Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 7, 1923, Page 7

FRIDAY, SEPT. 7, 1923 World Results By Leased Wire ~ GIANTS AND PIRATES BOTH TURN IN WING, STANDINGS UNCHANGED Cincinnati Reds Idle as Rivals for National League Pennant Boost Percentage; Home Run King of South Is New Giant. CHICAGO, Sept. 7.—(By The Assoclated Press) .— The New York Nationals advanced yesterday to a posi- tion four and a haJf games ahead of the Cincinnati Reds, who-were idle, by defeating Philadelphia, 8 to 1, at the Polo Grounds. Pittsburgh, who also won, defeating Chi- cago, 5 to 1, in a five-inning game which was cut off by rain, advanced to just one half a/ Williams with the bases full. Cun- gamo behind the Reds. ningham hit @ homer. In the New York game, Bentley} Hamilton pitched for the Pirates, earned his keep by striking out Cy/|allowing onl¥ five hits, while Alex- lander, hurling for the Cubs, let out ‘nine in three innings. No other Club Standing National League. games were played in the National League, the Cincinnat!-St. Louis battle being called off because of rain. In the American League, Philadel- phia defeated Boston, 6 to 2. Team Won. Lost. Pct.| Moses Solomon, home run king of New York -.. 83 60 .624|/the Southwestern League, has been Cincinnati _-. 76 52 .593| Purchased by the New York Nation- Pittsburgh -. 76 64 .585| als. Solomon played first base for Chicago 71 60 1537) Hutchinson, Kansas, and cracked St. Louis 65 65 .500 Out 43 homers in 143 games this sea- Brooklyn 60 66 .476/80n. Boston’ — a. - 43 85 .33¢| The purchasing price was not an- Philadelphia _ 42 85 831 | nounced, but according to Secretary | Tierney of the Giants, it was close American League. to $75,000. ‘Team— Won. Lost. Pet. New York . . $3 43 .659/ John “Dots” Miller, for 19 years Cleveland 69 56 .552 | @ member of the Major leagues, and Detroit 63 58 1| until recently manager of the San at. Coulede - 63 60 612! Francisco club of the Pacific Coast Washington , 61 66 «©.480, League is dead. Miller went to | 56 67 455] Saranac Lake, New York in hopes of _ 63 72 / 1494] recovering from tuberculosis. Miller 48 75 .390| first attracted attention as a member Scores At Pittsburgh— Chicago — Pittsburgh At New York— Philade!phia New York Batteries. Mitchell, At Philadelphia— Fyhf'adelphia Boston Batteries—Quinn Devormer; Western League. Tulsa 15, Wichita 9. No other. Ne Yesterday’s R. H. B. 15 0 | Ee | Batteries — Alexander, Dumovich and O'Farrell; Hamilton and Gooch. R. H. EB. 7. 10, = 510 1 Betts Henline; Bentley and Gowdy, American League. and R. H. EB. Des Moines 7-1, Denver 5-1. ond game tie 7 innings, darkness.) Oklahoma City 6-3, St. Joseph 4-2. American Association. Columbus 5, Indianapolis Loulsville 4, Toledo 0, Minnespolis St. Paul 3, Kansas Clty Coast League. Vernon 13, San Francisco 4. Oakland 5, Los Ange'es Seattle 6, Salt Lake 6. Sacramento 10, Portland Texas e. Milwaukee 6. 2, 4. 1 --610 2 27 0. and Pichnich, Rommel and Perkins. (Bee- ’ Leagu Fort Worth 8, Wichita Falls 2. Today’s Games National League, Cincinnati at St. Louls. Brooklyn at Boston, Philadelphia at Ne Chicago at Pittsburgh. York. American League, Bt. Louis at Chicago. Detroit at Cleveland, Boston at Philadelphia. a “Meet me at the Smokhouse.” 1906 ASK ANY MAN WHO EVER WORE A GORDON HAT— THAT'S THE BEST ARGUMENT. The suggestion is as good today as in 1906—so is the hat. The light shades in rough finished hats are smart of the pennant winning Pittsburgh Nationals in 1909 when they defeated Detroit in the world’s series. Five years later he went to the St. Louis Nationals, and later to the Philadel- phia Nationals, where he ended his major league career in 1921. ‘The New York Nationals have pur- chased Pitcher Greenfield and Out- fielder Wilson from the Portsmouth club of the Virginia League. players report at the close of the Virginia League season Saturday. coe eS POLOINJURIES PROVEFATAL FORT SNELLING, Minn., Sept. 7. —Major Ivens Jones, of Minneapolis, executive officer of the 337th field artillery, 88th division, died early to- day at the Fort Snelling hospital! from injuries suffered last Sundi in a polo game here, when he sub- stituted for a player on the Des Moines, Iowa, team. —__———_—— USE OF FORT ASSEMBLY FOR RING BOUT DENIED SAN FRANCISCO, Sept., 7.—The use of the assembly quarters at Fort McArthur, San Pedro, Califor- nia for a proposed 15 round fight be- tween Jack Dempsey and Tommy Gibbons, for the benefit of the disabl- ed veterans, has been denied by the war department, Major General Charles G. Morton, commanding the Ninth corps area, notified the pro- joters here today. "Major General Morton said that the laws of the state permitted only four round contests between non-profes- sionals, and it was not the intention of the war department to oppose public opinion in the state by per- mitting such a contest. The) Perkins for the third time tonight. BY HENRY L. FARRELL (United Press Sports’ Editor) NEW YORK, Sept. 7. — (United Press)—Jack Dempsey will have sev- eral advantages over Luis Firpo when they meet in New York on September 14 for the world’s heavy weight championship. His physical advantages are several and they may be overcome, but his mental edge hardly can be removed as a tremendous factor. The champion's physical advant- ages consist of greater experience, more knowledge of fighting as it is |followed in the orthodox way and {superior boxing skill. These are |known assets. Dempsey may and may not be as strong as Firpo. Perhaps he is not as strong in brute power. Dempsey may be able to hit harder than Firpo but that fs open to doubt. The champion is better with his left hand than the South American and he is a faster puncher, but if he hasn't the strength to tapple over Firpo the ohe right hand of the South American will be better than his two. ‘When it comes to mental qualifi- cations, as mentality {s applied to fighting the champion has all the edge by a big margin. Champions, as a rule, have that mental edge be- cause the opponent is bound to get into the brain trap that he is fight- ing the champion. Dempsey has no doubts, as far as it is possible to discern, that he can beat any fighter in, the world. Firpo cannot feel the same way, as he must know, down deep within him- self, that he is carrying the big handicap of a comparative novice against a skilled artist. Firpo has given unmistakable evi- dence that he feels he is not sure to walk out of the ring after he walks in. Perhaps he had reasons for want- ing Tex Rickard to postpone the fight for angther year, With twelve more months in which to capitalize his standing as the next opponent for Dempsey, he could have picked up at least a quarter of a million dollars, and the Angel sure does love his money. It might be that Firpo really be- eves that he can whip Dempsey and that his desire for more time waa inspire@ purely by mercenary motives. Mentally alert as he is, however, Firpo cauld not help but be affected by the statements of hie trainer and his friends that he faced By MILES W. VAUGHN (United Press Staff Correspondent) CHAPTER II NEW YORK, Sept. 7—(United Press}—Whether Luis Angel Firpo wins the heavywelght championship of the world from Jack Dempsey or not, he ought to get a lot of credit all over the world for doing a tre- mendous service in boosting boxing to a major place in the South Amer- ican sports firmament, and giving tremendous impetus to all kinds of sport in countries where healthy competition is needed as badly as anywhere {n the world. Firpo, eingle-handed, probably has done more to pull South American youth away from such non body de- veloping sports as horse racing and cock fighting to the brawn-bullding exercising of slamming at each) other's chins in a roped ring than} all the athletic missions the whole| world could ev have got together. | For Firpo is INTERESTING—ond interesting to everybody from the highest of the highbrows to the low- est of the unschooled masses; inter- esting because he offers the possi-| bility of a championship, of proving| that South America can raise just! as husky sons as her sister nations) of the north, and proof that the! Latin can fight just as well with his! fists as he can with his brain, | Every country in South America wants a champion, and if she can raise one for herself this year she will be per y willing to let Ar n-| Sports in South America tina do it and bask in the reflected glory. In Argentine itself there still is a considerable disposition to doubt Firpo's rating as a really great heavyweight, despite his victory over Willard. The Argentines know per- fectly well that Firpo has met a lot of setups, and they know Dempsey has beat a lot of men far better than the average fighter who has been put before Firpo. Argentina doesn’t want a newpa- per champion. She wants » real fighter, who can get out and win the heavyweight crown and hold it against the best of them. During recent months Firpo has got to look better and better, and now a lot of Argentine fans will concede him a chance against Dempsey where they wouldn't have given him a look-in four months ago. ‘The big battler's stock took a rise when he whipped Willard, but !t didn't make the Argentines over-con- fident by any means, They know Dempsey 1s a lot tougher man than Willard, and there'll bo a lot of re- Nef if Firpo clears the last hurdle with one of his terrific wallops, which they hope will move the equator for the first time. But, win or lose, Firpo will have done ao greater service for sport than either he or South America rea- lizes just now—for he has given great impetus to the whole South American sport movement, which is going to make stronger, healthier and happler manhood in tho Latin American republics during the next generation, HUGH WALKER, Kansas City heavyweight, who will meet Harvey DEMPSEY HAS EDGE IN MEETING FIRPO; FARRELL DECLARES. @ sure defeat if he fought Dempsey before another year’s training. Crowds surrounding the average fighter, even among second raters, as a rule, gound nothing but his praises, When Dempsey was train- ing for Carpentier, he heard noth- ing but: “He's a setup for you. One round.” Dempsey became so aggravated | with the rosy prospects painted for him that he asked to have Carpen- tier’s name left out of his conversa- tion. On the other hand, Firpo's friends and advisers have not missed an op |portunity to hold up, with all its | hasansis, the prospects of his fight with Dempsey, It is but natural that jconfidence in an athlete cannot be increased by having it constantly called to mind that he has a great task ahead of him. A keenbrained fighter is not in danger of over-con- fidence by hearing others express faith in him, but a smart fighter is injured-when even: his ~bent= friends hesitate to assure him that he Is a sure winner, In their training camps, the dif- ference in the mental edge of the two fighters is very apparent. In every word and action Demp- sey displays the utmost confidence that he will come out of the fight as the champion. He is a very sen- sible young man, and he {s in no danger of falling a victim of dver- confidence, When he was training for his fight with Carpentier at Atlantic City he told those who kept insist ing that the Frenchman was a sec- ond-rater: “He can't be with that record of his.” Dempsey trained hard for that fight and he is traning just as hard for this fight. He js in much bet- ter spirits than he was not so long ago, when he was getting ready in Great Falls for the Gibbons fight. The champion was not himself at Great Falls. He most obviously was worrled, and all his friends noticed the tremendous change in him. No doubt he questioned that he was still there as a great fighter. He had been out of the ring for a long time and he could not be sure that he hadn't lost much of his power. Where he once was almost boy-like in his actions around the camp, he was taciturn and seemed to have no thought or desire for levity. It was taken as @ very bad omen by his: friends, His fight against Gibbons appar- ently convinced the champion that while he had lost some of the accur- acy of his punching that he was still there physically because he was able to go fifteen rounds at top speed and pull up without blowing. eee Now he is the same old Dempsey again. He wrestles around with his friends and campmates, indulges in all kinds of practical jokes and is the life of the party at Saratogn. Firpo, on the other hand, shows in every move the seriousness with which he looks upon the fight. He is naturally genial and affable to vi {tors and newspapermen, but he shows plainly that he {s working un- der the same kind of a strain that Dempsey had imposed upon him be- fore his last fight. Firpo feels that he is there, but he has some doubts about it, and those doubts will dull that mental edge. He insists that he has no fear of the champion, and no doubt he hasn't but he lacks the confidence that he has it within him to win the championship. ‘Phere is no doubt that the South American must feel often: “It would have been better in another year." If he concerns himself about what could have been and does not con- fine himself to what 1s about to be, he will have a tremendous load to carry when he goes into the ring for the biggest fight of his career. BIG AUCTION SALE There will be a big auction sale at 234 South David, Saturday after- noon at 2 p. m. of household furnt- ture, rugs, bedding, cooking utensils dishes, glassware, etc. Harned Fur- niture Co., 2 jd. Phone “Meet me at the Smokhouse,” LEONARD WILL FIGHT TONIGHT PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 7.—Benny Leonard, lightweight champion, and John Mendelsohn of Milwaukee, are primed for their eight round no de- cision bout at Philadelphia National league park tonight. Leonard fin- ished his training at Tannersville, N. J., where he prepared for his bout with Johnny Dundee, was postponed. Leonard may be asked by the director of public safety of Phila- delphia to weigh in publicly today because of recent contentions that he is over weight. FIAPO TO WORK FIVE MORE DAYS First in News Of All Events PEAKING AND WALKER BOTH OT FORDECISIVE — WIN IN BATTLE TOWN IGHT AT RODEO STADIUM Rival Heavies In Fine Trim for Fight Expected to Settle Big Controversy; Tom Meaney Picked for Referee ~ , Harvey Perkir& and Hugh Walker meet for the third time tonight at the rodeo grounds in an attempt to settle for once and all which is the better man. The two big heavyweights are in the best possible shape and the battle will be a strenuots one. Their former encounters have been hard hitting, bloody matches and the same kind of a fight can be looked for this evening. even dozen. In the semi-final Billy At a meeting last night of the} Papke and Jack Doyle, Colorado fighters’ managers and newspaper-| boys, are down for 10 rounds at 128 men, Tom Meaney of the firm of| pounds. They are sald to be fighters Wilson & Cranmer, was chosen es| that make a hit with the crowd and referee with Ray McDermott, attor- ney and “Muggsy” Scholes, former lightweight scrapper, as judges. They were chosen from a dozen names submitted by the manage- ment of the Rodeo as competent of- fictals and thoroughly honest in their decisions. ‘There 1s 34 rounds of boxing lined up for the fight fans with the Walker-Perkins go scheduled for an Two Heavies Report for Duty at Atlantic City Camp. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. 7. —{By The Associated Press.)—After a hard earned day of rest, Luis can de looked on to put up a lively exhibition. Jimmy Woodhall of Thermopolis and Frankie Snyder of Casper, featherweights, will meet for six rounds with the curtain raiser be- tween Al Knapp of Colorado Springs and Harry Hickey, heavyweights, Tickets are on sale at the Rialto theater box office and the Smoke- house up to 6 o'clock this afternoon. Angel Firpo returned today to the training grind for the battle with Jack Dempsey in New York Septem- ber 14. {mons were to report tor sparring Five days of the training period remain for the South Amert- can, and he plans to fill every minute with hard work. John Lester Johnson, New York heavyweight, one of the men that Dempsey met in New York early in his career, and Young Bob Fitzsim- duty in the Argentine’s camp this afternoon. Luis Angel is in good humor. He has been having all the excellent food he can eat; his new motor car arrived yesterday; the sporting writ- ers are conceding him an excellent chance,to win the world's title; his South American friends tell him they are sure he will. Firpo's cottage now is filled with friends from his native land. Be- sides his trainers and sparring part- COLLYER’S EYE IS SUED FOR $50,000 FOR CHARGES MADE ners there are some of the comrades of his youth, They never cease to marvel at his pugilistic improve- ment. JACK DOYLE, who meets Billy Papke in the semi-windup of the |ring card at the Rodeo stadium to. ‘night, DANFORTH DISPELLS ALL CHARGES; HANGS CREPE ON ST. LOUIS, Sept., 7—Dave Dan- forth, southpaw pitcher, for the St. Louis Americans, not only has dis- pelled all charges of having employ- ed illegal methods, but has won the title of “gamest man in baseball, in the eyes of local fans, Danforth, who recently was sus- pended because of charges that he had tampered with baseballs, demon- strated conclusively, according to local fandom, that these charges were| unjustified, when he succeeded in| holding the New York Americans DO YOU KNOW By United Press BY UNITED PRESS Have two teams in the major leagues in the same city ever won three pennants in succession, Have the same teams in two different cities ever played three successive! world’s series agains each other?— GMK. A. No, in both cases. Why did Bill Tilden and Vin nie Richards sever thelr doubles partnership? u A. Without knowing any private reasons, {t might be that they didn't| want to play any more together. | Q. Will the prices of admission be the same for the coming world’s series ag they were last year?—TOL A. It’s @ cinch they will not b any lower. | —— Sport Calendar Racing Meeting of Westchester Racing As- sociation, at Belmont Park. Meeting of Montreal Jockey club, at Montreal, Trotting Meeting of Grand Circuit closes at Hartford. Yachting Richardson Cup international races at Toronto, Golf Canadian Seniors’ championship tournament, at Montreal. California State amateur champton- ship, at Del Monte. Maine State open championship, at Poland Spring. Polo Annual tournament of Miami Val- ley Hunt club, at Dayton, Ohio, Boxing Benny Leonard vs, Johnny Mendel- ohn, 8 rounds, at Philadelphia. Gene Tunney vs, Jack Burke, 8 rounds, at Philadelphia, George Chaney vs. Georgie Russell, 8 rounds, at Philadelphia. Joo Tiplits vs. Andy Chaney, 8 rounds, at Philadelphia Jock Malone vi rounds, at Boston, Lou Bogash, 10 THE YANKS to three hits, despite the fact that |56 balls were used during the game and virtually every other pitch wa, |with a new ball, |_ President Johnson of the American |League, declared Danforth has a ‘mania” for “doctoring” balls, and jat one time even his team mates and the fang suspected him of using jillegal methods. Despite this, Dan forth has fought on without losing | heart. Hank Severetd, catcher, says the |suspicion against Danforth was be. cause the southpaw throws a natural “sailor.” “Danforth’s work all season has been clean,” said Severeid. “He has one of the best fast balls I ever saw. It hops upward and the batter thinks it must be a@ ‘sallor’.. He can make a brand new ball hop. His hop ball is nothing spectacular, but it Is so hard to pitch that batters conclude he must be cheating.” Danforth perfected his hop ball, it was said, when he was a substitute pitcher for the Chicago White Sox. $$ | SPORT BRIEFS LINCOLN, Neb., Sept. 7.—Dis- placing the state champion and veterans of the game, Fritz Kum- merfield, 15, of the village of Tilden, » Wednesday won the state horseshoe tournament con- ducted under the anspices of the | State fair, So consistent was the | youthful exponent of barnyard golf that he did not once quiver enough to lose a single match dur- ing the entire afternoon, a record equalled by no other player in the tourney, HAMLINE, Minn.—Peter Daphne, driven by Shievely of Denver, won the 2:05 pace in the fastest straight heats at the Minnesota state fair. LINCOLN, Nebr.—Jimmy Delaney, of St. Paul won a 10 round referee's decision over Jimmy Shirley of Den- ver in the main bout of an American Legion bill, TORONTO—Ariel, of the Chicago Yacht club, class champion of Lake Michigan, won the first race for the yachting racing union cup, in the championship class RK for the Great Lak ——_—_—— ROY CONLEY WINS BOUT WICHITA, Kans., Sept. |Conley of Thermopolis, Wyo., def 1 Bobby McCarty of Moines in eight fast rounds last night. Conley floored McCs times punches, with | three terrific and Bohne egainst AGAINST CINCY BALLPLAYERS CINCINNATI, Sept. 7.—President August Herrmann of the Cincinnati Nationals announced that a suit for $50,000 damages would be filed by the club in behalf of players Duncan “Collyers Eye" in the United States district court at Chicago today. He said the law firm of Winston, Strawn and Shaw CHIMP BEGINS THPERING OFF Training-Grind to Be Concluded Within Short Time. SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., Sept., 7.—{By The Associated Press) —Jack Dempsey today began the tapering process of his training grind for his fight with Luis Angel Firpo. Already in fighting trim, he will en- sage in work designed mainly to de. velop his speed and sharpen his box- ing skill. Light sparring partners will be pressed into service, among them the Jamaica Kid, a negro whirlwind weighing 170 pounds, and Jimmy De- taney, the St, Paul light heavyweight a protege of Mike Gibbons. Pickling his face and hands in a combination of beef brine and vine- gar to toughen the skin will be part of Dempsey’s finishing touches. The champion soaks his hands in the mix. ture several times dafly and rubs his face vigorously. This “pickling,” Dempsey says, hardens the skin so there {s less danger from a cut from a grazing blow. Experienced observers, after watch ing Dempsey rip into Parmer Lodge and George Godfrey for two rounds each yesterday, agree that the cham pion fs in much better condition than he was at Great Falls, Montana, two months ago while preparing for Tommy Gibbon The legal action started by Paddy Mullins, manager of Harry Wills, negro challenger, In attempting to prevent the Dempsey-Firpo match because Dempsey declined to fight Wills first, exploded like a bomb. shell in the champton’s camp, Demp sey declared he never would give Wills a shot at the title as long as he was champion. at means the end of Wills so far es I am concerned,” Dempsey snapped "I never had the slighest objec- tion to fighting Wills. We intended to close his match after disposing of Firpo, providing I won, Both Mullins and Wills knew this. 1 would just 8 soon have fought Wills as Firpo, but there was not a pro- moter in sight to stage it.” 3 Aah Ed, “Meet me at the Smokhouse.” STATE OF WYOMING) County of Laramie ) Wyoming. would file the sult as a result of charges in “Collyer's Eye” that Duncan and Bohne had been ap- proached by gamblers during a New York series of games in Cincinnati. NEW YORK, Sept. 7—Players Sammy Bohne and Pat Duncan of the Cincinnati Reds today filed suit for $50,000 damages each against “Collyer's Eye," Chicago sporta pub. lication which recently charged they had been approached by gamblers seeking to have them “throw” a series with the New York Giants. This announcement was made by John A. Heydler, president of the National league, after receipt of word from August Herrmann, presi- dent of the Cincinnati club, that legal action had been instituted. —<—— 14-YEAR-OLD LAD STAR OF HORSESHOE TOURNEY LOS ANGELES, Sept. 7.—Many a grizzled beard suffergd a painful tu; sing yesterday as veterans of the ancient sport of horseshoe pitching watched a school boy, Howard Schuler, Jr., aged 14, of Los An- geles, carry off the honors on the firet day of the tournament of the California Horseshoe Pitchers’ asso- clation at Santa Monica. Young Schuler took first place in the 15-ringer and under class and easily was the star of the first day’s play. Old timers declare “barnyard golf” stands in danger of having its name changed to “playground polo" —_—— automobile news to Sena “Spark your Plug."—Care Tribune, SWZ Theres Always a Market Goxsor® Is always will- ing to bu ubstitute for Darcova Cups—once. 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