Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-06

the mlre. WIN QnllInlleu means ant
| power at his back, Chance is unable
| to make even a respectable showing
with the New York team and appear.
ances are dim for the future. Out,
side of their own very natural de-
sire to win, all the clubs in the
American League. and President Bar
Johnson, too, for that matter, would
| like to see the Yankees up in the
race" for with a winner in New
York there is only one answer
| tremendous crowds at the gate. But
Chance is down and out, baked
to turn, struggling along hope
lessly in the. rear. Yet with all this,
the populace is still with him. his
sterling personality still holding the
fans, who are pulling for turn in
the tide.
The man higher up enters here
in the person of Frank Farrell, the
owner. No magnate in baseball to-
day has spent more time and money
and complained less at what his
efforts have brought forth than this
same big-hearted individual. He has
turned his club over to this one and
that, always unhampered and with
liberal backing, only to generally dis
cover that the fortunes Of war were
not of a kind to his liking. 1t is no
fault of Chance. we believe, that the
Yanks are so far in the ruck, but
success is not likely to dominate his
future until he gets wise and dis
poses of at least one man on his
much-disrupted ball team.
Evers, Tinker, Chance! All three
are now bosses on the job. and
that's the way they figure in the
ratings as their teams at present
stand, Taking a peep into the past,
the odds would have been many and
numerous that Chance would be the
one to show the way, with Tinker,
as now, in the middle, and Evers
the one to despise. But of the three
great men Of Cub renown, the crab
is king and the kings are GRABS"
indeed.
Now that the English polo team
has been selected and King George
has babe his representatives a FOND
farewell worry over the possession or
the international trophy is in order.
That the British are coming over
here this time with a strong Will ana
perhaps a certain way is not to De
denied or ignored. They know the
game as we'll as we do and they
should know it much better, but that
is not our fault. The Yankees are
quick to pick up things especially In
sports, and they generally beat the
other fellow at his own game When
they take up the cudgels Of battle at
all. That we beat the Englishmen
at their favorite sport two years ago
was a big thing to crow over in a
way. but the conditions were much
in our favor. with the contests on
our home grounds, and the ponies
that held up our boys, in the main,
seemed to have superior speed and
endurance. In all, though, we played
the better game and secured de-
cidedly honest victory. The scores
were close and the play was close,
and we will never forget the grand
and masterful exhibition put up by
Captain Harry Payne Whitney. HIS
dashes down the field and his plunges
into fray were efforts that brought
results. He was. of course. ably as
sisted, especially by Larry Water
bury, who is poloist from first to
last.
In selecting its four, England fell
back on two of it's old standbys, for
one, the very excellent Captain
Cheape, and for the other, Captain
Noel Edwards. Captain R. C. Rit-
son and Captain Vivian Lockett are
the two other men who will go to
make up the team. A social squabble
abroad has robbed the team of the
services of Captain Buckmaster, who
was to have been in charge of affairs
during the foreigners stay in this
country Instead, Buckmaster, who
was awfGlly we'll liked here, will re-
main abroad. 1t will not do the team
any good, but we are not supposed
to shed tears at the mistakes of our
rivals For the king to take such a
great interest in the atches is moth
ing new He followed the play from
first to last in 1911 and he had pri-
vate reports of the contests cabled to
him after every period.
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The National Turner's amateur box
ing show was huge success. 1t was
conducted along the lines invariably
followed by the Turner's. policy that
has won for that organization so
many friends. At the final bouts held
last night a large crowd turned out,
and the exhibitions were really worth
every ounce of attention and ap-
plause given the contestants. And to
top off their success, Sam Clark, a
member of the Turner's, displaying
rare skill as a boxer and also the
ability to hit. captured rather handily
the championship in the 118-pound
class He Is a clever youngster, I'M
assuming, with host of friends. II
is not his desire to become profes.
sional fighter. and he declares mosi
positively that he will never follow
the sport for a livelihood. He could