Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-24

Devotees of golf are enjoying the
match today over the Baltusrol links
at Short Hills, in which jerome d.
! Travers, of Upper Montclair, and
Max Marston, of Baltusrol, are play
| ing against Francis Ouimet, the new
amateur champion, and the sensa-
| tional youngster who last year de-
feated those two famous English
pros, who has as his mate George
| Low, the Baltusrol professional. The
! desire to see Ouimet and Travers
perform was early in evidence, and
| large gallery is following the golfers.
| Marston, who Is playing with Trav-
ers, is one of the leading amateurs,
| and he won the big tourney at Green
witch, Conn, which was finished yes
terday. Travers hasn't been in very
good form of late, but still Jerry
and Marston should about hold their
own. Ouimet, though he defeated
Travers in the championship round,
was himself beaten both In the first
round and In the eighth of the
Greenwich tourney. TraVers has been
ailing recently, and for a time II
seemed as if he would have to declare
the match off. The outcome of the
match proper win be of little conse-
quence. for the devotees are sure to
be mostly interested in what Travers
and Ouimet are doing. 1t Is proving
most interesting match Nine holes
only were played this morning, out
they will play eighteen holes TINS
afternoon.
Now that it is practically assured
that the Athletics and the Braves
will do all the playing this year In
the worlds series, the fans are talk
ing the probable outcome of the big
match over The Mackmen, naturally |
are the favorites, but is surprising in
what high regard the Braves are held |
The betting is 6 to that the Ath-
letics will win and there is sure to
be more Boston money in sight at
this figure than there are Philadelphla
hackers to put up the odds. Boston |
seems to have caught right on with |
the fans. The wonderful triumph of !
the team could hardly be overlooked |
and George Stallings and his men are
gaining new friends every day
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On. paper, the Bostons do not ap-
pear to amount to so much, yet there |
must be class in their midst or else |
they could never keep up the great |
clip at which they started to play |
last July. Their march was rapid,
and but few believed they would ever !
reach the top. And even when they |
passed the Giants and assumed COM
mand few expected them to remain
there. The old cry was:
"The Braves will crack and the !
Giants will come back"
But the Braves didn't crack and
the Giants didn't come back, and to-
day we see the Bostons still at the
top of the heap, with a bigger adj
vantage than ever. This was brought
about as result Of the games yes
terday, in which the Braves broke
even and the Giants lost two games. |
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When it comes up to the worlds |
to show what kind of stuff they are
made of. In the Athletics they will
meet the greatest ball team in the
world, and if the Bostons give them
even a hard fight it will be interest
ing. That will be more than the
Giants were able to give them and
more than the Chicago Cubs were
able to give them. The Mackmen
made the New Workers. look like
''lotters," and Chicago was a play
thing in their hands. Now, IL it
comes to it, we will see what the
Braves will do. Some are figuring
on Boston to win simply because
Philadelphia is due to lose What
ever the reason. the Braves will have
much larger following than the
Giants will have if they are the PEN
nant winners.
The opening date for the worlds
series has been set for Thursday, Oc-
to0eI 8, which is just TWO weeks from
this beautiful September day. From
this distance the opposing teams are
almost certain to be Boston and Phil
adelphia, and the first game will be
PLAYED in the HUI city. In fact, the
first two games will be played in Bos-
ton in order TO curtail as much as
possible the weary travel between
the two cities. According to this
schedule, then, games will be played
in Boston on Thursday and Friday,
and Philadelphia will enjoy her open
| ing on Saturday, and she will have
another game in her home town on
Monday Then it will be back to Bos-
ton and so on and so forth until the
winner is produced.
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| Newark fans, while roofing for
Stallings and his Braves, would like
to see the games played in the Polo
Grounds just the same. Some of
them, of course, will go to Phila-
delphia for a game or two, and a
few take in the opener at Boston,
but the fans around here will not
be nearly as much interested as if
the Giants were playing the Ath-
letics The attendance at the Roston