Evening Star Newspaper, January 20, 1921, Page 24

Brdqund Cochran RICKARD WILL PROCEED Plans to Hold Dempsey-Carpentier Scrap in Montreal July 2—Withdrawing Promoters As- sert Fighters Failed to Fulfill Terms of Contract. N Tex Rickard, from staging the contest, he said today. He indicated he would immediately procure other promoters to take the place of William A. Brady and Charles B. Cochrane and attempt to hold the fight in Canada, After a day of denials that the proposed bout had been called off hecause of the alleged failure to post forfeits, Brady announced last night that so far as he was concerned he was through, because “the ®ntracts have not been mutually observed.” He also said he was fully authorized to announce the formal withdrawal of Cochrane, who is in England. sheli ity the boxing worid, Close fol- D'[MPSEY AND KEARNS FAGE $200,000 $UITS lowers of sport here generally agreed F. P. Spellman Files Damage Ac- that the breaking up of the trium- virate of promoters presages virtual tion to Obtain Share of Champ- ion's Movie Profits. abandonment of the plan to hold the contest in the United States. Rickard was reported to be in favor of staging the fight in Montreal on July 2. Coch- BATAVIA. N, Y., January 20.—Two suits for damages, aggregating $200,- 000. against Jack Dempsey, heavy- weight champion pugilist of the 1ane’s reported offer to hold the fight world, and Jacvk Kearns, Dempséy's in London was given serious consid- eration by many enthusiasts Rickard In Surprised. tickard expressed surprisc at the action of Brady and Cochrane, He re- garded their claim that the forfeits had not been posted in accordance manager, have been filed in the Gene- See county clerk’s office here by Frank F. Spellman, a former showman. Spell- man alleged that he introduced Dempsey into motion pictures, and asks $100,000 as his share of profits in pictures in which Dempsey has ap- with the strict letter of the contract. as a purely technical objection. ;’u.-ared and $100,000 for personal serv- # EW YORK. January 20—Wiihdrawal of two of the promoters of the $500,000 championship heavyweight boxing bout between Jack 1n a statement last night Mr. Brady asserted that the forfeit had not been deposited according to the terms of the contracts, and that as a result he ad withdrawn_their in- said he was Cochrane's American representative. Says Comtract Was Vielated. Mr, Brady said he had not consulted with Cochrane regarding the on- ment of the match, but was authorized 10 talk for him. and Carpentier,” he added, |jces. to their agreement.| Both actions are scheduled for trial v here at the term of supreme court which opens on January 31. In the papers filed Spellman alleges that he made arrangements for Dempsey's appearance in motion pic- tures after the Wil.ard-Dempsey fight and that, according to his agree- eit that was to come from the pro-|ment with Dempsey and Kearns, he ‘ers—Rickard, Cochrane and myself. |was to receive 25 per cent of the prof- ‘He found that the only deposit there!its. He alleges that Dempsey and -as Cochrane's $33,333.33, representing i Kearns, however, received more th his one-third of the amount agreed upon. | half of the profits, amounting to $500, Ve waited one week and the boxers did {000. ot make good. There was an assign-| In the suit for_ persomal services rient of Dempsey’s interest in the fight { Spellman alleges that $100,000 is due .1 deposit, but no money.” B Emaesiseenal contracts with 2 s earns. He alleges that he made Sure Europe Will Get Fight. eight trips across the continent for When his attention was called to the | Dempsey. that he “squelched: an sl ‘act that Carpentier's forfeit had been |jogeq attempt to blackmail Dempsey: +'eposited in a French but thatithat he assisted in disproving draft ne French government Had refused 1o |dodging charges brought against .ermit transfer of the money to this|Dempsey and that he made various -Oll’.;th'l'yi -Brldym‘ u:“dau. - Bbiney wpight trips to N::‘York to engage training - x uarters to avert = Tl e [ other threat: e " he Zm\“ed “that ened litigation. 5 “You can bet, ais fight will be heid in Bufope.” " ENGLAND WANTS BOUT. WEAVER IS M'SURE Cxhmn Will Offer £100,000( Turse for Fight There in June. |Indicted Player Bets $500 He Will Be Reinstated ard Play With I.ONDQN, January 20.—C. B. Coch- w. 1, boxing promoter, in a statement B4 = White Sox This Year. ), January 20.—Regardless of ¢ ;apding the reported abandonment £ the Sight, said he had heard noth-| CHIGAGO, 1g beyond the fact that the French | his suspension from the Chicago Ameri- cans and his indictment by the Cook county grand jury for alleged conspiracy overnment would fot allow Carpen- ee in the 1919 world series, Buck Weaver, én’- mg to ce, although #rancols Descamps, Sngages former White Sox third- ba: - seman, de- Siort to gend his $50.-| clared today he will be taken back: Weaver bet $500 that he would be a member of the Whitc Sox team next season when base ball gossip started among spectators at the six bicycle races at, the Coliseu. Il prove to anybody that I am inno- cent of the charges agaifist me," Weaver declared. “I have a contract with the ‘White Sox and T will be'a member next Yyear. They can’t start that trial too #00n to suit me. Whew it's over I'll be cleared. VIRGINIA LEAGUE MEETS “No Chance on Earth” of Big Scrap Being Staged There. TORONTO, Ontario, Jasuary 20.— “'here is not a chance on earth” of @ rmit being granted for the Dempsey- “srpentier fight in Ontario. J. P, Fits~ ruld, secretary of the”Ontario ath- All money in he_forfeiture was supposed to bé de- sosited in the Central Union Trust Coi vany by November 30. Nathan Vidaver vent there on that date prepared to de- posit my third share in the $100,000 for- representative in the United States, and Tex Rickard, anothér of the promoters of the championship bout, had eich made the necessary deposits with trust companies, the statement lared. chran added that if the baut was abandoned for any reason he wi _prepared to give a purse of £100.000 for the men to box in England ‘in June. ONTARIO IS ELIMINATED. Owners Will Be Asked to Ratify Award of Richmond Franchise to Jake Wells. NORFOLK, Va., January 20.—Vir- a League club owners will meet > ichmond franchise, aceo a little to help our own boys and | tice received by s.,r'zfi-k' alnd Ports- ur own amusement.” mouth owners from President Wil- on if the fight was limited to ten|lisw B. Bradlay. The league will be Fitzgerald maid, the action of a spe- chise to Jake Wells, soithern theater owner. The league several months ago de clared forfeited the franchisc held by Ben. W. Wilson because of failure to a $2,000 guarantce following a d u‘reemnnt over week end playing ates. well LAND, Ohio, January 20.— ve Burman Of Chitage. outyointed Lawson After Wagner. ‘wrl Tremaine of Cleveland fna ten-| PITTSBURGH. January 20.—Hans ‘sund boxing bout lust night. They |Wagner. former “grand old man of ¢ bantamweights. -|base ball,” is among the players de- Joe Lynch, bantam champion, has|sired by Andy Lawson for his new 14 he will fight the winner. Continental league, it was learned - here today, Wagner last year coached Would Legalize Boxing. the Carnegie Tech squad and played I on an all-star team bearing hi ‘A"?,?:':'ETEN‘ W. Va,/January 20, |Dame. - galfze boxing in West rginia Gme been introduced in the | gielaty: | | 3 - | Bradshaw, star catcher of last sca- Will Bring Racers to U. S. son's Lafayette College base ball part of the French racing stable | 198M. has announced that he has made « the jate William K. Vanderbilt wiil |& Verbal agrcement to join the New brought to America this vear, A.|YOTK American League club, either at Macomber. the California horse- | LN southern training camp, March 1. e announced . Amone thiree. |or in June, at the close of the collegs . emester. horses 1o be shipped to this coun. | 3 contract tatis he repnreuld not sign -y are the two famed breeding stal- | ims, Sea Sick and Oversight. | College Star for Yanks. EASTON, Pa., January 20—Jim Would Jail Bribers. i i i )| _COLUMBUS. Ohio, January 20.— Opie to Lead Tiger @mint. | 0oL, O Y e Howard Opie has been elécted captain | ing bribes to throw games in Ohio the Princeton basket “ball team.!would, if convicted, be imprisoned ‘2 is a semior and lives in Pitts- |from one to five years and fined $10.- _irgh. Opie wears and a|000 under a bill submitted to the state protecting mask of steel and |legislature. Any person offoring or ire—a fact that has given him the [giving such a bribe would be sub- +'tle of the “masked forward. ‘Jected to the same punishment. A Saving Time— at least 209, from regular prices on Full Dress Clothes. ' Made to measure, with Mr. Stcin personally de- signing them. You can make any selection from the stock of imported and domestic dress woolens. Still some of those Stein-tailored Overcoats available—also reduced at least 20% in price. J. M. Stein & Co. % Thirteenth Street * Tailors to the Fastidious WITH NEW PROMOTERS Dempsey and Georges Carpentier will not deter the third promoter, i l \ the pitcher, Indians, W D induce disability. be held in New York, that’s a cinch. olace where boxing commissions have decided to put a crimp in the high cost of boxing shows. But the promoters hold a contract which i them to take the fight anywhere on thirty days’ notice. They could take it to the South Sea Islands if they wished. But probably they won’t wish to do this, since the South Sea Islanders, when they pay good beads and coral strings for a scrap, like to sce the principals go at each other with bulbous knobbed war clubs. THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, JANUARY 206, 1921. Quit Heavyweight Title Bout : Upsets in Intercollegiate Basket Ball STANLEY HARRIS PROVES HE'S A VERSATILE ATHLETE ley Harris, axile necond baseman of the Washington base ball club, is a versatile athlete. money during the off neasos From left to right, the pl together with Mascot Eddie Bennet, who is the Yankee mascot during the base bal vanquished them by the close score of 28 to 24. te Hoyt and Mike McN: BY FAIRPLAY. ISPITE all reports to the contrary—and a lot of contrary reports are flynig about—Dempsey and Carpentier will fight on July 2 next, unless one or the other or both develop locomotor ataxia, multiple sclerosis or other nervous disturbances or illness or accident which might V| We expected that question. And it won't be held in any other Where? Matty Leaves Bed First Time in Seven Months NEW Christy Mathewson, pltehe; for meve: been persens admitted to was pla chair and whecled out on the | "l ful of the | mercury registered twenty be- |_tow_zero. Jis YORK, January 20— 3 lormer star of the New York G months h. try. reports of July 2. says Tex. have. his room time he sent he was still smil- win.. swathed in robex. iu an invalld porch. As hix wife wat him, both app: un- et that the should game. struck scoring of his run was legal. Plays That Puzzle { ‘When a fly ball is juggled and ners advance on'the play disputes inva- riably arise as to the status of the base runners. The following play in a minor league last year resulted in a protested A similar play in the National Teague a few years ago also resulted in a protest. | n_awarding the fran- | and third. knowm! line drive to left field. The center fiolder { goes over to back up the pl he was running with his a the ball struck squarely in the fielder's hands. it, the ball being deflected in such a way that the center fleider was able to it before it struck the ground. The runner on second did not belicve a catch possible, and started to advance the moment the ball was hit. ner on third held | caten i and then crossed the plate. was thrown to second and the runmer doubled up before he could return. was then thrown to third, and a claim \made for a triple play. The coptention raised was the runner on tHf had no right to leave until the center fieider caught the ball. which was the actyal completion of the play. about it Run Was Legally Scored. The runner on third had a right to leave the base which he held the mo- ment the ball struck the left fielder’s hands. Y BILLY EVAN: un- be ready weight arded There are rumncrs on second | fan The batter hits a difficult | attraction mee ns extended He was unable to hold In line keep an The run- s base until the ball fielder's hands hands The ball | reports It cally What 1ly of the Yankees, season. This team piayed the Brooklyn Professionals Bout Held to Be Certainty | For July 2; Site Is in Doubt Tex Rickard whispers that the fight likely to go to England and if not i there, to Canada. | good money to sec the scrap. would {dig down in her jeans, no doubt, and pay prices for seats at the full value of the American dollar, which as ex- change goes these days is a unit of | Wher considerable value Pay no attention to have, should have been Bill Brennan is not in the is near it; he knows more Martin ever forgot, that this will prove to have been a bad match for the ex-soldier. The Mitchel Word comes from Milwaukee that Richie Mitchell within two weeks will contenders, and Lew Tendler preferred. no question that Richie made a good impression in as ightweight division. . As chances are that the necar future will sce him in action in New York, either against Willie Jackson, in a return match, or Ted (Kid) Lewis, or, in- deed, against Jack Britton, the we terweight champion. Landis will, ee concerning his which have emanated from Chicago fs hardly likely. These affirm that he has already lined up a number of trusty ball players on the various clubs, who will be his spies; that bat boys, umpires and even fans who are close to various groups of players, have also been included in Landis' cret police. ' Harri Sunday and Well, it won't ermit England would pay in the old coun- Anyway, wherever it goes, Tex warns people to loo\: for rumors and all sorts between now and these. In fact, a good way to corner these rumormongers is to offer a liberal bet that the fight will be held next summer. Bad Match for Martin. A lter the manager of Bob Martin, he A. F. E. champion. had heen 50 | no careful in bringing his man alongiim a (il against opponents not likely to beat him to picces before he had all the experience that one an ambitious boy wonders why he matched against at this time. Brennan champion class. but he i8 a rugged fighter and about ring craft than The chances are Again. to meet any of the light- Willie Jackson There is New York and is re- to Leonard in He will be Garden, whoever he Brother Pinkey, the nex: at_the for Base Ball Spies. with his determination to e upon base ball, Judge no doubt, adopt wise that he has any idea in accordance with intentions ng Nonsense. * (Copyzight. 1921.) He observed every rule and the The run- ner on second who failed to hold his was, moment the ball reached the base he had xo vacated in advance of him. juggling the ball was permitted, whether ntentional or not, base runners would always be at sea as to when to ad- vanc very moment the fly ball strikes a field- er's hands. l ESTABLISHED 1883 \\\/ At the Sign of the Moon of course, doubled up the i Therefore it must be at the To Measure The fabrics in this sale are Lvery garment is guaranteed. Mertz & Mertz 906 F St. BASKET BALL OUR REDUCTIONS Start at $292.50 For Smart Custom-Tailored Suit or Overcoat Tonight, 8:30 Catholic University Davis-Elkvi:s College C. U. Gym—Brookland, D. C. Epiphany Comets rell: eet C. U. Freshmen minary game at 7:30. the choicest. Co., Inc. | : yers are: Eddie Murphy Woman Tennis Champion May Visit Next Summer { e Lenglen world woman ten champion, may come to this country next summer to meet Mrs. Molla Bjorstedt Mall Mra. George W. Wightman other leading feminine playe: A wpecial invitation will be extended to Miss Lenglen to compele in the woman's na- tional champlonship and other tourneys. AIB(}EPTS HOPPE'S TERMS Horemans, Belgian Cueist, Agrees to Two Balkline Matches, ‘Winner Take Al'. NEW YORK, January 20 Horemans, the Belgian billi: day announced he would acce Hoppe's terms for a chamj aship. Hoppe has insisted on a contra t giv- ing the winner the total gate re -eipts. Horemans wanted to v.inher to receive 60 per cent and the loser 40 per cent. ! The Belgian said he would play two matches, one of 2,000 puints at Ikline “and one of 3,000 points balkline. “I want long games ill afford a real test,” he said. Hoppe Not Ready Until Fall. ST. LOUIS, Mo., January 20.—Wil- lie Hoppe, champion billiardist, will t with Edouard Horemans match until next fall, R. B. Benjamin, the champion’s manager, announced today, following notifica- tion that the Belgian had agreed to Hoppe’s “winner take all” proposi- tion. GOULD LEADS IN TITLE COURT TENNIS MATCH! PHILADELPHIA, Pa., January 20— Jay Gould, national and open court tennis champion, won three out of the four sets played yesterday in the nine-xet challenge match for the na- tional championship against Jock Soutar of Philadelphia Racq The scores were 6. The re: louard ist, to- Willie {/ at 1 that Established 1897. AKE ADVANTAGE Suits Tailored to Order $50 1/3 $33.33 B e s Off 353 g et S0y ol i - | e WILNER'’S £ Custom Tailors = . 8th and G Sts. NW.= ] = = Y Quality Service 209, Off 'High-Grade Sport Goods During this sale we ‘will de- duct 1-5 from the marked price of any arficle in the shop, ex- cepting Revolvers, Ammunition and Photo Goods—everything else is included. We Suggest— Winchester .22 Rifles $31.15 model 1890 repeating, sale «..L..2 $24.92 $28.28 sale sm:‘s model 1902 single shot, sale . - $12.46 model 1904 single shot, sale..... ..$9.97 W. F. Roberts Company model 1906 repeating, 818 Fourteenth Street Following the lead of Babe Rt Harris has joined a quint organized by Waite Hoyt, the Yankce SPORTS INTEREST IS INCREASING IN LEAGUE TITLE RACE llndications Now Are That Penn May Retain | Championship—New “Big Three” in Foot Ball on the Pacific Coast. BY WALTER CAMP. IS HIS is just the time of the season when it is particularly difficult to get a line on a winner of the intercollegiate basket ball asso- ciation. This sport is beginning to have the upsets that foot ball often has in midseason. And yet, with all this certain, the tried and true periormers are working up, and the contest is growing interesting. Dartmouth’s defeat of Cornecll was an upsct, for prior to this Cornell seemed to be wading along well. Princeton, with a good team. had been | defcated by Cornell, and later by Columbia. Penn is now working to the {iront, and the defeat of Columbia shows that Penn maw have a chance lm retain the championship won last year, and which was tollowed by afn intersectional victory over Chicago. - —] But the most ifiteresting Tuct in the |basket ball world recently is that THREE BIG TOURNEYS ON i i |the Princeton and Yale teams. }Th» writer once saw a facully game g {in Which two professors Lad their Boxing, Bowling and Basket Ball \rins broken. If this thing should Events Planned for Industrial [577"%0 sl Jigratia ","A;,f_:(';_r;f and “Kill him?" Athletes. AKRON, Ohio, January 20.—Thre« | major winter tourneys for industrial} athletes throughout the country were h particular v A New “Big Three.” f the fact that. thev have not 1 point of 1 Yale £n the “big three Harvard, Priu announced here today by national|are eu iy referred to 1 headquarters of the American Indus- l“l\"! T e trial Athletic Association . | Bacit: coast e Shout b The first event will be a national | o, tered into between amateur boxing tournament at California., nd v |son City, N. Y., February and | whereby the last three dates in which boxers of all weights will|;r0yccorded to these teams. W compete for national honors. This | put G HEC iome day bring about a tourney will be followed on Tu- | post-season contcst between the win- 29 by a national telegraph bowling | Fer of the big threeon the Pacific 4 D te decide the industrial title. | no the wiamer of the Dig threo in the On March .17, 18 ahnr:dl'.lr 3 I\asrl‘u axt. Tball tontney will ba held at Erie, o lbt;‘l}"nn‘;unruon with the annual con- | Evers an Umpire Baiter. vention of the association members. | There an old saving that the Aihlotes of 116 concerns which are | “leopard cannot change his spots,” and members of A. I A. A. are eligible in spite of Johnuy Evers' statement to | o compete in the three tournamc the effect that he will no longer be an | wnpire baftrr, this must be taken with | the usual “crain of salt.” For human | natare is human nature, and Johnny has never been disposed (0 sit quietly under SIDNEY, Australia, January more -than the | Ludy Langer of San Francisco yes-|man who - pays Bis =~ money for a_ticket, is disposed to sit |terday won the quarter-mile SWim-| g io(ly when his favorite team is getting {ming championship of New samhim“hon Wales. 'h and other stars of of the White Sox, Joe Sewell of th COLLEGE BASEET BALL. Penn., 19; Catholic University, 17. Cormell, 473 West Virginia, 19. ¥y, 463 Villanova, 19. Army, 33; Lehigh, 14. Virginia, 33; Richmond, 15. ‘Wesleyan, 20; Willlams, 13. American, Swimmer Wii:s‘. (Coprright, 1921.) 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