Evening Star Newspaper, March 24, 1925, Page 19

SPORTS THE EVENING -STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1925. SPOR" TS. 19 Renault Is Hard Fighter to Build Up : Southwestern Relay Races Hold Interest RICE INSTITUTE BACKING CANADIAN'IS COLORFUL, BUT LACKS REAL WALLOP Fairly Clever and Always Provides Action, But He Would Be No Match for Dempsey—Thrills at Newark Show Given by Harmon. BY FAL EW YORK. Renault, N because the former mounted provides ¢ action when in the But Renault lacks the very thin lot of the Canadian, for a Dempsey match. R PLAY. March 24—Tt will be ‘pretty hard to steam up Jack And this is too bad, cop is a colorful boxer and always ring. g that the crowd demands—the good old wallop—and no amount of energy can atone for that lack. If Renault v Gibbons possesses, he would draw a only because of curiosity to see whe come this skill But whila Renanlt is clever he is| a marvel in the way of boxing ity. Tn last night's bout, in New . against Romero, Renault eas won on points, but he never came anywhere near stowing the tough Chilean away for the count, the same time, especially round, Romero shook h twice with hefty wallop The big _thrill in Newark was the showing Willie Harmon, the New York welter, made against Jack Green, a hard-jawed mulatto from Providence. Green has a number of linockouts to his credit and himself had never been sent to the floor for a short count. And he has met the hest of the welters, from Walker down. But Harmon sent him fast to sleep after two minutes of the first round | had elapsed. Coming Into his man in | his usual aggresive fashion, thinking | of nothing but sloughing the New | Yorkers, Jack ran into a right-hand | wallop to, the jaw that sent him | hurtling back upon the ropes | Tn a flash Harmon was all over kim and Green flopped to the floor, out cold. Maybe Mickey Walker, when he gots here, will reconsider his promise to meet Harmon next month—at least under terms of reasonable figure. in the last T up once or 1¢ Tex Rickard draws down a jail mentence in that fllm case in Jersey | the boxing game in New York and | vieinity is due for a powerful jolt. But recovery will be rapid. With Rickard temporarily out of the way the men who are associated with him will stick some man, such as Frank Flournoy, into his place, and with the benefit of Tex's advice, even if not his presence, things will proceed as per schedule. re endowed with a whole of of finesse, while at | such as Tommy crowd to see him fight Dempsey, if ther or not the champion could over- NAVY BOXING TEAM IN COLLEGIATE MEET ANNAPOL March 24.—Naval Academy boxers, will enter the finals of the Intercollegiate Boxing clation, at Philadelphia, next Friday and Saturday, with the prestige of six years of unbroken successes in dual matches behind them. In particular, tnose connected with the team will remember the outcome of the intercollegiates last year, when a Navy team, which had arried everything before it, was out- pointed by the teams which it had defeated in a dual match. There is also some gloom over the loss of big Lentz, the foot ball guard, who had an excellent chance of tak- ing a first in the unlimited weight class. Lentz broke his hand in prac- tice. On the other hand, an encouraging incident is the rveturn to the game of Collins, the 115-pound fighter. This lad, who has been kept out of re- cent matches by scholastic restric- tions, has straightened himself out. The other Navy boxers who will start, barring accident, are: 12§ pounds, Allen; 135 pounds, Charlson; | 160 pounds, Henderson, and 175 pounds, Lyon (captain). Kowalzak and Ragsdale are the possibilities at 145 pounds, while Coleman and McLean are the only ones who now loom up for the un- limited class. { Asso- JOHN ANDERSON TELLS: About George Duncan’s Thrift HAT a difference a wee bi W t of money sometimes makes. The average professional can always let' out a few extra links in his playing system when there is a stake for which to perform, and George Duncan, the noted British professional and former British open champion, is no exception to t the proverbial rainy day—as it is per Two or three years ago Duncan and Abe Mitchell played in a 36-hole ex- hibition match at the Sleepy Hollow Club with Tommy Kerrigan and Alec Sanderson pitted against them. In the morning, If I remember cor- rectly, Kerrigan and Sanderson won, 2 up and 1 to go, or something like that. Just before the afternoon round was to start a member of the club walked out to the tee and shouted: “I've got a $100 stake for the man who makes the lowest score on this round.” You can guess the rest. Sanderson got an 83, Kerrigan a 78 and Mitchell & 73. But Duncan took no chances. He made his round in 70—one under par—and copped off that $100 all for himself, PALUSO IN HIS CLASS IN BOUT ‘WITH TERRIS NEW YORK, March 24.—Sid Terris, New York lightweight, and Lew Palu- so of Salt Lake City are primed for their 12-round battle here tomorrow night. Paluso, training for"the recent feath- erweight tournament, found that re- ducing to the 126-pound limit ruined his condition, and he was eliminated in the first round by Jose Lombardo of Panama. He has forsaken the featherweight division. HERMAN DEFEATS ROPER. PORTLAND, Oreg. March 24 iny” Herman, Portland, heavy- weight, beat Bob Roper of New York in a 10-round fight last night. 1t was the first notable heavyweight bout in Oregon since the 10-round law went into effect. Herman made good use of a left hook to the body and took seven of the ten rounds e JOINS NAVY BOXERS. Tex Edwards, champion Naval Acad- emy wrestler in the unlimited class, has hurried to the colors in a call for a heavyweight boxer. Edwards weighs 200 pounds and lacks experi- ence, but will undergo fntensive training at the hands of Spike Webb, coach ‘of America's fistic experts in the Olympic games. VILLA SOUGHT FO‘. BOUT. N Efforts are being made to have Charley (Phil) Rosenberg of New York, recently crowned bantamweight champion, encounter the flyweight title holder, Pancho Villa, in an outdoor bout in New York, Juae 19, at a benefit show for the Italian Hospital fund. Villa is in the Philippine: he rule. George aims to provide for fectly right and proper for him to do. Inside Golf y Chester Horto: Golters whe are ambitions to play a tip-top same—and what golfer ism*t?T—must get right on two great factors of golf playing before they can hope to attain their goal, and now, as the mew season draws near, is a good time to wet these firmly implanted in the mind. I ean do you golfers mo greater mervice than to make plain the great impor- tance of the faet that your fIndi- vidual game must it your particular type an second- Iy, your system of playing must be n fixed method with you. All par and near par golfers are fixed-method players. The golfer can make no greater mistake than trying to fol- low a hundred masters in this sport. He must follow one until he himself becomes one. In subsequent nrticles I shall discuss types amd the fixed methods to go with each. Pick yours cut. (Copyright, 1925.) RENAULT BESTS ROMERO IN TWELVE-ROUND BOUT NEWARK, N. J, March 24.—Jack Renault, Canadian heavyweight, last night outpointed Quintin Romero of Chile in a 12-round bout here, in the opinion of newspaper men. The Chilean appeared on the point of plunging to the canvas several times during the latter part of the battle, but Renault could not deliver the vital blow. M_nenauu weighed 199 and Romero FATDOTTED LINE SHOWS_WRONG FOSITION OF Tk America’s Finest Rowboat Motors $37 its One on Your Boat 'ay While You Play’” Caille 5-Speed Twin Row Boat Motors go forward, backward or idle, just like an auto. Guaranteed without reservation. JOHN J. ODENWALD Dixie Distributor for Caille Perfection Motor Co. of Detroit 1209 H N.W. Ph. Fr, 6903 THE GUARDS THE NEW S'rvx,s IN OLLARS Translates correctly Style in Collars o~ Cluetr, Peabody & Co.Inc s Mahers also | Pennsylvania Saate, one of | DEMPSEY AND BOXING BODY IN BOUT TQDAY NEW YORK. March 24.—Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion, and the New York State Athletic Commis- sion are scheduled to meet in the final vound of their battle today. Dempsey iy far away, but the com- mission has a long reach and may be able to jo!t him with the plan to rlace him upon the ineligible list in New York State. Such action would nock Dempsey into the position oc- upied by Mickey Walker, welter- weight king, who has been barred ‘rom New Vork's rings for several mont The telegram carrying the chal- of the negro heavyweight, v Wills, to Dempeey remains un- inswered. The reauested decision 1as been withheld and the 15 days ranted by law have sped away. To- lay's regular meeting - is reported ready to take drastic action. Jack Kearns' letter, mailed to the :smmission on his arrival in New York a weel ago, is not regarded as an official reply to the telegram to Dempsey. The latter contended that both Wills and Tommy Gibbons of St. Paul lacked caliber and that the New York commission should guar- antes a championship match, if de- cided upon, in the matter of finances. LOS ANGELES, March 24 eve of the meeting of the Boxing Commission, at which threat- ened .action to place the name of Jack Dempsey, heavyweight cham- pion, on the ineligible list, is expect- ed to take place, the champion was quoted here as saying that through such action the New York body would join the ranks of world champions, having qualified as the world cham- pion long-distance jokers. “The New York Boxing Commis- slon has absolutely no jurisdiction over me Dempsey said. “I never have held a license to 1hox in that State, and when they get ready to bar me—never having licensed. me— they are just making it casier for me to laugh at them.” LOCAL TENNIS CLUBS TO HOLD CONFERENCE Representatives of the various ten- nis clubs of the city will hold a get- together meeting Thursday night in the grillroom at the Wardman Park Hotel. Lou Doyle, a moving spirit in tennis in Washington, was responsi- ble for the calling of the confab. A big object of the conference will be an effort to avoid conflict in dates of the events held here, and in that way better promote the interest in all of the competitions. The discussions will include dates already fixed or later to be set for the usual elimination tournaments and intercity and interclub team con- tests of the following clubs and other organizations, which have been ten tatively grouped as follows: Clubs—Argyle, Chevy Chase, Colum- bia, Congressional, Dumbarton, Ten- nis Club of Washington and Ward- man. Departmental—Commerce - Interior, Interstate Commerce, Post Office, Navy, Treasury, Veterans' Byreau and War Department. Suburban—Bureau of Standards, Burleith, Capital, Chesapeake and Po- tomac Telephone Co., Lakeview, Montrose and Takoma. Municipal—Bathing Beach, Chevy Chase Park, Henry Park, Monument Park and Rock Creek Park. ‘Women's Tennis League. BOXER ON INJURED LIST. Harold = Smith, Chicago bantam- weight championship contender, is back home with his right hand in a cast as a result of the breaking of a bone in his contest with Bushy Gra- ham in New York. Smith will be un- able to box for probably & month. The fracture is an old one and was not properly set. GERMANY PREPARING FOR NEXT OLYMPICS BY EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER. By Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily News. BERLIN, March 24.—The Germans are taking up sports with character- istic zeal. A great “People’s Strength Exposi: tion” is being held in Berlin designed to foster turning, hygiene and phy- sical culture in preparation for the next Oympfic games, in which Ger- many hopes to play no small part. Statistics of membership in various organized sports show a remarkable inlrease since the war. The turners naturally lead, with more than 2,000,- 000 adults and more than 150,000 per- sons under 16 enrolled. The fleld sports group numbers more than 500,000, association foot ball, 800,000, and British rugby, 15,000, Swimmers number 270,000 and more{ than 100,000 belong to rowing clubs. The walking association group has 760,000 members, skiing associations, 100,000; tennis, 41,000, and golf, 2,000, It is planned to build a gigantic covered stadium here for all fleld sports. (Copyright, 1925.) THE CALL OF THE OUTDOORS BY WILL H. DILG, President Izaak Walton League of America. T'S TOO BAD that the closer a species gets to extinction, the greater are its chances of being shot. The trumpeter swan, one of the most graceful of American birds, is being exterminated just because there are so few of them that hunters don't know what they are. They are mistaken for geese, and many of them are taken home and eaten for geese. For the trumpeter swan and the whooping crane protection came too late. That is one reason why we should protect species which seem to- be dwindling before they get to the rag- ged edge—we should protect them early enough so they will not be so rare that the next generation of hunt- ers will kill them by mistake, not knowing what they are. The Federal Government has de- clared a closed season on the wood duck, considered by so many to be the most beautifully colored bird na- tive to th! ountry. Hunters are do. ing good work in observing this law, but still many wood ducks are killed every year by mistake. It's difficult, for the amateur especially, to distin- guish between this and other ducks when they are on the wing. The antelope are about gone. There are some on the sage hills of Wyo- ming. I think there is little doubt but that some of these fine animals are killed every year by hunters who mis- take them for deer, especially if the hunters have not been in this country very long. These things argue for the protec- tlon of species in time to save them. The situation is something like that of the clk of Wyoming. Protection has come to the elk In time to save them. But the plight of the indi- vidual elk that starve to death is sig- nificant. When an elk reaches a cer- tain stage of starvation, he cannot be saved. He may be able to walk, and apparently he can be saved by hay. But to feed im hay s dsastrous. To feed him anything is disastrous. He is a doomed elk ANl of which animals_are not ones. They can't be brought when they are on their last legs. indicates that wild like domesticated back ‘We are advised by somebody with a hand for statistics that pocket go- phers and ground squirrels eat 8,000,- 000 tons of grass a year in Arizona alone. Perhaps it was the same man who figured out that the ground squirrel will eat 340 pine seeds in 24 hours, and that the chipmunk accounts for 237 in the same length of time. The tests were made at the forest experi- ment station at Flagstaff, Ariz. Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, with a visiting list of 2 211 peopls, was the most popular park last year. Hot Springs comes next, with 164,175 visitors, and Mount Rai- nier is a close third, with 161,473. Four others of the parks—Yellow- stone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon and Platt—each were seen by more than a hundred thousand visitors, and six of the parks showed a travel increase of 25 per cent or more. U. S.'CHESSMEN ENTER. NEW YORK, March 24.—America will be represented in the Interna- tional Chess Masters' tournament at Baden-Baden, to be begun on April 15 and to be concluded on May 15, by United States Champion Frank J. Marshall and the young Mexican play- er, Carlos Torrey. Most of the fa- mous European masters will play. SHADE GETS DECISION. ROCHESTER, N. Y. March 2. Dave Shade, Pacific Coast welter- welght, won a judges' decision over Osk Till of Rochester, last night in & 10-round bout. Shade’s experience and ring generalship were too much for the local boxer. STECHER THROWS GARDINI. PHILADELPHIA, March 24—Joe Stecher, former heavyweight wres- tling champion, last night defeated Renato Gardini, two out of three falls. Jim Londos of Greece threw Frank Bruno, New York, a moment before the time limit of one hour for their match was reached. GIANTS TO PLAY ARMY. West Point will see the New York Giants in their last exhibition game this season. an invitation from the Army base ball team for a meeting on April 14 having been accepted. Im- mediately after the game the Glants will leave for Boston, where they open the National League season the next day against the Braves, LEADS WOMAN GOLFERS, LOS ANGELES, March 24—Mary K. Browne, runner-up in the last woman's national golf tournament, won the qualifylng round of the women'’s Southern California cham- plonship tournament here. Her score was 87. YANKEES RETAIN CAMP. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 24. —The New York Americans will train here again next Spring, it has been announced by Col. Jacob Ruppert, owner of the club. The team leaves here Wednésday on an exhibition tour ending in New York. USED Dodges, 1922, Buicks, 1922, ’23 an Fords, 1923 and 24 Essex, 1923 models. Main 7612 WANTED the following Oaklands, 1922, ’23 and 24 models. ’23 and ’24 models. Hupmobile, 1922, ’23 and ’24 models. We have a good market for the above cars and will accept them as part-payment on NEW OAKLAND Wallace Motor Co. 1709 L STREET N.W. CARS d ’24 models. models NOBLEMAN WILL RACE IN PENN'RELAY MEET For the first time in the history of the University of Pennsylvania relay carnival, which will be held on Frank- lin Field, in the Quaker City, April 24 and 25, an English nobleman will par- ticipate. Lord Burghley of Cambridge Univer- sity, one of the best hurdlers in the British Isles, has been invited to cross the ocean to match his wares against Moore of Penn State, intercollegiate hurdle champion; Wolf of Pennsylvania, Lord Burghley has a record of 152-3 seconds over the 120-yard high hurdles, g00C enough time, according to Lawson Robertson, coach of the Pennsylvania team, to make him a serlous contender. In addition to Lord Burghley, the winner of the 3-mile run in the Ox- ford-Cambridge meet nas been Invited to run against American athletes in the relay carnival. Eric Liddell, who won the 400-meter event in the Olympic games last year, finished second in the century and fourth in the furlong at the relay games. The combined Oxford-Cambridge relay team finished third in both the sprint medley and the 2-mile race Over 400 colleges and schools have sent in their entry lst to this year's carnival. The Middle West will have a greater number of entrants than ever before, while several colleges on the Pacific coast have signified their inten- tion of sending teams here. GARCIA FIGHT WINNER. PHILADELPHIA, March 24.—Bobby Garcla of Camp Holabird, Md., was awarded the judge's decision over Billy Petrolle, Fargo, N. Dak., at the end of their 10-round bout last night. Petrolle went down for a count of nine In the sixth round. Garcia weighed 1261: pounds; Petrolle 125 FARRELL WILL PLAY I The exhibition match in which Johnny Farrell, professional star of New York; Roland R. MacKenzie, the District amateur champlon, and Dave Thomson will play at the Washing- ton Golf and Country Club will be a 36-hole affair and will be staged April it -has been definitely an- nounced. Farrell has narrowed down to Jock Hutchison, who has heen wintering in Bermuda, and Tommy Armour, former Scottish amateur champion according to a telegram from Far- rell received by Fred D. Paxton chairman of the golf committee of the Washington Golf and Country Club. Hutchison is very well known here through his frequent play at Colum- bia in tournaments and exhibition matches. Armour has not been seen in Washington since 1921, when, as an amateur, he played in the national open champlonship at Columbia. Armour, however, has recently turned professional and has made an enviable reputation as a player of first rank in his golfing peregrina- tions through the South the past Winter. Farrell and Gene Saragzen played at Washington last Fall against Roland MacKenzie and Thomson, winning from the local pair. A. L. Houghton, one of East Po- tomac Park’s leading amateur golf- ers, and Mel Shorey, West Potomac Park pro, defeated Ralph Beach, Burning Tree professional, and Page Hufty, a public links amateur, in a special match witnessed by a large gallery vesterday at East Potomac Park. Shorey and Houghton won by 4 and 3, with Houghton playing a leading part in the victory of the public links pair. Houghton had a card ot 75 and Shorey had 81, while Beach had an approximate 78 and Hufty, off his game, had 89 LA BUE FOULS RILEY PORTSMOUTH, Ohio, March Mickey Riley, Colymbus, Ohio, won a decision from Gene La Rue, Ca- nadlan flyweight champion, on a foul in the second of their scheduled 10- round bout last might. L PALUSO WHIPS LAMORTE. TRENTON, N. J.. March 24.—Emil Paluso of Sait Lake City defeated Willie Lamorte of Newark last night in a fast 10-round bout 24— e HERE ON APRIL 5 Choice of a professional partner for | BIG GAMES Athletic Leaders of Thal AT HOUSTON t Section Are Rallying to Make First Event of Kind a Success—Best of Facilities A re Available. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. N keenest sort of interest. The success of these games, which will be held at Houston, Te. der the sponsorship of Rice Institute—John W. director, being the moving spirit i way in which mecinbers of the confe Hearty EW YORK, March 24—Track enthusiasts throughout the counfry will follow the'first annual Southwestern relay races with the , un Heisman, the athletic n the project—will depend upon the rence get back of the scheme. co-operation in the way of entrance of athletes and in at tendance will put this meet over and cause it to stand out among the important track and field events of The writer realizes that it pretty tough job to get a relay started, So Rice has undertaken the task. In the way first, a very gridiron laét Iall, and, second, early training. Rice has a track and & 220-vard straightaway Drake in the Middle West has estab- | in that section | eorgia Tech has | lished the relay ide: and in the far South gone over the top {f§spirited fashion The track coach at Rice is John P. holson, wio coached track wanee for seven years and befo: t was a famous University of Mi N ri athlete—a champion hurdler and | high jumper with the American ¢ pic team about ars ago. Nicholson is in (‘Imrzfl of lh- detai of the meet and this insures that they will be run up to the hiit. Members of the southwestern con- whole athletic rallying | e support | tournament. ference will help the system of their section with hearty good will to of this project. For some time now Yale alumni in|of the Middle W in the task of the Midw: in Yale as tion. No Kastern university has better organization for this work, which is conducted with the greates enthusiasm st have been engaged stern secondary s is a meet but the need has been appar- ent In this section and it was clear that some one had to make the start. of resources thers fs, fire Rice spirit, which was signally exemplified on the foot ball there | is the city of Houston with its 200,000 | population with a superb climate for | corking aquarter-mile the country. More than one fine athlete has come to New Haven from this section as a result of the educational work done by the Western alumni. And now they demand a return from their alma mater. Specifically they request {of Yale that she send her eleven to | the Middle West, to a point in or near Chicago, to meet a representative Middle Western eleven in the Fall of 1926, In the meantime there seems to be a trend as between Michigan and Princeton that may result in the ar rangement of a long term of home and-home games. 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