Evening Star Newspaper, February 8, 1924, Page 31

i s _SPORTS. _EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY § 1924, 'SPORTS. Villa Will Defénd His Championship Tonight : Draft Plan Is Up in International FLYWEIGHT TITLEHOLDER " TO BOX GEORGIE MARKS , Filipino Rules Favorite in 15-Round Battle to De-| Zini cision at Madison Square Garden, But Foe, With Only One Defeat in 148 Bouts, Is Tough. A bout to a decision. NOTHER world championship will be at stake in the Madison Square Garden ring tonight when Pancho Villa defends his fly- weight title against Georgie Marks of California in a fifteen-round In view of the fact this will mark Villa’s first appearance in a New York match since he won the championship crown from Jimmy Wilde of England at the Polo Grounds last summer, and that in Marks the little Filipino will meet his most formidable rival next to Frankie Genaro, the ¢ American champion, interest in the match is running unusually high and indications are that the Garden will sée another capacity crowd. Interest in the contest is still further heightened by the announce- ¢ ament from Villa, that, should he emerge victorious over Marks tonight, he will be ready to come to terms for a championship match with Frankie Genaro, who has been Villa's most persistent challenger since the Filipino J gained the title. Despite the fact that Villa is ex- pected to enter the ring a big favorite in the betting, Marks is not without his followers.” There is no denying that Marks has an enviable ring rec- ord. He has engaged in 148 ring bat- tles and has yet to suffer & knockout defeat. Only once has he been forced to accept an adverse decision, that coming at the hands of Abe Goldstein. He i9 reported to have trained hard for this match and is prepared to put up the best battle of his career. p Villa's Style Bewlldering. “In Villa, however, Marks will be confronted by one of the most active little ringmen ever to reach the top. - While Villa is not reputed to be the possessor of a knockout wallop, there nevertheless is plenty of snap behind his blows, and it is his ability to drive these blows with startling rapidity that makes him so hard to beat. It was his rapid-fire blows and be- wildering style that enabled the little Fillpino to lay Jimmy Wilde low in their titular.bout last summer. Like Marks, Villa has trained faith- fully for this bout, as he realizes that ia the Californlan he will meet an opponent, who cannot be taken light- 1y.__Although he hae not appeared in a New York ring since winning the title, he has engaged in & number of ‘bouts in various sections of the coun- try, and while none of these op- ponents extended him, these engage- ‘ments nevertheless served to keep him in good trim. ‘Both Men Within Weight. Both Villa and Marks have posted forfeits of $2,500 to guarantee that they will not weigh above the stipulated 112- pound limit of the fiywelght division, but_neither Is belleved to be in danger of losing hig forfeit. Villa, to whom the weight comes natural,’is certain to “Dbe well within the limit. " In fact, it is known that the champion can ' scale down as low as 110 pounds and still be_strong. g Marks was eaid to have had to work a trifle harder to make the weight, but his manager, Charley Cook, stated yes- terday that he had no fear his boxer would be overweight. Cook-said Marks scaled at 113% pounds yesterda: BOWLERS HAVE REAL JOB TO OUST HARLEY Bowlers who take the Grand Central drives tonight and on future dates of the city title duckpin event will have to shoot some to oust Buck Harley from first place.. Harley last night shot 618 for his five games to get out in front by a wide margin. His games were 130, 133, 129, 106 and 188; Johnny Baum, who rolled 587, and Pop Halley, who totaled 563, were mext in line last night. Tonight the Baltimore contingent will bowl in connection with the ap- _pearance of other local stars. The schedule: and 5PN J. C. Headden, 15 PN H, Muikin, . B. Blumenthal, @ Qui; H2F 7. sioan. 72N 8—J. Messinger. e §—B. Offerbure. 55 Cohen (Boctal). 6—B. Cohen (Alpine). &—L: Bilverbers. G—H. Miller, —S. Rosenblatt. HITEPFLE FERE TS 5 RELTLEL Tt PR E8e%a g2g=b e e 8258883222 (ooroTerey S2IBEEE 93518 18 107—33¢ 06 114—585 106584 91460 98 100514 1—504 1888 §a3esEkissstatesseiinsendRanssense B HE RS TP R L= 107848 87 100473 93463 111508 84—501 L1 111881 114—490 5414 4489 38441 AT 125818 11—814 42HPNO) I-¥ sEriEEsizncraste Fasslizatiag ~ b that a night of drying out would bring :l‘lmkmxmy inside "the 112-pound limit. 0o} encountered no difficulty in making the weight and that he was confident Marks would enter the Garden ring in the best shape he has ever attained for a match. BELMONT BOWLERS SWEEP REGULAR SET Belmonts of the Natlonal Capital Duckpin League, in 2 winning mood last night, bowled a sweep over the Regulars with scores of 539, 555 and 575—for a set of 1,669. Rosenberg of the winners was high with a set of 351 and a game of 126. Im the Masonie League King David won_three games from Pentalpha, M. Parker turned the same trick against Mount Pleasant and Armin- fus captured the odd from George C. Whiting. . Heinzman of Arminius was high man of the three matches with & set of 335 and & game of 138. Galt's of the Commercial League won two of three from Carry Ice Cream. Martin of Galt's was high with a game of 123 and a set of 320. Woodward & Lothrop of the Busl- ness Men's League grabbed thi games from the Schwartz quint latter quitting after the first . Nalley of the victors was top n with a set of 323 and a game of 122. Quentin Roosevelt of the American Legion League won three games from Sergt. Jasper, rolling a total of: 1,625 pins. Wetzel of the winners snared the hopors with a set of 354 and a game of 132, Jn the Terminal Y League Union Transfer won two of three from Car Department, and Express took all three from Strikes. Bond of Expres: had the high ga 1317, American Legion won the odd game from Engraving in _the Bureau of Engraving League, Mahoney of the victors belng best with a set of 330. Inside Golf -By Chester Horton——! Evaos, in his analysis of the solf awing, discerned that the longer he cauld keep the club face at right angles to the ball during the swing as a whole the greater were hiz chances of hitting the Ball solldly. That led to his adop- tion of the “late break,” and it took eourage to do this in those e in ketch, which il- lustrates the Kvans prineiple, how long we find his clubhe: angies to ball tire awing. 1s about per cent. From far to the right of the ball over to an cqual distance left of the ball we find the club- Read squared against the ball and the line of flight. This, incidental- 17, keeps the clubhead parallel with the ground for about three feet as it goes through the balle an extraordinary sweep of club. ad. I have seen “Chick” de: atrate this amasing follow- through by causing his clubhead the ball mquarely when e been placed some twenty inches in front of the spot where at right his en- longest follow-through of any of yern, The upper line in the sketch whows the path his hands follow in the down swing. {Copyright, John F. Dille Co.) HOLLOCHER WILL INSIST CUBS PAY BACK SALARY CHICAGO, February 8.—Demand for back salary was the reason given to- day by Charles Hollocher, shortsto) of the Chicago Natlonals, for remain- ing op tie voluntary retired list. In a telegram to the Chicago Journal, Hol- locher declared he would remain on the retired list until his claim for salary and doctor's bill wi tisfac- torily adjusted. He left the club in the middle of the season last summer because of illness, and has been on the voluntary retired list since, as his contract expired last fall. Officials of the Cubs, it is under- stood, have been anxious to sign him up again, but un permittéd to approach a player on the the voluntary- tetired list until the player secures reinstatement through Commissiorier K. M. Landls. BATTERY CHARGING LEAVE YOUR CAP peAr CARTY'S-1608 14" LET US KEEP YOUR CAR CLEAN ©_ We wash and polish your automebile while you wait the Quick Service System. Autos Stored by Month, Week, Day or Hour. .34-Hour Service m“'r-.é. 8198 NATIONAL QUICK SERVICE AUTO LAUNDRIES CO. 1828 L St. N.W. further stated that Marks really . eosy | i P Va CHAPTER XXI. Willard-Moran: My First Venture in New York. BY TEX RICKARD. Y first venture into New York with a fight. was the staging of the Jess Willard and Frank Moran affair at Madison Square Garden. The scrap was looked forward to with considerable interest, but it was not regarded as a real big fistic event, that the fight game in New York then was not the same as now. Fights wgre ljmited to ten rounds, and no decision could be given. In other words, a championship fight could mot well be decided in Madison Square Garden at that time. Of course, if one man knocked the other out within ten rounds the decision was obvious. nounce the winner of a figh Contrary to the belief of Johnson fight, in which South America. Frank Moran had gained a lot of prominence, and many belleved that he would eventually win the heavy- weight champfonship from Willard. There was so much talk of this that I saw the drift of public interest. I decided to try my hand again. My leasing of Madison Square Gar- den’ for this affair may give you a falr idea of what it cost to put on a fight. Of coutse, I was saved the ex- pense of building an arena—the fight did not justity {t—but the Garden for that one night cost me $15.000. That Eave me the idea of eventually get. ting the Garden for my own use. That was a long time ahead, though. I had little difficulty in getting Wil- lard and Moran to sign for the fight. My experience in Goldfield and Reno had gained me a certaln amount of good etanding in the minds of the fight people. They knew, anyway, that T would make good anything I promised. A Gate of $15,000 a Round, The fight itself went ten rounds M. | without a decisfon. It was not a won- derful scrap. The fans knew that no champlonship was to be declded, un- less by chance one should knock the other out in the ten rounds. Just the same, the Willard-Moran fight drew a house that pald $152,000. Of this amount I paid Willard $47,500 and Moran $23,750—a total of $71,250. On top ‘of this was the expense of running the shok, such as prelimi- naries, -officlals, attendants and so on, all this in addition to the $16,000 rent- al. I made some money, but not a great doal. Anyway, I had made my first plurge in New York—everybody seemed to be satisfled and 1 was de- lighted. Still, I had no ambition to be a great promoter. I was not gradually working upward with a definite goal for my afm. As I have said, the promoting of fights to me was always a sort of sport or game. 1 liked to get in it occasionally just for the fun of things. Jess Willard, incidentally, was al- ways an Interesting study to me. He was the most powerful-looking man that I ever saw. He was honest and straightforward, and there was no question about his belng game. Just thé same, you always felt that his whole heart w: not' in the game. He did it purely as a matter of busi- ness, Jess had a high sense of honor and pride, but there was no senti- ment in him about the prize ring. He describes that best In a letter to a friend which I think worth quoting: “I never could fight, never wanted to become a boxer and never cared for the boxing ga: he This, by the ‘way, was after he had lost his titie. always felt that I wasn't bullt for a fighter, despite my weight, my reach and my_helght. “God made me a glant. T never re- celved an education, never had money, and my folks, God bless them, never had any money. I knew that I was a blg fellow and powerfully strong. I just sat down and figured that a man as big as ought to be able to cash in on his size. That is what started' me on the road to boxing. . Never Wanted to Hurt Foes. “So 1 got this boxing game into my -head. I never llked it; in fact, hated it as I never hated & thing preylously, but there was money in t. I needéd the money and.decided to go after it. “I never really knew how to fight. In the fights 1 engaged in I never could do anything to the other fellow in the way of real damage. I simply couldn’t do it. Harming the other fel- low seemed to me to be cruel, and so long as the other fellow dldn't harm me much I couldn’t see any reason why I should hurt him. “1 never burt any of my opponents before the eighth round, because not one of them was able to hurt me much before the eighth round, and when they did hurt me I got real mad and just swung on them and settled matters as quickly as I could. But even then I didn't like this boxing business. It was the dough I liked AR on points. f many, I had no connection with the Willard- Willard became champion. busy with my mining and other business interes: had under consideration the operation of a big cattle ranch down in . | state of Kentucky, You must understand The referee, however, could not an- At that time I was out in Nevada. Also I and 1 went after all I could get.” I'rom another letter I clip this pas- sage, which Is a little ahead of my story but it seems to fit here: “I didn’t think this fellow Dempsey was as good as he proved himmelt to be. Oh, take it from me, that guy is some fighter. Say, he sunk his fiat three inches Into'my belly. He J burned that fist of his into my stom. ach. I never had anything like that happen to me before., Yet there are some who say 1 quit.” Jess Willard was quite a writsr of letters. Some of these I have seen. I Intend to quote from one of them 'in my narrative of the big fight at! Toledo. There isn't room here , besides, it Is not the proper place. When I had closed up everything connected with the Willard-Moran fight at Madison Square Garden I was through with .the game for awhile. Some months later I went to South America and began the operation of by big cattle ranch. I came back t0| New York occaslonaily, but didn’t stay long enough to get Into the fight game. The war was on and there w; not much opportunity. But while on the ranch down there 1 was rapidly, gathering an ides. Tomorrow: Frank Moran's Gameness. | s LYNCH TO FIGHT SANDOW. CINCINNATI, Ohio, February §.— Sammy Sandow, local bantamwelght, has been matched to meet Champlon | Joe Lynch of New York, in Cincinnati early in March. The bout will be for ten rounds, HALFOFA.A.CLUBS | TO TRAIN IN FLORIDA LOUISVILLE. Ky., February 8.— Exactly half of the American Asso- clation base ball teams will train In Florida this spring and, sccording to records avallable here, it marks the first time that that many clubs trom this league will journex to the extreme southeast for conditioning workouts. One club of the association, how- ever, Kansas City, has chosen an almost opposite direction for its training site, having contracted to go to Vernmon, Calif. This will be one of the longest training trips ever taken by a minor league club. Loutsville_does not go outside the the players re- porting afound the first week in March at son Springs. St. Paul, which opens the season here April 15, will not train much farther south, the climate at Fort Smith, Ark., be- ing about the same as at Dawson Springs. Minneapolis returns to its last year's training camp, Beaumont, Tex., and is the only club in the league to pitch camp this year in the Lone Star state. Locations in which the American Paul, Fort Smith, Dawson Springs, Ky.; Fla.; Milwaukee, Palmett, t City, Fla.: and Toledo, po! Gainesville, Fla. SARAZEN LOSES MATCH BY MISSING SHORT PUTT MIAMI, Fla., Febr: Barazen missed for the nineteenth, green and with W. Ames, Chicagé amateur, lost a hare fought match to Fred Knight, Ph! adelphia amateur, and T. W. Falmer, Miami, ¥ Sarazen, ‘well, was erratic and needed three putts on the nineteenth hole. How- ever, his card was 74. 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Fisher, who displayed slugging ability, but lack of ficlding polixh at Tampa last apring, poked the PIl at a 370 clip for the 1923 Eastern Lorgue champlons and is Booked to contend against Lance Richbourg rrd Carr Smith for the honor of winning the middle pas- ture post from Nemo Lelbold, Ga- snon compiled & 295 averaxe under the late Bill Donovan's direction and will be & candidate with Oss Bluege and Doc Mrotho for the third basing sssixnment. President Grifith today sald he was negotiating with neapolis for the sale of Joey Evams, but t the outfielder han mot been is) of et and may go to some other club. JIMMY BURKE GETS J0B AS TOLEDO CLUB PILOT TOLEDO, Ohio, February §.—Jame T. Burke, former manager of the St. Louls Americans and the Kansas City and Louisville clubs of the American Assoclation has been_ signed . as manager of the Toledo Ball Club for the 1924 season, according to an- nouncement by Joseph D. O'Brien, president of the club. Last season Burke wak assistant manager and coach under Frank Chance with the Boston Red Sox. O'Brien and Burke will meet for a conference at the Natlonal League meeting next Monday in New York NINE OF YANKS LISTED TO VISIT HOT SPRINGS —_— | NEW YORK, February 8.—Manager Miller Huggins of the Yankees has sent letters to nine members of the | team, requesting them to be prepared to take the bath treatment at Hot Springs, Ark., on February 23, It be- came known today. The players were reminded that they would be expected at the main New Orleans camp on March 9, Those on the Hot 8prings roster are Babe Ruth, Joe Dugan. Herb nock, Joe_Bush, Bob Shawkey, W Schang, Waite Hoyt, Ev and Sam Jones. If Dugan's physicians advise against the course of baths as treatment for his Injured knee, he will not report at New Orleans until March 9. . ONLY RED JAKIE MAY IS PITCHER STILL UNSIGNED CINCINNATI, February 8.—The signed contract of Pete Donohue, star right-hander of the Cincinnatl Na- tional League ball team, has been received at club headquarters and the young Texan will report at Orlando with the other pitchers March 2. All of the Red pitchers now are under contract with the exception of Jakie May, who has not been heard from since he was purchased from the Vernon Club of ‘the Pacific Coast League. A contract mailed to his home at Wendell, N. C., some weeks ago, has not been returned. Other regulars who have not returned signed contracts are Edd Roush, Sammy Bohne and Lew Fonsec: ARR WINGCOLLARS cdllar aman ever wore. They oughtl. 1o be in your collar colleclion sG> Clucil, Peabody & Co., Inc, Makers, Troy, NY. | —) | vair | ruxara | newing | canTas’ | op| LEAGUE MAY STAND. PAT AT MEETING NEXT WEEK Eastern Member of Three Class AA Circuits Has Little to Gain in Following Example of the Association and Coast Organization. BY JOHN EW YORK, February 8—The N year. Major league capital B. FOSTER. International League, if it chooses to do 8o, can continue without the draft as successfully as it did last is hot invested as heavily in the In- ternational as it is in other minor leagues. 1 Many ex_perienced base ball men long have been of the opinion that major and minor leagues should be completely divorced in their financial relations. But that will never take place as long as the majors can get into the minor systems to control to some extent the legislation and the player market. he recent open effort of the Cincinnati club owners to acquire a minor club shows the trend of the times. When the anti-farm- ing law was passed, this sort of th: ing was abandoned for the moment. A tendency to revert to it ultimately will lead to trouble as sure as there is base ball. If 2 major league team owned three minor clubs it could keep its players revolving in a circle, to the detri- ment of the game and the eventual sition of the players. n the International League there is one club that is controlled by ma- Jor league capital—Syracuse. The American Assoclation has more than one club thus controlled, and would have still more if Cincinnati had been able to buy Indianapolis or Columbu: If the franchise of Syracuse had been transferred to Montreal it would have made little difference with the ownership of the club. Perhaps in time Montreal capital would have ob- tained control, but probably not for & long time. The International will hold its se sion in New York next week to adop its schedule for the year. Undoubt- edly the draft question will come up. of the clubs that they should "acquire surplus talent from the majors. But they will not be able to get much this vear in any case. It also {s a question whether what they could get would be better than what they oould pick up out of major circleR. No one knows bow the clubs may line up on the draft. Baltimore prob- ably will not recede from its stand. Dynn has fought for a principle and, sd far as he Is loyally by his home city. Rew te Develop in Time. ‘The so-called modlified draft cepted by the American Association and the Pacific Coast League does not permit players to he drafted who have been developed by a club. In time that will lead to a row. It will hinge on what development means, and how far back it goes. The other question of taking play- ers from the majoi carrying them along afd bringing them up in the nursery, only to see them go -bac has not altered in the least. An: league, which wishes to become a concerned, has stood’ ac- | nursery, or a farm, coforms to the theory of organized base ball, but of necessity must rebuild each spring. and its local pride will be as variable and inconstant as the wind. (Copyright, 1024.) McMANUS, LONE BROWN HOLDOUT, KEEPS SILENT ST. LOUIS, February 8.—Business Manager Bill Friel of the St. Louis Browns, when questioned in regard to the holdout of Marty McManus, the only Brownle holdout, sald yesterday he had heard nothing further from the second sacker since a letter recelv- ed from McManus in which his un- signed contract was inclosed and the statement made that he did not want any more correspondence with tho Browne. . “I haven't been worrled,” said Friel, “because I feel sure that McManus will be in the fold in due time.” —_———— LEE, $50,000 INFIELDER, SPURNS RED SOX TERMS DENVER, Ci February 8.—Dud- ley Lee of Denver, $50,000 short stop purchased a few weeks ago by the Boston Americans from the Tulsa, | Western League Club, may not be geen in action with the Red Sox this | meason. Lce recelved the club's con- tract today covering the salary of- fered for his services. He returned it to Bob Quinn, club.president with - the notation “figure mentioned fails to interest me. 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