EVENING LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 191&
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CHARLES FLETCHER, ACTOR, HAS SWUNG NIBLICK ON MANY LINKS OTHER NEWS OF STORTS
tit? ITA.Ci PT.AVTCn nOT.T? TrvTTXTTn
T?POM SOUTH AFRTP.A MnDmunrm
TO COBB'S CREEK AND BACK
Actor-Golfer Mayhap
Holds World's Record
With Play Over 183
' Links "Nobility Pop"
By SANDY McNIDLICK
"10I.K over one hundred nnd elg.hty-three
Cl courses n8 nroud rrcorA of Chnrlea
nard Fletcher, quick-change character
actor of no l.ttlo renown.
In the snsenc of data to the contrary.
thla U nunc up an a world's record, since
n I hlhly Improbable that any other
' ,. not eligible to play In national
.rnt. has Rolfed over no many courses
Through the heat waves of South Africa,
'ever the volcano-torn stretches of Hono
lulu, the sand dunes of Scotland, mld'i the
pranfe proves of Io Angles, 'neath the
iaJms of Florida, to the dip nnd rlaea of
fTT creek-aeamed local nubile course
Fletcher has plodded, a sack of links flicks
for baa-nage. a scorecard on Ms hip.
The popular vaudevllllan has played over
every kind of a course In thn world and 'Will
ill hla 184th course to hla rtrlnir when ho
tackles Tfno Valley this week. Actor
Fltcher.eotnes under the head of a better-than-the-avcrage
(tolfer, for ho has n handl
cap rating of only nine strokes
His moat prlied possession, he says. Is
a fine gold medal he won in one of the
metropolitan tourneys two years ngo.
"I'd rather have It than any 'blic-tlme'
circuit contract I can think of," said
rletcher today, "Golf Is the irreatest game
there Is. and when a fellow can win a
' tournament he has a right to be proud."
13,000 Holes
The audevlllo star plays golf every
ctnnce he gets, and he plnys nearly eery
minute of his four months vacation.
Ijt season I played 8000 holes," said
Fletcher. "This season I'm a bit behind,
and t figure I've only shot nt about KO0O
fUrs. Hut the season's young, the season's
young "
Sketchlst Fletcher said ha thought the
Cobb's Creek course, where he played yes
terday, was tho "rlnest vnune" rnnrun h'
.ihi'd ever seen.
"It speaks volumes ror the greenkecper
and the superintendent that they have
teen able to bring the course to such a
ttate of excellence In so short a time." was
Fletcher's opinion. "In another year It
will be a wonder."
The actor-golfer said the bent public
course, bar none, he had seen In this coun
try was In Des Moines, la., whc.ro tlio
course Is right plumb alongside that of
the "millionaires' " and Is so far superior,
t said, that there Is no comparison.
Disguised a lilt, but
, ricicaer ptayea -run Adrian Constantino
'l1- - ,. v .vb lint, .uiiicu ui 111
Uck, nnd without -a collar, the dlpgulse
vras Mill mora complete, but Fletcher's
t00-pound opponent was "Cap" Anson,
known through the length nnd breadth
et the land as the greatest first baseman
who ever cavorted about the Initial sack
and one of the hardest swatters of the
horsehldo who over Btepped up to the plate.
"Cap" triumphed with n, mashle shot
to the homo green, which won the match,
1 up. The former chnmplon batsman
dragged the wood out of his bag at eery
opportunity, seeming to find It most com
fortablo In his great hands. lie snread
I. Ills legs and waggled, from the waist just
lias he used to wait for 'em at tho plate.
shii wallops were prodigious, but they were
, wild.
When ho won hla match he advised the
opposition to go take some lessons, beat
somebody and then come back for u. re
turn match. "Cap" was nnxlous for n
match with Jim names, professional cham
pion of America. i
"I was hla partner In a tournament once
In Chicago," said Anson solemnly, "and
Tomorrow's Tournaments
and Today's Tee Talk
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YALE'S HOPE FOR CHAMPIONSHIP
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Ritf mM).l roand. U 1,1. rnUtriirr. I
all hit roi-ndt .nf la.l uprlnf he hii mi
Ifi .,'ifin -" Kt will aa a rl at
I appo.lilen
aver
alas
"u can believe It or not. but Barnes had
all he could do to carry me around."
All present believed It.
Harry Jordan, manager of Keith's, where
the two golfers are billed this week, said
that now that he had seen "Pop" Anion
as n "golfer" he would always think of
him as a "baseball plaer."
Nobility's Pet
"Pop" Anson Is a favorite of royalty
and was lionised In court circles when he
conducted a couple of ball teams on a
tour abroad two jears or so ago.
At a dinner In I.ondon the plump base
ball "superintendent." as the P. U would
say. was wedged between n duke and an
earl, or something, on the other side of
him.
The duke made quite n flattering speech
on this "right Jolly fellow, Anson, and
his bully companions." with the which the
by that time genial Pop" In his reply
speech brought down the home by refer
ring to the duke with u pudgy thumb and
tho thought that "his 'Dukes' has the
right Idcar"
Few Entries
The Philadelphia open championship, for
all golfers connected with clubs members
of the United States Golf Association,
finally goes forward today after many de
lays nnd postponements. Through no fault
of the local Oolf Association committee,
the event has had to be set over until this
late season, and the entry list today was
not very promising.
Tho moat deplorable thing about the
tournament Is that scarcely a local amateur
entered tho tilt. There aro plenty who are
capable of giving the pros a good run. and
even at that It Is a strange thing that the
unpaid golfers have failed to take adan
tago of the chance to Improve their game by
play with tho teachers.
Not Much Long Green
One reason for the lack of 'the galaxy of
professional etars expveted to enter the
boutlng Is probably due to the fact that the
purses are no as fat as those In moat of
the big events, though the first prize of 11(0
and the second of 1100 are very tempting.
The sixth prize, tho last In the money,
Is but $10, and Is not calculated to draw
the best out-of-town talent. The money
will bo Increased next 'year. If the efforts
of Francis II. Warner, secretary of the
local body, are carried out.
Miss Mildred Caverly, national finalist
this year, continues hor merry way. The
flnalH for the Country Club championship
look as If they will be between the winner
of the medal. Miss Caverly, and Mrs. Caleb
Fox, the present champion. These two ster
ling golfers have also the finals for the
championship of the Cricket Club yet to
play.
Mrs. I V. Murphy is now champion of
Aronimlnk's feminine golfers, having been
tho victor midst plenty of excitement, over
Mrs. Q. K. Atherholt, whom she met in the
finals.
( JESS ONLY WHITE
HEAVY DEVELOPED
IN MANY YEARS
Vi Although Asnirimr "Finrhters
B . i. f ...
uj. jrresenc uay Are .Tam
pered, Willard Stands
Alone
Can anything be stranger than' the fact
that only one real white fighter, Jces Wll
lard, has been developed during the last six
Tears 7
In the olden day's the nuElllftlo woods
Were full of flrat-class heavyweights Hulll.
van, corbett, Fltzslmmons. Jeffries, tsnar
' key, Choylnskl, Maher, Iluhlln, McCoy and a
host of others, llut today the bulk of those
who ca.ll themselves fighters are little more
than joke battlers.
The condition sizes up as even more re
markable when ono remembers that aspir
ing heavies of the present era have had
Terythlng In their favor ; "angels" who
backed them by seeing to it that they got
the best possible teaching: they hal man
agers who picked out "eoft spots" for them
earlier In their careers so as to develop them
gradually.
The boys of tho other days didn't have
Jilgh-prlced tutors; what they learned came
w them by bitter experience. Some had
managers some didn't.
"Lemon-plcklnk wasn't In vogue then.
Tbey fought all comers, over all routes.
vy naver ked, nor gave, quarter.
Yet In that era some real fighters were
'Ud. while In this ago only one has come
w the front who can be compared In prow
" with the old-tlmera.
During the last four years a hundred and
"ore have aspired to wear the heavyweight
crown, Thay have had everything In their
"Vor, the, ceat of care, the best of teaching,
, wwerful physiques. Yet none could be
nked aa the equal of any of the old-timers,
. Jim Coffey, Qunboat Smltli, Carl Morris.
Anre Anderson. Frank Mown, Fred Ful
n. Al ral.cr, Charlie Welnert. Jim Flynn,
JTd McKay, Al Jlelch. Porky Flynn,
"Boer" Ilodel, "Uaarcat" McMahon. Charlie
"liler. lan Daly, Jim Savage. Sol
'' Kearna. Sailor Burke, Tom Kennedy,
ruiur Pelkey there you have the names
? of those who wera boqmed to be
J champion of champions.' And what
'wve thay amounted tot Jlow long do ou
"; ny one of them would have lasted
Jitn. Fiuelmtnons. Corbett. Jeffries or .even
"frkJl or MoCoy tn their prime!
, J; Chapnwn probably will be sold or
rm u ,n Jnawns during the winter.
thereby hams a peculiar tale. '
Whan 1U began Chapman was rated
7 of the bt shortstops rf the land,
I" h! & the ctYliMl owner to part with
osjr was one or I Me bulwarks of -nse
, ono of he really dangerous hitter,
along near ileVsaon, Chapman frao-,
7T 'Kl awl ClavelaitN mourn,
i.'t ?a "M " WainUmast to put
Z:X . Place and Wainfrwan U4
e tno promising, But aToon M the'
ffi.ul.A.ru'u.'r thaw k performed m
nihaniiy that V tiaioa a aMMwtkm.
.,.l ., ph',,ii riV to resume
". iU Was ,,ut IibpI, m aitoit and. al.
wuii,!i nnvt win, all his former skill,
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eouW ka atawjjtd a ir4.
FRANKFORD BEATS BALA
Guests Beaten by Hosts tn Hard Fought
Matches, C to 2
The FranWord Country Club vtaiarday titer
talnel membcra ot tha Ilala Unit Club with an
Imitation club match anJ a dinner, at which
Herbert It. Newton vrraMed aa hoat In rhltf,
master of ceramonlea and a fir other thlna.
Th Pountrv flub mimtra ant thm vlaltAra
homa somewhat chaatned In spirit by defeating
tnm aiic maicnva iu two, uut in exiraorainarni
Root iilrltn aa a rlult nf rtna of tha moat an-
ioiablt anTalra ever nartlclpated In by the intm-
uera oi euner oraanizaiion.
Members of tha two cluba paired off for four
aomra. and Mrnars Klavider and mavenson and
V Lone and West saved the Mala club from
a ahutout by wlnntns tbtlr matcbea with Altsara.
VV. Wllaon'and II. 11 Newton and Tuail am)
aunca reape-ctlvely rour of the matchea wera
aquara at tha homa hoh, but wera not played
out.
Robldeau In Form Again
flam Itobldeiu apparently haa rcaalned I.U
old'tlm knockout punch that promised to rnW
Mm ona ot tha leadlns contenders fr )'nl
Welah'a laurali until ha wua knocked on ly
Charley White Since entering; the weltorw-riiht
claaa Hobby haa been nahllua atroncer than mr
barring his match with Jo Welllnc, asalnst
whom Ham msl sreatly handicapped by an
abscess on his Jaw, l.ast titsht In Providence
Itobbr knockeu nut Jimmy Coffey tn el?en
rounds. That Coffey Is no slouch Is carried out
by hla fifteen-round match with Touns Jacs
u'tlrlen.
i
W. P. H. Loses Athlclcs
Championship ssplrstlona of several varsity
learns at West Philadelphia fllli School har
been further lessened by tha announcement that
tun membera of tlu baseball team, Elscnhuth.
a flrst-strlnx pitcher and Ilorbrldte, an In
flelder. and slcCaakey, raptaln-alect of Ihs
bsskctbsll nie. had decided to aster connections
with the echool. Tho defection of McCaekey la
a most ssrlous blow, aa he haa bsen lor tha last
three jesra tha malnsprlna of tha baakstball
team, both on offenss and defense.
Itnln HbIU Tennis at Hot Springs
HOT 8PKINOS. Va.. Oct. 10. Italn again In
terfered with the Hot Springs Iannis tournament
ptruy and prevented the playing of matches
scheduled. Tha saminnal rounda In man's ant
women a alnglss were begun In tha morning, bul
warn nut concluded bacauss of lha downpour.
Basketball Mas-nates to Meet
A special meellns of the American League
of llaekelbatl Clujva will be held thle evening
In Our l4y of Slercy rooms, when final ar
ranaetnenta for tha aeaaon are tapected to be
made,
Swartz Sprains Ankle
ANNVIU.B. Pa. Oct. It, Ex-Captaln floss
Swarta had hla untie badly spraln'd last night
In acrlmmago. 1U will ba out of the thlgn
same, Ha Is Ljbinon Valley's heaviest aud
fastest backfWId man nnd haa doAa th puntlns
this sar. lla inuy not b alls to play for
two wk or more, according? to pliyelclaue.
Soccer League Opens
The opening of the Intorscholaatle Soccsr
league will made thia aftsrnoan when
t'enlral Illnh Hchool and FfanWord High School
meet on Houston J1ld , Northeast Hull Is lha
Usuue champion. Kfankfiard Is tha tsvorlls for
today because of lla vlalory lat wak over
Uerinantown High Pcbool,
Winona Is Organized
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and wuuTd Me io arFana i
Ibrusd with PhlWdeUu aj
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Harry Le Gore, the hcavj, fleet back of the Eli team, is the hope of
New Haven for the 1D16 football title.
ROY DELAPHANE, NEW COACH
OP FRANKFORD HIGH SCHOOL,
IS A GREAT FOOTBALL TUTOR
By ROBERT MAXWELL
ANOTHER football celebrity haa slipped
xx In on us unawares and unannounced.
He Is not a plajer. Is not connected with
nny college team, but at the present writing
standi head and shoulders over ths others
In his line of
work, lie Is Just
a coach a prep
school coach a
newcomer In Phil
a d e I p h I a, but
right now he Is
the talk of the
town. Allow us
to Introduce Roy
Delaplane, moat
recent gridiron
tutor nt Frank
ford High School,
who went through
his first baptism
of fire last Friday
afternoon and de
feated Central
High by therscore
Ot S to 7. This
does not seem to
R. W. MAXWBM. havo been much
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of a feat to the outsider, but to those on
the Inside It has the same significance as
a victory of Susquehanna College over
Yale.
Little Is known ot Delaplane's ability as
a coach, but. take It from is, he Is one of
the beat In the business. For the last two
years he has been at Wilmington Friends'
Hchool, where he turned out good teams. lie
fore that he was assistant at Swarthmore
College, "where he played end on the varsity
for four years. He also was the official
"scout" of the I.lttle Quakers and had an
opportunity td study the play of the big
teams In the ICast. This enabled him- to
dope out a system of his own, nnd that sys
tem seems to have been quite successful at
Frankford High.
At this time of the year a fobtball coach,
whether ha be at college or prep echool.
Is eighty per cent of the team. Tho suc
cess of the eleven depends entirely upon his
efforts or teachings, as you will for he
lays the foundations far the fall campaign
and everything depends upon the start. In
high school football, where the boys are
young and just learning the game, the
coach virtually Is the whole team. If he
can teach his players the fundamentals
early, such as falling on tho rail, tackling.
Interfering dnd tho like, the eleven has the
edge on Its opponents. Delaplane seems to
have done this In the short time he has
been working at Frankford, and before the
season ends should have one of the best
prep school aggregations in the city.
Y.M.i: HAS IIKK.V visited by Old Man
Hard I.uck. and several ot her beht men
are on the Injured Hat. The latest Is Cap,
tain Cupid Iilack, who has been laid low
by an abscess on his hoof. He was hurt
In the Ihlgli game, but nothing serious
developed until yesterday. The giant guard
will be out of the Virginia Poly game to
morrow and It Is doubtful If he plays
against Washington and Jefferson on the
Z8th. His absence will not weaken the
team against the Southerners, however, as
the visitors aro not very strong this year.
We saw them1 play against the University
of West Virginia last Saturday at Charles,
ton, W. Va., and I'oly did not Imprers us us
being a troublesome eleven. Yale will have
an easy time' of it.
Tad Jones has been fighting against fum
bling In the backflild and now has a cute
for It As soon aa a man muffs the ball, he
Is Immediately taken off the team and
shunted to tho scrubs, where he remains
until the fault Is corrected. The scheme Is
working fine and perhaps some of the othar
coaches will take It up. Fumbling seems
to be the popular outdoor sport this year
and doubtless will cause tha loss of a num
ber of games.
In looking over the games by Yale this
year, we note that Old Kll has made fewer
goals from touchdowns than In several
years. However, they should worry. A
goal follqwlng a touchdown Is not Impor
tant if the team make enough touchdowns.
I-KOFEHHIONAr. IOOTIIAI.I- Is bloom
ing beautifully in Ohio. Towns like Mas
alllon, Canton, Akron and Cleveland have
their teams, and many college players, who
um assumed names, are In the line-ups.
Jim Thorpe I the big noise at Mass'Ilon,
and "Drake," who played under another
nemo at Harvard last year, is his running
mate I'eggy I'errltt, the former Case star,
bap the team at Cleveland, and' a strpng
af.rcgaUon plays every Sunday. Huge
cicwds turn out for1 the game and all ot
tha teams are making intfney As an ex
ample of the salaries paid put to the stars.
Charley llarrett. of the Cornell tean last
year, was offered J00 to play flve minutes
lit a game at Cleveland two weeks ago,
JIM THOHfK WANDKKKD to PUIS
burgh jestefday and stxnt the day with
Clcnn Warner and the Pitt team, Jim put
on a. uniform and took charge ot th pum
efa, lie worked with Andy Hastings and
Jlwy D Hart, and, after tha practice, said
tiiat elMrg waa one ot tha bft purtara
to had aver n. The eorsMyd back
eote4 tavern over- for?y-ft' yaras eah
try a4 was able to pi kisfcs. 0ty
IIfW s4m1 drill was Md, as Warar daea
r.ot oar U rw risk of aay nwre Wit
Juris balar tha lyrass oevs, "
AT I-AUT HX KWOW wtvar Uas Priaaai-Um-I-afayatte
slaughter vvlll perped-ataa,.
PrlasatM. X. J., will, be theTavSe. af tS
Msiws awl Ik faculty L Vftrtl) Col.
- fi
very bum start of the team this year
losing to Swarthmore and Urslnus the
faculty edict should make a hit. Now the
students enn stay home and read ot the
other unfortunates playing on Huropean
battlefields.
WILI.IAMH WILL ltr.ri.ACF. Newberry
In the Syracuse backfleld next Saturday In
the Pittsburgh game. Dig Bill decided to
use the new man In the act after several
rehearsals, In which Williams don't know
his first name played some great football.
Median, ths quarterback, who. Hollenback
says. Is the beat man In the Kaat and tha
equal of Shorty Miller, has developed Into
a first-class dropklcker. He Is booting
them over from the IS and 40 )ard lines
every day in practice.
TWO DARTMOUTH VAHSITY men
were Injured In scrimmage practice yester
day and may not get Into the Georgetown
game nt Haverhill. Mass., on Saturday,
Thlelacher, the halfback, sustained severe
muscle 'bruises and Merrill, the veteran left
guard, pulled a tendon In his right leg.
BOSTON HAS HAD
''BREAKS" IN ALL
WORLD'S SERIES
Five Times HubTeamsHave
Been Favored by Dame
Fortune
RED SOX LUCKY IN 1903
CRAWFOIU) Ilt.OI)EN'. end on the
Harvard team In 1903, has joined tho staff
ot coaches at Cambridge and Is helping
the candidates for the flank positions.
Percy Haughton now Is on the Job for
keeps and, Judging from the workouts the
teams are getting each afternoon, some re
sults should be shown before the Cornell
game one week hence.
I'RINCIiTO.V IS practicing offensive tac
tics these days. With the Lafayette game
only two days off, the players should do
some marathon running, as It looks like a
record-breaking score for the Tigers.
A I.ONO, LOUD WOKFI WOOFI has
been heard from State College In the past
two days. Coach Harlow is worried over
the defensive work of his team and la fran
tically rushing the work to get it perfected.
Perhaps the defense Is very weak and per
haps Freddy Welsh will knock out Jess
Wlllard.
Rodebaugh Wins Run
Ilirne IKxIebauah, a sophomore at lha North
east High Hchool. won the rross-rountry race
held over lha Norlheeet High course of two
and one-half mllta veelerday afternoon In tha
faat time of l'i mlnutea S3 2-ft seconds, lie
waa atar runnur on tha freahman Isarn lust
yesr. Class II, the lower Juniors, won the race
with a sroro of .'d points, wltn Class A. tha
upper seniors. In siennd place with -" points,
Hsoond place waa won by lloardman. nf the up-
Kr aophoinore class, who jumped out of foot
II togs and Into a running ault tu comt-te
in Ihla event Third ptece wae won by lllg
glna, who ran the mile at Northeast Isst
spring.
No UoMon team ever has lost n world'a
series, and nous ever will be conquered
while Dnme Furtuno continues to smile so
sweetly upon the athletes from the city of
culture and baked beans.
Five times lloaton has entered In the blue
ribbon event of baseball and five times
has lloaton taken unto Itself the first prlxe.
Why? Partly because, those lloaton clubs
have been great ball clubs, but, oftener. It
would seem, became luck Is with lloslon:
that every time some "break" comes It
comes to favor her.
Skidding back to 10J. when tho Hub
City made Its first entry In the big affair,
one finds that luck savel tho Red Sox
of that ear from being benlen when It
seemed that all hope was lost.
Tho game had gone to the ninth Inning.
The Sox were three runs behind, and If
they lost thst game the series went to the
Pirates. In some way or other they got
three men on bases, and needed exactly
four runei to win. Two men were out. The
batter rolled n puny grounder to Wngner.
at short. Tho "Flying Dutchman" picked
It up, pulled back his nrm and swung to
make the throw to first for the Una! out.
which would give tho championship to the
Pirates,
Unsettled Hontis
Rut at that very second the Roslon
rooters' band struck up '"Tessle," then a
new nnd popular song. It boomed out tho
first strains at tho very fraction of a second
that Wagner's nrm was swinging for the
throw, and the nolio so unsettled Hnnui
that he threw tho ball Into the grandstand,
permitting four runs to scoro, giving the
game and ultimately the series to the
Sox.
In 1913 luck ngaln was with the Sox.
They got the majority of the "breaks" alt
the way. In the final Inning of the final
game. Fortune amlled again upon the Uoa
tonlan battlers. The Olants were In the
lead, and It looked like the game nnd the
series for them. Up stepped a Roston bat
ter who promptly knocked the ball out In
the direction of Fred Snodgrass. The
(Rant outfielder didn't havo to move more
than three feet 'for It. It was one of the
raslest chances over offered to any player
In tho series. And Snodgrass made the
muff that now Is history. The fuoxle en
abled the Sox to rally enough to win the
game and the championship.
Hank Gowdy Lucky
If It wnan't luck, what was It that as
sisted Hank dowdy In that ISM affair?
The Uraves' catcher never hit much beyond
250 before that series or since. Yet In that
event he was the batting demon, the boy
who belted the balls to all portions of the
lot, who hit for extra bases almost every
time ho was up. At least a half dozen
other times In that series luck was with the
Uraves and the Rravea went over the hur
dles In four Jumps.
In 1315 the Red Sox beat the Phillies
four out of five. They were a better team,
perhaps, but none can deny that It was
luck that aided them materially In their
triumph. Everything broke nicely for them.
In that final game their only chance for
victory was to pole out a few homers. And
they did It. Rut all of their circuit swats
wero lucky ones, the balls bounding into
the bleachers. Not one was nn out-of-the-lot
belt, not one would have been better than
u two-bagger on any other ball field.
Breaks Favored Sox
Coming now to this 191 C affair, one finds
that luck favored the Sox again, liven
without It they probably would have van
quished the men of Kbbets, but luck en
abled them to do It quickly They won that
second game, the fourteen-lnnlng affair, : to
1. Yet the Dodgers should have won it 1
to 0 In nine stanzas. They didn't because
the Sox were lucky.
With the Dodgers one run to the good
and a man on third, Ruth bounded easily
to Cutshaw. Had Cutshaw picked up the
ball cleanly and thrown It to the plate he
would have nipped Scott by ten feet. Rut
Fate ruled that he should bobble, and Scott
scored tho run that tied It up and prolonged
the game until the fourteenth, when Oulncr
won it with a long single
That was Just one Inslnnce of several
where tl0 "breaks" favorvd the Sox, where
the proverbial lloaton luck which had saved
its teams on four previous occuslons helped
Its 19H aggregation tn keep untarnished
the Reantown record of never having lost
a world's series quarrel
Evening Ledger Decisions
of Ring II outs iMst Night
nAf.TlMORK Jimmy Met'nbe gat the ref
eree'a eVcmen aver sauna Chatter, rpina,!
tlarka etapned Mete Canllo, nnhi herler
tan defeated rlatttlng luthirj, Hattllnc
lleraan won from Jimmy Hlnte.
I inuill'r Im r, . rm nurwii
I snarled ant Jlmmr (wITer, Heventhi seong
tajal wan frem Frank le Motes,
KANHA" CITY Benny. I-eenard knotted
ut i:ter Hammer, twelfth.
Scraps About Scrappers
By LOL'l H. JA1TS
Tha knock-out victory of llenny Ionard. In
twelve rounds, over Kver Hammer, ot Chicago,
vllmlnatea tha latter from tha crop ot leading
llahtwetght contenders and nnca mora provea
lha noihamlle'a real class. Hammer had been
King along winning consistently from top-notch
vera, and In the West be waa regarded aa
TUB contender for Fred Welsh's title. Ionard
la a legitimate lightweight, and although Welsh
best llenny un points recently, tha New Yorker
enouia not overiooaea in ina nrai wonu a
i hamplonshlp match That Ixonard ran make
liout, when he welshed 13S pounds In full ting
regalia if llenny waa given a chance at tha
title and wnn .hn wntild r a tMtiular cham
out
Rlon. aa tonard not only la a sood txiier.
e also rarrlea a kayo rtunch that which al'
appeata to fight fans. Also, llenny haa rraver
been accused of stalling, and In avery match In
l'hllly ha haa given the fana tha best ot hla
ability.
Jimmy MrCah still Is lolling dawn bouts on
the win aide of hla ledaer Ths elongaprd down,
town hover atanda out aa the most rapidly Im
proving hoer In thle city. With the eiceptlon
of hla match with At Nelson, won by tha latter
In alx rounda. tlcCaba haa not been beaten this
ear He should be alven a chance to wipe out
Nelson's victory. I-aet night In lialtlmore ilc
( aba waa given tha retarea'a ireclslon over
lounc Cheney.
The lure ot tha equared circle finally haa
gotten a fall out nf Tommy Austin, and he will
rtet hack Into the ring tomorrow night, when
la meela Paddy Manler at tha Lincoln Club.
Au..u" made matchea for tha ahort-llved West
Philadelphia Upon Ina Club, and to continue In
the game ha haa decided to take up boslng
again. Joe Welh. following hla eenastlonal vic
tories over Jimmy Murphy and Mickey (lalla
gher, meets Tommy Jamison In the atar number.
One hundred and twenty pound, ringside, la
he weight stipulated in an encounter batween
Lew Tendler and Dick I-oedman, fresh from
a victory over Kddle U'Keefa. at the Olympla.
October 30. Two other atar scraps on tha aama
program will bring tossther (leorga Chaney In
hla Ural bout elnca being knocked out by Johnny
Kllbane. and Larry Hansen and llenny Kauf
man against. Joe lornch. It will ba Tendter'a
first fracaa of tha season.
Two of Philadelphia's toughest lightweights
will swan alame In tha final at tha Ilrnndway
Club tonight when Kddle VVagond and Iron Man
Charley Thomaa meet. Vvagond la tha harder
puncher of the pair. From a boilng standpoint
tha conteet should ba a corking aood aluxalng
bee. In tha other bouta Jimmy valentine tacklea
J rankle Kane Tootala Hole meets Mucklea
Itlley. Jimmy IteKee tskes on Kid llelmont and
Johnny Coylo faces Jimmy Martin.
A t.nOO per rent knockout boxer haa been
Jotted down In pualllsllo history. Young Julio,
who haa atopped all of hla opponenta ne haa
retired, and'he la tha only boxer known to give
up tha game without a bout on his record going
the limit. Tha reason la that tha Hpanlsh-Indlan
Is about to ba married, and his wlfe-to.ba "won't
let him" box any mora. Julio looked Ilka a
promising bantam,
Joe Walcott la a stoker. The negro ei-flgbter,
one of tha greateat weltvrwatghta of all time,
and who earned the cognomen of "slant killer"
tcceuse of victories over heavywelgnta. haa re
appeared In New York after dropping out ot
publlo notice for aaveral jeara He waa mrtn
coming out of the atokehola ut the ateamanlp
Aroscaatle, Just In from Australia,
Kid Wllllsms and Al flhubert agreed to a
match to be stated In lialtlmore the letter cart
of tha month. II la aald. prevloua to their claah
at the Olympla Club Monday night. Tha conteat
will be for ten rounda, and although Bhubert
waa a ahada winner here It ta likely tha cham
pion will win by a wide margin In their longer
tilt.
ED PFEFFER FOUND
IT HARD TO BREAK
INTO BIGLEAGUE
Ebbets Only Magnate Will
ing to Give Present Star
Twirlor Chance
ZACK WHEAT A BARGAIN
After Jark Dillon's match here Monday night
at the Olympla Club, opposed to I-srry Williams,
tha ltooaler will board a train headed for lloa
ton. where ha will meet llattllng '.ertnsky In
their 'steenth bout ths following night. Dillon
and T.evlneky have boxed almost 'as often aa
Sara I-angford and Joa Jeanstta.
Joe Asevedo haa !een forced to raltorr alx bouta,
lncludlrg one with I'atay Cllna In New York
tomorrow night, because of an Injury to hla
fight arm. It waa thought that Aaevedo waa
n good ahane again, but he will ba on tha aide
llnea ret fo, aomo time.
Morrla Wolf and Walter nrewn put up one of
the moat Interesting welterweight bouta for many
moons at tha Ityan Club ths other night and,
despite a knockdown. Wolf won. There wera
forty rounda of boxing aijueexed Into tha sched
uled alx.
Three mlnutea agatnat Battling Murray made
Charley Dougherty decide that ha rather would
ba a apectator than a boier In tha future. Two
other matchea ara acheduled for Murray thla
week. He ahowa at Cheater toniaht sue, appaara
at tha Nonpareil tomorrow night.
Rootty Montelth and his atabla of tw light
wrlahia llattllng lleddy and Johnny Dundee
still are In HI. Louie. Dundee defeated Jimmy
llanlon tha other night and lleddy boxea Kid
Handy Saturday night.
Young fjtwrenca la a new acquisition to tha
atabla of Vlto Colonno. Iawrence, Joa
Ilradley and K. O. Hanaom ara In ahapa for
bouta with any ona their respective welgbta.
November 10 haa been decided upon aa the
data for tha matin between Jack Dillon and
Mlka Ulbbona at Nt. Paul. For a while It waa
believed tba bout never would be ataged.
The Prankla While-Young Hector set-to at
the Nstlonal Msturday night ahould reeult In an
Interesting eihlhltlon. Both ara clever and clean
punchera, with White a harder hitter.
Tim Iogan. the big Bailor acrappar, who haa
been living In l'hllly, has been mstched with
lllll Ilrennan In New York Monday night.
I-dwnrd r'Jeff") rfeffer had a hard thn
breaking Into the majors. It wasn't be
causo no one thought him a good pMcIs-,
but becauso the magnates who heard f tha
doings ot a PfefTer In the minors confuaest
him with the ancient Welter, whd ftumt
beyond the hlg lengue pale some years ago.
Rack In the latter part ot ltlt Jim OaK
ney, then owner pf the Rravea. got a Wter
from a friend In Ornnd Raplda.
flrab thla fellow Pfeffer. who Is pltchlr
for the Orand Rapids Club," advised friend.
"He's a wonder; been pitching rtal baseball
nnd ought to bo a sensation In the big
leagues."
Thereupon Onffney laughed.
"Why should I sign up Pfeffer?" he sale)
to one ot his associates. "He's a has-been.
You see, Jim had him mixed up with
the old hurler by the same name.
A while later ft became noised around Im
big league circles that a chap named Pfeffer
was doing great things In the Central
League, Rut all of the magnates except
C. Hercules Kbbets figured It wns Pfeffer
the veteran. So they passed up the chance)
to snn,re one ot the best moundsmen that
haa busted Into the big tent In many years. i
Took No Chance (
C, Hercules, however, had a scout some-
where In the Orand Rapids neighborhood.
C Hercules wasn't sure whether the Pfeffer r
was the old boy or a youngster. Rut he
didn't take any chances. He wired hla scout
to "take a look nt that bird," which the
scout did. Pfeffer was dratted by Kbbets
because It wasn't the old Pfeffer, but a
oung one who waa setting the league on
tire.
Pfeffer won S3 out of 35 games for the
Dodgers In 1914, and 19 out ot 31 last year.
Thla season he was their most dependable
pitcher the boy who put them In the fight
early In the year and who, barring one
ellp-up, helped to keep them there.
One ot the biggest baseball bargains oa
record was Znch Wheat. C. Hercules Kb
bets bought him from Mobile In 1909 for
(1200, and nt the time figured that maybe
those Southerners were slipping a little
something over on him. Rut Kbbets got
a surprise and an agreeable one.
Wheat lias been a major league player
for eight seasons, and finished with a Club
bing 'nverago beyond .300 on five separate
and distinct occasions. Oddly enough, ha
never hit .300 tn the minors, yet tn his
first year In the big leagues he clubbed 'em
for ,30t. In 1912 he lilt for .SOS; In 1911
It was .301; tn 1914 for .319. He slumped
to ,258 last year, but emtio right back this
season with something like .J:u.
More Lucky Ones
Another brace ot "lucky guys" are Dlok
Hoblltsel, first sacker for the -Sox, and
Ijirry Cheney, the spltbalt performer for
the Dodgers, Roth were considered "all
In" by their former club owners. No ona
wanted to buy 'cm. So waivers were asked.
The Sox. needed a first baseman Just
about the time the Reds wanted to get rid
of Hobtltzel, and tney took him for 11500.
The next season 1916 Hoblltsel busted
Into the world series and took unto himself
a large portion ot the world series, apon
dullcs. And now ho gets another big shars,
Cheney fulled miserably with the Cuba
during hla last year or two in Chicago. It
looked like tho minors for him. but at ths
last mtnuto Kbbots picked him up for 11600.
And now I-nrry can have the pleasure of
spending or saving a nice big sum of
money for his share of the world series
spoils.
Mayer Wins Billiard Matches
High averagea featured the billiard matcbea
evening
tie oereatrd KranK corr 8 DO to U3. Hla averasa
for tha former contest waa 1414 and In the lat
ter ne managed io gei one or 9. iooay ne la
cnequiea 10 .piay r;roie, and an intareatlns
match ahould ba tha outcome.
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