Evening Star Newspaper, July 20, 1926, Page 25

JACK BACKED TALENT, BUT NOT WITH MONEY Gt\we Graney $5,000 Check for Scaler- Nelson Bout Guarantee—Paper Was Returned, Marked “No Funds.” BY JACK KEARNS. I a fear or a care. TIRED of Alaska. Restless, I guéss, and with a keén desire for greater adventure. T hopped about a great deal in the early gays, often just 2 jump or two ahead of the sheriff. Happy-go-lucky and with never I worked my way down to Seattle as an oiler on the Queen, I think it was. That wasn’t as easy as weighing a mimer’s pokes. I ran into Sammy Maxwell, a pretty good fighter. He had played at gold mining in Alaska. We fought and managed each other alternately. With-each successive bout in which I played the-part of athlete I became convinced that managing did not produce as many ringing heads, bum cars, bowed-in noses and all things like that. Battling Nelson was just beginning | 3 r]ace in which he happened to light. I thought of 20 miles or so around any I had a gold mine in Maxwel ‘We heard that Battling Nelson was going to Hot Springs, Ark., for a rest, 80 we decided to disturb that rest. We ‘landed in town with as much noise as possible. He agreed to fight Maxwell to cut down the Spring's overhead. My Sammy was going sweetly until the 12th round, when Nelson rapped him in the belly and out went the light o' my life—too many Alaskan beans ang too great a lapse since his last plate of them. Bat Came Back. Charley Haughtan had a big saloon there and had fitted up a gymnasium in the back of it. They wanted to give Nelson the acid test and asked Charley McKeever, a celebrated fighter of the time, to do the testing. He knocked Nelson down so many times that they lost count, but he faii- ed to keep him down and, in the end, Nelson got up and knocked McKeever kicking.. They branded Bat a world beater then and there. 1 shipped to St. Louls and began to train with Abe Attell. I worked with -him for the Benny Yanger fight, one of the flercest I ever saw in the ring. It was to have been decided at the end of the 15th, but they ordered five ::t;fl rounds and Yanger won in the 9th. From there I went back to San Francisco, I joined Al Neill, Biddy Bishop, Louis Long and Aurelio Herrera. Then, with Long and Herrera, T toured the northern part of the country. We'd fight, wrestle or manage each other as the occasion demanded. Those were exciting days. Herrera, a Mexican, was the terror 2mong the hitters. He was meeting all comers for us and poor All Comer didn’t last long, no matter what town we hit. Herrera would spin them on their heads in no time at all. When one is counting the hardest hitters of all time, it is well to re- member this fellow. He could punch, Herrera Real Hitter. It didn't make any difference to Herrera who the man was or what he ‘welghed when I dug up ‘‘all comers™ for him. Never a lick of real training would he do. Firewater was his pas- sion and half pickled he was better than ever, a rattler in human form. You ask Battling Nelson to this day which man of all that he met hit him the hardest and Bat will instinctively rub his head and say “Herrera.” In their bout of 20 rounds at Butte, Mont., Herrera hit Nelson on top.of the head with a wild swing and Nel- son spun through the air like a pin- wheel. He didn’t stop Nelson, but he all but caved in his head. You can readily understand why I didn't linger long as a substitute “all comer” against that fellow. There were easier ways of making a living, though at the time I didn't think even Fitz- simmons himself could stop or even hurt me with a punch. You know. Now and then 1'd enter into a real match for myself and when I look back at some of the purses I got for my victories, it makes me crack laugh- ing right out loud. Frequently I got no more than $2.50 for my bit. I was quite elated on the night when $19 was dropped into my hands for having finished a tough, big logger in three rounds. With us it wasn't money. Achievement and the spirit of ad- venture kept us going. Managing Job Grew. I- took to managing more now. I had Fritz Holland, Kid Scaler, Indian Joe Gregg, Freddie Weeks, Mz '~ice Thompson and Tommy Reilly on my string and there was plenty of action. 1 brought Kid Scaler and Reilly down into San Francisco, where Scaler knocked out Billy Snailum in seven rounds and Reilly was stopped by Young Peter Jackson in eight. In those days, a $300 house was a bang- up success, though my string grad- ually got to playing before houses that had gates of 51‘300 to $1,500. to attract attention within a radius Big money at any time, I can tell you. All my energies now were directed on a ballyhoo of Kid Scaler. I wanted to make him champlion and I was de- lighted to find that old Bill Haughton, the dean of the boxipg writers in San Francisco, had taken a shine to both Scaler and myself. He was our best booster. I began to believe every- thing he said about my man. I dropped into the Belvedere bar one day and encountered Jimmy Cof- froth, then budding out as a pro- moter of bouts. I ranted on about Kid Scaler and finally wound up by offer- ing to back Scaler for $5,000 of my own money. I didn't have a dime, but I was betting $5,000 just the same and making just as much noise about it as John W. Gates would have done. I was willing to have Scaler fight any man in the world, Battling Nelson preferred. We made Eddie Graney the stakeholder, Graney getting my personal check for the $5,000. Nelson landed in town just about the time that my $5,000 check was bouneing back in Graney's face, marked “No funds.” Nelson had Graney's word for it that there would be a flght and when Willle Britt, man- aging his own brother Jimmy, induced Bat to back out of the Graney ne- gotiations, Bat was only too willing to do so. (Copyright. 1026.) e g TEX DUE-TO NAM FIGHT SITE TONIGHT By the Associated Pross. i CHICAGO, July 20.—Tex Rickard today was the central figure in a tale Pl of two cities—Chicago and New York —as the plot, which has to do with the next ring appearance of Jack Dempsey, thickened. The promoter appeared inclined to remain in the background and plunged back into the conferences which have occupied his time since he arrived Saturday. He said that by tonight he probably would be able to say whether Demp- sey would risk his crown in a Chicago ring with Gene Tunney, presumably in September. The announcement was to have been made last night, but Rickard pleaded unsettied details. Two things served temporarily to shift attention from Rickard to the New York Boxing Commission. Commissioner Willlam Muldoon sald he was going before his colleagues to- day and reopen the matter of the com- mission’s edict against the Dempsey- ‘Tunney fight in New York. Muldoon indicated his intention of being ag- gressive, because he wants the cham- plonship contested in the East. Here a group of promoters were suggesting that Rickard was only us- ing Chicago as a club to make the New York board retract. It also.was suggested that Rickard might be de- laying his announcement as to whether the fight would be here or in New York until after the commissioners talked things over, *The promoters, headed by B. C. Clements, pointed to a signature of Dempsey to meet Harry Wilis in Sep- tember and declared Rickard could not stage a Tunney-Dempsey match until the champlon meets the negro chal- lenger. Rickard responded by saying that this contract had become void when Clements and his assoclates had failed to pay $125,000 to Dempsey on a re- cent specified date. He denied that he was interested in-Chicago only as a foil and went on conferring. PR oY Howard King pitched the Clarendon Baptist nine to a 2-to-1 win over West ‘Washington Baptist Church yest: in the. Sunday School League. TONIGHT IS CLASSY What should prove one of the greatest cards yet offered patrons of Kenllworth boxing arena will be staged tonlght. Goldie Ahearn, pop- plar and unpopular local feather- welght, goes to the post for 12 rounds with Spencer Gardner, fighting little featherweight from Newport, R. T. This will be a real test of the fistic abllity of Ahearn. The local lad has beaten Lew Mayrs in a no-decision bout and fought a draw in Baltimore. Boots Antley, who recently fought in Mad- ison Square Garden, was beaten by Ahearn a year ago. Gardner has whipped the best in the land. Red Chapman was his victim four times. Spencer is known throughout the land one of the greatest club fighters in the game, and, naturally, a fighter that takes chances will be beaten occasionally. It's Ahearn’ big chance to go out and take ad- of Gardner’s natural fight- ing ability. The Rhode Islander whales away wide open. The semi-final will show Eddie Buell of the West toast, with.Joey Kaplan of Baltimore, going six rounds. Kaplan holds a technical kayo victory over Buell. Sammy Braunstein, all:service light- welght champion, meets Billy Both are real punchers, and a bout should result. Braunstein hdids a one-round kayo victory over Johnny Ryan. l"“unkh Cheslock; welterwelght champ of the marines, meets Jack Cody in a special six-rounder. Both will fight. y Nick Alvis and Gypsy Amato open the show with a four-rounder. PAN-AMERICAN CHESS TOURNEY ENDS TODAY LAKE HOPATCONG, N. J., July 20.—Play in the Pan-American chess tournament will ‘be resumed here to- day, when the two games in the tenth and final round will be contested at the Hotel Alamac. Jose R. Capablanca of Havana, world’s champion, who is leading with 63 —1%, will have the opening against Creza Maroczy, of Hungary, whose score is 4—3. Abraham Kupchik of New 'York, with 4%—2%, is paired with Edward Lasker of Chicago. Frank J. Marshall of New York, United States champion, who has com- pleted his schedule. will depart for Atlantic City. Marshall, Kupchik and Maroczy have accepted invitations to play in the national tournament in Chicago next month. Lasker also may lay. 4 Capablanca, to whom first prize in the Pan-American {8 . conceded, although he has one more game to play, was asked concerning reports from abroad that a sextangular tour- nament between the world’'s greatest masters was planned for next Spring in Moscow, scene of the recent inter- national competition. The Cuban, whose name, of course, was mentioned amo! the possible six, sald he has received no invita- tion or direct intimation of any sort. However, he added, he woyld consider such an invitation if it were extended to him. Capablanca insisted he {s ready to play any one for the title any time under the conditions accepted by the grand masters at the London congress of 1922, |BIGLEAGJELEADERS‘ AMERICAN LEAGUE. ?azlu_ruw“gm. 400, Rite—valk, White Sox. 196. e "Yank 1A “Etoln aveHanneneld, White Sox, ¥ won 8, it ', Athletl I.‘r!'l;lll‘—'m es; NATIONAL LEAGUE. Battin Redy, 311 Tiite—Brown: Brayes, 130, " Tt T e wanr ‘_'i"' “Wilson, Cubs, and Bottomley, u.'stflu s6s—Young, Glants, and Cu. ity ~—Jones, Cubs; won 6, lost 1. TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1926. Kearns Soon Convinced That Managing Boxers Was Better Business Than Boxing BILL AT KENILWORTH |CARTER ONE OF YOUNGEST |I0HNSTON'S 68 LOW OF MAJOR GOLF TITLISTS| FORWESTERN EVENT BY W, R. McCALLUM. i O NE of the youngest major title holders in golf will start the defense of his' Western amateur championship over the rolling course of the White Bear. Yacht Club near Minneapolis tomorrow. Young Keefe Carter, a 20-year-old lad from Oklahoma City, a superb golfer and a rising star among -the score or more lads who appear almost ready to snatch the national title from Bob 'Jones, has another distinction in addition to ‘his stewardship of the Western amateur title. Carter, diffident, unassuming and a fighter from the first tee to the win. ning putt, also Is the sole owner of a private golf course, probably the only young competitor in_big time golf who owns a golf course over which he is absolute master. His father gave him the course last year a few days after he won the Western amateur title. It is laid out on the rolling terrain at Twin Hills, Okla.. and over its rugged fairways Carter has developed the game which bids fair to win for him hational laurels as well as sectional honors. Carter is another youngster whom golf has literally .rejuvenated, taking a place along with Bob Jones as one of those whose health in early years went hand in hand with deyelopment of a masterful golf game.” For the young Oklahoman was a slight youngster, far from robust, as he grew up on the rolling plains of the State of ofl and Indlans, Like Bob Jones, his parents early saw the ad- vantage of a straight outdoor regimen and young Carter was sent out into the wind and sun to play with a set of juvenile golf clubs. And like 80 many other of the young men who dominate the game today, Carter found in the game of golf a master which took possession of his waking hours. Gradually he developed the game that tomorrow will make him a fav- orite to retain his title, Carter did not qualify in the amateur champion- ship last year at Oakmont. But there were plenty more stars who failed to get into the match play rounds, among them six former national title holders, and beecause he .did not qualify at Oakmont does not mean he is not a national championship pos- sibility. Keefe Carter does not have to qualify in the Western, for the West- ern Golf Association does not require its champions to submit to the grind and tear of medal play. So Carter today is resting while 160 others are playing the last round of the sched- uled 36-hole medal test to determine the 32 men who will play for the title. A few weeks ago er went up to Columbus to play ¥or the national open championship, which Bob Jones won. He never showed the- form which won the Western for him last year, but, nevertheless, did a credit- able 76 in his second round. Even though Carter may not again win the Western this year (for champions seldom repeat in these days of stiff competition), the East, which does not know him now, surely’ will hear more of this lad from the Southwest, G 2 Sl HAGEN’S 132 FOR 36 HOLES WORLD MARK By the Associated Press. DELAWARE WATER GAP, Pa., Jul, 20 -With a record| ng mark of 67—65—132 ‘for the first 36 holes, Walter Hagen, former cham- plon, held a commanding lead today for the last half of the 72-hole Eastern golf champlonship tournament at the ‘Wolt Hollow Country Club. Hagen led Bill Mehlhorn, Chicago, and Johnny Farrell, New York, his nearest opponents, by nine strokes. Hagen negotiated the first 36 holes in 12 strokes under par, lowered thp course record of 70 in each round and set & new world mark for 36 consecu- tive holes in a tournament. The course ,600 yards long. In quali- tying for the British open Bobby Jones set a world record at Sunningdale of 36-—68—134, Then, at Nashville, George Livingstone, Belle Meace professional, did 67—66—133, Hagen announced that he would attempt today to establish a new world record for 72 holes. The present mark was by Emmett French, who dld 67—68—71—68—274 in 1922 on his home course at Youngstown in the Ohio open tournament. The record for the American open is 286, held by Chick Evans. EEN 1998 Tho 3. V. D, Co., lns, “Let’er Sizzle— ~ I’ll be Cool!” E \vvlil! He h)l enough “B.V.D.” to have a fresh THREE GOLFERS TIED “INN. E. PRO CONTEST NEW HAVEN, Conn., July 20 (#).— ‘With the greens ideal and playing con- ditions excellent," except' for a stiff breeze, - the pick of New England's golt professionals yesterday completed the second round of the 72-hole medal play with three men tied for first lace at 147. The leaders were H. C. rblade of Bristol, steel shaft ex- ponent; Donald Vigton of the Ply- mouth (M ) Coun Club, and.D. D. Hackney of the Merrimack Valley (Mass.) Club. i ‘Tom Jones, star of the Country Chib of Rhode Island, who led the way for the first round with a 71 for the 18 holes, took a 77 in the second round and dropped one stroke behind the leaders. Willie Ogg, well known Worcester pro, shared third place with Jim Hendry of the Manchester (N. H.) Club, with a score of 149 for the 36 holes. Three were tied at 150 and the rest were strung out to 179. Two players, James Bracken of New Haven and Harry Ellis of Lowell dropped out in the first round, and a third, Jim Dowd of the Winnepaug (R. L) Club, who turned in a card of 86 for the first round, withdrew in the second. $2,493 A MINUTE, BERLEY’S PAY RATE By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 1 Paul Ber- lenbach has been pald 'off.at the rate of $2,493 a minute for his hour's work in fighting Jack Delaney at Ebbets Field last Friday night. Dan Hickey, the former champion's man- ager received a certified check for $149,648.85 from Promoter Humbert J. Fugazy, representing the cham- plon’s 37% per cent of the net re- ceipts. Delaney received but $821 a min- ute for his hour’s labor in winning the title. Pete Reilley, Delaney's manager, received a check for: $49,- 229.69, representing the challenger's 12% per cent. ,_ This is the largest purse Berlen- bach ever earned in a single ring engagement, By the Associated Press. ‘WHITE BEAR LAKE, Minn., July 20.—With. 60 players holding scores of 80 or less for the first day's quali- fying round, keen competition was looked for today in the final 18 qualifying holes of the Western amateur golf tournament. ‘Rolling hills, full of cuppy les, tested the skill of the 148 players who teed off yes- terday, and out of the fleld only three men emerg- ed with scores better than par of 72. Harrison R. " (Jimmy) Johnston, . | JOHNBTON. Western cham- plon in 1924 and present Minnesota State amateur champion for the fifth successive time, led the fleld with a brilliant 68, going out in 33 and home in 365. Before Johaston finished his round he knew he had 69 to beat, for earlier in the day Jack Westland of Seattle had gone around in 33—36—69, while J. C. Ward of Kansas City had 38— 38—171. Johnston rounded the turn with promise of a record, but he took three putts on the tweifth and this threatened to upset his score. He re- covered and played par to the eighteenth, when a 15-foot putt put him ahead of the fleld. Today's 81 qualifiers, together with Keefe Carter of Oklahoma City, the present champion, who is qualified by virtue of his title, will start the cham- plonship round of match play tomor- row, completing the first two rounds in one day, with the final match Sat- urday. ’ Forty players hold a 78 or better for the first 18 holes. Among the leaders are: Harrison R. Johnston, St. Paul, 68; Jack Westland, Seattle, 69; J. C. ‘Ward, Kansas City, 71. Eldridge Robinson, Chicag Tveraa, Minneapolis, Cummings, Ch! , all 73, Dr. O. F. Willing, Portland; Robert McKee, Des Moines; J. M. Pollard, Omaha, and B. E. Stein, Seattle, all 4. Chick Evans, former Western champion, was twenty-ninth, with 78. ; Arthur DE MARCO-KEPPEN DRAW. TROY, N. Y., July 20 () .—Cuddy De Marco of Pittsburgh and Seg. Keppen of Beaver Falls, Pa., light- weights, fought a 12-round draw here last night. The bout was mark- ed by considerable mauling and clinching, and both fightetrs were warned several times,by the referee for foul tactics. L M swimming these days. weather? Y BOYS CLUB | EMBERS of The Evening Star Boys Club are hearing a lot about And why not? Hasn't it been hot enough these past few days to Isn't this swimming make any one wish for a plunge in the old swimmin' hole? The old swimmin' hole for the Star hoys is the up-to-date indoor pool at the new Jewish Community Center at Sixtetnth and Q strts. Tomorrow_the ub starts on its fourth week of fun in the big task placed at its disposal for an hour on Wednesdays and Fridays. Club members are using their pool not only as a place to take a cool dip and to have a good time, but are put- ting into practice the things told them by Coach Tom Webb in the lessons on swimming and life-saving that he has been writing for these columns from time to time. Webb was back again last Sunday with a lesson op relaxation that you will want to try out tomorrow. There are many valuable pointers in the other 12 daily lessons also. Why not take a. look at them and then try out one or two of the stunts that may have slipped your mind? Run over some of the arm and leg move- ments tonight and be all ready for a good swim when you hit the water. Tomorrow’s class starts at 2 o'clock. No registration is necessary. = Just wear the club pin and report at the Q street entrance, Boys who wish to learn to swim The Evening but are not yet members of The Eve ning Star Boys Club may get in line by signing the club pledge and mails ing it fn to the chief at The Star Building. « M The club roster rapidly is nearing the 3,000 mark. Membership applica- tlons are coming in every day from’ boys who wish to take advantage of the swimming offer. The following are the latest to apply for the club button and certificate: 5 Harry Botkin. 6041% Park road: Wil- mer Sparrow, 6410 Conduit road:.Ja- cob Bindeman, 4516 Seventh street; David Ableman. 720 Barry place: Max. Gershenson and Harry Gershenson, @ 2223 Georgla avenue; Charles E. Klife, 4801 Seventh street; Alvin R. Schwab and Jack Schwab, 1330 Shepherd street; James Farrell and Robert Far rell, 4920 Macomb street; Billy Boves Bladensburg: Donald B. Pollock, 13 Rock Creek Church road; Roberf Smith, 5409 Conduit road. 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