The evening world. Newspaper, August 29, 1919, Page 10

oe “~~ . ae ih» ee ¥ E EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1919. BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW ‘MOTHER GOOSE IN SPORTS Copyright, 1919, by The Press Pablishing Co. (The New York Evening World) ~ ~ - ame \ a — THE EV MS Ris eet hat seu AMD SAID WHAT A GREAT BOY ; am l= BILL DALY whose horses have been regarded the jokes ef the race track these ten years or more, to-day takes his) the winning own- BaF os HAD = MIFE AND CouLont- BEATER -wpUT HER IN A PUMPKIN SHELL — SO HE coULD USE Ff i nee Fil I ; : f 7 f i 5 : Duffy Lewis So Lucky That His Horse Ought to Be A One Best Bet at Belmont) @ “ane Pies flushed with “od ig acoom| ment came three. base Yankee Outfielder’s Bat That Pgs ty Judging by Way te eet noid ot one. ofthe bie feow johnson’s Day in 14th Inning} {f°son H a An hice | aT Hildreth Refuses Record Offer of $300,000 for the Great Purchase Samuel C, Hildreth, the owner of the phenomenal three-year-old, Purchase, is authority for the statement that he was offered $300,000 for his colt yesterday, ‘The offer was made by Albert Simons on behalf of an unknown client and it was declined. “Il refused the offer,” said Mr. Hildreth during the afternoon, not because | thought Purchase was worth that much money, great colt as he is, but because | would oniy get a portion of the sum under the present Government tax. | realize that a man rarely ever American Opponent Won First Two Sets, but Foreigner Stages Remarkable Come- back and Takes’Next Three in Tennis Tourney. § i in the first game. That was high Ught of the battle, A ball was sie wee gets or even sees a horse like Purchase, but $800,000 is a lot of pas by the: greas Piper, eeocoe Pane ees a cervtt| money for a man in my circumstances. | have trained Fitz Her Rane gis i With, grave consequences, rs | berth Dalm riar Rock, McChesney and other great horses but By William Abbott. in spots. sliding to get it, and then without 1 think this is the best horse | have ever had in my care.’ ‘Start Correspondest of The Evening World. puna was turning around " whipped | thi Three hundred thousand dollars is as much as has ever been offered FOREST HILIS, L. 1, Aug. 29. ’ ability to saparely into ;o a bnone 2° 8 ti for any thoroughbred im any country. There were a number of offers for HE foreign invasions came out por Ape) out. Col. Will D, Willa ct Yuston, | the Tracery colt, The Panther, in Eogland last fell, and in order to give strong in the fourth round of the ptm ee ost 3 ‘the public @ chance to bid on him his owner, Sir Abe Bailey, put him up All Comers Tennis Championship ee good him, au s powypordany @ reserve of 40,000 guineas or @ trifle more than $300,000 | this afternoon on the West Side Club turf. ‘Three matches carded for the grand- stand courts were international bat- tles, Norman Brookes, véteran Au- stralian, meeting Charles Garland of Pittsburgh; Ichoy# Kumagae of Japan drawing William Tilden of Philada, while “Hurricane” Patterson of Au- stralia, most dangerous of the invad- ing contingent of racquet stars, had for his opponent Billy Johnston of There was no bid and the horse was passed from the ring. The high- est price ever paid for a thoroughbred in the United States was $140,- 000 for Rock Sand which August Belmont sold to a syndicate of Ameri- ean and French gentlemen in the dark days of racing some years ago. The late Charles Reed gave $100,000 at auction for Imported St, Blaize. Fistic News som oto and Gossi Jimmy Hamill, a boxing promoter of Denver, Col, has offered Billy Gib- After his bad start, in which the Senators got a three-run lead, Carl Mays settled down to some beautiful pitching, By skilful manoeuvring of ik i “ iz a8 F if 28 E i ‘E innings, On many occasions he was in trouble, but was clever enough to wriggle out just when they thought they had him. The Yanks have bought a new pit- = 2 a! 3 Ei = . & = ring with me and show the sporting world who really te entitled to the match’ with champion Kil- i i H 8% 3 ts ‘sace manent ame of Moose Miller, " F Deen engaged. Little Dovlo reas faluay fie, the racian Club ae mo, manager of Champion Benny California, national champion in 1915. ae if his life Coes. All of the native ie inotnd- Leonard, $20,000 fer Leonard to The weather man again turned tennis it. He didn't realy get ing Bill McGeehan, Tad ran and|box = Ch, ite Ch ¥ fan and provided excellent playing he Facing picture until welt foc | the eighth inning when his lucky bat |a few scattering Californians, declare — eS & See conditions, The gallery was on hand win, lose or draw, in a 2 round battle for the lightweight championship title on the afternoon of Thanksgiving Day, This is the largest sum ever offered a lightweight champion to defend hi ithe. Gib- son hag not decided as yet whether to accept the offer or not but he has wired Hamill that he will give him Miller to bo # wonderful pitcher. It is even money though that neither heard of Moose until 5 at i 5 i H = bounced in the tying run against Sir falter, Derrill Pratt had just got hold of one and smacked it to the | ye urthes left-centre corner of the lot for three bases, With the crowd ali steamed up, Duffy slapped the ball into the grass with such force that It bounded over the third sacker’s head unusually early, At 1.80 the semi- circle of stands was nearly filled with lines of arrivals streaming in through the entrances. Norman Brookes, forty-two-year-old star of international tournaments and young Charlie Garland of Pittsburgh, é F +t i 1 Peckinpaugh 1s adding a lot of fresh manele to his already inflated batting average, For instance, he got four hits off Walter Johnson in i Lawrence, Mas, ¥ rg By Thornton Fisher A Player Practically Unknown to Brookes, Australian Star, Defeats Charles Garland By Sensational Playing & the first game, Sullivan who advanced to the semi-finals in the recent British championship, were generously received when they appeared for the first match of the programme. Brookes, who hits left- with the run that game and kept it sowed than an hour. Things there- pretty evenly un- inning, when it afl Hf ik f i It seems like the actors’ strike is now interfering with our baseball litigation. It was necessary to post pone the case of Ban Johnson vs. Thi Colonels again Tae. due to th zat a Eee 5 i he crossed the same lawyers being piled up with handed, utilised @ big brown cap for @ narrow mar- work in the actor-producer discus- protection from the hot sun. His sion, now outhful American rival went into Boyle returned to the scales “ iy, ts omer Bowne sovieates oven ‘There wit! be two more games to- a Jeremy his | 8Ct1om bare-headed, = losers, were glad eee day, al the Yanks can ly oop pear knockout of Omy| After a brief practice the match Father Bill's colors in jon't be a chest butter ell fron¢ for thas » there, woa't be & obest 2 seamtion, recent, cme] started with Garland serving. The anes hanes - bribe Pittsburgh lad, hitting a fast ball, otlwypeypd pssand losing t Belinont |Larwe Bimtry for Decked Cance Heny we. 5 in the} quickly gave the big gallery a sur- month's meeting ith that kind of Salling Races, om to saiet | prise by winning the first game with- here, has been hard on both way UP at the| ‘The international decked eanoe sailing Siw Peotone the bene for that | on yielding his rived @ point. ‘Then levers and players and one meets few races to decide this year’s championship ‘ot the scason Sept, 8. He|be broke through the Australian's will be held for a period of three days. fo teres to Waet @ Gal cervite and” cemmmred. oh 3 The final events will be contested at the with Rogiand or Joe pture © secon: tlemen, we speak game, Garland, with wonderful con- trol of his shots, forced Brookes con- tinuously on the defensive throughout the first net, which the American won fi i Corinthian Yacht Club of Oyster Bay to-morrow afternoon, while the second day's races wil be held at New Rochelle unday afternoon, The final contests but this, . ON [ Yanks also won the making it @ two-ply i i H | will be decided the following day at the inveotian of any 6 games to 10. Larchmont Yecht Club, Included in the pwede sy 4 indicate that before late in the tail, ae pal eg fident that the New Yorker will of Beary Valger getting acct speedy wis Gar chanerient sy Bro ageytied plen dobeng bens, dempite land in this set that the Australian gpamplons H.R. Murphy | ing © comtandor @ favorite over furs manager has besa saying never had a chance to take the net Geers: ‘wousual. : [ holders; for hia favorite “kill” shots. To com- jt ; oven ‘ ‘ we 0 ee Se Ade of lete the unexpected showing Gar. ae en, all of New York; J. from Timay D - Pors My ai p) yo when ons p some of the women |New Rochelle and ira Kip wants to mest F Sat te tok Pally Por land got every game Brookes served, frien iC ne Ye NB ad PR Frankic Bi ww with Harvey 5 fan exceptional dose for the veteran African Arrow, which heretofore] wait, and had to arrulous Croby, the ter of Bayonne, star to take. husbands talk about the big game,| Lights to Entertain War Heroes.) ."") 1. 4, ‘at the Bi ne pow It may have been lacking in some of| A high class boxing show will be given| 4" ":’ on pext fe getting into Garland 44471 6 4-2-6 the virtues of baseball, but thatlpy the Lights Club at Freeport, L. I.| godin Vshie bee oot ja. Antone second game holds the record as the|to.night for thelr members who have| humdi #ape and ox Brookes .....0 2.2 5 4 4 118-1 for the H to care, except poasibly those buck i latest ever started and finished as far back as Bill Hanna and Sam Crane can remembei In that second game the Yanks Harper off the mound and in his place Old Griff gave us a first front view of his new pitcher—Mr. Jezebel Tecumseh Zachary, Gerland, continuing his masterful tennis, captured the eecond set, six games to 2. ‘This match was much like the first, Garland generally doing the leading and often catching his opponent out of position with snappy placements that Brookes made strenuous but ‘futile efforts to returm over the net, Seoond set point score— 44a2a4 Brookes «..1 2 41 t f i just returned from overseas, where they were doing thelr bit, The show has been arranged by Harry Von Tilaer and Levy, assisted by Dan Mor- an ad Harry Neary, The card of fou: Hadie. Fitsimmons, N.Y. vs Jimmy MeCann of Scranton, 10 round, Farmer Sullivan vs Jim Montgomery, ; Pocky O’Gatty, ve Dinny Billy Van va. Young Joe Dilton ve Patsy 4 rounds, and ‘Tommy Shoa ‘Smith, 4 rounds, it of Mit will referee, i ‘were unlucky enough to efi ! t Fes ite the fourth race Ttppity Witchet, backed from 20 to 1 down to 8 to 1, showed # startling form re- by coming out suddenly and 5 Ey pitching, but the is of @ whole “day of baseball we simply cowl gmoked up over any Ove Yanks nicked Zac- “Sanrry ‘ 4438 205 YORK Golf World Eliminates Mrs. Jackson, Twice National + Champion, in Women’s West- ern Championship Tourney at Detroit. DETROIT, Aug. Foreman of Chicago, known outside her ‘home club, furniabed the biggest surprise of the women's Western golf tournament at the Detroit Golf Club by defeating Mrs, H. Arnold Jackson, twice winner of the national event, $ and 2. Mrs. Foreman played steadily through- out while Mrs. Jackson afier three days of excellent play faltered at several stages, Each time Mrs. Foreman took advantage of the opening. Mra. Foreman's vietory im the semi-finals with Mrs. P. Fisk, De Kalb, Ill, her opponent. Mra, Fisk Gofeated Miss Marjorie Edwards, Chi- cage, 3 and 1. In the other semi-final match Mra. F. C. Letts jr., Chicago, will oppose Miss Dorethy Higbie, Chicago. Miss Higbie eliminated Mrs, David Gaut, Memphis, 1 up, the Southetn woman taking an uphill fight on the second mine after being 4 down ‘at the turn, Miss Higbie made the first nine im 43, the best score for the tournament. Mra, Letts won from Mrs. W. G. Mo Giverin, Detroit, 3 and 1. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 28.—Em- ett French of the York County Club, makes & specialty of finisiling see end and third in tournaments, has aplendid ehance of at last routing the Jinx which has been pursuing him al; season and winning an event. At tee end of the firet thirty-six holes of the annual Philadelphia open, played at White March, the up-Stater led a famey field of amateurs and professionals with & fine card of 78, 72—160. Second aa Pat Doyle, “pro” at Deal Beach, with 156, which inciuded a 96 i the morning and a 79 in the afternoon. Norman H. Maxwell, the slight youth trom Overbrook, Jed all of the amateurs and was only topped by French and Doyle. Maxwell, wuo was unable to take part im the recent national cham- pionship because of business, was in rare form. He negotiated the thirty. six holes im 156, in « single stroke more than Doyle. ‘The only other amateur to get up in the first ten was George Hoffner, Bala Philadelphia district champion, who put 1— even 160 SPE, tot arch om 1 to arrears of Tom 4 ls professional, who ram White Marsh course in jerion and Pau 29.—Mra, Haroll * almost an un- puts her of being eliminated from the cham- Pionship he travelled 2,500 miles to | 9v® play in, became more aggressive tn the third set. In this set it was Gar- land's turn to be forced backward by the driving attack of the Aus- tralan. From start to finish in the third set Brookes kept his place close to the net and his wonderfully plac- ing of Garland’s return brought about the young American's defeat. At times his spirited rushes drew applause from the gallery, tut these exchanges were mostty ended by the resourceful Brookes, who tapped the ball just out of Garland’s reach. Third set point scor 4446424 4-—-2 @208401—11 Brookes won the fourth set, games to 2, and evened the match, * Superior net work and steadine: were the deciding factors here, The Austrafian never surrendered his net position where he brought off many brilliant cross court placements, Garland began to look worried as his best returns came back at him usually at spots where he could not reach the ball, Fourth set points score: Brookes... O44 4244 4-28 Garland., 411261026 2 Brookes won the fifth set and the game, Both players performed in whirlwind fashion in the final set and the gallery was in # continuous up- roar, Fifth set point score: Brookes— 442545002444 387 Garland— 21436344412 1—35—5 TDGR, Fairchiid of the Wannawoiset nd James the gal! ax CARNIVAL AT EBBET’S FIELD. ‘The programme for the monster car~, nival at Bbbet's Fiel® on Sunday? Sept. 14, was amnounced thie morn- ing by Charley Ebbets, The entire proceeds of the day will go toward a coal fund for the worthy poor of Brook- festivities wil commence ‘at 1.30 P. M., with singing of “The Star by. ole ‘Other ngled Banner’ ys ‘performances will fancy dancing vy, fifty Chateau Buckingham strel chorus, selection Fire and. Street Di drills by 600 soldiers and sail nade throwing id lyn, ‘Th prompt! 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