Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 1, 1923, Page 7

——— eet BOXING CHAMPIONS FEAR FOOTBALL AS BRUTAL SPORT TITLE HOLDERS LOSE COURAGE AT GRID GAME Dempsey Would Pass Up Crown Rather than Play. BY WALTER ECKERSALL. Although it is a known fact that it takes nerve to be successful in every line of athletic endeayor—amateur and professional—it is not generally known that champions in one line of sport Would not compete in another branch because of fear. This is especially true of most pro- fessional boxers, who look upon foot- ball as one of the most brutal of sports, including bull fighting, if this may be considered in the sports category, Just why this is even the fighters do not know, but the majority will throw up their hands in horror when asked if they would like to take part in the popular college game. During the holidays when the Unt- ¥ersity of Southern California met Penn State in Pasadena, Cal., Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion, was among the interested spectators. It was evident Jack did not enjoy the game. He winced every time there Was a mass or pile up. He shrugged his shoulders whenever a hard, clean tackle took place in the open. Dempsey Fears Football. “I would rather relinquish my title than play football.” Dempsey said be- tween halves. “They talk about box- ing being brutal. Why, that game should be abolished if the reformers want to do the country some good. In boxing we may get knocked out for a few seconds, but in football they not orfy knock each other cold, but they take them to the hospital with broken bones and frartured skulls, : “TI have been asked many times to play, but I have not only refused but walked away because some might ac- cuse me of being ‘yellow.’ Maybe I am when it comes to football, but I will stand the test in an eighteen or twen- ty-four foot ring. I like to go to tha games to mingle with the crowds and listen to the rooting, but I really do not derive any enjoyment from watch- ing the struggles.” ‘Tom Gibbons of St. Paul, one of the Jeading contenders for Dempsey's title, is another who has no love for foot. - ball. Unlike the champion, he likes to witness the contests, but when it comes to playing, Gibbons is not to be considered, When Tom was in Chi- cago recently training fortis bout with Andy Schmader of Omaha at Peoria, Ill., he expressed in emphatic tones that he would never be induced to play football, no matter how much money was involved. Likes It as a Spectator. Eddie Kane, manager of Gibbons, likes football. Kane has frequently stated he would rather see one good football clash than twenty boxing bouts between champions. Gibbons’ manager, however, likes football from the spectator’s standpoint, but, like the boxers, asserted there would be noth- ing doing when it came to being a par- ticipant. Joe Burman of Chicago, who recent- Jy won. the popular decision over Joe Lynch, bantamweight champion, in Chicago, has seen but few football games and has no love for the sport, which he claims is far more brutal than boxing. Joe asserted football maims players for life, while few box- ers quit the ring with any bad ef- fects except for cauliflower ears and lop-sided noses. Burman also safd it 4s far better to see a little blood in a boxing match than leave the ring with broken arms, legs or ribs, which is generally the case with the football game. Pal Moore, another Chicago bantam- weight who is widely known in this country and abroad, likes to see foot- ball games, but never had any desire to play. Moore comes from the south and is a staneh rooter for Sewanee, ‘one of the leading football institutions south of the Mason and Dixon line. Moore, however, has a g00d excuse for hiding his fear. Pal simply says he {s too light to monkey in a game which requires men of Dempsey’s physique. Malone Prefers Sock on Chin. “Tl take the sock on the chin any time in preference to playing that game,” Jock Malone, St. Paul middle- weight, stated recently. “I like to seo them mix, but as for getting me out there, nothing doing. I have followed Minnesota teams for years and know Johnnie McGovern, Johnson, Marshall, und several other well known Gopher stars, but they are welcome to the honor they have rectived.” Johnny Meyers of Chicago, claimant of the middleweight wrestling cham- plonship, has a great respect for swimmers, but as far as competing is concerned he will earn a living on the mat. A few years ago the Naval post of the American Legion staged an ath- leetic entertainment on the U. 8. S. Commodore, an old ferry boat which had been partially dragged on dry land in Grant park, Chicago. Thero ‘was no chance for the boat to float and it was decided to put a foundation un- der it and use it for @ sort of naval reserves armory. Meyers Afraid of Water. When Meyers was told he had to wrestle on the boat, which would be taken out a few miles on Lake Mich- igan, Johnny refused to go through with his engagement. When the joke was explained, he never showed up for the match and was not seen for several days afterward, Men like Dempsey and others men- tioned cannot explain why it ts they have the nerve to perform so brilliant ly in their specialty and lack the cour- uge—if it may be called such—to take part in another line of athletic en- Cenvor, ELIMINATE ON-SIDE KICK. tek has been eliminated from Au code after thirty years BOB GARDNER. AMERICAN GOLFERS WHO WILL INVADE ENGLAND DAVISON HERRON. FRANCIS OUIMET. “CHICK” EVANS. Four former national amateur golf champions, captained by Robert A. Gardner of Chicago, are included in the American team that will invade Great Britain next month, ac- cording to the announcement made by Capt. Gardner. The former title holders, besides Gardner, are: “Chick” Evans, Davison Herron, and Francis Quimet. fhe apecr are: Harrison R. Johnson, Maxwell R. marstou: Oswald Hah George V. Rotan, Fred Wright Jr., and Dr. O. P. Willing. The other members of FOR PLAYERS OF WHIST A.R.METCALFE GAME IS THE DEFINITE OBJECTIVE OF EVERY DEAL. T ts true that opportunities for bis penalties. sometimes overshadow seven the importance of winning a rubber, but such things do not often occur among good players, While it is desirable to make as big @ score as possible one is never war- ranted in making a play which might Jeopardize the winning of the game. An excellent illustration of this point occurred in a deal in the last week. THE HANDS, 8—A. K. Q, 10, s—J. 9. HJ, 10, 5. H—None. C—K, J, 8, 4, D=A, KE, 9, 5. 8-8. 6, 5. 3. 2. HO, 8 70,3, co. D—10, 7. Score: North and south. 16: east and west, 0.. Rubber came. ‘West dealt and bid one spade, which closed the bidding. North had the initial lead. THE PLAY. x. E, 8. v. ub ua HG HQ 20 23 3s 5S 63 88 D7 H7 DIO Ho 00 ten tricks, The play of the deal consisted entire- ly of the refusal by north to trump the first three rounds of hearts, There was a grand slam in sight provided the adversaries’ trumps were equally divided, but the hand was a freak, and had north trumped and consequently found that either adversary had five trumps he could only make two odd. He therefore showed admirable re- straint and by allowing the singleton The Old Copyreader “Many a story is hopelessly written, but the story of life is hopelessly rotten.” BEG PARDON. Many a story is hopelessly written, but the story of life is hopelessly rotten. Why so pessimistic, brother? * Asked a reader in a note After I, somehow or other, Grouched in something that I wrote. He objected to the spirit Of the slogan under which 1 oblige, expressing fear it Was @ little out af pitch, ‘There are folks of somber feature, Glum and gloomy-thinking men, And cach grim, embittered creature ‘Wields a maple-sirup pen; They have chosen to be ebeerful Yor to hoard the shekels spare; Go, althoush by nature tearful ‘They are optimists for fair. Now, If they, to get the money, Mave the right to wear ® pose It would certainly be funny It I hadn’t, goodness knows! Wiest if I'm # Pollyanner When I lay aside my quaint And sophisticated manner? Would that sult you? . . . Well, I aln't. Still, I'm not so blamed ungracious As perhaps I seem to be; But I've always been veracious And it really seems to me ‘That Humanity’s more sour Than It's sweet; and thus, forsooth, When my pleture of it's dour It is pretty near the truth. GUY LEE Archie Hahn to Assist Coach That Developed Him Keene Fitzpatrick developed Archio Hiahn at Michigan university about twenty years ago and the famous DELI EE, is about to assist Princeton's development of track ma- peful of win- 1 of the in- t Penn's new stadium May spade to remain in dummy prevented a fourth lead of the heart suit, thus securing a well earned game. Tho fact that he was discarding winners on the first three rounds of hearts only adds to the merit of the play. Failure to count causes more losses than any one thing in auction, It is inexcusable when the evidence is plain. THE HANDS. 8-8, 7. HJ, 0, 7, 6, 5, 10. D-Q, 9, 8, 5. S—A. J, 10, 3. 6. 5. IA. Q, None. J. 9, DIA, J, 7, 6. 5, S—K, 9. 4. 2. H-10, 8, 4. c—A, 6.5. D—K, 10. Score, 0-0. Rubber game. West dealt and bid one no trump. passed, East bid three clubs. South E West bid three no trumps and the bidding closed. North had the original lead. THE PLAY. Trick: Nn. B 8. Ww. HK Ht HH KO AC D2 Di =HIO HA 5S 28 qs Qs ES 3S os Hs 1Q 30 48 AS 40 93 103 50 DK DA sc DIO | DS. Fite 20 De Jo 50 v7 ac 6c DI DQ ‘West secured ten tricks. ‘West should have allowed his part- ner to play clubs and east would have easily secured a small slam, but west had great confidence in his own ability and the results apparently justified him. North, of course, threw the game away at trick ten by failing to put up the queen of diamonds, This play would have resulted in a loss for east and west on the deal. North, of course, thought he was go- ing to take all the remaining tricks for the reason that there was no dia- mond in dummy’and therefore his nine should hold the trick. The reasoning of north from the beginning of the deal should have been as follows: At trick two when the declarer failed to follow suit in clubs, north should have marked three measley clubs re- maining in his partner's hand. As south never had an opportunity to discard at any stage of the game those clubs were still in the south hand when north played the nine of diamonds at trick ten. ‘Thirteen spades had been played up to that time, and there were no hearts remaining except those which north held in his own hand; therefore the one other card in the south hand must be a diamond, probably the jack or ten as the declarer would have been unlikely to lead the little diamond had he held both honors. WATROUS NAMED BASEBALL COACH AT MINNESOTA Major L. R. Watrous, stationed at the University of Minnesota as as in- structor in military subjects, has also been appointed baseball coach for tha present season, President L. D. Coff- man has announced. Baseball was brought back as a major sport at Minnesota last spring and this season an effort will be made to increase the student interest that followed resumption a year ago. Immediately following Major Wat- rous’ appointment as coach, George Myrum of Worthington was elected captuin of the 1923 baseball team, Let- ter men from last year’s squad who yoted were the captain elect, Harold Severirixon, Lester Friedl, Bob Sam- son, and Selmer Anderson. ‘The new coach played second base on the Yale varsity team for three years preceding his graduation in 1911. He entered the army as a sec- ond lieutenant of artillery and was ad- vanced to be major. The Gophers will thelr conference baseball sche th Nor ern Apr eral c are be CHICAGO TO BE REPRESENTED AT KENTUCKY DERBY T BY FRENCH LANE. Chicago will be represented at the forty-ninth running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville on May 19 by close to 10,000 persons, according to early estimates made by raiJroad officials and others who plan to operate special trains between this city and the scene of the great turf less than twenty specials will operate on the various railroads be- tween Chicago and Louisville, reser- vations now indicate, while hundreds of others will make their way to the Derby city on regular trains-and in automobiles, It will be the largest crowd Chicago has sent to the running of the rich race. This huge crowd will desert Chicago for the Kentucky race despite the pros- pects of at least two and possibly three or four meetings on local tracks this season, Hawthorne plans forty or more days at spring and fall meet- ings and latest indications point to some activities at Riverdale, where the Washington Park Breeders’ as- sociation has announced it will build an elaborate plant. Murray and Meyer on Job. Engineer William J. Murray and Track Builder Billy Meyer with sur- veyors have put in several days at the proposed track, it is announced. They are getting preliminary details out of the way in order to be ready to go ahead in full swing when it is known what disposition is made of. the racing bill in the general assem- bly. ‘The situation at Hawthorne, where spring and fall meetings have been announced, the first one opening on May 26, 1s said to be clearing up somewhat after weeks of rumors of changes in ownership, cance! fon of leases, ete. * According to a. state- ment made in California by Thomas Carey, owner of the west side track, the Illinois Jockey club will continue in control. But just who the Jockey club 4s to include this season has not been announced, as the Joseph FE. Murphy faction is said to be out as far as any ownership is concerned. Murphy Offered Post. There have been reports that Martin B. Nathanson will be the racing ofi- cial in charge, but no announcement to this effect has been made. Judge Murphy has lately been offered his post of last year, that of presiding steward, it is said, despite the sever- ing of his connections in the Haw- thorne ownership. At any rate, Thomas Bourke, sec: retary of the Illinofs Jockey club, has spent several weeks making a cam- paign of winter tracks and is at Tijuana now. More than 200 thor- oughbreds will be shipped direct to Hawthorne for further conditioning and the spring meeting, he has an- nounced. Profits at Oriental park in Cuba this season will be lean when compared to the big dividends paid in other years, nccording to stories carried back from the winter track. A bad lot of horses was partly responsible, it 12 sald, and the switch from pari mutuel to bookmaking speculating was made necessary because the natives did not ftake kindly to the machine system. Tourists did not wager nearly as lreay- ily as in former years, it is reported, and the lack of big flelds often took away much of the speculative interest. There has been no kick on the man- ner in which the sport was condusted, and plans are already under way to at- tract a greater number of high class thoroughbreds at the next winter session. YACHTING TAUGHT BY SLIDES. New York Athir instruction tm ya b has a course ies ar Woods and Waters % 222, MAKIN’ THE BLUEBIRDS FEEL AT HOME, HE Popular bhiebird has such a good reputation that he is a favorite when it comes to at- tracting birds about a home. As far as is known no one has ever been able to prove that the bluebird is a crop destroyer. You can lure a pair to nest in your cherry tree with- out worrying t your fruit is go- ing to be eaten up by these bird They are ins eaters and a such are mighty able residents of your garden or orchard. It is comparatively simple to induce bluebirds to camp on your place for the summer. ‘They ct readily take to birdhouses, and if you will stick up a few of the right Kind and in the right places you are apt to have some of the prettiest little bird neighbors a-going. * © A bluebird nesting box is not dim- cult to make. Hundreds of boys in manual training classes throughout the United States have been turning them out in great numbers. Make a box about eight inches high with a floor in it that is about five inches square. The entrance hole diameter of one and a half inches should be six or seven inches above the floor. A bird box with a removable cover is highly desirable, although not abso- lutely necessary. You can make a re- movable cover without using a hinge by putting a cleat across the back with another on the under side, which will press against the front of the box. The roof should extend two inches over the entrance hole. * * If you don’t want to bother with the cover business and make a simpler box, four shingles and two bits of board, with a few nails will make a simple bird home. Cut an entrance hole in the upper right hand corner one and one-half inches in diam- eter, and then you-are ready to wield a paint brush. All nest- ing boxes should be painted for protection against rain and sun, Brown and green are the best col- ors. Place the boxes in full sunshino about six feet above the ground with long axis vertical, Good spots for bluebird boxes are—on exposed limbs of trees in orchards, or on fence posts around a garden or orchard, on per- golas, rear of garages, or other build- ings, always remembering that this bird likes open places. Face the boa, if possible, to the south. Don’t worry about the bluebird or the wren eating the fruit in your orchard —“ they ain't” that kind of birds. ot If you want to be sure that cats and other climbing enemies of birds don't get after your bluebird residents you can fit around the post or tree a fun- nel-like strip of tin or galvanized Iron, which will prevent most any animal from ascending the tree or post. A. A.U. MEET AT YANKEES’ PARK ‘The Metropolitan (New York) branch of the Amateur Athletic union will hold its senior track and fleld sports at the Yankees’ baseball park on Aug. 23. SOCCER AT BRITISH SPORTS. adfantreal, soccer football 'oficiate | taror sporte to be held next year. LOUISVILLE BOY RIDES WINNERS AT HAVANA Another Louisville boy promises to make his mark as a pigskin artist. He is Herman Kaiser, the elongated son of Mr. and Mrs, Conrad H. Kaiser of Southern Heights. Although only 16 years of age, the lad has been riding win- with unusual success during th ter race meeting at Oriental Park in Havana, He is under contract to Willlam K. Knebelkamp, owner and president of the Louleville baseball club. Contract on the ‘boy’s services was purchased last fall by m Finnegan, trainer for Mr. Kneb: Land, who 1 Weldemann, w Covington, I In Kaiser, Finnegan thinks he has one of the best young riders who has come up in the last few seasons, and expects him to win many races for tne Knebelkamp stable and others during the spring ard summer meetings on Kentucky tracks. Young Kaiser had his first mount at Latonia last summer when he was astride Cap Rock. The first victory of his career was scored early in the season at Havana when he brought Memphis down in front for the Kneb- elkamp interests, Memphis paid Uberal odds as few of the patrons of the track thought the youngster capable of landing a win- ner. Since that time he hag won a dozen or more races and has finished inside the money quite frequently. NEW GOLF CLUB SOLVES PROBLEM OF CADDIE HIRE Henry J. Brandon, president of the New Coldstream Golf club, claims a perfect solution of the caddie problem, Several years ago Mr. Brandon was a member of a golf club in Haiti, where the caddies were natives and hired for 20 cents a day. It was a good ching for the caddies, inasmuch as they contracted with other natives :o do the work for 5 cents a day, leaving them @ financial profit of 15 cents. Mr. Brandon’s idea for the Culd- stream club is that the club charter a boat, sail for Hait!, and come back with a boatload of 20 cent caddies. To date the only difficulty would seem to be catching the caddies and putting shoes on their feet. According to present market quota- tions a 20 cent caddie would sell on the hoof for $20 a year. “Own your own caddie” may be the s‘ogan of the new club. MATHEWSON KNOWN AS FOOTBALL STAR DURING COLLEGE DAYS (4 IELD goals, Mathewson, Not many persons who followed “Big Six,” now president of tho Boston Braves, through his brilliant career as one of the baseball world's greatest hurlers, probably realizo that the sentence quoted abovo told the story of his first uchieve- ment on the athletic field that brought his name prominently be- fore the public. For despite the diamond faine of later years, it was known best while in college. It was while at Bucknell, carly in the season of 1899 that Matty Kicked his way into fame down on Franklin field, the great play- ground of the University of Penn- sylvanta. Penn wa othall im thos ight of Buchu imp, from ‘George les the horses of Cart 1 known turfman of was to score on Red —Bucknell had no hopes of wine ning. UNION IDEA WAS TO REMOVE BAN CN GANISHED SOX Promotor Also Attorney for Ousted Players. BY I. E. SANBORN. Delay in the development of the so- called Basobail Players’ union into a going concern has led to various ru- mors designed to explain why the new organization has not been completed by the choice of officers, ete, unless !t has been done underground. ‘The chief cause assigned by the world of rumor for the failure of the new union to function publicly, after being dormant most all winter, is that the idea behind the movement originally ‘was to compel the powers that contro! organized baseball to remove the ban rgainst ball players who have been punished for alleged crookedness, nota- bly the eight former White Sox who wero involved in the world’s series scandal of 1919. ‘The arguments used to make this ex- planation hold up are that the Milwau- kee attorney. who sponsored the new organization is the same person who represented some of the banished play- ers in their suits to force their rein- statement; also that the union has been joined by only a few American league players compared to the ease with which members were obtained in the National league. Naturally, it is ex- plained, the players of the cirevit which profited a prestige by the throw- ing of the series are not as bitter against the culprits as the players of the league which was double crossed. Banished Players Not Convicted. It is difficult to believe the foregoing reports are truc, because it is contrary to common sense that any one can be so blind to the serious effect it would have on the baseball public to permit players under grave suspicion to re turn to professional baseball. Of course, it is true none of the banished players was actually convicted by the courts. Consequently in the eyes of a lawyer such players ought to be as free to en- gage in their profession as any pick- pocket or short card gambler who has been clever enough to pull off some thing and escape conviction. Baseball is different, but they have funny ideas in Wisconsin, and partict larly in Milwaukee, judging by their politicians and legislators, so perhaps the atmosphere has crazed the attorney who fostered the new players’ union. He may actually have imagined that the baseball “ proletariat ” would rush into a scherfie to tear down the founda- tions of a professional sport for the sake of some former pals who are being oppressed by the diabolical cap- italism of the promoters, If that was the idea it could have been spawned and matured only in Wisconsin. Much more reasonable is the theory that the Milwaukee lawyer who started the new union got the idea from the knowledge of baseball law which he ~ obtained while attempting to restore the banished players to good standing. Some Points Would Not Hold. ‘There are some points in the code by which organized baseball is governed which would not hold in a court of law perhaps, where guilt or innocence, right or wrong, frequently depend on mere technicalities. Attorney Cannon may have started out with the honest ambition to put professional baseball on the common law level so that ball players could enjoy the sme freedom as other classes of wage earners. The right to strike for all the re ceipts of a club during a season, the right to make one club owner bid against another in disposing of their services, and the right to demand sep- arate private cars instead of merely separate lower berths while traveling, are some of the things some of the players might welcome as a change from the existing system. If the Milwaukee lawyer could re- duce baseball to a common law basis he probably could get some of these things for the proletariat player—tem- porarily. Have Not Forgotten Past Failures. But the slowness with which the players seem to have flocked to the membership roll of the new organiza- tion would indicate that a considerable number of them have not forgotten the failures of all previous players’ unions, of which the original one of 1890 was most ambitious and apparon: ly assured of success. Tho old Broth erhood went on the rocks, chiefty be- cause every memiber of it was si ous that every other member of it was going south with more than his share of the coin, Baseball is not so badly run now that a union could improve the lst of the players very much. WHY COBB WAS SOLD FOR $750 Ty Cobb was purchased {n 1905 by the Detrojt club for $750. Many per- fons, s{nco that year, have questioned the business ac’ Carr, who owned thi the South Atlantic leagne tr + sold Ty to Detroit. At tho barbecne held In honor of Cobb anc members of the Detro August teams, Mr, C: why he sold Cobb to Cobb for $750 for the reason that It was $260 more than I would bh five dave later, Detret ciub in the those days.” Yorktown to Be Made Into Modern Summer Resort town, Va. will be rule fern sum one OuK