Stake-Richards-Tilden Team Tennis Victors
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SPORTING SECTION Baseball . Boxing . Racing SPORTING SECTION Jíetu Jtorik frrflrottt Tennis . Golf . Rowing PART II FOUR PAGES SUNDAY. AUGUST 18. 1918 # * » PART II FOUR PAGES »SLJgg5£_gg!»_Ir_».« Stake-Richards-Tilden Team Tennis Victors Kilmers Crack Racer The of Real Days Sport.By briggs All Longwood Cheers Beats Johren by Nose Sixteen~Year-Old Biggest Crowd of Season at Spa Thrilled by Brilliant Boy Display of Horsemanship in $10,000 Feature Event Alexander and Wright Put Up Plucky Battle for Doubles .Passing Shower Captures the Spinaway Crown, but Are Beaten in Match That Goes Five Sets.Mrs. Wightman Wins By W. J. Macbeth SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., Aug. 17.-Willis Sharp* Kilmer's By Fred Hawthorne the son of the Sun Briar, imported English Sundridge, proved him- 17..Vincent one of the most candidates for BOSTON, Aug. Richards, New York's gelf prominent the three-year-old crown old maTvel of the with sixteen-year- the current racing season when he courts, paired William T. Tilden, 2d, of Phila¬ of outgamed, outfought and outlucked delphia, won the doubles lawn tennis Harry Payne Whitney's Johren in the championship of the United States $10,000 Travers Stake, at a mile this afternoon, on the court of a contested here to-day. championship the Longwood Cricket and quarter, by Frederick B. Alexander and Club, Three-year-old classics are still to defeating Beals C. Wright at 6.3, 6.4, Sun Briar did not estab¬ 3.6, 2.6, 6.2, in a match that will long be be contested. at remembered among tho sway by to-day'a everything the end. Terentia, thb followers of the. game. lish championship favorite, in a middle as it was. He beat the position, was S1 In race, brilliant caught in a jam at the start, buffeted a struggle that was marked ion of Spearmint in a race that was about, almost knocked down and elimi¬ | throughout by tennis of the nated, which made most brill- admirably contested from start to fin¬ the the way easy for iant description the work of Richards the of both thoroughbreds long-shot winner. Tuscaloosâ suf¬ Yankees Divide was ish on part fered a kindred fate. distinguished by its remarkable beat 6o and riders, but he him scantily Bet. the second choice, won the all-around strength. In no single de- there is still room for doubt as to Steeplechase. Weldship, the partment did the that one of the surest favorite, towheaded boy dis- better horse jumpers living-, stum¬ a which might prove the bled at the sixth barrier Honors of I play weakness, and his generalship luck. and unseated Day was in with an even break racing Smoot. Garter lost his rider at the of the highest. It was an unheard fame obstacle of Knapp Pilots Winner field. at the next turn of the thing, this boy, plsying with- three Willie who had such masters of tactics as The veteran Knapp, Keen Jane, backed from 6 to 1 to 7 WithWhiteSox Alexander, the leg up on bun Briar, furnished to 2, took the closing event of six fur¬ Wright and Tilden, net only to hold his com¬ longs. A, wonderful ride his own, but one of the masterpieces of fected by Walls ef¬ actually to outguess the career in taking Sun Briar this result. The winner got off older men at times. mendable poorly and was tc victory. Yet Knapp did not outride far badly bumped on the By Charles A. Taylor Alexander and Wright, after Robinson. The of turn, yet squeezed on the Ping the first two drop- Frankie question rail and won through With nothing vital at Btake for sets and apparently was quite as closely over Triumphant in a being headed straight fur made horsemanship and courage stiff drive. either team, the Yankees and the a defeat, drawn as was the stamina Walls also landed j wonderful rally and brought the of the wonderful thoroughbreds ia Louise V, the brackets with White Sox divided a double-header match even by calling into play all favorite of the six furlong afternoon at the Polo their skill and all their court craft. question. rode perfect races on opening dash. He got off and yesterday Both jockeys of made it a all winging Grounds. The visitors captured the Tilden Meets Crisis. mounts that raced to the acme ¡ runaway the distance. The sudden The finish was such aB first game by a score of 7 to 4 and the turn of the tide threat- perfection. ened to sweep Tilden and that between Cudgel and Westy llogan home nine won the second encounter Richards off young the day. Sun Briar's head their feet, but in tha of previous the finish by a score of 7 to 2. crisis Tilden responded with an un- was down as he swept over j beatable brand of he won the shortest nose you . American and In the first contest both Mogridge tennis, rushing to and by the net with the speed of the wind «n imagine. and Shellenback were driven from the and possibiyfinest crowd of the season was i smothering everything that came The feature, mound by the furious batting of the within reach of his racquet, until the en hand for to-day's double veterans were both in the matter of quantity World's two teams, Keating being called upon into slowly but surely beaten finest enthusi¬ Swim submission. and quality. More than 25,000 by Huggins to relieve Mogridge, while A of close the clubhouse, grandstand, with gallery to two thousand asts packed the Rowland replaced Shellenback persons formed a living about lawns and field stands. During the court, and square it was next to im¬ Danforth. | enthusiasm ran high, running of events Marks particularly as the to gam a van¬ Broken In the second battle Danforth tried Richards soon showed possible for tardy that he was out to play the greatest anywhere. to do an "iron man" stunt for the game of his short tage point the stake race ar- but dazzling career Bv the time big White and Slim Love was on the courts. In the opinion of rived the multitude had been worked BFLMAR, NT. Sox, picked who have those of excitement. As it J., Aug. 17..Residents iBraves to do the box work for the Yanks. Slim attended tournaments at to a frenzy of this Listen to Longwood for the last op resort were treated 35,000 Mad Whir fifteen years or were thrilis to a Split Red Sox there rare With shown later, was somewhat wild and was hit hard more, the will be of the carnival fina! round match this after- in the first half pro-, swimming here to-day, came a win¬ noon was notable in a enough for the Travers cho during in spots, but he through number of wars. gramme. The field course of which American and the satisfaction of Interest was sustained w.' iJ the final if limited. Sun Briar and world's TwinBill ner, and also had point because of the was select, Kil- records were established. Har¬ With Antos as Records Fall tremendous ef- as the in in the Ruth new were coupled Of BoxWin setting a season's record fort of Eiterminator old Wright and Alexander to swing in a field of four that sent Kruger, the Hawaiian back-stroke strike-outs. Slim fanned twelve the tide in the third mat entrv and A. way of and fourth sets, Mr. "Whitney's Johren Me-j wonder, and Claire were the and because of the of a only the fa- Galligan ' of the enemy. The Yankees bunched year-old sight sixteen- Comber'? War Cloud against ; record smashers. Cardinal Crew On boy battling his way to a na- wed Sheepshead Bay Track From Indians hits off Danforth in two innings for tional championship. pair. Kruger topped his Eastern series of to Perfect Start the runs that gave them the game. Irving Wright, brother of Beals. com¬ Off record feats when he on the field off to a breaking was Fans See Game menting play after Richards Caisidv sent the small timed in the ST. 10,000 and Tilden had won the or. the extreme out- 440-yard back-stroke swim LOUIS, Aug. 17..Boston and St. Palma Has of title, said: fine start. Knapp, ;n G:28. This Monopoly BOSTON, Aug. 17..Boston took the The New Yorker just has to go some¬ "The greatest doubles I've ever seen side, hustled his wonderful sprinter! extraordinary perform¬ Louis broke even to-day, Boston taking |De Records at Longwood." followed ance smashes by a substantial the first but to Broken first game of the critical series* from where afternoons, and that over the rail position, closely the former margin game. 2 to 0, and St. Louis Victory, Manages Saturday Had Wright been able to finish off Exterminator, the stable compan¬ record of G:47 1-5, held by the Cleveland to-day, 4 to 2, Ruth holding accounts for the attendance of his shots as by had F. A. second, 2 to 1. De Palma in possibly crisply and as as ion. Before the first turn Knapp Unwin, of England. Leo Giebel Entertain By the visitors to five hits. Scratch in¬ The didn't have Alexander it is quite certainly the lead, with Extermi- was second, but at no time threatened Errors by Hornsby and Tuero mate- Throng 10,000. spectators likely that the two crowded into to field hits by Ruth and Mclnnis in the to over the internationalists would have won the tutor right behind, and a little to the be a serious contender for the rialized into the two runs which de- Big Auto Race much opportunity enthuse championship of shield.