Evening Star Newspaper, January 11, 1924, Page 31

8 SIGNS WITH TEX RICKARD PORTS. + TO MEET DEMPSEY AGAIN tomoter Will Stage a Return Bout With Heavy- weight Title as Stake in New York or New Jersey Next May or June. N EW YORK, January 11.—It seemed highly probable today that Jack Dempsey would defend his world heavyweight boxing title for the second time against Tom Gibbons of St. Paul in a bout in the metropolitan section in May or June. Every one concerned has agreed to the fight except Jack Kearns, Dempsey’s manager, and he gave every indication before leaving town to- day that the program and balance s heet proposed by Tex Rickard would b"salkfadory to him. Kearns departed for a short stay at Hot Springs, AYk,, and said he .would give his definite answer when he returns. Prospects for the out developed yesterday when Eddie Kane, the challenger's manager, visited Rickard to discuss some indoor bouts for Kane and Gib! but Rickard his man this winter. match ‘with Dempse: spite w Negotiations were instituted for the boat by James Mullen of Chicago, and L& asserted they were well under ~ay. Rickard, apparently seeing that the match was to be made, and that thabout he suggested Letween Harry Wills and Luis Firpo was improbable, decided to take advantage of Kan willingness. Rickard said there was mothing definite to except he would utilize either the Polo Grounds o Yankee Stadium here, or Boyle's Thirty Acres in Jersey City. “There is much speculation among the experts over Gibbons' chances. As the only man to have remained the limit with the champlon he is ac- cofded a fair chance by many if the bout Is held here, where an official ion would be given, but if staged where 'decisions are would be poorer. Kearns said Rickard knew what his financial demands were and that if he et them the bout would be held €0 - judging from past utterances Dempsey's share will be $300,000. Sibbons got virtually money of the pre Mont., which a) flasco and brought ruin to some of its pro- moters, he ¢ & veude e Shelb, News Gratifies Gibbon ST. PAUL, Minn, January 11— Tommy Gibbons, St. Paul boxer, when inférmed that a return iatch had been arranged between himself and Champion Jack Dempsey, declared “T{ is the best news I've heard In a long time. "It me. next no allenger recently completed ille tour begun shortly after B that I am going to be heavyweight champion of bons have beep hopeful for a return had frowned upon the proposal, de- the fact that the St. Paul battler is the only man to stay the limit the champion since he ascended his throne. the world, which {s the acme of my ambition.” Tommy uatd, “Ever since my fight with the cham. plon at Shelby, Mont, I have tried hard to get a'return mateh, for I honestly believe I learned more about him than he did about me. I feel sure that I can defeat the champion, and this will be my continual thought | until time for me to climb Into the ring.” Gibbons is in fairly good condition now, he sald, and as soon as he is notified by Eddie Kane, his manager, that the Dempsey match s on he in- tends to get down to light work for/] the bout. Unless there are restrio- tions In his Dempsey contract, Gib- | bors said he plans to engage in sev: | eral fights before meeting the cham- pion. “Sults Me Fine"—Dempsey. MIAMI, Fla, Janvary 11—"It's wp | to Kearns—sults me fine,” remarked Jack Dempsey when told of the an- nouncement by Promoter Tex Rick- ard, in New York, that Dempsey and Tommy Gibbons would fight a return title match in New York, probably in June. The champlon made the state- ment while witnessing a bout be- tween Young Stribling and Mike N tor here. STRIBLING K. 0.'S NESTOR. MIAMI. Fla, January 11, Stribling knocked out Mike N New York in the sixth round of & rough fight last night. Stribling showed his superfority in every round. Stribling weighed 167 and | Nestor 176. Chapter 32—Famous Fans in Base Ball History. BY HANS ‘WAGNER. Y picking out some of the famous fans of my time I willvstart by naming the president of our club, Barney Dreyfuss. He was the only clubowner I ever knew who was just as rabid a fan as any rooter in the grandstand. He got in the game first as a fan and not merely to start 2 new business, as a lot of people think. So much has been said of Barne; y Dreyfuss as a wise base ball owner, a smart trader and a2 man who understands every angle of the base ball business that few know of him as a later days and can take the games a If you ever sat mext to him in & grandstand in the old days, though, and’ didn’t know him by sight you'd never think the rooter next to you wag the owner of the Pittsburgh lgb. Hie comments would run some- i % like “Oh, th a hit! I knew it when Johnny gave him a low ball. He couldn’t hit & high one with a shovel! there he goes again—walking 3 4 weak hitter, 80 as to gerat 8mith, who's been slamming the ball hard all season, huh! That's fine judg- ment, T don't think!" Then a ground ball would go for & clean base hit between third and short i ‘What's that shortstop playing near #dadnd for on a dead left-feld hit- ter; Well, that's fine! What's Johnny watching that runner for—he's au ice wagon on the bases. Sure. He can't run the length of a base without stopping. G'on, pitch to the batter, fiqver mind the base runner!" Witn "Barney's own club at bat he would go like this: Scoops ought to bunt—Ilook, that third baseman is playing back a mile.” The batter does bunt and beats it. “That's_the boy, that's playing the game. Now there's a chance for a sacrifice.” Datter bunts a pop fly that is caught. “Huh, bunts like a drunken shoemaker—picking on & high ball to bunt—bound to pop it in the air.” Next two batters go out on long flics % “No runs, huh! Bum ball playing! He Knows Every Hopeful. fr. Dreyfuss would travel with the team, mix up with the players and engage in any of their games, their amusements. He would mix up in practical jokes and give and take. But, above all thir he was crazy to see his ball clud win. 1 remember once we were defeated By the Glants in a remarkable game that went eighteen innings, the Pirates boing defeated in the last in- ning, 2—0. . it was certainly a nice game of ball,” I remarked to him when we g0t to the hotel, “and a great crowd P o he. ut don’t for- Honus, that we lost the ball me." Barney Dreyfuss probably knows than any owner in There are no Dplays or layers with which he is not famil- He has made the study of ba!ll a You couldn’t stump him to; tils day on any ball plaver in the more base ball the game. ar. players scgence. the country all over major or minor league. 1t ;‘om!: " nowing what is golng on in con-i Kooton® with~ pase. ball he could | make & Seotland Yard detective 100k { er. Mr. Dreyfuss gets a line on youngsters even before they enter high schools, also young players far back in the woods. I found this out| while hunting in the different back- woods of the country. Old farmers end woodsmen would mention Barney, Dreyfuss having had & scout out thers on oertaih ball players.| He keeps & line on the way they are developing year after year. When they are ripe he either gets them r marks them off his little dope ‘book. Once he runs that mark through & youngster's name you can bet that youns fellow will never mnake the big league. Barney never makes a mistake on them. He has a wonderful memory #nd knows the good and bad points ¢ young players, whether he ever $an Soen Dhem or mot. | Just mens tion any young fellow to him and ouw'll find that Mr. Dreyfuss knows ots more_about his plaving than ou do. He can even tell you the fan. Barney has calmed down in his s they come without getting excited. spurs. stance, here are some great stars that he dug out of the backwoods—men who knew mnothing about citles or big leagus Phillippl, Redfield, S. D. Goshen, Ohlo; Jack Ch. chusetts; Brickyard Bill Kennedy, Martins Ferry, Ohlo; Rube Waddell, Blano, Fa.; Clarence Beaumont, Honey Creek, Wis.; Babe Adams, Mount Moriah, Mo.; Ham Hyatt, Northwoods, and T might say myself, from Mans- field, Pa._ It's a cinch I didn't know much when they grabbed me and put me in a league uniform. T could name fifty towns that you nevar heard of in the rural districts that furnished players to Barney Dreyfuss. Dreyfuss ha good sense of humor and used to get many laughs out of the funny cracks made by the ball | players. "One time when we were in New York and having a very dis- astrous trip we crossed over to some town in New Jersey on a ferry. Just #s we landed and started for the ball yards for an exhibition game we I The Most Reduction have been sold. THE _EVENING $50,000 FOR GIBBONS IF HE FIGHTS WILLS NEW YORK, January 11.—S8imon Flaherty, proprietor of the Queens- boro Sporting Club, and {ts stadium seating about 25,000, announced to- day that he had offered Tommy Glb- ‘bons $50,000 to meet Harry Wills tn a fifteen-round declsion bout either on May 1 or May 15. Wills h: greed to take a percentage of the receipts and has accepted, Flaherty sald, ‘Wills has four fights scheduled, the first in Rochester, N. Y., January 16, and the last in Newark, February 4. DETROIT, January 11 — Harry ‘Wills, negro heavywelght, will ap. pear in a match here January 21, it was announced today. The opponent for the negro boxer has not been se- locted. Paddy Mullins, munager for Wills, In arranging for the match, walved any right in the choice of a opponent. Under the Michigan laws matches between negro and white boxers are not permitted. i FIGHT FOR TITLE BOUT. NEW YORK, January 11.—Sammy Mandell, promising Rockford, L, lightwelght, will make his debut Ip a main bout at Madison Square Gare den tonlght in a fifteen-round match with Jack Bernsteln of Yonkers, tormer junior lightweight title holder. The winner, {t {5 said, will get a match with' Champlon Johnny Dun: ee. ‘WOULD PERMIT DECISIONS. PATTERSON, N. I, January 11.— A bill almed to authorize the giving of decisions by & referss in elght, ten and twelve round boxing matches In New Jersey has been introduced in the legislature by Assemblyman Williams of I'assaic county. A. A. U. BOUTS IN BALTIMORE. BALTIMORE, Md., January 11.—The South Atlan Amateur Athletic Unlon boxing championshin will held at the 4th Regiment Armory, Baltimore, April 2 and 3. The win- ners of each of the eight classes will be sent to the National Olvmpic try- outs for the American team, to be held in Boston in May. JOCKEY CLUB ELECTS. NEW YORK, January 11.—The key club at its annaul meeting August Belmont, F. K. Stur- chard T. Wilson and Willlam Foodward, stewards. After the election the entire hoard Pp, secretary . R. Hitchcock, H. K. Joseph E. Davis and Joseph ener, a license committee. noticed a signboard, to direct trafiic when read: “SLOW MOVING TEAMS THIS WAY We all stopped and looked, almost afraid to laugh. “Looks like they got us right” some young player remarked. and Mr. Dreyfuss had his first good laugh for & week. On that same trip we had felt that we were gatting the worst of a lot of things, umpires’ decisions included. It seemed as if the umpires actually took a delight In calling our men out. I guess they didn't, but we felt so badly about our slump that it actual- ly did appear the umpires made a Epecial effort to show off when one of our men struck out or was waved out at the plate. Fans Who Followed the Team. On our ferry boat we went close to the Statue of Liberty, which many of the players never had seen before. You know & lot of folks come to New York_all their lives and never soe the Statue of Liberty “What does she remind you of?' T asked Fred Clarke, as we looked up at the great figure of a woman, hold- ing her hand high and rigld, with & torch in it. “Looks like Bill Klem calling & third strike,” he sald. To this day that is the way T al- icture the Statue of Liberty in day—we don’t have t d to, it seems—were Barney McKenna, & Pittsburgh police magistrate; W. H. l Suitings and to a system of| Eaton of Oil City, Pa.; Honey Boy Evans, the famous minstrel, who do- Sweeping Sale— Ever Known—! The mild weather of this fall and winter has left us with a lot of suitings and over- coatings that under ordinary conditions would Now They Must Go and we have cut prices—and cut them deeply to assure quick and effective clearance. Suitings and Overcoatings That were $40.00 and $42.50 529 oy's personal habits. .Where He Got Somea of Them. Barney Dresfuss i & hard work- er, All he asks of & player is to &live him his best and obey the club rules. It is his belief that a ball- Pplgyer owes It to the public to give the fans a run for their money. If they deliver the goods they can de- ehd _upon rney remembering em_for thelr orts. e Dreyfuss has been more success- ful®n developing youngsters than in ng._ high zever have an rices for men ‘who never will win their Overcoatings That were $45.00 and $47.50 ) Suitings and Overcoatings That were $50.00 and $55.00 ) 534 $39: Made to Measure Bear in mind that every Xard of woolens in our store is embraced in this sale. Absolutely nothing reserved— novelties in suitings for the spring recently received and also included. A Small Lot of Custom Tailored Ready-to-Wear Overcoats If Your Size is in the Lot—You Can 8 Newcorn & 1002 F Street $10 to §15 Green N.W Saturday Until 6 P.M., [ STAR, Here’s Duteh Lentz of the Hendler quint of Baltimore, which meets the Palace Laundry five at the Coliseum here tonight. Aside from being cap- tain, coach and star guard of t!e in- vaders, Lentz has nothing much to do with the Oriole team. DUNDEE TO INVADE PANAMA FOR FIGHT PANAMA, January 11— Johnny Dundee’s manager has accepted the terms offered by Promoter Roberts for a fight between Dunde: Lombardo, in Panama Cit; ruary 22. ¥e added that Dundee will sail fro; New York on February 7 on t steamer Santa,/Teresa. —_—— MARSEILLES, France, January 11. —Erminio 8palla of Italy, champion heavyweight pugllist of Kurope, has sailed for Buenos Aires. Bpalla is to meet Luis Firpo In a sbout in Buenos Alres in February. S Al T | nated the annual loving cup to the champlon batter of both leagues, which I now have in my trephy room, incidentally; De Wolf Hopper. the actor; Johnny Harris of Crafton, Pa., and Lew Wentz of Pittsburgh. 1 have mentioned but a few. These fans, mind you, used to leavé their business and take trips with the teams they rooted for. They never missed a game at home and if the race got close they would take to the road. Nowadays some players seem to look upon the wild-eyed fans who fol. low the teams around as sort of pests. That's all wrong. Those are the fel- lows who made the game, who made our big salaries possible. In my next chapter, tomorrow, T will present my selection of an all- American League team. $3.00 $3.50 $5.00 WASHINGTON, D. ¢, FRID Manhattan Shirts Manhattan Shirts Manhattan Shirts With similay reductions throughout the entire line. The Hecht Co. 7th at F PROPOSED DIXIE LEAGUE EMBRACES FOUR STATES Ala, Janukry 11.— has been ntative January 15 for the discussion of a proposed Dixle base ball league among cities not in- clud, In any organisation at present, according to CIiff Green of the local all mmittee. e cities invited to send through their cham- mmerce were Pensacola, Columbus and Americus, Ga.; Meridian Jackson, Miss.; Mont- gomery, Anuiston und Belma, Ala. BOSTON. January 1l.—~George (Jer- ry) Geran. center on the American Olympic hockey team, who was pre- vented by business engagements from sailing for Europs Wednesday with the other members of the team, will sail on the Majestio tomorrow trom New York. he said. Half-Yearly Sale SHIRTS 0% off Manhattan prices are the same everywhere, but selections differ. We have the selections—shirts in white, plain colors and stripes. Reductions as follows: $2.15 $2.65 $3.65 AY, JANUARY 11, 1924 HIGH SCORES ROLLED IN MASONIC LEAGUE There was some good bowling in the Masonlo League last night, when the Naval quint won' two out of three from Columbia. Schmidt bad a game of 148 and a of 352, while Hough totaled only one pin 1ess. It war clean-up in the Na- tional Union League, the two matches rolled resulting in o ded victorics for the winners. Victory beat Unfted and Congressional smothered tomac. ¥our watches were rolled in the Agricultural lntemrbll\Ll . Pr erty took all from Sofle- Plant Buresu d nomics. Farm Management followed suit, Forest Service being the vic- tim, and etary's Office grabhed two from the Interbureaus. Machine quint of the Bureau of Kin- graving League won two out of three rames from the Office team. Davis of e vietors had a set of 337. Young Men's Shop won the odd game from the J. M. Wilkins Com- pany quint in the Commereial League. Construction and Purchasing teams of the Southern Rallway League had 2 warm_battle, the former getting the odd by rolling all its games over the 500 mark. Hawkshaw totaled 334, Law won three from the Dis- bursing quint by going over 500 in each game. Stanley had a set of 328. Freight Auditors won two from the Enginecers and Operation won the odd from Freight Me. McKay 341 was best. Judd and Detwedler pulled the clean- up stunt on the National Capital Press in the Typothetae League. Four matches were rolled in the Public Debt Girls' League, the Regls- ters laking two from Administrative; Surrenders turning the same trick on Securities; Registered Accounts trim- ming Claims, two out of three, and Accounts sweeping the boards with Audits. Two elea » developed the Financial League, Merfchants’ Bank pulling the trick on the U. S. Savings quint, end Commereial victimized Crane-Parris Company. Potomaes and El Derado of the Nautical League had a battle, the former getting the odd game. Both teams rolled well over the 500-mark in each game. Sundaes of the Oarry Ice Cream League won two out of three from the Peach team. Welmer of the wi ners had a set of 361. Columbia of the Knights of Pythias League won all three games: the Century-Decatur team. in Hilltoppers wom two out of three from the Infependents, in the Wash- ington Ladies’ League, and War De- partment caysured the odd game from the same team. Misses Levy and Gulll divided the high game honors, each having 113. Miss Levy also had a game of 111 and totaled 303. HOPPE GAINS A BIG LEAD IN MATCH WITH COCHRAN BOSTON, January 11.—Willie Hoppe. defending champlon, ruled a favorite today over Welker Cochran, chal- lenger, as a result of the 126-point leed which the titieholder gained in the opening block of their 1,500-point challenge match for the world's 18.2 balkiine billards champlonship, which began last night. oppe won_the opening block, 500 0 . finishing with an uncom- leted run of 43. The balls were eft in good scoring position along the left rail for the resumption of play tonight in the second block. _— Girl schlag ball players of the New York avenue playgrounds downed the Seaton School team, 14 to 11. from | SPOR NO PLAYER Division Teams Must BY JOHN N crept into the game. league magnate. ask the seven other clubs to waive. WORLD SERIES HEROES i ARE VICTIMS OF JINX NEW YORK, January 11—The grantiag of walvers on Long Joha Scott of the New York Giants emphastzes the hoodeo which has followed world seriew heroes, par- ticularly those under the manage- ment of John J. McGranv. team won from the Yankees. Other Glants who have starred in Wworld series only to have been turned loose afterward include Cancy Stengel, whose bat won the Glantw' only two gamex of the last scries, and Johnny Rawlings and Jeus Barnes, who made thelr records previously. Another player who sauffered a similar fate was temaan of the Boston Red Sox. HOWARD JONES DUE TO COACH TRINITY ; DURHAM, N. C., January 11.—The athletic council of Trinity College this afternoon unanimousiy tecom- mended to the board of trustees that Howard H. Jones, director of ath- letics at the University of Iowa, be elected to a similar position at Trin- ity for a period of five years, begin- ring with next Septéember. Jones recently spent two days in Durham en route home from the Atlanta and disc d the proposi- tlon of coming to Trinity. After go. ing over the situation, he returned to lowa to consider it, and this week notified Graduate Manager Joe Ruff that he would accept Trinity’s propo- sition. As the position of athletic director carries with it membership in the facuity, the action of the athletic will have to be approved by the board of trustees, a meeting of which will be held soon to take the | matter up, but there is little doubt but that the action of the athletic council will be approved by the trustees. IOWA CITY, Towa, January 11.— Howard Jones, University of lowa | foot ball coach, refused to either deny or confirm reports that he would re- sign as coach at Jowa to accept &n offer at some eastern school. “Be- sides, I am under a three-year con- tract here,” Jones added. mesting of foot ball coaches held in | TS. agues TAIL-END CLUBS OVERLOOK OF ANY CLASS Under New Increased Price Plan in V;)gne Second Pay Well in Grabbing Talent From Topnotch Outfits. B. FOSTER. EW YORK, January 11.—When the major leagues increased the waiver price to transfer players from club to club within their organizgtions they were inspired by the high finance which has “If it is impessible to buy the release oi a ball player from a minor league for less than $10,000, why should we hold a waiver price of about $2000 among ourselves?” was the pertinent question asked by one big The process of waivet may not be quite understood by the average | base ball fan. It is as follows: If the Brooklyn club, for instance, wishes to let Tom Jones go to some club outside the National League, it must But it can sell the player to any club in the Natiopal League without asking consent from any one. 1t the Brookiyn club had been able to buy Hornsby's release from St Louls for $275000 it would uot have had to say a werd about it to any other club. But if the St. Louis club had an offer of $300,000 from #ome club in the American League It would have had to ask the con- sent of all other clubs In the Na- tiona] Leagus befors making the deal. This provision was designed to keéep a quarreling club from de- liberately weakening the strength of its organization and to retain for each league the star players that started with 1t The second divislon tesms in agreeing to an increase in the waiv- or price virtually put the figure up against themselves, because they are usually the ones to claim the play- ars on which waivers are asked by first division clubs. Probably 95 per cent of the walvers asked by tafl- end ciubs are on players whom no one wants. The topnotchers, when they find themselves overstocked with play- ers. begin to cull out thelr least de- sirable first and if the tailenders claim them they must pay a round sum now that the walver price has been put up. The tallenders figure that most of these players have been ®lven a thorough trial and that they are not worth the big waiver prioe. Except one player. not one has been walived out this year who is any more valuable than a high-class bush leagner. The onme player is Kimmick, and it seems that he was not actually waived out after all and that Cincinnati made a mistake. The Phillfes have claimed him and if they are wise they will hang on to bim. (Copyright, 1324.) HEARING IS POSTPONED IN URBAN SHOCKER CASE ST. LOUIS, January 11.—Urban |Shoeker's application to be declared a |free agent, scheduled to be heard by Commissioner Landis here today, has been postponed, probably until Janu- ary 19, it was sald at the office of the St Louis American League club. Tt was stated e postponement was due in part to the inability of Presi- dent Bob Quinn of the Boston club to be here. Quinn was business manager of the Browns last season, when Shocker refused to accompany the team east because he was denled por- mission to take his wife along. This is the cause of Shockers grievance withs the local club, it was explained. DODGERS TO START MARCH 1. NEW YORK. January 11.—Players of the Brookiyn National League base ball club were instructed to re- port for training March 1 at Clear- water, Fla, in letters accompanying new contracts mailed today. Half-Yearly Sale Hanan High Shoes 5% off Choice of our entire stock of men’s Hanan High Shoes, sold here exclusively. for $15, now Shoes that sold $ll.25 All the exclusive Hanan styles included; in black or brown kid, black or brown leather. calf and patent The Hecht Co 7th at F Extra Added Attraction! Sale of Men’'s Sweaters $5.95 Winter weather is sweater weather! t nity to get a heavy wool shaker knit sweater. Slip-overs with shawl collars or V necks. plain’ or heather mixtures. Get out in this Or sweater coats with V necks. Formerly $7.50 to $9.95 A timely opportu- In wonderful weather and keep warm in one of these all-wool sweaters. (East Angex—Fourth Floor.)