The evening world. Newspaper, April 14, 1922, Page 31

SHELL WINS . ‘ THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1922. OTHER SPORTING NEWS AND THEN LOSES ~ AT PINEHURST ath and South ! South Golf Tour- nament Is Proving Har- vest for the Honors, ~~ FOR OPENING OF SPORT STADIUM Velodrome at 225th St. and Broadway Ready for Bike Meet May 30. [NEHURST, N. C., April 14—Ray- Bidwell and Josiah Wheelwright Longwood Cricket Club, Boston, fished one of the surprises of the h and South lawn tennis cham- metiip yesterday when they de- Beals C. Wright and 8. Howard hell by a score of g—3, 6—4 In the Anal round of the men’s doubles ment. : Voshell continued to win in the men’s and will meet G. Carlton Shafer Philadephia on Sseturday for the ppionship. Voehell defeated Wheel- t at 61, 8—8 and Shafer, who is Bahama Islands champion, beat hard W. Seabury of Boonton, N. J., 6—2, 6—1. foshell is also in the final bracket of mixed doubles as he and Mrs. Marion inderstein Jessup defeated Miss Helen Meaudeau and Bidwell at 7—5, 7— the semi-finals of this event. They 1 meet Miss Lilian Scharman and bury, who defeated Miss Florence Nin and Shafer py a score of 3-6, 3, 7-5. . D, Jones and nis son, Arnold, of dence, reached the final round of men's doubles by defeating Shafer Fred Baggs at 6—4, 6—1. ‘oshell played better tennis fn singles match with the tall Wheel- ht than tie has shown all week even wh he did falter distinctly in the ond. and allowed his opponent to e within a single point of squaring match when Wheelwright led at , and had an easy volleying shot to o with a wide opening in Voshell’s » In his anxiety to score a “kill,” er, Wheelwright sent the ball far of court. hereafter Voshell speeded up, fore- the net with great strength and othering returns by heavy bombard- nts overhead and sharp volleying ssions. He won five of the next six es, giving him the set at $—6 and he match. Shafer was not so hard pressed tn his neounter with Seabury, holding a safe dat all times. Seabury:was making many errors to stand a chance ainst the accuracy and clever court cles of Shafer, who tempted his man frequently with tricky shots and was lways ready to take advantage of the penings in the opposite court, It was partly the veteran Wright's Inability to finish off his points and partly Voshell’s wildness at critical yes that caused their defeat by Bid- ell and Wheelwright. ft —_———- REAK EAGLE SHOT OF CHICAGO GOLFER CHICAGO, April 14.—James Car- berry, profeasional at the La Grange | olf Club, brought back the strang- )) BP est freak shot trom his winter golf- ng in Florida thus far recorded. On fhe 550-yard fifth hole of the High- Park, Florida, club, Carberry ulled his drive into the rough 270 ds from the tee, He sent a 260 d brassie straight down the cdze pt the rough and failed to get on the rway. He then pitched a mashie nto the cup, thereby scoring an eagle without having been on the fairway the green ‘at all. For the tyro, it pight be explained that gn eagle ts peore two strokes better than par, Announcement was made to-day by John Ringling and Inglis M. Uppercu, Joint owners and promoters of the New. York Velodrome, that the new sport stadiim situated at 226th Street and Broadway, will be opened Decoration Day night (May 30), at 8.80 o'clock, with a series of cham- plonship bicycle sprint races in which speed stars the world over will! com- pete. The combination bleycle, boxing and athletic arena is in course of con- struction under the direction of John M. Chapman, and will be com- pleted In a very short time. Chap- man will arrange the bike competi- tions for the entire mimmer and tn conjunction with Messrs, Ringling and Uppercu supervise the other attrac- tions. The track for the cycle races meas- ures six laps to the mile, making it the fastest of its kind in the world. Manager Chapman has decided to hold the races every Tuesday and Friday evenings of each week at 8.30 o'clock. Fifteen thousand people can be ac- commodated and seated comfortably for the bike and athletic contests and ten thousand additional for the box- ing bouts, The foot racing cinder- path will be Iocated Inside the bike track. Arrangements are being per- fected for the showing of various national and metropolitan champlons in this particular sport. To encourage amateur cyclists and in celebration of the opening Mana- ger Chapman will present the winner of the two-mile handicap race with an automobile. This prize should attract a record entry of future greats. While Babe Ruth fs sitting in the Brand stand dressed in “Civvies, watching his teammates fail ine the pinches where he himself might suc- ceed, the work of petitioning for the Big Crowds on Hand For Golf Opening Most Activity at Wan Cort- landt, Although Threaten- ing Weather Keeps Field Down. By William Abbott. It was the golfers turn yesterday to open a season. Without any frills or flourishes the city's three public courses at Van Cotriandt, Mosholu and Pelham were opened for play. It was the start of continuous golfing that will last until next October, when the total number of rounds played will easily reach two hundred thousand. The most casted throughout northern sections of the clty that the public links were once again open and that mashies mad men could now do their worst after a winter of enforced idleness from their favorite sport. Pelham and Mosholu had their opening, quiet like but none the less interesting to scores of players of both sexes who indulged in the pastime of trying to hit a golf ball a mile. Edward McDonald, in charge of Van Cortlandt, told the writer that the links now are in the best shape of tho last five or six Temporary greens will be used until about May 1, whew the regular greens will be made available. According to McDonaid these regular greens will be a revela- tion to public links golfer OLD GREENS NEEDED REPAIR- ING. activity was at Van The old greens were badly damaged being perfect golf, while a birdie|Cortlandt, There was no ‘formal | toward the end of the 1921 season be- @ score one under par for the hole.|ceremony, due to the absence ‘in|cause of the ravages of crows that +. Florida of Bronx Park Commissioner | made @ continuous attack on the tur! q “ a. | to tear out some sort of grub worm EW YORK GOLFERS Joseph P. Hennessy, who In past sea ppealed to their appetites. This MIGHT COPY IDEA|*2"s ushered in tho annual pro- from an unexpceted enemy put additional labors on work o duri the park fall mont gramme by hitting the first ball off the starting tee. , April 14,—Chicago Imost entirely reseeded the sree Cage tes W 5°} ‘rhe honor of driving off the open-| Tye seouine was wore euceneshul a women golfers have organized a he Keeding Was \ necessful and Haws of public inks players of their| Ns Shot yesterday fell to Dr, Gould, a} tue turf has grown in like so much sex to hold interclub tournaments this|regular Van Cortlandt devotee, who | velvet season. So many women play over| early took his stance on the first tee} . Waue eff neentrated on Chicago's numerous free courses that the greens considerable new seeding at 9.30 and walloped a short drive i 7 ag done on the fainways, which now, “i Henchaient with tore than dbo play straight down the fairway. Almost oe in splendid oc: tion. No addi- crs entered. While there are no|before a little groupJ of spectators,} ‘tional traps and by 3 were in- (xperts of national fame among the|goifers, caddies and attendants stopped |*'@!!*4 niu tl _ foapene Wan pea woman's par. partner, sent another little white pill / Mrs. C. Ray Hartman, whose son}on jis journey of the links and the made a fine showing in last year's olfers to Western amateur championship, is President of the organization, whicl viready has goodly representation in four park clubs. season was under wa: Exactly 100 golfers—men, women and children—teed off during the first three hours. This number did not quite come up to expectations because ce divots officials didn't t derstandin; y at eve a large r ’ the sod." snorant a Golf Association to See That Spee-|of threatening weather and doubt falower ae ie. ee Be Tey He iabouy tatory Kay Fee. whether the municipal links would be} 78 Stiaue i on pha The Country Club of Brookline, host} opened yesterday or Saturday, as or-|¢ =a of th ortle 9 the amateurs who will compete in|iginaily announced by the park au- Tig 40) date Guannndacernity thorities. While uncertainty prevailed in some uarters, the regulars who swat the ttle ball around in all kinds of weather were promptly on the job. he next amateur championship, does e with the recent ruling of the ‘nite, States Golf Association, which ould make the golfer pay and pay and have been issued at $10 a permit. This, is just double the rate of last year, but Foreman McDonald expects the num- ber this year will be as large as 121 bey for leg ching the : yermits were issued. This i Seon skate Tai lng 5 A. | Among the carly Dievers were J. Reld ene Eo ante Re Lateral the Shairman of the Golf Com-|Callanan, A, H. Wedge, R. H. Bige-} number of daily permits at $1. low, H. F. M ‘elsh, Mark Smith, L. D. Mulligan, M. Cummings, who came all the way over from Brooklyn to be in the opening party; A. Baum and Dan Hall. Of course, Charlle Marshall, one of the longest drivers at Van Cortlandt, was presenta He crowded into a typl- cal fussy foursome that consisted of Fred Flar, Mark O'Re!lly and Dave McConnell, Brookiir points out that owned by the Brook- ine Club and that it may be a dificult potter to keep the poor but determined Ase from seeing the tournament with- the price of admission. Ne “United State Golf Association, pparently not liking the army game pessing the buck, has accepted all police” duties necessary to making the ectators Day up im all three of the idnal championships, and those who In all, the park officials fully figure on over 200,000 rounds of golf over the city links this year. Tho increase comes mostly from youths of both sexes who continue to show increasing interest in the old Scottish sport, PRACTICE COURSE IS NEEDED, What {s most needed at Van Cort- landt, according to Foreman MeDon- > not have the bought ld fc ald, is a nine-hole practice course nignitying that they peapenines ONE GIRL IN KNICKERBOCKERS. | where the beginners could master the H scood standing will be given the] Miss Mildred Wellman, who thinks fundamentals of the game. As It is pifer's rush, This 1s much more nerve} nothing of going around Van Cort-|now the novices swarm out on thy king than the lowbrow bum's rush dulged in y the bourgeoise, inasmuch the’ use of masmnes and niblicks is lowed and divots do not have to be placed, régular links and block traffic wit their slow methods. With a practice course considerable of the frightful congestion en Saturdays’ Sundays and holidays would be materially relieved. landt in the low eightles which usu- ally beats most of her masculine op- ponents, was on the job at noontime eager to try out a new tvory-fave driver that Santa Claus brought. In —___>——- ¥ fact there were quite a few fair golf-| In formar years it has been necessary TO-NIGHT’S SCHEDULE ers: who showed timidity about dis-|for golfers secking an early round to closing their identity, especially a|be at the park by daylight as the only IN HEADPIN TOURNEY pee Service, Dewars . Mary's, Newark. Night Owls, Newark: Fort Lee (N. J.) Five without bob-haired miss who sported an at- ans of getting away m4 tractive pair of brown knickerbockers which added to the difficulties of con- testants to keep their eye on the ball In the afternoon session golfers 1e- P, RR. ¥.M.C.A., Jersey City ported in inereasing numbers. m-|A rie Company —. ulated no doubt by clearing weather and news that was quickly broad- > Fricke Wesleyan Captain, MIDDLETOWN, Con April Fricke r bgpn electe 7 yApsity baseball team BABE ROTH FANE slugger's re-instatement is still going on, Ten thousand names of fans who ro Interested in the re-instatement of the Babe have already been sent to Baseball Commissioner Landis and Fistic News and Gossip By John Pollock Champion Johnny Dundee and Bobby Barrett, the sensational light welterweight of Philadelphia have been signed up by fight promoter Pawling -of Philadetphia to meet in the main event of eight rounds at the Ice Palace of Philadelphia on May 4 Dundee is also booked up to go against Herman Smith, the Buffalo lightweight, in a twelve-round battle at the big auditorium at Buffalo, N. Y., under the auspices of the Queens be: A. C, of that city on Monday evening, May 1. A fnatch has been arranged between Young Montreal and ‘Terry Martin, good bantamweights of Providen t They will meet in a fifteen ound contest at an open-air boxing show to be brought off at the Cycledrome of Providence on th night of May 19. Montreal also fights Danny Lee at the Commonwealth Club of Hariem on Saturday “nigh Charley Harvey, who looks after (ho ests of Billy Wells, the English we In- Welght, to-day signed lls to KO against Paul Doyle of Boston in one of t three ten-round contests to be staged the Arena A, of Boston on 1 Harvey ts of the opinion that Wells will beat Doyle, Former Bantamwelght Champion Pete Herman+of New Orleans was matehed te day by his manager, Sammy Goldman, to go against Roy Moore of St. Paul in th wind-up of ten rounds at th Arena A. ( of Boston on April 24. Herman ts « bik favorite in Hoston. and the bout will ably attract a big crowd of fans. Bonny Vaigar, the juntor lightwe Now York, has been booked up for two 1 fights by his manager, Frank Casale. H first will be with Frankle Hritt of Ne Bedford at the Mass. Eun Rink at New Hed on Wednesday night, and his with Phil Logan at the Ol, ‘ Jamestown, Pa., on April 28 That good Uttle tighter from Califor Habe Herman, the Junlor lightwel: wil hook up with Al. Shubert, the vetera for lightweight of New Bedford, ten-round contest at the my Boston on the night of April 2 will probably have no troubl Shubert. A: ©. 6 Freddie Welsh, former lightweight iF ton, who boxes Agchle Walker of 1 in @ ten round &o at the Rink <j Club of Brooklyn to-morrow night, brating his seventh anniversary performer in the’ aquared circle Kohler of Ridgewood takes on Johnny 1 There throe profess! b shows Madtson next n first will be or vecond Muy 8 and the third May Boxing Commission has granted the Gard offictals permission to hold one week on May 2 and May 6. will be held there during the w 8 and May 13 on account of the Mae holding ® carnival, The much discussed champior b between Champion Johnny Dundeo and Vi" cent “Pepper? Martin of Brooklyn probably be staged at the open air show to be held by the Brooklyn Bs Club officials at Ebbets Field in Bro on Saturday afternoon, May 13. officials expecta to got its license fror Boxing Commiasion next week two shows | No « xl Peto Hayes, thy east side kn: will box Johnny Holmes xt th Regiment Armory to-morrow Paul Doyle and Barney Ada: 1 to box one of & Club, Boston, Apri! 24 he Ar rend, taht again better than tot weight champion. DATEANNOUNGED Home eee eee Him o~ five thousand more will him by the end of this steady flow Landis takes matter. some What a Change in Conditions At Bowie in Just a Few Years! Once a Handful goers Saw the Ra Now It’s Thousands. will continue until Judge action tournament, begun yesterday, advanced auickly by play and by defaults. After Q. A. Shaw McKean and G, R. Fea ing of this city had’ won by default from Fulton Cutting of New York, and partner, It was announced that the former wonld have to default also be- cause of the death of Melkean’s father, Asa result Hewitt Morgan and Payne Whitney of New York go into the final round without contest. ——————— Katry for Preakness Passes That of Derby. Practically every three-year-old colt and filly thelr owners and trainers think well of is included im tho list of 124 nominations for ‘Tho Preakness, the Maryland Jockey Club's $50,000 race which will be run on the same day as}: the Kentucky Derby, May 18, The let- ter fixture closed with ninety-two en- tries A glance over the lst of entries, the books of which closed on Monday, shows sixty-four different-nominator, rhe Greentree Stable and the Quincy Stable lead with five entries each, with H. P. Whitney, Edward Whitney, the Rancocas Stable, R, Bradley, who has entered his horses under th ‘ame of the Idle Hour Stock Farm, and the Lexington Stable next with four each. Morvich also has been named, though Benjamin Block, his owner, fortnight ago that barring the colt would be a sure rter in the Kentucky Derby. Of the 125 close to thirty are consid- ered contenders, and eliminating thoae that are most probable to start in tho Kentucky classic there are still enough left worth paying the $1,000 starting fee for ‘The Preakness, which ts at one mile and an eighth, a furlong shorter than the Kentucky Derby, will be worth in the neighborhood of $50,009 to the win- ner and as an additional prise the Woodlawn Vase will go to the oWner to be held for a year. es Trotting Horses Aplenty. It is estimated that 15,000 trotters and pacers are in training for the har- ness racing season in this country and Canada, ‘They will appear on approxi- mately 1,000 tracks, many of which will not permit betting. ship Tournament at the White Ble- phant Bowling Atademy last night, when they registered the team total of 629, ‘The team, which is made up of Seewagen, Frank, Nopper, Heil man and. Paynter, all rolled over the 100 mark, Fifteen teams bowled and out of this’ number eleven bowlers were re- warded with Eventing World Sterling silver fobs for having connected with the headpif a sufiglent number of times to score 100 or more. Crowell of the Hillerest. of Staten Island started off with 103, being followed in turn by McGurk, United States Steet Products No. 1, 104; Schwartz, Mutu- al Bowling Club No. 1, 100; Kaul, Hartley House No. 1, 105; Bulloss, be sent to week, The give you wonderful in the self because he didn't wager the bo- nus on Sister Flo, instead of permit- ting her to run for the purse. of Race- ces Run, Dick Pending, the former steeple- chase rider, who has acted as track superintendent of the Bowle track S U — comm FW YORK-BROO KLYN-BRONX-NEWA, RK* RITCHIEs CORNELL 138 West 23d St.—And All Our Other Stores Adirowes’ PRT, REET 81 Harmonie Bowling Club No.1 N Leader of Headpin Tourname HE Harmonfe Bowling Club, No. | Hartley House No. 1, 108; MORGAN AND WHITNEY I 1, of Billle Cordes's Grand | attomte, Brooklyn, 104) Harmanic, Brooklyn, 103; IN FINAL AT BOSTON tral Bowling Alleys, Brook-|tfarmonte, Brooklyn, 109$ lyn, topped the Astoria No. 2 team's} Harmonie, Brooklyn, 101; ter, ROSTON, April 14—The National] nich mark of 607 in The Evening] Harmonie, Brooklyn, 22; Kenny, court tennis doubles ehamplonshiP} wor tteadpin. Rowling Champlon-|edsewood, Brooklyn. 101. * TRE FINEST IN for Men, Women & Chil neortul, Fee tra | a a: "BRONX CRED Cor. 149th St. —One Flint 0 yENINGS eee Third Av. 2880 Third OPEN CLOTHING CLOTHING CO. Ati Care, "L." ‘and Subway at Our Doors, To-morrow—Important SALE!! Right at the height of the season we values because you can appreciate them most CHOICE OF ANY MEN’S AND YOUNG MEN’S READY-TO-WEAR i BALTIMORE, April 14—Time was] since the inauguration of racing when every one considered the Bowie HA ed always found time to de- . : voto his spare hours to the schooling course th Se Ng ee a all the! of a few stecplechasé prospect, Last Maryland tracks. The real folks! year he developed Shoal into one of IN OUR simply didn’t.attend, Attendance was| tho best performers of the Maryland confined strictly to the hard boiled] fcuson. | Now he hie declared his tn- T T ie a \ a ention of shipping the five graduates #68 and the swima-river-to-get-to-| o¢ his Iittle jumping class to New EN IRE S OCK a-racetrack class, Just a few years,| York for the summer season, With and an improved rail service attracted} Shoal a eandidate for all the rich enators congres en ants and public ser shipped to Maple Hels ind, where a fou May 6, The Parkersburg nee Col burgh last season carrie ers through a prosp Trainer Billy ses in one race yest option on Lang’s Flo in the fifth rac ns 0} nb couldn't lose.” Flo had a chanec eoret of Ailliro's at ' rom geve 4 for the x and Burt Tien Burtwchel began a class of Washingtonians who had the reputation for changing their col-}] A. F. Dayton, the wily fox of the ince every dayl. Two yoniw 'ags Wis No, 2 circuits, came near regis- i eee tering another of his periodical coups elite appeared so often that a club-} wien Our Betsy in the sixth race fe house was built, and Bowie finally] terday, Soon after the comeback men was accepted into the big league.| arrived at the course the wires be- Members of the Jockey Club were fre.] ¢4me hot with commissions being re- turned from all parts of the country quently in attendance, army men for the filly. ll racing luck defcated racedstheir horses over It me of] her by about two lengths, Dayton is the biggest Eastern stables gent] One of the odd characters of the turf, : Se ae vartios. | Sent as the Sphinx, having a noddin, alvisions of thelr strings to particl-|¢ custntanco with many, Dut speak: pate in the autumn term. Yesterday} ing one with very few. He Is the there were delegates from every walk] shining example of the lone hand in life rubbing elbows—United States} Player, While other horses are at the army ‘om about every department of Washington. The stage|1Y for the carly programmes of the next town, ‘The first 'veek of any ox- ‘as represented by Raymond Hitch- was represented by Raymond Hitch-) ionauq mecting finds the Dayton cock and baseball had its dear Babe] horses on their toes, always running Ruth, And all were present because] well after the wires have Issued the Howie has made itself worthy of such} Warning, and then they pass out of patronage with its clean sport, None] ‘he Public eye until the HA end of Lethe eal bias cpatale! Viana | the Session, waiting until the others Burtschell ed It when he was as H steeplechase stakes. top of their form during the mid- meetings everywhere Dayton’s are ¥] being indulged or freshened secrotive- colonels M have started movirx toward the next Made To Your Measure Regularly $30, $35, $40, $45 SUITS Hermnnacenkline and J.B) town, Then, like the eagle, they muy th alee and upst Joominute stu. | D@ expected to swoop down to corral - their prey. jents of every angle of the paddock es . and atable have. joined swith Geermel seauee Bentner Waa forced to, 4ike A wonderful variety of new one, two, Brown i, ine rat ea ‘| mount from Hobey Baker yesterday three and four-button models in finest representative to keep the sport clean} when Mavourneen's tiying heels con- - to a degree. Bowie's raving record 18] nected with bis thinly booted foot. matetials for men and young men. one of the best arguments in fuvor of] The injury was so painful that the 7 employment everywhere of pro-| stewards ordered Hobey'a trainer to All Sizes, jonal stewards. Their v pres- |select another boy and Gantner tuened j ence acts ag a Warning to the mer-|the colors over to little Wallace Including Shorts and Stouts. vena and tear rise ‘or them where ntner later assured horsemen that 5 : ludacity would take {ts place were|he would be able to fill to-day’s en- In Our Custom Tailoring Dept. he honorary guardian serving PF: ements. ’ ’ Bier corigeia nigie caine +t Men’s and Young Men’s ways for some 0! t | rity have already been sh t | 3-Pi Havre de Grace. Others will follow Manufacturer Closing Out | t ht, while some others will be 10,000 Pairs Pants | ay meeting acing held at and tracks e us and Pitts- Made in Average 4 many own- i summer $3 00 Any mae on two tay. 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