The evening world. Newspaper, August 16, 1919, Page 7

Tre i Fullerton Thinks the ican League Race Prat- _tigally Belongs to White Sox, Although He Belieyes Tigers Will Press Them Hard, While National League Flag, He 8, “Cd by Reds. pe - Bu Bugh § 8. Fullerton. Bell Syndicate, Ine.) HAGO'S White Sox are 90 confident that thoy hgye the American League chi fon- sewed up thet they are figuring forid's Series receipts and are in- med to kick because of the new rules governing the division of the jis. They have investigated and © ot quite satisfed with the Cin+ oinnati seating capacity, and feel a wgeved At the prospect of the ally capturing a pennant ey wore rooting for the Giants be- the Polo Grounds will hold al- edowt teen a8 mahy spectators as can be crowded into the Red pu mfidence of the White Sox is le feeling, but their lead is re Lethe ahi on enough for at port of thi f toons be. It ey ought to a i trifle further ad during t coming fortnight, t they ought to realize that the rat is yet to come and that the is still are dense for a team jch has byt two dependable piteh- ‘The Tigers are not whipped. A whieh hay developed since the son started and which has in- ed steadily in pitching strength if dangerous. New York Yankees sp ar to be out of it entire! now, b ue ‘Of extreme cases of the slows. @ Cleveland club has disappointed @i its admirers and failed to live up tp {ts strength. There are tales of lure to behave among same of the yers, of lack of discipline and loss the fine spirit that the team has ad in former times. How true thege tales are is uncertain but they may decount for the wretched failure of the fine pitching staff to make good. Ciacinnat! is in a state of delirium, The Reds practically have the Na- tional League championship cinched if they can ayold o big slump in the next Yes days. After that they will ve al] the edge over the Giants be- use they will be at home for a long Reriod and the Giants must make an- F eo swing around the circuit. Chi- go is now the most dangerous foe the Reds for the simple reason d et Chicago has the better of the Reaulp toward the finish and the mance to beat the Reds in their se- see But Cincinnati hag piled up a huge lead and the dpive of the Cups aeems to havo started too late. Everything has worked out well for~the minors, mep of Jong ex ran, for New York kicked the lubg out of the race during the early season and then the Cubs knocked the Giants down three in a row and, broke their highest hopes. McGraw is disgruntled over showing of the Giants in théir West- rn tour, and it {s hardly advisable for any one to mention umpires to yim after the Cimoinnat) and Chicago weriog. .Also it will be safer for Me- Graw to have & guard with hun when the Giants yisit Redland again.| nkly, there have deen bitter com- plaints from managers and players other than McGraw against the work af the umps on the Cincinnat! Jot. Some of the players declare that the) Polo’ Grounds in its worst days is! pila compered with Redland when | e pennant fever grips the fans, and they say that the wild-eyed crowds are influencing the umpiring. Cincinnati never was @ pleasant or 4 fair tewn in\which to play ball) when the fans imagined that the b m had a chance. Nor has it de a Ataokat or a fair town for the | home, foam when these same fans furned against the team, and this is the first year in the last quarter of a century that the fans have failed to turn againgt their own club. Not having geen games in Cincin- nat! thig year I cannot judge what the wen piri has been there, but can- aid t has been any worse than it tes been on some of the other lots, it needs fumigating. The umpiring in poth major leagues has been ragged and uncertain for the last three years and seems to get worse Inst of better. Of the entire corps of umps in the two leagues not more than six are, jn thelr present form, competent men to judge play. Some ave grown old, some have grown careless and others are not real um- pites. Apropos of this I yan {is correct in his remarks anent umpires. Bill deo all- SSS | SDUCATIONAL. INSTRUCTION, &C AUTOMOBILE SCHOOL R CAR we Pleasure tn. driving e watintac Knowing that vou oF fs fof adi if bit eb tof it yeu bal ne tRofouah., prattik Course at the Stewart Antomobije sehoe able you to inaster any Bd gupiity rou te BAe mination. ‘Write, phone or call téet booklet No. ¢ St, af the} I think Bill Dono-| Is Already Almost | iter —__—— AMERICOAN LEAGUE. wk | Clube. Hi Ble: Games curaane enoa Detroit, 2; New York, Washington, 3; Clevejand, o St. Lente, Detroit Cleveland |New York... Chicago, 6; py ‘ ti tering). GAMES TO-DAY. Mew York at Oetrelt. Washington at Clevelend. Poiiedelobie at Bt. Lewis. Bovton as Phicage. players make the worst umps, for the reason that a y plays and make decigio see the plays, There Fone at league umpires who consisten! ty make their decisiong before play# completed—and this is the most t . tile cause of mistakes. Bil) says this is because players habitually figure a play ahead of time. He declares that only five pf the) major league umpires cap a} newspaper without glasses. This re- mark seems to me entirely gratuitous. lt probably ip true that many of the: umpires do yso glasses but that fact ttle Dedbiow uw his ability as an umpire. A man may have extraordinarly good eyesight for! umpiring and be entirely unable to! read print. Bob Emalie, for instance, ‘used glasses in reading, yet be js one of the best trap shots m the country and propebly can Bee tier than Donovan on the ball peld. The fault with the umpires in the majors \p of judgment armed ee eyesight. he entire sys! fehoosing major league apres lp wrong and hag been for many years, It is praiseworthy to give Jobs to oi players ae splendid records oft sorvice, bub thet does meke s umpir'ug. Worse Tanne tae ie cus oe all bps romotion ran minor eagues ani mye, 3d where are 4S excellent pire th ence and Of wonderful Spagmept Sh skill in handling men. "Phey are denied the chance of advancement. The sit- vation kills ambition in umpires and many of the best men drop opt atter a few years because there 8 po fu- ture in the business. Umpires should be league to leagne as t and the result woujd be the develop- | ment of a fing end capgble corps of arbitrators. The uselessnegs gf the National | Commission |s further accentuated by the Mays case, and real good may come out of that near scandal, Three times in recent baseball histor, cae commission has been openly ~ and it has hot been able to cntatce its edicts. The rebellion of the own- ers and the minors against the jef Johnson, Herrmann and the gilént | partner who is President of the Na- tional and always the minority, has | made a jcke of the cominission. It seems tobe more against the person- nel of the governing body against the jaws themgelves, | defied them in the Scott Perry case, |becausé he declared the commiggion had been prejudiced and unfair. Comiskey, hes defied them seyer \times. ‘The Cleveland CI defied them and getline al series in St. Lou A ee away with it without puplaimont, he minor leagues rebelled against them. Houston, Ruppert and Frazee openly rebelled. ‘The point Is that, in each case, the owners profess to be strong for base- bell law, but opposed to unfairness alleged to be behind focwnigne. of the ommission, Dreyfu een It open rebellion ever Ag the unjus' and arbitrary decision against Pitts- burgh in the Sipler c Last winter the public wap prom- iged a sweeping reform in ihePe com, mission, Johnson wag galing to re- jtire. Herrmann was to be thrown out, a pew commission wes to be |formed. The names of several emi- nent men weer mentioned as heads of the commission, but Johnson Herrmann still rule. No matter what the Mays tase May bring forth, it will be good for baseball if it results in the retirement of these two from the government of the game. The day of their useful Pe BENNY VALGER REPLIES TO LYNCH’S CHALLENGE. According to Joe Jacobs, manager of Benny Valger, the Franch featherwelght champion, Joe Lynch bed better wateh his step and look back to ® year ago, when he lost to Valger in the Qlympia ring of Poiledaihla. "T ond, ime ‘Lynd at ti age where Badia Joe Lyncl ys af Re ip os NM " whi cr t after ovat he lee by back Betsey wi proved ing Pe ‘ha Hams. rf the story In true that Jiramy Dunn, manager. of Johnny Henne ae formed Lyne 2 tree before he seeks i atch ‘ih xii ne, then why donan’t Kilbane aczept play the year, and nd | OUT OF PENNANT RAGES 2 a9 } |tament in thig. country. > openty | First Amateur Cham- pionship Since 1916 Brings Out Greatest Field That Ever) Swung for Premier Honors, By William Abbott. (Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) PFPTSBURGH, Aug. 16. HB pick of American golfers started competition to-day on the Qakment course in « preliminary qualifying round for the twenty- third amateur championship of the Upited States, ‘The numbers and prestige of to-day's competing field © never heen equalled in any tour- Champions were as plentifyl ag gigantic smoke- Stacks that blur the local skyline. There was Ghick Byans of Chicago, who underneath his smiles was all determination to wage tho battle of hig life before losing the national title he won at Merion im 1916, the last time the championship was held. Just ag determined as Chicago Chick were Francis Oulmet, Jerry Travers, Bob Gardner, B. M. Byers and W. €. Fownes, all former na- tional champions, all confident they will separate Byans from his huge miver cup, ‘The remainder of the long “ust of entrants js cluttered up with various degrees of title holders who wou their honors in every gec- tion ef the landscape. With players from every district, the present tour- nament shows how the ancient Geotch je has planted itee)f in this Somatry Ae 189). when @ dozen pio- neers yl the first amateur gham- pions! ‘Newport: The ani event i8 an eighteen- hole qualifying pound, which — will weed ‘out fhe golfing chaff so that only pixty: -four fom the original starting flold of 18 will be eligible to bust in Monday's thirty-six-hole eg it. oh double teat will fleld down to wa ryrew fortunate ‘will then #ix-hole match are reached 101 Bury: @ *yo finalists in such an Re phen of Tinks talent bout Ae eAay ps cotting Russia's Ouse | W yer. heing centred on a fn, ptenders, will be stronply ‘Reflected back In the Home sectldhs, ae the feats of native hon” PER cia pit sustoen with the neh Ri ie 7 ta “t th Id Aa@ptch moors eed ‘eathn bs ec ie fe ‘akg the fra oie yn bs jet ep ptment rung pretty strong- | fo; sar of alyy Bryans tad’ yFancls Byline | fh th 4 ii x me wo brilliant wy Ro H ¥ Sp be supported by loads of brs a choice | Chick Evans, now twenty-nine, for|the many rev: many years was unsuccessful in his|ing a big golf meet, and it wasn't quest of national titles, Possessing | until collection of shote—Varion | and h ted Golf Champions and Two Young Stars Competing for Y National Title at Oakmont and Ray, the noted English cham- pions, rated Evans the best American amateur during their visit in 101%— the Chicago r always met one of ‘sey that crop up dui 916 that he landed the top, Ignaed with both fe winning in 73—Par Figures. with youngster, 1 under par, noon, when he played ® match "with ‘George Ormiston against | Dwight Armstrong and Bavideon Her- two ObRmont players @ PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 16 Adair of Atlanta, in yesterday's practice round for the J the veteran and the professic finished In the money in thi an casy matter to Frances Ouimet ran Adair a ond for first honors, morning round. under pay, but played turn trip and took a & His game broke even Wor je was finding i Ga., jones, another kn ee) lay bis taking a He was out ti poorly three ot ‘ers won } FR: .9 ou Fou while the local " Thelr best ball wae best score, a 78. Scores generally ran high. the stars Were luéky to break 80. Ouyimet was sh his morning roun wi show: tree. geare on to) Biwanoy 4 oe ig but ert tf th out amy "4 ro echiaey ie re ‘9. 10 the Atlantan oe on ry Pa the outbound tri bea “hres Birdies, joting excellent golf jn 4, as tne following Ny % re follows? ich evened ap other holes whel the er who defente Victory tournbment « ne e Par ‘ne a atroke. one, | Burnelaer, To} Ly a ih Perry Ied the feld National Amateur Golf Champion- ship tournament, which will begin here to-day, The youthful Georgian covered the eighteen holes in a best ball match with W. C, Fownes, former national! champion, and Charles Rowe, Oak- mont professional, in 73, par figures. He was out in 87 and back in 36, breaking even with par on both ends, Adair was paired in the bost ball match “Bobby” Atlanta and the pair a Canadian “open championship, 2 and 1. Jones's teemer Which occasionally interferes with hig game to & great! extent, probably prevented him trom | king’ ‘rst honors in yesterday's joing to No. 17 Bobby dubbed his second shot and it fell into a bunke Suarding the green, but where it end putt out for a four, Howeve instead of doing this, he ed up hi ball. On No. 18 he Look a Piirale theres which, if he had continued his play and made a four on seyentgen, would have given him @ 72 for the course, on, wore shooting gn Most of 3 ? § Of Hahar | mai a. ten even with t Fab i) 19-year -o14 | tA Nea Perry Adair Leads Field In the Practice Round Young Atlanta Golfer Covers | 4,0" ‘and John G. Anderson Eighteen Holes at Oakmont | bal} dead | gu of 1916. The winning palr will t =| Would be wiper to set pe In the ‘after: be best ball} | jagainet Craig Bi is first trip over the course. Gardner Sopenee in match play for 18 Holes and White was tho winner, 1 up., Anderson wae out Ip r figures, but big game fell off oy be ptooghrd iourmagrand he tone | & 41, five over par. Inthe morning | round Anderson shot a Max ‘Marston’ played’ fairly well ang| took a 7 Jerry Travers apparently is far off his real game and his scores ran high in two rounds, Bob Gardner, too, has pot yet hit his’ stride, with the result that bis scores thus far er hey been high. Challenge Round, In Doubles Now | Set for Monday NEWTON, Mass, Aug. 16.—Water- soaked turf caused another ponement in the National Lawn T nis doubles championship play at the Longwood Cricket Club. The rear- ranged schedule calls for the finals to- day between Norman HE. Brookes and Gerald Paterson, the Australian com- bination, d William M. Johnston and Clarence J. Griffin, the championship {turn meet W: bier ‘Tilden $d and V cent Hichards, the present titlehot ‘ers, in. the challenge round on Mon- j@ay afternoon. Although the Arend stand turf hed been covered with tarpaulin for tke pant two days, the avaking rain left the championship court so soft that the tournament committee decided | Justice to spectators and players | Dack the fh a entry. @ thousand spectators, pered to watch the play, 9 by several, peattlog Richards played nd followed with m doubles match die and Alien Behr. fast exhibit s\ ere that make Oakmont such @ gifti cult course, in which the latter combination suc- cpede i an a ‘one set from the shamplo NEW INTERNATIOWAL L LEAGUE Wiluinatanton WH yi O94|Rochester 140 6A CARE eoldereey Olty. 142 72 ‘AS BeplBeading vee HB TP ae Bottade ot sere ye Tose }inghewion ot Repos. " BRUIT nssane the open championship et Min apolis and the amateur crown at Merion. Evans waa our first amateur to win both national titles the agape seagon. Despite bis wonderfu’ skill bey lr to the greens the defending has @ weakness of rae hs putty, een ally little short ones that meee 8 oe m in an important battle, Be- cause of this trait the Western crack frequently gives vent to displays of temperament, which are not very helpful when your opponent is scrap- ping for every stroke. A little more steadiness and accuracy on th greens and Evans would be pretty nearly invinetble. Francis Quimet, who has been made the champion’s chief opponent in shle . méet, is a fighting go that isn't clicked out. Golf, with ite many mental hagards, requires the finest kind of nerve control and Qui- met's temperament is ideal, Ho makes poor shots, bu fer, the type the tall Boston star doewn't permit these mis- cues to injure his game, ay As a shot bably isn’t the equal of the flashy Evans, except on the greens, but more dependanle | jn @ close match. Bince cp} ating iy the open champlonshjp in dune at Bree Burn Ouimet hag spowe” re- Mmapkable form. Tp this interval he lowered renords for three couryes in New Bog! and. Hob Gardner, twioe holder of the premier title has a host of followers. So has Jerry Travers, who won the amateur championship on four dif- ferent occasions. This. Interont in Jerry, however, 1s more for sentimen- tal reasons, belated reward for his many great fights in tournaments oth here and in Ei Inga ‘Travers i§ making what might be called a come-back after a long absence from competitive golf, Many here hope Jerry comes all the way beck, but the regular form dopers bluntly predict the veteran will blow up. This district has considerable to root for in the presence of Bill Fownes and Eben Byers, two veteran Oakmont members who captured the national title years ago. It Is be~ Heved that Fownes and Byers may come through because of their famill- arity with the battleground, Fownes and Byers already have played ap important part in the present tourna- ment, Through pride In their famous course these wo veterans months ago Wlosely following the first batch of engaged Donald Ross, famous jolt | arehitect, to put the Oakmont links ip tip top shape for the championship. It can, he safely stated that Ross formed his assignment well and Fhe Oakmont sfandg out pow af one of the greatest teats of goit In Ampricg. favorites are stars of the calibre of Oswald Kirkby, Metropolitan cham- pion; Max Maraton, Jersey State title! maker, Oulmot hol seventeen-year-pld Bobby Jones of Atlanta, Nelsop Whitnoy, another Southern star; Gardiner White, who hag featured go many tournaments this season, and a host of other luminaries. And a class that js not overlooked is a few dangerous youngsters like seventeen-year-oid Jess Sweetser, Grant Peacock, Perry Adair and others. Most of the contesting fleld hag doen | op the ground since early in the wee", trying Out the many traps and bunk: rancls Quimet declared the local links were the ‘aneat he over played prar, | Oakmont is 6,790 yards be, 9 and every hole is guarded by stretches of art and sofentiicniy pinced traps. ar is 78, but few practice roun have been under 80. The nitimate of mych 4 championship. played on course the high type of Oakmont well earns the honor of the country’s lead~ ing amateun, Tn the Second News Secon BERLIN AS IT IS TO-DAY. , A World Staff Correspondent who has to ng My striking picture FOOD THE UNIVERSAL TOPIC. Money is plentiful, gambling prevalent and battles with the Noske guard frequent, but generally blood To the Edi SENATOR CUMMINS, expert on Interstate Commerce and Transportation, tells -how the railroad problem may be solved and” justice done to the railroad worker. An estimate of VISCOUNT GREY, the new British Ambassador to Washington, by P. W. 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