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EVENING LBDaSEIHILADELPHlA, TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1916. ?i FAST TENNIS IN THE EAST BOXING, GOLF AND OTHER NEWS OF THE SPORTS WORLD 1,1 ..... ,... ,. :i.. - WELSH TO BOX BENNY LEONARD PIRATE LEADER AND TWO STAR HURLERS "POOF, POOF!" CRY GOlHAMlTES NEXT FRIDAY NIGHT IP HE CAN'T IN COMPARING STARS' GRACES FIND EXCUSE TO PODGE BOUT TO FAVORITE SON AS GOLFER . : , Champion and Gotham Challenger Scheduled for Other Players Might as Tomorrow' Tournaments 10-Rou- Today's Second nd Meeting in Brooklyn Con- "Well Stay Home New and Tee Talk Trlrllere ef plarlnr orer the. nrs ef tender Easy Winner in Contest Yorkers Have Picked RlTerton reentry Cleb ettenM H First Women's Oolt .w "VVrtJPhiladelphia,'. .,h0 AftotMtiea ' Golf Champion ef By ROBERT W. MAXWELL Next The WfUhl ef the body rhlfts from ttx tefl TTNLESS Freddy Welsh thinks up a per championship at Cedar Point, O., on Labor foot to the rls-h- t with. the backward swisvr. The left liffl, m It lifts with .the tmiSt fectly good excuse beforo next Friday Day, it Is up to the Baltlmorean to get busy of tlie body, torns, from the tmif .ft e U By SANDY McNIDLICK a. oiwie evening, he viil bo forced to enter the ring and fix Up tho details. Matt Ulnkle has stands wltu the. left foot ai rlsht offered 115,000 to be split up between the Is nothing to It." to. the line ef flleht. This ontwsrd tsrotff and mingle TtlERB allows the left les to stretch, and tires tbi ten rounds OT less with one boxers to suit themselves, nnd as soon as Is the way practically 'all tho bodr chance to, sway, at bit...., . Sennte Leonard, a prominent New Yorker, Is wilt on. It noes not disturb the .rqnlllhrlnm, this done the match be Metropolitan players at Shawnee expressed Is therefore onroi scions, but It I fatal to Hieri at Washington Park. But there Is likely to bo a hitch In the anlnc, since It cbanr-- s the are the themselves on the question ft - St. Mr. lconard met Mr. division of the spoils; Chaney probably ellipse enough to prevent the ball being- hit agr.N Walsh four months ago wilt hold out for a split, white Kll-ban- e, ns to who wilt be the next national cham- and, our well-know- n who Is tho champion and has a right pion. ThU fipUinf the reiMOj champ did not enthuse rn th ittt fAAt fAwnrri rwA Wfk to do some dictating, wilt Insist on not less "Bob" Gardner, present holder of the la one there enn bu no unconRtTapa swsxlnr. over tho meeting. In than $10,000, Tho other B000 bucks can thft lefl le fnniwt retch wit belt nnd a former champion, too, Is brushed flnce it etjulUbri IS fact, Mr. Welsh was not go to Chancy or anybody else so far as nslrto with a flip of the hand. ward sirlnr tiniest the eager to remain long In Johnny 13 concerned. "Won't last two rounds," snorted the tKIs may help .the rolfer, .with, nntnrwed Mr. Leonard's company, title St.ance, who la still tropins for his eatulrb- - Chancy assumed tho of "feather- Gothamitcs. rli but he stuck around for weight champion" after the Baltimore Poor "Jerry" Travorn, four times cham- SB .' tik JTBV 45 minutes after almost match fell through" last March, but no one pion of the United States and onco a runne- going to sleep a couplo gave It a second thought Since that time r-up, as well as an open champion, has Its activities this week to keeping as quiet of times. All of which he has had a few matches, but did not set played some fair golf In his day, but he as may be. Its president, H. Wellington Is another way of say the world afire with his sensational work. gets the same harsh treatment at tho Wood, sought seclusion t Shawnee last ing Benny Broad-wayvlll- that almost Ho will have a tough Job on his hands If ho hands of his s In week, but he Just couldn't resist cleaning wm jmm 'knocked Freddy's block meets Kllbanc, and we are now waiting to up. He qualified In the second sixteen and "ai Pfc-u- ;- off. see If he Is willing to take a chance. "Chick" Evans, present natlonat open came through. II. W. MAXWELL A 'aw "Isht ago champion, once runner-u- p In both the open Wrestling In Some Sport "I had a 78 In one round," said Wood, Freddy was booked to meet Charley White and nmatcur, four times western amateur "as well as an 80 and an 82." In Minneapolis, bout was called 6ft Wrestling Is a great sport and tho more champion and onco open, acclaimed tho but the account of the four-bal- l handicap became' a refcreo could not bo agreed upon. we read about It, tho greater It becomes. deadliest of medal players, Is likewise given In an The club Ita Every tlmo we look at a grappling match the stony razoo by Metrooplltans. match last week, C H. Lovett and I H. had official arbiter, but Freddy the Canan were announced as winners would not stand for htm. Instead, ho we leave tho halt with the Impression that "Easy plckln's In tho match play, "airily the of performers not athletes, but darned chirp tho low net prise, which was a flock of wanted to ring In his own privato refcreo the are the New Yorkers. golf balls. They been In tie with nnd, as a result, thero was no scrap. good actors and should put on their stuff had a bystanders So That Settles It Frank M. McAdams and A. M. Ehret, a, Freddy's alibi was that he was taking no In vaudeville. More Innocent sterling duet from Bala. chances with his tltlo nnd after looking over have been trimmed In wrestling bouts than They havo never "heard tell" ot Cameron any other sport, and they-wi- ll contlnuo Buxton, Philadelphia champion, who Ehret chuckled when questioned about his record we agree with him. Welsh cares has . no more about his tltlo than a horse does to be trimmed so long as they pay good been shooting golf all season that will the play-off- abojjt his hind leg. money to seo the "Terrible Turks" and beat, and has beaten, tho best of them. "Ask 'em who's got the golf balls, that' "Stranglcra" put on their acts. Then again Nor does their golf blue book contain alt," He kept right on rocking comfortably Leonard Won Last Bout they come across with some high-clas- s M the name of Sidney Sharwood, or Hugh In his chair on the veranda. something comedy, which Is shown by tho following Runs Scored This Week llljf Wllloughby, Jr., Florida champion, theso In connection with the prize and the ups nut should happen next Fri- dispatch we saw In tho papers a couplo two being bright comets who will play In day night over In Brooklyn If Freddy ever WILLIAMS IS PUT by Big League Clubs M and downs of golf. It might be stated that get of days ago: pW tho advantage of their home course at McAdams and Ehret had the low gross Into tho ring. Leonard gave him a tiW I 1 Morion, whero tho championship will bo n holding Joe Stechcr to a In prlzo sewed up coming to the green. beautiful lacing In their first battle In Madl-co- "After draw held 39 days from today. last five of wrestling, Stranglor Lewis scored by nil teams in er Squnro Garden and feels confident of hours OUT OF TOURNEY Metropolitan fans are deaf to rumors It Is a and McAdams was ho can Gotch for hole-hig- doing tho same thing again. Benny Is THE believes defeat Frank American and National Leagues of giant golfers girding up their loins In though In the rough on his drive. cleverest lightwolght In tho business today tho world's championship. Billy Sandow, from Tuesday, July 18, to Monday, E. Claaey and A. C. Alexander, who were manager of Lewis, Bays he will post a tho Boston district, the South and the far nd In addition to that has a knockout wal- July 24, inclusive. Only runs that West. They see only one figure on the hori- the winners of the low gross, both got In lop In forfeit any tlmo to bind a match with BY C. GRIFFIN trouble with their drives. either hand. In tho scrap last March Gotch."' J. figure in official averages arc in- zon. ho had the champion In bad shape a couplo cluded. Scores of incomplete games On his head they havo placed the laurels : "What?" Asked McAdams of times and gave tho veteran tho hardest Stranglcr Has Nerve o'er his shoulders they have draped the battlo of his long career. arc not counted, but tho scores of purple In his hand they have placed tho "We're one shot to the good," whispered This Is a swell challengo and would have games of five innings or more are in- Ehret to McAdams as they walked to the For a long time Welsh has Big Upset Results Early in cup. been putting sounded fine but for one little thing. Tho cluded in the tablet cry. "Hall, Os- ball. "It's up to you." It over on tho Dear Old Public It Is "Hall, champion," they and day before this sweeping defl was Issued, Longwood Tennis Play AMKMCAN LEAGUE.

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