Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1926, Page 31

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 0., MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1926. SPORTS. 81 Dempsey Declares He Can Name Winning Round Should He Meet Tunney Again JACK, CONFIDENT, BRANDS “POISON” STORY AS HOKUNM Contagious Rash With Which He Was Afflicted Day After Losing Heavy “Doping’’ Storie: ping’/ 08 ANG Jack Del his *poisoni JES, December 13.— nsey's own story of > at the time of the bout in Philadelphia which cost him his heavyweight title has been told by the former champion her: Stories quoting att Dempsey camp and Ja y himself ‘that he was poisoned at the time of the hout have resuited in re- peated ¢ ials by the boxer. A contagi with Dempsey the day the cha and mp in train him as -the ahout being ches of Demps: the ash which after npionship n out in his car ‘Fifteen days be of my sparring par ar. penter, showed up work with a “rope burn’ on his shoulder,” explained Dempsey nd bleeding ® little hit n medical at the ficht one rs < raw which | Title Only Basis for s From Attaches. About a week later part in a fight show s all right of or before n Carpenter took T was sparr arpenter, 4 J rash, and I sent him to the hospita rash. The day after the rash my doc- 1 can't think of the name of it. Where | my being poisoned after { meeting Tunney in the r zain and a If we meet ag: tention, T think. fand apparently w | three day took off his after the round. His body had broken out in a {once. A few davs later another mem iber of the camp broke out with the v | tor founa the same rash on my body. “Tt was a very contagions infection. Carpenter got it is a mystery | never hothered & of Repor “!urm:.' the ht are kum.” Dempsey reiterated his intention of | his confidence that he win b his title round the heavywej back to me,” he said. n 1 can name the ht title will come WAVERLY IS ONLY ELEVEN THE MOVING FINGER IN HAWKS’ PATH TO TITLE st one team stands between nd another District un- sandlot foot ball cham- pionship. A victory over Waverly eleven, to be met Sunday at Clark Griffith Stadium, will give the Hawks clear claim to supremacy. Each has defeated the other once this season. Waverly won, 3 to 0, early in the sea- son and later evened mat- ters with A smashing attack yesterda at Griffith S Hmited clas ing Apache eleven by many as the challenger. Some The lone touchdown second period when Degass Georgetown dependable, plunged over after a determined Mohawk drive from midfield in_which the erstwhile Hilltopper and Edward Abbaticchio, late of Mount St. Mary College, were the chief ground-gainers. Degassis caught a forward pass from Fee Col. liere for the extra point. Apaches, unable to employ ad- vantageously forward passes and end sweeps because of the muddy footing, could not cope with the power of their heavier rivals, who made ten first downs to the Little Indians’ five. The challengers on two occasions with Mat Twoomey leading the way loomed dangerous, but in both instances the Hawks held for downs. in s, former came Northern foot ball warriors nosed out Renrocs on the Washingtdbn Bar- racks’ gridiron yesterday, pushing their way to a last-minute touchdown which brought a 13-to-6 victory. Northern scored in the first period with MacDonald carrying the ball over after a succession of first downs and threatened the Renroc goal several times in the second period. In the fourth period Renroc tied the score when a series of end runs and passes carried the ball to the North- ern 3-yard line. Three rushes were unsuccessful but finally Barry went over for the touchdown. _Allman missed in the try for goal. Then the Northerns pushed their way down the field through a rugged Renroc defense fto score the winning touchdown. | A 7to-0 victory over the Crescent C. on the Monument grounds brought to the St. Stephen eleven the 135-pound sandiot grid title yes- terday. Santo Zumbo was the star of the game for St. Stephen, paving the way to its touchdown with a 40-yard run off tackle. Warren took the leather across. | Stanton A. C. foot ball team rang up n early touchdown on the Kenil- worth A. C. yesterday, winning 6 to 0. Stantons Sunday Wintons, 150-pound. District title holders, and the Clarendon Lyons, |claimants of the northen Virginia {crown at that weight, fought to a | scoreless tie veserday on the Claren- don gridiron before one of the largest crowds that has seen a foot ball game in Arlington County. shadow of the Clarendon goal. Another scoreless tie resulted in the game between Northen Juniors and Mohawk Preps, contenders for the District 115-pound title, on one of the Tidal Basin gridirons. Northerns made 12 first downs to 6 for the Little Hawks. Eagle Juniors and Eagle Preps played to a 6-to-6.draw yesterday on Fairlawn Field. Monroe’s 125-pound eleven trimmed the Petworth Cardinal® on the Tidal Basin field by a margin of a try for goal after touchdown, winning by 7 to 6. Baker kicked the goal that gave Monroe victory. Monroe tied the Wintons came | within five yards of scoring in the | closing momets, rushing and passing | the ball from their 20-yard line to the | re booked to face Northerns | “The moving finger writes; and, having writ, anfn on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a ne, Nfl; ;|:l| thy tears wash out a word of it.” Omar the cigarette-maker certainly knew his vegetables. The wabbling finger of susplcion has been inclined toward the boxing game rather often of late. Probably one hundred thousand of those present the night it rained at the Sesqui still think that the Demp- sey-Tunney fight was a fake. Quite a number of folks out in Chicago— including the mayor—still think that there was something wrong with the Flowers-Walker battle the other { night. Disputed But “Square.” Both battles were absolutely on the square a whole handful of fingers of suspicion notwithstanding. Benny Yanger's decislon——right or wrong—was an honest one; and if score with a touchdown in the last few minutes of play on a pass from Baker to Denniberg. Tivoli Terrors rang up a 32-to-12 ;lctory vesterday over the Merton All- Daredevil Dogs trounced the Clover grid warriors yesterday, 18 to 6, with Roberts starring for the winners. Seat Pleasant and Collegian gridmen battled to a 6-to-6 deadlock yesterday. COOPER, WITH 293 CARD, TAKES RICH GOLF EVENT By the Associated Press DEL MONTE, Calif., December 13. —A little man with a mighty set of clubs carried the title of the Monterey Peninsula open golf champion and an additional $1,300 in his pockets today. He is Harry Cooper of Los Angeles who came out of Texas virtually un- Known a year ago to capture the $10, 000 Los “Angeles open tournament. Yesterday he added to his honors by clubbing a title from the green fair- ways of Pebble Beach against one of the greatest fields ever assembled out- side the national open championships, A total ‘of $5,000 was given in prizes. Cooper’s score for the 72 holes was 293, two strokes better than his near- est rival, Larry Nabholtz of Cleve- iand, who finished the four rounds in 295. A pair of firm wrists and an unexcitable state of mind, while early leaders and his nearest competitors blew up, carried Cooper to the top of the ladder. Only once did his game falter, and that on the last nine holes of the final round. He registered 42, G over par, but a 34 on the preceding nine was sufficient to balance the total His scores for the 72 holes . 72, 76—293. Cooper went into the final 18 holes tied with Johnny Farrell of New York, but the blazing pace was too much for the latter. The Easterner went o pleces, putting three balls into the ocean on the last four holes. The six-stroke loss killed his chances, giving him a 79, a total of 296, to tie with William (“Wild Bill") Mehlhorn of Chicago for third place. True to his past form, Mehihorn, who led the first two rounds, staged his usual blow-up. He gave up the lead on the fifty-fourth hole, and in the course of two hours dropped to sixth place, only to make a partial comeback to end even with Farrell. George von Elm of Los Angeles, national amateur champion, led the Simon pures with a 299, but was tied for sixth in competition against the open field. John McHugh of San Francisco and Harold Thompson of Glendale, Calif., tied for second among the amateurs with scores of 313, Aside from Cooper’s victory, one of the features of the tourney was the sensational finish of Nabholtz. At the start of the final 36 he was in six- teenth place. A brilllant 69, which equals the course record, during the morning placed him among the lead- ers. Leo Diegel of Los Angeles jolned Melhorn _and Farrell in golng to pleces. He took nine strokes on the seventy-second hole to finish, tied for sixth place with five others at 299, when a par 5 would have given him 69 and a tie for second. Cfi)e € bening Star BOYS CLUB Basket ball practice isn’t work When Homer E. Crooker, head- master of Berwick Academy, South Berwick, Me., is the coach. He makes the practice session enjoy- able, which it should be. BY HOMER E. CROOKER, ~(Headmaster of Berwick Academy.) Here is a game for ecarly season work which will help you improve your shooting and at the same time provide a lot of fun In the first place, it is better to have two balls, although the game may be played with only one. Line up all of the squad just back of the foul line, facing the basket Beginning at one end of the line the captain will count off the men— pne, two, three, etc. Each man then bas a number. All even numbers make up one team and odd numbers the other team When the whistle ers one and two start shooting. Ym, makes a shot and follows it up. 'f the first shot goes in that counts wo points for his side. If the sec- ond shot goes in that counts one point two points for the first shot and one point for the rebound. After No. 1 has had his two shots he passes the ball back to No. 3— the next man on his side, and No. 2 makes his two shots and back to No. 4, and so on. ‘This con- down. a4 o is blown num- Nos. 1 and 2 again take the ball. One boy on each side is appointed to keep score, calling off the total after each basket. Let a total score of 25 make a game. The first side to score points is the winner. It won't take long to make 25, and then you can start a new game. It 25 is more fun to have two or three games than one long one. After the first game start the pass- ing from the other end of the line, the bigger numbers getting the first shots, and if the two balls are not equally good, change. Give the other side the better ball this time. (Cobyright. 1926.) (Next—Another Practice Game by Coach Crooker.) Hockey Bas supplanted tacros: i pational geme of {pnada, g With the ANSDALE of the Santa Maria quint, which is setting the pace in the Knights of Columbus Bowling League, not only heads that circuit at spare making, but also has the best average. The man who has toppled 73 spares has walloped the maples at a clip of 107-2 per game. Gorton of the Genoas has rolled high game at 139, and with Colbert of the Ovandos and Casper of the Salvadors shares the high strike mark of 12. High set of 358 was bowled by McLarney of the Colum- bias, while Weeks of the Balboas has hit a high flat game of 96. All but one team record belongs to the Santa Marias. They have high average of 505, high game of 547, high set of 1,602 and have made 234 spares. The Columbias lead at strike mak- ing_with 44. The league standing &?llowfl' Santa Maria. . 38 Genoa . Ovando Columbia " Christopher . rinidad OO, BINarRRn ES COUNTY LEAGUE. Team Standing. St. Jeroi Americar Arcades Stephens ‘A o n Legion =S FEERRPP i« BERSSGR e D0R0- 1A eIy Service Laundry. . Tndian Creek Laundry Colleglates increased their lead to three games over the second-place Company F quint last week in the Prince Georges County Duckpin Asso- ciation race. The pace-setters, who have lost in but one of 24 starts, hand- ed Stephen A. C. that had been per- forming impressively a three-game setback, while Company F was unable to bag the odd game from American Legion maplemen. St. Jeromes pulled to third from | top in the standing by sweeping a set | against Service Laundry. To advance 0 a fourth-place deadlock with Amer- can Leglon, Arcades “cleaned up” against Plggly Wiggly. | 'In other matches, Independents | scored twice over Czarra-Constantine | Co., Gretta took a pair from Junior A. C, Mount Ranier came to life to Jane a trio of tilts from Chillum, and Ross All-Stars three times took the last-place Indian Creek Laundry team | over the bumps. | COMMERCE LEAGUE. Team Standing. Won. Lost. Pot, 28" 11 720 1z 899 12 609 18 Foreign & Dom. Commerc Mines ... ecres : Patent_Office. Goast and Geode Standards . Census .. Lighthotses 0 High team and Domestic O eh teani iine—Forelgn and Domestic rce. BT . e hividual set—Miltner (Forelgn and ic" Commerce). 2 Do Jnavlual” gime—Ruderman (Secre- g indjvidual averages—Clements 34: Miltner (Foreign and Do- 107-34: merce). 105-28; Freeman (Cen- 38 71 10 333 - 13 set—Foreign rolled before the closing of the firat serfes in the Commerce League, For- elgn and Domestic Commerce jumped into the lead through its win of three games last week from Patent Office. Secretary, by taking two games | from Standards, remains deadlocked | in second place with Bureau of Mines. Coast Survey won three games from | Lighthouses, and Census perform from Mines. The Census delegation will undoubtedly be a strong factor during the second series of games. Shea’s set of 3¢1 was high for the wesk and Faber's 331 sacond Dgsty exceedingly well by taking two games | Dempsey was polsoned at all it was | by the good right hand of Gene Tun- ney. The battered old fight game is not | as bad as it is tainted. I have been | watching boxing matches ever since | Bat Nelson won from Joe Gans in San Francisco 18 years ago, and I have seen very few contests that I felt sure had been prearranged for the best man to lose. A Championship Fake. The only championship contest that I felt sure was a fake was the one when Mike O'Dowd knocked out Al McCoy for the middleweight title. The Carpenter-Levinsky battle didn’t look very good either. And there has always been plenty of pro and con about the Willard-Johnson contest in Havana. Of course, there are occasions when fighters permit their less skillful op- ponents to last the limit, and now and then some manager arranges a series | of “set-ups” for his fighter in whigh | he makes sure beforehand that the Bowlers Freeman of Census rolled close to a record in his third game, totaling 137 pins, barely missing through the fail- | ure of one pin to fall for a spare in the tenth frame after a seemingly perfect hit. WAR DEPARTMENT LEAGUE. A Dl pisiners Reproduetton” *2.0 11111 broy Topos after a game fight have at| last gone into the War Department | League leadership. Though tled in/ number of games won and lost with | the Frankies, they hold first place by virtue of a greater pin-fall. Statistics have been up against it for the past month, luck seeming to have deserted entirely. This ag- gregation has turned in the highest set rolled in three of the last four weeks, and with all that the best it could do was land one game a set. Last week it was a victim of the Aviators. The following teams are scheduled to roll Friday, December 17, starting at 7 p.m. Topos, Medicos, Reproduc- tion, Statistics, Frankies, Barbettes, Construction, Air Service, Hobbies and District Engineers. Hobbies turned in a game not often seen, when they made 10 strikes and but a single spare in their final game. Though the number of marks regis- tered were few, every one was made to count, as eight of the ten were double-headers. Three weeks ago the Auditors were fourth from the top. This week they are fourth from the bottom and still | slipping. Here are facts and figures of last week's performances in several circuits: NAUTICAL LEAGUE. Team Standing. £ 32 1D OBGIR SN S Drifters’ Canoe_. . Potomac Boat Club. Washington Cange Rodk [Haven Canoe. . Bonzai Canoe .. Washington Stars . El Dorad ST e e ARSIt nlainin b Y peperbe st SRR 138 HiEh toim gamepRotomac, Boat. 094 oreHgh, ndividual Fame—McCauley, Dritte olligh " individusl ~set—Mosny. Potomao. h tndividusl average—Daily, Drifters, roatest number of strikes—MoCalley, 11 Drifters. 23. umber of epares—Meany. Po- - reatest tomac Boat. —_— A. D. Broughton of Gooden Beach, England, holds the ‘‘waggling” record In golf. He waved his club 52 times before making an iron shot in an event on the Walton Heath course. WALLACE MoTor Co. Just East of Conm. Ave, N 212 —BY RIPLEY. { | | sucker goes out with neatness and patch However, in cases of this kind the best man always wins. Flowers-Walker Decision. The fact that the Flowers-Walker decision may have been a bad one does not mean that it was crooked. The worst decision that I ever saw was the decision given to Mike Mc- Tigue over this same Flowers, and this verdict was rendered by two New York business men of such standing as to eliminate all thought of duplicity, Why should Dempsey are only two reasons for a fixed fight—money or a title. Dempsey had both. The championship was the greatest thing in his whole life, and don’t think that he was not proud of it. The loss of it means a loss of prestige and earning power that could never be matched by any ill- gotten gain of a “frame. Dempsey Had Slipped. Cream in his coffee? Nonsense. Consider the source of that yarn and forget it. Dempsey was not as good as the fans thought he was, while Tunney was better than they imagin- ed. That's the answer. fake? There e G Spring. | with SQUASH RACKETERS |WEST GETS GOLF CLASSIC SECOND TIME IN HISTORY LIST MANY MATCHES Squash racqueters of Washington Racquet Club, who opened their sea son with a victory over Green Spring Valley Club team Baltimore, § matches to 1, at the local club, will | engage another Baltimore team next | Saturday, appearing against Balti- | more Athletic Club in the Monumen- tal City. Other matches listed for Washing- | ton Racquet Club follows | January 8—Baltimore Athietic home: 15, Philadelphia at home Spring Valles Club February § 3", Rockawa of Club at Green Club at | 19, National championships at D rojt. March 5. Philadelphia at Philadelphia. The second match was the only one dropped by the local racqueters against Green Spring Valley netmen Following are the results: E. H. Hinkle, Racquet Club, defeated J. Carey, Green Spring, 15—7, 16—12. 16m=1 E_'B._ Whitman, J. B ‘Whitman, 13—15. 15—1 C. P Stone, 7. B. Ram L home trojt e e = R Spring. Club, ir. . Green 3. °16- auet Cluh pring. 9—15 L. DeSibour.’ Racquet Club, Goldshorough * Green Sprini. 5—9. 16— | Blair, Racquet Club, defeated G -9, 15—8. 1 defeat defeat feal 15— quet Club, defeated T pring, 15—12. 15 L. Goodnow, 15 quet Club, Spring, 15 Block. R: Gren W Miller, Racay Carey. | Green' Spring, 5—4 ; DARTMOUTH TRACKMEN LIST MEETS IN VIRGINIA HANOVER, N. H., December 13 (#).—The Dartmouth College track team will make a Southern trip next The track schedule includes meets Virginia at Virginia, April 2; with Willlam and Mary at Willlam and Mary April 5, and Virginia Poly- in California Ten Years 'Western Amateur, Which Goes to Seattle, Was Held Ago—Game Growing “Out There” in Rapid Manner. By the A CHICA second inted Press Decembe history —For the a major golf | 1 on the Pa- | stern amateur been warded t. Club by the Eastern | The Western open | the Olympia Fields | Club of Chicago. s ago the Western amateur ed at Del Monte, Calif., but 8o few plavers from east of the Rockies were able to compete that the plan of going to the coast was | andoned until this year. Coast, the meet havir cifie title Country | Ten yes Tourneys Are Demanded. | The growth of golf in the Far West and vietor scored by westerners in | | national meets have made demands | | for the staging of championships | | more insistent vearly. Last on the Western amateur title was won | by Frank, Dolp of Portland, Oreg., and | the national crown was carried to | | the Pacific by George von Eim of | | Los Angeles,” who defeated Bobby | | Jones of Atlanta in the finals. This | latter victory by a Western golfer has brought about a tentative plan to carry the national amateur to the Pacific’ Coast within a year or two | also. ! The Western amateur will be played the week of July 18, while the na- | tional amateur will take place at the Minikahda Club, Minneapolis, Au- gust 2, placing the two major simon pure golf events west of the Missis- sippt River in 1827. Dolp won the Western title at St. Paul this year over the links of the technic Institute at Virginia Poly- technic Institute on April 9. ‘White Bear Yacht Club. This club sought the Western open for 1927, but WARM FIGHT IS EXPECTED ON RANKING By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 13.—Dis- pute over the ranking of Vincent | Richards, professional tennis sitr, at the head of the metropolitan list seems likely to be carried to the floor of the annual United States Lawn Tennis Association meeting here in February. ‘The metropolitan ranking commi tee, headed by Willlam Fischer of New York, who is also chairman of the national ranking committee, placed Richards in No. 1 position after the former Davis Cup star had joined the professional forces at the close of the amateur season. ‘The executive committee of the United States Lawn Tennis Associa- tion, meeting here Saturday, recom- mended that the coming session of the national body consider “none but am- ateur players * * * in any ranking of the national association or its sub- > While no a IS “They Know” (The Fourth of a Serles) | | OF RICHARDS | nouncement was made, it is belleved | that a national ranking was submit- | ted to the executive committee for ap- proval by Mr. Fischer shortly before the resolution was adopted. | Tennis critics believe that in the {event of verbal warfare over the choice of a professional as ranking amateur tennis player of the coun- | try, a specia)l body will be chosen at the meeting to work with the ranking committee in naming the list. The delegates in the past have not fol- lowed at all times the suggestions of the executive committee. The executive committee also adopt- ed a resolution barring Miss Mary K. Browne, Harvey Snodgrass and How- ard Kinsey, professional associates of Mlle. Lenglen, from “any further com- petition in amateur matches or tour- naments held under the auspices of the United States Lawn Tennis Asso- ciation.” The resolution will be sent | night | vor of the the event deferred its request Chicago club, hoping in 1928, The Saturday d by the G. A. for severil years. Reports showed the addition of 63 new mem- ber clubs, making the total G603, and constituting the W. G. A. the largest £olf organization in the world This leadership likely will be as- sumed by the national parent body the United States Golf Assoclation, within a short time, as it is planned at the annual meeting in January to allow allied clubs to become active members. Charles O. Pfeil of Mempl vice president of the U. who attended the meeting of the W A of which he was president for three ears, sald with the extension of active memberships by the U. 8. G A. that body might soon have up ward of 1,000 members. TWO IN LOW NET TIE IN GOLF AT ARGYLE Forrest Thompson and Emmett Heitmuller tied for low net in the postponed turkey golf tournament at Argyle Country Club yesterday, with scores of 73. Thompson had $i—11 73, while Heitmuller, who is president of the club, had 86—13—73. Wilbur Taylor was in third place with 100—26—74. John C. Shorey won low gross and a prize with a card of 76. The mystery prize for the player showing the greatest difference in strokes on any holes during the round went to Melvin Fischer. Fisher had a 3 on the eighth hole and a 12 on the ninth. annual was the meeting his, senior G CHAMPION TO APPEAR IN A SEMI-FINAL BOUT NEWARK, N. J., December 13 (®), —Rarely does a world champion ac- cept anything but a feature bout, but Phil Rosenberg, head of the bantam division, is to appear in a semi-final contest at the Christmas fund show December 20. The appearance of anoth champion, Jack Delaney, of the light heavyweights, who tackles Bud Gor- man of Wisconsin, his first heavy. weight opponent, in the main hout forced Rosenberg into the compara- tively minor role. CUMBERLAND CLUB SOLD. CUMBERLAND, Md., December 13. —Ownership of the Cumberland team of the Middle Atlantic Base Ball League has been acquired by James r world to the International Lawn Tennis Fed- eratio F. McGuire, who formerly controlled the club. 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