The evening world. Newspaper, September 5, 1919, Page 16

ae a ot 4 iy a \ : |) aa “cRemember shen I beat Jim Cottey en chance? Indeed he not. a 1 don't BS THE EVE Suors, Johnston Greatest Player In the Histo ‘According ry of Tennis to All Experts Sp He Norman E. Brookes, the Veteran Australian Star, Says That le Is Even a Superior Phyer | Vaturalist Runs-Fine Race With 140 Pounds to Close Big Gap on Billy Kelly and FLICTING reports ofthe Mike O'Dowd-Ted Lewis fight at Syracuse on Labor Day have ur. Most of them sald that but according to Charlio Lewis himself, all these untrue end unfair to t oe I's fine to know that baseball people posed nine- id's Cham- miskey, the Roman wame, who owns Prospective champion White Sox, come out positively againat a ie in the rules, Comiskey wants nine games. He doen not need the) and if he did he would sacrifice Personal ideas of gain to xports- ip, As yet no ball club has ‘out in straightforward sunport @ nine-game series. The rmhlle is inst it in every city, according 1o received here, the American League It is known. and Chicago ‘fagainat 9 chanes, but nothing has heard from the others, pel aad i deca Reuny Coster Winn Dont, ALEXANDRIA BAY, N. Y., Sept. 5. Benny Coster, the New York bantam, too fast und too clever for A\ , of Syracuse, in a ten-round bou taat, night. RACING AT BEAUTIFUL BELMONT PARK Comuicte on O-MORBOW'S FEATURES $25000 Lawrence Realization \ Freeport Steeplechase $2500 gne Stakes and 3 Other Contests FIRST HACE AT 2.80 P. M. Lad Who Beat Tilden for Tit to the McLoughlin. of 1914, TLLIAM M. JOHNSTON is the greatest player in the his. tory of tennis in the United States. That seems to be the verdict of @ majority of fans, experts and players who saw the clean-cut man- ner in which he defeated William Til- den 24 of Philadelphia in the finals for the national championship in the record-breaking tourney at the West Side Club of Forest Hills, I='s show- ing was remarkable, winning three straight sets from his speed op- ponent, 6—4, 6—4, 6—3. Johnston can be hailed as world's champion, as among those who fell by the wayside because of his su- perior playing \s Gerald L. Patterson, who won the sow accepted world's championship tournament at Wim- bledon, England, last Julr. Norman BE. Brookes when asked wh r in his estimation Johnston was the superior of McLoughlin as! i u 1914 sald: “In my judgment Johnston played the better e of the two, Mc- Loughlin had a wonderful service and head was but he lacked the steadiness on strok- ing of the Johnaton of to: Nic “eas the daring and dash. of John- ston, his aggressive, dominating powers at the net, which compelledhis rival to take the defensive end to play, the game after the pattern that the champion selected. Tilden's heavy artillery of speed} meant nothing to Johnston. Neither aid his cannonading service, which upon more than one critical occasion failed to explode at all in the expected manner, instead of turning out a verl- table dud. All of the speed, accuracy. and ar- gressiveness were with Johnston, He \ was always up to the net in the ral- hea, With rapierlike strokes of his | racquet he ked Of the fustest vol. | leys and drives that Tilden shot across to him. Tilden once in a while tricked i him into misjudg' a ine drive and | letging a fair ball shoot past him, but it was not often, Johnston forced tho playing ts indicated by his total of 33 placement shots for the three sets an against 17 for Tilden, ‘This was the margin that turned the tide tn his favor, In all of ‘the rallies the doughty little Pacific Coast star had his rival chasing all over the court for the ball. ‘Tilde: recoveries represented nothing in par- | ticular, he had to yield position, | which ‘permitted Johnston to pile up his tally on earned points, On errors of nets and outs, the Californian lost only a total of 57 points, while Ti- den's total wag 78, Throughout the three sets, which were completed in exactly one hour, Johnaton displayed the amazing abtl- ity to attain great speed without vio- lence of effort. It was the sort of thing which has caused him to rise superior to such giants of the courts as Gerald L. Patterson, the Australian, who won the world's championship at Wimbledon; to Robert Lindley Murray, the title holder of last year; to Wallace F, Johnaon, the master chop. stroxe ts artist, and lastly ‘Tilden. Teoora for the season parallels that of his tournament achievement, as he has lowered his colors only twice, tims to Tid the final at and West Johnston, however, won the National Clay Court Championship from Tilden in straight sets at C! While interest centred upon thirty-elghth annual decision of the famous All Comera’ singles, th were other crowns fought Yor and won, Clarence Hobart, who gained a| Australian knew the Comet in| s; i HOW JOHNSTON WON TITLE. “yor ome #) nutshell 1 rignce to the test to out-volley and out-drive Alfred H. Chapin jr., the ipringfeld, Mass. junior, It was Richards all the way to win at 6—3, bic Se tamil ; reon ping Eg oe es feet than four national, cham onan risce.*for thelr day on “Andersons. won doubles ove Fran! fe eaniar eeeee ‘The report from Mexico a few days ago that Tom Cowler, hehvyweight, was training there for a return fight with Jack Johnson, the 9 Colored heavyweight, is not true. Al. Lippe, manager of Cowler, received a cablegram to-day from Sully Woods, whom Lippe sent with Cowler when he fought Johnson in their other ten- round bout there a few weeks ago, stating that the match was off, and that, as neither he nor Cowler have flany money to pay their fare back to New York, Lippe has cabled the stranded pair $400 to return, Lippe says that Johnson sent George Law- rence, who is here, enough money to rence, it is alleged, only gave them one-way tickets, Lith, fy wee originally ecbeduled wo meet Cros, Eegte yee tn | i place aiong the top ten in 1890, out stayed and out-played Frederick G. Anderson of Brooklyn for the vet eran’s title, The score was 3—¢, 6-3, -. Vincent Richards, graduated trom the boys’ iy ry MA oxi of > a meat Ere. gf srt Ne) N the English |" "OQ WORLD, x BEST SPORTING PAGE SERVING HIMSELF A TITLE Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). > fee en 9. “5 re IN NEW YORK By Thornton Fisher Sey ir was SOME LIL WH.M. JOHNSTON WINNER. OF THE MATE TITLE On Main Track His Per- formance Would Seem Wonderful. By Vincent Treanor. GREAT race and a close finish, Naturalist is a wondor- ful horse to shoulder 140 pounds 4nd run the race he did, and Biiiy Kelly is a good one too. That in 1 a fitting comment on the Autumn Highweight Handicap, the feature of yesterday's card at Belmunt Park, These two horses came through the last elghth of a mile of the six fur- | long straightaway head and head. At} that stage Billy Kelly had a neck loft | of his early three length advantage | and looked the winner, “Butts” Fuir- brother on Naturalist, however, was not giving up the ship, He put every- | thing he had into @ vigorous hand | ride and inside the last sixteenth got up to and a neck in front of the gay Billy Kelly. Fora ind it appeared that the latter had “chucked” it, and that Naturalist was drawing away °o| win by @ comfortable margin. Tho) { to fight Me! Coogan, The new bouts for the are as follows: Jimmy Hanlon of Deuver "% Mel Coogan, Eddie Fitzimmons ve, Charley Vite of Australia and Willie Doyle ma, sine good man, Willie O'Loughlin of South Bethlehem, Pa, 1 signed up for three more ba Sept. be boxes Byran Downey #2 he will go against Jack at Tulea Okla, and on change wallops with Gene round bout at Montreal, Cas, O'Loughlin’s ee has healed up enough w allow him tw start training again, ‘The last out-door bor Of the Inter-Nos A, ©, of York, N. J will take piace to-night, In the main bout of eight rounds, Georgie Hrowu of the West side ‘will take on eg Cap" Wilson of Syracuse, YX. For the opening show indoors on 8¢ Matchmaker Crawford bas sigued wp Da\ Of the Wout Side to meet Young Mector of Jersey city. show of the season Ni Phil Bimnstein, manager of Augie Ratner, tho crack Bronx middleweight, is authority for the O'Dowd, the champion mid. dieweight, hae run out of bls viewed elabt round bout with Ratner, which was slated for the Armory A. A, of Jetwey City on the night of Sept, 22, Bernstein saya Ratner may box Jack Britton metead, Ratner is training al Prank Decker's tam at Vine Bust, N.Y. 1k was learned from a reliable source to-ay that the ten-round bout between champion Mike YOrDowd, middleweight title holder, and ‘Ted "Kid" Lewls, former welterweight chamoion, st the Angus 4, ©. of Syracuse, N, ¥., on last Mooday vight drew cooly $4.200, While the uncut the fighters received could not be learned it be almost a eure "thing that O'Dowd 4:4 pot get $2,000 for bis end, O'Dowd wanted $7,000 to box Jeff Smith in Jersey City on Sept, 16, BELMONT SELECTIONS, First Race—Faisan D'Ore, Lovers’ Lane, Copyr! Second Race—Terentia, Enflade, Homely. ‘Third Race—Kashmir, naire, Audacious, Fourth B McMahon, O1 co—Sasin, Happy Valley, Question |. Thomas F, (AM WAS SPREAD @LL OVER. THE COURT next second changed this aspect, for Billy Kelly came again and got on even terms with Naturalist. Fal | brother seemed to have lost the race e had it won. Kor about ten it was as even a race as one © in a lifetime. Over the finish line they went like a team From the grandstand Billy lly seemed the tgeniest bit in front and the cry went up: “Billy Kelly wins!" » one but the judges were in a po-~ jon to tell exactly, Looking at a finish from the grandstand di gives he an altogether different line of vision than that which the judges have looking across the track straight from the pole of the inner rail to the pole on the outer rail. Anyhow, nine out of ten near the finigh line con- ceded the race to Billy Kelly, and there were backers Of Naturalist among them, too, When the number of Naturalist went up as the winner it came a shock to the Kelly specu- lators and as an agreeable surprisi to those who supported Naturalist. If the race had been run around e main track instead of out of the ute, where the public can see little of the early part, it would have emphasized the greatness of Na turalist. ‘Try to imagine the back stretcl, twisting and turning at the barrier for five thinutes. Just as Cassidy springs the webbing, Natural- ist is turned sideways, looking toward the Jericho turnpike and Billy Kelly is off alt by himself in front. Natur- alist finally gets away, but Enfilade is In front of him and the rest of the field behind. Away goes Kelly, open- ing up a three-length lead with the track before him and Naturalist then nearest {n pursuit. Without any ap- parent trouble Kelly keeps his lead to the far turn, down toward the stretch and around the home bend, It looks like a runaway race. Down the stretch he comes, uralist atill chasing him, but with little chance of catching up. Inside the last eighth, Fairweather calls on Naturalist for one Jast final effort and the good horse responds, He creeps up to Billy Kelly's saddle girths on the inside, In a few strides he heads him and in the next few jumps goes by him, “He's lot_him,” ‘yell the Naturailst rootere. 4 so it seems. eld over in the oy are in the last sixteenth now. Naturalist is winning, but in a twin- Kl.ng something happens to Naturalist He hangs. Billy Kelly comes again They afe on even terms now and the finish ig only a few jumps ,away. Neither can gain an inch now a in that way they go past the judges, Billy Kelly nearest the crowd ‘on the lawn and in the grand stand with Naturalist on tho outside, After the race we asked Failbrother nut the thrilling finish and he said thought I won, Billy Kelly bore out in the last couple of jumps and that helped Naturalist, 1f Kelly had hung as close to me as he did in the last sixteenth he might have won, Naturist ran a great race for’ me, a (Twas as SAFE AS STANDING (NM FRONT OP & MACHINE GUM BASEBALL. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 5.—The New York Americans lost an exhibition game to the New Haven Club of the Eastern League by a score of 1 to 0. Nutter drove in New Haven DETROIT, Sept. 4.—Leo: vineible at critical moment: Detroit made two of its four bits count and took advantage of passes is- sued by Rolla Maple to tally two runs, were beaten by fast running. MISCELLANEOU: SEA GIRT, N. J., Sept. 6—With only a few cards to be turned in Capt. Wili- jam H, Richard of Ohio is the apparent winner in the Nevada long range mato shot at 600, 900 and 1,200 yards in the ifle matches het Hils total for the match Is 140, Sorgt. Peter Dowling of the marines is second with 137. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. dail spectators ‘will be hit by the cost of The of living this, f janagement a’ Announced to-day that se: Harvard-Yale game in the HEE Tite’ reason, elven 3 . reason given wi : Soiaed expense of providing players eau) t and the cost of erecting extra wooden 8 Bartfield Lucky To Stay Limit With Leonard PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 5.—Benny Leonard’ outboxed Soldier Bartfeld by a mile in six rounds in the National League Ball Park here last night. There wasn't a semblance of & knock2own, though Bartfleld had to spread his stout pins under him In the sixth to keep afloat. Leonard crossed Bartfield with several hard rights in the final moments of the bouts and the one-time United States sharpshooter was seasick for fair. Joe Phillips gubstituted for Eddi Wallace against Willle Jackson and r ceived a neat pasting for his trouble, STANDING OF THE CLUBS NATIONAL LEAGUE, Foot- high jeule for the game. GAMED TO-DAY, at Mew York, Philadelphia at Boston, Chicago at Pittsbureh, Cineinaat! at St, Leal, —~—— AMERICAN LEAGUE, Billy Kelly led all the way and I didn’t get near him until right near the finish Land at Chicage, bane Boston at Philadelphia, St, Louis at Detroit, Backward season and bad weather leave ws will which must be di rdless of Winter st ck 5 Peerless + 5 SPECIAL NEW 1919 LIGHT CLEVELAND MOTORCYC) Ainder, two-apeed, chain drive. If you fat the opportuni, We also ave complete Sixth Race—John P. 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Browne jr, Bultusrol; GA, Bowaun je, Pluintield, and Charies Conun of “Hackeusack, and they will meet as named Chis mocuing. Aitehell, who won the medal im the testing circuit witn a card uf 9, fifshed seven strokes beiter (han his nearest vppunent, Conklin, while Browné and Bomann ‘ted with’ ss of the first round matches im the main division were closely contested, ane an extra hole affair tween Conklin aod W. W. Maley of the home lub, In the morning, Mitchell started like a champion, making the first nine holes in 39, and it looked as though he were destined to finish in the low 70's. Sixes at the sixteenth and 14-yard home hole brought his inward half up to 41. The Sentor’ Golf Association will con- duct, the fifteenth annual tournament on the links of the Apawamis Country Club at Rye, N. Y., from next Tuesday Friday, | Two, tournasmente extending two days. aeded. for “bos ey er making the best thirty-six holes in elther tournament. will be senior champion, The field will be made up of four ciasses—Ciass A, for those whose age is from fifty-five to fifty-nine years, inclusive; Class B, sixty sixty-four years, in- clusive; C, sixty-five to ty-nine years, inclusive, and Class for ,jnoee | sevent to a years of fe or over. Ono half of the field will Play on the opening day. Tuesday, and the’ other half on the following day, to complete the event. Another tourna- ment will be the attrac! the two days. A seing. co! teen holes will be held Tuesda: Thursday. anda Kickers’ Handicap on Wednesday and Friday, Yankees May Secure Permanent In Mays President Ban Johnson's Ad- mission That He Holds Cleveland Club Stock Proves He Was Unduly Influenced by Self-Interest "When He Suspended Former Red Sox Pitcher. By Bozeman Bulger HE second phase of the allied at- tack on Lig Ban Johnson began this morning when the belliger- * | ent forces lined up in Part 1, Supreme Court, for a final bearing of the in- . | Junction proceedings in the case of Carl Mays. It's a merry little fight, With the barrage getting hotter every minute. By night it is expected that the temporary injunction will be made Permanent. and that the underhand Pitcher will continue to pitch for the Yanks, or the injunction will be’ dis- solved, and the Colonels, ‘Harry Frazee and Comiskey will dig in. There is no middie ground. In view of the weak showing Ban Johnson made in the: hearing before Referee Gillespie yesterday the Colonels are jubilant. Johnson prac- tically admitted that he was a stock- holder in the Cleveland Club. To be exact, he admitted holding $58,500 of the stock of the Cleveland Club, a fuct charged by the Colonels in their contention that Johnson could not be a fair judge in the Mays case. Jobn- son admitted that this stock was in- dorsed in blank—meaning that he could fill in his name and do what he pleased with it—and that the Cleve- land Club had given him no NOTE for what he claims to have considered In other words, his admis- Injunction Case To-Day sion, according to the attorneys, wa open and shut evidence that the stock could not have been collateral. He admitted further that the Cleves land Club at a stock meeting which he attended had declared a 17 per cent. assessment. Later Johnson ad mitted having taken dyer an addition- al $8,500 of the stock—exactly 17 per cent. of his holding of $50,090, ‘leveland Club had issued no dividends, which Johnson declared that th meant, of course, that he had ‘not re- ceived any. His admission of having attended the stockholders’ meeting without @ proxy was most damaging to his side of the case. Feeling that they have nailed John- son as having @ financial interest i@ the Cleveland Club the Colonels feel assured that the court will consider his decision In the Mays case unduly influenced by self-interest. se Before there was a chance for Johnson's lawyers to have a cross- examination the fearing was poste poned until next Thursday. The next damaging admission by Johnson was that he had not sus pended Mays until two days after the New York Club secured him, despite the fact that Umpire Hildehgana had reported his absence from the Boston bench on July 14, fifteen days betore, He admitted that, according to the Constitution, It was primarily up to the Boston Club to suspend Mays; that he did not confer with Presidert Frazee in, regard to such failure to suspend, but had suspended him him- self, without further Information. He said that he did not know of Mays being hit on the head by a pitened ball and having left the grounds in a hys- terical condition. 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