The evening world. Newspaper, May 26, 1920, Page 22

If Babe Ruth Keeps Up = Present Gait He’ll Treble ~ By Thornton Fisher! jis 1919 Homerun Record © HURRY UP- SIGN THERE- IN IBOXING AND BOXERS . . .. . |. Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). LINE Forms Yankee Swatsmith’s Circuit Clout Against Browns Again Is Big Factor in Putting Over a Victory At ROBERTS WOULD KNOCK HIM KICKIN? BOYS, | WANT “fou Yo MEET Jost 62CKETT CHAMPION OF By Charles Somerville, ry THER one! Home runs fresh every day. The Babe jousted out his seventh homer of the season yes- terday. Did it in the very first inning on the very first ball that Duteh Leonard turned loose toward the plate. Planted it at about a 180 miles an hour speed into the upper right grand stand. Its diamonds to coffee beans the premier homer plopper will have more than doubled his last season’s record on June 7, He has then made four homers. He has thirteen more days to do it in. If he keeps shooting ‘em out at his present gait he'll be mighty likely ot triple his 1919 record of bulb devastation, Viva el Babe! . ‘Added to his prowess is his happy®———————————————————_ personality. The demon's as popular | glove and on Duteh’s wild pitch to the with the New York fans now as Ice plate advanced to second. Lewis put hn pl ie Mig agai da he tae rrkcergg eb (l are OOS orb ibis sbarkler of a single over the. thind bag and Ping ponged the plate. Ruel against the Babe, SHE ls MRS, went in to run for Hannah. Quinn TOPPER walked, But Ward fied to centré and Ruel was pinched when he tried to make third after the catch. We had Babe on third and Pratt on second in the eighth but Signor Bodie fanned on US. We hela the Tiger whining and whimpering in the ninth and then came Cap'n Roger's great feat of atonement. Duffy Lewis flied to right but Muddy Ruel got a walk. Saliva John was called out on strikes. Ward snapped forth a short fly out of Flag- stead’s reach. It sent Muddy to third. Then Cap'n Peck. He cracked out a stinger to left. The ole Tiger was tamed. “So did I! “When I heara I could buy a Rogers Peet suit for $50 or $60 I just went and bought it!’’ THE N. J. PROMOTERS ARE SHAKING A id IM THELR AN Xt! Walker Will Devote His Is to the Repeal of Box- if it ls Not Conducted |. oO LAMD THE PUGLISNS STARS BEFORE NY. SATE Gets THEM Wie) oc =4, 6c WE VP h oon, ete OR JIMMY WALKER has On record as saying that if State Boxing Commission ‘ - Bmith ie expected to ap- it within the next few days isn't C he will « devote to the repealing of the ‘the next session of the Legis. Z| Z HARVEY (S GoING TO LEAD WE LANG BECKETT TO THE SLAUGHTER OVER HERE > AND BECKETT can HIT, Too: NAUGHT Y- (mE RCRD for the commis- NAUGHT Y- Jim Frawley, the father of the| ‘Got, “tcd Sine” state ~ er Major Biddle, 1s yop theme | Bartiinc’ LEVINSKY - SHOULD GIVE US S THE ROOF and when the Babe's homer nearly wrecked her residence yesterday she is known to have ob- served fo her scared and squeaking offspring: “I declare, children, If that Yankee family is to remain at the Polo Grounds with their awful Babe Ruth, I shall certainly be obliged to break our lease!” “Well, We hamstrung the old Tiger but he scratched and bit a good deal before he went under. It wasn’t un- til the last minute of the ninth when Cap'n Peck put over @ wallop at just ithe right minute that we knew we had the old Jungle Puss thrown and jtrussed. Nearly got away from |Saliva Jack Quinn on several , occasions, se Began clawing immediately tie fight started. Young singled, Jones shunted him out with a sacrifice bunt. Cobb went out short to first and Young got to third. Jack's control t wobbly and he walked Veach. eilman hopped it forth to left for a single, scoring cone Flagetead hit to Pratt and went oat at first, One on Us. . Same, inning, however, Ward "raised a foul fly for Woo Ing for Detroit day. P fly to left. But lie Pipp whipped forth a neat single to left. And: The Babe then assombled his d'stinguished self at the plate. As hereinbefore atated, the first one Dutch Le chucked the Babe banged. A Pratt walked, but Ping B: away on a foul fly to We 1. We had the jump on 'em—2 to 1. Immediately afterward, out in the field the Babe might have been ob- served trading a brand new ball for the one he had soaked for a homer, which a fan had scized and held onto in defiance of the special cops, The Babe has nearly a complete collec- tion of all the bulbs on which he has hammered out homers. Pretty soon, I guess, he'll need a warehouse for| pe aya, ae storage purposes. ‘y wee Saliva Jolin pulled himself Du of a | at 43th St at odth St ckle in the fourth. Heilman | had Bagless and though Ward made | Broadway Fifth Ave. a superb flying stop of Flagstead’s | at Warren at 4ist Se crash down the third base line, the little third sacker landed full length in the effort and had to throw fiom that’ position to second. Hellman beat tt. Jack struck out Bush, threw out Woodall and fanned Dutch, A a ejoked ike Cap'n, Roger Peckin- paugh had thrown the game to tho katydids in tho fifth, Young singled Jones hit to Quinn, forcing You 7 OUR OWN VENERABLE Nic. MORAN AWp"MARY ANN” HANG BEEN TUMBLING THE ENGLISH HEAVIES RECENTLY= WHAT™ CHANCE WOULD THE BRITONS HANG WITH OUR ARST RATE HEAVY WEIGHTS @ LIVE WIRES By Neal R. O’Hara (Cugvateha, WM, Wy The Pram Pubiidiing Oo, (The New York Brentag Word) The overall movemént has gone back to the farm. LAC | Nobody's stopped the auger, ‘meat or Prtaburgh Pirates yet. gf § Tippity Witchet Close to- Hn ran like @ champion, covering the 6ix and @ half furlongs tn 1.18, which was only three-fifths of a second slower than the track record established by Brookdale Nymph thirteen years ago. Tippity Witchet has had varied career. In his time he has had many was bred by Harry Payne ‘Whitney and sold as a two-year-old to the Brighton Stable. John Sanford 20,500 for him, the biggest price had been og in @ number of ing. i i Hl Babe Ruth was only laying off on account of the over-production of. home runs, i Are you a Panamaniec? Our Panamas were never finer. Johnny Wilson will have,his first big fight in New Jersey, which is where Cousin Woodrow had his. . i HE is years for a geld! Mr. Lett bought him last year for $12,500. At times he goes along and wins many races in a row, then he appears to lose all his speed and wins LG hares nothing. : 1. ©, U—the gambling fraternity lett hoki haan THE HARVARD CREW THIS SEASON ROWS LIKH IT WAS USING THE PARALYTIC STROKE. Us: Sunday and Monday! Everything for’ Decora- tion Day includes not only bags and suit cases but everything you pack! Sports shirts, golf shoes, golf hose, blow-off-proof caps, fishing tackle, tennis |rackets—everything you |play with. ik a foul és Thureday, Aug. 5, according to the letter which said that in event of a tle it will be played off on Friday. The original dates were Aug. 4 and 6, fi gee ‘The 1920 debut of Buddy Ensor was made in the first race. He showed much skill in the handling of Dream Crepe, bringing home a winner. He also had @ leg up on Salvestra, which finished second in the Garden City Handicap. The shortage of sugar won't Stories with the big leagues’ canning season, Cinct Mayor says the Reds can win the pennant again if every one ts behind 'em. Sure they can—4f every one is behind 'em, including the other E sie 13-Year-Old Track Record Been Arranged. Sun Flash I1., Hot Favorite in have been re-arranged By Vincent Treanor. of the Western T Tippity Witchet, making his afternoon, defeating Sun Flash IL, an oe . arene just when he will — Western Open Golf Dates Have| George W. Loft’s Gelding Beats TOUMO, May 2%¢—~The dates tor} Garden City Handicap, at the playing of the Western open gott| Belmont. for the benefit of the entrants, ac- tae cers om | PPVHAT melancholy hone, as Train- er Hirsch declares bim to be, first appearance of the season, won the feature race at Belmont yesterday odds-on favorite, ennkt, 2 & ereatare of onda, and it bordered on th scandalous last year when he, won 4 i: from Luoullite, an odds-on choice, hte aang ot me Coat the riot, wae ntry owned by Sam Hildreth, as wae Sun Fash IT, Tippity Wivchet’s sensational vic- tory came in the Garden City Handi- cap, Hildreth scratched Lord Brigh- ton, thinking he had the race all sewed up with Sun Flash Il. George W, Loft’s speedy gelding ‘ers more time to resi fon oe | o) tournament Carpentier what his movie director asked— Seat The public wants from ACTION! i! lit F Beventeen horses tog acd fteon consi ed by 8. V1 racing, an: ‘een consigned by S. Prime brought @ total of $29,000. Maxey Hirsch, acting for (oorge Loft, paid the top price when bid $6,000 for Flying Cloud, @ fine looking two-year-old boy by Wra k-Bobinette, ee a rainy day Is 60,000,000 gallons. . oe W. J. Bryan ts the only American that ever ran the full marathon dis- tance of twenty-five years in polltics. ' Duckpin Tourney| Boxing Flourishing in Philly, Big Shake-Up Nears a Close. Last Two Shows Drawing $68,000| In Two Shells At Thum’s Alleys! -..s itor banc tor Boll=aeeceenenen=| At Columbia Against Anderson in ¢ aa Rice caused a Benentias at Col- umbia yesterday with the biggest Quakertown June 7, shake-up of the senna in the Blue ana White varsity shell. Out of a total of sixteen men in the two varsity boats, cotati igre Tetorday te ote ion ro~ the three c' fonehip. ita, the amateur, the junior and the o) id to be held under its auspices season. The first of Thureday, J re 3, oe be , June an con. ducted over the links of the Dun- Country Club. The aoaltisg leo ° Capacity of the Polo Grounds on . il it a4 28 i i Rocers Pret COMPANY : i “Four Convenien, Corners’* Hy Pelee ld E : L politan district are auxtoum to see the new star in action, ‘The bout fs schedwled to go twelve rounds. but Schappert ig confident he san stop the Maklon Mauler before the limit is reached, ‘Tho newromer bases this confidence on the fact that he recently gained a popular decision over Mike O'Dowd fuat before the latter lost his chai- Ploutip to Johnny Wilroo, a i ‘The second annual duckpin bowling championships are nearing a close at ‘Thum's White Elephant Bowling Acad- emy on Broadway, where the expert duckpin bowlers have been competing fi b fi if Association, by June 1 to John G, Anderson, atry Club, RACING AT BEAUTIFUL Garden on certain nights each ‘The summer garden adjoining hall ts 60 equipped that when of which the promoters ‘have | ¢y, wa he the running of the Amert- on the Schuylkill next Fri- ‘and Saturday were changed again pay when John Arthur Brown, steward In the American Ine ispatn : for Stars Forced to Limit on Courts ;| ‘Top, ranking playere experienced narrow escapes as 4 4 Edward W. Raymond and Miss elene Pollak were forced to the limit of three sets in the lawn tennis singles tournament yesterday on the courts of the Pel- ham Country Club. Mrs, Raymond, the No. 6 of the national ranking list, was compelled to bring the best of her cross court shots into action. |@ She gained the semi-final round in the lower section after a spirited battle against her old rival, Mre. Ben-§ jamin F. Briggs? The tally was 6—3, 6—8, 6—0. it wi in the second set that Mre. Briggs, formerly Misy Green of Phila- delpbia, steadied in her driving. Sho was very ood at timing her shots. s0 ag to catch Mrs. Rayinond a trifle out of position as the latter ventured into gqure for, her snorter crossing shots. he ‘two had some splendidly fought y after the score had twice touched at games all. Accurate d the wi iting Mise F came ne chance ne the third Mi F, Waring kept the ball flying to the’ base line al- ways with sufficient vigor to cause ine wk to be a trifle wary about aSing, ances in coming toward the not. ‘The two battled through some of the moat stirring rallies of the day before national indoor champion and No, 10 of the ranking list scored (ihe 6-2. In the next round Mi faced Misa Idith Sigourney, the Boa- ton girl, whom she defeated for the in- door champlonghip. The bewinuing of the doubles brought out some notable players. Mra, lM McLean, formerly M Helen Re gaticnat ti Rotaer, aby Pollak for championship laurels in the various events during the past month. To-night the stars of the Sronx, Pleasant Plains, N.Y. and Hoboken, N. J, will vie with another for a chahce to get within @ charmed circl ureday night ‘est Brighton, 8. 1, will send its best ywiers nelusions bo ty ee day lath will beh ni w nown as Greater Now York night, as all of the teams and individuals that are sched- uled to bowl that evening hail from our |flve boroughs. If first honors in any of the events are to come to Gotham, it will be these bowlers that must do the r ‘A glanee over the leaders fous events sho he Club Team of Pittsburgh, fs leading tn th. five-men event with a total of ',707; Jangi and Randall of Cambridge, xt lead’ in the double event with 782 Mathie of Washington, Pa, is high in \the individual event ‘with Artle JAdelman of New York City is high in the all-around event with 1,156. Fol- lowing are the leaders in the three fn the var- Giiy ita x Hall Mare, Hiuison Hs ‘two'Mten Te | | Cob “A-/ tound Hrent Arle adelman, Now York Cit reer td Gans @ 7 KK, Ova, ROCHESTER, N. Y¥.. May 26.~—fPan- By John Pollock. ‘The boxing game in Philadelphia ts getting more popular every day. This was, demonstrated at the last two shows held in that city. At the open- ing entertainment held at the Ive Skating Palace last Wednesday night the gross receipts amounted to $32,000 while the first pen air show of the season at Shibe Park, home of the Athletics, Monday night, showed the gross receipts to be $36,000, It cost Phil Glassman $21,000 to stage the Willte’ Ryan, the New Brunswick, N. 3. 145 Pound fighter, who has fought eight fights with 00d success, waa signed up to-day by Tom Mo- Ardie, matchmaker of the Ocean Park A, A, of Long Branch, N. J,, to mect Frankie Williams of Philadelphia for ten rounds on the night of June 4. Ryan is a stiff puncher and as Williams io an aggressive battler the go should be very interesting, Owing to the fact that Tommy Noble, the Fnglish boxer, waa beaten by Joe Leonant in @ bout ip Canada last week and because he wanted too much money to box Jimmy Kane of Yorkville, Matehmaker John Jennings has drooned bim from hia card of bouts for his oven air dhow at the latter set of bouts)and he came out with a profit of $15,000 after expenses had been paid. ‘The Philadelphia promoters deserve the backing of boxing fans. They dc not hesitate when it comes to getting the topnotehers. Fred Fulton, thc Western heavyweight, with numerous victories to his credit since he placed himself under the management of Tom O'Rourke, was matched to meet | Ole Anderson, the Callfornia heavy- welght, for eight rounds at an epen air show to be staged at the Phila- delphia National League Park on June 7, Anderson was the only big Mow that would agree to fight Ful ton. Willie Mechan the Culifortia heavyweight left last night for Milwaukes, where he i alated to go ‘sgainst Tony Melchote the Chicago hearywotsht, for ten rounds at a boxing ahow to be helt by Frank Mulkem, tho boxing promoter of that city, on tho night of June 2, ‘This go ought to draw & big crowd a Goth men are big favorites with the fight faus of Milwaukee, Joo Lymeh, the crack Westside bantam, has bee die Mead, Lonoh's Jow didn't knock ho was confident a dee ton vionghky, will arrive tm 0) the “W ken Barre” Wikies’ Armory A. A, of Jemey City on Monday night, The card fe an follows: Frankie Burne ve, Freddie dacks, the Englise boxer; Jimmy Kane va, Georgie Brown; Johnny Buff vs, Willle Burns and Fadse letaber va, Harvey Bright, Joe Woodman, manager of Freddie Jacks, the English featherweight, bas just taken another cater under hie management. He t Johnny Hose of Bt. Paul, who gave Lew Tendler a good with in Philadeiohia last year, Woodman seems © think that Rose will ‘ave any of our local igtdwelgtnte a good battle, An X-ray photograph taken yesterday of the right Land of Pete Herman, bantamwetght box ing champion, showed it to be broken in two places, according to his manager, man, 10 postponed, as he will be unable to enter the rin fought im Portland, Ore, carly tm June, For the opening boxing #how of the Ocean Park A. A. of Long Branch, N. J, on May 28, fatchmaker Tom Molrtle bas algved ap Silunt. Martin, the deafmute middlewetght, to moet Len Rowlands of Milwaukee in the, star bout of ten mind, Frankie Jerome and Jack ‘Tracey for eight ‘owes and Battling Lave and Yoong Werner for iat rounds, Dan Morgan in a teloaram to the writer from Philadelphia, where Eddie Fitzstmmoné shaded Lew ‘Tendior of Mailadel¢da in an elaht-round bout on Monday night, declares that Fitasimmons ade wach a great fight against ‘Dendler that he been offered $7,500 to meet Tendier a another position or move the shell. Saacke, Parks and Fi tively, gne ghitt and Herman was returned ty 3 an of the only five were lucky enough to hold the' Fr placta | Three new men wore {m- ported and the rejuvenated elght will have only one day's practice before the Childs Cup race In the American Hen- ley regatta on Friddy, Capt. Duncan Leys, stroke of the var- sity and Lansing Van Houten at No. 7 Were the only men of the first boat who held thelr old-seats, Kvery other mem~ er the varsity elther moved to right out of In the first change of the afternoon ‘roast went to the varslty at No, 3, No, 2 and bow respec- Later Rice thought better of No. Sakcke went back to No. 7 junior shell, Waldecker, at No. 6, is almost en- tirely new In his position, He rowed throughout the season at bow and wis yesterday forced to shift to the port side of the shell. Wright, formerly at No. 2 in the junior combination, also hanged from one side of the boat lollows? Li Brush, coxswain JUNIOR VARSITY—Knodel, Saacke, No. 7; No. 5; Gailico, Enslow, No, 2. coxswain, strok: covil, No. 6; Ruffu! 4; Bradshaw, No. 3} ‘Wright, bow; Cohen, ‘To-Day. Av little lead was Une water. Sir Thomas has thri on the Sound by Monda: Tometius Jervis, the wi ee: Shamreck TV. Win Be Launched Shamrock IV., Sir Thomas Lipton’s challenger for the America’s Cup, will v@ launched at City Island some time to-day if present plans are carried out, ded to her keel yosterday and she is now ready to take In spite of the accident to Resolute’s wooden mast last Saturday it has beon decided to use a wooden stick in Sham- masta in two of wood and one of a’ start will be made with Tf all goes well she will be under sail Then Ty Cobb maced out a light drive. But it went straight for P ‘And Old Reliable—blamed if he didn’ let it dash through hia legs! jammed hisself home. palpable error, Cobb was ed @ hit. ees to ‘a fly to the Babe (Cobb go ing to third after the catch) handled and shot to first ey Jennings’s awakening Tail Eeehe inped ahead in the seventh Jones saeri- Ward handily nabbed Cobb's slam and Young was caught between second and third, but on Pratt's high throw to Ward Young got back to the singted, but Hannah slashed the bulb to Aaron Ward, who slapped it on Ty as the famous Cobb cam: to| along toward the bag performing one when Young singled, ficed. second bag. ‘Phen Veach scoring Young, of his famous slid ‘Then looked 1! our seventh Ping 8! Hail BUDDY Jone Despite th officially | Saliva John then heid and | Hellman to a weak crack that Quinn) >it was going to be one of those Brooklyn things, for m Dutch's BELMONT PAR TOMORROW $2,000 BOUQUET STAKES 2 MILE STEEPLECHASE BABYLON @ANDICAP and 3 other ( la sy Contests, VAST KAOK 2.30 P. M, SPECIAL RACK TRAINS leave Peunu, Station, 38g St. and Tth Ave; also from a ve. Brookiyn, at 12.40, and at Intervals P. M. Special cars re- Course also 1d and Padlock, 82.20, Including War ‘Tax Byerything for Billiards and Bowling. The Bi Nok Balk Oo, runeyicl Balke Collender BOWLING AND ACADEMY. BUDS THUM BILLIARDS Biway at at. King Of The Mints! New York is just crazy about you!