Evening Star Newspaper, January 20, 1924, Page 57

Ricka rd Discloses Secret of The Sundwy Stae. | sPorTs WASHI GIVE PUBLIC WHAT IT WANTS, SAYS GREAT FIGHT PROMOTER, ' ~IN STARTING STORY OF CAREER Pulse of Fans Can Be Taken by Merely Read- ing the Newspapers, Says Tex—Gunplay Gambling and Hardship His Schooling. Tex Rickard—king of fight life story, “Champior every fight follower wants to know. Cowboys, the Jesse James gang, the Klondike, Iynching bees, for promioters, wizar d of crowds aud juggler of fortunes—here begins s and Chance,” told by him for the first time. It is a story filled with ring secrets It is a story like a movie scenario—but every reel from life. gun fights in Texas and Nevada, gambling igh stakes, with poverty in a turn of the wheel—this is the ba kground of the man who has staged the most amazing series of big bouts in the history of pugilism. Here is life—ths kind Jack London used to write about. CHAPTER 1.—Mjy Secret of Success., Copyright, 1921, in United States and Great When a man waits until he is effort will be jumpy My life has been jumpy. They sit here in the tower of Madison Square Garden, New York, surrounded by pictures of f ring hourly with boxers, managers. I am starting this o tain, Cuba, Jupan Alllance. All vights rexerved. BY TEX RICKARD. four y it rs old to assemble h was born i speech fift even say that 1 promoters, matehmakers a following the second herd of longhorns driven across the plains of Te: ou, I worked on a cattle r. reads to mie like nch at a diary of my early Kansas, 1 went with the second batch. Ih strike. e been a town marshal in I have acted as banker for amusement—and mine purchased mit officials prefer to call them. Indeed Beiore me are piled more than 00 letters from men ip various sec- tions of the country giving sugges tions, in answer to my request, on what would be the subjects for me to discuss. Fifty per cent of them suggest that [ teil what is the se- I have cut cret of my success in being avle to| select the right b : ing matches for the right moment. “How are vou abic to call the turn every time?” | how do! sk. “In other words correctly figure the pub days In the Klondtk lays e Klondlke, A third group would lke the inside’ de- tails of the bz fights that I have been fortunate omoting. The letters then run off Into odd queries like this: “How do vou make these rough- c fightars keep thelr contracts?” or “Who wax the t man you a n cruelest ever saw in the ring?" In the course of my hope to answer them ail There 18 no secret method of as- certaining wnat current subject the public is interested in. To me it al- Ways seems apparent. 1 simply read the vewspapers carefully and find out. Anybody can do that. The thing people want to sec Is the thing they 1alk about most. To my mind writing is the interesting art n the world tising I conslder the greatest power n the world My assistzut has sug- Eested that I use the word ity.” That may be more proper, but always I have considered what 1 read in the newspapers about people as advertising them—making them known. T do not mean paid adver- tising, necessarily. Stiil, big Dusi- ness men would not put pa'd ad- vertizements in the newspapers if they did not know it would attract a share of attention. The thing I look for in newspapers is that on which the public atlention seems to be cen- tered Al you've got to do ix read newspapers daily and find out what the greatest number of people are alking about. Also, I listen to what people say about what they have read n the newspapers. If you are a pro- moter that is the thing you want to capitalize. That has heen my methol Now, {f that can be considered a secret —well, there it Is. Taught to Think Straight. A lot of people do not think in strafght line. They get confused b #lde lines. They ramble off on tan- gents and miss the real point. 1 Teckon you know these people who can talk all day and you never find out what 1t is ail 2bout. T suppose my early training taught me to know stralght talk. In those days, when every man was on his own,’ they had to talk straight. Be- fore' 1 was fifteen vears old 1 knew very well the difference :between stralght talk and “hoorah” as called it th \ u now call “bull auce” and ®o on. In my kid days a man was either giving vou straight talk or he was “hoorahing." Helleve me, the most innocent and ignorant knew the erence. Folks aidn't do strafght-out 1ying. The man who tells you he doesn't pay much attention to the newspapers fs'cither a feol or a llar—maybe both. A lot_of smart-alecks like to say that. They always wind up as smart- alecks, too. New' York had an experience last summer that put a lot of folks wise A pressmen’s strike practically stop- ped all the papers for a weck and people were hopping around hickens with their heads cut off. Tven the merchants got an Idea of what advertising meant to them. Whatever the papers lost in money they'll get ft back doubl son ziven the publie ' Ntores w hin thas s sheet In {mitation of a 4 had criers out on the sireet trylie to give away their ad- yertisements One littie dumbbell of u fight man- ager had been bothering around for a week to get a picture of his fighiar. and a boost for himself printed. He talked to-a press agent and thought it was all fixed. - he sald to me, coming into all steamed up, “what kind of a town is this? T've Zot three of them papers and ‘there ain’t a line in it about nothing -but ladies’ under- wear and a coat sale—and me giving that guy & dinner! That fellow had actually bou-t a dozen of tiose' department sore paper: % Never a day passes but some friend o acquaintance calls my attention to some fighter 'WHo6 Would be great to match ‘with Dempsey. with Firpo, *ith Wills or some of those fellows. hey will tell me of. who will give such and such 2 man a great fight. T listen, of course, but such sug- gestions mean little to me. 1 don't care & rap who the man is or how well he can fight. All T want to know is: Does the public want to. see. him? To_get that 1 read the newspapers and find out which way the gossip is -heading—who is mentioned the most. Really, I don't see anything ‘complicated about it. ‘Sometimes I go into & bank or busi- ness house to be met with a question narrative 1 most Adver- a Y a: my offiep like this: “Say, Rickard, what about with Van Rice,” a cowboy told me, Is propertics for big corporat “public- | the | we | much | itke | ome wonder | the age of ten. Emers days. Following the icad of that gold dust of the miuers. 1 have wood for the Yukon steame 0 I life has been this Wills fight 2 jutapy. ¥lrpo—th and ¥ that's man js intere | Bot now ata had been reading T of course. That particuiar bit of gossip attracted bim. Naturady, 1t it attracted him it caught the interest others. A tip like that is worth { following. Notwithstanding what has been sald about bullding up false {nterest, let me tell you that is a mighty hari o do. The w ren can pring all (he stuff th e that they wani to, and we ma all we can to kesp it going. but unless the public reacts to It tihe bullc-up fn- terest will soon die out. Real inter- persists and grows. That's the Luff to put rour finger on Says Papers Show the Way. Take, for_ insta the Dempsey- Carpentier fight. ariy every fight | man tn the countrs had a feeling that <uch a match would not be even; that | Carpentler was too Ilght. Others I might have given Dempsey a fight, but the public wasn't talking about others. They wanted to see Carpentler. The affair had an inte national tin T don't see how ar 1body could have failed to see irom | the very start that Dempsey and Car- pentier would be a great attraction The gosslp had headed that way and | there was no way of stopping it, {even if we had tried. Why, we tried for two years to get Carpentier over here before he finally came. When the French government put 1ts foot down on the proposition toward the end of the war, even that did not kill the interest. | "As I say, the newspapers do it all. A man in'any llne of business can ind a chance for success in the news | papers every day if he will only read them with care and with common sense. Gossip fs the clue to public de- isire and In a city the newspapers furnich the only way we have of | Belting at fe. Tn the Kiondike and along the Yu- kon all the big gold strikes were the result of gossip. “What did you hear up north? would a | and v worth sotie ung. That two men v went by what we heard—It it was stralght talk. | “What did you see | papers?” we ask today, | The wise man pays attention. The unwise one simply reads and forgets. 1 was taught to think straight in a hard school, as T will now show. in the news- | | . f CHAPTER 11 { The Second Herd North of 36. 1 did not live in a big city until T | had reached middle age. There the fact that T always worked alone, had | never sought counsel in my opera- jtions, is & subject of frequent com- ment this is not strange. | Always e had to work out my problems alone. The hard side of life, the tragedies that | their imprint upon the fuces ‘of city dwellers, were old stor- % to me long before I had become | twenty-one. I ncver had any boyhood [In the sense that the ordinary boy does today. Circumstances forced me nlo‘ .-l:mm;: nul; my own way when most boys are fiying kites = ing marbles. 5 fapiolay Though T ma not show these things in my face—T haven't any gray hairs or wrinkles—memorfes of thosa early days can never be erased from my ‘mind. 1 lived the life that most boys imagine they want to live ‘when tii;{\hread'dlmo novels. en was but four or five years old my father, who was a mlIl“’le‘h’l. picked up. the family and moved tq, Sherman, Tex. That was a wild sec? tion of the country then. It was not {easy to earn a Uving for a wife and flve children. He heard of prospects ;| further west and In a covered wagon we migrated to Henrietta, Tex. Ther. lfe peally started. All my recol- date back to Henrfetta, 80, when I was ten years old, {my father took sick. 1t was necexsary for me to go to work. T went to live with a big cattleman named Jim Cur- tis at Cambridge, Clay county, Tex, i That was not far trom Henrletta, In tact Cambridge soon thereafter prace tically ceased .o exist. The two towns were, bitter rivals. Cowboys Steal Post Ofiice. One night a band of cowboys rode “cwn on Cambridge and stole the pog1 office. which they brought back Ane established at Henrletta, My mind is hazy on the details. of this, but for years I remember the fact of Henrletta having etolen the post office from Cambridge being a matter of bitter controversy. Jim Curtis was a big-hearted, very kind man and o was his family. 1 Qid the chores.and ran errands for the ranch. 1t was there that I fuced my first tragedy. One of my duties was to go down to the town and tell Mr. Curtls when was ready—dinner was served {at 12 o'clock. At that hour the cow- boys were usually in town and al- ways in or around the saloons. They were rough, shooting fellows, In the spring one day Mrs. Curtls told me to go down and tell her hus- band that dinner was on the table, I went to the régular saloon gather- ing place, but he had just laft I just missed him in two or tnree places, leaving word at each. “He was around here a while ago i 1 South America by wspaper nicn, that forty years ago I w Hough's great pioneer story Later [ better | ¢ strangers in those days, | 4 smericun Newspaper thoughts or. paper the chances are his n Kansas City py. It Mo., January s hard to realize, as I shters and confer- into Kans Mind " north of 30. “North of istoric herd across the Red river into | in the Klondike for the gold ning houses for their ) ims for myself and have cetights, or boxing matches, as the '-\"‘.u better get on home, sof | was turning toward the eurd some sh n a saloon | runeh 1 hew h0ts In a saloo Ji Curtis and Van Rice, both cat- Uemen. had been standing 4t the bar. A 'H\::’Kl'"('mpnl s over the brand- Ing of some cattle. But few words were spoken. Van Rice. a dead shot as as Curtis, drew his gun in a flash and opened Before Curtls -'f\n,v'l K(-llh‘.~ wla-shnulef from its or three bullets I . through him. - EoR “Den't! For God's don’t ki) anybody cowboy called to them, but too late | He actually leaped toward the two men haolding his nds hetween them | S0 quick and eadly was the alm that two bullots went through his hand and wrist into the body of Curtis! . H : M“,bm:;r «tumbled over behind u | 8tove in the center of the room, dying. | With his last gasp. though, he pulled | himself up on one elbow, took delib- erate aim and fired & builet squarely | through hls assaliant’'s heart Both men dropped dead. = Those are not pleasant recollec- | tions, but it was the atmosphere in | which I started life. Young Tex Joina Cattte Drive. | I stayed with the widow, Mrs Curtis, until the fall, when I joined !a group of cattiemen and started on | one.of the most momentous journeys |in history. We drove an immense {herd of long horns all e way to Honeywell, Kan., then considered a | strange and foreign country. Though we did not grasp its meaning. we | swere realiy helping to knit togather the north and south of the west. Just 1@ few of the hérds had been driven {north of the thirty-sixth meridian. In | fact, we were duplicati & the feat of | the Red River ploneers who went to | Abilene, as told in Emerson Hougl's ikl"nl historic novel. | Tha reason for Ariving these herds ‘Vnnnh was to reach a new market, the Texas market having been killed | by the civil war and the political | troubles following ft. it may seem odd that a boy of eleven years, little more than a baby, should be out on a rough expedition ltke this, actually working for a liv- ing. Nothing was thought of it then T wae a little man, just as the others were big men. We each had our job | to do. On that long drive we dldn’t see a single house, not the slightest sign | of civilization, until after we had swum the herd across the Red river. We followed the route of the previous herd, though we kept a little west of |the Chisholm trail. Buffalo were a |common sight In those days. In fact, |1 ave helped my father hunt buffalo over what fs now Wichita Falls, Tex., an important eity. ke don't shoot a_nelghboring | somest and longest night in my whole {lUfe. It may Indicate how my youth- Two of the cowbodys got into an argument. over the cattle and one of | them shot the other, wounding- him nian to a little tent one of the cow- boys recalled that a doctor lived in a lttle village forty or fifty miles away. 1i was suggested .that I be left ‘with'the wounded cowboy while the riders went for the doctor. I never thought of protesting. We didn’t complain in those days. Besieged by Wolves, I sat with the' wounded man and listened to his moans, bringing wa- ter and_walting on him as best T could. Between his moans I could occasionally hear the shriek of a coyote or wolf. It turned out to be & whole pack of wolves. The cowboy was barely consclous and I began to feel lonely. Unless {you have sat alone on & prairte, with the stars shining so brightly as to {1cok like electric bulbs, and hear the plercing scream of a wolf, you have ino idea how it _can make your hair {stand on end. No sound carrles such terror as the shrlek of a wolf on the { hunt. As I sat theére with thie tingling at the roots of my halr, realizing my utter lonelinéss. ‘the poor cowboy died. Then I had to sit up with hie body the livelong night. The nearest to company I got was the occasfonal moo of a cow whose calf was being sought by the wolves. Toward midnight the wolves camé closer. I set the lantern.in the doer of the'tept, now really @ morgue. In a semi-circle I could see the gray forms of the wolves and occasionally the light reflected In thelr eyes. grew into an old man that terrible night, I can nevér forget any phase of it as long as I live. 1 did what any other cattleman would have done, though. “I got a rifle and sat walting, ready .to pro- tect myself. Mind you. 1 was only ten years old. The thought of the dead ‘man with nie was almost as hor- rible as the presence of the wolves outside, The cowboys did not ‘return with the doctor, no longer needed, until arter 6 o'clock in the morning. With a childhood Jolt like that, it is not strange that I have failed to nd anything nerve-wracking In pro- oting a boxing match. But I am leading into my next chapter. V Tomerrow: Why Promoting Fight Real Sport.” | 4, 40, On a like journey I spent the lone- | | ful mind grew hardened to tragedy. |uadly. As they brought the wounded | NGTON, D. C; SUNDA gt et Sk o 4000, 06 Tex Rickard, king of fight jromote his fiftyfourth birthday (January 2 TEN OF GRIFFS IN LINE ! AS GOSLIN, BLUEGE SIGN Three more Natlomnals, all pected to make regular berths this year, retarned thelr signed con- tracts to base bal head arters yesterday., In addition to Joe Judge, who did business in per- som with Preaident Grifith In the morning, duly indorsed papers were received In the maily from Gooke " Goslin, the most productive Ritter of the 1923 arrny, and Ossie Bluegze, who stunds an exeellent chance of earning a permanent berth at the hot corner if his trick lex doesn't put him on the shelf again. nelud this trio, ten of th Griftmen now are hound for serv- fee this year, the others heing Hargenve, Harris, Peckinpuugh, Rice, Roe, Tate and Wingfield, MULDOON IS URGED AS CZAR OF BOXING ST. PAUL. Minn., January 18.—A resolution proposing to elevate Wil- lam_Muldoon. former chairman of | the New York boxing commission to a position in the boxing world simi {lar to that held by Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis in the base ball world, will be offered by W. F. Sailor, {secretary of the Minnesota commis- slon, ut the annual convention of the {National Boxing Association which | lopens at Louieville, Ky.. next duy. Sallor announced today 1™ The support of_the boxing commis- {ston of South Dakota toward this resolution has been pledged, Sailor lsald. and several other state bodics Ihave Indicated their willingness to {vote for its adoption ! “Minnesota fight fans have pledged | $2.000, Sailor said, to be applied to- | ward Muldoon's first vear's salary. in the event the proposition is uccepted. RICKEY IS DICKERING, BUT NO TRADE MADE| January 19.—Branch | f the St. Louis Cardl- nals, aroused base ball speculation on his arrival in New YorK today, but although he held a conferenc ! with owners of the Boston Braves and { was belleved also to have interviewcd Manager John McGraw of the Giants, ,no_definite developments apparently . hag resulted tonight from his visit Rickes apd Emil B Fuchs, viee president of the Braves, who withi Christy Mathewson, Boston president. attended a conference this afternoon. admitted discussing @ possible deal between the Cardinals and Braves, but it was saild nothing had been closed. Fuchs declined to discuss detalls but intimatéd he might make an a nouncement. tomorrow. Despite Rickey's flat statement that he would not trade Rogers Hornsby, his great second-sacker, either to the Braves or Giants, who bid $300,000 for him tfiree years ago. reports per- sisted that Rickey and McGraw would reoper ncgotiations by which the Car- dinal star ‘would come to the Natlon- al League champions. Officials at the offices of the Glants were noncommittal over these re- orts, Secretary J. J. Tierney assert- ng that Rickey had arranged no con- ference with the club. Pl O {VIRGINIA LEAGUE WILL START PLAY APRIL 17 NORFOLK. Va.. January 19.—The Virginia League base ball season will open April 17 ahd close September 20, according to a schedule adopted at & meeting of the directors here tonight. All six clubs, it .was.announced, have deposited the required bond of $6,000. The clubs are Norfolk, Ports- mouth, Richmond. Petersburg, Wil- son ‘and Rocky Mount ., ¢, ... 4 e | | NEW YORK. | Rickey, pllot o Premier Fistic Impressario and a Famous Check ‘Gtuar-anty tl Payiotborderof EOFTRT M 200 THOUS AiDe= = L 1924), { shape i : a record early start to Tampa and the unprecedented Size of the squad ! Y- MORNING, JANUARY 20, 1924. His Phenomenal Success in th Trust Combafij of N B e Office m 25, ewYork o = 00/ggDollars T i, Facsimile of famous check which figured in promotion of “the battle of the century.” [SWIMMING MARK MADE | BY AUSTRALIAN YOUTH SYDNEY. New South Wales, January 19.— Andrew Cha wixteen-year-old Aust mer, extublished a world record in defeating Arme Horg of Sweden in an NSO-yard swimming race here yenterday. Charlton megotinted the distance in 1031 4-5 wecondx and finished fifteen yards ahead of Borg. The time given would be a world record for 80 yards either in a tank or open it The previous marks were, for the tank, 1055 weconds, extablished by Norman Rowsx of Chicago, and for open water 11.8 1-2 neconds by Arne Borg. STRIBLING SCRAP IN NEW Stribling | weight, debut within the zotiation appear in EW YORK YORK 14.—Young Macon. uary Ga., light-heav: nay make his New York Madison Square Garden neat month if present e e suecessful. He will « siv-round contest, which he limited because of age rule of the New York State letic Commission An effort w ng for a ma to sign ry W York g of twenty to his cred herner v 1nable Berle howeve; 11 be his opponent hruary Irish Johnny Joe Rider of S with iddi e con hut prob- some time Curtin of Jersey City Brooklyn, hantam been matched for ; a tw ot exclusively for The Star on |-y 25 at the |a foul in their last encounter. On the SideLines With the Sporting Editor BY DENMAN THOMPSON . posing - fine phys their as yet unidentified ill have a soft assignment Clark laid plans materialize. Getting ‘hampionship race by having his at iation and explains his action in arranging for vear, a fiying start in the is Griff's deter pro . 4 etes in perfect ng at Hot Springs. perfect possible wiil be insisted upon for said G vesterday, “and there will be no exceptions. A good start is a very important factor to any team in a six-month campaign, and i cannot be obtained ualess all the. players are in shape to make the most of their ability. A slow beginning has proved disastrous to more than one club that otherwise might hav gotten somewhere and I don’t propose to shoulder such a handicap this year if it can be avoided “Under the schedule arranged our young batterymen will get about three weeks' more work than they usually receive—two solid months in all—and the veterans also will have a couple of weeks extra for training through their sojourn at Hot Springs. The old- timers will do more than merely boil out there, by the way. They'll take the waters, of course, and plenty of hill climbing will be in order, but they will get their arms in shape, too. d for preliminary trai “Condition as nearly player on the team.” m sending Ruel along with his big mitt to warm up the pitchers and the other members of the squad will be required to get their wings in shape b arrival at Tampa to reach the stage where they can cut loose. All hands will have to be ready early, for our first exhibition is slated for March 14. ixcept in the case of Allen Russell no excuses will be accepted irom any player for failure to report on the date specified. This ap- plies particularly to Mogridge and Zachary, if the latter becomes a meni- ber of the team. Both of these birds should have a lot of good pitching left in their systems and by being ready when the bell rings we won't have to wait till midseason for them to deliver. 2, S “Russell will be permitted to pass up the Hot Spriiigs training for the very good reason that he has tried it several times, always with bad results.” There is no more willing worker on the roster than Russell and I'know he is not merely trying to dodge training. In fact, Russell has volunteered to go to Florida right now and start work if I want him to. With the Red Sox Russeli went to Hot Springs three years in a row and on each occasion contracted a sore arm. While the treat- ment there proves beneficial to most athletes, the reverse evidently is true with him, so_he's excused. ¢ i ) “Spring training for us will be far from a late winter vacation this year. The boys will all know the business at hand is serious before I get through with them. No, golf has not been barred as an off-season diversion for Washington players and it won't be, either. In the case of Harris it hurt his batting.or Bucky thinks it did, which is the same thing and reason enough for his giving it up. I think goli proved beneficial to Rice, however, his exercise in the fresh air last winter putting him in splendid condition for spring training. “I'd like nothing better than to have every man on the team play golf all winter. But golf has no place in a training camp after the serious work of condition gets under way, and starting with March 10, when the entire squad will be assembled at Tampa, the links game will be taboo until the base ball season ends. This will apply to everybody and every day.” -~5o confident is Griff that the'young hurlers lined up for the Nationals will make good that he is willing to match them against any staff of juvenile flingers in the majors. Oddly enough, he is banking on compara- tively ynknown Fred Wingfield to prove the best of the bunch. He is a. righthander with sufficient versatility to obtain use both in the infield and garden as well as the box with Chattanooga and despite the fact that_he won only about half his games in the Southern Assotiation is held to have more potential worth than any of his youthful mates. The promise shown wifh the Nationals by Oliphant Marberry and Paul Zahniser and the splendid minor league records of Rollsroyce Joyce and Joe Martina, hailing from New Haven and New Orleans, respectively, makes this rating a high one. Grifi expects this quintet to furnish some dependable assistance to his veterans—Johuson, Russeil. Mogridge and Zachary—and possibly supplant a couple of them. He is merely hopeful s regards Brogan, Dudley, Moone, Roc and McGrew. The latter, by the way, has given evidence of curbing the characteristics which heretofore have iuterfered with his effectiveness, The tall Texan hds been handicapped by an aggrieved attitude that tends to lower his morale. If he can be convinced that all the world is not conspiring against him he may yet prove worthy of his monicker, (“Dangerous Dan”). He will be kept right with the Nationals, be given evez chance to make good and either stand or * fall on what he shows this year. 3 . have ! by tossing the pill around so that it won't take long after their | e Pugilis GREENLEAF RUNS 101 AT POCKET BILLIARDS ROCHESTER, N. ¥, January 19, —Ralph Greenleaf of Philadelphia, world champlon pocket billiard player and present leader in the natfonal pocket billiard tourna- ment, broke the world record for high run in pocket billiard ch plonship competition here this afternoon when he surpassed his old run of 100 balls by running 101 for game. Greenleaf also equaled the low Inning record for the league play of thix seuson held by Rudolph of New York, when he made hix run in the fourth innin He had seratched on his second trip to the tabl ich gave him opportunity for passing hix old mark. In the mateh, Greenleaf defeated former champion Jerome Keigh of Rocheste:, 100 to 16, IS AMATEUR SKATER, MISS ROBINSON SAYS Mass., Junuary 19— obinson of Toronto, w sed 1o participat races in the winter car which she was red of reports that she had becc | i on Canada would fight to t n in amateur Miss Robinson also produced messaze from the Torouto branch the Canadian association, stating | she is eligible to compete the Unite o rem: Pittsficld_club o 41 that Miss Robinson fonal. Miss though she tention of j xglonal skaters nounced her i anks of prof she had fes: Lamy an o efforts tomor sixty mi utomobite cate | hour, He kept miles au DEMPSEY HAS HARD BATTLE WITH WAVES as revenled here | the ey erful_rights rless, for traine Tedd his heen the in- | trip. d the d. Al- ceping | ade atrplane thourh the 1S fish ont towed the Wigsins, W here J Wigsin 1 ternoon will meet sibhoy < ’ ion ang cuttir mix appear wer the 1y in excellen short deadly | behind ther will the this a which both owe times, whi was said toliowing the bout appeared to enjoy 'DEAN, GIANTS’ NEW N, W Oeder by January an. pitcher. club of the unced here d un- nim by TINGT I the ville ann. |tonight that figned a contract ¢ | Manager McGraw. | Me declared that the Louisville club signed him for $300 a month, with the undarstanding that he would he given a substantial increase in y if sold to one of the major azue clul Dean _did the New d that announce the figure rk contract, but indi- was unsatisfactory_to He spending the winter working as an apprentice architeet lin his 1ather's office here Y it READING READING, ard “Dick” the Charlotte lantic Leagu ons, has been base for th League clul G. U. SCORES SIGNS HOBBY. Pa., January 19.—F Hoblitzell. manag club of S for the | in N run in which William Goodwin &f Joie Ray to the utmost, only to los Vernon Ascher of Georgetown, run- ning unattached, won the 440-yard {hand after i sharp struggl {0.512 He started from scratch did Tom Campbell of the New York €, who finished second. J. E. Me- nn, representing Holl 1 Inn. th'a handicap of twent third, The college med won by Georgetown second and New third. The time W 7.59 1-5. Gegan, Dowding, Masters and Sulllvan were the members of the winning team. After winning the first heat of the 120-yard handicap, Bob McAllister, the “Flying Cop,” collapsed and with= drew from the race. Matching stride for stride with the indomitable Ray. Goodwin all but con- quered the national champlon in the lspecial invitation mile event. The {iron will of the Chicagoan was to win, and win he did—by. half a stride, a veritable step. The hig crowd was uproar by this race, the fea & stellar program. And it W the finish alone that gave the tators their thrill At the outset Walter Higgins., the former Colum- bia distance star, stepped inlo a .ead, but Ray quickly overhauled bim. Goodwin then passe Higgins and took up his place at Ray's hee where he remained throughout seven of the eight laps of the race. Established in the lead, Ray seemed not to mind the proximity of his lone challenger, and’ slackened the pace a bit. Goodwin, too, pulled up, and Higsins, with the rest of the fleld, appeared, to, be coming forward, relay” race was with_Columbla York University sent into nre or as not spee- an | HURLER, IS BALKING | EW YORK, January 19—The Blue and Gra prominently in the Fordham University games at the ment Armory tonight, the feature of which was -two vards, | lic ngme D.C. IS ADMITTED annual conve rinistrative affairs of each of ball coming Federation Board. B ke it three Col. Johnson of Washington Also Made Member of ALTIMORE, Md., January —The National Base Ball Fed here, today decided to divorce ti under its jurisdictior Whereas, the industrials ¢ base in and a voice in the affairs of each cla the preside 1l Federatic at. semi-pros alike under today's decision of the Natio: I will appoint a committee, made of representatives of one division to take charge of the fairs of that divis amate: This plan do away riction expe tion in pre men tentutively sci Define Players’ Stakes. functioniz with After a definity nd semi-prof pited e i-pros was approy definitions of the unsue Washington Admitted. Bu B Pr ication ative in the seattere other cities too wide Rhods sider solution n to Join © on on Board. rs were ¢ Pr { vase and: secralary-treasurer, Gouley. Clevelend Mavor Clayton C, was chosen tion Townes, tors and mittees in April, t i upon ted ational place fe fal comu to @ best er tournament its v ut that time, when act taken upon several Tich isions plan national champie or second Satur bo observed this amateur day association individual choice additional franch Guring _ the Pu., affiliating ON TRACK; and reorganizatio { tinancing t The first will 1 One | awarded Scranton walis ventioif tin RAY WINS THRILLING RACE of Georgetown figured 22d Regis thrilling. aile the New York Athletic Club puskef ¢ by the narrowest of margins. ! At this point challenges were madp | by orge Marsters Georgetowh and Pat Kennedy Larabida Cous cil. K. of C. but timed thos thrusts well and met them. Higgins feli back in the rush | SWEDE AND FINN SCORE INBIG SKATING TOURNEY DAVOS, Switzerland, January 19. The international skating races open- ed here today with the 500 and 5.000 meter speed e 500-meter race was won 1 Juropean chum- plon, Thunberg of Helsingfors, Fiu- land, in 43 4-5 seconds, which i% two- firths of a second slower than the world record. The 5000-meter con test was won by Skutnabb of Sweden iin 8 minutes nds, with Thunberg one second behind. TO COACH CARSON. ~NEWMAN. JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn., Januury 119 —Lake Tussell, former rsont 5 n _foot ball star, will coach the urson-Newman gridiron squad next Tom Moran. son of nele Charlle™ Moran, former coach f Centre College. YOUTH TO GET TRY-OUT. CINCINNATI, Ohio. January 19.—- Johnny Hodapp, & young semi-profes- sional shortstop of this city, will ac- company the Indianapolis team of the Amecrican Association to its southern training camp this spring.