Evening Star Newspaper, June 4, 1926, Page 39

sr;\()RT]S. THE EVENING STAR, \\'ASHI\’GTO\T D T, FRIDAY, JUNE 1926. SPORTS. 39 Pzttsburgh Gradually Chmbzng Toward Lead in Race for Second Straight Title BUCS REPEATING: HISTORY IN MAKING A SLOW START Halting Gait at Outset of That Displayed Last Y Current;Season Is Same as’ ear and in 1925 World ries—Cubs Big Surprise\to Date. BY JOHN The Pit Today they repo: EW YORK, their way. of \u~dom must he whispered to th June 3. 1t looks as if the National League pennant is t ern club, and the first gen been involved—and which er wh Pirates Saturday on their way Eas! margin so narrow that the slightest plank The Western teams have heen 7 eral roun themselves, and there have been two major su key in that section. o ‘The larger of the major surprises is the astonishingly good showing of the Cubs. They have won more than per cent of their games in_ secti el contests up to ear'y June. It was an "even wager that the Cul the big losers when their turn came 1o leave home and for the Basi. The second majer strprise is the in ability of . the 1 o get away At championship speed from the start of the ce. Here team that fin- ished the last wor w0 hervical ly that the nearly bursied their champlc ve opened. Pittsh ably as jt did o eason. ors tolling n this season played as m the start of the Similar 10 World Series. Pittshurgh started much the same way in the worid series. In the first| games with Washingten, the Pirates plaved like .weaklinzs. The. ailed to hit when espected and their style of play was criticized severely; yet they came through and won the series “The Pirates, if they were as good as most championship teams ave pre- sumed to be, should have been away this year at a .600 clip. Here it is Inne and Pittsburgh has vet to show that it can win .600 per cent of its games—althouzh note one thing. that Pittshurgh is_ climbing the ladder steadi it did a year ago. The surprise in a minor key St. Louis club. It falled to win per cent of its zames this Spi o against the teams of its own section hefore starting Bast. The failure was by only a few points, but those points tell the difference be the Car- dinals and the other and indicate that the Cards will draw the booby prize for that section in stead of the Cubs. Retter pitching for the Cubs may be responsible for this. Perhaps the Cards are not quite well enoush set tled. They are kids. and it is hard to get the Kids to face every emerszency as well as experienced chaps. Then. ton. it may be t more opport A championship fight than has been enjorved by Hornshy, Reds Run True to Form. Cincinnati iz neither much hetter ner much worse than expected. The Reds have not Pirates to-Cate, and thev have done hetter 9an Chicago. but the margin is sht that the Reds can be cham- | f their half of the leazue when | son is over—if they steady. enough. The Reds and ‘the tes have broken even to date. but Cincin- nati has'done better against St. Louis than has Pittsburgh. If the Reds expect to ecatch the | bunting they will have to Knock down one or two Eastern teams & lot harder than the can knocl at's the thing that will = ap from a Western standpoint. (Copsrisht. 1926.) BLONDIN IN BIG RACE. TATONTA. Ky.. June 4 ().—Blon &in. which ran second in the Pre:k ness. but was a disappointment in the Kentucky Derby a week later, has ar- rvived here to carry the Harry Pa Whitney colors in the Latonia Darb; tomorrow. Tayne Whitney's ator, eandidate for the 1000 class Jockey 1. MeAtee will have the moint on Rlondin and George Ellis Is cominz to ride Navigator. Navi WALKER TO FIGHT DUNDEEL. NEW YORK. June 4 (P).—Mi Walker, former world welterwe champion, and Jae Dundee af | mare have heen matched today f 10.round hout at Madison Square den June 17, HARVARD PICKS HAINES. CAMBRIDG Tune 4 (). Herbert H. Haine 1 of the Har- vard freshman crev heen ap- pointed head couch of rowing to sue- coed Edward Stevens. who re- sizned. It was made plain-that the appointment the present sea- son only. was for TIRE STORE 2104 Pa. Ave. 9th & P Sta. 12th & H Sts. § 2114 14th St N.E. 2 triumph over the Chicago Cubs yestervlay. would be | the | Western clubs. | done as well as the | in the same car came Mrs. | B. FOSTER. tshurgh Pirates are unmistakibly on se in second plice by grace of a close But a few w [ & be won by a West- d in which the Western teams have ven the Cubs get through with the —i< in favor of the Pirates, but by a push will knock thiem off the gang- e hilarious fans. hty close thase ball among playing mig N ses, andtone in a minor = PAIR OF BIG 'FIGHTS By the Associated Press. NEW YORK.. June 4. -Integest of the Metropolitan fistle followers will be divided between Coney Island and Jer- ity grounds for engagements in one champion, two Hghtweight tenders and a pair of hard-punching lightwelghts will sey which con- | junior | action. | leouis (Kid) Kaplan will appear | agatnst Billy White of Jersey City in a 10aound nodecision match at Boyle's Thirty vhich will not put the former efght crown in jeopard e hout willibe fought at ‘the junior lightweight limit, 130 | pounas. | Billy of F of New 112 rou I‘anllf rugged Mghtweight o AN .. will face Sid Terris vork m the headline bout of at Coney Island. .Joe Glick, New York junlor lightweight, and lddie Anderson of Casper, Wyo., tock in the 12-round semi-final. IN GOTHAM TONIGHT\ | rings tonight as the battle- | provide the | ‘| DEMPSEY TO SELECT TRAINING CAMP SOON By the Associated Press. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.. Jine 4.—Jack Dempsey, world heavyweight hoxing champion, today expects to make a final selection of the training camp site at which he will prepare | for his coming titular bout next Fall | with an opponent yet to be named. | Still showing the effects of his re- |cent 1iliness at Hot Springs, Ark., | Dempsey said he “felt fine,” and added |that he was already gaining back some of the welght he has lost. He tips the ‘«nlu at about 190 pounds and still |looks a little pale and drawn. A |30.day rest for the champlon is the program outlined by his manager, Gene Normile, before Dempsey rve- turns here abou: July 1 to open his raining camp. Cholce for & training camp site ap- - has narrowed to two places— urkey Creek ranch of Spencer Penrose, local caplitalist, and Camp Vigil, a nearby mountain resort, both within easy motoring distance of here. The champion, with Mrs. Dempsey and Normile, will leave Saturday morning for Los Angeles S il “IFRIENDS NINE WINS PREP LEAGUE TITLE The chamionship of the Prep School | Base Ball League went to Friends | yesterday when Woodward School | was defeated In the deciding game by | a score of 9 to 8. Anderson’s pltching and Deckman's | | hitting were_the high spots of the | game. The Friends tossers earned a | | six-run lead in the opening frame .nu; | were never headed. Bernard and Dillard shared mmmd duty for the losers, | | Wleven players and Manager Tom | Grande have been awarded hase ball { letters at Central High. The list in- cludes Capt. Morty Wilner, Weston Byng. Johnny Belt, Bill Simmons, Reds Groves, Albert Duke, Roy Engle, Frank Milburn, Tom Trodden, Everett Cross and Horace Duffy, captain- elect. Fastern High letiers have ‘ heen | awarded the following members of | the track squad: Henry Talbert, Ruck O'Brien. “Speed’ Entwistle, Sam Me thery, Joe Cosimano, Don Con- nors, Joe Bottazie and Manager Benjamin Clarke. DE FOREST MADE DEMPSEY 200- POUNDER IN A NIGHT (Note.—This is the fourth of a series of stories on the career of Jimmy de Fm'.ll.\. EW YORK, June 4—Jack Dempsey gave away 62 pounds to Jess Willard in their titular contest at Toledo, Ohio, July 4, 1919, and prised Kansas “Man Mountain” in three rounds. @ Physical condition, they said, enabled the smaller man to fell the tall champion, but Jimmy De Forest, who trained Dempsey, chewed away on the stump of a hali-bu r and smiled as he recalled the incidents of that fight. He had inside” story to himseli until now. In one corner of the ring the bulky [sey, 183. A roar of amazement swept form of Willard was crouched under(over the crowd. a huge umbrella. He looked fat and They couldn't comprehend. They loggy, but his immense proportions |didn't believe. Hadn't Dempsey impressed the spectators, who gasped | welghed 201 at 2 public function in his as they tried to fathom the chances of { honor at Toledo, three weeks hefore the ambitious challenger against such |the fight? But De Forest knew, and a big man as Willard. The weights|his smile increased. His first planof were announced: Willard, 245; Demp- | battle wa. Willard, with a AUBMANS m] EVERYTHING FQR ithy [ MORGAN STOPS SULLIVAN QUICKLY IN TITLE SCRAP By the Associated Press | N EW YORK, June 4. recently crowned monarchs, weight challenge hurled at h t so decisively and impressively b, at McCarthy has h2d | Steve (Kid) Sullivan of New York as to be acclaimed today one of the to bring teams Into | hesy cquipped fistic machines now on the throne. \ Making his first_appearagce here [ since he lifted the 130-pound title from | Mike Ballerino last December, Morgan | complerely outclassed Sullivan. hold- er of the crown a little more than a vear. For five rounds the New | Yo - stood up gamely under the | steady of the clever Pactic Coast { hoser. Then seconds of Sullivan, absorbed punishment | enou ed in the towel. | -Entering the ring at 1 pound less than his foe. Morgan quickiy demonstrated his superiority by flooring Sullivan twice for counts | of nine. once in the first round and agai the second. From that point im\ the match became a display of Morgan il and an exhibition of saneness. illivan, gamely carryink sixth, wa« unwilling to quit .when the towel fluttered into the ring’ fre e lle continued to flai pion, until referee «rowley hetween them, but kandlers while king had to drag him | corner and pin him there to stop ! the ne-sided bout. BY FAIR PL NEW TORK. did not have mmuch of a [ show just what is in him to Eastern | tans in Brooklvn last night. This was his apponent, Steve Kid Sul- jivan. showed he had gone so far back | that he was but a shadow of the heavy clumsy and slaw, boxer he nused 1o he. . «| He was hopelesalv out-classed by the | | tast-stepping lad from the far North and as the fight went an Sully but a punching th the left. But ith a right hook west, | came to he nothing hag for clean shots W when he stepped in “Tod Morg de- | 27 pounds. one | ) in the | June 4.—Tod Morgan | chance 1o | an of Seattle, one of pugilism's most has swept aside the first junior light- is feet in the Fast. And he has done v a technical knockout victory over | to finish things up his reeling oppo- nent generally managed to catch it on the shoulder. As It was, Ted knocked his man down several t{mes, battered him to the ropes and probably would have prodded him to sleep—although Sul- livan's friends won't admit this—had not Paddy Roach. Sullivan's humane | manager tossed his towel into the ring in the sixth yound, stopping the fight. Al in all, it was a bum bout. not worth the number of spectators, some | 25,000, who turned out to see it. | in the semi-final there was another | punk setto, Jack Delaney against Tommy Burns of Detroit. 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The sympathy of the crowd was won to the underdog, and that was what De Forest wanted. Here is the secret fluctuation in weight described it: “There was a Nation-wide ery he- cause of the difference in weight. The reformers called it eruelty.. The fistic fans themselves didn't c to see such slaughter. ““The_citizens of Toledo planned a big. public dinner for Dempsey, gnd this looked to me 1o be the psvcho- logical moment to stop the cry. I had a new set of scales hauled into the ballroom in plain sight of everybody. 1 arranged with the sealer of Weights and measures of Toledo to weigh Dempsey for the benefit of the spec- tators. *Previpusly viould of Dempsey's as’ De Forest re I determined that ivl over 200 for "Twenty-fou hours before the dinner T put th hal- lenger In the ice box with half a dozen bottles of beer and two dozen bananas, and told him to 20 to we le ate the fruit, drank the heer and nu».led ““Then when tho g yanked him out and put him on the &cales. He balanced at 201. The diners gasped in astonishment, for Dempsey had never weighed more than 185 for a fight. The newspaper boys made a great play on this. Immediately the opposition to this uneven fight de- clined, and in a week had vanished forever. “That accounts for the amazement of the spectators when Dempsey’s weight was announced at 153 th afternoon of fhe fight. The psycholog: of that was one of the biggest factors in Dempsey’s favor.” FIGHTS LAST N|(;HT. By the Associated Press. EW YORK.—Tod Morgan, Seattle, world junfor lightweight champion, scored technical knockout over Steve Sullivan, New York (six). Jack De- laney, Lght-heavywelght, scored tech- nical knockout over Tommy Burns, Detroit (two). 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