Evening Star Newspaper, July 24, 1926, Page 26

3 2 P P 6 TY’S RAGING AND RAVING - DISGUST DIAMOND FANS Tyger Pilot’s Unseemly Conduct Takes Speed From Base Ball-——Weak-Kneed Umpiring Is Largely | Responsible for His Tactics. BY JOHN B. KELLER. Y COBB was a great base ball pl graced the diamond. But as more than any other person-in t T layer, probably the greatest that ever manager of the Tygers he is doing he business to hurt the national game. He is slowly, but surely, disgusting fo'lowers of the diamond sport | with his repeated displays of temper and temperament, and slow surely, dissipating their interest in th put up with Cobb’s unseemly conduct on the field, but they has come when he should be curbed decisively. time at the gate to sec base ball rather t continuous , but s fans have | el that the | Fans pay good money | han watch and hear Cobb in almost ¢ game. For several yea harangue with the umpires. and they want base ball. There probably is but one thing adversely affecting hase ball in the American League 1 i permits the Georgian to take from th it popular with the American people— One only has to check on the| length of the games the Nationals| have plaved with the Tygers this sea- | son to realize just how harmful Cobb | s to base ball The shortest of the 10 engage- ments to date con sumed two hours of time—and that was a 1to 0 game in which the Na- tionals got five hits and the Tygers four! Othe mes have ranged from two hours and two minutes to two hours and 40 minutes, the long- est one occurring yesterday when the Tygers over TY COBB. came the Nation als, 9 to 6. That was not a score cal culated to require nearly three hour: Fans who paid little heed the Georgian before yesterday then learned what a detriment he is fo base | “obb opened his whole bag of s in this fourth game of the weries here to give the crowd in Clark Grifith Stadium everything but sport. | Senweless ging of arguments with the arbi , heated and insulting cu: with spectators, appeals officials of the “protection,” un- 11 were a me had te Washington club for dignified censure of players put before the fans. It wa disgusting exhibition. From start to finish the game was nothing but a riot for Cobb. His rav- s ings began in the first inning when “atcher Woodall suffered 2 verbal presumably for per- ting Sam Rice to seal second, and continued until he left the field In company with a Washington club of- ficial at the end of the endurance con test. Cobb Raved Continually. During the fray, there was bed lam in the Tyger dugout and in front | of it. Cobb never overlooked an op- | portunity to call down his plavers on the field and on the bench, apparent- ly. Then about midway of the game Cobb claimed he had been struck by comething hurled from that part of the stand behind the Tyger dugout. The Georgian may have been hit, but there was no certainty that the missle was hurled at him intentionally. However, Cobb all but climbed upon the roof of the Tyger dugout and de livered a forceful oration to the fan assembled nearby. Apparently it made no difference to Cobb that there were many women among the fans seated back of the dugout. Yester- | day was Ladies’ day at Clark Griffith Stadium and thousands of fair root- ers were present. Yet he did not hesitate to make a most unwholesome spectacle of himself. He did not make a favorable im- pression_upon the fans with his ora- torical efforts. Naturally they hooted and booed him and the irate Georgian ambled to the front of the left field stand in which President Clark Griffith of the Nationals was seated. Cobb called Griffith to the stand barrier and asked the president for “‘protection.” You ‘protect’ yourself,” said Grif- fith, “and I'll look after the fans who are annoving you." “By protect your- self" Griffith meant that Cobb should control himself. And that was just what Cobb did not do. But Griffith did all he could to take care of the situation. A captain of police at the president’s request con ducted a quiet investigation of the affair and later took a seat in the stands near the Tyger dugout to see that no disorder occurred. Secretary Ed Eynon of the Washington Club also took a seat in a box next to the dugout and was there for the re- mainder of the game. Yet Cobb fail- ed to compose himself. Cobb's final outburst came in the ninth. Then he publicly rebuked Lu Blue, Tyger first sacke: Blue may have deserved a rebuke, but the merits of the matter had nothing tc do with the manner in which the re. buke was administered. Resenting this censure in public, Blue pushed Cobb aside and for that was banished immedately. The Blue-Cobb affalr was a fitting finish for an afternoon of raging and raving by the Georgian. Probably but one thing can quell Cobb—a stiff-backed umpiring system that would deal with him summarily. more than Cobb, and that is the umpiring s stem that he game the main element that made peed. AN ARGUMENT PP — Totals. .. DETROIT. Blue. 1h, *Ratted +Batted Batted Batted for Uehringko In seventh inning. for Taylor in ninth innine. for Morrell in ninth inning. Washington... 0 0 2 0 6 1 2 0 1—8 Detroit 10004040 0—0| Tuwo-base hitv—Manush (%), Wingo. Blue. Peckinpaugh. Three-base hit—Gehrinzer. Stolen hases—Rice (2), Tavener. Sacrifices— Manush, Blue. J. Warris. Double nlays— 0'Rourke to Gehringer to : Rice to Kuel. Left on bases—Detroit. Washingt a Rire to Bluege. ! Of Collins, 1: h Coveleskie, t—By Collins, 3: by Johns. 2; by C kie, 2." Hits—Ofr Collins, 3 in 3% innings ol g leskie. in Innings; ’ul{ Jnhrl. 5 2 i =5 off Uchring n: ., Umpires—Messrs. Time of xame—? hours und 40 minutes. Those representatives of Ran John- son’s umpiring system that were on the field yesterday certainly made no effort 1o check the Georgian. And | they were offered every excuse to ex: ercise the authority they so often exercise in minor instances, too. Although Cobb repeated delayed action, neither McGowan nor Connolly seemed able to handle the situation. Cobh ran yesterday’s game—not the umplres, Perhaps McGowan was more at fault than Connglly, for he was umpire-in-chief. But about all Me- Gowan did was call balls and strikes and make baserunning decisions at he plate. As far as conducting the me was concerned he was a total loss. 1t is up to the umpires to take care of Cobb and give the American public the kind of base ball it desires. If the umpires cannot do this, it is up to Ban Johnson, president of the American League, to take drastic action. STAbE CLOSE GAME. Government Printing Office nosed out Treasury, 3 to 2, in vesterday’s game in the Colored Departmental Base Ball League. FEach club ac- | counted for seven hits. RECORDS OF GRIFFMEN BATTIN G, AB. 4 3 88 331 Jlle3 e ©92533730B-zmusFan0d iy 353.333385: e ua s awa ShaBa555-3 dhesues H 4 L ELEDELIER i Marherry Johnson BEFREFE Rt is59. Coveleskie Tchrinsko 19 Won. Marherry Ruether .. Morrell Coveleskie Aohnson Uchrinsko EEPIURHERPS- =Py E5,:5: Games S200aie0301tn 1 0ut; o9t Bt *Ogden . *Palmero” . oomsausso) (e Ossie Bluege’s Muff in Seventh Helps Tygers Overcome Griffs There were two out in the round BLUEGE'S failure to hold a throw from Earl McNeely in the seventh inning was largely responsible for the 9-to-6 defeat handed the Nationals yesterday by the Tygers. and Larry Woodall was on first base by virtue of a single. Art Johns poled the ball to left for a base hit, and Woodall, off in a flash, turned second made a good stop and heaved the ba the Tyger.coming into the base. That let Woodall get to third safely and Johns take second. And the Ty- gers followe! with a hitting splurge at Jinmy Uchrinsko's expense that netted 2 block of four runs. Bluege was rot charged with an errcr {or this & although why he was not 4a &ifBcult to understand, The bedl got to him while Woodall cas still neveral yards away from the far corner. Previous to this inning the Tygers had punished Stan Coveleskie severely in five rounds. They nicked him for u marker in the and bunched four kits with a pass for four runs in the fifth. After Uchrinsko pitched 2 cou- ple of frames Bill Morrell finished. The Tygers had to use three hurl- ers. Rip Collins started, but was yanked {n the sixth after a couple of passes, a sacrifice and a balk pro- duced a run that raised the Nationa:s' score total to three. Johns, Collins’| Successor, gave up two tallies in the meventh, and after passing a batter and pitchiig three wide ones to am- other in the ninth was yanked in fa- vor of Sam Gibson. The last hurler gave up a lone marker. The Nationals got nine hits off the Tyger wio, while- the. Cobbm Ossie, t! and headed for third. McNeely had 1 tq Bluege in plenty of time to get Ql‘mugh, muffed the sphere. 11 safeties off Covey,/7 off Uchrinsko and 1 off Morrell Al Crowder, recently bought from Birmingham, was to make his debut a8 a National pitcher this afternoon. Ten minutes before scheduled start- ing time for the game the local outfit was to raise the pennant emblematic of its 1925 American League cham- pionship. George ‘Murray, former Red Sox and Yankee pitcher and for the past two seasons with Mobile, is to report to the Nationals tomorrow. The right hander was bought from the Gulls for $8,000 in a deal closed yesterday. Tyger catcher, was Larry Woodal 'y the only member of the wrangling visitors to feel Umpire McGowan's wrath yesterday. For disputing de- cisions Woodall was bounced from the ame in the eighth inning. A balk was called against Colling in the sixth when, after preparing to pitch to Joe Judge, he let the ball THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, JULY ‘24, 1926: WAR AND INTERSTATE TAKE LEAGUE GAMES War Depaitment tossers, runners- up in the first Potomac Park Base Ball League series, won their second straight yesarday when they downed Shipping” Board, 6 to 1. Burke lim- ited the Shippers to five hits, while his mates nicked McQuinn for nine. In the only other match played at the Ellipse, Interstate turned in its second victory of the week by nosing out_Government Printing Office, 5 to 4. The defeat for the Typos was their second of the week, Interstate clinched the honors by chasing over three runs in the eighth. Ballston and Hebrew all-star nines play on West Ellipse diamond today at 3 o'clock. New Haven diamonders entertain the Green Street Midgets of Cumber- Jand today at 2 o'clock in Georgetown Hollow. Alexandria’s Cardinal Juniors won | from the Hume Athletic Club yester- day, 11 to 2. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT By the Associated Press. TOLEDO, Ohio.—Tiger Joe Herman, Cleveland, won on foul from Homer Le Blanc, Detrolt, (10). Chlef John Metoquah, Toledo, outpointed Tom E Detroit (10). George Sparks, Terre Haute, outpointed Mike Moran, Pittsburgh (10). TAMPA, Fla—TLarry Avera, At- lanta, beat Jyllan (Jim) Moran, Spain (10). Young Manuel, Tampa, fought draw with, Soldier Angel Diaz, Havana (10). 5 FORT THOMAS, Ky—Ter Mullen, Huntington, W. Va., Jack Peteosolla, New York (10). SAN FRANCISCO.—Freddy Hoppe, San ncisco welterweight, won a decision over Billy Adams of New Orleans (10). HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—Tommy O'Brien, New York lightweight, won a decision over Jack Shar of Wilming- ton, Calif. (10). SANTA ROSA, C: Johnny Law- son. Oakland lightweight, and Rilly McCann of Cleveland, fought drs a0, i oy = FRENCH WINS GOLF EVENT. PHILADELPHIA, July 24 (#) Smashing the course record for the second time in the tournament, Em- mett French, Southern Pines, N. ., professional, won the Philadelphia open golf championship at the Phil- mont Country Club, with a score of 2 for the 72 holes. BOUTS ARE INTERESTING. Walter McFeeley defeated Roy T lor in six rounds in the main hout last night at the Manor Club smoke Tony Cortez earned a decizion ove Jack Cody in four rounds and Sammy Hegan knocked out Sailor Long. Two other bouts were even. Mc'.l'IéUE TO BOX liI'i'CHELL. HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Julv 24 ®).—Roy Mitchell, Halifax negro boxer and claimant of the light-heavy-. weight title of Canada, will meet Mike MeTigue, former world champion, in Montreal on August 4. By the Associated Prese. R L aed rific Face. despite a painful ir of the game. The, Cardinals won, 6 to 1, Bill Sher- del left handing excellently through- |out. ‘Les Bell, St. Louis third base- | man. doubled in the third Inning to keep his consecutive game streak, now funbroken. Thi$ vietory placed the Cardinals | only {hree and a half games behind Charley Root keeping the Easterners’ {hits well scatiered. Huber, Philadel- | phia_third baseman, was spiked in the {third and had to leave the game. | Fpurteen hits off Mavs and Nehf singles for a perfect day at the plate. Jack Smith, former St. Louis out- fielder, hit safely in four of five trips. Another exhibition of expert bat |« wielding gave the New York Yanks an 11-t0-3 margin over the Chicago White Sox. t. Louls battery mate, U 4. hetween the teams in two day: | McManush and Schang of the Browns beat Washingtos OGERS HORNSBY'S St. Louis Cardinals appear to be making the spurt designed to carry them to the front in the National League, and Cincinnati, now leading, has given some ground in the ter- Tornsby, aroused to the point where he is fighting the greatest battle [ of his career, weng_ into yesterday's contest with the New York Giants ‘S\xr)‘ to his right eye. the ontfield Thursday did the damage, but the manager refused to stay out A bad bound on a throw from Hank Severeid, former Browns catcher, obtained from Wash- ington for the waiver Yanks, did the receiving B price by the for his old an Shock- and hit a double and two singles. zerrl of the Yanks hit a home run. The Athletics were beaten again by the leade; Cleveland. § to 5. Thelr seventh Philadelphia outhit the Chicago |straight defeat. They playved poorly | Cubs but went down, 5 to 3. with thronghout, having five errors. while | the Indians found Rommell, Walberg. Gray and Pate for 17 hits, all singies. Joa” Sewell {Simmons, recently benched for a day { for poor hitting, registered a home run had four of them. | gave the Boston Braves a 5-te.2 ver-|in the first and a double later. dict over Cincinnati, Dave Rancroft | St. Louis pounded out 15 hits to leading the onslaught with three [stop the Red Sox in 10 innings, § to The second extra-{nning contest Rice, illected three hits apiece. Detroit also staged a hit 9 to 6. fest to D. C. GOLFERS IMOR B this afternoon, as Roland R. Ma other Capital City golfer, engaged J. F. MIGHT HAVE BEEN LONGER says that a ball g there yester- day between Mexican players started at 9 am. was called in the sixth_inning because of dark- ness at 7 p. the Piedras Negras Intern: from aeross the Rio Grand San Luisto nine of Eagle Pass, the Iatter winning by a score of 129 to 119. The dispatch says that “the two dozen errors of Shortstop Mireles in the third inning was | one of the features of the game. In the other fnnings he had only seven errors. sth pitchers eight of their ¢ The teams were | were at the | reers. Cabaliete | 72 hits, and giving 51 bases on balls. Nato San of Washington, met in the semi-final round, and Miller B. thelr matches yesterds trouble _except both morning | over the last three years. holds the edge in Victories, his win at Sherwood Forest last Sunday hav- ing given him three to two for Mac- Kenze. two yesterda | | Golf and Country ing and a ‘altimore in the afternoon. { goteate 1. SET PACE IN BALTIMORE TOURNEY Md., July 24.—An all-Washington final round was pre- dicted in the Maryland Country Club invitation golf tournament cKenzie and George J. Voigt, both evinson, an- Grimes of Baltimore. All three Washington men won v without great first n Stevinson's WITH TYRUS COBB AROUND round, where Franci 5. Beacham, champion of the Itimore Country g Rl ag_ | Club, carried him to the home greem: T AL ANTONI, Tex.. July 3o~ | Voigt and MacKenzle were never | Bt o Facle Pass Tex. |Pushed in either of their matches, s R 2 e, | winning before the sixteenth hole and afternoon. Their meéting this morning was the sixth in the series of contests which | this pair of splendid players have had Voigt now Voigt played the better golf of the against eorge P. Lynde of the Washington Club in the morn. asscer of against Leroy First-flight summaries: First round—W. J. M. Parsons, Md. rimes, Rolling Road Md."€.. 0.’ . C.'2 and defeated F. S. Bea mbia, Luzito, Terror pitcher, threw a T Up: R, R. Jackson. Balto hetter game, permitting 7 hits ed R. T. Strobel. Ballo. C. C. 32 Voigt. Rannackburn.’ d more than his rival, but gdve five Linde, "WashinFion G. and € less passports to first. Cabaliet 3 feror Samcer, Mo, € G de; had 16 wild pitches and Nato 2! KR L Raiterman. ir.. Columt The story fails to explain why |F. M Sweanev. Md. €. €. 2 and 1: Roland it took ten hours to play six in. |R MacKenzie, Columbis M h ? Rnapp. Baltn. €. C.. & and | nings, | “'Second round—Grimes de in 19 Nolas. Stevinson and ©: Voigt defeated a:né fbmifig Star - | Washingtonians figured: i cond ' flight. W. McCrea. Rolling Road. defeated G. T. Howard. Washington sum. Columbia. defeated R and 1 Jes Hall Hugh S Md_C. 5 and 4: H s | défented J. F. Brawner. Columbia, 4 and ] “Thira ‘fiighe—J. 1. Hopkine, Washingion G and C.C. defeated F. | Fikridee. 1 Up. in 19 hoies: G. P. Columbia. defedted _Everett Exnon. ' Colum- = L} | bia. 3 pna 2 4 E. Baines, Colubia. de- e =\l ! feaied E. S. FHughes. Balto. 2 and 1. N (OGN flight—DBruce Tasior, ERE'S a Summer sports camp contest that will give you a thrill. In a regular base ball H game you don’t alway$ have a chance to show as a hitter. Sometimes you have to sacrifice the other fellow along by a bunt, or hit a long fly to score a man from third with one, or none, out. Or you may be hit by the pitcher or get four balls and a walk. Today we'll forget about the sacri- fice bunt, the sacrifice fly, the walk and the hit batsman. We'll just slug | the ol' apple and see what happens. We'll line up as we would for the old game of ‘scrub bat.” Pitch pennies at a crack. The farthest from the crack plays right field to start, the next center, then left, third, short, second, first, pitch, catch and the closest ones go to bat. Each batsman Rets a chance at bat and then goes to right field and everybody moves up. After every one present has batted five times check up on the score and gee wWho got the most hits. ‘We'll say there are 14 boys in play. That makes five batters to start. As soon as the first batter has hit he goes to right field and everybody moves up, the catcher becoming batter number five, The fielders try, of course, to retire the batter at first, or to prevent him from getting a two-base, three-base or_four-base hit. Two batters might get five singles each but another boy might make three hits, and all home runs, and win because he would have *12 bases to the others' five. IRGINTIA RYAN and Margare \% yesterday 60, in-the title match. The winning pair, who will repre- sent this playground in the citywide tournament next month, exhibited good teamwork and ccnsistent play throughout. Both Miss Ryan and Miss Moore have a dependable serv- ice. 3 successful competition in the Cora Bowen, swimming instructor for the municipal playgrounds, re- ports that both the Rosedale and Georgetown pools are being taxed to the limit with sirous of beceming proficient in water fall from his hands. It got Sam Rice #ome from third and moved Buddy sports, Yesterday Miss Bowen had. a, class WOMEN IN SPORT BY CORRINE FRAZIER champions of New York Avenue Playground as a result of their when the new champs defeated Genevieve and Dolly Ryan, 6—1, uthful swimmers de- | Total bases count. Ruth of camp? Next—The overhead in tennis. ‘Who's the Babe BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS AMERICAN LEAGUE. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. dafeated E. R. Morse. Balto. Howard, Washi Sixth defeated Dy 5 3 son. Mallon defeat by defanl €. H. Orme. Columbia, 5 and 4. Congressional. 2 up: A. L 3R £ ixth flight—R. ¥. Commings_Columbia, J. T. MéClenahan, Washingion and 3: S €, Harcum, Balto.. defeated A. Cummings._Columbia.’ by defaul eventh flight-—I. W. Merritt. . B. Hardwick, Washington. 4 Baito.. defeated C. .1 up_in 19 holes . F. ed R. M. Waldron. ‘Washington. M. C. Lisi. Washington, defeated J - Sec ‘olumbi Al MITCHELL AND KING IN MUNY NET FINAL Dooley Mitchell, District champion and captain of Western High School's tennis team for the past two seasons, faces Gwynn King, Montrose Park captain, today at 2 o'clock, in the final round of singles in the annual municipal courts cham- juntor plonship tournament. The tilt will take place at Henry Park. Mitchell, who _represents Henry Park, elfminated Bob Considine of Po- tomac vesterday in straight sets. The scores were 6-2, 6—3. King carried Monument colors to victory over ¥ erette Burke of Rock Creek, 6—: 6—0. 2 Play in the doubles will be con- cluded fomorrow at 2 on the Potomac Mitchell and King play in the semi-finals today, meeting the win- ner of a tilt bringing Love and Kuwas- ki into actfon against Fellowes and Shoemaker. O'Nefll and Considine also are ready for the semi-fin vound, but must walt for two other matches to be played in their bracket. | Shepard and Fowler meet Sperry and Richardson, with the winning pair tackling Rathgeber and Trigg. Yesterday in the doubles Sperry and Richardson defeated Clark and Newby, 6—4, 10—8, and O'Neill and Considine defeated Abrams and Tay- lor, 6—0, 6—4. * Miss WILL;TO DEFEND NEW YORK, July 24 (P).—Helen Wills, natlonal women's tennis cham- plon, has announced that she will defend her title in the championship at the West Side Club, beginning August 16, I'he week of practice that she has gone through has encouraged her as to her physical fitness to stand the strain. TILDEN AND WHITE PLAY FOR NET BOWL By the Associated Press. BROOKLINE, Mass,, Ju perennial Tilden and Tewis N. White, 22.year-old Harvard law student from Austin, Tex., reached forward today for a grasp on the Lonzwood tennis bowl. Only the final match gf the annual singles competition on fhe courts of the Longwood (¢ tween one of them and victory. A week of brilliant plaving. in which the six-times national champion and he cool but effective Texan had swept to the top through the scintillant stars of this and other couniries, reached its climax today. Big Bill” earned the right to com- e in the finals by virtue of a sweeping victory over dward C. { Chandler of California in a semi-final match Thursday. White downed Takeichl Harada, the last Japanese threat. in straight sets vesterday. When the singles match had been disposed of, THden and White were to face each other once more, this time on the doubles court. Tilden paired with his protege, A. L. Weiner of Philadelphia. will oppose White and his partner, Louis Thalheimer. for the honors. In the women's invitation singles Flizaheth Ryan of California and Mar- tha Bayard of Shert Hills, N. J., re- mained for the finals. White, who was not even a seeded player in the tournament, accounted for the elimination of such stars as Alfred H. Chapin. jr.. of Springfield, Seklo Tawara of Japan and Harada He was twenty-third on the ranking list last yvear. TANK EVENTS CANCELED. Swimming and diving exhibitions by the Red, White and Blue troop of child swimmers from Panama Canal Zone have been canceled at Wardman Park pool. The first perfornfance was scheduled for today. TIP FOR FISHERMEN. HARPERS FERRY, W. Va., July 24 —The Potomac River was clear and Shenandoah was muddy this morning. L3 Boston, 4 (10 fnnings). OF THE CLUBS. | New York. Washingtoa. Detroit. Clevelund. Fhiladelphia, Chicage. St. Louis it | 4] B/ 11 [ 5L D1 7. 31 31 31 BI_31_4 2—'27 134132:34145/43/46/521651 TODAY'S GAMES. Deirolt at Washington, Cleveland at_Philadelnhia. Chiengo at New York. &t. Louis at Boston. NATIONAL LEAGUE. ”! YESTERDAY'S RESULT: oston, 61 Clnclpnatl. 2. e, : Fhiladelphia, 3. I itisburgh (rain). STANDING OF THE CLUBS. d 4 3 4 - g &t H H 2énS 2 - g - £ 2 .:1 3 $:721fs 2 . BT Enfazi& Cincin'ati_i 1l 71 81 3] 91 Pittab'gh _( 110/ 5I_81,71_6140I381 St. Louls | 7| 3i—) 71 5l 6| 7110149} Chi 101 6110/—I_5i_7'_6I_6i4D]4: a Bro 181 21 6 Ti—| 3] DI131471441.516 New York | 8] 4] 3| 3/11i—I10] 61451451500 Phil'phin_| 21 4| 3| 21 6] 6l—I/11/341531.391 Boston_..| 5| 41 21 6/ 4l 81 5i—I341571.374 ost. .|10/38142/142144145/531571_ | 1 TODAY'S GAMES. Brookiyn at Pittsbureh. ton at Cit ncinnatl. ew York at St uis. Philadelphia at Chicago. t Moore have been crowned doubles which was concluded annual tourne; she expects an equally large group al Rosedale this afternoan. Miss Bowen instructs the junior mermalds in the Rosedale tank each Tuesday, Thurs day and Saturday and in the George. C Dempsey, in training here, publicit $250,000 to me. 3 ! to me. I have them ifi my vault in Los Angeles. Dempsey-Gene must show the commission something like' $600.000 in cash. tract was enough plans, defihitely announced vesterday that the Dempsey-Wills fight would be held in Chicago. between the dates of September 16 and 20. He declined to reveal his financial backing. ON HIM, By the Associated Press. OLORADO SPRINGS, Colo,, July 24—The attempt of B. F. Clements of the Chicago Coliseum Cl Dempsey-Tunney titular bout “Clements never saw knows it,” the champion said, heatedly. « seek s a tentative agreement with Floyd Fitzsimmons to The articles were put in escrow until Fitzsimmons paid There w efend my title. The money never w: Dempsey added that the $10 bill in question had nothing to do with the Fitzsimmons contract, but with a sec- ondary agreement valid only if the Fitzsimmons contract were consum- mated. “Clements had only until a date in March to pay the stipulated sum and not until August 5, as he claims.” Dempsey continued. $300,000 anyw: denial too strong."” “He never saw You can't make my CHICAGO, July 24 (#)—Whoever stages the fight here in which Jack Dempsey crown, if it ever is staged, will have to dig deep down into the pocket book. defends his heavyweight If the bout between the champion nd Harry Wills, negro_challenger, should go through, and B. F. Clem- ents, president of the Colliseum Club, who' holds a contract, maintains that it will, in the nelghborhood of $1,200,- 000 must be posted with the boxing commission when a permit is applied for. > It Tex Rickard finally puts over a Tummey match he Under Clements’ contract, which he says was assigned to him by Floyd Fitzsimmons, and later made binding in a new agreement with Dempsey through the passing-of a $10 bill, the champion is to receive $300,000 on August b and a half million more 10 days before the fight, while Wills is to receive $300,000. Clements, the validity of whose con- to halt Rickard's Rickard, who vpreviously had an- nounced that Tunney and Dempsey would mix here either September 11 town tank Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Many of the swimmers are prac-| ticing diligently in anticipation of the | two ground swimming meets which will precede the interpool event in August, E RADIATORS, FENDERS PO MRS AR STALTS R, & F. WKS, TODAY BASE BALL AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK - Washington vs. Detroit TICKETS ON SALE AT Pr\g‘« AT 9:00 A.*. CLEMENTS HAS NO HOLD DEMPSEY STATES ub to halt Tex Rickard's plan for a in September is characterized by Jack as “cheap publicity.” $300000 and he couldn’t stage a fight, and he “He is merely seeking cheap as paid and the papers were returiied or 18, must post $450,000 for the champion_and $150,000 for the chal- lenger. Rickard is known to have Strong financial backing. including Sheldon Clark, millicnaire vice presi- dent of the Sinclair Oil Co., and seven others as yet unnamed. Clark said neither he nor his asso- clates would share in the profits, but had consented to aid Rickard in handling the fund for charity. Both Rickard and Clements had announced that part of the profits would go to charity. Rickard said he still hoped to put on his fight here, after legal en- tanglements involving the Clements’ contract had been straightened. Gene Normile, Dempsey’s manager, said he intended ‘‘to force Clements’ hand™ by demanding the $300,000 on August 5, or declare the contract void. FEochoes of the Chicago tangle con- tinued to come from the far ends of the country. Billy Gibson, Tunney's manager, said in New York that he had received word from Rickard that ‘‘everything would be ironed out” while Paddy Mullins, Wijlls' manager, countered with the laconic declara- tion that ‘“everything looks fine to me now.” The champion, at Colorado Springs, called Clements' contract a Jjoke, while Rob Roy, Benton, sports writer and fight follower, announced at Los Angeles that he had “the key to the sitnation” in documents which he said would ralse a legal barrier against Rickard's fight plans. Wallace Motor Co. NASH 708 L. Street NW. Just East of Conn. Ave. Main 7612 NATIONAL TENNIS TITLE 24.—The | ket Club stood be- | SPORTS.’ | Tempermental Cobb Hurting Game : Darcy Was Best Middleweight, Kearns Says CARDS STAGING A SPURT WHILE REDS ARE FADING Modest Blacksmith BY JACK I of Bob Fitzsimmons and Stanley ers of Tommy Ryan, but T am sincere was the peer of them all. some. best that the ring ever saw—a good “now and then” socker. it was all consistency. He was on much on the order of Jack Dempse: aggressiveness would have made hin class. Billy Murray, whom 1 brought to Australia from San Francisco, went 20 rounds with him. Darcy was way off that day, and he proved it by coming back @ little later and knocking out Murray in six rounds. In quick order I had fought Murray against Jimmy Clabby, iddie McGoorty, Tom Gibbons, Knockout Brown and Jack Dillon, 50 vou see I was Yretty sure that T had something better than an or- dinary fighter in Murray. In the Dare first KEARNS, ray kept saving ing to me: “This isn't a mugg, Jack He's got everything. I can't lay a glove on him thing I know. The longer it went, the less chance Murray had to lay one on Darcy. He made a monkey out of poor Bill Murray wasn't the only victim. Darcy whipped every and I've tried every- some real He was g0od ones only a boy, over He was a blacl fights at nis ‘trade. He wasn't too proua to go back to the forge. He whipped Mick King for the middleweight title in that country, and the next day he was back to work. leather apron and all. reat crowds gathered to ses the wonder boy of the land, but he paid little attention to the ovations that they heaped upon him. lIle was modesty itself. Boxing Was Popular. Boxing had taken on a pew of life in that part of the world Langford had just thers smith. Between sam left when we got and, of course, Jack Johnson's Victory over Tommy Burns for the heavyweight title had turned the eyes of the whole world on Australia. Hugh Mcintosh had helped hoom the sport, and he was among thoss who founded the great boxing stad fums at Sidney. Brishane and Mel- bourne. He had a wonderful crowd back of him—I mean the fans. 1 don’t suppose there is a race of people on earth who are more devoted to sport than the Australians. Their enthusiasm isn't confined to boxing. They have some of the finest horses and the finest race courses in the world. There is always action for your money. The bookmakers lay 10 to 1 on horses that would be 4 to 5 over’ hera. They don’t point the finger of scorn at a man because he places a little wager. They'll point it at you if you don’t. When horses are running vou'll see a thousand bookmakers rush down to the rail and they'll keep betting, loading up or unloading a8 the case may be. Thousands of dollars, in the English way of reckon- ing money, ill change hands among them. You'll see them bet on or against a horse three lengths from the finish line. And they don't call them “gam- blers.” They're ‘‘sportsmen! You bet with the finger. No show of ) Your word against theirs always with the finger. I'm afraid that syestem wouldn't go far over here. Too many fingers with nothing back of them! You pay or collect on Wednesdays and Saturdays as the case may be. There is no hurrying in the matter. It's purely a business arrangement among gentlemen. You can bet $5,000 by simply raising your finger in front of the bookmaker vou happen to know. They have their clubs and move in the best circles. If a man “runs out” on a het, “‘welches” as we say in this country, it is known at “taking the knock" over there, If you don't settle you're in bad and you don't get far with the bookmakers, for your name is set up on the blackboard in their quar- ters as being a bad investment. Rivaled English Derby. as large a race as our own Kentucky Derby and far more picturesque. It is much like the English Derby, with its tremendous outpouring of all classes. They come from all quar- ters of the land to see this race and in that resp by the English classic. other. It’s an understood thing that you are interested in the outcome and for cup honors. Horses come from all over to compete in the race and they bring thelr followers with them. There is no such enthusnasm here or any other place. The betting ring is situated on a little hill, and you are able to look down at the track from any angle. It's a dress-to-kill crowd, the best they have. And they've got the best, never fear! In many respects the Australian is like us. He has no particular love for England. I guess he's like the Irishman in that respect. He believes he ought to have full sway in the handling of his own country’s affairs. There are & lot of Irish in Australia, and I suppose that accounts for the “chip on the shoulder” attitude. HAWKINS LES MORE CONSISTENT THAN KETCHEL OR FITZ fight, Mur- | but a | you'd find Les Darcy working | The Melbourne Cup is three times t is not to be outdone It’s a holi- day from one end of the land to the have a choice to back in the struggle Was Popular With Australians, Devotees of Boxing. Jack Had to “Fix” Scales. KEARNS. T is my opinion that Les Darcy was the greatest middleweight that ever lived. I will be taken to task over this statement, especially by friends Ketchel, to say nothing of the admir- in saying that the unfortunate Darcy He had what the best of them had, and then I believe that a fight between Darcy and Ketchel would have been the hitter and a consistent one, against a W t \.'nu know Ketchel was a “now and then” fellow— a miss, a jab and then he'd let one go to collect the money. With Darey top of his man continually. He was vy, only faster in every respect. His 1 whip the best that ever lived in his 1 had plenty of opportunity to see and study this fellow. You'll find the® Australian right,tn step with you when it comes to knowing the fight game. You cap't put anyihing over on them. They%e heen at the business as long as wi have, and if you attempt any fI stuff with them they'll come right back at you. If you do put one over, they write it in a little book, and you cam bet vour sweet boots that it will never he slipped over on them a second time. I ilke Australia and want to €0 there some day with a stablé of fighters just to renew ol@ @o~ qualntances, Watson Galned Fast. | I took Red Watson over witheme | on my trip, and it was m opinion as well as theirs that he would have been a champlon had he taken cargof himself. He had his own ideas about i training restrictions, and in the end | he_blew up. T had him matched to fight & wild little Frenchman named Quan- dou. I sent Watson up into the back | woods to train. McGoorty went with { him. I don’t know where he got it, hut he came back not a lightwelight. but a full-fledged middle. I was stumped. Cussing wouldn't | do any good, though II'll admit I turn | ed on quite a blast of it. 1 blamed MeGoor chat was the use of squaw The thing was to get him in there In the hest shape possible. There was a way. I had a | pretty stiff weight forfeit up, but that | wasn't worrving me. I was certain | that the Frenchman's manager would | kick over the traces about Watson' t and we'd get none of the gate. I ran some of it off o Watson before weighing in time came, but still he looked as big as a | house, We came to the welghing. French manager, a fretful littie bir | was here, there and everywhere. I never knew any one to approach him in that respect, unless it was Des- camps, the man who helped make Carpentier famous. Well, when I zot a look at the eld- fashioned scales with the cast fron weights, an old tank-town triek eame to my mind. I had three silver dol- lars in mv pocket, and decided here was a good use for the old iron men. No smart manager would think of zoing into a weighing room without the handy wad of gum ng be- tween his jaws. 1 had a good quid of it ready, and, slipping a piece of gum between each dollar it made them stick together. Then the larzest | piece went on top of the upper coin | When Quandou had stepped on the :sralufl they were placed at 1 He didn’t make them even quiver. mind that. I didn't care what weighed. It was what Watson w going to register that had me worried. I knew it wasn't even going to be close. He v good 25 pounds over, and the Frenchmen were chattering madly about it. Then I acted quickly Palming the silver dollars, 1 brushed the Frepchman aside and started in- specting the scales 2 “These scales are not right” I squawked. “How can they be right? Look at the frog. He weighs a ton Do you mean to tell me that these Scales show this man to be but 135 pounds? There's something rotten here and you're not going to fool me,” T bawled zood and loud. Nothing like diverting all eves away from my big chump to the man who really did weigh 135 or less. Fixed Scales For Red. “Give me a look at these scales” T shouted louder than ever, and. stoop- ing over them so that the Frenchman had none the best of it, 1 stuck the three silver dollars under the little metal disk that supported the iron counter weights. They stuck like they were glued. Good old gum and likewise good old silver bucks from home., T kept storming and jawing about the hopelessness of getting a square deal on any such set of scalee. “Get aboard, Red” I finally said, ‘we'll have to stand for these bum scales T guess. No telling what that frog really weighs but you can't he any heavier than he is. That's a cinch. T know that.”” All of fhis, of course, for the Frenchman's benefit. Watson, stepped lightly ente, the scales and the Frenchman's éves popped right out of their sockets when he saw that. Watson came just unde; the weight. In fact the bar floater and down in perfect balance, a little under. Scales never lie “There you are, gentleman. My man is under. Not much, of course, but under. 1 doubt that these scales can be right, as I know he weighed just 132% one hour ago on a pair_of scales that can't be questioned. But you see for yourself, bad scales or good scales, he just makes them bal- ance. Jump off, Red. You've made the weight old dear."” Red jumped off, {s right! The fathead took me at my word. He did jump off with such an awfut jnlt that the silver dollars were dislodged and clattered to the floor with a dreadful jingle. (Copyright. 1926.) middleweight | that we ever sent to Australia, and | we sent there. real champion. The d dian't h 2104 Pa. Ave. N.W. 9th & P Sts. N.W. 12th & H Sts. NE.