The evening world. Newspaper, December 13, 1921, Page 22

“eo THE EVENING WORL —aees Cast $102,000 to Run 6-Day! Rave, Yet It Made $100,000 | | for Promoters. OHNNY CHAPMAN, who comes ;Over here from Newark annualiy + to manage the six-day bicycle race at/Madison Square Garden, says that last week's event was a_ record- breaker in every way. It drew, foughly estimated, 126,00) po ty thé old show place und made about $10,000 for Promoter Rickard. many New Yorkers who turn up their noses at the mention of six-day races this will be @ shocking surprise. It is true, nevertheless. it December's raie to} h $80,000 any previoun grind and tt was thought at the time that those fiz- urge ould never be surpassed. Lust receipts beat tt $40, 000, As & iraney faker bike races are bettor an fights at the Garde: tas't be held so often” ONY they Like everything elac, however, the ost Of production has gone up aloag with the revenue. ing deep into res, Chapman osilinetes that pe- fore it started the iost recent rac: entailed an expenditure of $102,000. In the days of Pat Powers and J:in Kennedy $30,000 would put on as finc @ race as could be s34n. Now it coxta almost that to import the foreign tal- For instance, seven teams, _four- teen riders, were brcught from this time at an average cont @ man, this exclusive of tazir here from the time of their wal until their teparture, A ship . Fe jitatie most of the nadition, sre the lump sum of split up in prizss among the teams, other thousands went ‘the ee erent in the shape of ae mining ft Ne te on ryite to: $500 e ing for from to a day, the known etars getting the big m » It ts said Briceo, the Ital- jan favorite, signed up for a flat $5,000 with the first prize, won by him and his, partner, Goullet, as a side issuc. S HAPMAN insists there is no more thrilling sport than .six- @ay bicycle racing and under the present system of scoring points He pularity is boundless. ‘The daily prints, at stipulated hours, and the evér present possibility of lap steal- ing keeps both the crowd and the ru on edge. And, as was the case on Saturday night last, the result is im doubt right up to the final hour. With a total of 72 points for the win- ‘of each of the last sixty minutes a ‘eprinting it is easily understood yw Goullet, passing up the measly roe ints which went to each sprint wit fer earlier in the week, had the stamina to peat his rivals to tape in thirteen of the last teen mad whirls around the ninc- Saucer. He annexed the points they counted most. ECORDS have no bearing on the success of the race any more, ‘There was a time if the riders behind the old mark the pro- ™oters became alarmed ‘nd tried to keep the factasecret. They feared the attendance would fall off, and it invariably did. \Any lap gaining before Thursday or Friday was considered fatal to the financial success of the event, In thowne days the promoters of the tace ‘sought to control the riders, and to rtain extent did so. Now nothing ie way of dictation by the man- agement in this respect is attempted. The race belongs to the riders th minute after it starts. and as a con- it is up to them. chief concern of Manager wpman during every minute of the ‘as to see that it was conducted on the highest possible tone. He ways he is gratified with the know ‘edge that there wasn't a single imar- ring’ incident throughout the week Be tried to run the show as if St a theatre. A better class o patrons than ever was attracted, and Apparently they were well entertained we, as he says, they came hack night. There wasn't a single plaint recorded by the police, only one man was ejected for being @isarderly and one overcoat was ® The wholesale theft of win- te# wraps was part of the bike races of: other years, and pickpockets reaped a harvest. D to whom he f-ghts, Middleweight Champion Johnny Wilson has no eal desire to mingle with Harry Greb, even though he can pull down some- thing like $100,000 for doing so, At Yeast that's what Tex Rickard telly us. Rickard says he offered him 45 _ per cent. of the Garden, a record in ducement in these days In view of tie Athletc Board's limit of 50 per cent for any PAIR of boxers, but neither va or his manager, Marty Killi- showed any inclination to acce, Instead, according to Rickard, valoon expressed a willingness to it Mike Gibbons if Mike wouts rantee him $50,000 for his ent rd can't enthuse over this match he doesn’t think much more than $50,000. The ter is under the impres Jay ' ESPITE his seeming indifference To|: it would] D, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, r92t HT ON TO STOP BUYING OF MINORS FOR FABULOUS SUMS AT THE MINOR LEAGUE MEETING etchant Aarne hel anane By Thornton F isher Copyright, 1921, (New York Evening World) by the Press Publishing Ca GEO. WILTSE, - Famous OLO GIANT SOUTH PAW, NOW HAMAGE® OF BUFFALO TERM BUSY ALG OVER THE PLACE S. BALTIMORE CLUB- ONE OF THE. OLD TIMERS OF THE LEAGUE “DERBY BILL” INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Peers IM me LoBey CONFERENCE CNHER, MGR NEWARI- MADE 7 PENNANT AINE ve $5,000 Was Paid Carpentier] For Taking At International Club This Is Only One of the Many Extravagances Disclosed by the Investigation of Club’s Finances, Which Shows There Is Hardly a Cent Left of $850,000 Fund. RS AND CAME IN RUNNER— F vines YOHN CONWAY TOOLE Jin HE CAFFERY, PRES. TORONTO PRES. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE CALIFORNIA ELEVEN IS INVITED TO PLAY HARVARD ‘AT CAMBRIDGE NEXT YEAR CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Dec.” 13,— Harvard University to-day invited the University of California to meet the Crimson eleven in a football at the Harvard Stadium on Oct, 28 next year. Off His Coat By Robert Boyd. OR merely taking off his coat and getting in the ring with Major Anthony Biddle, at a reception in his own honor, Georges Car- pentier received $5,000 upon his first visit to this country. «This was re- vealed last night by Frank D. Boland of the Investigation Committee for- tnulated to investigate the financial status of the International Club, Inc., following the resignation of William A. Gavin. It was merely one of the many items of extravagant expendi- tures during Gavin's regime that has put the club in the serious situation, bordering on bankruptcy, that {t is in to-day, Three hundred members of the In-! ternational Club attended the reading of the auditors’ accounts of the club. One by one they drifted out of the Commodore Hotel, apparently in ais- gust, after hearing the way their| money, totalling something like $850,- | 000, had been extravagantly spent without their having any voice in the disposition of the finanges. After the report was read Mr. Bo- land made a motion that a subscrip- tion among the members be collected | for the purpose of pushing the in- vestigation, as it was Mr@Boland's understanding that there was but a few dollars in the treasury of the club, The private investigation con- ducted by Mr. Boland cost $1,200, and less than $200 was pledged among the members at the hearing A faction led by Director Gutzon Borglum, who succeeded W, A, Gavin as President of the club, suggested to the members that notwithstanding present conditions, incidentally * ad- mitting that Mr. Gavin's not being to deal with Americans, had| ned to bring about its downfall, club should not be allowed to out of existence, The debts, al suits pending against them and er unpleasant financial situations, ‘he urged be met with the money the club might realize on the sale of the property at 48th and 49 treets and Lexington A th in- tended to erect thelr club house, This property, Mr. Borglum said, had been the pass le Harvard sent a team to the coast a short time ago and competed against lifornia in the Tournament of Roses, the Cambridge eleven win- ning. appraised at $500,000 by real estate experts, and of this $440,000 is on mortgage, This would leave the club with $60,000 to begin rehabilitating the International Sporting Club, Inc. There were several other items mentioned, such as unpald member- ships that had been pledged and un- paid dues that ran into several thod- gand dollars, These, in brief, were the only as- sets the club officials presented te thelr members at the meeting. ‘The Vabilities were totalled at $58,000, according to the auditors of the club. In presenting his report on the spe- clal investigation that he has been conducting with the aid of R. L. Spotts “BERKELPY, Cal., Dec, 13.—Cali- fornia will take Harvard's invitation tor a football game under considera- tion and may accept, Graduate Man- ager Luther D, Nichols announced here to-day. The matter will be taken up formally when the Invitation arrives. LIVE WIRES BY NEAL R. O’HARA. Copyright, 197, (New York Evening World) by the Press Publishing Co We read that Babe Ruth is thinking of asking $60,000 next season thinking won't cost the Yankee management anything. oe @ But The six-day race helped solve the housing problem for a week. The six-day boys are one aint of Feorkers that don’t demand their Saturday afternoons off. So far, 8,156 All-American teams have been reported, with 600 counties to be heard from. eee Babe Ruth's home run crown has gone in soak, which puts three more balls on top, of it. . Numerals for football players are a great thing, umless the numbers are cancelled on account of mud, ee So far as the naked eye can see, wrestling is flat on its back in New York. ° . One of the Items New York's wrestling commission has barred is the hold that the mat game had on the public, and J. H. Jowatt, Mr, Boland scored Major Anthony Biddle for his resign- ing from the club during the summer of 1920. Biddle, Boland sald, quit after he was aware that it was head-| ing for the rocks. “Biddle,” said Bo-| land, “did not give the members whom | he tnduced to join the club, of which I was one, a chance to get out when} he did. He knew perfectly well the conditons of the lL. 8. C. and play: safe himself by getting out gri fully before all this unpleasantness, Jack Cooper, present matchmaker of the club, pk exception to thes ks and rushed at Boland, asking ated questions, ey 's reply was “You're Just at this moment the members intervened and an altere tion was avoided, as Cooper was in- duced to retire to the rear, of the] room Mr, Boland ridiculed the manner in which Mr. Gavin as Vice President and Managing Director of the club in the summer of 1920 was granted by the Board of Directors a free rein in expenditures, All the money that he deemed it advisable to use at his own discretion was to be ntered as “ex- World Champion A Most Inter- ested in Repelling Foreign Invasion This Year. By William Abbott. © amount of money could tempt N Bill Tilden to become a pro and withdraw from the defense of the historic Davis Cup. Just now the world's champion Is too busy fig- uring how the famous silver trophy can be retained in this country, and of their lewal Interests could not bel on him to set back a determined tor- carried out, owing to the obstinacy o ; 22, Whe the Borglum and Boland factions in |°1e” Invasion In 1922, When return- | sisting on thelr selections being ap-|!p# home with the cup from Australla | pointed, Tilden COLUMBIA HOCKEY TEAM TO MEET YALE TO-MORROW The Columbia hockey team journeys to New Haven to-morrow and plays Yale in the opening K*me of its sched> ule, Yale hus the advantage of hav- |ing played two preliminary games, one against its Freshmen and the other (nat the strong St. Nicholas outfit As yet no defliite schedule has ‘een |completed but in all probability Colum- ngth against the | bin will test its st ongest teams in t ae, West Virginia Sets Daten for Tyo Fe MG TANTOWN, W MOE West V | football V via and Virginia will meet at Morgantown on Noy, 18 next year and the annual W ston and Lee-West Virginia game will take at Charleston on Oct, 21 according to present plurrs These are two of West Virginia’s ma- Jor games and are arranged at more Us places on the schedule for next year than during the past year, promot a that Wilson and bis manager are interested the ee lersey Com- Uight en, game was later oul Brown Not to P herat. AMHPRST, Mass. Dee, 13.—An- nouncement of the Frown football schedule for next year brought a statement of Dr, Paul ©. Phillips of Amherst to-day declaring that Am- herst is not scheduled to play Brown before the United States lost tennis macy, but things have taken an d turn, Mulkern Suing Tendler's Manager | * for $50,000, | e thing, the defending forces | MILWAUKEE, Wls., Dez. 1 1nk | available for the next campaign could Mulkern, boxing prs pter, to-day filed and strengthening, Tilden, no doubt, sult for 0,000 against Phil Glassman, | Will be as strong as ever and good for Philadelphia, charging defamation of character. manager of Lew Tendler,)tWO Victories in singles; but there's phe [Considerable doubt whether Bill John- jston will again come East. After the aa part of his to box Sailor) played his last championship tennis Freedman Here lest spring: and that he would never again under- The g Commission hay|&9, the strain of a trip East to com- sien oaaladl mative ci ‘a orden, | pete in tournaments, taken i tal oe : the case, order-}P\onile whort of phyalcal atamina, lng both promoter and manager to ap-|rittie Bill Is very long on. Niehting pear Jan, 3, to find out whether any spirit, and It 1s reasonable to expect commission rules were violat that Johnston will be tm action once Vardon and Braid Plan To Compete for Title The British invasion of American golf courses, which reached ite height last season, will be resumed next season, according to the ru- more in generally well informed golfing circles, Harry Vardon, who was here in 1920, and James Braid, who will be seen for the first time ecutive disbursements." effers to let the amateur field slid The meeting broke up after most] from his mind like water off a duck’ of the members had departed in dis-| pack. gust, The suggestion that a commit- i tee of six be appointed to protect the|, Better than any one else Tilden| bondholders of the club and take care| knows the responsibility that rests | d it would bé a long time | s isa c ee Li ae ae filed by | close of the nationab championships aman & muisarn) for’ & at Merion last September the little | jeging that this ‘is due Tendier| Californian sald he had probably Here in 1922, Says Report Tilden Won’t Turn ‘‘Pro’’ While Davis Tennis Cup Needs Strong Defending | in America, will arrive here in time for the national open championship, to be played at the Skokie Club, Chicago, in July, it is reported. Between this pair the Britich open championship has been won en times, Vardon won the American open title once. The coming on Qet. 28 a# announced. This gate riginally arranged with Brown’ z the Oberlin t= ° e players would bring 1o this side of the Atlantic two of the test players the world has ever known. Both are members of the juard” on the other side, being close to Sia old, but still #9 among the best of the British * | NEW ORL E 19.—-Bryan | Downey of Cleveland, ©. last might |Qeige champion of that county stup Vow were in (wo rounds and thw third la ea rounds, | prising that Bill Tilden’ turns a 4 | J $5,000 in Prizes For Pro Golfers San Antonio Club announces |the dates for its pro golf tournament more when it comes time to head off /18 Feb. 2, 3 and 4, which will give foreign invaders, With Tilden and|the pros plenty of time to: get from Johnston on the home team the pros-|incee into the Florida field for the pects will. be exceedingly bright, but ne. oe; 3 with tho little Californian missing it|Pening of the regular winter season will be some job to keep the Davis|events. The total of the prizes of- Cup here. \ tered y M eslphasae- eon av for the San Antonio event ts vincen| chards, leader of the | 5 4, she young stars; Dick Williams, Watson Ns OU One OE they bigwent scwmee Of Washburn ‘and several promising /the year and ono that will serve to youngsters would be tcacy to fill) attract practically all Johnston's place in the singles; but liners in the golf world. they would all be below the former national champion's ability, of the head- The annual meeting of the Metro- The outlook is uncertain for the de-| politan Goff Association will be held fending team, but Australia, for in-|to-night at the Racquet and Tennis stance, isn’t in this predicament. ‘The|Club, 51st Street and Park Avenue United States has hardly sent out!at 8.20 o'clock. New officers will oral notices to interested nations |clected and plans discussed for the egarding the time limit for-receipt of |coming year, Courses and dates for Challenges and already it is known|the metropolitan amateur tourna- that the greatest menace will come | ment will be selected and plang made from Australia next season, for the metropolitan open, Norman Brookes, hero of countless Link international battles, not only plans| The Bob o° Club, Chicago,| talk about double sawbucks and cen- to compete on a team from the Antip-| Where Boh MacDonald, holder of the) tury casers. bdes but ig grooming several young| Metropolitan open golf title, holds ; ‘Australian stara for the Davis Cup|forth as pro, recently voted to bar The Detroit Club; Ty Cobb as- women Irom the club hereafter, mak- matches. “Brookes, now past forty | Women {rom the clit hereafter, mak years, lacks the staying powers to) canization to take such action. Th: lay singles, but he will utilize his| Organiza , 8 bs great. playing and cunning In Te ee Tene OG reasionane eeanien| doubles paired with some other vet- (7 SHARES IDE On A eran, Traynor Colgate Captain. Knowing what Brookes {s up to cut | r in the faraway islands, it isn’t vur-| HAMILTON, N. ¥., Dec, 13—Bainey P. ‘Traynor of Captain of the Colgate football of 1922 here last aight. Traynor has played varsity centre for two seusons. ear to attractive offers to desert amateur ranks and become a prof sional, The world’s champion is far from being wealthy, but he's dough- proof when It comes to withdrawing from the defense of the Davis Cup that he did so much to bring buck home. | Charley Doesserick, matchmaker of the Pioneer Sporting Club, will stage three twelve-round bouts at the regu- SS Jimmy Carroll Defeats Vor Jimmy Carroll won a twelve-round sciaion over Sammy Vogel at the Star | C. last night, ‘The bout was a hum- mer, both boys trying hard for a K. 0. For six rounds it was nip and tuck, first one and then the Other having the ad- to-night. Frankie Genaro meets Wil- lie Hausner in the curtain raiser, Pat At San Antonio Milwaukee was elected | team | lar weekly boxing show of his club McNanny goes against Jack Burke of TRO OF MAGNATES DEMAND LIMIT PUT ON PRICES PAID Ebbets of Robins, Grant of Braves, and Baker of Phillies Anx- ious to Curb Clubs That Can Afford to Buy Players Such as McConnell for $75,000, Disadvantage With No Dra at Least. as Poorer Clubs Are at a Big fting Possible for Seven Years By Bozeman Bulger. These gents want to talk about Reds keep on slamming seventy-five ‘There being no longer a draft and no longer a chance of getting ons Charles, George and William are out on a limb. They are going to de- mand that this Death Valley Scotty stuff be stopped or that a limit be put on the price that can be paid for any player. Otherwise the National Leaguers will be peaceful. Except for the question of cutting pricee—on which they will vote “no” and get it over with—tbere is not another thing to ruffle a feather on the dove. The International League met kind of formal like and practically let the majors know where they get off about the draft business. They de cided that as long as all hands had signed an agreement for seven years the incident was closed. It could not be taken up even as a matter of business, “If,” says Jack Dunn et al, “we wanted to jump out cf an agreement that we had signed, do you think we | would be greeted by applause?” There is ominous underground talk, though, that if the minors don't lis- ten to reason and consent to the draft or some reasonable modifica- tion of it, the majors could run out on them and re raiding. Such a thought as that is disparaged by the old heads. “We have signed an agreement for seven years,” says Garry Herrman. “In honor we've got to stick to !t as long as the minors do not wish a change.” } | — Jack Dunn, r and manager of the wonderful Baltimore Club, is the stormy petrel who filts aroused and utters cries at the thought of a change. He has more at stake thea any minor leaguer, perhaps. He gives the side of the minors like this: “IT haven't sold a pall player yet and I'don't intend to sell one. Thev say | have sold Bentley, my star Gain handed pitcher and first but I haven't, I will never fell any * pail player on my club unless he comes to me and says that he does not wish to a BH, eae and wants to go to the Swng eee I sell?” asked Jack. his eye snapping. “I have a ball club that draws 350,000 people in a season. I've got to keep @ good ball club for that patronage. Then, when I get | one, why should I sell it?” I could not think of any reason, right quick. Wut I remembered that Jack had refused $50,000 for Bentley | but a Gays ago, “Whi says Jack, “they tell m2 that baseball will be hurt. That's bunk. We've just had the most pros- perous year in the history of base- ball, Why, ball clubs are making eo much money that some of them have to throw it around and look up other ways of getting rid of it. I think everything 1s fine and dandy. “Listen,” sald Jack, again snapping those eyes. “This stuff about not be- ing able to get good bali players |s the bunk. If can get good bali | players without the draft, why can't others? Anybody caa get good ba't players if he'll go after them right” | It was reported carly to-day that, McGraw and Jack Hendricks of In- dianapolis had completed the deal by | Which Shinners, the great outflelder of the American Association, comes to the Giants. He will help fill the hole left vacant by George Burns No price was named. If it had been it would probably have been so big that we ordinary folks couldn't grasp. Why, these birds talk in hundreds of thousands now where they used to senting, completed the deal with Portland for pitchers Pillette and Johnson, For these two young men Mr, Navin peeled $40,000 off his roll, in addition to which the Tigers will send five young play- ers on the hoof to Portland next spring. That used to sound like | @ on Joe Libby, also colored. for elght round: and Barney Adair of New York ill exchani blows with Lew Tendier of Pailadelphia tn the feature bout of eight rounds, As Pete Hermant s anxious to get back to bis home in New Orleans so that te can spend Chris | mas: Day with his family, Tex Rickard bas nted Pete's request to shift akead bis fifteen- Brooklyn tenements for ball players. round bout with Midget Smith at Madison Square | + OU couldn't exactly call it blood in their eyes, but Charles bbets, George Washington Grant and William F. National League meeting to-day with something stinging. may be more, but in the others we couldn't detect inflamation. Baker step into the There this matter of paying the price of If clubs like the Giants and the and hundred thousand dollar bank- rolls on the table and let the old gallopers roll, they want to know how the poorer clubs are going to live or keep from being minor leaguers. big money. It didn't make the boys look up from reading their - market reports yasterday. ' Mike Finn, one of tho oldest timers In baseball, who now owns the Omaha club—way out there—d: in to fag what the fellows Tooked like. He has come east to see hin son, Mike looks as young as he did forty years 0. Mike, you know. brought Tris Speaker out as a kid in Little Rock. Derby Bill Clymer, who is to man- age Newark next year, hung aroun’ all day trying to pick up a few crumbs here and there as they from the major leaguers. “After buying all these high priced ones they must have a few old dray horses left,” sald Bill, “If so I can use them,” George Stallings, accompanied by his growing son, who is now six feet four, talked a lot of words suring the afternoon, but didn't tip off muoh as to what went on in that craft argument. isn't sure who ought to lau “Bere,” ays the demoted Mir- acle Man, “the boys stepped o! Landis a nice ind paid him. 500 a year to enforce them. nd Til be ba ceagen ined if he ian't doing it. was never like that before.” Miller Huggins was noted in the lobby still carrying that bankro!! on his back. He denied most every- thing. Still, he might get Lobby ‘Veach from Detroit, Col. Huston sat around and also busted himself deny- ing rumors. Wise old Santa! He knows what’s wanted! Fur overcoat! Marmot or muskrat lined. Collars of. Otter, Beaver or Persian Lamb. Shells of our own ll- woo) fabrics—among them *Scotch Mists. Down-to-date in price and up-to-date in style. \ House coats that fit. Silk, matelasse silk, vel- veteen, wool. House slippers, dressing gowns, Scotch knit jackets and waistcoats, brief cases, wallets, canes, hat boxes, umbrellas, scarfs. Golf clubs, golf balls, golf shoes, Scotch and English golf hose—sport- |vantage. Carroll went to the front tn] Pittsburgh, and Dave Rosenbers Of lGirien on Dee. 22. Wleard lad at fine banked | UN, goods of every de- seventh round and used & w joked Left] Brooklyn will take on Jimmy O'Gatty |on holding tho show on the aledt of Dec. 23. but | scription, dub ith fe in® the succeeding. rounds |in the main event. changed tt to Dre. 22. kept the claret flowing from Samm kan’ one Champion Benny Leonard is staned ap for tame ‘ose, Simm: Be ¥ A Brooklyn, who fights Vincent “stepper Martin in Times inthe last three rounds with Solld [fights at out-of-town lulu, Mis first will neal is the betes tae eis rights to the Jaw. ¢ Sarroll looks like one | with Tim Droney of Wilkes-Barre for ight roun bes sed psp agsn ly _ of the best Mghtwelght prospects de at the Ice Palace of Mailly on Dee. 20; bis second auoth oped in years, Sol Seaman and Johnny Relsier fought 1 out to see which of them would box | Johnny Kilbane on New Year's Day. but) After fighting twelve rounds the ofitoial | verdict was a drat with Pinky Mitdiell at Milwa n rounds, and his Jan, 18 for ten roun a Deyan Downey Stops es Attletom in € peat the full distan d Happy Littictou of Found of w schedul baa tt Harvey Bright, the “fast Uttle iantamwetght of Harry Habakoft, fighter, in @ twelve-round go at Loulé on Dec. 29, tho St. Louts ko Coliseum in has been offered a» guar | ‘marley Murray. the Buffalo for Champton Jack Britton to fight | at Warren Plenty men’s suits now at revised prices—our finest among them. 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