Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1922, Page 25

Club Owners Face Usual Crop of Holdouts : Dempsey Is Eager to Fight Any Real NO QRGANIZED REBELLION BY ATHLETES, HOWEVER Lack of Equity In Cash Apportioned Stars and Ordi- nary Players and High Cost of Living Principal Reasons for Higher Salary Demands. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, January_26.—Ball players are not in accord with, club owners as to. the amounts which have been penned into the con- tracts which have been mailed pretty generally to players of the major league clubs. In one instance, it was learned from reliable sources today, nearly every contract sent out by one club was rejected. That doesn’t mean ball players will not be with that particular club. The sig- nature is merely a matter of form. The player just lines himself up with an employer, from whom there is no escape. Failure to'sign his contract, however, may mean his leaving the game for good, as he cannot play until he signs. ' 5 4 There is no indication of an organized effort to resist the offerings of the major league club owners, although at the time of the world series there were rumors, as there always seem to be, that the players were about to band together and take a nm.ted stand against any inirinzement, of their rights. Probably they couldn't find any infringement. There are two reason:l\:h_);“u:meo::: : the contracts are unsatisfactory. ICOAST A"D A, A_ TITLE WINNERS MAY MEET in that the players are growling at the lack of equity in splitting up the LOS ANGELES, Calif., Janua: Hevival of the miner worlde stipends. More than ever the major ries between the eham s of league clubs are paying top-heivy prices to star performers. Flayers generally realize that the” big guns are booked to get the most mouey, but the old cry Taised twenty years Pacific Const Base Ball League but the ol ols Hoating again’ that! the American Association fs the so-called stars are recéelving pro- ,-‘Doni by H. Smith, owner.of the potis of the latter or- forization, who is here. He nald * favored making the series an annual event and would take the matter up with President Hickey when Ae returned to Indiamapolis. portionately too much. The publicity attached to making announcement of special contracts is & sword cut- ting both ways. Tie second reason advanced for bet- ter pay than has béen offered is the added cost of living iIn citles. Ball. . If This Keeps Up Sli;:wnl Be Golng Without Furs Next Summer.—By WEBSTER. \\\——:_—/:z ' WQMAN 102 YEARS OLD ““°IS'ARDENT FIGHT FAN SIOUX CITY, lown, January 26— Altkough 103 years old, Mrs. Mary Convey of Omaka, Neb. is an ar- dent boxing fan. She arrived here yesterday from Omaha the Moore-MeArt! t. Mrs. Comvey be- came a fight fan, she says, when she wan a girl in Ireland. She re- seelng many famous SCHOOL QUINTS TO USE TWO COURTS TOMORROW Two ficors will be used by high nchool basket ball teams for their “hamploniship tournament games to- mofrrow. no decision regarding the regumption of double-headers on one | | :[ court having been reached by offi- | clals in charge of the annual series. | Tech and Business will play in the | &irls' gymnasium at Central High | School, while Central and Western will clash at the Coliseum. Morse and Hughes have been designated as offi- cials for the tilt at Central. Fitz- gerald and Schlogser will conduct the ! SPORTS — Rival ; KEARNS TO SEE RICKARD 't TODAY REGARDING A BOUT, Says Champion Is Willing to Meet Bm Wills, Roper, Gibbons or Any Other Logical Foe—Will Go Abroad as Last Resort. b EW YORK, January 26—Jack Dempsey is eager and ready to defend : his world heavyweight title against any recoguized rival, and is 2 not particular about the scene of combat, declared Jack Kearns, his manager, when he arrived here yesterday. : . Kearns came east for the purpose of meeting with Promoter Tex Rickard, and arranged for a conierence with him today. There has been talk of Dempsey engaging the smiling Georges Carpentier in another bout, in Europe this time, and there has been gossip, too, of matching the titleholder with several different heavyweights on this side. CROSS AGAIN QUITS RING - |75 tis, 1557, solg Keagn; T to” TO PRACTICE DENTISTRY | nan, Bob Roper, Tommy Gibbons—any of them that seeks it—can have a . crack at Jack. A Wills fight has been cult to put by enbugh during the play- ing season to carry them through the cold months. At least such Is their complaint. By the time that the train- ing season is ready to begin most of them will have made peace and will be on~hand. WITH SAM RICE SIGNED Jersey City on Skids. At first the announcement that the franchise of the Jersey City club could be bought at a stated sum was look- «d upon as a_joke. but there is noth- ing funny about it. Jersey City is not very likely to go on with the In- ternational League in 1922, unless there is some ope in that part of the state eager to ave the franchise for the town, i Objections offered in Jersey City to the present.arrangeménis are that the park is out of the way and the city In general too close to major league base ball. It is as easy to get over to New York, almost, as it is to go to the base ball park in Jer-} sey City, and it is quite as easy to £0 to Brooklyn and see a ball game as it ig for Jersey City enthusiasts to attend their own games. Both Montreal and Providence have been barking to get in the Inter- national circuit, and if either of them is serious it would seem to he an easy task to take the club off the hande of the Jersey City owner. pro- viding, of couree, that they can agree on the amount invalwed. The Amerf{can Association has every advantage over It§ -copartner be- cause it has ‘a circuit one-half of which is as compact as it can be. Columbus, Toledo, Indianapolis and Louisyille are four of the best located citles for a high-class minor league circuit that could be imagined, and it all four of them ever become rivals in the same season for the champion- ship three states bordering.om each other will echo with the howls of the To the list of signatures on Wash- ington contracts reposing-in_the safe of Clark Grifith has been added that of Edgar C. Rlx. commonly known as Sam. The fle#t fiychaser and lead- ing hitter of the Nationals got under cover some time yesterday, exact hour not known, after a brief confab in the club offices at 7th and Florida avenue, It was reported Rice last year failed to receive a bonus of $500 offercd if he had a “goed season.” Sam amassed an average -of .320. just 20 points better than any other Griff- man, and regarded asca fair mark even in an era of “lively” balls. 1f the bonus Inducement was made, the question of what constitutes a “good Season” evidently has been settled, for Sam lost little time in getting under cover. With Rice in line President Grif- fith will h: no pre-season worries |regarding his outfleld, as Manage: Milan and Leon Goslin. the other two “regulars,” signed up some time back. No difficulty is anticipated in getting i Earl Smith in line and Frank Brower, ithe other reservist, officially landed jon the roster Tuesday. Turkey, by the way, is resting comfortably in a hospital Dbed today following an joperation for removal of his tonsils. Judge, Peckinpaugh and Shanks of the infield regulars now remain to be signed. Josephus is doing his con- tract sparring In person, while the negotiations with Peck and Shanks are being conducted by mail. Griff says he. anticlpates no difficulty in reaching agreements with them. | 3 1 fans. ‘ Roger Bresnahan of Tefedo has! been in New York trying to eapturef some of the Gfants' sutplus players for Toledo, and he will very likely go to S8an Antonio while the Giants are thére, don the catcher's mitt and| coach some of the young pitchers for his 0ld manager. That wilkglve him the best opportunity to get a line on ‘what the pjayers can do. PHILS AND NEALE FINED FOR SECRET PAY PAGT acThia Nationals Reve ben fined 3300 e la Nationals ve been fine Killinger to e Farmedc, by Judge K. M. Landis, commissioner of Killinger, the Penn State foot balli base ball, for entering into a secret star, who will start the season with |agreement with Outfielder Earle Neale, the ‘New York Americans, probably | who presented a claim for $600 back sal- will go to some club that 1s in need |ary. The claim was allowed, but Neale of a third baseman and willing to |also was fined $100. take chahces in order that he may get} When Neal» signed with Philadelphia a year in regular work to see what!last spring a secret asreement was there is in him. a batter in col-|made in which it was stipulated that he lege games Kiilinger hit for 3001 would be paid to the end of the season. That should make” him somewhere ! Subsequently, however, he was released near a .360 hitter as gafes o in the | to Cincinnati and the existence of the change from college bass ball to or- | secret agreement did not becorse known ganized base ball of a lodwer classi- ;f;::'rwnimlr;:fir&fgcws until a month tion. He is a good flelder because N ::‘u a quick starter, and his hands| The Cincinnati club declined to pay are -well molded. In foot ball he|him for the !nfif;"“mm but l&e ot gained many of his points because he [Pald for the period he remained wi could get into motion on the first|the club. the _ Chidago | ] “THOUGHT THE SiL Bu PUT O GALO MEANT To USE AR | | ! i | l TURNS TABLES ON MEN - NEW YORK, January 26.—Organ- izers of the new golf club for women at Glen Head, L. I, have not lost sight, altogether, of the fact that there is such a thing in golf fandom as the male of the species. Provision has been made by the new club, it was said after an organ- ization=meeting. to extend ‘“play| privileges” to husbands and frien of members, but with membership lim- ited exclusively to women. Thus the male golfer has been rec- ognized, but placed in the same rela- tive position as that of women -in men’s clubs. Organization of the new club, to be known as the Women's National Golf and Tennis Club, was launghed a week ago, with thé an- nounced intention of escaping re- strictions and to have a course that would be a real test for feminine golfers. Miss Marion Hollins, national wom- an champion and one of the organ- ization leaders, will sail today for England, where, with Miss Cecil Leitch, she will play over various courses, gathering’ ideas for comstruc- tion of t INWINTER, EVANS FINDS crack of signal and because of his| In another decision great agility. Both of those qualifi- cations are requisites for the position of third Base, and that i$ where Kil- linger wants to play. . (Copytight, 1922.) —_—— CHICAGO, January 26.—Club own- ers of the American Association have declined to enter into any draft agreement with the major leagues. The proposal for the restoration of the draft, carrying with It a price of $7.500 for each player drafted. was unanimously voted down at a spec! meeting yesterday. The major leagues, if they desire to obtaln star players from the American Association clubs, will have to purchase. them. outright at whatever price demanded. The proposal to amend the agree- ent between the major and minorjdent of the Philadelphia Amerl agues relating to the draft came) League base foner of presi- :and Ban Johnson of the American League, constitutlng the base ball advisory council. Judge Landis held that restoration of the draft was neces- sary, o that base ball players could advance in their profession. ‘ The American Association is the e ‘ /]n"om Judge Landis, commi: second of the three class A, A. leagues in organised base ball to reject the proposal for restoring the draft. The Pacific Coast League voted it down at its meeting several days ago. The International League, accord- ing to base ball leaders here, is ex- pected to follow suit. THREE-CUSHION EXPERTS BEGIN EXHIBITION MATCH John Layton, national three-cushlon billiard champion, and Bob Cannefax, former title-holder, opened play at Sherman’s establishment this after- noon in the first match in their two- day exhibition here of the. game at which they are so praficient. They will meet again at 8 o'clock tonight and at 2:30 and 8 p.m. tomofrow, Following match play at each per- formance, the billiardists will enter- tain with trick and fancy shots. UPSET IN CUE TOURNEY. Clive Richmond's 200 to 166 win over George Wheatley, ‘present title- holder, last night was the greatest upset to date in the city pocket Uil- llard championship tournament mow o] are to meet tonight at- 3§ he Arst block of their Americans have been orde pay the Sherman, Tex., club $1,750 for Charles . _Robertson, who was purchased in 1917. Only $250 of the irchase price was paid at the time and it was agreed that the balance would be 1d Robertson was retained after May 10, 1918. Robertson was sent to the Min- neapolis club under an optional ™ ment instead of being returned to Sher- man. X Rudsell Pence, formerly a member of the Chicago Americans, who left the club last season because of his physical condition, has been reinstated. , Indians Get Sandlot Star. CLEVELAND, January 26.—~Frank ‘Tubbs of Grund Rapids, Mich., a right- handed semi-pro pitcher, 'has been signed by the Cleveland base ball club, it was announced today. Tubbs is twenty-two years old. He won thirty-four out of thirty-six games jal | with & Michigan semi-pro team last year. L) S A Tom Shibe Heads A’s. PHILADELPHIA, January ball club, at a special meeting of the stockholders to- day to succeed his father, the late Benjamin F. Shibe. His brother, John D. Shibe, was chosen vice presi- dent and secretary. Connie Mack was re-elected treasurer and manager. COTTON STATES LEAGUE TITLE MAY BE REVIVED JACKSON, Miss., January 26.—Direc- tors of the Mi 1 _State League were expected to meet here today for the purpose of dissolving the state league and forming & new cirouit, which probably will be known as the Cotton States League. -~ According to reports from he quarters of the old organization Merfidian, several cities in the stai already have virtually secured fran- ichises in the proposed new leagu with one point outside the common- wealth, Pensacola, Fla., practically assured entry, and two or three other places indicating a desire to join. Those places in the state where fran- chises praobably will be placed Meridian, Jackson, Vicksburg, Green< wood and Clarksdale. —_——— Stanford Conch Gets Offers. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., January 26. ~=Gene van Gent, foot ball and bas- ket ball coach of Stanford University, has recelved and is considering cosching ofters from thres middle- west colleges, he has announced. — California Secks Meet. BERKELEY, Calif., January 26.—Ef- forts are being track meet University of California and ) Vi - i l .made ' to 3 here, April §, mfi. i nammmfl Winter golf is becoming .as gen- eral all-year motoring, according to information gathered by former national champion Chick Evans, who has made it a hobby for several years to study that phase of his favorite pastime. : Between the sturdy golfer who follows the red ball through the snow on northern links and the thousands who journey to more mod- erate climes, Evans estimates that about half of America’s golfers con- tinue play during the frigid months. It is no novelty nowadays to see bevies of men and even women fol- lowing the rubber pellet with wood an iron over the frozem links in the north, while golf cour: have been built by sco! in the southern and .Pacifio coast Tr WOMAN \IHO e LY OLD KLES THE MANU C SHES \WERE OF GOLFERS PLAY |: FACTURER Coppright. 1983, 1 T Weborns GOLF CLUB FOR WOMEN |SPORTS NOT HIT BY FITCH IN SCORING COLLEGE LIFE BY WALTER CAMP. OLLEGE athletics are in a state of upheaval owing to the wide- | pared for its encounter with Lebanon spread discussion started by Dr. Lowell's observations in his an- fual report at Harvard, but the picture is presented from a new |ing with his squad for several days angle in an _:_ddr;sl made the other day by Dr. F¥ch of Amherst before SME | Rade students. ’ “The average undergraduate,” said Dr. Fitch, than a very complicated ass in a generation that i¢ ignorant of its moral responsibilities, finding its pleasures in the moral debauch of the moving’ C picture and modern dances.” If this view is true athletics are not to blame, and a greater dissemination of_outdoor sports would tend to im- Prove matters. The whole situation is extremely complicated. The very existence of iptersectional contests has increased interest in athletics to & high pitch and undoubtedly has done much good in its way. But it has brought other elements along In its wake. The National Collegiate As- sociation inaugurated last vear a na- tional track champlonghin meet and the event was held in Ckicago. The University of Pennsylvania did not send men to the meet, and now it is rumored that the University of Chi- cago will not send men to the Penn relays, as in the past, because of that fact. If it is true that Earl Eby, the lion- hearted little middle-distance runner and -intercollégiate half-mile cham- pion, has retired from the traock, it will be a great disappointment to all who have followed his fine work. It will algo affeet the running this year of the Millrose 600. There never was a man who had more pluck and a ?o&hu‘hly sustained spring at the n It is very pleasing to the old veter: ans_who remember the fine running of Bernard Wefers to see his son Bernie doing ®0 well in the sprints, and every one is looking forward to his duplicating the record of his father.. Jote Ray, Murebivon, Schultz and Loomis are a big factor as drawing cards in the indoor meets and the ex- oneration by the Central A. A. U. of ! ithe charge of putting in extreme ex- pense accounts has relieved a great states until some 300 semi-tropical' many who have been counting on see- links now await the ingress of winter | ing these men perform. Whether any- players. From' Plnehurst, not far south of the Mason' and Dixon’ line, on the Atlantic, these winter links form a U-s) 1 string down to Florida, west to Diego and mnorth to Seattle. greatest growth in recen heen. in Texas, where a fi spirited contrast, h: n waged for supremacy amon:= f: wing citles in’ the cotton and oil e The hegira to winter golf meccas used to be confined largely to Florida 2rd southern Califnmiy. bt Alinres sippi and Louisiana soon got in_the swim and then Arizona and New ! Mexico spread out their golf courses in previous deserts or cattle l’llfi and eventually all the southern st 3 thing further will come of the matter is a question. (Copyright, 1922.) ——e REMAIN AT PITT, GLENN WARNER SAYS LOS ANGBLES, Jdfu -26.—Glenn ‘Warner, -foot ball coach of the Univer- es sity of Pittsburgh, will remain at that es | institution for the next two years, he got in the Scotch mood. Northern'said here when asked about negotiations 1 California became more popular with toward obtaining his services npoflfi | golfers who lived in the semblance!from Stanford University. He said iof Bcottch wm. -{N sy Q‘:;ngm"fll: could not mfimfl.hh : wn‘: into the ‘Stanford e o O euding British Colum- | 2o o e e eved “Lone. Star” | bia, where the Japan current madepjets, foot ball coach .at Purdue, | the' temperature suitable for golf. charged With having offered Northwest 7 School - athletes assist- CORINTHIAN YACHT CLU Willlam Washburn Nutting of New York, managing editor of Motor Boat, and Norman Call of Richmond, vice president of the Richmond, Fred- ericksbrg and Potomac railway, wil be guests of honor at the banquet Corinthian Yacht Club at the City Club Saturday night. Nutting will e | tell the yachtsmen of his trip across the Atlantic in an auxiliary ketch car. -mh,;r addresses will be Adrian Sizer, past comm Capital Yacht Club, and o% of jam: Corinthian Yacht Chul i ——— e HARNESS RACING TRACK TO BE SITE OF HOMES ! POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. January 26.-The Hudson River Dri Park, famous in the annals of harness race ing and belonging to Col. Jacob Rup- owner of the anll WILL BANQUET SATURDAY |™ jlof ta ‘of | comi '9’( 8o many mem| :pass{ in the winter the French a8, cirouit meou-lf‘ “tpg u:-d .In _the High ance if they entered that institution, “is now and for some time has been e victim: of persecution.” . Warner made rm e the: following telegram h®° sald “he received " from “A gToss injury has been have demarded done me. I in chatges, which -will be forth- ing."* D! ‘was first 'Warner’s pro- and ,l“"b'-" his it coach at Carlisle. — s ‘Navy Swimmers Are IIL ANNAPO] M4, Janu 26— emmbers of tho Neval Acad- y are suffering from light attacks of /influenza that it has been neces- sary tege to ask Pennsylvania to post- porie the meet scheduled for Saturday. All of the stars of the Sinclalr, are affected. in French Net Play. NEW YORK, January 36—Samuel ardy, captain of the United States avis cup team of 1920, is competing, tennis tournaments in Riviera and has been en- 14 cove: _team, except ofl | to meeting the Seaman Gunners,.in a Coliseum contest. Both games will tbegin at 3:15 o'clock. Central added to {ts victory string | yesterday in a 29-to-22 game with | the Tome School team of Port De- | posit, Md. The visitors led until just before the close of the first half, when Capt. McFadden, with two scrimmage | goals, gave Central a 15-to-13 ad- i vantage. The Blue and White kept | to the_fore throughout .the second half. McFadden and Clarke, oppos- Ing centers, were stars of the fray. Inability to poecket tosses from the .| fteen-foot miark was mainly respon- sible for Gonzaga's 0-27 defeat by Mount 8t. Joseph's of Baltimore yesterday. The locals outscored the visitors from the field, but shot only three goals in fourteen tries from the foul line. ] st. J College went to Ellicott City, M and took a 26-to-18 trounc- ing 'from Rock Hill, but the Mar landers had to struggle fof th victory. Morris did most of St. John scoring. Georgetown Prep basketers over- whelmed the Rockville five, 38 to'11. Walsh, forward, and Reynolds, guard, played well for the winners. Tech High Reserves were well beaten at Kendall Green, Gallaudet scoring a 109to7 victory. Eastern High Is to visit St. Alban's tomorrow afternoon for a game with the Cathedral boys. Friends' Schools of Washington and Baltimore also .jare scheduled to clash, while St John's is to meet Loyola High at Baltimore. COLLEGE BASKET BALL. At West Point—Army, .33; Knex College of ilinots, 16, ville—Vanderbilt, 23; Mississippi ! al bridy , 33; ‘“:‘ a' go—Harvard, Massachusetts \GALLAUDET IS PRIMED FOR LEBANON TOSSERS Gallaudet’s basket ball team. strengthened by several recent shifts made by Coach Cooper, is well pre- iValley at Kendall night. 1 Green tomorrow Cooper has been experiment- and belleves he has selected a com- bination speedier than any sent into other games this season by the Flori- da avenue institution. Capt. LaFountain will be continued in a forward position, instead of re- suming his accustomed place at cen- ter, and will have BSeipp, a fair shooter, but excellent passer, as run- ning mate. Baynes, the stocky foot ball player, will be at center, while Danofsky and Bradley will play at the guard positions. It will be the first game for the latter, but he has been doing better than others of the squad in_recent drills. Leobanon Valley was represented by a sturdy floor team last winter and has lost few of the men of that quint. It a good record g0 far this sea- son. Saturday, the Pennsylvanians will go to Georgetown to clash with the Blue and Gray. 3 —_— e McWHIRTER TAKES LEAD IN TITLE SKATING MEET PLATTSBURG, N. Y., January 26.— Roy McWhirter of Chicago tonight was leading the point winners in the senior events of the national amateur outdoor skating championships events at the close of the second day. He had a total of eighty points, while Charles Jewtraw of Lake Placid was next, with levcmr McWhirter finished first in the one- ile e and third in the 440-yard s nothing more or fess LIBERTY CLUB QUINTS INTWIN BILL TONIGHT Liberty Athletic Club’s basket ball teams will be sent into a pair of games tonight at Liberty Hall, 5th and H streéts. The regulars are scheduled to enconnter the Vi-einia Orioles, while the Reserves will bat- tle with the Seminoles. The latter engagement will get under way at 8 o'clock. Hudson Athletic Club wants games in the 105-pound class. Telephone gg;&!;ngu to Gordon Jack, Columbia Efliott Athletle Club took a dou- ble-header, beating the Lexingtons, 68 to 5, and the Potomacs, 46 to 14. o melcl‘ck" q-;-t. wlmn Noah Downes, 1 'ormer Gallaudet player, will invade: the Collseum-Sunday for a return en.|dash. while Jewtraw won the 440- gagement with the Congress Helghts| Yard dash, but failed to be & point Yankees. Grace and Mercury fives| Winner in the mile. WL Rt 1n o areT i : " 'The meet will close today. Warwick Athletie Club registered its eighteenth straight win In a 29- to-7 game with the 8St. Teresa Mid- | | l I l BARS BOXERS UNDER 18. CLEVELAND, Januury 26.—Boxers gets. under ell‘hl!fl!n years of age 'Wflé not = ‘be permitted to participate in bouts Mashattan = toswers crushed the|here under a ruling issued by the new Mount Vernons under a 66-t0-8 score. Hutchinson made sixteen fleld goals for the victors. Cleveland commission. The commis- sion also ruled that no longer will an- Washington Arrow Girls vanquish, | ¢4 from the ring. ed the Eastern High Alumni, 13 to 9. but the Washington Arrow Boys could not stop tne Truxtons, wio won, 26 to 11. Leviathans pointed the way to the Epworths in a 30-to-16 encounter. lsnv::r;. Was the stellar player of the oh, A Metropolitans were defeated, 35 to to 24, by the Light Infantry At Alex- andria. Seiple led the attack of the Guardsmen. Knights of Columbus five will en- tertain the Diamonds tonight in Car- roll Institute Hall. Play will start at 8 o'clock. 5 Eastera Preps and Epiphany Cen- ter will meet tonight at 8 o'clock in the gymuasium at 12th and C streets southw: The Preps want other en- l‘l:muth ig&l}\d challenges to Roy - ennsylvania avenue southeast. % nn{ru m‘:lcht f_ i “l’u? lg;' or a game wi Crystal Athletic Club. Alderton, Langtord, Gude, C. Brown, B. Brown Rynearson and Winkjer of | the Emanons are to report at Georgia avenue and Rock Creek Church road at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow night, prior THE BEST H A PAIR AND UP 19 1 e at the Naval Reserve Armory. . manager of the Emanons, whose telephone is Adams 2021, wants to hear from the Aloysius management. Skating Caps, 50 g, 1 o e Gppenehi ORIght in Gonzage 3 n| in n: M._ starting play at 7:30 University of Richmond is bullding ers, with- pockets. ‘Gray, Ni & handsome gymnasium. It will be| [l Maroon colors. x ready for use shortly. LOS ANGELES, Callf., Jamuary 36—Lench Cross, old-time light- weight, who quit the ring for den- tistry, in which profession he is known as Dr. Lester C. Wallach, his own name, and who receatly tempornrily quit dentistry to stage & “comeback” in the ring, has akain returned to dentistry here. He sald ke enjoyed his “comeback.” @uring which he defeated u number of eastern lightweights in and around New York. WOULD HAVE FIVE MEN most talked of, but the promoters don’t seem to warm up to the idea.” Dempsey is now in Los Angeles and will come to New York, Kearns said, if he {s needed. Only in case negotia- tion for a titular bout in the United States fail, will Jack take a fling in Europe. Buys Home in Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES, Calif, January 26. —Jack Dempsey, heavyweight cham- plon, has purchased a house here and announced he would make it his per- manent residence. He was sald to have pald $42,600 for it. JACK MEET IN ONE NIGHT ' BY FAIR PLAY. EW YORK, Jnuary 26—Boxing promoters of the east, and of New N York particularly, were scratchihg their heads today over whom they can shove into the lion’s cage that the public will pay to see chewed up. In other words, they were figuring out an opponent for Jack Dempsey. The problem was made more acute by the presence here oi Jack Kearns, Dempsey’s manager, who is here looking for fights for his S A T Y NS MAKES HT I CHCAGD Kearn's ear today and the line of ar- | CHICAGO, January 26.—Chicago gument he poured into it is pretty| generally known. Rickard talked | sport followers today analyzed the first American wrestling match held to Bill Brennan, if reports be true. Who else could he take. For that | under rules providing for rounds, fol- |lowing the contest last might in matter, even Brennan has come to be pretty much of a joke since his man- ager failed to mike good on the pro- | which Johnny Mevers of this city ve- tained ~ the ~ middleweight wrestling championship by _throwing _John term that Brennan applies to Greb. Want to See Dempsey. Of course, a crowd would flock to the garden to see Dempsey fight Brennan, not because they would have any idea of seeing a battle of | a century, but because Dempsey is a drawing card, no matter who he flxh(‘" and a lot of fans would pay to m. “Tex,” sald a critjc of the game to- day, “here is a proposition for a big battle: Take Dempsey and let Bren- nan‘get into the ring with him for five ‘Founds, then Madden, then Capt. Roper. then Fred Fulton and then Bob. Martin. Anyone who lasted the five rounds would get a certai percentage of the gate receipt: posal that Brennan should meet the winner of the Greb-Wienert fight Kilonis of Norfolk, Va., in the fourth round. some time ago. If Wienert had won, Bill would probably have signed, but evidently he doesn’t like any part of The 6,000 fans who witnessed the bout apparently approved of the method of conducting the match and the clown's game—clown being the newspaper comment today Was favor- able. There was much at the contest that recalled a boxing bout. Seconds were parked in the contestants’ corners, and they pushed stools through the ropeg at the end of each ten-minute round. produced towels and wielded sponges with the same alacrity that characterizes _the activities of the. principals’ assistants in a fistie en- counter. And to add to the resem- Rickard didn't commit himself on this, but one could see that he did not think the idea was such a bad one at that. Pavese H. “Find.” Perhaps the heavyweight, as yet unnamed, that Nick Pavese of New- ark has picked up in Baltimore, may work into a match with the champlion. Nick says that his find weighs 206 and stands 6 feet 2% inches. Pavese wants to arrange & match for him against Wienert and then later have a crack at Dempsey. Maybe Balti- more sports will know who this find is. e has been missed by New Yorke Aside from Dempsey, Kearns is full of business. Herman and thinks with: the help- of Dan McKetrick he can make a featherweight champion out of him. And then there is Joe Benjamin, Whom Kearns touts as a sure light- weight champion, possibility. The fact -that Joe has to hurdle no one s Eorry Kearns. Besides all that Kearns promises to produce & strong He is interested in Babe | than Benny Leonard Woesn't| blance, the gong rang at the opening {and closing of each round. A new way of writing a story of a wrestling match also came into vogue when the morning papers described the contest “by rounds.” : ALL WAGERS REFUNDED ON “ACCIDENT” HORSES HAVANA, Cuba, January 26.—Inci- dents out of the ordinary made the afternoon’s sport at the race course exciting. In the second race, while the field was at the post, Bounce, which was quite fractious, reared and fell over the fence. In falling he threw his right stifie. ' Robinson, the rider, came out of the scrimmage with both knees lacerated. 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