Evening Star Newspaper, September 10, 1924, Page 27

; SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 192‘4, SPORTS. 27 * Polo Postponement Dims Interest : Wills and Firpo Primed for Bout Tomorrow TERMED WORST BLUNDER $800,000 GATE EXPECTED '/ IN ALL AMATEUR SPORTS AT BOYLE’S THIRTY ACRES Calling Off of Initial Tilt Severely Scored—Polo Experts Differ as to Probable Outcome of Heavv-.‘ Rated As More Completely a Class Sport weight Battle, But Meager Betting Indicates Than Any Other Outdoor Game. Argentine Will Be Slight Favorite. N Brown Panther of New Orleans paw and glide in their cages today, awaiting the mecting at Boyle’s Thirty Acres tomorrow night, | which will provide an opponent for Dempsey, the killer. Firpo finished his training yesterday with a final workout against Miguel Ferrara and Bill Tate. Wills rounded out his two months of prep- aration at Southampton with a brisk walk and then motored, with his wife and retinue, to his home in Harlem. . Tomorrow morning both will go to Jersey City to weigh in before the New Jersey Boxing Commission. Wills will occupy a cottage near the arena’and Firpo will go to the Elks’ Club to remain until he leaves for the ring. Wills is expected to tip the scales around 220 pounds. Firpo weighed 218 after his final session. Legal efforts to prevent the bout apparently failed with the refusal of President Coolidge and Gov. Silzer of New Jersey to interiere with the hinery of the Department of Labor and the New Jersey Boxing Com- The Wild Bull vs. The Black Panther —BY RIPLEY Taxe YouR TMe B81G Boys — 1 wanT To SEE SOMETHING 0 NEW YORK, September 10.—The opening of the international polo series between the United States and Great Britain, slated for tomorrow, again was postponed today, because of bad playing conditions, and now is scheduled for next Saturday afternoon at the Meadow Brook Club, West- bury, L. L The fourth succeSsive postponement caused by the weather and ground conditions was decided upon by the United States Polo Association, EW YORK, September 10.—The Wild Bull of the Pampas and the WILL HAVE HIS NEW NOSE RIGHT UP AGAINST THE RING Ticket sales, stemmed for days by the threat of intervention, increased today, and promoter Tex Rickard in- dicated that 60,000 spectators would | probably furnish $800,000 receipts for the bout. Unsettled weather now i as the only possible inter- ference with plans for the fight, | | which Rickard stated would be held | on Friday night if his customary luck with the weather failed tomorrow. | Betting Oddx Are Wavering. | Betting odds varied with the widely | scattered opinion of experts as to the probable result of the battle. Ru- mors that Wills would be a 6-to-5| | favorite brought a flood of Firpo coin, | | which, however, found few takers at | even money. Indications point to the tion, and rely upon his speed and cleverness to evade Firpo's charge, asserting also the possibility that the negro may drop the Wild Bull if he comes in carelessly, indicating that Firpo has been an easy target for all of his opponents Wills* Brittle Hands Factor. Followers of Firpo insist that he lives up to his character of a wild bull, and is more dangerous when en- raged. They admit that Wills may drop his opponent, but claim thaw Firpo will come back more furiously than ever, and that Wills' “brittle nds” will not serve their master in the final issue of brute strength. The condition of Wills' hands gen- erally is regarded as the pivotal point looms which announced that an inspection of the international field showed it was too soaked from heavy rains to be in fit condition for play tomorrow. i As now rearranged, the schedule calls for the second game next Tuesday, September 16, and the third on the following Saturday, Septem= ber 20. All the matches are slated to begin at 4 p.m. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. EW YORK, September 10.—The greatest blunder in history of amateur sport. Thus men interested in polo and sports generally speak of the postponement of the first international polo match at Meadow Brook on Saturday. As will be recalled, it had rained the previous afternoon. But by 8 o'clock the stars were out and a keen northwest wind was blowing. Satur- day was as brave and bright a day as ever contributed to September’s reputation as a vivid month. _A _polo player of the writer’s acquaintance thrust his stick into the | turi of the field at 10 o'clock last Saturday morning and it penctrated only | to the top of the ferrule. In other words, in his opinion, a fast, firm turf. | __Interest had been worked to fever heat and there would have been } 15000 paid admissions. It was a great opportunity for thosc who have | )x](_‘(‘n working to dissenfinate intercst in this great game. But it whas let ship. ' It was a question of judgment, but never h ) a mistake in this respect been <o marked. For a day later the British four was beaten quite badly by a scratch American team. This naturally affe interest so far as the general public was concerned Yesterday the was declared on and then off several times before it was finally decided to postpone the first match until tomorrow. | Interest may revive and a bumper | crowd attend this game, but just now it does not look that wa | Polo n Claxx Sport. Polo is more completely a class #port than any other outdoor game. To succeed as a polo player a r must have the means to pay prices for mounts that are prohibitive to| the average horseman and he also| st bhe financiaily and socially | zible to affiliate himself with or- nizations which specialize in the “urther, it is that aged in some profession or husiness wherein his absence from the oftice through injury or tourney play will affect neither his in nor those of persons who ma dependent upon his commercial, fessional or mercantile activit A man without means who brilliant horseman, as a rpsult lifelone association with horses, and | for the same reason a fine polo | plaver, will be able to indulge in the ue through the patronage of some wealthy polo enthusiast, but he is not likely to make much out of himself outside of polo. The Game of Society. It is absolutely the game of society In its civilian aspects it is essentialiy part of the social panoply, and only | the advent of the motor car and the | consequent tufning of the attention of the younger generation from horseflesh to gasoline has kept down the number of players outstanding in the international sense to & mere nandfull. Still speaking from standpoint, polo never can be any- | thing but what it is today—a for the few who have heen adequately favored with the good things of life, or who have been associated with the game in a professional cauacify as pony_seller, polo manager at a hunt club and the like. In the Army conditions differ. Polo was introduced into England from India as a service game, and even to- day with few exceptions the be British players are soldicrs who hav been able to afford strings of thor- oughbreds. . Rapid Advances Made. In this country in recent years the Army has gone in for the game on a wholesale scale, and while the War Department has not gone broke in the | matter of purchasing mounts—cav- alry stock has been depended upon in | most cases—rapid advances have been | made in technique and quality of horses. The victory of the United States Army team over the British army team last year in the first interna- tional service game was an extraor- dinmary achievement and did more for service polo in this country than most persons realize. At every cavalry post and many posts quartering other branches of the service polo now is being played, and, while the game does not ap- ach the Meadowbrook standard, it is none the less good, nmippy bolo. And_as more mounts are bred in the interest of the game the quality is bound to improve. Game Galning in Colleges. Through the interest of the War Department, polo is fast taking hold in_colleges, mounts and equipment being furnished to the Officers’ Re- serve Training Corps in schools which' have fallen in with the Gov- ernment’s plan of military educatio 1t is regrettable that upon gradua- tion most of these younz men who developed brilliancy in the game as undergraduates will find it eco- nomically impossible to continue in Polo, even assuming their entrance into the work of the world would find them with an appreciable amount of time on their hands to give to the game. A to the international series which beging tomorrow, no close follower of Polo can see anything other than victory for the highly specialized American team. Cops & gan he bhe en, pro- | is a | | | { the civilian | pr ht, NEW GRID SYSTEM| i Ohio State will put into effect this| Fall a project which has been con- templated for several years. The freshman foot ball squad will be com- pletely segregated from the varsity and coached along varsity lines by men engaged for this sole purpose. At not a few Western universities and colleges freshman teams are em- ploved as supplementary to the var- sity scrub outfits and indeed at a place so important as Chicago there is no scrub, the freshman eleven serv- ing in that capacity. The youngsters 1924, as a consequence receive pretty much || of a battering, although there is no doubt they come up for the varsity the foliowing vear very well sea- soned. But now Ohio is going to make something out of freshman foot ball and In so doing will throw much greater responsibility upon - the coaches in the way of developing a Ecrub team which will be capable of giving the varsity necessary practice, i HILLTOPPERS WORK IN IMPROVED FORM ORAN Va.. September 10.—Con- siderable improvement is marking Georgetown University's conditioning campaign with the gridders themselves more and more to the new system. being inculcated by Coaches Little and Palm. While the squad appeared sluggish and hesitant over the new training P s back, it now has taken a on life and the drills ye: were injected with enough steam to greatly satisfy and Gray mentol v re_setting a pac avin, Cashn Rreslip, G and De Gassis ar there fighting all the time mage and forward passing ar ing the stage, ingerspersed blackboard drills, Frank MeGrath was added injured list yesterday. He su a dislocated shoulder that him out of the rough work for several days. Paully Byrne. veteran half- back, will not report to th but will join the squad at th Monday terd pep the nd Blu ks in Serim- holgd- with to the ined Hilltop WO00DY TO BOX MORRIS HERE TOMORROW NIGHT Kid Woody and Eddie Morris wil! supply the action in the feature bout of the boxing show to be staged at the 260th Coast Artillery armory Seventh and Water streets southwest tomorrow night. Five other bouts are carded in addtion to a wrestling match. Returns from the Firpo-Wills fight will be received. TO PICK RACKETERS FOR INTERCITY TILT . Those Municipal court netmen who impressed in the recent 1 tourna- ment will be selected to represent \\‘ shington in the intercity match with Baltimore Sunday at a me. tonight of the Municipal ten mittee at Spalding’s. Sunda petition will get under way at 1245 o'clock at the Tidal F in. Maurice V. O'Neill, two-time vietor in the singles, undoubtedly will be picked for the District combi together with H. C. o shared in_ the doubles triumph with the former. It is also expected that A. W. Russett, runner-up in the singles, will be named, &s well as McConnell, Van Pelt Coe, Garmett and Wilson. Washington met the Baltimore racketers n three occasions last vear, the latter nosing out by one match in the 27 played. The District team aims to avenge itself this sea- son, as it will possess a much strong- er combination of netmen than last year. STRIBLING SCORES K. 0. COLUMBUS, Ohio, September 10. Without extending himself, Young Stribling, vouthful Georgia boxer, knocked out Glen Clickner of Zanes- ille, Ohio, in the second round of their scheduled 12-round bout here last night. Ever master of the situation, Stribling floored his opponent for the count soon after the opening of the second round with a sweeping right to the head. . JACK MIDDLETON SCORES. JACKSONVILLE, Fla, September 10.—Jack Middleton, Jacksonville light- heavyweight, knocked out Sailor Mike Owens of Savannah in the fourth round of a scheduled 10-round bout here last night. Owens is a middeweight. - Fresh-water swimming records show that over 100 yards woman is roughly 10 seconds siower than man. The disparity increases rapidly with distance. Your Hat— Should have style, corrcet quality and proper color—=I other words, it should be a Vienna. $3 v Headquarters for Knapp Felt Hats 1ENNA HAT CO. 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NOTRE DAME CLUB TO HONOR ROCKNE regarded and au- th Iy will be organized Notre |Se¢mi-finals. n tomorrow | lub. . this sum- campaign. | uss meeting. ! o ..\F HEGETS ) Dempsey- THE RING Too | 'SCHWARTZ FAV former Washington anside 2 slight te over Terry O1 Mohawk { Athletic Club battler, in the 12-round feature bout tonight at the § Heigh boxing arena, Berwyn, M Man |that the Irish boxer will put up a| Devitt |real fight, notwithstanding the fact| mentioned school seems to have the | | that his opponent has mixed with the | heing five former Central athletes in |1eading bantamweights in the country. | o hwartz is remembered by the local | 3 istic avlony for the pair of bang-up| mills he dropped to the late Charley | The Devitt candidates held their Holman. Tonight's victor has been | first drill Monday on the Hilltop field promised an engagement with Tommy | ’aul Banfield, former St. John's ath- Ryan, o Italian bantam, two lete, will coach the team this y % hen 5 {and he has the material to develop a asin life guard, | combination that will give the best of s interest the high school tussle. Morton nmy Hogan of the Mohawk | Gooch of last gear's Tech High cham Athletic Club in one of the six-round | pionship team hopes to land a berth. Joe Piscatelli of Fort|Then there is Storm, who had con- Myer will exchange swats with Eddie | siderable experience in sandlot com- | Collins of Baltimore in another six-|petition last year. T. A. Wilkins and | rounder. Kid Bolin and Joe Dillion Wilkins are apt to give a good ac- in the four-round|count of themselves, judging by re- Short of Baltimore where they | | performed for the high school of that Place Bushie Comer, Stew White, Carl-| { ton Collins, Perry Miller, Faul Rol- lin, Robinitski, Walsh and Dunham are among the candidates. If the Schwartz, foot ball teams will be | ope Will referee. KID NORFOLK WINS. September 10.—Kid Nor- Blinks Johnson, Twoomey, Fats Sheppard. Al Chase and Walter Palmer are the former Central boys to adorn De; Charles P. Neill, William M. Calvin, | Elmer J. Murphy, Frederic William Wile and the Rev. Louis M. Kelley compose the committee in charge of | the affair. Arrangements will be per- fected’ for a big Washington turnout when Notre Dame tackles Princeton | and the Army in October. | IN DAVIS CUP N matches which start at Philadelphia mittee last night. Gerald Patterson, Australia, will be Willlam T. Tilden's opponent in the first match tomorrow, as a -resuit | of the drawings held today. Pat O'Hara Wood, Australia, wiil play Vincent Richards immediately after the first match. This will,bring Tilden and Wood together on Saturday and Richards will meet Patterson. Patterson, representing the Aus- tralian - Lawn Tennis Association, has announced that the burden of challenging for the tennis trophy will rest entirely on the shoulders of Wood and himself, the two players pairing up in the doubles as well as competing in the singles. It also has been announced that Tilden and William M. Johnston will compose the United States doubles team against Patterson and Wood. Richards’ selection, while not en- tirely. unexpected, comes as a sur- prise in some quarters, despite the impressiveness of Richard: On Credit “PAY AS YOU RIDE” Small Payment Down Balance Monthly T.O.ProbeyCo. 2100 Pa. Ave. NW. New Y negro light-heavy- weight titleholder, McCreary of Boston in a 10-round bou: | here last night. The title was not in- volved, since McCreary was overweight. | aluso of Salt Lake City won the | Lew judges' decision over Billy Murphy of Lowell,' Mass., in the semi-final 'RICHARDS WILL AID TILDEN| NET SINGLES EW YORK, September 10.—Vincent Richards of Yonkers, N. Y, con- queror of William M. Johnston of San Francisco, in the East-West matches at Forest Hills last week, and William M. Tilden, 2d., of Philadelphia, will be the United States singles team in the Davis cup tomorrow. These nominations were announced by the United States Lawn Tennis Association selection com- over Johnston in the nationals. Johnston, owing to his experience and steadiness, was considered to be in line for the nomination, but the selection commitee, considering Richards' feat of winning the Olym- pic championship and then playing up to the semi-final round in the natiorials last week, chose him for the singles, leaving Johnston to con- serve all of his strength for the ioubles together with Tilden. RALEIGH HABERDASHER — outpointed Battling | present material is available when the | competitive season opens, the Devitt backfield will average 165 pounds, | with the line topping the 185-pound mark. Emerson Institute will be en- | countered October 27 in the opening | mateh. Games have been arranged with Richmond High School, Hagers- town and Annapolis. Alexandria High School, that flashed | to the limelight last year by trounc- | ing Central Hi 5 candidates working out. nmett Bullock is in charge of the ends of kickers. Coach Lionel Levvy, formerly of the | University of Alabama, was expected to report today. Coach Elmer Hardell, who has the Tech squad at the University of Maryland for a 10-day conditioning campaigr, will get down to some real work in the next day or so. Most of the Maroon and Gray gridders are in- experienced, but the Tech mentor hopes to present a worthy combina- tion in the next several weeks. v YORK, September 9.—Le Roi, r Play-Babe, a two-year-old colt recently purchased for $28,000 by W. R. Coe, died from fever contracted on the trip from Saratoga, it was learned today. Ordinance, Maj. Belmont's 3-year-old, was one of the horses striken, but escaped death. — THIRTEEN-TEN F STREET The new fall Fashion-Knits have arrived Color! ful new patterns that rival the rainbow in beauty; jacquards, plaids, horizontal and diagonal stripes. A man’s whole appearance is improved by the wearing of one of the new Fashion-Knits. $2.50 Raleigh H Satisfaction 3 $3s0 aberdasher Guaranteed . 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September 10— Mickey Walker, welterweight cham- pion of the world, will go through with his ficht with Bobby Barrett of Philadelphia, scheduled Septem- ber 29 in that city, regardless of the New York Boxing Commission’s re- ent edict that he should meet Dave hade first, Joseph Degnan, Walker's manager, has announced HORNE'S DRIVE LONGEST. The longest drive at golf made un- der competition is 388 vards 1 foot. The record is held by W H. Horne. professional of the Rye Country Club, Rye, N. Y. | Argentine ‘entering the ring a slight favorite. Opinion among the experts has not resclved into definite conclusion and it Is thought that sentiment stiil will waver uncertainly among the crowd {when the men enter the ring and {until actual clashing in the rounds forecast the end. Broadly, Firpo is favored fight is hort and Wills | edge if it goes the full 1 result which few crit 2 Firpo's impetuous attack with his right hand is cxpected to force the {issue und Wills said to be reserv- line ais plan of battle to meet the Argentine. Bull's Rushex Are Formidable. Against Dempsey, the Wild Bull rushed insistently with perfect will- ingness to give and take until he was finally beaten after an exhibition of punching and gameness which, if re- peated against the negro, will insure an early and sensational climax. Admirers of the cave man ert that no man can withstand the attack which hurled I ipsey from the ring, and doubt the ability of Wills to come back as Dempsey did Followers of the panther point to the unanimous opinion of critics that Wills ix in wonderful physical cond MARLBORO Seven Races Daily ! Sept. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 ADMISSION, $1.00 if the YOWL VENTILATOXS ‘Wholesale and Retall We Install These Also RADIATORS. FENDERS. 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