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SPORTS. NO NERVE NEEDED, " SAYS RING MOGUL Tex Always Depended on ¢ Honesty of People and ! % Found That It Paid. This is the only autobiography written by Tex Ricgard. It was prepared in collaboration with Boze- man Bulger for publication ezclu- sively by The Ster and the North American Newspaper Alliance. Shortly before Rickard's death he discussed with Bulger plans for pub- lication_of these memories in book jorm. Following is the third install- ‘ment of the autobiography, which is appearing in daily chapters. BY TEX RICKARD. In Collaboration with Bozeman Bulger. (Copyright, 1929, by the North American Newspaper Alliance.) HOUGH the promotion of big | boxing matches has brought me consigerable fortune, it always | has seemed to me more like a plaything than a business. To me the game is real sport. I get just as much thrill out of pulling off a suc- cessful fight as the golfer does in mak- his best score. mgflhen I tell you that the amount of money invested, earned or lost never has given me much concern I am likeiy tc be accused of exaggeration. I assure you, though, that such is the fact. Money itself never meant anything more to me than one of the factots o be moved in a game—like a pawn in| chess. 1 have had plenty of money at | times and have been broke occasionally, | but in either event I never had much thrill or much distress. I have seen frequent references td what writers call my nerve or gameness in making enormous offers of money | to land a fight. They have expressed | wonder at the chances I took. | “How do you know,” one man writes, “that the men you deal with will be honest? How do you figure them as being on the square?” “That reference to nerve always gives me a laugh. To offer big money for a fight is not a matter of gameness. I fail to see where any nerve is required in paying out money that you feel pretiy sure of getting back with a profit besides. As I say, the money itself means nothing to me. It is simply a thing to be used in playing & game. If I haven't any money, then ' 5 can’t play, that's all. Real People Are Honest. As to depending on the honesty of people, I always have done that. Real people are nearly always honest. If I judge a man to be a rat, I don't deal with him. With fighters, for instance, 1 have never had the slightest argument over money or agreements. A few of the little two-by-four managers have shown rat tendencies, but it didn't take long to find them out. The big city man may be surprised boys were* there but nobody bothered them. They had done our town no harm, and the citizens felt the visit was none of their business. Most every family did just what we did—put out the lights and looked through the lat- tice work in the blinds. I know, though, that I had the best and closest view. I saw Jesse James kiss his sister, laugh and romp around. He didn't seem at all like an outlaw pught to look to me. ‘The one thing I watched closely, though, was the famous outlaw’s belt and holsters. The belt was there as I had expected. That belt, by the way— well, that is a story in itself. (Next—A Bigger Belt than John L. Sullivan’s.) g PIRATES GET JUNIOR WORLD SERIES HERO By the Assoclated Press. PITTSBURGH, Pa, January 10— Steve 3wetonic, a product of the Pitts- burgh sandlots and a star of the mound squad of the Indianapolis club of the American Association last season, has been secured by the Pittsburgh club. Clyde Barnhart, veteran outfielder, a pitcher to be delivered later and an un- stated amount of cash were given in exchange for the hurler. Swetonic is 25 and bats and throws right handed. He won 19 games and lost 8 for Indianapolis last year and was the hero of the junlor world series, which Indianapolis® won from Rochester by annexing five out of six games. He won three of them. SPRING CONFAB IS OFF FOR AMERICAN LEAGUE CHICAGO, January 10 (#).—The affairs of the American League are in such excellent shape that the club owners decided yesterday that a Spring meeting would not be necessary. ‘This is the first time in history of the circuit that the club owners decided to forego the Spring session. All of the business was cleared up at the De- cember meeting in Chicago. E. S. Barnard, president of the league, has gone to St. Petersburg, Fla., for a vacation until February 1 DELANEY, ILL, UNLIKELY TO FIGHT FEBRUARY 1 BRIDGEPORT, Conn., January 10 (®).—Jack Delaney, former light heayy- weight boxing champion, is ill with in- fluenza at his home here. He has been sick since last Friday and his physician intimated that he would probably be too weak to fight Jimmy Slattery in Madison Square Gars den on February 1, FIGHTS LAST NIGHT. By the Associated Press. DURHAM, N. C.—Young Stribling, Macon, Ga., knocked out Tommy Stone, Detroit (2) ANDERSON, Ind, Vincent Hambright outpointed Louis La Valle, Anderson Va—Rufino Alvarez, Spain, outpointed Will Matthews, Balti- more (8); Freddie Mutter, Portsmouth, when I say that I never knew very much about people being dishonest until I was nearly 40 years old. There were no dishonest men in the early Klondike days. There were not any among the cowboys with whom I worked and as- sociated on the plains. Petty thieves couldn’t live in that atmosphere. They didn’t fit. Real gameness, to my way of think- ing, has nothing to do with money. It is a personal qualify. ‘The gamest man I ever knew, for in- stance, was Cooper Wright, a sheriff in Texas. I was a young fellow about the town of Henrietta then, just feeling my oats. I had been on two or three of the long cattle drives and had seen enough to know a real man when I saw him. A man had committed some crime. I forget just what at the moment, and was in the town calaboose. The cattle- men and other citizens were much in- censed. One day the cowboys all rode in town and began “lickering up” at the many pine-boarded saloons. In time nearly 200 of them got together and marched on the calaboose to take the prisoner out and hang him. They couldn’t wait on the law. Jailer Was Helpless. ‘The jailer was helpless. The mob simply walked up to the jail, kicked open the door and yanked the prisoner out. They dragged him to a telegraph pole nearby and strung him up. With two other young fellows I watched this from the roof of a shed. Just as the body dangled and the cowboys shot their guns off in the air, Cooper Wright, the sheriff; came on the yun. He was all alone—had no support, ‘They didn’t stop him, though. ‘The sheriff pulled his six-shooter out and stood on the step of the cala- “Stop that!” he called out to the crowd, leveling his gun over their heads. “I'll shoot the first man who moves!” ‘There was something in the ring of that single man’s voice that made every one stop and listen.. There wasn't even a growl. ‘Wright then took deliberate aim and in three shots cut the rope with a bullet. The form fell to the ground. “Don’t one of you move!” ordered the game sheriff. The whole rough crowd stood as if spellbound. By this time it was seen that the man was not yet dead. He half rose and staggered to his feet like a drunken mxr;‘. e noose still hanging around his neck. Takes Him Back to Jail. Cooper Wright, still keeping his gun in front of him, coolly walked through that mob, grabbed the man by the arm and led him back to the jail. He locked him up and then ordered the crowd to clear out. And I'm telling you, they did it! In all my life that was the gamest act I ever have seen performed by a lone man. Above all it showed what force of character means, Now, when I hear people talk about 1t requiring gameness to bid a fortune on a prize fight I have to smile. I al- ‘ways think of Cooper Wright. In those days to be game was not unusual. That was expected of every- body. It was the liver-hearted fellow who was the exception. In that big crowd of cowboys there were many others just as game as Cooper Wright. But they knew he was in the right and they knew that he would stake his life on doing what was the right thing. They were in the wrong and he made them feel it. That's where he licked them. Oddly enough there were some out- Jaws, admitted law breakers, whom the men would not bother because their crimes did not concern the immediate community, I remember quite well when the Jesse James gang came to Henrietta. I wasa small boy then. We had no newspaper, but we knew all about, the James boys, Secretly, we ad- mired them. James Boys Visit Sister. Mrs. Allen Palmer, a sister of Jesse and Frank James, lived directly across the road from our house. One night we got word that the James gang was coming to visit the sister. I never will forget how we turned out'all the lights, closed ‘the green blinds and peered through the cracks at the band of out- laws. They all were there. I saw them drive up. Jesse James in the lead and Frank following. There were eight or o::polnted Doc Belcher, Petersburg, Va, ®). THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1929, Promoting Fights Was Like Play for Rickard : Hornsby Cashed in on Day Dreams YOUNG LINKSMAN LEADS BIG FIELD Williams, New Jersey Pro, Has 141 in Qualifying in $10,000 Event. By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, January 10.—Sur- vivors of the 36 holes qualifying play in the Los Angeles $10,000 open golf tournament rested today preparatory to the 72-hole grind starting tomorrow, which will bring about 130 of the country’s leading club wielders into ac- ion. The qualifying rounds yesterday, held over six courses, slashed a contesting field .of slightly more than 300 down to 90 players. These survivors and 40 others who were exempt from qualifica- tion because of their showing in the national open and last year's Los An- geles open, will start the “big money” drive on the Riviera Country Club course, near Santa Monica, tomorrow. | There will be 36 holes of play during the first two days, and the low 64 scorers,,and ties go into the 36-hole final drive Sunday. With but one or two outstanding exceptions, the 200-odd players who fell by the wayside in yesterday's quali- fying grind were lesser knowns of the realm of golf Dan Willlams, young professional from Shackamaxon, N. J., made it known that he was one to be reckoned with when he passed the preliminary test leading the field with) 72—69—141. His card was one stroke | better than that of Johnny Rodgers of Denver, Colo., who is acclaimed by many of his fellows as perhaps the greatest wood and iron shot in the country when he is on his game, and John Junor of Portland. Rodgers got a 69—73. Junor's golf was the more consistent, the Portland professional turning in a 71 for each of his trips. Frank Rodia of Seattle turned in a 143 for the preliminary tests, while Johnny Golden, Stocky Patterson, N. J., profes- sional, had 144. MacDonald Smith of the Lakeville Country Club, Great Neck, Long Island, as the defending titlist was not oblig- ed to qualify, Others who were entitled to this consideration included Walter Hagen, British open champion; George Von Elm, former national amateur champion; Al Espinosa, swarthy Chi- cagoan; Tommy Armour, former na- tional open king; Leo Diegel, national professional champion; Horton Smith, 21-year-old star of Joplin, Mo.; Henri Cuici of Bridgeport, Conn.; Roland Hancock, Wilmington, N. C.; Al Wat- rous of Detroit, Bill Melhorn of New York and Bobby Cruickshank of Pur- chase, N. Y. Designed as a rigid test of golf, the Riviera layout is particularly suited to the play of long-hitting professionals. Those who have followed the string of Western tournaments during the last few weeks have expressed the belief that Hagen, Smith and Diegel should be installed as favorites. . DUNLOP'S ENEW SURETY BOND overshadows T’S more than a can happen to a tire. 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You will find it overshadows any tire guarantee ever offered. { ‘Dunlop’s new Winterizea Tire now in stock. . . This does away with Chains BROS. W. Fr. - Open Daily 8 A.M. to 11 P.M,, Sunday 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. Y PAYMENTS GLADLY ARRANCED Mechanic to Return to Auto Racing Game BY RAY R. VESSELS. Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, January 10.—He's coming back, the picturesque old racing mechanic of a dec- ade ago. And take it from Waldo Stein, riding pal of Bar- ney Oldfield, he is going to bring back something that 500-mile speedway com- petition needs. Perhaps the new mechanic at first will lack the color of the old-fashioned “second” of racers, who could pump oil with one hand, pump air and fuel with the other and signal to his riding mate and the pits with his grease-smeared head. But he will prove his worth in the field of high-powered speed events. So reasons Stein, now a tire firm official, who rode with the immortal Barney for 10 years, Victory for Manufacturers. A victory for manufacturers was this move which to them amounts to the restoration of a vast laboratory for the whole automobile world. “The cars have been refined until they are superb racing machines, but of less value to the engineering fraternity,” the contest board of the American Automobile As- sociation stated in 1its announcement yesterday that the two-man car would be restored to the Indianapolis 500-mile race, effective in 1930. The ruling is of utmost importance to the motoring world, for that reason obviously it meant much to the board itself. Still there was unmistakable enthusiasm over the pending return of one of the colorful figures in the early days of twentieth century speed compe- tition. There was Stein, just a spectator when the board gave its decision. Aft- erward as a fan with a racing past he eagerly, but with due modesty, gave his own opinions as to the significance of the change. “1t is simply a case of two men thinking and acting better than one in a car roaring through space,” he said. “The new school of mechanics will have no oii, fuel or air to pump since that is done mechanically now, but there are many jobs that only can be done at the nzht time by a second man. “For instance the myriad guages characteristic of the modern racing machines cannot be properly watched by the man at the wheel. Valve springs in 1930 Season have to be changed, other parts replaced and adjustments made, often beyond the instrument board. Then there are four tires, the track in front, behind and on both sides to watch in addition to keeping a constant check on the pit, both giving and receiving information. “Yes, drivers of the tiny machines now used do most of these things and they do it while traveling at terrific speed, all of which multiplied the chances they take. And a lot of them have to drop out of races they other- wise might win because of inattention to motor strains, reflected on the in- strument board or elsewhere which a spare man could catch and remedy.” Stein visions a new interest in driv- ing speedway racers as a result of the second-man plan, Young Drivers Need Help. “Now,” he said, “young drivers have to do their apprentice work in actual competition, which means that in many cases these green youths have had to step into a machine and hit 125 miles an hour to qualify. This frequently has to be done before they ever have traveled that fast, before they have had the chance to accustom themselves to the pace and balance of a car shooting through space like a comet. It's dan- gerous, so dangerous that even the fool- hardy don’t often try it.” ‘The big speedway event, to be known hereafter as the Grand Prize of America by action of the board yesterday, will sece the speed decreased temporarily, but Capt. Eddle Rickenbacker, chairman of the board and president of the Indian- apolis Speedway Association, believes that manufacturers “in the near future” will have cars in the field that will do 120 miles and hour and better. BUSH, CHICUB ROOKIE PITCHER, RARIN’ TO GO CHICAGO, January 10 (#).—The “Mississippi Mudcat,” Guy Bush, just can't wait for the stentorian command, “Play ball!” Bush, a youngster who throws fast ones for the Cubs, dropped his Winter sales kit yesterday, strolled into the supply office at Wrigley Field, donned a suit and started to practice. GOT HIS FIRST PRO CHANCE AT DALLAS After Playing in Tank Town He Gets Thrill of Sum- mons to St. Louis. BY ROGERS HORNSBY. (Written exclusively for The Star and the North American Newspaper Alllance.) (Copyright, 1929, by The North American Newspaper Alliance.) HERE'S an old saying that what- ever is worth doing is worth doing well, and fathers and mothers have pounded it into their children for centuries. and truth in the maxim, and I would give the same advice to boys myself. But at the same time I would have a warm place in my heart for a boy who failed at the tasks because his day 1If boys ever stop having day dreams, then, when they grow up, they will not advance to such heights in business, science, art, and I might add, base ball. The youthful dreamer may fail to be cornhusker, but meanwhile he may be developing into a great financier or a scientist or even into a ball player. The day dreams of youth, properly followed up, have brought many a man figure, My youthful day dreams were about base ball, and Ty Cobb was my ideal. He had risen to the heights in the game when I was just a lad in my late teens, was a bitter disappointment to me when my brother, a professional ball player in the Texas League, watched me in a game in which I thought I had played well, and only sald: “Kid, you've got a True, But Didn't Know It. I didn’t know then that my brother really was impressed with my playing, and simply had put it that way so I wouldnt get a swelled head and quit CHAPTER IIL I don't doubt there are soundness dreams interfered, a good wood chopper or an expert out of obscurity and made him a world and was longing for such a life. lot to learn, but keep on hustling.” trying. It was true, too, that I did It | SPORTS. 43 Fuchs’ Bribe Charge Attempt To Mulct Adams, Says Witness By the Associated=Press. OSTON, January 10—The ac- city’s Sunday base ball bribery scandal today. Dan_Carroll, manager of boxers finance commisison yesterday that the charge that Cowncilman William G. Lynch sought a_bribe for his vote in mitting Sunday sports was invented by Enil E. Fuchs, president of the Boston National League Base Ball Club, in order cuser was the accused in this and a truckman, testified before the the council's ratification of the law per- to “shake down” Charles F. Adams, vice president of the club, for $100,000. | Carroll, called by the finance com- mission to tell what occurred when he and Lynch visited Fuchs on the night when, Fuchs alleges, Lynch asked for the $5,000 bribes for himself and 12 other councilmen, denied bribes had been mentioned. . He said Fuch threatened Lynch with political defeat if he opposed Sunday ball. Carroll quoted Fuchs as saying: “We had hard luck since I came here, I had $500,000 and now my stock in the Braves is in hock down at the Atlantic National.” Joseph P. Walsh asked if Carroll thought it was Judge Fuchs' purpose in making the bribery charges “to hold up Adams because Fuchs was broke,” and Carroll answered “yes.” Adams is a wealthy chain grocery store owner and president of the Boston Bruins, members of the National Hockey League, as well as vice president of the Braves. The commission also heard Council- man Robert G. Wilson, jr., who Adams had identified as the man he thought telephoned him to say the 13 councilmen would hold up action on the sports rati- fication until the $65,000 had been paid. ‘Wilson made a sweeping denial of the charges and characterized Fuchs and Adams as ‘“unprincipaled,” “money- mad” and “a pair of unscrupulous fal- sifiers.” He called Adams “a despicable liar who is a blight to the name he gets by on.” have a lot to learn—only I didn't think s0. Anyway, I continued to try, because I loved to play ball and I felt an urge to make good, even if my brother didn't think I could. ‘Without my knowing it, my brother went to Joe Gardner, who owned the Dallas club, told him about me, and asked that I be taken to Dallas the following Spring and given a chance to show what I could do.. Mr. Gard- ner agreed, and it was about the hap- piest moment of my life when my brother came home and told me the good news. I had visions of the big leagues right then and there. Maybe in another year or two I would be in the big show with Cobb and Eddie Collins and Christy Mathewson. I refused to quit dream- ing, even when my brother said, “Get out and hustle hard, and maybe Dallas can place you as a regular in some Class B league.” I did hustle hard when Spring training began, but I felt awfully small among those professionals, and no one seemed a bit interested in what I was doing. Regardless of that, I continued to hustle and think about Cobb and wonder how soon I would get into the big leagu And then I got another jolt. Not long after the season opened a rail- road ticket was handed me, and I was told to report to the Hugo club of the Texas and Oklahoma League. It seemed so far from Hugo to New York or Chicago. ‘There was nothing to _do but go, so I went. Mainly because I loved to play ball and was now a regular, I enjoyed it at Hugo. I studied hard on batting. I learned by constant experiment to handle a bat. I found that I could get better results by holding it loosely until just time to smack the ball, when I would tighten my grasp with every ounce of strength. I learned to step into a pitched ball, to get the weight of my body into the drive, and so knock the ball to the far corners of the lot. More trouble came, The Hugo club went broke in midseason, but the franchise was taken over by Dennison and we went on with the game. I loved the work. I gave everything 1 had. I was hitting better and better every day. And I always was thinking of Cobb and the big leagues. And then in late August came the great thrill. The boss came to me and said: “Kid, pack up your things, You've been sold to St. Louis.” (Next—The Thrill of the Big League) “Pass me a Lucky-I pass bl When fattening sweets tempt and you dread extra weight, light a Lucky instead. No discom- fort, no trouble—just a common sense method of retaining a slender figure. ' The finest tobaccos are skilfully blended to make Lucky Strike. 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