The evening world. Newspaper, September 4, 1919, Page 18

1/4....'BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW Y JMIN SOUNDS FROM ACROSS | | | | | | : : i Frat 7 i i J Hi & F e Ee: i 8 t rit il gir se3 i fi fk i i af ® t i F | i i; i il i ui ; fi aie br i eff iE i i FE y ial | 3 : HL attack of pneumonia. While in a im during the illness and in the ce of his nurse he got out of 4, found a revolver and shot him- AT Nec HANDICAP EY LAIR HANDICAP American League President Limit Is Reached in Sport . Put on Legal Pan To-Day By Owners of the Yankees 8 § e i Af | t it ! | i z i i f i { | [ ue i | | i i I ; i 3 | i if if ih E i i ai fight. Boston fans are backing up their New York brothers because they claim—right out in the papers Harry Frazee. And there you are, Whatever may be the verdict, it certain that the fight Frazee, Comiskey and the two Colo- pele more popular than ever among their home fans, The outcome is: awaited with great interest through- the two big league circuits, This ts the first time an organised attack been launched against the Amer- Czarlike Presiden’. & fascination > aia ‘bad a draw. In the mean tle the proposition of the {eatien i. to extend | the Wor ries to nine n- stead of seven has red quite a hornet’s nest around the big wheel. From the reports of new: who have made inquiries in STANDING OF THE CLUBS NATIONAL LEAGUE, we Series plan on general prin- eaid Col. Huston last night, “Decause it has a suggestion of com- mercialism. At the same time I am eatiafiod i @ decision to the Tbs Ke | wants nine games and thinks it will be for the good of baseball [ will support him.” Harry Ay changes on “In my opinion,” he said, “Mr, Herrman, Deine. Presi- dent of the Reds, one of the in- terested clubs, should have had no voice in the matter. It should be left to the Presidente of the two goats. At the same time there will be a terrible holler from the fans if they hould have to pay the present tray- elling expenses for two weeks. If the weather ts not perfect the series is likely to run more than two weeks. Few business men can stay away rom their abs that long. And very few fans care to eee but part of a Notwithstanding the lawsuits and the vagaries ef @ National Commi: jaion to occupy & feliow’s mind, they are going to play @ ball game up at ‘the Polo Grounds this afternoon be- tween the Giants and Brooklyn. The Giants have had a rest for two day now, due to rain. From early indica tone it is no cinch that the grounds will be dried off this afternoon, but John Foster avers that they will make @ stab at it, And during this period of rest, news comes from the Yanks that Millor Huggins is going to make @ perina- nent outfielder out of Chick Fewster, ‘This brilliant young player came to ‘New York es an infielder but has fllea in #o nicely tn the absence of Sum ‘Vick that Huggins proposes to develop him as a centre fielder, This will necessitate Ping Bodle being moved over to right field. THE WATER adh ORK Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publish! ng Co. (The New York Evening World). , Now | DARE NOv TO FIGHT ME, DEMPSEY— LOOK WHET 1 DID TO MS GoOORTY. ‘The big boxing show which was staged in the open air at Waterbury, Conn., on Labor Day afternoon, at which Joe Lynch, the west side fighter, easily outpointed Pete Her- man, the bantamweight champion, in a ten-round no decision bout before & gathering of 10,000 persons, drew a gate of $13,171. Of this sum Lynch received $3,292.75, which was 26 per cent, of the entire receipts. Herman boxed for 35 per cent., which made his end $4,609.95. The officials who staged the show allowed Herman an additional $250 for his training ex- penses and also his carfare from New Orleans, ‘Willie Jackson, the crack local lightweight, te Bead; | Paterson, N, J., on next Monday night, Both jmam have made good in bouts in thet city, and 4s the fans have been anxious to see them i | ¥, action it is expectad that a big crowd will be on hand when the bell rings for them to get eoing Joo Lgnch has just been signed up for another battle by his manager, Eddie Mead, His op ponent will be Frankie Mason, the crack bantam. weight of Fort Wayne, Ind, They were matched today by Sammy Harris, matchmaker of the American A. A, of Baltimore, to meot im the indoor boxing show of the season of that club in a fifteen-round battle to = decision, ‘Mason has made good in bouts in that city, Roy Green, the popular matchmaker of the a of Boston, has just secured & ‘& building in Boston which will acoom- . the, Ausivalian champloo, Te through with his eight-round bout ‘Coogan of. Brooklyn at the Armory Amociation af Jeney City to-night, jatohmaker Jéunings sonouncel to-day tat be hae decided to pastpone until next ‘Thurmlay ‘the thre eight-round bouts which be was have staged at his clu this evening. Kddie Fitasimmons and Charley Pitts of Australia and Melvie af Australia end Johnny Murry im the other two elght-rounder, 18-2 Balk Line Tourney to Open Here on Oct. 20 Before enlisting in the movies take a look at the billiards proposition for the coming winter, The Brunswick-Balke- Collender Company offers the next 18.2 balk line champion a tournament prize of $2,600, a salary of $4,000, payable in monthly instalments, an exhibition tour of 18 consecutive weeks at an additional compensation of $100 and up, per week, and a trophy emblematic of the cham- plonship, to be permanently retained when won three times, There are also attractive emoluments for the three cushion and pocket billiard champions. ‘The 18.2 balk line tournament will be held in the Hotel Astor from Oct. 20 to 25, It will be Hmited to six players Qualifying with an entrance fee of Four prises are fixed 00, $1,750, $1,250 and $750, ‘The three‘ cushion tournament, limited to ten players put ting up $150 each, will be played at the Moose Auditorium in Cleveland from Nov, 6 to 19, The priges are $1,000, $1,260, $1,000 and $750, he cet billiard tournament will be heid at the Auditorium, Way Building, from Dec, 1 to i3, with the same conditions and prizes as at three cushions, ‘The Winner of each tournament will receive @ trophy emblematic of the Championship, three victories assurin, ormanent possession, Wille the balk- ine champion will draw down $4,000 annually tn n= Diohs will receive only $2,400 aptece. ‘rn Winners and runners-up in each tourn ment will be requi Murray, the boxing promoter of Buffalo, to up Clay Turner, the In- Grob of Pits inet sf iE ii ie H Fi ' E wit tet bantamwelght champion of the world to-day. Ho could have won the honors last Monday at Water- bury, Conn, on & foul had be insisted on his rights, as Pete Hi fouled him three times Joe, however, wanted to win by @ knockout and passed up the opportunity to win by s foul, Her- man’s covering up and running sway saved his <Johony Dundee will probably box Frankic Britt © twelgp-round decision bout at Providence on Rept, 10, He practically lowed for tho match with Promoter Jack Doborty to-day, He is also offered » bout with Matt Brock at Cleveland Sept 9, but will have to decline on sccount of the closeness of the Britt mateb, Benny Coster, the promising local bantamweight, managed by Jim Marsh, will bo wen in action to- Aight in @ ten-round bout at Alexander's Bay, New York, where he will face Al Fisher, an up State lad who bas been boxing in great form lately Dave Driscoll, the Jermy City promoter, ts trying hard to close ® match between Joo Lynch, the sen: tational loca) bantamweight whe 90 decisively de- feated Pete Herman on Labor Day, and either Charlie Beecher or Potty Johns, Eddie Mead, Lynch's manager, and Driscoll will got together again to-day, when it is expected What articles will be signed, Benny Valger, the French featherweight cham: pian, fs certaln'y baving bis bare of hand luck thee days, For the think thme within the past month another cae of his onponents has ake stayed & meeting with him, ‘This time Johnny Ray, ihe Pittaaugh Lightweight, hae found « way tw jump out of his proposed encounter with Benny, tour of elghteen co! mencing the first week in to inition, matches *|running of the race. -jstretch turn Dempsey (S WORRIED sin By Thornton Fisher 50 HE SANS TO THE WAITER “THE FLIES ARE Mey HAVE THINNER ONES Ria aa NO SUCH THING AS PROTECTION SYS NLL PRESENT Dave Fultz Not Worried by National Commission’s Threat to Ignore His League. ‘The threat of the Naflonal Commls- sion to withdraw protection from the New International League leaves David 1, Fults, President of the organization, quite cold, He says there {s no such |thing as protection. He gave out the following statement on the situation last night: “The National Commission, as a re- sult of its deliberations yesterday, states that the old International League is in- debted to it in the sum of $8,700, and junless the amount is paid within thirty days protection will be withdrawn from those citles which were represented in the old league, “The threat to withdraw protection is & matter of little concern to the Inter- League, as the minor leagues are no longer under the protection of the National Commission, but simply have an agreement with it whereby both major and minor league clubs are ob- ligated to respect the property ther. We do, howe r that the mem! have failed to pay their indebt- neas. ® facts of the case are that in 1914 Mr, Johnson and the national commission, actuated by personal mo- tives, made loans aggregating $8,- 718.65 to the old Buffalo club, a mom- ber of the International League, to enable it to fight the Federal League Neither the league nor the other clubs had anything whatsoever to do with the loan. The obligation was never that of the league or of any club In the league other than the Buffalo which at that time e Ruffalo club thereat went into bankruptcy assets were purchased by Lannin, thy fowner of the present club, at a tr in the al manner. « ‘now attempting to indebtedness upon the rague, but as we have in our possess sion a letter w ten by Mr. Herrmann in 1914 stating in so many words that the money was loaned he Buffalo club, clubs are any mo amount than the” Cin would be to pay the indebtedness of any other club in the National League, When Belmont Day’sRacing Feature Ends in Walkover a a For Once No Criticism Is Heard of Jockey’s Ride Nor Cassidy’s Start. By Vincent Treanor. REAT racing these days at Bel- mont Park. Lots of uncer- tainty about it. Good things run in one day and out the next. Odds-on favorites win and odds-on |favorites lose. And they have walk- overs there too, There's a novelty and the limit for you. Yesterday, for in- stance, the feature of the programme, the Brentwood Handicap, to dignify it with @ name, was one of those things. It was a victory for Reyce Rools in the record time of 2.05 2-5 for a mile and a sixteenth. This mark of course will never get into the record book, but it’s a record just the same, a record for slowness. Butwell rode Royce Rools, and we want to say for Jimmy, he handied the gelding well, winning off by him- self. All the formalities were gone through with in connection with the The saddling bell was rung, boots and saddles was blown by the bugler, and Royce Rools came through the paddock gate led by the red-coated rider on the regu- lation pony. He cantered to the post with Butwell standing in the stirrups. Little time was lost at the barrier Mars Cassidy sprung the webbing and Butwell got Royce Rools away on his toes. Certainly NO fault could be found with the break, Setting an even pace, Butwell raced to the under double wraps and took care to save ground on the rail, He swung to the inside coming round the bend, but permitted Royce Rools ‘come out to the middle of the trac! Frobaiy in search of the best of the muddy going. At the end Royce Rools. was only galloping and he passed the judges going away. Horse And rider were loudly applauded on the return to the scales, Butwell deserved the send-off he got. He rode a than he did in his abcut four years ago, when he had the mount on good old Roamer. That day Jimmy forgot he was at Belmont last walkover way of the track instead of taking him the reverse route. Mr. Belmont himself was in the stewards’ stand, and he stood aghast watching But- well's awful exhibition, After finish- ing Butwell was ordered to take Roamer to the barrier again and run him the other way. Rules are rules, you know, After yesterday's walkover race- to wondering why such tvents are possible on New York race tracks to which the public con- tributes liberally with the expectation ng real contests, No one could answer authoritatively, but the blame for it seemed to settle on Sam Hildreth, He had two representa- tives entered in the Brentwood— Lucullite and Valor, He scratched Valor early, and with the prospect of chasing Lucullite over a muddy track, Corn Tassel, Star Master and Jack Stuart followed sult. This left but Royce Rools and Lucullite in, and even at that some kind of a contest was promised. At the latest pos- sible moment Hildreth decided to withdraw Lucullite, leaving Royce ‘| Rools to run alone for half the purse, pee because under the rules jthe other half reverts to the association, Hand earll Hildreth. scratched his pal as most trainers are do, Star Master, Corn Tassel or Jack Stuart might have stayed in to run for the second and third money at least, if not to offer some contention for even Royse Rools. It was a downright shame that those who wagered on Right Angle to win the first race lost their money. Although Osgood was backed with| rare confidence by many, Right Angle should have won the race by half a dozen lengths. A mure incompetent ride than that put up by Kummer on Right Angle hasn't been seen this season. stable boy novice had been on Right) Angle's back he couldn't have done worse. A rider of Kummr posed ability should at least to guide a horse straight, but Kum- mer evidently was as helpless as a child. He permitted Right Angle to swerve from the inner rail at the head of the stretch all the way to the middie of the track at the eighth pole, Even then had he succeeded in running straight he couldn't have) took a} lost, but from that point h diagonal course to the inner rail: los- much better race: and raced Roamer around the right! ing an acre of ground. Osgood would have been put down as a mutt if he had not won under the circumstances. ‘Those who cashed on him have every reason to congratulate themselves. Right Angle may have been a tired horse when he took his final swerve at the eighth pole, but If Kummer had been the slightest bit of help to him he might have “walked” home from there and won. R. T. Wilson's Simpleton has finally won a race. He took the Mincola sell~ ing event with ease. Before the race Trainer Tom Healey was nono too confident of the result. He felt that the mud was against Simpleton, and the distance too, Simpleton, however, ‘was so much superior to his company that he overcame these disadvantages without hurting himself, of pratand He Jimmy Fitzsimmons, trainer American Boy, couldn't und the big play his colt attrac \tightened up for the race, but being a selling event and in the mud, he took a shot at it. American Be ran a poor third, and some one, not Fitz nor the stable connections, lost a chunk jn trying to make him win. It the great Man o' War worthy rival left for the rich Futurity {it probably is Sam Hildrith's: Dom- inique, bought from John EB, Madde: Like Man o’ War, this goc ' been beaten only once. all his other races almost as impre: sively as Man o’ War has scored his veitories, Yesterday he won the last race in the commonest kind of a gal- lop, ‘showing up” the highly A. ed Cleopatra, Trainer Karrick, who trains the latter filly, had felt up to yesterday that she could beat any thing excepting Man o' War, but she couldn't get within six lengths of Dominique. ‘The Hildreth colt not only won with supreme ease, but he came down the five-and-one-half fur- long straightaway in 1,06 2-5, remark- ably fast time considering the heavy } going Lucius after yesterday isn't a % to 5 shot in any spot. In going in which he is supposed to revel he was badly beaten by John I, Day, who suddenly woke tp to win in a canter. NEARLY 700 ENTRIES FOR K. OF C. GAMES. for the Knights of Columbus “Olympic ee which will be in progress next Saturday vitation® felt that American Boy wasn’t quite] 2 has a| Nearly 00 entries have been received | BASEBALL. NEW OR! 5. La, Sept. lanta, by defeating New Orlea terday by a score of 5 to 0, virtually won the Southern Association cham- pionship. The home club, by reason of the splitting of the double-header bo- tween Little Rock and Chattanooga, Went into third place. The Southern Aae sociation season closes on Sunday and | Atlanta now leads by seven and one= | half games. CHICAGO, Sept. 4.—Cincinnati made jit three out of four from Chicago by |Winning the fina game of the sericg |here by a score of 6 to 1. Before Alex | ander got settled in the first inning wie If the rankest kind of al league leaders scored four runs PHILADELPHIA, sept. 4.—W. | ci A, sep) Washing- ia svened the series with Philadelphia in winning by a score of 4 to 3 | em with daring base running. T. LOUIS, 4.—The squeeze | play, executed and Billings, | scored the. ru St. 1 victory over Cleveland core of | to 6 in fourteen innings. tome enn hee | ords for the locul purk w when Tobin drove tne ball field bleachers, with two a the sixth, tying the score, tt | forty-thira cult drive here this se: | gon he Oth in the merican | Lear The former league resend ‘van a in ye home ru ” made | when 193 home runs wee MISCELLANEOUS. Drawings for the ni cl ships ‘of the Polo Assocation’ eee atthe Philadelphia Saturday, tL H. L. Herb of the Polo ert 5 committeeman, [played for frat |inaily the open HARTFOwD, again cuused bostponemer Grand “Circuit “raves "yeatenhe | classes, with the Churter Oak ‘uras | $10,000 for trotters aa the se event, are carded fur to-day. programme lsu calls by Gede hat ¢ % tO begin Country Club ‘on ave been made by Wiliam A. Hazard on and Major Kob- the Philadelphia title will be ry nn, iY To-mor- for Live 4.—Miss Har- 4 two of the three ace with § at the Indiana State purse of $4,000, divided 60, ingle New an att the meiropo! races at New Officials 0! et a strong com of these races, The the following’ distan four men; 440 miles and’ four mile Athletic Club is the only entered teams in ull fo: Athletic Club wil} to win all four of An champlonanip relay sph Saturday afternog ereury Foot lub have r each felays are wt or teams of one mile, two Johnna! | boxer, an | the bantam the clever Italian Mead, manager Tonights Aneenecrs at more ditions. Dun cently returr Weat Oran, were four Pike real fights: than ex Hdee anc le Brown stepped alome at a tively Dave Medar an z Sluts ‘swapped’ punches toe ta nolmmle Uo toe \La B nerve e. | times: bout | Nable. | Ge H-icnown agent, furnished an attractive vaudeville | programme | NEW INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Standing of Clubs Ba Fa | Biughamior Slit Games Yesterday, Newark, 7 Rochester, Hingham: | Reading, 8 10, 2 ton, 6; Toronto, Games To-Day, itimore at Jersey ‘Newark at Reading, Rochester at ARR aM ah tle ake fq) ) A) } 4