The evening world. Newspaper, August 11, 1919, Page 12

4 - SS PEAS ee > apap eee ey od = 3 ere i Ma a celica ice on SEEN oor ered’ ' ' 1 Pig Raze-—Busy ‘Signal, Wen- be Race—Huttontrope, At- w, Dorcas, 4 a, es ry Hage Witney Btable, Ds- "Waters Meet, Beck v. T. a SARATOGA SPRINGS, Aug. 11. AN MORGAN came up hore @aturiay with Battling Le- o ee er ee at latter—take it from Morgan— lightweight champion, real 138-pound ringside article. e e? THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1919 BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW LOOKING FORWARD AND BACKWARD Copyright, 1919, by The Press Pubilahing Co, (The New Tork @vening World). YORK LAY ROBERTSON - By Thornton Fisher 1T0-DAY’S SPA SELECTIONS. | KUMAGAE 1S GOING Uke Faoeiron) Fisnn- oo it i FETE i i clean-cut victory of Mrs. er Jefford's Golden in the Saratoga Spo- everybody here wonder- not he is a bet- Riddle's i: but it's a sure thing there was nothing like Man o'War or ven the Whitney youngsters behind tim Bonnie Mary slowed none of her apeed In the Special, al- @ had the financial support the wisest of players here. away very ‘badly and had to win after that, but it she wasn't persevered with, she showed little of her | waual speed. Westerners here ars now , areuing that Miss Jemima would beat her easily. Peter J. Meyers and J. J. of the Wall Street firm b¢ Granlich & Co. came up to see the Curb stable's horses per- In order that they mignt see the colors up, Jimmy Murphy, the ‘s clever trainer, purchased Or- she started in Satur- LH | a ii priest HE WHO LAUGHS = \\. LaST GETS & Lot oF FUN OUT PITCHER CARL MAYS LEADS ANOTHER: WIN ‘YANKEES T s|Before Over 30,000 Fans Lo- cals Easily Defeat the Cleveland Team. By Bozeman Bulger. ARL MAYS, the litigant, struck another blow for the cause of the Colonels over Sunday, giv- | Ghieage ing them much morale for the en-! Brestiys . veloping attack which @egins on Ban B. to-day. “The bone of conten- tion” was wbly aided and abetted in this work by the entire force of Yanks, now as thoroughly warlike as their martial loaders, No matter which way the Indians 10 | turned they were pasted on the other flank, and when the afternoon was over a swarm of some 30,000 viewed the remains of a mighty badly show up bull club, ‘The score was 11 to 4, | Quel o----88 0 ote ‘out mere figures throw a feeble light | ciewiand ....54 43.867 | Philadelphia. . on, the booting, muffing and the walloping that went on while Mays was pitching the base- ball underbanded and grunting with | every pitch. As a matter of fact “the bo contention” was net in good shape tor doing a day's work. He was still musele sore from the game of Thurs- day against the Browns and was aching when he accepted the as#ign- ment, He was informed that most had come there expect- ing to see him twifl the ole pill in defiance of Byron Bancroft Johnson and, that being the case, there wasn't an ache in the world big enough to After a thirty days’ y to pitch two ball But Mays, sus- its of his past hard- ‘Though they potted him occasionally he managed to head the Indians off whenever it came to a pinch, and Murderers’ Row would promptly come to his ald with an- other attack, As an evidence of how the bellicose Yanks felt about it they stepped right out and peeled off five runs as a which was all the margin This too was done on Hundreds of Good Boxers Developed Abroad, Says Former Member of Giants 322.09 2 e240 ra fell Jack Barry, Now a K. of C. Sec- Declares Five of Seven Winners of Titles in Pershing Stadium Are Prod- ucts of the Service. EVENING WORLD’S OWN SPORT HISTORY What Happens Every Day Cicotte and Shaw engaged pitching duel which the White Sof won by @ score of 1 to 0 twelfth inning, whén Weaver got an infield hit, advanced on Jackson's out and scored on Foster's wild throw of STANDING OF Second place went to the Pastime Athletic Club with 22, with the Mo- tic Club only 2 points The Bethlehem Steel Football Clu! and the Stockholm team played tle game at Stockholm, it being the first match the Americans have par- THE CLUBS ‘does not intend to follow the sport! grounder to Zi In the welter class f Canada made a big| mente. e was out when Your hit, beating a number of profeasion- He also is an army product. .In the lightweight class Benny McNeill of Philadelphia made quite a repu- tation before he entered the army. |toward right, but Herzog wag directly .— | ation petore tie entered, the army: |invthe path and pinched ft, rettting tse (i ] 1 for a livelihood. Joe Attwood Heathcote’s muff of J. C. Smith's easy fly with the bases filled and two out in the third allowed three runners to score and give the Braves their third straight victory over st. Louis by a score of 5 to 1. President Heydler has notified the Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Clubs that the Pittsburgh protest of the first game of July 27 has been disal- “The protest hinged solely on & question of fact, which could only be determined by the decision of the Both umpires stated that in the play in question Groh hi passed second base at the time the throw was made and was therefore entitled to two bases and to score.” Charles H. Ebbets, Prebident of the Brooklyn Baseball Club announces he has purchased the release of Lafay- ette Henion, a right hand pitcher, from the Moose Jaw Club of the Western Canadian League. While the Dodgers recently were in the West Jeft Pfeffer took a flying trip to Can- ada to look over Henion, and his favorable report resulted a closing the deal, baat ‘A large crowd of spectators witnessed the game, woich aroused much enthusiasm. Chris Vrettos, discus champion, won three events) d finished second in another in she games of the Greek-American Ath-| letic Club @t Midland Park, Staten In the discus contest, V: tos tossed the “saucer” the unusual distance of 124 feet, but it was later) discovered that the implement wus Teddy Matsukes ran a close second to Vrettos for individual glory. was 2 goals all. GAMES YESTERDAY, Chienge, 2; New York, +. Breoktyn, 3. the featherweight crown, but he, too, was in the game before the war and now also holds the French title. the bantamweight class Digger Evans tits of Australit was, after three hard |0nd base battles, declared the winner, gan boxing eight months ago, many who saw him work figure bim /first, Dubuc ‘then took a second Griffo, er. 7 | “Lieut. B. F. Stéinel, a Milwaukee yg Pty } sporting writer and for many years|(lants this year. two he & promoter there, was made the offi- j cial A. EB. F. matchmaker, and ar- —>— 7 ranged three or four hundred mixed | REDS BEAT PHILLIES matches between French, - Australian and American "boxers at| IN THIRTEENTH INNING ~ }4 the weekly boxing shows held Paris and at the various American nd By Alex. Sullivan. HAT hundreds of good fighters have been developed abroad through the various tourna- ments conducted by the army is the information contained in a letter sent George Trefry jr. overcame all the to the writer by Jack Barry, who was big allowances in winning the 880-' a member of the Giants back in 1908 yard handicap run at the American aq who has had considerable ex- perience with other major months ago Barry He be- and Club games at Macombs Dam Park. He took the lead in the stretch to defeat Irving Boskin by | clubs. The latter afterward | went abroad as a secretary of the {Knights of Columbus, Not only has Barry had considerable experienc in Starting on their handicap times) baseball, but he fakes keen interest nine motor boats, enrolled in the fleet | of the Tamaqua Yacht Club, held an interesting brush on the waters of the It was the annual for the Commodore Cup, course was from the starting line to and around Scotland Lightship and back to the starti iT 16.2% nautical miles, The winner was the Python, the property | of R. Geiser, Clipord D. Mallory’s Rani was the winner among Arrow Class over the Indian Harbor Yacht Club five-mile course at Greenwich, #nd the June Bug, owned by H. A. Stur- gis, was the first to cross the finish line tn the Indian Harbor one design class, Both of these yachts won Sat- Light westerly winds the fumbling, GAMES YESTERDAY, New York, 11: Chevetand, Chicage, 1; Washington, © (11 leninge). GAMES TO-DAY, Cleveland at New York. Bt Loule at Boston, Detrolt at Philadetpbia. Chicage at Washington, English, three yards. captured the half-mile walk, MISCELLANEOUS. in “Jimmy Bronson of Joplin, Mi Jake Carey, Knights of Columbus secretary, were chosen as the official |W" & Well-played thirteen inning game Barry says that in spite of the large number of professional boxers that took part in the various tourna- ments, five of the seven titles that were won in the Pershing Stadium when the championships were de- cided last month were won by army or service products. Boxing has been the chief amuse- ment for the boys in the A. E. F., ac- cording to Barry, and no doubt the remarkable interest displayed in the bouts everywhere in this country is due to the added support given it by the boys that hhve been mustered out since the armistice was signed. Barry's letter in ful , “Bob Martin, the heavyweight/title | here whe Dest. bet over| Pick with a runner on second, letting. winner, looks like thy Bronson has signed a five years’ contract to manage him, and 1 d ball. Dredicts that within toro yonce tha | snaing. But otherwise pitched fine boy will have a chance at Dempsey’s| in the fourth on a pass to Groh, a double e “Boxing has been made by the army | # The A. E. F, rules have| {th on, worked out splendidly and resulted in 4 these days and will not be inter- A welcome sight, even in the uni- form of the enemy, was Joe Hi recently returned from Franc Just recovered from a severe wound. Joe batted for the Cleveland pitcher in the eighth inning and responded y belting a two-bagger into centre on which he rode home after Graney, had singled. ¥rancis Quimet, who w: uled to play in a golf foursome at New London yesterday, was sudden- y taken il] with tonsilitis and is under a physician's care, He played on the course yesterday morning and equalled the record of 69, made by Brady and Fothering: ham, Jess Guilford and Vincent Hii ton defeated Grantland Rice » 4 up and 3 to play: The semi-final round of the club championship was reached on the links of the North Hempstead Coun- try Club, at Port Washington, matches—one in each division—were won by default. Lieut. BE. D, Clery, ir. the present club champion, scored an easy Victory over Captain John Hoyt, 6 up and 4 t pionship division. were aviators and recently returned from overseas, Jim MoGregor and Mike Brady de- feated Alex Smith and Tom McNa. mara before a large gallery of golf enthusiasts at the Misquamicut Golf Club, Wateh Hill, R. 1. McGregor and Brady for the first round of eighteen holes were 73 and 11, against 76 for Smith and 73 for spirited, clean boxing contests. The} In the last half of the thirteenth, with army authorities were behind the] one out, Daubert hit safely to left ana stop C. Mays, sport strong, and at the big Iinter-| went to second When Callahan f lay-off it is not games in four day tained by thou ships, went to 1 Joe Harris is jpular in New York and the crowd applauded his pinch wallop with the same enthusiasm given @ warrior wearing the home allied meet the bouts were witnessed by about 300,000 men. “Athletics have helped to keep the boys corttented more than any f of amusement months of waiting for the trip back to that country of al England is England, but America A National Doubles Tennis Tourney Opens To-Day BOSTON, Aug. Loughlin and Thomas Cc. Pacific Coast title winners and former national champions, will of leading off in the national champion- tennis doubles which begins to-day on the turf of the Longwood Cricket Club. The; meet the pair of California youn Willis E. Davis who won the Western title at urday's races. weary! in force. made weather conditions eighteen years old, a won the Pacific Northwest men’s singles champion- ship at Tacoma, fefeating Wallace Scott of Tacoma in four sets on the courts “ the Tacoma Tennis Club, ‘The home club made five double pl countries; for| several at critical times. Kopt's wo ce is France, | at short and the defensive play of Pa The game had other military high lights taking part in the action. Lieut, Played second for the Indians and Lieut. Klopfer, formerly in France, lightly wounded five times, took a fling at the PARIS, July 27. “Although there have been many Portland youth, Wambaganss doughboys over here since the arm- istice was signed, theatrical, movies and athletics, boxing hes probably been the most prominent. Every camp in the A. BE, F. has had many shows and hundreds of thousands of soldiers have been excellently enter- tained through the game of fisticuffs, The various tournaments leading up to the big A. EB. F, championships and later to the Inter-Allied meet, in which ten nations competed for vari- ous titles, were nicely arranged. “Barly in the year the A. E. F. tour- ney was planned and immediately the boys started preparing for this First it was in the company, then the battalion, sion, army corpse and finally for the entire force, The boys took a keen interest in the sport and many a good scrapper has been developed as a a scout officer so, in the cham- Both contestants rticularly against tak- ing off too much weight, Dr. Edward chief physician to Jl team, has sent a Warning pai Ping Bodie had quite a day in spots. After making one phenomenal running catch and preventing a couple of runs, Ping turned around ed an easy one, letting in enough runs to make up for thone he had robbed them muffed a cot Mays needed, one hard, thin single. Fewster was nicked with a pitched ball in the first inning and Gam Vick was sate when Gardner got his sacri- fice bunt and threw it away. walked, filling the bases, And then— well, Duffy Lewis whifted, But not so He smacked a ght and on « Harvard foo letter of advice to ail From twelve to fifteen pounds about the proper surplus for heavy the doctor declares, and from seven to ten pound, ends and backs. ‘The scores of 11.—Maurice BE, Mc- the le more, but nobody anks won the game, and we kinder like Ping, anyhow. Reporting with this overweight will give “Pooch” Don: van a chance to train the men with- out the danger of them going rtale when the big games are about to be MoGregor and Brady made 76 and 73, whle M Namara and Smith each scored 79. J. Noble won the cup for the low gross score and tied in the handi- cap on the Hinks of the Great Neck Golf and Country Club, the course in 9 strokes, him « 70 net on his handicap of 9, Hutton, who had a handicap net score of 70 and took the handicap trophy, as \t was provided that no player could win both prizes, ATHLETICS. Roy Morse, manytime sprint ohama- pion, probably ran his last race when he pulled @ tendon in hig right lex in the 100-yard handicap rare at the Salem-Crescent Club games at Ma- combs Dam Park, The accident oc- curred near the finish line and fortu- are getting encour- agement from legal fight and clean single toward wiid throw to third all three runners i cored and Wally stationed himself at Pratt was also hit, and when Chapman threw Boate's grounder away Pipp scored, An out got Pratt in and, to wind it up, Mays Oscar Egg, the great Swiss rider who a week ago yesterday defeated Reggie MoNamara paced race and on Wednesday night downed Alfred Goulett in a fifteen- mile paced affair, was beaten by Al- fred Grenda, the tall Tasmaniap, b fore a crowd of 15,000 fans at ¢ Velodrome in Newark. On the last andle bars became loose and he was not able to put in his final kicks in an attempt to get around Grenda. those who offered thelr sword to the esterday ‘and who called on t the game were Col, the far corner, In the other match scheduled for the opening day of the tournament, Ichiya Kumagae and Harold A. Throckmorton, Middle States champions, who won at » N. J, will encounter Richard Norris Williams 24 and New England pions. According to the decision of the officials of the United States National Major Vaughan had just returned from Italy, where he fought with the single American regiment down there, The Major admits he doesn't know what the fuss |: I'm with the Colonel on general principles,” he said. “Yes; and let me tell you something, e d. “When anybody starts pick- ing on that fellow he's liable to pick up an old, rusty nail, leine when riled.” were lots of runs made they are classed ssential and will be so treated, after that, but half lap Ege’s those who were not present johnson, to whom New York pastiming js rather repulsive in this At least no one could ‘The President is in the city and was weloomed at the station by process servers, who gave him a copy “Despite the fact that hundreds of professional fighters took part in the various tournaments five of the seven titles were taken by services or army products. "These finals were decided Pershing Stadivn day and time. : fe gianna! ‘Vincent Richards and He's bad med- BOSTO! 11.—Benny Valger, 4 will . title holder, will meet the winnin French featherweight champion, pair at the monster the challenge of the injunction to peruse during his Tt may also be said that Ban will not attend the informal con- |ference to be held by the Yank own- ers and the clubs who haye accepted their Invitation to talk over things to- day. The Czar has so decreed in the pabile prints. He will occupy quarters at the Holland House and engage in waiting while powwow goes merrily on at the Biit- more, To-morrow they will all go into see if ta injunction shali nately Morse was able to limp home Howard Reed was In the match relay, Alpha vs. Salem, the latter combina- tlon bowed to the Alphas by a mar- Bin of four yards, Young Jack Sullivan, son of Alex the Hbrettist, press box near an army officer. After considerable mental national honors, — jon to Resume 1 who is causing Johnny Kilbane to rest will arrive here to- -round decision bout match for the in second place, from June 22 to July 6. The Ameri- can General himself was an inter- ested spectator. “Bob Martin, the heavyweight cham- pion, did little or no poxing before he twenty-eight months ago; Spalla of Italy, t he light heavyweight crown, college man and boxes for uneasy these day day for his twelv debate he ex- Hall, Boston, under the euspices of the A. A, to-morrow night. ints to a record-break- ny |. Although Benny will be con- ceding the Boston lightwelght idol sev Jack Britton will this afternoon for the bout with Mike ‘The | °F middleweight champion Is in Syracuse, is to box Jackie Clark at Jo club to-night, “he would rather Coionel in the army or mascot for Athletic Club of the Bronx swept its rivals before it in the monthly games of the Bronx Athletic League, which Macombs Dam With severai new men sporting the Anselm's colors for the firat time, |® Chick Fewster is stil! hopping about that Infield like a sparrow, if the time | bave to add another at. ting O'Dowd has a Frenchman is more than confident th: great follow ng among the fight tana of will send him into the land of slum very short when we'll ar to the flag. |x to be ranked |the squad # Wanna enum -botnbese4-rBbeogilanas baer tieetenk Vols ws, tas Mera Fn gation of them will come down to } ark to see him batt jelght champion. ight champion Egan Yale, who was an before the-war and we le with the welter- HOME RUN CAUSES | GIANTS’ DOWNFALL Cubs Clean Up Series When Former New Yorker Drives | in Only Runs, CHICAGO, Aug. 11.— Before’ the. largest crowd that ever jammed’ or dmmied its way into the North side Park, the Cubs cleaned up the New York series by defeating the Giants by @ score of 2 to 0. A home run by Robertson’in the first inning was responsible for all the runs scored. it came with two men out and Herzog on first Base, and was a terrific drive against, the wind, clearing the right field wall by many feet, | ‘This olow crowned with victory » splendid Yisplay of pitching by. Alex~ ander, who held the Giants to four scattered hits, one of which ia’ scratch, In fact, the only soll ft the registered by the Gi: was a sin, by Young after two were out in j eighth. | Rube Benton’ gave Alexander a \ {strong argument, “holding | the down to four hits, (and with son's blow eliminated, the: fought it out until’ dari decision, The support given both slabs men was perfect from start to fini with only an occasional bard © supporters. Aside from the pitching the battle was as featureless as important games usually are, oi The crow imped the inthe afternoon and overfiowed” the lot before the batting practice, gan. As soon us the stands were filled megaphones were used to inform the would-be patrons that only standin Tom. was lett ‘Thousands, turned: back and sought other forms of amusement, but still the tumstiles kept clicking tg admit those who were willing te up for hours to get an occasional peck at the scrap. . A two were down tm the firat, Her- zog drew a pass and Robertson, pickin) out a choice southpaw slant, whi high over the right field screen into Shields Avenue and chased Herzog home ahead of him, Robertaon came to Alexander's rescue in the fourth with @ running pinch th possible trouble, Ghase drove a long fly into left centre, and the wind carried it close to the fringe of aq tera, but Dave kept going, and \fiaally snared the bai auf led off e fifth with a smash close to second, but Hollocher mopped it up with one hand and fi him, otherwise there might ave been some woe, Zim rolled out, then Baird floated a single over Merkl head and Snyder walked, but Alexander struck out Benton with three pitched Then Killiter ripped ® sin into cen: tre, but it merely paved the way to double play when Alexander sent @ Tho sixth Drought some anxious mo- (= } { rolled a slow one to Herzog. who t and and to xi it with 019. hi fail Before Plack the bali Young ‘on. second, Fletcher struck out, bet 188 walked, Kauff stung one on the n McGraw Injected Doyle into the scrap as pinch hitter in the seventh jwithout precuelig any cha Ke. except the substitution of Frisch for Baird at see~ ety © Benton gave way toe another oh nth, but Young Alexan Is been registered by the Cubs, OF WELL-PLAYED GAME CINCINNATI, Aug. 11.—Otnoinnadt Meadows made a from Philadelphia before 22,000 os the winning run, The score was 3 to 3. Both Ring and Meadows had one bad The Cincinnat! team scored two runs Roush, Kopf's sacrifice fly and & ain- ‘The Phillies tied It Im the Habs triple, ‘Tragesser's crifice by Meadows, @ walk y fAfth on to Bancroft and a double steal. the ball. With Groh te made a wild pitch, which hit the in front of the plate and bounded JI the crowd, allowing Daubert to from second base under the ground rgje ette were leading features, -_- —_—_— os BAN JOHNSON HERE, ‘ BUT NOT FOR MEETING ~ OF THE CLUB OWNERS Ban Johnson, President of ican League, came to town yg from Chicago, arriving at tl sylvania Station ‘rather eafy alert Ruppert-Huston legal / was on hand, however, and the ave the honor | President was served with oop we 4 the injunction obtained Sleveland Club to preven ence with Carl Mays and games during the present Mr, Johnson deeésn’t intend ent ‘at the conference League Club owners, cal Kuppert and Col. Huston, the Biltmore this mornl be in court Luce when argument. for! njunctl dent last night that irder straining, interference with them. w be upheld. It looked last night cago, New York and Bi only clubs represented ence this morning. received from. the. ington Clubs, hood that Frank Dunn of . who 1 ed Senators on such Occasions,oWillhe oo hand. ‘All persons interested ward terday on. reports that t clubs whioh will meet. to-di ° ns for a third le no jactory settlement ¢ With the Johnson wing of Shp. ization, udging from the bitterd®i” fevling at present, ig liable to happen. prising if plans for a new @ new major league were future. Wheth@r thei r baseball “war