The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 27, 1924, Page 6

PAGE SIX JACK DEMPSY BY JOE WILLIAMS would Jack Dempsey faved with the timers? Would he have beaten Bob Fitzs Possibly. Fi s not a sive fy was not hard e jtoe How mihons? That old have been taking a # On the other hand could Dempsey have withstood the Ruby Bob's a big haymakers? ‘There nev- who hit) with then I Firpo, champion fellow greater and foree floored the current ummer Jim Jeffries Dempoc Jer w during and the present champior Vhe men he met und defeated penki ur those De shattered.\ Jett turally hand. © Thi It is probably more ¢ generally uperior to the boiler make tance, would no round dettric which would height, - long defensive Johnson His great reach : extraordinary kill would have Dempsey vs given Johnson quite | nirlwind Dempsey aight in owar round n nw clined to be carele Even Jeffries, a nervou t Reno: wreck, | hook “Had Jett would have made 1s01 says Tex Richard, who the battle quit cold,” | promoted You ean say this for Dempsey When he hesitate t dest metion Dempsey never lets a wounded 1 wing its way back to safety. He i probably the greatest natural fighter the heavyweight division has ever developed, a natural fighter with the tructiv instinct of a in openi © doesn't! und fill it ferocious, des savage, SECs | Billy Pines saga ii 4] Much ado is being made of the! fact that at 40 Jack Britton, form: | er welterweight champion, is still | fighting and doing a good job of it. Jack’s favorite pastime at nt is brushing aside youthful fighters who insist all they need s.a chance at Mickey Walker to] gain the title. The fact that Brit-| ton is 40 is suresete The record hooks state that Jack will be 40 i October. Intimate friends of k say that he is closer to 43 than the fair anc Is there od reason why a! fighter who ha: en proper care | himself should not be able to} hold his own in the fistic game at! 10? Failure of a majority of fight? ers to take the propen care themselves at all — times reason for Britton Standing as] such an unusual figure. *Fe | hero worship are the besetting sins of most r en. Winning fame, often overnight, causes many of them to change their entire mode of living. care and caution that made it pos- sible for them to attain their great | ical power and the prestige ably goes with it. phy that Bob Fitzsimmons © and Johnny | Dundee are sed with| Britton. FF the heavy-| ht title fran Corbett: when he | ‘ was around the 35 mark, while! Pamdeo copped the feather title at | The career of Johnny Dundee as a ringster is a most ret pmarkable | one, a great lesson to every young- | ster ambitious to win i¢ honors. | Dundee began fighting in 1910. After over a dozen ‘sof batt- ling, meeting fighters in all ¢ es, usually giving away from fi DYKES SEEKS : , REGULAR JOB JIMMY “DYKES. The purchase of Second Baseman Max’ Bishop from Baltimore by Con- nie Mack,-means that. Jimmy Dykes iM not be used at Second by the Athletics. Bishop has been the key- stone of the pennant-winning infield the Baltimore Orioles, Manager ck Dunn of that team says he has en ripe for the majors for several . He has no, doubt Ste mak- din the Amgrican League. 2 Mic nck is the case, Jimmy taxes ither warm the. or try - Sening Hale at third. Lupsieed base have! \shape to fight he neve ‘Tris Baseball HAP FE) BY BILLY EVANS Hap Felsch is jailed for perjur; The wires carr sage the other day. What 4n inglorious finish to the caregr of one of the greatest out- fielders in the history of the game. Four years ago Felsch was one of | the outstanding figures of baseball, ieing with Tris Speaker for the} | honor of being classed ‘asjthe game's | greatest outfielder. | At the height of his baseball’ ca-| reer, in a position to qemand a salary | in the five figures, on the road to be a wealthy man “as athletes £0, |Hap Felsch is now a baseball out- | From his lofty position as one of the idols of the national pasigme, a | heroic figure of the game, he is now | down and out. | Insfead of having his name almost | jaily feature the sport headlines, in- stead of drawing a big ry for months’ work, he is cking out a » existence as the proprietor ot | a small grocery store in Milwaukee. World of Ability The glory of Felsch has been for- over dimmed by his alleged part in| the baseball scandal of 1919, yet 1| will always remember him as one | They throw aside the} ofthe greatest players the game has | him to h ever produced. } i d that terse mes-| _ THE BISMARCK. “TRIBUNE |“GREATEST OUTFIELDER I EVER SAW” VS. OLD GUARD) , Speaker’s Comment on Hap Felsch, |i» the eighth rouna. i Outcast Mia if you go about it jn the 'yowing is that LSCH ry | had a world of natural) he lacked only the color and to have made him as fa-) Tyrus Cobb. | er saw his equal as an out-| fielder unles is Tris Speaker,’ remarkeq the yeteran Kid Gleason one day last summer as we discuss-| ed Felsch. <Gleason was very fond! of the big outfielder and there was} just a trace of a tear in his eye as he remarke Ruined Many a Career { ‘What a shame those boys fell] from grace. It ruined their careers! and spoiled mine. - Why, 1 could have! won three or four more pennants with that club and perhaps as many} world series, “The seribes would have been calling me the wonder man instead |of just plain Kid Gleason. And now listen to a remark that | Tris Speaker made just after |had been barred: from further ticipation in baseball by Judge ana dis: ‘He's the atest outfielder 1| have ever seen. Instead of a picture of Hap Felsch | stalking off the ball field to the cheers of the multitude, for our last impression of that great athle see a couple of policemen el taking | cell in a jail. | |to 15 pounds, Dundee at the age4 the soln {of 30 won the f He became a champion at an age when a majority of fighters have retired from the ring or are in the “has-been” class. herweight title. | | Dunde at trib- | ute to cle career is a gr n living. A believer in that there is no better | conditioner than real competition, he has made it g point. to keep | Fighting is a serious busi- | with Dunde A s in| a up| a worthwhile opportunity, ne fight game is a severe one, physitally. However, failure to be properly conditioned often is the} on for a fighter taking much | punishment that ‘could otherwis be avoided. Baseball takes a lot} out of the athlete, but many of the star play have done th best | work between 30 and 40. Take the eases of Johnson, Cobb, Speaker, | Collins and many others. True, Jack Britton is to be much com- | mended for being able to step along with the best boys of his weight | at the age of 40, s status ii something of a knock to of the fighters who u out before they have 30 mark, reached the THAT'S KIRKWOOD FOR YOU Joe Kirkwood won the Texas open golf championship with the fine score of 279, finishing seven strokes ahead of his nearest competitor. The Aus- tralian, in one of his inspired moods, had two 68's, When this fellow is good, he’s invincible. HAS MANUSCH A WEAKNESS? While Detroit expects big things from Outfielder Manusch this year, American League pitchers seem to think his batting can be slowed down considerably if he is properly pitched to. The consensus of the pitchers is that he doesn't like a fast ball on the inside, letter high. “BLIND JACK” QUITS. . \ * Jack Wolfe, the bespectacled ban- tamweight of Cleveland, has decided to give the boxing game’the festive go-by and will devote his future waking hours to the honorable and less bruising task of selling life in- “I only got $300 for, ing Young Montreal the’ other ni | back splendid! Is that a business for a boy?” Wolfe demands to know. WILL MISS‘ BOECKEL Manager Dave- Bancroft .of the Boston Braves is bumping into trouble weeks — the. sich ‘of What a shame! i | the death of Tony Roe vs one of the most val- uable players on the team. azo golfer, neial set- id to be coming nvans is doing dou- ble-time work as broker und writer | His golf articles are nationally di tributed. HERE'S MORE FISH, BOYS Apparently Lalo Dominquez, light- weight champion of Cuba, isn't such POOR HEA TH SPOILS PLAY who maeheese serio fin backs JIMMY O'CONNELL The “big bust” of th 1923 season in the National League was Outfield- er Jimmy O'Connell, highly touted recruit of the New York Gfints. G'Connell cost McGraw $75,000 in real money, but dast year wasn't worth six bits Jo the New York club. Despite his poor showing McGraw hasn’t entirely.tost faith ip the big fellow. He is of the opinion that too much publicity"was O'Connell's great handicap. Now that the press agent stuff has died’ down, ‘he \believes @’Connell will work natural, rather than strained, and show much better results. | Neither has O'Connell lost fuith in himself. He blames his poor show- | but that was before we saw Miller | gents gi | strangely i a much as p fighter. New Yorker by the name of Sid Ber- | nard was giving the champion # neat | pasting when rain broke up the fight S$ RECORD po retufns to, this country he will take on a number of | stuffed shirts as,an appetizer. Fred Fulton is one of the set-ups that will be sent against him. Firpo will try | to knock Fulton out quicker than Dempsey did. Dempsey's record is 11 $15,000 Gelf Rake-ins. The ayerage golf professional won't pull down more than $6,000 a year, But the stare of the game get much more. The average for this set is close to $15,000 a year, while the biggest of the lot,the exhibition players like Kirkwopd, Hagen add | Sarazen, get closer to $25,00 Lenglen the Great. ’ After defaulting in the second tei nis tourney at Cannes “because 4 illness, Mlle. Su ne Lenglen, note French tennis champion, went — to Nice and finished first in the singles, nm 1 doubles and women’s doubles, ; All her triumphs were scored- with Jecmparative ease. * The Nut Cracker | ee - ° A reformed wrestler Was knocked : A birds’ in a row. : un reform! is. capable Joe Jacks vgain experiencing sensatiog of theshome-ran hitter alled out for net touching A rainstorm stopped the Firpo- Lodge fight. As if that-fight wasn't all wet to begin with. “All ball pla: to touch s should be taught All ball play importance of f hacking ‘the ms ates. Aatedpitoaa [f The five biggest stars in the ma- jors are college graduates. No handicap is too great to overcame right w One nice thing about gymnasium the sea never gets too choppy for the comfort of the} intrepiq athletes. We used to think was the funniest gu rank Tinney in the world, Huggins in knicker Harvard has given Bobby Jones a letter Now if the? «postal! e him a route his future will be established. A new record for the back stroke was hung up the other day and enough the Phillies had] nothing to do with it. . hee Babe Ruth's fect swelled so badly he had to stop training. . Well, , his fame hasn't, gore to hi: | eae \ “British boxers have their backs! to the wall,” writes a melancholy correspondent. What he r ly means, of cou is to the canva: Officials announce all racing dates for 1924 have been fixed. . The however, will not be fixed until later. < | READ TRIBUNE WANT ADS. | (Piles Can Be had Without ut Surgery Ap instructive book has been | lished by Dr, A. S. McCleary, the noted rectal, specialist of Kansas City. 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