Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 30, 1923, Page 10

PAGE TEN World Results By Leased Wire SPOR i GOLF, TENNIS, FOOTBALL AND ROWING QNSGUSSED BY EXPERT Golf Architect of Future Will Be Man Who Can Slash Costs; Lessons Learned in Late | Football Season Pointed Out. BY WALTER CAMP (Copyright 1923 by the Casper Tribune) There are high lights shining out through the sports season of the year of 1923, such as seldom have been seen before. And while the facts are fresh in mind, it is well to note these high lights and profit by them if possible. It has been one of those seasons when statistics, inter- esting as they may be, have seemed quite inadequate to convey the completeness of the pic-{development of rowing in this cour. ture. One might almost be temptea|try than even in the days when to consider this year as one in which|over a dozen colleges were repre. the winners reaped such great re-| sented by crews once a year at Sar- wards in the satisfaction of their/atoga Lake. There were dual hard-earned victories as to be suf-|races galore and from the time the ficiently compensated. and o: s|ice was off the water to the end of ready to cry out “Io Victus!* “Hall|June the sweep swit.gers were well to the Conquered!" For never betore|to the fore in public interest. Yale has there been such a wonderfu!|won tho annual race with Harvard spirit of sportsmanship and such|at New London, and the University heroic battles put up by the|of Washington won the Poughkeep- losers. But if some great lessons|sie Regatta defeating the navy in a have not been learned in all our|close finish. This was particularly sports from this year’s contests, we | Interesting because Leader, the Yale shall have failed completely in the} coach, was a graduate of the Uni- real essence of things. versity of Washington, and a’ pro- Under each head a distinct and|duct of its rowing methods, and emphatic lesson is pointed out for| Callow. who coached tho victorious the future. But in a general sum-| Washington crew for its victory at mary in four of our great sports—| Poughkeepsie, was a pupil of Lead. golf, tennis, football and rowing—|°r's: The Poughkeepsie regatta the high lights stand out brightly. | ¥@* @ 3-mile race and the New Lon- don the old standard 4-mile ¥: erect tia Stare rt is|__ Columbia won the Child's Cup race. more municipal courses, a halt upon iward McGuire, a Buffalo police the’ rising ‘dues in private; clubs ‘ana feated Paul Costello, the @ far-better appreciation of the ji tional Single Scull Cham. that it is not the scratch player who} i575, in the National Amateur re should be considered but the hither-| 2.tta at Baltimore, W. B. Gar. to “forgotten man” who makes up 99/ -ott Gitmore won the Philadelphia per cent of our players and who pays more than 90 per cent of the bills. In tennis, a similar lesson is to be learned, that our efforts should be more largely directed toward the Gold Challenge cup at Duluth, de- feating Walter Hoover, the man who two years before had won the Diamond Sculls at Henley but who lost there last year. thousands of medium players ano Development in Rowing the unnumbered thousands whol Now as to the development in the would become players if they had rowing game, it has been most the field room and equipment; that| marked, And the strange part of CTIVITY O ne oe Jewtraw, international outdoor c! po: skmers will represent the United Sates m the Olympic games in 1924. They are: Charles internat‘onal jarry Kasky, national and © lian champ; Joe Moore, fndoor champ for 1922; William Steinmetz, 1922 outdoor champ; Richard Donovan and Valentine Bialis, al- ternates. therefore, drifted away from the mid@i'e of the line out toward the wings. Teams which did not posen up the attack in this way and use linemen in_ interference but stuck to the old, confirmed plunging game, went backwards while the others advanced. ‘he forward pass improved in quality but defense to it also improved rapidly in diagnosing and _ inter: cepting these cs, >» that db fore mid-season it was. evident thit the pass must be well masked In order to be effective, and more than that, if it not welt masked there was, danger of its proving a boomerang through in terception and a long run back. Kicking did not improve as much reatively aq the passing so far as the ordinary punting was con wares cerned. The drop kicking was encroached upon by the Kick ‘from as an element in this far more at-|), tention should be paid to the en- couragement and development of double players. In rowing, that sport of mystery, the lesson {s that there are still fur- ther undeveloped phases of the art of making an eight-oared shell travel more rapidly; that while all may be striving for the same end and have something of the same ideas, there] stroke which Iliram Conibear tens is an added finesse lying in the pro-| working up a dozen years ago on vince of the recovery that 1s a great] the Pacific Coast and which eo. art in itself and which spells “Vic-| has signally developed, would win tory.” not only short ra 3 7 In football, the lesson 1s that the|rices. m ‘aces “but -foursnitte game has taken on new and unusuall ‘no Nayy crew which Washing- developments and has progressed] tn’ defeated at Pcughkvepsle, was rapidly in the pont of tactics, and] pcwerful crew ard-ene which that the loosening up of for-|could take a int of beating and ser mations has not only made the at|cCallow's men ermnw th 3 tack more powerful but has made it] New London, tre steady, possible for the spectators to see|machine-like drive of Leader's Yale much more clearly just what is/crew ate along through the going on. Unfortunately this is that the Victories in the two big regattas at Yale and Washing- ton have really introduced’ a new stroke, that it, new to the east, and have so upset the coaching situa: Uon In the east that many changes have been made. The writer pre- dicted this situation, and, at con- siderable length previous to the opening season, showed how this |of the Thames, steadily advanc added to t of the game—|anq drawing away from Harvard “unfortunately” ause the stad | Not only: did the’ stroke appear to ums and bowls are not only stretch-/ he rowod easily but the beauty of ed to the limit of capacity to accom-| the: recovery and the ‘traveling of modate the crowds but thousands|tie boats between strokes, both at are turned away, disappointed, from| New London and Poughkeepsie, was the big games. most soul-satisfying to the student But to come to the detailed lessona| of rowing. Of the golf season, it ts true that no|: Several other colleges not now young married man of 24 or 26, earn-| boating institutions, have. consider: ing three thousand doliars a year.|ed taking up rowing, and. were it not can, with justice to the rest of his/tor the fact that itis an expensive budget, belong to any of the or-|sport ana without any reasonable dinary private country clubs located| means of return financially, and ia in and about our principal cities, on] difficult one to support, it can be account of the expense. And these|cone ut fairly receonable expense steadily increasing dues have come] where a, body of. satisfactory. water largely from what really, from a hear et hand, and where the row- golfing standpoint, 1s unnecessary|ir.g men themselves are willing to expenditure, and many of the clubs/ forego extravagance and put up with gre realizing this. some discomforts. The golf itect of the. future Football Results Reviewed will undout e the one who can| The footfol Iseason is still. so fresh show how to save money and up-|in mind that, unlike the other sports keep and reduce the dues, rather|/a review calls up the detail of the than the one who can show where] play in a marked degree. In the to spend more money. Golf is the| East, Yale and Cornell were both un- greatest individual game we have,| defeated and divided the honors, and is spreading with such rapidiay | although they did not meet.. In the that it is easy to sit back and think| middle west conference Michigan that nothing need be done but to|and I'linois also. were undefeated it grow. Those who really love] and tied for first place. In the ard believe in its posst-| Missour! Valley Conference, Ne- hould work heartily along ‘® and Kansas came through of lessening its cost tention has been paid to the s men t nearly | F the rank same fashion games and tied. ifi ccos in their con- Ont on the st, the University of Cat was. undefeated, - althoug nis Question Debated ut Won the Paclfic” Coast nis' season has been mar. amplonsh! In the South there by a rather heated dis-|Was-some question ariging betweer, between William T. Tilden | Vahderbilt and Washington and Lee ld’s Champion, and undoubt-| but Vanderbilt was voted | the man who has done the most | Champion. The Service Cham: tories for us on the courts, nship was undecided, the Army and Navy ew York The marked characteristic of -the son was the widening out of d a member of the Davis Cup com- How far this divergence will carry the parties and affect our chances of victory is|® playing a> tie. game in opinion 8 tion for later consideration.|tho base of attack, either by. orig- 1 ain point is that it brings} {nal formation or by ‘“‘heppingf’ to in the most emphatic] one or more of the backfield men, a r weakn of our goy-|further development of loosening « a r in developing| up the line and getting a Mneman or ¢ gs out the| linemen into the interferenco on ich is es- there and de of d-dts effect in much more ciearsy ator who could of the ball and it. There was n the ough hod of kative the ex. play, required active rather than y guards. < pro-| mand for heavier wing men, al- E y has ever|though here, too, activity was the It spoke far more for the! great feature, The center, weight placement and it is the _ general opinion that this kick fram placé- ment is more accurate than | the drop kick and will continue to be the popular method. Attendance Much Larger The crowds that attended the games and the crowds that wished to attend the games but were dis- appointed, increase denormous'y. Stadiums and bowis were taxed to their capacity and even then there were thousinds turned away from the big games. More stadiums were built, and thore of recent con: struction are approaching the hun- dred-thousand mark for eipacity, Intersectional games were num- erous, but not those of the charac- ter involving championships. South- ern football developed largely at in- stitutions not before so priminent on the football map, and while southern vis'tors to the north, were not so. successful as in former the genera! qua'ity of the play | the smaller institutions developed marked The action of, the Rules Commit tee for the last few years in avct ing any legislation that would ma- terially alter the game.itself proved thoroughly justified, not only from the playing results but from the tact that the publfe now under- stands the game thoroughly and is not obl'ged to: learn a new>man- ua! of rules annually. Union Pacific Fives to Clash At Cheyenne CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 29.— Teams representing the accounting department staffs of the Union Pa- cific Raflroad company at Omaha and Salt Lake City: will meet in Cheyenne New Year's eve in a basketball game to settle the cham- pionship of the Union Pacifis system. GASH IS LACKING FOR REBUILOIG OF TOK (BY CLARENCE DUBOSE), (United Press’ Staff Correspondent). TOKYO (By Mail to United Press). —The Tokyo-Yokohama reconstruc- tion projects have become involved in a snarl of politics. personalities and disagreements. Three months after the disaster the reconstruction board is, apparently, little nearer an agreement than the day it was ap- pointed. There simply is no heads or tails to the thing at all. There is a desire and an expressed determination to “rebuild Tokyo and Yokoham: But that ts all. There is no money, no plan, no agreement oy how to raise the money, or what plan of reconstruction to. follow. Meanwhile “temporary” w« shacks and shanties, built mostly individuals, have covered most of the devastated ares. That is, and for some years will be, the “new Tokyo.” The estimated cost of rebuilding Tokyo and Yokohama is ten billion yen, or. five billion dollars. BY LAWRENCE PERRY (Copyright 1923 by The Casper Tribune) INTERNATIONAL SPORTS Lawn Tennis od -United States United States Canada M,. Johnston, U. S. Davis Cup, Walker Cup, Senlor Gof English Championship, Tenn: World's Championship, Wenien’s Tennis Singtes. Fencing — Court Tennis (Professional) . Polo Indoor Polo Yachting Wm. -.England Uniged States United: States England AMERICAN TITLES Lawn Tennis National Championship, Men ------..--. Natidnal Championship, Women. Men's Doubles Mixed Doubles ~ inior Sing Boys’ Singles - Boys’ Doubles - —-- George Lott H, L. Johnson ~ Hill and Johnson ---Maxwell R. Marston --.-Gene Sarazen Robert T. Jones --~-Miss Edith Cummings -Miss Miriam Burns Jock Hutchinson -Miss Glenna Collett - Frank C. Newton Illinois Athletic Club Ilinois Athletic Club fationa! Amateur Champion Professional Golf Association Champion -. National Open Champton --. National Women's Champion - Western Women's Champion ~. Western Open Champion Canadian Women's Title — North and South Amateur — Track National A, A.-U, Sr. Champion _. National Indoor Champion - World's Heavywelght Champion World's Lightheavy Champion — World's Middleweight Champion American Lightheavy Champion World's Lightweight Champion World's Welterweight Champion World's Featherweight. Champion World's Bantam Champion World's Flyweight Champion 2s: INTERCOLLEGIATE TITLES Track ~Jack Dempsey Mike McTigue Harry Greb Benny Leonard Mickey Walker Johnny Dundee Joe Lynch Pancho Vi'la I. C. A. A, A, A+ Championship -_ Western Conference Champiorship . .. National Collegiate A. A. Championship. Two-Mile Relay Championship -. Eastern Intercollegiate A. A. New. England College A. A. Interco'legiate Indoor Meet - Western Conference Indoor Meet Boston. College ~---Bowdo!n ~------Pennsylvania ~----Michigan Yale ard Cornell Illinois and Michigan Nebraska and Kansas Eastern Championship Middie West —- Missourt Valley South — — Vanderbilt South Atlantic Virginia Military Institute Pacific Coast ~-Califorr.ia East West Wisconsin. and Iowa South . Miseissippi A. & M. Western Conference, Swimming — Northwestern Western Conference, Gymnastics ——.. Wisconsir. Interco'legiate, Swimming Yale Water Polo -. Princeton Gymnastics _~. Yale Wrestling © -. ~ Cornell Western Conference, Tennis Michigan Boxing ---~. Navy Western Conference, Tennis «----Chicago Soccer - Pennsylvania Eastern Cross Country Syracuse Western Cross Country -Ohfo State Fencing . Harvard Western Conference, Wrestling --_. Ohio State Western Conference Golt ---— Illinois Poughkeepsie Regatta University of Washington New London Regatta -. : Yale Child's Cup Regatta —_ = Columbia Phi'adelphia Gold Challenge Cup (Singles, Sculls)_.W. B. Garrett Gilmore National A. A. O, (Singles, Sculls) -Edward MeGuire Intercollegiate Golf Championship Dexter Cummins, Yale Golf Team Championship -+---Princeton Tennis Championship Carl Fischer, Pennsylvania Tennis Doubles: Championship_White and Thalheimer, University of Texas RAL CHAMPIONSHIPS Skating Rackets -_..- Court Tennis Court Tennis Doubles Professional Squash Amateur Squash. National Soccer .. Charles Jewtraw ley Mortimore Jay Gou'd ------ Gould and Wear Walter Kinsella -- R. E, Fink ---Paterson Football Club A. A. U. Four-Mar Championship -. Intercollegiate Championship —. Men’s Champion .~. 7 Woman Champion Water Basketball - INinois Athletic Club -Leo Giebe), Rutgers --Gertrude Ederle + University of Chicago Packard Chriscraft Horse Racing ship Three-Year-Old — Championship ‘Two-Year: Champion Automobtie Di Handball Champion . Handba'l Doubles -. Zev - St. James ommy Milton ian Francisco nd Serenberg Boxing in 1928 attained from a financial viewpoint because of the growth of thi out-door idea. This was the principal development in the boxing game in the past twelve months. LESSO SUMMER; WINTER OUTLOOK 1S NOT SO BRIGHT BY FAIR PLAY (Copyright 1923 by the Casper Tribune) S..CAMP letic commission and not generally Joe Lynch won the bantamweight title from Johnny Buff and Buff also lost his American flyweight title to Pancho Vila, the Filipino. Villa and Frankie Genaro met and Genaro won the bout on a decision. This made him American flyweight champion. Jimmy Wilde of England, the world’s flyweight champion came to this country, signed to meet Villa. \There was some objections to this |match by Genaro’s backers who dre: @ claimed Wilde should meet not Villa a ae een ms att teat but the existing American cham- |pion, The boxing dommissioners decided, however, that Wilde must fulffl* his engagement with Villa Promoters, as well as fighters and managers, were |and he did. Villa won by a krock- brought to realization that the number of fans who were willing to pay goodly prices to see top line fighters in. action vastly exceeded any space under roof and so ball parks were employed for ex- hibition purposes with financial re- sults almost beyond the dreams of avraice. Such ts the condition, as a result, that the present winter season Promises to lack lustre so far as champions and near champions are cor.cerned because the battlers real- ize that, by waiting until the climate is agreeable, they can fight before tens of thousands more spectators than indoors. Always when a heavyweight cham- pion is active the ring game receives @ distinct ‘tonic influence and such An impulse was noted in 1923 as a result of the two battles fought by Jack Dempsey, the world’s heayy- weight title holder, His first fight occurred on July 4 in Shelby, Mont., the batte being promoted by local boosters who wished to advertise thelr commun: it Through mishandling tn the promotion end the battle proved a finanelal frost and the battle itself did not produce the knockout for which those bloodthirtsy fans who traveled to the far west to see. the fight were looking. ‘Tommy Gib- bons, Dempsey's opponent put up a fne defensive battle and lasted the fifteen rounds, although Dempsey won by a big margin of points. Dempsey Retains “Punch” As a result of this fight ta'k arose that Dempsey had lost his punch ad indeed it so seemed until he met Luis Firpo at the Polo Grounds in New York on ‘the night of Sep- tember 14 Wefore the largest crowd that ever witnessed a ring battle. Dempsey walked into Firpo from the sound of the bell, knocked him down several times and then in turr. was knocked out of the ring by the indomitable Luis. Returning to the scene of operations Dempsey fin ished the first round gaining pose and strength and in the second speedily put Firpo down for the count. Firpo showed no skill at al’, but he did show a willingness to trade punches and a rugged stamina ard an ability to hit which insures an immense ‘throng when the two meet again next summer. In the light heavy. division—the cruiser weight, as the British cal! it—Battling Siki surprised the world by knocking out Georges Carpentier in Paris: But in turn he lost the title on a decision to "Mike McTigue hen the two met in Dublin on St rick’s: Day. The American title’ was. taken from Gene Tunnéy by Harry Greb on # decision and ‘ater the two met again and Tunney won his title back from Greb on a decision that didnot merit the approval of all those who saw the fight. Then on the night of December 10 Tunney retained his ttle against the assault of the Pitts- burgh windmill, Wilson Loses Title In the middleweight division John- ny Wilson who for so long had held the’ world’s tite without fighting to defend it—chief because he was debarred by the New York Athletic commission and other state boxing commissions—returned to activity and lost his title to Harry Greb on a decision. While Wilson was inac- tive the New York commission hand- ed the middleweight title around to Dave Rosenberg, Jack Malone and others. But in the end Wilson's claim to the crown was: recognized and when Greb beat him he ascend- ed the throne where he now sits. Mickey Walker, who won the wel- terweight championship from Jack Britton in 1922 fought only one real batt’e in the past twelve months. This being against Pete Latzo, a no- decision affalr in Newark in which the champion displayed undoubted class, Benny Leonard retained his light- Weight title in an open air bout in New York against Lew Terdler, The fight earned a big purse and those who came -to ‘root for Benny! were amply rewarded for anything their seats cost them, as the champion literally outclassed his opponent. This was the only important battle ir. which «Leonard indulged last year. Dundee Regains Title The year was manked by the downfall of a champion who had held. his title for years—principally as it turned out because he had met no worthy opponents. The disputed titleholder was Johnny Kilbane, featherweight king who was knock- ed. out by Eugene Csiqui, the same little French war hero in New York City. Then, hero that he’ ts, Criqui agreed to meet Johnny Dundee be- fore sailing for France. Dundee, im turn, knocked Criqui out and thus won the feather title which .he now ho"ds. Jack Bernstein of Yonkers won a F Rifle Shooting — Biilards .... Marine Corps Willis mares local title from Johnny Dundee on a decision, said title being the ju nior “lightweight championship, a out and there stands, Villa world’s champion and Genaro’s status not quite clear. ELKS RING CARD IS POSTPONED; KID LEE TO FIGHT IN BOSTON he next ring card to be staged bys the Casper Elks, featuring , Walter (Kid) Lee in the main event, has been postponed from January 7 until later in the month, probably January 20, according to announce- ment made last night. This wil! permit. the completion of interior improvements and decorations now being made at the Elks auditorium. Kid Lee will have the biggest fight of his career in Boston on January 7, when he will meet Bobby Barrett in a headline bout. It will be Barrett's first appearance in the ring since he broke his hand in a fight with Charley White. The! winner of the coming bout will be matched with White for a Decora- tion day battle in Boston, it is stated. Lee won the right to meet Barrett when he decisively defeated Sandy Taylor in a 10-round go this month. After the first round Lee waded in and won the next nine, flooring Taylor seven times and beating him unmercifully. Although Taylor went into the ring a 3 to 2 favorite, Lee's stock soared after the battle and his chances of defeating Barrett are considered good, Lee has always been popular with Casper fans and his next appear- sree here should pack the ring: le. EPINARD WINS TURF HONORS By P. M. SARL LONDON, Dec. 29.—The British turf season, which has just ended, while regarded as a comparatively colorless season, was remarkable ‘or two things: First, the frankly admitted loss by Britain of equine championship honors, and secondly class devised by the New York Ath- oe mivent of the flying fil merit is readily conceded to the Momtas Mahal. French-American colt _Epinard, no year lacking in “great” | which won the Goodwood Steward's horses, Papyrus, the derby winner signally failed to beat the Ameri- can champion three-year-old Zev. at Belmont Park,.U! 8. A., and after deducting all disadvantaxes acruing from along sea voyage and racing in a foreign country, few excuses are made for Papyrus. It is recognized that the derby winner was “not good enough” It is, indeed, by no means certain that he was even the best British three-year-old, or that if the race Were run over again he would win the derby from the same field. Pride of place in three-year-old cup in a canter and morally: won he Cambridgeshire under a record weight (although actually having to put up with “second place by ‘the narrow margin of a neck). Experi- enced turfmen do not hesitate to class Epinard as the greatest three- year-old in the world during the past season,-and worthy of ranking with the really great horses of turf history. exaggerated or not, next year’s rac- ng may show, but it is generally conceded that Epinard was the su- perior of Britain’s best 1923. three- year-old crop. Ithas been rumored around Casper that my quitting business sale was only a ruse to create business. Also that I am still connected in a business way in Casper. Thisis entirely wrong. I have quit business in Casper, having sold all my holdings and have no interests there whatsoever. I have moved to Denver and am in busi- ness at 1120 16th street, where Casper people will find me and receive a royal welcome. With best wishes to Casper people and wishing them all A Happy New Year. J. L. LEARNER, 1120 16th St., Denver, Colorado. the situation now © ~ net 4 if VT wes ¢ = ? SrPeRaoSes &. ro Qe ro ~ 7 Whether this estimate is + $ te ter be b E6bo oN otRy od says wt eee