Evening Star Newspaper, January 7, 1921, Page 26

ANOTHER RECEIVES K. O., CHANEY STOPPING PAPIN French Lightweight Champion Crumpled Up by Baltimorean—D. C. Scrappers Fail to Shine—Duffy Lewis Keeping Fit. BY DENMAN THOMPSON. E to the American brand. Whether in their native haunts or in this country, the boxers oi England and France, with the lone excep- tion of Jimmy Wilde, king of the flyweight division, no matter how im- pressive their records appear, either prove keen disappointments or plain busts when stacked up against the home-grown product. A case in point 1s that of Georges Papin, lightweight champion of France, who was knocked out by George Chaney in the third session of their scheduled twelve-round match before the National Athletic Club, in the Fifth Kegiment Armory, at Baltimore, last night. It was the seventh consecutive K. O. registered by Chaney. Papin, erroneousls billed as the lightweight _titleholder of Iurope. came to this country some months back, with a string of victories to his credit that apparently entitled him to a high ranking. After serving five years in the French army, with which | he won several decorations for con-|suid he was taking advanta, spicuous bravery, Papin resumed the | sunshine and balmy air pre he views the shift. That he exXpects (o devote himself to his sp cialty of sun-fielding for the Grifi- { men next season may be judged from the fact that he is keeping in condi- tion during the off season r which was interrupted by | Ko Springs, Calif, ,where he is g read when he climbed through | wintering, by gettng out on lots and the ropes last night had the distinc- | throwing the ball around with the tion of forty-four engagements, in-|small boys in his locality. volving 469 rounds, with only two re- 2 Hoce Verses charged against him, one bY| Joe Shannon, the red-thatehed twin ble Lew Tendler, who was | b, ;‘:;ierf;?fl;bz?ou:poxm him in an eight- round bout in Jersey. Papin Likes Distance Bouts. Ot these engagements three were rathon route of twenty e e the fifteen- | brother of the temperamental Maur- | ice, who was shunted to the Athletics on for I Joe 1 a chance to make good the®outfleld at Detroit under base ven were of ot % :23}‘.3’%5?3&“ T A% of twelve ses- | Pall's ncwest playing manager— Ty Tound varlety, o Nt them wera of | CoPb—the Tigers having burchased O on. Al of which [ him from the Akron club of the In- UROPEAN pugilistic talent is not assessed very high when opposed ! 2| European Boxers Surely Are a Sad Lot : Carpentier Sidesteps Offer to COMISHEY 1S OPTMIST ‘Expects Recruits Mostil, Sheely and Johnson to Become White Sox Regulars. CHICAGO, January 7.—The return of Owner Charles Comiskey of the crippled White Sox team from a northern hunt- ing trip revived gossip today concerning or trade for good “We might n 3 wanted to, but we haven't any trading { material. We need all the men we have left. 1 no one wants to sell us any players. 1If they did they probably would be letting us know about it, for they know we would like to buy.” At least two of the team's Tecruits, i declared, are ready for regu- Mostil, star Milwaukee ear on the n ociation team, who is backed by Catcher Ray Schalk for lead- off man in the batting order, and the other is Earl Shecly, heavy-hitting Coa first baseman. Irnie Johnson, ague ehortstop, with better 00 batting average last vear, d to be ready for a White to fill another important dismissal of en pl in charges of “hrowin; in the 1919 world series with C NOT FOR GEORGE COHAN. Actor Will Not Be Angel for New : Continental League. NEW YORK. Jauary 7.—George M. Cohan, actor and theatrical manager, when asked to comment today on an announcement from Boston that Andy Lawson was coming here to confer with him regarding financial interests in the new Continental Ba: Ball Association, g id: “So far as I am ten _rounds’ Mo ational Lea, Joe* i ve that Papin likes and | ternational League. Joe's first trial teng.;e:'o Dxf: long-distance engage- With the Griffmen at Augusta, in DrOSDerS ot the more than 2,000 fans | 1917. He showed promise then, but adjudged a little short of big sue caliber. i) $300,000 and assembled in the Baltimore armory last night departed skeptical. and well they might, for the Frenchman's showing against Chaney belied his rd. e From the outset he appeared to en- tertain a most wholesome respect for the slugging prowess of his opponent, and subsequent events proved his premise eminently correct, for after an initial round, in which Chaney's work was marred by wildness, entail- ing frequent missing, the rugged Bal- timorean started landing with such punishing effect that it was just a Qquestion of time before the French- Id be compelled to take the T. LOUIS, January 7.—Another S :lv:x:t"ou 7 quoting Branch Rickey, mana The end came about midj\'ay":‘{ stating the club hag received round three, when Chaney, al for Rogers Hornsby, Cardinal secon 1y backing Papin all over the Sib%. uncorked . couple of vicious chin, which se lefts to the o e the National League. ; This figure more than doubles the rawling. : Ko it {,‘j’,“,?fl':“m;pxee: before the end of T€POrted purchase price given by the | iHe count, but it was apparent thatiNew York Yankees for “Babe” Ruth blow would finish him. 25 the jaw— of towels more st gsot it—another left to and as he crumpled a flock ‘hurtling from his corner, in ac- {in a deal which was conceded to put @ record valu ttion on a player's serv- 3m ices, and is just twi : Ymowledgment from his handlers that Lepo omer ml—l‘(‘ by‘”"‘:a ‘:'1 :'!;O:If ll‘fienfirgnthmln was through for t! “:;;,.;' als for Hornsby = ront e 3 ; 5 jon: it Papin is the king of his class in|*% oy g wrope, the impression prevailing on this i F8e°0¢ the water that the general run S crappers over there are a sad lot is well founded. © Leeal Boxers Fail to Shine. Washington boxers failed to cover v.h'.n::elve‘;t with glory ‘l’nl the prellll’:i'r;:- . which, on the whole, were - g, however, and reflect credit on Statement issued by President Sam- uel Breadon of the Cardinals, the Giants offered $150,000 and two play- ers in exchange for Hornsby. When that was turned down the offer was raised to $200,000, according to Breadon's statement, which, it was explained, was issued to end rumors \ that Hornsby was to be disposed of. Lieut Dewey, the matchmaker. In thei In connection with the statemcn:. semi-windup George Sirey, the clever | Breadon asserted the club would not bantam, who hails from New Orleans. |sell the second baseman “for a mill- but now makes this city his home, drew | jon " a tough assignment in Chick K‘"’“fli Later, it was said, the Giant man- the Camp Holabird bruiser, and should | agement raised the bid another feel well satisfied with the draw award- 50,000, bringing the total offer to a ed;him in six rounds. height, reach | QUATter of a miilion, but again with- ‘Young Bowen gave away height, out success .When it was rejected weight to Young Mahoney, Who|jr, .., s ::e-fituted for Joo Chaney, and suc- |Manager McGraw of the Giants was cutnbed in the fifth round to his younger and less experienced, but cool opponent, who possessed evry physical advantage. Mo Price of Baltimore was given the degision on points in six rounds against Myers of this city in the 124- d class, the Baltimorean overcom- the handicap of a knockdown in the d round largely through superior ition and aggressiveness. "After getting off to a poor start John L.} (Hardboiled) Smith of Walter Reed Hospital bested Young Herman Miller of *Baltimore, another 142-pounder, the latter being knocked out on his feet in the fourth round. Dufty Lewis Keeplag Fit. Di Lewis, the veteran flychaser, who recently was transferred to the Nationals along with _Southpaw George Mogridge in the deal which sent Bobby Roth to the. Yankees, has vet to be heard from in regard to how A. L. TO BACK MINORS? Intimated That Ban Johnson Be- ‘lieves New Pact Is Not Fair to Lesser Circuits. DETROIT, January 7.—The Ameri- can League will support minor league representatives in their contention that the proposed base ball agreement is not fair to the minors, George H. Maines, president of the Michigan- Ontario League, declared here, before he left for Chicago to attend the base ‘ball meeting there next week. Maines, who is a minor league member of the drafting board, asserted that M. H. Sexton, president of the National As- sociation, and John H. Farrell, secre- tary, as well as several major league officials, would also back the minors. “I carry letters from some of the ‘biggest base ball men in the country ‘who support our contentions,” Maines sald. He intimated that President Johnson of the American League was among those to line up with the mi- nors. ¥ Minor league officials have raised the point that the tentative agree- ment does not give them sufficient wvoting power in the new pact. “We will gain our point or let the majors go it alone,” Maines said. Street to Pilot Again. NORFOLK, Va. January 7.—Gabby Suffolk Club of DOWN PRI Suitings & street, manager of the the Virginia League during the past season. has been signed to pilot the team through the forthcoming year. The New York Giants have released Jess Winters and Bunny Hearne, pitch- ers, to the Milwaukee club of the American_Association. You’'ll never buy s $32.50 this spring. 100 Per Cent All Wool All Work Dose in Our Own Sbep. WILNER’S Custom Tailors Offered for Rogers Hornsby history of base ball finance by the report from Houston, Tex., a bona fide offer of $200,000 and four players On 1. Haas & Co.s Fine All-Wool Made-to-Measure Clothes, $50 and $55 To Measure so little money. They’ll cost you more than All Other Suitings and Overcoat- ings Reduced Proportionately two-thirds hot air and one-third p “My little sufficiently tage ventures keep me ercised, mentally and Four Players new record has been created in the ger of the St. Louis Nationals, as d baseman, and champion hitter of quoted as saying it would not be renewed Kumors that a deal was to be made for Hornsby continued to crop up in | base ball ecircles after the close of the season, and several days ago Judge Francis X. McQuade, treasurer | of the Giants, announced that an offer of $200,000 and four players had been met by President Breadon, with the : reply that the “clubr would consider ] it” if one of the players were Frank Frisch. The New York club would ! not entertain such a proposition, Judge McQuade said. Concurrently with this offer it was' reported, Hornsby was to figure in a | five-team trade between Boston, Phila- | hdaelphia, New York, Cincinnati and St. Louis, but Cardinal officials as- i serted no proposition of this nature | was being considered. Hornsby, who is in the insurance business here, stated recently he had ! no desire to change clubs, and would | prefer to stay in St. Louis. Hornsby hit .370 during the past season, and, though ranking ninth among second basemen in fielding, had more than 10 chances than any of his rivals. the line-up of the South Side American | | League club for the coming season. Optimistic statements came from the * over the team's prospects, ¥ BILLY EVANS. Doing the unexpected often sfirs up an argument. In one play, both the base runner and catcher per- formed out of the ordinary. Three men are on the bases, two outs, two | Strikes-and three balls on the batter. The base runners are off with the is | art of the pitch. Umpire rules the pitch a ball, making the fourth ball on the batesman, entitling him to first, and all other runners to advance a base. In the meantime the runner on second in advancing to third on the base on balls, overruns the bag. The catcher noticing this, makes a snap throw to third. and the ball is put on the runner before he can get back to the bag. This makes the third out of the inning, retiring the side. In the meantime the runner on third who is ehtitled to score has not | yet touched home plate, when the third out is made. Hearing the um. | pire declare the runner out at third.! he stops when within about ten fee from the plate and starts for his posi- i tion in the fleld. While the two sides are changing fields, he comes back :’;'om his posilion at first base. touches he plate and then goes back to the field. What about the run? Does it score? Can a run scored after the side is retired? The Run Counted. The run counted, even though the runner from third did not touch home until between the innings. The fact that he failed to touch home, went to his position at first base in the fleld, and then retraced his steps back to the home plate, really has nothing to do with the legality of his run. With the bases filled, the base on balls to the batsman entitled him to score. The fact that he scored via first base means nothing. He just covered that much more ground ‘in reaching the plate. It is impossible to take away Something to which he was entitled. While the side was retired before he actually touched the plate, vet his run became legal the momeént the base on balls was given, the touching of the plate being a mere formality to complete the play. be Tiger Track Men at Work. Princeton has begun track work:| with fifty varsity candidates busy un- der the direction of Coach Fitzpatrick. The team will compete in New York, Philadelphia and Boston during the indoor season. | / Champion Skater to Race. ST. PAUL, January 7.—Everett Mec- Gowan, St. Paul, ternational ama- teur ice skating champion, and Norval Baptie of Bathgate, N. D., will meet here in a series of five races January 16 and 18. Y BARGAINS! BARGAINS! BARGAINS! SWEATERS All-Wool, Shawl Collar or V Neck With Pockets in All the New Colors $20 Values Now $12 Other Sweaters as Low as $3 HOWARD A. FRENCH & CO. O THE CES Overcoats uch qualities again for —printed madras. —printed oxfords T of light-wi The. 1ine fo for men will come from far and _near to share this sale of shirts:-at $1.15 SWIMMING RECORDS SET Ross Does 100-Yard Medley Event in 1.06—Illinois A. C. Establishes Mark in Relay. CHICAGO, January —In the first events of the Central U. indoor swimming championsh two world records were broken last night. Norman Ross, Illinois A. C. indi- vidual star in swimming even Olympic games, covered the distance in the 100-yvard mediey race in 1:06. The former record was 1:06 1-5, made by Harry Hebner in 1916. ago A. A. first team was Y the Tllinois which established a ne ord, 1:16 4-5 in the 160-y lay. The former mark in 1914, . C. quartet world re rd open re- 1:17, made EARL CADDOCK TO MEET LEWIS FOR MAT CROWN | OMAHA, Neb., January €—Earl Caddock of Anita. Towa, former holder of the heavyweight wrestling cham- pionship, will try to regain the title January when he meets “Stran- gler” TLewis, present champion, at Madison Square Garden, N York, according to Gene of Omanha, Caddoc! 2 The contest to be a one-fall affair, he said. et Boxing Booming in Japan. SAN FRAN >0 )5 -Japan soon will flour ng center, according to Yujiro Watanabe, Jap- anese hoxer, who will leave this week for Tokio, to establish a boxing school. He also will have a school at Osaka and will import American boxers for exhibitions Jater, he said. Still Tempting Kilbane. BALTIMORE, January 7.—Johnny Kilbane may have all the purse if he | will only meet Danny Frush, the loeal aspirant for the featherweight crown, which the Cleveland boxer has held So] long. so Frush's manager declared to- ay. Stake to Virginia Dog. stylish Wasp, a pointer owned b Miss Marion Du Pont, Montpelier sta tion, Va., and handled by R. K. Arm- strong, wam the all-America derby in the field tMals at Letohatchie, Ala. Patton Penn Soccer Leader. Paul Patton of Philadelphia has been elected captain of the 1921 Pennsylvania soccer team, intercol- legiate champions. J 2,500 men’s shirts ‘made to sell at $3, $2.50 and $2 - There’s power behind this | power of good fabrics and fine workman- ship. They are everything should be—painstakingly made of such stanch materials as " —jacquard weaves —printed crepes There are 2,500.shirts in all—each thoroughly geod to look at, as well as to wear. Stripes that duplicate the finest silk styles: Sizes 1475 to 17. Choice, $1.15. Sale men’s $1 wool hose HE sale is of interest to every man who weafs oxfordg thru the winter, as well as for nien who a eight wool hose. Solid colors and neat heatler mixtures. In a full rainbow of shades. h 7t - &F rms on bo ppreciate the warmth'and wear 55¢c a pair; Fight Moran GEORGES FEARS IT MAY | SPOIL DEMPSEY MATCH Frenchman Also Is Tied Up .With Vaudeville and Movie Contracts— Willie Jackson Tackles Pinkey Mitchell Tonight. "~ BY FAIRPLAY. EW YORK, January 7.—Georges Carpentier has turned down an offer to meet Frank Moran, made by Maj. Arnold Wilson, the British fight promoter. That is, Georges says he won’t meet the wielder of the famous Mary Ann punch before he gets into the ring with Jack Dempsey. This fact-and ather interesting news was brought to the writer today by a sporting friend who has just arrived from | France. So the best thing the tow-headed Pittsburgher can do is to iheat it for these shores, where he can pick up a lot of money meeting Brennan, Weinert, Greb and. other heavies who just now have a box office appeal. o The reasons which Carpentier-mives, he gave the opening might of the Nationa! Sporting Club of France, | where, incidentally Balzac, the French i fighter, knocked Tom Gummer, the British middleweight champion cold, and were, first, that h& had so many | engagements that he wouldn't have room to turn around up to May at {least. He is due to give -exhibitions in England at Swansea and Sheffield, | Then he is under contract to appea lin vaudeville in London; he will fil la contract with a movie concern, Wt 1spar with Jules Lenaérs throughout Europe and is likely to take on an v opponent for a Monte Carlo at- traction. Then, the Renl Reano: 2 Then, finally, Carpéntier said that if Moran should happen to beat him it would not only destroy any chance of his meeting Dempsey, but would force him to pay a lot of forféit money. As to the forthcoming fight with Dempsey, Carpentier said this: “The man who first knocks the other man down will be the winner.” Jackson and Mitchell Meet. Tonight boxing fams of New York will see what promises to be a hum- ming battle when Willie Jackson of New York and Pirkey Mitchell, the Milwaukee sliver, will do battle wver the fifteen-round limit. Jackson is a lightweight wha.hasn't liked the idea of making the weight with 1ef- erence to a bout with.Repny Le: d, But after Leonard’s dubious go Pk Joe Welling, Jackson, as well as other lightweights, began ‘to také notice. Both fighters will--weigh in at 135 pounds at 2 o'clock this afternoor and if Jackson finds himself strong in the fight the chances are he'll agree kb,.mcut Leonard under similar condi- tions. Pinkey Mitchell, thus, is sort of a trial horse. But Pinkey is no set up for any fighter as Jackson will Pprobably learn before he is through. Champs Are Waking Up. {Johnn, bane is coming to New York, it is said. The lure is talk! of a bout with Johnny Reisler. The féatherweight champ would like that a lot. But the chances are when | he reaches the metropolis the Reisler bait will be withdrawn and he'll be asked to meet Charlie Beecher, Andy Cheney, Billy Defoe and other really | good boys. " And Johnny Wilson says that, now he has recovered from a_five-month lillness, he'll take on O'Dowd, Greb r any other man at 158 pounds. Wil- Eon says that O'Dowd had a chance or a return bout right after the fight in which he lost his title to Wilson on a decision and that O'Dowd passed it up. Base Ball Tradea Are Due. Base ball men say that when the big league magnates meet at Chicago next week the trading of players will make the hotel lobby resemble the floor of the stock exchange in a bull market. All clubs have players to sell or trade ané all are looking for new timber. Its a sign of health to keep players and money in cir- culation. (Copyright, 1921.) Dempsey to Box on Coast. 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