The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 31

THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SUNDAY, A IN JUST 28, 1917. EVENTFUL CAREER OF BOBBY WALTHODR THE PACING KM Benny Will Have Hard Time Finding Capable Opponent CHAMP1CN BENNY LEONARD AND LIGHTWEIGHTS WHO WANT HIS CROWN "Dixie Filer" Has Won Many Races and Has Been Injured Often. VT LEONARD, lightweight dee.

Pn'sy Clt ne. Charley White Ever OHMmY WR I fiSSfeV --)WtUUISU BOBBT WALTHOtJR, the Georgia "Cracker cyclist, who was se- fcuis been'conEldered'" omTof the most '10 ls capable of fill- I JgMLj exclusive on Long been i MSflHHHHwSH9MK prominentln ocicty both gWS3 Baseball a Pink Tea A. H' I xWBL 9 Jn.yl.undce was the next nam, 1 0 Wliat It USCd tO tit I WM Scotch as played now Is a bed of HB: 'l-HL' "'W U-'1" '''t md condition. L' PTMT' "In, mar.j ten-. ound, no deol- that B0Verned tn9 national pastime KiHfer' 'M I IhPIHB -W rVsjp'nirton vniit jiWfclM" ill yLm I i what he could do against Leonard In He was referring In particular to jWHI Jfc, 5 ftl championship ban e.

the way the piayenf are treated by the HVBf fHeV JiflWII Callahan Would Be Lucky to Win. public when away from home, and he JMHV MtMKKMF HHHI 9H ars ago. I CJBBHV HB. VtaiTCvW lr FHIWBr than either Dundee or White. When Bo9tn Baltimore was starting to hit fHSH liiHK 1 CL-IME.

ZHr-- 1 in condition he can be depended upon nlm hard and wa8 a)rected to WBBRj. wfllHi JQHNN I to put up a good scrap. Also, Lalla- wttrm up Kid Nichols. In those days Sb BHRa 1 fffiS: V-r CHAMPION BRAVES his ri-f. lve work 13 equal to that Of hefween the rrandstand and WmmM IHH JF Jm the champion.

He also would be lucky bIeacherB and behInd big gates that WMlEgM I JM i nmi I win Benny Leonard. Lnened on the Held. No sooner had 1RB WKKM I WBl lllMiffl 1 WCT I Cf AT-TDDril anxious to get a peep at ohampion. When they sat there was an exclamation The lightweight champion i pug ugiy man any or me they were accustomed to Yacht Club. inlshed In They know that 5 quiet, mo.ivit fellow who mnotlcerl In the averaee Leonard Is no better or no an the averaee knicht of the padded mitt In so far as appearance Is concerned.

But as a boxer well, that No Ren! Rival In Sight Ever since Leonard won the title from Freddy Welsh there considerable talk regardlni Toe manager of every othet lightweight In the country has advanced the claims of his own partlcu- ticket In the hones that lit will be the first to get a championship battle. About eight are really worth considering. There Is not much tc pick among them. One Is as good at another, but not a single one looks There are many people in this world who always believe that a champion Is something out of the ordinary and More than one chamnlnn has had logical opponents that he has been afraid to meet. Not so Leonard.

ager can see any lightweight 0 horizon that they know they sidestep. And that opinion la by the boxing There Is tend not boxing. Jess Wlllard Is tl get a stuff. Thi have costs money. Cash only comes through matches and although Leonard still has enough In his sock to keep his vicar running all winter, the lightweight knows that he must do soma work before the snow files.

Leonard is not worrying very much over his next opponent. Still he realizes that a discussion of the merits of the contenders helps things and he is perfectly contented to have all the fans argue the all-Important topic. 1 Every day the name of a new contender bobs up In print. Still It looks as If the call will go to Johnny Dun- Eon. vestlrdav "when "aexpX to" see Some low.

brutal-looking ed down with jewelrv. Instr-nd th-y M.Wf a rSplon box Ofcourst "aUthrslsnotpartlrular-v new to followers of th" ti. cam- Dass unnoticed In the averaen aeen to be drawn. Leo Is colored and al- sh'ed heisw'at'ers 'totw'arm up than jflfjL sH itf -I Leonard has never drawn the eaoh was surrounded by ten or twelve OhHV I HffiSHK i plon melt1 Johnson wYenhe mat do vouae tlnk yer rotn. to flH vKfflBBp ''-'I FeW of Stalling9' Sensational latter is no better nor no worse than do?" asked a burly oyster shucker of i-MfflHIn HHffim I 0x.M the other contenders.

At the Ryan -ulgWf iliWM fflD iWKSmMmtm 1 914 Team Still in the Majors. ent time there ls no wild cry for a "Going to warm up." -rffi-HEflK-W WjSsk VVW fflgsmii battle between Leonard and Johnson. "Youse links yer goln' to warm up," JBiSM iHKkjHHBB -Si George tailings Is beginning ex. Ever Hammer was the next. nam.

ttid the ruffian. "I sez yer not goln' BuiMl y9NHffi(-V acU' where he started when he took he er iv. from the haL No one but t0 warm up until I sez yer kin." WfiRk. HlaSiHHm 7 Large of the Boston Braves. I.ecap- Ever and his manager knows why he Ryan and Mchols pleadea, but It fBUWA yHlHU mh.r m.mhr has beenadvanced as apt.ssihle rsn- no ug6.

Manager Selee sent an- pJ HH ajKaSBBsHB famous team th at drove Its way to a that Leonard knocked out Hammer "utheangstVs0 grabbed'hlmtoo. aCkJlilN .0 KMSSM HHhsHPhK National League chumponahlp and a last year in Kansas City. Benny was Finally, the score-board showed Bal- Dfc-NN 7 JOMUMI NjHHgBSHR wnu title, n- u.aKit.K bwe- not the champion then. Todav he M. h.rt run.

a(T Htlvi-tta I COMADn AKIKIB bad wond turn ovei in Its Kansas City. drive pcnmititwimi, bus been disposed Mrs. Gavin Defended By the Golf Widow Benton and Sallee Picked To Start the World's Series story was wrltti 1917 Benton had a percentage of greets the Boston National League Ted fathers ls somewhere In tho minor league. He constituted a valu- swltchlng outfielders that Stalllngs employed In his battle for the pen- tar with tho Braves, now ls with Kansas City. Joe Connolly, who was Stalllngs' best hitter In his 1914 campaign, is out of the hig league Ensign Cottrel has dropped so fur De Palma 's Triple Victory Has Killed Old Man Jinks race at a Pari, traok last Sunday, ha.

had a most wonderful career. Wall thour la almost 40 years of ago. Bobby first saw the light of day at Walthour- father, near A'lanta. January 187S, and he ls the daddy of four children. He completes the trio of "Oeorgla peaches," of whom Ty Oobb baseball star, and Bobby Jonea, golfing phenom.

are the other two. When ha first branched out la the cycle racing game baok In the day of Eddie Cannon Bald, the Buffa-lonlan; the late Tom Cooper, of Detroit; Nat Butler. Karl Riser, FreA Loughead. Tom Butler and other notables of the nineties. Walthour be wn to the cycling fan.

a. the "Hts; 1 Iyer a youngrter of 17. Walthour Coium- )lors flylnf more than ught him to the Ma cling. Shortly after arj ing in the ft M-vear- Cool big" was sti; In short tklrts. The nappy pair 010 the eloping act a la tandem.

One of the Atlanta paperJ earned the report of the marriage In poetic form with the following: He was a charming scorcher, They sped a close of day r's work was tie bride and side vo pedals turned as one. tly after his marriage, and no too much Item for the honeyl 'Aal'hoiir on tho then popular Michigan State circuit with) Hit I hlg re. Fla rher won Important races against Bald, oper, Orlando Stevens, "Doc" own. the late Floyd McFarland and Star Among the Pace Followeie. about 1 900 Walthour Journeyed to i old Vallsburg Board Traok, the irk Veb.

At thai IS just r-paced oast his lot with the follower, of the io chooa" As pace follower Walthour proved be Just a. sensational ax he was f. sprlntor. He tm in i Hach New Haven. Springfield, Philadelphia.

Baltimore and Washington und repeated the following year. As a M. jhler Walthour was a wmi ins first 101,3 Madison Kipiaro Garden til Ith Archie MeKachorn, the i. ho lost his life In a motor- pareii at Atlantic City. In 1903 i again Met phis, shared his aches and pair has also been paced In other i but wenm tor-paced cham-1 at the crystal i.

In September, helped to make a lug American won the paced Lawson. Thd the professional peated in tho ie following year Evers Got a Surprise From Brooklyn Fans "I am not what I call a rowdy and don't think I deserve to be referred to as one." says Johnny Kvers In the Baseball Magazine. "At Troy I am In the habit of putting on a dress suit once In a wl respectable i of those pee ing wltl ho game for orm of kidding me, they seemed to They reall) glad i-v poi titl.tr feeling, one used to, I can tell yon." llllllliVM) GFTTi.NG CHESTY. Now that the Beds have shOWl Igni of being a real ball team, th Cincinnati fans are demanding a ee ries wiiii the Cli velatid Indian, for th championship of t'hio this Call. i City golf widow the defense of A.

Gavin, the Eng- Mrs metropolltan golf champion, with one of her witticisms yesterda that ended the criticism of the fair holder of the local title. A company of men and women golfers wero discussing the recent article In The Eagle approving Mrs Gavin's refusal to make her own tees and her habit of always having the caddy perform that task. "From a strictly golf standpoint perhaps Tho Eagle Is right In Its approval," said one woman, "but you can't deny that this re fusal to make he for too methodical, as It wero." There was a general nodding of heads In approval of this comment, but a moment later tho widow, looking gravely around at the company, said: "Don't you think you are a hit too severe on Mrs. Gavin? You know the English are very fond of their tea; so what more natural than that Mrs. Gavin should like Johnson innings, "Dixie Flyer' Hero also Is with ing for Red the Cubs a Jump to i third ha Feds and i Kansas with Joplln In tho of the Pacing Game do equally as well.

Welling and Hartley. Joe Welling and Pete Hartley wera ift In the hat Close sport are perfeotly mini to let tnem stay mere, rveuner is the class to take Leonard's meas--e. although either has as much right claim a championship battle as iy of the other lightweights In the As things stand, Leonard may have go out of his class to get a real rht. Some of the welterweights lght make things Interesting for the rh tweight king. A contest between Lewis and Benny Leonard prob-ly would be more Interesting than a utle between the lightweight king id any of his real opponents.

Still would prove nothing and might do eonard a lot of harm. That Is why enny undoubtedly will stick In his vn class and meet one of the eight miles to go, when a connecting rod broke. Again at Savannah, in the Grand Prix of 1910, I had a lead of two minutes, with only and a cylinder head bh I off. Good- 3 driving a 1911 and leading bv a min last lap. I finished second, because a broken gasoline line pushed mo out of first place and $5,000.

But the biggest piece of hard luck I ever had was at Indianapolis in 1912, driving the same car. With a good lead and lap and a half to go, a connecting rod and my oil pump broke at the same time. I had to sit by and watch $2 7,000 get away from me, although I had a nine-minute margin when it happened. nee, in kip togo 0 out of my hospital for nhle to eat md Caleb Bragg hit rear. That bumped $5,00 ix weeks.

When I was solid food again, which i went at it again, thp Memorial Day Chicago I was leading the last lap when a out. I finished first prize, place and year, In pluu "At the si pull out and watch $10. year In the Memorial Day Sweep-ptakes. at Cincinnati, I was about to pass the leader when a splinter from the track tore a hole In my radiator. That race was worth $12,500.

July 4, at Chicago. I was loafing along In the lead when the generator burned out. tl a 100 fire. That's all." Eleven Beats Near the Front atly excited i wed up and in the Yan- I i four mln- I line and l'rlvs the goal. It 'an exciting In- finish id a returi Sergeant Si.

and Perk nn, llnan, Monroe. Blair and Bulterfieb played best for the Armrlcans. whll Captain I.egraml was a host In him rub -studded bronz medals to third i i Scott of Manhal- I silver loving cup one gold, silver I High- I r.l.al and bagpipe row with R. W. Kennedy, address, and Ah eider i 1G Seventh avenue, Man- I 4 Caldwell ltattau.

WO of the pltc! I who carried pennant In 1918, with a record lost the games to 1 game, are still with the Giants, Those lasting athletes are Jeff Tesroau, who has stuck with the Olants through thick and thin, and Al Demaree, both right-handers. Demaree was shipped to the Phillies for 1915, In which year they won the pennant. the 1 cago for Jim Lavender he was traded back Chicago. Tenreau and Demai game to the Athletics I which the GlanU ma showing against the that the form that rreatcst teams ganized, offensively and de- Tesreau started tho third game of the 1913 series for tho Giants, but yielded elev third ii placing him. defeat going against Tesroau's record.

Demaree started tho fourth game for the Giants In 1913. He came to grief in four Innings. The Athl hits which 1 grandstand finish, scoring threo runs off Bender in the eighth and two in the ninth, hut the lead the Athletics rained on Demajee was never overcome, and DemarVe was the technical Giants Apparently So Stronger Than In 1013. this ig the Giants are sine and have a or somewhat P-ss National League so close to their 1 bo presumed that surprising, as there has been a natural tendency to regard the present Giants, because of the high prices paid for Zimmerman. Hvrzog.

Sallee and Benton, as the greatest ever. The percentage columns do not show that the 1H7 Giants ni" immeasurably a John J. McGraw time he managed Series. In fact, fef1! grievous other end fered for i Benton. Sallee, Bchnpp, io help them over I weary road.

They ai" Itube in. Slim and last but not 1 but latest. Ferdinand Sehupp. and Snllee were winners of standing before they Joined tho last year. Kach had carried a club.

Benton In Cincinnati and Bent. long In St. tor many sea of th g.ttno, to say tu proved his courage The latest tables haviii hand, when this 1 I4s Bailee ha4h won rst eight games of the 15 and lost for .714. uilng and losing dope, depends largely upon That ls the which, of con the kind of a hind him. 1 that ls leading the league In hitting, Is composed of brilliant defensive players and ls ably directed, but the against the threo southpaws show that they are wonderfully effective on their own accounts, Irrespective of their support.

A trio of southpaws of that merit would make almost any National League club a winner In Its own clr-oult and should certainly bea tre- Series the i pood pitching, and got lght his Also. It ls to be of 15 won and li eight winnings I season, after wl lost 6. A double dc composed of to Btart the 3 won 7 and Met I base lThiTbtg ie elght- lion a short and the pitch-I upon the. BILL HDfCHMAN OCT. i Outfielder BUI Hlnehman of the Pi-.

lies, who broke a leg early In July' i Philadelphia, Is out of the i mpt to pl ball again this year, If ever. i Interesting sidelight to the au- at the Sheepshead Bay Speedway, last Saturday, was told by Ralph De Palma today. The famous driver believes that he has at last got rid of the jinx that has been following him for years. Although he felt sure of winning at least one of the three contests, his triple vlctorv came surprise and today De Palma all rying futui For more than twelve years, De Palma has been followed by a jinx. He firmly believes that had it not been for the hoodoo-, he would havo won more than $100,000 in purses since he first began the racing game.

he of a $15,0 thro mishap ichine. him every season. "Recently at Indianapolis," said De Palma, "when it seemed almost certain that I would beat Oldfleld. I lost control of my car and crashed through a fence. I came out unhurt, which led Barney to remark to me that perhaps I had succeeded in losing my hard luck shadow.

"I figured up the other day and I've lost $116,000 In purses since 1908. Just old Jinx. In that vrar nt Savannah In the Grand Prix. I was leading with nine miles to go. The oil belt of my Flat flew off and I had to quit I That cost me $15,000.

"The following year, in the Na- I tlonal road race, at Lowell, I I was leading by forty feet with eight Yankee Socker French Team Hospital No. 15, U. S. has taken the Inhabitai by storm. Long, shor this flags, all claiming to ne the Stripes, suddenly made their ance.

while the kindlv-di hearted French neOole i led, they could to make thi bli The ii i here CALEDONIAN MS. The sixty-first a New York Caledor held at Juniper Labor Day. Monday, mond-studded gold awarded the wlnn eVed silver medals liphlre-stud- i place, and I.