The evening world. Newspaper, September 23, 1921, Page 26

ERTS f { EOL TAO DECIDING ee LEAGUE RACE STARTS TO-DA © YANKEES ARE FAVORITES TO BEAT CLEVELAND TEAM New York Nine Has Advantage of Playing on Home Grounds Before Home Fans—Have Defeated Indians in 11 Games of 18 Played This Season—Mays to Oppose Sothoron on the Mound—Record Breaking Crowds Will Attend Games. By Isaac Shuman. . RIS SPEAKER'S Indians are in town and the Yanks to-day are faced ap with hte most difficult series of the season's raee for the Ameri- can League pennant In fact, the pennant race in all probability will be decided in the four games to be played on the Polo Grounds to-day, to-morrow, Sunday and Monday; for with the Yanks and the Indians in @ virtua! Ue for first placo thie series {s in all likelihood the decialve one in the determination of which club shall meet the Giants in the World's Series. The conclusion reached in it will probably stand unchanged in the week that yet remains of the season. Bo it je, in effect, a little World's Sertes which New York fans will wit- ‘ness this week. The two best clubs of the American League face each other in their fina} test for the league's supremacy during a season in which they have run an almost neck-and-neck race, first one in the lead and the outcome in doubt until the finish is but a nose length away. Crows as large as those which will @ and then the other being | THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1921. HOW THE PLAYERS | OF BOTH TEAMS | | ARE BATTING | on Oct. 1, in the Lewisohn Stadium \75 Candidates” | Reportfor Team | At City Colleg After a iapse of fully Aficen yea football 1s about to be re-established, a3 a major activi accNn % A long campaign by undergraduates and alumni has influenced the Board of Trustees of the college to permis the gradual introduction of the spor& During the present season a fresh. men eleven will be equipped and pi in the field. This experiment bg) to i nig aah Cao tor & future varsity t n attract! schedule has be n. brranged, Game with the N. Y. freshmen and sorae of the strongest high echool elevems are included, The struggle with Evander Child» will mark the fi appearance of the Lavender on the gridiron. Seventy-five men responded to coace MacKenzie’s call for candidates. Ta their number are included many for- mer high schoolystare, Fram Boyw High come Moftey and Blaxer, ends, from Stuyvesant come Lederfind, cone tre, and Snib, end; from Evande Childs, Mischkind, end; from Morria, Oshinsky, end; and Atlanta, Ga., hed contributed Sliverman, quarterback, Preliminary practice during the week was attended by a larce crowd of rooters. Keen interest is centred ¥ Jon the freshmen eleven, because om cadet 6 jits success or failure hinges the re- witness the World's Serics themselves ——— | | storati Wil coe the Yanke and the Indiana in| FULL REPORT OF GAMES : | jon of varsity football. ‘The following batting averages ot| | this decisive cngagement. They will! PUBLISHED IN EVENING (ine yankee and Cleveland players| {FORDHAM TEAM REA be crowds whjch will All the Polo! WORLD BASEBALL EXTRA who havo taken part in fifteon or | EADY Grounds to capacity. Their enthu- hed Gre. peRGnincladeal Ramen Blaywd | FOR OPENING CONTEST. siasm will be almost as great as If A complete report of the gam up to Wednesday. The Indians have| “pulling up tt the games were indeed World's Series! between the Yankees and Cle a slight edge on the Yankees in team ected tie gL ih) contests, and since, these games are| janq Indians will be published in /D&ttIN& strength. Kleven of the| coll sete Zootball this) year. SSaturiay Deetlecssicte. cerarannars ce tne | Cera uiaine HD PA) BUBI HEATON Clevenna are hitting over | marke the opening of the season when 5 “ 2 ning Worl jaseball Ex- 400, while seven of the Yankees are \Fordham will exchange blows with the World's Series the ability of each 4 : a tra. The report will cover every in the high class, University of Maine, Head Coach Joe lub is being considered, its merits] detail of the game, including a @ YANKEES. . Dumoe seems well satisfied with ne @ircussed and its chance for success] play-by-play description and full uy nh team, Charles Brickley, former Crimaon a Ges Pee Teak , so bg box score, showing runs, hits, put Drornee ah ae POCKEN PAOGH © revere: < star and asalstant coach, {s Feetet his ance indeed promis’: eo the rita in | backfield, and Sullivan, Boston ollege determining factor in the series, The “ star, ts pleased with his line, “Jake" better club may win, but chance, 1% | Weber, the old Fordiiam trainer, has the Q ia nen in fl 3% breaks of the game, will determine Miller oH e By Neal R. O’Hara. Bish TP altareay'e battio Gntiuceay Rake which is the better club. YANKEES HAVE TEN GAMES Baker or ortin ews an omment Copyright, 1941. ty the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) ch coe mara ane Aaiie Moran, Between the two teams in the Pino res As wo understand It, Johnny Kilbane won the recent Tiffin, Ohio, aot Bre tadkle, Hogan: lek ond: Healey? games played between them so far TO PLAY, INDIANS EIGHT. = ie ——— ’ ee 6 left halfback, : right ‘halfback, peas acnees (acer Robo) te oot! |e mee YaST TRACI % ifthe Indians land the pennant Cleveland wii! be infested by ticket pe aad paeertseuee club, ey have won eleven of the ankees swung along even 20 + n scalpers. It ts up to the Yanks to protect home industry. eighteen games In which they have| with tho Cleveland Indians yese Tr He Buff Deserts Flyweight Division To: Night to Tackle Bantam , aoe pel Gia hea Ee Geer eee | Gane OE heed nh Titleholder Herman—Kilbane Puts Himself Under New “Home Run King Refuses $26,000 Stage Contract,"—Headline. Boob Ruth ecipuaved Grete elyale ee i issi i RACING — suc = irate er cain | Profited by a defeat for the Pirates Cine be 7 Management—The Boxing Commission’s No-Smoking Rule Gan Johneon invites Harding rn saraniee. Sariea, Abe ohneoh will be | F ‘ ; . Mr. Johnso! results were in doubt luck has en-| °Y te Brooklyn Robins, AN im gun . 7 and Its Edict on Wrestling. remembered by the older generation of fans as the President of the Ameri- flied (an) the (dscldlng “factor, and’ all, a pleasant day for New York, [Hottma oe a con League. 5 Ys to be a city series as —" han Whi Sree thrown its weight in the Yankess'| Whether it's acl favor so many times that even the| Well as a World’s Serles will oe INDIANS. By Vincent Treanor. eon Of pleasure rather then busi- fy et Hos co sh have & White Sox-Cubs post-season series, proving that A Indians, @ more consistent, better| settled in the big battle starting 8 3 3% % een uiina Tent at aieaie ae thal ' Epa ne TOMORROW hitting and a better fielding club as| to-day. Ca : ae ON one Peel arsttortor ing pitchers: « $6500 Aqueduct Hand’ jaar my ee yeas have the| The Indians have won 92, lost 64. 41 18 47280 Champion Pete Herman of New Or-|a lot of people, but it will take some Fact that no one has pinched Babe Ruth for apeeding lately doesn't A 2-Mile Steeplechase Shy AL SEER erty eons The Yanks have 10 games to play, ln oo aj [leans and Johnny Buff of Jersey|pleasure out of the venings for many | “080 that the Babe ts slowing up, AND 4 OTHER SUPERB CONTESTS a . *m | the Indians 8 a2 0410227 City, ruler of the flyweights, @ class|others. Part of a night's relaxation Five cites wit 2 FIRST RACE AT 2.15 P. M. therefore, overshadowed by a jinz, The defeat of the Pirat 88 04 179 321 instituted in England expressly for|to the average business man at a box- re dollars be the top price for World's Series tickets—$5, plus the SPECIAL RACE TRAINS, GATURDAY, which may or may not have Its ef- es prac. o8 17.820 gy, Wilde It should be itty | ‘ne show 1s to get himself seated| WF tax, plus the ticket scalper’s rent. Bt. and Tth fect in the determination of the se-| tically puts the end to their last ay E300 tte contest, and that's all. If Her |; piter Sn qujoreme Ginver Bod Thee sorta Lie y waa ars 8a “08 * g -|light up the old cheroot. If he can reserved for ries, but with the Yanks playing on eae cannes for the N. L, v1 om ii? man wing with a knockout heljovk onat a couple cf glove wiel’ars| U. S. MARINE TEAM LEADS YALE ELEVEN READY pgp ORS their own field, spurred by the spirit} Mag. ¢ Giants have 7 games to 7 382-280 shouldn't lay claim to any especial) inixing it up at theesame time, 16 IN TITLE RIFLE SHOOT. GRAND STAND, 83.85, Including Tax. of nearly 40,000 of the faithfui who| play. the Pirates 9 If the Giants U4 praise. PYCIDE DOL Baaey. complete to i * FOR OPENING CONTEST — u +believé they are the better club, they| win 8 of thelr 7 they will finish % 17 23.23% The bout is not a meeting of a Brudyanle omchine: Aenea thee rae CAMP PERRY, O., Sept. 28.—With| NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 28.—The may in each of hese four games dis-| with 94 victories and.60 dofeats, 42 10204 flyweight and a bantam, as one] siting at the ringside. We know that! only two pairs of ten men teams to|Yale varsity eleven will rest up to-day | Grand International Boxi: play those meteoric flashes of bril-| To beat this the Pirates must win w 4 5 0 might gather from reading the| they must go without their smokes at shoot tn the fi y 1 | before the first game of the season with Vv haa Mich Kave awe” UU i r m 8 7 a theatre, but there they can duck in the finals of the National e sense DYCKMAN N'OVAL ys BE y times in! 9 gtraight. If the Giants win 4 im 12 asi Papers. Instead, it is a battle of) out between the acta, No such op-| Rifle Team Match, the feature of the | Hise, Cong to-morrow, Coach Jones erat manta desert a n . games played against good clubs! 7 the Pirates can only tle by wins 8 4 “0s Pilpoumders for ote night arcieast,|Purtunity at a boxing show. The| National Rifle Association Touma-|dicntions are that the blue clever will MONDAT EVESING, exert exer. orm made them appear a better team than| Tio ine . tiring catra Weight to sive him a] Gtrder roof can be opened and shut/ment here, there was much over-|be in fine fettle. Ed. Blair. recently Te- | cmampiof Leel'd & Can, ChAMD. Sf Et ttop they really are and have won for} ™O& 9 strals! . . ainat the titicholder of the} ay. time, so that jh. smoke-laden| might speculation as to the winner. | \ Lan oraitine vonteue ena oe ‘Frmney. yee yort” Cre ie r Rasta wil ould, b: |= = ‘aivision above him. Buff vill prob- | 4!T can be blown out. isn’t too late e event was to be concluded this, S ELAR ARLE Lisa kth 4 Bol amp. Lt He! mp. of Burope them contests which should, by ex ; 5 ably welgh within & couple of pounds |r the August commission to rescind| morning over the 1,000-yard range. | Murer rent ees ft left end to: | Franke Jeramm re Johany Brown. traordinary oreaks of play, have gone | all in the centre and a great hitter, | or Herman, if the jatter is pinned | te no smoking rule or to at least] The first three paire of teams com- ofa as ee ae ‘foramy Cesdwim ven ea aie Medina other team has it on Elmer Miller, while Joe Sowa tothe t1s-pound limit of the| amend It, so as to leave a little pleas- | peted yesterday. When firing was re- fam Mosbera Beats Fryok Manhattan Feather," Binglish Feath The season has ahown that the| ocd, 'n right alrematiog mith Smith, bantams, ‘Thus the talk of a good| We in the life of the majority of box-| sumed to-day the United States Ma-| yewaRK. Sept. 22.—-Sam Mosberg,| 1440, Broadway. Phone 707” Berast Yanks are inconsistent. ‘Thelr play-|" Stove O'Neill in a stiade better oo iitie ep Bole wage ets ec Ue TE TSRS Tine Corns team was leading with @|tormer world's, amateur lightweight | Drokmmn Oval, 226 Wadsworth: end ail tng te erratic. Their moments of catcher and hitter than Wally Sehang, By John Pollock ene Wate dapolleabie’ in ihe’ ine HE Toxing Commission, andated | that of the intentry team, which had Sa eatn' Nebp none reseane | greatness have been few, but so pro- five 0 at better as a fleiding stance. with an extra duty of regulat-|led for the first four stages. ones ttle difficulty outpointine Ray ‘st baseman than either Johnston or | The sae i The Naval Acad Pryol of Pittsburgh in twelve roun‘e| * 50c. PREMIUM Rounced have these moments been, | Hurns, but each of them hit better| Champion Johnny Kilbane arrived Pre ate Deieraaa fs ing wrestling, has lssued a), (ota of S785, “The Navy and Const {here last night. Mosberg had Pryol go- PETE | ARERERYED miNcsing, especially when the need for them than he Ward hits better at second |in town to-day. He expects to take Jittie men stepping around each other | “‘atement conceming the mat sport) artillery teams were tled with 2,778, [Tae Serna fiGiem, Bubitaied te put over | HERMAN ACARD SOX SEATS: was urgent, that they enter this CT ammbaga nna. but phos letter ie} fa trip to England the middle of next like a couple of gamecocks, each with | Which, if adhered to, will rob it of all|with the Massachusetts National —$—<—<—>_____- Joe Le Blan iS ries the favorites. Fandom play arhane a rlashy, Sree eho ts month and may be gone for two or ® Champion's Knowledge of boxing |its thrills. ‘The commission would Guard next with 2,776, Rockaway Defeats Army Team g bunches rather than percentage. leaee Gr ping atid duce tothe donth |three “monthas Jobany, declared to Shei aera tenets ererann cane ee ce Meera tees nee PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 23.— Rocka- JOHNNY ee ; Fea ting piinas duet i ny declared Of skill and endurance. Herman can-| gies and the scissors, They might| Fast Three-Set Matches the Rale| "acta the army first team 14 to ras Dro. Stare, 494 Yankeo hitting, of course, is ex-|vesterday of Frank Raker's moter, the writer thet ho received $8,009 for not afford to let Huff show him up,| eliminate the wrestlers while they aro| | Threo set battles ruled as Alfred D.| 01 ‘tne wemi-final eR TGs th BUFF *cARGen, Vicker orricee e pected to bea great factor, and MUD | Ot eat a i eee ardiar, cra (nis fight with Frush, a guaranteo af ond Johnny will be in there trying to | at it. There were many good bouts| Hammett, Frederick ©. Anderson, Her- a ee ee Broadway, Tol, Circle €438. is counted on from the bate of the|Ppeckinnaugh isa much leas able fitter ($00,000, an additiGnai $3,000 for lgning CO,sus! that. Of course, Anything @/ even tn this city last winter and no| bert Ie Rowman and, Heer Dewson Pouity CHAE verterdey and will, play ie ae y i 4 7 ” is “ poss! 1 J Lf =u -|one roared in disapproval! them. | rea a fins roun of 1 "i y mighty Babe and the slightly less}as a rule than Jow Sewall, though per- articles and an additional $5,000 for ponents of boxing get together, but | ‘phe commission, however, with au|ceatle Point lawn tennis singles yes-|the Great Neck four for the title on Ei mes re ogltender™ Gort mighty Meusel; ent ate Indians Bre bapa In the pinches a more steady pig share in the moving pictures We can't for anything so sensi-|«x-wrestling champion at its bead, terday. Tuesday, § Weet 824 Bt Bee ee ee eee at ee ne Indiana come to town ap. (then GF tKe Aeht. Ha had to pay |tOphl SS HuEM, GRSISIR corel neous to think theaport terrible, and wich 0 . and | c ans | eee ; 5 ¢ | has adopted strong regulatory meas- even if it were greater, there Is no|parently the better team, They are OUt of this sum about $17,000 for vciene titleholder can finish up near- TOR tka aevarnmone Ae gainsaying that a single homer “orjon the dope, pat, nevertheless, ign | Covernmens taxes. ly even with Herman he will be| says in peiea EMO ny OBe.at hone even a triple or a dou' with men! Yanks are the favorites. The expect-| 4 match bes doen errenged between Frank doing himself proud. found not in proper condition his fon bases, deliveries which are more|ancy of the breaks in thelr favor |storan, the veteran Pusburgh dearywelget. and AS usual, Promoter Rickard has} ijconse will be revoked. That rule characteristic of the Yanks than the|makes them ao, and even those who tary Greb. ann of Pitsburgs. Taey wil flabt | Supplied some good preliminartes tol.applied to boxers might be beneficial Indians, ‘may ‘send, the dope to the |have great fath in the dope admit thee woud qo at Yor Feld, iw Phuamvres,| warm the crowd up for the main Kol but we have never sin the ne a ale itching that each club will at the Indians and become thereby | Ah Geldstetn, the crack Jooel bantamweight, | PAM HA Test eT tring Reddy,| tree gale, alwaye In condition, else tric toffeet the hitting of the|the American League champions, And ides ipl le aoa er aay the’ Haric Ee eR otee nee fueting ths Fe pea in ee eee tobacco —just that ee ae ett fata eg nl MELE ES | the tahrers to battle for & Derceniage of tae grou] INA IFO Should ensue When Chis fined | BOtek- and nothing more— 4 to depend on the usually reliable janiceaial __ | appearance! st, squares off - Fy Fee rey i pre: (NEW i ae STARS —cassiey auvcner, the Tora teatuatweten, ann | URPATANCe in the Tish. GUNES Off) Veey Boxes at Two Hours! Notlee nothing more because ably send’ to the mound Sotheron, Joanny Relsler ave been matched te met in| Murray, who ls gong great guns in and Earns Draw. ! who, “of ail” hia hurlers, has, been IN W TERN TOURNEY. (arin fo of tweim reunds @t iad Comsen-| the fentherwoieht division, will have] Substitwting for Frankle Pitcher at that's complete! lately the most consistent. Maysand| [wealth Sporting Club of Jtarlem to-morrow nigh | nis hands full with Red Cap Wilson, | two hours’ notice, Johnny Veto, the nth in good shape, Carl's pers CHICAGO, 8 t. 23 ti other two. twelve-rou ainer | : Pai during en} players of East nt today | ponte Jack: Worsan jarden to-night. Seate e siop- | twelve-round draw with Italian Jack an ine sete et vu sie egy [bean their annual intersectional Relie Ri suis ing bottom of the drained-out swiM-| Hompsey at the Brealey xabition ) 4 H struggle for team supremacy on the Jack Janes bas mat ming pool, they will look down on ae ie h In the remaining games Huggins Kid Murphy. to box Iiliy Mit in th urena ‘from an agreeable eleva- night. It was Veto's first bout fm inay uve to depend on Hoyt for the turf courts of the South Side ‘Tennis opening of the Columns 8 tlon, instead of stretching their necks Ge Pgiie Ana) He, made Se Ie an} ‘ ‘ 8 ion, st ne ns: veness ae it Rees the firet, Mays | clue | 5: Le ra view of the boxers’ footwork.| ts been sufficiently trained for thy enim the faurtl The matches will continue to-| prank master er Around the walla of te old building] pout he ‘would undoubtedly “have” won a je fourth, agley. manager 1 gree d white wood lattle lecisively, as he ha: Opposing them | pr wbly miit be | morrow and fiunday with two singles middot. 8 foes wie wae GAS aed bapa einai ee ME Clk 2) oe Soveleskic, Who has bec ele ents and one doubles match each " oung Fisher, ¢ malddlewet interior, and wonderful Nghts wil —_— serve for this series, in the second: | 4, = a“ ney ‘a 8 figet a tis are use, on th aA . pring: Caldwell in the third and Sothoron |%% The nume of Capt, William oy gy 7. Tag dls omar hlaze down on what were shimmering Caldwell in yhe t Johmaton of the Western outfit was ate fe furs vera in ie KS" waters of the mammoth Indoor pool RUNS FOR WEEK - He an stneratic and Covelenkle has | Rot included in to-day's roster” of | 00 yunds, weigh fa at? Pe MM | > pouaTETY ore or leas all season Players, Johnston still feeling the ef 4 ; MMY DPOUGHERTY, the well ene ee ghoulder Harper {cts of a mild case of ptomuinn | A O°8 besine <iub) ies (us been: orpanteed. ta known sportsman of Leipersvitie, NATIONAL LEAAVE. Co) has been going good lately, but he /Polsoning. Ret cay tcaen ia tikes eat Pa, tells us that Featherweight| still shows of wildness, while| The Western players arrived here fing” waere many important flehts vee | Champlon Johnny Kilbane has placed | Caldwell, a veteran, has his in-and- Yesterday and rh outit mat days, about which predicuons are |cAme this morning WVeca anit fouekt ta the Tat cen yearm himself under his management, Wise} futile. players Include Willem Johnston, ‘The Oympla A. A. of Philadelphia, which| move for Johnny. Dougherty knows ‘ ‘On the dope, however, the Indians { a Hranelsen Willis Ke Davis An | burned down after one of ite stows Inst Adel. | ail that is worth knowing about box-| @ have the cdge in pitching. The Prénelseo; Robert Kinsey, San Fran | will wage ite ope ow ot Monday uignt and in addition he is upright and ' Hd f the am will determine ©! Allen, Seattle Jameo& Joe Tiplits of “Wm” m Joo Menjemin of < 5 athe 4 thelr effectiveness, and in « eand Joha 1. Hawkes, Calioria io the mun @ Mine ay tat Wadaniane che Yankee hurlers | crack befo Aunt nn Al Norton, the unieaten welterweight of You-|management of any boxer, but asl games in which they are ente Wi » ios K. 0. Longo. Jong as he has agreed to take up Kil- completed, there again he Colu! 3. C.\/ bane at day in Johnny's will have the advantage; fo: Uchards Howar iv Sathepaparen lee Jane say im Hennes ute, ot 4 Bagby all in fairly fll, Bro: Frank Anderso Seu) ls Duitea iN offen (toms Rll orse tus'sons |SMCTAieer te ape mee good condition now, they have a hens : 1 Feet Baal as mnie: NI | ory for ban sorcen Dougherty is coming to New i u_sl he Yanks, a meet Sunday % ollmantio ‘ih, | be fugit et tie big anen ats boaing club at bas pout at the en and n Cis Fi c Quinn both going badly awkan end vaApdaranh fighter win will ewao janches in the main bow | featherwelght mp has long utfalo En the outfield the Yanks have the| 4° Tones niay in the tw fae Jolng Mendeleatin of Milwaukee and Gears dreamed of a trip to the other side s de here Babe Ruth ea baste loped nine isles torday, “well Obaney of Baltimore, who bas many and more than once has had arrange OM) GOON Se e Ruth, who has developed into a vps 0 * iA st Mey battle ten mx nade for {t, only to have some remarkably good ground goverer with Kinsey are yp with a. a See Eee NRCan ie nen nay the good tobacco grows ap unerring throwing J-m and an |® hards the doubles evens. spd stil weight. | ta ‘, if there are any ability to hit which nee no chroni-' pagepart Tovey, aa0 Lavigne god Califonnia will ae wo) Coren while oppo c = 3.30 P.M. POLO {ue arise got Caliiantia wih gee w/ worth-while opponents for him, but ong. Trig Bpeaker, givistest of them Grounds, Yankees va. ‘lsveland.—adve ie 2.0. of Lous laland Cy tomanwe night, | we baye @ potion that the jaunt will