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veneats vigeenet (‘WILD BULL’ 10 RETIRE AFTER Offer of Half Million From Tex Rickard Turned Down. BUESNOS AIRES, March 18.—By The Associated Press).—“Fed up” with box- ing and tired of the notor- iety that goes with pugilis- tic fame, Luis Firpo, “Wild Bull of the Pampas” has announced his determination to quit the ring after his bout with Al Reich, Ameri can heavyweight here in April. While some of his friends ex pressed skepticism, he emphasized the sincerity of his announcement, and declared he had just turned down an offer from Tex Rickard of 500.000 for matches with Harry Wills and Jack Dempsey. Seas OIL PROBE TO BE CONTINUED WASHINGTON, March 18.—With Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana recovering from the bronchial trouble which caused a suspension of the hearings Friday the oil inves- tigating committee is expected to- morrow to enter on the last phases of its work. Members have forecast that all evidence would be in by the end of the month. Senator Walsh plans to start today with the audit- or’s report on oil stock deals by gov- ernment officials. He intends then . to take up the suggestions contained in the statement of Leonard Wood Jr. that his father was offered sup- port for the presidential nomina- tion in the 1920 Republican con- vention on condition that he agree to give the interior secretaryshtp, if elected, to Jake Hamon, Okla- homa vil man and politician who was later killed. Warski Newsovitch A large Turkish army from Zyp- ! flank, fighting the Russians in Plzs- nkx. With a leap and a wrench, They climbed from the trench And captured the city of Sczylmfp. ‘Wa: IK MEETING. REICH cn Dodgers Trim Phillies Again and Indians Trounce Reds.: CHICAGO, March 18.—(By The Associated Press).— Six major league baseball teams had a taste of coming con- flicts yesterday in exhibition games, with other squads making final preparations to break camp and embark on practice schedules. The New York Giants occupied twelve innings in de- feating the Chicago White Sox, 5-4, in the initial exhibition game. Brooklyn scored a secord vetory over the Phillies, 6-4, and the Cleve- land Indians swamped the Cincin- nat! Reds, 16-1, with every regular tallying a hit. The pruning knife was in evi- dence in several camps. Five New York Yankee youngster pitchers are to be farmed to the minors, Man- ager Miller Huggins anDounced, de- clarirg his intention of using only regulars from now on. The Cin- cinnati Reds eliminated three, and in the camp of the Pittsburgh Pi- rates, two Callfirnia pitchers were dropped. George Sisler will play first base for the St. Louis Americans, Bus!- ness Manager Bill Friel predicted, expressing the opinion that no big league pitcher would bother him. The St. Louls Nationals primed themselves for today’s engagement with the Chicago Americans. Mean- while the Washington Senators went through a priming process for the Boston Braves, whom they en- tertain today. Rookle pitchers will be Washington's choice in the en- gagement, with a view of giving them a chance befire five are drop- ped from the roster. The Detroit Americans celebrated St. Patrick's day with a game be- tween players of Irish extraction and a team of “Germans.” The Irish won, 7 to 6. LS ee NEW YORK.—Slander suits for $100,000’ were filed against Repre- sentative Ogden L. Mills by Schuy- ler M. Meyer, former state senator and William M. Chadbourne, presi- dent of the Lenox Hill Republican club, for his accusation that they were offering to Senator Hiram Johnson while professing to sup- port President Coolldge for the Re- publican presidéntial nomination. ach sta esas WASHINGTON.—The senate by a one vote margin confirmed the appointment of Walter L. Cohen, negro leader of Louisiana, as comp- troller of customs at New Orleans. LEE FOHL FALLS HEIR TO HARD JOB BUT WEARS A BIG SMILE By JOHN B. FOSTER. (Copyright 1924 by Casper Tribune) SAN ANTONIO, Texas, March 18. —Lee Fohl has a task just to his Uking this year. To induce him to say so would be like pulling tacks out of a rag carpet with your fin- gers. but othérs can say so for him without stretching the truth. Fohl is one of the best cabinet makers in baseball. He puts to- gether the legs and the top of a baseball team like a Chinese worker in wood puts together the many Pieces of a tea table. He has been constructing all of the days since he first was called to a manager- ship, and no man has been nearer to two major league championships than he without finding them set- tled to his credit account. They Jabbed him with darts when he failed to win. But instead of crippling him, the darts have only mado him more persistent. He neither smiles nor frowns, He keeps his eyes front and pushes on. Bventually, that man 1s going to Jand what he seeks. Here in San Antonio, Fohl has What is left of a team that was re- duced from opulence to poverty, in the way of ball players. If it Weren't for Boston fans perhaps the Yanks would not now be champions. They robbed the old bean pot until Chance was left with nothing but a a King Tut haircut. Fohl heir to the combination, e side addition by trade se. ‘There! is a chance that this outfit, led by Fohl, may make many an uneasy afternoon for other Ameri- can league managers for it is just as likely to turn out a cyclone as an April shower. Not that it seems directly headed for a pennant. But from day to day it will be a wise manager of the team opposing the Red Sox who is able to predict what this Boston crowd will do next. In the infleld plays as Fohl has been working it, Joe Harris will play first base. He is apt to hit any time and he can play the base better than an unknown. Wambs. ganss, who trained for a preach and thus became a good ball pla —the reverse of Billy Sunday, who = trained for a ball player and be = came a good preacher—is one part Sof the Cleveland trade that put a S thoroughly safe and conservative man on second, and he isn’t through by whole ict. Dudley Lee, who played short for Tulsa last year, is one of those short young men with the reach of a seven footer. Ho accepted more chances on the infield in 1923 than any minor leaguer. Out in this part of the world, folks who have seen him play declare he is destined to be the main suport of any circus tent under which he performs, On third, McMillan ts to continue the road to fame over which he started last season. Chance called him his best improved ball player, and if Chance had it to do over, he would have started him at third and said to him, “Son, there you are. Darn you, stick.” In the outfield there are Boone, Flagstead, “Shano” Collins, Veach, Connolly and Todt. They can hit. Meny a pitcher will wish that the tall enders of last season had for- gotten to flatten him before the next middle of September has been slugged into history. Boone is the man who knocked down all the corrals of Texas last season while playing with San An- tonia. It may be that this big Ala- bama boy has had all the rough edges polished away. Veach {s a trumper to whom the Detroit club owed many a game in the past, but who had lived so long with Detroit that he had fallen vic- tim to a severe attack of monotony Beans and codfish may prove bette’ for him than Lake St. Clair frogs’ lege. Flagstead escaped Detroit to go to Boston, and some time ago Shano Collins broke away from the stockyards for the atmosphere of Harvard. Todt always has been a hitter who has been nagged to play first base against his own wishes because he preferred the outfield, where a man may study the air currents and commune with the angles of the fence. This isn’t all of the Boston team for there are Steve O'Neill and some other catchers, including Picinich, and some, pitchers. But the foregoing constitute the under- pinning of the team. It’s! the legs and the arms—although arms are not aetric underpinning. How- ever, in baseball they go with It. Minus arms and legs, they would run well but they wouldn't grab ythin ‘he »ston club has all the un- certainty of a stick of dynamite and the hoof of a mule. If the hoof comes in contact with the dynamite the nelghborhood is not likely to get over the excitement for some days. BEALENBACHIS STILL EWE ONE Rickard Not Ready to Abandon Promising Battler. BY FAIRPLAY (Copyright, 1924, Casper Tribune) NEW YORK, March 18,—Tex Rickard satd today he was not through with Paul Berlenbach by any means. Why would he be? Rickard 1s a wise promoter. And Paul has the same attractiveness as a feature that Firpo has. Tuts got knocked out after a whale of a bat- tle in which he gained admiration of the fans, Paul fs at least worth while for the same reason. ‘The customers are curious to see whether he can come back from the licking Delaney gave him, are wondering whether if Paul hadn't run into that right in the third round he would have stowed Delaney away. The way the fight had gone up to that point it looked as if he might. So were he to be Put in against another good middle weight the crowd would turn out if only to see whether Friday night’s disaster was final or merely one of those things. But the crowd won't get a chance to see him against another good man for some little time yet. Dan Hickey, his manager. has learned the needed lesson that a fighter must learn to walk before he can run, So the chances are Berlenbach will work up again, compiling a string of knockouts against second and third raters as he goes, Hickey knows all about crowds now. And some of the chroniclers of sports must be in his bad book too. Hickey let his pride be stung and against his better wisdom he put his man on the block. Next time he meets a top notcher he will know his way about, In every move after he got clipped Berlenbach showed his inexperience Instead of covering up and stalling. he forced a rin and waded in loose- ly, giving hrs sharp shooting oppon- ent the very openings he was look- ing for. Again if he ever gets a man as he had Delaney in the first and second rounds that man _ wil! never again get past those rounds. As for the fans, they howled for a Delaney victory as soon as the men appeared. They were out for sen. sation, not for sport. | Sport Calendar Racing Meeting of Cuba-American Jockey Club, at Havana. Meeting of Tiajuana Jockey Club at Tiajuana. Tennis Women's national indoor cham plonship tcurnament, at Boston. Bowling Annual tournament of American. Bowling Congress, at Chicago. wimming Northwestern interscholastic championships, at University of Minnesota. Golf Florida Winter championship tour- nament opens at St. Augustine. Bench Show Annual show of Capital City Ken- nel Club, at Columbus, Ohio. Boxing Jack Britton vs Jimmy Jones, 19 rounds, at Canton, O. ‘Wild Bill Reed vs. Johnny Risko, 10 rounds, at Lorain, O. Cage Champions Are Invited to ‘Chicago Meet CHICAGO, March 18.—Four state scholastic basketball champions have been invited hy the University of Chicago te compete in the na- tional interscholastic basketball meet to be held here April 1 to 5. Lexington, K., winners of the na tional title in 1921, New Haven, fonn., and Reidsville high, N. C., have been reguested to send their teams and Bitte, Mont., has wired ®n wecepiance. Windsor, Colo., and Latter Day Saints of Salt Lak» City with Butte, are the only far western entries to date. FOR THE E’S SAKE RY LAWRENCE PERRY (Copyright, 1924, Casper Tribune) NEW YORK, March 18.—While nothing has been sald about it the scholastic axe has fallen pretty heav- ily at Notre Dame this winter and the outlook is that the prospects of the 1924 football eleven will be af- fected by the faculty scythe. There is a growing feeling that the coming football season will be Rockne's last at South Bend. Strong denials have come from the Indiana university that any likUhood of this exists at all. Just the same there is that liklihood. Rockne has not been having altogether smooth sail- ing of late and the time may come when all parties concerned may de- cide that it Is better to part. Can Loren Murchison, easily the sprinting star of the indoor track season, defeat Charley Paddock? The Answer to this question depends up- on what part of the country one hails from. At least he defeated the Californian over the 100 yards in the Olympic trials, losing in the 220 yard race. Two seasons ago It looked ag tho Murchison's legs had gone back on him for good and that he was out of track affairs, But a little os- teopathy did wonders for the Jersey flyer and he was never in better form in his life than he is right now. Murchison has never been timed un- der ten seconds for the century, but some how he always seems to reach the tape ahead of the rest. At the Olympics at Antwerp in 1920, Murchison was left at the mark by the field because he started ac- cording to what; he thought were the instructions. Most fair minded observers say he uf all starters ob- served the rules, . But this year at Paris, Murchison says one thing won't happen: He won't get left at the’start again. “And,” he added “no one will fool me on those French words, either.” Se | SPORT BRIEFS SPOKANE, Wash.—Billy Conley, Spokane, and Young _ Stribling, Micon, Ga., light heavyweight boxer, were matched for a bout at Fort Hayes, Ohio, April 3. OMAHA.—A state hoxing in- spector ordered the bout between Jock Malone, St. Paul middleweight, and Georgia West, England, stopped on charges of inaction. BALTIMORE.—Johnny Buff of Jersey City, former world’s bantam- weight and American filyweight champion, was awarded a decision over Benny Schwartz of Baltimore \fter 12 rounds, BARBERTON, Ohio. — Marty Burke, New Orleans light heavy- welght, knocked out Billy Walsh of Akron, two minutes after their scheduled 12 round bout started. SIR JIM The man. who buys a Gordon hat is smart— and looks it. One of the clever spring models is “Sir Jim”. This hat conforms to a man’s individuality and can be had in any of the popular tight colors, GORDON HATS Wiring Supplies FIXTURES, LAMPS, ELECTRIC APPLIANCES Radio Supplies Motor Repairing Electric Supply And Construction Co. 142 E. Midwest Phone 483W Estimate Gladly Furnished tito tee|*| THE ’S PAGE OF SPORTING NEWS |* FIRPO TIRED OF FAME, SAYS NEXT FIGHT MAJOR LEAGUE CLUBSIN EXHIBITION GAMES YESTERDAY /@8 ts Take One-Run Victory From White Sox; First in News Of All Events WILL BE LAST’* American light heavyweight cham- Q000FANS Seen seer: AL WEBSTER SUBSTITUTED FOR SS e es WIN FIGHT GARTINAG CORBETT S OPPONENT Tunney’s infighting, in which he greatly excelled the local challenger, earned him the decision of news- paper men at the ringside. In the third round Delaney broke a bone in his right hand with a vicious punch to Tunney’s jaw. n.. - ETROIT.—Frankie Eng- Omaha Battler Suffering From Injury to Hand ot the lareet crowds that ever at Ibh frwelghtchamplody wom "a And Billings Mauler Is Called on to Mix nearly 9,000, persons, ald. $20.883 | Lear, Canadian title bolder, tm 10 last night to see Gene Tunney, It With Colorado Springs Lad. Because of an injury to Teddy Gartin’s hand, Al Less Than 2 Cents Webster of Billings has been substituted to meet Bobby Per Dollar of Sales Corbett in the main event of the Elk fight card Friday night of this week. Webster won a referee’s decision from Battling Krause last night at Billings and is leaving this morning for Casper. Bobby Corbett, the Colorado; In addition to the main go there Springs boy, arrived in town yes-|will be two other big scraps with terday, his injured hand lhaving| Ernie Ross meeting Lew Fontana fully recovered from the splintered | and Young Sol tangling with Joe hone that he suffered when he| Kelly. All these boys have been fought Webster here a month ago.| working hard and are ready to go. Corbett has been keeping in shape The preliminary will be a four- and is ready now for the 12-round|round between Missou Pyle and go. He boxed 15 rounds yesteray| Harry Burnham. niternoon at the Casper Athletic club Tickets are on sale at the Smoke- and looks in shape for his match] house, the Henning Billiard room. here Friday. and a record advance gale is re- The Corbett-Webster battle here a| ported. month ago was a sweet fight and the fans will be anxious to see them| PHILADELPHIA.—Lew Tendler ir-action again. They are evenly|of Philadelphia, stopped Ted Mar- matched are sure to give the spec-|chant of England, in the fourth tators plenty of action. round of a 10 round bout. BASEBALL QUESTION BOX If you have some question to ask about baseball— If you want a rule interpreted— If you want te know anything about a play or a player— Write to John B. Foster, the man who helped make the rules under which the game is played today. If you want a per- sonal reply enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Other- wise your question will be answered in this column. Address—John B. 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