Evening Star Newspaper, April 22, 1925, Page 29

‘THE EVE WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 19 SPORTS. 29 Cleveland Good Cold Weather Club: Rickard Would “Talk Turkey” With Dempsey TEAM WILL GET ITS TEST A , AFTER HOT DAYS ARRIVE \ Indians Unlike Rivals in Regard to Atmosphere. Tribe Getting Much Better Pitching Than It Received at This Time in 1924. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK. April 22—Those crunching squnds coming from the Middle West which suggest a gigantic corn sheller working over- e. arc the product of certain base ball experts who announced fheir willingness to eat their hats if the Cleveland base ball club was in the first division of the American League at the end of the first week of the edule. Cleveland not only was in_the first division at the end of the first Aveek, but was in first place. The great batting power of the organiza- tion, which was almost wholly overlooked because the team appeared bulky and not always high geared, has held it up in these games, which have been played under conditions which are just to the liking of the tean The Cleveland club is an outfit| There also is the Chicago American unlike most ball clubs. will [team, which is carrying on right well o Le crowded when the weather |for the glory of the Western section. becomes hot instead of when it is|Some say it & _better now cool. Give the Polar Bears at Cleve- [than it did las The club may land plenty of snow, ice and raw |have a better . but it has no winds and they would win the Ameri- |better standing in the league. Last can League championst season at this time the Sox were well 1o spare. They thriv o 4 {up. Tt was about the only time all be they can hit when | the season that they were up, other fragile athletes are doubled up | In the very first week of the Evers with chills | regime there was a certain amount of Tn general, the Cleveland pitchers which took the Sox along ere doing much better than they did hopefully, but it quickly terminated at the same time last vear, which pitching deterforated, and the bears out the optimistic assertion of got settled down for a long Secretary MeNichols at Lakeland, | quarrel. Fla., that if the Cleveland club didn't | The have much of anything else, it had | Sox big thing to watch about the s season is the work of Davis, g to make a shortstop for When the team was training |at Shreveport Collins tried both Davis and Rutler. He seemed to lean a little tows batting, b put i s tr; the man with the Indian who never saw an Indian in ife except at the movies, is one the very few pitchers who have turned in a four-hit game this season He did it so early that it is an omen If he continues—and he is sta ' exactly where he left off in 1 this Cleveland team will be a bogey- | to do better. man all season and will do its are feven up to uplift the Western section of the |him far league {the Davis in, at_the of noble for a she and Davis is fielding .900. That isn't very top. but he is likely As a_batsman he isn't 150, and that won't carry Yet, he'll stick as long as with him in the line-u 'WALKER’S WAY CLEARED FOR BATTLE WITH GREB EW YORK. April 22—By the set pute with the New York State Athlc lenge of Dave Shade, Mickey Walker, lear=d the way for acceptance of h short spa months granted pugil With w t of his long-standing dis- Commission over the chal- world welterweight cham- N pio second opportt the v within of six to achic 1at oft-sought but tic desire—possession of two titles at the same time. no further obstacles to the|Pal Reed was defeated on points by match, Walker today will meet|Greb, while Welker knocked Reed out , Promoter Humbert Fugazy to sign|in four rounds. articles for a world middleweight title| Greb won the light heavyweight bout with Harry Greb of Pittsburgh |crown from Gene Tunney and lost it on June 19 at the Polo Grounds. Terms | back to him before mounting to the have already been agreed to by both|middleweight nearly three years ago. boxers. It will be in the same ring that he Walker's initial attempt to annex a|faces Walker in defense of the cham- second early this vear at|pionship in June, 12 days after his Newark was a failu The ‘welter- | thirty-second birthday champion for too | . SE he sought to win the light ight championsgip from Mike ULD BE BIG. in a no-decision cont Al MEET SHO ere in and the. m, to ~ademies to es to the national inter- the title from Jack track and June Britton, Walker has engaged in 24| @nd 6 under the auspices of the battles; 13 of these he won by knock- | University of Chicago. Last year outs, two he took by decision, in eight | California alone sent 16 teams. others he received newspaper verdicts - end one with Jimmy Jones was de- TUNNEY TO STAR'I; WORK. clared no-contest. In addition to welght, Greb will have| NEW YORK, April 22—Gene Tun- American _light-heavyweight greater experience in his favor. 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Dempsey and his wife, formerlv Estelle Taylor, mo- tion picture actress, passed through Omaha. en route to New York to com- vlete a picture they are making. “I don’t think I will sign another movie contract soon,” Dempsey said. “Fighting is my business, and not acting. “I am a little overweight at present. T tip the beam around 200, but hard work will bring me down.” “Jack is a good actor,” Mrs. Demp- sey sald with a smile The champion said that Jack Kearns, his manager, and he were still on good terms, and when Kaarns got him a match he would fight, and not before. He said he hoped to see Tex Rickard in New York. Following completion of their pic- ture Mr. and Mrs. Dempsoy expect to visit Europe on their honeymoon, after which they will return to Cali- fornia. FOUR BOUTS ON LIST FOR BARRACKS’ SHOW Johnny Conroy of the Mohawk Club and Billy Bdwards of Philadelphia are matched for the opening bout of the twenty-eighth round card arranged for the Washington Barracks at 8:15 tonight. Billy Britton, the Kansas Cyclone, and Johnny Gill of York, Pa., are to appear in the main attraction and will battle for ten rounds or less. Jack Cafoni of the barracks encoun- ters Count Molino in a six-round en. gagement, and Kid Groves of the Mo- hawk Club takes on Jack McCarthy for six frames in the semi-final. Gt Besides bullfighting, foot ball, hockey. polo, golf and tennis have be. come popular sports in Spain. N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N Pelzman will Play ball! _The 9th & E ,Opp. Thompsen's R 2 P O TEX IS CONFIDENT JACK HAS NOT QUIT RING GAME Declares Wills and Gibbons Most Logical Rivals for Honors—Women in Family May Prevent Titleholder From Fighting Again. BY FAIR PLAY. EW YORK, April 22—Tex Rickard is all set for Jack Dempsey when the champion and his wife, accompanied by Joe Benjamin, artive N in this city from the West Friday. “I have never believed that Dempsey is out of the fighting game,” said Rickard today, “but I shall have a clearer idea as to our future plans when I meet him than I have just now. All I can say is that when Jack fights again in a big Eastern show I shall be the promoter. “Wills and Gibbons seem to be his logical opponents just now, but you can never tell what will happen by the time the outdoor season is over. Some good youngsters are in the background working up, and, of course, it is among the youngsters that you have to look for the future champion.” Dempsey won't be in New York long. The report is that he has booked to sail for Furope with his wife on Monday. There will be no fighting on this trip. The journey will be in the interest of Dempsey's movie affair. In fact, those who know the bride and groom well say that so long as Mrs, Jack is the boss of the family Dempsey will not enter the ring. In this stand it is said Jack’s mother, who has taken a strong fancy to her daughter-in-law, is supporting the wife. Want of money, declare these friends, is the only incentive strong enough to make Dempsey face a formidable opponent, and the way things are now the champion is not due to face any immediate shortage, to say the least. usual practice of silence. In this way he always stands to gain publici through the rival manager. he refrains from harping on greatness of his fighter and permits the rival to grab the spotlight. The reason for this lies in the out come of the fight. Should his man lose at the hands of the exploited fighter, the defeat will not mean so much in the minds of the public, who figure no doubt that a beating at the hands of a fighter so great as the rival has been made out to be is no disgrace. But, should his man win, the added prestige of whipping a supposedly great battler makes the all the more noteworth TROUSERS Here Come the Champs! In the meantime it iz interesting to watch the different tactics of Eddie Kane and Billy Gibson, managers of Gibbons and Tunney, respectively. While Kane is ballyhooing Tommy to the limit, Gibson is following t To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN’S, 7th & E KR e 2 e T T, Doing Our Bit for Another Pennant Hurrah! Here comes Bucky Harris, the world’s best manager! Here come his boys! Fred Pelzman and his Fashion Shop gang wel- come you, royal Nationals and Swatsmiths.. We are glad to have you back home again. Boys, we want another pennant! Yes, and an- other world’s championship. those exciting moments in the last world’s series. The thrilling seventh innings! The joyous home runs! The dramatic work by Walter Johnson! The heroic doings of Bucky Harris! Peckin- paugh’s gameness! “Goose” Goslin’s home runs! “$50,000” McNeely’s hit that brought in the win- ning run—and the hundred-and-one other things that made history in that series by you red-blooded, fighting ball players. Let’s go in with the old wallop, fellows! Wash- ington is with you—heart and soul. And Fred We remember be there with a famous Worumbo Overcoat every time one of you makes a homer. v See the good news on our sign in centerfield. Tashion bhop FRED PELZMAN " President TWO STORES Btown 15th & G Next to Keith's