Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1929, Page 38

SPORTS Jersey City Weather Thrills Rickard : Sangor, Knocked Out, to Quit Boxing SUNNY DAY PACKS BOVLES 30 ACRES Feared Panic if it Rained, Says Tex, at Carpentier- Dempsey Fight. This is the only autobiography written by Tex Rickard. It was pre- pared in collaboration with Bozeman Bulger, jor publication ezclusively for The Star and the North Amer- ican Newspaper Alliance. Shortly before Rickard’s death he discussed with Bulger plans for publication of these memoirs in book form. Fol- lowing is the twenty-seventh install- ment of the autobiography, which is appearing in daily chapters. BY TEX RICKARD . (In collaboration with Bozeman Bulger.) S I have said in a previous chap- ter, it is comparatively easy to get another big attraction when you have put over the first one successfully. ‘The concluding arrangements for the empsey-Carpentier fight were not nearly so difficult as some of the earlier championship affairs. The main thing required was patience. I felt reasonably certain that I sooner or later would have the famous Frenchman in Amer- i-a. My patience was never exhausted, and it was certainly well rewarded. The mere fact of the long delay in getting that fight gave it all the more publicity. In the minds of many, including my- gelf, there was a doubt of Carpentier being a good match for Dempsey. Just the same, I knew the people wanted to see that fight. The international flavor bvershadowed any possible unevenness. ‘When it finally became possible for Carpentier to leave France after the war, the rest was easy. There was little gifficulty in arriving at terms. Demp- sey signed to fight for $300,000 and Carpentier for $200,000. Can _you imagine how such figures ‘would have startled old John L. Sullivan in his palmy days! Two men fighting for a purse of a half million dollars was undreamed of then. Had to Build Arena. ‘The money to be paid the fighters Wwas a secondary consideration. The bnly thing to cause me worry or anxiety Was the erection of an arena large enough to hold the crowd. There was 1o doubt in my mind that we had to| have an arena. To have held a fight like that in an enclosed building would have meant the loss of color, of flavor. There was no ball park or other out- ®ide place properly arranged to hold such a fight. Obviously there was but i 4 fil‘&“e“’ . il b 0 use all my experience in building a bigger and better arena and, at the same time, locate it in a spot where the greatest number of people could reach it without too much in- convenience. There was never a ques- tion in my mind that the scene should be somewhere in the vicinity of Greater New York. New Jersey allowed fights of that nature. I turned my attention that way. These calculations and subsequent eX-y) %lontlons led me to the spot in Jersey ity known as Boyle's Thirty Acres. Eyery move we made brought new spurts of publicity. ‘The fight market was ®bsolutely glutted with free advertising. , All this fime, though, I was very dful of the fact that every move I le had to be worthy of the publicity. other words, there must be no slip. It Was up to'me to run this affair suc- eessfully and not disappoint the public. Our arrangements for handling the vast crowd had to be perfect. We worked on that problem for weeks. The police of Jersey City regarded the atter with deep interest and growing Pride. Their help was invaluable, All Details Perfected. 1 doubt if the public to this day fully Tealizes the perfecion with which those details were carried out. Every man on his job seemed to take a pride in his work. The result was astonishing. We handled nearly 100,000 excited people that historic afternoon in Jersey City, and there was not one accident. It was not necessary to make an arrest. This very remarkable state of affairs was due mostly to the splendid policing and handling of the crowds given by Mayor Hague and his officials of Jersey City, who planned and executed wonderfully. The thing that caused me the great- est anxiety and apprehension was the possibility of rain. You can readily vis- ualize what might have happened had a «downpour of rain set in after that great throng had bzen seated. Of course, if it rained a few hours in advance we could have postponed the fight. The thing I wanted to avoid, and the thing that I sometimes feared, was a panic due to sudden weather change. I don’i know if I was born under a lucky star, but the fact remains that I have had the greatest good fortune in the world in my big ventures when it eomes to weather, The details of all these arrange- ments were told over and over again in the daily papers until I feel that the average boxing fan as well as the 'stay-at-homes are thoroughly familiar with them. Suffice it to say that when the sun broke clear that morning of July 2 many millistones were lifted from my shoulders. Nobody ever got a great- er thrill than I did out of that day of good weather. As these arrangements went on—be- fore they really got under way, in fact ~—Carpentier and his entourage, in- cluding Descamps, his manager, ar- rived from Europe and went into train- ing at Manhasset, N. Y. The Dempsey outfit went into train- ing at Atlantic City. Plenty Press Copy. ‘These camps had to be watched, as ell as the work going on at Boyle's ‘Thirty Acres. No hands Te ever fuller than mine. The press work took care of itself. Hundreds of newspaper | men were in New York eager to elab- crate the slightest incident into & read- able story. As I expected, the arrival of Carpen- . tier added all the fuel we needed to fire the publicity. Descamps was almost as good for newspaper copy as the French ¢ champion himself. Descamps was a showman by profession, even before he | got into the fight game. Writers were quick to start legends sbout the fussy little manager and to relate storles of the war records of Carpentier. Anything that smacked of romance was eagerly sought by readers. This 10-strike in publicity was greater than all the gold strikes in Alaska put ~tegether. For instance, it was related how Descamps, a wandering showman. deal- ing in hypnotism and legerdemain, had given a performance around Lens, the ining section whence Carpentier came. fla took rabbits out of hats, hypnotized subjects in the audience and so o Fnally he wound up with a boxing e: hibition, being a very clever boxer him- self. He had long been a trainer of athletes. The boy Carpentier saw Descamps’ show and wanted to box. He got his chance. Descamps saw a future for him. The slender boy fought his way right to the top, through all the different classes as he grew heav- 1or. So successful he that Descamps never took another rabbit out of a hat. N wasn't that sort of publicity (Coprright, 1929. by North American News- OH, MAN! “feLePHONE SR., SAYS TS | MOST IMPORTANT SIR- YESSIR N DI ¥ el 25 WHATCHA BEEN DOIN' WITH TOURSELF ?- 1 GoT A LOTTA STUFF WELL ol THESE DAYS D.7 0. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 7. 19993 HOMEST 1D LIKE T SEE Yuou SoME Time - WHAT'S NEW-- HowS THINGS BY YoU AMYWK\’ THESE. PAYS —BY BRIGGS Lo oLD DAPDYKINS | WHATCHA SoiIN 7 HUHH WuY DoNCHA ComeE VP SomETIME T WHAT'S NEW) WE'LL Now TAe, UP’ THe ,QuESTIORs OF THE TEN MILLION DoLLAR BOMD 1SSUE GENTLEMEN — By the Associated Press. IAMI BEACH, Fla., February 7. —The battle over a referee was on in full force today in the camps of the rivals in the projected battle of Miami Beach, February 27. “Pa” Stribling, father and manager of the aviator-boxer, who will oppose Jack Sharkey in Dempsey's Flamingo Park Arena, believes the South has been slighted, as the list of possible referees submitted names no one from below the Mason-Dixon line. Stribling and Sharkey Having Scrap Over Third Man in Ring Dempsey will attempt to assist the men in the selection of the third man. Sharkey maintained his hard train- ing pace yesterday with a round of serious golf, while a group of news- paper men and fans waited for him to show up at his training ring. The Boston gob evidently was in earnest in saying he would not engage in sparring matches until later in the month. Young Stribling continued his night road work. EW YORK, February 7.— Fol- lowing an article by Jackson V. Scholz, former national 220-yard champion, in the January issue, where Scholz offers a new method of choosing the Olympic team, the New York Athletic Club presented yesterday in the Feb- ruary number of its monthly publica- tion, the Winged Foot, the opinions of five leading college coaches on the ques- tion. Scholz suggested that the Olympic team be picked almost a full year ahead of time and then pointed for the international games. The fault he had to find with the present system is that the athletes find the competition for the tryouts so terrifically keen that they point for the tryouts rather than for the games a month or so later. The five coaches who gave their opinions are Eddie Farrell of Harvard, Keene Fitzpatrick of Princeton, Harry Hillman of Dartmouth, Jack Ryder of Boston College and Harry Gill of Illinois. All agree that the present system is faulty, that one tryout is un- fair and that there is a tremendous letdown before the international games are reached. Farrell suggests that a pre-Olym- pic tryout be held one year preceding the final tryout and 50 per cent of the team be chosen provisionally on this basis. They would work out under the head coach and his assistants. Be- fore the final tryouts, if in the minds of the coaching staff, they are deemed capable of creditable performances, they would be arbitrarily chosen. There still would be two places open to con- test for at least seven weeks before the Olympics. Fitzpatrick would have a committee of seven—one from the Pacific Coast, two from the Middle West, one from the South and two from the East— with a chairman, such as Gustavus T. Kirby, to pick the team on the basis of performances all year. Hillman would have three Olympic tryout meets instead of one, at least 80 days before the Olympics, with the team chosen on the basis of perform- ances. Then this team would report to the coaching staff, which, at the ex- piration of that time, would make its report to the selection committee, this body being empowered to make the final selection. Ryder's idea is somewhat on the order of Fitzpatrick’s, although he would have one “selection czar,” or, at the most, a committee of three to pick the team. Thus such outstanding ath- letes as Hahn, Conger, Lermond, Bar- buti, Wykoff, Baskin, Taylor, Cuhel and of the National Amateur Ath- letic Federation, held last night at the Y. W. C. A, Marion Meigs, secretary-treasurer, made her official report of the proceedings of the national meeting of the federation in New York, which she attended last month as a delegate of the District group and of the Y. W. C. A. Three resolutions were passed at the T a call meeting of the local group of the women’s division j meeting, Miss Meigs said. The fedecra- tion put itself on record as being op- posed to the participation of women in the Olympic games in one of these, but in a second voted that since the United States is to play host to women of foreign countries in 1932, the N. A. A. F. would endeavor to assist in e tertaining and chaperoning the visi- tors at that time. A renewal of the pledge of the organization to educate those in school (including college st dents) as well as parents and the pub- lic to the advantages of mass partici- pation in games and sports for women was included in the third resolution reported by Miss Meigs. Mrs. Herbert Hoover, who formerly held the chairmanship of the board of directors of the N. A. A. F., now filled by Mrs. Henry Alvah Strong of Wash- ington, was unable to attend the annual session, according to Miss Meigs, but sent a letter of greeting to the dele- gates and indicated her hearty co-op- eration in the work which she was instrumental in organizing in 1920. Mrs. Hoover now serves as honorary member of the board. One more meeting of the local branch will be held this season at the call of the chairman, Elsie Sanders. Physical education directors all over the city and from nearby Maryland and Virginia will be issued a blanket invitation to attend this Spring session whether they are paper Alliance.) (Ngxt: There Never"was & Grudge ' affiliated with the N. A. A. F. or not. American Security & Trust Co. tossers Slafeated the men Athletic Club | v Five Big Coaches Urge Changes In Choosing U. S. Olympic Team others would have been chosen early in June, with plenty of time to point for the Olympics. Gill would extend the time of the tryouts over a longer period, so that one off day would not affect an ath- lete’s chances of making the team. Fights Last Night By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO.—Tony Canzoneri, New York, knocked out Joey Sangor, Mil- waukee (7). Tony Herrera, Fort Worth, Tex.,, outpointed Armando Santiago, Cuba (8). Andy Suttle, New York, out- pointed Georgie Amblard, France (6). Spud Murphy, Moorehead, Minn., out- pointed Harry Dublinsky, Chicago (6). DAYTON, Ohio.—Tiger West, Phila- delphia, knocked out Kid Fields, Chi- cago (4). ST. LOUIS.—Henry Lenard, Chicago, won on a foul from Benny Bass, Phila- delphia (3). Joey Rivers, Kansas City, s';pped Claude Wilson, Birmingham ). SAN FRANCISCO.—Frankie Stetson, San_Francisco, stopped Ritchie Mack, St. Paul (6). ELDORADO, Ark.—Ward Whithead, Shreveport, outpointed Burleigh Kinney, Clarksville, Ark. (10). DEPARTMENTAL PILOTS | TO MEET FRIDAY NIGHT | Department League managers are to meet Monday night at 8 o’'clock at the | Government Printing Office Cafeteria | to_discuss plans for the coming season. President Vic Gauzza has announced that there are several franchises open | to Government teams and those who ‘would join should be represented at the meeting. LOCAL COLLEGE NINES ON N. Y. U’S SCHEDULE Games with Quantico Marines, Georgetown and Virginia are listed on the New York University base ball schedule just announced. Marines will entertain the N. Y. U, nine at Quantico on March 28 and 30. Virginia will be met at Cul,mrlonei}'ille March 29, etown will be engaged here April 1 and at New York mxag May 31, Sport six, 16 to 4, in a senior section Wash- ington Recreation League game last night af Central High School. Dorothy Draper did the heavy scoring for the winners, while Estella Hearn proved versatile in her dual role as guard and forward. Gertrude Boger registered both of the counters for Washington A. C. Eleanor Watts held down guard and side-center posts with ease. Scores: Amer. Sec. G. D.Draper, rf. 4 M.Nich'on, 1f 1 M.Leech, c... 0 IBooth.’ sc.. By CORINNE FRAZIER. Wash. A. C. G.Boger, T K.Green, Cwise, c.... oth. APen'g'n, sc, EMFad'n, & 0 EWatt, rg. M Hughes, g 0 E.Forney, Ejiearn, lz.(. 0 M.Plum’on, 1§ Totals . ‘Washington Field Hockey Club bas- keters triumphed over the Aloysians, 26 to 23, in a tight contest played in the Holton Arms gym last night. It was a game of the senior division of the Washington Recreation League, and marked the first appearance of the hockey club six this season. Aloysians made their bow last week when they met the Jewish Community Senter six, to whom they lost. Elsie Jansen and Eugenia Davis di- vided scoring honors for the winers. Jewish Community Center and Eagles are slated to meet tonight at the Cen- ter at 9 o'clock in a senior circuit tilt. Neither team has been defeated this season, so speclal interest will be at- tached to their meeting. These two are strong contenders for laurels in this section, In the junior division, Eaglets will meet St. Paul's Academy tossers to- night at 7:30 on the latter's fleld. Each has suffered defeat once in early sea- son contests. No games are carded in the interms o ol owsscsswn 5l swosoont™ diate loop for tonight, unless some post- mxecgflncontuu are arranged at the ute. . r‘ UMPS VAN GRAFLAN TO TOIL WITH NATS By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, February 7.—President E. S. Barnard of the American League called his 12 umpires together today for their annual “shop talk.” Nothing of importance was up for discussion excepting the finer points of the game, upon which Barnard is anxious to have all the arbiters agree. The staff is the same as last year ex- cept that Dan Barry of Boston will be replaced by George Moriarity. Thomas “Technical” Connolly, the sole survivor of that gallant little band that surrounded Ban Johnson when the American League swelled out its chest 19 years ago and announced itself as a major organization, heads the list of | Gran arbiters. It is to Connolly that most of the “umps” look for finer rulings. Three of the umpires will sharpen their wits during the Spring training campaign, it was announced. Emmett Ormsby will be with the Yankees, Wil- liam McGowan will call them for Cleve- land and Roy Van Graflan will follow ‘Washington. MATSUYAMA FIRST INBALKLINE EVENT in 18.2 Play—Horemans Trims Cochran. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, February 7.—Start- ing the second lap of the round robin tournament, Kin- rey Matsuyama, Japanese, stood alone today at the head of the six contestants for the world 18.2 balk- line billiards championship. Matsuyama is the only one who has played two matches and won both. Behind him in the standing is young Jake Schaefer of Chicago, who was victorious in hid only match. The defending champion, Edouard Horemans of Belgium, and Walker Cochran, young Californian, are tied for third place with one victory and one defeat as the result of their meet- ing last night. Eric Hagenlacher, Ger- man entry, has lost his only match, while Felix Grange of France occupies the cellar position with two defeats. The brilliant young Japanese, who opened the tournament Monday with a fine victory over Horemans, continued his good work in the afternoon match | yesterday to overwhelm Grange by a 400-t0-218 count. The match was the longest of the tournament to date, going 23 innings, as both contestants had difficulty controlling the balls at the start. Playing wtih great caution, Massu- yama gave his French opponent only one chance to get the balls into position for his favorite cushion shots. In the tenth inning Grange collected the ivories and clicked off his high run of 72. Matsuyama’s best string of caroms for the match was 84, made in the fifth frame. Horemans came back from his defeat by Matsuyama to run off 400 points in only 11 innings against Cochran last night, winning 400 to 290. The high. est run made so far in the event aided materially in the Belgian’s victory. Horemans will play his third match of the tournament this afternoon against Grange, while Schaefer and Hagenlacher complete the second round in fhe evening. H.A 2 239-17 36 4-11 29 1513.18 191-16 Matsuyama Schaeter 13 16-39 NAVY YARD IN LEAGUE. Navy Yard will have a team in the Government Base Ball League the com- ing season and because there is more talent available expects to have a nine stronger than that which represented | it last season. iBeats Grange to Get Lead| King Pin’s Bowling Title Hope Well Jolted by New Arcadias ENNANT contenders have suffer- ed disasters in three of Wash- ington’s leading duckpin leagues this week. When King Pin ab- sorbed three defeats from Arca- dians in the District League last night at King Pin No. 1, it marked the third failure of a runner-up to show cham- pionship class during the week. ‘The , victories credited the Arcadia five may be attributed more to the fail- ure of the King Pin stars to get pins than to the accuracy of the rejuvenated line-up of Arcadia. Arcadia girls’ team, trailing a single game behind Recreation in the Ladies’ District League as they faced Temple girls Monday night at Arcadia, showed a complete reversal of form and drop- pedt a pair to the team from the North- east. Commercials, chief contenders for the honor of supplanting Beeques as reign- ing champions of the Washington La- dies’ League, met their rivals Tuesday night with a chance to step into the lead by scoring a clean sweep. But the runner-up team was licked, 2 to 1. Much of the credit due to the Beeques in their double triumph goes to Lorraine Gulli, reliable anchor, who turned defeat into triumph for Beeques in the first game by tossing in two marks in the last box with just enough wood to win. Commercials were una- ble to come back in the second game, but managed to stave off complete hu- miliation by taking the final game. King Pins, N. D. B. C. champions, looked anything but impressive last night. Burton Parsons, new addition to tke Arcadia team. shot the best sot of the engagement, 352. Glenn Wolstenholme, former Conven- tion Hall anchor ace, did not make his appearance with Arcadias, but will take up the anchor assignment next week. His transfer has been approved by Dis- trict League directors. Red Megaw's return to Convention Hall and the sign- ing of George Friend and Ollie Pacini by Curb Cafe also have been approved by the directors. Swain, formerly with Stanford, goes to Meyer Davis, and Parsons’ transfer from Petworth to Arcadia has been approved. ‘These are last-minute changes before the final series gets under way Monday. After that date no changes or transfers are permitted. ‘While King Pin men were taking their three-way drubbing last night, King Pin women were scoring a trio of vic- tories over Lucky Strike on the latter team's alleys. The triple triumph en- abled King Pins to pass their victims in the standing. The latter moved into sixth place, exchanging places with the victors. Terminal Ice team of the Ladies’ Dis- trict League has been one of the sur- prises of the present season. After a poor start, which relegated it to the cellar throughout the early stages of the race, the Terminal Ice five has shaken off it& jinx and now is in fourth place and a dangerous foe at any time. With a renewed incentive to win, Joe | Kronman's Rialto Stars will meet | Rinaldi’s Italian-American bowlers at the Coliseum tomorrow night in the second five-game block of their 10-game match. The victors will meet a Greek- American team headed by Pete Metrakos in the near future with a view to settling disputes that have been raging among the bowlers of various nationalities. Kronman's quint enters the final block tomorrow night with a mere | 17-pin lead. Should Rinaldi’s pinmen show the same strength exhibited in the final games at Convention Hall last week a complete reversal might result tomorrow night. DEATH OF FIGHTER PUTS BAN ON GAME By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, February 7.—Boxing has, been put under an indefinite ban in{ Seattle by Mayor Frank E. Edwards as a direct result of the death here Tues- day night of Eddie Cartwright, Port- land Negro pugilist. Cartwright was knocked out during a preliminary fight and died in a dress- ing room 20 minutes later. Doctors said he died as a result of hitting the canvas. Boxing in this State is forbidden by State laws. Efforts have been made at every session of the Legislature in re- cent years to obtain a law which would permit six to ten-round matches. Mayor Edwards later amplified his attitude toward professional boxing by declaring: “The ban probably will re- main in effect until boxing is legalized.” VIC KEEN BUSY SIFTING BIDS FOR HIS SERVICES Vic Keen, former well known resident | of Chicago and St. Louis, where he earned more than a little fame with his pitching exploits as a member of the Cubs and Cardinals, and who is winter- ing as usual with his parents in Chevy Chase, Md,, is finding that being a free agent has some disadvantages. Most big league players coyet an un- conditional release when the club own- ing them decides to dispense with their services. Keen was given his by the Cards and considered himself lucky to be able to pick his own spot for future employment in the profession he has chose, but is finding that if St. Louis had “assigned hic contract to some club—any club—it would have saved him a lot of cogitation. Keen has re- ceived so many offers from clubs in so many localities and leagues that he is | having difficulty determining which to accept. GETS BAD BEATING IN CANZONER! BOUT Bell Saves Milwaukee Boy in Second Round—Takes Count in Seventh. By the Associated Press. HICAGO, February 7.—At the age of 25 Joey Sangor has de« cided to quit the featur wrecking quest of a boxing championship. ~ His mother, he told the radio audience last night after he was able to get off the canvas where Tony Canzoneri had knocked him in the seventh round, was anxious for him to abandon the ring, and fur< thermore he was dissatisfied himself with his 1929 showing. Sangor’s final ring appearance—if it proves to have been his final one— was before the largest crowd ever packed within the walls of the Coli= seum. It was a brave fight, though he lost, for he took punishment by the fistful for seven weary rounds, gamely fighting on though his face and body were sore from the Canzoneri can- nonade. Really he was knocked out twice, but the bell gave him time to pull himself together after he had been sprawled in the waning seconds of the second round. He was as completely out in that round as he was in the final one, but the bell rang as the timekeeper tolled a seven count. The little Mil- waukee scrapper was dragged to his corner, doused with water and restored to consciousness. lin Canzoneri’s victory put him in e for a crack at the junior lightweight title Tod Morgan holds. He is to be matched with the winner of the Bud- Taylor-Al Singer fight in New York Friday night, Promoter Jim Mullen leaving today for New York to make the final arrangements. The proposed fight with Canzoneri as one of the prin- cipals is scheduled for Chicago Feb- ruary 26. After the second round last night Sangor fought uphill all the way, send- ing straight shots at the leaping, lean- ing Tony, and getting eve kind of a blow in return. Canzoneri took the hardest of Sangor’s blows and sent harder ones back. Occasionally Sangor would strike out with a left, but it was only a gesture, for the steam was gone. When the seventh came it was nothing. but courage that lifted his gloves fn defense. Body blows paved the way for the fin- ish, and a right cross to the chin ended the contest. Pennsylvania had 2,096 licensed boxers and 175 wrestlers enrolled dur- ing 1928. There are 64 boxing clubs listed in the State. ‘Yes, and put in plenty, Wilkil‘lS! Fine people,and they entertain well, but their knowledge of cigarettes is appalling. 1’4 rather have a Chesterfield!”’ A man wants some TASTE in his tobacco. And he wants it mild. That’s just another way of saying he’d rather have a Chesterfield . . . mild enough for anybody and yet THEY SATISFY Licoerr & Myzrs Tosacco Co.