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f f i } i agreed. RUN MIRC, THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, MAROH 6, 1998. RUTH TO GET FOR EVERY Flip of Coin Decides Terms of Babe’s New Five-Year Con- “tract With Yankee Club. PLAYER WINS THE TOSS. Col. Ruppert Waited at Phone While Player’s Pay Was Fixed by Heads or Tails. HOT SPRINGS, Ark., March 6.— ‘Who tous of @ coin from the fingers of ©ol. Ti Huston lato last night bound Babe Ruth to the Yankees for another three years with an option for a ro- Rewal of his services for two more. Incidentally, the terms of the con- tract decided ‘by the fiip mude the Babe-the highest priced baxebull play- er in the world, giving him, as he had demanded, a huge yeurly sulury and $600 for euch home run on the o declared the Colone! Promptly, “but will you wait until | @an calf ap Coi. Ruppert?’* The Bambino was willing, 80 Col, Huston got in touch with Ed. Farrow, the Yanks business manager in New York, and the latter called up Col. Ruppert at Tarrytown. Col. Ruppert If the Babe won the tuss he was'to xet his original demands. If thie Colonel won they were to go back to Col. Ruppert’s compromise figure. Col. Huston tossed the half dollar. It glinted in the electric light as it tWirled to the floor, | “Call her, Babe," yelled Col. | Huston. Tails!" shouted the Babe “Paits it ten. ‘ “Gol. "Huston refused to divulge ihe tig wee'fhe Babe te to-drew down ened year, but he admitted that it way con alderabie selary. “It's a salary that would do # rail ead President proud,” safd Col,” fius- ton this morning, “and ‘ll add that this salary Of Babe's ts no Jim Crow rail- Tead President's stipend, eithe: “Lands sake! Did you ever heur of a tung line President getting less than $40,000" avked Huston. te “Well, then, is it $76,0007"" “You'll have wo draw your own can- elusions.” wered Huston, “ie Ruth's salary tigure clover 109,000 than $50,000?" was asked. “On advice of old and trusted counsei here,” pointing to Phi: Lynch, “I've de- cided to keep my mouth shut,” said the Colonel, and shut he kept {t so far « Babe's salary was concerned: It is at least $75,000, but evidently the two Colonels are xfraid that a publica- top of the figures would make all the other baseball stars run amuck, stark mad. Ruth's very name is wildfire. He is worthy any price he can get, and it's certain that he wasn't piking when he Plunked a price on his own head. He got that price in one flip of a coin after ays of arguing between the Colonels. ‘He didn’t enter into the gab-fests mu after he had named his figures. " Lest night at 8 o'clock at the request ef Col. Huston he came to the Eastman to again go over terms. Huston was armed with Col. Ruppert’s compromise salary figure. Babe was stolid in his de- termination to put his figure over, The Colone! tried out all his fatherly, sooth- ing wiles on the Baby Grand, but Ruth stuck like old time to his idea of what his pay envelope should hold. Clinched, and with no evidence of a@ fall before cock crowing, Ruth offered to match the Colonel and settle the row for good ‘and all. “You're dead gam 4 “You're on with me, but let me Gol Ruppert on the telephone and to on, by gum," sald Huston, a @ sport. Bis O. K. on this matching business. “All right,’* said Ruth. “T' trot right to put in for t you later,’ Shortly before 11 ‘« Huston got his cue. He first got Ed Barrow on the telephone ani asked him to communicate to Col. Ruppert at Tarrytown all the details @f tho big gambling chance. Barrow did #0, called Huston back and4 told him to take the chance with Ruth. Babe came ahustiing when Col. Huston sent for him. “Compromise figure or yours,” said ‘the Colonel he fished half dollar said the Colonel. e'cloc! ~ i ay i “Ig it the rumored $50,0007"' Col. Hun- | SOO BONUS FOUR-BASE HIT pieve out of his pocket, “Call commanded the woldier-owner. “Tulle,” roared Babe, her, fours to inapect the result of the filp fa the cofn had rolied under # rocking chair. Ruth got 4 flash and yelled: “Tails she lies, Colonel. The Colonel took a good = squint. shoulder, and both gasped “I0'gad. tails she does lle. The Colonel tated of the Babu'r cas r self took any «trong stand. both striving to settle a problem rectly. ‘The contract, aa finally wr- ranged, was no offferent as to money and substance than the one tentatively agreed upoh and gubmitted to Col, Rup- pert,” said Col. Huston with no ititle show of businews pride. “As closed, however, it ts contract both for club and the player. reverdl days, #o that J could not prop- erly place matters before Col. Ruppert. | [ve all settied now and this old half a buck did It. Col. Heston Bae given up ht Cincinnath and will leave for } icans arm jn arm next Thursday. Into camp on the hoof, with @ laugh, m bringing nim sald the Colonel. Husion, Lyaen | and the Baby Grand got down on ai! Lynch getting one too, over the Colonel's | to-day. “In an agree not of thie importance there ways plunty of discussion pro | and con. Neither Col. Ruppert or my- We were a botter | |The long dixtance wires were down for EX-CHAHAIOM JOS LNNCH GUARANTEES JOHNNY Burt 430,000 FoR & CHANCE AT THE BANTAM TITLE WHEN JOHN BUFE | sane FOR EUROPE | @& flock | @umMed uP % Z mn a Ba ° = z | ‘IT’S WORTH IT! CHEERS -HE SCARCELY HAD CONEY TO RETURN TO" THE STATES KING'S NEW CONTRACT CALLS FO NEARLY $75,000 Copsriaht, 192%, (The New Tork Brening WIth THE STakESs So RICH A&A CONTENDER CAN aktorD TO ReHT for ALHOST HOTHING — THE WORST HE CAN GBT {5 & PASTING (F WE bOskS AMO & FORTUNE 1S ie wis (FF HE With | Pitch Same Old Complaint Already Appears in Training Camp. (stpocial to The LvenigewWorid.» SAN ANTONIO, Ma 6.-—The New York Glunts’ bourd of stratexy the identity of their pitcher when the World's Champions fine up against the Brooklyn Dodgerg-on April 12 at the Polo Grounds. Looks k@Arthur Nehr trom here the only Giant piteher not suffering trom mental, physical or financial iis Just now. Rather tough for a World's Gaam- pilonship team to be worrying About @ pitching staff five blooming weeks | before the season opens, but look over the. situation and’ you'll say there's cause for it. Phil Douglas, the man, who beat back the Pirates twice in one “cru- cial” series in New York last year, and winner of two games in the | World's Si #, Is mot here, He prob- lably wouldn't be of any use if he were here, for he resents bitterly the slur cast on him by the New York market a few weeks ago. Fred Toney isn't here. He is laid up at his home neur Nashville, Tenn., with @ severe case of the “flu.” When he does get out it's going to be some time before he can start training. He can hurdly be counted on to qo any pitching until well along in May, Jess Barnes is here, but he has a big, active, ingrowing grouch with him, Like Douglas, he resents being placed on the auction block for the Highest bidder. It is a, shock to the Kanban’s polse to know that Its eni- Ployers think they can, get along without him, He is training here, but in a dilatory, half-hearted way. He hasn't been asked to sign a contract. And thie has apparently created the impression’ in his mind that there is still a chance of a deal being “pulled” that will land him with some other club, Jess's morale is pretty well shot. That ends the veterans, with the exception of “Red” Causey, who had a bad arm last year, still has it, and, in addition sprained his ankle the other day in a way that, will keep back his training for a matter of two weeks or more. He {s a good pitcher when in shape, but the Giants would have to be pretty hard up to gamble on him o« the opening day. Bill Ryan and Pat Bhea; the class of the youngsters, both had bad arms last year. Shea failed utterly early in the season and was sent out in the American Association. About Aug. 15 he was brought back and pitched fairly well when called on for tlge bal- ance of the season. Ryan did well for half the distance Giants Are Troubled is beginning to worry already us to} ‘The Hoosier southpaw appears to be management in placing him on the} last year, then developed a bad elbow. Some ligament or other was out of place, and he did nothing in the last ing Weakness * easily here, as experts during the win- ter have assured him there is nothing vermanently wrong with the wing; ut no one will know until he beging pitch with all his terrifie speed whether it is going to be “there” or not Virgil Barnes, the youger brother: of Jess, looks like an exceilent pros- pect Just now, but It's hardly prob- able that a kid from the minors will | draw an opening day assignment, und the same goes for Claude Jonnard. the Southern Association star, who has the most experience of ail the | yousters gathered under the big tent | here. & rect Rae Ward Still Fails 'To Sign With Yankees. (Bpectal to The Evening World.) NIEW ORLBANS, March 6.—When Miller Huggins and bis Yankees be- |gin thelr official American League |season at Washington on April 12, Aaron Ward, like the celebrated Babe Ruth and the clouting Bob Meusel, imay be missing from the line-up. The second baseman has not been suspended by Judge Landis for any infraction of rules, but he is a rf FRAZEE'S $350 000 IS TURNED DOWN BY DEMPSEY CANE Manager Kearns States Condi- | tions Under Which He Will Meet Promote’. j INSTEAD OF SON GOING INTO THE FURNITURE BUSINESS — By Neal R Man O° War's brother, Playfellow, which looks like a triumph for the If fact that Jim Jeffries opposes some more page one items: Jack Kearns, manager of Champion Juck Dempsey, to-day tuade his one only reply to Harry Frazee’s $450,000 offer to Dempsey for a fight with Harry Wills. Heretofore Kearns has not been interested in the prop- osition from the owner of the Boston Red Sox. To The Evening World this afternoon the champion’s manager very deliberately said: “if Mr. Frazee will dgree, to post a large and substantial sum of money with The und Southern despatches state that. b: TITES, . . Evening helping of dessert, taking daring lead LIVE WIRES In fact, rainy day training at busebail camps consists of warmin on hot soup, taking healthy swings at tried chicken, sliding into second World) by Press Publishing Compasy. HE WiLe INVEST IT IN & FUER FoR A PusiUSTIC TITLE - O Hara. Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening World) by Press Publishing Co , is scrapped with a lose of $100.00) ermament Conference. Prohibition is news, then bere a * JACK DEMPSEY DIBAR PROVES INCOME TAN. KID M'COY DENOUNCES: BA HELORHOOD, JOHNNY KILBANE RAPS, SMALL PURSES, JACK JOHNSON DISLIKES opscURITY. amers ave lame arms, stiff le: ught backs, sore necks, gnarled handy, limp heads, but GOOD API’L- up toward coffee pot and stealing from TWICE ® Same Old Crowd Sees of Long, Weary Grind, Start By Robert Boyd. v olten been sald New York, veut $s. never | xoos to Somewhere wan- gerne in the stiiiness of the night may be found some of the inhabitants of th the metropolis \ * ave no vegurd 10t nd en ov to turn the into day e minute avter 1 tered Into Madison Square ¢ watch Jack Dempsey, world’s heavy- weight titleholder, fire a shot tnat sent sixteen riders attired in bright colors on their long journey of the Thir- second International Six Day Race will end Saturday night at 10 “hold-out,” and unless the two Col- | onels, Til and Jake, accept his terms, he may while away the summer at his home at Fort gmith, Ark. | Ward, who has been here since ‘Thursday at his own expense, held another important conference with Manager Huggins after yesterday's Practice session, and when the Talk- fest ended the recalcitrant player de- clared that he was going to leave for his home to-night, The second base- man gave out an interview after the conference and said that he was not holding out, but the club was. The*trouble between Ward and the club is thie: Ward wants so much for playing second base this year, not ten TReusand, but between seven and eight. The club is willing to raise the ante a bit over the first contract that Ward recaived, but absolutely refuses to moa the player's terms. Both sides are firm and will not budge an inch. As a matter of fact, in the telegram that Huggins received from headquarters yesterday it in- formed the manager to withdraw all offers’ to Ward unless the player signed immediately. Me Nee. BEGIN WORK ON PARK FOR YANKEE BALL TEAM Necessary preliminary work thot rust be done bofore actual construc- tion can be begun was started to-day on the grounds for the new Yankee baseball park, 144d Street ani River Avenue. By the latter part of this month Major T. H, Birmingham, under whose direction the work ts being done, hopes to begin the excavations for the foot- ings for the piers of the grand stan: The work after thi» will move rapidly, as the making of the grounds fit for u ball field will be carried on at the samy MISTAKE HERE SOME PLACE; two months. He has been working time, so that next Spring will see the Yankees in their own home, MAYBE JOE MEANS BUFF LONDON, March 6,—Joe Beckett, British heavyweight champion, to-day authorized Jack McAuliffe, retired lightweight champion, to challenge Jack Dempsey for the world's heavyweight championship. *“MoAuliffe can challenge Dempsey for me, the fight to be held in America this summer,” Becket said to-day. McAuliffe is returning to Americ. next Saturday on the Aquitania, and he hopes to get Beckett billed with ‘he ehampion for the Fourth of July or ‘Labor Day. —— Princeton Adepts Lacros: PRINCETON, March 6.—Princeton ‘will’ be officially represented in lacrosse thi season for the firet time in years. ‘The sport resurrected last spring in an _teferme! way, hes proved so -popular that 1t has been recognized by the University Athletic Association. Practice will start within the next eleven and lead@r of the ewim- ming team, Sport News At a Glance F, A. Seibert led a field of twenty gunners at the Travers Island traps of the New York A. C. with a card of 97 out of a possible 100. The Fordham basketball team, which closed its son Saturday, out of eighteen: A the high scratch gunner at the traps of the Larch- mont Yacht Club with a total of 94 out of a possible 100. Mrs. Jamea H. Horner of Pittsburgh made a round in 23 in the clock golf tourney at Pinehurst, N. C. Th golfers will par which 0} pate in the open tourna- na to-day. r of the New York University tennis team, has arranged for nine meets for his team this season, five of them to take 8 on the home courts. are a relief driver in the indianapo- have hie own car for the next sweepstakes Golf Asseciation h: mingten Country Club the individual annu to be held June 16, 16 and 17. M, Borotra'won the men's French covered court tennis champion- ship by defeating the former titleholder, J, Brugnon. J.D. Nicklis returned a record score at the traps of te fy awarded to the W championship matches Golf and Country Club with 99 out of a possible annie the battle not being Held as sched- SH aR dining room after laying down jitney rip ___Many oy the $,000_ who set in the at the signing of the articles for 5 a fight between Dempsey and | <n ; y ° ° BY JOHN Ms Wills, and words an agreement in F N d G such a way that in the event of | istic CWS roricce Ot orele * uled Dempsey can collect the money I'll sign for the cham- pion ina minute. That's the only way I will do business with Mr, Frazee. “I have just had a wire from Frazee at Hot Springs saying he will call me to-day. Why he LOSE FIRST GAME {ih me Hore nersunally, 68 vs | BASKETBALL‘RESULTS, © | only through the newspapers and I said I wasn't interested in it. SUNDAY GAMES. Brooklyn Five, 27; Original Ceiti He might have submitted the k proposition personally. Starling Greys, 41; Spartan Big Five, Kearns indicated that Frazee's offer looked to him like a bid for advertis- 1% | Van Nest Vive, 36: Wic Wac Tive, t ing for Mr. Krazee, Inasmuch as it|,gVQr 2P4 Post: 21: Ascension Aces, | contained no business-like details. |""Community Couneil, 15; Corrigan | The latest statement that he will post | Separates, 12. $2 to every one that Kearns puts up| Assumption Triangles# 23: Donbury makes the fight look like a dice game | Separates, 16. to Kearns, who asks, “Why should] State Bank, 42; Battery Park Na- tional Bank, 12 Original Italian Five, 87; Downtown Cc. C., 14. I'm not the Lyceum, $2; Prookiyn i EDDIE O’HARE KILLED BY FALL FROM ROOF LEWISTON, Me., March 6.—Edward O'Hare, a light heavyweight pugilist of New York, is dead in a hospital here of injuries recetved when he attempted @ somersault from the roof of a camp at Sabattus Lake, He landed so as to dislocate several vertebrae. Paralysis followed. O'Hare had accepted an offer to fight Gene Tunney, by whom he was defeated in a Christmas Day bout at Madison Square Garden. He was twenty-one years old ——>__ ENGLISH LACROSSE TEAM Dodgers, * 24, Visitation, $1; Powers Brothe: The Original Celtics were defeated for the first time this year by another New York City team, the Brooklyn Basketball Five. Although the Broo\- lynites displayed an unusual brand of basketball, the loss must be attributed to the very poor form of the cham- pionship team. Holman and Beck- man falled to score on several at- tempts. Barry, Leonard and Dehnert| all had apportunities to gain a victory for their team but something was lacking. Perhaps the absence Brnie Reich and the thought of that great player served as the cause for the lack of speed and ability which has always accompanied the games in which the Celtics have participated, The largest number of spectators that ever witnessed any kind of a con- test In Brooklyn was admitted to the game at Arcadia Hall, Many of the fans had only casual glances at the game because the crowd was so large. MacDowall Lyceum subdued the Brooklyn Dodgers by the score of to 24 in the afternoon game held Palm Garden yesterday Powers Brothers quintet bowed down before the Visitation Triangles, Tho Brooklyn team met with strong opposition but after a fast offense which was started toward the latter part of the contest the Visitations were able to score a $1 to °8 victory over the Jerseyites. In the Metropolitan League, Mac. WHITE SOX BUSINES: Ger| Dowall heads the lst of the standing Pe ane of the teams with an average of .443. The lacrosse team of Oxford Univer- sity, England, which will make an in- vasion of the United States this spring, playing eleven games, will be seen in Brooklyn on April This date has been designated as the close of the tour here, and calls for a gume with the Crescent A. C, team at the latter's grounds in Bay Ridge. Great interest has been aroused among lacrosse fans and intercollegiate sport followers in general over the com'ng appearance of the English team ere, and the Cre3- cent A. C, is already at work on plans to {ake care of the big crowd expected at the game, The Brooklyn ven defeated @ combined Oxford-Cambridee team here in 1904, and twenty-five years ago went to England, where they played cleven games in thirteen days. — Fthe club's regular weekly boxing show A match has been made by Matci- maker Flournoy for’a feature bout of fifteen rounds between Charley White of Chicago and Johnny Dundee at the Garden on March 17. Matchmaker Montleth of the Olpy A. of Philadelphia offers the fight fans of that city another important set of bouts for to night, Joe Benjamin, the clever Cultfornia lightweight, will hook up with Joe ‘Tiplitz of Philadelphia-in the feature bout of eight rounds. It should be a hard fought battle, Four other bouts will precede {t. George “'Young’’ Erne, the Buffalo fighter haw called off his elght-round bout. with Hymle Gold, the California fighter, Senich Was slated to be fought at the Ice Palace of Philadelphia to-morrow night. Matchmaker Paulding is now busy trying to secure au op- ponent to take Erne'’s place and go against the clever Californian. Lew Tendler, the crack Philadelphia light- weight, will make his first appearance in a bout in Brooklyn at the Rink Sporting Club on next Saturday night, He will gowagainst Johnny Sheppard, the Bnglish lightweight, in the feature bout of twelve rounds, Mike Carrier, the New York welterweight, meets Ttallan Joe s of Brooklyn in the sem!- final of twelve rounds: Champion Johnny Buft is now booked up for two fights. On Friday night he meets Roy Moore of St. Paul in the main go of eight rounds at the 4th Regiment Armory, rhile in the other go he battles Joe Lynch for the bantamweight title in a@ fifteen-round crap at Madison Square Garden on March to receive a guarantee of contest, Midget Smith, who {# clamoring for @ fight with Johnny Buff for the bantam- welght titte, {8 in fine condition for his twelve-round go with Frankie Daly of Staten Island at the Ploneer Sporting Club Johnny Darcy moets Jack for twelve rounds in the ‘Wille Ryan vi to-morrow night. Bernstein final yeni Larry Goldberg and Bloack in the other A match has beon clinched betwewt Dave Shade, the creck welterweight of California, and Jimmy Jones of Youngstown, O, They will come together in a twelve-round go at & show to be brought off at Canton, O., on March 17. DUNDEE, NOT LEONARD, Frank Garden, Flourney, hus clinched two important den patrons. Unable to ger tAG The Dodgers are second with .615 CHICAGO, Mareh €.—John 4 sixty-two, business manager” of the | Brooklyns are third Pua 600. The White Sox, died here yesterday. He} Knights, Visitation® and = Power was on the Comiskey staff for twenty- Brothers teams are all below the .400 two years, mark, Conahan, Johnny Dundee. The other match will bring together the bantamweight ehampion, Johnny Buff, and Joe This bout is to take At the Broadway Exhibition Association TO MEET WHITE IN GARDEN matchmaker at the boxing bouts for Madison Square Gar- Benny Leonard to meet Charley White for the lightweight champlonship March 17, he did the next best thing and substituted three r later, March 20. | of Broo! clever 1 againnt of Bri and other good fighter class, Wolf Larson | in @ fen-round bout ght, Augie t oof Hark to-nl meets J MMs trouble. Keiser was loudly. applauded by the large crowd of fight fang for the game battle he put up agatnst Tunney | Those two good bantamwelglits of Hariem, Sammy Nable and Frankie Jerome, are again. ‘They have been ker Flournoy y conten to clash tn one be fought at > They battled « reat tevelve-round go at the Star Sporting Club. of Harlem, the judges giving Jerome the decision, Nable is sure he will beat Jerome in their coming fight jis for the fifteen-round bout be: Joe Lynch and champion Johnny Butt ¢ Dantamweight championship title at the Gardeh on March 20, have finally been clinched, Eddie MM manager of Lynch, has posted a certified check calling for $20,000, which he will give to Buff for his chance to have Lynch battle him for the Utle. Mead accepts 65 per cent. of the Brose ‘re loss the State tax. Leo Flynn, former matchmaker of Madi- son Square Garden Sporting Club, has moved into lle new office in the Gaiety Building, at 45th Street and Broadway, where he will transact his business in the future. Flynn js at present the manager of eighteen fight- ers. celemesentiee=y case me! Some Shooting. Missing only his twenty-first “bird,” J. D. Nicklis returned a record score at the traps of the Pelham Golf and Country Club yesterday, He took the shoot with total of 99 out of @ poa- sible 100 targets. By Thornton Fisher WE RECEIVED FoR BEING UCKEO WHAT THE CHAMPION WILLARD RECEIVED AND SUFFERED LESS PUNISHMENT Favorites Flash Speed In Garden Six-Day Race} YO GET HIS CHANCE AT WILLARD, DEMPSEY 6e¥ BUT 4 27000 WILLARD RECEIVED #100,000 arena vround the newly constructed {pin fashionably who appars home from Saucer track were dressed men und women ently their the theatre or Sunday night concert. High up in the galle close to t* iron trusses of the great amphithea were on wa: tre, were the youngsters of the city who never mise the start of they the six |day race. Vormert were ot | hand to witness one ar, but Jduring the last few years they have been conducting a winter and spring |grind'’ and still the youngsters fail to stay uw the Sand plays aly the popular airs the familias sound of the announcer’s voice tn |forms the crowd of the money do nated for the sprints and the winners. of the prize money. ‘ The sixteen teams got off to a roll ing start. After circling the track @ few times Dempsey pulled the trigge: of his gun. Ray Baton of the Exe: Eaton team was the first rider to set the pace, He tore around the trach jat a dizzy puce, but was relieved lates by Goullet, Magin, Kaiser and Law- rence. | Under the Berlin point scoring sys tem endurance he important or that will go a long Way toward termining the wirmer next aD urday night, Baton, who is the fastWy est short distance rider in the, face, |with his partner Hex, it they cap stand the strain, will have man; ‘heekers when the last hour of the is announced will tx | rave |Grave of Penn Captures Lead ; In Basketball Tommy Cullen, Dartmouth’s left for- ward, is back in bis old place at the head of the individual scorers of the Intercollegiate Basketball League. Hin position is none too comfortable wit Bit] Grave of Penn advancing steadily three points iv the rear. , Bob Pulleyn, Columbia's star guard, dropped from first place to third in w wee's, which was noticeable for the big scores run up by both Cullen and Grave Art Loeb of Princeton managed {o squeeze Johnny Lurther of Cornell 011 of fourth p e by a mere point, Grave's stock took a decided jump torward during the week and his prot. pects were never brighter, Cullen leading him by three points, with a advantage of having played in one mor! game. It will be an easy matter for th: Red and Blue leader to collect the heeded quota, The team results underwent no ra cal change. Penn and Princeton # still setting the pace, with the fori slightly ahead, due to the fact that 1! Philadelphians have faced eight opn nents while the Tigers have only countered seven. =i bade SE HOW COLLEGES STAND IN BAS- KETBALL. Colleges, Won. Lost! P. C. 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