Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1926, Page 78

JACK PROVES WITH SAILOR 'HIS ABILITY TO “TAKE IT” Absorbs Haymaker on the Beard, But Fights onin a Daze to Victory, Although He Remembers BY JACK KEARNS. HE greatest crowd that ever saw.a four-round fight in California turned out that night to see Gunboat Smith and Dempsey trade wal- lops in the old base ball park at San Francisco. As I said in yesterday's article, we .were on the short end’at 2 to 1. mpsey was a little nervous, but he always has exhibited that trait- It worked in conjunction with the speed-up style I had urged on him. 1§ he was nervous. you can bet the ofher fellow always was, too. ¥My last word to Dempsey before the bell, was: “Tear at him and keep tearing! Don't let your chin come up from your left shoulder for all lgs money in the world. Remember, this fellow wi'l kiss yvou on the chin wjth his right if he sees it. Now go amd good luck,” T said, as I squeezed his arm affectionately. iThe bellg Dempsey sails in like a balldog. What a_fight it is, but to nfy horror, I sce Dempsey beginning te straighten up and trade rights. And I see a crack at Willard fading. The had forgotten all about the weav- idg in and the swaying that we had sgent so many hours teaching him. 1% the Gunner could feign him and nfake him step back. he'd knock Jack celd. He was up there, a mark for g aj ndght-haud sock if the Gun‘\neé' e cquld work him into position. An et e PR - wr yeéu can bet vour boots that he was going to do just that. You can't fool G'UYLbO&‘L Sm"tk) agound with a hitter of Gunner’s ability and experience. I didn’t want to shout instructions then. It might rattle him.. The Gunner edged in and irfand in. I knew it was coming #nd so did Kelly, at my elbow. He was cglling for Jack to keep his chin down, but I guess there was no hearin; g%-n The crowd was going wild. They were seeing a great punéhing duel. i | e Gunner hadn't put over the.big one yet. There was no escaping it, Dempsey had come up, a mark for it. - hick a few inches, dropping his guard a#bit as he did. Bam! Over it went! e SUNDAY 's'mi wAsmGTON p. C, Atéfis'r 1, 1926—SPORTS SECTION. Gunboat Smith Severe Test for Dempsey : Waner Proves Great Find for Pirates BIG LEAGUE AVERAGES (Including Games of Thursday). $1,000,000 AUTO COURSE IS PLANNED AT NEWARK ., July 31 (P~ that . Accommedations 60,000 to 125,000 will be provided. WALTER REED STOPS Walter Reed’s leading . hurler, Con- nolly, turned in his fifth straight vie: | ¥ tory yesterday when the Medicos stopped the Hebrew All-Stars on Wal- ter Reed diamond, 9 to 3. The Soldiers sewed the game up in the fifth when they found Sauber’s offerings to thelr liking. During the inning they registered six hits and four runs. Today at 2:30 o'clock the Senecas face the Soldier nine on the latter's’ HEBREW' ALL-STARS ¢ Suosncosn? Sk SOy ¥ Eonnots Oster,ri. | e Bl oomaomms mowsk 2 Totals... 37 1427 13 Totals. . Heb. 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Ecmer'Cln. 88238 23 UTFIELD! 0o & i M aa B ® 9= oo & MACK WEARS 0DD SHOES TO CHANGE TEAM’S LUCK will mm add. sh O e ol mug diacomdort It £ a 6 he it will htbn, the team. VICTORY FOR FREERS " WOULD CLINCH TITLE Freer base ballers get an oppor- tunity to clinch the title in Section B of the Capital City junior circuit when they meet the Chaconas tegm today on West Ellipse fleld at 3 o'clock In the final game on the schedule. A victory for the Freers will give them the right to tackle the Corin- thians, winners of the Section A hon- ors, In a three-game series for the city champlonship. Should the Cha- conas nine win today, the Freers and the Aztecs would be tied for top posi- tion and would play a single game next Sunday to decide which club would tangle with the Corinthians. “Tn the midget class, both the Auths and the New Havens have three'more games before completing their sched- ules. The New Havens play a double- header at 2:15 today with the Hoboes and Apollos at East Ellipse. Auths and Corinthians mingle on East EIl- lipse at 11 o'clock and the Southerns tackle the Celtics on West Ellipse at 1 o’clock, Section A junior teams and those in the midget league stand as follows: JUNIOR CLASS. SECTION w. Freers . aconas iy 33 BUT NOW IS , - BY GEORGE EW YORK, July 3l.—Any kid N home to get there. PAUL WANER- "ROD AND STREAM HE Potomac River has had a muditis. BY PERRY MILLER. setback and is again ‘suffering with This condition will last for three or four days, providing ONCE APPEARED AS “BUST,” A REAL STAR Ridiculed When He Was Batting Only .150 in May, But Fought His Way to .336 Mark in July, Backing Up Smith’s Judgment. CHADWICK. base ball player who starts with a batting average of i150 on the sixth day of May and can squint at a new combination of 336 on the last day of July'is 2 help to his old man and to his team, and has come a deuce of a long way from It was at the end of the first week in May that the National League batting averages reported to a curi- ous and pop-eyed public that young Paul Waner, outfielder of the Pitts- burgh Pirates—no one knew then whether he was to be just a supply outfielder or a regular—was hitting at the prodigious rate of .150. “This guy’s a bust,” muttered a de- pressed Pittsburgh fan right in front of Earl Smith, Pirate catcher. “If he’s a bust, then I'm a bust.” [ retorted Smith—and when the genial Smith retorts the air reverberates | and sound waves penetrate for miles. “You are a bust,” said the fan. That, too, seemed quite proper, be- cause Smith at that time was bat- ting just a scant .270, to be exact. Fortunately, Smithy was so taken aback at being called a “bust” that he had no strength to reply. Had he done so there might have been | action physically as well as by words It is Smithy's idea) that words play a part in base ball just as important as the bat, as the words are care- fully selected and are equipped with a complete line of picturesque land- scape, effects. Smith Believes in Words. “The bat,” Smith once said, “gets onto the hide of the ball, but words | get under the hides of some of these | ball players who have skins no | O elly. Chi,.. 29 6 tep gon. Chi %fi&?tfl; i D vufi 2 LBiett fo the bells o Jack stepped TWO 10 RO{JNDERS LISTED AT KENILWORTH TUESDAY Sipssseee SR GADE I ! thicker than a whisper.” This merely goes to show how badly Smith was stumped when he couldn't | shift his tongue from the side of his mouth to the other side after he had been called a “bust” right to his ' Arkansas teeth. e punch landed cleanly on the Kelly int. What a sock it was? §d I shook like cold pups. We l there is no more rain. Before the muddy water cam® down quite a few bass were being caught and some pan-size rock. Of course, with the water so badly discojored the only fish that are being landed are catfish. The second attempt to rid the Basin | have gone forth in the small boats and of some of the carp which infest its|fished out in the deep waters on the oty DANADY 5 At 2 3192 2RS35 A325538 5 o e DA ; 225 50 B ouatibRast 23335583 G scoiaisoim . abbed for each other, lost our bal- amce and tumbled from our little rch on the steps leading into the EES 533 M s Tliams, Ph, Walker, Cin.} e D priverseey ring right out on to the fioor. . i Proves He Can Take It. iKelly was first up shouting, “&Vhat a belt and how he took fit. If's all right, Doc. He can take it." #When the punch landed, Dempsey afiivered all over. But he had a fighter's instinct. He fell -right in, hting before the Gunner could set v another. The Gunner worked demperately to spear Jack with another rfght, but before the -referee -could separate them, the bell rang. sThere was quick work td be' done. Helly and 1 rush across the ring and rry Dempsey to his corner. He E: dead on his feet when we got to 1 slipped the smelling _salts dér his nose and the Old Spider s working like a demon along the e. Still he snored. If ever there 8 a man out in his corner it was mpse: Just before the bLell rang f§r the second round, he came to. He was himself again and Kelly and I ;Lmu\ed words of advice into both of ears. Son, you're the next champlon of the world. You've got this fellow dead in his chair over there. Tear when the bell rings and keep tearing. Keep that head bobbing and he'li never hit you with another right all njght. The bell rang and they went te it. ! A Fight In All Its Glory. fight in all its glory. The best I ever saw. Men ranted in crazy de. lifium. Gone mad, I tell you. They had seen Dempsey going and now saw coming back and driving the ngerous sailor all over the ring. sDempsey went right on to victory. Man, what a fight. WWhen the final Dbell came, Jim Griffin raised Demp- #'s hand and they nearly tore the down. Those who had been krld!ng me about-my néxt, champion of the world were the firdt to spill themseives over the ropes. ‘Kelly and I rushed Dempsey to the dpessing room. He sat there strangely let. He didn’t seem to be in on the celebration at all. Kelly remarked tHat he had got a sweet sock in that st round.. Dempsy didn't even look up. His head was down and he was idbking at the floor. He remained this way long after we had started -to uplace his fighting shoes. “Suddenly he looked up and said: $“Well Jack, I lost, eh?” ‘What do you mean, you lost. You n, kid. You beat the great Gun. t Smith who was robbed of the dscision over Willard in the same rfng. That makes you the heavy- weight champion of the world boy. xu are the champlon right now. u proved it tonight.” ! 3"And,” broke in Kelly “you ean take it on the beard. Boy, he kissed ypur chin with a beaut and you didn't bat an eye.” : Didn't Realize His Victory. {Dempsey aidn't seem to realize that he had won a great fight. We got him dressed finally and léng afterward, on the ferry hoat g»il‘;lg to Oakland, he spoke up and Said: 2“What kind of a fight was it, Jack?" Tiremember that punch now.. But I ‘don’t remember anything that hap- pbned after it. My mind is a blank on everything after that punch. You ow that stove over in the gym? Vell I thought somebody had dropped | Ro acon i§ on my head when the Gunner hit me. T couldn’t understand how they d dropped it down on me without . 1@y seeing them lift it. That's how T It about it. It must have been a §“You took it, boy. That proved to | 33t e then and there that you're the shamplon. No next about it. You de the champlon.” % Still they wanted him lcked. They nt for Carl Morris and little Jack, w._around 175 pounds punched big ~g0<ponnd Carl all over the place for ur rounds. I stepped right out after #hat and claimed the title. I billed psey as the orly fighting cham- |8 plon the world had ever known. Jack wanted to go home to Salt fake City to see his folks and we garted for the first time. (Copyright. 1826.) = gt ONCORD CLUB LISTS ATHLETIC PROGRAM An | athletic program, Including ics, tennis, wrestling ‘boxing ‘and the organization of a soccer team, is being arranged the Concord Club, 314 C street, v Adolph Koll, formerly a pl Ean at the Military Turn Acad: Ty © D areesaue NE of the most-talkedrof bouts Tuesday night at Kenilworth O 10 rounds, to a decision. In the first Owing to the unsatisfactory ending of last week's main event, Match- maker Miller will put on another 10-rounder between Billy Drake, Ger- man lightweight champion, and Ter- rence Barry O'Moore, lghtweight champion of all Treland. This haut should bring the Germans' and-Irish out in droves. O'Moore is a: real the back, and on his fighting trunks the shamrock appears again. He can fight: The Ryan-Braunstein bout has the wiso guys scratching their heads as to who will be_ the favorite. fans have seen Ryan three times and on each performance he looked great. Braunstein has appeared locally once and onwhat occasion he kayoed the tough little Billy West. Sammy did something that no other local light- weight has bsen able to accomplish— stop West. The supporting card is one of the best yet offered. Frankie Cheslock, Marine welter champion, will meet Jack Cody of Fort Myer in a return bout of six rounds. The last meeting was a hummer while it lasted. Cody and-Cheslock rushed to the center of the ring, going like wild men. In a furious mix-up Cheslock recelved a cut over his eye which necessitated stopping the bout. Tony Cortez, onetime star per- former hereabouts, will return to the the winning Chevy Chase Dairy S list of individual sluggers. three-game play-off, starting Tuesday Neither of the teams did_as well with the stick during the last half as the first, however. During the early part of the season Chevy Chase batted 3360 and Fashion Shop .373, while for the last half the Dairymen hit umy}u and ‘the Haberdashers | 318, 3 While Howser of the Telephone Company stands at the top of the Ghevy Chase Dairy Fashign Shop. .. C. & P. Phone Co. INDIVIDUAL - S ciommib b onm Kuhnert, ¥. iavonneiti, April, ¥. 8. - % TS T3 RO e COT NN SO 1A oS! arnsbos Sichntire ¥ itler, - I e R T T 5 SIS e et b STb S et i ot P P SR T YR BATTING AND Batting. Betipe in local boxing circles will be staged Arena. Samihy Braunstein, light- weight champion of the Army, Nayy and Marine Corps, and Jimggy Ryan, lightweight champion of the Atlantic Fleet, meet in a return bout, 'mecting Braunstein ‘clipped Ryan on the chin for a one-round kayo victory. ring in a four-rounder nst, Buddy Logan, the crowd-pleasing swinger. Tony is anxlous to return to the top of the fistic heap, and a win over Xt?n.n will start him back. ‘he opening four-rounder will send Johnny Walker —and Jack Skinner away. . Firy” i Sene Ity e e PNEA OH-DELAYS BOUT WITH M'TIGUE By the Associated Prees. NEW YORK, July 31.—So that he will have more time for training be. tween fights, Paul Berlenbach has ‘gained a postponement of his match with Mike McTigue from August 180 to August 25 at Ebbets Feld. This clash between two former hold- ers of the light-heavyweight title is |G: one of an elimination series planned by Prometer Fugazy to determine a Dexon challenger for the new champion, Jack Delaney. " Berlenbach is matched to fight Fran- cols Charles, French champlon, at Ebbets Field on August 11/ g St K 08 Pitching, in the opinion of most base ball experts, constitutes from 50 orrel f lub's effective- to 75 per cent of a club's effec E Hess. DAIRY. NINE TOPS LEAGUE WITH. BAT AND IN FIELD TATISTICS on the second, Commercial Base Ball League series give nine first place in team batting and fieldirig, although few of the team's players are near the top of the Fashion Shop, which took the first. series and meets*Chevy Chase in a at American League Park, is close on the heels of the leaders in both departments. \ the same nine has ‘the best average for half a dozen full games. 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Boswell savs he will catch the majority of the big carp and is willing to bet on the outcome. During the long interval of.time be- tween the first and second attempts to get rid of these undesirzble fish the Bureau of Fisherles, under the =upervision of Glen C. Leach, chiéf of the Division of Fish Culture, has gone merrily along and pianted bass and crappies as fast as they could be locat at the different hatcheries of the blreau. The anglers of The Evening Star Club on its outing’ last Sunday to the Biltmore Swimming Club at South River, near Annapolis, had only fair sucoess. The first batch of fishermen reached” South River early in the morning, and after spending four hours on the bay put in with a catch of 36 hardheads and spots. The rest of the fishing members of the club put out at a later hour and returned with a much smaller catch. But the outing was a success, and all were well repaid by having a good swim and a chicken and sea food din- The bathing at_this place was that a great many were lured back into the water after their din- ner. These bathers again worked up an appetite, which was appeased a buffet sugper, served just before the return trip was started. The out ing was under the supervision of ‘l{;nk Hanford, president of the club. v One of the pleasant surprises of the present fishing season is the appear- ance of the bluefish, or taylor, at varfous” points along the bay. The festive and:extremely active bluefish has not waited for the departure of the famous hardhead, whose advent ner. so hereabouts is always acclaimed by local anglers, and which lingers in adjacent .salt water every-season until the bluefish makes his way from the Southern fields. Frank Hoover and a fishing com- panion went out in a boat off Chesa- peake Beach the first of last week and brought back the news of the bluefish arrival and exhibited the aforesald fish ‘in proof. Since then there has been som® excitement and lively taylor fishing off the long pier at the beach. There have been some big catches and the first run of the fish has provided some great sport. Along with the Hufhh and-not sec- ond in interest nor of importance has been the catches of trout. Those who edge of the channel have brought in some fine specimens of trout and hard- heads, for with the decimation of the hardheads has come the largest of that $pecies to gratify the anglers. A few of the larger and very choice kifd of rockfish have graced the strings of those who have fished out in the deep waters of the bay. The rock do not come into shore as much as formerly, and those who used to get them off ‘the pier at the beach are forced to go out to the oyster bars. Several large flounders were caught off the pler at the beach last week and they attracted as much attention as though they belonged to the ante- deluvian age. from the lower Potomac state that the hardheads, Norfolk spot and trout are furnishing excellent sport for the @nglers. One of the best places on the lower Potomac i{s Rogk Point, because here the angler has his choice of fishing either in the Potomac or the Wicomico River. Rock Point, so called because of the number of rockfish that once infested its waters, is ome of the prettiest places on the Potomac. It js so situated that it makes no difference from what direction the winds blow it sweeps across salt water with a cooling breeze, Practically all swamp land has been filled in and the result is, “‘no misquitoes,” unless there is a prolonged land breeze and then they are not very numerous. Rock Point is situated just below ©olomial Beach across the Potomac on the Maryland side. Those visiting the Point for a week or two can motor across the river to Colonlal Beach or can go back about eight miles to Morgantown and take the ferry over. Piney Point, just below Rock Point, is another popula™ place “for the anglers. As a matter of fact there are any number of good fishing places within several miles of Rock Point, Leonardtown and Breton Bay being only a few miles distant. o SRR EASTPORT NINE WINS. ° ANNAPOLIS, Md., July $1.—In a game replete with errors the East- port nine administered a 10 to, 3 de- feat on the Virginia White Sox. The contest was staged on a wet field: Rolling up 7 runs, in the wsecond inning, ‘the lacals ~added 3 - more In the fourth mainly through errors by their opponents. . el g Manager Joe McCarthy' of tHs Chi- cago Cubs is' the only ofe of the present major pilots who never ‘had experience as a big league player. 1 “What has been.the cause of the Pirates being able to hold their own in this hot race when they haven't had the same kind of pitching this year that they had last?” was asked | of Bill McKechnie, their tamer. “All the boys have been the cause,” ' replied Bill. That is just like Bill. He wouldn't | say anything because he plays fair with his men, although folks who are not with the Pittsburgh club know that Bill in his fairness leans back- ward. The facts are that not all the Pirates have been so foremost, as | Bill says. It is two or three of , them who have come to the front when they were needed to keep | Pittsburgh in the race, while three or | four others have had crossed wires, spavined intellects and ingrowing ideas ever since the season epened. Admits They Are Valuable. “Would you give special credit to Smith and Waner, and hasn't it been their_increased batting which has a great deal to do with thé winning of the Pirates?” McKehnie was asked. “Those boys have hit well all of the time,” said Bill. “Won't those two have a lot to do with bringing in the pork if the Pirates capture the barrei this year?” “They sure will,"-Bill beamed. “Say, do you know that kid Waner is likely to get so darned high in the Nitional League before the yvear is over that he will win the batting championship. Mind, I am not predicting. When I predict I usudlly am a fizzle.”” Bill is quite right, although he didn’t go far enough, Waner may lead the league in batting. No one knows about that. And it is an even wager that if the Pirates win the 1926 pene pant, it will be Smith and the Okla- { homa kid ‘who will bring them th th. rou‘smllh Also Has Climbed. Old Smithy, who talked himself out | e In a world series because emulate the wise sayings of t fisherman on a day when | the fish n'tbite, has been traveling | higher and higher as a batsman, | ¥From: a_skinny .270 he has landed at ,337, just a point above the Okla- homa kid. A most fitting reward for Smithy, who ¢hoked when.they called Waner a “bust” because now they travel side by side as batsmen, bringe ing joy and gladness to many a home in" Pittsburgh. ~“What's the lmit to this kid, Waner?” Smithy was asked. b “Great’ gadfiles, the sky. he shouted. “If he played until Christs mas I wouldn't wonder at seeing him run so high that they ain’t any figs ures in the Bnglish language that eould, express it.” ~ HUNDREDS OF MEN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT ~ AND S IT'S AN ANNUAL. 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