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ore rape pan rrr eT Na * “8 ili ' APRIL 20,1920, anos BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK ST TMN JOE STECHER, CHAMPION . : : By Thornton Fisher Giants at Last Win, But at That They Only Beat Phillies by One. Run — New York Club, Although Manager McGraw Was Not in Evi- dence, Score Their First Victory of the Season, Jess Barnes Doing the.Twirling. Copyright, 1920, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). By Charies Somerville. OUND the tocsin, ring the bells, blow the horns, bang the cymbals, S toot the whistles, play the organ and let the anthem ring! into the Giants at the Polo Grounds yesterday (I don’t know what became of McGraw, not seeing him in or out of the dugout or any- where else any time on the premises during the important event) was born the first Victory of the season. Kid Two-to-One. No, you could hardly call it a bouncing baby boy. — ¢ : . ; p - But it certainly was a pleasure to see him dandling on the serre board, to be fitting that a native x a 7 oa . B snty of Good Marathon Timber “ ed in Classic Race in rec 2 And it has to be admitted that at no time until the conclusion of the ninth Marath, i ia! pilte va: P - . BEGINNING OF THE vicninS inning was he other than a delicate child. There wasn’t a second from the Sth season's rcuntng 00’ toe Y } ' f END~ STECHER. PUTTING THE time he got his first breath in the third inning until the end of the Wbillies’ bal Patriots’ Day claasic was the s ; “bes sae : DEADLY SCISSORS ON ninth when he didn’s always seem in danger of falling off the score board =~ Fa j ay for the selection of the i sik < Py tae 4 f Ms rm Y AN OPPONENT and cracking his conk and abraising his snoot, But old Kid Two-to-One S representatives in the a 4 mr o managed to stick up there on the score board as the final taHy, and wo all n ext summer at Antwerp, mn Py ye f left the Polo Grounds feeling fine. And those of us who “knew places” {Winner of the event was Peter p eee Ls i victim tice & . S : right afterward felt even better than that @ resident of this city, em } i THE TENAc ; \ rar { Still @ Greecian subject. His lh gh Me Y oarer . Folks who had Mike, the wild- It took nearly fiye minutes to dis- » 2 hours, 29 minutes and 21 ae 2 cat, on their score sheets as a pose of Bevo, And it seamed fully ids, sight minutes slower than i 3 dud mascot were justly inclined |haif an hour. ‘The suspense was so recon, but considering the i ie . = : to rescind thi y judgments | great a doctor had to be sent for be- i, the athletes ran against a Ba last night. And I'm told that |cause a small boy in the bleachers t aero ‘ rated the birth of Vic- | threw a fit. ; ly known in sporting erging from his h The strain was caused by the many { of Marathon run originated indications that Bevo would probably soldier Pheidippides ran end up with a Big Bertha into the ' 8 of Marathon to grandstand, For he clouted out nine a distance supposed to be rt fouls. Two of them hit the fence just j miles, 385 yards, in order e ‘ i iS : is probably only a rumor. Every- the wrong side of the foul line for 4 ) ¢ an important military mes. ae es / 5 iad s body picks on Casey anyway. | him, One went into the grandstand. if re, who dropped deaed as he ‘ ie p + kind of like the nut. I like em | Two went over the blooming stand, i i is race.. The winner of the AY f " i . SS e s when they talk guffy to the pitch- “Gee!” said we all of us, “if that > Marathon, from Ashiand to eo ( "fe ioe i 1 er, growl at the catcher, groan | bird ever straightens one of them!" : oP ton q his running 9: Bitreee { » / at the umpire and are willing any And then: , ire aan made famous y ; SRR AS Eee 3 inning to argue it out with the | “cirike three!” : MOE toa rece? ee ef As ies into. Ne. eed Thrice welcome words, O ump! A % Saving his strength. Arthur V. Behold us out of the basement. amble is a the Dorcheste: who high a ' , event In 1916, a og oo rs Fanner” GURNS faa ; From the swatstick angie Young, letes until two mil eh Wr BREAIS the game just for . F. wag the hero of the day. He the finish; then the Grok went TO, WRESTLE uevege at je game) was the, only Glant to get two hits front. ‘a ONTHE FARM Good boy, Casey. Go on pan- and they were goldarned important being interviewed at the con- PRESSURE OF ® ning pitchers, catchers and umps | hits. They were the bacon finders, m of the race Trivoulidas said THE KNEES every time you fan out. And in It was in ,the third he flashed his ; h on Thursday he would apply JOE STECHER.,THE NEBRASKA a eS Ce Eleven Teams | this series with the Giants do us * | first gem. Gongales had struck out i % , for his first citizenship papers.| ¢ ~ 4 : | tRe'favor to go right on fanning |but Barnes bodsted his own game ‘ ds twenty-nine years old and has| ¢ FARMER. BOY WHO HAS BECOME | out. Not that we love. you less, | with a neat single to centre. Barr in in this count three years. a THES W S GREATEST WRESTLER. Bowl; Only 3 Casey, me boy. but just now we | Scooted to second while the Phillie’s oe a ar! inder - — — i} William Wick of the | file 21 tir" Crom tyomun, wow | Stecher Developed “Scissors Hold’’ of Buf- in tk imormonvess| By Breaking Boxes With His Legs . bunching our sympathy hits | first sacker was having all he could ' 4 | in'behalf of Little Ole Mac. do handling Burns's crack’ at him. | eaa inners | a Then Young's bat rang as he stung _ —— Jes® Barnes spent a very pleasant) a low curve into centre. Barnes all but shutting the Quak-|shook a hot foot and crossed the sins of Boston pe| plate several seconds before Young LIVE WIRES — By Neal R. O’Hara There were only three medal winners ers out. nT 2 5 eu 0 eee , a Sot that | succumbed at second ° Coprvicht, 1998, ty The Prose Publishing Oo. (The New York ‘Went in The Evening World headpin tourna-| made Philadelph \s tt b ’ rk, eighth, the last of the prize we 2 2 M ment at the White Elephant bowling | he put in wha Ilaneasy| Mr. Young took up the offensive Hon They can’t call off Gov. Edwards on account of wet grounds, jalleys last night, although eleven te by the timber ma| afternoon, They xyped bin for seven) asain in the fifth inning and brought ompeted,. Bh Saainands sy- | hits, two more than the nts eked 1103; W. HB eid Pin | ernon Causey, Right up to the last! Axuin Gonzales was first at bat, i W. H. Erwin with 103 and C. F.} out of the ninth inning Jess had|/ This tifme he walked. Barnes sent mith with 102 followed. Colgate & Co.|/ trouble on his hands. It was one of| him to second with a pretty sacrifice rolled high team score, 460. ’ the most interesting ninth innings| grounder to R. Miller at third. uncovered “ p 45 ‘Tyj.| strength and deadly headlocks, have ir oe syemt at omton the U. 8. A. Under Farmer” Burns's Tis oso to the floor by the Ne-|, |The new pitchingyrules haven't interfered with Walter Johnson's smoke Bie the te Sepettnee tel tion! He Acquired Ability | vraska boy. i : on is conducted in Belgium. to Split Sack of Grain. Like Topsy, Joe just “growed” into all and Mike out of shameful This year Washington's got the same old ball club, but a brand new wrestling. Joe's brother Lewis | Cabinet. : Paul- ‘ Ln cheduled this evening. | that a gam@scould furnish. The score | ette made a F MIE Dodgers appear to be play- ‘ rai aeut, Lewis J. Stecher), a graduate Rie. <8 4 NO Samea are ached of ee oRiial As a Pad y to ‘ing the: most consistent bell By Thornton Fisher. of Annapolis, was a fair wrestler ac What distinguishes the Cincies from all other Reds is that none of | Py will be Gay estan night, roca nena aes Potten a out meee te fl aulccesstul effort to pounce of the three local clubs. The OB STECHER has a ecissors hold| the Academy, and another brother, ‘em are on trial. Satins, Mipéven, No. Thonn, slow rouse ty Bigot er pees el, on i pba fae on a deat r - on the heavyweight wrestling| Anton, Joe's first wrestling partner, Chadd ei | vain, 54; Baubrack, 40; Bickethaupt, | Fe! jousted the globule t) getting the ball just as he cro championship. There is none|Ursed an ambition to establish him- Pe. 1: total, ‘American Railway E: ce line and chased ahead of it. But] ahead of Burns. But ¢€ The Phillies can win or lose, but they can't draw. Not at the box of talimay Express No. 3—| Bec rehy, catching. for, the duriae Chia dngeke winels ‘Auantic National Rank— | Showed class jn speed and got the his way to third. Mr. Young 04 Jolson, 80: Littl, 61; {in tine to slap it to Kelly find aroak|tNe bulb into right—a_pre Dodgers his right to dispute. Opinions may|*!f in the sport. : ‘ ; winning. here. But the Gtants’/differ as to his superiority or lack|, And Joe has a@ sister who is not! . eS Il find that riches and pitchers go together because both of ‘em have wry was not ag impressive as that|of it over the great Gotch, but the | £4" behind her brothers in the science Ehrig, 65; Roome, 64; se re- of catch-as-catch-can. It was back anh ee aronx Union Y. M. C, a.— ee eee But NE a jeourae ck dls his aes esis hit, aoe iu ph-as-ci can. ack | ah > ; 03 Rela made second. ares e is| with the same happy resul yon- fe “Tab Miakgl Glee are con. |Tecent consivtent actevements ot}on the farm that Joe learned the} A lot of training camp finds are now found in the lost column. Se eelne eaac | wing to such good effect that he 8 was home with the second and idet that with the pieced warm | te Dodge (Neb.) farmer boy pro-|rudiments of wrestling. Anton, who| : : i ist i Piekioe—Becbmldh | nod “Mueeel. But iiext_ up was | winning tally ther the vets of this team will be| Claim him the most sensational grap-|"eduired a wrestling partner, re-) = With the Giants, Robins and Yanks, Now York has three yet’ Merry | “Bevo.” That's a name the fans have} 1 Quakers’ most hopeful spurt to do themsetves justice and|pler on the mat to-day, At twenty- | iuited brother Joe, who took to the) the pennant, or one more chance than Philadelphia has for last place, i Lamt 73;| put_on him. His legal monicker is half of the contest came in the fA BERR the ‘tear will be & consistent seven: Joe bas met and detested | ear jike, landierd to a 60 per cent. | ee hes alia *1'| Le Bourveal. He is a new boy in the| seventh inning when they got all they winn pens snareeae. gre many wi nt, “Hail to the Chief” will be shifted to | s) When Fi is elected Pi every “logical” contender for the| had passed, Anton found himself at| all Hal’ the Gangs Ail: Here . aieetad title, and the present field of ma-| ‘he bottom of the hpap inevitably. | ene . he rene. tes be Ahan de newen wo. Ayply. ‘Bimpel’ f REDS F INNANT DRIVE IS A WALK. Asean. tecptaet ed as terial seems to indicate that he will] and develop. = | THE REDS FIGURE THE PENNANT DR f Ke big league. And yesterday at this|were going to get for the whole day. moment the loyal Giant rooters Williams put over the hot hit of the garded him most uncasily, He had|game—a clout to the bleachers a already smacked Barnesy for two| right centre that won him a. triple , clean hits, If he did it again, it| But Casey Stengel only whaled with would send Williams home and ‘tie a Hail, the Gang'’s All Here e Farmer" Burns, «| este es hold ft until Aunt Emma’ pup learns | great wrestler of his time, took’ an) —— ' . eg om Reade aed topiay the plano. — ) Interest In Stochtr and began a sys- | : ° ‘Wall tematic training for the boy, teach- ft ted on by the| WYEBKO, Caddock, Lewis, Cutler,|ing hime fomene nthe: whinge to Harry Vardon at Fi Y bly while theke is a strong im-|Amerious, Roller and the “Masked| break boxes with his legs. Burns id . A feasion that the GiNett bill will be| Marvel (Mort Henderson) have each|St'ongly advocated tho "scissors" as b eration and | heen caught in those an essential weapon in catch-as- | * by in those powerful Stecher | catch-can wrestling,and us Stecher's Sets e Uni irr C4) tentacles at one time or another and|leg power improved his instructor in- ry squeesed into submission. Cuddock, | creased the size and resisting force | Sein pre with hie milli $ of the lumber. To such an extent, ‘ \ Tee ei poled ip oe Real has he developed this facility that)Walter Hagen Likely to En- he can split a two-bushel sack of) ‘ ii, i Something new in the way of |grain by pressing it between his | counter Stiffest Opposition in| ‘i pir een ee on has been started 933 in Week Is Nice Money See'Rad’an craary'cutsmaaite’sice| British Championship From)", 6.8 nd sia ne unior star maxon Club @ rope attached to one leg. Wesifield, This pair of ‘a y0 oe cher hasa unique way of con-( Six Times Holder of English) es cnt Nine nas aserien for Eddie Fitzsimmons, Local Boy \ sive himeelt He his Torecae: Title. ey ee Ate } : matches with the leading contests, Hn route to the city in junior players of the metropolitan dis- —_——~—— —_———————— hich he is to meet a contender, Joe ke drop: ff at th trict. These matches will be run oft bi rops of at he sm: lis Bout ‘With Ray Temple | 72 ,2.22° Seif O00 tat Pecter can tate! takes on tho “hopeful Tingrid SAS S- [VLDL TZ LILIGILILI ZL} ZB TEEZZLALTELTLALAZ, akened™ to the impoptanc ig junior play- towns’ ana , {in May and June and should be pro- and in this! * By William Abbott. | ductive of high class golf. fe manner collects a few more dollars HTERE is constant stretching of —— D R ey, ts Amounting Blcieell Te Gitte warts ate I the age limit in golf, Many] ‘he public Inks at Van Cortlandt | ” matches, ABs L é to $7,100. on Montay oreaing,| The formidable strength of Stecher's golfers only begin to get goot! Park will be officially opened Satur- Ne lon haa not wketed | python-like legs was Impressed upon |after an age when stars in more|day, one week etrlier than usual. By he expects to find a) the spectators only recently when at peed ta) tha eld By John Pollock. ; Low 0% Obert a] the end of three hours ‘of the mont woking eporis are toroed to the sia aay 2 i ‘the boxing fane of Philadelyhla, | gruelli wr c F 168. ish go! * Wddio Fitzsimmons, the promising gruelling estling he — euddenly starting time something like 2,500 ‘ason permits will have been issued, ON aS ee ee re eee, pier east them vag mot, “| twined them about Rd “Strangler” | veteran champions. Harry Vardon rather remarkable as the 4 on ishtweight, is another lo- 4ewis and ore him to the mat.|now nearly fifty ye&rs old, looms up Ree dena a haa tee nae wae se soaking plenty of w for tare fete ty al Lentataret fable to rise without | as the most dangerous proposition | Ha ea er AL | 4 . te ; ay well be «a: Kah a taaae H, Wiotey out of the boxing game now. ot ck, On Thurway night | Stecher that his logs are his for-| Walter Hagen will encounter in the | locker room has already been kub-| JR © Fils fought twice in the West last sq, roumdn at the) tune, Certainly his title is wecure, | British open championship in June, ay the two muniolpal courses| [ft 4 92,083 Py uly getapng, erat re rouse ae ‘There Isn't wasted energy in Var- Manca cee Marite 3 Sontag = taal ag Akg arse 80 be bore Young | TIMMY Twyford Stages Bouts for] gon's game, The six-times British Q ‘oi ewer sacs che! Mines MEP sy fsevbey Sens A title holder, instead of trying to kit Q ‘te ae pe pponaieg Paes i California hearywotwht, | ford, the flying pony i of boxers ana | ti® ball on each shot, is satisfied tor y 4 ‘of Cleveland at anion, oO. oe ponte former of wrestlers put on a show for the Amer-|!e*8 distance and more direction end amounted w $1,800. The re- Wesion last night at the Holy | This phys of the Fitzsiinmons-Temple era cp house, 97th Street and Am- | dividends Vardon is still perched amounted to over $7,100 and the “uw at Thirty rounds of boxing and a wr on the golfing » While James mmmons-Delaney scrap to $6,000.| saxmment Park, on April 27, Tommy Ma-| lin bout made up the programme. Braid and J. H. Taylor, two other — jong, the went aide fighter, mects some quad | following boys each 3 Wide, the fiyweight chamnion of the | lighwweight in the ecpni-fival of eight royuds, Packey O'Gatty, Ji amous British veterans, are begin- re added another $6,500 to his big earnings — Summers, Young Scott. he thar been im this country by out-} On ercount of Marty Colline cluiming that he “Zam Kid," the fast dite bantam-| ls sink and will mot be able to tox Jack "Kid" | FEN. Water of Brooklyn, in a ton round bout at | Woife, the Olereland bantanweight, at the Sera! tied twenty mil , Canada, last Monday night, ‘The grom|cuse City A, ©, of @yracum, N, ¥., tonight, Murray was m were over 52,000 and Wille got the| Matchmaker Jack Lewis bas signed up Charley Shots. mentioned guarantor, “Zulu Kid" got @| Booher, the loral bantam, to mon Wo * | Bete” of $2,000 for ken end, cect gots a guaranten of $500, with an option! MONTRDAL, April 20.—Battling Le-| tet J: Travis, who didn't swing clubs | Mike McKinney, manager of the McKinney A,|% % er cent, of the recoints, vinsky, ight heavyweight champion, |UMt! he was thirty-five, and then | Ot Canton, O., today telegmebed to Dan\ ‘Two chis in the West are now dickering for | defeated ‘Silas n in @ ten-round| early twenty years later won the |. manager of champion Jack Britton, | the peopamd bout between Clay Tumer, the| contest at the I rk Green, | Metropolitan Championship at Apa- hat the advance mle of ticixts for the} fudian lght-bearyweight, and ‘Tum Gitbone, of| Who is a clever, shifty negro, made. i saving is earning ext TA De Walter Brooks and Joe Sharkey | Th® ancient Scotch pastime is still | nd Fete Wile; a young sport in the United States. | |We have only a few prominent old- sters, the most prominent being Wal- ee SS ee “Easy come, easy go”—"“Hard SIP DTDTTZ . ) 2 | Found oat vetwown Beition and Jock | st, Pani, ‘Thee clubs ere et Miuncaoolis aad | KOOd batue for’ the first few rounda: wamis. sore, ard gi fa Hannes your \ M of Gt, Poul *et his club next Monday Matchmakors after ie wi game punching ba, mature you're safe in Par-amount “ aa already reached Ge $0,000" tart | Boge “Comeca, ane crsiows tc beak tie bee | fOr the clever Hebrew. Levinsky* sure | ‘High prices, Inbor troubles and] Shops,” S) ‘35 y ton is to rective « guarantes of $3,000, with] a, che men are big favorites in both of those pried the rene bere by Mowing them | scarcity of materials failed to stymie NY : of the grom emits, | cite, \| with telling effect, having Green dazed | the’ Knollwood Club carrying out its One price and one policy to all. tthe writer learned today thet Johnay Dunice | OM the verge of a knockout during |bullding programme, Work hae al- For real value, Par-amount | vee offered @ gurantes of $7,000 to tox Willie | !##t two rounds, ready started on a new wing for the| hirts, $2.00 and $2.50. Same with Fast Draw,| ‘lub house, which will replace the| eyerything we sell. Satisfaction PHILADELPHIA, April 20—lefore @ puilding destroyed iby fire last Octo: | guaranteed or money refunded, as nage wre be capacity crowd at the OL Club of % more niovey then ‘the guarentes, phia’s 'T! | ~. y Kia” Be at | stories and basement. The new ry. iia" Brown F acals structure will be strictly up to date R- — Andy Chaney of Baltimore fought six|in every particular and should be i Delaney, the © ight who 5 ; ee Midi ecm eaten who) sensational rounds to an even break. | completed by September, aes rf ; : Ringside critics claim it waa the great: | IRT OPS = r: hed (yhser, a a bout at Canton, 2a wows. Jost fight seen here in years, Any move to foster the develop- rf ve has Ween tooked up by this . = “ f young play: hout t 1 Irma of Gieveland, to mest Pete I Bright Beats Pilkington, ment of young players shevld meet Jackson a twelve-roand bout at the Sportemen's Cub of Nowark, N, J., on May 6, but declined fray [te Buarantor, stating that be would sooner box Chaney and Brown IED HEN you buy an Arrow you get the best’ ' that there is at the price you are asked to pay. , That is the one big fundamental reason for the preference shown for Arrows., Le WELLL pee, ; , |with hearty efcouragement, In‘ thie| * Bight New York Shope Cluett, Peabody Rog Co., Ine. Troy DS) RARENTON, NJ. April 20.—Harvey | direction golf officials have not been | One in Yonkers p ° | Bright, the Brooklyn high school boYs| is “progressive as tennis authoriticn — \ Maters of Arrow Shirts and Gotham Underwear eight round “wind “up. at the. Trenton Who have porformed wonders bring- = ' c Athletic Club last night. Bright was ing out young talent, ND LLLARD iri, {00 aioog Aud amecesaive Cor Pilkdasion 19 the last faw seasons, howeves, LHUM 2cxauus, ‘mwas a Ala oe, Bored . ~ ee me “ UF Ee