Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1921, Page 17

SPORTS % Wilson-Britton Fight ’ \ DECIDE N formation received today from Dan Morgan, Britton's manager. BY FAIRPLAY. welterweight cham Is Declared Off : Professional Golfers Are Not Really Highly Paid EW YORK, March 28—The proposed bout between the middle and ns, Johnny Wilson and Jack Britton, which was to have been the next big ring battle, is off, according to in- Ar- rangements for this fight had been proceeding quietly, and a date was to be named, when Britton sent word to his manager not to make any matches for him for at least six weeks. The welter king says he is not feel-| [ tng well, and his mhysician advises| | Duffy and Burke to Be him that twenty-four bouts in thel | joins Pilots of Red Sox 'S twelve months are course of the p: ” d : The Boxton Americans will be responsible for his condition. No one| | ,The Toston Americans will be will begrudge Britton his rest. Here year, with the whole team act- is at least one champion who is never ing as n supplemental board of strategy. Hughl, 5 ~ afraid to risk his title nor loth to face eEy mmhe _Dfll{ S - any man who wants to fight. Kansas at St. Paul. ‘Westerners will have a chance to see Rocky Kanwas in action at St Paul next week. The young mastadon with clublike arms will exchange wallops with Bobby Ward on April 4. Kansas can work every week for a} Eood putse if he wants fo. His Broad- | way success against Willie Jackson | has given him a money value such s he never before kne nd promoters are now ing him to name his price In the short space of twelve days Rocky cleaned up $16.000. He ceived $8.500 for outpointing Ri Mitchell in ten rounds at Milwau on March 9. and Tex Rickard gave him $8.000 for his appearance against ‘Willie Jackson. So from now o oK | i { | | i | i on Kansas is likely | to do little worrying, no matter how | many golf balls he loses or how many clubs he breaks. Yep, Rock a golfer. He fell for the game *hard last year and all the time he is not training he is out on the links whack- ing the elusive pill and then trying to find it | Base Ball and Golf. Professional base ball players have long known the lure of the game of golf. Matty was among the pioneer | big leaguers in the game. A lot of | the Giants followed him. John Mc- Graw didn't approve of the sport, his; idea being that it made his men effective as ball players. Later, how- ever, he decided differently. _ | Johnny Evers had no usé for the game at all and was on the point of stopping those of the Cubs who were | playing the links at Catal Island until Grover Alexander took him over eighteen holes. Johnny returned foot sore and tired. He said if there was; any, _game better fitted than golf to] put X man in good physical condition he didn’t know what it was. He told | the Cubs to go to it to their hearts’! content. Something About Jenningw. Into the office the other day walked | a letter carrier. He was gray and | his face was seamed. Yet the breadth, of his shoulders and the sturdiness!to the management at 1 of legs and body indicated a man who had gained his build through some- thing more strenuous than delivering mail. He saw a picture of Hughey Jennings and smiled. “When 1 knew Hughey." he said, “he was a driver out in the mines at | Avoca, Pa. He drove for me. I wasa coal miner then and I filled many a car for Hughey. Didn’t know then he was a ball player. except every once in a while I'd see him pick up a chunk of coal and heave it at some- thing—usually at some miner who had kidded him. Well, I went into business for Uncle Sam and Hughey he went into base ball.” Haven for Ex-Big Leaguers. Where are the stars of vesterday? If the fans of the big league circuit should ever be interested in finding the answer to this questioh they ‘would find it in the Coast League. It sure looks as If all good big leaguers ‘went to the Pacific shore when they died. the Vernon team we find “Truck Hannah, Ernie Shore and Slim Love. San Francisco has Lefty O'Dowd and Morris Rath. Rube Ol ring is playing with Seattle. Gavvy Cravath is mapaging the Salt Lake erew. Other former stars of the gle circuit may be found playing amid the soft coal smoke of the Amer- ican Association centers. ! Rockra j Write Manager Eismann, | nounced that he and Jimmy Burke, the coach, would share the management in fact. “That in the working agree- ment we have drawn un,” Dufty snid. “We are veterans of the game and neither of us seeks any individual glory.” JNESE BALK QUENTNS Buck and Art, Battery Mates, Lead Rockford Athletic Club to 4-to-0 Victory. When the Quentin Athletic Club akes the fleld for its next base ball game. it hopes the opposing team WIII not have any Joneses in its line- up Tw of the famlily made famous b . Casey and other notables ¢ took all the joy out of life for Quenti Buckey ones. p'tcher, and Art Jones, catcher, o t Rockford Athletic Club nine, annoyed the Quentin aggregation t d walked away with -10-0 gam: Buck had the Quentin batters eat- ing out of his hand. Three measly all they could collect, nicen of them were retired The moundsman added _misery of the opposition by walloping a hit that helped in the scoring. ~ Art Jones, besides holding crossed with a run and came through more tallies. National Bank of Washington's team, in charge of Capt. been practicing several ready for engagements. vh‘ln‘lr Athle lub scoyed its firs Victory in a 9-to-0 game with Penrose Athlctic Club. Teams in the fourteen- r-old division desiring engage- nts with the Eagles should write 5 Wisconsin avenue, or telephone West 1005, In games played yesterday, Cirole { Athletic Club defeated Perry Athletic Club, 16 to ; Commerc: Juniors vanquished Railroad Administration, 7 to 6, and National Juniors downed Southern Athletic Club, 6 to 5 10 GAMES FOR EASTERN Nine to Resume Action Saturday, When Maryland Freshmen ~ Will Be Met. Eastern High School's sahedule calls for only base ball ten more nual school championship series. The next engagement listed for the Capi- tol Hill boys is that with the Uni- versity of Maryland freshmen at Col- lege Park Saturday. ‘The manage- ment hopes to arrange a couple of practice games during the Easter hol- idays, for the nine needs more drill- ing before the time arrives for the title tilts. Half of the contests will be decided Amnother Ty b Idea. Ty Cobb is sure popping with idgas. His latest is to have a bull pen bac of the grandstand where pitchers may ‘warm up. His theory is that it hurts| & pitcher when he looks toward cen- ter fleld fence and sees hurlers warm ing up with the idea of replacing hi it destroys the moundman’s confidence and prevents him from pulling hi self together after a hit or two h. been made off him. So Cobb will have the reserve pitchers work unseen. That's a fine, thoughtful. humane idea. Why not, also, have little trap- doors in the diamond so that an in- fielder can do 2 Brodie when he makes @ punk error? Or a sort of portable bathhouse arrangement near the plate in which he can conceal himself when he has struck out at a eritical moment. Have to consider the delicate feelings of our ball-tos- sers. KILBANE TO BOX CHANEY THIS SUMMER, IS REPORT NEW YORK. March 28 —Jjoe Gor- man, Portland, Ore, featherweight. and Fred Edwards of this city will meet in a fiftcen-round bout here to- night. It was reported today that Andy Chaney and Johnny Kilba: the featherweight champion, have been matched for a bout to be held some time during the summer at an open- air arena in Cleveland. Ohio. Tremaine to i‘ight White, DETROIT. Mich, March 28.—Cari Tremaine of Clevelind and White of Albany. bantamweights, meet in a ten-round bout here to- night. 26 FIGHTS AT GARDEN GOBBLE IN $1,306,469 ' § Tex Rickard took in §1, twenty-six fight show Square Garden sinc 78459 dison September, tinto effect. : encounter, as the biggest 5 when the Walker law we -Hr. The Dempse which drew §1 money getter. JIncludes 3 MacGregor Irons, Driver, Caddy Bag, Rule Book, 3 Balls... $25 SPORTMART 1410 N. Y. Ave. on foreign fields. Besides the game at College Park, Eastern will go, to Alexandria to meet Episcopal High | School and George Mason High | School: to Leesburg, for a match with the high school team there, and tc Charlotte Hall, to face the military school | will be The Alexandria scholastics played here. The schedule 2, University of Maryland . at College Park; 5, George Mason High School, at Klexandria; S, Western; 12, Episcopal High $chool, t Alexand 16, Charlotte Hall Academy, at Charlotte Hall; 19, Tech; 23, Leesburg High School, at Lees- 29, George Mason Business. Eastern has been In two games, de- feating the Army and Navy Preps and losing to Gonzaga High School. The team has some good pitchers, but needs more punch. Coach Guyon,is carefully combing his squad jn the hunt for batters and may male gev- eral shifts before the Maryland Cubs are me $500,000 FIGHT OFFER MADE BY ENGLISHMEN NEW YORK, March 28 —An offer of 2 §500.000 purse by a group of Eng. lish sportsmen for the Dempsey- pentier fight has been made. They would stage the contest at the Olym- pia Club, London. the last week of June or at the Epsom Downs race track. If the bout is staged at the Olympia, which holds more than 16,6000, the prices would range from $300 for a box_scat_down to $13. —_— 2. 1 BRUCEWVOOD The long-point rb_ll " collur with the ex- . clusice lock-front Seature, Gollars EARC & WILSON, i‘-‘ff:k | | | | | up his battery mate in excellent form, | with a double and single that netted | HARLEMSWINATSOCER games, and four of these are in the an- | WELTERWEIGHT . CHAMP |Life's Darkest Moment. - _ S TO TAKE REST| | . THERE. MAMA TToLD 72 77 e, % N | J. Burton, Jr., Kicks Poénts That Vanquish Thistles in 2-0 Benefit Contest.. Jesse Burton, the younger. is a kicker of some ability—with his feet, not his mouth. He demonstrated this yesterday at Union Park, when he played inside right forward for the Farlem Athletics, who opposed the Washington Thistles in the soccer game staged as a benefit for the widow of Policeman Bradley, the of- ficer recently killed in line of duty. Through the medium of Jesse's trusty toe the Harlems emerged from the struggle 2-to-0 victors. | There never was a dull moment in the fray. The élevens went at one another with a vengeance, and thirty minutes of play had passed before a concerted Harlem attack gave the younger Burton a shot at goal. Then the point had to be kicked at a sharp angle. Midway of the second half, Jesse Burton, the elder, fed the bali to the other Jesse, and the latter again counted. . The team play of the Harlems was ‘better than that of the Thistles, al- though the latter frequently gained imuch ground in attack. They were vnable to penetrate the Harlems' in- ner defense, however. Smith, at_goal, and George Leadbetter and Green, | backs, played good games for the winners, while Caspar and Maunder arred for. the Thisties. { | {CLASSIC STEEPLECHASE IS.WON BY HERTES XIl! i I paRr March © 2 {owned by Henri Coulen du_ President . de Hertes XI1 won the Prix la_Republique, the clasic steeplechase handicap, at Au- teuil yesterday. Vimy I1II was sec- ond and Merzee third. The purse was 75,00 francs. W. T. Wilkinson's War Rocker, the only American start- er, fell. e Lutteur 1IL° the nineteen-year-old ) horse, which James Hennessy of Cog- nzc fame, intended to start if condi-} tions were right, was scratched be- | cause of the hard tra Derby to Billy Barton. HAVANA, March 28.—The Cuban | Derby, the racing classic in this repub- lic, was won vestérday by Charles A. Stoneham's Billy Barton, carrying 119 { pounds, and ridden by Jockey B. Ken- {Redy. "“The time was 1.37 over a siow trac 2 e e Rolls 2,936 Set at Tenpins. i BUFFALO, Y., March 28.—Scoring 11,018 and 1,000 after a 918 first gamec i for a total of 2,93 ins, the Lincoln Life jInsurance Company team of Fort Wayne, Ind., shot into third place of the American bowling congress tenpin { tournament. | | Open Dally Unt At the Sign of the Moon. I Established 1833 man who contemplates investigate. . Our tailoring and ou right—they are respo: We would welcome approbation. them, not as they are. Suit and it will \WHY, BERTRAM, \WE RE MOT GOING NORTH UNTIL IT's NICE'AND \WARM UP S0 WHEN WE'STARTED You 4 0ONT,CARE! T WANTA G Home NOW AN'.GO SKATIM an' SLIDIN AN EVER THIN ! —By Whter Ev: Enj Br! Ga. EVANS TO PLAY ABROAD American Amateur Champion Con- NEW YORK, March intention of making the trip. { sents to Go With Team to Great Britain. ! 28.—Chick ‘? ans, the American amateur golf champlon, has consented to become a member of the team which will go to gland this summer in quest of the itish amateur title, it was an- rounced here yesterday. W. C. Fownes, Jr., who is selecting | players for the team, from Pittsburgh, declared Evana posi- v Robert Jones, the young Atlanta.|gemand, I suppose in & message ely will be a member. ., star, already has announced his -Women Continue Tourney. P EARNINGS MUCH LOWER THAN IN OTHER SPORTS: = -— BY LAWRENCE PERRY. ROFESSIONAL golfers make some’ money, of course one considers their ability, bearing in miad the reward offered for their efforts, he realizes how poor are the returns of these me: as compared to the money made by professional boxers and ball player and coaches of athletic teams. For example, in the north an championship, which starts at Pinchurst next week, such pr ag Fred McLeod, Walter Hagag, George Fotheringham. Jim Bar But when south open essio es. Mike Dorothy pionship. Miss John jMiss Sarah PINEHURST, N. C., March 28.—Mrs. Campbell burgh, ‘'who s favored to retain her title, met Mrs. Hopé GYbson of Can- ada today in t woman's north and south golf cham- Other second-round matches Louise Klkins, Mrs. J. S. Pritchard, Midlothia; Chapman, Dorothy Richards, Mayfleld, and Mrs. F. C. Letts, jr., Onwentsia. Hurd of Pitts- second round of the were: Oakmont, and; Greenwich, Fownes. Oakmont: Miss rady, Tom Kerrigan, Alex Smith and others are playing for m« awards totaling $1,200. It all involves the law of supply and | Philadelphia, Baltimore. Washinztor Golf is a_game | Chicago and elsewhere which every one Ikes to pl Boxing Favor Lively Batl. and base ball are games which most| po o - 00 FVEE T persons watch. ‘There is the answer. DU > o Then, again, there is nothing espectally | British experts— may say what thrilling in the ordinary processes of | will, and American Sharps may &igameiboteen jtwp [orhck [pisyiacs. in the chorus; but the fact rema‘ns Play for Fun of It. that the average golfer is pulling for oz, e L e, . ze TP oo 7% e, awi Coprdeh 1881, B, T. Wiketats NAVY IN Will Have Two Relay Teams and Entrants in Three Indi- vidual Events. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Marth 28— Definite announcement was made here today that the Naval Academy would be represented at the University of Pennsylvania -relay carnival - on Franklim Field April 29 and 30. It is the first time a Navy track team has been given permission to compete away from home. Commander Howard, athletic_officer of the Naval Academy, has notified the management of the carnival that the Midshipmen would enter the'distance medley relay, the two-mile college re- lay, discus and javelin throws and the. pentathlon, or all-around cham- piensnip event. Harvard Lacks Linemen. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 28— Head Coach Robert Fisher lurvegfl the prospects for the Harvard foot ball eleven of next fall when spring prac- tice for gridiron squad began today. He found a likely backfield in the making, but a l{ne full of holes. Penn Guard Sets Pace. Danny McNichol, the Penn guard, led the scorers in the Intercollegiate League. He helped the Quakers to retain their title by registering fifteer floor goals and making 122 points from the foul line. Cullen of Dartmouth was second with twenty-four floor goals and seventy-seven true shots from the fifteen-foot mark. Molinet of Cornell shot the most floor goals, getting thirty. Penn not only ied the teams in scoring with 276 peints, but allowed the opposition the least markers of any quint in the circuit, 174. ‘Syracuse hopes to enter the Inter- collegiate League next winter. Penn, Cornell, Princeton, Dartmouth, Yale and Columbia at present make up the circdit. o~ BOWIE READY FOR MEET WHICH OPENS SATURDAY Maryland ushers in the spring rac- ing season in the east Saturday with the opening at Bowie, which will con- duct a thirteen-day meet. Then the bangtails go to Havre de \Grace for the balance of the month, winding up at_Pimlico May 3 to 16. Not a stall has been available at the track for over six weeks and hun dreds of horses are now quartered at Pimlico, Laurel and Benning, in Wash- ington. 2 George Miller, who has been start- ing the hgrses on the smaller tracks and who has done his work well, will get his chance at Bowie. P.M. Saturday p P. buying a Suit will stop to r prices have always been nsible for the favor and good will we enjoy with the men of Washington. your inspection of our great display of fabrics and feel it will win your Every garment made by our own experts and fully guaranteed. You get them as you want QUICK DELIVERY is assured. 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C. rank with the more prominent associations of the | South Atlantic section. ‘The club has just closed a succes: ful basket ball season, each of its let! Ce teams—senior. junior and midget—de- feating some of the leading quints of the ®ity. The seniors won twenty- one of their twenty-two engagements, their lone loss being to Aloysius Club’'s Big Five, runner-up in the series for the city championship. The junior team claims the 115-pound championship, having defeated promi- nent title contenders in that class. Preparations are under way for a strenuous base ball campaign. Can- didates for the nine have been prac- ticing under the direction of Coach Howard for the nast two weeks._and =ame verv canable nlavers have been develoned. Peck Coodrick. who managing the nine. hrs booked games with a number of firat-class clubs. hut is readv to add more engage- ments to his list. —_— THREE KENDALL GREEN BASKETERS GET THE G ‘Three Kendall Green basketers have been awarded the G for good work in basket ball by the Gallaudet Athletic Association. They are Capt. Bouchard, Capt.-elect La Fontaine and Boatwright. Honorary G's were flvcn Coach Cooper and Manager ay. Rea to Lead Michigan Five. ‘Walter B. Rea of Erie, Pa., has been elected captain of the 1922 Uni- versity of Michigan basket ball team. Rea is a junior and played guard during the season just closed when the team finished in a triple tie for 0;? western conference champion- ship. The Crescent A. C. of Brooklyn, N. Y., won all its thirty-two basket ball games in the season just closed. The New Mooners, as they are called, scored 1,295 points to their oppon- ents 664. Gil Parmele, former Princeton star, led in the scoring, with 123 field goa and 118 from the foul line. '-filllllllllllllmlll!IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIifllI-. SUITS To Measure SPECIAL 57 Can't Duplicate ~ Under $35 T Priced IR SRR ! TWO RECORDS ARE TIED CHICAGO, March 28.—Chicago Ath- scoring sixt; Two world indoor records were tied, Loren Murchison of Illinofs A. C. do- ing the seventy-yard dash in 0.07 1-5, and Waldo Ames of C. A. A. the high ! mou. u e - IN CENTRAL A. A. U. MEET ic Association's track men won the ntral Amateur Athletic Union meet, ight points. les in 0.08 3. Occasfonally there may be a hizh a lively ball with all ardor. This light, but as a rule play is exact, pre- | includes the man who plavs bumbice cise, sclentific. and the gallery is chief- PUIPE &% WO 88 HIG S0 00 ly concerned in studying the form of ,y.rninety at the end of an eighteey the players and their methods of nego- | J¥4T FIHCTY & tiating difficult shots or devious prob- '\ (RNTRCY L ~ lems. In other words, the great thing A Wtie Jump 1o a0 theill about golf is the fun got In PIAYINE | Wit s s ineffably st Sy in the game vourself: it quite overshad- | JVNAL 1% &0 (v ows such pleasure as watching others | {rive [T 7 play may hold. deseent shakes it Of course, British professionals | {0 s { make enough money when they come | [°", AN pesatt here to pay for the trip. but even so, [ °F & Duil Will riESLt (R S T their returns are not to be compared in the r e with receipts garnered by Jimmy s'nging Wilde, England’s flyweight champion Al it i At the boxer. ‘While lon the subject ‘ofthie club swinger will ask—two British, it may be of interest to note s that Geéorge Duncan and Abe Mitchell, | Hundred- 0 who will come here in July to do the ’ grand tour of American links, are two e of the younger British golfers who| HRobert 1 Harrison, a pitcher. has have already begun to crowd the fa- | been elected captain of the Universit . 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