The evening world. Newspaper, September 16, 1922, Page 9

THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1922, my GAMBLING INSTINCT HAS MADE “BOOBS” OF MOST FIGHTERS WALL STREET F LATTENS MANY A BOXER’S BANKROLL. Woe, by Robert Rdgrem. PONIES AND WALL STREE TOOK BOXERS’ MONEY AWAY a champion, had a bug for trotting horses, and lost a fortune on them, HOW POOR TERRY WAS TRIMMED. od Things From the Inside of the Track and Market Were Passed to the Best of Them. ey Terry McGovern never bet more than a $5 bill o& @ horse race until By Robert Edgren. : he went crazy. ‘Then the bookies 1 Always thought Benny Leonard wax] ook over 840,000 from ‘Terry in a S ¥ pe of the smart fellows amonm they Week, and were stopped only when OM OWARKE! oxers. Thought le was eaving his] 0!" : ae Heals i it m with ~ nthe on 18 | oxpostire ou 16 Newspape uN $ ing money and making more in bus!-|They were taking Terry's bets on STTING HORSES By Benny's own statements he|the finger Necting from him \ al ove ain earning aj When ha lost and refusing to pay 5 to start oll over again When he won, claiming that they iN Bving in the ring. never inade any bets with him. A But no tears, Rufus! boxer is easy picking for the pro- tS STEAL) Benny has already made a fait feiouss ty mminert—but a erary One oF Bos SN S Git) v0: js a wif! u t with $170,000, for ghting Brit. [PORTE IS A ete mt FITZ SIMMONS’ _GoEsTs er hANeRS ekdigke Crabdinel endidivey’ Wamell eee Sates ares onns INDUCED Bes To mvesT s Re J my y t bee: tere " WIS FORTUNE IN STockS =~ The poorhouse is a long way off| broke because there wer: r Taat cost Boe ven if he has wrecked | S@mblers around him. Att °: over, eral eyed te ye bes wre nothing at the end of tite 100.000. aid Bvsteo fortune. career At least he sa . As far as I've seen or heal, Benny} Young Corbett won one asn’t been much of a plunger on the [diy on the Ingleside track wher : suRlae - training fo! fight with ce tracks. His business Judgment. | YAU Ne iO" ec tite Tena hown in matchmaking and purse]. y wee, it back and etting, has been rather keen. Funny | was in hoct bouktes for ht the is a boob in Wall Street. It] slave of the Corbett-MeGovern purse pean bao une tka eda kent tr Corbett broke, and whea Perhaps Benny is taking an easy ee ouch with, fighting hy ~Mrray to stand off touc for any | hadn't a dollar of ile ring money Teit aa - —- —- --- Pi ampion who wears diamonds and| Leonard hasn't much time ates - brts a bank account finds a hont)8* ; ew Le eed ion, a Ap All h D * ‘7 Kelp f s out {Stalls ke Jobnny Kilbane and tights t t f rirtends” holding thelr nants out [ells lke Jownny Kilbane and teh e Dope at a Glance tyuvery turn. Or perhaps Benny has have the Wick t6) crack Hits on notion that he might us well take a] tie ehin—and then Renny will be an hance on the stock market es pry|ex-champion and not even among ft, the baseball wonder man of the St. Louls Browns ut a huge percentage of tis ring|the big money makers, For the puo rough injury on the threshold of adding one new laure Boney in neerae taxes, If he wins Ne sant fs much interested tn us man to his beiwntiy atudded crown, With $9 games of consecutive hitting e hos something more for taxes, and | who has been at tle top as is in the he loses he isn't much worse off} fellow who's climbing up to Lis credif—Jjust one shy of equalling the American League mark set b nyhow, because buying und sellinz| (Copyright, 1922, by Robert Edgren.) Ko Nae Street, Py Sisler was forced out of the line-up. may atill attain this tocks ts a business, and lossey cul --- —_ - TK yew ambition when he resumes play and his hitting streak, but for the pres ny hate good example of w DATES ARE SET FOR HAG SLIPPED one OVER ant: he must be gontent sith | Nai he lat sth nadir leneuwe tt peculation can do to a bank soll in TWO IMPORTANT tush, who has ralsed his total of winns mes to 26 since these he person of tis own manuger, Billy computed, [san easy sr for the pitching Nonors ibson, POLO MATCHES wing records tuelude games played Sept HLLY GIBSON’S TOUGH LUCK.| |, My. Gaul Stan anew ential? Condrming the exclusive unnounce- Fi i N BY JOHN d ° GIANTS. YANKS, i ‘ ment in The World on ‘Thursday, Louls t Vie pen) nusiiess man, 1h two! oe Sire. Btoddurd, Chat of the Polo ISTIC INE WS Pocock AN Gossip} Nena business ventures he made all eee i he money he'll ever need and this | Association. mada _ int tainievod Sid Marks, sensational Canadians rounds at the Freeport A. A. on Monday} ff) y Cunitnghurn esac (naan his aha aa Leonard's would be plased | ienewelelit, makes his next appear. | Met if een iv ae fe 7 an at the Surf Chit t Friday Abe hi Ribson has been “flat broke’? yveral Wi Eee inst Joe Tiplits of Phitadel-| tc dav Ee eran orerenut ds nce Hs ia tha (ee Markes ataniciseta theatest| muses Mat y to beat the ponies. He has available opponent at the Common- ' A 1 heen a bookie, a horse owner ant a wealth Club, Sept Oct. 31 Mnuiter ( race follower, with all the aps and at the Olyt A ‘ M meet ft owns of the r Bil Willie Juc Johnny Shugrue. |, | i H ften told me th aoe ie ' terest | cing Pn re Siyatt > peal fs ; ae tate ton 18,000 Cycling Fans See Biz]... mw peahoreeeuea ; Team Race at Velo- Oe ae th ‘ Eis PITCHING RECORDS. PITCHING i te, with the Rioudava, for the play? ane He ' Won, 1 Wan, tet Me re Nd 1 a . a tt : | ‘ 1814s ies een ibination of MeN rad * es we ‘9 Fi Ne he 3 ‘ |Grenda beat twenty-two ms over [10 H u i i M As bs . f etre route, equivalent to} i 7 me famous M how i Ke : unas ys returning evs i fatsty two) dnd a ot ROBINS. en f any was |e . — 1 Hts ath t New by : ; Bled off. Fact Orel are Taaticy f ly ume last night, This vet ey ws 1 customers Wa d eins « ! Bt E be ig won tie é Onklevs" re- | to fe j Rini- : | tne start. They kept piling i Conn tu nding lead all the way Stadt | 1 ms went to € 1 Wa es Ae ils Freddy HM with 62, and the PITCHER ROBERTS SOLD |NEW HAVEN IS PROBABLE te tear : of euttee en iis | TO CINCINNATI TEAM|EASTERN LEAGUE WINNER |(0) 002 1 SARaieHGcIORS “i times out. of te: . a inth and fifth places ; gine Cine eee tee CINCINNATI. 0. 8 16.—-Vitehier Pt 16.—A\ | Seach. Lawrence and Hf Benny lias dropped militon dt | 5 | onstage mt In sins contract to a [sis wesw seventy and Clark and} ther Major League Records >» get some dine t HE Ant) ioe urte 4 ' fia Ten Raeeea tien NATIONAL LEAGUE. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Kid McCoy, cleverest boxer of his oe 1 , ities) | ——- 300 HITTERS. 300 HITTERS Heer ee ie connie (rie | Gsalially 46 a8 ieee ‘| |JRISH POLO FOUR der, fy” tb Mato riuser. ¢ an a n and tricky kid often dropped his} thy svtivs wal rh ’ pier ; romber of dois | WINS CL OSE MATCH]! enti si, te seers BEL BM bag i if hg money on the race track, where] Pa teinhin, thes oh T Edward 1c ; nid byw f fuuanite 17 M5 tape kor ne le always had “inside Information" ted that t der, Wheater fow eld Nae ena tig i ' ADELM ani-|t P Ah gun Re Haney, om his friends, The funny part of od y Marshal i Arie Les " . n ent aul US Hetinal Det Efe is that any fighter who cleans up] Mevsow a pitcher eee \ kee a i “a 8 Woodall, Det money in the ring is a shining] the Polo Assoclution _> . by : rk for all Kinds of go-getters. ee liatie desirable to pluy the [AMERICAN FISHERMAN’ RACE sa SANSAS AUTOMOBILE eu nee iy “eh ‘i SHARKEY LOST HIS ROLL. | jigteies on whit umounts tow ebnin WILL NOT PROTEST RACES ARE POSTPONED is ! \ Kc i , b Fitzsimmons, when le Wa8] plonehlp basis. GLOUCESTER, M Sept 1 —— f M Bi t i aang Rents gfld's champion and thought every ~~ Amrik i Me i. a han wlio slapped him on his back was! PATT TO SUB FOR wilt : , F \ bile r | Y 1 ii rt iN ha (viend, entertained a famous fina” Canady Nellipoatonel ine Cosmnonre | 1 A N : fr ut lig house, und on this gentle- TENDLER IN BOUT |" 0 sath MW raster Wine ‘ : f han's advice Invested his entire for shar 4h fi t ik ne —< $100,000—1n a stock deal} r . (i nye Sunt. WY ; . ie nit coe pt, 1G, | i 4 ih H ever got a cent back. Bob wWas)pion of + hus 1 3 to [Oh te Glouve , ‘ r f Tu 1 i : ‘ { 1 r ev hard up in his old uge, and he tah rs Her against |Yppenred t " Miltox § cere i ‘hi 4 1784 V" iu tt Velodrome next | N.S. nd pp! I h = f “ i . ' ‘ Hy hh Cross fought a great numbe ] choon ' i . ’ ; ji 18 « ‘ nd was one of tile biggest hare i pe 1 458 Zach “ 4 makers in the ring in his ay a r shed In hietse ish i 4 ! t ry cent he had, near the r Mame fad 5 yt Ve aaton ! Wt hig earcor, in the stock murket. night} a GIANTS’ OLD CATCHER, H ‘ H ah to IIIA more an het aor a tond Ae WENDELL, WARMS UP ! our wey to go to California, [swollen tut Te co : * | ‘ joie he held dowa u movie fob, suili {en off ls enaazemer YOUNG PITCHER KELLY man ; culating, he ren a tire-stock deal or | oe \ to about $40,000, quit, and made |SNARE ENSNARES Lou Wendell, who caught for ! more in an attempted “cone SENIOR GOLF TOURNEY the Giante a few years ago, prac LEADING BASE STEALERS. i the ring. He's back on the} frederick Snare of Gu bre ticed with the world’s champions . NATIONAL LEAGUE AMERICAN LEAGU rom’ Sharkey was once @ fairly before the final game with the aN oxer, and renowned for his Cubs. One of the things he did ‘ | stacey was warm up Pitcher Kelly i 3 = tw hte have? «= n his| Kelly when he first came to the [in ing ~ - Mw Hote it L ido m-] Giants did quite a bit of hurling. |y thren-beuger ¢ H R r wo He had a terrific fast ball but 1 tho | , § marke ‘Pur little “stuff.” Wendal! said after | Peli x aie gatshing a few of the big Jallow's ren SATS Ey EMIEIEOY SHOE) COIs OLE Ben seasoy + nd rana te a ri aren 1 z t TAL . i} r the fastest balls of any pitcher in i oN 1 a while, tried it in Los Ange’ either major je gue. Me thinks he f ob Howth | ; _— e i moved around the country iow * ana could go in there and win many ul town to another ever since ana Conch K port | games for the Giants merely de 45. ; a month—but ees ros aa ele McGraw ma ' hat | | 1 Me left when ils iO } chance on the mour \ 1 {| edie " | . ' tainly is iy need h i r prema he Anal] Hartad e “ Gardner, * uant heavyweight: these days, Avenue. The pony is valued at $4,000. [noe WhO. Me Boassdee Unke - _ CANDIDATES START WORKING HARD FOR FORDHAM ELEVEN Thirty-Two Promising Players lrying to Make Maroon Varsity Team. aq ORDHAM mull college, come F parativ vpeaking Although the approximate 4,000 students from all departments are eligible for Fordium has produced drew nines teaths of Its material! m the 600 oF Oo members of the departe And y sinall « Fordham ir « haa seen real £ ul ond known real football teams. One doesn’t have to strain back as far as 1919, when ¢ lite college outs i on every near-big team they conne “l with and one or two regular Goliath hestdes, To-day ont at Vordham Field thirtye two stalwart young bloods are ene denvoring with perspiration and Theane to fol the footsteps of those nOTOH » hu gone before them, are strugwling to fit t maselves to hold up the flaming torch of Ford- home tuttling traditions In the days Chis is the iret day on the tackling duintes under the n-eyed tiny of head couch ial There ty none shout- Ing stering efferves about thia coach, Gut every word he says counts and when he speaks—quietly, but firmiy—nobody fails to listen. Last Monday, ¢ n admits, things Jooked loomy us the week progressed and the number of candt- dates swelled from a dozen to thirty or more, and the pros firty on Monday seomed cert cloud began to turn inside Tommy Meyers, thr half-back, stocky, I shatred, bull doggish, wos one out of the only th dependable se ned men to build the team on. The others were Lyman Waldbridge, 200-pound giant wuard, and Lou Healy, the short, dark, square-Jawed, sprinting end, who is rated round athlete. But to-day other figures Jot prans in the favor of es. There's Joe Mannin pound back, who looks like a football player in the carriage of his dari head and museutar body, runs lke @ new-roused fawn, and kicks, at the adminsion of Meyers, an average fitty- yard Kicker himself. with promise to soon out-distance his captain. Then Steve Lesko, a tall, rangy, well set~ up Apollo of 180 pounds who subbed on the varsity last year as guard, ac- cording to the coach, looks very pro- mising this year. And w short, nicely built youngster of a quarter-back, lin MacDonough, looks like good erial to assist the veteran Joho Canniff of om on generalship. HUNTS MEETING TO BE HELD AT BELMONT PARK as Fordham's must all ve st Ti 1 Hunt Naw transferred tte tlon Day, from Belmont Unity Association ting, on Tors Racing autumn ark inal to Belmont Park, ft was an- nounced yesterday by Harry A, Buck, otary hank 1 operate: toward better Mel to the post both in the three events on the flat and the th through the Meld, the Intention of the association xteenlechi that should 2 of the best felds of the vent will be for be a good one an a t \ «an te nf bring « yher of young horses have been Drought out of late and are belng pro- 5 for the aimatenr meetings In Ie Thu news that Westchester Racing lation has alfred tte plant will be ond by the renk and file of sports. men who se in Ita chance to build up the sport to @ point where tt will be nosalble to hold two or three-day maet~ prior to the opening and immed- y following the close of the flat rac= > ONTARIO RACE TRACK REVENUES $3,000,000 TORONTO, 18—-Race track reve in Ontario for 1922 will reach more Sept + $3,000,000 riding to an estimate Onturlo Government. The tax on Seti f than $2,000,000 celpts another $26,009,000 already lias been Ontarto tracks ~- LEW SNYDER TROUNCES IRON MAN JOE RITCHIE Bi ‘ Snyder, c the Jersey 1 1 Newark, 1 featherwelght adde when st Srniling of his cureer, 1 pillar to post for nis in the feature Kitehte lived f “Iron Man’? » of blows tha! es rugged lad as he lefr TEL : PHONE SOCIETY | HOLDS BIG MEET os . buseball prow at Brighton afernoon on the » Soclety told ley other and bos