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thie a s THE ‘EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, ocTOBER 21, 1920." 10, 000 MILES IN 102 HOURS, WITHOUT MISHAP TO MEN OR MACHINES ~ 4, F..0%.|EVENTS OF THE ALASKA FLIGHT - ~~ -_ By Thornton Fisher Capt. Streett’s Squadron saline | fee vee i | Of Four Planes Complete History-Making Flight. —— ‘ an Qierneccetanserremnemeniten Peat » i Fin«| Set out Capt. Howard aoe, WHITE MAN —~ SHarr\ New Chapter in Aeronautics Fins | ver, Cricinted “advanon agente amen pur we ~~ Foor! ‘ ished When Intrepid Fleet Re-| white less spectacular, his duty “wal turn to Mitchel Field After cesstu! cuiminution of the hagardous - enterprise Sensational Flight to Nome. While hip companions were fying. Gapt. Douglas vis each town which the airmen were scheduiéatw By Thornton” Pither, —\(Lua' a sume wae werecunere YE man d—n amart, | supplies necensary to expedite «tthe | flieh Each landing fleld had | -_— > — ool.” Such x a tories About Jockey egg Means of white cheese cloth laid op nent as Capt t the gro’ 1 orm of a& Gro Prove Groundiess. 1 squadron of that the pilote locate the fle planes landed at Dawson, Yukon. 1t/ Without dificnity. It wae a colosloaa- rs ‘ job, but. how well he pérformed itde “Brn ENSOR, the Tod was Aug. 17 a ngular colt a part & the cord. nih Sloan of the presem day \@ence Dawson was celebrating Dis-) 7 ' iain howe ! it «©: Sookeys, is enjoying one of covery Day. The town was end- | was comy : fhe most micosssrur periods of his jaut with colored bunting and the fes- | d he expedition, It was Willi @idiag career. brings tivities were at their height when,/fiying at an altitude of 14,000 "pet | ‘eoliat back oor lap airy wtae jas if by prearrarfgemene, Une Yeliowhead Passe that the gp juel's trail blasers of the air aw tt P Sprung a leak, cays = race, day in and day out, he is |down and contributed an unex thi y tO catch fire. S we ‘ by cheers and applauss He |thrill to the inhabitants of the place, | turned ontrols over to his Cotten ‘ n08t of whom had ne m seen | Panion and directed him to put the / | kgs it. wouldn't be human if be an airplane plane into a silp. Ag the machinw Sent. y) Less than a week later the little descended in a perpendicular pos ‘When he hopped up the steps of the WHILE FING “4000 FEET lerew of explorers glided nto Nome on. Stree : limbed out of “the 4 @S | Alaska, thus comple what consti. | fuselage and investigated the troupe” Mig “tack” to weigh in after put- hg bathened - aeronautics and establishing the feas-| taken on the trip, each crew wae re ‘up one of his best rides on Lad's A LEAK, THE MOTOR CATCHING FIRE- | iniity of long distance flight for prac- | sponsible for the condition of ite ow ‘ tm the opening race yesterday, STREETT CRAWLED OUT WHILE THe tical purposes. plane, @Theré were daya, too, whe ; were particularly demon- THE PLANE WAS IN & SIDE-SLIP TO ve in their appreciation of the INVE SN Gare Boy's efforts. Some of them crowded aramd the wired fence and cheered “Biidy” again. Ensor then doffed ® Yesterday afternoon the four hia-|!t became necessary to light gasoline tory making #hips, with their intrepid | |wmudges to guide the filers to occupants, landed at Mitchel ‘eed| | fleld having successfully negotiated ap-| The leading occupation at wah ,- proximately 10,000 ihiles in. 103. houra| according to the filers, {6 waiting for# without mishap to men or airships Second Race — Babylonian, Ltb- erty Girl, Prince of Como, the steamboats to come in, The°T® ' 4 Over the snow capped Rockies and|diafi says: “By'm bye steamboat bh _hisiéap after the manner of ball play-| .6RRETING OF THE ‘Thirl Rece—Red Red Rose, Wi- | through treacherous air channels the | come.” > have Just done something Ska FUERS wine, Ballet Dancer 11, small feet soared, anes als Capt, Dougiag witnessed twentn. (ther lt me agflig rdfiog ee a Fourth Race—MeCleliand entry, |. Sometimes the trail ied but a fow| four hours of daylight on the twenty bse THe Borie] Grey Lag, Sporting Blond |hundred feet above a railroad track | firet of June and'tn which @ rain! ARDLY he put DAWSO " i 8 a » jor along the broken contour of giis-|at midnight was thrown in for goo there were things ta peters Cee” EMPIRE CITY SELECTIONS. Geri Raco—Berlin, The Wits 10 [toning rivers y bugged close to| measure gh ee UTw cee Bi dela. i ach other, so close at times that a Streett and his plucky outh ‘ | mind that had him quite upset. Firm Race Light Rose, Miss wa Wh Vg Sweet Musi j bare fifty feet separated them. ha discovered a new trail Where Bo’ had just won a race on @ horse Petite, Mavourneen re i Two months before the expedition will the next one lea Wicked gossip, circulated in some % ir said he was to “pull.” The of this gossip also had Buddy town the night before tn com- with gamblers who had the ‘thing arranged for the defeat ‘* Love. * might have lost the rac easily, escaping any possible for doing #0; in fact any rider but Ensor would certainly lost. But Ensor put forth one of the greatest exhibitions of patience . } general horsemanship of which he de capable. He won, and the ride all the applause it received. Ensor wouldn't have allowed stories to bother him, ‘they came from persons who it to be the last in the world to headway to such ugly tales. Boxing Board Suspends Four ——_— LIVE WIRES Mitt Wielde rs| By Neal R. O’ Hara. ‘That the Boxing Board is not Coprright, 1930, by The Prem Mublishing Oo (The New York Brening World.) t vi, Meedlagser Pace idly bmg | FROM THE FOOTBALL CENTRES | or stalling on the part of boxers \s No evident by its action yesterday when CHOW, Maine—Coach Whoozis of Snapper College reports Tillie (Kid) Herman and Lew Will-|'s now ready for its big games. The schedule ended last Saturday. \ama were both suspended indefinitely. bd dee: Johnny Reisier was atso set down IRON, Ore—Larry Gumpf of the Yazoo Varsity eleven has hit for for thirty days for his tactica in o 400 so far this season. Larry does his best hitting in the scrimmages oe ee ee bingy pit COOLIDGE, Cal.—The Hokus vs. Pokus game echeduled for to-day was Freddie Reese, who was Reisler’s OP | cancelled on account of the non-arrival of brass knuckles, ponent on this occasion, was pun- . 68 ished for failure to make the weight POSTSCRIPT, N, B.—The Bimbo Varsity team walked out to-day agreed upon. for more pay. Herman's punishment was inflicted by the commission because of his foul fighting against Marty Cross, Tigers Have an Eleven That Stands Great Chance of Winning Championship | sensations. He played quarter in his “prep” days, but was « sub halfback for Nassau last year. Lourie is @ twisting open field runner who has scored Jong runs in the early games. His judgment |s sound and he imparts a lot of pep into the team. Garrity is a fixture in the backfleld. His ter . rifle line smashing and strong defens- ive work will be a big asset to the By William Abbott. Tigérs. Garrity was laid up last rene Prince-| ummer, but recovered all this ors pry ste say Bh in| sfength ‘The rest of the backfleld * & Gane chance candidates all measure up well. tortwined with the Eastern] There's Al Wattmer of the 1919 back- football champlonsh{p this year. fleld, a powerful defensive playe Most of the Tigers are veterans and | J0¢ Scherer, the long-distance punter Princeton Team Largely Com- posed of Fighting Irishmen That Hope to Mop Up Both Harvard and Yale. team | i NBTEAD of being downtown with (gamblers Tuesday night, Ensor {Was in the company of Trainer ‘Toni Healey from the time he left the wads track until he got out of bed eee DINNA, Ken.—Two tackles were killed in secret practise to-day. Their names will be kept secret until after the Yapdoodie game on Saturday. yeaterday mornin; He drove hom to Bealey's house in WiNiamabridge, whose recovery of a Yale fumble ae jafter that took in a show at the 1 Theatre in the Bronx with Mr. ley. A bite to eat after the and Buddy and the trainer went back to Williamsbridge to sleep till Yate yesterday morning. You see what ehance he had of being out with gam. Diers, even if he desired to be. So it is with other stories one hears time to time at the race track, ich, when run down, turn out, nine times out of ten, as groundicks as that which had Ensor conniving for the defeat of a horse which, if venom bad been in his heart, he could have plished very enaily RAINPR TOM HEAL) want- ed to win the New Rochelle with Yellow Hand as badly as he 'has wanted to win any race in a Jong time. Not because of the money vale of the race, but to prove to poeple who doubted what he said t Yellow iiand in adv “Hall win if he can," said Tom, “but Z Wish tte race was about a week off, and then he would be a 1 to 4 moot. “M have been accused of working Rim secretly and not believed when I said I didn't, As a matter of fact J just got one good mile workout from him. 1 tried him in mud, and he eculdn't do better than two minutes) form mile and an eighth.” ‘The geid- ing had not been able to do anything for a month. He picked up a nati golpz to the races at Samtoga, and hig accounts for his absence from thé post for so long a time. ‘ellow Hend won almost as well @s'he might have done at his best exsily, During the running, Healey | leaned over the clubhouse mil, and wag saything but confident of the re- df one could judge by his re- marks, as the race was in progress, REAL and genuine old-timer was a visitor at the Yonkers track yesterday, He in Matty Loretn, known to some of our fathers sone of the biggest bookmakers of | Ha old days, Billy Cowan, now a Tafér in the club house, once wrote! @heet for him. A good horse in those ny, Matty Lorem, was named after him. Gene Woods brought Lamem to the track, and the rotund @mf happy Gene had him shaking be js all day like @ political candi. EAVE it to Sandy MoNaughton to slip over the good things during the late racing days. Yowterday Sandy sent Honey Cell, a a r, to the post, and she won Iike| a i Lec, incidentally beating the Summit. —~— To-Day, NTC CITY, N. J., Oct, 21 y in the qualifying round ub of Atlantic City at Northfield. S score of metropolitan entries are ithe field. They include James C. ri ih, national winner of lami B. Donahue, Behack- C. W. Jones, Dunwoodie: . FB. Leonand Gacky, No geile » North “ila bi i Fee nme? tere ge a Mr. | Aginmiic Otty Golf Tourney Begins ore hundred golfers will tee off of nnual fall tournament of the Coun several the new comers are from the 1919 freshman eleven that mopped up both | Harvard and Yale. Football morale at present is higher at Princeton than at Cambridge or New Haven. Har- vard {s uncertain about its team, Yale is disappointed, but Nassau, if any- thing, is inclined to be over-confident | Coaches are bending every effort ttc | curb this tendency that has been dis- | autrous to other Tiger teams, Down in the little quiet Jersey town | they tell you about Harvard's great j team this year, Yale no matter what happens early | | 1 the season, tut in the next breath the information is slipped over that | the Tigers are a wonderful fighting | | bunch and there's a pleasant antici- pation what's going tote done in the big games, One haif of the Princeton | team is composed of fightin’ Irishmen —Capt, Mike Callahan, Garrity, Me- Caull and a few others, The ‘other | half is also scrappy, that’s their way of playing the game. Preparing for the Navy battle Sat- jurday Bill Roper puts bie charges | | through a strenuous period yesterday afternoon with a strong team of jin- | eligibles during which the varsity scored three touchdowns, There were | about eighty in the Orange and Black squad Regulars and subs took turns in the varaity lineup. There's hot competi- tion for backfield positions. oper |could easily make thre backfeld | combinations, so plentiful are capable backs at Princeton A few more high-class substitutes | for the line would be welcome, but all the Ti, forwards s to be very much on the job, although stil! lack- ing the concerted drive that must be developed for the Blue and Crimson next month, The team ls much fur- ther along than at this time last year, due mi ly to the experience of most of the men and the Navy game Sat- urday, The Tigers expect a tough argument with the sailors, but no coach would venture to predict the ultimate score. ‘The reluctance to do this, no doubt, Is for the purpose of | checking soaring hopes. Very litt escapes the Princeton coaching sys- tem. * The first half of yesterday's prac- tiee was devoted to fundamental: | tackling, blocking, interfering and passing th Roper is a stickler for fundan His conohing as sistants were Frank Glick, “Puffy” Rigler, “Hank” McGraw (1919 cap- | tain), Jack Winn and Keene Fitzpat rick, Who not only trains the men but supervives the kickers and forward | eae Fach squad was in charge ofa talist with Roper as the boss overseer When the sun began to lose its op- pressive heat the squad went over to the Btadium for scrimmage. The varsity lined up against an aggreg: n of ineligibles who used Navy aya and the y system of calling The player's name” ‘The Middies are | doomed for the rocks if they don't suc- ceed any better than thosé™husky in- | eligibles who could only make spor- jadic gains against the varsity, Mean whil ars gained easily While the final lineup is in doubt that Yale is always | ® brought victory to the Orange and Black in the Bow! last year, Long Joe was tn poor form early tn the sea. gon, his punta not going muoh over thirty yards, but he's fit now. Scherer averajred forty-elght yards !n the Washington and Lee game. Ralph Gilroy, @ stocky brother of Johnny Gilroy of Georgetown fame some years ago, will bear watching. He is a hard man to stop and is « wizard handling forward passes. Gil- roy played fulfback on the Tigers’ freshman team, Cleaves, another r trom the freshman eleven, has pwn form on,the varsity. Thomp son, the heaviest of the backs, strong man with the ball rounding into shape from early tn- juries. Frank Murray, substitute for | Lourie, is the best drop kicker on the squad and =a dangerous runn: Johnny Gorman, « little chunky fel- low, has performed nicely at quarter- back, so the Tigers are well fortified with capable men behind the line. “Stan” Keok at left tackle will like- ly be an all-American chotce. He worked last summer in a Michigan lumber camp and reduced his weight to 210. He is wonderfully fast for his size and can drop kick with consid- erable skill, It is our guess that enemy runners won't do much busi- ness with the giant Keck Shad" Davis need only play his 1919 game to be one of the best ends of the season. On the other wing Raymond, @ Brooklyn boy who got in the last few minutes of tho Yale struggle, and Legendre, @ star from Wisconsin, are having a warm tilt for the position. The remaining tackle and two guard positions apparently are open with Dickinson, Towers and Hooper having the call With the exception of Keck and Callahan the Nassau forwards weigh around 190. Whatever ts the final Mneup the Princeton team will be a scrappy and well coached set of play- ers. All of Roper’s teams have been well coached., He ‘has established a coaching organization that other colleges could well afford to have. Much of Princeton's optimism Is be cause Roper is once more at the helm Returning to Princeton last season af. ter an absence of seven years Roper moulded @ team that tled but out played Harvard and peat Yale. He| first coached at. Princeton tn 1906 and remained until 1911 with the excep. tion of 1909, when the former Tixer star coached the University of Mis sourt to a successful campaign. Roper has been a dom sant factor in Princeton athletics, He has not only coached foothall, but has mapped out the college sport programme, which was @ very successful one In isn sa} — He is Just _ Bloomflelé Wins Canadian Mia- dleweight Title. MONTREAL, Que., Oct, 21.—At the! Mount Royal Arena here last night, Jack Bloomfeld, the Engilsh middle. weight, outboxed and outfought Mike ‘Tigue, erstwhile conaueror of Eugene Brosseau, in every round of a@ ten: round bout, which was for the Canadian middleweight championship. Bloomfel4 rally cut Me'Tgue to pk ea with a there are a few Tigers who ai tain of r positions. Mike han, an agressive leader, | centre and will have the unique feat {of playing opposite his brother Tim the Yale captain. Don Lourie it quar- Aer eromiacs to be one af the re Cala will be at |! 4 ly straight left and lightning richt | ere It_was only by continual hol! that McTigue managed to stay ten rounds He left the ring a [ia right ove closed and nls fact tered. Bloomfeld w by the. large crawa, one Ra Le raweaver fer sutatee oo OA st Peterlee ot | eree | baseball is capable of standing,” RIGHT, O.-Bobunk University has purchased a now set of uniforms for ite team from the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, 8 8 ‘The Californian was disqualified by Referee Moe Smith tu the first round of @ scheduled fifteen-round contest after repeated fouls. Williams, 4 DOCTOR, Md.—Members of the Gazink Varsity hope to make the Afl- principal in a scheduled fifteen-round | American team this fall, Walter Camp has subscribed for a local paper, bout on the seme card, drew an in- £ £ deenite euapbasion when the eom- YOUKNOWME, Al.—On account of a lack of victories, three Siwash mission ruled that he had quit in his | "er leaders were laid off this morning. | . . . out agains ‘ANAL joe Gal In en, one. pase ¢ Mauntian coe BOSKY, Del—Joe Mink, star fullback of the Fungo eleven, will be the floor of the ring in the fourth| featured in patent medicine ads. if his team wins its big game next week round after receiving a left to tho| OS face, and was counted out by Ref- PROAND, Conn.—Kid Mugg, the heavyweight championship contender, _Moe Smith, has been signed to teach strategy to the Dingtedong footbelt team, New York May Have Peterson Beats Two Clubs in Proposed Hoppe Again New Twelve-Club League mc Ba tc prin hel e-Lluo League |tard matches with Charley Peterson. MALSEAL Gait Wout Saver are | At the 14th Street Billiard Academy collected had this vacant position | #8t night the fancy shot expert of | been properly filled, which ts undoubt- | St. Louis took his measure for the | edly the most important seat in the |#econd timo tn three days. Peterson | supervision of the game.” | won the match by a poore of 250 to | ‘The twelve clubs who advocate the | 295. However, Hoppe found some change in the supervision of the pas-|C°nsolation in the fact that tn the| time do not share the sume conten. | @fternoon he defeated Peterson 250 to tion, as there is every Mkelihood that | 230. But even that wasn't a great the Cook County Grand Jury investi- | d¢a of consolation for the champion, | ution may not terminate perhaps for |for the score was much closer than at least six months, and the oppor- | he 18 accustomed to. Usually when | tune time for the housecleaning is|!{oppe wins he wins by #o far that coerer aaven his opponent can scarcely de classed When asked whether or not they also ran thought the five clubs would give tn, the Yankee owners replied: “If they possessed any common sense of bus! ness judgment they would. It is the barrier that stands between succcas ind failure, as far as they are con- serned, financially. "These five clubs have until Nov. 1 of this year to decide whether they want to affiliate themselves with the other twelve teams Jn their cleaning According to Messrs. Ruppest and Huston, Ban Johnson and His “Faithful Five” Will Be Left Out in the Cold if They Don’t Help to Reform Base- ball. By Robert Boyd. | HERE seems to be more than a vague possibility, according to) Col. Ruppert and Capt, Huston, | on their arrival from Chicago after attending what they characterized as| one of the most impertant meetings} held the history of major league , that unless Cleveland, Po adelphia, Washington, St. Louis and | Detroit ‘American League clubs aad] ban Johnson cast their lot with the| (YONKERS AND MT. VERNON) TO-MORROW National Leap the th re-|UP of baseball. If not, we will ap nip eee Mate ‘Glubs in| Polnt our own commiasion and form |THE BOSTON HANDICAP their endeavor to give the game a/% twelve-club league and divide the THE ROSECLIFTE | season into two separate halves, winner of the halves to play a post- season series, which would eliminate the World's Series. In the event that both teams won each of the halves thorough housecleaning, that the sea- gon of 1921 will find a twelve-club major league, with two teams, both the Yankees and the Giants, repret senting New York WEST POINT HANDICAP THE EVERGREEN PURSE and 2 Other Sterling Contents, KIRST RACE AT 2.30 P.M. p here would be no series.”’ oeeeial Hace Trine leave Gi a Col. Ruppert repudiated the state. | * v arlem Division ments which have been current of| | The returning New | York Mag: i at, The aerect that it wae the in| Bates sald the conclusion arrived a tion of dae’ twelve. olti «| during the Chicago meeting was only cantiy mat {a chicage tintae &. war | after long and deliberate weighing of on the American League Preatdent | the existing conditions, Levit Carte | And his faithful five who so obsti-| into consideration the possibility that nately opposed a new regime that | 2° . ; I might Dring about the desired purging | Ate notmccleamag Tne Gasiot mittee of three, who would have juris. | Were tryitur te oust Ban Johnson out diction over both the a “4 ue | of organized baseball was spoken of Presldenta. MAK. RGUS| ®y the Yankee owners as being ab- “We aurd. The American League resi- . dent and the five clubs who failed to attend the Chicago meeting last Mon jay are more than welcome to join us in our attempt to lift the sport to a higher plane. However, they will have to dwell in rmony with our plans for a new governing body. If Rot they may go thelr way and we Additional ‘tr trains stop at 125th st. via Lexington and Bits, Also Torome trolley 4, 83.80. Inciuding War I by from Wi a. have all the ar organized said Col. Ruppert, nd we are More than desirous of bringing hostilities to a close. Jt is nearly a year now that both the leagues have been travelling alone without any one at their heli, simply because a compromise could not be effected between the Pres =| will pursue our own Ideals.” dents of the leagues, who were hold-| When asked if he had any one in ing out for men of their respective | mind to succeed Miller Huggins as choice to head the commission anager of the Yankees next year, he Whe result hasbeen more than dis- | Petaliated:, “That he did, hot. think astrous, a8 the World's Series of 1019| 1t would be necessary to make any | # Misr 10:Hound ous, FRIDAY revealed ible that the | on ea 'g Lt jw just p f the team a wuogesaas, as kus a A Caen fs Soveaclan sou ha Sing as gd taeaseass ‘ MADISON SQUARE GARDEN R.. OCT er a A Riot of Joy Weouquins Ginger Ale T is to laugh! se tickled with this invig orating, snappy, new ginger ale that the Thirst Twins- Georges finger and Phili p—have just in trod to New York Want a good mixer! 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