The evening world. Newspaper, December 15, 1919, Page 20

© ASORT OF TENNIS GAME, THE: WEEK-END CUBA'S BIG NDOOR SPORT. ‘chewte House Greets the Meeting Each Night Between Two Professional All-Star’ Teams, the Piayers Receiving Any- From $6,000 to $20,000 a Season, While the Spec- Pay From $1 to $20 Single Seat and Sit and Gam- ble on Result Thiough Individual Wagers ‘and Betting -._ Through Pari-Mutuel Machines. By Vincent Treanor. Special Correspondent of The Evening World.) by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening Wort Havana, Cuba, Dec. 15. yban an aristocrat of sportsdom. peeking action and opportunities to gamble, they crowd more into 4 Now Yorker would have room for. the jal-alai game its quite @ treat. It is the national sport of known otherwise as “pelota.” You go cither by trolley of taxi to a Dduilding called the Fronton. body seems headed in the same direc- tlon, As you approach the scene you are impresded by thp number of auto- mobiles parked in and around the building and up and down side streets. The opening of the opera season at the Metropolitan, or a big fight at the Garden, one might think, if he can forget that he is in Havana, far away from either. You get through the gate and start up two flights of marble stairs. of nolse, a continuous babble of voices graws in volume as you near ‘top floor where the box seats are located. There js a strange familiarity ‘what now amounts to @ long drawn out roar from thousands of Some one has gained a lap. For a minute or so you imagine you the six-day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden during a madden int. You ate now on the top floor, walking behind & row of baxes, with a gate on, to keep out those witMout tickets calling for seats You can’t eee over the top of the boxes from where you are walking, you can look upwerd and notice that the cetling of the building js one of powerful are lights, ris going on must be ex- @- for there is no let-up to the Finally in your seat you down two storics to a cement on bounded by three high walls, crowds banked high up on the side of the square structure! lawn seat fashion from the floor pong Originally, has intd a great developed ety of forms in different coun- tennis and similar games are to most English-speaking ‘all athletic sports none calls for er strength, endurance, skill and 7 on the part of the player than and none gives greater de- it OF arouses greater enthusiasm of the spectators, game closely resembling played with the bare hands the blank wall of a church ter in pen courts with the or armed with a flat it has gradually devel present finished form. dy is talking at once, in eu of course, and the American | ayilit. begins to think he is in a mad] “Pel Gesticulating wildly and with denominations in 100 different persons in your i are jabbering shout something or other, ef the crowd, running up and are about a dozen white suited duals with red hats, They are ing too, signalling with thein re king all sorts of mo- only to stop suddenly, nod an at some one and then appears to be a memorandum they Rave in their free n at one end of what fooks like an extended handball court jaa big score board and beneath it board with names chalked up. 8 opposite each to the visitor, but the natives tremendously HE court or playing grourid is a rectangle 210 feet in fength and 86 fuet in width. The floor is of coment and the end and side walls are of granite, lnid with the greatest care. On the front wall against wifich the ball s served at the beginning of the Mies. Dow: name mean strips of thin metal, one parallel to|® the floor three feet threo’ above it, the second parallel to the first 96 feet higher; the third is a vertical band connecting the outer ends of the other two. wall is provided with tw: EANWHILE down in the pit- tike course, as viewed from the boxes, four men appear. Two ef them are wearing, light Wouses with flannel trousers and ‘white shoes. The other pair are simi- lagi attired, except that their blouses ‘white in color, Bach has a scythe. or laced to his wrist or fore- It is called a cesta. They soon banging a little mi: size of a golf and tennis the wall of the court—evi= they are at practice. blows and the matoh is on. it is that the nolse battle y entering the building 1 The ball is sent whizsing tr to serving wall with of a bullet by one of the ‘© metal strips Same position as the upper one and the vertical one on the trout has a single The side wall horigontal strip Jength at a bewht of 89 feet 2 inches These metal strips Which the ball, when from the floor, mark the limits in play must strike the which touches a strip or strikes below the lower strip of the front wall or outside of the vertical strips of the front and ‘rear walls or above the upper strip on any wall The floor of the court is divided into equal spaces twelve teet wide, indicated by vertical lines on the side wall which are numbered consecu- tively from the front wall the fourth and seventh di- lines are drawn transversely ‘These nes murk it in his cesta on the rebound it goes to the wall wught and returned. One bogins epeod of the players h used in their bat- like strike at the ball, at somne times a distance of 200 Two hours of the liveliest kind ‘Action by the players is usually mectesary before the winning team " Peaches the thirty points marking the of the game, The visitor anally learns the reason for the continuous Tumble of voices. The crowd, and it Rumbers et least 3,000, every night the game is played, |s betting with one another’ or with the red- on the floor. across the floor. the limits within which the after being served againat the front Wall, at the beginning of the play must strike the floor in order to be geod. The fourth is called the fault ime and the seventh thy pass line. ft the opposing sides ch are distinguished by clothing of different colors and each player is known by the number on ‘The side which first ‘Marvel at t points wins the match. As the gam ped | progresses the score is kept by an ‘The figures op-| attendant in view of the spectators. ite the players’ names is the esti- of the game enthusiasts a» in- by the betting in the el machines, which a big business on the result, IQUIRY brought out the fact that “také off” by the is something like while that of the red capped run- nem, known as bookmckers or stake holders, is 8 per cent. think the mutuels are pretty nearly the Limit when they take 5 per cent. The jai-alai follow- @on’t seem to mind as long as server at the the play drops the ball to the the designated service line, catching throwing it against it rebounds, strikes the floor on or inside of the fautt line, the ball ts called a fault and the serving bide loscs the point. If the ball strikes on or beyond the p, the service is good, récelving side must ball on. or befo: the point for serving side, the same If, however, ‘the served ball first strikes the the fault line and the puss ne, the service is good, muat then take ball on or before its first bound from the floor and re ed the|it to the front wail. turned may on rebounding from the be gvod, strike floor of the court or the side or back pint within the limits} strips befere seash wagers. nd pass loses get bets down on the winners. ers of the game are all pro- draw down according t6 their ab Of the best and consi successful of pla: The women followers A bah so re- gives lessons at game is profitable is prices paid for seat & box of six seats costs $120; wall at any own | marked by The opposing side must then Seale are §2 apiece up to) take the ball on or before its first bound from the floor and return it to the front wall. fails to return point, which is scored by their op- ponents. The side which wing any point eed me ball jolding the ball in the cesta ‘than ta row and balcony seats are And numbeged galery scats The house is always crowd- nds se aekere Me bets every night game most fashionable for the next fae | the club, except to sayy ‘ A | EIN NE he =" $HE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15 BEST SPORTING PAG _ W YORK iti ist By Thornton Fishe SF The Press Pudlishing (The New York Evening World). ne Sa Ne te Ne | HEAR THAT ‘ STEAMBOAT -TOOTIN oo0-Toor— DEM DARKIES / Jacki, 1 THINK THar: dokw 4}. Bat THE SCOTEH ) \ TIE WAS & R90 ONDINE oe « a ~ = Si r) be., ce Too- “4 (eens SO BRIG! 4 | HEAR Two OF THE OLDER MENBE! & TABLEAU * THE DYING GLADI MONOLOGIST friend wives THE: COUNTRY CLUB GwEs A SHow COMPOSED OF ¢LuB TALENT” Fistic News and Gossip By John Pollock THEY OUT TO) WEwP THOSE LOCKERS) LOCKED TIGHT ONTIL: BLL TOWNLEY GOT TANGLED UP wills SOMETHING BETTER THAN 225 BEFORE GOING ON AND HAS & YES, DEARIE, WG, FINISHED MY durisTMAS . PPING eee pure to be t | i jthe other exe |narden up the Jimmy Kane Easy Winner. PHILADELPHIA, Kane, sensational featherweight Nine American fighters will sail for France on Jan, 14 for fights, Al. Lippe, the well known manager, who has made troupe, he having just accepted terms | from ‘Theodore Vienne, the boxing pro- Alex, Joo Mendell and Johnny, Liggett Lippo is sure that Smith will fight Georges Carpentier, the French cham- | pion, in Paris the latter part of Pebru- moter of that country, The boxers who - i Will make the trip aro Jeff Smith, Tor | Cowler, K, 0, Loughlin, Frankie F Eddie Moy, Max Williamson,* Jonni i] , ought to know ow business, but also bh ‘Willie Jockwon will be unable te meet Joe Renjwnin, the Califorais lightweigit chamoion at the Arena A. ©. of Jemey City on Dee, 2 Frank Regley, manager of Jackson, said to-day Umt Jackson's now is not well enough, after bis | reoant ovaration on it, for him Reiter ani Joe Stanley, Johnny Clinton a’ Jummy Mormig, Joo Tiplite and Jimmy Smee A oe dy Kadin Mitzaitumocs and Young Joe Borel. Hil Breansn tnd Jue Welling in the — It is the gr the lanky lightweight of M Hardly ard tine getting bantama to |dently hi a box hin that compelled to lish featherw y Chub, ‘neat Monday night, | According to, stead, | .yneh t# being forced the bantam clase against bun, lin knew t Attar bie fe with Four Jom Horm jo | thee, had be edwiside oe Coretnes Ue) aitermam, Kidie! 7 Vitaeimmons aud his tmavager, Dan tate @ trina. for ‘Torune ciummms will @ sgunt brankie Hull, t Camdlan flghler, tue teo-fuud bout’ aL Mameg A. ©, of Chat city Phil Lewis, matehus Syracuse, bas just arranged two interesting ten-|around plays- bia new club, ‘The show will | theory of held Ds ‘and will bring together Milly De Boe, ne Kid Julian, the big Syracuse favorite, wil Billy Jobuwon, Do Foe and Siuith will past $200 apiece as forteite for weight —100 ringside: appearance, i } Dan O'Dowd, the shifty and rigged Irletman | foo)ing who made a host of friends here by extending Bill | Brennan and other big fellows who had groat | ht on him, can't ve ‘Tunney knocking | Was possib! properly ar Sehusteen Park. that, but 0 are tire t, Dowd, "This tine y own weight, aud other,” that counts, too, A bombshel!was dropped into base- ball circles last night when Charles} A. Stoneham, President of the New York Giants, announced in a state: | ment to the press that the directors of the National Exhibition Company had appointed Joseph D, O'Brien of Milwaukee, Secretary’ of New York's fainous ball club ° ent which follows makes jon of John 1B, Koster, but it ally removes the man who has acted as Secretary for the club during the last seven gears: Charles A. Bto President mal ‘reputitio served an President oft ‘Amoctition nad as a mem= ‘un nal u Brush. Me a ‘assume bis ter would make no statement in |forard to his removal as Secretary of joy ms ae to makb a change and aa: Kone won eve 1 wren ‘The extent to which the evil hus grown made it certain that sooner or luter| some player would fall, jance of evil | with gamblers. Many of the players huve not avoided the appear- | completes A number of ‘them have assoctated with and even churned | doesn’t * more chances, ty of baliplayers are clean, upright, honest fellows |are entitled to be freed from the suspicion which will attach to al e men accused are entitled to a heuring. er these charges. the few are driven out. ave hadino chance to ans ettlement of the "hey |v alaer, on & fu American League fight, the appointment | timore Nattona!l Coinmission of men of high standing and a thorough inve necessury to clear the nume of the game, olce between ‘that and permitting tens of thousands to believe that | the sport is not on the level, HAVANA ENTRIES. The owners can ti (Continued From Third 1 bets heavily nda reul fan. and is in that He asked ques- r from St. Louls, whose to this gambler, told 1 and one tan -—The entries for to-morrow's, raves are as follows: | name I will gladly furnish t DURST MACE him he had three of the Chicago White 1 fig dt ero ae x fight before [OR Another club, and could fix a game when Jan. 5 ef 10, Jackson expecta 10 start train.|to let my Chicago friend in on it. ing Sn engthen week, Further, being a baseball fan, h siats Manion Wik gNtUOGs ia Gah at tes a DOE ball games cannot be fixed without that this special doxing dow on Christenae Duy alter GAMBLERS IN MANY PARK: oon, There will be atx six-round bouts: Junnuy The night before t) BHOOND RACK aw angle that € alway 's Series opened in Cincinnati there was known that the busine ul has grown until it is second only to horse racing, id that in Boston, Chicage and @ittsburgh t A retrockoy and Joe Beutaann , 40 . a venthaxegre ie (St. Louis and Detroit to a lesser degr: at poolroom gambling gum« had I arrived in Cincinnatt when a gambler : Moines, la., told mg that the first two games of the = | advised me to aot wis and Bur. |, What t thought of him and all hi something doing on ev 201 8 of gambling Teaeptice alums clahund. “Wee and in Cincinnati, larger than on horse racing. and [ told him red that an attempt was eing made} Cincinnati players drunk. An hour later I knew that some of {am a friend of Pat Moran's, and im- Moran had evi- trail and rescued his man. of his men fell, and did drink, and drink a lot; so much that his victory was more a matter of the Sportaman | breaks than his dick yesterday that be figures be can’ get tore Lefore 9 o'clock that night I disc tmmey by boxing Fitainawns in Miwaukw sul by some persons to get two of the for that ream is forwed to paw up tho bait | thing talked of while | was working. at Newark | that gang had the pi Jy, the iniernational boxing tenaation, | mediately tried to red neard of it i, has been |) Moran says the plot falled him by telephone to w 5th Avenue fact is that one 1 wus utterly disg persons W the h n the victims betting was extr wean, wii | the fact that gamblers, who o Casmdn, where Miu lors in the world I took C | re midnight I discovered and before turn Sull 1 believed that sted with the active in the An UNPRECEDENTED SALE of Men’s Hose Wool Half Hose Wool Mixture, in plain and ribbed Heather Si sen ‘ Silk Half Hose pair, ] 30 Thread Silk Hose, of superior ality, full fashioned. 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