The evening world. Newspaper, December 8, 1919, Page 18

EWORLD'S GAMBLING MECCA * CUBA'S AIM IN LEGALIZING * ALC FORMS OF PUBLIC BETS Beland’s Realty Values Shooting Skyward in Prospect of Be- coming a Modern Monte Carlo—Tourismo Act Makes Open Wagering Lawful for Twenty ‘Years—Natives Strong for American Baseball. By Vincent Treanor. (Special Staff Correspéndent of The Evening World.) Coprright, 1018, ty The Pree Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) i . are born gamblers. A law known as the Touriamo Act, re ‘cently passed, gives them the privilege of gambling openly during & period of twenty years. Of course this may be repealed at any a ee HH 7 the city. le opneerned, and other forms likely to make bet- horses a secondary con- inceasions are neces- ) may open .a gamb- ‘Theso are isrued Mayor or the Governor and .one ia secured legally, fagers © shapped in the faces of the rider in the law “whieh co jjons are granted that an applicant must Properly interests worth @t least $800,000 and by this tt will be seen that fly-by-night places will no legal standing on the com- anicators where roulette, taro and oow@ ther games of chance may be played ‘within the law. Mr. Diaz explained “that Cube is the only country in the “world where open betting on base- games ts secn. Amerins’s national game is tho most popular form of amusement among dig Cubans. It-is played by them @verywhere, on street corners, public Squares and any piace whefe there @ @ piece of open ground. The young matives are good ball players, too. Only recently a series botween a (Cuban team and the All-Americans, owith a few big loague players among Ba Jatter, resulted in a, hollow vic- fury for the Cuban ENOR DIAZ admits that the one drawback to the development of Cuba as @ Monte Carlo is its Jack of hotel accommodations, But fhe is of the opinion that time will Hotels will-eventually be erected to compare with those any- where, Already one is undergoing extensive repairs, @nd will be operated by the Bowman terests of New York. According © plans it will be opened Christmas Day, and even now it isn't possible to a ingle room there from them a “Sharkey’s Easy Surprised the Boxing World operation are i g z i 3 é i Anctdeutally, < Femedy this, It is the Seville Although Defeated Clever Welsh Pugilist ; Great Knowledge of Queens- - , berry Game. Displayed By Alex Sullivan. AST week certainly was a bad one for English boxing cham- pions. On ‘Thursday night Joe heavyweight ,@hampion, was knocked out round in London by Georges Carpen- tier, aad on Saturday night, in Mil- waukee, Junmy Wilde, their sen» Monal fyweight, this country, inted by Juck #harke ork bantam, in a ten-round no de- cision bout. ey did to the boy from acros: upon his debut was decisively out- him—had dope But this has been More of it has than ever before. Reds capturing the world's tide was absolutely unexpected, ‘were so many Fun true to form @ bad year for dope there reversals of form on| the gridiron that the experts are still izzy. The litte Italian-American up to! ty, Saturday night's fight had never been| New York boy, more! never trained before for this battle ater, despite his fo0d | He expressed great confidence of vic- ut out West he has done|tory bofore the fight, and now that the boxing during the|/ you look back on his record of 300 it six months that he js considered & world-beater, In this city Wilde was a 3 to 1 favorite, apd oul there, because of his ation, he was also 4 favor- there were any number of| than he receives. | Milwaukee who thought that] Sharkey’s victory puts Wilde away inner. | out of it as & high priced attractior an Tt is not li that he will be guar- such wondertul be returned a wi me bad Vt tt bob ds HAVANA, Cuba, Dec. 8. time, but I do not think it will be. If gambling were stopped here men | ‘would bet among themselves, They} would bet on any propositidn, even) on the flight of a bird. On the fore going words A. H. Diaz, spokesman, horsebwner and one of Cuba's lead- ing and most influential citizens, surely become the gambling mecca of the world. He says that gambling thing for the Island, in fact, is necessary to its progress. The a eG Ob “ referred to limits gambling to municipalities with a popula- GASTING (HE O16 RazzBER or over, and thus should include Havana itself, with a popu- 100,000, but so far the po- frowned at an attempt to ‘This condition long, however, bocause the entitle the capital to all ing privileges, The race 0 County, jist out- @ comparative up to April 1. The ‘house is solidly booked for that period. Another big ing this. Persons representing the MaAlpin of New York have been here | game, looking over suitable sites, but re-/ fame was turned without making any plans, An. It is said the Cuban real estat the New York walnet the MoDowell cently defeated the original Celtic: sharps foresecing the rush hav Jumped property values to amazing helghta& In this connection it may be eaid that Ed Terf, caterer at Oriw wats Part ana wel kawwe nee tere| WW AGB Georges Carpentier al Is the Idol of France + matter of $26,000, Of course that | Great Ring Skill and Rare Personality of Beckett's Conqueror lem boniface, had completed arrange- ments for taking over the Telegrafo Inparue Central, but when he went to make final payment on the property its owners raised the price a mere stopped Terf right there, In other instances where it had become known| Makes a Big Impression on His Countrymen—Carpentier in that certain New Yorkers were in- native sharps would beat them to it and try to resell it to the visitors at i & greatly advanced figure, By Martin Green. [Ms Ghee conditions, however, Georges Carpentier in France will readjust themselves, ac- in 1917 and 1918, whether box- cording to Mr. Diaz, and when | ers, boxing experts or plain saps as to they do Cuba will build up sufficiently |ring matters, were surprised at the to accommodate thousands of tour-|news of the quick ists and they won't lack for specula-|easy victory of the French champion tive action while here, Every hotel|over tho burl, will have @ floor set aside for gum~- bling purposes, ag in Florida, and the} points, reveriue Will be absolutely necessary| Probably the only Americans who for the maintenance of the property, | believed that) Carpentier would win by a knockout were Mr, Diaz, whose horses have raced Carthy, the Paris loni is also interested in dozens of other | Ars 1 @ breeder, He has thirty horses in| pentier. training and a number of yearlings.|, Under | the ing editor. sreat future for Wrack, the English | man. sire, and ag for Orestes, he says in| Carpentier gave many exhibitions him are reprepentitt Poe bent. oe eicod [8s DANONE boxihyy shows In Paria and lines and it would take more than Cedi Ml An aetaal’ Hokie coda $50,000 to make him purt with thelfeyts, but his exhibitions were well worth looking at. "The-ehampion génerally wound up| His appearance in the ring the signal for five Given an audi- g00d horse, Win Over Wilde |v" was invariably minutes of delirium, ence largely composed of poilus and French officers on leave surrounding Georges Carpentier and there wasn't anything in France to compare with the result for noise excepting a battle | ‘ on a ten-mily front. who brought Sharkey to the front,| Carpentier, wires that he is flooded with offers | sleeveless shirt and big soft gloves tor Sharkey's services, from all over would in hi the country, and that his next big part of a human target, The arrange- Bout will wrebably be fo ment was that the champion was {oimey, ageingt Joe Louch, willing to take on any boxer for four hitherto has been considered New|two-minute rounds or four boxers, each to stand befgre him one round, xer or boxers an as he could, and then laughed at him. Joe Wagner, the retired bantam, York's best bantam. Although Wilde was defeated, he was by no means disgraced. The critics declared that he gamely with- You FINISHES Your FOURSOME 4 HOURS AGO- (DONT See WHY | HAVE TO BE KEP WAITING 2 Hours FoR tt tq DINNER ellie ENJOY MYSELF - Beat New Jersey Champions. hotel is to be put up near Mariano.| At the Amsterdam Opera House yes- Banker Mendoza of Havana is financ- |terday afternoon the New York Celtics defeated the Inter-Btnte 7 to Thé features of the Johnnk | © up | r THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1919. BEST. SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK THE WEEK END - - “ “ (Copyright, 1919, by the Proas Publishing: Co. I “= NOBODY SHACKLED ANO DRAGGED You out HERE Toor’ t cane Our TO SAKE RY From FRIEND WIFE Ar THE CLUB ~o EARLY ail Americans who met and apparently Britisher, Joe Beckett. I belong to the plain sap class, and I thought Carpentier Charlie Me- on the New York tracks, Is one of | Hoasworth, who runs the Paris Amer- Cuba's richest men, He mad’ most]|ican Express office, and fow other} fell coun nen who have lived in of his money out of copper mines, but | fellow Kayman Who have Tived in pér cent. tip and get away corporations, with it, The American He is an enthusiastic horseman and} Paris doubtless cleaned up on Car- chaperonage t. Me- Carthy I became pretty wel He bought up all the Hessians ho quainied with the French champion, could at the auction sales around|He took to me because he thought I New York, for he believes the Hes-|was some kin to his friend Hob Ed- san will be the future stallion of the] £fe long The bvenine World thoroughbred world. He also sees a gren—similarly there, to a Mrench- He took no wearing long tights, a exhibitions play and allow said (The New York Evening World). WHAT ELSE wit YOU Have DEAR R HEAVENS Kai inp OFF BEERNG- \F You DONT LIke wat 100 YOU WELL, | COULDNT ic Hee TO TURN JACK DOWN WHEN HE WAS TREATING= YOU present Binchurst leads all oth resorts, But it wish to progress, That the rounds generally lasted about one minute made no difference to the audience. In case boxers con- sidered qualifisd to make a showing Possibly rfleld in the tourn against Carpentier were not present Golf Associath the champion gave an exhibition with her side the mee open only his sparring partner. I saw a big, long-legged, ferocious- countenapoed French heavyweight slam aWay at Carpentier through four short rounds one night. Most of aso Brit art, to the final round mateurs 3! da petition the time Carpentier stood against the Savoring the American and po sibly i . aa evhen they mee! have a Pre Mens te et qualifying round of thirty-six holes, the ed the blows by sidestepping, be his head from"sido to side or vontinue at match play over @ thirty- ing. Sometimes when he saw one six-hole route, coming he couldn't avoid by shifting ef ass P his body, the right or left hand would | | Russell Dana of | the Rhode Island move up and the blow would be Country Club. re ly made a boast], <a . cted by the fore. that there isn’t a woman In the country | qhught Gp on def ted by the fore: (Wie eer aither cutdeive OF best him in {4 A match, As a result, M ‘ovidence gi sna Col little selence of n Cor- ‘bett, ct ve Fitzsimmons, Packy McFarland and other shifty old timers in action, | venture to say that Carpentier is as fast a thinker in the ring as any boxer who been educated in the modern se ‘The transfer of thought to mu action is so rapid that his defensive movements appear to be instinctive Carpentier was a little fat during the war, but from all accounts from | after promising himself a trip to land Hinks within a short time, try Club has made 4 States Golf As- tel to fighting weight. He is well pro- portioned, and for that reason does p perayens fe the Joarapy.. Hila dias not appear to be as big as he really 0 take, along ieee ja, Navure was kind to him. when same won't get sualy this. winter, apportioning his hare of hands and | yocy tHutebison has received a letter feet, and he has the thick, powerful |from Laurence B. Aston of St. Andrews, wrists of the natural fighter. leaving that the latter will play in The champion of Europe will be a)America next season. Ayton finished popular favorite if he comes over here fourth in the recent Scotch open cham- to fight Dempsey. He isa good look- | pionship, ing chap, with a quick, infectious | — — — Three Baseball Meetings All Under Way This Week ssa Famer Favorite Donald Koss, who has aeted as majors fomo at Pinehurst for a number of , does not hesitate to, predict that that resort will become the ‘greatest cen- (re for golf in the world, and that within «short time more golf will be played terested in the purchase of property|, Many War Bouts Displayed Quick Thinking and Shiftiness. any other’ spot in the universe, At en the British amateurs HREE leading baseball circuit their annual ings here this week, and before Sunday rolls around the magnates of the National, American and New In- ternational organizations will met, settled up the 1919 race, elected officers, traded players and, in gen-| cleaned up” for the 1 which gives promis erous ug the one just clos That is, two of the leagues n but the internal strife ed upon the plan and they have Lut he can’t hold am Di ec w members of that body in Chicngo, to att dunn, President of the na hee dent of "he with the inventor and sole practician of Ruppert the equally to be respected “scissors” Ing the annual | hota. Biit- to pass Up a| Both men are tn first class condition with | for the match, Hach declares he has it- | taken on extra weight, and consequent- thirty-two making the best scores to ) hirty-two making sco. meeting of their body here in the Ameri- n seems no nearer a settlement now n it did when the and Comiskey f a war to the take a winter in the courts before the junior major league organization will be ready for any r serious planning for next year’s ri of ave | © Board of Dire taken up Dana in. an| Rhode Is-| 1 prob= journ for lack of a quorum and | wr, ‘then | Se°s the | the greatest grappler since the days of the/ Frank Gotch, When he wrestles at courts again and | home it is only a question of how many nas to which body | the arena can hold. For financial back- M the annual guth- hy ne There doesn't seem any chance at of a row at the National wsday at the W had a successful CHICAGO, Dec, § clined to comment hi withdrawal of the n ¢ an Johnson de-jof the stage e to-day on the|masterly, cool manner that he ts the in-|pépular ‘idol. His recent victory over ned to say| "Strangler" Lewis actually — mado would attend the meeting in|Stecher more popular than ever. In ew York Wednesday, or proceed with|that flerce struggle he turned what which he has called for|appeared to be a sure defeat into vic- made a lot of mo possibility of a ion of a successor New York Club “Jane over the se | to Garry Herrmann, President of the London he has trained himself down | scotland fur the last five years, Jim| ays of Wollaston has at Inst made all Chairman of the National Commission. Still, ag the deadlock In the American both circuits must It is posable that this may go over until another time League exists and in the matter, As things are shi Johnson contingent in the ‘Amer! League will meet on Wednesda Ban is in a funny predica- ment. The constitution of the league ealls for the annual mi hav hnw? the Bah ngs are apparently to go | Zbya: : Comiskey has had advice of | will » and Is confident that the}the match’ is over, Ned for New York by the| ‘Preliminary to the big match there ctors is the legal meeting. | will be a reappearance of a favorit nt in corporation meetings |the person of Sula Hevonpaa. smile, and his modesty and reticence active features of his pe ality, He told me s¢ 1 tim would like to visit the U and if he were free to fc inclinations he could ¢ suaded to make the trip—but lie has]. ; y Greb of Pitteburs Pere tg ag Fe a, welght, and Harry Greb of Pittsburgh, And M. Deschamps—well, when| Who were to have fought at Syracuse, ited & opportunity to hit\him. stood the punjshment administered by his heavier opponent, and that he ‘displayed great Knowledge of the Queensberry game. One reason that Wilde may hav been beaten was because he naturally slowed himself up py endeavoring to Ho entered the ring hing 107 pounds, while his op- nt Upped the beam at 116 pounds. Wisconsin law says there shall | Individual |not be over ten pounds difference in Weight between boxers, That is a trictly enforced rule. In order to With the had to put on extra weight. When he 18 an form he usually. scal tween 100 and 105 pounds. Maybe jthe superfluity of flesh’ robbed him of his speed, man, Sharkey will probably never be | fifte: given the credit due him for his vic- tory. It will always be regarded ay a poor fight on Wilde's, part, rather | ovr we na great one on the part of th who trained as he lay th fights since going under Joe Wag- ner’s management without a defeat, having met every good boy in the country at least twice, you can see where he deserves greater recognition near the sums that defore Sharkey \ tough for the halt, Nuno of th Fy man’ Muwioh's high indivi finished, Glenn Ridd Metropolitan Bowling Academy looks like a sure winner of the Eastern Championship. | Glenn has won every one of the fifteen | games he hag participated in with the y wi ye y utmost ease, and there are men mply with these regulations Wilde | Wiinington’ Helghts who. are willing he will go through the entire tournament without a defeat. g the leading man in t odds that ith an average ) games, J nis in second place, closely followed by Alex. Dunbar. many friends are tory he guinet when feated Glenn Hiddell in tate at tho Broadway 4 craged, f day. This will be their third ms fought ones. pwlem lan The Nababw are st my Wotnowfay fos orator, Harvey an xt wo Lewis for two fights Weis on Deo, 2 a, and the 60 steamehiyy “4 nat he ritviin| England, the *mt with M nis the leading | Royal Albert Hall, in Law Of IST for four champion, for twenty ninds in January Dan Mongan 18 autiority for the atate that Batuung Lorinsky and Georges Carpentier the Hrench shampion, wy box a tavnty-rOU cm for’ em T tout in France, Moran saya he thay received int, Walter itonper, J. Doe, “rite ‘Koehpken | letter trom 1 and O, Rortelmann, Varis, aaying he t to fight Lavi reuchman’s emanager, Das Champs, hap praatic ically agroad tw the inaldh, A. 0, of Now i round battle bet Second Race--Thos, F, McMahon, | month before ticy Box at bie club, Revolution, Dahinda, Think RacerSturdee, Humma, | acut on mcovering the mi Paul Connoll Chip clan, It ix Jov's opinion chat Fourth Race—Bon Tromp, Sher- | pis. prother and ex-champion man A. George Clark, should never have lost his crown, Joe ente ‘ veth piace: The Boy, Ballot | cing @ notion that Mike O'Dowd's tearing, 1 Tom McCaffrey, owner of the Toronto Club of the International Lé (Fistic News son Yotioce and Gossip ) iow his own sily be pot! Clay ‘Turner, ‘the Indian Nght heavy-! meet ‘Tommy Robson, the Masmchusetts boy, bo is aanong thone hurling challenges at O'Dowd, orgs Pittsburgh The praveeed fight tebween Chamiion Benny | cick, who received his unconditional | a8 follows: | Leonant and Champion Jack Britton, which pro- moters MacKay and Bunlick of the Sportamen's Chub of Newark, N. J., wanted to atazy on Dee will protadly be fought the latter part of Janmary, as Leon American promoters and | boxing} N. ¥., last Tuesday night, but which nagers begin to deal with M. Des-| bout was cancelled on account of the mps they are apt to get the im-] former injuring his knee while in train- jon that he expects them to pay] ing for the contest, will clash in a ten- ee $200,000 FOR DEMPSEY TO FIGHT CARPENTIER France to-day bi Dundee in New 1 May consent to let Leonard t French natlonay debt round bout at the Queensberry A. C. of i ~~ ——| Buffalo, N. Y., on Wednesday night. They were signed up by Matchmaker |“ Murray over the long-distance telephone |“ Car- the woud welterweight of New who kuocked out Jimmy Me Philadekyhia in woven rounds . On Priday night, in ‘This was Myan's fourth victory he also stoyang May Hatfield of ten dayw ago in yan may box Sammy Waker of Jounson City in two their othér two scraps being hard- manager of the wor! million in the Newark at Perth Amboy, P. S.A. L. NOTES, ona | - At the ending of the fourth week in with Jobeny Basham, the Englwh walterweigtt? Henny Valger, the little Frenah fighter, and Halumore fighter w numerous hidckouts }matabed by Jobne Mooney of the National A, Fruak Kice of Ballijore juceta Muly Cole of 3%. Louis in the witnd! of t promoter of jx rownde, + to get Carpentier to con- n Wobsiary, and that the | next @aturday Phu Lewis's promising bantam, Me will appear in the star boxes again to-night event of the Foresters’ A. C. Vinoent Reina, matoimaker of the Riverside 1, Who Ws to stage thie twenty. oa benny Leonard and Johuny the Areva there on Jan 16, came to whee with Johmny Wilde, Joe Burman aud Jov the California Lightweight cham: Whitney Sub-target pion, who has won every bout he has so far en gaged in in the Bast, will fight Jimmy Murphy, the iiladelphia Lightweight, at the Ol; tourna- Manual tied with two mat hes won standinis NEW ORLEANS SELECTIONS. nlay for the ome of clowing the de: First Race—Dolph, Cormoran, | tails for the bout, It Lighters signed Rory O'Moore up 10 that they campot engage im any bout ove will go against Tom in one of the three the Arena a. C. popular with the fans, Low Tendler, the crack lightweigh. Wf Philadel- phia, will not be able to fight again % several ‘works, a8 he will undergo an operation for hernia ‘Philadelphia, Chin, the hard bittiog Neweestlo bay, is Vowelaht title for tm sarge, iD, bo miles, “4 7 a Gixth Race-—At Plerce, Thursday attack wae made for him and he is socking a ttle’ i, gy al, PE to-morrow night at the Bay- clans it will “bo at lest six oF elebt Gack, when ho Zpadier will be ia F bwwte of eleht rou r Matches lost Benjamin ts very re ‘ By Thornton Fisher » "DBYSZKO MEETS STECHER TONIGHT ~ INFINSH MATCH | Here Because of Recent Vic- International Circuit Starts the Annual Outburst of Baseball | tory Over Lewis. Eloquence While American League Wednesday Will Hold| Sessions Here and in Chicago—Peaceful Times for Na-| ana Joe Stecher, the Nebraska farmer, tional League. Wiadek Zbyszko, the’ Polish giant, will’meet in a wrestling match to @ fin- ish in the Tlst Regiment Armory at Mth Street and Fourth Avenue to-night. Jack Curley, promotet of the match, Board of Directors and the full league | has billed it as “for the championship Ban can hold a ” Iveting of the loaguencwranting. that | of the world.” Earl Caddock still lays power to. isu dispute——because has. five clubs, or a call for Claim to the title, and under the circum- he stances the championship will not de- with pend on to-night’s contest; bup recard- less of this, one of the best mat strug- les held bere in many months {s antic- ipated when the world’s greatest expo- nent of the dreaded toe-hold clashes ly has added strength. Zbyszko is con- 4 to be one of the most powerful stlers in the game. Indeed, he .y the world’s strongest athletes! er is probably the most popular, now in action. Out in the State” braska the citizens consider bim & point where the chal- tery and the finish was so spectacular that the result did more good for wrestling than one would imagine. Stecher is positive he will retire from the ring to-night a sure winmer. ix just as confident that he r the title of champion when Board of Directors as the |husky grappler, who is the real come- the date and place of|dian of the sport, will tackle Ad Man- annual meetings, kus Youska, a newcomer, pitied spent) HAVANA ENTRIES. former Har- »| RACE TRACK, HAVANA, Dec. &— The entries for to-morrow’s races are Pityp RACH ix, furlongs; toe ¢ . olla spd upward: claiming: ame — Woris, 08: "Quin, 08; *Neamt “Walton, a8: Raitbird, “1062 Kore, “106; Will Soon, ' wety.” 1h Manda’ Off, 108; Ralph & dos: i « i) RACK—Six furlongs: for thrce.gene- pian” Galina: punme, 0D “thormt nur Post YO: 108)"Col, Harrison’ 100% Beek: * Megic Mirror, 106; James - Viryus, 100; Revert Owen, Sx furan: rvs eur a Tiviigt! aime 600, Leot wethtowih. OT; *Gokdes M FOURTH and. one-talt Different RA fu “wed