Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 14, 1923, Page 6

PAGE SIX. COLLEGIAT FIELD COACHES BUSY PREPARING TEAMS FOR YEAR Many Meets Scheduled for Coming Winter, Walter Eckersall Points Out. BY WALTER ECKERSALL. With the intercollegiate indoor track and field seasen in full swing and coaches busily engaged in pre paring teams for the many meets to be held during the winter, it is in teresting to note ghat some mentors who have develope’ not only win ing teams st years, but record breakers as this seas As yea however. we re coaching again after year rolls arow the ranks of success? track and field coaches are gradual Iv tht ng. Last ar Dad Moulton, s conspicuous tigure on the cinder yeth for years, passed away, During the cosing years of his life he was ected with Leland Stanford unt- ity where he was respected by all a. whom he met. ne institutions the old time have been supplanted by men, who are said to be more up to date in their training methods. This is particularly true of Yalo and Harvard, where Ned Mer. riam has assumed charge at New Haven and Martin at Cambridge. Merriam is a former University of Chicago athlete, who gained coaching recognition at Ames. Martin was track coach at Penn State last year Donovan Once Great Sprinter. “Pooch” Donovan, one of the old Wehool, who was a great sprinter in his day, was coach at Harvard last year, and Johnny Mack occupied the same position at Yale. In his palmy éays Donovan wan rated one of the greatest proflessional sprinters. He would run a foot race at the drop of s hat with any one whenever a bet was made. He did most of his running in the New England states when professional foot racing enjoy- €d a prosperous period of years. Coaching of track and field ath- Yetes has developed into a science, At 501 mentors younger the same as those who teach foot- ball, baseball and basketball. The sport has been revolutionized to such an extent that ideas which existed years ago have been discarded and new hods installed. The old itme coach who has kent abreast of th one who is still holding at the various universi times. ts th this posit ties and colleges, Fitzpatrick Maker of Champions. Keene Fityoatrick, former coach at Michigan, who is now in charge of track and field athletics at Prince fon, is probably one of the most smeceasful of the old school, Keene has always made a study of men, and it {s sald of him he has mace as many, if not more, college champions than any other coach. While such an assertion is made by Keene's friends, it is doubtful if he has been more successful than Harty Gill, capable coach at the Uni- versity of Illinois. A great athlete in his day, Gill bas kept up with the times. He has made a study of his specialty, as has been shown by his improvement in the difcus and jav- el He has made slight changes in bot implements, with the resuits ma have been bettered. 1 is generally known lent coach He is a keen observer and seldom gives his men instruc tiens until bas made a thorough as the s! he study cf the'r form in running, jump ing vaulting, or weight tossing. He has combined old ideas with more methods, with the result 11 inois teams of recent years have either won the western conference championship in indoor ang outdoor } meets or have been runners-up. Steve Farrell Former Star. Another this type is Steve Far- rell Michigan, one of the few Americans who ever won the Shef- field handicap, the ambition of every foot racer in the early ‘90s. The Wolverine mentor has had great suc- | | | cess at Ann Arbor, despite the fact his teams of recent years have not won the Big Ten tite. A track coach, the same as any other men tor, must have material, a coaching asset which was conspicuous by its absence Michigan in late years. Walter Christie of the University a. fnother remarkable 5 da probably one r successful track and field coaches ‘n the country. Walter ts t chool, and last year across the con tho eastern intercol- way back from the e n Chicago where it wo ional collegiate track fie:d games. Jack Watson at Dartmouth. 3 ratson of Dartmouth, anoth school, who gained mper, has been success ng sterling athletes agg. veteran mentor at the| y of Chicago, has turned great athletes during his ‘ r at the Maroon institu he {s ansisted by Tom Eck, one of the country’s most pi tureaque college oacckes and train: } es Jack Moakley of Cornell {s one of the pioneer conches of the college world. He ha@ charge of the last American Olympic team and !s noted for the development of long distance runners. Of the more recent crop of track and field coaches who are success ful are Lawson Robertson of Penn sylvania. Knute Rockne of Dame, Walter Smith of Ames, George shan of Iowa, T. E. Jones of natr 4 Templeton of ‘BOXING MEET DELEGATES HOUSE CLEANING IN BASEBALL 15. NOT EASY TASK Promoters Are Discovering | Process Is Not So Simple as It Looked. BY I. E. SANBORN. | Baseball promoters are discovering that housecleaning is not such a sim: ple permanent task as thought when the first batch of pl: implicated scandal and they in the world’s serie 1919 were barred from or 23 little while it crops out that the men who under. took the task cf cleaning up the game| did not make a thorough job of but neglected some of the corners a closets. There are some, of course, who think it a “burning shame” to revive the fact that Rube Benton, the vet eran pitcher, was implicated in that | scandal to the extent of having had advance knowledge of the plan to fix the world’s serles and of having boasted that he won $1,500 on Cin- cinnati—reducing the sum to a mere ganized diamonds ery $20 before the Chicago grand jury which investigated the, mess. Benton probably would have been| allowed to wend his way toward the} setting sun unmolested by unfragrant memories !f he had nct staged such A comeback with the St. Paul team last year that the Cincinnati clut thought he might strengthen Pat Moran's slab staff for 1923, so negoti- ated to bring him back into fast com pany. Garry Herrmann might have got away with it, too, if it had not been for Ban Johnson's excellent memory. His assertion that he would not consider Benton ‘a desirable player for the American league apparently roused National league club owners to a realization of the fact their selection of Kenesaw Mountain Land's as offi cial housecleaner was not all that is necessary to cover up the stains on the national past'me escutcheon. Soft Hearted Fans Argue. Lots of folks undoubtedly think it inhuman of the promoters to punish players by banishment from the sport merely for having a guilty knowledge | of a crooked deal, Lets of them think | it cruel that the eight White Sox who | were banned have net been reinstated after serving time in oblivion, Th soft hearted fan argues that tho players haye had. their lesson ani} would be sure to run straight if given another chan¢e. That is undoubted! true, because they would be afra being caught again. But tha! impor. tant thing to be considered is tha effect on the other players, If th eight banished White Sox, and -the 8 who went into the discard with them were restored to good standing after two years’ punishment others would be willing to risk banishment for that pericd if the gamblers paid them enough to make it worth while to take the chance. Only by making a lasting example of all those implicated in any way with the 1919 scandal can the pro- moters convince all parties. concerne that nothing which even resembles crookedness will be tolerated. “When one of the Devlin quartet went to Mam A. Hulbert, then president of | the Naticnal league, and begged to} « have the biacklist removed for the sake of his wife and children, Mr. Hulbert gave the player money out of his cwn pocket his family, but to help take care of told the erring stad that the good name of baseball could not be maintained if he were: re- instated. Incidentally, what a change there aas been in the kind of men who have professional baseball in their keeping since the days of Hulbert, of James A. Hart, and of Harry Pulliam! “Good of Game” No Longer Motto. “The good of the game” no longet is the motto of the majority of the promoters. The good of the league still actuates some of them, but “the good of my club” is the only watch- word known to too many of them. Garry Herrmann took Hal Chase under his wing after the brilliant first baseman had been declared undes! able by the American league. Garr; was mighty sorry later on, but even after Herrmann uncovered evidence that Chase had been mixed up with gamblers on ball games, the New York Giants whitewashed Hal because they needed a first baseman awfully. They kept him, too, until the white wash peeled off Now Herrmann and McGraw are} championing Benton's cause and the latter condoned Rube's offense by sending him to St. Paul instead of outside the barrier. They are biam- ing Ban Johnson for reviving the veteran pitcher's record But baseball needs a watchdog badly ARRIVING IN NEW YORK 25 STATES EXPECTED nW YORK,, Jan. 13.—Delegates to the annual convention of the Na: tional Boxing Association here Mon- day and Tuesday began to arrive to-| day. ‘om O'Rourke, secretary of the as: sociation, expected representatives of 25 states to be in attendance at the opening session. While the program of business has not t announced, it !s understood that business will be the 2 ch | Britt, nor hit as hard as Aurelio Her. Casper Sunday oBorning Cribune E INDOOR TRACK SEASON NOW IS IN FULL SWING STEVE FARRELL. DMichigen.1 JACK MOAKLEY. _ ACorme] | WALTER CHRISTIE. {California} HARRY GILL, LMiineis.] O'LEARY, MASTER BOXER, NOT VICIOUS ENOUGH FOR CHAMPION Great Lightweight From Seattle Refused to Knosk| Out Fighters When He Could Win Otherwise and Never Reached Goal of World’s Title. This is the fourth article ab out great borers who. failed to reach the championship, and the reason thy. BY SIDNEY SUTHERLAND. There are ;it will not be disputed, certain qualifications every aspirant must own to win a pugilistic title. If you cite a champion who lacked one of them it can be shown that he possessed in overwhelming measure some other that offset that particular deficiency. Thus Battling Nelson could not box so well, say as Jimmy Ray Campbell, Droulllard, Kid tsy 1 —Dournge, —A left hand, in-/Pete Scott in April. 1916, in Buffalo. cluding general skill and footwork.|For eight and a half rounds Scott Asked how he accounted for the} 3.— ns, la 'y coordination. 4. kept his jaw covered s0 O'Leary's gambling, and unwise and improper fact that twenty members of the Car. Punch. 6.—St h, including en-/right cross was useless. In soveral| dance bore their fruit. Johnnie] ainain had become affiliated in the duranca, and a good pair of bands. clinches, each artfully engineered by | Dundee vlucked the first of it, knock-| oreanization, he replied: 6.—Reach. 7.—Sharpshooter’s eyes.|Johnnie {n the seventh and eighth|!"s him out in a return match in| «7 gon't know.” 8.—-Good . conduct, with willingness | rounds, O'Leary whispered that later | ne rounds in Boston on Ausust 14.) ay article nubl'shed listed the fol! to undergo training rigors. 9—ADIl'/they would go to Johnnie's saloon | 1916. He braced up, won several |igwing Cardinals as members: Joas {ty to make the weight easily. 10.—| ‘to see some chickens.” Scott, susp!.| outs and then succumbed before liiaines, George Toporcer, Bdward Ambition, 11.—Ruthlessness, 12.—A_cion lulled, agreed; and in the ninth,|10¢ Rivers in Co-wmbus, Ohio. IS! ainemith, Leslie Mann. E. Pfeffer smart manager to secure strates'c O'Leary whispered as ho came out|*?Vings and jewelry gone, bis saloon | wWiiam Sherdel, Del Gainer, Milton matches an) obtain all the money of a clinch, “Why, there's the one| foreclose’, his abilities waning, and) stock, Crarence Mueller, Vernon Cle the traffic will bear. I've got for you, Pete, about four|*bandoned by his “friends.” Jobn:| mens, Lou's North. Clyde Barfoot. And the greatest of these are gour- rows hack.” fie "wandered west. and wound Up—2 Tames Bottomly, Ray Blades, .:Jack age, a left hand, and braii | Scott turned his head—and woke | S!ugger for a union. Fournier, John Lavan, Joe Schultz, Had Almost Everything. |up four hours later in a Turkish bath| On March 13, 1922, ke was shot) 1 eater Sell, William Pertica and Jack Of these twelve major items inthe) the left side of his jaw caved in. BIG HEARTED STANDING OF CITY LEAGUE Team. Ge NV L.7 SP st Standard No. 3-.4 4 0 1.000 Standard No. 4 ® Backlogs 4 1 Eks 3 1 Baptists 3 Amer. E 4 Method 4 Texas Ol . 3 Kiwanis 4 Presbyterians 4 Amer. Legion __ 3 3 Ohio) Of), 22 4 000 satessltay HORNSBY ONLY. CARDINAL SUNDAY, JANUARY 7, 1923. RICKARD PLANS THREE FIGHTS FOR DEMPSEY IN YANKEE PARK Promoter Intimates Willard, Gibbons and Possibly Firpo Are Likely to Be Opponents for Champion Next Summer; Big Title Matches Likely. BY HENRY L. FARRELL, United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Jan. 13.—Jack Dempsey, who has been forced to eke along for more than a year on a meager $5,000 a week, will get a chance to make some real money this summer. Tex Rickard is now planning to use the heavyweight champion in at least two and maybe three big shows in the new Yankee baseball stadium be yard and Tendler. They are the only tween Memorial Day and Labor Day.| cards in sight big enough for the All that remains to make the pro-| stadium. gram definite is the consent of Demp. saa. sey and a few words about terms. NEW YORK, Jan. 13.—Jack Demp- Rickard: would not divulge the names of the trio that he has in mind &0 in with the*champion, but he intimated they were Tommy Gibbons. Jess Willard and possibly Louis rpo, the South American giant Gibbons, who has been in New York several days, returned thfs' afternoon © his home in St. Paul. He said] before leaving “that he might be back | |in New York on real business “before long.”” sey and his manager, Jack Kearns. will start from Los Angeles for New York in a few days to consider offers for a return fight with Jess Willard, according to Gene E. Doyle, one of Wiliard’s business agents. Doyle received a telegram today from Kearns stating that they were to leave within a few days and would talk over terms on their arrival in New York. ft fs known, has , agreement with Rickard to] ON KIS 10 GO might be able to get for him “I'd like to get Floyd Johnson for ibbons, but IT doybt that I can make Fast Track and Picked Jump- ers to Compete at Grand Beach Meet Mad! he match,” Rickard sald to: hnaon has agreed to meet Firpo jand if he gets over the huge Argen tine fighter he probably will go after the other giant, Willard. Rickard would like to use Gibbons inst Dempsey the last week of | May as the opening number of a ss series of big heavyweight spectacies,| CHICAGO, Jan, 13.—Twenty-four men, the pick of the Amerign and Canadian ski jumpers, will compete In an open meet at Grand Beach here tomorrow. Old records are expected to go glimmering as star jumpers ride ‘the Willard is not anxious to meet any- one but Dempsey, but if Rickard de cides It, would be better for him to show himself in a “test bout,” the former champion will no doubt agree. Rickard thinks Willard is a great NOT MEMBER BASEBALL PLAYERS” UNION, REPORT r yet his apparently Mmitless en-/ Scaler, Otto Wallace, Johnny Lustii * | Quriince ¢ 1 him to defeat -both.|Joe Azeve‘g. Jimmy Dutta Johnny | R Chet tiee EaARy: | — Closer to 100 per cent pugilistic Dundee, Shamus O'Brien, Ever Harn ‘emarkable Seattle lightweight | yc. nager Branch ‘Rickey of ‘the Car perfection than any fighter who/mer, Vie Moran, and Rocky Kansas,|W40Se disinclization to knock out |ainals, when asked what he thought v lived a¥agy Joe Gans. And set-| F braips (3) and punch (4) were| &is opponents, if he could win with- |at the P' vers’ union, esserted that tir f the qualities that made) apparent in dozens of batties; in none} out doing so, kept him from win- |e had not gone Into the matter tr |nim sé,"Wwe tind mors so that when he fought tough | ning the'title. full, and that at the present time ho was unable to say anything. end Instantly killed by a strikebreak- Smith. 2 ring greatness Johnnie ‘Anis Distance. cr he was about to assault with an Grit satel: BS o mals aa Seattle, Wash... had| BSA thas 7 Bhs fie boxer, even|!ron pipe just outsiae a Seattle ship- ate eee Sete a Merb even. Below {# a brief analysis of! yp to 145 pounds. has a reach (6) of Y#Td. A coroner's jury pronounced] enor tho lad. Born in 1893, Who W88\absut 66 inches, nature gave O'Leary |th> killing well n.erited Supper th) nampion of Canada for several|79, precious fractions in his profes- 5 : years; who startled San Francisco, gion. Added to the rest of his equip-| (The next article will tell the story JOE BECKET | EXPECTING Vancouver. B. C.: Winnipeg, Twin) ment was “an exe for distance” (7),/0f Joe Rivers.) So Cities, Philadelphia, Boston. and Buf-|no mere bromide in the sporting writ-| eet peer falo; who could have whipped Freddie | ers vocabulary. Nor can that qual-| ” . Welsh in a decision contest; who be “overvalued. The ‘boxer must would have fought wonderful batt a! not oniy beable to see the blow! with Bennie Leonard, greatest in hls! jaunched at him. so he maz avold tt ision since Gans, and who failed| with the least waste of motion and) only because he Icke one thing.| strength, but he must know about preacntly to be explained. | where his opponent's face will be} : Of courage (1) and strength (5) the| when that blow. is spent, no that his) Puget Sound Irishman had a super-| fist will be there to meet it | ‘sufficiency: witness his knockout of “ze must be eble to ‘ see” in his Joe Bailey in the Inst minute of A) gyponent’s brain and by the flexing fifteen: ronnd: bout tn Vancouver. 8C-lo¢ his muscles. the orisin, course and er that veteran Canucl lenbider| 26 Uetina ens tia nests paneh. O's had beaten him brutally tor twelve| eqry,, Ike Gans, Possessed amazing rounds. Witness, also. that he never |cniniey to do this, his counter often welghed above 180 pounds, while the crashing into his enemy's face before reighte” he met ranged. from he tatter's walle was Under way. pounds, and tha hn he had participated in many)... fortunate in a natural welght () which did not require him to mur- der himself on the roaa, or in his ception of such freaks! Sorngts, or in “arving out” before iffo and Percy Cove, | eeiehing in time. Begged to Fight—for Nothin; twenty-round contests. A Remarkable Left Hand. With the as Youn is unilk ty that any boxer in memory | had a crester left hand @) than O'| yyigeqmbition (10) is shown by his Leary: His general skill was instinc-| veoging, when a raged nowsboy tive an@ remarkably develoned, and) Ji, Metomuncters “to et his footwork delighted the initiate. | Poi) in the preiminarles—tor noth- A left hand! Nothing among & box) jy, save cameness, ts more) Jonnnie had three managers (12) in} Name any champion. and/ arene or's assets, aluabie > six yeara in the ring. nelial fh find that he was blessed Purcell handled him from tho start with such a prize. To ninety-nine) ,, Apri 1914. Darby Kelly was with | dot of a hundred prize fighters al )\ 2. "¢.om February, 1916, to the left hand is merely a Jib thrust out weigeout™ about eighteen months Between, he had another mans to keen opponents at a distance.! i197 } O'Leary's left was an invitation. ©] 106, who got him large earnings, a cobra in ambu' a slicing! sigiclous bates, all of which he/ battering ram, a knockout! Yon and n chance at the champion: | perfect foll to thwart the) ani an cny manager can do for his Tt waa a riveting ma twelve-round, no decision | other's leads i 1] an—in a chine apeed and accuracy 8nd)) out with Welsh stir defens and offensive) “Ana with all the foregoing advan weapon, beaut in its Hthe and] ages O'Leary never became cham: | powerful lines ent perfect for 8n¥) jionpecause he lacked ruthiéssness | use the keen brain behind it Might! \) the ring (11). Untess a boxer fs a n waltz his command ‘ Jaanctng master ‘who can . Sthears Welsh and Kilbane. | way to the title. he must be utterly With that left band bs gear Wey ee pareviey) Lavigne, Jeffries the faces of Treddje | Wert <etchell. Fitzsimmons. M3 ta ante * Kibane. champions who peter ae hie, ULERS TAR NSE. CUS Would meet him only in stort: 9 (Sty then eyee taerane heart thre of ‘ston contests, where thelr astoniab-| hip, sa oe cienents . Ing akiil and a friendly referee might | PLY fOr een home the knockout. be trusted (o keep the youngster Ati yiere O'Leary fell down. Satistled bay. merely to outbox his opponent, if that And with that loft. backed up by & woul’ win the decis‘on, he failed to that was a mule/iecome a drawing card a knockout he defeated such] qrtiet is, and he failed to win the title from the clever boys who reign: cross miniature, 1 in none Fr: Burns of Oakland, Wf, Haddin Shannon. Ferd eg ty his era | Valse f Canadian title Imporper Guidance s n refereeing: Ls Toward the end of: his caree johns F Dick Hyland, | dis companionship, addiction to Johnnies was a good kid (8) and) «head at the start of the ninth. They | later by one of Hicks’ pues OFF FIRST; OINT MGR, CALLAHAN RAVE! Years ago, when Jimmy Callahan was managing the club, the White Sox put on an exhibition game with Omaha. The miners were playing a rattling article of the pnstime, and were e run IN RING CURING 1926 LONDON, Jan. 13.—Joe Beckett, British heayyweight champion, 1s looking forward to the busiest year of his career in 1923. Beckett is signed to go 20 rounds for the Lonsdale belt here on Janu 29 with Dick Smith. who chal- lenged him recéntly. Barly in May he is to meet Georges Carpentier in another bout and before that he may accept an offer to . meet Marcelle Nilles, the French heavyweight, who recently won a decision from Frank Moran in Paris. bad a crafty southpaw on’ the slab named Hicks, who had a deceptive move to first. He already had caught one runner asleep there. With one out he caught his second victim off first, making two out. Cal, who was coaching there, raved. But you can imagine his feelings when fights, he no doubt will go United States and seek a bout with Jack Demysey for the wo Babe Borton got a hit, only to be} He claims to have received another nipped off tho base a few moments] offer for # hout in New ¥« woos Jack Dempsey. ” Leave It To Us ~ Those gloves that are so hard to keep in order—send them to us, We'll return them promptly, fresh and as soft as new. The charge is reasonable and it’s a pleas- ure to have your things al- ways in condition. You'll be delighted with our prompt and efficient cleaning meth- ods, Call 56 and We Will Be at Your Service. THE SERVICE CLEANERS In Our New Home at Railroad and Jackson If Bekett is successful in all these} new slidé at Grand Beach, as° the track ‘is Nghtning fast and in good condition. Ragnar Canadian Riley and fess: st card and that he would go well with ‘anyone. 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