Evening Star Newspaper, February 12, 1929, Page 27

'SPORTS:” COLORFUL BOXERS Bulky Argentine Needs No “Built-Up” Publicity, Rickard Finds. This is the only autobiography written by Tex Rickard. It was prepared in collaboration with Boze- man Bulger, for publication exclu- sively for The Star and the North American Ncmgper Alliance. Short- ly before Rickard’s death he dis- cussed with Bulger plans for publi- cation of these memoirs in book jorm. Following is the thirty-first installment of the autobiography, which is appearing in daily chapters. | BY TEX RICKARD. | € coliaboration with Bozeman Bulger.) NE of the most picturesque fig- ! ures to loom up in boxing for | many years was Luis Firpo, the Argentinian. There was ! much discussion and a big di- | vision of opinion whether he was a real fighter with championship possibilities, or merely a spectacular flash in the pan. Nature gave Firpo the build and con=- stitution of a giant. I don’t think there was any doubt about Firpo being level- | headed. There certainly can be no question that he was game. Damon Runyon, the sports writer, dubbed this giant South American “The ‘Wild Bull of the Pampas.” As a matter of fact Firpo is a city-raised fellow and I doubt if he knows much about the Pampas. Just the same, it was a won- derful name. It added all the more to the picturesqueness of the big fellow. It helped to make him a drawing card. Firpo, by the way, was a good illus- tration of the fighter who always at- tracts attention whether he be a really great fighter or not. Long before the big fellow had developed enough ability to compel a fight with the champion the public was growing more and more anxious to see him. Any one reading the newspapers and listening to the com- ment of boxing fans could sense that. ‘The international flavor was always a big factor in his drawing ability. From the promoter’s point of view Firpo was the richest looking prospect in the field at the time. I was deter- | mined to invest in him for big profits | sooner or later. The time arrived |ysooner than I expected. Needed Little Boosting. | ‘There has been much said and written about the “build-up” for Firpo—that is, the gradual talking up of a fight to get the public interested. There was noth- ing particularly brilliant or skillful in | bullding up_interest in the big South American. He built up himself by his | ability to attract attention. Incidentally, .I have never known i to have a reputation without having done something to earn it. A man may live long on an established reputation, but he must have done to get that reputation in the beginning. thousands of men who have tried all their lives to get a repu- -tation only to meet with failure can appreciate this. ‘When we first heard the rumbles of glant Argentinian, we thought it g y W. O. McGEEHAN. Show Dogs and Work Dogs. FTER looking trhough some of the advertisements in Mr. Dole's kennel section of the Herald-Tribune one wonders how much of this dog show now in progress at Madison Square Garden is on the level. I read of a beauty salon for dogs where a pet canine ‘can be plucked, clipped, mani- cul athed antiseptically and groomed. I suppose that they might, if re- quested,\have the eyebrows penciled, the lipstick administered expertly and the red with a permanent wave, 1 that there was some dispute at a recent dog show at Baltimore e canine beauty parlor had done things to produce an artificial sparkle in e eyes of a fox terrier bitch. I remember this vividly because I got myself in\Dutch, as it were, mentioning the matter. The lady who owned the fox terrier\was the hostess of myself and some friends during a recent trip broken caviar sandwiches with the owner of that overbeau- tiful fox terrier, the matter. ©Oh, well, T said\it—and that's that. would not knowingly have given any undue publicity to I never did care for show dogs anyhow, and I would have nothing to do with a dog that would submit to being mar- celled and manicured while he had the the laboring classes my: 1 am thinking is located in Southern maintains two of the fin fangs to bite back. Being a member of my sympathies are all with the working dogs. ularly of the dogs of the Dover Hall Club, which There Mr. Wilbert Robinson, president, bird dogs in the South (this is taking in no little territory), Rod and Mac,\pointers. Rod, which is the younger and the brighter, is the delight of a the hunters of the type that c * and barrcled has made something of. There was, for instance, Capt. Rol of taking a shotgun with him. There was a sound of heavy firing ford had gone, funny and left me flat.” sniffed contemptu~asly and trotted back pointer no litt'. during the season. on a deer trail. and misses, Gilpin will knock off work It happened one day that Col. developed into a deep slumber. just another one of those things, as say in boxnig vernacular. t £ EE showed up, everybody was talk- t him. Some attempted to a josh, Just the same, to see him. £ prelimifarics. . As usal 3 ‘usual eventually in a bout be 1t trial horse. boxing fans ever stopped valuable to tha‘mg is Brennan. Just of ‘himself, Brennan was on somebody beat PP R ELLE E £ i i i o i 3 1 | _i_ HEal: & B! ‘Wild Bull of the Pampas” n Toar. Still, Brennan, the sm(‘ul ld war horse, looked like a winner to the twelfth round, then some- happened. rushed his corner and smothered Bill with an attack. Brennan could hardly get his arms up to ward off the assault. Firpo landed a right on his jaw. As Brennan cracked him behind the g i k enoug] | same punch, delivered in the ! round, that Dempsey had used to knock out Brennan. Firpo was now a drawing card. Hew | big & figure he became in the fight | world every fan knows. American News- paper Alliance.) (Copyright, 1929, by North (Next——The Dempsey-Firpo Fight.) o PETERSEN, DANE, TAKES GERMAN TENNIS TITLE , Germany, February 12 (#). door unnuchgmm-‘ ‘won ""Sith & siraignt . Dessard of Ger- many, 75, 75, , 6—0. ‘The uv;'ol:zen's singles tm:{"c‘:l ‘won Fraulein Irmgard Rost logne, :yho delelmdl_F‘l:flu_’ P;udleben in the final, 11—9, , T—5. P‘:‘lul!in Rost, with the Austrian player, F. Mateyka, as her partner, also won the mixed doubles, while Hans Moldenhauer, German _star, paired with Mateyka to capture the men's doubles. The women’s doubles final was won by Frauleins Hoffman and Kallmeyer, - COLUMBIA BANK TENNIS TEAM IN INDOOR MATCH Members of Columbia National Bank tennis team will try the indoor game Thursday, when they are scheduled to meet First National Bank racketers of i u:e Fifth Regiment Armory af ore. Stodder, Robins, Whipple, ‘Yeatman comprise the local MATCH FOR SONNENBERG. CHICAGO, February 12 (#).—“Dyna- anite” Gus Sonnenberg, whose flying tackle has received the approval of the Tilinois State Athletic Commission, will defend his heavyweight wrestling title at the Coliseum February 25. His op- ponent has not been selected but will probably be either Joe Stecher, former champion, or Hans' Steinke. FERET IS REINSTATED. PARIS, February 12 (#).—Raoul Feret, member of Charley Pyle's trav- eling tennis circus of several years I?, has been reinstated as an amatour by ‘the French Tengls Federatign, - Gardes and team. leaped over the sleeping Colonel, conist of New York City, who made a shorix to explore the acres for some rare botanical bird hunter, but experience with some of to Dover Hall after the corn is husked a cynic out of Rod. *¢_A. Clifford, the well known tobac- it to Dover Hall. He rose early imens, He made the mistake Rod, naturally, thought that he might be lookiig for birds and undertook to show him around. Rod always is the committee of welcome to any visitor who carries a gun. In fact, he acts as the Grover Whalen of Dover Hall to hunters. For fishermen he has a supreme contempt. from the direction in which Capt. Clif- Presently Rod returned looking morose and went into his kennel, “That Clifford has been missing them,” sald Wilbert Robinson, who knew the signs. Capt. Clifford returned later. “I was just shooting at some targets,” he explained. “That dog acted Rod came out of his kennel and trotted out of the gate alone. In an hour he returned with & quail in his mouth. Evidently ib was one that had been ‘wounded by some of the huaters a day previous. Rod trotted up to where Capt. Clifford was sitting and-dropped the quail at his feet. It was as though he wanted to say: “Herc’s what we shoot at down here, you fathead.” Then Rod to his kennel. Dub hunters annoy that The Sophisticated Hound. ‘HF most sophisticated member of the deerhound pack at Dover Hall is Gilpin, a black and white. He was so called after the most sophisticated ~id worldly wise member of the Dover Hall Club and because of the half- / bored expression he wears, even when John Strickland, the guide, starts him ‘The hound Gilpin does not believe in waste motion. He will drive his deer up to the line of stands, and if it should happen that one of the hunters fires for the day. That hound has learned by long experience that there is no percentage in running a deer into the Altamaha River after somebody has fired at him and missed. Charles Crowley, who is largely a theoretical deer hunter and who works out his theories on the front porch at Dover Hall, was induced to join the hunt. He spent most of the evening working on his theories for hunting and' when he was roused at daylight he had very little sleep under his belt. When he was placed at his stand the Colonel sat down and leaned against a tree. The hounds were slow in finding their deer. The morning was warm and languoroys and the weary Colonel sank into a doze which finally In the meantime, the hounds had sighted the buck and were giving tongue in lusty fashion. But the Colonel slumbered on. Buf The baying drew nearer and nearer. rumbles persisted. When the giant | but it did not rouse the slumbering Crowley. Presently a buck broke cover and followed by Gilpin. Gilpin stopped abruptly, the | mute with rage. Then the indignant hound nipped the Colonel in the calf of It was the voice of Gilpin the hound, the leg. Charges filed against Gilpin later were ignored -by the hunts com- mittee. The biting was justifiable, The Engineer’s Dog. L. TILLINGHAST L'HOMMEDIEU HUSTON, formerly a half owner -\ in the New York Yankees but now a South Georgia plmurl, favors Ches- being Now ND then, if you want to see some real work dogs that never have been mani- cured and marcelled, take the trip to Quebec on the . you will find the teams of lood brethren of the wolves. first and watch the Huskies, Samoyedes, (Copyright, 1929.) Taft, in Striving to Live Up To Bowling Rep, Rolls Badly trying | pin teams tion Hall tar | Word ual men’s championship, has learned:the truth of this ancient and accepted maxim of sports. When Clarence made his sensational rise to fame more than a month ago he claimed an average above 109 in George- town Church League and his team was leading the race. Since then his aver- ;gse has dropped to slightly better than a ind his team, St. Alban’s Episcopal, | the lads has dropped into second place. His de- cline-has had a telling effect on the team’s showing. Trying too hard to hold the phenom- enal pace set in The Star tournament, and attempting to live up to his cham- plonship rating, is the accepted reason among bowling authorities for Taft's re- versal of form. This is one of the great- est handicaps any bowler has to over- come. Taft will face an experienced rival Saturday night when he meets Bob luy:rs. Catonsville star, who won the Baltimore Evening Sun championship in December. These champs will open their 10-game intercity newspaper championship match at Bowling Center | night. in Baltimore Saturday night, and re- turn here the following Saturday night to King Pin No. 1 to complete their en- gagement. Myers totaled 645 in - the Sun wumlment.:lrtlg !’\l‘l;ft nnlahedm;.hg five e string le more 3 !nmlddlt\m to the Taft-Myers ‘:mwh two other feature intercity individual contests are carded on the same pro- gram. Bradley Mandley, winner of the recent Howard Campbell sweepstakes; the runner-up, Clem Weidman, and Howard Campbell, place, will represent Washington. Mandley will meet a promising new- comer to Baltimore’s bowling fraternity in a singles match. Gordan Scible will be his opponent. Weidman and Camp- bell will team against George Lang, King Pin and Bowling Center star, and Ray von Dreele. These same pinmen will complete their matches here at King Pin No. 1 the following Saturday. Von Dreele created a sensation sev- eral weeks ago by rolling 756 for five games in a doubles league match at Baltimore. His score has been declared unofficial by the National Duckpin Bowling Congress, as no foul-line judge was on hand when the set was rolled. His set, under any conditions, however, accepted among bowlers as a remark- able feat. — A large delegation of fans is R o S o e ‘when they a) at Conven- Saturday nl%fi"tn the final block of this inter-city company match. from Richmond indicates that the Virginians have strengthened for the gm;n match, as they lost bg’tl:kmuom ecisive margins on home drives to local teams. Washington Western Union Leagues will present the same line-ups that rolled at Richmond. men’s team are: Ryder, mer, Sweeney and O'Neal, les’ team are son, Baler, Fling and Palmer, Jack Whalen, the District’s ranking star of last season, stepped into the 400- League gof way. He had 138, 145 and 123 counts for a 406 total. Convention: Hall into the league lead by from Cornell’s Lunch. The second block of the 10-game Fed- eral and District Government sweep- stakes, which opens at Arcadia Satur- day night, will be rolled at the Coliseum, it has been announced. Entries for this event, which has two divisions—both men’s and women’s, will close Thursday Six father and son combinations are listed to roll tonight in the unique tour- ney which started at Mount Rainier last night. Harry and Perce Wolf led the three teams which competed last night. Mayor Fred Negus of Mount Rainier and his son, Edgar Negus, were the first take the dnvteol. 2‘7? former out- ley and Bromley, jr., and Don and Cecil CUB FIRST CONTINGENT ALL SIGNED SAVE ONE CHICAGO, February 12 (®)—If Clyde Day, a rookie hurler from Omaha, was signed up, the first contingent of the Chicago Cubs would be ready to leave for Catalina Island, their Spring training camp. The Flu:hen and catchers along with several other players leave Thursday. Day, who won 17 and lost 18 games with Omaha, has returned his contract to answer with no signature and fatled RUSH ARENA WORK AT FLAMINGO PARK Sharkey - Stribling Contest Ring to Be Completed Within Few Days. By the Associsted Press. IAMI BEACH, Fla., February 12. —Approximately 43,000 seats had been finished today in the huge Flamingo Park arena, where Jack Sharkey and Young Stribling will engage in fisticuffs February 27. Contractors have informed Promoter Jack Dempsey that finishing touches will be put on the stadium within a few days. Promoter Jack has been drawing up the preliminary card during the last few days, and has announced that eight or nine bouts will precede the main go. Johnny Grosso and Marty Gallagher will meet in the semi-wind-up, while Stribling’s younger brother, “Baby” Will will appear in another number against Andy Callahan. Sharkey yesterday was forced to post- pone a workout when a shower drench- ed his open-air training quarters. To- day a corps of carpenters were erecting a roof over his training ring. Stribling was ready today for a fish- ing jaunt into the Everglades. On his return, he expects to get into intensive training. The climax in the battle over a ref- eree is expected to be reached tomor- row, when “Pa” Stribling and Johnny Buckley, Sharkey's manager, are to meet with Dempsey. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO.—Benny Bass outpointed Harry Forbes, Columbus, Ohio (10); King Tut, Minneapolis, stopped Al Winkler, Philadelphia (8). BALTIMORE.—Kid Williams won on foul from Sid Lampe (7). NEW YORK.—Mike Sarko, Brooklyn, outpointed Willie Hines, Chicago (6). JANESVILLE, Wis—Benny MacAr- thur, Saginaw, Mich., knocked out Frankie Camden, Virginia, Minn. (6); Jimmy Murphy, Chicago, and Johnny Busch, Sheboygan, drew (6). NEW YORK.—Jimmy McNamara, New York, knocked out Marcial Zavala, Mexico City (2); Georgie Daggett, New , knocked ~ out Wallace, Philadelphia (8). 4 LYNN, Mass.—Frankie Moore, Boston, outpointed Henry Janco, United States Navy (10). HUTCHINSON, Kans—Babe Hunt, Ponca City, Okla., outpointed Martin Burke, New Orleans (10). MEMPHIS.—Buster Mallini, New Or- leans, and Alex Simms, Cleveland, drew (8). SAN FRANCISCO.—Young Corbett, Fresno, stopped Al Fraclo, Spokane (8). NAVAL HOSPITAL NINE WILL PLAY IN LEAGUE A team to represent Naval Hospital was admitted, to Departmental Base Ball League at a meeting last night at which Vic Gauzza was re-elected president and Ed Conover was again named handle duties of secretary-treasurer. Agriculture, Government Printing Office and Treasury are .already repre- sented by teams. Another Government department team is sought. Cochran Wins Over Matsuyama, 400-373, to Tie for 18.2 Lead By the Assoclated Press. EW YORK, February 12—Kin- drey Matsuyama’s bold bid for the world 18.2 balkline billiards crown has been ° checked by ‘Welker Cochran, who calls Hollywood, Calif., his home. Cochran, winner of the last tourna- ment in Washington in 1927, rallied ir. the closing innings of his struggle with the little Japanese last night and won, 400 to 373. ‘The Californian’s victory put him in a tie with Matsuyama for hte lead. Each has three victories and one defeat. A ssep behind is young Jake Schaefer of Chicago, perhaps the outstanding fa- vorite for the title. Schaefer has won two matches out of three. The other three contestants, Edouard Horemans of Belgium, Eric Hagenlacher of Germany and Felix Grange of France, all passed from the picture during the first week of play in the round-robin tournament. After leading the field from the start and running up three straight victories over Horemans, Grange and Hagen- lacher, the little Japanese, Matsuyama, now is in a precarious position. His contest with Cochran was a nerve- wracking affair and Matsuyama may not be on his game when he faces Schaefer in another crucial match this afternoon. A defeat for any one of the three contenders now will eliminate him. Schaefer, if he can_ beat the night. If Matsuyama wins the worst he can get is a tie with Cochran, even should the Californian beat Schaefer tomorrow night. At any rate, either Matsuyama or Schaefer will be eliminated from the title hunt today. ‘The Japanese’s reverse at Cochran’s hands was a heart-breaking affair, ac- complished in 19 innings of tense play. Cochran _ sf off consistently, run- ning up a lead of 163 to 26 in the first four, innings. At this point Matsuyama, with charactéristic courage, put togeth- er runs of 91, 16 and 122 to lead, 255 to 210, at the close of the seventh in- ning. From then on it was an uphill battle for Cochran. Leading by 311 to 263 at the end of the fourteenth in- ning, Matsuyama strung together 52 caroms to boost his total to 363, Although obviously off his game, Cochran,” by dint of great effort, ran 102 to take the lead by two points. Safety play was in order thereafter, the Californian finally running out with an unbroken string of 25 in the nineteenth inning. % In addition to the Schaefer-Matsu- yama match this afternoon, Horemans and Hagenlacher, tied for fourth place in the tournament, will meet in the evening. ‘The standing: Player, . L. Cochran 5 4-foot 11-inch Japanese, could win the | Sch: title by beating Cochran in the final | Hagenl match of the tournament tomorrow Golf’s Vital Plays Long Iron to Green Hardest to Execute Properly, Reekie Says. As TOld by Masters Primarily British Shot, Bat THE SECOND SHOT BY WILLIAM M. REEKIE. William M. ‘Reekie is one of the eatest veterans of the links. He alifled in national amateur ARRY VARDON once called the long iron to the green “the master shot of golf,” and it is unquestionably just that. It is the hardest to execute properly and the most beau- tiful to watch. Primarily a British shot, because sweeping winds that whip the Eng- lish courses demand low, hard-hit irons to bore through them, it is just as potent a scoring factor on this side of the ocean. I play this shot with the inter- locking grip. 'The first finger of the left hand is over the little finger of the right, with the thumb down the shaft. The grip is tight, which h&lg in overcoming a tendency to the club too far back. My feet are fairly close together. ‘The perfect long iron shot has a low trajectory and a terrific spin. To achieve this the ball must be struck on the downswing, the blade cutting through the turf, but not Duncan Is Taught Trick by Vardon When George Duncan was a kid he found thnmhud of an old cleek which he converted into a putter, first making the head more upright. He has had several real Emn :!lgee. But tl}xlh “l:lmh?al fast Brit- greens, who plays his strokes so 8] ldgéhdny. comes back to the old cl George has several fine points that he llkre:ew bring out when discuss- ing putting. One of them is that GEORGE. "OUNCAN LETS HI5 HANDS ¢ LEAD (LUR'S HEAD the player must by all means keep his body still. Only when he can do that can he putt well. ‘When I asked him during his last used to insure a still body, he re- plied “The’ trick consists in keeping the weight far back on the heels. When I can do that I'm stationary.” It was from Vardon that Duncan got his other tip on putting. Var- don, jut before the backswing for a long - approach putt, was seen by ress the handle of the Duncan follows suit, ead on He claims that when and clubhead get in that one is likely to lock his Just as Potent This Side of Atlantic. being -smothered. Most people in playing a midiron take the club too far back. This is ruinous to direc- tion as well as pcwer. ‘The best exponent of iron play I thnnw o{': "1“ommy Armour, who wol: le nation: cmmolwfi 1927. He hl&p? beautifully ti and accurate ball. I don’t imagine there are any better than he in this particular line. The best midiron shot I ever saw ‘was not made by Armour, but by a chap named Fred Kennedy, who might have become known as one of the immortals of golf had business not taken him away from the links. ‘We were playing on the Missisagau course, at Toronto, some years ago. It was a foursome of men pretty closely matched in ability. My part- ner and I won in the morning, and we went out for another tussle in the afternoon. The hole where Kennedy made his wonderful shot was 450 iron shots being responsible for ning championshi, No one will forget the one himself made Ty hole the next day to take the title away from Cruickshank the playoff. (Copyright, 1929, by North American News- paper Alllance.) Next—George Voigt on “The Sec- ond Shot.” d NURMI TO COMPETE IN A LONGER RACE By the Associated Press. PHILAD! feated by Ray New York last Sat A vo is coming here tonight to endeavor to prove that he has nojequal in stepping off the longer distanges. He will com pete in the indoor mjeet of the Mead- owbrook Club. He is entered infthe 3,000-meters special with Young §bf the University of Georgia, Southerl two-mile inter- collegiate champion,§and others. Percy Williams, -old _Cana- VISION ONCE MORE Thinks Giants, With Better Hurling, Will Be Factors in Title Chase. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. ‘McGraw, manager of Giants, thinks he has a team with championship possibities for the 1929 base ball race. First he relies upon his pitching staff. Larry Benton and Fred Fitz- simmons particularly please him and he thinks that Joe Genewich will work out better this year. .Genewich is now more familiar with New York and the kind of game that New York plays. McGraw has expectations of success with his left handers and altogether believes that he has a pitching staff nearer the standard of the chaps who were with him when he first began to win pennants in New York. For some seasons he had pitchers with who he mould alternate regularly and EW YORK, February 12.—It is N no velled secret that John |Joe ‘who were so seldom batted off the plate | Connec that they went on like machinery. Strong at Third Base. He also has a good third baseman in Fred Lindstrome. In former days, to | McGraw once said that no team could win a pennant without a high type third baseman. That he claimed was one position where the man had to make good. The other players were too far away to back him up much. ‘The Giants have a good third base- man, a shortstop of the type they had when they won pennants in the past, & second baseman not so good as the old time seécond baseman, and an average first baseman. In many ways it is the same type of team that McGraw has in the past led to victory. ‘The Cubs in going to Spring camp early are taking a piece out of the Giant book, but it is not from observation alone. Joe McCarthy, the Chicago man- ager, like McGraw, is less inclined to theory than to follow what he has learned by practice. He is another of the managers who is sure that a team cannot win the championship, except at very scattered intervals, without be- ginning with a pitching staff on which the manager can place reliance. His gzenence with the Cubs has shown him Must Get Winning Habit. Very likely when Rogers Hornsb talked over his contract and the hual! ness of 1929 with McCarthy he also favored getting in action as early as possible. Hornsby likes to see a team start from Spring training quarters as it is apt to play throughout the season. When Hornsby won the championship as manager at St. Louis, he had his team selected before he left San Antonio and when that team buckled down and began to play, the members of it were : e:g:; u:' win a})rl:g’ exhlb«‘:!um games ere T ar games. That's the kind of team that McGraw wants in the Springtime even if he does not always get it. —_—— BRAVES GET SUNDAY BASE BALL PERMIT By the Associated Press. * harges charges, accompanied as ‘“racketeer,” “extol maller” and “New York piccolo player,” ‘was not brought to a close at the coun- cil meeting until a last fing had been taken at Emil Puchs and Charles F. president, b h ithets by uch epinet 20 to 2, in executive session. CUEIST TO DISPLAY SKILL. William Lewis, who claims the Penn- sylvania State pocket billiard champion- ship, is to give trick shot exhibitions at | Cul the Curtis Parlor, 923 Ninth street, to- day and tomorrow at 2:30 and 8:30 o'clock. Several exhibition matches are planned. The public is invited to see these exhibitions. the | | SPORTS.' SOUTHERN RAILWAY CLERKS' LEAGUE. Team Standing. Purchasing Auditors Constructi Teasury .. COLUMBIA HEIGHTS LEAGUE. Team Standing. Bernard's Cafe Woife's Market @ SHREY . F. Dismer . . The second series closed last week, with Bernard's Cafe leading. POST OFFICE LEAGUE. Team Standing. Money Order . Shooting St Reuistry, Parcel Post Independents Postmasters Delivery Mailing . Supplies Checkers R. M. 8. Cast Offs © Brightwood Central Pilots owls . 241 ot oo RRRRELLRNRRN! Loigh individual Highest spares—Isaacs, 115; Klelsath, 115. _ Highest strikes—Milby, Gerardi and Van “Feh ndividual same—Gerardi, 152, High individual set—webb, 372, High team game Postmasters, 418, High team set—Postmasters, 1,650. Some very creditable scores were registered during the past week by bowl- ers in this circuit, the honor for the week going to Kleisath of Registry, with & set of 349 and game of 150, a triple- header strike, rare in this league, figur- ing in his high game, which fell two pins short of high for the season. ODD FELLOWS' LEAGUE. * Team Standing. Arlington Columbia. Amity No. Mount Pleasant. Golden Rule Harmony . Langdon Eastern . Washingi PLANT TEX LEAVES YIELDING PROFITS Carey, Dempsey and Ham- mond Carrying on Well With New System. BY EDWARD J. NEIL, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, February 12.—From Florida, land of the waving palms, and from the more pro- salc confines of Madison Square Garden, comes the answer to the question that only a few short weeks ago confounded the finest minds of the sock market. ‘They wanted to know who ever could 87 | replace Tex Rickard and what would become of the Garden when the tall Texan passed away just as he was em- barking on the most ambitious promo- tion schedule of his fantastic career. And with the passing of each day the answers of three of the men who helped Tex to his greatest successes became louder. Splitting the tasks left them by death, big Bill Carey, the man who actually 99 | built the Garden and still owns most of it, and Jack Dempsey, whose thudding fists paid off the mortgages, are nurs- ing into life and health the orphan infant Rickard left on Miami.Beach. With little hope of financial success, caring only to maintain the gresnge of Rickard and the Garden with as little loss as ible, Carey and Dempsey seem well on the way to bringing home a profit from the battle of the Ever- glades. Garden Is Packed. ‘While the right wing gradually is turning Young Stribling's scrap with Jack Sharkey into something more than a benefit for the Boston sailor man, the Garden is steaming along under the management of the tall West Pointer, Col. John S. Hammond, toward bigger 1 2 dividends than the corporation has ever known before. Aided by the shrewd match-making of Tom McArdle, Hammond has pro- 7| moted seven fight cards in the past eight weeks that have packed the Gar- den to capacity, turned thousands away Brightwood Fred D. Stuari. tral 4|and created new attendance records with each successive show. If the Gar- den could have held them, 30,000 would 4 | have seen Al Singer fight Bud Taylor Beacon . Friendship Mount_Nebo, Magenenu SIX BOUTS CARDED FOR BENEFIT SHOW Six bouts have been arranged for the boxing card that will feature the an- nual “He Night” program to be staged at Rockville, Md., the evening of Feb- ruary 22 for the benefit of the volun. teer fire department of that place. There also will be a battle royal boxing event, wrestling and vaudeville. The program will start at 8 o'clock. Frankie Mann is staging the boxing and F. Bar- remainder of the en- ‘Young Firpo in the 135-pound 8-round bout that will feature the boxing. Bowen, 8 Washing- ton boy, recently returned from Chicago, where he won four of five fights. Firpo, last Priday night. ‘The silvery-haired colonel has turned 5 403 | the trick by replacing the showmanship that once saturated the Garden with hard-headed business. He cut salary and other expenses an average of $100,000 a year. Boxers are battling for him for 6 per cent less than ever before in the Garden's history. Flat expenses for running the building are almost 5 per cent less than they were a year ago. Profits Increase. There is only one fly to mar the colcnel’s ointment. One year ago the price range under Rickard ran between $5 and $25 for the best seats. Several shows played to $15 tops. Then a Fed- eral tax of 25 per cent was imposed on all tickets over $5 and prices came iumbling down. The colonel now charges $5, sometimes $7.50, for his best seats, and, desg&a the reduction, the Garden profits increased 54 per cent in December and were somewhat higher in January than during the corresponding periods last o ¢ And that isn’t all the good news in store for Garden stockholders. Since the start of the season the two New York representatives in the National Hocke; le have played to 20 per cent {nxer houses than last seasom. With the Americans fighting for the et 'S TS the American section, bigger and bet- ter profits seem to be in order straight ; | through March with both teams in the Stanley Cup play-off series. PR .,.,,.,, WILL REPLAY SOCCER , Washington, . Billy Harris, Baltimore, six rounds, 135 pounds, and Jack Cafone, Washington, vs. Joey Ray- mond, Baltimore, six rounds, 135 pounds. BRAVES WANTED TAYLOR, KILLING DEAL WITH CUBS CHICAGO, February 12 (#).—Danny a hard-hitting rookie from and not cash ruined the pro- deal that would have brought Lester Bell from Boston to the Chicago bs, President W. L. Veeck said today. ‘The Boston Club was willing to dispose of Bell and were interested in the cash he would bring, but they also wanted ‘Taylor. The Cubs preferred to hang-on to their promising rookie. “Still in the Lead” Here’s the whole Edward policy: Avoid old-fashioned, wasteful methods. Sell direct and cut out in-between profits. 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