Evening Star Newspaper, February 20, 1922, Page 17

SPORTS." PLAYERS ARE MONEY-MAD, . SAYS HUSTON OF YANKEES Performers Dreaming of Autos and Silk Shirts Again, According to New York Ma-gnate, Who Asserts Present Situation Is Unprecedented. . o 2 \ . + LL the players in the world are dreaming of automobiles and silk shirts”again, according to Co. Til Huston, one of the owners of the New York Americans. Col. Huston declared that in his short career as part owner of a ball team he never knew a time when iutfi a great sum of money separated the clubs and the players. In 1919, before the base ball season opened, a few thousand dollars repFesented the difference between what the club owners offered in their contracts and what the players demanded. It did not take Jong to patch up the difference, and by the time the season started practically all players were under contract. In;1920 the differences of opinion as to relative value of services of play- ers ‘mounted to about $40,000 con- servatively estimated. Some of these differences were adjusted by increas-} ing salaries and part were taken up by promises o bonuses for good play- ing~or good behavior. Wide Apart This Year. This year the differences between | ZBYSZKO WOULD HAND~ MAT TITLE TO BROTHER NEW YORK, February 20.—Stan- islaus Zbyssko, world heavyweight wrestling champion, plans to re- tire undefeated in May and to WHAT’S THIS, MESSENGER !Believe’ It or Not. BOYS OF D. C. TO RUN?| A team of Washington messen- ger boys will vTe with those of Baltimore, Pittsburgh, ' Buffalo, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, New York and Newark in ong of the feature relays of the Weatern Union A. A. indoor track and fleld games at the 22d Regiment Armory in New ork tomorrow might. The win- ng team will gain the undisputed honor of having fastest mes senger service in the east. The local team will in dore Kettner, Sha Smith and George Shanley aixo will run in a race and Kettner in the 220-yard dash. Rok Nisewander will start in the yard dash. The aquad, which leaves tomorrow morning,“will be in charge of H. M. Goldxtein, delivery supervisor of the I VML TOSSERS HERE | FORPAR F CNTESS Virginia Military Institute’s basket ball team arrived in Washington this WALTER Jounson afternoon for a two-day stay. ' The . Lexington Cadets are to invade the big STRUCK OuT Brookland gymnasium tonight for a, 2897 game with Catholic University and to- clul owners and players may be esti- mated, according to good judges, to place hia title in the care of his younger brother Wiadek. amount to almost $250,000." The mil- lion-dollar gate at the world series stilk looms big in the eves of the players, who want their bit of past and“future receipts, { “Isn’t it true your club is paying! the penalty of having won the n'ham-l The younger of the grappling | Zhynakos is to engnge'Joe Stecher, former champion, in a bout Im Madixon Square Garden tomorrow ight. It Wiadek wins, his older brother will make fmmediate plans for retirement. pionship?” Col. Huston was asked. “There may be something in that,” ¥e ceplicd, “but we allowed for that Wwhen we sent contracts to players. We didn't forget that they won the championship of the American League } for -us in 19%21. But other owners! whose clubs did not win champion- ships and whose players did not play ! excitable base ball tell me they arel making public anything about busi- nes# relations between owners and Rayers, I presume however. it is a) CHICAGO, February 20.—Judge K, ece of news if Ruth signs a con-)M. Landis is mapping out a tour of tract for the largest salary ever paid{the training camps of both big a b3l player. I never heard anybody lleagues. He wants to see some of ask about the smallest salary in base ! the minors in action, t0o. ball; however. They tell me ball play-| " “I'm a rookie at this game myselt,” ers once played for the honor of play- | he said. “I want to study the train- Hngbut S notivow. it - ing systems. - There has been some How much money separates your|complaint that promising _rookies plavers and your club?” he was asked. ) s - “Plenty and enough,” was the diplo- | PAI§ not been glven a fair shdw. =~ matle reply. “Some of them seem to 'y =°%0 h o ratesof 40 per cent on invested capi- | SPPOFIRRILY to prove it A Some of tal’ have ‘arrived’ when they are not ripe. Ruth in Dictater’s Role. {I want to have a look at this sprihg Then take Ruth, for instance. It is said by those who profess to training system and study it Judge Landis also said he would kno® ail about his comings and go- |devote more time to the American ings, that the first little speech he |Legion. made about salary showed that about “The American Legion is the great- $40,Q00 stood between him and the|est insurance policy this nation has, checkbook of the Yankee club inlhe said. “It is our standing guaran 1922. That estimate is just as likely {ty of peace and liberty. I am deep- to be false as true. It may be more. [With Ruth it is just a question of JUDGE LANDI, ROGKE. ly devoted to the legion and shall help in whatever way I can.” CUBS, FIRST TO TRAIN, GET INTO ACTION TODAY| | This year he holds the whip hand. [He will be quite as well off in a sal- ry ‘way as if he had not been sus- ended. If he does not play in the early part of the year the owners of g the American League clubs will 1%l it, and the Yankees will need himmll the more when he does get in. ‘Therefore, all Ruth has to do is to ask »for as much as he would have gotten had he not been been suspend- ed ahd just as much more as he can get because he was punished. The Meusel brothers, who live in (alifornia, where the flowers and the ‘melons are big, have grown big notiens about salary during the win- ter. They want more than the New CHICAGO, Febuary 20.—The Chicago Nationals, first major league club to Teach the training camp, will get into action on Catalina Island, off the Cali- fornia coast, today, according to special dispatches published here. The Cubs arrived late yesterday and found Grover Cleveland Alexander, sta heaver. in fine condition from his win- ter training. YANK FIVE FALTERING Complain About Expenses. Al the players who live in Call- fornia._complain about the expenses £ travel, and the owners moan like bahshee when some player asks for is fare from California and return. Eaeh year the owners declare that o_Yall player will be permitted at sprifig training camp unless he has igned his contract. Each year there niwdys are some players who have not gigned contracts and who seem somehow to be able to make their vay¥ to_the camps and make their ermg after they get there. tnefinrdln: Judge Landis. It 78 very well known in base ball circts that Commissioner Landis has been criticiséd by some of the own- ers. &ho chose him for his present position. However, there is nothing extr@ordinary about that. No man over. has atiempted to serve base ball in am executive capacity who has not been.eriticised, and some of it as bit- terly personal as the criticism of politles. . 1t was dryly asked today by one of lub owners who has been a nch Landis adherent whether the fact of hi%resignauon from the bench i Will be sefzed upon by the disaffected o cenly. ‘§e is only one of us now,” is” man {shid, “just base ball, and loukrnow;what that means.” Attentiom=4s called to the possibil- ity that with mo draft law in exist- eace in bade ball the commissioner, Rg a federal judge on the one hand, »nd as the head of base ball and nleading its existence on the otner, found himself in som With the re- the commissioner more perpétuity hich signs the player to a contract. ITTY LEAGUE WILL PLAY SCHEDULE OF 115 GAMES PADUCAH, Ky.. February 20.—Dr. ank Bassett of Hopkinville, Ky., has en elected president and secretary of he new Kitty Base Ball League at a eeting here. A schedule of 115 games lso was agreed upon, the season to ypen May 16 and close September 4. Cairo, Ill.; Hopkinsville, Paducah and isonville, Ky., and ‘Tenn., will wve clubs in the league, and it is ex- ted that ‘the remaining three berths il be taken by Bowling Green, May- field and Owensboro, Ky. . NLY BROWNS UNSIGNED ARE JACOBSON AND DAVIS LOUIS, February 20.—Bill obson, outflelder, and “Dixie” the “coming season by the Browns. Manager Fohl is making preparations for the team’'s departure for the training camp Wednesda: == et ‘Wagner Heads Association. PITTSBURGH, Pa, February 20— 'Honus Wagner, former shortstop of the ~Pittsburgh Nationals, has been €] president of the Greater Pitts- 'burgh Base Ball Association, an or- ganization composed: of most of the lamateur clubs of the city. Will Train at Plantation. CON, Ga., February 20.—Sixteen pitchers and catchers of the Roches- ter ' Internationals will Varrive at George Stallings’ plantation, at Had- dock, near here, this week to begin training. 3 e —— Jwo Net Titles to Bastian. MI, Fla., February 20.—Fritz Bas- lany Indiana tennis champion, who won K uth Florida singles championship, ON EVE OF TITLE TILT Congress Heights Yankees, District basket ball champions, probably will | not find the going so easy in Gonzaga gymnasium Wednesday night, wheng they tackle the Aloysius Club quint in the second tilt of the series for the local title The Yanks barely man- aged to take the measure of the I Streeters in the first match played at the Coliseum last month, and on the same floor yesterday were defeated de- cisively by St. Andrew’s Athletic As- sociation of Baltimore, holder of the Maryland independent laurels. ' In taking their 22-to-16 drubbing from the Marylanders, the Yanks at | times played listlessly and gave every | indication of staleness. The District !star aggregation, which has been jthrough a strenuous campaign, was really no match for St. Andrew’s. The latt jumped into the lead at the outset and with a short-passing game completely baffled the Yanks. It was the locals’ second loss of the season to_the Baltimoreans. The Yankee forwards, Atherton and Heddons, had few chances for bas- kets and missed a number of them. Ingley, at center, was shaded by Mec- the Baltimorean, but Ford :' l But for their speedy play, St. An-: drew’s would have registered a more crushing defeat. Holeow's work at forward, and the floor play of Lentz, forgner St. John’s College star, had mu®h to do with the success of the visitors. 75, I. C. S., wants games with ninety-pound teams possessing floors. Send challenges to T. McQueeney, 436 Rhode Island avenue. = Adath _Athletie Club, which van- 1 quished Troop 73, Boy Scouts, 18 to 2, will play Premier Athletic Club Fri- day at the Palace court. Roamer Athletie Club put a crimp in the junior championship aspira- tions of the Kanawha Preps when they beat the latter, 27 to 20. Faber made 17 points for the winners, St. Teresa tossers gave the Knights of Columbus quint a sturdy battle be- fore losing, 22 to 23. Walsh and Snurskowskl starred for the victors, while Daniels and Mader did the best playing for,St. Teresa. In a game between the reserves of both clubs, the Caseys won, b4 to 28. Grace Athletic Club Reserves down- ed the Palace Athletic Club quint, 34 to 28. J. Gollan made seven scrim- mage goals for the winning five. etic Club easily di posed of the Langdons in a 51-to-10 engagement. Bennie pocketed elght shots from the fleld for the Warwicks. Navy Yard Marines went to Indian Head and defeated the flve of that town, 42 to 31. The home team held vis, pitcher, are the only two Of|; ten-point lead at the. end of the last year's regulars still unsigned for | first half, but could not withstand the Marines’ late rally. NINE MIDWEST COLLEGES PLAN NEW CONFERENCE ST. PAUL, Minn., February 20— Representatives of nine colleges of the middle west and northwest will meet here today to discuss plans for forming a conference along the lines of the big ter® «Institutions interested are Mar- quette University, North Dakota State College, North Dakota Uni- versity, Morningside College, Creigh- ton University, St. Thomas' College, Michigan_ Agricultural College, South ls)lkflu University and South Dakota tate. RACE TO GUILLEMOT. PARIS, February 20.—Josef Guillemot, the French-Olymplc champion runner, won _the twenty-ninth running of the cross-country championship of France yesterday. There were 342 starters. His Paul Barnett captured the doubles | time for the heavi*ten-mile course was 2 66 minutes ¢51-5 seconds, morrow night will be guests of George Washington University at the Coliseum | The Brookland match toright will fol- low one beginning at 7:30 o'clock be- | tween Central High, scholastic caamp. ion, and the Catholic University fresh- men. On past performances, Catholic Uni- versity and Virginia Military Institute are evenly ched. Virginia_Po! ter and the Brooklanders lost, 28 to 29, while the Cadets were defeated, 26 to 25. Georgetown tonight opens its three- game northern trip'with a game against Crescent Athletic Club at Brooklyn. New York University will be played tomorrow and Rutgers Wednesday. RECORD ENTRY EXPECTED FOR MEET AT BALTIMORE A record number of entries is ex- pected for the annual 5th Regl- ment-Johns Hopkins indoor track and field games to be held in the 5th Regiment Armory in Baltimore, Saturday night. The list now totals nearly 700 and many last-minute en- tries are being received. _Among. the latest organizations to enter is the Meadowbrook Club of Philadelphia. It will be represented in two relay races and has named twenty-four ~ athletes for individual competition. Jumps 97 Feet on Skis. MONTREAL, February 20.—I. Ander- son of Berlin, N. H., won the amateur ski jumping contest here with a jump of ninety-seven feet. PIRATES RICH MEN - p‘\vmg IN PITCHERS, BUT WEAK IN THE INFIELD HERE are five clubs in the National League aching until they scream Nto get Glazner, the Pittsburgh pitcher. In Pittsburgh they think he the coming pitcher of the league, and every time anybody says “trade” and “pitchers” in the same sentence to Barney Dreyfus the Pitts-} burgh magnate pulls his hat down over his eyes and wishes them a.glori- ous Fourth of July. ‘The Pittsburgh team. which has not changed a player to date, in spite of the fact that as far back as last October its 6wner was ready to make reasonable and suitable shifts, ripped over the cRurse in 1921 a seeming winner. Suddenly it crumpled and fell in a heap, or approximately that, be- cause it failed to win the champion- ship, and in Pittsburgh second place does not count for much when the base ball populace has blown itself betting that the team will win the pennant. Take the pitching records of five of ! the Pittsburgh pitchers, Adams, Glaz- ner, Morrison, Cooper and Hamilton, and see if you can find anything as good in the National League that be- longs to any other onme club. The Giants, who beat them out, failed to do as well by a mile from a pitching standpoint. Had Fine Joint Average. The five men who have been named on the Pittsburgh team jointly had an earned run average of 2.98, which is a little lesg than three runs per game, and will always stand up as ome of the best marks ever made by pitchers in the history of base ball in view of the slump that was raging every- ‘where else. The significance of Pittsburgh's strength lies in the fact that every propbsition which has been made to Barney Dryfuss to trade something that he might like for something that he has, also has included in it a re. quest for one of these very good pitchers on the Pittsburgh pay roll. SCHOOL QUINTS NEAR CLOSE OF CAMPAIGNS District scholastic basketers are nearing the end of their season. Central, high school champion, will end its campaign tonight with a game against the Catholic University fresh- men. at Brookland, while Business will not take the floor after the George Washington scholastic tour- ney to be played at the Coliseum to- morrow and Wednesday. The only other game listed for a local school is that to be played Saturday by Gonzage at Hyattsville High. Tech, Eastern, Business, Western, Gonzaga, Army and Navy Preps and Emerson Institute will take part in ‘the early round games of the big tournament tomorrow. Emerson will be sent against Hyattsville in the first game at 11 o'clock, Gonzaga end Western clash at 12, Eastern meets Alexandria at 1, Army and Navy Preps encounter Loyola at 2, Tech will take the floor against Baltimore City Callege at 4 and Business will oppose the Georgetown Preps at b. The last game of the opening rounds will start at 6 o'clock. St. John’s has been forced to cancel all engagements for the remainder of the season. Three of the Vermont Avenue boys have been severly in- jured and there are no capable substi- tutes available. Cabt. O'Connor and Brazerol are _suffering from leg strains, while Morris has a seriously bruised elbow. —_—_— Golf Champions to Play. HOUSTON, Tex., Februiry 20.—Hous- ton Country Club midwinter golf tour- ngment starts today with professional events. _ Jock Hutchison and Jim Barnes, British open and national open champions, are entered. = Radiators and Fenders ANY KIND MADE OR REPAIRED, T in_any make. E L WITTSTATT Tires Size 30x3% in. " CHAS. E. MILLER, Inc. 813 14th St, 4 Doors North of H & 319 13th. F. 6410. 481 P. M. 748, s MONTFORD $9 65 Glazner won fourteen games and lost five in 1921 and his earned run average was 2.77. A statement was made the other day by somé chap that Glazner is lucky. If he is other| folks would like to buy some of his luck. Any ball player who is making his first year in a major league and who almost leads that organization at the finish of the season is possess- ed of the same kind of luck that leads some folks straight to a gold miine in the desert. Belies the Lively Ball The success of the Pittsburgh pitch- ers belies the argument that a lively ball had so much to do with the games of the 1921 season. If only one of them had pitched well a lively ball might have had some foundation for its presumable existence, but all of the Pittsburgh pitchers did well and held their speed to something like normal. That was because they were trying all of the time. If the Pittsburgh pitching staff can duplicate its performance in 1922 Dreyfuss again has a chance to win the championship with his team. He knows it, too. That is the reason why he won't talk with any one when a pitcher deal is suggested to him. Glazner cannot be bought for $100,- 000 unless Dreyfuss is ready to quit base ball’' The Pittsburgh owner reckons him as the nearest approach to a . Mathewson that the club has ever had and, of cour: he is the logical successor to Babe Adams. ‘When it is ascertained that the poorest ‘pitcher on the Pittsburgh staff finished with an earned run average in 1921 of 3.00 some idea may be had as to the strength possessed by the Pirates on the pitchers’ plate, because most of the clubs di& not have any pitchers who were not 3.00 or worse. - Team Needs Inflelders. ‘What Pittsburgh wants is a third baseman and a second baseman. Barn- hart looked good in 1920, but in 1921 the conclusion was reached that he was too light for a third baseman. Yet he will go back to third if Drey- fuss can’t improve on him. Tierney, who played second, can hit quite a lot, but he naturally is slow and he won't speed up any because he 18 too far beyond the meridian. Store Closes Daily at 6 P. M. . Established 1583 ANDY SEARS SHOT 21 CONSECUTVE FouL GOALS DEER ANTLERS with MekeespotT, Ba., pros. (905) WOMEN ROLL 2,534 SET IN MATCH AT TENPINS INDIANAPOLIS, I February 20—~What s believed to be a ma- tiopal bowling record for five- woman teams was made here by the Central alley city, which rolled a score of 2,534 in a special teh with a Cioein- matl team. In their first game the local women shot a total of 900 pins. WHITE-JACKSON WINNER WILL BATILE LEONARD NEW YORK, February 20.—Charlie ‘White, nimble-footed lightweight pugilist of Chicago, and Willie Jack- son will meet in Madison Square Gar- den tonight in a fifteen-round bout under American Legion direction. Jacksah and the left-hooking Chi- cagoan both aspire to the lightweight title held by Benny Léonard. Benny is under contract to meet the winner of the bout in a championship con- test. ‘White floored Leonard once during a bout in Benton Harbor, Mich, in 1920, but Benpy, tired of being teased with Charlie’s left, came back and sent Charles away for the count in the ninth round. % THURMAN FACES CROOK IN INTERCTY CUE PLAY Allen Thurman will endeavor to boost the Washington team’s lead when he encounters C. H. Crook of Baltimore at Sherman’s Academy to- night in _the third block of the inter- city 18.2 balkline billiard match. They are to meet in & 200-point block, starting at 8 o'clock. ‘With but two matches remaining in the 1,200-point contest, the local team is’out in front by a margin of 101 points at 800 to 699. The final 200- point block will be shot at Klein's Academy, in_Baltimore, Friday night between G. N. Poulieff of this city and Dr. R. M. Roscow of Baltimore. The Baltimore team in the first block of 400 points played here last Friday assumed a substantial lead over the local combination, but the latter went ahead in the Monumental City last Friday. This is the seventh match In_thirteen years between teams of the two cities. Washington never has been defeated In them. -, ‘Woader What Merts ‘Wil Say Today 25%h§51finél GENERAL REDUCTIONS | We offer you choice of our entire stock of fabrics. Every demand can be satisfied. . Suit or Overcoat ~ To Order o As Low - As Tailor made means you get the garment made as you * want it and' do not have to accept something as it is. ] King of Saxony’s Co"e:tnon i Moritzburg | shot by FrepErick ML of Prussia $250,000 Separates Base Ball Owners and Hold-outs: U.S. Leads World in Athletic Records —By Ripley. 66 PoNTs SPORTS. |AMERICANS HOLD MARKS IN 37 OF 90-0DD EVENTS Britons Next in Line With 28, While Fi nland and Denmark are Tied for Third With Seven Each—Yankees Alzu_) Most Versatile. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 20.—The athletics of the United States lead the world as holders of track and field records. An analysis of the latest list of world marks, accepted by the International Ama- teur Athletic Federation, shows that out of some ninety-odd standard events the best time or distance has been made by American athletes in thirty-seven contests. This number, which is a trifie more than one- | third of the entire list of accepted records, also is greater than the com- bined total of any twc other nations. America’s nearest competitor for the honor of leading the world in the matter of record holders is Great Britain, whose athletes have marked {up the best time or distance in twenty-cight events. | No other nation approaches the vers shed records in six out of the WAMI, Fla., February 20—The Denmark and Finland are tied for 1 RECORD ON MOTOR CYCLE 3 4 satility of the American athlete, for groups of competition into | third place, with seven records eact. FOB,".LE “®/ICE BROKEN | the Unitcd States performers have es- i the world's records events nat- urally divide themselves. world one-mile motor cyele record TROTIED (00 MILES INIOJ2 HOURS, GEORGE L. HOSSFELD (Champnn Typrst) WROTE 136 WORDS A MiNvTE FOR ONE HOUR (tfnpmlm Gopy) p troctgof 1 minute ’e yesterday, % of Montreal .nade the distance in 59 3-5 , and_when E. R. (Boots) ne 59 necon Murp.y of Minml went him hetter by making the mile meconds. 1RO OF CUESTS LEFT | IN RUNNING FOR TE @PHILADELPHIA, February 20— Either Edouard Roudil of France or ¢Percy N. Collins, Chicago, will be eliminated today as a contender for i championship honors in the interna- tional 18.2 balkline amateur biiliard tournament. They oppose each other this afternoon. Each has won two games and lost one and the loser of Foday’s mateh will be out of the run- ning So far as the title is concerned. Edgar T. Appleby, New York, na- tional champion, with three victories and no defeats, held a commanding lead as thé second week of the tournament started. He has two games yet to play. Tonight he will ‘heet the loser of the Roudil-Collins match and tomorrow he will oppose the winner of that contest. The other match tomorrow will be between Ary Bos, the Hollander, and J. E. Cope Morton, Philadelphia. FRENCH BELIEVE CRIQUI COULD MASTER KILBANE BY FAIR PLAY. EW YORK, February 20.—Frenchmen and Englishmen, too, are all N het up over the proposed visit of Johnny Kilbane to Europe in the near future, according to word received from the French capital today. The-reason they are looking forward so eagerly to the visit of the artful dodging champion, is that they believe they have a little boy in Eugene Criqui who can just naturally take the Cleveland boxer’s title away from him. So certain are they that they already are bickering as . Tom Thuma Celebrated American Horse, ( Feb 2,1529 —Kewl, Eng.) I Lacks Walking Record. |, This country is without a record | notder “in tre king _events, in which Great Britain and Finland hold |all the records. America is tied with {Great Britain in the running records. each nation having thirteen to its | credit. The United States holders are confined to the sprints and the short- | er distance. Great Britain's stars hold a majority of the long-distance run- | ning records. | The records as published in the of- | ficial athletic almansc w.%re adopted al the conference of the 1. A. A. F. last May. Since that mecting several | American and foreign athletes have | bettered records now listed, but these cannot be officially considered world marks until accepted by the L A. A. F., which acceptance may be delayed another six months or a year. Such an example is that of the running broad jump record credited to P. O'Connor of Ireland, with a leap of 21 feet 11% inches, made in 1901. Tris record was surpassed last July, when E. O. Gourdin of Harvard jump- ed 25 feet 3 inches in the dual meet between Oxford-Cambridge and Yai-- Harvard at Cambridge. = Britons Good at Distance. ‘aking the records as they appear in the latest official list, however. 1t is shown that the American athlete is better in more events in the record list than any one other nationality. Every record from 100 yards to one mile is held by a United States ath- lete. From two to twenty-five miles English runners hold sway, aithough most of these times were made in the early nineties. In metric run- ning records Finiand, Sweden and France hold all but the sprints. which £o to American athletes. Walking | fecords are held by pedestrians of Great Britain, Canada and Denmark. Substituting Gourdin's new record in place of O'Connor's, all the jump- ing records are in the hands of Amer- ican athletes, and the same is true of the weight events. Finland, Sweden and the United States divide honors in the discus and javelin com- petitions. Canada_gets two_hurdie records, as E. J. Thomson of Dart- mouth College was born across the - All others are held by United States hurdlers. Of the ten relay race records, eight are held by Amer- ican teams: one by a Great Britain quartet and the other by a Swedish combination. Apportionment of aMrks. The apportionment of world records among the seven holding nations is as follows: to whether the murder shall take place in Paris or London. If Johnny is as elusive when abroad as he is here the European sports will have all their troubles for noth- ing, and Criqui will go without a chance to cop the world plumes poids title, as they call featherweights i Frogland. This Criqui, by the wa: is touted by Americans who have seen him in action recently as a real They refer esvecially to scrapper. the speed with w he stowed Charles Ledoux away. He has what they call over there the American- ized English style with a real fare- thee-well wallop and a sharp-shoot- r's eye. When he lets his fist go he usually knows where it is going. He wants Kilbane and so Johnny's trip across the pond may provide real ex- citement for him, if he is looking for the same. s If Dempsey goes over to England #he English fans will be most inter- ested to look him over, but if he expects to pick up easy money by dropping Beckett, Cook, Smith, Lloyd and the rest of the heavies of the British Isles he will be disappointed. “We should 1like very much to see Dempsey in action,” writes a London expert, “but it would be cruelty to match him afainst any of our own heavyweigh*s.” But the campaign for the Dempsey- Carpentier bout is proceeding apace, abroad, despite reports in this coun- tr yto the contrary. “If,” says one of the leading boxing sharps in Eng- d, a man who saw the Dempsey- Carpentier battle, “the second fight should take place in a larger ring than that at Jersey City and the French champion were to refrain from mixing it at close quarters with his heavier and stronger opponent the fight might last long enough for Dempsey's known weakness—blow- ing up after four or five rounds—to level up matters. Whenever Demp- sey’s contests have lasted beyond the fifth round the other man has been able to make a good showing and in <ome cases stay the distance.” What do you say about that, Jack? 8 (Copyright, 1922.) THREE MARKS BROKEN BY AMATEUR SKATERS SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., Febru- ary 20.—Three new international amateur skating records were estab- lished in races here. Leslie Boyd of Lake Placid lowered the 440-yard record by four-fifths of a second, his time being 0.43 4-5. Joe Murphy of New York reduced the 220-yard record from 0.241-5 to 0.23 4-5. Boyd also set a new record over the twelve-lap mile course, his Nation. “eosunyp Tnited States. Great Britai AMERICANS TOP CUBANS IN A SERIES OF SPORTS MIAMI, Fla., February 20—By cap- turing the water sports events, Miami Beach won the series of athletic com- peiitions from Cuba, 25% points to “'The tournament included contests in golf, tennis, polo, basket ball, [tPack: swimming and Aiving. The Miami Beach athletes will sail time being 3.223-5, against record|for Havana on March 6, where they mark of 3.23. will stage a return series in the seven sports. Declared Skating Champion. Dies of Foot Ball Injury. * MOBILI', Ala., February 20.—Robert Franklin Boyd, eighteen, of Emelee, Ala., a student of Alabama Polytechnit Institute, died at Montgomery yesterday from injuries received in a foot bail game between class tcams more than a week ago. e Peoria Gets Regatta. CHRISTIANIA, Norway, February 20.—Harold Stroem, the skater who, on Saturday, broke the record for the 5,000 meters, has been declared the world champion. Stroem is a Nor- wegian artillery officer. He is twenty- five years old. e Bout for Mike Gibbons. Mike Gibbons, St. Paul middle- weight boxer, probably will meet The Central States Rowing Asso- Frank Carbone, Newark, N. J., at|ciation’ has awarded the annual re- gatta to Peoria, 1ll, with the date Philadelphia on March 10 in a ten- not determined. round bout. ‘There once was a fellow named Otis, ‘I don’t like your slogan,’” he wrote us; ““Tho’ it says Dizie flavor, It omits zest and savor— : But no Piedmont omits them, I notice. —and for cigarettes % Virginia tobacco is the best