Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1924, Page 27

SPORTS D. ¢, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1924 SPORTS New Giant Is Champion Slugger of U. S. : Firpo Stands by New Promolers MO SOLOMON WALLOPED *49 HOMERS McGraw’s Rookie Starred Two Others in Minors Attained by Babe Ruth and Cy Williams. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, January 30.—Mo Solomon, now a Giant, was the cham- pion home-run buster of the N contentment which filled his mind w sorbed by the Giants for 1924. True, he may not stay with the Giants when the weeding out begins—but he has been with them. nine home runs last season, thereby leading the world, Babe Ruth, Cy Williams and Rogers Hornsby. club of the Southwestern League, but he hit Solomon_hit fort for the Hutchinson, Kan them just the same. It's a better made as a busher. The second highest home run rec- | ord in the United States for 1923 is held by Simpson of the Springfield. Mass. club, who busted 44 of them. Right cn his heels is Paul Strand of ty, with 43. He had more in which to get them than the but he got them and his is ason’s record for the Pacific fling Simpson and Strand are Ruth and Williams of the two major leagues, with a paltry 41 homers | Apiece These five make up the 40 or better ranks of circuit clouters. Two men batted Rohwer of Seattle Wichita. Sheehan of e y nd Blackesley of Wichita gathered kL Kraft of ‘Worth, Tex.. as aid Davi ¢ t ‘of Minneapolis had 31. Other High Homer Merks. Among other hi hitters we Brief of ¥o i 24; Oster on, 2 2 chal of Charlotte 26; Bishop of | Raltimore, 2 of Buffalo, 22;' Clark of Atlanta, 19.] ol such a | recor roswattin homers kEnid, | Okli., out in the country o he oil thirst. MeDaniel with 36. Smith with Roche with nd Reiger of the | club togethe atted 1068 home | runs for the season's work. But there 18 no note stating whether IEnid had a short fence. mingham and vely no club made same ing, the home run a slump in 3. In 1e minor organizations the lid noi get above a score ! them, and in some the was hed ‘with fifteen. The is that there are n ng loose in the un cause in the orian they hit home runs of the wallopers were old fe have been buitng for nd wh es i dimmed, 1 fir Knee refused to cut a pigeon’s wing. Better Pitching in Wi speaking, there ing than there had been in pre- | in the leagues, which | er pitching on the part r leagues. The Litl ones d earcfully and with much s the playing year, i her: have | wing that ¢ s very well | Lortcomings. | st man in which | well most | lows who Ger was less slug vious s asons the n and the noved major awit LINKS TO BE CLOSED | FOR IiPROVEMENTS up Tea A ot of of ers will be h lay after to ic courses i Potomac Park month and a half to ous_improvements West Potomac greens cannot weather and which no cxtensive are plann, 1 throughout the winte! Closing of the two public most used brings to an end the successful i Since Potomac Park it has known mo than ever | before, and Rock Creek Park, opened | only last 3 has sprung into full alarity anager Leoffler of East T { Pary plans to completely rebuild | the old fifth green, down near Hair Point. The irer this hale dinarily a orne f something over 200 hakes out under 1 the constant cross the low- hard that it is p to hold a ball on it ular greens are in good condition, al- though they have not keen used for some time. | Manager Miller of Rock Creek Park plans to take immediate steps to bet-{ ter the fairways and will make sev-i eral improvements around the greens at the course on the edge of the park. The work to be done at the public courses will bring better and more enjoyable golf, when the links open some time in March. ANDERSON CAPTURES PAIR OF NET TITLES By the Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia, January 3. 0. Anderson won the Austra- lian tennis singles championship to- day, defeating R. E. Schleginger in the final, 6—3, 6—4, 2—8, 5 —3. In the doubles final Anderson, paired with Norman Brookes, defeated Ger- ald Patterson ©-d Pat O'Hara Wood, 6—2, 6—4, 6 NEW YORK, January 30.—Tennis followers have attached unusual sig- nificance to the victory of Norman E. Brookes, veteran racket wizard, in fhe Australian doubles championship with James O. Anderson, star of Australia’'s Davis cup team for the past two years. Brookes' triumph was seen as con- vincing proof that he has made rapid strides in his comeback attempt and that he might once again be a potent factor in the Davis cup play, in which he was a dominating figure a decade and more ago. The return to form of the veteran, who has been ren- tioned as likely captain of the 1924 Australian team. woulg make the challenging combination” from “dewn under” all the more formidable. Added importance was attached to Brookes' performance because he and Anderson vanquished O'Hara Wood and Gerald Patterson, who de- feated the American doubles cham- plons, Tilden and Vincent Richards, decisively in the 1922 Davis cup chal- lenge round. Brookes made his last appearance In international play in 1920, when he was beaten by both Tilden and Willfam Johnston. who brought the hardy put the variety for places 1o when the pub-| Creek and East | be closed for a| permit of va rd yrrow Rock will whose by cold | and on ovements | open Park cours be harmed frequent courses | most East March | mac | shotter vards, on the nmer winds that ng point course sun sweep and becomes so | tically impossible he oth 20, he has just found out, and which has added to the previous great !leges accrued after | for 19 LAST SEASON in Southwestern League. Exceeded Mark of 41 United States in 1923, a fact which hen he found that he had been ab- True, he hit them record than the famous Ruth ever JOE JACKSON DENIES GUILT IN 1919 SERIES MILWAUKEE, January 30. — Joe Jackson, former outfielder for the Chi- cago Americans, probably will resume the stand today in suit against Charles Comiskey, owner of the Chi- cago White Sox, for back pay Jackson al- the 1919 world series base ball “scandal” resulted in him and several other being expelled from organized base Comiskey and Harry Grabiner, tary of the Chicago t pected to take the s ckson testified yesterda) hit the only home run in the 1 With two men on bases: accepted eight een chances in the outfield without an crror, and denied that he plaved dis- honestly in the 1919 series. At that time, he said, he was room- ing with Pitcher Lefty Willlams and declared that in Chicago directly after the series Williams came into his room with two good-sized cnvelopes “‘Want one™ " he said asked him. ‘What's in it *‘It's money from the eas told me. 1 ez BY TEX Williams I asked him part of what 1 got rn gamblers,’ Williams aid to him, ‘You've got @ lot of merve, you big bum. Base ball is my only means of making a living, Wwhat ‘are you trving to do to me? He laid one of the envelopes on a table, and the next day T went down to e Comiskey about biner said, o home. he doc nt to see you.' went home a =0 soon received noon, eighteen ycars ago, to the center for final inst 1 W The fight now was a certainty. tion. I wanted to see every blow. i day or letter fr he asked gram to McDe is today a by-word in sport. It read “Joe: to win the bacon. Another telegram that caused a big was from »hn L. Sullivan rry I can’t be the fight It ought to be a corker. especially the Sullivan was Gans' financial and took an active part in s corner. He was also of "ceremonie: In presenting the fighters to the Paul {crowd the announcer warned against nd all- |disorder. declaring that there were contents of “ourt then ad- direct testi- Mrs. Jackson's letter. journed, with Jackson's mony unfinished. — e 14 MAJOR CLUBS SOUGHT FLORENCE | ans.” NEW YORK., January Florence, sensational catche round athlete of Georgetown Univer- ity, was sought by thirteen other major league clubs before he signed | 4 with the New York Giants, | High regard for John J, McGraw's ability as a manager and tutor of young players led Florence to accept the offer of the National League champions, it is said. Called by Clark Griffith of the Washington Senators a “second Babe Ruth,’ “lorence arred as a basket | 1, ball and foot ball player at orgetown, captaining teams in each of these branches of sport. He had | one year of study, but decided to re- port to the Giants this sp g, declar- | ing that he is gambling with ha.\'«“ ball as against a preference for law, as did Frank Frisch, Florence was born in twenty-two years ago. He six feet tall and weighs 195 N one of this series of interviews, Leo Diegel told of a rotten game he played down south when he took ten strokes to do a 133-yard hole. In in the Shawnee open, which de- ines the eastern championship, which I won by four strokes, I George Duncan, the British star, who was touring this country in com- pany with Abe Mitchell, establish a record worse than Leo’s. It wason the old 380-yard fourth hole, now No. 1, at Shawnee. A drive and a pitch will put 'You on the green— if you play correctly. But your iron shot has to clear a deep ravine, at the bottom of which is a brook. If you drop vour ball there, you're in for a sweet time, This 1s exactly what Duncan did. pitch got over the brook. but anded in the twenty-foot bank which formed the side of the ravine toward the green. On his next stroke he failed to clear the precipitous bank and his ball rolled back and into the hicago is over pounds. RAVES GET SANDLOTTER. CINNATI, Ohio. January E Sperber. 'a local outflelder, who | was graduated from the Cincinnati sand- lots to the Texas League and hit .338 for Houston last season, has with the Boston Braves. He bats and throws left-handed. BUSH SIGNS HOD ELLER. DANVILL 111, January 3 brook. nouncement is made here that He lifted, but, playing five, again Eller of Danville, former star twirler | failed to conquer the bank, and again of the Cincinnati Reds, has been signed |got 2 roll into the brook. Another for the coming season by the Indian- [lift, with another foozle, made him apolis club of the American Association. | seven. For the third time he picked Copyright, 1023, in United States (UL LU OO CHAPTER XIL.—The Truth About Nelson’s Foul. | Gans startea without another worry about the preli I was really interested in the fight itseli as much as in the promo- Just as Gans was about to pull on_his gl onaid, who, in turn, gave it to him. mother in Baltimore and the wording became historic. The eyes of the world are on you. Yeung Peter Jackson will tell me the news, and you bring home regards | (Champions and (Cha RICKARD. | HEN George Siler appeared in the ring that September aiter- and called Joe Gans and Bat Nelson ructions I was a much-relieved man. could sit back and see every blow aries. gloves we passed up a_tele- It was from Joe's old One phrase of it Everybody says you ought /300 armed deputies in the crowd; if |called on they would mean business, {He was right, too. That crowd was a plcturesque |sembla There were miners, cow [boys, hootblacks, distinguished men from all cities and fuily 300 women. | From the start these women ap- |peared to be in sympathy with Gan: {In fact, he was the favorite of most everybody before the fight had gone ten rounds. WILLIE OGG TELLS George Duncan’s Nightmare. |out of the water. This time he was | successful and reached the green— |in nine. He took two putts to get | down. Imagine George Duncan using eleven strokes on a 380-yard hole! No dub need despalr! But that Is golf. At Pelham, in| 1923, playing In the professional golfers' national championship, I made the course in 69 in one of the early rounds and in another perform- but when I had practically won my way into the semi-finals, played poor golf and :sacrificed my opportunity. Needless to say, Duncan on other occaslons gave abundant proof of his greatness. (Copyright, 1924.) 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NEW YORK, January 30.—The New- ark Tnternational League base ball club passes into the hands of home interests today, when a Newark syn- dicate, headed by Michael McTighe, will take over the franchise from the former Baltimore owners at purchase price of $65,000. « AUTO GLASS, FOR WINDS! natanion nu:uuysll :Rm Taranto & Wasman 017 NEW YORK AVE. ¥N.W. v in Henrietta the flavor you’ve always wanted. Test it tonight, by smoking the after-dinner J. S. BLACKWELL & SON Alexandria, Va. Northern Virginia Distributors { boxing. ed the unusual stunt of doing the | 18 holes in as many consecutive pars, | nce | B This is the Canadian national woman’s relay team, which lost its title in the Millrose A. A. games in New York yesterday, when it finished third in the “International 440.” The City Bank A. C. quartet was victor, with the Mea dowbrook Club second. The Story of the World’s Greatest Fight Promoter <> nd Great Britain, Cubs, Japan and South America by North American Newspaper Allianos. All rights Teserved L R L it by with his left twic ces sion. ¥rom that moment the crowd | what I regard as the greatest ht ever held in America. For sheer | grit and endurance I have never seen anything like it—never expect to. It |aid not’ give me a thrill like the Dempsey-Firpo fight, for example, but for reul fighting the Gans-Nelson affair stands out For just a minute Nelson attempted to box with Gans. His efforts were ridiculous. He might as well have attempted to box a shadow. Gans fairly peppered his face with jabs and hooks. Seeing lie had no chance at boxing, | Ison, following instructions, began | boring' in and hauling Gans about | the ring. trying to punish him with | body blows. He wrestled as much as_he boxed In addition to that ugly style of fighting, Nelson used all kinds of foul tacti After ten or twelve rounds he was intensely unpopular. Time and time again Gans boxed Nelson off and then tried to fight him at long distance. Instantly, though, Nelson would fall back Into) the clinch and the mauling would start over again. From Nelson's corner Billy Nolan kept velling to him to keep boring | in. He didn't want Nelson to attempt In that respect Nolan was wise, though very unpopular. Gans was forced to meet Nelson at his own game. Round after round passed without a decisive incident. In the eighteenth, twenty-fourth and thirty-second rounds Nelson hit Gans below the belt. Some claimed that he had been instructed to do this from his corner. I don't know the truth about that. 1 do know that Referee Siler frequently®warned him. “Foul! Foul!” frequently came from Gans' corner and also from the crowd. Nelson Resorts to Butting. Then Nelson began butting. Several times he bored in and drove his hard head against Gans' chin, Joe protest- ed, but as no harm was done Siler let it pass. The crowd was getting disgusted with Nelson. On top of his other foul tactics he struck Gans in the stomach when the negro was lifting him to his feet. There was a big hiss at this. In the thirty-fifth round, I think- it was, Nelson slipped and was almost driven through the ropes. Gans caught.him and lifted him to his feet. In response to this Nelson socked his fist squarely in the darkey's midsec- tion. The crowd, seeing Nelson outclassed | in the boxing, began offering bets on Gans at 2 to 1 and even 3 to 1, with no takers. In the thirty-third round Gans land- ed a hard punch on Nelson's jaw, and broke a bone in his hand. His sign of distress was a limp. No one knew of his broken hand until afterward. And so the fight dragged and mauled on, the two hammering at each othier. Nelson’s face was beaten to a pulp. The negro also w: nose and ears. It s bleeding from the sure was a fierce ap. In the last round a straight left to Nelson's face, immediately fell into a clinch they broke Nelson stricic uppercut blow in thas slowly sank to the flo = *~ Without hesitation protest, Referece Siler and disqualified Nelson, Gans the winner. walked over declaring Cheers for the Referee. There is no question in my mind that the foul was deliberate. Anyway, it was a foul blow that cvervbody in the great crowd could see. There has been much argument about this. On that afternoon, though, the whole crowd agreed with Siler. The only holler came from Nelson's seconds. Gans' backers and seconds insist to this day that Nolan instructed Nelson to_foul” Gans Here is what Referee Siler said to me and to those near him: “I repeatedly warned Nelson against his unfair fighting and while 1 don't belleve he was deliberately intent up- on fouling Gans in many instances, he was unguestionably guilty of one of the most apparent and uncalled for fouls that have marked the end of any battle. There is no question in my mind that he deliberately struck low, a8 he was making no headway against Gans. * That tells the whole story in a dig- nified, unprejudiced way. Then to fop off his unpopularity, imagine the final remark made by Nolan: “It was all a matter of the betting. The referee was paid to give it to Gans."” Siler was loudly was hissed. Yes, that was the great fight of fights. That one taste had started me In the game, as I will show, Tomorrow: Jack Johnson sees some $1,000 Bills. cheered. Nolan wailng for a | 'FIGHTER PAYS NO HEED TO WORD FROM RICKARD Advised by Tex to Await Further Negotiations by ve Argentinean Interest in Special Stadium. Him—New Concern Plans to G UENOS AIRES, January 30—Luis Angel Firpo has received a cables gram from Tex Rickard advising him not to sign a contract with B any other promoter until he had had further negotiations with Rickard. Firpo asserted that in view of his acceptance of the offer of Lewis Raymond for a fight with Hapry Wills there was nothing he could sav in reply to Rickard unless the Raymond negotiations shouid fall through. “But I don't think they will” Firpo added. By this he apparently { meant that he did not know whether the syndicate Raymond represent> has definitely signed Wills 'TIGUE HAS A TASK IN CHOOSING RIVALS .BY FAIR PLAY. NEW YORK, January 20.—Mike Me- | Tigue's troubles not all settled when he adjusted difficulties with his manager, Joe Jacobs. Now he faces the delicate problem of picking a man | {0751 to fight who will prove an attraction | aptee, wi to the fans and not yet be dangerous | of the net to him an interest i v that the state- Hugh Gartland, Firpo's represen ive In the United States, Who 1% mow. in Buenos Aires, to the that the syndicate had deposit- 30,000 as a guarantee, was pre- ature, This was one of the cond s under which Firpo accented tha and he expects to receive that the money either has d or is on deposit in Ne York to Firpo's account cial Stadium. January 30.—Luis h @ double financial his fight with Harry Wilis Be his $250,000 guar- vilege of 25 per cent le also will have he spectal sunken | stadium which is to be constructed The fact that he has demanded the ' by a mewly formed sondiomie colen imposing sum of $23.000 for meeting | Which the e has cast his lot Young Stribling is the hest sort of ;& Kfoun of wealthy men whow testimony as to the pasting the Dixie | {5 back of 1 e exedled walloper gave the champion of Dub- |aiready are held on haif a dozen lin, Jersey men who wanted to pro- New Yori ew Jersey and mote this battle are naturally dis- ut, the most favorable to b mayed at the price Mike is placing 1 upon later. upon hie services. It was [ ment of said tod: H ed n were NEW Firpo will interest in cted of concrete, the stadiy o s ans al en drawn proved. The cost is expected s than would be required to t a similar structure of wood ground. In addition, dangers collapse or fire will be elimi- Asx might have heen expected Harry Wills, with his brittle hands = not going to risk his prestige by battering them against Bartley Mad- den’s granite dome on February 25 any other immediate date. The iter before this has set forth that Wills believes his hands will permit ! Lim to go through one more im- portant bout. and then he will through. Why waste them on Mad- den? |, Wills' hands have been a subject |for speculation for a long time. The {fact that he busted them against 3 |Clem Johnson and then later with |for Luls Angel Firpo. The tie nc | eight-ounce gloves—some say they | esditated the casting of the decisi were even larger—broke his meta- | ballot by the president of the counc carpals in a working-out bout shows | With the result that the street wil | ust how fragile the blg negro's |henceforth be known as Calle Luis | maulies are. If he ever meets Demp- | Angel Firpo. . THFousainIa BAT Ay Bomle WAT- for the boxer instead of the patriot- composer that official exclaimed: “Carramba! I thought you meat Vicente Lopez, the tax collector, wii |Was my enemy!” form nated FUAYMALLEN, Argentina, January 0.—The municipal council of th | town voted vesterday on the nams {of a new street. Five of the city fathers thought the thoroug [should be called Vicente Lopez, ir | honor of the author of the Argentine national anthem. Five others voted Ray Mitchell in no slouch of a fighter, and the fact that Lew Tendler batted him all around the ring in Philadelphia the other night indicates cither that Ray has slipped fast in a | == ———— short time—that he took the bout ! & Fithout much training—or else. as GILBERT PILOT AT PITTSFIELD |Lefty Lew's admirers assert, Ten- | i ; SEoias some Ttk b PITTSFIELD, Mass. 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