New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 15, 1920, Page 20

ARPENTIER AND LEVINSKY BOTH ENTER DENIALS THAT TUESDA BAN JOHNSON NOT FAVORABLE TO REORGANIZATION MEETING GF BASEBALL MEN AT THIS 'llN_lE, SAYS HEYDLE SON OPPUSES EBALL MEETING lnadvisa—ble to Hold jation Session at Present Oet. 15.—President Yan the American League does ith favor wn ing of the been calted ext Monday the Natlonal sague President wired Mr ostorday that belleved eeting would be a mistake o t Hoydler tmmediately sent the proposed major leaguos be held President to in by League. The he r. Johnwon stating that he at public opinton would delay In the reorganization ernment of the national Heydler informed League head that all t ue club owners would imeeting and would tcy to ok County Grand Jury in in its lnvestigation of the 11 scandal rsday the club owners of I League held a meeting t Heydler's office in this ided that the government nooded Immediate They unanimously decided © American League club peet with them in Chicago The reorganization which | ‘League favors calls for to supervise the govern- game, exercising the rame gh the National Commis- ' were sent to all the e club owners, and hnson’s answer, which was terday, is as follows Judgment to hold meeting club owners at this timo mistake. The Cook Coun- dy has been reconvened tinue its investigation into e conditions that exist in baseball. Much important Il be presented, which jheavily In future delibera- welf-appointed custodians Heydler's Reply Heydler's answer follows , by unanimous actions of tituent members, & cor- mt Invitation was extend- onal League to you and e club Presidents of the Kue to meet in Chicago to discuss and formulate e future government of guarding of professional peoplo will be there. in the belief that pub- t will prook no delay ital matters as the national game, the pro- honest players, and the immense property rights In my judgment it is oincidence that the Cook id Jury s to continue its during the time of our gives us the ideal oppor- onally ad the court and resentatives of the State the great work they have o this rumored ever since the Chicago White Sox play- Johnson would o6ppose In baseball government affoct the powers now Presidents of the two OE THAT DS ITS SHAPE t so much a on how much pay for your as it is the real lyou receive for you do pay. | | Pouglas Shoes # ays worth the pu pay for them LD BY ive Agents Modern Shop ain St. ' | This l l ARRIVES 1IN ROOM- TIPS Bew wovP (Twe BITS LOOK S AND PRCIDES AND Cfi\LL‘W CuSTome® major leagues. Behind Mr. Johnson are five club owners, which ‘gives him full sway in his own arganization. These are Philadelphia, Cleveland, De- troit, St. Louis and Washington. Now that Johnson's attitude on the the reorganization is known, it is be- lleved that none of the clubs support- ing Johnson will be represented at the meeting. In fact, the St. Louis Hrowns have already announced that they will not be represented at the meeting. The eight National League club owners, together with the owners of the Yankees, Boston Red Sox and Chicago White Sox, will be at the meeting, and some definite action is expected in regard to a much-needed | housecleaning in baseball ixpect Definite Action The National League realizes that in order to retain the public's confi- dence in the game radical changes are imperative. There must be a stricter supervision of the players to prevent a repetition of the throwing of games as the White Sox did in the world's series of 1919 The opposition of the President of the American League to the plan is not unexpected, but, regardless of his attitude, it is expected that the other club owners will go ahead and raake the proper move to bring about an improvement of conditions. They realize that baseball government has been involved too deeply In petty poli- thes. Monday's meeting in Chicago is ex- pected to bring out the fact that the majority of the club owners of the two leagues favor a new government and they will probably proceed toward reorganization. President Heydler pects to go to Chicago tomorrow and will again appear before the Grand Jury which is investigating the me before returning to this city WALTZ COMES BACK to Ring and Bests Battling Reddy— Spencer Shades Nable. Battling ing in his bou Hartford last $400 from t entering the Reddy t with night Li f There was a sn and far from money that ddy aske | in the house. In order not to disap- point the few present, the club gave in to Reddy's demands. Waltg v willlng to make a battle of ever he forced s entitled poor show- Waltz demandir am m crowa in amount of it. but Hartford matters to a decision boy w r »th boxers and the semi bad bangs over the flowed fretly, In which the 1lie of eived claret yut w neer fammy N pair ight earn tha eight rcunds somewhat nt eyes the final bhe best of night, Ha was Sp 1y t ind the er W of a1 mone " box tried h or a ¥ ried. In raiser Hart of Westfield and Hartford battled to a drav rough out owd on r at office 0. in the ul Nable wor Tommy Joey Gibbous FOOTBAL The first Britain High comes tomorrow Rosary High hool of Holyoke, Mass., will play the locals at Mary's playground. The game will start at 3 o'clock. TOMORROW for the football afternoon, re test New eleven when the school N MIRROR AT SELE To Go ouT PUTs SATCHEL o~ BED AnD DIGS UNDER uNeEN FoRr FLASHK o STREET SUPPENLY REMEMBCERS SOMETHING 'BOTH BOXERS $AY | BOUT WAS ON LEVEL Carpentier Asks for Square Deal ' in Relerence to Tuesday's Allair | | i New York, 15.—The 4 reports ' which have been in circulation to the effect that the bout between Georges Carpentier and Battling Levinsky in Jersey City on Tuesday night may not have been decided strictly upon 1its | merits caused the principals yesterday to issue emphatic statements denying there had been any collusion. Car- pentier and Levinsky were very much upset by the reports and they prompt- ly declared that they both had fought to the best of their ability. Chairman Smith of the New Jersey boxing com- mission declared that he had been present at the bou an official ca- pacity and that, had there been the Jeast suspicion in connection with the affair, he would have stopped it. He has requested any one who has any direct inférmation that there was anything off color in connection with the meeting of the two boxers to ap- pear before the New Jersef§ Boxing commission and submit any evidence he may possess. He furth stated that he believed the bout to have been | absalutely on the level.” | rpentier in his statement de- clared that he had fought to the best of his ability and that he was sure Levinsky had done the same. sents the imputation that made against his honesty that he be given Levinsky enumerates had for fighting his best, declaring and his manager had made that he would not only 4 out, but that he would defeat the Frenchman. Carpentier's statement Carpentier Asks Square Deal, “For the first time in my life an | imputation has been made against the | honesty of a match in which T have | taken part. What T did to Levinsky I did to other champions. There w no ery of fake then. Why should a few men be permitied to cast an aspersion on my character which will be spread all over the world? “Before T came to America, I looked .s the personifi- ortsmanship t, T thought of the square to insure the did all you the man And this called a Oct. in the reasons he that he follows: ation of fa land ent to war fair play. 1 asked do. I fought | you selected for me to fight ® what 1 ~the fight 1s | whole world me to [ get ake “Give a square deal That is all “But 1 get if a few men allowed to poison the public mind ainst me by fake. T pledse v soldicr a2 cltizen of Fr he great Amer- republic, that T fought to t ability and that I sincere- the bottom of my vinsky did the same CARPENTIER.” Levinsky's Denial. Levinsky's statement follows: “I have read the statement made by certain writers in the press that my fight with Carpentier was a fake fight. 1 do not expect to convince these writers that they are doing me cannot it crying my nd best of my Iy believe, heart, from | New Je GomS To BATH Room Fom wATEE O SIDE an injustice of a most brutal kind and one which is harder to bear than the bitterness of my defeat to all the opes t I had of being able by my showing with Carpentier to jus< tify a return match with Dempsey.” “For the following reasons I trained harder, more ccnscientious than I ever trained for the 240 battles that I had previously engaged in: “1. I thought it was the greatest opportunity that had ever come to me in my life to win fame and great- ness. If T had beaten Carpentier by a big margin I wowld be morally the light-heavyweight champion of the world, even though I did not knock him out. “3. My victory also meant that I a very considerable sum backed myself heavily on the result: and, if I was not knocked out, I would have won still further heavy sums which I had wagered. “4. My manager, Dan Morgan, who knows my capabilities better than any man breathing, would not hear of my defeat and wagered heavily on me, taking every bet that was offered to him until he could-take no more. *“6. Jack Britton, who has accumu- lated a fortune by careful living and never betting or speculating, made an exception that he had not made for years. When I told him I felt fit and well on the morning of the fight he bet that Carpentier would not knock me out. “6. And, lastly, the greatest reason of all was that I knew hundreds of the Jewish race, who had faith in me which has been built up by a long and honorable career in the ring, were backing me heavily to win. Among these were included several of my relatives. would win because I “It is not possible for me to do any- | thing to prove that this cowardly at- tack on my honesty is undeserved. In regard to the fight I know my vind cation will come if ever Carpentier meets Dempsey. In the second round, Carpentier hit me harder than I have ever been hit before. From that m ment to the end of the contest I was dazed.” Chairman Smith’s Statement. Chairman Smith issued the follow- ing statement: “It has been brought to my atten- tion through the press and other sources that there are certain rumors the fight between Georges Car- ntier and Batting Levinsky in Jer- y City on Tuesday night was a fake rame-up. Personally, I am convinced that these are the idle rumors that follow in the wake of all big matches and emanate from hard losers. I was a spectator at the fight and watched it carefully. 1 was there in n official ity—as boxing commissioner of in which the contest was taking place. It is my duty to pro- tect the public. If there had been anything to warrant the belief that the fight was a fake. I certainly would have stopped it. But 1 didn't sec anything to make me think that it not absolutely honest. “We have no process of law which will enable us to bring men from an- other state 1o New Jersey to testify in investigation we might make, but if those writers who have pub- lished that the fight was a fake are real sportsmen, they will come to y, and lay the facts, if they have any that will prove their state- ments, befare the commission, “Or, better, I will hold an investiga- tion in the offices of the International Sporting club so that they may be saved the inconvenience of coming Qv:r to New Jersey. s Levinsky may not knocked completely out. or was any have been His own Drwmxs PoTiow FIND S, T SAFE; statement after the fight said that he had been hit on the Adam’s apple and his ‘wind cut off.” Jim Corbett was not unconscious when he was knocked out by Fitzsimmons, yet he was help- less. “In conclusion, I will say that I be- lieve the fight to have been absolutely an the level. The high character of the international Sporting club was a guarantee that the fight would have to be fought on its merits.” FAMOUS LINEMAN T0 HELP TAD JONES “Pudge” Hefielfinge?s Coming to New Haven Is Welcomed New Haven, Conn., Oct. 15.—The heat and “Pudge” Heffelfinger settled down in the ale bowl yesterday after- noon. The coming of Yale's greatest guard was hailed with delight by Tad Jones, but the veteran lineman did nothing but look over the varsity as it went through a dummy practice. It was too hot for a regular scrim- mage, and Jones would take no chances in the torrid weather. A stiff practice had been planned, but the hardest part of the afternoon was a long signal drill for the team selected to face Boston college on Saturday. The team was made up as follows: Left end, Shevlin; left tackle, Dicken; left guard, Into; centre, Callahan; right guard, Quaile; right tackle, Mackay; right end, Dilworth; quar- terback, Kempton; left halfback, Al- drich; right halfback, Kelly; fullback, | ‘Webhb. About the only doubtful position on | the team was right halfback, but the definite selection of Kelly. The old Rutger’s back, was announced by Jones last night. Kelly made the best showing of any of the ten other back- field candidates during the week and has fairly earned the place. In the dummy scrimmage the var- sity started forward passing, but the second 'team had little trouble im breaking up the plavs. The varsity defence against the forward pass was more satisfactory than usual and the opposing backs never had a chance to get into a clear field. The attendance at the Boston Col. lege game will exceed 30,000, accord- ing to the Yale ticket authorities last night. Seldom has a preliminary game attracted such interest as this one and the largest crowd that ever saw a game in the bowl, other than a Princeton or Harvard contest will be on hand. Last year Boston defeated Yale, 5 a safety and a field goal by Fitzpatrick accounting for the scores. It was reported here that Corrigan, quarterback, and Mullen, tackle, two of the best players on the Boston team, will be absent because of in- juries, but Yale is taking little stock in the hard luck stories coming from the Bay State capital. Report also has it that Kennedy, the former Holy Cross star, has been induced to matriculatwe at Boston Col- lege and ‘would be found in a Boston uniform on Saturday. Hard Work for Crimson. { the varsity, [ on Saturday. | running backs. | mage before Saturday's game Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 15.—Therc was no letup for Harvard’s varsity | team in the stadium yesterday after- noon. The freshman team was brough Y’S BOUT WAS FIXED—“PUDGE” HEFFELFINGER JOINS YALE COACHING SQUAD— R—FINE BOWLING BY LOCAL WOMAN Dverereve_d Clothes for Younger Meny are more than a good buy —they are a good invest- ment. They will yield dividends of satisfaction and service for a long time, / They are made to satisfy every reasonable demand and they have never failed to meet this requirement. Distinctive styles Popular prices Special for Saturday Suits and Overcoats $29.50, valud $40 and $45; and $39.50, values $50.00 and $55.00. R b | New York Sample Shop 357 Main St. New Britain 135 Main St. Bristdl behind the fence to stand up before which again was aggres- sive, and managed to score three touchdowns and make a ficld goal while holding the yearlings to a few small gains. The varsity team worked as it prob- ably will start the Williams game Humphrey was in the backfield again in place of Captain Horween, who has injured his side and will be out of football for at least a week, and possibly will not be able to play against Center college. Gaston and Kane were at the ends, Eastman and ackles, while Tobert again was guard, with Woods on the other side. Buell ran the team at quarter, and had Owen, Hamilton and Humphrey for his Buell made a twenty- kick for a goal and also two forward passes, one to Clark and the other to Humphrey, both starting runs for touchdowns. five yvard drop Tigers Show Improvement. Princeton, N. J., Oct. 15.—Improve- ment was displayed by Princeton’s football team in yesterday's scrim- with Washington and Lee. The Tiger var- sity, in spite of the fact that they faced the strongest scrub eleven of the season, played infinitely better hev g vestord so demoralized them. > The local coaches are looking for- ward to Saturday’s contest with no degree of overconfidence, for the strength of the visiting team is well known here. What the light Nassau , players can do against heavy rivals, such as the 185 pound line of which invaders boast, is problematical. Silverstein, the sensational backfield performer, will be carefully watched. ‘With the object of preparing their, charges as thoroughly as possible fi the season's first real test, the Tiger erday afternoon strength- scrubs by adding Pixley, comb, Morgan, Baker, Hendroin and Ewer. This lineup had been trained in the performance of the Southerners’ most chatacteristic plays. CRIMSON RUNNERS OUT Annual Cross Country Event Will Be Held Ociober 30 Cambridge, Mass.,, Ogt. 15.—Har- vard is to hold its first annual inter- scholastic cross-country run here Oct. 30, according to announcement made yeterday by Manager J. F. Keane, Jr, In order to have the competition as close as possible, entries will not be accepted from, Exeter, Andover or Worcester Academies. The distance of the course will be approximately three