The evening world. Newspaper, August 9, 1919, Page 8

é POTTE PATCHING KING SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YOR t — AFTRR 14 YEARS IN GAME) 4. «THE FAMous KNUCKLE-BALL INVENTOR —_—_—{AULLING SMADE | me ls et ONNEDDAMAT SPA. Sox Veteran Outclasses All Twirlers This Season With eke Sc Record—~His Famous “Shine” Ball Was Only Blut At Least a Half Million Dollars.” to Fool Opposing Batters—Cicotte’s Knuckle Ball Mystifies. Is Taken From the Oral Layers, | : . ARATOGA BELEG. “J By Robert Edgren. Sy. ‘a ; ; es One OTIONS. f fee elt rece age nn beet rn , M4 oe RACE Dragoon, Out of ii Of the baseball season of 1919. He tops the American League list Hit sf om ; CORD ‘GEN pelections, and has © percentage like Rockefeller’s in the Oil League. y d Cleotte has been pitching great ball the past three years, but, like some others who have reached the top in various professions, he got his ‘ position by hard work, or several ‘ A ie: oe By Vincent Treanor. + Years after his start in major league a ’ : “SARATOGA SPRINGS, Aug. ® jo baseball, fourteey years ago, Cigotte . REAL old fashioned ‘illing)« 4 was just an oMinary secont Frater. ; A was made in the last race here + He was with Detroit, his home town yesterday and Willie Booth’a team, for a time, but wasn't much of Neddam led home a big field of reak @ success. Later, when he began to good juveniles, The colt was backed it comrades suddenly discovered that they had down from 15 to 1 to 3 to 1 and If the start had been delayed a few minutes longer he would have gone to the) ts 4 post an odds-on ‘favorite. At least! , only the old knuckle bail, with tm, Ded. \ 4 a half million dollars was taken from provements.” , Z, the oral layers as a result of the vio~}? “ag tory. $ Some of Cicotte’s old friends in After his owner and intimate’! Detroit said the “shine ball” was friends bad wagered on ttm [ ‘ nothing but his knuckle ball delivered odds th announced Hely 4 WTo Tears v Ro that the colt was a good thing and with a change of pace, of which Ed- POM . nit 8 barring an accident couldn't lose, This die was ppoullarly a master, coupled vty, i 4 EK. “tip” spread to all cérners of tho with an extradrdinarily sharp curve. * track and it seemed that 12,000 of Cleotte’s 1917 record included eight 4 A . ¢ the 15,000 persons a went in sesh nei trad 4 oe Veteran Ned Sawyer hg MORN straight wins. Eddie signed a one- doubt. He broke from the barrier on year contract with the Chicago Amer- his toes, made every post a winning © ina wits gon bona ache, Meets Young Sweetser |:2: iii tiryiate ‘ACE—Carmoran, Bulle 5 * eye, Penelope. 4 SxTH RACE — King Agrippa}. Wilfreda, Indian. Spring. EFES if a ale 918, and signed on again in 1919 at a figure that showed the feo that he wap a veteran didn't effect the oun- iy fidence of the club tm nis ability to [ ' Fy iu 35 i z 5 3 the pace. Daring the present season he has made good tn a style that shows he is better than ever, He is still curv- Evpie. ing Over records for successive, vic- tories, and is ranking pitcher in his Cicorre Diuwvaerine nis For Victory Cup To- Day) i ite sa india J Seventeen - Year-Old Player Reaches 36-Hole Final at Siwanoy by Bowling Over Siwanoy Club mate, by 3 up and 1 to go, Before locating in these parts Sawyer was one of the best golfers ever developed in @§e West. He won many titles in th n Belt. of the yea! Naturalist, which used to be most erratic and inconsistent hol on the turf, was on his good be- « havior again yesterday and won the Mechanicville Handicap. Aided by & Kreat ride by’ J. Butts Fairbrother, ‘ : he led from start to finish and won FAROUS KNUCKLE BALL. ‘ a Pour Stars. . WHITE DEEFEATS CARTER | 2¥,® bead trom A. K. MacComber's viae.. Me asenet years IN HAMD-FOUGHT MATCH | rovomtion on the turf, Naturalist hax . 4 Deitions on the turd, Nevaralist bas, mie erie By William Abbott. Bu, William Abbott, |» || AT NATIONAL GOLF LINKS, |!« consinency ‘personited. Tn his faxt Tilden and Johnston Meet To-Day in. Final at Newport link battles, and seventeen- and finished second twice. y year-old Jess Sweetser, one of |, SOUTHAMPTON, N. Y., Aug. 9—| ‘The big imported son of Rabelais BAS A V R AG Ss the most sensational of all young| Match play was the order of the day | and Nature !s one of the most pecu- - ‘ ‘ at the invitation. tournament of the | !!@F horses In training. He ts not Quaker and Californian Clash] fiied. as Result of Their Victories sarvion speed nnd hig’ American golfers, meet to-day at work horse, In his morning trials it . National Golf Links of America. The Of America N. nal Leagues ‘ rani the thirty-six-hole final is impossible to make him beat 1.45. - f he ue ts ati ! i probes Hrd hong Petits a ey most cfosely contested morning | The other morning Tom Welsh sent re BG as ; fertuamant campeigner: wee picke, | atch was between Phil Carter, |Iim out for a faat trial. He gave th exercise boy orders to kick him out National League Pitehing. fat the start of the four-day mect to! Bridgehampton, and Gardiner White | ang whip him a full mile. Befurg.: of Nassau. putting the boy in the saddle he siq-4” reach the finals, Superior experience | “1 hay been a long time since these|tioped other lads at different pai ie and the advantage of Piéving Metons | two players have ween drawn against {of the track with orders to shout and 7 course were handicaps Sawyer’s OP- | each other in match play, and as each|shake towels at him as he ponents couldn't play over. ts |#cored 38 on the outward journey the | But even‘this would not make the old Jess Sweetser, the other finalist, is| sored #8 on pret gghekies fellow step along, and at the end of * only seventeen, but possesses more & Turning home ottet ‘bel ‘ail |the mile the clocks showed 1.44 4-5, , shots and competition Square on the ninth, White reduced Car-|In the race yesterday it was differ- most play ter’s advantage going to the sixteenth, |ent. He felt like running and noth- in the gam and after sinking a ten-foot putt on the | jn; ld stop him, not even the Club youth’s first tournament season, Punchbow! hole for a birdie 3 to Car- heavy, Impost rv 130 pounds, and he ters 6, White took the lead. ’ At (Slwancy thie week there wore | Pf ise the ong hans" hole, Carter fan the mile over a dull track in scep' iv 5. would blow. up in such an Impor:ant a after playing out | The close was a farce. Five liorses competition, But young Jess had his sh conceded the hole to White |went to the post, three of them feit sh.ts as well as his nerve and he and another didn’t haye as much speed topped over his rivals with the sase | as a dray horse. Robert Oliver was that you and I would flop over / teen young Archie aine, Natior the only real horse in. the race @ house built of playing cards. Mispoded ef the veteran, John A Week, |won by more than a sixteenth, of @ Sweetser, after finishing second tn | Garden City, by 1 up, and Nelson Whit-|mile. Kingstown Pier was the other the qualifying round, proceeded to|ney, Audubon, defeated Paul Moore,|which didn't fall, but he was so slow: eliminate. four stars, Lester Conley, | Morris County, 4 to 8 that Northward fell and remounted W. HL Follett, Eddie Van Vieck and| A hod beaten elght jand nearly beat him home. T. V. Bermingham, and every match ‘| Fator ran up against Johnny Loftus 4 3 to 2. was won decisively. Gardiner Whi! and C.J. Sullivan, |in a close finish in the third race, and} Barminghaan was Oote brilliant eae | ropsittan Cole. Abssoistion. ad's Satta) ‘Ne, voteran made him took Tike ig <i) novice. Fator was on Hutton eRe, OO he. eommares | Slwars Textee White etter goiny But Fst | the real good horse, which beat Vexa- " Broiler, batied cern on eee on the mnth, developed a very | tious earlier in the week, while Jolmny | erratic streak, but finally pull § on Vancouver, # orl the first two holes, Poor putting lost| winning by a and i, Y Pulled out, | had a leg up Healey. patched up fo him the short third, but Bermingham Willis Sharpe Kilmer, Huttontrope Satine it | Bidacectaasrisectatacit| OTHER GOLF RESULTS, | fa mucin, beret Lon ventage. It was give and take up to peocurer esite ee we head, the turn, where Jess was leading by| ,NBW. LONDON, Coun, Aug. 9.-- be ss a ag =e ig Mite goog two holes. of K The “ ‘After halving the tenth, Berming- will meet Mrs. Ronald Barlow of Phil- 1d Lagnyl agra y Sel, be ham drove into @ trap of the short | Adelphia in the final of the whene- |*0/d here on AUE. 15, arrived hove yes: j eleventh, giving his young rival the t Soria (0 bring good. peteas. hole, three to four, ‘The thirteenth at Mrs. Barlow had by far the| 200, Sore foaled at Binghamton amd oy is 199 yards, mostly up grade, | “asier ‘match yesterday ‘and held up| They ,were foaled at Binghamton Sweetser drove to within eight feet of | her side of the bracket by defeating |Teared at Mr. Kilm the pis and holed out for a two for hy e Byan of Crentord by, 1 i PRA RE ad i ; ween Miss another, victory. Bermmgham failed | fosenthal and Mrs W. Ay Gavia of| DOWD MUST WEIGH which were halved in fives, so Sweet- | South Shore attracted the gallery, and IN TWICE ON AUG, 22, sor won by the Cora forrale Margin’at|it was well rewarded for the’ trip pi A around the links as the pair finished Hariier in the day Sweetser took |! square on 1 Into camp Eddie Van Vleck, former 3 . 4 to Britton to agree Zele bashed piteher, val yess the match well in hand eight-round bont at the Newark Cee etualle” had the aeyent | and looked like = winner up to last|men's Club on Aug. 33. There was, & tecneyeasola prodigy ‘trailing, but| Dol but repeatedly threw away her deal of wrangling over the weight a Jens steamed up on the last nine holes | PPrtunities, tidn at the, conference yesterday: Tee é —_ gan insist a " S50 SOROS HOSS Win, YD SOReTUINS BENNINGTON, Vt. Aug. In the|on the day of the bout once at 301 pare. semi- round of the in the afternoon and again at nae can ectaer, whe enters Zale] State golf championship tournament| “What's the differenceG We'll néxt year, mpeciaiizes at golf and on) 4 "T’ Walker jr. of Richmond County |ip, en.times to suit Danny.” sald Ml the running track. Our > mia) and” Colw played only three |Ang'nell make it 20 easily, thet» ti tine me vou Re, protons seve on See atrokes above par even with a seven| care if he has to sleep of the sealee all biy 5 oo pinnacle set now occu- on a par five hole to ain a victory|day. Let it go that” a ” by four up and three to play over pled by “Chick” Evans, Francis Oul-| Gorgas Morse of the Rutland met and a few other foremost ama-| Country Club. Morse had a pretty Coulon to Australia, teurs. two at the fourth, which was offset KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 9. — bye like » nm Walker Coulon of New Orleans, bantamwel he other semifinal match, Ned| Pie ele etn tne tnisty boxer who fought. in the fi Sawyer and Reggie Lewis, should | tinal to-day Walker will meet J. Estry | nteraliled boxing tourne: have been @ rip-roarin’ battle, but it! Or ‘Braitievoro, who hed to play &| Panetta te seit eee e missed the mark, as Sawyer was well | twenty-hole match to defeat his club- | Australia, where he w! on his game and Lewjs was miles off Sh Uanida. an his best form. Sa! ir, playing very deliberately, was consistently straight and made few mistakes. Lewis, who three seasons ago was ranker as one of the most promising of the large crop of young starga was off the line FINAL DOUBLE HEADER ~ Ste oe oe me oe GUY EMPEY’S And nearly every time Reggie got 5 into trouble he went in over his head. TREAT EM RO At the seventh and eighth holes the former Westchester champion was in Jett Tesreau, (Gignts) Kavanaugh (Detroit) ii hy a"? se SESeraneeeraerees 960 Haruen, er Noe, | Tild is amazing ty Over Voshell afd Kumagae, | lies at “thin “etife Were. flonal, Sothotin: bois ‘ i Seago none vuther, i 0 The lw AL i i i Respectively. * Lice Ry E i NEWPORT, R. 1, Aug. 9. | The trans ni ILLIAM T. TILDEN 2D of] the nears Philadelphia and William M.| ing to t th fhormaiten Johnston of San Francisco Voshell t ko tinder the Masmans, Cleveland clash to-day in the final of the cup strain’ ot the game, he waa play ., “a Druze ‘mngies m the tennis tourney on the | A iiitoN Nr aman to continue: such courts of the Casino here, It should | Super-tonnis ror the duration of @ re be a most exciting match as both |‘ Er OK tw and Patterson reached the players are at the top of their game, gomifinal roéund of, the di by Judging by the way they won their | "TIRE, tom the Antipodes defeat matches yesterday. Arinaes, Cragin Pr, Will nbat 8 Blending odoasional bursts of speed | Roranenm. "Garland nd Harry With @ flawles assortment of atrokes, {C. Johnson, to score at 6-3, 6—4. } Johnston defeated Ichiya Kumagae of}, 7. "GPS cca with his famegs tid Jopan: The Californian kept the Jap-| woollen hat its’ visor down over. his Auese upon the defensive throughzut |$) i ‘Brook and won by @ score of 6-1, 6-1, 6-3. rved his energy. He tarely olleyed Tilden ted for the defeat of ose be had a sure open- | 8. Howard Vosheli ~ our, tind ait Vosbell ‘Tilden itdcat on tnkt ie Groped ik | fee . It was the sort of thing that denoted the marvellous Sontrol of the rmation that came with of the third set was all ging. There was not! iHewottetttate“eeis rill TH tle ei? ay rite AAT ! it i it i i | : } i if s sy t § g i it fh i g us player, ‘atterson lived up to the reputati p fd ‘hum “of "being bei MaLoughtin | hase, a t his best, but 3 ma igor and dash " 8 was poured, over his head so a ¥ as might finish out the match & +] ; Brn) ye Brook . —, 1. hing Patterson. make an ideal ‘com> After the match Voshell said that ary rd it give some of ‘Americans trouble bef ns ¢ before finished in thls country. oon are pth Ma a O’DOWD WILL MEET VICTOR OF HOWARD-SMITH GO. BAYONNE, Aug. %.—Johnny Howard, the fighting policeman, and Jeff Smith, ; who recently yossived the unanimous My singles, | decision from three fingaide judges dering that the Australiang had| Mike Gibbons in ‘Kansas Note int oat after a long voyage, they|>attle for something more than the jen ded, i honor of winning next Tuesday night when they clash for the third and de- eld ‘tine Clootte allowed himself to be inter- the Matchmaker Charley ‘Decsnereci” whi viewed on the “shine ball.” thre hi Liddlewelgie Ohana” maton, with | Koay HOW BATTERS ARE FOOLED. crowd A. owe | Raut) He said be never used a ball that y C4 in any way, but to spread the “shine ball” Aw. iE i if #E a3 & z i : H eB seasareiser HYERRS eo AE SLES cote, iss Wii WR DERE UER SEEKERS 3 5 I i si Hi i sognenssoonct toe bekierncdsoeeattselvoceninelrakobatetticwtepsltlige E aestiss: 4H ~_— eekt22.8 NESAEE SST TRE RTS Reb SPR RESRNEEER Es EM REEEE +4 Et = eee ReRraBaMESeseRAatSRSABAgAAScAAs RUS GELREFEs yp euesecsesass.cconswecesacee esse Teeseh he! PILES ASE BTEES: Bszzsasse ¥ BE UEan HERS TESTE oN ESEESEELESE sive vehi eis: est! Bee BaNBeSSAANBE: SERERE i ‘Johmston scored the fret three games of the set. b; Tomarkable placing He | th we SWeiSu lacks —awewGe sak Sa SSeRs, Bas pple inch in np SESS ESN ESEREERASE 28-Ut ae SAUSE-VaBssLesessce BISI*AKE Lear setquenl sem Bi a H & H g Es s Saaz! Wiebeatybene se? i ge i eases ctienowecectine: Lt} Hj i! A aoe Lunch to Umpire Game, errow afternoon Eddie Murphy-Mike Wagnesdee fate mn will me at thelr Yeattnat Eddie President et so much difficulty that he was foreed te concede the holes. Again vs. at the tenth Lewis made a long drive si toaatinene wee Sorat soa ||. BACHARACH GIANTS the tee, flubbed his second shot and i , then whaled away into a trap, “Cannon Ball” Redding Wickware ‘This display of golf was rather un- | at DYCKMAN OVAL usual for Lewis, as generally he is a (Dyckman Street Subway Station) dependable tournament, performer But yesterday not his day. Baw- who held the ig throughout 2P.M. SUNDAY, AUGUST 10th 4 Pid sare Snzee Oye One. Want WF (Next Sunday, August 17thy Rube Foster's Chicago American Giants.) Before defeting Lewis, Sawyer triumphed over B Hollander, « ae sSSSS SES i | saamepestetussastete SeseRBoIS aS EBs cece: HB wwese. $533 08TS=4- ‘a 5 gent ‘ankee team. an’ ‘invit There will, be a. baseball liver cup between the Al- i Oy ot is ire of this ‘ach, at: be, 7ae,Lypeh, ‘the interna | f 4 e+ o H] ; t ae 2 + z Fg eeesisest SEE5= ey eee feet Pel * BEES a ARN Dich ROB ONER