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SPORTS G STAR. WASHINGTO D. C., EW YORK, Match 21.—Ii Rocky Kansas gets by strong with his fight against Willie Jackson tonight he will have to be reckoned for the lightweight title that have come up since Benny Leonard won the crown. Willie Jackson is not a_Leonard. but he is right among the top he gave Richie Mitchell in his last twofights against the Milwaukee idol or come anywhere near turning a trick of that sort, then Kansas' next BY FAIRPLAY. N with by the fighting public as one of the strongest contenders flight of fighters in his class. If Kansas can give him the trimming that battle will be_against the champion. The rise of Kansas was In a_way : E meteoric. He has been. golng along fight- Enter Ring Tonight. ing a lot of second-raters and occ sionally meeting a good man. While he didn't make a great reputation, he was known by all the fistic fraternity as no easy customer. Last year Pinkney Mitchell of Milwaukee fousht him. The bout was a short one, neither doing ti other a lot of damag As a col quence Richle Mitchell, who saw the fight, dldn't think much of the Buffaio ltaian. |ARMY BOXERS IN FINALS One From Fort Myer and One From | Walter Reed Reach Title I Stage in Tourney. Only two representatives of the third 'dmrm. which includes stations in and | near Washington, will enter the ring in | the finals of the 3d Army Corps box- { ing championship tournament to be held lin"the 5th Reximent Armory in Bal | more next month. Elimination matches, {in which scrappers of the third and | fourth districts were opponents. held at ! Camp RKustis Saturday, resulted in v tories for four Camp Eustis men and one from Walier Reed Hospital. One Fort Myer boxer und another from Camp Eustis went to the finals when their opponents defaulted. Private Walter PParsons of the medi- cal detachment at Walter Reed clearly earned the i compete in the welterweight he finished Corp. Buddy ¥ ald of Camp Eustis with a_knockout in the fourth round. Corp. 1 : st J. Powers of the 1Sth| Field Artillery at Fort Myer will go the | title round in the light welterweight | class. Fools Richle Mitchell. So after he was knocked out by Benn, Jeonard Richie decided to take It c: for a while and pick up some soft money. He had one as easy as it _had looked, and he down to Buffalo to breeze tweive rounds with Rock: Richie lasted on! n few mi Teturn fizht Kansas easily ion over the Milwaukcean. Now the question is: Is Mitchell | through or has Kansas come to great- ness? The situation is an interesting one, If only beceuse {t may mean that when the fighting season starts in this city next summer the first thing that will be submitted for our entertainment won a de- wiil be a battie for the lightweight <hamplonship. Will Afd Irish Relfef. Speaking of the Willie Jackson-Rocky Kansas fight, it is but the part of justice to say that it represents Tex Rickard's second big charitable act since the sea- «on_began. For tonight's mill at the Madison Square Garden will be for the benefit of sufferers in Ireland. the re- cgipts_being donated to the American committee formed for purposes of Irish relief. The steady demand for tickets indi- cates that thers will be an overflowing attendance to cheer on the fighters. This show will wind up the season in the| Garden, which will be devoted to other affairs until next fall. CHAMPION HURTS HAND Wilson Suffers Fracture in Bout With 0'Dowd and Go With Britton Postponed. BOSTON. March 21.—Johnny. Wilson, , middleweight title holder, fractured a " bone in his left hand in the third round of his bout with Mike O'Dowd at New ' York last Thursday night. and as a re- +sult his match with Jack Britton, sched- uled for Marcn 23, has been postponed. X-ray photograph of Wilson's disclosed the fracuure. 1 ‘Tremaine Fights Montreal. TOLEDO, Ohio, March 21.—Carl Tre- | Jmnaine of Cleveland and Young Montreal ‘of Providence, R. L. are here for their twelve-round, no-decision boxing bout tonight in the collseum. They are to ‘weigh 118 pounds at 3 o'clock today. Steger to Battle Root. NEW YORK. March 21.—In the pre- Niminaries to the Kansas-Jackson fight at Madison Square Garden tonight Sam- my Sleger of this city will meot Artie Root of Cleveland at ten rounds. and Kid Norfolk, the negro “thunderbolt,” will meet Jack Ward of Philadeiphia in another ten-round &ffa'r.., " WRESTLERS IN A. A. U. TRIALS AT CANGE CLUB Preliminaries for local wrestlers seeking South Atlantic A. A. U. titles will be held Wednesday evening at the Washington Canoe Club. The paddlers will have six representatives | in the matches. Besides Clarence Bruce. who won the 125-pound title An hand last year. Bill Havens, 175-pounder; Bud Havens, uniimited class. Charles Udall, welterwelght; k. Allard:. mid- dleweight, and Charles Bruce, light-| welght, will g to the mat Other entries are expected from the Y. M. | C. A. and Aloysi The bouts | will start at § o N 2 The finals will be held Saturday at| the Baltimore Athletic Club. H Lewis to Wrastle Caddock. .. DES MO reh 21— Ed *Strangier” 1 ng champion, and Iarl have been m d to me 12, the best two falls in th Midoet Fives Meet for Title. { Warwick and Tiger Mid- | gets will rroll 1 l”lvl~| Frmnasium neatay n il ®ame for the midget bask bail mpionship of the Distmict. Play start at T e'clock Twins Fight for Title ‘They Alone Know but whether his first name in Henry or Nicholns mobody 119-pound twins know. They = alike ax peas htlng way -outs to the an- champlonship match, mht 1t out clad In cxaetly similar gymuasium aufts. Somebody wom, but it looked lke a man wreatling with him- BASE BALL Ma.n/a.gers, Get put you in with " mood teams—help you get » & xood schedule. UNIFORMS IN STOCK PLENTY OF BATS LOWEST PRICES *Special Team Discounts i Yy nt in Milwaukee, | in which the picking did not prove to be | ran | through | Kansas. | In a | |znd Kid Bowen. a brother of Young i Bowen, local lightweight. These scrap- Two Fort Myer men were knocked | out in the fourth round of their en- | gagements. Trembling Trembley took the count after a blow delivered by b of Camp Eustis featherweight match. and Shorty McCann was sent into dream- Private Albert Corbi, another Camp Eustis fist flinger, in the light- weight contest. Young Mitchell of Camp Eustis got |2 six-round decision over Young Riley of Fort Myer in a bantam dispute and Sergt. Charles Nolan of Camp Eustis was given a verdict over Private Michael Viola of Fort Myer when_ the latter fouled in the second round of their middleweight bout. No oppon- ent faced Private Llewellyn Burrell of Camp Bustis for the right to en- | ter the heavyweight final. Camp Meade boxers took five of the seven semi-finals held between men of the first and second districts. Final parings follow: Bantamweight, Mitch- ell (Camp Eustis) vs. Tolletti (Camp | | Meade); Casey (Camp Eustis) vs. jGarcia (Camp Meade); Corbi (Camp Eustis) vs. Sharpe (Camp Meade); Parsons (Walter Reed Hospital) vs. Burnbrook (Camp Holabird); Nolan (Camp Eustis) vs. Mrous (Camp Meade; “light heavyweight, Powers (Fort Myer) vs. Blanc (Camp Meade); heavyweight, Burrell (Camp Eustis) vs. Scheldecker (Camp Holabird), ROSEBUDS IN PIN EVENT ‘Fi!e First Team Entry for City Tourney—Three Classes Are Sanctioned. Now that George C. Shaffer's Rose- buds have flled their entry for the team competition in the annual duck- {Pin championship tournament of the ‘Washington City Duckpin Association other aspirants for the several titles at stake are expected to hurry their applications to the classification com- mittee. The Rosebuds yesterday for- mally announced their intention to strive for the city title in the tourney that will get under way on the Grand Central drives May 9 instead of May as originally planned, At a meeting of the association di- rectorate held vesterday three clas: were “anctioned for competition. S {son avorages of bowlers will deter- |mine classification. Top: Ted Muchic, former middle- weight champion of the Atlande fleet, who will Silver Bottom: Danny Duarte, lixhtwei titleholder the at laken mav. training = who will battle in the xemi-win BOXERS READY FOR TEST| Muchic and Kelley in Ten-Round Feature at Silver Spring. D. C. Boys in Bouts. Ted Muchic, who held the middle- | weight championship of the Atlanti fleet while « member of Uncle Sam's | Navy, and Johnny Kelley of Philadel- phia are in the best of condition for their ten-round decision fight scheduled as the feature of the fistic program | at the Silver Spring, Md., armory to- | Class A will in- * {clude 103 and better average bowlers |In singles. 206 and above paffs in | doubles and 515 and better quints in team rolling. Class B sets the sin- | Bles competitors at 97 to 102, doubles at 194 to 205, and teams at 485 to 514. All below the lowest class B averages will be placed in class C. Oficial scorers of leagues are to tusn in sta- tistics to Secretary Magnus Wood. 918 G strept, by April 25. Dummy scores for team bowling "hod. Goldberg, Allen, Lane Elle Urban, Megaw. Walker, Smith, A: miger. Cromwell, Boss and Hill. Printing — Cox, Boss, Wood and Goulberg. Duckpin _commission — Boss, Gold- berg and Cox. 5 Naval Training Station, who has done most of his fighting in the middle west, | pers will weigh in aronnd 138 pounds, 2nd their bout is limited to ten rounds. Two six-round preliminaries are billed. John L. Smith of this city and | Decorations—McCann. Carroll, Vasth, Eddie Morgan of Baltimore, light- | Lane. Cafritz_and Markle. Reception—Belt Elms. Markle, Car- ! roll, George and Cornelius. Auditinge—Fvans. Cox and Rosn. weights, will take the ring after John- ny Egsleston, a husky Northeast Washington middleweight, and Sailor Kendricks of the naval air station set- fl';'h‘;;lu;(s{ax. Boss, Wood, ne | tle their arzument. and Walker. Decision be given by a referee| _All-StaF night — Cornellus, Boss, Wood and Cox. Ladies’ night—Cox, Tsemann, Wood. | ;‘mldb'r:_ Boss, Hill, Ellett and Shat- er. Prize—Assoclation officers. Jack Hanlon of Phil-| he J. H. De Sibour of the Racqi #ill be one of the fudwes. T d official will be selected this even. Forest Glen cars of the 9th street pass the armory. ~Automobilists ¥ drive directly to Silver Spring over the Georzia avenue or 16th street routes Miss Helen Wainwright, fifteen years old, won the national women's indoor fancy diving champlonship, senfor di- | vision, in the meet at Atlantic City. DOUBLE GRIP | PARIS I NO ME 'Attention—You Men of Muscle i Looking for a garter to stay put on those muscled legs of yours? Something that will act gently —yet firmly? Then be good to your husky self. Right < ik into your dealer' and get next to these uble grip, double-duty-doing Paris. Double Grip50# andup - Single Grip 35¢ and up A STm u;&s COMPANY ww Yore | i [ | | | i Take a tip-buy Paris today-remember they’ve been LOWERED IN PRICE - BUT -NOT.IN QUALITY. Life’s Darkest Moment. T 4 | THE LOSS OF THE NEW FAWMN COLORED OVERCOAT \WITH THE PEARL BuvTomr CHESS MASTERS REST Lasker and Capablanca Adjourn Third Game After 62 Moves. Resume Tomorrow Night. HAVANA, March 21.—Dr. Emanuel Lasker and Jose R. Capablanca will! rest tonight preparatory to resuming | tomorrow night the third gume in | their world champlionship chess tour- nament, which was adjourned at the | sixty-second move this morning Experts who analyzed the positions of the pleces on the board this morn- ing aftor the two master players had | | adjourned declared their belief that the game would result in a draw, as | did the first two games of the tour- | nament. H An interesting situation arose dur- ing last night's play, when during the | the all tremely difficult to win a game from |tical, Torpedo, Broadside, ISast, Draw- - be | ing, Tube. Gun, Foundry and Pattern surprised if from sixteen to eighteen |quints follow the first two teams as a grand master. 1 should not OVERCoATS of the games, with critf, Capablanca answered: certainly not be' a bit surprised twenty-four’ games would result NSI1BLE HATS o 720008 o S District Chess Champion to Analyze Title Games The analysis of the firmt two xames of the chess match mow between Lasker Havana the two fore- he world, are evenly maiched and are playing | | the Owing to evl- | denced by the cheas players of 'he to publish each Sunday in the sport see- being played uud 1n mont masters o the most perfeet gamen world has ever meen. the widcapread interest this ¢ity In this encounter, Star hos arranged tion a welection of the score explanatory notes by I. over, District champloa. course “of this match.” night,_according to Joo Hateman, vet- were fixed at 95 for y in draws. o eran ‘Washington matchmaker. who is | lass A, 90 for clasa B and 85 for class o onmepnding DEfTeakec s | {Ghican v, promoting the exhibition. Muchic has | C. . * - ! ¥ Two-s =2 gl been in town several days working out | The following committees have been | Duse was mot rereabon and xbuis| Radio Bowlers Hold to Lead. [atadtmon g0t . reneriong™st 5 Knoche. | with local talent. Kelley was to leave | ';»"ob;"“gf' - ] were puzzled as to how he planned| Radio bowlers maintained their | ¥askee, 1.391: . Rlouin and P. Woif, Chicago, | Fhiladelphia this morning. Three more | | Publicity—Cox. Miller, Dugan. Nve.|to continua his = combination miey | haltogame 1ead 1ast week in the race | 1257 3. Totel and T Caresl Cinen bouts will complete the program that | Thompson. Dougher, Byrd and Wood. | atter he had brought his bi Y | for B Nave Yard League honors.|1238: W. Mitchell and M. Metcalf, St. T will get under way at § o'clock. | amembership—Associationofficers and | the center of the oontest. = | o o |They have won b6 games and loat 25, | 2 | The semi-wind-up will bring togeth- | directors. D & 2 | i S mes an -feats | , 10dividual event—Fred Smith, Detroit, 702 games would result in draws during named Escepcionales | 3 for 50¢ say— ) ' ness. i ' begin at 10c. El Producto. Distribator D. Loughran Co., Inc. 14th and Penna. Ave. ‘Washington, D. C. O YOU want a real cigar, sir, with a taste that never wearies ‘“El Producto.” For a short smoke or a long smoke or a size that’s in between, “El Producto.” There is true Havana fragrance, there is mildness and there’s rich- There’s a price for every pocket and ten sizes from which to select. Prices Smoke IONDAY, MARCH 21, 192 / g Z 1 should —By Webster. 1 ROLL 1,284 IN DOUBLES| | |Wisconsin Men Take Lead in| }‘ American Bowling Congress ' Tenpin Tournament. | | BUFFALO, N. Y., March New leaders have been established in the | two-man events of the American bowling congress tenpin-tournament. Charles Norton and S. Knoche of! Madison, Wis., shot a total of 1,294 | pins three hours after W. Pieper and Al Broell of Milwaukee had taken | the lead with 1,291 pins. | The leaders are: Five-man event- 9 leming Furniture Kenosha Com- Academs, Northern Paper Milis, it Milwaukee, 678 mith, Deteoit . 1.881: 1.874: 7. Kiingme; 679; Mort Schoenlaub, Marion, Sandusky, 3 {of the best pivot men that ever wore the maize and blue. SPORTS ' Kansas May Qualify Tonight for Go With Leonard : Secretary of Navy Denby Was Grid Star ONE OF BEST CENTERS - TO PLAY FOR MICHIGAN ‘M crack foot ball player at Michigan. When he blew izéo Ann Arbor from Detroit, the students rushed him at once into the presence of Hurry-Up Yost, for he weighed 281 pounds, and was tall enough'to carry his weight. He made center on the Michigan varsi! and was ane His enthu- siasm for foot ball will not do a bit of harm so far as the gridiron game at the Naval Academy is concerned. SOLCERISTS N 2-2 TE Thistles and Harlems in Pre- liminary Match. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. ANY who know that Edwin Denby, Secretary of the Navy, served Joker as to Gelf Rall. Those who have been .wondering whether the rule regarding & mnew standard golf ball will result in a bail 50 liveiy that it will fly out of sight | at the slightest touch, and, if so. what | will happen to the ancient and honor- | orable game. need not worry. When the United States Golf Association au- | thorities got together and worked out | their size and weight ball problem they 3 Lindsey, New Haven, % N % WY 7007 722 2 Z227000 7 222 N I, 22227 \ 700 ///// for less than any oth 7 % EISEMAN’S 605-607 7th St. p Bet. F and G Sts. If Thistles and Harlems put up as good a game next Sunday, when they meet in their cnallenge match at Union Park, as they did in the prac- tice tilt on the Monument lot yester- . Washington soccer fans will be e€n a treat. These nimble expo- | nents of Britain's foot bali sport fought a battle royal in the prepara- tory clash, emerging from the con- flict with honors even. Two goals were kicked by each of the elevens. | For thirty minutes the teams ma- | neuvered about the fleld before the Thistles worked the ball to a favor- able scoring position. Then Sharp took a pass from Watts and drove the sphere to the goal. Kaldenbach, center forward of the Harlems, even- cd the count with a neat boot seven put a little joker into the stipulation This joker—if an unduly lvely ball ap- pears—will enable the assoclation to take immediate actlon. Willlame in Tennis Retura. William T. Tilden, 2d, in his book on tennis, says that at top formm Norris | Williams is the greatest player in the world, but that he is seldom at his best. That the former titleholder 1s making a desperate effort to be at his bext this yvear has been shown by his steady practice through the winter on the indoor courts at Rongwood and later by his play at Palm Beach. Hera he defeated Kumagae, the Japanese. in handy fashion, and any one who dpes that is playing up-to-the-hiit tennis. Ouimet After Evans. minutes later. Neither eleven was able to gain an advantage during the remainder of the first half. With the start of the second session | the Harlems attacked furiously and| within five minutes went into the! lead. A combined advance by the for- | wards gave R. Burton the opportu- nity to kick the point. For a time it | seemed that this goal would win for the Georgetown players, for they held the Thistles at bay. But the latter| were not to be denied and when the | half was nearly ended they drove| through with a rush that enabled Raisbeck to tie the score. i All of the Thistles’ forwards plaved | well and they were ably supported by | Walsh and Curtin, right wing backs. | For the Harlems. J. H. and R. Bur- ton and W. Leadbetter excelled, al- | though J. Burton and A. Greene al-, ways were in the thick of the battle | and frustrated Several determined | Thistle offensives: | Wins Virginia Floor Honors. Maury High School. of Norfolk has won the state basket ball championship | by defeating Roanoke High, 26 to 20. ! Franeis Oulmet says that he doesn't know what golf tourneys he will enter this season, but that he will be a par- ticipant in the national amateur event at St. Louis. His ambition is to get another crack at Chick Evans, his idea being that his defeat last year by the Chh:dlmn by no means was the last word. (Copyright, 1921.) e T Scottish Players to Visit. The Scottish professional soccer team will play four games in the United States during its forthcoming tour. The dates of the team's American appear- ance are July 6, 9. 13 and 16. Opponents have not been named. Will Rush Penn Crews. PHILADELPHIA. March 21.—Coach Wright of Pennsylvania crews today began intensive training for his two eights, in preparation for the open- ing race with Yale on April 16. The men will be given two workouts a day, the first at 6 am. and the other in the afternoon. 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