The evening world. Newspaper, August 22, 1919, Page 10

SCARCEIY ABLET TO STAND ON HIS Feer ourmeT LEFT HIS ROOM’ TO TACKLE "CHICK" EVANS s » 8 SCORE AGAINST PLATT Oulmet On SSSESESSEA os Wee EASE 00170 THREE YOUNG GOLF STARS IN -TO-DAY'S SEMIFINALS Only Veteran Left to Attempt to Stop Rush of the Three Youths—Bobby Jones, Woody Platt and Davey Herron —Who Have Sidetracked All the Famous Players in Amateur Championship Tourney at Oakmont. By William Abbott. ’ (tall Correspondent of the Brening World?( OAKMONT, Pa, Aug. 22. OY8 continue to tear things wide open in golf. From all sections of the try these young chaps mobilized in the third amateur golf championship of the United States. Ont er they toppled Gardners and other regulars © so many toy enile rush is seen in Ine-up for the semi- H ir = ge Hite fle E 3 28 breezed and thelr"prowess opens & now ‘The other semi-finalist, vetéFan Lill Fownes, who in 1910, is the only survivor. of the old guard to of pill-swatters. ip meets, When only twelve the National meet was held, the Atlanta prodigy advanced to the third roun bdefore he was stopped, ‘ Neither Platt or Herron ever competed in anything larger than a small local tournament. Herron, a big husky youth, went to Princeton and played on the college golf team. He is a member of the Oakmont Club and holds title. club's Platt, a light haired, aggressive-looking individual from Philadelphia, iP with @ set of crack young golfers from Quakerstown. Two members group, Eddie George Hoftner, figured prominently in the it tournament. golfing Platt boxes, and a scrappy disposi. golf battle. F upsets, it is possible that Bill Fownes of the three formidable youngsters in ‘veteran’s many Pittsburgh friends are The glory of the 1919 is only a remote ips the way Waiter it Ht #3 4 i j i : iti i ; z E ¢ F z z gf fie i cl rit in g & i if eat i a i 3] MY Francis Oulmet, weakened from his recent sickness and the strain of his encounter with Evans, was far from hie best form. His poor physical condition was reflected in drives that didn't carry the usual Ouimet distance end iron shots that lacked the Bostonian'’s wonderful direction, Ouimet failed to get’ under 80 in both rounds, and this showing made it possible for (mE te Balle an Ene Croaevaney ra 00 See. ‘Toward the finish Platt was 4 up, Oulmet's penalty for banging into con-|many traps. Here the conqueror ,of Vardon and Ray rallied his failing strength and gave Platt the shock’ of his young life, Outmet, playing much better, started to pick up holes, Although very little time remaining, the tide of battle slowly turned to Oulmet. The gallery, scenting an upset, stayed out on the links despite menacing clouds which threatened rain any eecond. Ouimet turned to the home hole, where he must win to even the match. Roth made mistakes, but Platt was in worse and the Boston,star pulled off the trick, Going down the fairway of the first extra hole the storm broke, Rain came down with gun-like velocity; lowering, black clouds made it al- most impossible to see theglittle balls. So tense was the situation that no one hurried for cover to the adjacent clubhouse. After two fine drives, Ouimet poked his second just short of the green. Platt's try was much shorter and the outlook for the young Philadelphian seemed as dark as the scolding skies, Platt, howe til] had his nerve. Playing deliberately, he laid a dandy mashie dead to the pin and holed the putt for a four, which halved the hole, The second extra hole was somewhat similar, Platt again making a wonderful approach to within twenty feet of the pin, while Oulmet was bunkered on his second, Platt had little trouble getting home in two putts, Oulmet made a gallant try to run a long one down for a four, but missed, ‘and Boston's cherished hopes of landing the National title this season flickered out. Quimet’s Wife Glad-He ts Out of It. If anything, the result trought joy to the young wife“of Oulmet, who had nursed him all week that he might continue in the championship, al- though at,times his fever mounted to the 104 mark. While Ouimet waa anxious to capture the classic, his defelt was evened up through his triumph over Chick Evans, the Bostonian’s chief rival in the amateur ranks. For Mvans, Gardner, Kirkby and other golf notables who came here confident of stroliing off with the premier trophy, there remains the scant satisfaction of knowing there wil more National champion- ships; but this may not be so nourishing the way young stars are opeshing their way to the front. Robby Jones of Atlanta, the hope of the South, came through in good »|Ghape, Robby trimmed young Ruddy Knepper by three holes in the third yt | Found. This was no ordinary feat, as Knepper is one of the strongest golfers out of the wheat belt, At one time Knepper, who comes from Sioux City, actually had his sensational opponent at a disadvantage. On the second trip Jones put more d race yesterday. “He all but lobody knew of his \i ss himsel: |. This was one not take the boys into his 1 have roximate vanes ; Lawrence Realiza- j, Jockey Club Stak ‘Brook Cup - Bteeplechase, BRIAR was given his final for the Merchants’ and we : ane Handicap here to-mor- yesterday, He cov. furlong, a sixteenth of the race, in ‘un Briar worked. with wi r which also is eligible to iber oa Bay Star Mas- a seventeen; Woody Platt, twenty-two, and Davey | Dep into his shots and Knepper slowly began to ease judgment in the ENING WORLD, Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publisht FRANCIS OUIMET WHOSE WONDERFUL GAMENESS |BEST SPORTING PAGE IN GAME! YOU’VE SAID IT! “ is Co. (The New York Evening World). ADDED & NEW CHAPTER TO 60OLF HISTORY Fistic News join Fox and Goss Leon Raines, another one of the big delphia National League Baseball Park on the night of Sept. 3. There will bé five six-round bouts. In four of the bouts the following good fight- will battle. Brooklyn, Willie Jackson of New York meets Johnny Mealey of Philadelphia, Johnny Murray of the Bronx faces K. O. Jo@ O'Donnell of Gloucester and Patsey Wallace of Philadelphia goes against Max Williamson of Phil- adelphia. Frank “Pop” O'Brien and Philadelphia Jack O’Brien will ref- BRUSHES ute fifi i f LE iene i j E Er 2& aft a it ry i i : ! Hi i it f BP ll ab FE Pit Hi Eee et fF i 3 | fi frit i rie ry bE i i } | ; i i s ES ge : i H [ : : Y ff i iF ; | sf uf E i i i t e i ki, ef z F | g & g z¢ “fee Heth Lewie then attempted Lo eign up Joe Tiplits i i Te is Fe 258 twenty-round decision over the Crescent Doherty says Brandt i © vote Phil Lowis is mightly pleased because of the great work of his star lightweight, Ralph Brady, of Syracuse, this week, Patemon Brady whipped Tommy Tuohey, while the following night he won a twelre-round de- cision over Billy De Foo in an exciting match at Jack Bulger announce that Dare Mackay, matobmaker of the Sportsmen's Club of Newark, has arranged to stage a big championship card on Sept, 17, According to Jack, Pete Herman, ban- tam chamoloa, will be put on with Young Bols- . | berg and Jommny Kilbane, the featherweight king, wiki tackle Harold Fasese, the clover Newark boy, out, The most convincing golf of th Dempsey. the young Oakmont Club cuampion, who is built on the proportions of Jack Herron drew \V, J, Tompson, one of Canada’ with wood and iron, but thesinvader trom to win with toothpicks against the game H ferenbe to Herron that it ramed steadily during his first round, he ne day was flashed by Davey Herron, biest performers Dominion had as much chance ron produced, It made no dif- it went out aad shot a 73, equalling par figures for the hard course, Thompson, eanwhile, was up in the eighties, winning by eight holes, In the other The uneven ch ended with Herron match Bill Fownes, who is old enough E. Loss of Phil } oe a W YORK DOITIGHTER By Thornton Fisher 9 ae bi WINNING HIS NERVE- RACKING MATEHWITH EVANS AT THE Lasr Horm — A Sick No COOKIN’ | LIEANNIN 5 Douglass, Who Has Shuffled Away, Severe Blow to .Giants\« —— Manager McGraw Has Sus-|sinsie pended A, W. O. L. Pitcher —Main Prize of His Staff. By Bozeman Bulger. F lesser importance, the Giants licked the -touring Cardinals again and are having another go at ‘em to-day; but of greater im- portance, Shufflin’ Phil Douglass has strayed off the reservation, gone A. W. 0. L, has been placed on the In- eligible list by J. John McGraw and everything is all mussed up. The pitching staff recently built up with such care and expense has’ lost its main prop, and the old thing is begin- ning to sag in the middle, But when Shufflin’ Phil gets to shufflin’ right there's no telling where he's going to shuffle to or when hi golng to shuffle back. So McGraw simply put a cross mark on the Doug- lass locker and let it go at that, « When @ man is placed on the In- eligtble list, that means that he can't piay ball in the big leagues, can draw no salary from anybody Connected with baseball and is not on the market for a trade, In the army they would call & man on the ineligible list & O. L, which, as a soldier knows, is quite some predicament, Nobody seems to know where Shut- fin’ Phil went, and, since his many experiences, with ¢he lamented and picturesque’ Bugs Raymond, ~ J. MoGraw is not going out of his way to seek a clue. If Douglass had any diMculty on the Gidnts, nobody pro- fesses to know anything about it. He simply got the travellin’ fevah, as he calls it, and beat it, Shufflin’ Phil left no change of address for forwarding his mail. “All I know," says Manager Mc- Graw, “is that the big fellow falled to report for duty two days in suc- cession and I put him on the ineligible | ;, list. If he returns of his own free will we may then make some other disposition of hig case.” But the question remains “Where is Shufflin’ Phil?” ‘This is not the first time that Doug- lass has given evidence of his shufflin’ ability, While with the Brooklyn club he shuffled about a bit, going A. W. O. L, and such things untih Uncle Wilbert Robert finally gave him the raus. For three years, though, Phil has conducted himself as a well reg- ulated pitching ball player should. That is, so far as shufflih’ off the Feservation is concerned. ‘He may have \had his fun, heré and there, but he was always ready to pitch. The loss of Douglass is @ severe one to the Giants, Aside from the son, Phil was expected to be a big factor in pitching the Giants up to a level with the Reds. At this stage of the season, in the midst of a hot fight, hy The ofly thing to be hoped for 1s for him to realise the error of his way and voluntarily rejoin his club. ‘And, now, can you hear those fel- lows out West chortling? A month or 60 ago When the Giants got Doug- lass from the Cubs they raised a at cry_of protest at “New York fhying the pennant.” Zan you hear Bill Phelon chuckling, Ha, Ha! The “Serves ‘em right! bloated bondholders!" There is little’to report in the way of warfare at the Polo Grounds, As the communique used to remark so to be daddy for the other semi-finalists, had a tough time with George Moffner of Philadelphia, who has put Fownes won. by two holes, mainly thi of shots, out some good men in this tournament, rough long-experience and exceptional often, "Our progress is satisfactory,’ The Cardinals tried several raids cn the new southpaw, but were re- ith heavy losses, except in Aided by Sobultze’s faet that he cost them Davy Robert- | Thome, is no way of replacing Douglass. | W and Hornsby’s base on balls nicked our hero for lies and called it a day. Burns, Young and Fletcher quickly tied that up any then went out and won themselves @ ball game. It was all very simple. The Giants started out shooting at Goodwyn, the A. E. F. aviator, and hung up so many bull's-eyes that he had to retire in the seventh. The ven- erable and esteemed Lemuel Ames, a former hero for the home boys, took up the pitehing task in the last two frames and bent over a few nice ones. Young unoolled one of these for @ single after G. Burns bad walked, and zip went another tally over the plate. But that was all. It didn’t hurt Lem much and gave a lot of sat- isfaction to the crowd. Heinie Zimmerman had a rather complete afternoon around third base, but acquitted himself creditably. They hung one error on Heinie that I thought belonged to somebody else, but, somehow, a certain crowd of fans in the stand pick on Heinle Bo Se a= |r ARE CONFIDENT ~ WINNING BY 0 Mike O'Dowd and Jack Brit ton, Middléweight and Wel- ter Champions, Respective ly, Clash To-Night. By Alex. Sullivan, is a long time since there has been such interest in a boxing match hereabouta as, there ts in the championship contest between Jack Britton, welterweight king, and Mike @'Dowd, the middleweight crown wearer, at the ist Regiment Armory, Newark, under the auspices of the Sportamen's Club, to-night. Jack Britton is confident that Sround 11 o'clock to-night be will be besieged by a host of admirers, congratulating him on the annexa- tion of another title, Jack won the welterweight titie—or rewon ttfrom Ted Lewis on St.*Patrick’s Day, He stopped the Englishman in @ one sided bout at Canton. The admirers of Britton may be ¢ocksure that he ts going :» win, but Mike O'Dowd's friends say that he will spring a surprise on the wily Britton and put him to sicep, There tw no chance of the St. Paul scrapper winning the weiter crown, but he would like nothing better than to stop the veteran, who has never been knocked off his feet in these parte, A trip to siumberland would be @ new experience for Britton, but Mike says he has improved 200 per cent, since he was last seen hereabouts, and he feels sure hé will be able to connect ‘with Britton’s chin, Dan Morgan, Briton's manager, says that if he does he will not only have the honor of accomplishing a unique fistie feat, but that he will present him with $2,000 if it is a right punch that does it, Dan Morgan claims Britton has never been hit with a right on’ the jaw by any boxer, O'Dowd says he found himself while fighting for his country in France, He says his experiences with the rmans added to ability an K. O, wallop with either hand now. Of course, O'Dowd won't be given anywhere near as much credit for of McHenry’s double, they | stopping Britton as the latter woulé nice pair of tal-|get if he dropped \ddlewelght, Britton is giving away quite w lot of weight, anywhere from ten to twelve pounds, and then, too, as soon as he is knocked out every one wil be saying that it's about time for an “old man” (Jack is thirty-seven Jyeda od ang ams « ‘ |sevent years or more) to be stopped, especially by @ cuumpion ma the class above him. w r the result the bout prom- ises to be @ hummer. This is their fourth meeting. Britton won the bulk of honors in the previous meet~ ings and that is why he is especially rious of evening up matters in one fell swoop. Neither was @ cham- pion when they met before. Benny Leonard, lightweight cham- pion, and numerous other fistio stars, will be on hand, “Pete eveane oe bantam king, and posalbly Johnny Kilbane, will on deok. ere sure will be a bright of array of fistioe titleholders, Manager Mackay has much that they are willing to make him the goat on the slightest provo- cation, Say what you please, but it would be @ pretty tough job getting somebody out there who could play that bag better than Zim has been going this season. By the way, speaking of Shuffiin’ Phil's departure, Casey Stengel has rared up on his hind legs and left the Pirates flat. They wont giv \Casey what he wants in the way of >» ane ears he wont work @ lick for Barney Dreyfuss until he geteethat dough. In the mean time Stengel has joined a semi-pro club and is having a lot of ijaughs. I'll bet the semi-pro fans are too. ‘This, we are reminded, is the day of the hearing of the injunction case against Ban Johnson, with the Col- onels Hueston and Ruppert, Harry Frazee and Carl Mays as the attack- ing parties, There was some talk of another postponement, but it looks as it men W ill have to go up to the plate an i the Reds seven games in the nd only thirty-one to play, it looks as if Garry Herrmann was in @ fair way to get cooled off before the Giants get back there next month, pts Ee et Bi wall, GOLF RESULTS AT ’ _ BRETTON WOODS, BRETTON WOODS, N. H., Aug. 22.— In the second day's play of the annual golf tournament at Bretton Woods some brilliant work by Hamil- ton, the Byron Brothers and other well known metropolitan The summary: ed + sf, Hamiiion and 2; With lead, jolfers was @ feature. Fimt | Divi Xue. 3 up, ry 3 ‘a, In consi jolation events for the W. eights the following ‘scores 'w made: First Division, —M, RC. ¢ T. Owen defeated 1 ing. 1 ups R man Ir defeated Woe it 6 i, eke deteated 4, W Hintole 4 and r., ‘defeated jews W, Samah eet ioe aa were ‘Becond Adm. | and jainilton, Sheridan, Freeman, PITTSBURGH, Aug. 2.—The pur- chase of the services of First Baseman | Charles Grimm of the Little Rock (Arn.) Club, Southern Association, by the Pittsburgh National Club was an. nounced to-day by the Pittsbugh Base- ball Club. Grimm is twenty years of apner: He report . | "Red’ arranged @ big programme of preliminaries, in« cluding the appearance of P&die Fits~. simmons, the new lightweight staz,, GEORGE HOOLEY ENTERS K. OF C. MARATHON RUN Frank Wandle, who ls arranging #2 the great Olympic meet to be held ume der the auspices of the Knights of Cow Jumbus at Camp Dix, N. J. on Sept, ¢, said last night that one of the entries for the marathon to be staged from the camp to the State House at Trentom te George Hooley of Irvington, N. J, ehame pion American amateur runner, Léeut, Russell H. Anderson, @ star athlete Gur ing hig student years at Wesleyan ts marked up for participation in tm of the events, A ready response has been made by former and present athletes off the mye 'y and marine co. ‘The aitplane race which will be staged by the aviation service for a fight rece ord has been scheduled for = route i the clouds between the camp and the Witiam Penn statue. at Philadetphis and'return. Officials and sporting mew from the Quaker City, members of the New Jersey Legislature, and the Gove ernor have sod c to The K. of C. held an open air boxing show, under the direction of Secretary Jimmy Twyford, at Camp*Dix last night before fully 15,000 returned soldiers, ‘The : Dann; ‘8 vs. Mike Dundee, Packy O'Gal * Walter Brooks, Bal} “Panama Bill” Walker, Frankie Clark vs. Fred Dyer, Ray Smith va, Farmer Sullivan, Patsy Finnigan va, Willie fal yet uinn and Bobby O'N. \e Drawings will be held to-day for the matches in the Veterans’ Championship Tennis Tournament to be held next eek at Forrest Hills, Long Island. “all of them ; Jover forty-five years of age by requires ment of entry regulations, are entered n|in the tournament which begins Aug. rnament which begins Aug, ai Judge 1 mething. CINCINNATI, Aug. 2-—Judge Kenee ;|saw Mountain. Landis has applied to the Cincinnati Baseball Cluy for four seats at the world’s series wames to be play in this city, providing Otncine nati wing the Natlonal League pens nani — Jack Rivers Wins Nout, Jack Rivers, recently discharged from the United States Navy ana wit makes Newark his home, easily defeated Ban wie ak (rronicr's, Newark. La pped in the eighth round, clal m was broken, brisedlaced BH) ‘? \