The evening world. Newspaper, April 23, 1920, Page 26

BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK (ic Miohty Babe Ruth.’ |BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK |" Miohiy Babe Ruth |. INCIDENTS AT THE YANK OPENING - - - By Thornton Fisher But Yanks Win Anyhow: Copyright, 1999, by the Press 7 . SAA WR ATER ey Ay 4 e iw a6 80 \ |The Local American League Club Takes a Fall Out of the »:> Athletics in the Opening Game Here, Despite Fact That the ” Demon Slugger Is Only Able to Play an tnning. 4 { . ‘ a By Charles Somerville. AY and happy was the day! al G Brilliant sunshine, a great crowd, a great, fast, sensational, thrilling game, And the bird of Victory perching on the flagstaff of % the Yanks! Anybody demanding more than that for the Yanks’ opening would expect to be born rich as well as beautiful. Or the home brew ~* recipe to turn out right. Or a Prohibitionist to be, just about now, elected President. Or anything else. t Tt was a grand day—simply grand, Hortense, for everybody save the ~ | @emon who figured in the dope te be the star boy of the occasion. I refer | to Babe Ruth. ‘ : “Babe's” heart was beating high to put something big over in yester- day's game. He had meant to take up his justly celebrated stick and beat to death the memory of a certain fly muff and some strike-outs that had* entered to mar his life since the season began. I know that he was boiling over to show the big crowd at the Yankees’ opening game that folks that | might have paid 175,000 chinklers for him, hadn’t bought any tin whistle thinking it was a big horn. I know because “Babe” hinted as much to me Just before he went out for practice under the eyes of the 25,000 ~ho cheered the sight of the big, plump old demon for all they were worth:> Especialty when mm these Mead fu2- 9 goes he began knocking the bulb to |Tnoigat corners of the field, every Blow| Seatoee so yt Sow, 28h Prive: Bal od | @n evidence that his home ran habit|to go up on the Yanks’ account with could be expected to return to him, | the scoreboard. Another in the third Tt was the “pep” the Babe put into] yyy of the stick work of Ruel and the practice stuff that sent him back to the cradie in the club house ander ana plat a einden atarv. | the doctor's care before the game was| tng! : is ernie dh Kaeser le adhe sh oven ine eons = shed * few | blow at a t he couldn't stop meat - | himself on the swing. The result is|to their voletires* Athetics home that he severely wrenched his back! But the corpse gave sudden signs of and ribs. “Doc” Woods, the Yankee life. A double by Dykes, a single by trainer, immediftely ordered him to) St?unk sending Dykes to third and a long sacrifice fly int scored the club house and then told the Babe | Dykes in the fourth, ‘tn the sith the | he'd better stay out of the, game, But | blooming stiff gave another kick. Sin- | Ruth cussed “Doe” Woods out for of- ea by Waler and Dugan shunted | | r ru fering such advice. So the trainer! “°ATG thon the seventh! trussed him up with many bandages! Perkins pucked it to centre for & and the Babe went back to answer| safety. Galloway pucked it,to centre the call to take the field as the game| likewise, Burrus, stepping In to bat “ |for Hastey, “pinched” with hot suc- began. No call was made on the! cess, shooting a single to right, scor- . Babe's services in the field in the first|ing Perk. Strunk grounded, but Del By Neal R. O’Hara inning. He responded to the call to| Pratt booted it, Chick Galloway com. @xgevicht, 1000, by The Prom Pubtlihing Os, (The Now York ventas Worth) go to bat. But his movements’ were|!ns home. Walker whammed out 4 ‘ef hee obviously labored. He smacked the|yco-bace hit and Burrus and Strank THE DOPE ON THE DOPESTERS. followed Chick. i ball twice, sending forth ground fouls,/" Four runs! Stx in al. The score The Braves have started off the season regardiess of expert opinion. ,nd trom the ‘close view of the press| tied! ‘They don't seem to realize the wise Alexanders of the Remington fleet }.-5 i+ was plain each blow had cost| Some corpse! picked 'em to land somewhere between seventh and eighth place, inclusive. the Babe keen physical pain. ‘Then |, Hug slapped the snuffer on After being the Giants’ meal ticket for many long years, the Braves have he ewung haif-blindly and struck out,|Thormahlen took up the job Hi. showed there's punch in the meal ticket yet. ‘| It put brought quiet into the Mack Ni ° eRe H See Carpentier in Ring Togs. HE limit has aboot been reached in the exploitation of Georges Carpentier. Since his arrival in this country the French pugilist has been wined and dined and other- wise honored as no other visiting _ of his admittedly fine war record, and the talk of a match with Demp- hich, by the way, has reached SS > > } i ’ ‘ : =|How American Golfers 2 across his d) But not without going through Could Clean Up in England An the aga eels netibitboel ode werer ol The Dupe, nen an |. Bis | peas ie ie bone 7 the April showers. From winter on the papers print the possible, abe Sis ek dip a2 Cae coop at 4 —_—— probable, plausible strength of the teams. And from April on they b: to the bench, but Perry, Quinn, Ruth—a great print the bor scores to disprove it. Compared with the baseball dope- most folks but a jinx for stars, sters, the weather man is a wire tapper and a sure-thing tout. | snus 4 ted U. S. Association Should Fi-| ua mectine the association Te enow i ee Strong Team for Ox- “What Setter Javestment, cont bs Vile Hea ae te oO tere o4 ‘The 10-point type that gives the ae ts eee Se than 10 points out of the ‘This + made than to finance a fo ; r " way. ford-Cambridge Meet and] mate trative {eam to compete. ints FA 8 88 cot) Shue dtr Drtame i Banja ae Gna wef teed ter Mir Tar kt minis Ma | Briti hey Chi ion-| both the Oxford-Cambridge ‘competi- ork. Vick, | Sid Cleveland was om the propbette scrolls to massacre all the ‘hades of opposition om the aidan Arnateas Champion: coe oad tee anuane: mist arec| eRe one As See ae Yeee| Aeon ‘ i ship. 4 plonship w’ alien. There is no gatnsaying yet that What Has Been Doped will not big wrench may at Muirfield? Bob Gardner, twice ftom Base Pratt, fice Hat Ws —e ex-national title holder, has ‘ready | Bale pees signified his intentions of playing in —_—- ‘Banes.—S ‘a By William Abbott. both the British championship and! Pry, 1) off Quine, 1; off Thorman HAT the United States Golf As-| against the intecollegiate contingent Hit Sete rot ing Come To Pass. The Boston teams may travel to the tune of @ death § rib. The Babe goe: march later on, but right now they’re stepping along a la Irving Berlin. hike a i iat Interment of the Philly outfits may happen later, too, But the A’s i neebine ithat t rr rom , ing is not going to sociation 1s willing to send a| Grant Pracoak, one af the Hast yeison ms sna| Oren’t going to lay dend Hi somebody knocks ’em that tay, and the forced to abdicate for any hess team of amateurs to Englacd/ whitney, who has few equals down! Pe iid Quakers scon't quake til] some other teams scare ’em. of time. His absence might break 2: é Fa Hi 6 he happiness of ti hol i to compete in a special international] South, bath stand ready to sail for the | tbr reed, 110 oe Rionmanles. 3 ; up the happi dated } ‘ gas Mey Pgh ine mon tls abort bcaaa cans proposed Oxtord-Cambridge touraa: | Ul Mort. Baseball is a grand old game, as the most fivent writers describe it: Yank piel report teat 16 dida'e t . bridge combination earty in June 18] hooves the old US-G. A. to get busy but much of the haze of romance that surrounds it sounds like the grand yesterday. old bunk. No pitcher was ever sb erratic as the newspaper scribe that The candy was most roughly @n. good news, but why be satisfied with/ and expand this little growp into a half a loaf? The time is opportune! team that would be truly representa~ pans him to death. No umpire ever pulled more bones than the linguist grabbed away from Mack's children. tive ofthis country. 3§| that roasts him brown. No outfielder ever made more wild stabs than Not but what the iddies didn't t : Ach wal Weceay | for Ameriie tor eveoy Masi Hntee "Tt. just happens that England has) {ts at the dopester in back of the press stand wire. And no bleacherite ever Msht and claw back. They did in In the race— t . i out of the Rules in amateur contesta, It could be a¢*/never been so shy of amateur talent,| 499) jeored at a player so much as he's rightly entitled to jeer ut the Bunksters,|*8€ most startling manner, Just 4 raging, to say the baetd complished along the: following lined. Mpile woe have Sever, had se many.top- 3 i . . . . pen Bottter Quinn thought he had! ¢he best man wins on eheer i. jotghers. Ve; erron, W! - A . iH 4s pstere BpeeKer Maporce chiee| The national association has never|Notahers, Davey Herron. who Cons f, i All of which proves that baseball is a wonderful pastime and thaf Cone|{n their cradice and soul asieou hey | merit. in the Legislature. | been so proaperous. At the last an- \ 1919; Chick Bvana, Francis Oulmet,| § 39] gress should lay a heavier tax on typewriter ribbons. the night, they woke up, banged And you Hike to see him win! jones and at least a zen a thei od i 7 o s9}P wiWould be candidates from| ae onze ° ° DER es eiuiuia ae to aria te Urey Mey oorny ‘ , se ’ igh to select a powerful invading — astounded and angry out of the| Tans thé | becau serves | . ntucky s Governor /vames tem, one that would be reasonably pau. u astounded | and angry. out ot the! to—no “Bales” or “Bargain” dag ! ’°s Boxi sintiots chahos, ahd the eaeoolation| er, Expects to Pur | To Meet Trucks 720 3 7g ad geen | Ft Cac aqaeeeer ym Men to Enforce State’s Boxing Law| sioss swore: ana smecntion bn ‘p | £0 MeCt LTUCKS | am vents in te sezin inning va) Yet we have ronnpet oe as o great deal of time remains to put |brought to reason and docile be- through the project. oa, e wa. 00 | years. % ‘ for Years! The last United States and Oxford-_| §f Lawl r y n 2, 0 Match par MERts BER Victore. Ganka Gown Par-amount Shirts at $2.00 and Charles Grainger, for Cambridge matches were held in 1903. | Geees me aguas ° ry $0, right up front. Smart G Sch They wore played in this country and| There's going to be a knockout in, Pnii Spinella, one of the best bowlers oe. Sy ee gel out of Miller Hug- ote, At Oe cont | collars) on Racing Commission, the United States just barely squeezed | the ring of the Arena In Jersey City|in these parts, is going to try and take |p "ation neg been disposed ae] Spang weather need- 4 Is One of Three. gate victieg, | roars. were lupe ee STANDING OF to-night when Willie Jackson meeta|the measure of Charley Trucks In al py a foul fly, a strike-out and. an Lond yess ane TCR es RL PLD ips dl }| Jack Lawler, tfle young Southerner, | home and home series for a $2,000 purse. |easy toss trom Peckinpaugh to Pipp.| 9D'°* | og to please or Ot ween Sk Bivera, George . Brokaw,| if dackeon can arrauke it The first block of ten games will be| Then up came the Yanks. They Guaceate 5 Bruce D. Smith, L. H. Conklin, Find-| THE CLUBS It will mean to him a chance for a|Folled at Trucke’s, Casino alleys, Phila-|found Naylor in the box. Naylor? Money fe , lay S. Douglas, F. O. Reinhart, H. gwalve-round bout with Johaay Dune | (miss On Monday evening next and | Mul! Te wae the Esme did the f ‘witnessed in the different cities Chandler Egan and George Ormiston, dos At the Newark Sportemen’s Club | ‘he return series at the Cty Hall Bowl. |Deiling. After Vick had Struck, gut ; a, State of Kentucky, which re- Prospects for an American entry in NATIONAL LEAGUE. on May 6, and on that clash will hang |!" Academy on May 1, Trucks has vie~ | SrGwine “nig gratitude for a huge 3 passed the boxing ‘oul in both the golf tournament of the Olympic! Club. Web. PC.) | Clube, PC.) a chance to meet Benny Leonard for folie. over hee Lucks and Glenn Rid-| package of cheers opened at his feet : a ‘Th Games at Antwerp during the coming | Pittsbareh .. 6 1 Leshe,. 429] the lightweight title. that Spinella: will have te “auchmeans | by the big crowd, nailed a double on : ; ot the Legisiatare, *. summer received considerable im. |Breckive .... 4 2 667) B ve) No wonder Jackson is anxious to| peat nh Go some to! the centre field ‘fence. Then came ) -| petus yesterday with the receipt of | Philadephia, 4 2.647 | Chicago § .288| stop his man—and he has told Dave — Babe Ruth in the sad scene. But pet yet y 4 200 a letter from Belgium stating Shat the Alnelanati Macks : ah request of the American Olympic e'll do’ it. CA) pe Rng oe Bem my pring |tre and Pipp pranced over the plate. Committee for a change of date had | pnitadephia, 4 In addition to the star bout a cork- | tre inva srier rolled at the White Meghant giles | The effort to catch Pipp at the plate been granted. New York-Bostbe (rain). ing set of preliminaries will be of- Srard a, the Suh Bowne faa gio alnner” we allowed Lewis to move to second. are Morrow. In order to keep the eport on @ high standard the Governor has of y ‘The bowling team of L. & BE. Sti | e * Mackay, the Newark promoter, that| ..@ Re fee tt SB, Wien wee..the | Lewis nailed a single through cen. embe: feted or tak Melaina oe the tenses peer oti arene) | Gare ihe ane, ae Bhat Bete eral | ane te Oe Ben Aner om Next Mensel care up with the bam. | 80, Treg Ave. j vise rt. The three members lected for the holding of the tourna- i (raln), ring together Stanley Hinkle of Phit- mer and nailed a double to left. f ot aie Pea known in the South, ment it was stated in letters from GAMES TO-DAY. adeiphia and Jimmy Sullivan of | g.7eam tnd jndividuals who won prisee in the | Lewis lolled home. ‘There was an | 1626 Third Avenue at i ‘ed B, Russell, Thoma; ——— abroad that the matches probably] yoy york at Boston. Newark. Then Abe Attell Goldstein | toumamant received their awards at» meeting of | effort to check Meusel at second but they being Frank jenell, 8) Jdhnny Dundoo, the fast Italian lightweigtt,| would be played during July or Au- Brooklyn at Philadelphia, will take the ring with Bobby Doyle | th relation | Bel 241 “ the ball bounced away from Dugan ‘ BE Mmith and Chases F. Grainger,|end Joo Weilins of Chicago will come logs) gust, St. Louls at Pittsburgh. as his opponent. After this bout has I fre teen and the Meusel boy dug his hoof aM of Louisville. Mr. Grainger was|!* * trdreraund bout at ike fire opaair —— Cinolanati at Chivege, | Deen decided Spider Roaoh, the San aig'Gje Aire iglecbua the indivigual,|jnto the third bag. Del Pratt took 4 for many years a member of the Rac- |p, “on, “mame O° Suan Dundee | JEFF SMITH KNOCKS OUT AMERICAN LEAGUE, Hrepeispe. lash, will enseavor 10 ada | Te" bun sent aie a eee up the onrpentertng, Ane hanuosted ‘ Rag Gpmmiasion in Kentucky, ih or yo Pleo egy Aeagy Aigre gee RICE IN SECOND ROUND.| om. of victims, This contest should be - Meusel scoring. Ruel fanned, But ee ae D. Anderson of Louisville, a nows- | iste i morons in oor Dah while Dundes : Chicago « well worth seeing. ‘The final prelim- ing Fo it ween ts bolas four fat runs were in the larder. , reoently underwent an operation, wi P af Bonsinger sai) ACADEMY, B'wag ' Paper man, has been eclected as Gec- Secxtes LONDON, April 23.—Jeff Smith, the | Bester tnary is a scheduled contest between =! ‘And in the second Vick singled and eo al 7 4 0) Walter MoGirr, a local boy. Bo pH ‘legs this evening. The Em: | Naylor the razoo a lay Te. ager yr Seaman rir ng nered pgs nd of iy A sie Yeon a GAMES YESTERDAY, men are middleweights and the con- ub eames ‘jin to quell the storm but Pip. EN oe eres Sones x trenty-round. pout here last night, ‘The | New Vert, #: Philadelphia, & |test will mark Bloomfleld's debut in | bower. 8, 3.. four: iM ete nove foushe ab amron, O., next ‘Tweeday| with Johny Gill, the game baitler of Harrie | men met in the Holborn Stadium. this country. The English boxer is | her" sna duplter, two t niga has boon ott txfifinitely, ‘The pro-|burg, Pe. for tan rounds at the basdball park — = said to be the owner of a hefty et Re eee os tral tara to x itm wiry | gt Harriaiurs, Gleeson bas picked ou no tush | «Copa Come to Blows, bat tm Box- hand and is clever. “At present he 18| Ready Now for First Olympic Test. We Peaytor rssh ina ine sing as Garren amarane art | SAS, april Brewin to 4 qo, Driscoll, matchmaker of the Arena A. The “cops” had another boxing In- $ Mscsodidh> ‘i opponents in the hockey matches, the ‘Two of Ge hardest fights that Jimmy Wilde has ed ener OMT niktanens lptar took ba baa wi| ning at the Crescent Athlete Club, in scale = greg OM RS LEONARD $100,000 | 8#t,ggmpetition in the Olympic games encountered ence ho has been in this country were] signed up Low Tamiler of Philageiphia to met| Brooklyn, last night. It was a peace- Tee Sd ica (OR f of 1920, ‘will be made here. this after- fiven htm by two little fighters of Philadephia | George Papin, the French lightweight champion, | fui evening. however, as there were no FOR THREE BOUTS HERE. sro ang the Ran meet in the Pater Wallace was the fire to mako him exiend] in Tacpin's fim fight in this country at the| knockouts and nary ‘a bout went more tach representing, a, separate. nation, Nimestf, while on Wedneaday ight Battling Murray| Arona A, ©, cf Jormey City on May 10, Wille] than three TOURAK Oe ne esantng are entered, with the United States » Pong ve oad YO gd gl Ripa Ba lapel aedlaataal was between Jack Tut and Mike Start LOS ANORLES, April 23.—Biny Gih- | and Canadian sevens favorites for places . Re +94 w luecoats boxed furiously for gel pi! 1 to the jaw. Mickey Twwell, the litle Jervey City waee,| tree rounds and. at the finish. Rut son, manager of Lightweight Champion i | Benny Leonard, announced to-day that Eaceus as Sannas fracoieets Dave Driscoll, fight promoter, of Jersey] ‘GymNg FAILLS, N. Y. April 23.—d- City, has offered Leonard $100,000 for| aie summera, the fast New York feath- Wine Meshan, the California hearywelght, and | wat to-lay mated to fight Tommy Mure of | was declared the winner, by the judges. fellow Philsdelytii, brother Marra ‘The final bout of the. 158-pound class, of Chicago, ie (Ricard y of the) tween 'M. Frank’ and. A. Goldman, iz fash in the star bout of six rounds at | semic city, in one of the outs to be heki at the are to iso {urnished plenty of excitement for | 4 if 4 ts woming toning thw to e stage! by Jack | Oumpia A. A. of Theta. a Man 3. at) eg tale a three, eight-round, no dPtorthe hat, | erwelght, Knocked out Joe Riley. of Hanlon st the big Toe Skating Mink tn Paliadel- | wil: Geonsre Cerpeotien, ts, Wows Oe tas Games To-Day. Auignt division. Mike O'Dowd, middie- | Troy at ‘the Broadway A. C. last night tphla on May 19, axe cach to receive « guarantes | ie to bor « fournamd exhibition bout with thle won from 6. © | atron at Jomey City, Weight \ champion; Georges’ Papiv,|{ the fifth ‘round of @ soheduled ten- Bt $2,000 for thelr wervice, Hanlon expects to | warring partner Oe pou Sieh, Wane ine | ‘TeeORRD Ht Ete oa seacwe, French, 1sd-pound, title holder, and | round, bout, ‘The bout drew 1-900 fans, wil b e er or Richie 3 el} | one 0} re ol pam te — ‘Taree tev-round bows will be staged by Frank | over Hirer in the” Yeb-pound” di- _ ig Rashestor at ‘Byrecuen, either Jonny ets Prisco’ wants Leon. | tended & contest In this city, The ‘Dnasty Waive, ot yin, Chlengo tet | Dau for th amomnot of re Basie Iran vision, : wa te Play Downey. ard to meet, weights were: Summers, 138 pounds; Who fe trying « “comebacks”, has ron steel workers witout, N. Xs, to-might: Willie are aaiins © ; ares ey, 181, out with Kddle Pitmimmous, the local light: | Ryan of New Brunewick, N, J.. mw, Jimmy Key |Jobmeom Shows , Speed im Four) me Downey Shipyard team will be the! Manual Swimmeng Beat Erasmus. f 8h > Tae Amel weight, scoording 10 Dan Morgan, manager of |of tbe Bronx, Dotty Lyon of the Bronx | 1.) prmGo, Cal, April 29.—Sack|oPPonents of the Farmer Baseball Club| The Manual Trathing High Schoo! Crew of amroc . Arriving. Fitsstemnons, ‘They wore to have fought at Clevo | Young Neil of Allentown end Jeck Tracey of] yonnson, former heavyweight champion, at Farmer Oval, Hughes Street, Glan-| freshboys defeated the Brasmus Hat! Six members of the crew of Sir and, but when White threw up the match, Tommy | Brooklya w, Jobrmy Murray of New York, ornah ce hia former agility im (dale, L. 1, Sunday a€ternoon, For tho | team in the final meet for the Brooklyn | Thomas Lipton'’s Shamrock IV., chal- McGinty, the fight promoter, ‘qigned up Fitmim- rere ound, exhibition bout with |home tam Manager Harrer will send Borough frat year championship iin the r the America’ arrived ‘mqvs to ment Cal Delaney for ten rounds at the STRALL TO-DAY, TOL oN { Tijuana, Lower California, either Hagerman or O'Malley to the Central ¥, M " ; ba PT Wane a iaaacueaae to Hagslde critics, mound, with Hurley receiving, score was 40 points to aL, \ acktonee Sek vy