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, ; wn Ae ‘Mo Sane Promoter Would Pay B| $100,000 to Take Beating. er Tein cine Wore % ae UT of Kansas comes the start- ling news that Jessica Willard, former champion of the world, 8 er Sn 4 cas Gvaniee “WORLD, fU! “CAN TAKE NATIONAL PENNANT M BROOKLYN NO\ BROOKLYN “FIXED” Wap decided upon a come-back. Jessica’ wo they eay over the wire, is suspected Baving signed a contract to meet in Néw York, fifteen to a decision, Jens is maid to training, having retained of @ Jocal football stan as partner. Jess is even quoted effect that he knows all about that there'll be sre ati g — ; Brn LEONARD ts tafking again of fighting Mike O'Dowd. Benny | 4, 4 is very careless about his health. He is @ good lightweight champion, but O'Dowd ts a good middiowelgh. referee's decision. ‘Wilson, and as light and mid- . it champion many could mime of bale dozen new HEMAR a lot of talk about Battling Levinaky’s chance to beat Car- That depends almost and whether or not he goes on ‘ing up to his record form, Car- jer, at wighteen, fought a des- ite twenty-round battle with Joo ite, who was then in his prime so good that no purse could Jack Johnston to step into a with bim. I can't imagine Le- y making much of a showing THE NATIONAL LEAGUE RACE YESTERDA' Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). RACING SELECTIONS. AQUEDUCT. Firat Race-Sammy Kelly, Lovel- ly, Frank Waiters. Second Race—Red, Red Rose, Krewer, Sea Mint. ‘Third Race—Natural Brides, As- sume, Dorcas. * Fotirth Race—Knobbie, Grog Lag, ‘Ten Lec. Fifth Race—Thornhedge, Sunny Days, Tuanorea. Sixth Race—Caliguia, Black Knight, Jesava. vet LIVE WIRES By Neal R. 0’ Hara. Cuevas, TOM, Wy The Prem Pubticning Oo. (The New Tork Brentng Worle) There is one good feature the umpire. Chicago fans should worry about the cdal shortage, They havo a @outh side exposure this fall, National Commish should inv: aren't buying players for less th. By Vincent Treanor. OB LYNCH vs, Jack Sharkey! Bounda like the star bout in the| p: Frawley law days at John the such limits “until the wheels of the organization are thoroughly otled,” ts reactionary rather than progressive, ‘fan they say in Presidential political ctroles, Allowed to miago the kind of | (, bouts he would like to put on, to- night's affair might serve as a prolim-| over the wonderful Briton, ex Rickard show, Re eon is doing the best he| FOHNNY KILBA can under existipe conditions, and by dignifying the Lynch-Sharkey star| fy out as the first of tho elimination af- fairs which will lead to the deciding of the bantam weight championship the contest is given a splash of im-| title and he wouldn't risk it here in a fifteen-round bout to a decision for Jeanette as Jeanette was then. the boyish Carpentier knocked | te down for a nine-second | ‘count and the decision was so close| most of the American specta- | thought the French boxer en- titled to an even break. Skiers money is as ‘one's and he usually of the trouble iF th ‘a name for running things on square. Most big wrestling are “programmed” in ad- R wouldn't stand for ‘kind of a fake in any sport he w Mounds fought with t rounds fou; of Fort Way YNCH and Sharkey are rivals. get, according to his own stateme No doubt about that, and the they are going to a de- | ohaiy | elsion for fifteen rounds or leas will make it @ fight worth looking at, As a rule, bantams put up 4 much better article of fisticuffs than bigwer men,| io pox, Take Wolf ale and many fight fans profer to see them in action rather than the poi derous ringstera who are painfully | slow and tiresome, how the “star” wrestlers “treat Tex Rickard’s offers with con- tempt” and refuse to wrestle for R's amusing, isn't it, to see ne a streak, a) snappy, quick puncher, with all the boxing tricks at hin finger tips exponent of the clever, hit tuft, he ia a rem , who though | portant to mak} an opponent miss, ae they did to land a punch, Nowadays a good tighter ts mens-| M atop and | Demy vr of t it Just as im-| oY than by what he can deliver, he can stand beating in these days, whereas in the awENTON, Sept. t.—Terry Mettugh | Buridial 1 has now } n he might have won py tho insistence Ne Oot are vee cling up the foe under «| who avold beating was considered the class, an olght-round bout here last night about a thrown gpme, You can’t blame It Grand Jury probe of the 1919 World's Series won't do any good except lhe experts that picked the White Sox to cop last year. < 586 take Sharge of tho percentage. col Jury is sifting the evidence, but {t's ball players that will land in the can, be calling in a certified publie accountant to umn. _ oat - tigate the gamblers and see that they Jack Johnson drew a sentence of a » h ‘. TAs of « year and a day, which will make 1921 Charley Ebbets not only took the pennant from Garry Herrmann, but he aleo grabbed the price list. Lynch and Sharkey to Meet In Bout at Garden To-Night Bantamweights| Never tako a punch that you can Clash in a 15-Round Bout to a Decision. avold is an old: rule. TARK tough variety, @ crop of fighter which had ius growth during the who Is always dai will do it? Not a phanoo, anything, He has said so, Ho more money throu in no-decision be ahiy int tll there, wh ohn, and got try” with him, Renjamin PHILADELPHIA, Mahonev, ‘Aw an | nee & ron won wll the way poorly a Kknockdow | for a eount of piste in thixgirst vo ey hold throughout the last th rather| rounds, He's Pr rry Mok ah Is Winner, 2 the of Allentown defeated Willa Kano is of the game and Frawley Law daya, one of that type rous and is never beaten until the final gong rings. He will keep the elusive Lynch step- ry ‘The preliminary bout between Abe o Attel Goldstein and Patsy Wallace Barber's Club. But, inatead, to-night) Wii) probably furnish plenty of action, At 4@ the “big” attraction at Madison) to say the least, Goldeyefn Is a pro- Square Garden, ‘The Boxing Commis. |tage of Willie Lewis, @ middiewe within {of Ability edme time back, He oar- ton, which 1a keeping the svort within} 1's wallop which 1a a knocker out when Jt hits the right apot, Wallace ts @ “glntton for puntahment™ who has on boosted bocnuwe he once fought Jimmy Wilde, the Knglish flyweight, and lived not only to tell about 19 but earry back stories from Canada that he waa "robbed" out of vietory £' 1M is trying to “break into New York swith @ bantu named Jakie Wolf, Johnny nagea Wolf, ‘Tho fans hereabouts uld prefer to see Johnny pimself reuk in,” but de you think Johnny Johnny holda the featherweight ut the country If Johnny eome to New York and shew Quit mn bouts throughout ¢ soun-| Maiden's Ballet compa see ati hat pecame of her ay? Many asked the Bept, 26.—Game- ne saved Kiddie Mahoney, Jack y's lightweight protege, fpom be-| next time, | in jnocked, out hy Joo Benjamin, Bun anda stablemate in an elant 1 out here last nikht Beajamin n | Odds Against Ensor Mount ‘i Fooled Talent at Aqueduct Wise Players Steered Clear of It Because It Wasn’t 8 to 5 Favorite, By Vincent Treanor. UDDY ENGOR batted 1,000 per cent. at Aqueduct yenterday, He had but one mount, on Lar- ghetto, in the last race, and won In & gallop, It was one of those maiden affairs for three-year- olds and up, and accordingly full of tips, Sweep Clean was the favorite, for no good reason, and although bet in the picture at al] at the end, Larghetto, in view of her woll- known ability to sprint in front of the best of them for five furlongs at least, was for some reason or other at the false price of 5 or 6 to 1, It was one of those “nothing doing” prices, for the stable connections of arghetto are of the kind which usu- ally foree the price of what they back down considerably, Some of the fegulars took this ag a bad sign and steerec clear of Lar- ghetto, to ride which Ensor picked up five pounds overweight, They. very properly figured that If Larghetto was “trying” her price should be 8 to 5 or thereabouts, | * It may have been these ideas or the heavy play on Sweep Clean which helped keep the price against Lar~ ghetto nourish The race showed that in these late racing days one can never (ell, Anyhow, Larghetto broke in front and waa never caught, as the dope indicated she would, Girl, whieh ran in her last appenr to the barrier deoked out in the fa- sleeves of John BH, Madden, Maxe only been leased by Maddden to Lewis. in’ Gifferd Cochran's Banksia, Bhe in front all the way to pull up it front ef Joan Marie, von for a ‘minute, pon-|We are glad The Lamb won for Bob' ho would pend hero| sake, some differenc vious putin early foot t, same question, Last ime out Maiden Hallet broke rapidly, stole a long lea Happy, his brother, to ride Armistio This was a tip in jtself put a lo of us were the race was @ the silks of Montfort Jones, Honey Hirsch explained the latter switeh by | io, Vinee tie tine saying that Honey Qirt originally bad) Rommel, Rut Ruth's Jim Evans has « nice filly to train digappointed Jim last time but made it up for It yesterday by scampering} and, 84 coli trouble, | The coring was in the dd fourtn Tnwe. “Tp the third Galloway was non Ma and won in a gallop, But don't cen demn her, he'll probably do hetter Clarenea Buxton seratohed Bon ‘Tromp from the seeond race, leaving umb to notice it until it two races Prentice Babin, It's @ good way to burn up money. - ‘ Little Bullman, who rode Round Robin in the fourth race, was the victim of considerable “roughing” by both Callahan and Buxton, who rode me and Vice Chairman, respect~- ively. Viee Chairman had more of the “go ahead” spirit yesterday than he ex- hibited in his last race, For a while he seemed to have Ralco beaten, Last time Vice Chairman finished fifth In & seven horse field, beaten about ten lengths, with even Round Robin tn front of him. 2 EE on by the so-called “wise set,” wasn't Ruth Bangs Out 2 More Homers, Making Total 53 PHILADELPHIA, Sept. %&.-—The sun has set for the Yankees as far ace is concerned, but the wonderful and incomparable Babe Ruth con- his season, Honte rugs Nos, 53 arrived at Shibe PaPk in the first rs Mack's Athletics, power behind the drive, t landing against one of lated his drive of the first innin, wis'a colors, trotted| There was not as much power be: Seehe bnerier’ Goa hind the drive as the firat one, for millar cherry and white bara on Lie all dropped (ne the street, ‘Raide from Ruth's two homo rans, the Yankees could mak: .| smashes were f his very good gan ®| reckoning Waa sate ays dxopped Pipn's throw Frank Herold haa bought another] at first base || tome rifioe horve, possibly for his New Orleans] 8 Howay Toachod thig campaign this winter, Frank took | foil tiruw ay Phare ‘Armistice frone “Doo” Potter after he|” Ruth a twa unted had won the # nd race and we don't} for ait f the ¥ Romme} think “Doo” liked it a bit. started the game by hitting Ward tu And keep hia| "Bob" Herner thought no well of that: Wo pitched 1 Glee foreee ate Tho Lamb that he bet all he had om) pun clout over the right field fence. him, and ashe remarked, that's more The Yankees failed ta score again te | than a lot of other owners would do.| until the sixth inning, whon the Babe ‘s| came across with his bad homer, a 9, ot Veteran Wheat Stands High in Dope on Left Fielders for Coming World’s Series Jackson May Excel Hn as a Batter, but White Sox Player Is Not 2 Good a Fielder as Zack. By Hugh S. Fulldon. THE LEFT FIELORS. Offensive ive, BE HERE did a h perts got the chance in a world’s se! as if the team which League Champlonsh!, not much account, b' ures thus far have any such weakness, At ust, if it ts & weak team there study of the dape, shows Brooklyn wéll with any one of the *ce leading American League clibs. the first six positions anyhow, Tam a bit stunned fo cover that the ancient and hot Wheat of ‘Texas ahi as peer of any of Wheat has gono up and here is Zack rig! Wo get Into the ha’ the veterans, have been on the | to \gomre fairly near-star for a long th always a hard hitter, always ® rd worker and a willing one. seemed to be alippin ball came in season he started with the others and 1s the American League pennant} along at a three t itnit most of JACKSON’S RA He inues to add to the great collection of home ryns that he has harvested Of the rival lef excels him as a hl la not as good although faster of Remember, too, th playing 4 better an ful fielding game than he ever did this year is about ame of tho series against Connio With Wally Pipp perehed on first base in the opening Inning, the Bam~ bino lifted the ball over the right field barrier for his fifty-second home run, There was tremendous bat! the small frame houses on the other alde of the street, The usual uproar fol- — lowed as Babe jogged around the Sweep Clean, the favorite in the tat | bane race, sported George Loft's colors Iasi time out Yesterday he appeared in| ter in the sixth inning, With the count one and three the Babe emu- Compared with leads by a few Ruth was the first New York bat- M1 hit a bit ti White Box, Tam canaideratl¥ mised to find the dope rating offensive value mith of the ext ures to oheok th course, stopa th “Shen he has one of his right > & m victory, as Carl Mays pitched * a Athletios faile t COLE, The finallin a series upon pends as he ta iif He has not phe % muoh de- ' rhe ® in world's that every time b to which he belongs gets in| yin ®) important hager picks lew af stop- “¥%ave to use twheng mainiy on the ulna bone with the first ball Place, Will Find Plenty of Capable Material. By Walter Camp. | throughout the country ha end of the sea- give a good count of herself. ‘True, Annapolis lost some of her good men of last ye: men who have been drilled in the Dobie school, which is one of specd and aggressiveness—but there’are a good many men of the scrub there who have had practice and who are coming along. A number of newoom- ers also look good. As a matter of fact, the Navy, un- Smith in this capacity, and Smith seldom works two top notch games in succe@ion, Jackson would be very of pitching. JAMIESON DANGEROUS IN PINCH. Jamieson figures to hit, in a series of this sort, just as he does in regular season, is @ free hitter, liable to crack any sort of pitching no matter how good, and he is a dangerous man in the pinches this season, There {9 not a real base runner in the quartet—Jackson andgWheat be- ing close together in that respect and neither jlable to run away with any game on the bases. In running with judgment, taking two bases on a hit, and working with batters, Wheat is the better man of the two and one of the foxes of the game despite the fact that his legs do not move as rapidly as they once did. No team gains any dectded advan- tage in the comparison of the left fielders, If one is to show a decided superiority it ts to come later, In the next we will study the centre fielders to see what the dobe indicates, (Coperight, 1900, by The Be Sendiioain, bn0,) Bcsectlbde Sa Uruguay Wins Soccer Title. VINA DEL MAR, Chili, Sept. 28.— Uruguay won the South American foot- ball championship trophy by defeating Chill by @ score of 2 goals to 1, thereby obtaining a total of 5 points for the championghip series, Argentina was second with 4 points, Brasil third with 2 pots and Chill fourth with 1 point. ‘The 1921 games will be played in Buenos Ayres, dangerous against the Grimes po panera SS YW Sa mmer Out Twenty- © Mite, CHICAGO, Sept 28,—St. Louts con- Cardi Walter Camp Reviews New Coaching System At Annapolis This Year Bob Folwell, Taking Dobie’s} ‘er tout. Commanders Richardson N spite of the fact that naval men been reading with Interest of the won- : derful material that is said to be coming into West Point to build up their football prestige and ability, they still have an idea that when the son in reached, the Navy will or two weeks should give a fair line on and Wright, with Wilson and Clark, have-teen making a start, and now that Bob Folwell has arrived the work is on in earnest. ‘Threg or four of the’ men who played under Dobie are starting along as assistant coaches to Folwell, and they will know a great deal about the ability of the material, which will be an as set to Bob, ay that is one of the awk- ward things a new coach has before him, Folwell knows of the Philadel- phia material that is coming in from school teams, and there are one or two good men, but he will have to get his information as to the old mate- rial at the start from those who’ have worked with them. A few of the big teams are now realizing the value of the methods which prevailed at Yale for many years in the time of her succes namely, taking a recent player and developing him into an assistant or fleld coach. West Virginia will do this with that star Rodgers. Ohio State, under Dr, Wilce has taken on Chick” Harley as assistant coach. Washington and Jefferson will have as @ head Morrow, who formerly played centre, while Fleming in the backfleld is taking charge of the backs. Buck O'Neil! hag Cound at Columbia that he has quite a squad of veterans, Of course Shaw is a loss, but the rest, renewed with the enthusiasm which comes from the engagement of O'Neill, ought to show great improvement, an, Thorpe can, of course, give O'Neill particulars as to all the valuable players and what their previous hi tory is. This will be the same kind of advantage to Buck at Columbia that some of the coaches at Annapolis ci give to Bob Folwell. In fact, ten day the development of this material at Columbia. > RACING SELECTIONS. 3 - cree DE GRACE. rs ce—Morris ater~ nig Tanegena orrte entry, Bter- con co—Flying Welsh ‘The, Blue Duke, Merry Feast. Race —Joaquina, — Fl Welshman, Helen Atkins.” eid Fourth ' Race—James, ‘Thistle Queen, Antoinette. Fifth Race—Master Bill, Chas- seur, Sauer. Bixth Race—Austral, Stir Up, Seventh Race —Searchilgh> 34, ‘The Belfian, Fickle Fancy. OF AUTUMN RACING AT AQUEDUCT WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, TO-MORROW'S FEATURES INCLUDE $3500 Roslyn Handicap aie Secplockane J FIRST RACK AT 2.15 Ay, Ay, Brooklyn, at 1ih15 and at frequent ‘intervals to 1. i Special Cars Keserved, fo: by Fulton Bt. trolley. firwnd. Stond. #330. nelui a! ding War Ta: cluded Its season's work here by pea’ tng Chicago in decisive fashion by a acore of 16 40 1. Ghe right little collar for the tight little knot Cluelt Peabody & Co Inc. MAxers, Trey, NI ts