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a ily ste on rt 's’ Tennis Tourhey " bat for the first timé. After that: ho |" pyr d db gti og! a Battle Between seldom returned to the hutch without Cinna tr Two Bills—Johnston and the home fires blazing anew with ea- chiens diac escudhll BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK FAVORITES FOR NATIONAL TENNIS HONORS Mays Shows Good Form Upon Return to Game By y Blanking the Tigers. Pratt, with Five Five Hits, counts For Six of Ten Yankee Runs. Ac- STANDING OF THE CLUBS NATIONAL LEAGUE, Club, WW. OL, PO.) Ole, WO Cinctneatl ..64 48.57! | Chicago ‘ 50.069 | St. Loule, By Charles Somerville. A great wave of encouraging, kindly applause met Carl Mays as he stepped out to tame Hughey Jennings'’s ever unruly and dangerous Tigahs yester- day and again as Carl game up at YESTERDAY, 4. thusiasm, for he was meeting a bara altuation by pitching @ brilliant, un- erring game, GAMES TO-DAY. New York at Bt. Lou's. Brooklyn at Pittsburgh. Boston at Chic And he held the Tigahs as runiess Phitad at Cinoinaatl, as a Mewtoan dog is bare of a lion's a od AMERICAN LEAGUE. Club, Ww. LL. PO Club. Ww. LPO. It proved a grand, happy old day | oy). G3 000 | Woeton sss.08 OF a76 next reek will be the im- all around, for the Yanks worked back | cievetes “826 | Wouhlagton..48 62-432 and Tilden. These two of Mays in a way that quickly buried 12 | Detroit an oe fa pt the courts represent the ex- } im almost everything—size, tem- ment and birthplace. Their meet- onde more put to a test the of tennia in the East with the played on the fast asphalt ‘out in California, where the cad oan be played noarly rscent memories of a team that seemed Semel tea to be scattering in all directions under a blast of TN T. Never a trace of astigmatism in their observation of the ball. And when they grabbed at the pill they didn't harvest turf. They grabbed the ball. And their speed was more than trays beans. Trays on Other teams not scheduled GAMES TO-DAY. Detroit at New York, trays of those beans. Without spilling Based Pron ae ry i doceked iden hte duals any, St, Louis at Phitadsipnis, for the tennis crown after 6 battle, Conditions will changed should they en- h other in the coming tour- Tilden, high strung, tem- ‘but in command of a won- Hf atock of strokes, until recently ne essential iene - the of a champion—confidenci tal Philadelphian frequently in, ey Sepecially fg bere] who strangely exerte M kind of an Indian sign on Til- | RM: a) TARAS Inchcape, Sam Hildreth’s Whereas with the whackstick they were all to the hey noddy the way they bunged and biffed it around Mr. Coogan's well known Bosky Dell. Leonard was vioveyed in the fourth and Oldham turned into minced beet, and while thé seventh and eighth in- nings wherein Mr. Morrisette, a for- mer International Leaguer, didn’t ruin bis future chances for an American League rep, it didn't urge his can- for a niche or even a fuotstool | yesterday) and Ruth broke out of re- straint with a right double that al- most cleared the wall, Played on # big rebound it only advanced Carl to third. Well, Del? “There you are again, me heasties,"’ responded Pratt with a low shooting single to centre, scoring Mays and the homerless Babe. Mentioning Mr. Pratt again, and it please you. In the eighth Mays was T Y - inthe Hall of Fame. out to short to first and Peck filed to 54 game Tilden’s visit to Dogland $150, 000 WO } ear = Old, Mays asidé, the gent who emerged | Shorten. Pipp pitta The of the American Davis from yesterday's battle with all that}no, the new Mr, Morrisette wasn’t When Parke defeated stuff—the H. of F. lia clinging t y al Th tutf—the H. . re clingin, 0: * and things began to look o walla clinging to| trying for anything original, o for the Yankees it was Til- stepped out and played ex- showing in the finals, The swing ‘Great Son of Friar Rock Pulls I of $150,000 only about a month ago, has gone amiss very seriously. ———_—— Up Lame After Fast Workout By Vincent Treanor. SARATOGA SPRINGS, Aug. 24. NCHCAPR, the two-year-old son of Friar Rock, for which Samuel Hildreth paid the reported price He Has Gone Seriously Amiss SARATOGA SELECTIONS. First Race—Wachapreague, Mach- favelll, ‘Che Ally. Fitch ace: 4, ¥ Fifth Race—Crystal For ‘oun, Adam, Fizer. . th Race—Yung Ching, Escovar, Gray, Vv. T. —=- got off in front, but Gossip Avenue went right with her and made it a two-horse affair. Just when every- him, was Dei Pratt, He was the King of Slam yesterday, the Babe alxlica- ting with a mere double while Del in his role of Hittemout Hottentot bammed the ball for something good Babe walked, Del Pratt and his wonder wand effected a hot wallop to centre, He tried to leg it fast enough to make {ta dowble, but was brought to earth on the second slab, Before every time he stepped. And way bet- ter than that, For once he whanged out a mighty homer that meant three this could happen, however, Pipp had scored with the tenth block in the mosaic of Yankee triumph, and May Have to Be Retired Second Race—Pontypridd, Yellow |1Uns and again a stinging double tha As for the Tigahs—biess the cute Hand, Afternoon. meant ouple more and in all) qittle pets! The only time they Permanently. ‘Third Race—Dimmesdale, Dart- | scooted "alone by the work of hi8| rattled their chaing was in the sev of moor, Serapls. rowelling raps six of the ten.runs that|enth. It was Ty Cobb who almust Fourth Hace—Edwina, King Al- | flattened the Tigale. succeeded in keeping tlre team on the With Peck out Wate Pipp put a single in to centre. Leonard gave Babe Ruth alegitimate walk and then Pratt pulverized the pill into a lett homer that hadn't much more to 60 to have cleared the grounds. His next performance was in the eighth when Wallie Pipp, again ain- gled to second on Shorten's fumble score board from which the dav long they had been go rigorously shut out, lock and Pipp did for Stanage. Hale, batting for Oldham, got away with a base hit by a slow roller to Peck. But Young forced Hale at second, Peck to Pratt Suddenly there came an old fam- Mar sound and clouds of turf went Pulled up in bad shape after a fast |body expected Mies Muffins to draw |and, after the Babe struck out, Dell into the air. It was Hughey Jen- work-out. He is lame in thi away in thé stretch, she weakened | (iver)-the-goods shot out a bang that|nings tooting "“Eoy: as Bus’ hes also been accentuated Gatlene aka Shee e Sad Satie under the whip and Gossip Avenue|hit midway between the home plate |dropped a single into short centre Lgcdodiyaghly Ce pm —— ery little) went past her easily. and third with such a crack that it|and sent Young to second, Pinelli his return home At New- DICK WASTE: chance of his being seen at the post bounded so high it touched the sky|ran for, Bush. (But not far, as it ype P Sheen eee ee this year. Such lameness 18 of| Mad Hatter gave those who backed| and never came back from ieft fleld|turned out.) Ty Cobb next sont who by course, ourable in a race horke, but him at 1 to 4 a series of shocks in until after Pipp had scored and Pratt | Hughey into another flerce attack of stretch of the imagination B . a the Pittstown Hendicap, Far back | Was on second, “Reyahs!” and turf tearing bv be in the same class as urke ‘ails to pM pee not resnbd to freatment, It 48] of the pace and in a pocket in the run| Aaron Ward stepped modestly up in| smashing out a right single, bat tin i Sationas . » [Probable that the good cot may haveliy the wtretch, he looked a 10 to 1|the fourth and pulled a litte homer|Pabe Ruth hurled that single bacis But it so happens that Live U to ‘Re th tired permanently, Such '8| shot. Rounding the atretch turn,| all his own. The like of it was a com-|to second base so whizzing fast that fin is one a ‘Johnaton'’s closest Dp Pp he gambio of buying two-your-old8 | however, ator took a gambling| Plote stranger to any eyes, I think.|Ty found himself sduatted on third as Ahad ‘Was no good reason e 0 rate Ladedoeut ' chance. He pulled Mad Hatter to the|It sailed high and almost directly base, under the odium of out. Aud Bill should want to Tub it He Has in South indi dhe times that Hildreth bought |outside and ploughing his way|above the left field line. The wite| what was worse, the job had boos a a fellow Callfornian while play By Neal R. O’ Hara. HInchcape from his owner, J. H. Roset-| through, nearly knockeg Under Fire| foul line climbs the fence and is|done in such a hurry that Young hat eeer coe soneeton. ow- ter be Solr looks the somnins, saamn: down, At the time the lightly-| marked of in: the Dieaouees Ne tne cage score from second during oted a Pree = « . He we lg railo x 4 te rail. © ball slapped the t tennis w Thre Crovrtaht, 4008, by The Frese Publiching On (The New Tork Brsing Wed) Unless Martin Burke, the much| proclaimed a second Man o' War, He | Mognted Tailor Maid was galling WAS rail, at pounced foul after that.|. A sharp, shrill, choking sound wae mand heralded light heavyweight of New wpSpisbh nett Fase not seem as Tilden and Johnston Norris Williams, na. ion in 1914, must not be his the former capable of playing al- _ tennis, tar unfortu- ean" ve much when, he expects to be in one playing Many of , al cracks who will compete Ullls are likely to bring Bt upsets, but their chances of eur- to the finals are practically ‘The javelin throw was a Finnish fight, eo ete For the guys that pulled those tendons, it was a tough Olympiad, with the accent on the limp. There's one thing you can eay for the Nineteenth Amendment. It won't cost $50,000,000 to enforce it. You will notice that Carp and Levinsky won't fight at the Brooklyn ball park till after the pop bottle resaon, ee closed. STANDING OF THE CLUBS—Cleveland, Chicago, New York—one to be elected. St. Louis, Boston, W: hington, Detroit, Philadelphia—scattering, Nine games {8 too much for the World's Series. The ticket acalpers Orleans, can fight better than he showed m his twelve-round bout with Bartley Madden, the local heavy- welght, at the Armory A. A. of Jer- sey City last night, the matchmakers of clubs In this vicinity will not be anxious to secure his services. This was Burke's first appearanco in this section in years and although he man- aged to have the better of Madden by just a large enough margin to en- ttle him to the honors his showing Was 80 poor that every seven out of ten persons who attended the show left the arena with one thought in at Aqueduct and the second the Tre- | had won his only low fashion, two starts in hol- the first a maiden event mont, No youngster up to then had shown such dazzling speed as he pos- | sessed and the rich stakes to come| were considered at his mercy, with visions of the Hotel Stakes here, tho Special, the Sanford Memorial, the Hopeful and even the Futurity. Horsemen who marvelled at the record price Hildreth paid for Inch- cape began to think the colt was not such a bad bargain after all. Hildreth shipped him from Long Island to Saratoga to prepare him for his stake engagement here, but soan after his | if she would be caught. Mad Hatter, however, closed with great and natled her just in time to go and win, It was a case of pulling the ory out of the fire. strides heard that dwindled to a gasp. was hughey Jennings abandoning one of his “Eeyaha!” And the Georgia Peach sat on tie seqond bag, shaking a wicked jist at the world in general But !t was no worry of Aaron's. Once It left the grounds fair it was the real thing in Homerburgh. Ruth received his customary con- stitutional in the fifth. The day's hammer hero got himself another hit to Jones and’ went to second when Jonesy got jingled and sent @ wild It despairfully celebrated Record Crowd Sees Britton and Bogash Draw BRIDGEPORT, peg to first. The Babe scored on it and Del went to second. Duffy Lewis sacrificed Del to third and Signor Bo- die immolated himself magnificently on the altar of team work with a long fly to centre that scored the demon Del. Yanks Buy Ferguson International League Star Pitcher. Alex Ferguson, one of the most de- pendable pitchers. in the International League, has been purchased from the City Clib- by the Yankees. jon 18 expected to report at Grounds within the next and will be used Mr. ance, ladies and gentlemen, came in Pratt's next stellar perform- days by Manager Conn, Aug. 24.— lowe mo: road their mind and that was Burke 1s far|arrival Inchcape ‘contracted the skin | y70.14, = the aixth after Carl Mays had walked, | Huggins during the remainder of the Be ica ti Ya tik here toners BWar trom. tived rey. from heing the great fenter the box: | dsease to which horses are, heir and| World's wolterwetght champion. Jao] Gp ana tgp had both faded heip:| Pea" dy Eanes pitching departs 4 : et rhe Hee ing fans of the South claim him to be.|s wae exclusively told In The Ev itton was forced to pu leasly on strikeotts to the astonished | {fle believed that the former Skeet | showing of the American Olym- With the world facing a paper shortage, this is a tough time to give Burke 1s a fairly clever boxer, | ning World some three weeks ago, w eurs of boxing knowledge into | Mr, Oldham (he wasn't in Lad mate « Meniabin Giaitien tor the "ple team at Antwerp is consid- | ome” the ballot, knows nothing whatever about in-| thrown out of training. He had just| pair of gloves here last night, in a ve isappointment that so many ur stars failed to win pomnts and ® not apparently in best condition world games. blame for this should go to whose niggardly policy tes over in a ship like ys without proper ‘Harding. TT ‘The ten leading batters in 1 Nngidewn the olf. Cub? park in Chieage fans can throw planks at the umpires. ae: heaigoieevantogn: <The . Now watch the dames try to get two votes for dne by voting for Cox and Amerivan League are Babe Ruth. fighting and lacks a heavy punch. As carly as the first round it could be plainly ween that he was not going to score & knockout as he landed a ghort right hand swing flush on Madden's Jaw which would have floored any fighter had the blow had the real ating behind It. Burke had a fighter before him in about recovered from this and was again put to galloping. Yesterday morning the colt waa sent out for a speed test. He seemed to have all his well-known foot, but after show- ing a half-mile trial in better than 47 seconds, pulled up lame, He ap- parently had slipped tn the soft go- ing which prevailed, or wrenched order to carn a draw in hs twelvo round bout with Louis Bogash, Coa- necticut. welterweight champion, Bogash, who has won eleven straight fights and who recently beat Johnny Summers and Steve Latso, earned five out of the twelve rounds while Britton showed to advantage in ‘Lao other seven rounds. In the last two ments that is #0 Mattien that he could Rare fade o|hinwelt badls rounds the champion displayed nis for stars jn training. Cha- great impression with had he been J ola time oe and Bateree, Here Sieve thelr selling quarters and EMle to Infiict any punishment with| Edward Sims, whose horsea are|Stout of Milwaukee called the bout Nbroad no doubt lowered his blows, as he landed enough jaba|raced undtr the name of J. W. Me-|4 draw. mx of the team, which was r Red in the various competition) to be hoped that the lesson of If Jimmy Bronson, manager of Bob A match wae arranged to-day by Joo Dexnan. and left hooks in Bartley's face and jaw to have had him wobbly before Clelland and trained by Kimball Pat~- terson, 1s golng in for racing on a The show, which was staged at the bridgeport Amusement Company's acéustomed to striking an: new open alr arena, drew 7,000 fa the contest had gone five rounds. bigger scale than ever next season. i ‘hmaker of the Colosoum A. C, of Newark, ¥. It was the largest’ crowd that bas will be thoroughly | Martin, the heavyweight champion of | «hm vam jewark, X. 3 atts urchased forty-eight acres gk Ohare |) Madden was in no condition what-|He has pure y. ve ° in tats in time for the next Olympies.| the A. E. , is Wiling to let Martin| wag, and Wille Meer t Callens tant lover for the battle, fat hanging over |of land here on Nelson Avenue, near Svee WARARAAED BOMB EBDOW IB a box Gene Tunney, the popular local] weight. ‘Tey wil! come touether to the star bout | is waist linc in euch roll that It|/the Saratoga track, in which he pee se Mexing Shew Carded at Sara-|iight heavyweight, in a fifteen-round | of twew rounds at the HMub’s open-alr boxing | looked as though he had done little | Poses to lay out @ ol rd a "| Rig Rivaln to Pinay Another decision bout, he can have the thatch |*%%:,"2 > held on Sent. 14, Bow men bere |training. Burke, on the other hand, | Private use. There ure two or thkee ath er Marted In tralulng for the baitie, mansions on the propery now and it rere is probable one of these will be con- creted Into a summer home for the oll magnate. looked trained to the minute and had a few inches in height and aleo # much longer reach than Madden, Madden was the aggressor all at once, as Tex Rickard, manager of the Madison Square Garden Sporting Club, ts ready to clinch the bout for Because of public demand a return uble between the famous Bacharach ants of Atlantic City. one of the moat Kid Potty, the Perth Amboy featherweight, who 4m Saratoga wil! rd presented by boxes Pete (Hed) McDonald, the weet aide sl A. C. to-night at Convention his | in the main event Tommy Noble, opening boxing show in the| Garden on the night of Sept, 8, Bron | to-morrow night, 14 looks for, at the Auditorium Gport Club, Perth Amboy, ng foe @ match with through the bout and his wild swings Billy Karrick cut loose Pahaska In ‘all teama In this coun- Ancoln Giants, the fast lon » Burke an excellent opportunit: hi Hor ship colored team of this city, wet % nse fie et att fon has. been. oppoved to Martin | omy Kiltene, the teatherwrtant chamolen, sf be {yond in either @ aiff loft hand jab |the Albany Handicap here yesterday hax been arranged as the. third ‘and Teatherweignt meetiay Tunney for some time, but as crest) to beating McDonald. He has Qed and the oolt ed in first all the way | several offers to box or a left hook to Bartley's face and ntests In a series of six games ‘ok Selhiclpe clpals have agreed | Martin can get a big bunch of mor Chetiey but has tumed to n handy victory, Whitney's Ara- the two for the colored cham- LAND 122 pounds at 3 o'clook. "The | ing Tunnes ta this clits fe | hm avn sa be wants nothing but the ey. sary the field and made |: ‘of balldom. ‘The Kames will mt nde at 3 oclosk. Tel by fehting Tunney In this city, | rat was added to be woe Jack and Ra: he aix-round pout, wil intro- ‘mh og Aainactt the "Rennaly pOpeions migh' chan bis bi t be possible that Bronson. will ge his mind and consent to put attler against Tunney, It will be ‘| plotishtp and clatine he will wurely beat pion I he ever get & crack | ten-round bout | eave ates tbe Madden tried hard many times to get across his right to Burke's jaw, but when he did succeed in getting the punch home, the blow ¢ither chasing Pa- a hog favorite, but aft . weakened at haska all the way, he the end and was beaten out of the is coming Sunday afternoon Brooklyn, he (wo teams, appear- drew a crowd that be staged t at Ebbets Field ing in a twin. bil } Naa mago Hibs definitely settled to-day whether the| with doe Webber, the Jersey teonerws anded high on Burke's J ht | place money by Sedgefield. The lat~|wauld do just Be yg eC , with Jo \ taht, ch on Burke's Jaw or caug! 2 MA great, interest. ts being manifested pong .irving, who ls us aliopin Match is on or off | him on the head, As the bout wore |ter ran a good race, but was in tight land, great, tn ‘Sunday —_———_ Mastin, Turk, het Now Cricana fighter, re. Frankie Burne of Jere City ant Charley on Burke falled to improve tn his quarters on the rail in the last six- or next Can- the doublehea Eye ng will be opposed on nonball Dick Rev Heecher of thie city will wot battle at the Ar-| showing ap while he scored fre-|teenth. Fator tried to gain his Way line mound In of these games by ‘yeas A@air Clash at Bay- | Crt 12.000 for outhoiniing Bastiey Madden in| mory A, A. of Jerwey Clty jonday | « | " -|through with him, but McAtee on |eyvelone Jor Willams. ‘Thin pair are 7” | thett bout at the Armory A. A. of Jerwy City last | night. olsen peed] ee! lad ON Ng AR so A ye Burne t9 not feeting well enough to 0 throwgh with the mateb, for that reason be Adis! Matchmaker Jatin Jenuings to yt back the bout until @ later date, Burma ts at prewent in the mountains with hie family, where he te rest. tng wy, Pahaska had the right of way and wasn't pulling out for anything. the peers of all colored twirlers in the game. 's fac the latter evidently did not cl the force of them for he kept rieht on carrying the fighting to Burke even up to the time the bell sounded ending the battle, — NEW INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE night, ‘The prone teoetns Madden pot $1,143.00, this being 25 per cent the gros reortpta les the & x of cent, Meichmaher Jennings pald Burke $70 bis training expenses, mounted to $8,084, | or Oren. the Yonkers, light may Delt Son nigh 2 it at ti VA. A, and the two. fighting are expected to put Tan id | | ——— Willie Herman Leaving “Montreal for Bouts Here. MONTREAL, Aug. 24.—Willle Her- man, the New York boxer, who has heen a sensation in Canada, haying heaten every opponent he has met on this side of the border, ts planning to ‘Touch-Me-Not, @ colt highly fa- vored In the string, started in this race and finiahed outside the money. |He is @ bad breaker and while he was third away, he dwelled badly and didn't get settled Jobn Jennings has arranged an attractive far ont tor bis next boxing mbow on Monday rte, | | Hla tos signet op Wille Jnckwon, Un creck Haztor | Htwelgbt, to see em Jett Smith fh. the omck midithendeht of Tay- will engage in another battle to He will book up with Prank Carbone, COLLAR in his stride been anxious to meet ws until the others were on thetr wa toethe U. SA. Saturday. Hor- $ Auontha, and has re- | weight of Memubis. Tenn. who has bem fenting ey Bere Se Oe te, ws w. & rm lat the head of the strech Touch-Me-! men ta entioua to ‘meet. Champions Renged Bin from th the, Fins, #0 well ince he came North, Tuts ao promises 10 | though ‘Carbone ts . ren as 5 nit Aah ate Not threatened to come on, but finally | Leonard and Bri tton for thelr Utles in e rig t little collar be one of the hardest fought yet wer by Ie lls youn liad ” “ Mi n-round outs an 4 largely way ici a " | trely 100 feat and clover — fin New York that he is leaving Canada a hanna tn great | Franko Burne<%abley Berber con’ thay ait: cae Mica Muffins, served up as an odds. |'hNON,YUnime the iehtweleht and for they ti t ittle knot Adair maker the Manis Fe | Joe tonch, the weet ade fighter, will probly | wyet vant “Sow” Mere Jon choice in the malden Mly event} weiterwelght titles of Canada, for he Teecure & clea-cut win over Pt Dalle acnin for two montha, an his mocher died | eae te ee td \fant on the card, was handily beaten jenn make either welght very nelly. ive opponent this evening 3*erdey after» long Hines, Jor ts w aftecied mn the mae © . eo ade Ay mm). | by Gossip Avenue, another from Ken- file right to cinim thene {ities tn a wi} Ing Bis weason's came by his mother's death that he bas ordered his poxing show ot the scone die pa ER tuicky, Tho latter was at a. write. | by Me eat tines wl # OY nt meee carte on te ica | i 1 Vourvown-tioket, price, atlde, Murine |nockove jit NLA all hor Orda, welt, Peabody & Co. Inc. Maxens, Troy, NX. I Seoiid for’ Nien, Welemi’srege with Clort'sbadeus, -, Tgp rd Cy at Akroy had shown a three-elghths trial injfoucht are Silent Martin, Louls Ro- Pole Pre Herman a 8. Lows and wry Marte at pan Roecing ot Tevonte, bettor than 83 seconds and was re- leash, and Wddie Fitssimmogs, who LOS o> fare oe. ie is ee almost @ certainty, She ut “Arta datay Cline