Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1924, Page 21

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D NDAY, JANUARY 28, 1924. SPORTS. C, MO Good Pitchers Now Most Needed in Base Ball : empsey “Firm” Has High Value war with equal drive MAJORS ARE TO TAKE 300 SOUTH FOR AN INSPECTION Will Cost Moguls About Half a Million Dollars to' Determine Value of Recruits—Weakness of J LU LU LT LT AL UHTTTTOTTT CHAPTER X.—Gan's-Nelson: | My First Venture. ! BY TEX RICKARD. i I WAS sitting in my office at (mh:-’ field reading a newspaper when Hurlers Explains Big Batting Marks. BY EW YORK, January were as opulent in you M el GEORGE CHADWICK. 2R—Ii all the major lea i pitchers as the New York ¢ 350 young wen with base ball clubs | | my eye came across an item about a fight between Joe Gans and Bat- tiing Nelson and the chances of find- {ing a place to hold it. Always 1 been of newspapers, and | have made a pomt of reading them all the way througi {Up to the moment my eye fel that item I had never so m . thought of even seeing a prizefight g All of us had great pride in Goldfield « town and had tried 1 uner 15 of getting outsiders On the thy N glass down s iants there would be ne rms of various qualities of | uth by trying to make jobs for themselve piteliers! The th ball exploits I the public dolla five years ago. six pitchers to a team Of these. not more than four were regu bushers, carried for the experience they reh 1 Imagine sixtec + piker florts to allure the public ¢ Back in the old days, tw were considered the maxi fars. and the other two might pick up | further s with J wWits its ee-ring e , reader have B pare days in werg a n do that Metirw it b it ner. and a kid who ¢ kid the <spur of the mo ide, walke e und sent manager il Ison fight much G wired er had oo others up t ng in Alaska had taught 1 t and pull | Morrison a pennant. Kremer went up to the Wi again by ent to the 1 wii another Glants a Me nobuod 1t much money bein ht I Here | with Jim Jeffr ARAZEN NOW UNOFFICIAL CmPiOHS and Chance Copyright, 1923, in United States and Great Britatn, Cuba, Japan and South America by North American Newspaper Alliance. All U T T O T A T T UL LU LU LT T is shown Jack Johnson in the bank at Reno, ¢ . George Little, his manager, is with b PRO CHAMPION OF GLOBE @ half 1is well well iz and ccond fi ard drive topp and despite it the edge overed 1o W Pulved overshot up. Loses Chance t wrently Hav urd the beauti- inspired ra whaled dr I Sarazen's cond Taid out & <hot Huvers i won the Tous partial stymie with| he American holed thed econd 1ie 2, while Havers | pute for rd elev mn‘ stymie on won. wi [ suth was twelfth a ard alved in par At tho fou Inglish toer cham followed by | of the green. { vards and | but he got - The 9 dr ccond was topped & rol (so halved fifteenth hole, six- in pa $10-yard | nteenth ird urned fu an still 3 o stroke few 18 two over tther with the Amrh. n _had gecured r than Havers, who th 74, but gained | In the after- nz two holes, lost the twenty-first, when d a four-foot putt. Short Putt Ix thy. Havers drove over 270 yards on tle enty-second, but short in und 40 feet over In 3. Sarazen was ) feet over on his third, but sank the long putt and was 8 up. The ed a 4-foot putt on or a win and halved w Havers bette 10t on the short twenty-fourth but t 3 putt and was 4 up. They ed the twenty-fifth in regulation proaches and the American’s tee Iavers duplicated Gene's tes long ot on the twenty-sixth, and then his iron on the green inside of British | tch for the unofiicial . Havers, with Ir thirty sshie o with- putt for | ® green, only to n in twelve feet and sink Sarazen, outdriv then ded the and and conce 4 up mes 5 «zen drove ough, on a slippery hillside recovered wi Hav shot with t »ach put hi pin and he w Havers s through n eight . put zen was Havers got tite t Haver ud bra: rom the hole sliced “into the to within twenty and Lalved, A ap1) the 4 1ic &v nk his with putt his 1 the water on wet bevond, the ng Sarazen 5 up short on the 30th a three and won got a 210 yard | to twenty-five ' the a rough, but o feet Havers Sarazen” 2 toppe a long roll. tcrapped the rise of them, but he, (oo, roll. Havers lay ninety | the pin and Sarazen 10 or dropped a clean dead shot ! t from the pin. Havers | his next and fost the hole | played i got a I yards fro The la four topped and T the match, § and 4. Sarazen Havers *Par 72, Havers 1Par 128. Inside Golf —By CHESTER HORTON, Most golfers know how the stif- fening left leg, in the down swing, acts as n shock absorber 1o take up the shifting weight of the body and how it makes possible the levernge of the right side of the body against the ball. Now, the right heel. Where does it come into the stroke? 1 have carefully watched slowed-down motion pictures of star players to discern just when they let the right heel lift ax the clubhead passed through the ball In practically all their full shots I noticed that the right heel was on the ground at the instant of clubhend and ball contact. Wal- ter Hagen is one exception. He Rits In several different ways as far ns his feet are concerned— but he always hits. His swing In so automatic, of .course, that he can take certain liberties with it when he wishes. cight, 3 i (Copy . Dite Co.) known oldtield though, T wi rd i 1 aly b ared in a | had 1 working und that when | : hopes | \ Califors for spring t position to tes 1 vouched for Guns Diekers for Himself. ad had a vague not a wpionship fight ut-of-the D 8 to some people as honestly, T hadw't th just_how far t for ng ay that 1 | fact, in | to when T do with bout. T'nti T that his vision im- | with a thing t him more in batting he [ ~take the famil Excellent schools your children, If you prefer - rent a bungalow and enjoy your own rose garden Thousands of miles o paved motor roads. Your assurance of a de- lightful trip there/ yatigps San e ! ._redilamy all the way’ Pullmans vis8 Grand Carvon National Park-open all the year or (CAPITAL OF ‘CORPORATION’ IS RATED UP IN MILLIONS Jack, as Holder of Hes: vyweight Championship, 1s Greatest Asset of Concern of Which Kearns Provides the Business Brains. The Story of the ! World’s Greatest | Fight Promoter | BY ROBERT T. SMALL. IAMI BEACH, Fla, Janua most distinguished winter v M William Jennings Bryan, imay go in as “Jack Dempsey, Incorporate heavyweight championship of the world Iy a matter of the individual. Itis a vast by Dempsey and his associates in the championship estis of their pugilistic_enterprice at betwe d 10,000,000, estimate their cash investment holdings s e Detw and $4.000,000, and they ire that Jac T f res value between $5.000000 and $6,000,000. As Dempsev expe champion of the world for the next five years, this estimat he and his handlers look for him to = “corpos $1,000,000 a year, ii not more. When the public realizes that Dempsey and sociate the championship terprise there will be a better unde stunding _of the demands made in 1 last vear prior to the Demp- sey-Gibbons fight which went fi rounc Dempsey and his sociutes had entered into what the: ered a business deal and as bus e sted upon ti bef cept. Sport is all rig business is business. 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