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THE WORLD OF SPORT.
(From our Special Correspondent.)
London. October 16, 1914.
Eating of considerable importance has been
taking place in England since last I [
wtDte Thus last week end the Kemp
ton Park authorities brought off what in a
normal times is one of the most junior
road race meetings of the autumn It |
was successful this time, all things considered
On the opening day the Imperial
Produce Stakes was the chief event
It was of the gross A due of -to 100, and
that being so, it was surprising to find
uni' four tunnels This is the state
which "I ne Tetrarch should have run for-,
but the day before he hit himself in the
spot which ultimately ended his- racing
career On this occasion the runners
were Mr. W Hanson a King Prim, who
has been regarded by m mi as? the best
two-year-old of the season, "Mr J li
Joe's Pommern, who had Avon when last
seen out at Doncaster. "Mr L Nctitnann:
Snow "Marten, and Colonel Hall in alker s I
Follow Up King Pnim had to give 5
lb to Pommern, and 18 lb to Show Alar
ten Nevertheless he started in equal
favorite with Snow Afirten, and there was a
a fair demand for Pommern The race,
however, was dominated by the lastnamed
The son of Polymelus led from end to end j
and Avon easily, with King Priam beating
Follow Up by a held for third place
King Priam s jockey reported that his I
I horse ran without any class, and it is pro
| bable that for some reason he was far
from being himself. At any rate this
is not his form. Pommern is entitled to
full credit for his win. He has grown
into a fine colt, with wonderful quality
and liberty. He should make a high-class
three-year-old, and the pleasure of his owner
is surely added to by the fact that he
bred him. Neither colt runs again this
year, so that the question between them
is not likely to be determined in the most
favorable circumstances before next Derby
day. On the second day the Duke of
York Stakes, a handicap with an interesting
history, occupied a prominent place on
the card. It only brought out seven runners,
which is the smallest number in the
history of the race. Nevertheless the
event was interesting if only because it
possessed an open character. Favoritism
finally rested with Lord D'Abernon Dia.
dummies, a horse formerly trained by the
Hon. George Lambton, but now in the
care of the Australian trainer, E. de
Mestre. It was quite evident that this
son of Orby had given full satisfaction in
a trial, and as his friends were disappointed
that he got no nearer than there, it is
possible that he did not run up to his
trial. The race provided a tremendous
finish between Mr. George Edwardes' Nassau
stand Mr. A. Hulton'.« Green Falcon.
The former was greatly fancied by his
trainer, P. Hartigan, and it was his good
fortune to see the horse squeeze home in
the last few strides and win by a short
head. The winner was bred by the Duke
of Portland, and was sold out of the
Kingsclere stable to Mr. Edwardes for
£800. There was an idea then that the
horse was gone in his wind, especially as
he came from roaring stock, but he has
gone the right way ever since the change
of stables occurred. Mr. George Edwardes
is still a prisoner at had Nauheim, which
means that he is merely ''detained!" at
the German health resort, where he happened
to be when war broke out. Since
then his horses have been in great form,
and have altogether Avon about £5,000 in
stakes. The Newmarket Second October
meeting opened on Tuesday, the feature, of
the day being the three victories credited
to Sir Ernest Cassel. One doubts whether
this owner, who has spent very large
sums on breeding and racing, has ever won
three races before in a day. He won the
Newmarket Oaks with Flying Bridge,
though the public money was all on his
other candidate, Yokohama, whose tragic
fate it was to be beaten by a neck by his
stable companion. Then Hapsburg, seasons!
in the Derby, and winner of the Eclipse
Stakes, won him the Champion Stakes,
after a pretty race with a solitary opponent.
Mr. W. M. Singer's Sir Eagle. The
third winner for Sir Ernest Cassel was
Matter, who won the Apprentice "lands
rap. Nothing succeeds like success in
racing. Once get on the crest of a wave
and you can be carried far, whether you
are owner, trainer, or jockey. Thus Sir
Ernest Cassel had the good fortune on the
second day of the meeting to win the
Cesarewitch, with a three-year-old named
Troubadour. The fact that the start-
ing price was 66 to 1 is more
than evidence that he was absolutely un-
fancied, and his easy victory therefore
created an astonished feeling. Arda finally
started favorite and finished third, but
Princess Dorrie, Grave Greek, and Fitz
Yama ran badly. Green Falcon, to whom
reference is made above, would have won
with the winner out of the way. It was
not by any means a popular result.
FEATURES OF FOOTBALL.
First League.
Bradford City 3 Aston Villa.. 0
Burnley. 1 Sheffield United 3
Chelsea. 3 Liverpool. 2
Everton. 4 Bradford. 1
Manchester City 4 Newcastle United 1
Notts County 1 Blackburn Rovers 3
Sheffield Wednesday.
1 Manchester Utd. 0
Sunderland .... 4 Bolton Wanderers 3
Tottenham Hotspur
3 Middlesbrough 3
West Bromwich
Albion. 0 Oldham Athletic 0
Played on the ground of the first-named
club on Saturday, October 10.
Position of the Clubs
Goals
P. W. D. L. For. Ag. Pts.
Manchester
City. 7 5 2 0 2 3 12
Sheffield Wed. 8 5 1 2 10 10 11
Oldham Athletic 7.5 1 1 18 11 11
Everton 4 3 3 15 7 9
Middlesbrough 2 7 3 3 1 14 10 9
Newcastle Utd. 8 3 2 3 100
West Bromwich
Albion. 3 3 2 3 2 9 S
Blackburn Ro-
vers 8 3 2 3 15 13 S
Bradford City 2. 3 2 4 2 11 11
Burnley 3 4 3 3 6
Sheffield United 7 2 3 2 S S 7
Bolton Wan-
derers 9 3 15 22 23
Aston Villa.. ..7313 9 14
Sunderland.. 7 3 3 3 14 to
Notts County .. 7 2 2 3 TO H 6
Liverpool .... 8 2 2 4 12 23 0
Manchester Utd. 7 2 14 J S li
Chelsea. 7 4 3 3 S 13
Tottenham Hotspur
3 1 3 4 11 18
Bradford. 205 820 4
Manchester City still unbeaten; Chelsea
win their first match! Those were the
first thoughts on surveying the results of the
First League matches. But just as
it is likely that the London club, with
all their expensive players so grievously
disappointing on the field, will have to
struggle desperately to make any substantial
advance, one feels that Manchester
City's occupancy of the first place
in the table is only temporary. For the team
are not good enough to remain there.
The defence has excelled, but the forwards
have only scrambled to success
with luck on their side. The rear division
men averted defeat against Newcastle
United, but they were a sadly overworked
band of faithful, and could not have
succeeded in their mission had the opposition
shot ordinarily well after taking
the ball into favorable shooting positions.
So long as Manchester City remain
unbeaten at the top of the competition
it is not likely that the forwards
will be changed, but this fact does not
remove the necessity for change. The
Football Association have spent £20,000
in fostering amateur football on the Continent,
and at the moment it seems to
have been a colossal piece of extravagance
for the game in those countries in which
they have shown most enterprise has
been wrecked in the vortex of war. Here
and there, however, we find representatives
of these Continental nations who I
have benefited by the help afforded them.
One is Nils Middelboe, a young Dane. who
has the distinction of captaining
Chelsea. Standing 6 ft. 4 in-, be is a
remarkable footballer, with striking natural
talents. He is playing as an ama- j
teur and did not cost Chelsea a penny,
but now he is keeping Abrahams out of
the team, and it was Abrams for whom I
£1,000 was paid to the Heart of Midlothian
Club last May. Chelsea showed
slight improvement against Liverpool, I
but not sufficient to cause one to think that
all was at last well with the side.
There has been, sledges trouble with the I
Manchester United players owing to the
suspension of "Sandy" Turnbull, who
has been with the club six years, and
had a benefit, which brought him about
a £050. The bother began at Burnley
on the occasion of a Lancashire Cup tie,
Turnbull insulting Mr. J". J. Bentley, the
old president. of the Football League and
now manager of Manchester United. If
?*î«rnliiill had been in bowls and had
acted in the same way to his employer as
he did to Mr. Bentley he would have <
been dismissed on the spot. As it was
he was suspended for a fortnight, which
really meant a fine of £10, representing
two weeks'' wages. The other Units! players
threatened to strike if Turnbull's
suspension AVIS not removed, but the
club refused to be browbeaten in this
way and practically said to the players.
'Well, strike'"' Meanwhile they had
the reserves in readiness to travel to
Sheffield to play the Wednesday team,
but the men evidently thought better
of their ridiculous threat of mutiny, and
all took part in the match, except, of
course, Turnbull. Possibly the players
think the trouble is at an end, but the
authorities are not likely to take the
same view of what is really a most serious
matter. This is not the first time footballers
have attempted to dictate and
assert rights that cannot be justified.
There is one outstanding individual suc-
cars on Saturday, Fox. the Bradford City
inside right, Scoring all his side's three
mats against A ston Villa. Generally
there was a big drop in the scoring, but
there was an exception at Sunderland,
where Bolton Wanderers accomplished the
rare feat for a visiting side of obtaining
three goals and still - losing. Similarly
at Tottenham, owing to disastrous blunders
on defence by the Hotspur, Middles-
brough scored three times and only drew.
In this case there was the further remarkable
feat that the visitors held the
lead three times.
Second League.
Arsenal 2 Clapton Orient 1
Birmingham .. ~. 0 Stockport County 1.
Blackpool .... Z Notts Forest 0
Bristol City - - S Glossop.
Beryl Barnshn-.2 i
Derby County 1 Leeds City 2 v
Grimsby 3 Fulham
Huddersfield .. -. 2 Wolverhampton
WO
Lincoln City 0 Hull City .. 3
Played on the ground of the first-named
club on Saturday, October 10.
Position of the Clubs.
Goals
P.
The Arsenal. S
Huddersfield .. S
Preston N.E. 8
Bristol City .. 7
Clapton Orient 8
story
Fulham's
Grimsby Town S Hull
City .... 7
Wolverhampton
W.:. S
Derby County . 7
Stockport C. 7
Barnsley 7
Birmingham .. 7
Notts Forest 8
Leeds City.... 8
Lincoln City 8
Blackpool .... 7
Leicester Fosse S
Glossop
The Highbury district of London is prov-
ing an El Dorado for the Arsenal. Much
gold is flowing into the club's purse. There
were 30,000 spectators of their match with
Clapton Orient, representing receipts of
over £12,000, and not only have the Arsenal
had the best gates in London, but
very few First League clubs in the country
can equal their average. There is certainly
no need for the Arsenal to stop paying
their players full wages, but the reduction
was compulsory for the general well-being
of all the clubs. No better phrase than the
hackneyed one that success begets success
can be used to describe their good fortune.
They are prospering in a playing sense,
they are at the top of the table, and no
team have better prospects of gaining promotion.
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There was an echo of last season during
the match with the Orient. Last season
the Arsenal took a two goals lead and then
lost it. dropping a point that would have
ensured their going up to the First League
last Saturday they were also two goals in
front, and then, after his, ing one negatived,
were in grave danger of losing all their
advantage. It was a thrilling struggle, gran
and earnest, and the fine show of the
Orient against opponents who were
measurably superior lent a piquant m
terest that the big crowd enjoyed The
Arsenal are finding it most difficult to [
get away from these rivals on the table
Huddersfield, the re-impose ' side in the
competition, are hanging on most tenaciously,
and the only gain the London club
to be said to have made after beating toe
Orient came about through the unexpected
set back of Bury against Barnsley Though
only a shadow of their former greatness
only Downs the back and Tufnell the forward
remain of the famous Cup team of j
a few years ago-the Yorkshire club retain
that special qualification for defeat
ing opponents better than themselves.
They continue to play that type of football
which is, more forceful than clever,
and Bury were knocked off their balance
Fortune has been unkind to Fulham.
Just when the outlook appeared so favor
able their players -ft ere battered and rn
bred in the hurly-burly of the game with
Derby County three weeks ago. Since
then all sorts of ..'-qiexjments have had to
he made to fill up the gaps and in the
circumstances the draw at Grimsby was
creditable One of the strangest results
of all was the ftrHrxre of Birmingham on
their own ground. On the previous week
at Fulham they had given a truly great
il-i-splav. In comparison against Stockport
County last week they played like a third
rate side. It was another illustration of
the history error creeping into a game j
we would be pleased to have mechanical.
Southern League.
The merits of Watford have won slow
recognition, but they continue as the only
unbeaten side in the Southern League. The
club in past years have cultivated such
a bad habit of remaining near the bottom of
the commandant that enthusiasts cannot ]
bring themselves to realise that the team
are as good as they persist in proving
themselves to be. They achieved another
fine victory in the match with Bristol
Rovers by- fcx'fbjJl that was really admirable.
The club have no outstanding per-
former, but the level of play, all through J.
is excellent. Watford, however, continue
to rank second to Brighton, for the latter
made no mistakes in their home game with
Portsmouth, though one goal served to give
them the maximum points. One of the most
striking result was the crushing defeat of
Swindon at Gillingham. The previous week
with Fleming as a makeshift centre for
Avanl they scored four goals; on this occasion,
with the (international in his proper
place at inside right, and Denyer back as
leader of the attack, they lost four. The
forwards at Gillingham were disappointing,
but the source of the trouble AVIS at half-
back, where -the experiment was made of
converting Wheatcroft, the old schoolmas-
ter centre forward, into a centre half.
But centre half is not a comfortable retreat
for a man who is beginning to slow
down and in a position that requires an
endless store of energy Wheatcroft soon
began to lag. The result was that not only
did the forwards lack adequate support, but
there was a weak spot in the defence that
the Gillingham men played on to most
persistently. There is one quaint fact in
connection with the Kent Club's record.
Leslie, the back. is the top scorer. This
comes about by Ms being entrusted with
the penalty kicks. He has already taken
four of these and scored on each, occur
even. _ Crystal Palace must be beginning to
despair. Now that Chelsea have broken
the sequence of their reverses they share
with Glossop in the second league the unenviable
distinction of being the only club'
without a win to their credit. The cause
of the abject failure of Crystal Palace is
baffling. Supporters of the club have yet
to see a goal registered by the home trade
on the ground, and it is not surprising the
attendants are becoming smaller each
week. More than half the gate of 5,000
last Saturday was made up of naval men,
of whom 3,000 are being housed in the
palace.
IN THE RING.
Matt Wells is one of the few amateurs
to have any real success as a professional
boxer. He quickly bridged FACT the two
classes of the sport, so quickly, in fact,
as to win the light-weight championship
from Fred Walsh, the present champion of
the world, and though he has now joined
the middle-weights he is still winning.
He took part in his first
contest since his return from
Australia this week, when he met Young
Nipper (Charlie Wood) in 15 rounds, and,
by a display of forceful hitting that was
also extremely clever. gained a decisive
victory on points. He wins every possible
point he can from the first round to
the last. Whether he is winning easily or
not makes no difference, With every blow
he seems to say to his opponent, "If you
don't like this sort of thing you had better
give in.'"" These were his tactics against
Young Nipper, a man as strong as himself,
but lacking the speed and resource. Nip-
per went down twice in the fourth round,
and then the finish seemed near, but with
great courage he struggled on, notwithstanding
heavy punishment, and stayed to
the end of the 15 rounds. In almost every
round Wells scored the maximum points,
and his victory was most decisive. All
that one was lent to admire was the peak
of the vanquished man. This match may
be said to mark the opening of the winter
boxing season in London. The sport begins
at the National Sporting Club next
Monday, when the AJhief contest will be
between the Welshman (Percy Jones) and
Nancy Lee (the Scotsman) for the fly-
weight championship and the Lord Lonsdale
'belt. This will be the first occasion
Jones has been called on to defend his
title since he gained it by defeating Lad
bury Lost season. In the meantime, however,
he has twice been beaten, by the
Frenchman Eugene Griqui, and by young
Symonds. He was knocked out by the
latter at Plymouth. But the war has
knocked out the real interest of boxing in
London. Glove fighting is fine exercise and
grand training, but, when the real thing is
afoot, surely every fighting man who is
worth his salt is following Carpcntier's example,
and helping to batter the Germans
back into their own corner. Not only are
most of the boxers, amateur and professional,
away at the front, and all the army
boxers, who have done so well in the ring
at the U.S.C. before they were called into
the arena of Europe, but most of the
patrons of the ring are gone too. Your
true "Corinthian" is not the man to
lounge at home and watch other fellows
hammering each other with "'the mines
where there is a blow to strike for England,
home, and duty.
NOVELTY IN BILL AJS.
The billiard season opens on Monday
with the start of the Burroughes and
Watts tournament, and the conditions
have been so altered that the match will
be something of a novelty. Previously the
beats have been 9,000 up, extending over a
week. This time they will be Denly 4,000,
and there will be two games a week. There
will also be only one session, with a brief
interval. This means that there will be
no play at night. By these changes it is
hoped to create fresh interest and bring
about an improvement in the attendances.
Six players make up the competition, and
the handicap has just been announced. As
was expected, H. W. Stevenson, George
Gray, and T. reece have been placed on
the scratch mark. The two young men,
T. Newman and W. Smith, have scratch been
given 300 start, and E. Diggle gets 500.
it would appear that Newman and Smith
have been rather harshly treated. A year
ago, when Newman was successful, without
dropping a point, he received 3,000 in
9,000. The start she has now been allotted
is equivalent to 675 in 9,000, so he has been
penalised 1,325 for his victory of a year ago.
Newman was, of course, expected to be
polled back, but hardly to that extent.
If this is the correct placing of Newman,
the authorities were bound to put his rival?,
Smith on the same mark, for the latter
was the only man to heart Newman last
season, and he accomplished this feat three
times. That Diggle, who has so long been
up to the championship level, should have
been given so many was 500 is surprising,
and. if he would shake off the indifference
which often attacks him, there is none
who would have a better chance of winning
the tournament. In these short games, J
.jhoweyo-, it is possible for anything 'to, I
happen, and the player who makes the best
start will be hard to overtake. For Stevenson,
Reece, and Gray, it can be said
that they are only a good break behind
their opponents. They can clear off the
whole of their arrears in the first hour or
so of a heat. In the circumstances the
winner may well come from the back mark,
and at the moment George Gray, with all
the endless possibilities of his red ball play,
is favorite _
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