Evening Star Newspaper, September 7, 1923, Page 30

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1923. 3 SPORTS. Sam Rice Is to Be Reinstated Tomorrow : Dempsey Begins Tapering Off Process WILL APPEAR IN LINE-UP AGAINST CHAMPION YANKS Manager Bush Declines to State What Punishment Will Be Inflicted on Veteran—Griffs Lose Exhibition to Braves. BY JOHN B. KELLER. W took a 7-to-3 beating from the Braves in an exhibition game at Marblehcad, Mass., vesterday, all of the Nationals are here their twenty-game home stand thz. extends through September 30—all nineteen of them. Not so many for a big league club, the nmeteen players are battery men. ldle today because of an open date in the schedule, the Nationals will resume activities tomorrow, when the Icague-lgmling Yankees visit for a single game. Sam Rice, veteran outfielder, who was suspended in Boston Monday after a run-in with Manager Bush, will play against the men of Gotham. The pygmy pilot this mor ing announced Rice's reinstatement, fused any information as to what punishment would be handed the player for his conduct. on and General were prevented B contest y. unt of rain Ae- from ter- Another series of mishaps such as| - force Bush to employ pitchers and BY BEATING Q. M. TEAM the club from the minors for some while. present in the S | tion A of the Distriet Association ends the latter t of this month. i ntérs will clinch the honors with the line-up who has been| Western U 10 press into servic when this youngster should Rice's return to the this morning as to whether Ossie harassed the Nationals during a couple | of their western trips this season would | 1 YPOS CAN CLINCH TITLE catchers in utility r for it now seems that no material is coming to Most of the athletes destined to QLI:“'.UIKII:A.‘[PF.‘I and Union [.I'Illl trials with the Bushmen are play are scheduled to play a game in se A s shat | series on the Uuion station dismond n unti their campaign | e R ate et Blueze Needs a Rext. 3 The suspension of brought into five straight wins. the Natic counting Office late "in It Sidiion who promises to be best third sackers in the business. on the bench to give his a change to heal. Biu e sther opportunity trick le although Bush was undeci be withdrawn from the team and sent” to third bas ad twice | A b Further in- 1y pern fellow. retirement. wently inca BY JOHN 3 tate the your Braves Pound Reeruit. the F tionuls pitche thand recruit. who h only in pre-game Braves sent to the ond-str hurier ers wers leaguers gettin and the Americ, former cluste friecti next year. according to e the rer ol pitcher who was on b nsed hatting drills. The firin line se MeNan penpered. the Mays appears to be as strong a | worked along with Jones. Pennock, b the bench all scason. Whethers May a question. No one can tell whethe cause he does not have the opportu has been good When the Yankes lup for : whether Kind of outfielder 4 teams in tion: feties U the ihold w Natic All though, | Smith of damaging two doubles counted three 8 bezin to shape wasted assed by ved most and and inflie rica Mays t e held on was in 14 evelund He is vear, but to him. If he would team ten would ve and Chicaxo, ks s good he the better off [helped Detroit re the pitch But when suggests appears thusiastic »f them still reme the quarrel that ensued when he brought to New e benefit American Legion, at Marblehe n major I the coa notables K the Massa- assem) d, was th gue clubs ever hamlet attend nesaw f the Mathewson, f; now president JUNIORS TO BEGIN' SERIES FOR TITLE Mount Pleasants and Waverlys are scheduled to combat to first of the Junior championship at Union Park Tomorrow wicks will latter will sants. 1 smblems and Southends, prevented rom clashin yesterday b rain, will play the second game of their three encounters for the midget honors day Union Station outhends won the opening 3 to 2 AINSMITH IS RELEASED BY ST. LOUIS CARDINALS LOUIS, nith, catc rditionally Netionals, announced public the 1« Ainsmit chusetts de in convention first hetwe 1 ball Judge big i b in we Mays put Mber was York from Bostun Arm Ix All Right. The National League nnot get | him until all American League clubs have waived on hi o that's the story of a $10,000 pitcher being hog tied to the bench all season. If the Cincinnatis or Pittsbur able to grab him_they Leen leading their league. is all right. By hanging to him the Yanks have coppered their own bet that they will win their third straight pennant In 1921 Mays was, the best b Christy hurler, of might have in the for the 0 o'clock at game series in many respects pitcher in the lea GIANTS MAKE GAIN . AS THE REDS LOAF| The Giants advanced yesterday to a position four and a half games ahead | of the Cincinnati Reds. who were idle, by defeating the Phillies. 5 to 1, at Polo Grounds. The Pirates, who defeating the Cubs, 5 to 1, i : h ‘was_cut d to just one-half the Waverlys and meet, and on Sunda encounter the Mount Both games will be| at Union Park and will start War- the clash, In the earned hi ame Bentley striking out Cy Williams with the bases full. Cun- ningham hit a hom Hamilton pitched for the Pirates, allowing only five hits, while Alexander, hurling for the Cubs, let out nine in three in- nings. o other games were played in the National League, the Cin nati-St. Louis hattle being called off because of rain. In the American League Philadelphia defeated Boston, 6 to 2. September r. was rele today by the St. Louis Branch ™ Rickey, —manager, Rickey declined to make ason ddie A un- nals in ed him other major ubs had waived on him. CITY TRACTION NINES IN‘FIVE-GAME SERIES Affairs of business will be put aside by many employes of two city’s greatest public service the Capital Traction and the Washington Ralil- ilectric Company. Nines nizations are Washington barracks at the first of a series the et railway champtonship, and a gen- crous attendance of railroaders i anticipated. Both tes well drilled, hav- ing been tested in contests with the leading sandlot aggregations of the District. The Capitals have a capable pitcher in Lefty White, while the Wrecos are well fortified in the hurl- ins department. Brown, their slab- ling ace, probably will seart in the initial encounter of the series. A trophy will be at stake in the puulding & Bri 1ue. (AT PHILADELPHIA.) Boston. . 0.A. Mitchell s, Picinich Devorm'r.c. 0 Reohlecct.” 4 A " tomorrow of the orp) Comp: way and representin 1o clasih at tions, .a...»m.; conmwnonoN cunmRmines ny dleR s anang 8l m| Totals.. Boston. ... Philadelphin.. .. Runs—McMillan., Quinn, Matthews, Perkins, Milier, Welch _(2), Dykes. Errnrb—&rheer. | Rommel. Two-base hits—Dvkes (2), ich! e hits—Welch, Shanks. Left on bases—Boston, 6; Phila- delphia, 5. Bases on balls—Off Quinn, 1: off Rommel, 1. Struck out—By Quinn, 3; by Rom- mel, 6. Umpires—Messrs. Moriarty, Dineen | and’ Ormsby. Time of game—l hour and 30 minutes. these o ~o Bl comoomuonn ©° a! onvonwocoorw’ II of five b zames fo base - AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Kansss City St. Paul t Qonated « pl INSECTS WILL HUM ON DIAMOND TODAY | Given - fair ather, insects will hum today in the opening games of their base ball championship tourha- ment. Eight of the twenty-one clubs of ving for laure! Indianapolis Columbus 5 10 Petty and l(rue.-r Noriifop and Elliott. Louisville . [ Toledo . 'Doboh" and leyurv ou ITH the return this morning of the squad of a dozen players that | for | in that eleven of lost one this season, but he has pitched in only two complete games. n | he Kness is mani- | had been | Mays' arm | n- | MACKS, 6; RED SOX, 2. | mmmoconoa® | but re- | MAYS, ALTHOUGH ROBUST, |DECISION T0 BOWEN MAY BE LET GO BY YANKS‘ IN GO WITH AHEARN B. FOSTER. EW YORK. September 7—Carl Mays may not be with the 4\NL(~“].||.| He! ports the The | anke rounds toda has won five goi st games nd vigorous as ever, but Huggins h foyt and Bush. and has kept Mays on s could be waived out of the league v he is the pitcher he once was, be- nity to show. The he has done he little ’ won twenty he pitch would indic there were team wien was plent ulir he his splendid rego. He complained 't he did not enough work and he was st iaining when the world Huggins put him i and was his slow vlped to lose the > one similar 1 <t nine ning st twelve Nor did his record grouchy B ing fou better than He was te. oth - ulttinding € not as pop- been after ear before ax shou i fourth Iding as it 192 f me, in the ally with es practi to finish ord of ander in either league. It he is worked enough | Letween now and the end of the sea son he will have the opportunity to win twenty games and that 1 | better than any left-hander did in the American League last season When Pennock went to Japan with the tourists last winter it was said | that the trip would finish him as a | pitcher. The trip seems to have had | the opposite effec On the other hand Joe Bush, who was also in the party, has not done so well (Copsright, 1 ‘NORTHEAST JUNIORS IN TITLE TOURNEY | the North ball ek resumed t Play junior will be | tinued ast Washington ba mpionship series tomorrow and con- through ix games | thr. Sunday. s starting t 1 o'clock and the others| Ay morning 11, Chris Hutchinson, 1505 street northeast, is secretary The arbitration committee the games consists of Chairman k. Clump, 320 15th street northe: | 12. Nash and B. Wormsley. The week end schedule follows: Tomorrow—Manhattans vs. Ariels, Ariel diamond; Hilltop vs. Inde- pendents, Hilltop diamond; Mount Rainier Emblems vs. Peerless, Mount Rainier diamond. | und; Manhatt.ns vs, “ ts, Milan Field: #riel vs. Ariel diamond; _Hilltop Rainier, Hilltop diantond. REDS SUE PUBLICATION FOR $50,000 DAMAGES NEW YORK, September 7.—Players {Sammy Bohne and Pat Duncan of the |Cincinnati Reds today filed suit fnr; 50,000 damages cach against Col- Iyer's Eye, Chicago sports publica- tion, which recently charged they had been approached. by gamblers seeking to have them *“throw’ the New York Giants. This announcement was made by John A. Heydler, president of the Na- tional League. CINCINNATI, September 7.—Presi- dent August Herrmann of the Cin- cinnati onals announced th a suit for 006 damages would be filed by the club in behalf of players Duncan and Bohne against Collyer's Eye in the United States district court | at Chicago toda _———— . VIRGINIA LEAGUE. Richmond. 4: Rocky Mount, 0. Petersburg, 3: Norfolk, Portsmouth-Wilson (rain.) OF MAJORS NATIONAL LEAGUE. tomorrow | Rosedale | of thel of | B.{ R. | series, st; Indepen- Peorless, Vs> Mount | t to swing into action this afternoon at 5 o'clock. | Other engagements ;will be held Monday fternoon. 11 of today's zames are between clubs in the upper “bracket of the draw. The after X\'NI" schedule follow “angeyg -mdu g STATISTICS AMERICAN LEAGUE. Detroit Chice " Philac Pala Elks, east diamond, Union station plaza. Umpire, Doc rrell (St. Stephen's). outhenc Independents, mond, Union station plaza. Johnny Olivet (St. Joseph). Club Hornets, east dia- Rosedale playgrounds. Um- west Um- T 550 8 Sii1 12 1670 82 10/12( 9/16/1076/531.589 | 9| c‘-—um’uuwflu |.542 7| g10f A 789 8810 19160168/ HEEREEEE HE LR 87 1 ) o Simpson (Peerles vs. Parl west dia- ale pla unds.. Um- McDonald Peerless). GAMES TODAY. St Louis at Chicago, Boston Detroit GAMES TOMORROW. New York at Wash. Bt. Louis at Chicag Dettote % Clove'nd, RESULTS OF YESTERDAY'S GAMES, Philadelphis, 6; Boston, 2. 2 Bt. Louis at Chicago (rala). B Dire, We APPALACHIAN LEAGUE. 1 0. F AR GAMES TODAY. Gincl, xt 8¢ Louis. Brooklyn at Boston. Phila. ‘at New York. Chicago at Pittsburgh. Chicago at Pittsburgh, RESULTS OF n:s’rm‘!n GAMES, New York, 5; Philadelphia, ~ Pittsburg] cm‘m‘.um'fi: Louls- (ratn), I A GLIMPSE AT DEMPSEY. | zood-sized crowd turned out to see the A.ml‘ > | an [to the ca a serles with |’ —By RIPLEY BN HE (S USING A DUMMY Wit FIRPO'S FACE PAINTED ON IT FOR A SPARRING PARTNER « Despite weather conditions, a fairl card last night at Heine Miller's Sport- Ma Bowen s avena at Berwyn, Andy feature the er tw had the bout of victory in the decisio = ision my encounter with Ive rounds of mil sht and these in the early t time and ti ziven Ahearn a arn ¥ £cod hi apppr the fizht progr < man wen, and put < oppone sed Howen zot to heavy gressor content to | in. This fon. and landed some the ood, Bowen Ahear man this report was as my traini that thos her to come many others, afraid of this B o wp itk was never afriad of W Baltimore , 45 - ; ttle | meC e | enge from him Dacked by pounds— 1 acknowled 1 was when and 1 i ying th zot Bowen the de wen th . Walter R ¥ Ward Both U one thit ert, foni of & i o t w and t k time a direct from the a reputable i round ¥ “ighin, it at hammer and tongs knocked dd twice. a: e count on his third trip vas when his seconds threw a towel in the r He was game, and protested vizorously the action of his seconds. ire 2 ! promotor tiately ds mme- Grand nd Ward i I received 1 not wait long than to0 get to the next sta- it The world know happened when 1 met ! Charley I knocked him out in short | 1 think it per | who read th lines to remember | that whenever I have besn matched | to meet a man who stood betwe me and a chance to fight for the cham- ne. the fizhting ex-cop of spotted Jack Hendricks, tion mittman, ten pounds proceeded to give him a ueat Mike, however, was not the { o!d, and though he hit Hen cks with everything but the water he could not put him down. rry O'Day-Joe Lewis bout was | the latter being ten pounds As a substitute, Joe Per Tidal Basin Tifeguard, and Terrs pkins of Baltimore were put on in u | reduled six-round bout. It termi- | nated su v in the third when Hop- kins did a 1 Annette Kellerman and Was content to be roupted out Jake Ross of New York and Joe Mon- tanna of Washington went throngh four rounds of slow and uninterestin millin o & draw. ROBINS WIN EXHIBITION At Portla Brooklyn i Smit catur, Se “our- | nd i i Stephen- order. former ps well those probably and : do th Deeagsey 1S THE MOST 0BLIGHNG CHAMP WE EVER HAD " POSE foR A PicTuRe 27 " sure! 1 ShooT . K He smp ~ .w:x 1S GROW NG BiG o ioR. SeRimGs ABOUT THE SHOULDERS, BY LUIS ANGEL FIRPO. FLANTIC CITY. N. J.. September 7-~The many people who have come to my camp ask me if I feel as confident Dempsey match as [ did before the last fight, | Weinert. 1 would like to speak ahout my fight with Charley Weinert, which seems to have exgited so much attention aiter | fought Sailor Maxted ind Joe McCann Charley Weinert said many bad things about me aiter my fight with Joe McCann. He said that 1 was afraid to fight him and many other things like that. At one time there was published in a Mewark paper fthe news that Weinert had slapped me on the street and that 1 had been lairaid to take the challenge he offered. Of course. a 1t 5o we 3 not gond, L people hup. Hmn they Kk will “shout on in uld ha camie to my it seemed 1o me worse when I worked at my training \\ hvl\r ever | would think that perha Would lie down and have a pea P, an mobile ho uld so and Vega would say ‘Here are portant people, Firpo. You must m | them Then 1 would me 1 would think to myself t there were no people in ates who were mot impor | It seems to me that every one who | Dlonship of the worid 1 huve aisposed |dri¥es up to my cottage in i taxi or of that man. Perhaps 1 have not done | & cF 18 & multimiionaipe. or. at the job in the way that some expert | rpes'i. B, JGMEQIE AFUt Or B ning | North Americans consider impressive. | tne guniteqata((s. L am Desinning | The fact remaing that I have whibped | 1any multimillionaires, or that ev gnough North fmerican fighters to|person in the United States who ca have a chance to fight the champion | afford to hire a taxi to come to m Of‘llu world | cottage is a multimillionaire. Some of the '\5"”' lerican experts | (Copyright , in United States and Canada | laugh at me. “They say that I cannot | (CPIMEN, G i Teiteq SIAMer A0, Do ! whip a good man. I have whipped ali | % All Rights Reserved.) the good men they have d me i i el S| ——— they are good. then they say these| SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. men are not good. It is very confus- |m. Perhaps 1 not understand.| Macon, 6-4; Augusta, 1.0. | Perhaps it is that if 1 do not whip| Greenville. '10; Gastonia. 8. | them then they are wonderful fighters, | Spartanburg, 7; Charlotte, 6. o land it T do whip them then Were any good. 1 do not know PIEDMONT LEAGUE. Sntsfled With Hix Condit Dishim, 7: Raliehi 8, 1 do know that T am satisfied Danville, G! Greenville, 2- . ning is pro 2 Stores in 621 P A 14thand N. Y. Ave. %iieon a. Ave. Both Stores Open Saturday Nights Make him as comfortable as possible in his first suit of long pants. He will feel perfectly at home in them if they come from The Wonder Clothes ‘ Shop. 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Already in fighting trim, he wil gage in work designed mainly to develop his speed and sharpen his ing skill. Light sparring partners will be pressed into service, among them tig Jamaica Kid, a ncgro whirlwind, weighing 170 pounds, and Jimmy e laney, the St. Paul Tlglll\\rlghl‘ a protege of Mike Gibbons. Pickling his face and hands in a combination of beef brine a vinegar to toughen the skin will be a part of Dempsey’s finishing touciics The champion soaks his big hands in the mixture several times daily aud rubs his face vigorously. "This “pickling,” Dempsey says, harden ng blow. Tom Shar the said. FIVE DAYS OF HARD TRAINING FACE FIRPO T after wu rmer Lc Experienced observers Dempsey rip into | and George Godfrey for two rou cach vestcrday, agree that the ci pion is in much better condition t | be was Great Falls, Mont., mo; while preparing bons. He tore into mates with characteristic aggress ness, boxing his toes, ing ‘over left hooks or with such that catchers were bewilde |« puzzli sway ing low. and hobbi w a lead from When the. off the blow left hook or chin Dempsey Through With The legal action started by Mullins, manager of Har negro challenger, iy emptin prevent the Dempsey-Firpo cause Dempsey declined tc first, exploded like a bom the champion's camp. De clared he never woul ‘shot” at the title champio at me He | far as 1 h0d | snapped. I never - { objections to figh | tended 1o close this mateh posin Firpo provided Both Mullins and Wills knew would just as soon have fought is Firpo, but there wasn't a promor in sizght to stage it.” 'GRAND JURY VIEWS PRIZE FIGHT FILMS CHICAG grand ju. on of the in e By the Assoclated P c1 ¥, ed da Firpo returned today to the training grind for the battle with k Dempsey W York Septem- | ber 14. Five days of the training period remain for the South American, every minute with September o e speed . crc up and d his oppc sed 1 1o hard work John Lester Johnson. N York ! one of the men that | Dempsey met in v York early in his career, and young Bob Fitz { simmons were to report for sparring {duty in the Arger mp_ this | afternoon. Leo Gate Tohawk | Indian fighter, who had been expected here, may cancel his enzagement be- | cause of the fact tha is to fizht in one of the prel 10 ihe | EinnoiDempcs aieh Luis Angel is in good humor has been having all the excellent that he can eat. his new motor car rived vesterday, the sporting w are conceding him an excellent ¢ to win the world title, his American friends tell him they sure he wiil Firpo's cottage now friends from his native land. Besides trainers and sparring partn ere are some of thé comrades of youth ¥ never cease to marvel is pugil ovement him 3 fixg s th f m cor wd had_the z Wills outh ‘l.« filled with his » him t for the ts n S hut in hix com- and dreaming most times he September 7 table chair, i plotting crday wi moving pi < pr t pi ized by federal officials to show t Weisl, to hibis res ¢ ter an attempt L. m here United té - FOR MENDELSOHN BOUT PHILADELPHIA E rd, John Mendelsol waukee are prim their round. no-decision delphia National Lea onard finished his train E rsville, N. J., wiere he pared for his bout with Dundee. which was postoned Leonard mav be agked by the di- rector of public fety of Phila- delphia to weigh in publicly bec of Tecent contentions over weig said that ¢ films was evid arrest rged wi transporting nerce. sther purpose, he said, to find any mark or clue in the | that might lead to evidence that ot rath are interested i said that McGrath were tion of the films i The grand jury took no act 1 violating the film was INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. 5 7 13 13 Parabam and Cobb. .4 9 1 1§ Vincent. .9 12 fler 5 12 3| Little Rock . .8 1 “Parks and Nicber- | Mobile ) Gould and ‘Smith; Faith, Acosts and Hering 0| Nashille . -z 1 0! Birmingham S 7. | * Friday and Bernsen; Whitehill wnd Boberts ! son. Other game, rain. Nowark Baltimore Nossette and Greenae; Buffalo Teronto .. 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