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44 -—_ SPORTS.” as I explained to him, except that he seemed determined to break up my place. A week later he showed up drunk and wild, again waving his big gun. This trip ended in one of the strangest tragedies that ever came to my notice. The deputy sheriff managed to pin the man down and drag him outside. The killer ran for another gun. As he did so the deputy came back to my office for a sawed off shotgun that he kept there in case of riot. In his hurry, though, he snatched up two loaded BAD AN WITH GUN “PACIFIED” BY TEX Braves Death in Throwing Trouble-Maker Out of Gambling House. I had been using for rabbit hunting. two shells in and snapped the breech. t wi This is the only autobiography that the deputy was coming around the written by Texr Rickard. It was pre- pared in collaboration with Bozeman Bulger for publication exclusively by The Star and The North Ameri- can Newspaper Alliance. Shortly defore Rickard’s death he discussed bad man jumped behind a telegraph pole and waited. As the deputy came around the side of the shed, half crouched, the bad man opened fire. The officer didn't even hesitate. Spotting his man, he walked deliberately and cautiously toward the telegraph pole. Again the desperado fired, the bullet striking the | deputy in the shoulder. Then he raised his shotgun and—it snapped! Again he took aim and—it snapped! The shells being too small for the larger caliber gun were simply pushed further into the barrel. Just then the killer fired again, the bullet making a flesh wound. Still not realizing the trouble with his shotgun, the officer, slowly advanc- ing, raised it again. He was within 20 feet of the telegraph pole, and we all thought the game deputy surely a goner. The desperado leveled his six- shooter, took deliberate alm and—it jammed! A shell had caught. His ‘weapon also was helpless. Killer Pounded to Death. All this time the deputy sheriff con- tinued advancing slowly, deadly. While the killer was still struggling with his revolver to release the caught cart- ridge, the deputy, now within 8 feet, made a spring like a panther. Raising his own useless shotgun over his head, he swung it like a base ball bat. The steel barrel struck squarely on the man's with Bulger plans for publication of these memoirs in book form. Fol- lowing is_the ninth installment of the autobiography, which is ap- pearing in daily chapters. BY TEX RICKARD. T was my pride in the State of Nevada, as much as my natural liking for a fiyer at anything new, that led me into the fight game.| Though I was born in Missouri and spens my boyhood in Texas, I always think of Nevada as my native State. ‘When I tired of Alaska and arrived in Ban Prancisco with about $60,000 in gold I went over to have a look at the Tonopah and Goldfleld country. News had come from there of great sirikes— | gold, silver and copper. Once on the spot, there I remained. My experience in Alaska had taught me much about mineral properties gnd my services were in demand as a pur- chasing agent ‘for big companies. In fact, it was while making a report on| my inspection of mineral deposits that I got hooked into the Jeffries-Johnson fight and took up fight promoting as a business, but that is a later story. | If & man had suggested to me the handling of a prize fight at Goldfield when I first staked out there I would | have thought him crazy. | As I say, though, I learned to love Nevada. I thought I saw great pros- pects for its future. Like the rest of them, I wanted the world to know about it. I became a part of the mining camp | in Nevada just as I had in Alaska. In addition to staking out claims I opened up a gaming house. It may strike Easterners as amusing, but the leading citizens impressed upon me how much the community was in need of a sort of social headquarters, where men could play cards, have a drink and discuss | matters in general—one that was legal | and licensed under State law. Goldfield Place Orderly. Our place in Goldfield was much more orderly than those in Alaska, be- cause of the assistance given us by the | sheriff. We had deputies to help keep | order. Along the Yukon we were our | own law and order. And, strangely enough, it was in Goldfield that I came the nearest to being killed. The end of my thumb to this day shows a deep scar indicating where it was once sliced in two. Often I am asked about this and there is surprise when I explain that the cut was made by a pistol and nbt a knife. A rough fellow whom I knew to be a killer came into my place one after- noon waving a six-shooter. A week before he had killed a man at Tonopah. He was very bad this afternoon and I knew that he would hurt somebody of allowed to wander around with that gun. He began right off by annoying some men playing cards. I went outside and found the deputy. sheriff and his zumz. "We'vepgot to get that gun” I told them. “The only way is for the three of us to walk up behind him. I'll grab one of his arms and you the other,” I said to the deputy. “Then the third man can take the gun.” This plan was agreed upon and, going inside, we found the bad man standing at the bar. Quietly we walked up behind him, caught one arm, but the killer managed to jerk his left arm loose. With the quickness of a cat he went for his holster and got the six- shooter out. There was nothing for me then but to grab the gun. As I grabbed he must save g\uled the trig- ger. My thumb was ly over the first cartridge and the sharp firing point of the hammer came down on it. My hand was thus pinned to the pistol. We had a hard struggle, the man finally being knocked off his feet. As he fell the six-shooter still hung sus- | pended from my thumb. I flung it | from me, the pin of the hammer tearing its way through the flesh. That ac- counts for the scar. We got the man out that time, but he went away swearing vengeance on me. I got many warnings that he would shoot me at sight. Bad Man Came Back. Finally the killer came back one day. Before he could shoot a friend got be- tween us and eventually made us shake hands. I had nothing against the man, 1879 of many had been killed instantly— and in & most ignominious manner. So far as I am concerned, that was the last of the bad men of that part of the West. I had seen my last gun ht, I hope. flsWe people of Goldfield were headed for a tamer brand of fighting—the use of the fists. This brings me to the Gans-Nelson fight, my start as a pro- moter. 3 ), by the North Ameriean S, N‘z’l"gnlpe’r Alliance.) (Next-—Gans-Nelson; My First Venture.) e HECHT AND LANSBURGH TO MEET AT BOWLING Keen rivalry is promised Saturday night when Hecht Co. and Landsburgh & Bro. bowling teams clash at Conven- tion Hall in a five-game match, starting at 7:30 o'clock. * Lansburgh & Bro. will be represented by Clagget, Bogan, Mullenberg, Staley and Lynn, with Gorman, Hottle and Wasserman in reserve. Nolds, Rosen- berg, Kettler, Richie and Toby will comprise the Hecht Co. team. Both teams have a large number of supporters and a large gallery is ex- pected to witness the match. CANZONERI-SANTIAGO GO VICTOR TO MEET MORGAN CHICAGO, January 17 (#).—Tod Morgan will risk his junior lightwsight title in Chicago soon against the win- ner of the 10-round match betwean Tony Canzoneri, New York, and At~ mando Santiago, Cuba. Promoter Jim Mullen announced last night in declaring all principals involved had agreed to the match. Santiago and Canzoneri meet at the Coliseum tomorrow night. They are featherweights, but will meet at the junior lightweight limit. RALLY IN SECOND HALF " WINS FOR SILVER SPRING rally in the second half enabled Silver Spring basketers to down Cresap's Rifles five on the Armory court here last night, 28 to 20. Cresap’s Rifles led at half time, 12 to 10. Prederick DeMolays partially avenged Rifles’ defeat by trouncing Silver Spring High quint. P et OFFICIALS JUMP BIG TEN. CHICAGO, January 17 (#).—Revolt over the failure to get increased fees has broken out among many leading foot ball officials of the Western Con- ference. The officlals, dissatisfied with the regular $75 fee, are filling schedules for outside games, drawing fees rang- ing from $100 to $150. Golden Anniversary THROUGH, To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of th> founding of tha Emerson Shoe for Men, we have placed our entire stock of shoes on Sale. ALL! $6.50 Shoes $7.50 Shoes ME All styles in complete sizes are in Emerson Shoe 907 Penn. Ave. N.W. Near Cor. 9th Street “SHOES MARK THE MAN” shells from a little .6-gauge gun that | Bethiehes The sawed off riot gun was a 12-gauge. M Without noticing this he slammed the | § Outside a man had warned the killer | J Templ house with a sawed-off shotgun. The 0':‘4 & head and erushed his skull. That killer g‘e FREDERICK, Md., January 17.—A | g THE EV. WITH THE EASTERN STAR LEAGUE. int e A0 020 wasoeSIEEEERERNSEY 0000038903A30303 it SRS e, ts—Bethany, 1.480: Washing- 1.406; Unity, 1. igh team games—Bethany, 504; Unity, 501: “Washington High individual Centennial)., and Anderson cAlee (Ruth), and Hodges of Mizpah tle R s—Greevey (Bethany), n);. §3p and Ower e—Owen (Wash- pQreever, (Beih o4, and L. Hicks (Unity), Whitbeck hington Centennial), tied With 93-34. 4~ Whitbeck ' (Washington Cen- &h * spares_Qwen :zutnhi.‘mmn Cen- "IN fat same—Richards (Columbia), 94. Bethany Pinettes broke all records this week, rolling high game of 504 and high team set of 1.460. Bertha Greevey, rolling with the Bethany team, rolled 328 for high individual set. Unity girls are still in the lead with two games ahead, but Bethany looks like a big contender for first place. Those rolling 300 and better this it week are Bertha Greevey, 328; Billie Danforth, 311, both of Bethany team and Lucy Owen, 306, of Washington Centennial. High individual game for the week, Miss Greevey (Bethany) and Mrs. Annie An- derson (Ruth), tied with 118. set Rut! High ington Centennial) any), (Was) High strikel tennial), 15: KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS LEAGUE. Santa Maria Christopher vando I i 17 28 Christopher and Santa Maria hool up in one of those many “battles of the century,” and Christopher’s season- long stranglehold on first place was broken by the loss of every game. Santa Maria found it necessary to roll the evening's high set of 1533, with a 523 game. In the meantime, Ovando ruined Balboa's entire evening, and drew up within speaking distance of the former leaders. Incidentally, Ovando turned in second high set, 1,526. Genoa-Trinidad match, which went to Genoa two to one, was featured by individual high games and sets, Betz of the former having 132 game and 354 set, and L. Diegelman of the latter trailing with 127 game and 338 set. Genoa's 547 game led the night's bowl- ing, and Trinidad’s 523 was tied for second. Salvador-DeSota and Pinta-Colum- bia matches went to the first named by two-to-one scores, the Pinta vic- tory enabling it to resign from last place. Sullivan, captain and anchor man of Ovando, falling otherwise to galn the spotlight, turned in his twelfth con- secutive set above 300. His average is over 112 - DEPAKTMENT OF COMMERCE, LEAGUE. Team Standing. " sy Bureau @f Mines 7 ? 1.000 Bureau of F. 3 Secretary's Of 0 1 ;un of Bt Patenis No. 3 mmercial ‘Intelil K Telgn Service . i sets—Bureau of Miney, 1610; and Domestic Commerce, 1,560. gh team games—Bureau of Standards, e e T g —— i T lu e B reas. ot Blandard), (Bureat ames—0. Came Pugett (Bureau o ice . andar! A High tel . " High individual &, {z:nax.,r.m, 1 es), 136, High"indivigust svarases—Puseit, (Bureny P LA T L cien Shd Bomestic Commerce), 111-1. 53t seRRRNNERES, oy, Watdman No. 1 100k Sansbury, Wardman No. games from Columbid Tifle Co., Cafritz took two from Wardman No. 2, Shapiro two from McKeever & Goss, Assoclates two from District Title Co., and Hedges & Middleton took two from Shannon & Luchs. High individual game was rolled by Wells of Hedges & Middleton with 138. Willlam C. Wedding of Boss & Phelps $8.50 Shoes Now $4.95 Now $5.95 Now $6.95 Join the Emerson Golden Jubilee Emerson Shoes have proven to be the best values for fifty years rolled high individual set with 351. All Kumfort-Arch $10.00 Shoes Now $7.95 this sale Store and high team set for the evening with hweek with 129. NING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ickard Foils a Killer at Goldfield : Hornsby Helped by Corham’s Sore Arm BOWLERS Boss & Phelps rolled high team game 568 and 1,619, respectively. TRANSPORTATION B. A. A. LEAGUE. Team Standinz. Klondykes .. Bureau, No. Horsefeathers. Ground Hogs ... Splinters ... .. 3 Klondykes' winning streak was stop- ped at 14 by the Scoofers, the latter taking the set with ease. Horsefeathers took Splinters into the camp for three games, while Go Get- ters got Ground Hogs for two, and Bureau No. 2 team was setting One- toates down for two. McKnight of Bureau No. 2 was high man for the MISS WILLS WON'T WED | FOR YEAR, MOTHER SAYS | BERKELEY, Calif,, January 17 (#). — | Helen Wills, famous tennis star, whose | engagement to Fred S. Moody, ir., has | been announced, will not wed “for prob- ably a year,” Mrs, Clarence A. Wills, her mother, said. And the wedding will not interfere with her tennis career, Mrs. Wills added. ‘“Helen expects to play tennis for many years yet,” Mrs. Wills said, “and wouldn't give up the game for any-| thing.” HILL, ENGLIS.H SCRAPPER, TO BATTLE FRENCHMAN | PARIS, January 17 (#).—Johnny Hill, English flyweight, has accepted the terms of the American promoter, Jeff Dickson, for a bout with Emile “Spider” Pladner of France in an effort to | clear up the muddled European fly- | weight title situation. The bpattle is to be held at the Velo- drome d’Hiver February 7 and is sched- uled to go 15 rounds. ORSATTI TO MARRY. LOS ANGELES, January 17 (#)—E: nest Orsattl, St. Louis Cardinal ou fielder, and Martha von Estey, San An- | tonio newspaper woman, obtained a license to wed here yesterday. They aid the marriage would take place next week. Orsatti gave his age as 25 and Miss Estey sald she was 19. | mond tomorrow night to engage teams | C., EL OUAFI FINDS U. S. LONELIER THAN DESERT PARIS, January 17 (#).—El Ouafi, the little French Arab, winner of the Olympic Marathon, who is en- gaged in a professional running tour in America, writes that he is lonelier in America than in the Moroccan Desert The reason is that so few Americans upuk his language. “I havent’s spoken 50 words in Arabic since arriving here,” he wrote to a former fellow-worker in the automobile plant at Levallois. Concerning “his opponent in his professional ‘races he wrote: “Ray is a good runner for 25 kilometers (a little over 15 miles), but I can beat him from 40 kilometers up. I should like to run him 100 kilometers (more than 60 miles).” D. C. GIRLS TO INVADE RICHMOND FOR MATCH ‘Two teams, comprising the -five aver- age. bowlers of Western Union men's and women's leagues, will go to Riche of that city at the Health Center. O'Neal, Sweeney, Ryder, Beamer and Limerick compose the men's team which will engage an all-star team selected from the Western Union League of Richmond. Fleishell, O'Brien, Sander- son, Fling and Palmer will represent the women’s league against®the Capz team of C. & O. League of Richmond. These are first block matches of a home-and-home series. The Richmond | teams will come here some time next month. e ie s GAMES AT HYATTSVILLE. HYATTSVILLE, Md., January 17— Regular basketers of Company F, Na- tional Guard, will entertain Calvary Baptist tossers tonight in the armory here in the main attraction of a dou- ble-header. Mount Rainier and Com- pany F Reserve team No. 2 wiil meet in a curtain raiser at 7:30 o'clock. It| will be a Prince Georges County League game. — WILLIAMS STARTS EAST. VANCOUVER, British Columblia, Jan- uary 17 (#)—Percy Williams, Olympic sprint champion, has left Vancouver for Winnipeg on the first leg of his tour of Eastern indoor track meets. He will remain there until Sunday, before going East with Jimmy Ball, quarter- mile star. Willlams' first start will be in the Boston A. A. games, February 2 THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1929. GETS JOB VACATED BY AILING PLAYER Connery’s Coaching Big Aid, Says Rogers—.300 Hitter in First Season. BY ROGERS HORNSBY. (Written exclusively for The Star and the Noith American Newspaper Alliance ) HERE'S one thing in my advance- ment in base ball I always have regretted. 1 made good with the St. Louls Cardinals in the Spring of 1916, but I ‘'was helped into a regular position because of the misfortune of another player. Maybe I would have made good any- way, if not at his position at some other, but nevertheless I was boosted into a regular job because another fel- low had a sore arm. The Cardinals had bought Roy Cor- han from San Francisco for the regular shortstop. He had been up once be- fore with the White Sox. This time he was looked upon as the best shortstop on the Pacific Coast, and no one doubt- ed he would make good with the Car- dinals. No one even considered me, a kid who had come up from a small Texas club the Fall before and seemed several years away from big league form. I might not have beaten out Corhan even with his sore arm if a certain fel- low hadn't taken great interest in me and worked hard with me all that Spring on the training trip. I feel I owe my success in base ball more to the coaching of Bob Connery than to anything or any one else. Huggins Is Interested. When we began training in San An- tonlo and I had reported weighing 160, about 30 pounds over my weight of th previous Fall. Huggins and Connery were greatly interested, though I doubt if either of them figured I would de- velop into a regular that year. They probably planned to place me some- where for a year of experience. However, Huggins told Connery to take me in charge and see what I could do. I guess no man ever worked hard- er with a youngster ti Bob did with me on that training tflP the regular drill, he wou! SPORTS.” on the fleld with one or two other ln-! fielders, knock ground balls to me, and | instruct me how to handle them and | how to make plays at second. I never| got tired of it, and perhaps my willing- nes to work caused Bob to take so much interest. | Then, too, Corhan had that sore | arm which refused to respond to treat- ment, and the club was up against it for & shortstop. I was hitting hard and looked like the best man gor the place until Corhan had recovered, if only they could teach me to play the position properly. On Toes in Exhibition Games. 1 filled the job in all the exhibition games, though even so I doubt Hug- gins had any idea of putting me there when the season opened. But I had Jjust such an idea in my head and felt that I was hitting well enough to war- rant a trial. I knew I would have to handle the fielding end properly, however, or out I would go, no matter how well T was hitting. Connery knew what I would be up against when the real games began, and he kept at me with untiring energy. Ever since that Spring I have felt that he was the man who made a big leaguer out of me. Finally the Spring trip was over, and we were back North to open the season. Corhan still had the sore arm and couldn’t play. The day before the big opening Huggins came to me and said: “Kid, you're going to be in there tomorrow. Keep your head up.” I was in there for the opening, and 1 still was in there when the last game was played that Fall. I hit well over .300. Probably I made many mistakes, but I was learning. Just the same, I believe I always have felt that it was a tough break for Corhan, and I have often wondered how things might have turned out if he hadn’t had a sore arm. (Copyright, 1929. by the North American Newspaper Alliance.) (Next—"An Eager Rookie.”) MATCH WITH D. C. CUEMEN | DECLINED BY BALTIMORE | After having been defeated for 16 straight seasons by Washington 18.2 billiardists, Baltimore cueists have an- nounced that they do not care to take | part in an intercity match this season. George Lewis of the Lewis & Krauss Billiard Academy now is trying to ar- range an intercity three-cushion tour- ney with a Philadelphia team in order . Long after f to give the Washington billiardists some d keep me out 'action FRANCE MAY PASS UP 1932 OLYMPIC GAMES By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, January 17.—“Shall France send an Olympic team to Los Angeles in 1932?” is a question that Match, the most widely read sporting weekly in France, has asked of 50 prominent ath- letic officials. The answer has been “No” 7 times out of 10, but the matter is far from being decided. Although most of the officials believe | the expense of the long journey is too great, Count Clary, president of the French Olympic committee, and Frantz- Reichel, its secretary and the organizer of the 1924 Olympic games at Paris, have answered affirmatively. |, The conclusion drawn by the paper is that the financial difficulties will be | overceme and a team numbering prob- ably 20 or 25 will represent France | in California. 0DD FELLOW ROLLERS LIST INTERCITY TILTS ‘Three teams of Odd Fellows’ Bowling League will meet a like number of teams from the Baltimore league of the same fraternity in a home-and-home series of six games, starti night at Lucky Strike Members of the local teams will be selected from the highest average men. The following bowlers are requested to be present next Tuesda: ville, C. F. Groff, C. H. Groff, Perce Ellett, J. Ellett, Hornig, Ehlers, Cones, Williams, F. Donaldson, E. Donaldson, J. 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