The evening world. Newspaper, August 16, 1919, Page 6

‘BEST SPORT ING PAGE IN NEW YORK} THE NEW MIRACLE MAN Copyright, 1919, by The Pregs Publishing Co. (The New York Eyening World). —_——_— ‘ att . he The ager = been, One Of the most respected Ip-eny lenaup, nay to te Cinefnnati gneahor Uaponaidered | iF m to the front and for two month it as tuck with ‘yh atl the ip the penpant fa was o ball player fe hig) & when he organized ball) ° fs day, and yed his way 4 His tipst vegture was with Boston in purehased ‘fr ,) when be was treal. He caught for th, Brovee then Was. taken In Chicago -Pat little ghance to play his favorite pelng out- y Kling gid Jimmy ie was made pec of | © five and ition the d by cher. But pitchers, and Frank credit for developing phe of the tional He will Connected With National Pastime Since Schoo! Ranked High ag By Robert Kdgren. me markable careers in baseball. the Chicago Cubs and the ve Pennant to ja, and Rapeat With’ Cinpinnati Team— Player. Co. (The New Yors Brening World). cipnati Reds, has bad one of the re- Player for many years, catcher op Bostop Nationgis, he never did anything sensational epough to make him fapous optl Bie playing days were practically over. He always was a Steady, dependable aort of @ fellow, and that is all any one could say. ‘Phe history of Moran is @ history 4 fay-h the club owners, The Cin- club, sending several to Ca) wate Mathewson, AO answer, Reda, | captor’ e ry Tanager of the Keds and Mc- Fergie the New York Nationals fold" Moran af Over to Cincinnati any arrangements that the mmjor we? ink it gene be talr to nod | Whi ion he had an 0} DP vO ‘nity “to mahage big team again.” | zit the a”. o moving picture | scenano, lan’ a ecene | showin, Fp ms fA ed and Sever 8 Of frien John ae » Kor it's fae’ th rg eat i, that as man- old pal Pat has ear to keep John M ives to ud in th Of this big post-war mysterious, wave Ageregations of twirters ever ‘ot explaining Sure that it won't interests of his n Lui} had hurt his ave been able to ‘ut Moran said ped] 8 game than risk rip. | te Ny injuring any one Bul Kilifer had kept him out for githough he needed ly at that time, Help it, ae well as the copf- See iter ¢ . ‘thi tsa gy hg team a wal Baty ivinnd a ll he EVENING WORLD'S OWN SPORT HISTOR What Happens Every Day was 8 to 1. ‘The victory put er team back in the abet a Ban Johnsen Dear before LL. couldn't hold the ureday'§ bat! arn Saeco ait aot ae at c Outfe Be Gnneen on” lf o twee Gol anaville, Ind., Club or he ‘Veac! joubled, whic! ye fon has been pur runs, or enough to wip hijadelphia Americal by Tom ‘Turner, the Athletics. TENNIS, el eure rday until thet ument on th e it there. ington turned tee tables on eland, winni in the ninth In- Aad ors The Sena- Pod pee epi Packeert ter. seventh, when the fii iia i before the fast playi of the Amerigan yop tt Fr cig T. Hunter, the Cor thr, accounted far, the defeat Fhoin at on, sem! tournament on the fi wey Hunting Clu wane aa joung players fro rae Ph alece by a score of 6—3, §-—2. WSCELLANEQU o. nf Lorimer o! Proy, O., won rand American trap 9! Fee tahtoaee AA hich Lori of it eighth. ‘shawt iva cari Wo! ile Browns betta ted ites way to an n| & $9.8 vistory, over, the Athletics and ba tle with New York for Mee ae ards Faia re gh ‘Split a Pr fee the pny vy Fae Si ae to 6 yietory aver @ innings, on his itched bastat 4 Crate lory over i e of the Bibel Btbety Pinta The more ne of augarnia, in score: first appearance i. rand Ametiean, in which 798 5! ers contested, the shootoff for trophy, Lorimer won with 18 29 targets, 17, and Hellyer third with 16. ree- LD V. Thomas gnd Randolph Lycett Ng three men Fs the Australian Jawn fepnlp teal form et —5. They met fina) Feu ind of the singles urt of the ron at Cedarhy the final round by beating athe handi- “pee fle to mer, BG jordon of Mo- eeer, v4 Alenan- out of Gordon was second with iyi" ° —_— ap-|Week-Day Attendance at Poo Grounds Wauld Have Exeeed- ed World’s Series Figures This Week If Not for Belief One Day There'd Be No Game, By Bozeman Bulger HILE a week of acrimonious warfare has ended with the Giants viewing the Promiged Land of the pennant at long rapge the most astonishing feature of baso- bgll to oldtime fans as well,as the general public has heen the enormous crowds, But for one day, when continuous Grissies occasioned the belief that there would be no game, the work- day attendance would easily have ex- peeded that of the World's Series. This remarkable increase of inteyost in baseball ‘following the war is gpn- eral throughout the country. The attendance yesterday was Umited by capacity only. On Sat- Was \urday and Sunday the Yanks played the | to 30,009 people each day. Out in Cin- t- | cinnati, even, 2 crowd of more t Me | Sau00 wag "packed ‘into. an. inclosure built for a capacity of 17,000. In Chi- cago seats have gone at a premium. The only city where interest appears sat ona, the tw ‘an~ the ying| As Frank Bagley, manager of be- | Willie Jackson, the good local light- ‘| weight, has accepted the terms of- of} fered him by fight promoter Bobby 4 Gpnnis of Philadelphia for Jackson Jobhy Dundee, the fast Ital- nother ont and that otter, The lade ot the same plub 6 few ‘The matchmaker Club of Dayton, 0. ee Jackson of this ity Polladelphia, for a twelve or fifteep mand fi ould to- pay ee ip the main bout of six | ey at @ team that didn't know bow | Pounde at the noxt big opep air box- | quit, afd tiat mastered hia style| ing show to be held at Shibe Park 4m | Gata, I les he playing the game.-He plugged| ‘Philly’ on Labor Day night, it is| oon te Bo) #t Bhibe and won the pennant, and at|almpst a sure thing that these two | seqpor noe one Wag) Brest Agh: ing et Pat Moran or the Phillies. signed up, but refuses to announce Mi Games Are Alike to Moran. bt eee ig getting. oi 3 ee eee: Phe oak mut mansey of the Armory A. 4 end of that 19) in Re oP na “ry Pat bos Moran's lu cota and a the Phillies end Park tere will come together. Gunnis gays he has Dundee already iy Moore, the Western bautammeight in a Goverior’ Wis well thought of at Buperior and the ‘Here Glty, bes comvinted Bip card of bonte | pects are that o big £ ‘le beg tr boxlug show on next Thursday night, In ¢be main event Frankie Pleming, the featherweight champion will take on A matols was clinch ‘Williams of Priptol, ¥ @ether in the is reli earned thet ‘"Bllm” i the jark would be appointed by t er Sahtem whe © band cight-young 4 | at the Bayon torte ie H li i i ae ite “FF winper among el compelled to call Of his eight-round ‘Ted “Kid” Lewin. whiod war sisted t ab the Bayonne A. A. of Mayoune, N. "iF, f f f Re expects to put on another main tp ite plage, 41) Betolie for the sere nd age rbara Pale be n, jo Pibiladel- another fight ta the Wak He will take on | fend bout at 4 boxing shaw to bp paced at on the pisbt of Ang. 22. Moore tebe in, tbe Agito mech om have fro to have fallen i Philadelphia. Even the Boston Red Sox, in @ Toalng ara- rb have drawn repord weekday fete drawing these crowds," de- clared Mr. Howard Trumbo, the well known construction engineer with interests scattered about the globe, Spring @ discussion at the Polo rounds, “baseball is doing moro than any one agent in helping to malize the country, following the dis- bow: | tress of wi oa that sport of all Tens is attracting the public to Kai Sew 3 Be ig filing the vod ‘Bo foared by those In charge of our Government, gt makes people for- get the recent upheaval, bfings them together on a common footing ‘and is snioothing ont the jumpy thoughts of our former soldiers who are having dificuity in becoming settled in their former channels. “thle one desire to see things nor. ged,” added Mr. Trumbo, “is, I lieve, reepapaaty for the great pop- parity of baseball and other sports, ‘The United States owes much to the great game and ts certainly paying off the debt.” {The high tension brou | the visit of the hellicose "lHepe of results, ap} the tonic needed wy the Giants, In- bout | stead of playing a8 a piece of ma- last chinery the entire team h: teu- ne it about by is, reward re to have ‘been + Me H pitching which he will on i preotually js an pad ‘Ther mi per | the ‘cxeelient. 7 now pee hee he Red: no doubt ef the added strength Le Rished by Shufflin’ Phlt Douglagy and ao Neht, the new ny POAREAY, After pitch~ bout one dai aol pet the Reds Ahufflin’ Pag F Il sought Lay nce the pext day yz) and was it, Hp made good with vest Tuseiay aight. — Metchmaler Charley & VICtOFY. Doewseriok bout — ‘The Giants are also stea up over the ote woes of big pied dative rte. sho iy Frank Frisch, th TK, | oe For sham Dales: eaties piper. Byon thous! he shor of nervovan: * gga his Frisch oie hes his to regi AY, oth Fs EEA Ay ii ih fs Enormous Baseball Crowds Astonishing to Old-Time Fans (o make @ baseball star. Time alone will give him, the as hh ‘reds “ryt to fit in natu: ity. is ARETE sive in eve re abe Wee no fear of taking a chance. And that is #0 per cent. the battle. Arthur Deviin bellevés this boy will bit as well as Ty Cobb In anothér season. The running fights between the Cola. Ruppert and Huston and Ban Johnson goes merrily on and the time . rapidly approaching whew Ban will ve to alight from his high horse, arecueaie or ungracefully—it makes no difference to the Colongls or to Charlos Comiskey or Harry Frazee. It the inflated American Langu Preal- dent does not alight gracefully he is likely to find himself aground with a horrible splash. Though a little slow to grasp a point at times Big Ban is now fully allve to the fact that he has picked up a nail in the two Colonels. There is no stopping their fight now, They are goihg thrpueh with it, regardless of any temporary settlement of the Mays case. There is more behind the move of Colonels, Comiskey and Frazee than the mere possession of @ pitcher. They are all Giseatetied with the way Ban ‘been spanning things and the a oe B Reet to see the cards laid op w In many quarters ern it} has heen prophe- sled that Johnson would be driven from the Presidency of the American League. That js not likely for some time yet. Johnson was elected for enty-five years and, it is un er toate, his term of oe? pul Dee twenty years to run. He is no} ing to gly rp that up without a hgnt. Mr. Comsikey has suggested that out of self-respect Johnson ought to re- sign, That is tng only way that he can be got rid of. Ase fd out of this equatybdie, it is suggested that the league owners dl- vest Johnson of much of his powers and allow him to remain as a plain President, a servant to carry out the wih of the stockholders. Phere Is no for bfy being clothed with wers. Not only has it » e game, but it has inflated Johnson with an Skogeers ed idea of his own importance. man with @ lot of power and ot ego is bound to do harmful things sooner or later. Right now the heseball pyblic, par- ticularly in the Bast, Is very tired of thie csarism. This explaina the im- mediate sympathy and encourage- ment that went to the two Colonols, Mr. Comiskey and Mr. Fragée, when they began’ thelr oreW PORT, RI. pith 16.—Johnnie Clinton ang Arthur Chick, both of New York, fought a fast elght-royund bout at the Nayel Training Station here last night. No decision was given. Fully 5,000 officers and enlisted men saw the open air bouts, the first big event held at the naval pase. Tt was Conducted by the Aeniihts af Columby voulvitt Ia ny Weg arry Martin of Prove 1D ‘iard of cee ina Na With socket, .. ohpointed. wile ¥en, socket, R. of Newport ax r “Treat "fm Roughs” Game. Rube Foster's Chicago American Giants will be the attraction to-morrow at ‘ eemnee Ova in a Semple | om 0 Heaps.” “Hor che’ horne. toate Sere Welt tha {imine Hinton wil i Taal the” pitebing. wast Pe * aveieoae i yet et the the play, les Rmertans ne ‘egal Bat wil play Hildate every “day at Brees nn ore real wil ligale. Gaaen Fri Roughs' Ween ne start at 4.80 GIANTS. AGO, a PM, Velo Givtade ee eek: =) SIN A ECK OF TROUBLE AT SPA Slgpesialie Northwood's Form Reversal in Steeplechase Causes Or- ders to Refuse All of His Entries, Pending Result of Investigation. SARATOGA SELECTIONS. st Raco—War Kiss, Athlone, t Jitace “afternoon “Hannibal, Cirrug . Rage—Doleful, Romeo, The i, Figee—Corinoran, it, Th 7. Vincent Treanor. SARATOGA SPRINGS, Aug. 16. $4 it” VEITOH, trainer of the steoplechasers of A. J. Davis and R. L. Ahles, is in a peck of trouble over the performance ofy Northwood, which he saddled waar terday’s steeplechase here. jumper, whose long sult in all races has been early speed, suffered @n attack of the slows and finally fe- fused to jump. The stewards evi- dently ecented scandal, for in a gtate- ment issued soon after the race the entries of all horses dwned, trained or ynder the control of Veitch were ordered refused and his case referred to*the National Steeplechase aoaee Champion Benny Leonard Picks Jack Britton to Win With: Q’Dowd His Bout Lightweight Title Holder Gives His Reasony for Thinking the Welterweight |* Champion Will Defeat the Middleweight King. By Alex. Sullivan. 'T is a rarity in boxing circles that two chanipiong clash. This ls largely because the champ. in the lighter class doesn't want to risk being knocked out by his heayier op- ponent. A few years back Champion Kid Williams, a bantam, fought Johnny Kilbane, the featherweight title holder, in Philadelphia and gave &@ good account of himself. Two years ago Champion Kilbane, feather weight, fought Lightweight Champion Benny Leonard and was knocked out, the pout bei: held in Philadelphia. Kilbane thought bis speed and cle’ ness would offset Leonard’s ex! weight and superior punch. Jack Britton, welterweight champion, fought Benny Leonard, lightweight champion, and the battle was a close, one. xt Friday night in Newark the fans are going to be tréated to ap- other of those rara avises in the box- ing line, Jack Britton, the welter title holder, faces Mike Poewys | the middleweight champion, and bots it looks like one of the Beat bo ts ever arranged. O'Dowd is @ fighter. Ho was across in Line . doing bis bit. He fought many bo’ Ly against the army's bést, too, and hi ed his punching ability and o that be ia now re- garded one of the best men that ever wore the crown. Bince Mike bas returned ne has scored two knockouts. ‘There was ® lot a talk about hie first bout with A) MoCoy not looking just right, @ for that reason soon as he wae mustered out he nsisted that his manager, Paddy Mullins, arrange match with the fo champ! again, and this tim knockout in jigtime. ‘Those who have seen O'Dowd say ‘ou wouldn't know it wag the pant ighter and they predict he'll knock out Britton, But Dan Mor: ( is eee- ing to it that O'Dowd welghs in at 158 ringside and is making him weigh in twice on the day of the fight. Mor- an thinks that Britton wi Khockdute giving him two which wae ie § ject in is. § the match. If O'Dowd wing thourh by a k. o punch, he can't annex the welter crown, 0 you see that Jack Bae everything to gain and nothing to to hear ie soared if is always interestin what one champion thinks of an- other champlon—in thig case it fa tye champlons. Benny Leonard, great king of the “nipeine we 8 thinks that Britton will Shi pei fgh:- ua Irishmap trom St. Payl- know.” said Pe 24 to-day, “aha Mike has early since he fought in pee arts, DUE] 9: Britton js one of the grea! in the history of the sport. derful A sens will Keep of dan O’Powd's rushes, and fis fast tert fab will pile up the neces- y points to win. “Britton is a snappy hitter, His blows don’t stun, but they do sting. And he's the hardest kind of @ man Se alt Bsa tt strike even @ fraction of @ ter he has parried, pide- oped ducked a blow. “In my opinion, PReret Phy chance to win Is by course, one of Mil show u itton to that the welterw would pine Say tor a he could evade if he were: but from my own pepetanae Neve that O'Dowd will be unap get over a really telling pun eight rounds. “Britton i hit O'Dowd . much harder than he could hit me, for in- Britton and I heart stance, When eat i i an oh to get e hike mut a or 4 in both were mavin| tole pretty fas! Association for further invéstiga' Northwood won here the eeting, and five days tater ms fe Robert Oliver gud ‘cording to Frank Bryan, ae the svi 3! St joc! Association in the gi ete here, Veitch attributed erihwcene cullar conduct yesterday Cea bis leeding. Dr. MoCully, yeterinarian, was sent for Be re- ported the horse sound. Veitoh Sarma ‘was @ rider lechasets, but of late years ined tl with varying success, th action by the yeqe po in this case may be a forerunner if aber ar rule This brangh of th thor: ougl ert has been a fAxtui it fo as get to the beginning of the fr, and competition keen wig fa it ere thro! sea bat had den: Into a series ia Sen and star in will ‘un- ritton and| Cudgel, the five-yea es a for . | Commander Ha Hf, 008, Ny tires rae oll picaelh old on a target that is coming to him, ogress g iy te wor in ors not ing away, end there will na- t y b eadded force to it. der one of judged rides, railing. the pace et th! ‘nto the stretch. “I'll admit that it ought not to take ape RoUnibltlasSd ne looked wall baat more than two of O’Dowd’s punches to win for tim, provided he can ‘en when the eighth pole wag reached. |p eh the gab ge sot him down, bunch them closely enough togeth: If he lands one every round Brit! making the mile and three-sixteenths contest el of a@ mile dash. will have ample time to recover rfom them during the intervals. Valor and Spur, which were in front of him at the time, “came 6+ of us. Now, when you bit fast you st naturally gacrifice some momentum for spe, ana the blow doesn’t ree oh Ramage as if you hit jeliberately and put all ree into the blow. hen wefoveht hit many punches either when tho hitter was going away or the hitter receding—go- Britton will to set himself and let go with all Kis ‘might in the bout with O'Dowd. , O'Dow; “Another thi doubtedly reall ' it into “T don't think O'Dowd can land fre- quenry, enough In rapid succession to the points Britton will pile up. T pick Britton to win on points from the middleweight champion.” him fast, and at the end Loft caagel me going away by aearly se bance 9B 0 angel syak at a good price tor eam SUNDAY _SEMI-PRO GAMES. | a horse as he, because it was figured “Treat "Em Roughs’ vs. Chicago} 4s | Amertoen bl double-header, at and up Maeda fad detidea te yckanan a scratch hi. arm eun, however, Farmers vs. St. Agatha, A. M., nd made the tra Wei. ‘by the min- O’Ryan's Rough Necks, P. M, at ute and by post time in Pig! Hudgon Farmer Oyal, Glendale, lL. L the going was just a at fe eitly wood out from the ya Bushwicks vs. Earle’s Red Caps| P! and tool pu Downey, at Dexter Park, Brook- eked out the dry spol his time about it, He just let Cu i. gallop out from the moistenpd Emeralds vs. Chevrolets at Cetho-| fir, run until he struck the stretch Ng Protectory Grounds. There Johnny took his mount wide | at Olympic Field. the sun was beginning to chohee f Peet went York’ vs. Hisnriage| the mud clots into dust, Then he 4 Babies City oo: 108Ry-Bebid OF dro- 14s te Park, Brooklyn. Grongea ce elmo human ‘intelli - t WiesFinancuse at Ivanhoe Park, Glen- Up wae oh as tah osetaas viet dal tory. M., st Meadowbrook Field, Newark, one surprise of tt the Hudene bit rage pe) vs. Newark Stars at St. Tamer 7 Bley ‘Spur. old Night tm: Part, 8 (Btaten Island. New York vs. Ridgewood A. Ch, ee aoe froonidee’ M., at| of the stretch he bolted, but K' soon straightened him out, Valor began of . Cerne § around the rail posts and Tdneoin Giants vs. Maujer and Dry| to the middle of the stretch, where | Athletica at West New palais Guar i} forty the ve Grist an or horse re- Tvanhoes ys. Long Island City and ime was on his way to certain yip- Lledlokteroetss ys. Royal Giants, A. He ra ago Brool sve. under ip ve. Plas eld at Bisco rt without any trouble. Bast New York Oval, Brooklyn. yy that tim Springflelds vs. Newburgh at Reo- reation Park, Long [sjand City. Parkville vs. Bronk Pros at Park- ville Oval, Brooklyn. Far Rockaway vs. Rockaway, L. Argo at Far| two ne Mooked the 4 then along came © Egberts Bogota at Hgbert Field, Jersey City. Melvina vs. New York Bloomer at Melvina Oval, Muepeth Te 7, | winnets, ‘vs. Marquettes at ‘Plat-| because Field, Brooklyn, Gentes to ‘Hackensack va. Federal Dry Dock at Oritant Field, Hackensack, N. J. Morse vs. Pennsylyania Red Caps at Morse Fi Brooklyn. In five leadin; races the hi ‘4 he y Ms looking Penton In the run frome @, with an evident he raion route, jande ie eget Ve} raj} when & Walk. i Pil se instance, he m, pre contender fy he ee BA er; ummer took to the Inside ty the Anal . | ae ‘The Dosoris gtable's 8 the same race, stopped there t whea he looked # certain thir same thing stored Doreen, Gleipner and Star Court. event the winner finished In the ml of the track. apron of i, nee of en-roun oat jast night. efenstout | ’s T man f. Guy Em at ’Em Rough Tesreau (Giants), wie), Kavanaugh (Detroit) Rube Foster's C Chicago American | Giants First pie in New York Since 1914 Dyckman Qval—Sunday, Aug. 17—2 P, M. —_—_— Week Series as follows: enday, Aug. 18—American Giants vs. Hilldale—4.30 P. M. ‘uesday, A ys.