Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Monday 23 November 1914, page 10


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 "landsrap. 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

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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

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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

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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 greatnessonly 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 rnbred 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 forAvanl 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 Ladbury 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. Therewill 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 _