Evening Star Newspaper, February 8, 1929, Page 36

AR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1929. SPORTS. summarily put the dogs and possibly the tracks out of the running. | and appearing in the role of a diligent and enterprising business man, rather FEET o PROKT NOW SEEN defenders. He makes earnest addresses at Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs, expound- ing the glories of Miami as a Winter Dempsey Says Ticket Sales Total $30,000 More Than Bout Cost Estimate. JACK THIRDOWNER | OF AN IDLE COURSE Ex-Champ Had Good Income From Miami Beach Plant Governor Closes. BOXERS GENERALLY REBUSINESS MEN Soak Each Other as Means of Livelihood—Big Ones Good Sportsmen. Hewo FRED - JAVA GOOD TimE P N L] ( WHAT A WONDERFUL WINTER /' Darn e Lucs;% HJ%‘;E g):\ce: NI L R, C ~N FRED FRICK- HE" K | el "‘L,E-AE N so‘é?,,':ng FROM THE SOUTH AND I'VE GOT sl et il o WSTEN 0o To ALL THE USUAL CRATTER. ABOUT LYING O T™E BEACH playground. He has caught the evan- gelistic note of the promoter of large enterprises, makes a neat speech and invariably gets a big hand. If they drive this Sharkey-Stribling fight out of Florida—which probably won’t happen—it will be like looting the baby's stocking on Christmas morn- | ing. Down here they are hoping that | the world won't come to an end be-| !u;etfl;lh fight '.?:(es pl:ce. 11‘1;‘7 m?]lter, what happens afterward. ey have | hypnotized themselves into the belief BY the Associated Press that Young Stribling is going to flatten IAMI BEACH, Fla, February the Boston boy in about six rounds. 8.—Jack Dempsey and the (il s Madison Square Garden Cor- i poration were some $30,000 to DISTRICT ATTORNEY e S | Stribling fight today if estimates of the GETS BRAVES' CASE cost of the February 27 slugfest prove by the late Tex Rickard and G. R. K. [acmaes Carter, at a cost of nearly $3500,000. By the Associated Press. | Dempsey has announced ticket sales The remaining interest is held by Carter| BOSTON, February 8.—Investigation for the Flamingo Park match already and Mrs. Rickard. : e inc'fi ;h::n ;i:i'sffur:d:g bise 'ball Ps‘;:nndal‘have reached $189,000, which exceeds o sed from the Boston Finance “T:xses‘otsgcl;nw:f‘ lfllfglfli l‘::e!!;e N | Commission to the office of County Dis- | by $30,000 the estimated cost of the first order from the governor to stop | trict Attorney Willilam J. Foley, The BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. IAMI, Fla, February 8.—Jack| Dempsey, right at the opening gong of his career as a big time sports promoter, catches a Stiff left hook to the jaw— with the closing of the Florida dog tracks by order of the governor. Dempsey holds a one-third interest | in the Miami Beach Kennel Club, built | in_book form. Twenty-cighth installment hy, which is appearing BY TEX RICKARD 2 with Bozeman Bulger). presence of Carpentier m‘ America and his gentlemanly | bearing, I believe, fully con- firmed my theory that the public | likes to regard a fighter as a real sportsman—not as a bitter enemy | MET A LOT OF FRIENDS OF YOURS WHO WANTED To BE REMEMBERED -~ HOW'S THAT o BUT I'Mm AWFUL GLAD To GET BACK - NOTHING LIKE THIS COLD, BRACING FRED, ISN'T SUCH A BAD FELLOW AFTER ALL- I'VE SEEN A LOT WORSE— spectacle. who, in bulldog fashion, intends to vent his wrath in the ring. In the old days managers made a oint of showing the two fighters to have a grudge, to be bitter enemies. Much was made of what they would do once they entered the ring. This was supposed to make the public eager to sea the spilling of blood in what they were told would be a grudge fight. As a matter of fact, there never were eny grudge fights, to my knowledge. The boxers, as a rule, were business men, merely soaking each other in the nose as a means of livelihood. I never did believe that building up a grudge notion ever helped the atiendance. I am still of that opinion. According to my way of thinking, the public liked to Tegard the two boxers as gentlemen and sportsmen. You all re- member how Jim Corbett’s popularity was increased when they called him Gentleman Jim. I have never staged what I tried to make a grudge fight. The sportsman idea undoubtedly pays better. At least that has been my experience. {_"arpcnher was induced to attend gocial pariies on Long Island. His natural - French politeness, his inborn good manners, made him immediately Ppopular—a sort of fistic idol. His war record helped a lot. He was immensely opular. 7 Igcmpsey, having none of these man- ners, was somewhat in the shadow. Jack Dempsey is a very nice fellow and is fully capable of handling himself in any kind of a gathering. He has con- siderabis personal magnetism. But he was mndlc;p{lpéd by being just a plain erican fighter. A’? saw to st that these fighters were acquainted *and presumably regarded each other as sportsmen. That un- doubtedly helped. I even went S0 far &s to have them play golf together. Dempsey No Braggart. If you will remember, Dempsey never once assumed the attitude of a bully | and a braggart. From the start he| maintained that t: lick Carpentier would be no easy job. “Any man who has won all the fights he has” Dempsey sald to me, “must| have something. A fellow must have | something even to knock out a dub. I} know he can sock.” 's followers told what a cinch o o He was immedi- hampion had. :x::{; :nuzu ‘}‘avorite in the betting. But Dempsey never said any of those things. At heart, I think he had a real admira- tion for Carpentier. He was not even influenced by the ¢ €avoritism in the betting. “John L. Sullivan was a big favorite over Corbett, wasn't he?” he reminded | his friends. “Williard was a favorite over me at Toledo, wasn't he? Jeffries was a favorite, wasn't he?” Jack Dempsey is nobody’s fool. He knows _a lot. While his friends ran around taiking about his supposed uncé\ he simply setdled down to hard Work. ? ‘When Carpentier first came to Amer- ica there was some doubt as to his abil- ity as a fighter. To pffset this we gave him a_tryout—put in against Bat- tuing Levinsky. The Frenchman won in | four rounds, and thus became the log- | ical runner-yp. There was a question in | the minds of some experts. about Car- pentier's weight being enough to offset Dempsey's, but after that Levinsky af- fair nobody doubted the Frenchman knew how to fight. During the early stages of the prepa: ration for the great battle all sorts of rumors were spread around. There was one that Descamps would refuse to let his man go on unless the ring was made larger. This was largely tommyrot. The Frenchman co-operated with us in every detail. He and Carpentier were real sportsmen. Training Methods Differ. Then much was made of the training | methods of the two fighters. Dempsey, | opening up quarters at Atlantie - City, | charged 50 cents admisison to see him in action. There were.plenty of bugs willing to pay Immediately, though, there was an attempt to berate | Dempsey for what was called his mer- cenary attitude. As a matter of fact, I | don't think Dempsey or Kearns took the matter seriously. At the sgame time Carpentier leased an old country house at Manhassett, and practically went into seclusion. He permitted few people to see him train, &nd to thosz no charge was made. This was not intended as a reflection on Dempsey. The Frenchman's man- ager had discovered long before that Carpentier trained better when not bothered by a lot of people standing around and asking questions. He re- garded the mental attitude of a fighter in training as most important. Those who criticized Carpentier for his seclu- siveness forgot that he was a foreigner, unable to speak the language. The things that were cveryday affairs to | Dempsey were all strange to him. He| wanted to work with his own crowd in his own way, I do not want to dwell too long on | all these early details, but I do think it worth while to give you a sample of | some of the odd stories that came out sseit camp—stories that made the public all the more eager to see the great fight It was generaily known that Descamps had been a hypnotist and a legerde- main artist. It is but natural that nl lezend, a fairy tale, should arise from | this, This Startled New York. One morning the fans of Greater New York found themseives reading & story | that smacked of Trilby and Svengali. The little manager with the burning eves, we were told, always sat in a cor- 1 d threw a hypnotic spell over the fighter. Under this hypnotic spell Car- penticr had ould hypnotize r just as Svengali had hyp- Trilby to raake her a great | Now, how is that for hokum? Just the same, it was wounderful read- ing. As the day of the great fight ap- proached the public was getting more and more anxious to see the French idol. ~Carpentier was the favorite as an idol, but Dempsey was still favorite in the betting. My happiest moment was when that hisioric July 3 dawned clear. The arena was completed, the tickets had been sold, the organization was as near perfect as we cou!d make it. That was a biz day in my life, one I shall not soon forget. (Copyright, 1929, by North paper Allianc The D;m»m-cup.nm American News- (Next: | Fignt, | ington fighter will leave for Florida Sun- i Tricks, Neil Clark, Edwin Wuinn, Jack ATMQS‘PHEflE BOY OF YOURS GETTING ALONE ©1089 MY TmiBuNE 1NE. SCHAEFER BEATEN BY GERMAN CUEKT Hagenlacher Makes 207 Run in 18.2 Win—Grange Bows to Horemans. By the Assoclated Press. EW YORK, February 8.—Kinrey Matsuyama stood alone today as the only unbeaten contest- ant in the world championship 18.2 balkline billiards tourna- ment, but the little Japanese owes at least a part of his exalted position to some exceedingly brilliant billiards by Eric Hagenlacher, the phlegmatic Ger- man. : Uncorking a run of 207, highest of the tournament, last night, Hagen- lacher gave young Jake Schaefer his first defeat and achieved, for himself, his first victory. With 7 of the 15 matches down on he books, Matsuyama now leads the procession with two victories and no de- feats. The runner-up is the defending champion, Edouard Horemans of Bel- gium, with two wins and a single loss to the Japanese. Bunched behind the leaders are Schaefer, Hagenlacher and Welker Cochran of Hollywood, each with an even break in two starts. Felix| Grange of France brings up the rear with three setbacks in a row. The Hagenlacher-Schaefer duel last night was the closest and most exciting of the tournament. Young Jake was in form from the start and quickly ran up a lead of 199 to 63 at the end of the fourth inning. Here Hagenlacher got the balls together and nursed them along until he had counted 207. A long two-cushion effort failed on his 208th | carom. After that the match was a long drawn-out affair, cautiously played by both contestants. Hagenlacher final- ly ran out in the séventeenth inning with an unfinished run of 5. - In the afternoon match, Horemans further demonstrated that he is to be reckoried with, when he turned back Grange in a 21-inning contest, 400 to 338. Horemans ed a commanding lead in the early innings, but went into a decline after that. He was hard put to stave off a gallant finishing rush by the Frenchman. Today Hagenlacher meets Matsuyama | in the afternoon, and Cochran plays Grange in the evening. The Standing. High High Player, L. run. ave. Matsiyama 89 Horemans .. Cochran haefer 5 Hagenlachi -36 Grange . 1421-60 GALLAGHER Td BATTLE ON MIAMI FIGHT CARD Marty Gallagher, Washington heavy- weight boxer, will get a place on the Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. DES MOINES, Iowa.—Eddie Ander- son, Casper, Wyo., outpointed Henry Falegazo, Des Moines (10). Jack Lee, Los Angeles, outpointed Tommy Havel, St. Paul, Minn. (10). Roscoe Hall, Des Moines, outpomted Jackie Hammer, Perry, Towa (10). BURLINGTON, Iowa.—Vale Gale- gano, Manila, P. I, and Genara Pino, New York, drew (10). Bill Gabriel, Ottumwa, Jowa, stopped Mickey Mc- Knight, Peoria, Ill. (5). Louie Eslinger, Ottumwa, Io outpointed Bobby Laverne, Peoria, Ill. (6). KANSAS CITY—Blas Rodrigues, Mexico, outpointed Frisco Grange, Philippine Islands (10). SAN FRANCISCO.—Pete Meyers, San Prancisco, knocked out Sergt. Sammy Baker, New York (6). VALLEJO, Calif.—Joe Lohman, To- ledo, outpointed Dusty Miller, Victoria, British Columbia (10). SINGER AND TAYLOR T0 BATTLE TONIGHT By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 8.—Al Singer, blonde terror from Terre Haute, battle ten rounds at Madison Square Garden tonight in the second round of a featherweight elimination = tournament designed to find a challenger for Andre Routis, the title holder. The survivor of tonight's bout is to meet_Tony Canzoneri for the right to face Routis in a championship test. Canzoneri, former holder of the 126- pound crown, passed his first elimina- tion examination Wednesday night when he knocked out Joey Sangor. Singer has been established a 2-to-1 favorite over the veteran puncher from the Middle West. Taylor, once gen- erally regarded. as the bantamweight champlon of the world, appeared to be slipping some months ago, but he seems to have recovered much of his old-time form in recent engagements. Singer has made a meteoric rise to the top in the last year. He held Canzoneri to a draw in’a sizzling encounter at the Garden last December. Oscar_ Methiesen, the Norwegian, skated 3,280 feet in 1 minute, 311/10 seconds recently at Davos, Switzerland, beating his former record. preliminary program to the Sharkey- Stribling bout at Miami Beach, Fla., February 27, according to word re- celved yesterday by Gallagher from Jack Dempsey. Upon request of Dempsey the Wash- day and will be employed by either Sharkey or Stribling as a sparring part- ner. Gallagher's opponent at Miami Beach has not been selected. For the last month Gallagher has been training un- der direction of Philadelphia Jack O'Brien in New York. “Y” BOYS’ TEAM TO SWIM CENTRAL HIGH RESERVES A swimming team representing the boys’ department of the Y. M. C. A. this afternoon will meet a team com- posed of members of the Central High School reserve team in a swimming and diving contest to be staged in the pool of the high school. ‘The boys’ “Y" team, coached by James Carberry, will consist of Joe Meany, Homer Wills and Walter Haine. Tvents will include fancy diving; 50, 100 gnd 220 yard free style awlmmlng; 100-yard breast stroke style, and 100- yard back style swimming. e RICE JUNIORS TO MAKE PLANS FOR BASE BALL Plans for the coming base ball season are to be discussed by Sam Rice Juniors, who last season won the Sport Mart League title, at a meeting tomorrow night at 7:15 o'clock, at the home of Pete English, 410 Thirteenth street northeast. New and old candidates are asked to report. Rices plan to enter senior class com- petition this year and expect to again have a strong team as 15 members of ) the 1928 club will be at hand, Rg-:eludm W 1is) Wemes_snpde, Pry, Plter; e ser ' B young New Yorker, and Bud Taylor, the | Fischer-Miltner Team Enters URTHER interest in the woman challenge doubles duckpin match that opens at Arcadia tomorrow night was promised today when it was learned that plans are | under way to have two other outstand- ing woman doubles teams meet in the near future to select a pair to challenge | the winner of the Bradt-Frere vs. Gulli- | Mischou match. | According to word passed in duckpin | circles, Elsie Fischer and Margaret Milt- F | Catherine Quigley, with the. successful pair hoping to meet the winners in the match at Arcadia and King Pin to be held tomorrow night and the following | Saturday night. Mrs. Quigley and Miss Levy last week challenged the Arcadia and Meyer Davis pairs and their defi was accepted, but later developments caused the exclusion of the third team. ‘The match now planned to bring together four more of the prominent fair bowlers promises to rival the battle which opens tomorrow night at Arcadia. Mrs. Miltner and Mrs. Fischer were winner and runner-up, respectively, in The Evening Star tournament. Miss Levy was third in that event. Many bowling fans are of the opinion that all these doubles teams are well matched. It is planned to stage the Lev: the Coliseum within the next week so that the winner may immediately chal- lenge the victors of the Arcadia-Meyer Davis match. More interest has been developed in | the meeting of Lorraine Gulli and Mrs. |Irene Mischou and Marie Frere and Marjorie Bradt than has been centered on any recent woman's bowling event. Miss Gulli has been the ranking star for several years in woman's ranks and recently won the Meyer Davis ladies’ sweepstakes. Mrs. Mischou is all-events champion of both the National Duckpin Bowling Congress and the Washington Woman's Duckpin Association. Miss Bradt has recorded many out- standing scores of the current season. Her 608 five-game set at King Pin, No. 1, against Howard Campbell and Arthur Logan several months ago is one of the most sensational records ever bowled by a woman. Miss Frere has kept her average around the century mark this season and holds many of the in- dividaul records in the two major leagues. Comparison of averages reveals that Miss Gulli has averages ranging from ner will team against Rena Levy and | Quigley vs. Fischer-Miltner match at| Woman Bowling Doubles Fight 103 to 112 in three leagues, Mrs. Mis- chou boasts a 97 average, and both Miss Bradt and Miss Frere keep their aver- ages slightly above the 100 mark. Ladies’ District Doubles League matches scheduled for tomorrow night at Arcadia will be started early that all games many be completed before the challenge match starts at 8 o'clock. Manager John S. Blick has F.romued to locate the match so that a large crowd may be accommodated. | Jewish All-Stars and Italian-Ameri- can pinmen have postponed the second block battle of their match booked for the Colliseum tonight until next Friday night. The Jewish five took a 17-pin lead last week at Convention Hall. The winner will be matched with Pete Metrakos' Greek-American team. Plans for conducting the newspaper | men’s elimination tournament at King Pin No. 1 next week were completed to- day. Due to the large number of en- tries, two days will be set aside next week for all contestants to shoot their quelifying round. All hooked for aft- |ernoon will roll the five qualifying games on Monday afternoon. Those listed for night bowling will roll either Monday or Wednesday night. 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This was attacked on grounds of cruelty to the rabbits, Then mechanical rabbits were substituted, and this time the charge was cruelty to the dogs, in mak- ing them the victims of such gross de- ception. The greyhound men managed to take all these hurdles and keep going commission described revelations it | heard during the recent and lengthy | hearings as “an array of very suspicious | circumstances,” but declared that “it | was not within its province to pass upon | the guilt of the parties involved. | forward the report to the district attor- ne action as he may deem preper.” Emil Fuchs, president of the Braves, alleged that Councilman William G. | Lynch demanded bribes of $5.000 apiece | | for himself and 12 other councilmen in return for favorable action on the measure permitting professional sports | on_Sunday. | The commission found that the epi- thets “racketeer, blackmailer and black- | Jjacker” applied by Lynch to Fuchs were ’not substantiated, whereas his char- acter and integrity were praised by | prominent men. |~ The council has authorized Sunday | It announced, however, that it would | for such further investigation and | Promoter Jack also announced the arena would be ready for the customers in ample time. 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