The evening world. Newspaper, July 10, 1920, Page 6

SES. ! | | te an ey + >t to-day we could send over half a M4 i PADDOCK HOPES 10 GeT i “dock {is likely to crack a couple of “EVEN TIME” 18 ‘SLOW TO-DAY. aM NEW OLYMPIC RECORDS ———— Strangely Influenced by Superstition, American Sprinting Champion Predicts He’ll Sc ore New Mark for the 100- ‘Yard and 220 at the World’s Games Next Month at Antwerp, All Because of a New Hunch—This Country to Be Strongly Represented in Running Events. ; “| By Robert Edgren. Consright, 199, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Brenine World.) HARLIE PADDOCK, this year's all-American sprinting champion, has told his father that he “has @ sure hunch” he'll win bis races in the Olympic meet at Antwerp, and there isn't a thing left to worry about, Like many athletes Paddock has a trace of superstition in his: make- @ stronger trace than usual When he comes out on the track his team mates see him “knock wood" before he goes to the starting mark, But they're used to it, and think nothing of Charlie's little stunt of guarding against some un- friendly occult influence, “If Charlie thinks he's going to win he's unbeatable,” said one of the other athletes to me a couple of days ago. “So let him knock wood. When his team went up to meet Stanford University a few weeks ago Paddock went to Coach Cromwell and asked to be sent pn a Monday, two days nhehd of the team. “ “Eve a bunch that Wednesday will @—————————_________ be an unlucky day for me to start,” lay, #aid- Charles. “If I go Wednesday Wieaaosn” onkelbon, Teohnae hod Til lose, but if I start Monday {'m|the time, 1 minute, 30 4-5 seconds, en- sure to win.” No amount of argu-|{ablished a new world’s record. "the ment could shake his belief. 80 he|onds, and was wade unte, 36 sec- Was sent Monday, and he never ran| Lippincott, Craig and Riva better. This year Paddock has won the Charles has been known to inter-| 20-yard dash three times in 21 2-5 view a fortune teller. One of these] *conds in competition. In one race, in the U. 8. C. va. UC. dealers in mysterious information|the 100-yard dash in bee pen fold him last winter that he'd lose|but was not credited with a world ‘iis race-in New York—his first in-|Tecord because the timers had neg- oof run on a board track. He did.|jerted t9 have the watches tested. Perliaps this was the result of alot the watches canghe nie re some State of mind, or perhaps it was just nis. We can th jm in 9 2-8 use Charles had not been run-|fiming,” says Paddock” Ut that in the winter and was not yet) 4+ nig p, ger: im racing form, or perhaps it was be-| 4%, MR, best, earn Isn't going to eauuse he was accustomed to'a cinder] povmetitin yin, pe Own way. The Fat instead of a board floor stride.| ComMPetition will be hot. One of his losest ivals is Creed Charles thinks he might have| y Haymond, himself a long trip if hé’d paid Sener ies | Morinter and interna More .attention to the warning. jonal champion Jast year. Creed With his new Olympic hunch’ Pad- | the'a39 in'at ge mesons” OC nde. and condition and showing a lot of speed, records. Even if he doesn't, we may have some other fellow who will put Wp new sprint marks. “Im former Olympics we usually had ‘one champion in each event who out- classed his field, but the advance in athletic sports during the past three or four years has been so great that dozen well matched men for each event. any one of whom would be a Whitney’s New Two-Year-Old Crocus Goes “America never had such a crop of to Post Limping and Comes Home a sprinters before. We have been hold- ing nationa} championship games for Winner on the Bit. forty-three years. In all that time the 00-yard dash has been run, in the =hamplonship meet, only five times ‘under 10 seconds flat. In the past By Vincent Treanor. fourteen years only one championship | [MY ROWE started a “lame” AQUEDUCT SELECTIONS. hhas been’ won in 94-6 seconds, and horse in the fifth race at Aque- FIRST RACE—Omer K., Explo- | then in 1915 J. Loomis ran with the duct yesterday and like all good| #¥%,, Ballynow. ‘wind, which may have given him an|“iame” horses he came home on the bl ‘advantage of a fifth of a second. tit } n the THIRD RACE—Incheape, Broom- - We don’t want you to take it spun, Sporting for granted th ‘This year, in the Western cham- at Cebus, the: horse jonships we had four sprinters who canght by a few of the watches in| parad Bide, Four 94-0 second printers in| serney 0 ne Dost said he was, That 920, by The Press Publishing Co. Got On THE CHARLES Papdocre. INTER -ALUED AND AMERICAN Canam LATELY To BEAN OLYMPIC WINNER AND RRR BREAKER. LIVE WIRES By Neal R. O’ Hara. Copyright, 1920, ty The Prevs Publishing Co, (The New York Bvening World) Cox gives us ope for coxscrews. SECOND RACE—No selections. ir when the baseball and political experts both have their eyes on Washington. CE—Man o' War, ‘The trouble with the path to success ts John P. Grier. we ure referring to, was actually Mera KAO lame, but nine out of Machine, Thrift, rave run several times in 9 4-5 sec- e out of ten discerning ‘fonds, and some of whom have been|racegoers who watched the colt can, Irish Tien oe | THE GIANTS' MANAGEMENT ANNOUNCES THE UMPIRES WITH | BEFORE THEIR STRONGER IN THE CHESTERFIELD, ANYWAY. coe. 6 MAKES THE & aingie race is something the world | %¢med to settle it, for when the s never saw before, And many of our|Piclon spread among the lawn's oc-|and San Pablo. other athletic qvents have brought|cupants Crocus's price went back|doubt that both were Out equally good ficlds, {rom 1 to 2 to even money. they were right up in the front flight “ nearly all the way. rican” team for 1920 ‘included | CTOcus may not have been lame at all. |ever, was never In the hunt. Ghiree Paddock as the American | His perceptible imp might be attribu-|seemed to have second money sewed Ing of 100-yard sprinters, Paddock | ted to a peculiar alt. The colt is by|Up when Teddy Rice brought Sales- has been going very fast this sum-|iroomstick and Inaugural and was /an along with a great rush to nip making his racing debut, but long |im In the fast few strides. prising if he made a new world’s |Hefore time f. Pied, other jump or two ‘Salesman would ig for the fifth race came | ave beaten the winner too. official selection of an “All- mer and it would not be at all sur- Feeord, or two, at Antwerp. I think he is the sirongest sprinter T've|poaye (ge tas, ‘ever seen. Dean Cromwell, his col- ‘Jege athletic coach, told me a few was on every- tongue. “The beat in the only half true this made him a cinch, eve ueey, track yarda in 9 4-5 and |, There Was a wild rush to get re e y in 9 4-5 and | aboard the “good thing” when the the 220 yard® dn 21 2-5 on the same day on a. soft track,” said Cromwell. “I never saw another eprinter who|{jne 4 : P x before the saddling bell and © Re here vin two such races on|bugle were heard, Wheneas we sald before, the parade to the post started, addock is short and chunky, His| yy : 5 Oe iy houlders are broad, his chest deep, |Urmurings were heard. “Why, he's his arms thick, his hips and thigh er Wipers ta ae aa ae fel and calves ure all heavily muscled. | {boxed it ) and he really | three-quarter He {8 round and smooth. No muscles < show in ridges or lumps, When Paddock runs he séems squat down instead of holding erect position of other sprinters, Jeans well forward and goes in long plunge. He may be a yar: slower than some of the others at t start, but he gathers spced quick!y when away from the lines, and seoins to increase it steadily until he hits the tape. He gives the impression “bf running without any lost ne There is no pawing the air with his arms or even the slightest side sway oy variation in his stride. His rua- ning might be compared to that of Howard Drew at his best Paddock began runnin; sprint rages when hé was fourteen in the Pagadena — Polytechnic Behool. He made the grammar sechoo! record of the world when he greedily taken. This, of course, was Crocus managed to get to post without breaking down, He acted badly at the barrier as Starter Cas- sidy tried to line the fleld up, but when Mars pressed the — button, Crocus, or Croker, as the talent im- mediately christened him, was off on his racing way. Far up the chute the blue silk jacket which he carried stood out as if in bold relief, Crocus |was in front and there he stayed to the i might have if Donn: Is traine: jweakened in the attempt in the final |sixteenth, and then along came Idle Dell, with a great rush. This got her the plac nod from Prodigy, but Crocus was never seriously | pressed. won, not only by a wide we know, is season, at Belmont Park, another me" horse the at 8 € le Was u si! r ride ran 100 yards in 101-5 neconds. ‘Tho {fie ary es, eS ck Stuart. | yesterday, for only important race he has ever lost | . Painfully after wrench: | 54 va, Was & 820-yard race on the western | .0E A iste lowe during his warm | ie sprang ewes » tha emed like cruelty to ‘ pplonships in 1816, when be was lanimain to start him. He went to were on thelr way in the wath t ost anyhow, by orders of the stew Wh an all-Ameri 10-yard run. rds, an made his opponents look ef, and one of the fastest sprinters | goolish. gal! a P there. . ‘oping home | ‘ont by | An the country \himaself. Lame horace appare ny are past PADDOCK MADE RECORDS ON A food betting pr 5 Cord Pea ‘ 3 SLOW TRACK, Reel aa ios mer. Hew 6 the Inter-All'ed championshi the maiden two r the Armory Athletic A: 4 Paris lust year, Baddoc ol ned yoste the 100-metre and the i was the opening choice, ts, equuliigg records, This was “info” on good things a iow tra@® constructed for the r around hig ts. No new track can be very ce: Pablo became the me- . In the 800-metre felay race dium of a play which sent his odds ran the first relay of 200 from 8 to 1 down to7 to 2. Ravanna, ist) fastaet |was Georse Odom’s Aruda, "There | Staten tal Walk U, Tocleated, bat in iam [20 When you think of the saloons in Havan: v and the sugar prices in America, no wonder the Cubans : The day of the cracker barrel politi guy'is always with us. Vardon and Ray Will Be Seen In Action at Greenwich July 28 ball with the slightest slice, and the number of hazards for which thie difBoult course has been famous have not been decreased, The new putting ian is gone, but the pork barrel Ravanna, how- Whitney barn,” was the ist of what | _ Fruit Cake came to life rather sud- Fe aae at Taddook Is unbeatable [Was heard all over the track, and it|denly in the second race and for » time furnished spirited contention The latter, however, clothes’ on and Two English “Pros,” Now on Way Here,.Will Compete in National as Well as “Met” Championships. for Billy Kelly. had his running Ay Meas Ghat wn rhe shouldering his heavy impost o +4 Prind tito 2 was pounds won comfortably. moved bagk across the brook, has three deep traps to the right, which will require a most accurate approach. The new fourth ‘hole, with the large blind trap the entire width of the fair- thirty yards in front en, makes that hole just difficult to be Interesting. ‘The new fifth and sixth holes, with a narrow fairways and plenty of trouble on both sides, have already established a reputation for skill of the best drivers. w sixteenth hole, lengthened this season, is well trapped and calls ccurate work to negotiate a par heesy” favor~ He was never He is a_wind- ‘Tenons Bon was a ite in the third race. in the hunt at all. broken no-account evidently, Favour, who has been By William Abbott. ARRY'VARDON and@ffed Ray, the two star British golfers, are “folding up" starts, lasted much longer, and but for a great closing rush by Air Man, With them is Jim Barnes, who finished fifth in the re- cent British championship at Deal.| trying th According to announced when sailing tended returning to England next year} and try his luck again. Vardon and Bay will make a more comprehensive Myasion than they did The two Britons will com tropolitan Cham arrive next week. seemed to know needed betting on. Check up one for Naturalist. won the Bramble Handicap way with nothing and Royce Rools to beat na ; >rodigy tried to 4 good horses home all season, unless Prodigy tried to stick with him, bat |% Maxey Hirsch, begins to pick other “spots” Handicap and, Tournament Board of Gov- using every effort to make ‘Tournament an unquali- fled success, pete beth in the M pionship at Greenwich, July Championship ‘Their presenc y Ambrose, some horses Clubs have tried various methogs t rising costs, ns have increased dues and levied assessments upon members. The Rich- ‘ond Coumty Country Club, over on ten Island, worked around the ser- m by accepting new mem- * club's maximum member- ship is 850, which was never filled up, the club preferred to remain asive and not go over 275 mem- This year, however, Chairman Primrose advocated the acceptance of & full membership instead of raising ‘nes, and the club is now packed tight members and with tiently waiting to break In. the Nationa Most organi: times he rides like a Tod Sloan in other races h On more than one margin, but easily enough the old days and seems a novice, Elementary! Not #0 far back this occasion this season that he can be the most unprepared chance to redeem his 4 on his hind Jegs as the web- | abroad, when he w championship, twenty-six stroke tever chance the Whitney y a nay have had was National titles, and it is hardly to be expected he will flivver on his hon others pa-s) A card is complete for the show of o¢iation of Jer- y City Monday night which Frankle Burns, Jersey City idol, and Jack Shar- key, only conqueror of Jimmy Wilde, price res | wilt clash In the feature bout of twelve rounds, The for élght, rounds, will present a pair of Cyril Walker, professional at Engle- ar at Siwanoy, will be held t the Wykagyl golf course, le, July 15, 16 and 17. The other day with eringham and Tom Boyd reating a new utiful links, Walker, » was going great guns until his drive slipped on the tong sixteenth, | which finally resulted in a 6 for the and parrowly ei record for the be which will be clubs, which should ori ropolitan district, A PROBABLE STAR OF ANTWERP (The New York Evening World : 1 ! owrebtanerilaa\e, HE'S ALIMRYS ON THE Lookout FoR OMENS, CHARLIE 13 80 Cee eiMsad RRA \T Would TiRow HIM OUT OF HIS STRIDE, Bradley Looks Like Sure . \*::'2 "oe Winner of the National BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK DABERUIIS 2th || HOMER EVENS TER SERES Bob Meusel, However, Is Real Swat Hero With Four Safe Wallops, Including a Homer and TWo Doubles. By ‘Richard Freyer. ABE RUTH, the ponderous pellet B pounder, swinging an unusually long bat, conected with one of the offerings of Pitcher Oldham in the fifth Inning of the. second game of the Detroit-Yankee series being staged at the Polo Grounds, and the ball dalled into the upper tier of the right-fleld wing of the grand stanu for the king of the swat's twenty- fifth home’ run of the season, Th Babe is now but four down on his 1919 record. He has compiled his quarter century of honors in seventy- one games, and as the Yankees have a total of seventy-six more contests scheduled, and providing Ruth keeps on four-basing at the rate he has been travelling, his record for the season should run over the half-hun- dred mark. There is one thing pretty certain, however. When the players take the fleld for the 1921 pennant race they will have a new home run mark to shoot at. Paragraphs and paragraphs coula be written about Ruth, but before go ing any further it might be well to mention the Yankees made up for the defeat handed them in the game of ‘Thursday and defeated the Tigers to the tune of 9 to 3. The home team did not shine as’ well in the field as at bat, making a total of thirteen safe hits and having four errors chalked Meusel two, and Quinn the other. Quinn pitched an elegant brand of ball, allowing the Detroit hitters but six hits, He struck out a like amount of their batters and did not issue a Decathlon Championship ise 23.23 ie 2oa University of Kansas Athlete Wins Greatest Number of Points in First Five Events, HE all-around ability displayed ‘by Everett L. Bradley of the University of Kansas enabled him to win the greatest number of points in the first five events of the national decathlon championships and) Olympic tryouts: over eighteen other contestants at Travers Island: Bob Le Gendre, the Georgetown crack and winner of the inter-allied champion- ship, finished second, while Brutue championship, captured third place. This will no doubt be the order in The Democratic slate proves that Edwards's strength was in the pri-| which they will finish to-day after the maries and the brewerias. javelin throw, the discus, pole vault, | ‘ f | 1.500-meter run and 110-imeter hur- With Ohio sure to he the mother of the nezt President and maybe the) aes are contested. next world’s champion, the folks out that way are preparing for twins, Hamilton, the University of Mis- sour! athlete that Bob Simpson has been grooming for these events, has two of hie favorite specialties on the programme for to-day, namely: the javelin and discus throws, which may force him into first place or else send Le Gendre into third place, while he supplants the Georgetown boy at sec- ond, However, these three named men finished one, two and three in mishap can prevent them from carry- ing the colors of Uncle Sam in the decathion at Antwerp this summer, Elli, Perrine, ‘Alma Richards and Goelitz will fight it out for third American team to go to Belgium, Bradley scored 8794.199 points; Le Gendre, 3681.5335; Hamilton, 3599,0275, while Ellis took fourth with $476,836. of the features of the afternoon's per- some of the form that stamps him one of the greatest athletes in America, shotput was wofully weak. He at- sprained tendon received shortly after on the American team. in afternoon was the impressive sty! the 400-meter run, their preparation for the Olympics, If Your Golf Game Is as Good as You Want It to Be— Don't Read HARRY VARDON'S Articles in THE EVENING WORLD. YOU CANNOT READ THEM WITHOUT =, IMPROVING YOUR PLAY. They are timely, entertainin; Fleming of who held Johnny Howard red was support too for Jack Joygera|t? ® i "ome Xo imed\in|too, was backed pientifully and ao |middiewelahts, The Wykagy! course is being espe- clally groomed for the occasion. The ¥ putting. greens are in gondition, New traps on several of the holes, hole and a round of 78 that, tied the |] instructive and reminiscent of the miscue at the sixteenth | spilled the works, If pushed on on the cinder pat mislead any one. Georgetown star limped slightly from the broken leg he sustained last April} Ruth—we just can't keep away while training for these events, but| from that feliow—has now hit safely the way he flashed that 400 meters in| in his last twenty-three games, Dur- 53 seconds proved that he will take) ing ‘his sensational streak the Babe some beating when the Olympic finals| nm appeared at bat 83 times, has Hamilton, winner of the pentathion; re run in Augus' Moakley , gays that athletics have not hit their pre-war stride yet, accounting fer the fewer stare developed in the colleges since ; the outbreak of the war. _ K. of C. emblem and set with thre» intercollegiate Rudd, the Oxford middle distance runner, who ran so well in the Penn relays and later in the games in Eng- land against Princeton, is the type of runner the Olympic coach fears in the international games. He pays the South African a great tribute as an all-around track man, mixed in with a change of pace, held the opposing nine sa e. In the ninth awaiting the tryouts at the Harvard| the Yank twirler eased up a bit and stadium. Jole is sure of a place on| the visitors sent two runs across the the team judging from the mile he platter, ran in Chicago in 4.16. the fast Harvard track the Chicago| Ruth was only a miniature hero in boy might better this sterling per-| the swatting department. Bob Meu- sel, a full-fledged member of mur- derers’ row, appeared at the plate n Robertson, the Penn-j four times and banged out four safe- sylvania University coach, remarked | ties. His first attempt was an in- a few years ago that Bob Le Gendre | field hit to short. On his, next ap- was one of the best put together ath-| pearance he slammed the pall into letes he had ever seen in his career} the right-fleld grand stand for a he eurely was not) homer, and his next two trips re- The) sulted in doubles. made 25 runs, 39 hits for a total of 74 bases, which ome swatting. Before yesterday's contest he was called to the plate and presented with a gorgeous medal engraved with the large diamonds. The presentation was made by the Knights’ council of which the Babe is a member. Donte Bush played a sensational game at short for the visitors, but came near getting himself thrown out of the pastime in the third in- ning. the pentathlon, and nothing but a place and the other member of the By John Pollock. Over in Philadelphia the fight fans|icsnt. who made ft twenty-one knockouts Io are 90 confident Lew Tendler,.their| twenty-eight bouts whei he was credited with crack lightweight, is going to defeat | stopping ‘“Jrish”” Fagan in Newark recently, hes Willie Jackson in their eight-round bout at the Philadelphia Baseball} wearers Ooen Perk A. C, Long Branch, on Grounds on Monday night that they| July 23. Matches with Freddie Reese at the are offering odds of 10 to 8 that Tend. | Armory A. A. of Jersey City and Shamus O'Brien ler gets the popular newspaper de- cision, and they wi accept odds of} penny Valger ie now resting comfortably up in The! the Catekill Mountains after a successful opera- advance sale of tickets up to to-day tion for appendicitis, In @ letter to his man- Matchmaker | Be ays that he ts rapidly Alma Richards, the only athlete competing who represented America insthe last Olympic games, did not do as well a8 was expected of him. His high jump of 6 feet 2 inches was one fcrmances in which he manifested but his work in the track events and tributes his poor performances to a|2 to 1 that Lew stops Willle. his return from the inter-allied games, Despite his poor showing in the other events it was the consensus of opififon among the athletic experts at the New York A. C. field, that his «reat Jump is sure to win him a place amounted to $23,000. Hains is certain that the bout will] John Connom, he will be able to resume his largest crowd and pald activities in the roped arena by September, attendande of any contest that has in that city, A big e's over! A. A, of Jersey City on July 10, has started been fought her outstanding feature of the| crowd of local sports are fog had ne (mpl ‘o witness the battle, whieh’ Bob Le Gendre won his heat in Coach Moakley of Cornell who was recently appointed as the successor to the late Mike Murphy in handling the American team at Antwerp, acted ar timer during the games. The veteran developer of some of the best track and field men while at Ithaca, thought that the athletes would have shown to better advantage were it not due to the fact that they were not con- ditioned properly for the events, He sald they would do much better after ‘After @ woek’s wrangling ® match has finally been consummated between Charles Ledoux, ban- tamwelght champion of, France, and Joe Lynch, al Dantamweight, manager of the Armory A. A. of. Jersey Eddie Mead, representing Soe Lynch, ‘and Chartte Rose, acting for Francols Descamps, ‘at 8 o'clock. ‘The bout will be held at the Armory A. A. of Jersey City “on Jole Ray>was around smiling and Another good fighter from Califerais has just arrived in town in earch of bouts with our He s Tilly “Kid” Her- man, the San Prancieco welterweight, Herman comes here with a ig ramutation, as he has de- (cated nearly all of his opponents, by the K. 0. route, He is anxione to get on a bout with topootch welterweighta, weights of Roston, ciation, at « show * Philly Fans Make Tendler Favorite in Jackson Bout. — Charley Doemerick, matchmaker of the Rayonne Offer 10 to 8 Quaker Wins]... nas jut siamed up two main toate of twelte ‘rounds’ duration for the club's next box Decision From New York | | ing show on Friday night. Abe Attell Goldstein will take on Eddie Fletcher and Al Murphy of Beranton, Pa, will swap punches. with Owen Rector of Jersey City, ‘Three other boute will also be fought. Philly Delmont, ‘Doc’ Rob's Harlem fea been matched to meet Bert Spencer, the idge- wood lightwelzht, in a ten-round tlt at Tom at the Bayonne A. A. are pending consummation. ining back his phyaician, Dr, strength and that according to Gene Tunney, who (ights Martin Burke, the New Orleans light bearyweisht, at the Armory training at Keansburg, N, J., for the cont He te being prevarad by Fal Kinley, the Jersey heavyweight, and Jimmy Sullivan, the sn eee eae ee ent have | farmer amateur lightweight ctamnoa, — Tunsey bean matched to meet in ten-round bout at ‘an pen air boxing show to be stage! at the rag Mins eh ween P| donal Sporting ‘Club, Informed Dan Moagun Clerelend apd on that eccoumt the text ought | nde of Bettling Lerinshy, that he to druw a big crowd will be in great shape for the go, ‘Tex O'Rourke, matchmaker of the Intema. decided to matoh Lerineky to fight Cl Purser at the second boxing sliow of his club the third week in August, O'Reurxe has come to the conclusion that this pair will make » great bout for the club's mombers, Jen- RACING AQUEDUCT MONDAY ASTORIA STAKES AND PLATE DOMINO HANDICAP 2-MILE STEEPLECHASE CAMPFIRE HANDICAP Johnny Dundes, who fights Eddio Fitaimmons| AND 2 OTHER HIGH CLASS CONTESTS FIRST RACE AT ow M, for ten rounds at the International Sporting Clib's BPI AL Wat private boxing ghow on July 15, has Geen matched | Pleave Penn. . and to meet Johnny Downes, tho promising lght- | I A¥, Fe tee Brooklyn. twelve-round go, to © de- reeetyed for “Indice an” i Brooklyn’ “E/ 4 Th aaa