Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-30
VARIED PROGRAM
OF SPORTS ON
TODAY'S CARD
Baseball, Track, Tennis,
Soccer and Other Athletic
Events Occupy Spotlight
PENN PLAYS PRINCETON
Local Sporting EUents on
Memorial Day Calendar

yGTs fHe' f4, a Broad &c Iois AID
Princeton ' VS.. s. Penn on Franklin Field.
Delaw9re County League, Main Line North
SfontEomsry, County. Interboro. Industrial and
Northeast freshmen VS.. Central Freshmen. at
goth and Cambria streets.
Germantown Freshmen VS.. West Philadelphia
Freshmen, Mt West Phiiadeiphia.,
Semiprofessional games at Stetson, VictrlN G..
G. and Strawbrldge ClOthier.
BOXING
Ryan A. c.. 11th and Spring Garden streets
Model A. c. 81 MoFSn FGS sSqte RHGfs streets $3.50 p M
FOrty-mile motor paced race Mt Point Breeze
Seventeenth annual tournament for the Joseph %
dslphia ip cricfst Club, s.. MsrtIn,s' -nau
Whitemarsh-Match play rounds OF four-bnh
Wiimington-Goif Committee Cup, SO holes.
D Scrt6 .fHfiils-specIal Memorial Day, events:
match rnBd Pa' emors p" Day
Old York Koad-aualIfyInE round E. Clarence
Haddon|Siedai play handicap. a. m. Tomb
s'GTS AToniminf@FinaY round spring handicap
Bucks County-Flrst and second rounds spring
Huntington yaley-Handicap medal play
TRs %tsRef fodrsd%es. r. am Handl
''P PlSmoathmHahdicap m ii ID i medal play.
TENNIS
womeD,s championship Of PennsXlyania and
Eastern States at Merton Cricket Club HaVer-
Bucks COunty-wOmen's and mems singles
PIymouth-Men's progressive doubles tOurna-
ment ,,,,,,,,,
Halifax Cup-Germantown VS.. Franlford; at
Manhslmi Philadelphia Va. Merion' at st. Mar
]PhlIadephia Cup-NeEl9p vs.. Ger%STptSSTni erTt at
Hayerfordi HaverfOrd College vs. Philadeiph"'
IntsrsehSiastic League-Penn Charter VS.. Cen
trail High at Queen Lane.
TRACK eEvENTs
Ancient Order HIbernians. at Point Breeze
Gaelic Athletic League. Central Park. p.
Scholastic competition.
TRAPsHOOTING EVENTS
Independent Gun Club. HOlmesburg Junction
Meadow Springs Gun Club. Springfield. Pa
PhIiadeiphia Shooting Academy. Wyoming ave-
and streets. Afternoon.
Theoretically this is Decoration Day.
Actually, in Philadelphia, it is the big
athletic day of the year. Every form of
and outdoor sports down TO the deuce spots
of each There will be some decorative
stunts, too but this will be largely of an
internal nature. for this is Decoration Day.
not election time.
The overpowering majority of sport
cravers in the Quaker City will be at the
Phillies' ball park or watching the score
board. Mr.. Morans champions made
strenuous endeavor to head the pennant-
mad Giants who had won II in row when
the first game began this morning.
While the Phils are struggling TO regain
a few of the lost notches in the league
pole, Connie Mack will send his band of
eellar-wished athletes against Bill Dono-
vans Yankees at the Polo Grounds, New
York. In fact. all clubs in the American
and National Leagues are due to engage in
twin tilts today.
In the local baseball world. the affair
next in Importance to the Phillies games
will be the diamond duel between Roy
Thomas University of Pennsylvania nine
and the tawdTy Tigers from Princeton This
game, which formerly was played on Straw
hat day, will be launched on Franklin Field
az $3.50 o'clock.
Golfers In this section of Philadelphia
County and vicinity are viewing with more
than passing interest the opening of the
municipal links at Cobb's Creek Park, just
beyond the seth street station of the Il"
Work has been rushed recently by those In
charge OF this property 10 have the greens
and fairways In perfection for this occa,
sion and they appear to have wrought we'll
There are II club tournaments in various
sections Of this city and vicinity but none
OF more than local interest