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“PM WORTH A MILLION!” WILLARD TELLS “What Do I Care for Money? It’s Nothing! I’m Fighting Demp- sey Because I want the Cham- pionship Crown.” (N. E, A. Staff Special.) (Copyright, 1921, by ‘Newspaper As- sociation.) ‘New York, Feb. '12.—Dollars’ Gush- ing dollars! | “I’ve made a million of ’em,” says Giant Jess Willard. The ex:champion=-so rich he. purrs —has his six-cylinder’ heart set on beating Dempsey. é “What do I care for money? It’s nothing,” says Willard. “T cleaned up almost $750,000 in oil alone in two years. “You betcha I'did. Ain’t that more’n I could-get in the ring in 40 years. “And Uncle Sam bought my circus livestcck. ‘Wagons and all brought me $225,000." : The millionaire ‘fighter laughed a Kansas farmer laugh as he nailet: the “Willard wants to fight for mofiey” story. “PIL fight Dempsey any place—for nothing ifnecessary. be “What do I care about the gate re- ceipts? Nothing. “It’s the crown I lost I want back, and [ won't be happy without it.” Buys Home in Cal. Jes$ came to New York to take care of businessmatters, Oil leases and “UNCLE SAM GAVE ME | $225,000 FOR MY HORSES ~ MESS WILLARD French Track Star to Show U.S. His Tricks final legal papers for $40,006 home in Hollywood, Cal ch he’s just g mind. | hasn't kept Jess Rack on his Kansas farm near To-| “veka he’s been pulling weeds, hoeing | his potatoes and chopping wood. rle claiins he’s in’ better shape than when Dempsey koyoed him in Toledo. Jess looks it, . = Outdoor His Gym. “Ryver since the tight at Toledo ve} been working out. Not strenuously, but exercising. “The whole trouble with prize fight- ers who lay off is they turn ove on their backs and get soft and flabby. “It didn't happen to me, Not on your life! “My gymnasium for two years has been the great outdoors, “When I meet Dempsey in March the world will see a different tight. His Toledo Daze. i “Pm going to win. 1 lost to Demp+ sey by accident. He hit me when 1) broke clean ini a clinch. After’ the first round started I never knew I was in a fight, < “And if, I win this time Rll defend my title against ‘em all. “If 1 lose—well, 1 can’t-say right off what I'd do. Retire, 1 suppose. 4 ain't figuring on that.” \ Weight a Secret. After the millionaire handles his financial business, he'll look over a training camp in New. Jersey. Refusing to give data on his weight _or his waist line, ‘the giant shifted his underpining. Wor Jess is bigger than ever, The scales look like be’d run ’em up to 260 at least! His Own oss. °’ “And tell ‘em I’m my own manager, too. Ray, Archer just handles my bus- iness affalrs for me “T can handle myseif best when left alone.” With that the biggest man who ever went down in @ prize ring faded out of,the picture—all smiles and jingling his oily dollars. TIGERTOWN » BACKS TYRUS (N. E. A. Staff Special.) Detroit, Feb, 11.—Ty Cobb; boy manager of the American League. has already convinced Tigertown it will get out of the ruck Never in the history of Detroit baseball has there been such a land- slide cf sentiment toward one man. Ty Cobb is the msn of the hour. There's only one team in Ban John son’s league so far as Tiger fans are concerned. For 15 years Ty has thrilled De- troiters by his brilliant playing. But they had stopped making a fuss over his greatness. é ‘New Idol. Now with the hope that a nennant may fly again soon at Navin field, Ty is anew kind of idol in their The home-coming banquet gi was the most extensive denon: of enthusiasm ever given a bali pla here. Hughie Jennings, now acting te'd; manager of the Giants. came back to Tigertown to see that Ty got off toa flying start. He said so many splen about the jewel from Ge player blushed. Ty is full of brand-new ideas. Reform Ideas. He hasn't been playing ball for 15 id thi hat the years without doing some “iudivitual | 4 ‘eform. | one in} t thinking on baseball tra Ty has gone back to } Georgia with a new idea of w) means to be a manager and to hay the’ fans with you, For Ty is going to cut the buck, they feel certain. The War Department has so far awarded 78 congressional medals, { | off. JOSEF GUILLEMOT. Josef Guillemot. French distance runner, who will) compete with America’s field stars in a_ special rac 19, s full of tricks on the’ track and He flops up and down as he runs as if continually falling. 4 Frequently he jbreaks out from the pack to set his own pace when the stride docsn't suit. ‘ Again he will pick out his closest rival, keeping step with him for sev- eral laps and looking up into his face as if studying his powers of endur- ance. Fake Cigaret. ‘Off the track Guillemot _ is often seen with a cigaret in his mouth. But it’s a fake. a People who think he is breaking] training by smoking find later that he was just pretending. In the Olympic games at Antwerp he shared honors with Nurmi, the Finn, winning the 5,000-meter race and losing the longer grind of 10,000 ~eeem EVERETT TRUE —AND DSUVER IT AT MY OFRICE. TL BE THERE IN A EGW MINUTES. at Madison Square Garden Feb,’|* “A NEW DRIVE (8 TO BE STARTED A eee meters. Both races lay between these two. runners, i He is yery short and. stockily built. Races Ray. The French star will find his chief competitor, it is believed, in Joie Ray. American. entries are limited to five. : Guillemot ‘is a corporal in the French army. He had to secure 2 special furlough in-order to make the trip, . | casualty reports. “for Left, Earful. O'Connor, who'll jot down the facts; That Landis. will amgss; | Can be consoled in this, perhaps, i He'll get a season pass. 5 Right Eariul | Britton and Lewis so often meet, They, time their blows‘together; But some day one ‘of them will slip “And land the kayo leather. =O H Dempsey may be superstitious—but | so is everybody who fights him. = The South fern League, compos- | ed of eight Kansas and Oklahoma, . towns. can make the entire swing in 397 miles. Literature —o— : . | ‘The Yankees have just a few more gold bricks to hand out. « s is getting its hospitality all.» ed up to entertain the big. league | clu The rainmakers have been or- dered to lay off-— eee, + A hitting second, baseman can got al job with Pat Moran. But he must hit} the ball. | oH pe Fale Some of the golf bugs are kicking on the size of the pill. It’s too tiny! for putting:and hard to find. | R - —o— Guillemot, distance runner, is the most popular athléfe in France when Carpentier is abroad. pe ll The advance guard of the Cubs is already fanning itself in sitany Gal, | a 2 t re The woman who wants to bet’ $0 acres of land that Dempsey _ beats Willard was probably a ringsider at} Toledo. e ae —o— Anyone who bets more than a nickel cigar on a sporting event now is looked on with suspicion. C on |) GAS°ER UP, TAD! || cae aeeae Waxahachie will look like a: col-| ¢ lege- town ;when the White Sox blow] ~ 7 in to train. Gleason has nine college|, “Forget ‘the glorious defeats!’ Give rookies. us some victories!” ¥ a That’s.the way oneold. grad sizes SCOTT LOSES QUARTER. up Yale's football fix. Toledo, Feb. 11.—Scott High has|, Tad: Jones has gone back to buckle lost its star quarterback, Eddie Schar-! into a future full of hard knocks un- er. He failed in his mid-winter ex-} less the Elis catch up ‘with’ modern ams and’ immediately quit schoctl.| football on the double quick. Scharer says she will not return to}, Yale elevens don’t know much about Scott next fall, | ne football of today. © / aay TRADE: . The stood pat on ‘thé old game. The finest natdral h or on the 3t:nding still in anything equals go- east coast of Africa is al Zangivar.) ing back. 4 T ARAN telling. Tad to gas up the old nd make’ ’her do new tritks n BY CONDO: »-w. ut it wilk trke even a Tad Jones time ‘o rebuild a modern-machine on: : the old eb CET} New York, "eb, 12 its separate collowing, fe .Néw. York: gets the Jiggest crowds of any place in the country; i | MAT ENTHus's ' here. Wee is, They..are as regular and punctual » [ mer... * < (te | Jack Curley, promoter-inghief, pos- | sesses-the niagic to book any: pair. of | granolers he wishes, : What Tex Rickard is.té. the boxing | game, Curley ‘is to New-¥ork’s wrest- | ling sport. £e Beston, too, has a'steady. wrestling | crowd. Sere Out in the middle west—Nebraska, | Hilsots Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas —the game also Hourly = MUST CARRY SEMI-PROS. Toronto, Feb. 11—-The Mini iseague will do businéss with the. same line- - {up of clubs it ‘had last vear. Each who have not been in organize ball before, SEALS MUST ALL. GOLF. Del Monte, Cal., Feb. 11,—Whien the San Francisco Seals . uhioad here ‘March, 15. for spring training they'll bring their golf sticks along. Goif will be. one of their regular training stunts, GRIDDERS ‘STAR LOOPER. |, State College, Pa., Feb. .12— “Hinkey” Haines and Captain Killing- ; er of the Penn State elqven are shoot- ; ing baskets for the - jity five now. | hey also play baseball. (Montana has move than 2,000,000 ! acres of land under irrigation. ‘This poll of Ameriean ind | ‘vhey’re about 10,060 wrestling fans; in-wiater ¢s the bleacher. fans in sums club must carry at least three players |" Prosperous Days Ahead Say Big Business Leaders - 2.7Why, business should be depressed in a land overflowing with supplies that the rest of the’ World is suffering for) with ships lying idle that could carry them, will puzzle future generations, and to auy that such a depression can fot, last long in the face of the whole world’s need of our products, is very much like saying one and one make two. es THE LITERARY DIGEST has asked hundreds of authorities covering the entire country, coniprising business leaders, professors of economics, and financial editors of daily papers for their \ opinion as to the prospect of prosperity’s return—and when. . The answers are published-in this week’s issue, and people who can see nothing but gloom all around the bom horizon may revise their , ideas when they glance over the returns. Of course, it is v ~ it is a battle-field where the forces are already rearming and reforming, and are here and there begin- ning.to.advance again. Moreover, the American business army is onc that has never known defeat, and the reason why is evident in the tone of unconquerable optimism that runs “Netnal Dusinesy redovery.to begin about. A pril ist;” “expect gradual improvement from naw wards” “expect business recover vovery to begin probably in spring now.gn.” These expressions reflegt BM business’ leaders ‘throughout the courtry.’ : ustry is nation-wide, and covers every State in the Union and practic- - important industry. Do not fail to:rea d it in this week's DIGEST, Febyuary 12th. ce y gitadual until ‘Other. important. news-articles in this numb er of THE DIGEST are: Where Germany and Poland Clash What Bolshevism Hopes from Islam Chemical Disarmament . Measuring the Emotions Fighting Breakers With Bubbles Will Deafness Persist? The New “Moon-Calf” School of Where the Blame Lies for Movie -* “Sex-Stuff? = The Church’s Call for Disarmament Passing the Peak of Unemployment Many Tateresting Half-tone Mustrations dnd Cartoons y February 12th Number on Sale Today —News-dealers 10 Cents—$4.00 a Year iterary Digest FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY (Publishers of the Famous NEW Standard Dictionary), NEW YORK Coast Star Limps But It Doesn’t Hurt His Ball Playing BY DEAN SNYDER. American League fans are going to get acquainted with another fence- buster this summer. He is (arl Homer Sheely,. Coast league batting champ of 192), whom Charles Comiskey bought to fill the first. base cog in his gear-stripped Sox. machine. Why Sheely has beert left in the minors so long without big time trial has been a puzzle to Pacific coast fans. One Leg Bad. The answer probably is that Sheely has 2 bum leg. Not bad in the sense that it hurts his ball playing. It only looks a little tough to see a diamond star limp. ‘He suffered a ‘broken leg- several years ago, It was pooriy set. Proof that it doesn’t bother his play: ation-Wide Poll-of Industry “recovery is already whder wa) he;general tenor of the many replies we have received from big EARL HOMER SHEF LY |S HIS NAME. y much like“a survey of a battle-field, but through even the ‘ { Inauguration—then rapid ;” “expect business re- * “conditions will improve from ’ z ? Grilling the Grain Gamblers America’s Stake in the German In- ~demnity ; The Christian “Peril”,in China Survey of French Economic Condi- tions - " The “Yonkers Plan” vs. John Barley- corn. - North Carolina’s Famous Daddy of Thirty-Four Children ; Best of the Current Poetry Topics of the Day ve \ ! a sluggerf.and fielder. i The coaster packs a mean bat. Playing in 188 games with Salt Lake last year he hit .371. His Bat Dope. Here's the dope on his ‘Babe (Kuth” swinging gear: — Thirty-three home runs. Five ttiples. Fifty-one doubles. One seventy-one' sifigies. ae ‘He missed tying the Coast league home run record by just One long drive. Bunny Brief’s mark of 34 still stands, Sheely weighs 200 pounds. He ids 6 feet 4 inches tall. His age is 26. He has a dozen years of minor léa- gue experience back of him. His batting eye has checked off av- erages of 1303, .300, .305 and .371 for the last four years. Star First Sacker. His fielding at nrst has deen a fea: ture of the western circuit several years. ‘When flanked by Eddie Collins on his right there won't be much use hit- ting balls his way. § iHe’s just the man for Comiskey. The Old Roman couldn't risk a youngster who needed time to ripen. In Sheely he has the desired com- bination—slugger, star fielder and vintaged. ed ‘And to top off a good bargain the kid’s middle name is Homer. No wonder he can hit. ARE NOT STRANGERS. Philadelphia, Feb. 12—Jimmy Ring, Cincy pitcher, who goes to the Phils in the Rixey swap, has played for ing is that the accident happened long| “Wild Bill” Doaovan before. They before he made a name for himself as{ Were together with the Yanks {n 1919. You Must Replace the Wear — and Tear on the Human System SPECS Did you ever stop to consider good health. what a tremendous task is placed| Many people have found S. 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