The evening world. Newspaper, June 20, 1922, Page 18

THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1 EDGE TAKEN OFF LATONIA SPECIAL AS A BOX OFFICE ATTRACTION Shows Poor Form [BATTLE FOR THE BRITISH GOLF CROWN a Copspignt, 1922 (New York Evening World), by Press Publishing Com: Olympus As Whitney Candidate for Kent tucky’s ($50, 000 Stake Second of Eligibtes for Special] BLOCK THINKS DEFEAT Is Badly Beaten at WILL PROVE BENEFICIAL Aqueduct. TO HIS HORSE, MORVICH CINCINNATL Oy dune 20.—Mr. snd Ars. Benjamin Block, Mr. and Dernabam and Fred Bur- rived yesterday with Mor vich, whieh suffered hin fleet defeat By Vincent Treanor. HE $50,000 Kentucky Special scheduled for Saturday at La tonta, and which looked the most promising three-year-old of the year up to u week ago, is being shot full of holes by happenings in the Bast. ‘The defeat of Morvich by Whiskaway in the Carlton Handicap at Aqueduct Saturday took consider able of the edge off the event as a box office attraction, and the failure of Olympus in yesterday's Hanover hasn't added anything in the way of pent-up interest in the stake Olympus ran very far below ox- pectations in finishing belind Flying Cloud, and it seems as if a horse which couldn't beat Flying Cloud has Uttle business going after a $50,000 stake at Latonia or anywhere else, rate Mr. Block stilt bas faith tn bie good three-yenr-old, saying: “Morvich Ie sure to ras @ great race In the $50,000 Latopia Special next Saturday. No three-year-old \e the world can give away fifteen pounds tow colt like Whiskeway and win, tut I feel that that race did my horse @ lot of good and I have that we'ean avenge the However, one can never tell about POOR. : horse racing, Olympus may improve JiM BARNS: lot before Saturday. Remember stable at Latonin, = US: OPEN Prudish? CET The result of yesterday's Hanover ¥ eHane HAGENS ENGISH DISCOVERED mar and Humboldt, and tn hio races fen't likely to cause apy change of| previous to that he was back ninth LUCK CHANGED WS PUPILS ns made by Jimmy Rowe, the|in a field of fourteen. Cyclops preb- WHEN H& TURNED SRSA Or itney trainer. He has about de-lariy could have won both these pre. IN A 7S WHEN THEY cided to send both Whiskaway and} vious starts on what he showed im YESTERDAY Rout UP A Olympus to the Latonia race. Morvich |tie last race yesterday. (26 Scone will go too and everything ‘is set for “3 There are any number of similar instances in the book, One day Martingale ran third behind New Market and St. Valentine, five fur- jongs in 59 seconds, and in his next start ran his opponents dizzy over the same ground in 68 3-5 sec- onds. How the general public, with only past performances to go by, stand up under the system of two-year-old racing js beyond us. Pillory’s departure. Snob II. of course is out of it, due to his spread- ing a hoof in Saturday's Carlton, where his chances of beating Mor- vich. were considered as good as those of Whiskaway, who accomplished the trick very easily, The Kentucky race will be interest- Ing anyhow, It will show whether or not Whiskaway can go the Derby vant hae: a LEAGUE. WwW. L. PC. N.York 8 21 .688| Chio'go 37 28 .482 St.Lo'is 33 26 .659 Cincin.. 28 32 .467 ittab’h 28 26 .519\ Boston. 24 30 .444 Biklyn. 31 29 .617! Phila... 19 34 .358 GAMES YESTERDAY. St. Louis, 5; New York, 4. rooklyn, 6; Pittsburgh, § (14 in- T0 BE WORST OF FOUR CONTENDERS as? Browns, Tigers and Indians Now in Running for Amer- PTCHING CARDS AT EBBETS FIELD Se Brooklyn Beats the Pirates in a Thiilling Fourteen- Maxey Hirsch, trainer of Flying .| Cloud, was scared off his colt by the reputation of Olympus. He had a the] wager down of course, but it was of the sentimental variety. Most of the handicappers made Flying Cloud a good thing. Cincinnati-Boston (rain). J GAMES TO-DAY. ; New York Boxing Commission now, July 4 is naturally a day of cele- t tel Pare easeln is Raving & tug ron ican League Flag. at New York. Inning Struggle. equals Sweden and Japan for making] Lration in Philadelphia, Only halt] There is @ rule oe die ca taiier win Of luck, and 90 are his followers whe itteburgh at Brooklyn. elvan ‘ the baseball season remains to be} RL GEA AbE an abody: that are stringing with his horses, hoping Chicago at Philad hi es that will never be touched played by then. defend the le ARt a What hi for a break. Yesterday Hildreth By Robert Boyd. Cincinnati at Boston. By Joseph Gordon. ont, co 8 looks ttke 0 reel contender. What He didn't think much of Thessaly’s cL. ne HE. thi. t : ehances in the third race. but was] aweaoge Nese” yaneae ene AMERICAN LEAGUE, |" "arama, “the Pirates Aroused | 38K the jut sweet on Leo in the last. Thessaly x Ww. i. will be staged at Ebbets Field /*eages., two or won and Leo ran third. thought to be a walk-over for the this afternoon. Lieut. Leon Cadore | pretty aeiniads 40 va New York club only @ fortnight ago, N.York 35 27 .565| W in 29 82 478 will play the leading role, and the veteran Babe Adams will act opposite him. The supporting cast will re- Ards looks like a better than ordi- actor. mary jumper. He won his second Detroit, 32 28 .533| Phil °2 31 41 Cleve'd. 30 30 .500| Boston. 23 34 .404 7 & H has developed into a struggle be. tween the Browns, Yankees and De- ne re i i races about: The Hub of the Universe is now on| Ve! but the clouting. recoenized as champion in this State. straight yesterday without being let GAMES YESTERDAY. a n “ ‘tne treat down by “'Specs'’ Crawford. "Hewes |trolt Tigers, with each having an| Cleveland, 4; New York, 2. main the same, (he) outeiée crim) (of Wis “Amstioan| yng. deraven’ cai atiti win the pan- [pore ene Coonan oe pe fh Ppl entered to be sold for $1,500. J. ©,] equal chance for first honors, Cleve- , 3} Philadelphia, 2. Babe Adams pitched a great game| League. ant (fi averybony, ie) bonindl ‘emo Lirey waek aarituch ae the. malealne the finish, They are Coburn ran him up to $2,600, but the | jand Js playing .600-to-day following Silents 3) Wastingten 0,10. Moe Fee grounds & ieee days ean. Se ake svaryacay including the saved cthorl scent Nonors, endl aetend ithe latter i t s od othe: 4 i In races of some stable bid him in with an extra $5. | their two atraight victories over the GAMER ATOR lageent ne thay pots Fi pitas On a pleasant Sunday everybody | teams, title. If Greb is given the title {t will paring — ly . o i goes to ball games and only a few go o @ e be because Johnny Wilson, after being i bey Trainer Steve Lawler evidently was | Hugmen and they might be con-|New York at Clevela Cadore suffered the same tate of thél'to church. And on # rainy Sunday| Umpires preter cold weather forlelaned by the Garden, ran out of the maiden oventa, afraid some one w. to win a]sidered much in the running, with Philadelphia at St. Loui same day against the hard-hitting St preter J ° almost fas going nobody goes to ball games and fewer} buil games because fewer pop bottles |match with the Pittsburgher. Po chametul, bet on Wishbone in the first race.|an outside chance of victory, provid- Washington at Chicago. Louis Cardinals, who edged out on} go to church. are sold then. Hither that or he is under stable orders not to advertise his good things. Steve was altogether too con- servative with his friends about Wish- bone’s chances, when he must have known she figured almost a certainty. Boston at Detroit. him in the tenth inning. Both de- serve a great deal of sympathy, but a vietory in to-day’s game will suit them better. Sympathy goes a very short way in the percentage columns. Unless something goes wrong, to- day's game will be of nine innings’ ing their pitchers hold together. The worst looking club of these aforementioned American League teams is undoubtedly the Yankees to- day, Cleveland administering the eighth straight defeat of the Hugmen, Ca WALTER JOHNSON duration. So far the Brooklyn f NEWARK FIGHT FAN backing them to within 82 points of § ] KING Rave had sitter ¢eastor comioe. Ate DIES Fistic News ‘Ty Cobb's Bengals. ter playing six short innings on Sun- Giant day all hands knocked off,and called it @ day, and yesterday most of the consumers were forced to sit in the stands at the peril of their suppers getting cold to see a long fourteen. ‘nning struggle. Rut what a strugg! t wi But to start the ninth for the Brooklyns Mitchell gmashed a liner to] | Since the Yankees came west with their four and @ half game lead they have played fourteen games. Of these fourteen games they have lost nine and won five, ‘What a sorrowful ball club the Yankees were, dropping their eighth in a row to Duster Mails at Dunn and Gossip By John Pollock Five elght-round bouts will be staged by Promoters Taylor and >| Gunniss at the Philadelphia Baseball Park on July 10; Ad. Stone vs. Jim OF BiG LEAGUES Washington Twirler Has Scored 95 No-Run Games with a heart attack last night during the third round of # boxing match 0) han any other wi ight for a single and was forced at] “ wide enough to cause somejout, only serving to make the Cards|; Lellon Gar daiine nea awe kee ee Fiela yesterday. Huggins has re- aa pa u ; oe y ve and Harry Foley of Now| !olland of Baltimore, Joe Benjamin ree 7 pees lae =i lt Roone in Sixteen Seasons. second by Ivan Olsi When De-lalarm. The Cardinals promise, with|mad. Don't tet anybody tell you Berry hooked one of “Whitey” Glaz- Orleans. During the third round ner’s fast ones to centre for a double things began to brighten a little, The game was held up for a few seconds while Robbie toted his 800 pounds to the dugout. When he emerged he was gently leading Bert Griffith by his hand and begged him to pinch hit for Vance. Bert did. He sent a high fly be- tween the pitchers’ box and first. and so many Pirates went after It that not one of them got it. Olson scored on the play and DeBerry took third Reuther batted for High and sent a hard grounder over first. It should have been a hit, but Grimm smoth- ot California vs. George “Youn tly little succes: He benched Erne of Buffalo, Jimmy Hanlon of| Frank in Detroit, sending Ward Denver vs. Earl France of California, |to third and MoNally to second. Y Joe Tiplits of Philadelphia vs. Pa! |terday Sar reenee Witt fas a Moran of New Orleans and Tommy | ond tent aust submerged in a Loughran of Philadelphia vs. Harry] paying slump that it cannot come Greb of Pittsburgh in the main event. Carl Mays took up the pitch- Easterners, Carl ins's most dependable twirler during the tour through the West. The blond submarine ball hurler did capital work on the mound until Bpeaker’e men drove him off in scored three runs that WASHINGTON, June 20.—Local baseball statisticians digging back into the records of Walter Johnson, who by blanking the Chicago White Sox Sunday one to nothing registered his seventh victory this season against three defeats, have found that not only has the “Big Train’ of the Washing- ton staff entered the ultra select class of pitchers with lifetine averages of .600 or better but he has clinched his title to the champion shutout king of the, majors. Sunday's blank drawn by the White Sox was the ninety- fifth Johnson has handed out in his rived. He leaves his wife and two children. He was a member of the Newark Lodge of Elks, pi BENNY VALGER WHIPS JOHNNY DRUMMIE EASILY Benny Valser, the French Flas! paipoad onary Drummie at the Oak- land A. racy City, last night, in twelve reanas Valger, at the same time, displayed the speed, cleverness and ring science for which he is noted. fluke, Tommy Noble, the Engiish featherweight chanmploa, will have his work cut out for him when he fights Sammy Bieger twel rounds Frida: A., Coney Lelahd. featherweights in the game and his record proves that Noble will mest # tartar when he battles him, tity. any nu At the next meeting of the Boxing Gom-|. The Way the St. Louls Browns are 2 ———— mission of Now ‘wy on Thureday, Tea} travelling. With Shocker out and|big league career. ered fe and put kim out. It was then ‘ JACK DEMPSEY LEAVES Rickard wit ted his tlcense bY that! Danforth, Pruitt and Van’ Gilder] Johnson's total number cf 327 vie-| that the erring Jimmy Johnston saved | him qui the open alr host tween Champion Benny Leonard. ‘Tendler of Philadelphia at Boyle’ Jerwey Clty on July 2 the day by lacing out a doubl ing DeBerry and Grimith. a minute later on Tom Griffith's dou- ble. The score was tied and Decatur was sent in to pitch the rest of the gam Hamilton box and tl torles against 217 defeats for an av- erage of .801 is considered able tribute to his prowess, been backed by clubs of oniy medioare ability In a great majority of the six- teen seasons he has worn 4 Washing- ton uniform. There is only one pitcher now in harness who is con- dered to have a ghost of a chance to pitehing the way the are, they joom up to-day as @ mighty formidable ball club im the American League. Lee Fobl’s men are playing .807 baseball, Ty Cobb's aggressive Tigers are another team that Is improving each day and will be much tn the run- They are playing .656 in the scor- FOR NEW YORK TO-DAY He scored emark- It ls as he has Shamus O'Brien of Yonkers and OAKLAND, June 90.—Jeek Dempsey, the veteran lightweight, will el world’s heavyweight champion, who bas boen ‘here several days, expects to leave to-day for the Bast. He will meet Jack Kearns in New York next week. turned, Hart. nine e next box: ing show of the Bleaplechase A. A, of Rock. away Beach on Fridky night. Yuseol Pearl steln of the enst side will clash with Mike Burke im another bout of twelve rounds | ol league race. relieved Glazner in the rest of the contest de- veloped into a pitchers’ duel. Both Causey a PI SP a PO pL de TO Starting off in the race in the spring | top Johnson in shutout fame, and that] hurlers pitched great ball and re.|it was LEWIS KNOCKS OUT tree the twelve round. go. betwaen “Augig| the Yankees loomed up as likely win-|is Grover Alexander of the Chicago| ceived immaculate support, In their R ‘of New York and Louis ash ners, But since then their pitchers|Nationals. As Alexander had but} half of the fourteenth, the Robins | usually BURNS IN ELEVENTH |!irigriport at an open air show, t0 be held nave crumbled; their heavy hitters] elghty goose egg victories to his|gtarted in earnest. Johnston. the fallen down against the opposition pitching. Ruth got his seventh home|son, the chance of his overhauling the run of the season off Malls yesterday, | Washington twirler is deemed exceed- but he Is Latting far below 270. ingly slim, —_—_so - Third on the list of shutout ar- he vel if MINNEAPOLIS TEAM ler sct ves tan, Ate of credit at the start of the present sea-| erring, singled and Decatur sacrificed him to second. Zachary Wheat sent a scorching single to left and the game was over ball Ph! knock. Happy” Littlets crack Nght het w ‘ot New Ori will not be w Toflgne again. for al weeks, as Droke both of his hands in Pout with Billy’ Shade of Californie wt New Ori Friday night wai a brows hie wands’ trying to LONDON, June 20 (Associated Press). ~-Ted "Kid" Lewis, Wnglish middie- weight champion, knocked out Frankie Burne, Australian middleweight cham- pion, in the eleventh round of their bout here last night. A) DAVE ROSENBERG GETS DECISION OVER GANS Dave Rosenberg defeated Italian Joe Gans in a twelve round bout that fea- tured the weekly card of the Broad- way Exhibition Association, in Brook- dyn last night. (te MOA LOSES TO SMITH. MILWAUKEE, Wis, June 20.—Jeff Smith, light heavyweight of Bayonne, N. J., last night outpointed Bob Moha, the <—___—- hia credit when the season opened. Next in line are Jim Vaughn and George Tyler with forty-one and thirty-four reapectively, but both of whom are regarded as about finished. Johnson's closest rival in the Amer!- can League is Dutch Leonard, Tiger holdout now suspended for pitehing for an outlaw club, He is credit with thirty-three shutout victort Others who have over a score of ab utes chalked up, not including this season's results, are Joe Bush, CHICAGO, June 20.—The great rec- ord of the Minneapolis club in the American Association of avoiding shut- outs was ended on Sunday, and at the ame time the team lost the Associ 4 We will take a mortgage 4 31 81 .500 Newark 19 GAMES YESTERDAY. Jersey City, 6; Rochester, 2. Baltimore, 11; Buffalo, 2. Reading, 2: Torento, 1 GAMES TO-DAY. Rochester at Jersey City. J.City.. Highway Law on July 1st. to and 7 to 0, first game Minneapoils hi record of 287 consecutive game out a shutout. Not since September, 1920, had Minneapolis failed to snore. 27 Wi m Street Milwaukee, in every round of a ten: | Syracuse at Newark, a * 127; Bob Shawke. Carl Mays, 2 Phone Broad 1400 found bout, sporting writers upanimous- Buffalo at Baltimore. G@auie Stan Coveleskie und Ray Cald- agreed. Terente at Re Qds, Gran well, 3a. o On Sunday Was No Fluke cause Westerners Again De- feat World’s Champions. By Bozeman Bulger. reak of our Champs has grown it i fi Ci Mt or wi JU © tough of bravado, to OPED Wines. ghey are going somewhere thia|°" “ate ron ea ane Oe ae up a little more to-day. They prove] senson, tos MET EY OAVIBEGN rather conclusively yesterday that] In utter disregard of the World's H. ALES CO I the rainy victory of Sunday was no] Champion banner, the infuriated SA » Ine. Those boys can sock that old onion and it is wallops that make runs. What these Cardinals lack in pitch- ine quality they make up in quan- Branch Rickey declares he has twirlers, all curried down and pol- ished, to huri at our Champs now. He used only Jeff Pfeffer in the sec- ond licking of the Giants, which gives combats. ning shy on pitchers. Douglass yesterday, but at that very moment we observed Cecil Algernon Into the bullpen to warm up. in these days of flood, fire and pestilence Right off the reel Max Flack, who count of his bad leg, popped the first Max got out and let Leslie Mann run bases TAXI-CAB OWNERS! for your Insurance premiums, which you will have to take to comply with the QUINN & QUINN, Inc. pany, - By Thornton Fisher|)||NDFF AND GREB MAY BE DECLARED CHAMPIONS T0-DAY lanai State Boxing Board to Forfeit, Kilbane’s Feather and Wil- son's Middleweight Titles. By Alex Sullivan. OXING Mistory is likely to be made or unmade to-day when the State Athletic Comminsion meets. Some time ee ry penn Witte gave johnny Kilbane ai johnny Jeather and middleweight cyamplons, respectively, a certain period of time to sign up for bouts in which they, were to defend their titles. Well, to- day the limit expires. If something isn’t heard from Eii-~ bane, Johnny Dundee will be recog- nized as featherweight titleholder in this State, at least. If Wilson isn’t heard from, Harry Greb will be pro- claimed middleweight titleholder, He already holds the light heavyweight crown, It,is understood, though, thal on account of the low poundage re quired in this class—160 at 2 o’clock—— and owing to the greater chances of- fered him now in the light heavy- weight and heavyweight classes (a match with Jack Dempsey being a big possibility) be will decline to accept this championship. In that event the Commission will declare the middleweight title vacated and the first legitimate middleweight that posts a forfeit and agrees to d fend the honors against all comer will be declared middleweight pitied pion No matter bow the outside boxing world rogards the action of the New York Commission it is bound to en- tangle these two titles so that it will e years to unravel the complex situation. Kilbane, it seems, won his itle at 122 pounds ringside, and tn- sists on defending {t at that wetght, All the boys, including Dundee, mat® OF AMERICA, BRITISH OPEN CHAMPION WHO LED THE FIELD IN THE BRITISH QUALIFYING ON THE PRINCESS CouRSE with A JI. the weight for a bout 126 pounds at » o'clock, the welght recognized by toe New York Boxing Commission. Moreover, Kilbane has mentioned such an unheard of sum for a cham- pionship bout in this class as $60,000. LIVE WIRES By Neal R. O’ Hara. et Daylight saving bas simply made) '# Sole 0 do with his Junior light- weight title he doesn't say. May be Rerpecy has no more stage) the golf widows more so. this. will be declared vacated, too. sents for the summer, which coe Then the Commission will permit the first boxer who posts with it a forfeit as a guarantee that they will defend the laurels against all comers, to be nearly makes him a regular Having decided to bat 333 and make forty home runs, Babe Ruth a) work for the season is practically al! rds Prove Victory VACATION doubled up the Shuffler with a bunt, putting two on. Hornsby was un lucky enough to force out Mann but McHenry poked a pippin into centre scoring one of the boys and George Kelly muffed a throw to let the other one In, The Giants fought back tor a min- ute, taking old Jack Pfeffer for a couple of runs, but the fever soon died Rooters Alarmed Be- You can nave a vacation every day with a Harley-Davidson The Most Economical Way More ple hole shot in the winning pure per dollar than any other way, CASH OR EASY PAYMENTS these St. Louts fellows are not full of Westerners tore into Shufflin’ Phil in the third and with a series of shots aimed right at the button knocked him out of the pastime. And so !t went. Jack Pfeffer in the mean time was pitching the Glants to a standstill, the affair ending quite floomily As @ parting shot to show his dis- gust, “Oil Smith slammed the ball into the stands for a homer in the ninth, but tt merely served to cheer up the customers for the trip home. 535 West 110th Street, near Broadway So, why not? 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