Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 25, 1924, Page 5

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1924 World Results By Leased Wire FIRPOKNOGKS OUT LODGE IN FIFTH IN BUENOS AIRES B American Second Rater Is Easy For “Wild Bull of Pampas”—30,000 Fans Present at Fight BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 25.—(By The Aésociated Press) Luis Angel Firpo was still the heavyweight champion of South America today, having disposed of “Farmer” Lodge, American heavyweight by a knockout last night in the fifth round of their bout at the River Plate football field. Thirty thousand fans cheered their idol as his oppon- GIVE oTRIBLING TOUGH BATTLE the jaw. Lodge took the aggressive at the outset, forcing the Argentinian to the ropes but after his initial on- slaught, the American never had achance. Twice before the kneck- out he was sent to the floor by the flailing right, which is Firpo's fav- orite blow. Lodge's punches lacked power and he clinched repeatedly. ‘The referee was obliged to use force to pull him ot of some of these em- braces. At the beginning of the fifth rond, with Lodge groggy, Firpo 7 Wi This shows Mrs. Frank J. Gould, wife of the American mill tried for a_ knockout. Driving Georgia Boy ill Not in action during her recent tennis game at Cannes, with the French rights and lefts to the ribs and over the heart, he forced the Amer- jean’ about the ring. Once, ‘miss- ing a terrific swing, Firpo went to his knees himself, but was up in an instant. ‘The knockout blow was a straight right which sank deeply into Lodge's body, doubling him up like a jackknife. The American crump- led to the floor and fell face down- ward, lying motionless as he was counted out. Firpo weighed 218 pounds and Lodge 231. . STRIBLINGTO FIGHT TONIGHT BUFFALO, N. Y., Feb. 25.— marvel Suzanne Lengien. CINCINNATI SHOULD HAVE ONE OF BEST OUTFIELDS IN MAJOR LEAGUE CIRCLES THIS SEASON (Copyright 1924, Casper Tribune) (By JOHN B. FOSTER) Suzanne won Have Easy Time in Bout Next Month (Copyright 1924, Casper Tribune) NEW YORK, Feb. 23,—William Stribling would do well not to ac- cept Mike McTigue on the basis of the world’s champion light heavy- weight’s showing against the Dixie lad down in Georgia some months ago. At the time Mike was not in the very best of condition, and coupled with the fact that he didn't size Stribling up as standing out from a lot of third raters he had Perfence undertaken to hold up na- tional league clu! If they break .lso his own referee to make cer- Special Leased Wire. down, as some of them threatened tain he would not suffer from home| (Copyright 1924, Casper Tribune) | !n 1923. the national league race is bred officials. So he was up against NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—Eddie! likely to take a quick shift after it Roush has signed his contract with] is under way. he Cine:nnati Reds and has ceased The wobbly condition of some of 0 be a holdout. Maybe it was be-| the players in 1923 is the one quality cause he received an increase in| which gives the champlonship con- a surprise at Columbus and was lucky to get away with his head. But this time he will be trained to the minute—he intends to begin pre- C \CAGE TEAM IN SYMPATHY First in News Of All Events HAS TROUBLE WITH | WITH DECISION OF BOARD NOT ENFORCING CONTROL BY HENRY L. FARRELL (United Press Sports Editor) NEW YORK, ‘Feb. 25—(United Press}—One of William Muldoon's rules, issued from the chair of the New York Boxing Commission, pro- hibited boxers under age from ap- pearing in contests of more than six rounds. Like most‘ of the rules which the former chairman of the commission put on the books, it caused a lot of comment, and opinion was evenly divided on ifs practical wisdom. Everyone admitted, however, that a very high ideal had prompted the rule and that it might be a good one in the long run. One of the chief objections to the rule was that it could be “cheated,” and that managers could add years onto the real age of their boxers when they applied for a license. The discussion on the npint spread to England where the following in teresting comment was made in “Sporting Life” (London.) “Everyone knows that it is not merely unwise but harmful and dangerous to impose too great a strain on the physique of growing youngsters, but one thinks the New York Boxing Commission is over- grandmotherly in saying that no youth under the age of twenty shall be permitted to box in any- thing over six-round contests in that State. “We should say that at least 95 per cent of English boxers—and for that matter boxers of any national- ity—have started when in their teens, and that most of them have gone ten, fifteen, and even twenty rounds many times long before they were twenty years old. “But that is not to argue that all of them are physically fitted for 60 or 80 minutes of boxing. There is no doubt that many of them are not, even though they pass a medi cal examination for organic sound- ness—which is all a doctor is called upon to concern himself about.” “Boxing imposes a great strain on the ‘physical powers, and one could tell of many promising youngsters who, by being asked to do too much salary and maybe it was because he| test an air of uncertainty and it had heard of a young ball player] may be that the air will be enlivened named Peck. into a jig if players begin to fall Burns, Roush and Duncan are the| own all around. 3 epee cee od egular outfielders of the Cincinnati Jub, but when next September rolls around there are some folks in Kan- BUFFALO, N. Y.—Manuel Alon- sas who are willing to wager their bankrolls that one of these names so of Spa'n, defeated Willlam T. Tilden in the final round of the will be missing and in its stead will Buffalo tennis and squash club's be Peck. This chap Peck played last season mid-winter invitation tournament, 6-4, 1-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-4, parations Monday for the March 31 fight—and he will know exactly What he may expect.: Mike is not at all a bad fighter. He can hit and he is clever. He has a sort of hesitancy.in his ring tactics, how ever, that shave not made friends for him’ hereabouts. This renewal of the southern grudge between Mc- Tigue and William Lawrence should, in other words, be a real battle. So far as hitting goes, McTigue has done his fair share of knockout stuff. Nearly 60 per cent of his fights have ended in the opponent going to sleep. True the men have not been of very high caliber—Jack Stone, Roddy McDonald, Johnny Blesch, and George Robinson being among the class of his dreamland victims. He has won a_ decision over Harry Greb, in 1920—has won and lost with Jeff Smith. But mainly his battles have not been against the highly rated light heavyweights and middle weights. But there is no denying that he may be classed as at least a good second rater and to date Stribling has shown little more than that. But then he hasn’t had time as yet. ee a ee Jimmie Slattery, Buffalo middle- weight champion, and Young Strib- lng of Macon, Ga., will clash to- night in a six round bout. Be- cause of their youth the bout has been limited to six rounds, the state fight laws forbidding. ten round contests between men under. the age of 21. Both Slattery and Stribl- ing are 19. S.S.S. stops Rheumatism And with it pain and its prob- ability of reaching the heart. it’s all gone, every bit of it! It’ sunshin e and joy for me now for the first time in years. I feel a with the Hutchison, Kansas, club, and in 131 games he batted .349. Most minors can hit within 25 points of thelr minor league skill when they get up with the big ma- chine, if they can hit at all. If Peck can bat. 325 with Cincinnati he & sti A liv up to. the rest of his record, He] Montreal Ski club won the Domin- stole 23 bases arid made more as-|!on of Canada amateur ski jumping sists than any outfielder in the | Championship. league. No matter what the league may be and the quality of its play-| WASHINGTON — The federal ers, it is always safe to figure upon| trade commission ruled that market- the assist to give a correct line on|ing golf balls wjth the word “of- a player's throwing arm. If Peck f'clal’’ branded on is a law viola- comes through, Cincinnati will be| tion. further along with its outfield situa- tion than any national league club. The Reds shape up well without him| New York, retained his national rac- and with him they are likely to|quet championship by defeating carry the attack against any team! Stanley G. Mortimer, New York. n their circuit in outfielding, except, Captain Gerald Robarts of England, Pittsburgh. won the American squash racquet The Chicago Cubs probably will| singles championship. play the first game of any major . $75,000 IN as the outfields of some other teams, provided that the players of the which to play against the teams of|cemetery, robbed him of uncut other cities. In no season have so] diamonds and platinum watches has arranged with other leading newspapers of the country to send John B. Foster, famous baseba'l writer to all of the big league the rookies. He gots the interesting facts for his readers, not from hearsay but from actual observation, OTTAWA—Norman Berger of the BOSTON—Clarence C. Pell, of Sport Gossip Horse-racing was introduced into the Olympic games in 648 B.C. The famous English race meet- ings at Newmarket date from the Rheumatism ‘wonderful glory again in the free reign’ of Charlies II. motion I used to ed ‘lent ed days were younger. joo} hands and think of the twists and swellings they used to have. I bend way over to the floor. I haven't been able to do that in many years. I can thank 8, §. S. for it all! To me it was a riging sun of joy and liberty. Brothers and sisters in misery, do not close your eyes and think that health, free motion and strength are gone from you for- ever! It is not so. It is here and now for all of you. S. 8. S. is wait- ing to help you.” There is a rea- son why 8. 8. 8. will help you. ‘When you increase the number of your red-blood-cells, the entire undergoes a tremendous 1s depends on bl Blood which is mi- nus sufficient red-cells leads to a long lst of troubles. Rheumatism 1s one of them. 8S. S. S. is the great blood-cleanser, blood-builder, sys- tem strengthener, nerve invigora- tor. It stops skin eruptions, too, pimples, blackheads, acno, boils, ec- zema. builds up run-down, tired men and women, beautifies com- Dlexions, makes the flesh firmer. tart S. S. S. today. It is sold at all good drug stores. The larger size is more economical, S.S.S. B2pc7 fs The new baseball plant of the Atlanta Southern league club is to be one of the finest in the South. Seven new shortstops will appear in the line-up of the major league clubs when they open the 1924 season. The first intercollegiate boxing tournament ever arranged is to be held at Penn. State College on March 14-15. The National Trotting Associa- tion was organized in 1870 and the American Trotting Association seventeen years later. The first set of the “new game of Lawn tennis” was brought to America in 1876 by Miss Mary E. Outerbridge of New York. Basketball is a distinctly Amert can game, hav'ng been ‘invented’ by James Naismith of Springfield, Mass., in 1891. nee ONE DEFECTIVE FLUE CAUSES HALF OF ONE TOWN TO BE WIPED OUT BY FIRE. The town of LIMON, Colo., suf- fered a fire that cost the city $150,000 just because of one DE- FECTIVE FLUE. Why should contractors and builders continue to tell the people that brick chimneys ‘Are Just as Good". When the National Board of Fire Underwriters will tell you that more than 90 per cent of all fires in residences, school houses, and churches, are caused by defective flues? When you build insist on Asbestos Chimneys, and when you buy, be sure the house is equipped with ASBESTOS CHIM- NEYS. ORDER TODA Phone 693J or go to the factory, 1014 South Oak St. Take the blocks home and put them up yourself. They are made in Casper and have been adopted and are steadily used by the United Btat Government.— Advertisement, league team in practice. They should be on the field at Cataline Island, Calif., next week with the climate distinctly their- way. The Gite taure iat ihe’ a’nut es] JEWELRY 1S outfield on the diamond that will go} — Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and New York teams in 1924 are not much the worst for the wear of another year.| PEORIA, Ml., Feb. 25.—Automo- Age is telling somewhat on the play-| bile bandits this evening kidnaped ers of these three leaders, but they| Joe Teitelman, gem salesman; of have not fallen off in their intelll-] Chicago, and after forcing him to many outfielders of seasoned ex-| valued at $75,000. SEE THE BJG LEAGUES IN TRAINING FOR NEXT SUMMER'S GAMES training camps in Georgia, Alabama Florida and Texas, to write of what he sees there. There is no more impartial or critical an ob- server than John B. Foster. No one knows about the present fitness or past performances of the stars of big leagues. Nor is there a better judge of new raw material. John Foster believes in getting first hand information about some but it Is not as strong in fact gence as to the best manner in| ride with them in their car to a Che Casper Daily Cribune the lineup of teams, the status of the veterans and the chances of 365 -- 1-366 Your? The First Time in Four Years His first dispatch from the south will be published within a few days and he will spend the entire month of March traveling from one training camp to another wirlng daily stories exclu- sively to Che Casper Daily Cribune in their growing years, have had their careers ended almost before they were out of their teens,” “Sporting Life” continues. “But to put an age lImit of twenty years on all boxers indis- criminately Is not only to impose hardship upon a number of boxers who, constitutionally and physically are ‘set’ men at that age—this ap- plies particularly to the lighter weights—but to invite perjury. The New York Boxing Commis- sion has found out already that many boxers who have been accept- ed as over the age limit, on the tes- timony of themselves and their managers,. were still only in their teens, As they have said when found out, they had to He or starve. “To restrict young fellows of the heavy, cruiser, and middleweight classes to short contests during their growing period might not be a bad thing, because big men are much slower in making their full growth than tho little fellows, but to place the same restrictian upon all boxers indiscriminately is to in- dulge in legisiation of a kind that hes brought upon the Commission much criticism in the past. “If it had laid a restriction upon the number and periodicity of con- tests of ten rounds in which a young boxer would be permitted to take part In, say, a month, it might have been justified. “As it is, the commission has, in effect, dogmatised on a subject upon which not even the greatest authorities on anatomy could come to agreement applicable to al Ibox- ers." eee One of the hardest jobs the New York ‘Boxing Commission has ex- perienced ‘has been in getting sev- eral of the champions to defend their titles. The same difficulty has been experienced in London. In this country, champions win their titles and hit the “‘sticks"; in Eng land they win a Lonsdale belt and then flee from the country. London boxing circles were arous. ea when Johnny Brown won the bantamweight belt and then booked passage for the United States one ——_—————— | Sport Calendar | Racing Meeting of Business Men's Racing Association, at New Orleans. Meeting of Club-American Jockey Club, at Havana. Meeting of Tiajuana Jockey Club, at Tiajuana. Skating: ‘World's figure skating champton- ships, at Manchester, England. International indoor speed ‘cham- pionships, at St. yohn, N. B. Tennis: Florida State championship tour- nament opens at Palm Beach. Basketball: Southern intercollegiate cham- Pionship tournament, at Macon. Southeastern A. A. U. champion- ship tournament, at Atlanta. Bowling: Annual tournament of American Bowling Congress, at Chicago, Golf: Mixed Foursome Belleair, Fla, Midwinter open Houston, Texas. Boxing: Young Stribling vs. Jimmy Slat- tery, 6 rounds, at Buffalo. Italian Joe Gans vs. Rockey Smith, 12 rounds, at Brooklyn, Sid Terriss ve. Billy Henry, 12 rounds, at Brooklyn. tournament at tournament at month from the date set for him to defend his title against Johnny Curley. London papers recall that Freddie Welsh, Lew Edwards and Joe Fox ran away from home with Lonsdale belts and some of them never re- turned. It is suggested now,-that in the future, belt holders who leave the country must return their belt to the trustee and that they must re turn at the end of a month, or two months, and defend their champton- ship. And that, at the end of nine months, the belt shall be taken away from the champion who re- fuses to defend it. The absence of Fox fgom Eng land for almost two years has almost stopped featherweight competition in England, it was charged, and nothing can te done about it under present conditions. “ee If British boxers are as willing to tell the authorities to mind their own business as the American box- ers are in ignoring what lawful supervision of the sport may exist, the English boxing fans will find that rules will not restrain a boxer from running away. The solution, it would seem, 1s something that can be accomplished only by an international federation such as governs tennis and track and field sports. An international federation could be organized only by an alliance be- tween various national supervising organizations and it 1s practically tmpossible to get even a state or- ganization in this country that 1s powerful enough to rule the sport as it should be ruled. cee The New York State Commission has had more success than any other state governing body. Wis- cousin has an effective supercising body, but it must be remembered that New York practically has all of the big boxing in the country and the commissions in other states have not the immense task on their hands that the New York solons have. NAVY LANDS SHIP MAIL PLYMOUTH, England, Feb. 25.— Naval authorities landed 4.379 bags of American mail from the Lner Minnekahada today after labor union officials had induced the crews of the mail tenders to refuse TO TAKE PART IN TOURNEY Stating that they thought they|the members of the Natrona county “were wrong In desiring to cancel the remaining games of the season,” FIGHTERS WORK OUT FOR CARD AT ELAS? CLUB Evenly Made Matches Promise Excitement On Wednesday Those who watched the workout yesterday afternoon on ‘the fight ers who will appear on the Elks’ card Wednesday night were ready to confirm statements made by the Promoters that the men chosen for the matches are good men who should be able to put up a high class entertainment when they clash ‘in the roped arena at the Elks’ audi- torlum, The opponents are considered very matched. the promoters having seen to it that there would be no onesided affairs. At least there are not expected to be any. The main event will be a bout between Frankie Darren and Kid Mex. Th's will be no slugging contest for both men have training and experience. They are among the best men In the region. NEWS BRIEFS LEAVENWORTH, Kans., Feb. 25. —Members of “the lost legion” who fell into crime while in the service of their country and encoun- Basketba!l squad had a letter re body today in w n expressed their accord ‘wit pe of the school board mining not send the the t urnament at Lara year because of the pod quad to 16 showing made in previous games. The letter follows: “To Mr. Fletcher, Members the School dent Body: “We, the members of the basket ball squad of 1924, wish to take this opportunity to express our regret for having assumed the attitude we did in regard to the action by the school board in not the team to Laramle. ‘ons deration we see that we were in the wrong in wishing to cance’ the remaining games of t Board and to the S taken “We are heartily in sympathy with the new policy of the board. that of setting a high standard of athletic achievement in Natrona county high school, which by virtue of its size should maintain such a standard. We want it said of us that we, who have worked hard and failed, were the first to ¢ force such a policy; for we belleve that in so doing we have rendered a greater service to our school and to the teams in the future than had we gone to the state tournament and failed. “We expect the support of the student body, the board ‘and the principal and we think {t only right that we support them in making every effort to conform strictly to the rules and regulations governing this school. “(Signed:—Coach Willlam Gim, Harry Davis, Capt.; Paul Blodgett, Fred Gibson, Orville Overbaugh, Warren McKelvey, Clyde Kelly, Nel son Van Natta. Fred Houser. LINCOLN TAKES FRANCHISE FOR tered stern military justice, contin ued to p'ead thelr cases before a special clemency board at the fed- eral penitentiary here today itn the hope of obtaining mitigation of their sen.ences, ‘The proceedings are secret and no record is being kept of the inter- to handle the bags. The mail was taken to the Devonport navy yard. views. Besides hearing the prisoners stories the board has access to all records in the cases, FIRPO-WILLS BATTLE LIKELY TOBE PUT THROUGH IN FALL _ NEW AGREEMENT REACHED NEW YORK, Feb. 25—Abandon- ment between Luis Angel ordm ment of the proposed bout between Luis Angel Firpo and Harry Wills, Negro contender for the heavy- weigh ttitle, next July under aus- pices of a syndicate headed by Lew Raymond, seemed improbable today. The syndicate plans to deposit a $50,000 forfeit WESTERN GLUD Nebraska State League Is Paid $1,500 for Giving Up Rights OMAHA, Neb., Feb. .25.—Lincoln, Neb., has become a member of the Western league and has paid tha Nebraska State league, to which ha belonged last season, $1,500 for re- Inquishment of their rights to tha Western circuft, it was announced today by Barney Burch, owner of the Omaha Western league club, and spokesman for the league in the Lincoln transaction. The Ithera« tion of Lincoln from the Nebraska State league resulted from a com promise effected between Western this week in New| league chiefs and President Richard York and ask Firpo to agree to|Grotte of the State league yoster- place himself under its control from| day following the announcement of the time he arrives in this country] state league heads after a meeting until the moment he enteres the] Friday that they would demand $2, ring with Wills. Dispatches from Buenos Aires say] Lincoln has obtained the Weste Firpo will not accept this condition.! league franchise from Sloux City. First the im; Java wrap. per aro men’s curiosity. One smoke—and the distinct- ive flavor of La Palina became the talk of the town. And now over 800,000 La Palinas are lighted every cay — proof enough that La Palina made good because men liked it. 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