Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 24, 1924, Page 8

E PAGE EIGHT i if ® World Results By Leased Wire ¢ BOXING COMMISSION | Prosecution To Be Y PITCHERS ARE | NOW SWARMING m ct. Managers Will Make m: m Short Work of Poor de . th Ones, Is Claim. y the set ithe EP Firpo fight last summer. Pe In telling District Attorney Ban- ay By JOHN B. FOSTER ton today that the boxing commis- pee: (Copyright, 1924, Casper Tritune) | sion would assume responsibility for iin NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—Pitchers/ the investigation, George E. Brower, ay have never been shipped in such/ chairman of the commission and a in bulk so early to spring training|/ prominent New York attorney said “f camps as this year. The reasons) that they would make available for ra are two—youth and old age. the district attorney’s office any hs All the old boys are being sent! evidence that would warrant crim- 230 to a warmer climo early to see {f/inal action against Rickard and an there is anything left, of their old | would ask for a prosecution. pig, soup bones, After the experience Of|' bi cwer said in the event’ thet aaa last year, when ea een ne | findings would not support a crim- creed that they) !@% charge, that the commission n ® ttn wut the dough! Would revoke Rickard’s license if it were t ULE Out tne gowen was found that he had worked in . sever the public collussion with scalpers in the dis- A ee eae eter ot better | tFibution of tickets even if the taxes nothing k promis. ; og work and a liniment bottle. had been pad. =< So these aged and decrepit pitch-| While full details of the confer- ett —_}ike house plants after a hard win-| nce were not avainlable, it waa un- ter, to find out whether they have derstood that Brower told the dis- = anything. worth while. If they;trict attorney the boxing commis- on haven't there is likely to be a sud-| Sion would prefer to conductsthe in- — den descent of the Egyptians dur-| vestigation rather than. have the <4 ing the night and some old p'tchers| district attorney make it a part of eS will be left stranded or floundering |the investigation his office is’ con- = in the minors by Memorial day. | ducting into theater ticket specu So much for the old birds. They| tion The commissiori, “it. 1s under- ee may not know it, but that’s what’s| Stood, will start the investigation at = Combe |its regular meeting Tifesday after. ats The kids have got to produce|noon when Rickard and O’Rourk val something more than wild pitches| will! bé summoned. bm mt 4¢ they get anywhere and that is! While he is obviously trying to . why so many of them are being led! contain himself through the desire to into young pitchers show much some managers, the sunlight. Ordinarily the} are not expected to il in the spring, and with patience and) indecision, never expect much of them any time. They hang on fear something may get away and], ,, they will be rigged for it afterwards. This year there are enough colt Pitchers on grass to fill four leagues and if they can't get anywhere by save his ammunition for the hear- ing, Rickard has dropped several remarks that show the bitter per- sonal feeling between himself‘ and | O'Rourke. “The only redress I have from this tack,” he said today, “rests in ‘the fact that I can be proved inno- |cent by a thorough investigation. | That investigation, which I have in- | vited, wil! throw the guilt in a quar- ot the middle of April they aré goIns ter where it will hurt. ‘B to be passed along, some one place.| «1 nave no chance to start action ie and some another, because the! against O'Rourke because he hasn't 1a majors are not prepared to dally, centand moral verdicts are not or with ‘too ‘many (pt. then. of much yalue in a libel suit. These es Ee yEE x charges have been made against me a out of personal malice- but I am he not the one who stands to be hurt.” ny It was understood today that It! Rickard is prepared to present tes- ut L | T }timony at the hearing if necessary rs to show that O'Rourke had remarked ¢ that he was “out to kill the boxing re game” and that he would do it. en Personal malice on the part of or O'Rourke against Rickard may be ne |shown to have been the resu't of y TEN 23, — the action of the owners of the New Ta PS ets A on tare es Pen York’ Giants in relieving O'Rourke he Rojas, heavyweight champion of;®8 ‘the matchmaker, of their fight © Chile, cabled Tex Rickard today he|Club and appointing Rickard in his of will accept the New York promo-|Place. Charges that O'Rourke said z ters’ offer to match him for three| he would get Rickard because Rick- = contests leading up to a fight with] @rd-wouldn’t let his fighters in Mad- he Jack Dempsey. ison Square Garden also may be “ Rojas said he is eager to go to|™ade at the hearing. < the United States if he can secure} Stories that O'Rourke had it in be fights under the direction of Rick-|for @ former, member of the box- 4 ard, who put Luis Firpo through his|ing commission and one of the dep- ei schooling. uties and that “he went out to get be The boxing cormmission here or-|them were also heard today in box- wis dered. Firpo a few days ago to ac-|ing circles where the “ticket scan- i: cept the challenge issued by Rojas|dal” has become the chief topic of = or forfeit his title and as’ soon as | conversation. he something definite happens, Rojas If the hearing develops into a per- a said he would be prepared to sail éor| sonal issue between O'Rourke and the United States. the ant!O’Rourke factions seyeral ay Rojas is considered a better pros-| big Scandals, so far unmentioned, y pect here than Firpo was at a cor-|may be uncovered and they may be: responding time in his career. He] smack the whole game to the floor le is about the same size and is pro-|for the count. portioned like Dempsey, he may be slightly larger. See YOUNG WINIFREY AND SHIRLEY OF DENVER TO CLASH AT SALT CREEK although} O'Rourke, it'ls understood, threat- ens to expose the demands made by an official for a “cut” of the Demp- sey-Firpo profits and also to tell what this official said a permit for a Dempsey-Wills fight would cost. It is reported. before O'Rourke went to Albany earlier in me week that he was going to include the lat- ter in his blast) but it was heard since tien that his charges are con- tained in several affidavits fited with members of the legislature and if.a <a Dey Instituted If Ring Promoter Is Found Guilty of Fraud in Tax Returns BY HENRY L. FARRELL § (United, Press Staff Correspondent) , NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—Criminal charges will be filed j@gainst Tex Rickard if, duringthe impending investigation | of the charges made by Tom O’Rourke any evidence is | found that the government was defrauded of tax money by the alleged speculation in tickets for the Dempsey- The investigation of the boxing commission thought here today, Would postpone or pert.aps perma- nently block any effort in Albany to hear the charges made against Rick- ard and the officials. Rickard said he had filed with the commission a duplicate copy of the report made by his office on the re- celpts and expenditures of the fight and that he could account for every ticket. Rickard said the charges made by. O'Rourke were so foolish and so un- true that the most charitable thing he could say is that O'Rourke has gone childish in his advanced years or turned “plumb craz; Che Casper Sunday Cribune CHARGE OF RI Boys and Girls Prove Their Skill as Dog Team Drivers OF SPORTING NEWS. |* TAKES This photograph shows a scene during the boys’ and girls’ dog races, one of the annual events held during the winter sports season at St. Paul. Many of the contestants were considerably under the fifteen year age limit. Some had teams, other only single dogs. FIGHTERS ON ELKSCARD TOBE |Penn Relays Growing in Importance; Walter Camp _ SEEN IN GYM Ths AFTERNOON Workouts From 2 to 4 0’Clock ‘Scheduled for All Battlers; Darren- Mex Fight to Hold Treat for Casper Fans. This afternoon between 2 and 4 o’clock all of the fight- ers on the Elks’ card next Wednesday will work out at the Casper Athletic club gymnasium. The workouts will be open to the public and the fight fans are cordially in- vited to drop in and look over the boys. Frankie Darren, the Salt Lake lightweight who meets Johnny “Kid” Mex in the headliner, arrived in town yesterday morning. He is a few pounds overweight and took to the road yesterday after- noon to work it off. Otherwise he is in perfect condftion. Bobby Corbett and Mex are due in this morning to get acclimated and are both ready to go, Casper fight fans are indulging in promiscuous speculations as to twhich of the three headline fights on the Wednesday card will prove the best battle. All of the main matches are well made and should be productive of real fighting. Poor matchmaking has spoiled many a local card in the past but for next week's program the boys all look to be well matched. Johnny “Kid” Mex and Frankie Darren top the card. They. have both conquered most of the best boys in their division in the Rocky Mountain region and should put up a whale of a match. Mex is & tear- ing, rushing fighter but in Darren he will meet a big, styong light- weight who is also clever., Both of them have ring science, a punch and are fast. The real mauling of the evening Promises to be the meeting between Al Webster of Billings and Bobby Corbett of Colorado Springs. Web- ster has been seen in action here several times but never against a man who fights the same style “as he does. In Corbett he is up against a slam bang’ roughhouse fighter who cares little about the science of the game. This should produce a knockout before the 10 round limit is reached. Young Sol and Jimmie Woodhall should cause considerable com- motion in 10 rounds. Young Sol wants to make his permanent home in Casper and to do so he realizes he must win decisively over Wood: hall. The Thermopolis boy is al- Ways in there to fight and Sol will not have an easy time coming out ye senate investigation is decided| upon jon. top. in . they will come out. The advance ticket: sale indicates 7 Young Wintfrey is matched with = Big Jim Shirley of Denver for the di main event of a fight card to be put : on at Salt Creek tomorrow night rh under the auspices of the Midwest GO SOUTH oh Refining company, it was anhoune as ed yesterday. It will be a 10-round < fans. Shirley welgt 7 hing his opponent b JOHN FOSTER a Al Webster, 154, and Bob Arnt, ei 156, will clash in the sem! windup, 2 also a 10-round affair. Freeman he Pepper will fight Buck Rae or|| SEE THE BIG LEAGUES IN TRAINING FOR NEXT 5 ‘Texas eight rounds. Both men will SUMMER’S GAMES rs weigh in at 158. Ray Snyder of > Salt Creek and Eddie Lynch of San i Francisco will exchange punches on , Che Casper Daily Cribune the same evening for six rounds. iol Snyder weighs 118 and Lynch 116. me A four-round preliminary is also has arranged with other leading newspapers of the country to send = aobstuled between two, good bore, John B, Fuster, famous baseba’l writer to all of the big league _ ik emt -ts. promoter “6t. eka training camps in Georgia, Alabama, Florida and Texas, to write of a What ho sees there. There is no more impartial or critical an ob- ‘ card. server than John B. Foster. No one knows more about the present ‘ fitness or past performances of the stars of the big leagues. Nor |] 4s there a better judge of new raw material. Maroons Take Joun .Foster_belleven in getting firsthand information shout the lineup of teams, the status of the veterans and the chances of the rookies. He gets the inte resting facts for his readers, not from Close Battle hearsay but from actual observation, z His first dispatch frém the south will be published within a Lieceer es few days and he will spend the entire month ef March travoling BLOOMINGTON, int.,, eb. °3-— || trom one training camp to another ‘wiring: dally’ stories wecne University of Chicago basketeers sively t- defeated Indiana, 26 to 25, here to d night. The winning score was made € by Duggan in‘the last ten seconds of play. Score at tho first half Chicago, 16; Indiana, 9. Che Casper Daily Cribune that'unusual interest is being taken in the card and there promises to be no vacant seats when the open- ing bell rings. Young Sol Pueblo battler who will meet Jim- mie Woodhall on the Kiks’ ring card Wednesday night. STATE LEAGUE BATS WESTERN Refusal to Waive Teri- torial Rights Not Serious. LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. 23. (United Press}—Action of the Ne- braska State Baseball league in re- fusing to waive territorial rights|8and miles and pass through four- here to the Western league was to- day not considered as a serious ob- stacle in the path of class A ball by officials of the Lincoln State league club. Cc, S. Sherman, sporting editor of |siving Day. the Lincoin Star was to interview Mike Sexton, president of the As|this year than last, but Syracuse, sociation of Minor Leagues today at his home in Rock Island, IL, on behalf of Lincoln” fans who sub- scribed thousands of dollars to bring the Western league here. Failure of club owners in the state league to post forfeits vided in the constitu meeting at Omaha y y to be postponed indefinite’ A motion of refusal to relinquish Lincoln to the Western league was passed during that meeting. Sexton was expected to over-rule the protest of the state league according’ to offic! Lincoln ib. of the —| Florida, By Walter Camp. Copyright, 1924, by the Casper Comments on Other News Philade’phia well under way, is now hoping to put on a football contest Tribune. next fajl between Penn and the NEW YORK, Feb. 23,.—When|@Quantico Marines, If he succeeds Frank Ellis originated the idea of|'n doing this, Penn will have her the Penn Relays, back in 1895, there were few who evinced much inter- est. Only about a dozen colleges and a score of other schools took part in the first meet. Last year the number of colleges represented was more than 100, with 175 relay teams entered, while the original score of schools had grown to 450, with some 500 relay teams entered. This year, the prospects are good for a most interested meet, with an even greater number of entries, in- cluding a team from Cambridge, Eng'and. It has not yet been deter- mined what events Cambridge will take part in, but is is expected that in addition to the 2-mi’e relay, Cam- bridge will bring over a distance runner for the 2-mile international, Frank Ellis started something after all,“ For not only has the Penn Re- ‘ay Carnyal grown to enormous Proportions, but it has put relay racing on the map to stay and has added one of the most interesting features to track meets, Dr. Spaethe of Princeton, in a recent article in the Princeton Alumni Weekly, maintains that the word “athlete” Is out of place in college. Says Dr. Spaethe: “It is a professional word. Stu- dents interested in athletics, yes. But athletes, no. Our aim ts to humanize youth, to turn out neither pure athletes nor pure scholars or thinkers out, as Emerson said long ago, ‘men thinking.’ Intellectual fitness before physical fitness, but they ure not mutually exclusive,” Dr. Spaethe makes’ one other statement that should be referred to the various bodies end organiza- tions now legislating on the prin- ciple of amateurism. He says flat- ly: “You cannot produce amateurs of any sort by definition.” ball John Hays Hammond, a national figure in this country, has accepted the chairmanship of the national committee af the champion to Place his old school, The Hopkins Grammar School, in a new environ- ment. Hammond was one of the star ath'etes of the school in his day, and his exploits on the old Grammer school lot “are well re- membered by those of us who loolzed up at him with admiring eyes. In those days, the teams from the school were wont to defeat the Yale freshmen, and academically the school—which was founded twenty or thirty years before Yale Univer- sity—had a record approached by no other school in the country. Drake University, where they in- augurated the first big riva! to the Penn Relays, has a football team which it purposes to send next sea- son to Salt Lake City to meet the University of Utah on October 4th, and which will finish its season on Thanksgiving Day sat Gainesville, with the University of Florida. Someone has figured that the Drake team will travel six thou- teen states. Football enthusiasts are promised if plans now on foot go through, © big game between Columbla and Syracuse in New York on Thanks- Haughton will gure bring his pupils on more rapldly on the basis of her prospects, looks like a heavy contract, even for the best of them. Brigadier General Butler of the Marines, having got his cleanup of FOR RENT Furnished modern Apt., with garage, reasonable. Phone 357. afternoon, ———____ IOWA MAT MEN DEFEAT CORNHUSKERS, 19 10 10 IN MATCH AT LINGOLN LINCOLN, university's over Nebraska, 18 to 10, here this The Iowans won all but two matches and had little difficulty in taking the match. Captain Kellogg, 125 pounds and Skinner, 145 potinds of Nebraska won their matches by falls. Karoski, heavyweight, Gratton, 158} pounds and O'Brien 135 pounds Were the fowa wrestlers victorious by the fall route, Creighton U. | Hangs Defeat On Notre Dame OMAHA, Neb., Feb. 23.—Creigh- ton university outclassed the basket- representing Notre Dame here tonight, winning easily, 23 to 9% wrestling team tossers hands full, for the Marine team is a good one. Neb., Feb. 23.—lowa won SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1924 CKARD PROBE TEX RICKARD SEES CHANCE OF BEING COUNTED IN ON FIGHT BETWEEN WILLS AND FIRPO By FAIR PLAY. (Copyright, 1924, Casper Tribune.) NEW YORK, Feb, 23.—The whis- per is going about uptown where fighters and managers and pro- moters hang out that Tex Rickard has an idea he is beginning to sit pretty in this Wils-Firpo deal. Tex doesn’t admit it, but the rumor is that after lo these many weeks Firpo has begun to answer his cables, and that all is not hopeless so far as the big New York pro- moter is concerned. Some alleged Wise guys figure that Firpo’s stand as to where the $50,000 bidder for the Wills battle shall be posted amounts to a colored “gemmen"” in the woodpile, said colored party being Rickard. Then there is the statement from one of Rickard's advisers that if the Ray. mond crowd do not watch their steps Firpo will draw the color line, as Dempsey and Gibbons seem to have done. Did that remark just come out of nothing? Maybe so. Then again maybe not. is showing signs of yielding. rage and derision and so now Paul Plans for a summersmeeting be tween Benny Leonard and Mickey Walker are going forward under ths surface. This bout looks like sure fire and of all the fights to which the fans may; look forward this summer this bout looks like the cat's pajamas. TRIGK SHOTS BEAT KIRKWOOD Regular Game Suffers In Golf Playing, Says Star. By LAWRENCE PERRY (Copyright, 1924 Casper Tribune) EW YORK, Feb. '23.—Joe Kirk. wood’s sparkling victory in the Texas open charhp!onship has serv ed to reopen a topic that has often been discussed at the uptown clubs where men devoted to golf gather. Why is it that this great trick shot artist, who apparently is able to do everything with a golf ball, who can perform legerdemain feats that are beyond even the most expert golt ers, fails to win a big tournament such as the National or the British open championships? Kirkwood himself has answered the question. As a matger of fact he gave His theory to The writer. “I suspect,” he said, “that my trick shots hurt by regular golf. I have been able to make more mon with my trick shot exhibitions however, and as a consequence am willing to jeopardize my chances in the great national and international tourneys, “Some day,” Kirkwood added, “I shall probably concentrate upon competitive golf in hope of landing some worth while title,’* Possibly Joe may put this plan into effect this season, the Austral- fan star having signed with the New ° Rockwood Hall club at Tarrytown, N. Y., as a professional. As soon as this club is opened he is likely to give up touring. Charles Ledoux's improved form when fighting as a featherweight ‘may be making trouble for Johnny Dundee. The Frenchman has done most of his battle as a bantam and now it appears that the loss of weight weakened him. As for Mas- cart, of whom great things were predicted, he is through. Ledoux beat him so decisiyely that the wide ly hailed Edouard went straight from the ring to the hospital in a serious condition. It looks as though Paul Berlen- bach is to be, goaded into meeting Augie Ratner next week. The hard hitting novice had passed Ratner up for the time being, saying he needed more experience. But the scribes and the fans howled with RAIN DELUGE SAVES LODGE FROM A KAYO BUENOS AIRES, Dec. | 23— (United. Préss)—Suffering his second “curse” for breaking away from a. promoter who wasenever rained out of a fight, Luis Firpo, South Ameri- can champion, took another smack- ing today fro mthe weather when rain fel! for the second consecutive Saturday and prevented him. from knocking out Farmer Lodge, the big victim Jmported from the United States. Insisting that there be no fur- ther delay in getting his fists on Lodge, and his hands on the purse, Firpo persuaded the promoters to make a third attempt to stage the fight tomorrow. ‘When it wag recalled to him that Tex Rickard, with whom he recent: ly moved to severe business rela- tions, had never lost a fight on ac- count of/bad weather, Louie remark- ed rathér ruefully: “Ho seems go be the. big man in all big thin 365 -- 1= 866 BIGGER: BOXIN CASPER’S FINEST RING CARD ‘ BETTER ,386 ROUNDS ELKS AUDITORIUM WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27TH JOHNNY “Kid? MEX vs, FRANKIE DARREN Of Pueblo Lightweights Of Salt Lake City TEN ROUNDS TEN ROUNDS Bobby Corbett vs. Al Webster | Young Sol vs. Jimmie Woodhall Colorado Springs Billings Casper Thermopolis Welters Bantams ~ PADDY RICKS vs. JIMMIE HIGGINS ADMISSION $2, $3, $5, PLUS TAX Tickets On Sale a OF HIGH CLASS BOXING AT THE FIRST BOUT—8:15 P. M. MAIN EVENT—12 ROUNDS FOUR ROUNDS Lightweights LADIES INVITED t Smokehouse and Henning Billiard Room