The evening world. Newspaper, August 7, 1920, Page 8

BABE RUTH NOW MAKES GOOD TARLY SEASON PREDICTION ~~ AND REAPS GOLDEN HARVEST & ~ they'd said $20,000 1 @4 the proposition dow= fat They i! i + A ge 9p ce Morrison om the fliivver all last us ath- e's as well known game has spread during past few years? They play it in as enthusiastically as it's America, Japanese colleges ‘ankee Star, Greatest Figure in Sport World, Swamped With _ Fabulous Movie Picture Con tracts for Crashing Out Homers » . Exactly As He Predicted Before the Baseball Season. By Robert Edgren. Copfvight, 1990, try The Pret Puntishing Oo. (The New York Rvening World), NBEVOR asked Babe Ruth if be is a seventh son of a seventh son, He) ever told me if any of his ancestora were Scotch seers the present buasdall season upened Bade confided to me his iden of the| furure. And believe me, any time Bane starts prophesying after this Tm foing to Leten. Said Babe: “Tm going to be in de mand next winter, There'll be a int of them trailing me and trying to tell me to sign on the dotted line [ve just turned down an offer of $10,000 to eign Up for one moving picture at the end of the season, Nice money to turn) down, isn’t #? But I think the idea of a big movie company offering me $10,000 to pose in @ ploture Is « Joke. They figure on spending $208,000 on the picture, They spend militons have some corking good ball teams, They play it tn China, India, Stam, Australia, New Zealand. Even Eng- land is waking up to baseball. France! has several leagues, and one bail game played near Paris 80,000 spectators. national sport in © seen some mighty good players trom the sugar cane tsland. Canadian sol- Hat just before! drew over Bagevall is the ‘uba, and we've STR, SAUL SLANERS. these TONED “Te CATCH & POTATS ThSsED FRom The Tor o& Te Wassines on & PORIK , Base MAY Dos AS A MoUIE STUNT = ONLY HE'D CHASE THE PoTRTo Down AMD SPEAR IT OM THE WAY. ‘HE'S KNOWN a8 diers made American baseball™® fa-) vortte game in Burope eurly tn the) war, and when 2,000,000 American! born and bred baseball players went! over there was more baseball played! up near the Hindenburg Une than} the whole world ever naw before, I! recently bad a@ letter from a ¢riend, George Reed, visiting tn, of mine, Brazil. Ue found three sports goin, full blast in Rio~--Armertian baseball American boring aod hore racing. JAPAN. They say Amorican { avi! play. ers are as well known iy Maan as ut paoea Tf Babe weat ov. there and on the same dn5 tNet Hitach!-! powerfully built. He has a vs Siam and ery nhort his height. These t! with a golf club, He'd make a good fencer, boxer, runner, welght-thrower. He has @ remarkably quick mind and eye, wonderful nerve, co-ordination, strength, enthusiasm and the coolness under exciting circumstances of the natural champion, Looks as if “Babe” ts in line to ac- cumulate a fortune this year. Nobody will have any right to criticise him If he goes after it. Ai i will be well earned. pepe “WIBAN” IN; RUTH'S RECORD SO FAR Date. Micher and Col digh shoulders. Hia erms are enormously hag Bp Proportion to ni him thi THE EVENING WORLD, BATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1920. BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK (HACENREGRETS THE REAL SWAT MILLIGAN Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). fo, MONUMENT, = WANTS TO AAND RUTH ABUT 19000. Foe SOME cmb oF A Sek Pe are squirrel: ulators, . @ recount. ° “EAM WOULD SHOW RESULTS. MeotS un non com _ LIVE WIRES By Neal R. O’ Hara. Copretght, 19%, ty The Prem Publishing Co. (The Now York Bvening World.) The way the Giants are climbing now proves that half the season they the other half they're nuts. ° They have fireworks every night at Braver gives the natives two performances a day. ° - Babe Ruth’s Two Homers Give Yankees Victory ee "Shake-Up in Batting Order! 3atise ate a. Pratt's fi liner ded the shitting streak“ Obicage. 44—Bagby, Cleveland 2b—Hoyt, om... 30—Van Gilder, St. 1. Bi—Shecker, St. L.... (i) avaust. 20—Faber, “Ry 28—Mostom, Cleveland . (R) chnegcosnoses woce in a lifetime. ° Rum cour The only thing certain about the World's Series so far is the ticket spec- oe Pittsburgh should finish close enough to the top this season to demand : ee IF THE GOVERNMENT WOULD ONLY GIVE THE WASHINGTON CLUB A°33 PER CENT. BOOST, EFFECTIVE ABOUT AUG. 20, GRIFF'S eld in Boston, which now The A's management doesn’t have to study foreign exchange to know that @ game at the Polo Grounds is worth more than in Philly. oe Babe Ruth produces more homers in a week thaneAncient Greece did ‘The election will be all over by November about the same time as tho World's Series alibis. The Cleveland Club needs a couple of strong pitchers, but so do the teams that face the Cleveland batting order. . The Cardinals always look good from May to July, the same te _ Puts New Life Into the :. New York Team. DETROIW Aug. 7. ABE RUTH banged out two home runs, his fortieth and forty-first, in the second game of the Yanks’ “series with the Tigers, enabling the ty New York pennant-chasers td win, 11 to 7. ; <The Tigers fought lke real tigers to win,~’reaching Jack Quinn and George Morridge for thirteen hits, the Yanks bunched thelr biows @ld-time Yank fashion in the first and sixth, when they meant the most dm the way of runs. The fielding on Doth sides was good, but the umpiring ¢ (was off again. Roth teams suffered, Detroit probably the mo: ) Huggins shook up bis batting order. 3 Thursday's display of slow, sleepy fielding by Mousel the Call- “Zewis took his old place if left. Ward n Muddy’ Ruel singled to plage. walked and: Wend anat Peek satbeiee ho Rosi roar that to. the him by crushing the second ball a line over the it fleld Trumbull Avenue, whic’ le. ball 1 went appeared to have won nine of. th In Polo Grounds twelve rounds and th sentiment of the rece Brorat Sie, oy went gust | the Loud ries of “forty-two nut f« : two’ rock was On first, Red Oldham, succeeded Dausn, eted nth. hat. . straw tt twist o for a twisting tap t 7 5 tap oyng Miller Huggins received that Truck Hannah had ntely suspended for his row with Bil Bingen’ ‘Thureday, Bill ‘was “just much to the bad Yesterday, however, and he w ined by pom ind Jol i Qrent, 7, made two inning that were poor, Lynch Signs te Joo Lynch, the hard hitting west side boxer, is going to fight Pete Herman, bantamweight champion, gsein, after “fornia giant was benched and Duffy Brooklyn Tommy Sullivan, the St. Louls Promoter, had another conference yes- was im the lead-off epot, Peck and Ruth third, changing with Pratt. Wally Pipp waa to sixth. ‘The change worked @epecially in the first, waen f celebra: came up with the bases full ted his return with a Lynch was also matched to box Charlie Ledoux, the French star, again, at the Armory A. A. of Jersey City, Aug. 28. ‘Their sensational bout in which led | By the bell in th he bel pee ary yaa time. “Joe's firat three bouts at Ni jab of Pntadelph ™ Bh? tinea fiilted BN ow ed out Kid Will- ama, Eddie He haa knocked “out Kid The Lynch-Herman bout will elght rounda at 119 pounds at 12 0! $ the afternoen of the battl it 1 eclea DAYTON, ©., Aug. 7. lin, the South Bethiehe: was given a draw decisidn with John- » who hi id him, however, was the bost he'could do, idge somethin; eighth when they 4 produced thi y throw somewhat of “a word er been inden the secon! Leu ‘bor Day. Sam Goldman, of Herman; Eddie Mead, manager of Lynch and terday at which articles of agrooment | cleveland were signed for the boys to box at| New Yerk recent meeting was a Ledoux came strong after having been saved ‘saya he by / Lynch will knock ‘out Herman the be welterweight, iiman here tast night. Loughlin re STANDING OF THE CLUBS — AMERICAN LEAGUE, Clube, Ws be PC. J enduring @ slight relapse of putting Washington..48 51 474) eorm the past week GAMES YESTERDAY, Wow York, 11; Detreit, 7. Philadelphia, 2; Cleveland, 1 (10 Chieage, 4; Boston, 8 (10 I. ft. Lools, 14; Washington, 7, | dropped Into o1 TO-DAY. New York at Detroit, Washington at Bt, Louis, Phitadelphia at Cleveland, Boston at Chieage. ee *,|NEWsINTERNATIONAL LEAGUE! cooa scores Made im Practice at of the Clu! P.O.| Club, — W. Tormey fy. 40 {@8B| Honhewter, 31 [020| Syracuse,.: 24 Gamen Yesterday, 2: 10 innings, Pimet game. innings, Beoond thant $; Buffato, “Teeny. (ity -Machawter, Raitimon , 8; Byres, amen TesDay, lem (Ly, ‘Two samen, Balt Bochaster vt J Ee? more, alily 06 Posting, C Gleane Golf Tourney. DPTROIT, Mich. Aug, 7.—With the tourney for the open championship of only a few days away, Harry Vardon and Edwani Ray, who will represent Great Britain there, appear to be and declare themselves ready and waiting to begin, Whatever ttle ailments they have had, ineluding Vardon's \njured thumb both have more or less disregarded, are Cincinnati, 6; Philedeiohia, 2 | now gone. ‘They will have a round over GAMES TO-DAY, Chicago at New York. Pitteburgh st Brooklyn, eet eet lcchinie tare games), (Found of the tourney, will be @ rest the Inverness course when they play two local professionals to-morrow. Monday, the day preceding the opening pertod. ‘The Englishmen are playing extra- ordinarily good golf, Vardon has been In the play at the Yahwend Club at Utica Tu day he was not putting with his Me customed accuracy, but in the face of in remarkabd!: ie that he medal error inaccuracy. found that Po io CA itd of which every folfer occasiol finds himeelf guilty. Vardon has in some degr een pullli t strokes, ik made the necesnary correction, d tt may be oD tence 3 how an rved that his name will be t one in the posted es at Invernes: TOLEDO, Aug. 7.—Upward of 1 the entrants In’ the national open arrived an Istered OMclals in charge esate (Week have at hotels, ally all of th who will o stars of the Holt world for the ti to-day, judging from reservations made Several of the golfers gave the courses golng over yesterday and some good os were turned in. Jack Gordon alo shot an $0, while Dan Keeny » N.Y. came home in Tt. poles Sager, 'b3,.9 om and Ray Both Fit for Bis) Jack Burgiss, Ashi ale, Chattanoog: 80; A. Brown, 1 the United States at Inverness, Toledo, | Yorke gg; y re 4 Gil Nichols, New York, 33 for ‘nine holes, and occasional alight indispositions that | tournament to be held at Inverness next id newts of the tournament announced that virtu- om le in the ¥ foioe, | clunale will have checked in by sundown I. defeated Aflas laine Rosent Canadian open c in 78. Par for the course is 72. Some of the other scores yesterda Ve » 7 50, 77; ‘80; Joo Sylvest Hole in One Stirs Golfers to Great ‘Thi: SHAWNEP ON DELAWARE, Aug. 1—As @ result of the weeding out a in the Invitation golf tourna- t at the Shawnee Country Club, Frank W, Dyer of Upper Montolair, Maurice Risley of Atlantic City and those pro-rivals, George Hoffner of Bala and J, Wood Platt of North Mills, will meet as named to-day. ‘The first flight plans were placed in |temporary eolipse yesterday afternoon by Frank Sheble, @ local club man, com- peting in the fourth sixteen. At the sixteenth hole over the water the for- mer Shawnes President made the 130 yards from tee to cup In « ie #o trana- that he proceeded to win the remaining holes and the match. On the home green he brought off a tt, In winning in the afternoon Risley was foroed to, ah extra hole by J. 8 Worth: ington of Siwanoy. At the ninetesnth 30. Risley ran down a twenty-foot putt for a bird 80, He made the round In 79 to the other's 8. Dyer went out in ST in the morning of Richmond and Inter defeated F. 1. ates of Montclair, Gtlottner in defeating Fred Knight of White Marsh in the second round made the inward half in 3%. Collett Beats © Gott wi Rosenthal BREAKING CANNON BALLS WITHA, HIS TRUSTY WALLOP Pore. | the front at Syracuse N, Y, Gordon Wood | . © Bom CiRcus STUNT, Hinks? Yardop, Ray, all leading contenders, Wills and McVey For Twelve Round Jersey Bout —+— Colored Heavyweights to Meet at Armory A, A, on Aug. 26, By John Pollock. Harry Wills, the colored heavyweight who caused such a sensation recently in boxing circles all over the country by beating Fred Fulton in three rounds, has just been matched up for | another fight, His opponent will be Sam McVey, another colored heavy- welght, They will come together in boxing show of the Armory A. A. of Jersey City on Thursday evening, Aug. 26. John Jonnings landed the bout for his club by making the man- agers of the fighters a flattering offer. Wills will get into condition for the bout at Billy Grupp's gymnasium in Harlem. ‘There é « promising lightweight now coming to He is Battling Jobneon of that city, a white lightweight, who Freently wou the lightweight championship of Orn. tral New York ‘oy defeating Nick ‘*Young’* Michaals of Syracus, N, Y..in a bout at that city, ‘The ay we dig crowd, the receipts being 55,400, fo & brother of Patey Jobneon, the Trenton featherweight, He ie under the inanagement of Joe Nectey of Syracuse, When the boxing game gets going tn this city, Billy @iteon, manager of champion Benny Leon- ard, will try and clinch a match between ‘Leonard and Charley White of Chicago to be fought at one of the bi clute, White mire Leonard @ great fight at Benton Harbor, Miah..- on July 5 and Gimon thinks & return matoh between them will attract « bla crowd tn this city, Tony Molchoir, the promising young Chicago timmona, the profooter af Benton Harbor, Mich, to meot either Ted Jamison, the Western heaw. weight, or Homer Bartth of Chicago in the sami- doute will dmww & big crowd, twenty-two Imockout victories in twenty-nine bouts, ho meets ‘Happy’ Smith at the Bayonne A. A, ‘Tuesday night assaults of muck punchérs as Joe Lynch, Jos Bur- nan, George Chatey and matched at the Armory A. A. to the Al Reich-Frank Moran bout, and the fol- lowing Week, st Bayonne, will meet Shamus O'lirien. A defeat for Knockout Phil will suto- matically sever negotiations now under way. NEW LONDON, Conn, Aug, 7.— Miss Glenna Collett of Providence, R. the Ravinslo Country Club of Chi round of the Shenec golf tournames n Point, Misas ge meer seinen ips ae eee et x Worth, Tex. for twolve rounds at Columbns, ,, on Moutay | wllaut, earls Brows, tke omiang oat sven, Walter Hagen to Review National Golf Meet WU! England carry off our championship of the Lyton and Mayo, Great Britain's star entry, will engage our leading ama- teurs and pros Im the greatest golf battle in Amerl- can history—-the national open championship xt Toledo, Aug. 10-18, Walter Hagen, this country’s chief hope, will describe for Evening World read- ors each day feature developments of the meet, opinions of the Inverness course and chances of a twelve round bout at the open air dearyweigiit. hae signet up ty Floyd Witz. final to the big bout between Ohampioa Jack Dethprey and Billy Miske at Fitasimmous's open air show on Labor Day afternoon, These two Knockout Phil Delmont, with the record of will hae mere than A mere victory at stake when Contingent upon his success with the veteran Yorkviliian, who has withstood | the others, Delmont will be Of derey City with Johnny Drummie on Aug. 16 tm the semi-final Grmboat Smith, who is now fighting under the management of Laney Lioitenstein of Chioago, is | making good in hi fights in the Wert, At Fort mith had the Texan Tate, @ heavyweight, in a twolre Immediately after the bout smith was Matched to fight Capt, Bob Raver of Chicaay | Fred Dawaon Sign Articles boxes Charlie O'Connell of Cleveland, at Detrelt, Aus. 18, apd Pail Delmont, at Jermy City, Aug. Jack Bloomfield, the English fighter, and Jackie Clark, the fast middleweight of Alleatown, Pa, have signed articles of agreement calling for mm to meet in the main go of twelve rounds at '& special boxing show to be brought off by the Armors A. A. of Jemey City on Thursisy erening, Aug, 12, Wikio Ryan of New Brimewidk, the hard-hit- ting welterweight who recently defeated Vincent Coffey, the upstate fighter, at Long Branch, N, J, hae been preotically matched tr Charley Docserick, matchmaker of the Bayonne A. A., to meet some good fighter at the club's she in ten days, Ryan has wpo many fights in the nat six moothe, Fred Fulton is at present stopping at Long Branch, N, J, Fred's two broken rite, which be received in hie fight with Harry Wille, the colored heavyweight, are mending nicely, but it feral other promising six complete the card. Brooklyn featherweight, will trade punches with Eddie Fletcher of Hoboken in one of the sights, with Franke Pay of Broskiya tackling Johnay Curtain im the other event, John Jennings, matchmaker of the Armory A. A. of dJerooy Ofty, received a telegram to-day Eccentric Fireme Jimmy O’Brien, Jack Eller and Homer Baker wi be the top liners who will compete in the games of the Eccentric Firemen at Celtic Parc to-morrow af- ternoon. Over 600 other entries have been received and the meet promises to be as big as any ever held wider the auspices of the popular organization. Six open A. A. U. events will be contested, among them being a special mile relay race handicap, that has drawn out an entry numbering eighteen teams. In addition there will be two championship football gumes, the first between Cork Kildare dnd the second bet Galway: and’ Kilieenny: ate Columbia’ ming Football Prac- thee to Be Held Sept, 13. Buck O'Neill, the new football coach at Columbla, announces that the first football practice for the coming season will be held on Monday, Sept. 13, The entire squad, however, will not be aa- sembled at that time.’ O'Neill will call out only twenty-five or so of thé firat-| string players, who will plug away until opening of the school year on Sept, From that date on all candidates will be welcome in the workouts on south id. ‘The firat cane will be on Oct. 2, with Trinity, O'Nolli's coach. ing staff‘ will be #ame that assisted st year and will com- yrise Tom Thorp, Alex Telfer and Carl Merner. ‘The latter will be In charge of the freshman eleven, Thorp, will handle the ene ‘elfer will have charge of the ends, 8 QUIMET CAN'T PLAY IN BIG GOLF MEET American Champion Confi- dent Invading British Star Will be Stopped at Toledo Next Week for National Open Title. By Walter Hagen. Open Gotf Champion. LEDO, Aug. 7.—The stage is all set forthe national open cham- plonship here on the Inness Country Club links antarting Tuesday, Every pro in the country as wellas many of our lead- ing amateurs have been looking for- ward to this event all summer, The fact that there is an inter- national interest in the open this year makes — it doubly attractive ‘and a fine field of 198 players are paired up waiting for the call to the first tee, With Var- don and Ray on hand {t means that we American golfers will have to he at our best to keep the title from go- ing over to the other side of the At- lantic. As present holder of the cup T feel a responsifility that T would not ordinarily have. Last year when I won at Brae Burn { was not in the position of defending the title and there was uot so much to worry about . However, with Mike Brady, Jim Barnes, Jock Hutchinson, Bob’ Mac- Donald and @ few others to help, tie American interests should be well guarded, Only one time in the history of the championship haa (t heen won by an outsider. This was in 1900 when Vardon paid his first visit toMmerica. Twenty yeara have passed since then. but time in golf ts nct such a handi- cap as in other sports./ Vardon ts st!il the same beautiful golfer that he waa then, and still Is capable of very fine golf. The veteran may have lost sme of his distance in the passing years, but he ts stil able to score with the best of them. EXPECTS RAY TO CAUSE MORE TROUBLE THAN VARDON. Our own experta rather look to his side partner Ray to cause us more trouble than the veteran Vardon. Ray will ew those who have not seen nis long Griving. I am sure he is hit- ting the ball further from the tee than Abe Mitchell ‘at the present time. Should Ray continue to putt ani ap- proach as he has tn the last fow ex- hibitions it will take @ lot to beat him, ‘Two other well known British golfers who have taken positions in this country are playing in their first open over here. Laurie Ayton caine over from St, Andrews and brought with him a very fine game. He was well spoken of on the other side. Charles Mayo is an English golfer, and arrived in this country a few weeks before we left for Engiand. He is an internationalist, and while he never won a big championsaip has always played close to the top. Starting off on Tuesday morning I paired with Tommy Armour of Scot- jand, and one of the best British am- ateurs. He won the French amateur championship the same week I an- nexed the French open. He is a fine chap and a good golfer. He may not stand out prominently in our open, but if on his game should do well at the Engineers’ Club in the amateur championship, Armour came over on the same ship with me, and we had many long golf chats together. The report wa8 circulated that he intend- ed to become a pro, but be assured me there is no truth in the state- ment. REGRETS ABSENCE OF OUIMET IN TOURNAMENT. ‘Twelve amateurs are entered in this tournament, but one of our best is Oulmet, not down to play. We re- gret this, as he has won the title and has proved that he has the class. The amateurs must look to Bobby Jones ‘as their one best bet. Bobby is good enougir to win a big event of this HRSA AAA ORY CUIDHAD BEN 08 pave ple. I waa surprised recently when look- ing over the list of winners in the national open. American golf talent has held the bonor of winning this tournament for the last ten years. A decade of golf has passed since a for- eign-born pro has won our title, al- though just previous to this it was rather the exception to find a home- bred even among the leaders, It speaks rather highly for our own golf, aa the quality of play exhibited by the foreign-born golfers haa been of the very highest order. The first to break the toe of the homebred golfers was little Johnnie McDermott, who won in 19M and again in 1912. The previous year he tied with” Alex Smith, but lost in the play off. After Johnnie broke through, no foreign-born player ever got the title back. Francis Outmet won in 1918. I won my finst title in 1914 and then Jerry Travers won at Baltusrel in 1915 and Chick Evans was successful the following year. After two years’ interval during the war, I won again at Brae Burn. In the homebred ranks quite a fer have come to the @ront in the las¥ three or four years, Leo Diegel is a good golfer and one who is improv- ing very fast in tournament play. Emmet French is another star and so is Charles Hoffner, George Bowden, George McLean, Jack Dowling, Eddie Loos, Mike Brady and the two Mac~ Namara are two sterling golfers who are bound to shine near the top sooner or later, The course here is a good one. Donald Ross went over it thoroughly last Spring and added many traps. The greens are good and the golf should be of the highest orler, We are looking forward to a week of excite- ment. Barnes and myself regret that we are not to play against Vardon and Ray in an international four ball matoh to-morrow, Our matches now stand one victory for each side, and |we hope to settle the dispute at To- ledo. I understand they are waiting for some word to come from Great Britain before meoiing us in an of- (ictal match. eal daa de eee tapas es