. 1—The Eddie @ man in the stand, For this] yr AMERICAN LEAGUE. Porto Ricans to Shoot Here. NEW INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE . Entry of a Porto Rican rifle team in a Johnny Clinton maten seheduied nes STOR. hen Be taeiees GAUSS atten Sia Priilane deathe 4 Mt Lowell to-night Is off. The report the, pay ee mee Giandiog of Clubs, . the national rifle matches to be held Detroit at Caldwell, N, J., next month was wf i £2. & ijl i’; fe EF af NERS RRR Sia" ata Te Fe bl hf I i E aif ory Bt i le ¥s.: ew sport on thé Metropolitan tracks. trom New York 4s that Clinton has « —— refused to play, That) Usually the ¢losing day is rather dull, whole story of the crime, but yesterday fire racing at the Yonk Rather than have a dissatisfied SARATOGA SELECTIONS. layer on his hands, Manager Ed mark jn x eacin rrow traded him to the clup mak- had crowd up and cheer- Race—Kalitan, Uffictent, |iné the best offer, The Yanks made| !™s 4# for 4 Futurity. : that best offer in good faith and se- — 4. Face No selections. cured the player, His suspension ts] pevaue or Faring luck ‘eteowne MM breaks of racing luck with War Ma- + |mow a punishment to the New York ‘Witte tong Handicap tor ne art. Club, which had nocning to do with| three-year-olds and upw. at i ae Gace werehese. Corn Tas- | the previous trouble, and Met to th a8 i iH iy zie’ Tt Te PO, Ww. . tit ‘Tidlpisghomtce at « aye assured in advices received here last 4 Se40) H ‘Belper Gh ae night from the Adjutant General of B10) a orto Reco, who stated he had béeen notified by ‘the Judge Adyocate General that travelling expenses of the seventeen ‘ members of the team could be paid by Bain 2) Detroit, 1 (12 tenlegsy, | the Government, Games To-Day, ‘Phitadelphia-Cleveland (raia). 0 | serene Chu, ot, Baltimope GAMES TO-DAY. WATERTOWN, Aug. 1, Denente ot Be 08. Detroit at New York. ter, the. New York bantam, won all io © Machen Chicago at Boston, way Ducky Gallagher of Roches- —_—_—_—_——_-— y from Cleveland at Washiagtes, ter in a ten-rouhd bout oring knock- PeRUIOWG USL are ‘Ot Louie et Phitedeighle, | downs in the fifth and sixth rounds, if fi i ie 7 Pt Games Yesterday. Newark-Baltimore (game played ‘Other games > & fe te 2 : of James Butler’ ie oo Queen of the | Player or the Boston team. Ban John: | hav r ve json know that Cols, Huston and Rup tee oat ce ears. ‘The ‘Trout, King's 304 miny, E g - 8 z i As negotiating for Mays, und| sid, Siving welght in chunks, was pock- im the he could easily have told them to hold’ had ‘ast fusiong, |” mane Be ng,