The evening world. Newspaper, September 4, 1920, Page 6

» eer) MRS THE BVENING WORLD, 8 By APURDAY, “SEPTEMBER 4, 19967 HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED! Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Eventing World.) = ~ WOULD CLEAN UP FORTUNES ~ BEATING CHAMPIONS T-DH Young Griffo for instance, Cleverest Natural Boxer Ever Seen, Would Give Kilbane, Leonard and Britton Real Fights; and) Old Bob Fitzsimmons, What Would He Do to Present.Crop | ', | Spf Fighters If On Earth To-Day? ‘ nm. Coperight, 1990, by Pay Mee noon, on New York Brentng World), 4 - champions would be making @ pile of money ir they /'. now. When Fred Fulton gets $26,000 for a short bout’ ¢ and Jack Britton pulls down $10,000 for beating a visiting | % decades ago roll over im : When 4 Rinasipe 0 onder the ring heroes of « few ago . Sear Goat Te ewe” Te Ckowp vsep To known as Young Griffo about twen- a over « little ‘pag ey years ago. If Young Griffo ‘ ‘Bow CaAime Av THE A Seateagen 80: Srey vans, assy ; WAST ENOUGH ACTION, wer: eee : \ +08 Leonid and Jack Britton, and rgbed h : 4 : Pe tee , three champions mene Ne : ws hit at him for three minutes, i If Lavigne landed once Griffo was to ef ; i lose. And he got away with it. Griffo seldom used “footwork” to avoid ‘He had a system of bobbing and ducking and blocking that made | » Ae : for him to move around. His hand and eye were remarkably rent ej ers, 7 . ‘when Griffo was in jail “under observation” because his pranks : a3 jo authorities think he was’ Aa a cleaned up a bunch of pocket pes beers money, There were muny visitors to : 5 see ‘the famous Australian. Grifto he and Root stopped pro! \ ; Bi ' FIORE WHAT Bers ik to a visitor @ moment, then : 4 Qa t CLEAR OP IF rae eaye, that fly over on the wall? mn WAS HERE Mou ! bet you $5 ' can cateh it in my } a eerie ‘ The visitor would take the bet ® S ; a . of curiosity, Griffo would move y Mi Tk. d. R 1 TT f St be slowly toward the fly, shoot his hand ee vopiracter In @ytacuse, his ‘ . U mat > ea ur. ar out suddenly and catch it betweon ng Oo y ALL The movenn Se moadeniy and catch ik beirees |aid own and nck Hoot ne sated — powwow oereeae |Under Any Old Conditions, PRICES Are Te ExXPeENsive ary] “TAow . ¥ - ‘ > Johnson's chop returns came baci@at: ‘ missed or failed to collect the five ae ENON theatre owner in Pas- apeya MACHINE, AND ALL him with all sorts of elusive twists bs The! TALE THERE 1s Loose. to the ball, Gite weno nancial gonun] eis Mab te gt ns| ————— : Creates New Track Record |,:"..2!20272, cps 29 ‘ though. One of the purses he fought) Hope.” ay C frat two pots, Gocesionally be Ke f . some A chop- 3 for was $1,200—which was good ping and Griffin nearly broke bist al Tarde who tekt nis teeth at the road. . LIVE WIRES ; SPECULATE OVER Commander Ross’s Mare Is| ,,.ELMONT SELECTIONS. Fi ~ box office money into two piles, one| the ‘One of the Most Consistent | “‘fetondRace—no selections of about $100 in $1 Dilla, the other a fy i atat eqihind, Race—Grey "Lag, Oriole By Neal R. O” Hara. DEMPSEY-MISKE a Stifotti"Race—atan 0° War, Sea much emaller pile made up of larger dilis and amounting to $1,100. Agerward a wrestler, a huge, fat, un- mith Race. Des: mtpeega ydur share and ming” enid/eGini nuit of a man who modestly Capra, 1860, by The Prem Pubitching Oo. (Phe New York Brenine Werte) By Vincent Treanor. | tag mee oe eae the ‘thanager to Gritfo. y eye spo Salted idimwelt “The eT ree Looks like the American League will fail to carry Ohio this fall. ) PIUKIMAID is a remarkable mare) on yin igi eT LOM Br Choe nlite soln’ tote the near- [erick and several other big beets in een 8 el and with the exoaption of Cleo- a patra about the best in train- of ingly told his friends | MOPe of finding a sucesssor to Jeffries, Hebe hat er ing. Bought for a song, as the|anyhow. This gelding started with ‘The the Bra: i igkin und onto Cab te ce & doubleheader is that they've got everything to “ [tried to make a ter of Rogers. cer rns, ren of eile lasted feted basis ve 6 ee oe ord = s& & * ° ‘ % : prices ofShorsee go these days, from aig field of horses at Saratoga and, ORIYA £94 BOUTS. Gristo'e box-| more, ee er incerta isatnss Ks ane dole may vote, but their most Important duty is still markind\X’s | Bill Brown and Kid McPartland 'sonn © Madden by Commander Ross, |? ‘B& Jam. didnt get going until ing Fee ike to take lessoua| ment” in O'Rourke's club, then some ins if casei ae ‘Among Those Being Con- {22 nae been one of the turr's most] ished close to the lenders but outside t Eee rtuatralian, He went to sco| time later was matched with an “un- A ig consistent winners. Nothing to look| the money, Those who saw that| St onses ‘ bs Income tax on $5,000 takes the neo ont of flenting for the pennant, sidered for the Place. at, she is unusually hardy, and to-|race didn't let Young Ching get “Mt, Griffo," he said, “I'll give you) 7) tie Kroon Se th and bald aa an ostrich pend Peep Red Sox, Braves and Pont give Boston the world’s best set of a man out without being hit your- . He ¥ Kno: tht eit jh Dloomera, seGPéney in advance,” stipulated | T™ 7 srumped round the tog for se 6 - Page Wat dat Eason Rec andi ime unt jogers had a real inspira~ jor the Jack Dempsey- iske A st Grito. undred was paid over, Griffa| tion, Cox insisted upon bending over| | Expert states the mosquitoes that bite are all females, That explains | ten round championship bout here ch /2te# Rer “there”.or thereabouts, Dis-|ned..the, svent was for horses which took the visitor to hs training quat-| With Dis arma crossed before his faco,| their fondness for silk stockings. Monday afternoon is causing more | ‘8088 mean nothing to her. One day |Cobb, beg ‘pardon, it" was ‘Ticasey, ‘put on « pair of gloves, posed his| ¢Xposing only the shiny top of his es 8 8 trouble than naming a candidate to |SH® Will beat a band of eprinters And| won it, but he had ‘to be one hundred ete stepped around to one side ead. It was Roger's inspiration Bisler and Hornsby lead their leagues in batting, suggesting that a man ian't \in her next start go # route just as|Pounda the best after swinging as he day, according to Trainer Bedwell, 1s|nue) Wee aime 1% & cinch that better than she ever was in her life. BENTON HARBO! .. Sept. & ‘ Leola She can face any old way, in front or| That was a fine field which went behind, but the judges’ stand usually|to the post in the fifth race. Some $100, show me how you can knuck i 4 ct the way he held|t® stop trying to hit through those] always known by the company he keeps. run for President on a Republican did almost to the puts! f ee oy ee ray mit him with: a qrouved arms and tap Cox on top of aie or a Democratic ticket. oe sey dei gatetone te sus Making the ‘stretch turn, An idea ¥ c short tbook under the ear MA (Or a Rake Hise mollete Cox ‘Babe Ruth shoud! make good in the movies. A batter is always re-| The gosstps—and there are a lot of) | niger 9 t, on ay § tolof how good his opponents are may Gdiag out Griffo called an attendant,| 000) O! Xi“ was counted out, ‘But| quired for the ples. them from all pointa—mentioned a lot | P® ¢xac just as she was|be gathered fram the idea that m the blighter comes My od Rogere never did any more white- . . . {of names as inside tips These include about to go to the front, Jockey|Hoosah had to be pulled up on three saldee tell “im thor sine Hektin Aue-| oping. I guens O'Rourke gave it up| Phillies are creeping up on the Braves on all two cylinders, | Bill Brown and Kid McPartiand of New | Sande pulled her up and she finished 040, Wn) nt gtusmounted and led tu. if” was with Dan Creedon, the|@fter seeing him cavort. ._. 8 York; Jimmy Dougherty of Philadel-|last. ver aince that day Milkmald| Derby, the like at’ which’ trelnonen b was i i cent. of the series kale no matter who wins. ne ie that she will or will Ss ‘clams. Grito. was only a|™ons would clean up if he were op | Per two mentioned are not known to be Tan I a 4 5 shot? } - the impudentiy| earth now, just arrived fram Aus- on their way here elimin them | Bot bleed. Once a dleeder, nearly al-}4 0.7" Aud paver eidden ate tralia, with that uncanny knack of a oo out that made him the decision | World's m and heavywelght EBa tg bets, Sausly in thp tent Grito, Ghamplon ‘at ‘the ‘aime. timer Bub — ‘woul land in San ncisco, ie on i " " Ni outpoliited Creedon and Jeered at him) (Cope of four-round “amateur: | Gene Tunney, the popular local light desis tex. 1. movided be dedainty whine birth go a bit further and expiain that the Iehing second in the other start. | "Sandy" McNaughton must be. get~ unt bouts ‘ell ..| ponent Turaday. Bobby snd Benny Valget are came p|ting wealthy these days. He is down cructon the side of the head that wet travelling funds, and| heavyweight, who has practically re: Ouija board has already nominated} weight, 122 pounds, in the Great Neck " ance Griffo a caulflower ear for lite.| Oar ped bd might «0 poner Govered from his attack of ptomaine | wrayseey at tincture Gees Gm ine | Dougherty, H Handicap against Fair Gain, Donna- eras ae SS eacieenet jeans fol an ve ¢ = ' ‘ - eee rae, Meccturens but tree Nis} poked aga soft mark for this laq|PoW0n which compelled his manager, | shifty sas sléw for Michasls to cinch the bout. | As te Customary. Both fighters en; | Code fe and Debadou, She trailed off/ Yesterday Kummer started “\andy” 2fek Mecano. stall tbr reedon| Burke. “Fit would come out with a|Frank Bagiey, to cance! his bout with| me Union Samm A, 6. of Himbeth. N, 3../and blo. to. step through # hundred | There whe came to the extreme out-lwhich romped home an Rote Sy Nee t 7 Writing cf Griffo asa financier re-|PUT#e and a fair reputation, They'd|Martin Burke, the Now Orleann|* now trrine to arrange « match betumeen Georue |rounds at top peed, if necessary, | side, but in the final sixteenth she was ped home in front ot » re poe: ae ve him about $10,000 to slay in New |tighter, at the Armory A. A. of Jersey | Wei tbe popular weltersiht of Hllmbeh. -| ‘They looked to bo fit and the boxini |x front of Fair Gain and going awa DOd Dowt RS per Sid Fevorite Sesh x Fra rleans and g , oe . and Willie Ryan ™ ‘Branewick, be |fraternity expects a real lOnvst-to~ eS i Fee ee iitiee sight fetid for instance, aaip ein. Put Ti |Clity two weeks ago, is matched to] feougst on Seo. IT. “te ce officials eu | goodness scrap when they crowd them-| NOt only had Milkmaid run a we from the popularity contest. ‘Therefore | V¥S 4 dleeder, has been a race track | many called jellyroll. Liola won the it seems that the selection rests among | {2a for years, byt Milkmaid hasn't/heat, but with little backing from the frst three. ‘The feld having been | Pie4 since and she has been out four|bis atable conneotions. narrowed this much {t {a just as well| {amo Winning three races and fin- id-new arena on the| derful race but in covering the ° ° sa . Y\atrong in N, 0. because of the way |fight Burke again, John Jehnings,| that thie bout will pack thelr clubhowe to ita | Selves. into the bran 1 Faw wired an offer of itwelve hun: lhe whipped Moran there. ‘Fits would {matchmaker of the Armory A. A., to- [S08 Ad for that rewon ‘thr Totend to [S089 OF thls Prie los Sot h mineean Sna sacng Wie Carpentier Will | Theva, money Jack, haa ever| rors uuen out, and about hat tm day cinched the Toaich, after Hagley | site pe Raion oo ist: er a of Estes wor the aimanes eens! Sail To-Day for : i ‘was a thow jollars. He im a few/had accepted terms offe: im visual a track record made by the five-year- - 4” was more than|owsands to come up and fight |for Tunney. The men will come to-|- Swed to aogpt the Ward-Tiran match, Burleigh Grimes | Valor lust year. The fractional y ume 2 “vhousan' oa ‘So he wired back|G€™¢ Tunney, That would be easy | gether in a twelve-round bout on| ‘The dout between Kéite Mahoney, the promising Milkmaid’s race: .123-5, . , « for Fits, After knocking Tunney . 20, Callformia Leh * yraty ¥ My 4 a . 2-6, 1.28 2 Make it a thousand Monday evening, Sept. 20, ‘Tunmey | Califomia, Uehtwelght and Oto | Wallace, the Blanks Phitlies Ab a5 At 591-5, 1112-6, 1.23 nited States =ae Bee Ex Sadun Gone rome wine rg la Cy seragg Mehler Contest | Nadttotom of Milwauk Monday ted : t the jrondack Mountains. S jam at Milwaukee on night, and — lcrer tabs to” te offer him $20,000 to fight Bob Mar-|°* ‘be Adirondac ‘ Which wee won ty Metoney withoud much In Robins’ Behalf Big seceery sun nelle Sort onan psiacrase Carpentier, heavywelght cham- t Peter Maher. Tim waid| tM, and he'd’ end that in a couple} Another gool match arranged to-day was that | (rouble, drow 6 gate cf 44,048. An both men trainers on the American turf, who will sail to-day on ‘ potused “twelve hundred” to| Of rounds, Then the International | petwem Wille Jackeos, tbe crack local light | Rare ot known very much by the fight fans of developed and trained such good ones | cording “to Coe nttot eg ror A ox “in exhibition with Fitzsimmons,| Would be after him to meet Willis, that, city, the cron’ dif nob attend in tty . 4s Bonnie Mury, Dunboyne and Lion | Corsage £0 the following cablegram re “ ied “a thousand dollars| Who knocked out Fulton. This would ‘uemibeas, i WINGING into the home etretch | jor, will shortly return from Ireland. |°*!'Ved yesterday by Tex O'Kourke, ‘1 asked Peter about that once, | bring Fitz something Uke $40, of the 1920 National League] Bill went abread to buy anything in matchmaker of the International Sport- ; j “thruth in it" sald Pete 000, After disposing of Willy Bob pennant Face, trailing the legd-| the horee lind from brood mares to|i0#, Club of New York. before which Save « “nave locked pretty nearjand gathering about $60,000 more. | Jenntow decided to hare the men battle amin. Dodgers, displaying the fighting spirti| Sales ring. Hill. writes us on-a ple. |e seprt as as a thousand at that Then would inevitably come a match | parry Blanes, mansaet of the Colieoum A. of “They Shall Not Pass,” gave an|turesque card showing the Curragh ‘Sailing to-morrow on Lorrain iaher had a “kick” like Jack/with Jack Dempsey, and Fitzsim-|¢. of Newark, hae just booked an important bout if the Irish ohampton|mona’s end could hardly be leas than| tevmen big fellows for his show on Geot. 14, ¢ to-day he'd be con- | $75,000, for he'd be a real contender, |e anon who will engage in this nore are ‘ Cra-| of Kildare, the scene of the famous | Jeanette, Blumenthal and Thoma H | ae man in sight to give| ft to give the champion the fight of| charley Weinert, the clover hearrwnight of Ner- Donnelly and Cooper fight, which still |for sparring partners. Arran artistic trouncing to “Cactus' vath's tall-ender Phillies by @ score] Vem in prize ring history. He says | @sy, oF tral ning. All well, Desc ane. of 6 to 0. he ts having a good time and will have | ment with Jack Curle; 1 » rel tat With Burtelgh Grimes on the] ¢ome good nowa when he sees me. [of Carpentier in America, Tage at the - ii] sailed for home on Aug. on the|time of the French champlon's depar- mound for the home team and his| TOON Gy and wil be in any time|ture from this country some time ano. I've often seen Peter] his life and have a possible chance to| an, NX. J. and Willie Meehan, the pudey fighter compiete somersault joj win. To this time we have Fitzsim-| ¢ California, Both men are big favorites with air witn the first punch he deliv-| mons cleaning up a little over $200,000, | ine tuning fare of Newark and for that reason e er” breaking at every congelv- ‘ Carpentier signed articles to box Le- Mo ered. He was likely to get any one|and without exaggerating in the leant |, big crowd will surely tum out to eee them K i ' pitter’ now. 7 Read! with tmat punch. He even put the what, Fitesinemons s sparing power atte, Pittaburyh ...64 6.516 | Phitadeiphia..20 746.409 | A¥!© Angle, oe visitors might just as i ag TRE thavaves vineky before he went back to France. tzaimmons down and nearly| wou under to-day’s conditions, a iintie a well have left their bats neatly ar-| Commencing ‘to-day the first race Near” in the fitet round of their Texas| Compare this with what Fitssim.| Rav Maer, the fem little tantameulsht of the | gees LeSteaP OY ; 4 will ‘be called ut 2.15 o'clock and tho| Featherwetahts Feat Labor rf Weat, and Barney: Habn of Philadwiphia have jut! New York, Beaton, 2. ranged in front of their dug-out, as te will Day Night im Jersey City. mons recelved years ago in the most| Wet wl BAT te ng titteen-cound tint, | Brvohion, 6; Philadelphia, @, then were uselead: againas Rotoy's| flowing schedule will be udhered to ity. think the funniest fight I ever sensational rugh any fighter ever Serelon, at an auen air toring show to be Cincinnati, 12; Bi, Leute, §, ney eas + againat PY'S | ay closely as possible: First race 2.16,| John Jennings, matchmaker of the in a ring was the six round “battle”| made from obgcurity to ghamplonship|'o & teil ot nen Bept, 18. Mapro. aa Chicage, 4: Pittywursh, 2 (19 teninge), | eadine twirler, second race 2.40, third race 9.10,| Armory A. A. of Jermey City, will x ston Manes and Tom bar. | Hmmens. 5 Janded in Frisco broke. | irgit ail of the good ttle follows and as Hahn GAMES TO-DAY. George Smith, who has proved a| fourth race 3.40, fifth race 4.05 and|nold @ show at hie chib on Labor Day ladelphia. Both were good|He gota few hundred for knocking Fe fu fast battles, the bout ought | Philadelphia at New York. stumbling block to the players across| sixth race 4.30. By this arrangement] night, He has signed four feather | = hardest shuggeré in tho|out Billy MoCarthy in San Francisco, | Gay ntereeting one. ‘Boston at Breekiva. the river on several occasions this| racegoers should be enabled to reach|weighta for the star attractions, with | f country. But the authorities decided| perhaps a little more for knocking out | & * inet: id Clecinnati at St. Leute. season, proved extremely ineffective | New York and Brooklyn by 5 o'clock. | seme goad prgliminart to round out ATTRACTIONS AT BEAUTIFUL ‘ and was driven to cover in the| The following train schedule will ba] ‘ecm he headbiners will be Sammy Sieger, the east sider, who ri: oe. no kapckout, and noti-| Arthur Upham at New Orleans. Then] At, Hertford, the yetoran boxing prdtnoter of Chieage at Pittsburgh. Ce ‘a fighters that in ‘case of a|he knocked out the ofiginal Jack] matimore, is tack in the gume agsin, He is to x seventh nning after the slugging| operative for the balance of the Belv|jioum” up with Johnny, Yarn, ‘the t both would be arrested and| Dempsey at New Orleans and became | reopm his old club, the Burs A. ©. of Baltt Dodgers had driven six runs across| mont Park meeting: For Saturday,|\nockout king of Jersey City, while In ay into jail. The crowd that] world's middleweight champion, He] more, with « boring show on Gept, 17 at which AMERICAN LEAGUE. the rubber, Johnny Enzman, who| Sept. 4, Monday, Sept. 6, Saturday,|the second feature event Sinmy Kano watched or gg four rounds| fought around the country, knook!ing| he has matcbed Kid Williams, tho veteran fea- WoL. PO.) Clube, succeeded the former Columbia Uni-| Sept. 11, the first train 12.35 and then|of Yorkville will swap punches with y and Maher tried out such men as Peter Maher, Joe! qperwolght of Baltimore, to tnevt Sammy Handow, ql i versity pitcher, kept the Brooklynites | 12.30, 12.45, 1,00, 1.15, 1.25, 1,39 and|Tommy Elm of Paterson. miss.each other by a sai or two,|Godfrey, Jim Hall and Dan Creedon, | the Civeinnat! fighters In the star bout af twelve scoreless the remainder of the game.|the last train 1.40, On days other —_— When the Dodgers took che fle in| than those mentioned above the first| Sammy Nable Scores Knockout. fe foot then threw the chairs into the| There was one big purse in all these | rounds. Al. Lippe te now the managor of Sandow, home. the first inning the orowd gave them | train at 12.16 and the last train at] Sammy Nable, New York, proved’to and went fights—for the Jim Hall fight. But| yyenrie Burus, the Juwey City featherweight, used to tows things in Phila-| Bob never got it. He was paid with White, the Albany, N. Y,, feather: 8 YESTERDAY. @ rousing ovation, This was quite a| 1.40. the boxing fans at the West Hoboken 7 ‘y og ‘Tommy a phony check. When he was matclied | Supt, wil Trasabls we mast to Chi ch toe | Mow York, 8; Benen, 3 contrast to the “ragzzing” that the —— A. C last night that ho ts to be const4- weight Hand! and Jack ulled off with’ Jim Corbett at last, for the! asmory A, A. of Jemey City in ten days, White Detroit, 1; Clevelan team generally encountered while| Tom Welsh sent a fair sort of] cred as a possible opponent for the iitle ollow Steeplec! world’s heavyweight title, the fight! is in town et crwwot and ss Jennings le anxious Washington, 14: Philageiphia, 8, | playing on the home grounds, and to|sprinter to the post in Young Ching, | when he knocked ‘out Joe Miller of Amityville Handiea as for 8 $15,000 purse! “Winner take iw tring the bay toarther, the chances are that St. Lous, 2; Chicage, | Which they attributed their much|winner of th# gecond rage, Philadelphia in the second round of a ip scheduled ten round bout, ‘The weights were, Nable 114 and Miller 112 pounds, What a joke in these days when the match will be apeedily armunged, GAMES TO-DAY, poorer showing .at home, in com-|showed @ smart performance and re good second raters get as much for R Mew York at Boston pa parison to playing abroad. The bet-|sponded gamely when McAtee was eotdies taste Due their end. And Fitzsimmons won tho | ., Wen Bobi Mictasle, Jerw Chir lanky feuth Ver aington af Polaaeila, ter disposition manifested by the fans |forced to go to the whip to keap him) — giiiog wastty Ontpointe Till world title and didn't get the purae. Twr¥hh mae cee one As A he will | ‘St. Loule at Chionge. seemingly acted as a stimulus to the|up with La Rableo and Hoodwink,| Briton Kenly Ovtpainte, Tliman, Promoter Dan Stuart lost on the (i! figning for more then ihe boot” of win Detrett of Clevsiane, | Robins, for their playing was a reve. |the contenders, The former swerved] , CLEVELAND, Sei ph Aa ene Britton, | bout, and Fitz, who had agreed to Kilbene, and be | ncaa tails erent lation and superior to anything they ‘right at the end, luckily for Tom | pointed gohan ‘Titman of Bt. Pati fs take pot Juok with the promoter if he in won, m,| Rave yet Mastied at Wdbeta Mela via Waleh’s triek, bur it ia our. apinion! fen round posta, ‘Set ore sai wou, didn't Grew down a nickel ‘ealueagees, rend Teletes a Te Bar 8 20h season emacs tat Caiug would Bava wen toreund OMe here lant, ME STARS OF RING . | BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK ILEMONGTIN MATCH FOR TTE "ALMOST SURE NOH ’ rowe ¥ his Pair Likely to Delaut! , Wallace Johnson and G..C.t Caner Respectively? sins semi-Finals To-Day. “Wwe } By William Abbott." { 2 lineuy for the semigfneltly “rnoon makes it reaver . that Tilden ame Johnston will meet again for the national tennja title. This was the at or beginning of th tournament at Forest tt) and {t is about to be realized. In the semi-finals (he whirlwind Tilden en4 counters a fellow Philadelphiang Wallace Johnson, mas of thet puzaling chop stroke. To say 4th ‘Widen is in serious danger of belie eliminated by Johnson—well, dap tite say it to any Weal tennis fan. Jolin | son, veteran of international battler, resourceful and baffling with jcullar chopping stroke, is forn enough 10 give any one a busy afters jnoon, but he is no Tilden. ony Bill Johnston, the playing th¥ title holder, tackles G. Coklet aner of Boston, who has been the week’a | surprise at Forest Hills. The formert Harvard star should give the little Calffornian a nice workout, hardly anything more. The combinatlop.im the semi-finule shows that the Mass has consideruble on the West. Jolins- ton was the only Californian to coma through, Davis, Griffin and Roberta all dropping by the wayside. Wifth round matches were all de- cided on form with the possible ex= ception of the Griffin-Johnson bout, where sentiment was nearly divided. Johnson, outclassing the stocky Cali fornian, won three sets to one, Grifs fin, a keen judge of court tactics, was up against something brand new as back as he made frantic attempts-tat get up to the net for these Johnson became somewhat cateles: in the next set, His opponent ie advantage of this by holding the fet and snatching many earned points, ‘The former international, however, came back quickly and ran out thei deciding set $—4. Bill Johnston against Watson Wash- burn continued the convincing Dagny of tennis he flashed the day 7. in the Williams match. <Althougiy winning In straight sets the defend-, ing champion didn't find easy oppos!- tion in Washburn, who did yeomarw work blocking many @of Johnston's drives. The Californian, though, was too fleet of foot and too) accurate with his placing for the New York star and the issue wae never in doubt. . ‘Tikien played Walter Westbrook, a Detroit youngster, who did marve lously well aguinet tremendous odds. This match was replete with brilliant: rallies, although it seemed that T!'- den purposely permitted his adver g to score initial points in numerove! s. Whenever he cared .to, Ty ‘ i wame: den dominated the court with hi gressiveness and speed in co’ the net. Strange to relate, ; brook made "gets" of some shots tat looked impossible to reach. Once the’ Western star got the ball safely Duck when Tilden had faced the other Caner had an easy time advan: to the semi-finals with a victory Irving C. Wright of Boston’ ™\m straight sets. The former Harvard star was too speedy and hit with too much power for his veteran oppo-+ nent. ——————— Yn Bears to Face Mig Task Te TOW. What ises to be the best vet of! games staged at Dyckman Oval, near the Dyckman Street arse ¢ station, thia season ‘s booked for to-moer afternoon when the Royal Glants, win Tesre: ners of the American lored cham - pionship two sere ago, mect Je Toe Peau Wears ina double header. The Royale, unlike previous years, a playing on the road all this season and fn date, out of eighty-seven games, they have lost only eleven, 2 Sioa thes Norfolk Earns Decision. BALTIMORE, Sept. 4.—At the St Rextment Armory last evening,-~Kid Norfolk of Baltimore, won a referee's decision from Jamaica Kid of New York atfer twelve rounds of the toughest fighting sean In this city in many a day. Norfolk gave Jamaica Kid a terible beating about the body, The jatter was all in in the last round, NEW INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Standing of the Clubs, ib, yy. 80 u Pe Clubs, imore Bal ‘Toronto Hurrals Alros ‘Youtortay. No. games scheduled, Games To-Dey, Jersey City at Baltimore Rochester at Toronto, Buttal BELMONT. PARK SIX GRAND CONTESTS INCLUDING Tum FIRST RACH AT 2.15 P. M, SPECIAL LABOR DAY TRAINS. Penn fs 7 1.00, 1-15, 1:28, | 2:30, 3.40 F/M. Special Care tet Ladies. Cou no coached Uy srei Sts By teak es