:iV ,.j-' EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 19li9. A XJENDLER'S COUNTER-DRIVE REGAINED GROUND LOST WHEN LEONARD ATTACKED WITH TERMS TENDLER READY TO AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELIN'? fcj r: 1 -AMD TOO iSr-ltlAK OOM Tne- LOHC5 HALL. TO THi Bath room BOX BENNY AT 135, fc?v AMD Vou1 HOP T Tn& TU3 Aratf vSVAfASH rSROUKD Ir4 Ti-a WATER. vjhcm you Come homs om A WARfsA XJSY AMD aC rXO Yotm SC0ROC5M MJD OMPRCSS Preparatory To eMToYir-iC A Mice Bath WINNER TAKE ALL , . Manager Phil Glassman, in Reply to Billy Gibson's Title ;- 7 1 K" b Kv Ih if i is SJV Terms, Also Will Allow Southpaw to Fight for I Expenses Only if Champion Will Make 133 f Ity ROBERT W. MAXWELI, Snarls VaIHct Ktrnlnjr I'nlillr ltlsfr Copyright, ;J. h lyibUr t.ritnrr t'n, TlTUCII excitement prevails in Philadelphia fistic circles since Benny Leonard, through his manager, Rllly (tthson, throw flown the gauntlet to Lew Tendler nnd dictated trnn"!. fltiimrinl nnd otherwise, for n match for the lightweight rhninpionsMp of the world Millions of cubic inches of convcrsn- tlon wore spilled yesterday, nnd thi' promoters, bocrs nr.d followers of the Same are Intensely interested in the outcome or whatever It will be. fllbson had his inning at the Bingham Tuesday night and now I'hil filassman has conic to bat. I'll II is very much peeved, to sny nothing of perturbed, over the bold, defiant challenge. He, too, has many words to get out of his system and Is hurling them indiscriminately. He rushed into the office this morning and, after rooocring his breath, delivered a speech, ultimatum, proposition and ever thing else which has been banging heavily on his chest. "I guess I got some rights, y'understnnd," he snid. "Benny Leonard and Billy Oibson have said they will be glad to meet my boy, Lew Tendler, for the world's lightweight championship, but, honest, they ain't doing me no favor. Those guys-is jut as generous and kind-hearted ns them Hermans if they won the war. The kaiser is a philanthropist compared with them. We are getting worse treatment than the Belgians. "Understand me, this ain't no kick it's just a protect against them high-handed methods used by champions and managers. I ain't sore, but I ain't no sucker, either f!ibon can't put nothing over like he said. Lew wants to fight for the lightweight championship. He ain't anxious to scrap with welterweights. That proposition of fighting fifteen rounds to a decision In Connecticut is all right, 'understand, but that 13." pounds at 2 o'clock is awful hokum. If Leonard weighs l!l," pounds eight hours before the fight, he will weigh 142 or mnie v hen he steps into the ring. You can't fool me. I tot eyes. I know how much that bird weighs, and he can't put nothing oer on me. "AH I ask is justice 'that's all. just justice. I ain't getting it from Gibson, and ever body knows it. Why. he is worse than .lack Itritton and fack is the welterweight champion. He sns he will make l.'SS pounds ringside for Tendler and that is better than Lronaid will do. itW I1W ain't no big guy. Hilicrc me. he Irnini and train, iriev to "put on 10M of iriight, anil how muvh does lie irrii)h f I (lit you, how much dors he weigh i You irill be surprised, understand me, when I tell you he ran net iloirn to US pounds 1111.17.1idc mid fie sttang. He ain't not no limine to give Leonard ten or fifteen pounds in a championtltip bout." Glassman Replies G1 ILASSMAN, however, is anxious to gathering from further conversation, tlons to hurl at the champ. He says, he is not looking for money, because a champion who is about to lose his title is entitled to get ever thing be can. Phil sas he will allow Tendler to meet Leonard either nt 133 pounds ring aide or at 135. Here is the challenge from the Tendler camp: First. Tendler will bo Leonard at any time, any place and any number ot rounds to a decision, winner talte all, provided the vt eight is 13,"i pounds ringside. t'-zV Second. Tendler will bo Leonard any number of rounds to a derision and will not accept one cent for his services if Henny will weigh in at 133 pounds ringside. AH Tendler wants In that rase Is training expenses. "Those two propositions ought to make Leonard come out nnd do some thing," continued Glassman. "We don't want jo ?."000 to get a chance nt the title. If the champion makes the real lightweight limit, he can get himself lots of dough. If he makes 13."i pounds, he still has a chance to get the whole purse, because it will be winner tnke all. I know Tendler can beat Leonard, "and, believe me, Benny knows it. too. The ain't putting no bunk stuff over, ir'understand, and now it is up to them to tnke it or leave it." This Leonard-Tendler feud is like the olden days we used to read about sjphen the challenger followed the champion all over the country tring every possible means to get n match. It always has been hard to induce a titleholdrr to meet a logical contender, so Leonard's case is no exception. The champion always is the big noise. It is he who does all the dictating, atid the other fellow is lucky if he is recognized. Still, interest in the lightweight division hns been revived, because Leonard has been so good and completely outclassed his opponents that it seemed ns if he would hold the title forever. He cleaned up every one, with the exception of Tendler, never ran out of a match and even stepped out of his riass to take on heavier opponents. Henny has been a popular champion, has a big following, always delivered the goods and is a good sportsman. JO DOT'JST a compromise irill 11 fo for the public demandi it, and, to overlook. Tendler Has "Cleaned Up" in His Division NE year ago Tendler was considered a freak lightweight and that let hira out. His awkwardly clever style, his right jab and right foot In front of him all of the time bewildered Ms opponents, and before they solved his attack the bIx rounds were over and the decision had been lost. He has met all of the best lightweights in the country "and defeated them, with the exception of Leonard and Charley White. He has been pitted ngaiint all of the tough boys In the country and it was n tough job to gain recognition. He slowly has .climbed to the top and it was due to sheer ability not luck. Two years ago he startled the boxing world when he defeated Johnny Dundee in one of Bobby dunnis's open-air shows at Shibe Park. After that he met Frnnkie Callahan, Rocky KnnRas, Patsy Cline, Joe Welling, all of the local lightweights, nnd Willie Jackson. The Jackson match was n fifteen - ound affair held in New Haven, and there was some doubt as to the result. Kext Monday night Lew boxes Jackson again and will endeavor to prove his class. xenmer, in a way, is iravenng me clean up everything in the heavyweight ranks before Willard could forced into a match. Lew is ruining - entities him to a chance at the title. It must be remembered, however, that the champion, in this country is 'supreme. It is he who decides all questions regarding the match and fixes fthe weight. Once upon a time the bantam limit was 110 pounds, but now 5"r "'the titleholdcr has fixed it at 118. The "fc '.pounds, and while it is generally supposed that the lightweights should battle ..at 133 pounds, the poundage has been u If Leonard wishes to raise the Hmita few more pounds, what can the '' -jettier fellows do about it? They can i I,-a- mljttiatt In ta wah fi sr tit a sn'olaVif n il f ,-f ; tvucuiji J hum . iui. niiuv tu out, a fflSSOX and Leonard left toicn yesterday and their vietcs on Glass- mail' offer could not be obtained, They piobably will issue a statement from Xetc York. j-ik-T KONAllD said last Tuesday nlghtvthat he was considering an offer from .''-" some nromoters 'in Tucson. Arizona, to box a lorlcal rnntenrf.- fn- i,- irfwmplonship. A boxing bill has been jfered $25,000 to box- tv.euty-five rounds to a decision. Perhaps this will delay the Tendler match, or Iluw might the way things now stand Ulbson lias named others and the boys arc as far .ft' ii argument as to whether Jack Dempsey can outhlt Fitzslmmons will hjw JkW-mcrrlly along until sow? one Hiiereytpon u w aorupiiy rV . , to Gibson's Terms get in on n match for the title, and, he has a couple of counter-proposi- be effected and match arranged, anyway, is too big an attraction same roau as jack Dempsey. Jnck all of the lightweights, and his work featherweight scale remains at 100 raised two pounds. only take a chance, nnd if the chum. ttiamcalvAu 11 1 uioti 1101 passed down there, and Benny has been be given n chance down there. But named certain conditions, Glassman has apart as the North and South Poles. slips the old blooie blooie under Jack 'a give way to wis, '-vno am mat guy .. . - VsHErsJ ALL O A sSUDDGM Vol hear TVte wife; come (isl The HOU5E with vSore RtAH2:e Voo'PsS Trapped T Five Local Mermaids Will Com pete for 100-Yard National Championship IN GERMANTOWN C. C. POOL A new national swimming champion wit be crowned tonicht, nnd it will be a Philadclphiap. This i assured, for the entry lint for the women's junior national 100-jard swim, ns nnuouiired bv Samuel J. Dallas, president of the A. A. I"., shows but five names, and the entire quintet is from this city. The mermaids who will strive for 1 the championship nt the (lermantown Cricket Club tonight nre T.lenora I'M, I of the Meadow brook Club, and Frances Clark. Helen Ilillegas. Catherine Toy nnd Elizabeth lk-cker. all of the Phila delphia Turners. This event is the fea ture one on the program and a close race is anticipated, with Kliznbcth Hecktr ruling a slight favorite. Men's Entry Large While the entry list for the women's titular event is very small, such is not the case with the 100-yard handicap for men. This rare lias broken all records for entries, no less than thirty-live an-j nounclng their intention to stnrt. Itamond I'M, Ollbert Tomllnson nnd II. Kistler, all of Meadowbrook Club, aie on scratch. Some of the others entered are Dick Hendren, the former Northeast High athlete, who will represent theCer nantown Hoys' Club; C. Hamilton and W. Titus, II. Greer nnd K. Short, all of the Philadelphia Swimming LIub. Breast Stroke Swim The other event 011 the bill is the 1 Middle Atlantic district championship breast stroke swim for women. Six entries have been received for this event. Gertrude Artet, of the Meadowbrook Club, has a slight edge on the others and is expected to cop the honors. Kliznbcth Iiecker, of Turners, how ever, hns many followers nnd she may defeat Miss Artet. The others are Helen Dylen, of (lermantown Y. W. C. A., Dorothy Groom. Florence Seadding and Florence Schweitzer, all Turners Amateur Baseball Anthor Gtnnts art without a baiti for AuEUflt '2 r.nil would like to hear from a nrat-Hsm homo team paying a iiuarantee ' F nhlnnon, 130 Kait Chfltcn aM-nue, Or mantown. rnxrliall V. C a flrt-rtas traveling ntno want to hear from Stelaon HUMale -! 'tnMrarh Otanta. B Cavanaush, 713.1 "Woodland avenue. Oermsntnwn would like to book prames with flrBt.ela home teams oTerlnc reasonable Inducements W. V. Wannemachcr, 32s llanibury street. Camden A. C nt famden has Ausust 2 and la ooen for flrst-rtss home teams pav in a aiiarantee Vra"k Stratton, 22IH1 Stickle street. Camd- N J. N'orrls F. f, a aepilnro traellnc clffh. has Autfust 2 and later dates open. A. I.ombardo. Diamond 7178. rhadwlrk Hnh has August 2 open for anv sUteen-seenteen-year-nlri team, either at vnm- or away. S Kllevttx, 411 South Fortieth alreet. Ttonlfeti A. f.. a 'teen sventeen-yesr-old teavellnr nine, wo'ild like to hook psmes for Saturday and Sunday. William Hoff metster. 6065 Relnhardt street. Cramn PrnfeslolU, a remlorn traveling team has Aunist 2 open, Forrest Hell, Cramp's Shipyard, arrountlnr department. Itletnelm A. A. has Sunday dates nnen for the rest of the season. Also twtllsht rHRiM for flrst-p'asa teams. Howard Piews, 412 East Uvlnrston street. Pi INwit H. C a fast fnurteen-slxteen-year-old team, wapts to meet any home or fravellnr team. Paul Curlev. dye work department, Carneys Point. N J. Ftpii T. r. would like to hear from all first-class traveling teems plavtnc twlllaht ball. William Hill. 21s North Third street. Apbrrn A. C. wants -ame with first-class knma el" for Ai-t 2 and 0. A. Tanclts. Phone Diamond 1443. Sehoeftl A A. wnts a-ames wltH Tun A. C Scott-Powell Mapwnod or any other first-class team havn August ft Xhor Day and September 18 ?ft and 27 open. It also has a few IwlltrM dates open Herbert Tlarock, 1227 North Warnock street. RAAVdal A, A., a semlpro travellnr tesm, ha a August 2 and ft ejn for all homa dubs. Kdwln Mlntzrr. 241S North Colorado street. Tlfllmar A. A. will meet the .tronr Husfer elun at Broad and Ulaier streets on Au gust 2. Manaa-er Ostrand would like to hook same with til flrat-clasa trsvetlng teams, AlrOitrand. 2S10 South C-adwlclc trtet.- J00U MLy - AMD OvjST A& You 8EGIN To wonPei HOvw LOr-G VhEY AR5 GOitsKS To STAY - Yov 5GE YOVJI5 PIPS ("LL PILtGD ON The WINDOW sSILL Y f -r i Jet (S- . 1 MILLIONAIRE'S OFFER BIG BOOST FOR GOLF Proposed All-World Con test for Professionals Great Idea for Interna tionalizing the Game WOULD HELP PLA YERS ny SPICK HALL fTHin offer of Harry Wardman, the Washington millionaire, to give a cash prize of ?."000 to the winner of an nil-world professional golf match, is one of the greatest boosts that the Scotch game has ever known. The result of this offer would not mran much if it were tarried out simply as a onetine proposition and then left, even though the nffair were a complete success. Wnrdmnn's idea in nrranring such a tournament is for the uplift of golf nnd to make it an ecn more universal sport than it is today. And that is just what is going to happen if this one tourna ment pans out as the originator of the iden plans. Such a tournament would attract the greatest professionals in the world from nil the leading nations. The publicity that would follow would mean that other rich followers of the game in other countries, as well as America, would make similar oilers and stnzc similar contests A Hlg Iteneflt to Game This would mean thnt international gou competitions would become ns frc- quent ns tennis mntclies nre today, and mat tne names ot the golfers of this land would be known ns well in France, Great Britain and other lands as the names of Hrookcs, Wilding, the Doherty brothers and other great racquet stars nre in the tennis cirt'es of the United States. In order for any sport to attain uni versal popularity international matches must be played. It is through conta-t with varying stjles of nlav. too. that in dividuals learn to develop their game to a nign point of efficiency. Without such contests tennis would never be what it is today. On the other hand, both baseball and football would be improved if other nations played these pastimes 01 mum un nr uu, ueruuse me interna tional matches thnt would result would cause more people to participate and the national individuality of play would give way to a composite sjstem that would surely improve every team and participant. Sectional Matches The pro tournament to be held at the Engineers' Country Club in New York Is an example of the benefit of com petition. Yesterday there was a quali fying round played by the pros at the Shackamaxon Country Club. Before the last of August, when the big meet will be staged, there will be six other sec CAPT. JACK oALov)Comr fbrtable Col" lew qfwide reputation, OLDKST BRAND IN AME8I0A as , m a -- a- -l-. -. .J 'f w I -. Ww-fcl-1 - VVI IrWIi He. - And Om h H Philadclphian Makes a Nciv Golf Record Mount Pleasant, Hretton Woods, X. II., July ."1. Victor Frey, of Philadelphia, who went into semi finals in this week's handicap golf tournament at Hrcjton Woods, has established a new amateur record for the Uretton Woods course this sea mw with a card of 72. The best previous record of the season was C. J. Duuphy's 73. tions of the country to hold qualify ing contests. Each match nt the Engineers' Club will be a thirty-six hole affair. Thirty two monc) prizes will be presented ns follows: First, $500; second, ?2!0j two piizes at ?12.1; four $"." a wards; eight ?(10 gifts, and .sixteen $."0 prizes, for a totnl of ?2.-S0. In addition there will bo a diamond medal to the winner, n gold medal to the runner-up, two sliver medals to the semi-finalists, bronze medals to the winners of the qualifying rounds in each section, nnd a silver cup, which shall be held by the club to which the winner is attached, and on which his name will be inscribed. No P. G. A. championship has been held since 101(5 because of the war. In thnt jear Jim Barnes, then representing Whitemnrsh, won in most of his enilier matches, but in the final round ngainst Jock Hutchison the issue remained in doubt until the last putts had been run down on the home green. In other 1 s-lr-.lo TFtlnllit-nK i.itcim.t Klu nn.l Till i-llnu sunk his, so that after fighting it out nil week and through thnt memorable final day, the outcome between the pair narrowed down to which man could bring off a putt of a little more than four feet. Mrs. iVv Wins Miss Dorothy Doyle, North Hills, made a gamo tight in the final round of the invitation tournament of the Cnpe May Golf Club, but Mrs. Caleb Fox proved to be too experienced for her. At one time Miss Dojle was 2 down, but she squared the match nnd enrried it to the final green, only to loc with a half. Both were putting badly, but Miss Dojle realy lost on hei poor ap proaches. The cards: Sirs. Fox Out. ..30374646 5 13 In. ...664548 OS 4 4501 Mlsa Dojle Out ..(17584746 S 48 In .... S 7 0 0 3 0 ft 11 4 50 OS Miss M. Diamond, of Cape Mn, de feated Miss D. GanB, of llnltimore, 5 up nnd 3 in the final of the second sixteen. Harrowgate Shuts Out Hllldale Ten thousand fans 'saw llarrowcote de feat Hl'ldare 2-0 yesterday on tho loaer'u diamond At Present Prices every shoe in the Boot Shop is a wise and thrifty insur ance against the higher prices of the near future. SfeideraPaft --SMZO Chestnut St "When Only tha Batt Is J2ood Enough" Them OO DON'T CAFtEi BOV!! AIN'T IT a GR'R"RAND And L DOPE II NATIONAL Cravathians Look Like New Ball Team to St. Louis Fans After First Trip MEADOWS'S FOURTH WIN St. Louis, .Mo., July 31. "With nine victories in their Inst thirteen games, the Phillies promise to upset the dope in the Xationnl League. They broke away from the barrier with an unusual burst of speed and surprised those who picked thcin to trail nlong nt the bot tom. When the Phillies were here in June they played like a tail-end ball club, hut introducing themselves for the second time esterdfty, they prom ise to turn over the cellar to eithrr the Cardinals or the Braves. Cravath docs not claim he is a new miracle man for baseball. He does say that he will make the Phillies 11 pennant contender in 1020. Cravath does not have to speak. The record of the Phillies talks for the new man ager. There must be something to Cra vath's system. Explain the change in Henry Lee Meadows, plcnse ! Meadows in St. Louis was considered n misfit pitcher for the last two years. He had a wind-up and a glove, but nothing more. His control was terrible. Meadows faced the Cardinals yester- day in his fourth game for the Quakers, and he hit the register for his fourth .traint vicor'' ljitchlng in Alexander fashion. How is it that Meadows couldn't win with a club that has a better percentage than the Phils? Softens the Stiffest Beard Better Than Brush and Lather. MOLLE MO-LAV For Shaving Gives a smooth velvety Ehave in half the usual time All druggists. , Tubes 2Sci lb. Jars 50c mi . Brown Russia Oxfords Build by Thrift Bur W. 8. 8. '',Wi BA SEBA LLAT NIGHT POPULAR SPORT IN NORTHWEST CANADA Day's Athletic Program Starts About Three Hours This Side of Midnight in Calgary, and, Aided by North ern Lights, Is Real Sport's Twilight Zone IN THE SroitTUailT nX GItANTLAND RICE T Copjrlsht, 1010. All rlehts reserved. tin sporting season around the North Tole may be a trifle sudden, but there is one section of compensation for tho Eskimos nnd other igloo denizens who may go in for golf, tennis, baseball or what not. Any time they draw n balmy period they can go to it from 0 a.' m. to midnight, or a fews hours laver, and still have a flash of sunlight left. Sport's Ttvilight Zone rNE has to establish a number of P. O.'s nnd forward observation post V nlong the sportive highway in order to obtain an earful or an ereful regarding the complete Bituntlou. . A few dajs ago we drifted through Calgary, in Alberta, Canada, the same bring a few brassic shots (if you don't top any of them) this side of the Canadian Rockies. ' We arrived at 0 p. m. By this time back in the United States of America the ball games were not only finished, but the extras had long since been dis played ifor public inspection, with the boxed details outlined in full. By 0 p. m. the well-known pastime had become ancient history. It was a trifle different in Calgary. Promptly nt 0 p. m. in one big, open field a soccer game swung under way. Two hundred yards or so to the right in nnothcr big held, surrounded by a shallow stand, an umpire was calling "Batter unl" for the opening Inning. We thought nt first it must be the last game of a triple header or about the forty-third inning of n world's record tic. Nothing to it. 'They were just openiug the day's sporting card a brief three hours this side of .midnight. fHEY were itill at it around 10:30 p. m., c,fA all the light any one irowH need, tenen tec hit the highway for a further advance. The Night League THERE was a queer sensation at the start in seeing ball games placarded ns follows: "Baseball tonight; Sportsman's Park." The first hunch was thnt nn incandescent ball was to be employed, with n string of lanterns swung around the battlefield. But a sight of the game nt Calgary opening at 0 p. m outlined the situation. With this break in his favor, the Calgary fan or others in range of the Northern Lights have all the best of it. The fanatic there can complete hli day's work, go home for dinner, devour the same, read his afternoon news paper, have a whack or two at bridge and then take in the ball game. 4) pALOARY is under the Union Jack. Hut it wan a noticeable, fact that the tail panic drew the crowd in opposition to the soccer battle a few strides away. TEN j cars from now and they'll be shifting the authorship of "Too proud to fight" on to Jess Willard. Books Worth "Reading "Dri and J." fly Uncle Sam. "Speaking of Operations," By Jess Willard. fryOU'LTj never make Jack Dempsey popular with the A. E. F.," writes J- in a returned soldier. We haven't tried to. But for all that, it's fifty fifty. ,No one was able to make the A. E. F. very popular with Dempsey two years ago. i it TIM CORBETT," writes a fight fan, "picked Jeffries to bent Johnson, U Johnson to beat Willard nnd Willard 'to beat Dempsey. He ought to be able to collect a few thousand iron men from Dempsey the next time Jack fights by picking the other guy," AS FOR picking 'em, suppose some one had offered to bet you even money that a ball club composed of Schnng, Ittith, Mnys, Jones, Melnnis, Barry, Scott, Vitt, Hooper. Strunk, etc., couldn't finish in the first division? There's another of those cinch bets that skidded off the trail before any one knew how it happened. AND suppose some one had offered to get you around September, 1014, that Connie Mack would finish last for the next five years when nt that moment Mr. Mnek was just in the act of winning his fourth pennant In five campaigns? John N. Willys President of the Willys-Overland Company, manufacturer of the Overland Automobile. denies that he or any of the Companies which he controls are or ever have been interested in the stock of the OVERLAND TIRE COMPANY or its busi ness and affairs and that any of the products of said Overland Tire Company are being handled by or through the Willys-Overland Company or any of the in terests controlled by him. f ! : rl dl .41 .'I i I 1 l&- X VI , ssi'nr .. .... 1 .''... . t i ta, . a w&it . v - u v I i ' rf". 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