Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1928, Page 27

SP ORTS.? AS HE DEFEATS SHARKEY . | However, His Decisive W Puts Him at Top of “Logical™ Contender ‘ List, With Heeney Close Up. | — ) ated Pross ' EW YORK. March 13.—What- cver “logic” there was in Tex | Rickard's campaign to produce a logical - contender for Gene Tunney's title was swept out of | son’ Square Garden today by the ' with whatever hopes | v had of some time ruling 2 heights of pugilism. Theoretically. Johnny Risko, the | pudgy Austrian baker of Cleveland, slands out today as the foremost chal- Jenger for the title the big Marine won and defended in two battles with | Jack Dempsey. Almost on a par with Risko star “Honest Tom™ Heeney. the plugging blacksmith of New Zealand. But there isn't an ounce of the color impressario has sought Iy i her Risko or Heeney. ‘The baker boy ped Jack Sharkey decisively 15 rounds last night in mixing before the smallest crowd that ever saw an _important heavyweight | match here. Heeney did little better | ~than a draw when he won a decision er Jack Delaney in the first of the nination semi-finals on March 1. An Uninteresting Brawl. Just as Heener's victory was a tame. colorless exhibition of what patient and ainstaking endeavor, coupled with an | ron constitution, can do, so was R victory over Sharkey a most uninter ing brawl that merely dragged every- body concerned into mediocrity. ertheless, Risko and Heeney stand tocay as the ivors of the tourney. hailed far and wide as a last ditch effort to uncover Tunney's June foe.| But the real sufferer appeared to be | the promoter himself, who left the| Garden last night with the boos of the discouraged fans drumming in his ears while his mind roamed to a $1.000.000 | contract he holds with Tunney for his next title defense. For there appeared little probability that the crowd of 10.000 who paid but $100.900 to see the doughnut maker knead Sharkey | out of thape would appear in sufficient | quantities to watch either Risko or | Heeney do battle with the champion. | From the opening round. the rotund shock absorber, a veritable balloon: tire of a man, leaped and plunged int Sharkey, belaboring him constantly with a left hook to the body that! strion ‘in in 15-Round Contest curled up from his heels. The Boston | sailor man boxed his rival and still the lefi hook roomed out of nowhere to smack iato its mark Shlrkfi.\" worked in close to evade the punch. grabbed the left arm. nafled both | ‘elbows to his ribs and tried every de- fensive trick of the game, but still the left hooking went on Left Hook Decides. ! In the cnd, that left hook, the sole real ofiensive threat Risko carried, won nine of the 15 rounds. The short right flush to the heart, Sharkey's best vunch. coupled with a left hook, won siv heats for the Boston man, who | just a year ago was considered the | greatest ‘of the younger heavyweights, Round after round, with no varia- | tion. the battlers stuck to their favor- ite styles and the fans yawned. Risko made his best showing in the second. eighth, ninth, tenth and thir- tecnth rounds. when he hung his left with equal abandon on Sharkey's ribs | and chin. In the tenth Sharkey went | down for a count of four, but it was | more of a slip than from the effects | of punches, and he asured the referee | —although nobody appeared really in- | terested—that he was “all right.” While the fight left Heeney and Risko on the top of the contending heap, that part of the climination tourney was | settled months ago in Detroit. where | Heeney won a decision over Johnny that was as colorless as though it was | & part of Rickard's own program. Dempsey Only Hope. For the promoter there appeared but one ray of hope on the gloomy horizdn. Jack Dempsey himself, savior of the | heavyweight situation last year and the only man who ever inspired & $2.500.- 000 gate, will return to New York to settle several court actions. He will discuss the situation with the promoter, and the man who made Jack a million- aire admitted that his pleas for a sec- ond come-back on the part of the for- | mer champion “ought to move any one’s heart.” | For the time being, Rickard plans to | match Heen: Risko. But he frankly admits that his fingers are| crossed, that there probably won't be any title fight in June, after all, and that if Tunney does defend his crown this year “Jack Dempsey must be in the other corner.” . Defeat by Johnny Risko Ends Sharkey as Title Contender BY TOMMY LOUGHRAN. | Lizbt Heavsweight Champion of the World. { (Copyrizhy 1 American ver Alliance. ) NEW YORK, March 13—Just as I predicted Johnny Risko defeated Jack Sharkey in their 15-round fight here last night. The experience the Cleve- land baker got at the hands of the| 8. in News: his head as he tore in. which | to the jaw chief | left-hand punch was_ Johnny usually landed, countriss by North | Weapon. Sharkey didn’t seem to be able | April 6, 7 an to defend himself against this blow, | except by throwing a short right-hand cross inside Risko's left, which blow rarely landed due to Johnny lowering Sharkey was way off in his judgment | light heavyweights enabled him to out- | of distance. and looked bad by the w THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, hots Seem Alike to Jones SIDE VIEW TAKES ALITTLE SAND DIVOT B N BY SOL METZGER. Bobby Jones can play a ball closer to the pin from a bad lie in the sand than most of us can from the fairway from a like distance. Booby shoots for the cup and makes the ball bite and hold. Note the sketches showing the club meeting the ball. Jones takes an erect stance for this shot with his feet close to- ‘go(hr‘n playing the ball off his right 0ot ‘That permits him to make contact with the ball on the down-swing. As he takes the ball before striking the sand, this imparis backspin or stop, which is a brief way of stating that the ball has an undespin or an anti-clockwise motion. In addition Bobby forces the clubhead on through the sand. If he did not the shot would be a dud. No one can strike a ball and stop his club at the same time. All through the stroke Bobby's clubface is open. If it were closed, that is, if the front or toe were turned in. the shot would be smoth- ered. Bobby uses his wrists on this shot to a greater extent than on a pitch {om the fairway. The ball is plaved rather low, but its underspin makes it hold the green and come to & stop near where it strikes it. Harry Vardon's methods for slicing, hooking and straight driving will be the subject tomorrow. TILDEN WILL HANDLE TENNIS CUP PLAYERS |, NEW YORK. March 13 (#).—After eight seasons as the outstanding Ameri- can in international tennis, Willlam T. Tilden has accepted the captaincy of the 1928 Davis Cup team. Big_Bill" will take command of the mpaign next Monday, March 19, at Augusta, Ga., where the first Davis Cu training camp in history will be estab- lished to decide the make-up of the team that will match with ;\l;xlm at Mexica City, A squad of 13 of the country's lead- ing plavers has been requested by Joseph W. Wear of Philadelphia, cha man of the Davis Cup committee, to {report to Capt. Tilden next week. ‘The list of players expected by Tilden v |t report at Augusta, besides himself represent the United | wo States in the® opening American zone | smart his faster opponent. i a xgha:lhdahn'l know In battle the sailor. w - Risko would not ‘X-nl»fn' was the boxer he is supposed 10 be he would have known enough to feint, step back and jead I ny on. fooled the fans and Sharkey by not fighting his usual tearing-in, mauling eort of battle, and by the use of a left jab. This jab raked Sharkey stomach, bewildering him to the ex: tent of upsetting all his plans. Jack| once again showed that his body 3s | Soos, weak. This was a known fact even| before he fought Jack Dempsey, and it was .proved once again, The fight showed pretty clearly that | a man weighing 175 pounds is big | enough to fight any one in the world. | Risko, who was a punching bag for light heavyweights, appeared a really | formidable fighter against a supposed- ly leading chllknm:er for the heavy- Johnny's awkward style of coming in with his head down and his jaw pro- | tected by his right hand. made hlsI opponent think he was punching for | the stomach. Instead, a wild, Jooping | | | NEW YORK.—Johnny Risko, Cleve- | land, defeated Jack Sharkey., Boston (15). George Larocco, New York, won from Johnny Grosso. Mount Vernon, | N. Y. Paul Swiderski, New York, won from Joe Monte, Brockton, Mass I0UX CITY. lowa—Meyer Grace, cago, outpointed Buxx Griffih, a0 pd SALT LAKE CITY - Balt ke City. technically knocked out Tiger Jack Fox. Omaha (6). MIAMI. Fla—Osk 'Iill, Rochester, N. Y. won on a foul from Alex Stmms, Canton. Ohio (§) DOTHAN, Alz.--V/ Ung knocked out George ta 2) Br the Associsted Prese Jess Stringham, Aver Morrie Gy from ley Glaser, Chi- cagn, won Chi- cago (10) MEMPHIE Herring Lannard, Red ¥ ADELPIIA Kebo, Pl yote ny Jadick, Philadel- e e S T ’/EV/W/Y////////////”/Y”////?&Y//M/J} | 3 i i { 1 I i Lucky Strike Old Gold Chesterfield Cigarettes and other brands of the same value I 21/2C 10 phas. ozt ATLAMTIC L PACIFIC L i Carton of T, {be led and missed time after time.'and his doubles championship partner, | 8harkey proved that he was game|Frank Hunter, includes George Lott enough’ and a strong fighter, but lack-|of Chicago, John Van Rye of Prince- g in experience and boxing brains. He | ton. John Hennessey of Indianapolis, can’'t complain of not having had the | Wilmér Allison of Austin, Tex.. Arnold {chance to prove himself a real con-!W. Jones of Providence. R. I.: Frank tender. Last Summer he went against Shields of New York., and Wilbur P. {Dempsey and was stopped in seyen Coen, jr. of Kansas City. rounds. Then he was given a chance| Of the others invited by the Davis against Heeney and only got a draw,|Cup committee, Edward Chandler, the { Tonight he was given his third chance, | California star, now at Harvard: Wil~ | against Risko. and again failed to come | llam M. (Little Bill) Johnston of San through. That ought to finish him. |Francisco, and Richard N. (Dick) Wil- It looks as though this fight was a|lAms. former captain, all have de. break for me as neither man | Clined because of the pressure of busi- showed anything like champlonship | 1SS Or other affairs, ability, and last night Johnny, whom 1| LeWwis N. White of Austin, Tex., is have twice defeated, elimimated the | OUt of consideration because of illness, man Rickard wanted to meet Tunney,| ¥hile Wray Brown of St. Louis the This puts me right on the list for a | fMaining player invited, is a doubt- first crack at Tunn ful_participant TURNER IN MAT MATCH. Joe Turner, local matman, and| George Romanoff of California wm! | | | 'Now lsi:é Time to Get Your Car Refinished Central Auto Works 449.51 Eye Street NW. Washington, D. C, meet in the feature bout of a wrestling card et the Arcadia Thursday night. Other matchs ¥ Ricco. police trainer of Je City, | and Pete Dallas of this city, and Dan | Koloff and Renato Gardini, iR | will bring together Bull | PRO BASKET BALL. COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 13 (#).— | | Btanding 8 the American Basket Ball Teague, Including games piayed Friday, March 9, 1928 WESTERN DIVISION Wen Fort an Drtrort 1 hody and fender , and also matche mg colors. 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O'Hanlon's Plumb- |ing Supply five was the only other | Washington team to go over 1550, getting 1,566, Washington bowlers shone in the opening Individual numbers. E. M. Deuterman and F. L. Watson took the | doubles lead with a 662 figure, followed | by J. H. Brown and E. C. Smith with 656. Deuterman’s 306 singles mark was also the best in that event. Tonight's schedule: Scores of Washington bowlers last | night: Wm. Hahn & Co 1580 ™ iTos w8 | Risware: | | | @'ianton H Totals. Plumbing Universite of M., (15661 ileze Park (1 4461 v, 000 15 A 2 JR3 8R110 1L RR 108 RE 0% Koons.. 99111 108 Totals. 441 506 409 » Walkover han (14611 ho D Kisin. ~* 100 Litehiid 1 Totals. 106 186 510 BY P U RR1 nN 1 Totals. 45 Tndia Tethal Claims ERD a5 100 0y o o D'term'n “Totale Tron Worke (14 IR Philip.. 0% IR 88 17 Totals. 103 56 Lancaster (Pa R0 Ay L AT 108 /303 101 RR 1 %) 25 Rrawn . Smith Al Deuterman. ... Watson. ... M. L. Totals W Wheel E. T. Cleary Totals € Lenard. ... H. Hodees.', Totals F | L H. Reown © Smith Il |E- M. Deatermann . 0 TEAMS, | Black & Decker. Towson M. Varsity Underwear. Co.. In Baltim ary Mg Co. Ral Eduinment Corp.. Baltimore I DON'T mean a matter of fact Fragrant about smoking-tobacco. There are certain things I demand in a smoke, and I declare here and now that P.A. has 'em. Has ’em and to spare, if you ask me. spring blossoms. Cool as “The boss wants to see you.” Sweet as “I'm going to raise your pay long-burning, with full satisfaction in every BY CORINNE FRAZIER. | PSETTING the dope in the Eastern High School basket | ball serles, Sophomore passers yesterday triumphed over the Junlors, 30 to 26, in the fastest | !and most exciting game of the season. | The winners were trailing until late in the second quarter, when they tied the | ¢ | count at 15-15, then gained an edge be~ | D C.|fore the whistle blew, which they did | | not again relinquish. Junfors had been undefeated iip until yesterday. As the Senfors scored over the Fresh- men, 47 to 16, giving them a record of | four wins and one defeat to match the | . | Junior record. the final game tomorrow *| will be even more critical than had the | Juniors scored yesterday. The teams | will be battling on even terms for the | champlonship. Sophomores owe their victory to the fact that every member of the squad | was putting all that she had into the game, the concerted effort resulting in all teams, from the highest to the lowest | some of the neatest teamwork seen on | caliber, will have a real chance, a s jocal high school court this season. record number of entries is expected for | Allfe Sandridge, Sophomore center, | the eighteenth anual tournament of the | earned the tip-off consistently. Washirgton City Duckpin Association, | ~ juniors rallied in the final session. to e held at the King Pin alleys. Four- | holding the leaders scoreless, while they | teenth and Monroe streets, starting chalked up five additional markers April 16, District of Columbia cham- | themselves, but the rally came too late pionships will be at stake. All entrants | to be effective. competing must be members of the | Snappy pass plgys in the Senior for- Washington City Association. |ward field featurfd the Senior-Fresh- There will be four classes, A, B. C, man tilt, Lucille Bixler and Virginia | playing rings around their | with _the stance of their | nters, Ida Cannon in the first and Helen Hughes in the second, | whom they worked a clever triple | “Telaphane Society of Baltimore. Baltimore, Md. Cintardenartmental) Towson Recreation. Townwon, Md. DOURLES. 7:15. s Jimer Hulchings. eo Gast, Curtis Pay MS. 0:15, Washinzton. D. €. ton. Winehingto Washington. DG, ton rzton, 1 Raltimore. Ml Raltimore. Lonis Fisscle. Rurt Kneller, s Tents hoer arl M. Joseph A, Dieter. Oscar Losh, Baltimors, Nd. With classifications so arranged that and D in teams, doubles and singles. | Daiker Entries will close at midnight April 4, at | guards the King Pin alleys. | sid Classifications based on averages fol- h?l" low : W Class A—Teams, 530 and over; | pl doubles, 212 and over; singles, 106 and | over. . Class B—Teams, 500 to 529; doubles, | 200 to 211; singles, 100 to 105. | Class C—Teams, 475 to 499; doubles, 190 to 199: singles. 95 10 99. | Class D—Teams, 474 and under; | doubies, 189 and under; singlef, 4 and | under. b | “In all classes the entrance fee will be $1 & man, $5 a team, $2 for doubles, and $1 for singles. | Official scorers must send in averages compiled to March 24, 1028. Tndividual bowlers not registered with any league are invited to enter the tour- nament. Their entries, however, must be_accepted as Class A. No picked teams will be allowed. Bowlers rolling in less than 15 games er Substitutione—Anna May in Any one league during the season 4\\\'«!'—‘ ll:'lf'n Hushes o will be placed in Class A. - man fu ood 1 n Summaries: Mildiod Nell Healer Ruth Cole. .. Thomis o Wilkin Nandridze. Margaret son for A . Fouls—Hach (3). Brown Bectha Gilbert for 1 These have been nominated for offi- cers of the North Washington Church | | Duckpin League: | President, Everett F, Haycraft, W. A. Smith; vice president. R. O. Kluge, Irvine Billhimer. secretary, Charles S.| Mason: official scorer, E. E. Whitecraft; treasurer, B. J. Hamm. | Frank L. Harris, who has been presi- | dent of the league since its organiza- | tion four years ago, has declined to | again stand for re-election. through graduation. ‘The election will be held April 3. — Among the members who are expected Ninth Street Christian Church bowl- 'to fire on the first team in the inter- | ers came through with a vengeance in|high school series, the major event on | the final game with Ho‘l{ mforter | the Eastern schedule, are Miss Terrell, pinmen. at Convention Hall last night, | Marie Angelica, Eleanor Seitz. a sister registering a 565 game and a 1618 set | of Helen Seitz. winner of District of to 1487 for the losers. Hughes rolled Columbia individual N. R. A. champion- i high game at 136. iship honors last year: Jane Menefee, | Members of the rifie club of Eastern High 8chool will hold & special meeting tomorrow afternoon in the auditorium of the school for the purpose of electing | A new manager to replace Dorothy Thume, who graduated in February. A full attendance is urged by Ruth! Culbertson, faculty adviser. Helen_Terrell captains the squad this | season. Miss Terrell is the only member | of the 1927 team who was not lost that T am easily satisfied. As , I'm as critical as they come enough hours in a day to But all this conversation Mild and mellow and Go get yourself a tidy red —no other tobacco is like ! both | final double-header. {on their heels, however, and the out- | play in the second game of the loop. 'FIVE NEW LEADERS | American Bowling Congress, ERT 27 t Again, SAYS BOXING SAGE i I Story About Injured Eye ls" Huge Joke, News From Coast States. BY FAIRPLAY. NEW YORK. March 13.—Jack Demp- sey continlies to play a big part in the news, pugilistic or otherwise, of the day. Anything Jack says, or is supposed to 3 is good for a screaming headline | The fans want Dempsey back. That is sure, Bob Shand, the Oakland boxing sage. had a chat with Manassa Jack snd passes the news on to those who are anxious to see Dempsey come back.- | There is quite a bit of consolation in ihe words of Shand: 3 1 Otilia Burns, Edna Frazier, Grace Hol- laday and Lucille Blakeney. Mis=s Ang 0 is secretary-treasurer f the rifle club. RS i Eastman School athletes will partici- pate tomorrow afternoon in their annual indoor gymnasium exhibition, which will be directed by Elizabeth’ Collins. | physical education instructor, in_the | Y. W. C. A. gymnasium, Seventeenth | and K streets, at 3:30 o'clock. Parents and fricnds of the students have been cordially invited to attend. Second teams at Western High School | will play tomorrow afternoon, these games being postponed from yesterday, when they were scheduled. First teams will meet Friday after- | noon. Double-headers will be staged | dags, the Juniors playing the Seniors ‘and the Sophs mecting the Freshmen in each circuit. | Six more games will remain on the Western schedule after this week. Monday third teams will play off their | Wednesday sec- ond teams will finish their loop and Friday the first teams will make their | last_appearance. | by nine victories. Sophomores are right | ing track of the injured optic. Every time he would switch eyes,.Jerry the Greek would correct him, until Jack figally stuck to the story that it was his left eye that hurt. ° “But when I explained about the |lack of interest in the elimination tour- 35 nament Rickard is staging and kidded ‘Tomorrow 7-B and 8-A 1 teams witl | JACK about his interest in the Garden, the big fellow just laughed. Asked point |plank if he was coming back for a |third meeting with Gene Tunney, Jack {said he probably would. but couldn't - make 3 direct statement because he teld - the ‘other fellows’ that he had retired.” Dempsey is a stockholder in Madison uare Garden. The fact became known when Jack was in New York on his last visit. That means Dempsey has more than a casual interest in the money the so-called elimination bouts draw. What was more natural than for By the Associated P i 8 = . Dempsey to get an inf v good scores in all four events in the !mots Garden dividends for himself and out-of- | nis fellow stockholders? 2 town entries today turned the alleys| To date the so-called contenders have over to local five-men teams.. climinated themsalves as fitular ma- Leaders crowned Sunday generally |terial. What is more to the point. it were undisturbed yesterday. | leaves Jack Dempeey all alone as the Robert Meinhardt of St. Louis took |oublic choice to take ‘another whirl at wver second place in the single with | Tunney. The demand would far exceed come of the series would be difficult to predict. Opening the senior schlag ball series of Park View School, the team from A grade defcated the 7-A 2 squad, 1 1. The games are played on the Park View piayground. IN BOWLING EVENT! 1671, three pins under the mark set|the supply of tickets. Sunday by Joe Mendell of Cincinnati.| Bob Shand has a sound reason C. Emmons of Chicago dropped to third velieving Jack Dempsey will be {?; in the singles, with 66, while K. Sciple | training, publicly, very shortly. and G. 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