Evening Star Newspaper, July 23, 1926, Page 15

SPORTS. | After Exploiting Sp JACK GOT GOOD BOUTS FOR PORTUGUESE PUG Murray Was Money-Maker While Watson Starred—Welch and Leonard “Fell” for Supposed “Set-Ups.” BY JACK KEARNS. S standing before the Breakers bar one day in San Francisco when in walked a swarthy looking youngster, a Portuguese named He told me who he was at least and that he could W, Billy Murray. fight. his next show. ister Promote "1 said, pointing to Murray. back into my place, and some of the YMurray, I asked, the match for him. You could have bowled me down with a feather. Toby Miller was one of the toughest and best middle- welghts we had out in California at that time. Jim Coffroth came in and wanted to sign up Murray, but I had become his manager without word about it belng mentioned. Murray just “hooked on” with me. Made Much of Murray. “He's the next middleweight of the world,” I told Coffroth, and Jim signed him to meet Jimmy Clabby. Clabby had just beaten Sailor Pet- rosky and was a great card. He was a five-to-one shot over Murray the day. they fought, and Murray went 20 rounds to a draw. I thought Mur- ray won. Jim Griffin, referee, didn't think so. Anyway we took all the credit of the.victory over the Great Clabby. Then I did some circus stuff. Mur- ray got’a royal ballyhooing. I sold my cafe and brought him East, and he fought at the St. Nicholas Rink. Not so good. He tackled another man two weeks later in the same ring. 1 took him back to Frisco vhere he fought George Chip. He a cocky fellow, this Murray, and going along great, winking at the girls in the front row and having the time of his life. Then he forgot to duck one in winking at thé dames, didn’t see it at all. Chip knocked him cold. ' He got up after several counts and lasted until the sixteenth, when I tossed in the towel. Murray went almost totally blind after that fight, anhd I sent him to my ranch, When his eyes got better I took him and Red Watson East. Red stopped Joe Azevedo in.Denver, and Billy fought Eddie McGoorfy one of the greatest battles Milwaukee ever looked upon. We went up to Hudson, Wis., to fight Tom Gibbons. Tom was just coming along then and Billy gave him a pasting. Watson beat Joe Mandot and Ray Temple. Freddie Welch had just won the lightweight gitle, and I sent a telegram to Marry Pollok ask- ing him to bring Freddie out to Hud- son, Wis., to fight a “sucker.” Red was the “sucker.” - The snow was up to our belts that night. Red gave Welch a merry flogging. They had to lift Freddie out of his berth on the train next morning. He dldn’t fight for four months after that experience with the “sucker.” Fooled Billy Gibson. I rung in a “sucker” on Billy Gib- son once. Chick Simler had fun out on a fight with Benny Leonard, then champion, and Billy phoned me at my hotel and asked me if T had any- one I could ring in to take Simler's place. I had a fellow named Jimmy Regan from the coast. Some of the New York fans may remember how he bowled Benny around for a few rounds. He had Leonard hanging on and as white as a ghost. We were talking about the fight several days later, Billy and I, when Freddie Welch walked in. .He list. ened to Bill squawking about my ‘“‘'soft one.” “Say,” said Freddie, didn’t promise you a ‘Sucker’ Benny, did he Bill?” “He did that,” answered Gibson. “Well lay off of Kearns and his “suckers.” He brought me out to snowbound Hud- #on, Wis, one night to fight, and gave me a billy goat instead of a “sucker.” * I gatherer my flock around me and decided on a trip to Australia. Billy Kramer, Joe Bonds, Jimmy Clabby, Billy Murray and Eddie McGourty went with me. Les Darcy was the rage over there at that time, and to prove that he was not a phony he licked my entire stable, one after another. ‘Well, T was in a nice spot. 1 talked to Darcy and told him he was wasting his time in the land of the kangaroo. Darcy was the greatest attraction that they ever had in the land of the kangaroo. He had come along at a time when the Australians had about given up the idea of ever again pro- ducing a Fitzsimmons, a Hall, a Griffo or a Jackson. Of course, the fellows I mention were not all natives of Australia, but that is where they began Jeffries is always rated a Californian as well as Ketchel, for though of 4 other States, they -began their big time fighting there and made most of _their fame in California rings. Y Brought Darcy to U. S. All the time that I remained in Aus- tralia 1 was on the lookout for a heavyweight. Somehow or other I had got the notion that there was more money to be had with a big fellow, and I made it my business to look over every fellow they had pegged. Ho much had been done by other Aus- tralian heavies that it wasn’t beyond reason to suppose that T could pick up another Jim Hall at least. He'd do as a heavyweight until one came along. Nothing doing. Darey still held them fn a mighty grip and there was no use 100K backwoods and looked the herder the timber men over, but not a fellow stood out. In fact, it was the little men who were making the most noise. Darcy had set them on fire with and my attention went ack to him. Could I coax him to come | to the United States, even though he had promised? I made up by mind to get him. He would bs wildfire in the States. We had several talks on the matter and he finally agreed to come to the United States under my man- agement and signed a contract. He never lived up to it, poor fellow, for he died shortly after arriving in this country. . (Copyright. 1926.) TIP FOR FISHERMEN. HARPERS FERRY, W. Va., July 23.—The Potomac River was clear and the Shenandoah was elightly cloudy this morning. .TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats 'EISEMAN’S, 7th & F « - T had heard such stories before. in and happened to mention the fact that he needed a middleweight for ooked really troubled. , more in a kid than anything else. The promoter talked to Murray and went off with an agreement’ for Murray to fight a fellow in Oakland. A few days later Murray walkéd one of his eyes closed, but smiling. Curley Reynolds came in about that ti Who won the fight?” “You ought to know. You made He knocked out Toby Miller.” One of the local promoters came “Why, give the kid here a e, and, jerking a thumb toward FIGHTERS SUSPENDED PURSES CONFISCATED HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 23 (#).— Charley Weinert of Newark, N. J., and Chuck Wiggins of Indianapolis, Ind., heavyweights, have been sus- pended indefinitely and their purses for their bout last Wednesday night in Los Angeles were confiscated when they appeared here yesterday before Seth Strelinger, chairman of the State Athletic Commission, to answer charges of foul fighting. ‘The punishment, said to be the most severe the commission has yet dealt out to fighters, followed the awarding of the fight to Weinert on a foul at the end of the fourth round. Weinert had been warned earlier in the fight for low blows. Strelinger, in announcing his de- cision, said it was improbable that either fighter ever would be permitted to appear again in a California ring. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1926. SPORTS. eedy Talent in U. S., Kearns Signed Les Darcy in Australia BANTAMWEIGHT STAR TO SHOW SKILL HERE Young Montreal, nationally known as a bantamweight fighter, will show his wares against Harry Brandon Tuesday night at Kenflwocth arena. Branden, who hails from New York, has scored victories over such men as Midget Smith, Cannon Ball Martin, Harry London and Jackie Cohen. Heinle Miller's shows when he first opened Kenilworth this season were far short of what the matchmaker himself ‘desired to put on. The fight- ers had heard of the hardships of the boxing game hereabouts, and the prominent boxers wanted to be shown where the pay-off end was coming in. In the past few months, however, the game has been bullt up so that boxers of national prominence are be- ing signed for the future cards. Mon- treal is one of these. He has fought them all and beaten them ail, includ- ing five world champions— Villa, Lynch, Pete Herman, Abe Goldstein and Kid Willlams. Others whom he has defeated are Carl Tremaine, Pal Moore, Chick Suggs and Tony Man- dell. Heinie Miller confidently believes that the last ““boo” has been heard at Kenilworth. In the meanwhile he is having a tough time signing an opponent for Honey Boy Finnegan on August 10. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK.— Sammy Baker, Mitchell Field, fought a draw with Tommy Freeman, Hot Springs, Ark. (10). Tommy Cello, San Francisco, de- feated Pal Moran, New Orleans (10). ALBANY.—Frankie Genaro, New York, fought a draw with Willle Darcy, New York (12). LONDON.——Jack Hood, Birming- ham, defeated Harry Mason, Leeds, for British welterweight champion- ship (20). TO V}i—ESTI.E FOR TITLE. TULSA, Okla., July 23 (®.—Ed (Strangler) Lewis and Joe Malcewicz of Boston, claimants of the heavy- weight wrestling champlonship of the world, will meet in _a finish match here next month. Lewis has been guaranteed $15,000 and Malcewicz $5,000 by Sam Avey, city promoter, and two Tulsa ofl men. HEAVYWEIGHT BOUT PLANS ARE JOLTED BY $10 BILL By the Associated Press. sembling the public debt, have been mentioned here nonchalantly CHICAGO‘ July 23—Various huge sums of money, some of them re- as plans to match Jack Dempsey, three years idle, with some oppo- nent, have progressed, but ironically a sawbuck, seems to have thrown fight certainty. mere $10 bill, or in sport parlance, a arrangements into the realm of un- That lowly $10 binds a contract which, it is asserted, was entered into by Dempsey and Floyd Fitzsimmons with B. C. Clements, president of the Coliseum Athletic Club, and which call and Harry Wills, negro challenger. And Tex Rickard, who has already announced that Dempsey will meet Tunney here in September, says that if the Clements contract is held valid by the courts he would stop negotia- tions for the bout for the present at least and might decide on Jersey City for the location, after all. ‘While attorneys, promoters, finan- cial backers and others interested in the two matches were skirmishing here, a new note came from Los Angeles with the word that Estelle Taylor, film star, had left hurriedly to join her husband, the champlon, at Colorado Springs, Colo., from which point Dempsey yesterday announced that the preliminary plans for his go with Tunney were O. K. The Los Angeles story quoted pri- vate advices from Colorado Springs as indicating that Dempsey’s accept- ance might be only tentative, and that he apparently was waiting to re- ceive the advice of his actress help- mate, on which he is known to place reliance. 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The Clements contract reveals an interesting financial transaction. If it is binding he must pay Dempsey $300,000 by August 4 and $500,000 10 days later for a match with Wills. If the fight is not held the $300,000 will be forfeited to the champion. Fitzsimmons, who represented Dempsey last September,. when the agreement was signed at Niles, Mich., says the Clements papers are worth- less because the Coliseum Club did not pay him a §100,000 installment for the $150,000 agreed for the contract assigning Dempsey's services from Fitzsimmons to Clements. He ex- hibited an unpaid draft drawn on the Coliseum Club as proof. The only man who has profited so far from the disputed contract is Wills, who received $50,000 when he signed at Niles. After the contract was assigned to the Coliseum Club, Clements said he entered into a new agreement with Dempsey, in which the $10 bill was a binder. DRAKE U. BARS SIMPSON FOR DOMESTIC TROUBLES DES MOINES, Tows, July 23 (®). —The Des Moines Register says MY that the doors of Drake Uni- versity have been closed to George R Simpson, star hurdler and high Jumper, whose domestic troubles came to light yesterday in a justice court at Perry, Iowa. Simpson, who has been attend- ing Summer school at Drake, was arraigned on charges of non-sup- port and desertion of his wife and baby. A reconciliation was ef- fected, however, and the charges were dropped. FIVE EVENTS LISTED FOR TENNIS TOURNEY Competition for the western Mary- land tennis champlonships will be held on the Mountain Lake Park courts. August 9 to 14 under the auspices of the Women’s Civic Club. The tournament, which is the sev- enth annual championship event played on these courts with the United States Lawn Tennis Associa- tion sanction, will be open to both men and women. Five events are carded, men's singles beginning Au- gust 9, women's singles commencing August 10, men's doubles August 10 and women's doubles and mixed doubles carded to get under way August 11. Entry fees will be $1 for the singles and $2 a team for the doubles. Mrs. Wilson Lee Camden, Moun- tain Lake Park, is recelvingmentries, which must be sent in writing accom- panied by the fee. Entries in singles close on Saturday, August 7. Draw- ings will be made that evening. The western Maryland challenge cup, which has been in competition six years, will be the main award in the men’s singles. Jarvis Adams of Pittsburgh, Pa., is the present holder of the trophy. The women's singles cup, in com- petition since 1924, will be the chal- lenge trophy for the ladles. In addi- tion, individual prizes will be awarded for_each event. Elizabeth Hugus of Wheeling, W. Va., won the women's singles last year. Sara Wright of Frostburg, Md., held the cup in 1924. Play will begin each morning at 10 o’clock and each afternoon at 2:30. The committee in charge is com- posed of G. A. Sawin, chairman, Pittsburgh; J. Philip Roman, Cum- berland; Wright Tugus, Wheeling, W. Va.; Reid Pendleton, Connells- ville, Pa., and R. E. Garret, Lancas- ter, Pa. TILDEN IS TOO MUCH FOR YOUNG CHANDLER By the Assoclated Press. BROOKLINE, Mass., July 23.—Wil- liam T. Tilden, jr., national tennis champion, eliminated Edward G. Chandler of Berkeley, Calif., from competition for the eighth Longwood Bowl. While the thermometer registered more than 115 degrees in the grand- stands yesterday Tilden defeated Chandler, 6—3, 7—5, 6—2. Chandler was at his best in the second, but with the score 5—5 he dropped a crucial service game. Dur- ing the remainder of the match he was kept on the run. ‘With his victory Tilden reached the finals of the singles. 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