The evening world. Newspaper, August 26, 1919, Page 12

BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YO THE BIG WEEK AT FOREST HILLS Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World), Th woh cellinaginesth 0 bo oeh OL LOTT Hey, MATIONAL BROOKS AND STARS WHO Wie SHAKER ! f e ; : McLaughlin Wins Match In Opening Day’s Play s Tournament| EVENING WORLD'S OWN SPORT HISTOR What Happens Every Day PRETTY JANES WILG ALSO COMPETE i i & Gy i Ot Tenni. California Comet” De- feats Cragin in Three ‘Straight Sets Before Large Crowd of Fans at West Side Courts. jSusiness. McLaughlin, serving first opened with the old driving wallop that made him the peer of all Amer- jean players six years ago. Depending on speed shot the ball over the net with so much steam that,Cragin had trouble meking safe returns. McLaughlin won the first game, his opponent earning but @ single point, ‘The Californian, climbing all over FOREST HILLS, L. L, Aug. 26—|the court making sharp recoveries, Maurice E, McLaughlin, the Call-/ ed fornian Comet, formally opened the thirty-elghth national singles cham~ Pionship on the West Side Clu! (courts this afternoon when he tri | out his powerful strokes against Ar- thur Cragin. While “Red Mac," the idol of American tennia fans, and Cragin performed on court: No, 8 in front of the club house, sixtgen other matches Were being fought out at the same time on the wide stretch of turf to the rear of the stands, After a day's postponement the re- newal of the all-comers’ tournament got under way under ideal weather conditions, A stiff wind that flung |Under numerous flags of the allied mations on top of the stands took the | jating from a hot eun. The stands filled early with tennis rooters an- xious to see the start of seven days ed of competition that will decide the in the! possessor of the national title now {a held by R. Lindley Murray. Long before starting time a small regiment of blue-uniformed ball boys swarmed over the battle scene, some putting rollers, other adjusting black nets and putting things in tip top ‘shape for what should stiffest championships American courts. A guarantee of spirited action fa|* the pretense of Australia’s t8br-star | 1, racquet wielders, Brookes, Patterson, | the sun wes shining again, Lysett and Thomas. Veteran Nor-|ard Voshell of New York and Con- man Brookes 1s no stranger. to muddy going, which ‘ memorable battles with Maurice Mo- on in a bik gallop from | Layghlin and it. Norris Williams in years | 1914, the lust time the Davis Cup matches were held are still fresh in the minds of fans when figuring the ultimate winner of the tournament. Along with Breokes 1s “Hurricane” @ twenty-three-year-old whirlwind who defeated Brookes in BASEBALL. ‘The Yankees capped thelr Western touf with a victory over the Chicago White Sox and breezed away to fin- ish the season in their own baili- Wick. As the Detroit Tigers fost to Chicago was not: espe- by the defeat which bog measured with the count of ¢ Cincinnati needed only six hits to) ladelphia by a@ score of In the ‘seventh th bat before making a hit. safety in this inning was Roush's but three bases on balls, FEATURE TENNIS MATCHES TO-DAY. Court No. 3—Maurice E. Me- Loughlin’ of Lost Angeles vs. Ar- thur 8. Cragin of New clally perturl 5 5 i (Gonrial to ‘The Prening World.) Court No. 1—Conrad . Doyle Washington vs. S. corralled the next two games. “Red Mac's” showing was a pleas- ing surprise to the big gallery, which is hopeful that MacLaughlin will at least fight his way to the finish, Cra- gin, coming up to the net, began to choke off some of MacLaughlin’ Placements, This change of tactics earned three games in the first«set which the Californian won, The Comet opened with a terrific attack in the second set driving his tal opponent clear back to the base Une where he was helpless to handle McLaughlin's drives. Point after point and game after game went to “Red Mac” who captured the second set 6—0. Cragin was simply out- classed in this stage. Cragin rallied @ little in the third set. Frequently the score went past deuce before the game was decided, McLaughlin mixed ‘up hot shots with fancy chop etrokes, but Cragin killed many of these soft strokes for’ points, Cragin continued on the defensive and McLaughlin had Little troub!o winning the third and fimal set six At 4.30 P, M. No, 2—Capt, Gerald L. jerson of Melbourne, Australia, ve. Frederick B. Alexander of New bases filled, tng the ninth scored the two run: needed to win the final game of the series With Washington, 4 to 3. Detroit pitchers were unable to Boston in the pinches, the Red Sox taking the second game of the series Ruth hit his hree days, mak- ing his total for the season twenty- three, | French player who won the inter-/ Allied stagice championship in June, ,pemnine to regr England, by a score Tne play will cutting the schedule down to 140 continue to-day and Thursday to de-) games instead of 154. cide whether French or English play- ers are to meet the Australian hold- ers of the trophy. Franklin D. Secretary: of the Navy, guest of tionor at the Navy Rifle| ange at Caldwell, N. J., when mare than 1,300 marksmen began compe- defeated Davson, of 85, 6—4, 46, 6—4. Roosevelt, Assistant ind's pitching graduate ots, shut out the Ath~ letics by @ score of 12 to 0. MISCELLANEOUS. Play in the semi-final rounds of fhe Cup tennis matches began at ie. Andre H. Events were at 300 yards rapid fire and 500 yards slow fire. Sergt. F. Ioerger, 37th Infantry, led with a total of 196, satisfactory arrangements can Se completed the boxing fans of New get the chance on ar) About Sept. 16 of witne: Al. Lippe, manager of Willle O'Loughlin of Al- Tentown, Pa., bas fust accepted terms from the Matchmaker of the boxing cl of the club hi rman oy notiseabie tt ight ave cut, while joy reigned among the nate layers, 4 Athlone, which had rededed. in 5 to 1 to 10's in the face Tulsa, Okla, for O'Loughlin to meet Ted "Kid" Lewis, the formér welterweight champlcn, has fought many good fights at Tulse and as he ve © good showing In all of them his battle with Lewis ought to attract = big crowd, on Sept, 22, 07 ht-round bouts between At the finish of this match a heavy ®orm broke and the gallery made a bee line for shelter in ‘th ‘The rain held up all of ball grounds. The fighters who are it be said that on a face track is t there are no sure no ‘ter who may be Dan Morgan, manager ot Champion Jeck Brit- ton, declared ‘to-day that Britton's next fight would be with Jock Malone of St, open-air show at Canton, O,, on Labor Day, and that Britton is to receive a guaraniee of $3,000 with an option of acceptin expected to tlash are Frankie Burne City and Champion Johnny the legitimate* featherweight and Mike O'Do' middleweight and Jeff Smith of Bayonne, N other bout will also be tween topnotche ‘The storm did not last for a great ngth of time and around 3 o'clock 85 per cont, of the Matchmaker McKinney is so sure he uae added 8.000 more made an ¢érror seur, they scored fle in the fey race, This on of & big crowd «that seats to the boxing arena, Doyle of Washington ap- urt No. Land started the h of the afternoon, Other results were: Clyde Curley of Pawtucket defeated 1H. Behr of New York by de- The fighters are to receive big money for their ser- vices and the Democra: of New Jersey will taj sensational featherweight of od & big surprise recenti winning & referes's decision over Kid Ks twenty rounds, has just been signed for aaother battle by his manager, 6 Ivey Buras, akie Lrowd in the young hearywelght of Statee | #, who t ouly nineteen years ‘old, will figure in another battle at the Bayonne iy That promising was “ready” to the minute, He got Island, Al, Rodert @ million-dollar ride from Robinson to, and that helped. Ordinarily a Dad post rider, Robinsow got Rifle away on his toes and thereafter made It was just a gallop N. W. Niles, Boston, defeated J. D. Pwing of Ashland, N. H,, 6-1, 6-1, 00 the night of Sept, 16, Carroll in the star bout of vight roun ia club that Roberts made name for him jow wooks ago by decis Charley Weinert, of Newark Having recovered trom in bie eves, Mike Gibbons hes agreed to 0 of Pittsburgh @ ten. no mistakes, Conn,, defeated W. Lysett and Thomas never exercised on this side of the Atlantic before in single competition and their pres- ence on the courts Was awaited with keen interest, That the foreign invaders were in line for powerful defense from Amer- {oan stars was indicated in to-day's draw of matches for Patterson, the most feared of the Australians, pulled tur opponent Fred Alexander, veteran tournament star, eign “Hurricane” disposes of Alexan- this afternoon he will encounter difficulty all down the line for the a 't place many “set ups” in the Australian's path. Skipping out from the club house red head was instantly recognised and the California Comet was grect- ea with a warm welcome, The former national champion and ‘wide margin, Arthur Cragin quickly went to court | No; 8 and’ started to warm up with practice strokes while a battery of th, fin photographers ducked flying balls to of McLaughiin. After HE Coe stable lost what prom- | UL ised to be a very useful colt | when it became necessary to de- | the running of H. C, Johnson, Boston, by default. stent ef Selene Sey L. Williams, Highland Park, Ill, de- feated K. R. L. Simmons, Butte, M antes with the same option of the stroy Air Raid ai the Troy Selling Stakes. The colt, the h6t favorite in the racerwas badly | cut down ig the early running of the race, the tendon on bis off hind leg being eompletely severed when Jockey MoAtee, compelled to pull out of tight while in a leading position, | forced Air Raid back suddenly on to oy those di- to wage the bout at the Big Auditorium in his city on the night of Seyt. #5. This Bout wil) no doubt atiract an immensd ferowd of ‘fight fans as Sinitb bested Gidvons at Kapess City on July & _ ee ee SARATOGA ENTRIES. RACE TRACK, SARATOGA, N. Y.,, Aug. %.-—The entries for to-morrow's A. F, Bernuthy defeated Christian Mack, Ann Arbor, Mich., oy default. andeventer, Plainfield, N. J., de- feated A. Healy, New York, 6—4, 6—4, W. Wesbrook, . Gatcomb, New York, 3, 6 2. Detroit, deféated R. When’ the National A. ©, of Philadbiphia opens indore, boxing season on Sept. 13 Jack Han will again be the matchmaker of the club, An was made to get Jack to 0 with the Olym: . Dut be deciined the R. L. James, Saratoga, defeated erner, St. Louis, 6—2, 7-—2, 6 R. B, MeClwve, Boranto > Freddie Reese Is Winner, +» Aug. 26.—Freddic the crack Brooklyn featherweight rmer sparring part Conditions for fou Malle, Fell. Swoo ‘Unless Tom Andrews, the feht promoter of Ml waunee, telegraphs Frank Bagley (o-day stating that Ritehle Mitcbell, the crack lishtwelg! that city, (a willing to make 133 pounds for # ta- tched up for Ct ee McLaughiia's merciful: Fea |to Freddie Williams of Bristol, Pa, ‘at the Grand Theatre here last night, win- seven of the sieht rounds by a MADDEN showed a really goungeter in Capt. Alcock won the last race in “Man o' a! In the good time of one fat ‘for five furlongs in gol accomplished at clo: ie hard tions; for the-year-olts: 3 (axy Gian’ ‘ag: Snap close upe double headers in whith Reda’ _ te! LS tec Tae GERALO partepson uerRacian NET y)|Major League Magnates Begin to Regret the Cut In Season’s Schedules Large Attendance at’ Most Games Makes Them Wish They Hadn’t Reduced Pen- nant Races From 154 to 140 Contests, By Bozeman Bulger. TTH the end of the baseball sea- hi son but a month away—th- | exact date of closing is Sept. 29—owners, managers and players are et the hasty action taken by the big leagues last year in wasted, players of an extra two weeks of sa!- ary, the public is beginning to believe that a real championship can not be determined as well in 140 games as in 154. The Detroit Club, for instance, which is coming strong right now, may lose the benefit of its spurt in the stretch by the shortness of th schedyle. Any number of baseball peo- ple are predicting that the Tigers would win had they six weeks to go|¥ instead of four, Of course itis as fair for one club ag the other, but the short schedule is not sufficiently elas- tic to allow a club to develop its real strength in the event of a bad start, ‘The loss of fourteen games for each club will prove a severe financial loss. ‘The public, not so much concerned about the finances, will have the month of October on their hands with nb sport to kill the time in the after- noons. President Ban B. Johnson of the American League was @ leading ex- ponent of the 140-game idea. At the time the schedule was adopted he had fears of the offect of the war on the game, Several of the club owners in the American League made @ strong fight against Mr. Johnson's idea, but lost out by one vote, Very likely Mr. as much as the club owners, It is certain that next year's schedule will call for 154 games, as has been the custom for a quarter of a century. In fact, two or three tiub wners are advocating 168 games. One argument is that the New Yo and Brooklyn clibs will have many xtra dates on account of the Sunday baseball, There was no game in elther New York or Brooklyn Yesterday due to tho flooded grounds from the early morning rain, Double-headers will be played to-day, The Giants have two :!gaines with Pittsburgh and that will hark the end of the Pirates in New York for the season, All of the other Western clubs have appeared for the last time, To-night the Giants leave {town and the Yanks return to-mor- jrow. The long home stay of the Giants {has been brilliant from a_ playing * | point of view but it was not, phenome- : nal enough to chop down the lead of | the Reds, Im fact the Reds have i!; gained instead of losing ground. iy ‘Their excursion through the East has been the most triumphal tour en- ; joyed by the Cincinnati Club since 1869, when the old Cincinnati Reds went through the season without ioa- ing @ game. Th re eptitied to all ‘¢) the glory of this campaign, ‘The tu RK : By Thornton Fisher MALOVEHLI OPENS THE. TOURNAMENT MISS GLADRAGUES MEET MY FRIEND STANDING OF NATIONAL LEAGUE. | GAMES YESTERDAY. Cincineati, 7: Phiiadeiphia, 8. |All other games postponed; rain). GAMES TO-DAY. Pittsburgh at New York (two games). Cinclawati at Philadeiph Chicage at Boston, Aside from the fact the month ot oie October — usually good weather—18 petroit . thereby depriving the club Ctevwiad . owners of large gate receipts and the | 8. Leste. Chieage Cleveland, 12; Phi'adeiphia, & Boston, 5; Detrolt, 4 Loule, 4; Washington, 8 TO-DAY. Games Yesterday. inghamton, , Balitmore, 8; Rochester, 8, then the Giants ficently, but too late, @ played magni- seems little doubt that the Reds and the Chicago White | “otwble triumph of the season In Sox will be, the pennant winners of | Tati the mantinine wanes Mia the two big leagues, and in gonse- lion Cricket Slub'a invitatio quence will play the series for thg| victor, who ts a member of the hip of the world, This will|Club of Aieate City and the C4 it time in many year: Pittsburgh and Detroit won back in 1910—that the big series is played in should not win, the Detroit Club will, and the West will have the honor just| pMONTREAL. Aug. 2-2 -aniie Only the most optimistic| piae Loadman of Butte? nee aed can now see a possible chance for| night in ten rounds oe Johnson now regrets the hasty action) Can now see a bowie Ke e e I rn two men proves +whether viet is @ better shot maker than his clon~ gated rival, and should be final! termined next month, ane Hagen, ow up for the party. at the’ Oakmont chanpioasht week the open title holder the writer that he could the time to go to Ch! a for the tournament, and then take whole week to come Bast and : 3 pete in the championship, Francis Oulmet bas been a mi for thousands of ambitious swingers. But it seems the fo national Champion's driving fornt not according to Hoyle, Be’ prominent pros. carefully wat Oulmet im action at Oakmont week and picked many faws in driving stance, a square stance a stiff left arm being the causes for criticism. Whil does occasionally hook bis tee it would be our wish to wallop @ like the conquerer of Vardon, and Bvans, even if t frown on the stance. ——- yo Several officials of the Unite States Golf Association expressed themselves at Oakmont last week favor of bringing the amateur et pions! np to the New York district 1920. @ last amateur meet in thie sector was in 1913 at Garden City, where Jerry Travers captured the title for the fourth time, Nassau was mentioned as the likery course for the 1920 tournament, Davey Herron, with his #18 pounam, cculd only break about ev a with Bobby Jones off the tees. The seve: }teen-year-old Atlanta youth ta @ |mignty wallopér. He outdrove Bob Gardner, and the Chicago swatter Before every match young '|Bebby would go out to a practice toe with jittle Stuard Maiden, hia former instructor, and lace out thirty o: forty drives, ‘Herron thought, hé would greatly outdistance his smalier Southern opponent, but Bobby fre+ qvently hit out longer drives than the new national champion, Oakmont holds the record for te most traps. When officials of the Pittsburgh Club are a little uncertain what changes to make on thelr long course they compromise by planting now traps and bunkers. Several traps are manifestly unfair, especially on@ big sand trap on the narrow fifteenth .!¢girway, which unjustly penalizes » jong drive. A few less traj and more rough on the order of the stiff jrough at ‘Brae Burn would make Oak- mcnt the equal of the best links im England, No one was more disappointed than Jess Sweetser, New York's soventeen~ year-old +. who fell short by @ single stroke to qualify at Oakmont. Jess couldn't even bide his keen dis- appointment. abe GOLF RESULTS. DETROIT, Aug. 26.—Mrs, Melvin 24 | Jones, former city champion of Chi- cago, carried off low score honors in the qualifying round of the women's Western Golf Association's tournament at the Detroit Golf Club, making the elghteen holes in 89. Mrs. H. Arfold Jackson, also of Chicago, thrice formor ational champion, was second with 91, PHILADELPATA, Aug. 26, w. ny Knight, whose marathon feat last spring started the golf world, scored his most lifying round of the ma Valléy Country Club, had a gard of 158 for the thirty-six holes, a fing per= formance for th t course. Brown and outboxed Loadman in Wey ae Fortune Tellers perhaps we could tell you === JUS just how much you could 4 save by giving us your order aN NOW for your Fall suit, in- xa stead of next month. Prices of clothing, every one knows, are going higher. To-day the NEW FALL STYLE and patterns, a remarkable show- ing, are here at the OLD SUM- MER PRICES. 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