Evening Star Newspaper, July 27, 1926, Page 21

SPORTS. - Heavyweight Championship NEW YORK BOXING BOARD MAY PUT 0. K. ON TUNNEY Commissioner Brower Asks Rickard to Return From Chicago, Which Means That Tex Will Have 2-10-1 Vote on Proposed Scrap. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, July 27.—Takin the Dempsey-Tunney fight to the cognizance of the move to bring Yankee Stadium, James A. Farley, chairman of the State Athletic Commission, declared today he “stood pat” in opposition to the bout and predicted it would neither be held in New York or anywhere else this year. N EW YORK, July 27.—~Tex Rickard and his heavyweight title fight have been invited to return to New York, with every prospect that the bout will take place at the Yankee Stadium September 16. George Brower, chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission last year, who has stood by the present head of the board, James A. Far- ley, in the argument that Harry Wills, negro, should have the first chance at Dempsey’s crown, invited Rickard to return. And Tex, balked at least temporarily mediately. Brower's invitation apparently means that Rickard will receive a 2-to-1 | vote on approval when he again places the question of a Dempsey-Gene | Tunney bout hefore the commission, has voted for the contest every time it has been mentioned, and last week | in his efforts to stage the event in Chicago, accepted im- | for Commissioner William Muldoon his suggestion that the matter be reconsidered was tabled. Tt is possible that Paddy Mullins, manager for Wills, had some inkling of what was to happen, for he has delayed his long-predicted departure for Chicago to discuss a Jemps: Wills contest with promoters who claim to hold both men under con- tract. He sald yesterday that he had given up the idea of going to Chicago at_this time. In his telegram to Rickaid, Brow er made no prom- e as to the com- mission's action, but his words ap peared to convey the surance that reconsidera- tion would bring a differont ver- fdict. Among Brower's points That h2 always had triei to be loyal to the chair- man, as he had expected Farley to follow his lead a year ago. That he had been loyal up to the present time, in the hope that a bout satisfactory to the chairman might-result. That he is conscious that he owes & plain duty to the State of New York, to the business investors and to the followers of boxing. That both he and Rickard must put public interest before any self in- terest. That if the champion of the world defends his title, it is fitting that he do so in New York. Rickard to Hustle East. ‘When Rickard heard of Brower's statement, he said he would leave Chicago for New York today. “I wanted to put on the fight in Chicago,” he added, “but so much professional jealousy has developed that I am willing to listen to any proposition the New York commission may have to offer. If the commission takes favorable actlon, I will drop all plans for staging the fight here. I would be pleased to go back’ to New York, where I have a wonderful or- ganization, and would experience much less difficulty in staging a match.” His attorneys have assured him that B. C. Clemenuts, who claims bind- ing contracts with Dempsey and ,Wills, “has not a leg to stand on.” September 16 May Be Date. By the Associated Pross. CHICAGO, July 27.—A Dempsey- Tunney heavyweight world champjon- ship bout is planned by Tex Rickard for the Yankee Stadium in New Ydrk on_September 16. The fight, Rickard belfeves, will pack the stadium with 80,000 boxing fans, approximately the same attend- ance as that of the Dempsey-Carpen- tier battle at Boyle's Thirty Acres. Willlam F. Carey, vice president of the Madison Square Garden Cor- poration, will go before the New York State Athletic Commission today to ask approval of the bout, Rickard said. The decision to stage Gene Tunney's long sought opportunity to meet Jack Dempsey, the champion, was disclosed by Rickard today as he was prepar- ing to leave Chicago after a hectic week. The promoter did not give up the possibility of bringing_the world championship fight to Chicago until the last minute. Advices from New York and, in particular, the telegram from George Brower, member of the New York State Athletic Commission last night, urging him to return to New York and consider staging the bout there, apparently dictated Rick- ard’s decision. The sclection of Thursday, Septbm- ber 16, as the fight date was chosen with consideration of the availability of the Yankee Stadium and the effect of possible bad weather. The stadium will be avaflable, Rickard said, from September 9 to 26. Dempsey will train at Saratbga Springs, N. Y., Eugene Normile, rep- resenting ' the champlon, declared as he departed for Colorado Springs to- day to join Dempsey. The latter plans to establish his training camp on August 1, in a cottage speclally Built for him. He also trained at Sara- toga Springs for his fight with Firpo. Tunney is expected to train on the Atlantic Coast, possibly at Atlantic City, N. J., Rickard said. HERMAN GETS START RICKARD. IN RING TITLE HUNT: | 1t you fought him again?” I asked. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 27.—Babe Her- man, California native who fought several rousing battles with the re- tired featherweight champlon, Kid Kaplan, tonight makes a new effort to_gain the crown. His opponent, in what is regarded as the first of a series of elimination atches designed to produce a suc- cessor to Kaplan, will be Red Chap- man of Boston, who has scored vic- tories over many of the leading men of the division. Chapman was recognized by the New York Boxing Commission as ofcial challenger some months ago and a meeting with Kaplan was ar- ranged, but was canceled when the Mexican boxer announced his retire. ment from the division because of inability to make weight without endangering his health. The bout, 12 rounds to a decision, will be at the Queensboro Stadium. On Thursday night, at Madison Square Garden, Benny Bass of Phila- delphia will face Johnny Farr of Cleveland. They also are well up in the running for featherweight honors. BOUTS AT CAMP MEADE. Preliminaries of the Citizens’ Mili- tary Training Camp boxing champlon- ships at Camp Meade will be staged W The finals are listed for next along with the finals of the ‘wrestling tourney. TUNNEY HIGHLY ELATED AT NEW TURN IN FIGHT SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., July 27 (P).—Gene Tunney was elated today when informed that his fight with Dempsey may be staged in New York City ““That’s the best news I have heard in a long time,” he said. Tunney, who is doing preliminary training at White Sulphur Springs, Saratoga Lake, has expresed regret he would not be permitted to fight for the title in his native city. John D. Rockefeller, jr., does not understand base ball and does notm golf. Horseback riding and sq tennis furnish his chief diversions. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1926. PTOMEY WILL FIGHT IN PLACE OF MACK Willle Ptomey, all-service welter- | weight champfon and winner over Panama Joe Gans, has been placed on the boxing card arranged for Kenil- worth Arena tonight. He 1is to substitute for Jimmy Mack of the Mohawk Club, who was scheduled to go four rounds with Billy De Vore, West Virginia moun- taineer, in the opening bout of the show. Mack withdrew last night be- cause of the difference in, weights. and experience. \ The Young Montreal-Harry Bran- don go of 12 rounds heads the pro- gram. Before the two bantams step into the ring Clarence Thomas and Jimmy Kinney, colored heavyweights, will have the stage. They step six rounds. Terry O'Day, a local bantamweight fighter, returns to the arena against Benny Jukes of Panama in a special six-rounder. Kid Woody and Tiger Rose Carroll furnish a four-round serap. The opening bout is scheduled for 5:15. LOSES AT CHICAGO NETS CHICAGO, July 27 (®.—Visiting players competing for the Chicago city tennis champlonships got away to & good start. Guillermo Aragon, star of the Filipino Davis Cup team, defeated A. Pajar, 6-—4, 61, Robert Sellen, ranking junior of the Pacific Coast, pulled through a hard | match with Leo Alter, 7—35. 3—6, 6-—0. Rafael Gonzales, ' teammate of Aragon, and seeded in the draw, bowed before Dave Robertson, 6—1, 6—4. “KEYSTONE KIDS” INSURED. ,James Reese, aged 20, second base- man, and Lynford Lary, aged 19, shortstop, of the Oakland Pacific League Club are insured for $100,000. They are known as “the keystone kids,” and constitute the fastest com- bination in the history of the Qak- land team. KEARNS AIDED DEMPSEY AND PARTNERSHIP BEGAN Loan of $30 Brought About Their Friendship. Pilot Took Friend’s Word That Jack Had Mak- ings of Really High-Class Fighter. BY JACK I the youngster Darcy whipped him. ’LL always stick to all that I've said about Les Darcy. great fighter. He proved”that by whipping the best middleweight we ever sent to Australia—Jeff Smith. Jeff was at his very best when KEARNS. He was a truly ‘When I saw that it was hopeless for me to try and force Darcy into keepin leru(efi myseli in wrestlers and didn’t grow rich on that match, when it was all over. 1 was kickinF him to fight Battl faith with me in New York I started back to San Francisco. Iin- ut on Zbyszko and Strangler Lewis, I &r my partners left me holding the bag around there with Red Watson and 1 finally matched ng Ortego for a little "overhead.” Things weren't com- ing in leaps and bounds, but I've always lived on the theory that one bad day breeds a good one and there is always hope. While in Oakland fussing around with this match of Watson's I ran into Al Norton, the fighter. He began to tell me about a mugg he had whipped in a fight a few weeks before and something about the fellow had impressed Norton. At least he led me to believe that he had been. “I think it wouldn't do any harm for you to have a look at this fellow, Kearns” sald Norton. “What's his name?” T asked. Praises His Foe. “I think they call him ‘Young Dempsey.! He can fight. I belted hell out of him Jack, and he kept coming and winging all the time. Don't know nothing, absolutely noth- ing but he’s raw and full of stuff if you want to bother with him. He gave me hell, even if I did bust his nose and, beat him. I'll dig him up and bring him around. He hasn't got anybody. You ought to look him over, now I'm tellin’ ya.” I told Norton to produce him it he ran into him again and I'd do him the favor of looking him over. T didn’t give it a thought after that, but one day I'm in a Frisco cafe and in walks Norton with a big scrawny fellow, who. looked more like an In- dian than a white man. Norton spied me and, bringing the fellow over, said: “Kearns, this is the young fellow I was telling you about— the fellow that gave me such a tough fight. Dempsey I want you to meet Jack Kearns, a fellow who knows fighters and a man who has had good ones in all parts of the world.” Falls to Be Impressed. Old Al was sending me in pretty, but when I took a good look at Dempsey I could have chased the both of them. He didn’t impress me at all. He looked seedy and much smafler than he really was, though at the time he was weighing only about 168 to 170 pounds. He had a bad color, and he didn’t look like a fellow who had been in the habit of -sending his porterhouse steaks back for a little more fire. We sat around a table, clowning and kidding. I didn’t take much stock in Dempsey from appearances any- how, and was putting the razz on him good and proper. In a joking way I asked him how he came to let Norton bust -him around a few weeks before. “I don’t know. I suppose it was one of those things,” said Dempsey. “Do you think you could lick him “I really think I could. I know I can. I just didn’t get started the last time.” I kept weighing Dempsey up. e made absolutely no impression on me. 1 was searching through him for some of the things that Norton seemed to think he had discovered. He was zero with me, though I must admit likable on first meeting. Dempsey Is Undecided. ' ' I suppose it was this likable trait in him that made us go out of that place, get into a cab and go around HAWKINS CO. MOTOR Conveniently Located on_Fourteenth Street - 1333-37 14th St Main 5788 to see the sights. Dempsey was tell- ing me all about himself. He didn't want to be a fighter, and he then again did. His mind was seesawing on that point. ‘Well, before the night was over he told me point blank that he didn’t want to fight any more. I've got a good job up in the ship- yards at Seattie and I think I'll take a train in the morning and hit up the job. He told me that he'd call me {n the morning and let me know what he had finally decided on. All | this time I was remembering what Norton had said, though I still was unimpressed with the fellow. It was the last I saw of him, and a_ week later I got a letter from him. ¥e had reached Seattle and wae back in the shipyard. e wrote me several times while there. He was married at the time, but his wife had left him and he didn't know where she was. I got three or four more letter: which are on the table before me now as 1 dictate these recollections. ' You eee, there was a strange bond spring- ing up between us that meither seeemed to understand. Mind you, T had never seen the fellow with his hands up, yet what Norton had told me and the reaction from my kid- ding him about getting licked by Al seemed to make me wonder more and more about the boy. T kept telling myself that he was a paluka, and yet there was something back of me ';\“(hlch kept nudging me on toward m. Asks For Small Loan. One day I got a letter from Demp- sey telling me he had rushed home to Salt Lake City to his folks, where his little brother (“the baby of the family,” the letter said) had been stabbed to death and that he was up against it for funds. Would I send him $30.00 and also get him a fight to help pay for the funeral, as his peo- ple were strapped. The letter was very pathetic, covering several pages in_his own handwriting and signed “Your Pal, Jack Dempsey.” 8, Every morning wili be a gocd get the health habit of success- ful men—a bed- time bottle of VALLEY FORGE DISTRIBUT- ING CO. 624 L St.SE. Washington, D. G | Catholic Universit; By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA — Tommy Her- man, Philadelphia, beat Leo “Kid" Roy, Canada (10); Dick Evans, Phila- delphla, won from Rock Smith, Battle Creek (10). CHICAGO—Pal Moore, ‘Tenn., beat Tiger Jack Burns, cago (10). NEW ORLEANS—Tommy Murphy, Jersey City, defeated Jack Lewls, New Orleans (12). 3 DAYTON, Ohio—Sid Conn, Man- chester, England, and Shifty Dando, Dayton, fought a draw (10); Jim Stone, Montreal, scored a technical knockout over Marine Tolliver (8). MOBILE, Ala~—"Big Boy" Peter- son, Kiln, Ala., won from Jack Mel- rose, Canada (10). CINCINNATI — Tommy Billlards, Cincinnati, scored a technical Kng out over Pinkey Crosby, New York (5). AMERICAN U. ELEVEN LISTS SIX CONTESTS Six games, including a tentative match with George Washington Uni- versity on September 25, make up the foot ball schedule arranged for American University’s eleven, which Memphis, Chi- will be starting on its second cam-{ paign with the opening of the Fall season. Baillle Springston's gridmen meet Emerson Institute in a practice tilt on_October 16. Gallaudet will be played here on November 6, Bridgewater College at Bridgewater, Va., on November 13, on November 20 and Blue Ridge College here on Thanksgiving da; B One of the largest golf clubs in America is the Olympic Fields of Chi- cago, which has 1,500 members on its roster. JEFFRIES’ K. 0 YARN DENIED BY CORBETT et y Chester Horto: The purpose of a thorough under- By the Associated Press. standing of the “straightline hip ac- NEW YORK, July 27.—Although nearly three decades have elapsed, controversy still rages about what happened when Jim Corbett, then heavyweight champion, and Jim Jef- fries, only a husky Tyro, first put on the gloves in a sparring match at Carson City, Nev., where Corbett was training for his title fight with Bob Fitzsimmons. Corbett has taken sharp issue with the version that he was knocked out by Jeffries, as published in a chapter on the latter’s life history in the cur- rent issue of Liberty. “I knocked Jeffries out on that occasion,” declared Corbett, “and no ope knows it any better than he does. e fell into my arms after taking a stifft punching. Jeff didn't know the least thing about boxing in those days, he couldn't have hit me with a handful of rice, let alone his fists.” “I don’t believe Jeff ever made the statement that’s credited to him,” continued Corbett. “The writer of the article misquotes him, I believe, whether intentionally or not. Jeff and I always have been good friends and I don't think he would have any ob- ject in saying anything like that.” CONTRIBUTE TO MEMORIAL. The National League contributed $1,000, while every club in that cir- cuit and the Philadelphia Americans gave $500 each toward the fund for a memorial to be erected for the late Christy Mathewson, great pitcher of the New York Glants, LIVES ON RABBITS. P. P. Doze, Norwich, Kans., catches 20,000 rabbits a year, cottontails for courses. He has $5,000 invested in traps and nets, for he must take them alive and uninjured. P).—Maureen Orcutt, woman champion, was medalist of the eighth annual women's invitation golf game preserves and jacks for race|trophy. round of 18 holes in §2, than Wisconsin champion. tion” in the golf swing is to enable the golfer to get correctly on his forward swing. . The old theory that a cor- rect back swing make a forward automati- cally may be de- celving to the player if he de- pends upon that alone, since it is not true that you can mak2 a good baeck swing and then do any old thing with the forward swing. The straightline action for the automatically started would correct § swing hips means that so far as the player is concerned his hips appear to move back and forth in a line parallel with his direction line. not do this; the tight one goes back, but to the player it appears to do Just In fact, they do the opposite. The thing to watch out for, however, is the easy | habit of exaggerating this back and forth action. If the right hip is pro- ed stralght out (o far it will se. the left shoulder to dip. (Copyright. 1926.) MISS ORCUTT HAS AN 82. EASTERN POINT, Conn., July 27 Englewood, N. Metropolitan and New Jersey tournament for the Griswold She finished the qualifying two better Wis,, Bernice Wall, Oshkosh, SPORTS. bt | 152 GOLF COURSES IN CHICAGO SECTOR By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 29.—Golf courses around Chicago grow up faster than statistics can be compiled, but there are now 152 made or in the making, with work on the last two started in the Cook County forest preserves. Four such forest links are now open and one of them accommodated 734 players one fine Sunday in June. The two new ones will make 35 public fee courses around the city. board's plan for building them in the fee class is to remove the cost. from Bout Now Appears Certain to Be Staged in Gotham [ | the taxpayer, while the players pay | very little. When the fees have re- pald the builders for their expendi- ture the forest courses are turned over to the county board. Golf enthuslasts boast that Chicago has 5 per cent of all the links in the country, and 10 per cent of the players, largely because of the great number open to the public at nominal charge. ““We could have 35 more public fee courses around the city and still have congestion on all of them,” sald Prof. Leon G. Kranz of Northwestern Uni- versity, who developed last year's Big Ten champion golf team. “The public courses take care of an estimated 100,000 persons in Chi- cago. From a practical standpoint, it is money well spent for a club to de- velop an excellent links and make it attractive, because realtors will swarm down on - them and make tempting offers for it as a subdivi- sion.” MOTOR CYCLE MEET 0. K 'D. SALEM, N. 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