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L ock, ) Roc SPORTS. Ball New American Leagu Man Who Upheld Johnson Last Year Responsible for Increase in Preside Closing Date for Flag Races. BY GEORGE CHADWIC! EW YORK, December 14.—The two most important happenings at N the base b leagues—were engineercd by one n Americans, called by some the * the only American Leaj meetings here resolution of censure against the leaguc president adopted last Winter. | He has stood by Johnson through th pleasure of seeing him vindicated. Charles Comiskey, owner of the Chicago White Sox, and implacable enemy of Johnson, was not present at the meeting, but his representatis did not oppose the proposal to hoo: Ban's salary $10,000 a vear and ex- tend his term of office five years be vond his existing contract. This is t to be construed as meaning that the Old Roman loves Johnson more than he ever did, but merely that he though a further fight on Ban was not worth the effort. Championed Early Finish. With this triumph behind him, in the American League meeting the day before, Mr. Ball arose in the joint session of the two leagues on Thurs- day and sald: “I move that the season of end on September 26." The purpose of that move was to permit an early starting of the world serles. It was found that all Ameri can League clubs favored the pro vosal, while all National League clubs opposed it. The younger circuit be- ing more compact, finds wd 154 games into a son. The resulting deadlock mis ner Landis to take sides one 1926 shorter sea- forced Com with ries after the fiasco of last Fall, he ast his vote with the American league. Score another American Leagu The joint session victory for the new Bismarck as was predicted by the writer, took no action on the many suggestions offered for chang- ing the rules of playing the world se- ries—with one exception. It was de- cided to start all world series gams “t 1:30 instead of 2 o'clock. All the other proposals were deferred to Judge Landis, who may adopt them as he sees fit No Fight With Minors. The majors decided not to precipi- tate a fight with the minors by at- tempting to increase from 8 to 15 the number of players a major league club may have out on option. But they did suggest to the minors that they agree that optional players may JUNIOR CIRCUIT TRIUMPHS SCORED BY BROWNS’ BOSS son’s salary and the fixing of “American League's new Bismarc it easier to| league or the other, and since he | wvors an earlier start for the big se- | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1925. nt’s Salary and for New last week—the raising of Ban John- an early closing date for both major , Phil Ball, owner of the St. Louis gue owner who refused to sign the k and thin, and now he has had the be sent out three years in succession instead of two It remains to be seen whether the ninors will agree to any such chaining ¢ talent. They hold their annual meeting this vear at Catalina Islund, Calffornia, early in January. Minor league officials kept well un der cover during the joint session of | the majors, so their attitude is not known. But it is significant that the Inter. national League, at its session here carlier in_the week, re-elected as its president John Conway Toole, who had | been the special champion of the prin- | ciple of only eight players on option. Toole had been informed flatly that the majors were after his scalp, and when they found they couldn’t get it they may have decided that it was not wise to press the 15 players on option proposition at this time. The American League raising ! Johnson's salary incidentully has | served notice upon the officials of the | | minor leagues to mind their own busi ness. The minors adopted resolutions ut the Hartford meeting in 1524, which | read” ‘"As a result of recent attacks on the commissioner by a major| league president, doubt, confusion and | ¢ condition inimical to the welfare of bhase ball has been created, ete..”” con luding with an indorsement of Judie | Landis, which was quite unnecessary., | because the judge needs no indorse- | ment. | No Quarrel of Thei | Not a few persons marveled at the | time that M. H. Sexton, president of the Natlonal Association. permitted his o tion to be drawn into a quar- rel with which the National Associa- | tion had nothing to do role was re-elected president of the | | International League for five vears| after he was openly served with a | notice that the majors were opposed | | to his continuance in office. Johnson ive years more on his old con-| ch will return to him | equivalent of about $400,00( in that. for the next ten years, he wi draw $40.000 a vear. “The best way in this world to get your pay boosted is to get ‘em to fight you,” said Phil Ball. (Copyright, 19 | | | in 0. | 1 Story of Bush Leagues By John Chapter VII. T was a proud day for the league York and held a regular meeting in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, famous hostelry of Twenty-Third and Broadway, which had become | the athleti celebrated around the world ir ations for a period of years. Pat Powers, genial, rotund and of his new association for the Fifth “You needn’t think for a minute,” gaid Pat to the New York base ball writers, “that this meeting is to be the end of our association, because some folks do not like what we have been doing. 1 have heard how we are to be driven out of business, but come to the Fifth Avenue Hotel and whether we are driven out or se: not There were men at that meeting whose names In those days figured prominently in minor league base ball affairs, and while the Chicago meet- ings had paved the way for the glori fication of the minors, it was the New York meeting that took the bit in its teeth and dared the majors to stop what the minors were trying to do. It was the step that lifted the m nors from the lowly attitude of sup- pliants to one of asking for something and meaning to get it, although to the last minute there were men at that eting in New York who sat in the rner with anxious faces and feared that some bogey man might come into sight at any minute and eat them alive by declaring their fran- chises forfeited. although there was 10 Jeague to operate their franchises it they were forfeited. It was the legacy of the cowardice that always had saturated the bushes because of the frequent stormy that had burst upon them as they attempted to op- erate their base ball under enforced and unwelcome paternal control. Those at Meeting. The men who sat at this meeting were T. J. Bryce, Columbus, Ohlo; T.. S. Barnard, Columbus, Ohio, now president of the Cleveland base ball club; E. G. Barrow, Toronto, Ontario, now secretary of the New York Amer- jeans; Henry Burns. Nashua, N. H., out of base ball; W. P. Chase, Des Moines, Towa; George P. Cressy, Providence, R. T.; J. J. Carney, Con- cord, N. H. who has passed on; J. 15. Canavan, New Haven, Conn., once a famous player; D. E. Dugdale, Seattle, Wash., still on the coast; Charles Dooley, Mdntreal, who missed being a great first baseman by a lit- tle; A. G. Doe, Dover, N. H.; James Franklin, Buffalo, who for a long time was the mentor of all base ball in that city; Aaron Frank, Little Ark.; J. H. Farrell, Auburn, . George Harrington, Water- bury, Conn.; E. ¥. Higgins, Rochester, N. Y.: P. H. Hurley, Worcester, M: James T. Hayes, Davenport, Towa; T. . Hickey, St. Joseph, Mo. (he step: high now as president of the Amer- fean ssoclation); Samuel Urlam, Tion, N. Y., passed out of the picture completely; 8. J. Kennedy, Evansville, ind.; John Kennedy, Bristol, Conn.; . 1. Lucas, Portland, Oreg.; a power in the Northwest at ome time: Fred l.ake, Lowell, Mass., catcher for the Boston Natlonals before a manager: r. H. Murnane, first baseman and writer, passed on; Edward Mack To- ronto, Ontarjo; J. C. Morse, Boston, writer and official in the New Eng- land League; Willlam Murray, Provi- dence, R. I, devoted to Pat Powers; rugh Nicol, Rockford, Ill, where Spalding came from: James H. O'Rourke, Bridgepoat, old Giant; Pat Towers himself: William Quinlan, Al- hany, N. Y. T. L. Rellly, Merlden, Conn H. Sexton, Rock Island, N M. 111, now president of the association j. . Sexton, Rock Island, IiL: Charles 1. Strobel, Toledo: Mark Thalman, Ttome, N. Y. Rome has been out of !.x’fl(‘ ball this long tims Those were the men who told the 1najors they were going to have their little say about ball in the future, but whose spinal umns had to be stiffened to the lagg)by some of Pat Towers' liniment.- B. Foster of the bushes when it moved on New | hat | s as the factory of all base ball | | fearless, called a “regular meeting Avenue Hotel, October 24, 1901. | Inside Golf By Chester Horton. William golf ch the Dest Mehlhorn, apion, who i goifer in western _open | in my opinion. | xistence today, | combines with his great playing a method of teach- ing that he calls| the “natural meth- | od,” and one of the surprising things he ac- quaints the player with is the fact that in his own driving swing, which sends forth a ball from 250 to 350 yards, there is not the slight est pressure exe erted by him on| the clubhead until | just before the| clubhead meets| the ball. Here he exerts what he calls | a “slal “This,” he says, *is the| same sort of slap you would give a| hammer striking a nail.” Mehlhorn has the distinction of being a piayer of the first rank and golf teacher with | a method peculiarly effective for Amer- icans, whose golf playing has to take into account the early habits of base ball and_other American juvenile sports. The Mehlhorn swing is the golf swing perfect, and his simplicity | of action is so easily discernible tol the onlooker that seeing him in ac. tion constitutes one of the best of golt lessons. (Copyright. TWO SOCCER TEAMS ADD TO THEIR WINS| | | | 1 192 Walford and German-American elev- ens maintained their places at the top of the Washington soccer loop stand- ings by trimming the Fort Myer and | German-American Reserve teams, re- sectively, in league games played yes- terday British embassy and Monroe teams failed to come to a decision in their clash, the game ending 4-all. The Walford booters kept their goal | line inviolate by handing Fort Myer a | 3-to-0 setback on the Soldiers’ field. | Watts, Walford outside left, counted | twice, and McLean, center, added the | odd point. i Regulars of the German-American club proved too strong for the Reserve eleven and ran up a 7T-to-1 score. Byer- | lin scored three goals, Koennel two and Meinhardt and Wolfe added one each for the winners. Herrlinger counted for the Reserv ——e— BLUNDON WINS AT TRAPS. Shooting from o distance of 19 yards, | W. C. Blundon led his fellow™ trap. shooters in the weekly event at the Washington Gun Club_range by a core of 45 breaks in 50. Dr. J. C. Wynkoop was second with 44. TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN'S, 7th & F | i | KAPLIN RISKS TITLE IN RING BOUT FRIDAY NEW YORK, December 14 (#).—Louis (Kid) Kaplan of Meridan, Conn., world featherweight champion, will risk his title in a 15-round engagement with Babe Herman, product of California, in Madison Square Garden Friday night Kaplan will be the third boxing king to defend his crown within a fort night, Jimmy Goodrich of the Hght- | weights having lost his to Rocky Kan sas, fellow Buffalonian, last Monday night. while Paul Berlenbach retained his light-heavyweight laurels by the narrowest of margins a st Jack Delaney of Lridzeport, Conn., last Fri. day Herman and Kaplan, long foes of the ring, with many drawn’ battles in their series of bouts, fought in Waterbury, Conn.. several months ago, and many of the ringside ex perts declared Herman had won. The ofticial decision was a draw STRIBLING MAY FACE HUFFMAN IN GOTHAM NEW YORK, Young Stribiin who gained fame in heavywei ranks, is expeeted to f ound bout in this Sta January Stribling’s managing_ fo in New Yor the management of Mad m Square Garden to a match with Eddie Huff man of the ifie Coast. providing Huffman shows well ainst Ad Stone of Philadelph in Newark, J., Wednesday Young Stribling is 21 ves monti. and hitherto has b from matches of more ti under the rules of the S Commission, December 14 Georgin sch ) oy, ht box it his first rly in father, who his husky W has does son, now is sreed with s old this en barred n 6 rounds te WORLD RECORD SET BY TEXAS TRAPSHOT 14 (P, Tex.. es apsho for DENVE R. A. King tablished & ing with a mark 1,000 registered targets here King established the mark when he shot & score of 49 out of 50 single targets at the munici traps, com- pleting his thousand target string. The mark King's second world record. Five years ago itch he against Fred Etheen Coffey ville, Kans.. he established record score of 99 out of 100 targets in the les event BRITISH OPEN EVENT . Colo.. Deceml Wichita Falis world record in 9870 awve is { WILL START JUNE 16| T. ANDREWS. Scotland. Decem ber 14 (®)—The Roya! and Ancient Golf Club announces that the qualify ing rounds for the open golf cham pionship will be held on June 16 and 17 s The north section will be contested over -t} of the Western Gailes Club, Ayrshi; and the €lasgow Gailes Golf Club: the southern section over the Sun ningdale old course and the Svnning daie new course, and the centr tion_over the Annes old lin Blackpool Golf Club, Intrants from overseas will be dis. tributed by ballot equally between the central and south sections. The en tries will close May 15. The championship round played at Lytham and St the week beginning June 21. OPPONENT FOR KANSAS T0 DEVELOP FROM BOUT A challenger for the lightweight box ing title now held by Rocky Kansas of Buffalo will develop from the match in Now York between Luis Vicontini of Chile and P’hil aw of Detroit Tuesday, December Vicentini once knocked: out Kansa 1 McGraw bolds « decision over Vicontini. JOCKEY HOME AFTER 10 YEARS IN EUROPE By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 14— George William Archibald, American jockey, has returned to his homeland for a vacatfon after 10 years of cam- ening in the most famous turf sics of Europe. t will be 10 years in May since I visited America last,” he said vester- day. “In that time I have ridden in about every country in kuro land, Germany, Austria, Switzer Spain—ves, about all of them. “I will leave New York shortly to visit my folks in Oakland, Calif., and we intend to spend part of the Winter in Florida. I will go back to England, where I have been riding for the last four vears, probably the last of February.” Archibald gained a ride in the Grand Prix 1917, his mount beinz Baron Oppen- heims’ Dolman. but when the race came along in June the United States and Germany were at war and the German commander of the 9th Army Corps refused to allow Archibald to participate. Archibald Tode ¥ in the City and Suburban at Epsom Downs, England. That was on April 19 and seven days he captured the 00-guinea at New Market, astride St. rounds urses will Annes be in pecial permit to t Hamburg in gon to victory was selected to ride King George’s entry, Resinato, in the derby of 1924, but failed to land in the money. HOPPE TO AID SCHAiEFER There is friendship in billiards. Willie Hoppe, who lost his 18.2 balk line title to Jake Schaefer in Chicazo last Winter, has ugreed to assis® his conqueror of that tournament in pre- paring for Schaefer's forthcoming re- turn match with Edouard Horemans of Belgium. Horemans, the present champion, recently defeated Schaefer, PLANT WINS WALK. Willie Plant, champion of ica’s walkers, won the New metropolitan 15-mile title in 2 hours 4 minutes almost 2 minutes slower own record time. Me rivals Amer- York vesterday 323 seconds, than his outwalked 22 Conveniently - Located on f'ourtcmlh Street Hawkins Nash Motor Co. Sales and Service 1337 14th St. -Main 5780 the | Athletie | by Hugh A :ED alone will not make a bas. g g A runner of all time because he genius of pace, keen observation, judg: able fadeaway slide. Cobb had more runner the sport has known. Cobb studied pitchers. He knew move which tipped off his intention move was and he found out with nea tion indicated whether the pitcher int | If Cobb was not tipped off by the | position of the head, shoulders, hands, arms, elbows or hips, then he watch- ed the pitcher's feet. The pitcher may hide his intentions above the ankles, but he cannot hide them be- low. e has to move his feet to throw, and his feet will move before he releases the ball. Cobb knew this |and so he watched the feet when he could not do better by watching an- other part of the body. That was how Cobb could get his long leads. His quick start either way enabled him to get back safely if the ball was thrown to the fielder or to beat the atcher's throw If the ball was deliv. ered to the batter. Few Good at Sliding. The present flock of hase runners hus not given this same study to the | pitchers, nor have they practiced sliding enough. There are few good | men today when it comes to sliding. They can slide, of course, but they ck the elusiveness that sliding is ven by long and hard practice, If the players studied the various the different pitchers with | es they could readily de- intentions. Babe Adams, | for instance, uses two different and distinct poses. When he Intends { pitching 1o the batter he has one | puse and when he is going to throw | the ball to a base occupied by @ run- ner he has another pose. It is easy to tell what Adams intends to do. It is comparatively ecasy to tell what most pitchers intend. George Moriarty, ‘l.ni was still one | runners I have seen. I do not be lieve any man ever stolé home as many times as Moriarty in the same | number of seasons. Moriarty was a close student of pitehers. He knew | their every move. He always had a lead.” e was bod going off e nd stealing third as he oing off first and stealing sec- | ond He stole home at least six times when his_steal meant vietory for his team. The most sensational | 1 Mortarty make was dur- | Jetroit-Cleveland game The | ast half of the ninth saw the teams battling with the score tied. Wright | was pitching for Cleveland. Moriarty | men on tect their who was of the best never buse | 10n as second ROUNDING THIRD CHAPTER 13. in the game have been poor base runners. occupied by Cobb or whether he intended pitching to the batter. | ter .Jennings Some of the fastest men Cobb was the best base combined speed, a quick start, the ment and psychology with a remark- | stuff and used more than any base | ¢ runner. that every pitcher had a certain He tried to find out what that | tly every pitcher. Some slight posi- | ended throwing the ball to the base s. reached third, and as Wright wound up he suddenly headed for the plate By the time Wright unwound him | self and delivered the ball Moriarty | was sliding safely across, ending the game. { Bill Lange was a slow runner_from | the plate to first base. He started slowly, but after he got on the base Lange was a good run of the best in the game. Hal Chase wus a g1 and the best man 1 have ever seen stealing third. He stole third as easily and successfully as any other | runner stole second. He always claim- | ed that it was easier to steal third | than second because you could get i longer lead off second than off first When vou tokd him that the catcher base runner he replied that h 5o had to make turn to throw to third and that ev matters Collins Clever Thiever. Eddie Collins was a base runner not | unlike Cobb. He had less speed than | Cobb and he lacked the skill of Cobb | in sliding. He was not elusive going Into a base, but Colling was in telligent always, started quickly and knew just when to start. George Sisler was a much-fea runner. Te started fast, was a streak going to first and a streak after that. | He had a quick start and a fast slide. | Frankie Frisch and Pep Youugs two of the best base runmers in the National League, would be much bet had they learned slide feet | first. Their unorthodox method of sliding hands first robs them of many bases that would otherwise be credi 1 to them as stolen. When a runner slides hands first he not alone takes long chances on being cut. but he ex poses his bedy to the thrust the inficlder. The object of the fadeaws slide is 1o give the infielder us little ssible to tag the runner slide hin 1 opportunity sch Youngs manage to siide practice. but as soon us they ases in a game and try 1o they revert to the much-critic hands-first style, habit that down their basc running ability per cent. | o and in on zives wet BETTER GOLF SCHEDULE FOR DISTRICT IS SOUGHT ORKIN{ usually i'toward a better sp fill a period of app committee of the report in w shift of the tournec ¢ the congestion in the earlier p some Herbert an- The commitice, headed by T. Shannon, appointed at the las nual meeting, has been at work this problem for six months and has | about completed its seven | tournaments were held in the course | of eight weeks last Spring, a rigid| tournament schedule and one that re- quired the golfer who played in them | all to practically abandon business for b game temporarily. The Spring season this year began with the Indian § ing event, followed to Washington, then to Chevy Ch; over to Baltimore, back to Town and Country and through Columbia, the second week in June, to the Middle Atlanitc_event at Baitimore in mid- June. Such a schedule, golfers claim, takes too much time from business and is entirely too strenuous a con- tinued period for any golfer to main- tain his game without going stale. Next year the schedule makers will attempt to devise some way of shift- Ing two more of these events to the Fall months to join with the Bannock- burn and Congressional tourneys. studies. the Clubhouse improvements at Club, Washington Golf and Country designed to give more space in the house, are well along toward com- pletion, and new furniture will soon be installed in the clubhouse. Fred McLeod, professional golfer and greenkeeper at Columbia will not. take a Southern berth this Winter, even though reports from New York have had him associated with Jim Barnes at Temple Terrace, the same job McLeod held last Winter. The Columbia pro left Washington Saturday for Pinehurst to be gone about & week on a golfing trip, al- though no formal competition is sched- uled. He met Barnes on the train, from New York. Leo Diegel, former Friendship pro, who takes over the post at Golf Park, Fla., with Gene Sarazen as his running mate, was here yesterday on his way lo Pine-| hurst and to his Winter berth. The Pinghurst stop-over marks the begin- ning_of the Southward journey of the Eastern professionals, who usually gather in Florida shortly after De- cember 15 to start their search for pelf and glory. The greens force at Columbia com- pleted the work of rebuilding the four- | teenth green last Friday, finishing up [the big carly Winter job lald out by | McLeod. The eighteenth green, which | has also been reconstructed, was com- | pleted several days ago. The greens, sodded and completely rebulit, will not be played on until Spring, and are expected to be a big improvement. | Roland R. MacKenzie, the Middle ! Atlantic amateur champlon, will be in Washington on December 20 for the holidays. Eight birdies in nine consecutive holes were scored in a five-ball match |played a few days ago at Columbia, L. S. JULLIEN 1443 P St Maia 7841 District previous to the annual meeting nearly four months hence || nents which read of the golf tourn ths i p! sximately two m association is nuing to to the Fall months d part of the season with Fred McLeod doing the lion's sh: Miller B. Stevinsc champion: Donald Woodward and Al- | bert R. MacKenzie were the other members of the match | Among them they playved the holes from the sixth through the fourteenth in exactly even 3x. Diegel started the | fireworks with a 3 on the sixth after the fifth had been halved in 4s, M Leod got @ 3 on th Ath and dence on the eighth, and Diegel cim back with 4 3 on the ninth. “We | layed the tenth badly,” McLeod said. | ‘for no one got a birdie.” Meleod n the cleventh. the twelfth halved in birdie 4s and the C lumbia pro got another deuce at the wind up with a 2 on ith, where he had to leave | engagemer ! vs around ar and Leo el e of the baggin; the Jlumbi n the fourtee to keep un Guaranteed 10 Years’ Satisfactory * Service A Keen Blade for Every Shave Now Assured— two ways about it—a NO a Spiro-Strop. The Spiro-Strop does to your Gillette or Durham Duplex blade what a first razor—puts it in first class, Ten Days’ Trial Simply deposit its modest price with your favor- ite druggist, dep't store or sporting goods dealer and Enjoy the supreme shaving If not salisfled, return the Spiro- Strop and have your money returned to you. take a Spiro-Strop home. comfort 10 days. 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Added to pulled the game Washington, Saunde other pair of goals from the floor dur. ing the course of the fray to take high-scoring honors on the winning ve. Glascoe was not far behind, his total of seven counters being made on three double-deckers and a foul shot Lernot, left zuard of the Boston top scorer of the game five haskets and one successful try. e, the five points which ont of the fire for s contributed an- with foul American Basket Ball League. Standing of Teams. L. Pt LP W.L.Pot 300 475 000 000 Buffalo, Rochesins 01 LANT NIGHT'S RESULT Washinzton, Boston. 28 TOMORROW'S GAME “ton at Cleveland OLD FOES TO MEET IN COURT CONTEST Epiphany Juniors and Inmacula Conception Juniors take th floor at IZpiphany gymnasium tomorrow night in the first contest a three-game | 1)) sion 1 but has alw Tmimac quintet already d the junior divi- | 11 title for two seasons, | hard pressed b he tes, has v & of victo nior and lised stiff Five which FFor g Wer at unlimited competi r teamns on ani; are the d re inager Sth street. | Knights of Columbus school tossers ned t wmpaig vietor the Immu practice last nig ove same View tean tonight at § Normal gymnasium ndent and Park clash Indep o'ciock in Wilsc Atlas basketers of Baltir Athletic League winners in the 13 145-pound class for the past two se: wish to book Washington teams s Ehmer Fox. Pratt and Greene re. Public | Ad stre i MILWAUKEE TEAM WINS CENTRAL BOWLING TITLE CLEVE! T December 14 ates Bowling Association tournament ended with he Plankington Hotels, Milwaukee, carrying off first prize in the five-man with « score of 3.0 Bolger and L. Friedel, Chics vesterday rolled into a tie for first| place in the doulles standinfi. Their | score of 1,292 equals that of C. Schott | and ¥. Tueber. Indianapolis. ! Hesley ar lier. Chicago, went | into_a tie for fifth place with 1,244. E. Moore, Detroit. led the singles. with 665. H. Kaad. Chicago, topped the all-events, with 1,889, LAND. Ohi, Central Si “FOUR HORSEMEN" FAIL. HARTFORD ().~ The I Conn.. December 141 ur Horsemen™ backfield fast year at Notre Dame failed to stop | the Cleveland Bull Dogs the Hartford Blues were sent down to a 13-to-6 defeat yesterday. “Don” Mil-| ler was taken from the game with a | badiy wrenched leg, while Layden also | was’ injured, but later resumed his place. cool, pleasant shave is ob- only grade barber does to his super keen, super shaving Stropper Corp. ALSO- SOLD BY ALL UNITED CIGAR STORES N | promoter SPORTS MAY BE IN 29 e “Bismarck”: Rickard May Stage Dempsey-Wills Fight. BATTLE FOR HEAVY TITLE JERSEY ARENA Boyle’s Thirty Acres Likely Scene of Engagement if Gotham Promoter Takes Over Fitzsimmons’ Present Contract With Boxers. BY SPARROW pugilistic situation cc the Dempsey-Wills figl Jersey City, next Summer. As a matter of fact, insiders of the fight game regard it as a hint; it is a tip " Every one, of course, fight in Indiana. With so ma had McGANN. the low-down or obstacles in the way of EW YORK, December 14—Blazingly out of a d mes a hint that d put it on at Boyle’s the project to hole a champion nship fight in that State. and, in fact, anywhere in the Middle West, no one be licved that Floyd Fitzsimmons could hold it therc. The dope was that in good time he and those as: ed with him would turn over their interest in the fight— for a consideration, of course—to some who could guarantee to e n stage it Is Te looks o, Rickard that promote X is being pretty can He says he will look into ation and what can_be done. This means, chiefly, confer ences with Jersey politicians. Jack Said Contract Broken. Jack Dempsey, for his part, sta At the contract he nad with I immons and the South Bend syn te s broken. Just how it is broi- en, unless Harry Wills broke it when he rranged that fight with Floyd Johnson without Dempsey's permis- | sion, is not known. Anyway, there is a growing opinion among those whose opinions about the world champion are worth some- thing that Jack really ready > make a match with Wills if the fi- nancial consideration meets his de-| sires. Rlckard, with his option on that mighty, if highly inflammable, unphitheater on Boyle's Thirty Acr is the only man in the world who could offer Dempsey anything like the price he has et upon his serv- w fa | ices Dempsey and Wills would certainly fill the huge saucer, and while Rick- ard might not be willing to make a definite offer to the champion, he un- might 1ot be willing to make a def- doubtedly could name a percentage of the receipts that Dempsey, if he has w0t absolutely lost his mind, would not think of declining One thing about Dempsey i known —he is trying to hook on with two or three battles that will put him in shay to defend his title. The trouble about this is set forth a recent letter of Jack’s wherein deplores hix situation, which he sets forth as follows Can't Get Fights. Any fighter that 1 might want to meet as a tune-up is howled down by the public and the Boxing Commis ston. very one is against my meet ing any one but the leading contend ers on the ground that easy marks are being picked. What is answer?”"” This is not an enviable plight, sure enough It is the general practice of all champions, when they see a fight for the title ahead of them, to take on one or two boxers that look easy. | so that they may brush up on their ring craft, get their eyes attuned to | openings, ‘and rust off. as it n only bhe done through a real ring hattle against an opponent who iIs in there to give his best. Perhaps if the champion were to| demand @ reasonable sum for his ap- | pearance against trial horses, there would be no protest against his meet ing these men. either by official hox ing bodies or the public. Dempsey migh think this over. Rickard, who has come out against GIFTS! big purses f. dl e Dempsey bout I mey hters to dr basis o grea a position to of way of dc Dempey | centage name ors | Aloysius Chv terday J: time, ner of the i being the second annual stree | for New Year day Albert Schaub ard bearer line Anderson | ished Univer Gallaude £ Washington oysius, tenth | Apache John letic Club, tweifth depart from of a W , as he has to gauge by the sckoning Dempsey or. 1 have any ground ) over the money promoter would feel b them, eithe; t eash, or, so fa in the he boxers ng to the 2 be w plan. in se hereafter he i neither ; f hich concerned, receipts that is oubt 0 Liis Wills sal the Dility th per would 'THREE 6. W. 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