Evening Star Newspaper, June 5, 1925, Page 30

50 SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, 5 . 9. 2 D. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 192 SPORTS. Nationals Home for Long Sojourn : Gibbons and Tunney Ready for Bell Tonight TWENTY-ONE TILTS LISTED ' IN STAND STARTING TODAY Eddie Collins Brings White Sox Here to Open In- vasion—Ruether Hurls Well to Vanquish Yanks for an Even Break in New York Series. BY JOHN B. KELLER. AVING played in their 12 games since returning from the West at a winning percentage rate of 39 points lower than their season standing the Nationals are conironted with the necessity of scoring heavily in their home stand starting today if they would at least keep near ‘the league-leading Athletics. Ihe circuit pace-setters and the world champions have played each other to a standstill since the invasion of the West ended, the latter still second place, three full games behind the Athletics, as they were a week ago Monday. And that, despite the winning of three of five games played with Cennie M ’s crew during the past 10 da Opportunities to pick up on the A's were lost in the series in New York, when two hard-fought games went to the Yankees, although the Nationals got an even break in the Gotham set by winning yesterday, 8 to 3 stand at home, however, BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS would put the Nationals at AMERICAN LEAGUE. being the top of the league, or within a few points of the top, by July 1. Twenty- one games are to be played here, but not consecutively, for the club is to jump to Cleveland for a_single en- gement with the Indians week v next and to Philadelphia a_week for one tilt with the Mack- Philadelphia Washington . Chicago | St. Louls . | Cleveland af thereafter Ben. The Nationals have anything but | Betrol . an easy proposition on their hands at | Boston % the start of the West's first Visit of | GAMES TODAY. the vear. The White Sox here for | chicago at Wash'ton. four games, beginning today, have be- ;)l;(\ ‘l:nd' l'l'h"fhu)fln. come obs ate foemen nder the| roit at Philu. leadership of their new manager, | St Louls at N.'Y. Eddie Collins, and are quite capable YESTERDAY'S RES of making the champions look to their Washington. 8: New laurels. The Chicago outfit is mear| {leveland. i . :h to the local bunch to wrest d place m it by sweeping the anley Harris and company | an likely will have to work | nmk‘w high pressure for K[""ml(l_\'n &t least. Plttsburgh iladelplin neinnati Touts . MES TODA' New York at St. Phila. at Pittsburgh. Boston at Cinelnnati. Boston at Clneinnati. Brooklyn at Chicago. Brooklyn at Chicago. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. GAMES TOMORROW. Chicago at Wash's Cleveland at' Bosto Detroit_at Phila. St. Louis at N. Pitching to Tell Tale. However, if the class of pitching they their veteran staff in . the Chisox probably will not bat as freely as they have done recently. Walter Johnson, Vean Gregg and Dutch Ruether toiled in fine form against the Yankees, all but Johnson going nine innings on the hill. The heat tionals zet received from New York ut St. L. Phila. at Plttsburgh. HOW GRIFFS ARE BATTING . AR, . H. SB. RBL Pet. o n Hargrave . Ruether Rice . Gonlin fudee 3 Peckinuuugh Bluege o o o 0 5 N e~ecss~csomos~ 15 HOMERS CLOUTED IN BIG LEAGUE FRAYS By the Associated Press NEW YORK, June 5.—New batting laurels dot the major leagues tod Rogers Hornsby, Cardinal manager, being tied for the season’s total home: runr\\'i(h Bob Meusel of the Yankees at 15 Hitting carnivals were held on prac tically every big circuit diamond ye: terday at the expense of 38 pitcher: 23 of them in the National League. Fifteen home-runs were made. Five pitchers were used by Browns in a fruitless effort to stave off an 11-to-f0 defeat at Cleveland. Hendrick Smashed a triple with three men on the sacks and two out in the ninth, giving the Indians a victory. Mackmen pounded three Boston the by 12 to Harris holding the Red Sox to five scattered bingle: Inspite of two Hornsby circuit wal lops, the Giants turned out an 11-to-10 victory ame replete with loose pitching heavy slugging at St Louis. New York used four pitchers and the Cardinals three. Four Phillie boxmen were urgh won. 16 to 3. Cuyler It for the Corsairs included home-run, triple, double and single. The Reds ended their losing streak by slashing out 18 hits in an 11-inning game and defeating the Braves, 7 to 6 Manager Bancroft of the Braves shortstop, broke his left thumb and will be out of the game for at least two wee Brooklyn came out on the end of an 11-to-9 score at Chicago. Fourteen hits went for extra bases. Grimm, Griffith and Frigeau s victim a of Monday told against the veteran Ehieigin, 3. ander, forcing him to retire in turned in a_very well pitched zame, holding the Yank to four hits in the first seven innin; They got three socks and as many tallies off Dutch after two were out | in the eighth when the Nationals were | sailing along under a seven-run lead and brought their hit total to eight with a bingle in the ninth round. | Considering weather conditions, it was ! easfly Ruether’'s best effort of (he‘ eason. The the habit revealed They s hits and d fallen into | of many wallops, no such fault vesterday. ] sacks in yesterday red Herb Pennock for seven |spots of the present base ball season five runs, foreing the left- | hits and five runs, foreing the left | and the New York fans when he sto National on the runways and mone | OS out in the fifth frame. One hit mixed N¢ swiped second, and a few mome with some wild work by Walter |steal with Joe Judge. Beall, former \Washinzton sandlotter,| None of the thefts was abetted by who relieved Pennock and toiled | poor throws. Catcher Benny Ben- through the eighth inning, netted a |zough whistled the ball to the midway tally, and in the ninth Sylvester John- | sack in fine style to head off Bluege in son wa: ched for a hit and a | the first inning, and after failing to marker. get Ossie, Wanninger hurried the joe Juds sphere back to the plate, but the Is' attack. He pounded Pen-| Goose deftly slid around the receiver nd Johnson for homers when!In the seventh Pitcher Beall worked there were no teammates on the bases | overtime to hold Goslin to first ba and also got to Pennock for a Sing!(»“ but the l,;‘oo.«e finally got under w that shoved Goslin to the plate. The|With a pitch and beat Bengough Goose contributed a triple and a dou- | £00od heave to second. Later in the ble to the attack and pilfered three|round he went up to third like a flash bases, once getting home in a double | While Judge was sliding to second, steal negotiated with Ossie Bluege. again despite Bengough's strong and true arm. Griffmen Start Early. 3 The ch: « run-getting. inning by when [ grounder, rez the big gun of the ions did not delay their Neely s ted the first hinz the initial sack who had fielded Earl's ved the ball over Geh- Bucky Harris promptly doubled McNee! 1te and took third Rice to Gehrig. Goslin's two-bagger tallied Bucky and | Goose moved up as Judge went out. Bluege walked and with Goslin exe. cuted the dual theft that let the Goose register at the counting block. Judge's homer into the right field bleachers in round 3 added the fourth run, and in the fifth Goslin's triple and Judge's single produced the fifth mark- er. The one-baser also brought Beall to the mound. He got along well un- til the seventh, when he plunked lin in the bread basket and passed | Judge. The pair of Nationals pulled | the second double steal of the day and | after Bluege fanned, Peck singled the | Goose and Joe home and 7. | The eighth and & was Judge’s homer. in into the righ field bleachers, off Henry Johnson in the ninth. s total for the year bei | c is leading with nine thefts. | the Goose's efforts eventually knocked him out of the game. After making the three socking, | triple and a double, scoring three runs, taking one nitches in the solar plexus and handling five chances afield, Goslin succumbed to Old Sol and Nemo Leibold had to patrol the left field in the ninth. His recent illness and the heat made Babe Ruth a poor fielder yesterday He had to let Combs go after Gos| triple to right-center in the fifth and a minute later his legs refused to carry him to Judge’s left to short right that fell for a single and tallied Goose. Babe was able to swat the ball, though, and only a great catch by | Rice in the sixth killed off a long hit | for the invalid. Sam had to back | against the bleacher barrier to grab | the sphere. Four Nationals did__the hittin against the three New York pitche Judge got three blows, and Bucky | Harris, Goslin and Bluege two each. | | Five of the nine hits were for extra Yanks Score in Eighth. Combs’ triple with two gone in the | first, § " single with a palr out in the second, Ruth’s walk in the fourth Beagough’s single and Wanninger's double in the fifth and the hitting of Combs in the sixth were all the Yanks could glean off Reuther in the first seven rounds. But they awakened after two were out in the eighth. Dugan and Combs singled successive- Iy and Ruth walked to crowd the paths. Witt was sent in to run for the Babe and got home with the others | when Meusel, who had slammed the | Nationals into submission on the two | previous days, trippled past Goslin. | Ruether then tightened and Paschal batting for Gehrig. was an easy out Bengough singled with one gone in the Yankees' ninth, but the others were helpless against Dutch. CHISOX OBTAIN YOUTH. CHICAGO, June 5 UP).—The Chicago White Sox have added another scholastic diamond star to Collins’ collegians, Johnny Lenihan, flashy third baseman of the De La Salle| Academy of Chicago. Johnny Is too ! Young to sign a_contract, but Owner Comiskey considered him worth Judge is using that rightfield stand in New York to great advantage th year. He poled two homers into it in | he Nationals' first serfes in Gotham this vear and brought his total there | to five with clouts this week. | Earl Combs, although a lefthand | certainly enjoys swinging southpaw pitching. He got s off National portsiders in three games in the New York serie: PIRATES OF 24 SEASONS AGO TO PLAY 1925 TEAM PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 5 (P).— The Pirates of 24 vears ago are gath- ered here today for their game tomor- row with the Pirate team as part | of the golden jubilee celebration of the | Pittsburgh club. The veterans have limbered their {long-idle arms by several workouts and by greeting old-time acquaint- ances. The old-timers, coming from all sec- tions of the country, were welcomed by Honus Wagner, and will array themselves against their successors in the same line-up they presented in the pennant chase of 1901, discovered bases. | 1 med homers for the Cubs, while | Fournier banged one for the Robins. | Goslin’s Triple Theft in Game Feature of Present Campaign | Edmonston and Manager Robert An 6 . ‘ ght The Goose surprised the Yankees le home in a dual theft worked with Bluege in the opening inning, but he dazed them in the seventh when nts later reached third in a paired MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS AMERT ASSOCIATION. Minneapolis, 9: Milwaukee, 3 Louisville, 3: Colum 3. Toledo, §° Indianapolis, 4. Kansas City. 7-4: St. Paul, L : Baltimore, Rochester, 14 acuse, 2: Toronto. 1 5. 8: Providence, 5 UTH ATLANTIC LI Macon, 5: Augusta. 4 Knoxville, 5: Ashevillé, 4 Columbia, &: Charlotts, 4 PIEDMONT LEAGUE. Durham. 7: High Point. 6 Salishury, 12 Raleigh, 8 Greenshoro, 6= Winston-Salem. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATIO! Ro Mobile, 0. ®: Nash Atlanta, New Orleans, Jersey Ci Buffalo, 14 AGUE. Little 3 14: Rocky Mount neton. 7: Portemouth Richmond. 11: Wilson, 10, REAL NATIONAL VET IS FOUND IN CHICAGO By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June League executives 10. 5. have ame here next Tuesday, score they had more of the real pioneers of the bare-hand and first-bounce base ball days of the , to be on hand as honored or Thé dean of them dll is Tom Foley, aged 83, the man who assembled and managed the first Chicago White Stockings team in 1869, Next in sentimental comes Calvin L. surviving . official importance Stambaugh, only of the National Chicago in 1876. Chieago is one of the two charter members of the league, Boston being 4 the other. Four members Mutuals of 1867, White Stockings, Spink, John L. and Bob White. The oldest professional battery found was James Forrest and John S. Burke of the Chicago Blue Stock- ings of 1872, of the Chicago forerunners of the were located, Al FIGHT IS CALLED OFF. CASPER, Wyo., June 5 (#).—The heavyweight boxing match between Capt. Bob Roper of Los Angeles and Harvey Perkins, scheduled here for tonight, has been cancelled. Gov. Nellie T. Ross recently called atten- tion to the statutes prohibiting" prize Their game will be preliminary to the scheduled contest between - the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia olubs. tutoring. HONOLULU June 5 (#).—The bat tle fleet buried the scout fleet under a salvo of 22 hits and won the final f the interfleet base ball champion- ip_with a score of 18 to 2 WESTINGHOUSE AUTOMOBILE STORAGE BATTERY 11-Plate in Rubber Factory Guaranteed Haverford Cycle Sales Co. 522 10th St. N.W. o St P 2104 Pa. 9 & P Ste N W, fighting and called for its enforce- Balance Monthly 30x32 Tire, $11.00 Equip your car with new tires PROBEY TI Six Months to PayV RE STORES Ave. N.W, 1 el 200'H'St. N.E- National | announced | Mevers, Gertrude Gill, League as it opened for business in | and Robert Dennis;me people’s regatta at {on July 4. | | short | m- | ITH base stealing rare in these days of the lively ball, when the | hit-and-run play is much preferred to the taking of desperate chances against catchers’ arms, Goose Goslin's pilfering of three | s game in New York goes down as one of the bri | | that for the league's golden jubilee | 1 De | 'WILNE twirlers for 17 hits at Boston to win | | monston, vice president and secreta |a “S( hool. | Lombarai, |3 | garet {Club will compete in a closed regatta DANE CALLS OFF BOXING SHOW SET FOR TONIGHT HERE'LL be no fights given T of the club, canceled the show that ling and Jack Stone scheduled as the feature attraction. Dane, however, insists that clul they procured for the show that was to have been given tonight will e entertained with bouts after June 12. On that day the matter of whether boxing shows such as the National Capital Sporting Club has conducted can be held without violating a District of Columbia statute will be aired in court, and Dane is confident the decision will be favorable to his organization. Canceling of tonight'’s show chance of fans seeing Young Stribling in action here in the near future. The Georgia fighter and his caravan left town this morning for a barnstorming trip that is to end on the Pacific coast, so Strib- ling will not be able to box in the BIG SANDLOT TO BE PLAYED ON SUNDAY ! S Maryland Athletic Club is at the Mary k Field near Ch Mack Roberts, who defeated the Mohawk nine on Memorial day, will twirl for the Marylanders. R TO LEAD TWO TEAMS AT CENTRAL of the b rifle and girls’ tennis t Central High School were the “C" this morning when hletic honors were distribute last presentation chapel of the Margaret Moreland and Rap Members ming. e ball, swim s at rded adet and at the ar. el Ed- ry and two Brady and were given the of the Athletic cheer leaders, Charles Smoot, letter Foliowing the presentations the base etter men re-elected Morton Wil- ner captain of the team for next year. 1s been chosen foot ball Association, Parke also Florence Fellows and Kay Johnson were awarded tennis monograms. cht members of the 1925 base ball n qualified for the *( They e Capt. Morris Wilner, Albert Duke, | Addison Jones, Robert Groves, Thoma Trodden, Roy Engle, Horace Duff and C e Phipps. Letter men on the swimming team | are Capt. Arthur Taylor, Clifford San- ford, captain-elect; “Charles Hunter, | Justin Farrell, Phillip Raine, Raphael drus. Letters went to the members of the champion rifle team as follows: Capt William Campbell, Lloyd Meeds, Man- | r Richard Radue, Fordham Radue, Maleolm Beville, Ale: nder Fisher, | Henry Boudinot, Hale Sehorne, Leon | Kasehagem and John Marquis. | 24-HOUR AUTO RECORD BROKEN BY FRENCHMAN | PARIS, June 5 (®).—An American, | Elleroy 1. Garfield, and the French | driver, Plessier, are said to have es. | tablished a new record for driving an automobile 24 hours, i At the Montlbery track they drov 40-horsepower machine 4.759 kilometers (about 2,000 miles) during the period from 7 p.m. Wednesday to 7 p.m. last night. Many intermediate records from the 1500 Kilometer mark were broken, it was stated. 'SPORT AWARDS MADE AT JEFFERSON JUNIOR| lley ball | awarded High sport Soccer, track and girls' ind base ball letters were yesterday at Jefferson Junio Seventgen minor numerals also were presented. were made as follows: — Edward Fisher, Harry | Herman Oscar, Harry Bur- Clifton Riley, Frank Varron, Settle, Thomas McKenzie, Lowe, Alvin Chenn, Ben | Millard LaFontaine and | Charles Bannagan. Track — Fred Cartrell and Walter Hamburg. Volley ball—] Byron Brooks <athleen Ward, Laura nces Tay- | lor, Mildred Farrah, Jeanette Pete ary Taylor, Thelma Holli ine Pfieger, Josephine De licites Wes ind Mae Kiely Ba aret Sanders, Lor ine Brooks, Elizabeth Salisbury prothy Amin, Bertha Watson, Mil- | arry, Mayhelle Simmons, | Trittipoe and Minne Mag- | natto. | Minor sport numerals—Wilbur Hat- ton, Alvin Ghenn, Herman Oscar, Benjamin Taxin, Charles Trammel, Raymond Courtney, Henry Goldstein, James Tanner, William Autry, Mar- | Sanders, Mildred Farrah. | Rhoda Bailey, Helen Amin, Josephine Zornek, - Ro: Terish, Katherine Wells and Lois King. WIiaL HOLD R.EG;ITA. Members of the Wa 1 | hington Canoe | Sunday afternoon in preparation for Philadelphia " RADIATOR, FENDERS BODIES MADE AND REPAIRED NEW RADIATORS FOR AUTOS WITTSTATT’S R. & F. WKS. 319 13th N.W. 1423 P. REAR N . . Spalding“Kro-Flite” The greatest all-round golf ball of the game. Far and true in flight and durable beyond all description. Each 75c¢ “The Spalding™Dimple. Each 75¢ “The Spalding™— Mesh. . ek 75¢ ‘Spalding Bags, Clubs, Golf Hose, etc. N 1338 G St.,, N.W., Washington Club at Washington Auditorium tonight. Following a consul- tation with his attorneys this morning, Frank Dane, president UNDAY'S sandlot base ball card includes a number of clashes that | should prove of interest to followers of amateur sport. Congress ! were SIX GIBBONSES WILL AWAIT NEWS AT HOME ST. PAUL, Minn., June 5 (®).— Pominy Gibbons’ strongest support- ters will be a long way from the ringside tonight when the St. Paul by the National Capital Sporting e adlie Dens Tunney- amork hey are Mrs. Gibbons and the five little Gibbonses, namely, Tom, ; Jack, Dick, 3, and Mark and rome, twins, | year old. It will one of the few times that Tom- .has _.engaged a big fight without fami nearby, though they never have attended any of his contest: | CORINTHIAN MIDGETS GET FIRST SETBACK rinthian Midgets, | Sport Shop Base Ball League, |suffered their first defeat of the |series, when the Aztecs piled up a |12-to ore. | e games are scheduled for to- srrow. The Cardinals and Astecs ash on diamond No. 7 at 11 o'clock d the Hilltops and Hartfords meet the North Reservoir fleld at the me hou At 1 o'clock Ontarios | Ratiniers come together or = { grounds, while th >ark: to entertain the Aloysius Club nine | mingle at the re esapeake Beach Junction. had a bout between Young Strib- b members who retain the tickets very likely does away with any East for some months. STRUGGLES leaders in an | At and Mount the latter’ d Celties Corin- ated to vet been thi and Atlantic clash, but no diamond ha |located anding of the league Pet Brightwood Athletic Club Journeys | cornthians R34 to Mount Rainier, the Mohawks and | Mount Rainiers Shamrocks mingle at Phillips Park, | Cardinals Arlington Athletic Club plays host | Hilitons to Herald Harbor and Petworth goes | A against the Alexandria Dreadnaughts | at the latter's field i Manager De Vaughan of the Alex- andrla Cardinals has not vet locaied B R RIGGS BANK TOSSERS TO PLAY SMITH NINE| possible. He may be reached Alexandri 21-F-3 between 5:30 and | Riggs National Bank tossers feated leaders of the Dis 6 o'clock. Base League, will clash with the F. H. Smith Co. team tomorrow aft- ernoon at the Monument ground The Riggs nine has registered vie- the | tories over the Hibbs Co., Metropoli Md. |tan National Bank and the Commer- *0 |cial Bank teams in the series games. iI-| With Earl Haycock, former George K00 KOO 067 | 500 500 Uantics Uniow, Athletic Club has a permit for Diamorid No. 1, good from 5 to 71 o'clock every Saturday during June. | For games call F, L. Cammond at Malin 4749 Lafayette and Liberty tossers are booked for a game at Rosedale field tomorrow at 3 o'clock. Sunday Lafayettes will play at Clinton and the Liberty nine will journ Kenilworth to encounter the F worth Seniors unde ct Bankers’ {town Athletic Club star, catching, the |team is well fortified behind the bat {The mound work also is well taken | care of, with Bennie Womersley of Shamrock fame and Johnny Huettner doing the twirling. Norman Brown is at Miller second, Gimpy Coe at short nd Joe Pricci on third. Beilaski, | Mensh and Lambath are working in the outfield REGISTERS WIN OVER ~ ANNEX NO. 1 TEAM and Tenleytows nines will ciash diamond Sunday Benning letic Club Benning o'clock Ath the £ 230 After the Printers had piled up a | i 0-to-5 score in four innings the ureau nine of the Departmental | League forfeited. Eight of the typos had reached first base on walks and | 27 hits had been registered | Jerry’s Sport Shop base ball tosser: h to book an unlimited team for unday game. Call Columbia 10435 E. M. Richardson, manager of the Heights unlimited team, | shes to book an opponent for unday game at the Congress Heig field. MARBLE TITLE PLAY FINAL IS REACHED ase Ball streak was by the Lib- I into their and handed a | gue, whose | broken early in the wee! erty Loan team, got stride again yvesterday | 6-to-4 setback to Annex No. 1 | ile registering only seven hits 12 for their opponents, Patent Office tossers outclassed the Commis- | sion nine in the Government | League by the count of 12 to 8. | _Navy swamped State, War and L Jbb! of Springfield, | Navy in the Potomac Park race, 17 to Sowned Robbins, 13, of Gpeingfisld, |y ‘2ns v s € s nossd out Binck Mass, proved too much for Stanley |and White in the Railroad Terminal Smith, lanky Newark lad, in the ex-| Y. M. C. A. loop, 9 to 8 cting semi-finals of the marble tour- |, lansburzh & Brothers and Wil ; iams-Webb teams were victorious in nament here. Twice he slid his or-|ipe Commercial circult games, the ange-colored aggie in the center of the | former defeating Evening Star, 8 to ring and then “robbed the bank.” |6, and the latter winning over the winning ATLANTIC CITY, N. 5. . June 3 s : it With a pocket phonograph playing | Allen Mitchell Co., 15 to 8. a Southern melody from the side lines ' as an accompaniment to his perform nce, Thomas Raley, 13, of Owen: boro, Ky., broke the world's record | for shooting, clicking off 12 “ecom- | mies” in a row, and winning three | straight games from Selwyn Jack®on, of Fresno, Calif. | By eliminating their opponents in| Twenty members of the hoys' base three games out of five in the closing | ball, and basket ball teams semi-finals, the two boys are eligible jat Friends School were ‘The player winning four out of |awarded school letter this seven games will be awarded the na- |morning. tional trophy as the champion ar-| Base ball ble player of America. Deekman, Jimmy Cambeas of Youngstown, |ager; Lynn Anderson, James Crane, was outclassed during the morning | Nelson Foster, William Legg, Tom matches by the Ohio boy, and threw | Harden, James Robb, James Peters away his chance for victory through |and Albert Bennet. his nervousness. | Tom Brown, captain; George John- Touls, Wels was de- |son, Milton Deekman, Lynn Ander- feated by the Newark lad. John For. |son and Walter Peters received the | on of Fort Worth dropped three basket ball awards, while tennis let- | ged games to the Fresno béy ters went to George Johnson, cap- Out of the semi-final matche: William Hitz, manager; Tom eliminated, leaving four. 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EW YORK, June 5.—Two of the leaders in the heavyweight ranks who have been tugging at the mantle of Jack Dempsey will square off tonight at the Polo Grounds in a 15-round bout to a decision They are Gene Tunney of New York and Tom Gibbons of St. Paul, clever boxers, with punching power that has been sufficient to many a likely aspirant. Tt will be a meeting of two veterans of the World War, nents of the same fighting style and two clean-cut war ords place them on a footing so_even that opinion is equal to the outcome. A 27-year-old Eastern bach will fight Western family man. Facts on Big Fight pose of WO expo- whose rec- ¢ divided as riors, Two weeks from t pair of vweight metropol lenger, ponent for J board, Newark, N Firpo. Promoter: ing on though Jack De Paris hi ner of box- nert of of Luis e work n bouts, bled from the w Principals—Gene Tunney of New York, American light-heavy- weight champion, and Tom Gib- bons of St. Paul, Minn. Length—Fifteen rounds to a de- cision. Place—Polo Grounds, New York. Time—9 p.m., Eastern standard Time. Preliminary bouts—King Solomon of Panama Romero Rojas of Chile, 8 rou Jack de Mave, New York Bud Gorman of Wisconsin, 6 rounds; Ray Neu- man of Jersey City vs. Bob Law- son, nmegro light-heavyweight champion of the world, 6 rounds; John Grosso of New York vs. dack McDonald of New York, 4 rounds; Lloyd Skinner vs. George Mulholland, alternate bout. Probable attendance—60,000. Total receipts—$100,000. o Share of receipts—Gibbons, 30 per cent, or $120,000; Tunney, 20 per cent, or $80,000. Measurements. Tunney. .. tonight’s fight Weights- Nearly Even. Lon and careful t brought Tunney ,ons to thet best fighting we advan- tage of only a pound or two for Tun- ney New Tunney | possible ning York fans will be loo r victory as this city heavyw ht champi | metropolis has to ¥ | preme ruler « fistic Gibbons, to | string of W |aims at a re Fitzsimmons, to win the | past the upporte as trength, frequenti stern he: ord attained c who was the heavy point help | to hi | him | e o veterans 0. Slim. duel of body rounds. Al knockout are is rated as t over s Gibbons. er 36 634 ... _Age . .. Height . Weight Reach . Neck . _Biceps Forearm . Wrist . ...Chest (normal) ..Chest_(expanded). . Waist . . Thigh . Calf . nkle .. Chance for K. erts forecas ng in_the h the chances considered slim, having the b finishin; Gibbons considere The prohit GREB THINKS TUNNEY ‘ WILL DEFEAT GIBBONS | NEW YORK, June 5 (#).—Harry Greb, world middleweight champion and the only boxer to win decisions over both Gene Tunney and Tom Gibbons, has picked Tunney to de- G feat the sSt. Paul heavyweight in|€ne TU their 15-round fight at the Polo| Grounds tonight. | However, Greb's manager, James Mason, predicted that Gibbons would ¥y winner on points. be an easy MALONE AND FLOWERS ARE TO FIGHT TONIGHT‘ | CARPENTIER PREDICTS TRIUMPH FOR GIBBONS JOHN GUNTHER. £ Geor rer home B 1 bois, tod: bons w merits bout | fought | men * I 1l the success they deserve.” f the two men are so HEAT FORCES OARSMEN TO CUT DOWN TRAINING | POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. 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