The evening world. Newspaper, June 16, 1922, Page 26

j / __THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1922, _ GOLFERS SHOULD FOLLOW THE LEAD OF TENNI Money Demands of Fighters of To-Day Put Them Out of 4 New York’s Reach. LL fighters talk nowadays is money, and they, ere after every dollar in sight. Their estimates of thelr services have be- come so staggering that promoters like Tex Rickard has found that gate receipts of places like Madison Square Garden and even the new Velodrome, on upper Broadway, with its seating capacity of 26,000, are much too small to, pay them ‘for their settos and in- sure a profit. There was a time when fighters like Fitzsimmons, Jeffries, Corbett, Mc- Coy, Sharkey, Lavigne, Dixon and MeGovern were glad of the oppor- tunity to battle twenty rotinds and mobre at the old Garden or at Coney Island for losers’ ends of receipts which were record-breaking at $60, 00d, How different now. Take the Leonard-Tendler match for instance. It should be held in New York, where a decision could be*ren- dered under the law if it goes the limit, but there ts no place here to seat the thousands who may, want to. wee it. Two years ago Madison Square might have been big enough, but since then the country evidently has gone fight mad or promoters, fighters mént run away with them. At the Garden a full House would mean something ‘like $126,000 in re- celpts, but don’t think for a minute that either Leonard or Tendler would become enthusiastic over that paltry sum. The way they figure their im- Portance as fistic attractions $125,000 wouldn't pay one of them. IHAT’S why Rickard has to go to the renowned Thirty Acres in Jersey City with this bout. Top price for the best seats over there is $15, while in New York $25 may be charged for champloschip contests, but a place that will hold 90,000 as inst the . biggest. arena in New York with its 26,000 accommodations easily offsets the $10 difference. Early inthe dickering for the Leon- ard-Tendler fight, Rickard found Tendler’s manager repudiating a guarantee of $62,000 for his end. It is gaid he went as high as $100,000 in his demands. Only guessing at what Ionard would be entitled to under this condition, it is easy to see where even a Rickard would get off unless the fight draws nearly half a million. Where all concerned get the ideas of the drawing powers of a couple of lightweights is a mystery to us. Wil- jiam Muldoon, Chairman of the New York State Boxing Commission, says the sport's patronage has fallen off 40 per cent. Evidently Rickard, Leon, ard, Tendler and Company don’t agree with him. A in this column about a month 0 that he would be in good condition for a fight with Dempsey in September, Jess Willard now ad- mits he has been communicating with ‘Tex Rickard on the arrangement of # return battle with his conqueror, What Willard hoped to gain by beating around the bush in the mat- ter is a mystery. Not only has he had plans all set for a Aght with Dempacy ip the fall, but he has been traini for it in a preliminary way. He is becoming dangerously near ridiculous. however, by accusing Dempsey of trying to sidetrack him. There is nothing Jack would we) come more than another shot at Big Jess, though he admits that Willard is a big, strong fellow who hit him harder in that third round at Toledo than he ever was hit by anybody. At that time, however, Willard was too jate and didn’t realize that he had a chance of turning the tide. N the style of posting $2,600 for, felts with the Boxing Commis- sion, accompanying a bona fide chal- lenge to Johnny Kilbane, and Harry Wills has done likewise in seeking a chance at Dempsey, our old friend, Gene Tunney, has adopted the same method of forcing Harry Greb to give him another chance to regain the American light heavyweight cham- pionship. FTER denying the story printed OW that Johnny Dundee has set Boxing Board and they will probably get action. The commission has re- corded Tunney’s bid for a bout with Greb as the first legitimate one made and as such ts entitled to earliest consideration from the Pittsburgh ‘wildcat. ‘Tunney has found thet it isn't good policy to be too considerate in this qase and he and his wonderfully good friends are determined to force the 4 pus with Gren. IMPROVES PENNANT CHANCES OF GANTS Great Improvement of Twirl- ers Responsible for Team’s Big Spurt. By Bozeman Bulger. ORDING to John J. McGraw, who went across the field last evening skylarking with his champs, the Giants are in better posl- tion to win another flag for New York to-day than they have been at any time since Johnny Rawlings made the play that put the Yanks on the skids in the World's Series last fall. “Four-fitths of baseball is pitch- ing,” says the Glant chief, the last few weeks I was beginning to think it was about five-fifths.”” The recent slump, the frequent loss of games, even the nervousness of the infleld, veterans say, were entirely, due to a slump in the pitching that ap- peared to have no end, Old and young alike got cobwebs in their con- trol. It looked as if they would never come to a full stop and change trains. With the invasion of the Western clubs things began to change. With- in the last week or ten days nearly every twirler on the club has turned in a good game—old, young and ‘‘me- dlocre,’’ as Josh Devore used to say. As a result the Giants have won ht out of nine games from these Western hordes, who threatened to overrun our fair land. The only, club bs. Graw last night, that we've had a young pitcher to come around and be that boy has won He 4 been stacked against the best in the league now He is the goods. That means a new addition to the staff of champ pitohers, a thing that was not even figured in the spring calculations. It means that the Giants a jurer of winning another pennant right now than they have been at any time since the experts started picking them in 'the spring. They already had the offense. Every regular player, you know, is a .300 hitter. All they needed was pitching just a little above the average. This kind of pitching they did not begin to get until the old boys, in the face of danger, began hurling the pill against the Cubs and the Reds to stand off the present invasion In the opening game against the Pirates Shuffling Phil Douglass reeled off a beauty, shutting the Pittsburgh - ers out in that one-bided slaughter of Wednesda: Previous to that Jesse Barhes had pitche@ a corker and se had Artie Nehf. . Yesterday it could be seen that the Pirates were going to pitch Babe Adams, that old master who bobs up at unforeseen moments and pitches some ball club right out of his cloth They've had Babe all in and about to retire for six or @even years now, But he fools ‘em, every crack. This, McGraw figured, would be a real teat for Rosy Ryan, bis young- ater. “T¢ he can't beat that fellow,” the Giant manager, he goes right into the stake horse stables. Rosy will no longer be an experiment,’’ So saying, McGraw sent Ryan in battle the remaining old master of them all, It waa a battle, believe me! On four different occasions the lead was wained only to be tied while the duel went right on. The Pirates got to Ryan for 3 double by Max Carey in the sixth and Bigbee sent him home with a single, ‘That put the Pirates in the lead. Then Tn the last halt of that round Hotnte Groh got to Babe for a one base rap, only to be forced out by Young. After two were out Kelly peeled off a dandy tor a double and Young trotted home, The score again was tied. In the test that followed many ex- pected the youngster to crinkle up. But not so. It was the old master, liis strength fast ebbing, who crinkled; In the eighth inning Adams lost control long enough to give Gr that troublesome Dutchman, a bas? on balls, That was the undoing of fhe master, After Meusel had forord out Groh Pep Young caught a fast ene on the nose, The pill rolled to the fence for a two bagger. Meusei went to third, -Kelly, again ihe hero, parked a beaut against the left field scoring both Meusel and ‘That was all. The bolt was The score remained 4 to 2 for the champs. Ryan weakened a trifle at the be- ginning of his half. A little nervous, he walked Hammond and had three balls on Gooch when suddenly he got control of himself and steadied. He made Gooch hit into a double play. = HARVARD'S CAPTAIN vard will ha and shortstop. leg in the Holy Cross WORK OF PITCHERS |THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW AGIN’EM CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 16.—Her- Copyright (New York Evening World) by Press Publishing Company, 1922. just AS HAPPY, AINT] YOU CAN ALWAYS VELL WHAT THE GUEST DID ON THE COURSE~ (IF HE HAD BROKEN AN ZO THE @oURSE- WoupD HAVE BEEN A PERFECT ONEs WHO COMME! ‘Gust AS YOU SWING- EVEN THE DELIBERATE, IMDECISIVE: AFTER YOUVE GOT WHS DOWN. = EVERY STRonE IS MEKTAL Cuss- EV AGONY THE GENT WHO INSISTS UPON BRINGING WS ‘WIFE TO WITNESS YouR HUMILIATION WHO FLATTENS EACH GREEN TO STUDY THE SITUATION — AND THEN MISSES! ITS UP TO REUTHER| Yankees Lose Lead TOREMOVE SMILE | 24 Browns Win And They Drop Another Game AORNING KEY ceo oor Hugmen Have Lost Half o Cardinal Manager Is Elated Ten Games They’ve Played in West. Over Lucky Victory Against the Robins. Live Wires By Neal O’Hara ———_—_—_——__Y Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening World) by Press Publishing Co. Many a college ball player will &rab his sheepskin this month and then proceed to make a living with the horsehide. RECORD CROWD WIL SEE LATONI $50,000 CLASSI Morvich, Pillory and Snob 2d Start for Kentucky Track Monday. f within striking distance of the slug- ging Yankees. If the Browns win again to-day and Detroit defeats the Yankees, St. Louis will jump into the lead. Right now Ty Cobb's scrapping club of youngsters is causing no end of trouble to Hugmen. During the last visit to the Polo Grounds they took three out of four, and now it appears as if they might repeat and Possibly face the possibility to force the Yankees to relinquish their lead in the American League before they depart for Cleveland Saturday night. Babe Ruth has fallen into another slump. In twenty-nine times at bat he has hit only .237. He has also fanned out more times than opposing pitchers have passed him. In_ thir times at bat Bob Meuse! has hit .371 since the team has been on the road. All the rest of the players seem to be lending a shoulder to the wheel except Aaron Ward, who continues to display his poor stick work in the pinches and erratic work on the defense. Carl Mays, the burly submarine ball hurler of the Yankees, sustained his first defeat of the Western trip when he lost the second game of the present series to the Tigers by the score of 2 tot Mays has won two games, one from the White Sox and one from the St. Louis Browns. Wally Schang was back in the New York line-up. He has been suffering from an injured leg. Schang lent that added strength to the New York team which they re quired, Al Devormer's catching was not up to the major league standard and played an important part in the Yankees losing the first game here and the two in St. Louis. . But consider the plight of the varsity oarsman, The only big league job that’s open to him Is joining the life saving setvice. By Robert Boyd. DETROIT, Mich., June 16—The American League champion Yankees’ first invasion of the West this year has cost them practically all of the ground they gained at the Polo Grounds last month. Up until to-day the Hugmen have played ten games in the West. Of these ten games they have broken even, losing five and winning five. In Chicago the Yankees defeated Kid Gleason’s men three out of four. In St. Louis, after winning the first two games from the Browns, they could only obtain an even break on the series. Now the Yankees move against Ty Cobb and his young fighting Bengals and the Easterners lose two straight. In the mean while the Browns, Sen- ators and Tigers creep up to within hailing distance of last year's cham- pions and are reducing the lead of the New York Club to almost nothing. This does not infer that the men under Miller Huggins are not playing good baseball. They are, regardless of the four straight games they have lost. But the Western clubs are hit- ting their mid-season ferm and sur- prising their own followers with the game they are playing. The Yankees stand to-day in the American League only one-half a game ahead of the St. Louis Browns. After all their playing this year, Lee Fohl’s men de- feating Clark Griffith's Washington Senators yesterday brought them up By Joseph Gordon. '® famous Branch Rickey smile is decorating the thin Branch Rickey physiognomy to-day for the firat time since his arrival at Eb- bets Field at the head of his troupe of Clouting Cardinals. His show, take it from him, is a complete suc- cess, and the fact that his men have gone twenty-seven consecutive in- nings without getting anywhere near the scoring pan is just a passing in- cident in the career of a big league team. However, it will be up to Dutch Reuther this afternoon to see that the famous Branch Rickey smile does not develop into too boisterous a grin. It was a hard game for Cadore to lose, that second game. Leon showed his best form of the season, and for seven innings held the clouters help- less. In most innings it was a case of three up and three down, and in his worst round before the eighth he w: faced by only four batter It began to look like another Robin shutout over the Cardinals. And then it was that Branch Rickey tried the stunt which failed to work for him the day before. He sent To- porcer in to bat for Lavan. Toporcer doubled down the right field foul line and a few moments later made the e Connie Mack's team are the A’s to the baseball fans, but they're still the White Elephants to the stock- holders. CINCINNATI, Ohio, June 16.— Morvich, Snob 2d and Pillory, three of the speed marvels that will run in the Latonia $50,000 Special Race at the Latonia track on June 24, will be on thelr way from the East Monday, eccording to word received to-day by Latonia officials. All the horses that will start in the big race are expected to be stabled here by the middle of the week. With the coming of the horses there also is expected a great influx of Eastern racing enthusiasts. Early arrivals from Belmont and other points say that the talk there is of nothing but the ‘‘Special.'"" Latouia officials ave prepariag oe Ban Johnson has decided to re- lease some of his umpires, and that's one decision the players won't kick at. If Suzanne beats Molla at Wim- bleton, it’s going to be a great ad. for somebody"s cough medicine. oe After all, it looks like Connie Mack is developing a two-reel comedy, see They could save space in the news- Papers if all games played by the White Sox were regarded as iusi ua- less otherwise stated ad It looks like Max Carey is the best steal worker they've got in Pitts- burgh this year. to saw a race at the historic track. They are building special stands de- signed to accommodate thousands of spectators, Hotel accommodations, already at a Premium because the American Fed- eration of Labor Convention occurred just after the Latonia Spring Meet- ing opened, will be taxed far beyond capacity, indications are. patties loll READING RELEASES CATCHER JOHNSON READING, Pa., June 16.—Manager Bender of the Reading International Ireland is awarded full membership in the Olympics. That should mean another great team of traffic cops. Kearns Starts East to Arrange Willard Bout COLLEGE ATHLETES IN FINAL WORKOUTS FOR NATIONAL MEET get across in twenty-seven innings when Shotton, other pinch hitter, singled. The ice was broken and the clouteta succeeded in tying the score HOW THEY STAND S_ OFFICIALS By Thornton Fisher (fX HLS GOLF handle the greatest crowd that over| fy NET PROVES NEED OF SEEDED DRAM Two Favorites Play in First Match as Result of Old“: System, @ By William Abbott. OLFERS should discard the ol® G system of the blind draw, like ) tennis officials did some time ago, and seed the draw of their tour« nament so there'll be an even distri« bution of playing talent. The Fi Hills tournament shows the need ou this change. Pitted against each other in the first match play round to-day are A. C. Perry and W. He Follett, two favorites for final honors and who tied at 74 for the medal yes~ terday. With a seeded draw this pair would be in opposite sections and undoubtedly could batter down all op« position om their way to the finals, But depending on the ancient method of drawing names from a hat, Perry and Follett must buck each other im the very first round, which will mean the exit for one of the two favorites. The seventeenth annual Fox Hills tournament brought out a big field of 111 starters who found the Statem Island course in fine condition. Seo! ing was uniformly low, although © stiff wind from the Lower Bay fure nished an extra obstacle on the hille top holes. Eighty-one was the limié for the first sixteen, and even at thig figure there was a three-cornered tiga. Perry, who was finalist in the clu! tourney two years ago, and Follett, who has long been a familiar at Fos Hills with his justly celebrated ptpey’ well earned their lead in the quality ing round. Their 74 was two stroke@ bettér than the next tn line. Perry, the first to drive off, ens countered trouble right at the etarg when he landed in the rough, which cost six for the first hole. He steadi recovered, however, and came to turn in 39, It was over the inwai holes that Perry played his best an@ negotiated the last nine holes, which includes the much-feared Hell's Kitchen, in 36 strokes for his ‘total of 14. Follett made few mistakes to as« semble his 74. The way he negos tiated the long sixth will be a favorite topic of conversation for months to come. This hole is 567 yards, the longest at Fox Hills. Follett got off a fair drive, but made a strong brassie to within forty yards of the green, the ball landing in the rough. Taking a mashie, Follett pitched nicely on and then could hardly be~ leve his eyes when the ball finished {ts run across the green by slipping into the cup. Te was an eagle, the par for tha hole being five. This so encouraged Follett that he continued to go strong. until just near the finish when aj extra putt on the home green cost hirt,,’ a clear claim for the lead. The Medal Scores. Perry's card: fon, A, ©, Perry, Fox Hills. 3 87) W. i. Portett, Fox Hills 87 BT Te H. O, Buchanan, Shackamazon... 89 87 76 A. ©. Gregson, Belleclaire 40 37 77 B. South Shore. 38 40 78 R 38 79 F 39 79. F 38 79 A 40 7 Ee & 2 ip : 38 8d x Hi 41 30.86 Hi Richmond County 41 39 80- Robert EB. Harlow, Pinehurst. 41 30 30 R. H. Brooke, Fox Hiils 40 41 Ev for Billiards The Bronewick-Bal 85 W. 32d Bt. League Club to-day announced the re- in the ninth. A double by Rogers Ee CHICAGO, June 16.—Hundreds of [esas’ 0@) Catohen Carl; GanGaRn. ce Hornsby in ye Lage pent fa the win- NATIONAL LEAGUE. athletes from all sections of the] Los ANGELES, Cal., June 16. Bridgeport of the Eastern League on ning run, was then that the fa- W. L. B.C. W. L. P.O, s 4 a a : option, mous Branch Rickey smile threatened| N-York 35°19 .648| Chic'go 25 27 481] United States to-day put the finishing |Jack Dempsey, heavyweight ctiam-| °P to make its first appearance of the] 8t.Lo'is 30 25 545) Cincin.. 27 3 polish on their spikes for the finals of | pion, may meet Jess Willard, from 540] B season at Ebbets Field. pari lis Hae aS MLLE. LENGLEN PLAYS IN LILLE TOURNAMENT the National Collegiate A. A. track And field games to be held at Stagg Field to-rhorrow, Fifty-three colleges and universi- ties have entered their strongest and fleetest stude: and 2 number of records are expected to tumble when the athletes meet in what Coach A A. Stagg terms “the college Olympic meet. Preliminaries in the 440 and 880 yards will take place this afternoon in order to cut down the field. In addition to a 100 per cent. entry list from the colleges of the Big Ten Conference, men have been. sent from Pennsylvania, Yale, Amherst, Notre Dame, nn State, Georgia Tech, Nebraska, ‘California, Oregon, Mon- tana, South Dakota and a score of smaller universities throughout the whom he won the title, in a return match next Labor Day, Jack Kearns, manager of the champion, said to-day. Kearns expects to start East to-day, and while there will take up proposi- tions made by Floyd Fitzsimmons, promoter, of Benton Harbor, Mich., and Tex Rickard of New York for a Dempsey-Willard match. Kearns said he recetved a message from Fitzsimmons to-day asking if a match could be arranged between Dempsey and Willard or Dempsey and Brennan, “The Willard match would be pref- erable to us," Kearns said, “if the terms are satisfactory andsthere is a public demand for it.” The manager said he had read an nterview with Willard in a local paper in which the ex-champion was quoted ‘te’h. 23 | Bklyn., 29 27 .518] Phila. . GAMES YESTERDAY. New York, 4;:Pittsburgh, 2. St. Louis, 4; Brooklyn, 3, Philadelphia, 7; Cincinnati, 0. Chicago-Boston (rain). GAMES TO-DAY. Pittsburgh at New York. St. Louis at Brooklyn. Cincinnati at Philadelphi Chicago at Boston, PARIS, June 16 (United Press). Telling her family and friends that she felt fine and that there was no occasion for worry, Mile. Suzanne Lenglen, European tennis champion, left this morning for Lille to play in a tennis tournament. Upon her showing there is expected to depagd to a large extent her de- cision to play in the British cham- plonships starting at Wimbledon on June 26, Following an examination by physician, the French girl as going to play at Wimbledon and AMERICAN LEAGUE, W. L. B.C.) W. 1. PAC, N-York 35 23 .603) Wash'n 27 30 .474 St.Lo’is 34 23 .596| Chic'go 26 30 .464 Detroit, 28 28 .500| Phila.. 22 27 .449 Cleve'd. 27 29 .482! Boston. 22 31 415 GAMES YESTERDAY. Detroit, 2; New York, 1 Genulne white buckskin, tan or binck calf sad, dle, overweight ridged Du-Flex ‘ Sole. her sald she Boston, 8; Cleveland, 3. country. as saying that Dempsey, through RADITION in_ shoe she ‘just hoped that she would meet Philadelphia, 10; Chicago, & With the eleventh hour entry of a]Kearns, had been “‘sidestepping’’ a craftsmanship, and not Mrs. Molla Mallory, the American St. Louis, 3; Washingtcn 2.| full team from the University of I1lli-| return match. mere appeal to the eye, champion, during the tournament." nois, the meet is expected to narrow] ‘Willard may believe that, but PPS GAMES TO-DAY, New York at Detroit. Philadelphia at Chicago. Washington at St, Loul Boston at Cle INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. W. L. B.O,; w. L. jalt’re, 40 16 .714) J. City, 28 30 .483 joch'r. 35 23 .603| Read’g, 27 33 .450 Buffalo 31 27 534) Syra'se 24 33 421 Tor'nto 29 28 .509| New'rk 16 40 .286 GAMES YESTERDAY. Toronto, 6; Newark, 0. Buffalo, 3; Jersey City, 2. 8 To the great interest of all Europe, the Lenglen-Mallory feud is growing daily with verbal barrages from both sides. ‘down to a fight between California Kearns de- and Illinois for national supremacy. there is nothing to it,’ clared, Character Shoes. ——>—- YALE ALUMNI OBJECT TO HIGH SALARIED COACHES NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 2 Yale athletic affairs will be discussed Monday evening at a meeting of the General Athletic Committee. The salaries of coaches is maid to be a subject to be considered. Some of the alumni object to the $15,000 oy price * Exclusively for Men Another Owner Says: Have given my Durant a severe test. My chauffeur informs me that no car I ever owned has given more satisfaction. “Just a Real Good Car” | 8. N 1480 BROADWAY Rochester, 7; Reading, 5. ar At Times Square \ Fours 86 NASSAU ST. the $10,000 paid yearly to Baseball GAMES TO-DAY. POERTNER MOTOR CAR CO., INC. and At Fulton st, He wrenched| Goach Bernie Tommers. 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