New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 26, 1921, Page 8

CEIPTS FOR DEMPSEY-CARPENTIER BOUT PASS THE HALF-MILLION MARK, TEX RICKARD ANNOUNCES—RUTH HITS HIS THIRTEENTH HOMER AT ST. DUIS—“FIDO” O’BRIEN MEETS FRED TELLER, STATE BOWLING CHAMPION, HERE TONIGHT—HELFRICH, EX-MAJOR LEAGUER, SIGNS WITH BRISTOL $ HITS HOMER YANKEES LOSE. e MY FIGHTING LIFE —By— GEORGES CARPENTIER Ring History in Europe AnD. THen ~ONE (CURSHES) WITHOUT A Toe ! -"AND “NEXT YoU<FIND A TWHEN You I TAare ouT. YouR) Socw WATHOUT A HEEL HATED BAG OF ACCUMULATED DARNING AND_You DARN AND DARN . AND DARN AND You, Mirteenth Circuit Clout Is a Long Drive b, Mo, May 26— Ruth’'s with yesterday, nelud- to 6 of the season Ferguson and | virtue of singles. | back after n two homer ana by York m elghih 20002 R Meuvel, Home inler Willimine d Misler Wit h hit oo " Willinme hivwe o1 e " Hhocker pitel Washingtor " Willinson in seventh. tor Mo in ninth 11013 210 o L10020100 hits—Judge, Mulligan, tostsl. Three w—Charrity Brower, Ju and o . v 10 u . Mita—Oft Wilkin- Innings. Pence 0 tn 1 (non odie 0 In 1. Hit by pltcher Mty 1naon {ikinson n ™ piren—Hildebrand, made 1t taking yestor- winning run was after two were out , went to third on Johnston's Bieh fell safely in ecnter. and iraney’s single. tty, n southpaw, was (Cleveland to Indianapolis yes sty e oacsst sy | emwuncsonmoas leomemscsssaoce JN, R P —omow v cocuop 0 | ° v 0 1 1 ° leca 0 0 ol onna *26 11 s scored - t when winning run | dream | hs | to excited jabbering as 1 sat down. | could As Centered About Challenger of Dempsey. THE PRODIGY UNCROW CHAPTER X. es Carpentier. by United By (Copyright 1920, Syndicate. Al rights reserv Reproduction prohibited.) 1 met \'oujz Snowball April 9, 1 had reached the age of 16 at time. He gave me the beating of my life in a contest that was scheduled to 1910. | ®o ten rounds, but ended in the fourth when Descamps, wild with the sight of me stuggering about the ring weak and helpless, brought the contest to a close by a towel into the ring. all was completely my master he brought strongly home to me realization that the ‘‘child prodigy"’ rance after all was only a fantastio He made me believe without that 1 had a long road to travel I could set my=elf up as the equal rans in ring experi In the »t round he did as he pleased and In the second he walked ly about me and shot his left tossi Snowl and the of quibble befor fve very f with me delibe | huad to my head with such regularity in that 1 was soon cut and blecding pitiful fashion. It was & hideous round. Ocuasiounlly he would drive his right d crashing to my ribs. I was stag- gering und sick when the bell the round. Descamps was in tears and burst in- e implored me to allow him to throw in the towel, but I protested it Is not right at any time for a boxer to quit under punishment. No boxer who does »o hus cained anything but contempt, for he has degraded his pro- fession, P'hysical pain must never be allowed to interfere with a determina- tion to go ahead until the muscles no longer respond. Snowball continued his murderous at- tack on me in the third round. He did not rush matters; neither did he dalty sbout his work. He methodically pumped punch after punch into my quivert body until it seemed that I must faint. I scarcely knew what [ " doing, but 1 continued to fight with all the ardor at my command. It seomecd impossible that the weariness of my amd legs could continue. 1 hoped that the flm over my eyes would Clear 1 suppose 1 should very fortunate indeed that Snowball didn’t wutilate me, for I refused to give an inch o the powerful arms that hammering av at me. I tottercd nto the ring i the fourth round and tried fight, but was no use and ufter a few punchcs had landed on me with of unguish, tussed towel ring and th fight was over. Sick, and weary arms away. consides myself were to it ory the a “ into 1 turned from my congqueror, unable to utter any protest at Descumps’ action. 1 permitted him o nurse me. 1 congrutulated Snow- ball as soon I could reach him, for 1 considered he had beaten me fairly. Snowbull was a wonderful fighter. He came to the United States shortly after having derented me, but his stay in this country waus brief. He has told me he uot get . himself acclimated, so lost heart and returned (o England. My pride was sorely hurt by the de- feat, for I admit that my head had be- come affected by the lavish heaped on me from ail quarters. not xit and Brood over the affair. I]«ulm(- to the conclusion th: after all I was an oidinary boxer, one likely to take a beating at any period. The fact that | was « child of 16 and could alse 1 dd Rather lce—Vitt, Left Russell 1. Hit innings, Russell By Russell Uhle Johuson, on " a—Of Pe Detroit. M Philadelphia won the King yesterday's rally broke a Dykes hit . ing A runner ahead all of its rums in t runs, the former him. Detroit made third inning The score Philadeiphin (A ab r wite, rf Brazill Dugan. ©. Walk Weleh, rerking. Dykes, ef |essonsvan vl onuocomeme Detrolt (A.) ab £ ¢ » wlesocooomun wlumiromomen lonunnamamnn lonuscomomn . . 3 for Ehmke in nint b. Brazill. Left on bas it 7. Bam Struck out— truck out—By Erm Wilson and Dinneen. ~Philadelphia &, Off Ehmke (Welch) By Ermke (Weich) 5, Perry Umplr Time of game-——2:03 PHILLIPS CHOSEN CAPTAIN. Willlamstown, May 26.-—Phillip Phil- lips of Buffalo, N. Y., star hurdler, has been ¢hosen to captain the Williams track team next year. Phillips has been n consistent point maker for the Purple | for three seasons, making good in track work in his freshman year. He is a ! WITN wlecosscoomes this | canded 1 hold that | A Pose at Home, scarcely hope to win against these men 1 was beating right along did not strike me at all. I resolved never again to let flattery turn my head. 1 would be done with this vain business. H I went to Descamps and begged him | to seck a match for me in Paris, for | that gay capital had witnessed my ig- nominious defeat and 1 wanted to atone | if such a thing were possible. It turned out that this defeat was the very thing I necded to set me harder at work, so when it was announced that I was to box Paul Til, whom 1 previously had | conquered, in a twenty round bout, I was in the best of condition and de- termined to make the battle a victory or die in the attempt. I did not defeat Til. carefully to allow me to register the | necessary points, but 1 did have the satisfaction of coming through the con- | test unscathed and holding this very clever boxer to a draw in the twenty rounds. He fought too 1 do not know why it should be so but my two defeats had only quickened Parisian interests in my efforts to reach fame in the ring, and when 1 drew with Til 1 w. warmly applauded. My popularity returned and I was | as much sought after for bouts as ever before. Victory after victory followed my footsteps in these days until one day I met Henri Piet, and he defeated me in Paris in ten rounds. Poor Iiet. He | was slain by the Germans. grand, sportsmanlike fighter 'RECORD CROWD WILL ESS BIG BOUT Receipts So Far Total $625,000, Tex Rickard Announces New York, May 26.—The Demp- sey-Carpentier fight for the world's hevyweight championship already has broken all box office record With the date of the bout five weeks dis- tant, Promoter Tex Rickard today an- nounced that the receipts had reachedl $526,000. Thousands of seats yet re- | main available. Recetpts of the Dempsey-Willard | battle, promoted by Rickard at To- ledo, O., June 4, 1919, constituted the previous record of $452,522, nearly twice as much as the high mark which had been established by the | | Johnson-Jeffries battle at Reno, Nev., in 1910 when Rickard gathered in $270.765. All seats except the five dollar ad- mission pasteboards have been on sale here for the past two weeks. General admission tickets will be ld only on | the day of the bout. CARL MAYS SUSPENDED. St. Louis, May 26.—Pitcher Carl Mays of the New York Americans was indefinitely suspended and Catcher Wallie Schang of the same team fined $20 yesterday for disputes Tuesday | with Umpire Chill. Orders that such , benalties be imposed were received from President Ban Johnson of the American league late yesterday. Mays was banished from Tuesday's game with the St. Louis Browns in the sec- ond inning, when he disputed a called ball, ana Schang in the fifth, when he ! Washington @y_pj ARST, AIRUND YoU ‘WILSH THE MEN HAD To DARN THEIR OWN cags W = / % BASEBALL IN AMERIC, LEAGUE. Results Yesterday. St. Louis 7, New York 6. Philadelphia 5, Detroit 3. Cleveland 3. Boston Washington 10, Chicago Standing of the Clubs. Won. Lost. - 23 13 19 14 20 18 18 18 17 18 13 16 14 18 12 21 Games Today. Cleyeland in St. Louis. Chicago in Detroit. 2 Cleveland New York Detroit ... St. Louis Boston Chicago ... Philadelphia _— NATIONAL LEAGUE. Results Yesterday. All gumes were postponed on ac- count of rain. Standing of the Clubs, Won. Lost. P.C. 25 R 22 11 19 17 15 14 15 15 10 19 10 20 1 25 Pittsburgh Neéw Yeork Brooklyn Chicago Béston 8t. ' Louis Philadelphia Cincinnati Games Today. New York in Boston. Brooklyn in Philadelphia. «Cincinnati in Pittsburgh. O'BRIEN AND TELLER State Champion Will Tackle Casino Star on Church Street Drives This Evening—Anderson at Waterbury. Fred Teller, of Seymour, champion duckpin bowler of Connecticut, wil make his first appearance in this city since winuing the title last year this evening at the Casino alleys, when he mcets ‘‘Fido’’ O'Brien. Eddie Ander- son is scheduled tc meet Bob Stone of | Waterbury at the Wooster alleys in that | city this evening. The scores of games rolled last night at Rogers’ Recreation alleys: ROGERS' ALLEYS. INTER-CITY LEAGUE. Foote. 91 13 58 Kahms .. Nichols . Foote . 127 88 /93— 490 93 114 '103— 520 86 98— 471 288 294—1481 Jake .. Myers . Nareum 210 293—1471 218 240 | Goodisog Martn Guito - Patrus | day’s game here while sliding back to Jacobson penny . Rich: . 101 282 “AND YoU'VE ABouUT DECMeD To GIVE UP WHEN SUDDENLY . You Come ACRosS ONE THAT LOOKS ALL RIGHT AND You_ N RUN YOUR HAND WAY_ Down THE ToE AND léoon OVER,' OH-H 2 GIRLS! AT T‘;AFGR:R-R-RRND'? - AND,GLOR-R-R:Ri0us FEELIN, NERY. INCH ! @ +S0PHIE K.S. TITLE MATCH TONIGHT. Kansas City, Mo., May 26.—Stan- islaus Zbyszko, - heavyweight wrest- ling champion, will meet Joe Stecher of Nebraska here tonight in’ what is announced as a bout for the title which Zbyszko recently won from iEd ~'Strangler” Lewis in New York. KILBANE WINS TAME BOUT. Cleveland, O., May 26.—Johnny Kil bane, featheérweigrt champion, wo the newspaper decision over Fredd; Jacks, British champion, in a tam ten-round no-decision bout here I night. Jacks weighed 126 pound at 3 o’clock. Kilbane came in catchweight. A NUTSHELL INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Resulty Yesterday. Baltimore 5, Newark 2. Toronta 3, Rochester 2. The Jersey City-Reading and Buff- alo-Syracuse games were postponed on accoun: of rain. Standing of the Clubs, Won. Lost. 21 10 17 15 17 16 17 16 16 17 16 18 14 17 11 20 Baltimore Jersey City Buffalo Toronto Rochester Newark Syracuse Reading A Clown May Attract Attention But He Never Owns the Circus Games Today Newark in Baltimore. Jersey City in Reading. Rochester in Toronto. Buffalo in Syracuse. A man can survive starva- tion, poverty, disappoint- ment, and all the other hardships in the calendar of struggle, butnoman can survive ridicule. - EASTERN LEAGUE. Resulty Yesterday. All games postponed, ,rain. Standing of the Clubs. Won. Lost. 14 14 13 13 13 10 Bridgeport Hartford ‘Worcester New Haven Pittsfield Springfield Waterbury Albany Games Today. Hartford at Bridgeport. Albany at New Haven. Springfield at Worcester. Waterbury at Pittsfield. Remember that—and this: RUNS FOR WEEK MAY 22-28 If you belong to the better class of young men you must wear a better class of clothes. National League S. M. W x 5 F. S. Tt. New York Brooklyn Phila. Boston Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chicago St. Louis MMM AAKRAA wmvuNwaas PR American League - T. W, T. W. B. Tl And Hickey-Freeman make. them! New York Boston Phila. Wash. Detroit Chicago Clevelana St. Louis mhono~a R PLELUEEES - awawsawa [ nal Internatio: S. M. 4 Baltimore Reading Newark Jer. City Toronto Rochester Syracuse Buffalo 25 10 10 1 WO amns Mrwwdwr ad EETEPETEY ATHLETICS' INFIELDER HURT. Detroit, Mich., May 2¢6—First Base- man Griffin of the Philadelphia Amer- icans, suffered a dislocation of the shoulder in the fifth inning of yester- WAL third base. He was the second Phil- adelphia infielder injured during the present series. Galloway, shortstop,