Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1926, Page 29

S PORTS SET TO DECIDE RUNNER-UP BERTH IN PENNANT BATTLE ®W Griffs Must Take Three Out of Four to Have Good Chance to Overhaul Tribe—Decatur Jones “irst of New Pit BY JOHN B. KELLER. LEVELAND. September 11. chersto Report. econd place can be wrested from the I by the Nationals in the series that was to be opened with a double-header today. but to advance to the runner-up posi tion in the American League before leaving here Bucky Harris and company would have to sweep t land As the series started behind the Tribe while Champions can take at least 1! ing to second place wii Aftef quitiing Cleveland the Nat Should they enly 17 to go. they would practically dians took a game to finish ahcad of Although he has high hopes of land- ing his outfit in the runner-up berth this season, Bucky Harris does not fntend to drive his Nationals along without giving anyv attention to the new talent that comes his way before the finlsh. He has said that as fast &8 pitchers recently purchased and re- turned from farms report. he will loo them over carefully sand those who seem capable enough will be siven turns on the slab. Those who have been serving reg- ularly on the hill for the Nationals for some time will have plenty to do, but the Nation. the manager figures that there will be | enough work during the next couple of weeks to heep all mémbers of the mound corps busy Jones First to Report. First of the new talent to report is | Peca:ur Jones. one of the three right- h#ind flingers purchased from Chattu- nooga of the Southern Association. Jones has been hurling very well in the Dixie circuit and is one of the three or four of the entire lot of slab recruits lately bought of which F dent Griffith and Manager Harrls ex- pect much, Jones arrived here laie last night &reatly in need of u good rest after a tedious journey from the South. He was to be out in uniform this after- noon. He is a tall fellow with a deal of weight right now and likely to fill out more before next training season | rolls around Joe Carroll purchased from Little Rock, und Lefty Thomas. brought back from Birmingham by way of Rochester, were expecied 1o bree: into the Nationals' headquarters here at any time today. Natives Pulling for Reds. Now that the Indians seem to be out of the running for the pennant, Cleve- land fans are not showing much inter- est in the American League campaign, but they are quite excited over the acrap in the National League. Stores in the heart ofgthe city and even in The residential ®ections are posting inning scores of games in which the Cards, Pirates and Reds are involved Loyal Ohioans that they are, the Forest City fans still are rooting for the Cincinnati club to get the flag. | And after the Reds, they are strong HORSE WINS FOR OWNER, WHO IS IN NEED OF CHEER By tha Assori ST. PAUL. Minn,, A sick, elderly man, who had trained horees and faithfully entered them fn races for 10 years, is happy Aay because his horse won for first time In a decade. Robert Larsen, 62, too ill to climb up to the grandsiand at the Minne- #ota State Fair Friday, sat beside the stall of his beloved horse. Gilded Parkwood, and feebly cheered as It won the $1,000 sweepstakes and a silver cup. The race was the 2:2 pace. Tnjured in an automobile accident st Summer Larsen lefy his bed to see the races. When his horse won he expressed his simple philosoph “Well, a fellow's got to lose lots appreciate winning.’ KELLIHER TOPS BLUE RIDGE LOOP GATTERS MARTINSBURG., W. Va., Septem ®er 11.—Mickey Kelliher of Washing- ton, first baseman for the Martins. ted Press burg Club of the Blue Ridze Teague, | led the circuit In baiting for the sea son_just closed. Kelliher had an average of .370, while the runnerup, Fitzberger. Hagerstown. hit .366 Mickey, who is an exbiz league layed a steller brand of ball he e will return to his home in Wash ington for the Winter Another member of the Martinsburg Club from Washington was Robert Melntyre, former sandlotter. who dur ing the latter half of the season blos. somed out into one of the best south paws in the loop. He was the object of-several big league scout’s admiring glances. VIRGINIA NEEDS GUARDS. UNTVERSITY, Va. September 11 Development of guards for the Vir ginia foot ball team is worrying Farle Neale head couch. He Is hav- ing a difficult task filling the places left vacant br Fast guards are needed in Virginia's stvle of play. If strength and weight Alone were required. the would be solved MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS l INTERNATIONAL LEA 8 Batain e 3 Jerser C1c 4" Reading AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. St. Pan) 1 S Milwaukee 1 Taledn 4 Touisy: e, m 1% 1. Salsburr. -4 ™ ington Sale; Drrham. 4. Ra'eizh Greensboro. 10 Hieh Poin: ROUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. 1y Ashasile Auustal 3 (& innings. a— e 3. Greens Spartanburg at Macon nostponed frain? TEXAS 1EAGUE. ile. 3 (11 in 1 Fort Worth Worhita Fain FLORIDA STATE 1LEAGUE. Sanford 5 Fraden Takelard & Orlan £U. Potarsture 3 Tampa. 5-5. Sarasota 32 PACIFIC COAST LE: Oakland. 0 5. Sacraments. 7 11 Missions 1 cisco. 6. Hollrwood. 3. 55 That does not sound ks so much, but be a tough i September 11.— | Mackall and Cockri'l. | matter | he set of four engagements in Cleve- als yere just two and one-half games k k . nless the erst- oi the four tilts listed here, climb- ncss for them. onals will have but 17 games to play. | find themsclves two or more gam back of second p'ace with have to fvin twice every time the In- I'ris Speaker's club BIG LEAGUE LEADERS. By the Associatad Press AMERICAN LEAGUE. Batting—Fothergill, Tygers, .382. Hits—Burns, Indians, 191. Runs—Ruth, Yankees, 124, Doubles—Burns, Indians, 60. Triples—Gehrig, Vankees, 20. Homers—Ruth, Yankees, 11. Stolen bases—Mostll, White Sox, Pitching—Dauss, Tygees; won 11, lost 4. + | NATIONAL LEAGUE. Batting—Hargrave, Reds, .369. Hits—Brown, Braves, 185, | Runs—Cuyler, Pirates, 9. | Doubles—Bottomley, Cardinals, 36. Triples—Walker, Reds, 20, Homers—Wilson, Cubs, 1. Stolen bases—Cuyler, Pirates, 30. - Pitching—I<remer, Pirates; won 18, lost 5. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, ~Nats Open Indian Series With Twin Bill : Dempsey La NET TOURNEY FINAL | TERCITY CLASH| Hugh McDiarmid of Western High School was to face Louis Kurland of Baltimore at Chevy Chase courts early today in the final of the annual schoolboy champlonship tennis tour- ney. McDiarmid earned a try at the Harding Memorfal trophy and the District junior title vesterday when he eliminated Yeomans in a three- set match, 6—1, & Kurland, who sprang the biggest eurprise of the tourney on Thursday by putting. Dooley Mitchell, local pub’ic courts champion, out of the running, reached the final at the ex- pense of Freddy Dodge. The scores were 6— | IN ANNAPOLIS TONIGHT| ANNAPOLIS, Md.. Septembgr 11.—| Young Dencio of Washington meets Johnny Meyers. Army flyweight champion, here tonight in an eight- round boxing match at the Severn base ball park. Gillio Dennis —neets Kid Woody, and George Lesiie faces Harry | Groves in six-roundars. In _three four-round matches Sammy Hogan takes on Jose Villes, Ted Walcott meets Bat Brashears, and Mixer Mitchell steps with Young Toby. $140.000 RACE HORSE POISONED BY MISTAKE CHICAGO, September 11 (). — Captain Hal, recognized as the great | est stake horse of the year, died in his stable yesterday from poison. A sta- ble hand, intending to give the animal some linseed oil, mistakenly fed him a dose of poison. Captain Hal. owned by five tobacco clerks at Louisville, in his last elevén starts won nine races and placed sec- ond in the remaining two. His owners rated him in-value at £140,000. By the Associated Press. scramble. | BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS 1 | AMERICAN LEAGUE. YL3TERDAY'S RESULTS Louls, 3: Chlcago, 4 (10 Innings). ATANDING OF THE CLUBS. st. Covelund. New York. } 5| hiesss, | 59| hiladelphia. Vash'ton_[10 6 Phitiphia »(%(3|o| 3711681.514 1/70/681.50% TODAY'S GAMFS. Washington at Cleveland (2 games). N Vork at Detro Thiladeiphia at Chi Boston ut St. Louls NATIONAL LEAGUF. YESTERSAY'S RESULTS. Roston. 11; Pittshureh, |* Philadeloh | STANDI St. Louis at Boston. Chieazo at Philadeiphia. Cinelnnati at_Pittshureh. Brookivn at New York. SWIMMING MEET TODAY. Eight events ’mal\e up the program of the final swimaming mest of the ;!Pasfln at Wardman Park pool today fat 230. South Atlantic champion- ships will be awarded in the 2 free sivle for men and the 2 | breast stroke for women WAVERLYS TO PRACTICE. | Members of the Waverly foot ball | eleven will hold the first practice to- | morrow at 10 o’clock at Fast Potomac Park. Candidates will report to Manager F. R. Kersey yard Peggy Wattles of Buffalo, won the | wom, golf champlonship of west- {ern New York at 15 years of age. BY BEN Athietic Director of the Famous Mooseheart High Schooi | ow ready at we have our shoes warm, | feel of it Then try kickinz it around for awhile. alternating in punting to give every boy a chance. The others can catch and run back the punts. Don't | tackle the rirst day out. Wait till vou ave harder. After 2’ half hour of passing and cicking we'll have a few minutes of FALLING ON THE RALL failing on the ball. TWhen you've léarned te fall on ths ball cérrectly | you can do it as light as a feather BRAVES JOLT CARDINALS .~ AS BUCS AND REDS SPLIT HE ruthless Boston Braves. who knocked the New York Giants out of the National League pennant in the clos base ball scason. threaten to treat St. Louis likewise in the present 5 The Cards’ lead todgy is but 213 games, with Cincinnati | still second and Pittsburgh third, 3 points apart. 3 | place. he hem‘n %3/ BOYS CLUB to start regular practice. * Suppese the squad, has just reported and the weather is still We'll have to take it easy for a while. the ball around in a circle (as you were recently | ning lightly down and across the field, pass it back and forth to get the 1g stages of the 1925 | The Braves. languishing at the tail end of the circui directly re- sponsible yesterda: e Cards half- game 1083 to the Cincinnati Reds and the Pirates, who spent the day in a futile effort to solve the second-place problem decisively. The Braves smote St. Louls lustily, 11 to 3. while Cincin- nati and Pi rgh won games from each other by the same score, 5 to 2. The threat the Braves offer to the | three contenders can hardly be min. imized as all three leaders must meet them shortly. Boston has a habit of taking coptous defeats in their foreign tours, only to turn upon invaders of their home park with dire results to pennant aspirations. The Cardinals have three more games with the Hub- men. Gyncinnati two and the Pirates three. In home games plaved against this trio this season, just half, or 12 out of 24 battles, have gone the Bos- ton wi Tt was the samb Boston team that proved hard for Pittsburgh to defeat last season when the world champions were crulsing pennantward. The Hornsby clap. resuming work after a two.day lay-off, played ragged- Iy vesterday. and Grover Cleveland { Alexander. ace of the round robin serfes that brought St. Louls through |to the top, was battered trom the peak, and with Reinhardt, vielded 18 hits.” Thevenod, Cardinal shortstop. made three costlv errors. Red Lucas was_supreme in /the Red's victory over Pittsburgh. He al- lowed McKechnle’s men but four hits in the second game, after Rixey had dropped a tight pitching tussle with Ray Kremer in the first. Philadelphia emulated Boston, ris Ing to smite the Chicago Cubs, % to 4 and break Guy Bush’s record of eight straight victories. The defeat pushed he Bruins three games below third i Dennis Sothern, a recruit from the Middle Atlantic League hit a double and a home run in his frst ap pearance as a Quaker. Heavy silence shrouded the leades in/the American Teague. with St. Louis halting the six-game winning| streak of the Chicago White Sox, & to |4, in the oniy game played. The game {went 10 frames. and McCurdy, Chi- |cago catcher. tad his record of 10 ihits in 10 successive times at bat {brolen when he was within one of ying the world record. |EDERLE ASKS F ASKS RACE WITH | MICHEL ACROSS CHANNEL PHILADELPHIA. Pa.. Septémber 11.—Gertrude Ederle. the first girl to | swim _the Engl'sh Channel, wants to | race Georges Michel, the Paris baker, |v\-ho was Successful vesterday. across |the famous waterway next Summer. She alos sent a ‘‘welcome home' message to Mrs. Clemington Corson. the first mother to swim. the English Channel. “Welcome home." | gram. Am sorry engagement here in | Philadelphia ~_prevents meeting you | perso¥&ly. Good luck.” | said the tele- e —— x Qar P OSWALT, ‘ and our foot ball ficld laid out we're | What? First we'li pass own) and then. run- | and without any shock or bruises. Tou sort of wrap your body around the ball as yvou fall on it as the sketch shows. This may not feel so good the first day. Don't overdo it. But work in some of that practice every afternoon Aou're out on the field this Fall. It is very important to have 11 men who can fall on the ball There are | sure to be fumbles in every game, maybe from vour side and mavhe from the other club. Be ready to nounce on the ball when it gets loose | from the carrier. ' T forgot to say at the start of this | nractice that you should wear vour | | padded jerseys and pants toda tor | when you fall on the ball You need some padding. Pads on the shoulders and elbows of vour jers€y should be arranged in such a way that they will protect the point of the elbow and the bones of the shouider. Don't have them big and cumbersome. -and Rene Eacoste, France s granted that the: j ous question, she looked over his head TENNIS CUP IS RETAINED FOR 7th YEAR IN 4 ROW RO o8 ¢ By the Amsociated Press. HILADELPHIA, September 11.—The veteran stars who bave clinched Amcrica’s tennis supremacy for the seventh vear in a row not only ceem able to go on victoriously, but their game appears to grow more effective with age. 2 Through the skill of big Bill Tiden, little Bill Jobnston and Dick Williams, the United States has won another triumph ‘over France in the 1926 challenge round for the Davis Cup. To top off the decisive singles victories of Tilden and Johnston on the opening day over Jean Borotra s youthful aces. Williams, paired yvesterday with the younger Vincent Richards, clinched the cup by winning the doubles. Williams led a fierv attack that beat back the French combination of Jacques Brugnon and Henri Cochet, 64, 6—4. 6—2. The Americans were determined to- | well equipped it mav I:d c-nnn‘:‘lmn: day to register another clean sweep “\":‘zr“c‘;h ‘:;‘;1‘ ;::"::‘m“""::: t:?ml\a by taking the final two singles|courre Two straight vears of deci- matches. In these Johnston was|sixe, even heart-breaking, setbacks bracketed with Borotra at 2:30 p.m,, have diminishéd much of the menace and Tilden paired with Lacoste after-|in the tri-color's challenge for the ward. . | Davis cup. All three of America’s veterans are| . Unless Australia rises again to the beyond 30, an age when most athlefic {top or an athleticallyre-avakened stars are on the wane. But if any of | Germany flashes to the fore, there the trio has now a trifte fess en-|seems little fmmediate danger for this country’s grip on tennis laurels. All the Davis cup players are en tered for next week's natlonal cham plonship at Forest Hills, N. Y.. and Tilden natwrally is a favorite to re- tain his title. durance, dash or fire than before, he has offset it by the more resourceful, polished skill that goes with experi- ence. France, o far at least. has found out that impetuous = vouth, "however E FIGHT GAME CHAPTER LIV. BY JACK KEARNS. HERE were woinen that came into Dempsey’s life during my asso- ciation with him«that he thought he'd marry. He got the notion scveral times, but I always laughed him out of it. He'd wind up by laughing himself and proclaim it pure puppy love. Then he'd get serious about this Jane or that Judy and I'd have to do the father stuff again. He listened to me every time but once. He was a fellow of quick, burning heart impulses. He liked and dis- liked with the sudden twists and turns of a tornado. But I still insist that his heart reaches out to Maxine Dempsey. I'll tell you why. e was the love of his carly bayhood. The kind that is genuine, even if it is rough and not polished. She was a beautiful creature. witty, p'easant and a cork- ing good fellow. You'd have to love her, and Dempscy did. While in Los Angeles in 1920 mak-| him that T had opened it by mistake. ing pictures Dempsey became infatu- | He was good natured about it, but he ated with heautiful Babe Sedgwick,|was sly as great lovers have to be. whom Teddy Hayes introduced to|The cream of the correspondence T Dempsey. Demp- | didn’t always get. He beat me to it sey loved'and was | somatimes, but In the main, T shielded insanely jealous | him from a lot of trash that even he by turn: His | couldn’t_have laughed off. i jealousy over her|s One fellow came along one tima ended up In a free-| who fancied that his daughter had forall battle one|taken too deep an interest in Jack night _at Fanny |and he wanted to bump hir off. He Ward's house.|had his cap pistol with him and no Jack sicked big | mistake. You don’t suppose that I Rill Tate on Teddy | troubled the champion with that kind Haves and there | of stuff, do you? T gave the fellow a came near being a | hundred-doliar bill. showed him the tragedy over it. | 6-foot drop and the end of @ rope T picked up a|finale to anything like he contem- stray letter in|plated and chased him. Teddy's bathrobe | He would have killed Dempsey as one day and, with | sure as fate. Dempaey doesn’t know never a thought | that to this day and won't unless he of Jack's fiying off [ reads these lines. him about love running on & single TUNNEY ls‘ so AT HE REDUCES BOXING track. He was a madman ore it By the Associated Pres was over and it all but broke up our happy camp. Teddy went out into the night in a huff and it took a lot of coaxing on Dempsey’s part to bring Teddy back. Ruth Roland became the apple of STROUDSBURG. I September 11.—Gene Tunney's boxing program was ordered reduced to four rounds to guard against the possibility of too fine an edge early. He has been eoing six rounds each afternoon, and his eve. They were seen together often, majing a striking pair as thev much of the time in Spectacular he boved eight rounds. moved about in evening clothes. Tl Tunnev himself say this for Dempsey. My tailors his condition at the moment. Loui simply poured him into the hest fitting evening duds any man ever Fink. his trainer. and Bil'v Gibson. | his manager, share his satistaction. wore. Never was a clothes horse like Dempsey, and [ challenge them from The challenger is confident that that he will win the chumpionshi Reau Brummel down to the present day He does not believe that Dempsev's | sledge-hammer blows can hurt him, Bebe Daniels was beautiful, a for he has convinced himself that he can “take it.” made no mistake time all the mov He also ‘believes that he can hit hard enough to < out Dempsey. TH RKEARNS, is *pleased with was the next. She wonderful girl. He here, and for a long colony took it for would put on the But, I've pointed out, he and out of hearts with ndon. Bebe Daniels ias the sweetest of them all 8o far as I could see. Besides that she was a brilliant star, one of the finest in the movie world. T suppose when it came to the seri- old yoke. moved int reckless al& CALIFORNIA GIRL WINS JUNIOR TENNIS CROWN PHILADELPHIA. September | . —Loulse McFarland of Pasadena. Calif., won the girls’ nationkl lawn tennis championship. Her vietory over Clara Loulse Zinke of Cincinnati in the final round. 6—3. 3—8, was expected. 'U. S.LINKS HONORS to future and fame. She didn't need | Dempsey to carry her along. Fought Against Marriage. May Fields was his next object of adoration. eShe was in the pictures and a corking girl, too. A great fel- low. They were seen together a lot and. of course, the old bugaboo of marriage loomed up again. Naturaily was~ against that while he was champion. A man can't settle down to the old kindling-wood-and-feed-the- canary routine while he is heavy weight champion. It bas never been done and I didn't expect Dempsey to change histo I don’t expect him to change it now. So you see, with every new light of his life that flared up, vour Uncle Doc flared up, too. 1 was the great- est match smasher in history, I sup- pose. I dare say a hundred beautiful and deserving women can blame me for breaking up what might have been. Some day they may come around to thinking that T did them a favor. But when love is blind as Paddy’s plg. what are you going to do about it? It never was necessary for me to g0 to the woman in question and chase her off the reservation. That wouldn’'t have been diplomatic, and it would have only cemented an af- fair that I was trying to break up. T had to use the old bean. I didn't try vidicu'e. That's as bad as chasing them. A fellow in love doesn't want to be shown the path. You can kill him off with sending in the other fel- low. Two and three can play at love with the same gal. and I worked this on his nibs aplenty. The minwte he thought that the field wasn't all his own he moved out. T had that al- wavs 1o work on. He had the mov- ing habit. He loved as he lived, al- wavs on the go, 80, 80, 0. 1 guess that it was that spirit that carried him beyvond the charms of the beautiful so long. There was his restless spirit to trade on, and I made the most of it. 1 guess the girls knew | By the Associated Press. HORT HILLS. N. I.. September 11.—Smarting under three staggering blows delivered hv American golfers on British sofl this vear. England has sent two able plavers to launch a counter thrust at Baltusrol next week in the national amateur champion- shin. Eustace F. Storev and Maj. C. B. Ormerod will re6pen the international conflict in an effort to balance the winning by American stars of the British onen and amateur titles, to- zether with successful defense by the Tnited States of the Waller cup. That thefr challenge fs likelr to be- come a serious threat has been in- dicated In two impressive practice rounds by Storev. Each time he posted a 73. the best practice scoring this week. Jess Sweetser. first American-born man to carry off the British amateur crown, will ‘not. be able to shoulder mashie and nibleck in the home de- er He is recovering from il health. But Bohby Jones. defending _title holder and winner of both the British rand American open championships, already has begun preparations to meet_the invasion. RBehind him will be Ouimet, Guilford. Gardener, Gunn, MacKenzie and Von FEim, remaining that T was old bluebeard in the watch | Beirapers avtome. . reat Ttorm tower so far as their phone calls and | tjonal links supremacy from America. their mash notes were concerned. for | T,ike the tournament of 1925. next they tried everv scheme known to |week’s championship test will be an feminine ingenuity to get by the bar- | experiment in new tournament con- riers. ditions. i ; + he value of the seeded draw, al- Guards His Bankroll. ', 540 agcepted as successtul in tennis, [ admit that ®caged him up. WhY | wfll be. tested for the first time on should T cage him up? He was a mil- | the links. After 32 players have besn lion dollar asset. He was mine be-|qualified in 36.hole medal play on fore he was theirs if for on other 'nfonday and Tuesday. sight men to be reason than business reasons. So T selected by the t\)urhament committee sand by my actions He had to be as outstanding conteadars will be shoved away from the vamps. He!seeded among the 3 qualifiers for had to be tormented into dropping this | match pla: ome and that. We used cruel meth-| Restoration nf the number of ods, my friends and 1. when we | qualifiers to 32 has been favorably thought him hooked deeper than us- |received by ‘goif followers after the ual and in the end we did him a 1926 experiment under which a re- service. e was a man in the lime- | quction to 16 contenders knocked out light and prey for hero worshipers. such old favorites as Ouimet, Marston, Some of the latters he got and never | Evans and Gardener. got were killing. Say T used to lay . With this reiurn t» old conditions in bed in the morning when they wers has coma a changs in the first two turned over to me for censorship and | match rounds which will be limited T'd fall out of the trundie cat some-{to 18 heles.” Both will be played on times laughing over_ some of the|Wednesday slush. : ¢ The roupds on Thursday. Friday When one of them got tho inférnal-|and Saturday will be @ver the regula- ly mushy ¥d show it to Jack telling tion 36-hole routs. 5—6. | SOUGHT BY BRITONS, D. C. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 11, 1926 uds His Sparring Partners DEMPSEY ALWAYS By the Assoc ATLANTIC CITY. N 11.—Jack Dempser always fights the other fellow's way. And this principle is to be the basis of his tactics when defending his title from Gene Tunney. “I always fight the other fellow's way." the champlon said. “T figure that if I'm champion T ought to be good enough to match any style of fighting that is put before me. If T foughty in the same manner in each fight some clever fellow would be able to fathom the weak points in that style and beat me. And there are. of course, weak points in any manner of fighting. Therefore 1 always let the other fellow start something and T try .my best to finish like h~ started it Tt is the belief of Dempsey that if you immediate'y show your opponent you wre willing to fight his way prove to him vou are a better man dishearten him. Dempsey's workou sterday after- noon after three day idleness was witnessed by ring celebrities, includ- ing Benny Leonard. Many of the ex- perts expressed the opinion that Dempsey still needed a lot of hard work, but he could reach top form Dempsey has sent a_message of good will to Tunner. The champion | sald he hoped Tunney well and would be in excellent condi- tien. He assured the challenger of his friendship—outside the ring—and said he did not believe all of boasting statements lattributed to Tunney about how he would knock out the champion in a round or less. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT. By the Associated Press CHICAGO. — Midge! _Smith. New LAND, Ohio.—LoufsPaluso, v. defeated Billy ‘Val- San Francisco (12). Pico Ramios, San Francisco, beat Johnny Moore, Pittsburgh (8. HARTFORD, Conn..—Johnny Riske, Cleveland. aid Pat McCarthy, Boston, fought a draw (12). Jack Cagon, New- | bedford, Mass.. knocked out Young Peterson, Detroit (L) F. FARGO, N. Dak.—Billy Fargo, N. Dak., beat Alf Simons, light- weight champion of Great Britain (10). Redy Fry, St. Paul. and Johnny Mack. Minneapolis, drew (6) Petrolle, FIGHTS RIVALS’ WAY| Reptember | then ! at that style. you will discourage and | was training | the | York, beat Archie Bell, New York (101 | SPORTS 'CHAMP ASSERTS HE HAS BEST'BATCH IN THE GAME Jack Perfectly Willing to Match His Training Assistants Against Those of Tunney to Demonstrate They Are Classy Lot. BY JACK DEMPSEY. TLANTIC CITY. N, J. September 11.—Some of these daye my sparring partners may happen to read what Gene Tunney has | been saving about them—and ‘then they are liable to go jumping , over to Stroudsburg and bygin paging Gene with a pair of firsts Gene's comebagks when he hears that I'm bouncing myv sparrers around and dropping a few is: “Well, who couldn't? Dempsey’s got a paor partners. Angbody could beat them up.” Now. let's see about this: Bill Tate is my chief sparring partner® And Bill's the man who won om Harry Wills on a foul, and then when Harry wanted another chance | Bill obliged—and knocked the wadding out -of Harr, He had Wille on the floor twice and he heat up Harry in sh ful fashion. smge which time you couldn’t drag Ha into the ring with Bi'k: — Marty Burke is another of my “bum Famous Battles+ i i i e o ney twice. onc 10 rounds and the for lot of sparring ! next time for He gave Gene just al Gene handed 1 n those and Marty fought » ‘mwl\l whipp W men that Gene . e, didn’t seem to care much about meet Heavyweight " Title | | lie ¢"Kid)y Herman men his division there = Charlie ound negro from is one of the has produced Anderson, the Jack Johnson h wh ago, who oL ol tore a page from in defeating Stanleyy Ketchel in the twelfth round at Colma, | locks me Tk Calif.. July 4, 1907. “Brer Possum A real comer: a showed Johnson the way | hard hitter. fast Ketchel drove home a series of ter- | Rl e rific smashes to the champion’s head. Blinient. Right Johnson simulated grogginess and the | kAT | challenger .rushed in to finish him o o Sealnt | Suddenly the negro came to life and | MR eare ol ihe Ketchel's charge was stopped by a | zame barrin right and left to the jaw, either of et xod bot which might have feiled an ox, in the Hore (haAn " judgment ‘of expert opinion of the | thac b day. i | This Frankir The loser was severely griticized by gl bl his friends. who declared that he was Flntat st guilty of carelessness in placing him- & blg—ant pleas self in a receptive position for the Bt hiEp: a1 telling bloys. me. Walk Mill o information was available, how- Rei b RIS Alah ever, that Ketchel had heard of the ARE R OB Hewr tactics of “Brer Possum” in playing | ;4 Busch had only been in 11 fAghts dead when he was very much altve. | o pch" Ghie 170 and was 5 feet to 4 win b TR & JACK DEMPSLY more (and it has enriched m goods) I would consider the can have—a legion of iriends. Real weather fellows. Friends who have and who will, I think, continue to st Of course, T had many friends be- fore I entered the ring, and. as in the case with every one, would have loyal buddies if T were a clerk now instead of a heavyweight contender. How- ever, but for box- ing I wouldn't have met many of the triends T hold 80 dear, T wouldn't have had the op- portunity to travel which my ring ca- reer has given me and wouldn't have had the chance to meet the men I count as ‘“being in my corner” all | over the country. na Men in all wal of life from the GINE TUNNEY most lowly to those of the high - est strata. Boxing has enlisted in my army of friends thousands I never have had the pleasure of meeting, too, men, women and children daily, wishing me success in my com- States, whose business it is to docr sports for the ] annual Nationa! Recreation C | to 22, inclusive. | Headquarters will be at Chalfonte Llluddon Hall. to which point play- ground supervisors, leaders and health specialists will be drawn to exchange views in open meetings and to zain new inspiration for their teaching voung people how to play. | Nationally-known lecturers, recrea tion and medical heads will address the conventlon. offering suggestions and assistance in building up a con- structive program Jf outdoor acti for the ensuing year. Semi-finalists for the interplay- ground net championship. will clash Monday on the Bloomingdale courts, according to Maude Parker, director of girls' activities. Teresa Breen and Alice Brown of Garfleld, the combination favored by many to win the title,“wili face the New York avenue defenders. Virginia Ryan and Margaret Moore, while Judith Fishburn and Louise Raff of Mitchell Park will oppose Bertha Ryan and Emily Harrington of Bloom. ingdale. 1 Winners of these matches will plav \for the title Tuesday. on the same courts. Gold medals will be awarded the championship team Collecting 23 points bY placing first in four events and second in a fifth, Theressa ®rown won highest individ- ual score in the Payne playground track meet yesterday. Thelma John- \son topped the cards on the Howard 'tield, gathering 23 tallles also by dupli- cating the Payne winner's per- formance of 4 firsts and 1 Helen Flynn scored over Willow Tree contenders with 16 points to her ( credit. ! Summaries: Payne Playground. 70-pound class: 40.vard dash—Won by Florence Perry: secnd. Geraldine Westray: third. Mary Brown. Running _high _jum: Perry: second, Geraldine Westras: Mary Brown w for distance—Won by Anme Brown: second. Geraldine Westrar: third, Florence Perry_ Balancing—T¥on br Mary Broxn: second Annls Brown: third. Cecelia Middleton ass: B50-vard dash—Won by T second. Gladys Franklin: third. Katherine M-Pheraon. Running _high jump—Won by Gladrs anklin: second. Theressa Browg: third therine_ M cPherson.” Running broad jumo—Ton be Brown. second. Gladrs Franklin essa Hollaway, or aistance—Won br Theressa Gladys Prankiin: ce—i'on by Theresa Brovn Franklin: third, Odessa Hol- i ound class: B0-vard_dash—TWon be Tera Yates: second Hale: third. Ce. ceifa Matihewe Running high jump—Won br Vera Yates socond Bfon brute: \hird, Cocelia’ Aacenes unning broad u on by Oles Hale socondCocelta Mablnews: third, " Cecalia ch. TOR1C sor dstanco—Won by Vors Tates: “on hy Florence third, Theresaa third, TUNNEY VALUES FIGHTING wisely invested, for they have brought me the finest thing a man |[about 133 for Saxon., They They write me | |WOMEN IN SPORT BY CORINNE FRAZIER | LAYGROUND and recreation workers from all sections of the United | outh of the country. will meet in the thirteenth | work of | second. | third. | inches tall. T didn't expect much that is good—awfully, awtulls good. He is very clover. he ste ound nicely, he knows how to tak: Leare of himéelf. how to hit—and he can take it. ‘He's'a boy with a re ring future or 1'm guessing wrong - Mike Arnoldis # good man out as good as any that Jimmy Brown, the middlewe Panama. is a_ streak of lightning oinny Saxon and F nkie Carpenticy TROUDSBURG, Pa.. September 11.—1i boxing had given me sothing | gr mighty good men. too in weight from ries 10 are of all fair- | shapes and_sizes, and I figure that grouped together, they make an {dea | crew. For one or the other provides me with whatever I need to get prop erly tuned—speed. defense, mauling clnching or punching practic Of course, Gene mav he right—anc the record hooks and the stories of the ring achievements of my sparri partners mav be all wrong. But think mv matés-are the best tha® an: champion ever had. If Gens think his are better, why, perhaps we could | match_the Boys up some afternoon- | his partners and mine—and see which swd fs hetter Or if Gene thinks my hoye ara &0 to knock ovér, why. T might zet some day and giva the st by letting them go over camp and letting hitm tr to knock them over. 1 do want to be nicé to GGene in ant ay thaf I can—until the gong bang< After that it's going to be surprisinz lifferent—for Gene (Conyright: DONOR OF DAVIS CUP WINS IN VETS' MATCH By the Associated Press | PHILADELPHIA, September 11 Davis cup heroes of other vears shared the spotlight vesterday at the Germantown Crickst uh. when Dwizht F. Davis, donor of the famous | trophy and now Seéretary of War | teamed with William J. Clothler of | Philadelphia 10 defeat Norman i | Brookes, veteran Australian wizard nd Beals Wright of New York — 0, - R 7! o | Averaging now about 50 vears Atlantic City, October 18| yoo %11 four of these men held na | tional titles in heir prime Davis | was a member of the American teamn that defeated Great Rritain in 1300 | In the first cup series. Wright and Clothier both played on the Amer team for the first time fn 1905 Brookes. who figured in five Aus 7 Davis cup triumphs, last apeted for the trophy in 1920 ing to Tilden and Johnston All of the veterans are left-handers ex cept Clothier e mentally, physically andin worldly | My sparrers range vears 1 have spent in the ring most | the 230 pounds that Bill . tried an@ true friends and not stuck to me through thick and thin o’ me” ing contest with Jack Dempsey. are praying for me. the send me sacred emblems, tokens of { good luck, litMe gifts. 1 appreciate] | these things more than 1 can tell and | I Td like nothing more than the oppor- | | tunity to meet every person who has | written me here at Stroudsburg. and | offer my lgeartfelt thanks. Howev that is impossible. and it is, likewise, | impossible for me to answer every let- ter that comes my way. My days are | too much taken up by training for the mateh which 1 so confidently believe | will result in my being crowned cham- {pion. 1 can tell of my gratitude | through this column. however | now to these friends let me eat: {“T am going to be heavyweight cham | pion,” This may smack of braggadocio, but it is merely a firm conviction on my part that I am a better pugilist than | is Jack Dempsey. Were I not certain | of that nothing would. induce to | | meet him, for T most assuredly would not enter into a contest, backed by the | | money and well wishes of my friends. | 1if T did not know that 1 would win for They they 9761 | them. | “Copsright. 1 plan and carry out programs of out “ongress at hews third. Olea Haie by Olea Hale: second. | Vera Yates: third. Cecelia Matthews | HOWARD PLAYGROUND. A: 40.vard dash—Won by second. Katherine Wright high | se ovelis Class Johnson Helen Ro Run | Hushes. Totato raca—Won | second. Kolosa Hughes, Three-legeeq raca—Won by Kolosa Highes second. Gertrude B; Throw for distai Wright second. Kolo: 100-pound _class Dora | third. | jump—Won by Kolosa | by Beatrice Kelles Katherine RADIATORS, FENDERS BODIFS AADEMND REPAIRF.D NTW RADIAT S FOR AUTOSN WITTSTATT'SR. & F. WKS. 319 13th NW. 1923 P, REAR. Standard MakeTires ON CREDIT Phelps Auto Exchange 1625 14th St. NW. Wallace Motor Co.| means NASH Sales and Service 1709 L Street N.W. Just East of Conn. Ave. Main 7612 B0-vard dash—Won he Constance Brown: second. Hazel Ellia. third. | Hattie Kelley Running high jump—Won by Brown: second. Hazel Ellia Runming broad jump—Won Keller. Throw Bigwn® se: Constanee by Cor Hattie by nee Keilex nound class: 60-x Helen Hughes second third. Novella Wright Running high _jump—1v Johnson: second. Helen H Throw for Johnson: second. Novelly race—Won by Theima 1. Helen Hughes, of qunit—Won by Thelma son”_second Novella Wright i Xote—Third places not reported by rector.) \ WILLOW TREF PLAYGRO | 180-pound class: 60-vard dash—Won by | Mari> Edelyn: second. Gladys Coleman: third Helen Flrnn, Running _hizh ‘second. Luc dash—Won b | Theima Johnson | br Thaima Thelma Johnson John di ump—Won by _Helen le Minor: third. Bernice Ware. Running broad _jump—Won by 'iynn: vecond. Lucille Minor: third | Edal Throw for distance—Won he Helen Flsnn second. Marie Edelvn: third. Lucile Minor. 12" Novelty race—Won by Bermica Ware and | | Estelle_Pendelton: second. Lucille Brown and | Rosa Foreman | : —— Helen Manie | | CHICAGO, September 11 (#).— | Johnny Weissmuller of the I A. C. | | splashed 880 vards in 12:26 35 to win ! that free style event in the Central A | A. U. championship swimming meet | | here. | HAWKINS ! | | i i | 1 f ! Motor Trucks Fr. 1170 228 First St. NW. MOTOR CO. | v peusic Reduction | Convenientiy Located | That Insures Greatest H on Fourteenth Street 183337 14tk St. Main 5788 Power ' T > ] ! WEISSMULLER IS WINNER. | | | WHO'S WHO 'IN TRUCKDUM |