The evening world. Newspaper, May 20, 1920, Page 26

en r Copyright, SS MS PRSSENT CLASS TO BEST SPORTING PAGE IN IS LEONARD ADDING POUNDAGE 1920, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Mvening World). ONG HIM A REAL ARGUHENT- ns mel ‘W YORK Fat BOY— tr DOESNT MEAS maT CONTENDER. IN SIGHT ITS GETTIN’ KINDA STUPID HANG! ROUND HERS ALONE ~ Mike O'Dowd Knocks Out George Aiicas1Onn PHILADELPHIA, May Eisuer --- O'Dowd, the St. ‘Paul knocked out George ot Chicago, in the sixth round By Thornton Fisher) Indians Youre sure | To Turn About Is Fair Play, They Say, and Those Pesky Sure gerous Cleveland Twirler, Look-In at Game. M By Charles Turned About Yankees Are Helpless Before the Puzzling Curves of the Dan- Coveleskie, Never Having a Somerville. OTHER, PULL THE SHADES DOWN and pat the pillows of thetr tiny cots, for OUR little Yanks are not feeling so well to-day. And yesterday~-how pale and weak they were! You see, They had been playing with some wooden Indians and | am ‘afraid must have licked some of the paint off. Anyway, along comes ole Doo Coveleskie of Cleveland and doses the gang severely with disaster oil. Yeh. Thom,'6; Us, Nix. ‘The poor, little Yanks had — de-@——@—————______ Hrium in which the wooden, Indians came to life and tied them hand and | foot. Bvery once in a while We put up @ mad struggle to break loose. But the bad old Medicine Man Cove- leski, heap-big Polack, had Us in his power. He kidnapped every little Yank that came his way and shut them off far away from home, Yea, verily, he held them in durance vile in the justly celebrated hollow of the Soon, after Ump Owens gave the Digh sign for the start of the fray came indications that there was go- ing to be a bunch of kickapoo dust sent up at the expense of Moggie, who was percolating the pill in Our behalf. Graney po} weakly to Pipp but Grey -Wolf Chapman ch a double to left. Big Chief Tris banged another double to right and Chap champed across, Wood fouled to Pipp and Gardner hit only what mi- have been floating in the air, One for "EM. “Right back at youse we comes!” announced young Mr. Ward with a nifty single to it. Peck sacrificed dutifully. But Pipp lined t» Speaker and Wamby threw out Vick which child got a big hand in memory of his masterpiece double of Chewsday. 0 for US. We now arrive at the fourth—OUR end’ of it. Thought sure We were going to busi into the scoreboard, Pipp had flied to Wood but Sammy Vick socked it down the lot for a single and thoygh Lewis was thrown out, Pratt got a safety on Chappie’s fumblé and. Vick went to third. Right afterward Del stole second on — => ———s— a —_ ae scheduled elght-round bout here Mght with a right uppercut to the Jaw. Jersey Golfers Win a Majority of Both Foursomes and Singles From Westchester Team at Englewood, the Score Being) Hidreth« Wins Twice and 16 to 9. Diaz’s Cuban Colt Shows By William Abbott. Great Performance. HE) “battle” between teams of ‘Westchester and Jersey golfers at jewood yesterday was hardly more than a skirmish. In the By Vincent Treanor. 'T hard to decide on the out- standing feature of yesterday's “racing at Jamaica. There were “the double” scored by Sam Hildreth with Sunflash I. and Lord Brighton, captured six out of eight. In the sin- gles the,men from across the river Crowds and Thrills at Races But Fields Are Too Smal? —— LIVE WIRES By Neal R. O'Hara. Cumretght, 2908, bs The Prose Fubiishisia On, (The New Yoru Bmatns World THE DOWNTRODDEN BALL GAMERS. Few guys are worse off than the ball players, who never have a sum- mer vacation. When they get a day off it’s always raining, and they have to make up for lost time at that. A ball player hardly ever sees matinee. He has to take in the shows at night, which means a higher tax on the pass JAMAICA SELECTIONS. First Race—Head Over Heels, Phantom Fair, Douglas Fairbanks. Second Race—Prineeps, Blue Lad- die, King Albert. ‘Third Race—Abadane, Efficient, Ra rag Srover; Sea, int, he uses, And this year Sunday ball has got ’em working a fourteen-hour Gladiator. ‘week. Fifth Race—Marjorie M., Wedge- wood, Chincoteague. Sixth Race — Runatrix, Omerk, Turnabout. Vv. T a9: @ ‘The ball gamers are up against the high cost of gasoline and the 10-cent tipping evil in all the hotels. They pay for telling the umpire where to go and they pay when the umps tell them to go to the shower baths. The players are more downtrodden than the base paths. Ye te set LF} toox ten out of seventeen, giving the|the blood-stirring finishes in the sec. ond, when Asterisk just nodded out Frank Walters, and again in the third, when American Eagle just did last to beat the favorite, Phalaris; the remarkable performance of A. H. Diaz's Gen. J. M. Gomez in the final event, and the reappearance of Louis Feustel, trainer of the great Mon o' War, which won The Preakness on Tuesday, All tok, it was a great day of exéitement and thrills, marred only by the snaliness of the fields in the various events. In the third race only four went to post, in the Mon- tauk Selling Stakes the same num- ber faced the barrier, and in the last five two-year-olds ‘angwered the starting bell. The result was poor prices, which fail to satisfy the race- going public. If you won, you take down little, and If you “get in a hole,’ you have to bet a bundle to get out. Very often you don't get out. The powers that be aught to stir up the owners and trainers or provide con- ditions which will draw entries, Big crowds are going to the track daily, and they are entitled to considera- ion, This end wasn't achieved without certain surprises, Johnny Anderson ioe, a | tnd Ned Sawyer, forming Westchester Pair No. 1 in the four-ball contests, better now than he did while aprung the first big reversal of the ing for Willard last eummer at} tournament by trimming Oswald 3 Kirkby and Jerry Travers, the lead- off pair from the original 2.75 per cent. State, Anderson and Sawyer tere inquiring what The Eve-}| won 5 and 4, due mostly to a wensa- - ming Worlds decision was in Lame Rp er 7 wr who shot ” arou for & score. is was the 4 he Agave psa je-Jackson tweive-| host golf display of the entire party. " ra jersey. Our decision | This upset made Oswald Kirkby, met- a yl roti prod loon ay the] ropolitan champion and the strongest : FI son’ He said that en doing road work in woth | golfer at his home club at Englewood, piven Oe orceas ae fhake early preparations to get @ vic- \tim, He got one a few hours later— as to-which boy was the win-| Johnny Anderson. The Westchester which should be taken to mean| Gaptain had a bad spell of puttitg. there wes no winner. In euch| He needed three stabs on five difter- contested battle, with both} ent greens. Kirkby, meanwhile, was trying their best every step| holing ‘em out from all angles and of ithe way, anything but @ draw| annexed the best end of a 4 to $ tally. ‘would be an unfair decision, Seems} Jerry Travers pulled out the gallery % as df it will take more than twelve] in both his rounds. Th * to decide the question of su- foing the rounds that the former na- ¥ > fthseapitagd the well matched | tional champion, who stood at the i q ybe we will see them shortly | head of his s for nearly ten years, ¥ i York going fifteen rounds, i@ about to @ serious comeback c on the links. Jerry's doing a little quiet practice at Upper Montclair, His golf yesterday showed the need of more workouts before it can really trouble Oulmet, Evans, yy Jones and other top notchers. Pa Ee his bout with Ned wyer to win after the over the Nes-| mateh phad one, to the nineteenth hole. wyer, a tremendous long hit- ind ot onaaneal tm th | tor from the Biwanoy Club, outdrove as the winner in view of| his opponent on every hole and his yay, he had ‘begn playing.” Davis| iron work was betier, but when the him, however, by pinch come, We was Travers who, ot hrough wyer who waver ry jetely srampins, thelr rivals, theltwice hitting into bunkere-on the tional team mat le. direction of the Women‘ Golf Association the he first v4 over See-cawy match for the nine Country Club links yeater B polite. to, 3 for yesterday. | holes, Jerry moving off to an early ‘Staten Land It a lead, only to be overhauled by the wails reac that at Baltuarcl week | Westchester gwatter, Turning for the Long Island women won easily from New Jersey. home Travers again nosed to the British War dia Louis Feustel, trainer of Man o’ War, was the recipient of scores of congratulations on the success .f the colt in The kness. He was shak- ine bends ali afternoon and | found himself. the most talked of trainer on the track. “I wish the track had been fast Tuesday, then the colt would surely have broken the mile and an eighth record,” he told the writer. “How about Man o’ War's never be- ing extended at any stage of The Preakness?” he was asked. “Well, I wouldn't go eo far as to say that. It's foolish to think that a horse, no matter how good, can travel a nile and an eighth with the best of his age and have everythipg his own way. Man o’ War won comfortably, I should say, and he was well ridden by Kum- mer.” The colt, which, barring accidents, promises to continue as a champion, from his two-year-old successes has so far won $107,000, The Preakness added $23,000 to the $84,000 he won last match. Travers drove into a trap|year. His next appearance will prob- guarding the home green. Sawyer’s|ably be in the classic Withers mile at shot was on. Jerry recovered| Belmont Park Saturday, May 29. front, Out Gawyer won the ‘teenth and eeventeenth and squared the Veterans te Held Ath- letic Meet. ee ee Old Koenig probably needed yester- day's race, He ran well as far as he went and before the stretch turn looked all over the winner, ‘This was due to Fator’s taking back with Lord Brighton for a breathing epell, for River, Saturday afternoon Sev- R Oeee at Bae CS BAI 8 events, including flat races, Jump-| vanced to the extra hole, where Saw- a running con-| yer twice got into bunkers and lost ldre the match, ®@ soccer eats for women and AMERICAN LEAGUE, u 55582 S852 | GAMES YESTERDAY, Wow Yor, 17; Chicas, 2 Brooklyn-Clacionat! (wet grounded. 2; Beaten, St. Louis, 6; GAMES TO-DAY. Mow York at Chicage. Brooklyn st Cinelonatt, GAMES YESTERDAY. Cleveland, 5; New York, @. Boston, 3; Chicege, 2 Philadeiphia, 7: Detrett, 4 Other teams not scheduled, GAMES TO-DAY, St. Louls at New York. Detroit at Boston, Cleveland at Phitadeiphia. (rien ot’ ‘were caught in ‘the high cost st ieee: it wea ‘Thi an Morease “ot 2a ack last year and ‘than the ore-war cost » be Phitedeiphia, 2 when straightened oyt for the run home Fator took the Lord to the out- side and had no trouble drawing away. Old Koenig weakened right at the end and Ticklish beat him out of the place. for Ticklish. winter we got a good look at Gen. J. M. Gomez and eaw him worked five furlongs easily “There may be the best horse I ever owned,” said A. H. Diaz, the Cuban sportsman, who was present yester- day when the colt, whom Mr, Diag has a great fondness asa sire, made hia racin, won a remarkable race. lengths behind the pacemaker turn- ing inte the stretch, but came from behind with admirable under whip y Wholesale Wye and gnashing of teeth had he backed. Willie Jackson and Tendler Three ‘Philly’ Promoters After Contest Between Lightweights, over in Philadelphia are now bidding for the proposed eight-round bout between Lew ‘Tendler, Philadelphia lightweight, and Willie Jackson, the local fighter. Jake Wein- stein has offered a guarantee of $20,- 000 for the contest, $10,000 for each fighter; offered Jackson $10,000, Glassman, manager of Tendler, who wants to stage the scrap, js also will- ing to give Jackson a guarantee of $10,000, Frank Bagley eays that he ety es An eight-cylinder car is always the badge of a ball player's servitude. No big leaguer ever goes to the minors except in a limousine. Nowadays the only time a ball player walks is when he gets a base on balls. When you read off line, JONES DRIVES THREE PLAYERS HOME, you don’t know whether he did it with his bat or his super-flivver, ° . The route was too short Another millstone on the player’s neck is that he’s only paid six months of the season and he has to live the year round. A guy that gets $6,000 salary for six months’ work has to pay an income tax the same as the guy who gets $3,000 for twelve months’ work. The Government gives no ex- emptions to ball players, not even when there’s a war going on. = ‘When we were in Havana this in a minute flat . + Times are hard for the heavy hitters since they took down the cigarette signs. When a guy makes a home run now all he gets is congratulations. Only a few years ago a slugger that slapped the bulb over the fence gota pair of shoes, a suit of clothes, a case of whiskey, a bouquet of flowers and @ derby hat. Those were the days when the tradesmen were hep to the plight of the slaving baseballers. . ee 6 snk Seale", APRA SCRE, Gately of UATTaa RY acttars; ele rae merchants in town. There is nothing between him and the bill collectors but @ fragile paper bankhook. And when a ball player retires at the Penile Bike toilive oo eapept the inceme ot @ per cant Gongs, * baseladl le a Hessian, for debut and e was five gameness en) and just got here would have been a to win. jost, for he was well Bayonne A. A.’s First Opem Air Show To-Night, ‘Three bouts between heavyweights and one between middlewelghts, bealdes sev- eral preliminaries between boxers of Ughter poundage, will comprise the card offered to-night by the Bayonne A. A,, 50th Street and Boulevard, Bayonne, N. . In the feature twelve-round bout Ai Roberts of Staten Island, the “Knockout King,” will try to add another victim In Harry Nelson, a fellow townsman, Bartley Madden of New York, who recantly held off Fred Fulton for the Umit, will tackle Ole Anderson, the ‘omising Los Angeles heavyweight. Madden, who y, defeated K. O. Fill Brennas, will try to stop Anderson, ‘as he has been promised a return matoh with Fulton if he flattens the Westerner. abe Goi the latest ie Coant sensation, will trade wallops with Gene Switt of Staten Island. In the middle- welght contest Frankte Fleming of Staten Island will Danny Maher of Brooklyn. ns 4 Offered Big Purse for Bout Highest Bid Being $20,000. By John Pollock. ‘Three managers of boxing clube iH the crack al #o i oppose a Reach Trounces Murphy. PROVIDENCE, R 1, May 20.—At the Pelace Tink Spider Roach of Call- ornia, welghing 135 ~pounds, gave Jim- iny Murphy of Philadelphis. 146 pounds, a fine ing for six rounds. a i Herman Taylor has ready | while Phil tu He i } will let Jackson fight for any pro- moter but Glassman. The contest, if at the Phila- sue i Knock Down the H.C. of is by buying these new, SOLID Mints with § i ct i i a: i i 3 ! zt ay & fi t E 4 iy! - ,ig : z rT] : FS H is he i ie [ | ‘ eis? rit ee a if Hl | til {| a short passed bail. “O, you Pina da Bode!” we sang. Joost a single would have meant 80 much. But the Neapolitan maestro oniy jumped it to Gardner, who threw him out. US still 0. But the Indians began to think that their run wouldn't be enough. So in the fifth O'Neill tripled to cen- tre. Ward threw out Coveleskie, yet then this same Kid Ward taking in| W hand Chapman's baby grounder made a cokey throw to the right field stands and O'Neill trickled across. But in Our sixth We were smiling and saying each to the other. “Huh— two runs aint the world! Guess— maybe—maybe—” for Peck started It with a left single. Pipp forced but Vick vamped the bulb for another single. When Covey threw out Lewis, Pipp_and Vick moved up. So there Del Pratt had his chance to be hi Missed it—grounder to Chappi: Again in the seventh rainbows seemed about to burst athwart the heavens to decorate for Us a giad- some day. Or te spe darn score anyway. Signor he give it a fine wop for a single. Buck Hannah hopped it for a double. And while Majah Huggins was sending little Ruel in to run for the heavy-hoofed Buck there came the cry of a small boy back of the press box. “We'll get you yet, you tg stig” Polack!” Rude though he were, Our heart was with the child. Moggie came near doing gomething for his own game when smashed a terrific hopper straight out. But it bumped against the big Polack. He wasn't sure for an instant himself that he had it But he had. And threw Moggie out at first while hold- ing Bodie and Muddy Ruel on the bags. And We knew the calmmy hand of Defeat was clawaping our throat when Little Big Stick Ward stepped up—and chopped the ether. Still there was Peck—hang it! imitated Mogridge. So, then the Indians held a “rub- it-inbee”—Johnston, twice struck out, tripling to left centre, O'Neill singling to right, scoring Johnston, Coveleskie doing the same. Graney to left, scoring O'Neill. Chapman Tris Speak: lo} fi pred the er’s long fly 800 e Polack. the barrage ro @ fine leaping catch of Wood's © A little heap of ashes what you could hold'in the holler of your hand 1oat what was onct had been Our ambition. WE had deen about as good in the pinches as the cops after Arnstein. But are we downhearted? For why, Eiiphalet? An even break of the series with the terrors of the league. My friends, the history of this declares it to be something that ain't done, ; Come on; you, St’ Louis! YOU got ahyway? HORROR NOTE: Cubs, 2, ye 1 but did you see that worm ‘What Giants, 17; Dundee Outpatnt: Bout. DETROIT, May 20.—Johnny Dundee, the popular and clever New York light- weight, won @ ten-round bout over Mel Coogan of Brooklyn at the first of the open-air boxing shows at Navin Field. Dundee didn't seem to extend himsel against his wily opponent, whom he hed in danger once or twice. Coogan is a er and his gene: was an intereatin bout pil the ras nd 3 the fans were pleased with he Fasalt im Fast ing, the popular 133~pound boxer, whe is regarded as one of Benny Leonard's most worthy contenders, won George Chaney of Baltimore in an in- tereating aix- bout here last nigh! Yelling was in his best form and set a lively pace all the way. Dfforte are being made to B35] ' 5 P.M. Ave. * Teoth St., Jamaica, thence by trolley, Grand Stand, $3.30. Ladies. 6LA5, Toduaine War Tax BOWLING AND BILLIARD ACADEMY. Bway & Sict & And why not?” ' *You’d. Be Surprised!” Millions of New Yorkers are surprised?) Everybody who ever heard of Egyptian Prettiest Cigarettes is surprised ! gener, neat a box—yes, we said TWENTY—and you get ’em for only Twenty F.iv-e Cents. Yes, in this year of 1920. 25¢ for Twenty’ EGYPTIAN Increase of over 100,000,000 in one year tw New York alone.