The evening world. Newspaper, August 30, 1919, Page 7

a } { Expert Fullerton Te Tells of the Scandals That Are Disgrac- * ing the National Pastime Again This s Season. By Hugh 8. 8. "Fullerton. CANDAL continues to pile up in the baseball world. The point has deen’ reached velopment of the alleged sport where the scandal season centres around the World's Geries, and the sooner tho powers of baseball decide to end the annual contests the better it will be. It was supposed that the ugly sean- dai of last fall, whon the players of the Cubs and Red Sox struck and two-thirds of the National Commis- sion disgraced themselves and the game, would at leapt teach players and officials a lesson, but they ap- pear to be worse than over, Tn the last week wo have had a player on the Boston Braves telling openly’ that he was approached by « eambler who offered him @ bribe to throw gdiries to the Cincinmat) club. ‘Thus far thore is no indication that | the baseball powers are making any | effort to press the case or investi- gate the charge. Now come the Cin- cmnati Reds with a howl that they are being done out of money by the chad owners, The greed for money which has cursed the game appeats to” be greater this season than ever before. The players and owners do not, ap- peer to be ablo to_s} a! return of era gt ‘an m- pats case would be 7 A were it mot for the fact that it shows ao plainly how great a money Plays in the modern kame and how »mall by comparison the element of sportsmanship seems. ‘The row between the Red players and the team officials may affeot the chances of the Reds of winning the World's Series, At least, the spirit of anger and discontent will not help. their chanoes of winning. It scems, that the Reds planned a little busi- ness venture on their own hook. ‘They had their pictures staken, put wolictors to work gottingsads and got ut the prospectus of a book contain. ing their portraits and their records. bey expected to make a nice. little hungh of money ot of the venture and had invested some reat coin in oreparing the book when the club oMclals seemed t6 discover that a NATIONAL LEAGUE, Ss oo wee 7M] Pittabernh 5. 04 OF 1604] Boston... cus44 OO 45) St, Lowk,....40 70 tn the de-|™ GAMES YESTERDAY, ew Yor, 6: Seeatre te Pritadetphia, 4; Boston, 3 (first gems). Dovton, ¢1 Prindetenta, BL Lowi, GAMES TO.DAY. hold the stake. Bo We started across the field and were putting up the money when the eagle eye of Tom Lynch, who was mooi, fell upon me. He ordered me off the grounds, and after a time into the field and game from thes The permitted to return te bs Puniahed, but it Lyneh would have chased him oth the lot had he 6 can ht him, wource of soft money was alippt away from them, At least an wad bearing the signature of Garry “torre mann wppeared in a Cincinnati paper warning the put inst purchass ing any but the and “official” book or programme which was to be tanned by the club, Tho players naturally were angry and noisily so, ‘They claim that they tbat Herrmann’s ad has cut thelr chances of revenue. Herrmann, {t te Bald, had la @ contract or made an agreement with a concessionaire at the park to got out the fouvenlr programme and that pert ef the proceeds from such concessiong | &@ World's Series belongs lawfully onal Commission, If vhe ted pl make an issue of it the pase will resuk in ugly feeling, and the spectacle of players and ownera \cho are grabbing wads of the money af the public scrambling for nickels 4s not an edifying one, As for scandal in the comii World's Series it is only starting. Cin- cinnatt ls; of course, wild over Prospects of the series, /and the hey are telling in Cine} innati, Dayton, Columbus and other nearby cities are even one tenth true, enough toke Baye been alrea promised to fil One man tells me dhat half the Polis ticians in Ohfo have been promised wads of tickets for their friends and retainers. If the National Commission has any desire to prevent a big ticket scandal it would better start right now. As for the charge of the Boston player thas an attempt to bribe him was made It Huston is the centre of gambl baseball and has been for years. The evil has not been properly stamped out, although President Johnson made an effort to clean up the American Teague Park. His motives for so d ing were impugned and the gamblers huve flourished and prospered on both parks and gambling in some of the downtown hot hi been con. ducted on a huge « It was inevitable that, sooner or later, the gambigrs would try to met to ball players. It is also inevitable that some day they will find one or more players weak enough to take their nd try to throw ball games. ondition is approximated al other cities in the country, no ably Pittsburgh Polo rounds when the Giants are at home, he New York American League team managed to keep the gamblers et by expelling scores from the grounds and refusing to sell them ticke' but as soon as the Giants return home thes same old flock of tin horns piles back of third base and bets openly It Is be the centre of the gambling crowd. In the old days of Anson, when Frank| Selee led hiv team in Boston, the gamblers Occupied seats back of third base in the low fleld seats, The odds they laid were scandalous and the Chicage club used to try to break up gambling there by winning all the money. | suppose I was the only per son ever punivhed on those groundi in one weries the gamblers were tay- ing 3 to 1 against @hicago and, with Grimth and ¢ allahan pitehing, the odd: « nt urious how Boston came te next day. tiey increased the pot and Jost again, On the tt day the gamblers wen laying 2 to 1 against Griffith and the beys made up ol and gave me the money to The amount ran over $1,000, I did not know the man who acepted the ted that we take Morse and let htm! ‘the | It was the Kid who should not be # surprise. 7 P Ing on}, Igavon iy not fiat the rae brn wi merican cue Oddly enough, the Kid is more afraid Creveland thie shone, then @ is of Detroit, “Tt will a pretty hard fi the Kid remarked in Chicago the other night as we sipped our loganberry juice and mourned old times, “That Cleveland clud is not beaten yet. I do not expect we will be able to cinch the champion: P until well through be) Fy trl fa schedule is a on, Dut we are * Ths team ig bg J ane e time and never quits. is to figure the pitchers #0 as to have the greatest strength when we tackle Detroit in the noxt series. That means taking something of a chance, but the youngsters are crazy for a chance to work, and they can't stop us." ‘The Kid probably ia mourning now when he thinks of the chances of the Sox and Cincinnat! meeting for the World's series. It was Kid who @iscovered Eddie Roush and bought him for the White Sox, who lost him by sending him back to the miners. Moran to go out and aign uj gach jast spring when the Red clugeer wee bolding out. Cygnet is a great friend of Moran mirer, but that will not Beep him from gi Pat the battle of his life if the two teams meet, (Copyright, 1919, the Belt Syndicate, Inc.) SUNDAY SEMI-PRO. GAMES, Bushwicks vs, Cuban Stars, double header, at Dexter Park, Brooklyn. New Lots va. Ri Bpod Lyceum, at New Lots Oval, Brook Emeralde ve. Peekskill at Catholte tectory Grounds, Ivanhoes vs. Maujera and Philadel- hia Giants at Ivanhoe Park, Brook- is Ironsides at Sisco Staten Island, | ve, Nerburg at Woat New York, New Jersey. Federal Dey Dock | East Now Yoo A. M., and Ric! mond Hill, P. F A Doherty Silk Sox ve. infleld at Clifton, N. J, Bay Ridge vs. Cuban X Giants at Bay Ridge Oval, Brooklyn. Lincoln Giants ve. Chevrolet and Robins Dry Dock at Olympic Field. Springfield ve. Westinghouse at reation Park, Long Island City. Seasides vs. Riversides at Seaside Oval, Long Island City. Newark Stars at St, ‘ooklyn, ores ‘ve. Royal Giants at Morse Field, Brooklyn, Tiejen and Lang vs. Penn Red ) Cape at Nurges Field, North Bergen, N. J, Lenox v All-Manhattans at Lenox ey vl Original Willows at Al. Oval, Brooklyn, a ‘Twe Gaelic Titles at Stak The two dig league cbamplonmhipy at Celtic Park to-morrow afternoon under the ausplees of the Kerr; -t team has stirred up the whole Celtic wi Tt will be the oe time in iy eet that two special ave i” tpiedfor’one day, andéan's chasnplone ip Utle goes wit! more than 3 e soci mnaalfested i arry Ki and the ing match Cork wit cross stioka with Clare. ———— ITLADELPHIA, Aug. 36. — “ eadle Wagond, msatione! local lightweight, defeated ‘Tomm: qaneldecn in six fast rounds at the Nation Cy here last Tight telere b packed boven, 42-YEAR-OLD. Te ONLY FOREIGN SURVIVOR} *= pionship Hopes of Three Australians and One Jap Star in National Tennis Tourney at Forest Hills. By William Abbott. AN BROOKES, the oki man of the courts, is the only foreigner remaining in the All- Comers’ “Chatiplonships at Forest Hite, The forty-two-year-old Aun- tralian must tackle the country’s leading racquet experts before the tennis trophy can be carried to the faraway Anttpodes, “Hurricane” Patterson, who defeated Brookes for the recent Mngtish tille and who came aver purposely to add to his colfeo- tion with a few American trophies, | | had his hopes punctured tn the fourth round yesterday when Billy Johnston of California, took his ineagure tn a five-set battle, KR. V. Thomas at the same time was eased out of the tournament by Dick | Williams. So of the invading Aus. tralian team=Brookes, Patterson, N BIG TENNIS TOURNEY. At IP, M.—Robert Lindley Mur- ray, Niagara Falls, vs. William MM, Johnston, San Francises. At 280 P. M.—Manrice E. Me- Loughlin, Los Angeles, ¥s Richard Norris Williams 24, Boston. At 4.30 P, M,—Norman E. Brookes, Australia, ve, William T, Til- don 2d, Philadelphia. Walter Merril] Hall, New York, vs, Wallace F. Johuson, Phila- delphia, upon a court outside the grand stand inclosure, at |) «PM. Plt iets toast et Thomas and Lycett—Brookes is the only one left, and Yet many tennis | fans feared Brookes was getting too | old and decrepit for the strenuous sport. The fourth round also snuffed out |Japan’s entry in the court claasic. Ichiya Kumagae, @ little southpaw ‘with a mighty wallop, was put out by William Tilden of Philadelphia, but EVENING WORLD'S OWN SPORT HISTORY What Happens Every Day BASEBALL. ‘Twas the seventh inning, Giants were one run in the rear. Sherrod Smith had allowed only (wo singles and appeared unbeatable, Rove Young poked a hit past Chuck Ward. This was followed by another hit. And then another. And then some more, And when the grand and glorious inning fnally came to & close six of McGraw's athletes had trundied across the plate, Six to one was the adore at, the end of the game. Six for the Giants and one fcr’ the Brooklyn Robins. Arthur Nebf, owner of the only $40,000 gouths pow pitching arm in the big show, Pitcbed $40,000 basebaN, and if Art Fletcher had not been #0 anxious to gobble up Koney's fly in short centre in the fourth inning the left-hander would have held the Flatbush clan runless. Eighth and Rinth inning rallies en- abled the White Sox to win the frm Bame of the series with Cleveland by @ score of 3 to 3 It was Cigotte’s twenty-sixth victory of the season, ‘The Red Sox evened the series with Philadelphia by winning by # score of 7 to 1, ‘The Mays injunction case has been adjourned again, this time until Sept, 6, When the case was called before Justice Charles 8, Guy, Charles H. Tuttle, of counsel for the Yankees, ‘said the adjournment had been agreed upon as both sides needéd more time in whioh to prepare affidavits, Mayo will coutinue to pitoh for the Yankees in the mean time, as the temporary injunction granted against Ban John- The 4] Will hold until the motion for a per- manent restraining order is decided. Dave Danforth, released by the Chi. cago White Gox ta the Columbus Cluy of the American Association, says he will appeal to the National Commia- "|sion againat the Chicago Club, gnd declares he will not report to Colum- bus until his case im settled, In an exhibition game the Cincia. natt! National Leagteg leaders de. feated the Klein Chovolte Company mine of EiaabetntOwt by & seore of 4 | MISCELLANEOUS. Only two of the five bydreplanes entered for the Geld Cup race com- peted in the first thirty-mile heat at Detroit--Miag Detroit. Ii, the 1918 champion, driven by G. A. Wood, de- feuting Miss Detroit If, diven by W. ki. Sanborn, by two veconds, | The two hydroplanés came across the line less than @ wecond apart, with the champion jn the lead by half a length. Lu Princeton made the fastest mile of the season, equalling hiy record of 2.02, in winning an exhibition trot from Mabel Trask, aiso from the Cox wlabie, at the Grand Circuit races at the Readyille track, Loren Murchison, St. Louly A. A. ff the New York A. C, with the Reg: tration Committee of the A. A, U,, which. met last night, Major Frank Cavanaugh of Worces- |ter hag signed @ three-year contract to coach the Boston Col footw eleven, He will take charge this { Major Cavanaugh won a wide repu tation as eoach=@t Dartmouth, He returned in the spring from service overseas, where he was wounded, James adurray,, veteran fencing coach of the New York A. C., And for twenty-three years director of the foilsmen at Columbia University, will return to Morningside Heights’ this fall. Murray *left Columbia in 1917 after the discontinuance of ali sports, nd last year was engaged in business activity that would wot permit his coaching. Costello, another New York A. ©, coach, substituted for him, Mrs. George W, Wightman, the women's national ‘champion, meets Mise Molla Bjurktedt, the former title holder, in the final round o: vitation tournament in prov the Rockaway Hunting Club, Cedar horet, Lo 1. ‘The 1,000-yard phase of the nation team match wound up the shootin Jevents at the Navy Rifle Ra | Caldwell, N. J, which have going on for several weeks. ‘The honors of the final event went the Marines, who were closely presse by the American Expeditionary Force, | formerly of the wivhia transfer to been we at| Ret before the Jap bad his American forsee stroking at top speed t i out & hard earned victory. With the chafe ground out of the tourmment, the fifth roumd to-day will bring dut ip the favorite class Willams, McLoughlin, Johnston, Murray, Tilden and Brookes. a Billy Johnston, National champion in 1915, had @ tough time defeating Patterson, the most feared of the fureigh invasion. Patterson, big and rugged like the late Anothy Wild-|} ing, one of the greatest tennis play- ers Australia ever sent to the United States, depended on his wonderful strength and lasting powers against Johnston, who tips about 120 pounds. Johnston was ‘a little more accurate at the finish, ea wectally with his burning forehanders, and this stight advantage decided the match, which was @ toas up in the last two sets Johnston blended wonderful place- | ments with frequent errors into the net, and these miscues génerally came at critical times, At times the lttle Californian appeared careless, bet this was attributed to overzcal- ous trying for brilliant placing. John- ston's powerful forehand drives were in good working order, as was his superb ‘ground game. Pajterson was a close second to Jobnston, placed returns, ‘The big Australian, Using mostly bis backhand with @ severe cut to the ball, frequently forced his American rival back to the base line, but Johnston invari+ ably saved himself with, hard drives that Patterson made frantic but easily lived up, to his nickname “Hurricane” as be speeded ali over the court trying for ah kinds of “gets.” But the hard-hittiog in- vader was up against star who successfully followed Willie Keller's | ¢ old baveball adage, “hit ‘em whore they ain't.” Johnston won, 6—2, 3 15, ‘The last two sets were Uhrill- ers, sensational rally following an- other 40 rapidly that the big gallery was in a constant uproar, All the generalship and command of strokes for'which Norman Brookes lg noted had to be called into action before tho veteran could triumph over Chartes Garland of Pittsburgh. Gariand came,to the semi-finals in the recent Inglish championship, where be was defeated by Patterson, He is one of numerous young Ameri can gtars that are rapidly advancing to the front, Yot few in the big crowd hardly expected young Garland would come within two points of winning a match from Hrookes, whore fame for re sourcefulness and wixardy of strokes iy known wherever tennis balls are hit. ‘The Velgran Australian i* most dan gerous When coming to the net, where he makes his favorite shot of ros#-courting the return or tapping it softly over the net so bis opponent cannot reach it in time, Garland, | winning the first two sets, drove with so Much pep and accuracy that the crafty Brockes could mot get a good chance'to race to the et.” He was |tao busy hotfooting deep drives that the young American walloped first in one corner and then the other with earning pointy on finely|{ 6, 6—4, 46, | 7 the precision of 4 seasoned Pewlprine: The Pittsburgh youth made these sensational returns even against the) Australian's # In the third to the base oting Garland back the turning point 4 “ This jin the mateh pelled to mak: } didn't have ti jin his returos ) simply murdered them at the net, Hrookes captureé the third and fourth sets with these (action, He 7 a MK \ champion, had too mec} for Connie Doyle. 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