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i bl Al FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1923. | GREB AND WILSON MIX IT UP AGAIN TONIGHT — READVILLE CIRCUIT RACES ARE THRILLERS — AMERICAN CREW LOSES TO BRITISH RIVALS — | BABE RUTH HAS PERFECT DAY WITH THE WILLOW — HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYERS DUE BACK IN CITY ON MONDAY — OTHER NOTES " FIRPO'S CAREERTS A REMARKABLE ONE Last Winter Was Almost Unheard of-Three Fights for $1,500 BOTH HUGMEN AND GIANTS INCREASE THEIR LEAD AS CONTESTANTS FOR SERIES By The Assoclated Preas. New York, Aug. 31.—Within three Red Sox Swamp Athletics, Indians Trounce Chicago and Browns Shut Out Tygers in American—Cardinals Defeat Pirates and Braves Also Win. months after arriving in the United States in Angel Firpo, the winter of challengey Dempsey's heavyweight three opponents all of whom he de- 'y) feated by knockouts. 1922, Luis for Jack title, met He ‘'got less | than $1,500 for all these engagements. Firpo's first opponent was | Sailor Maxted, a tough, slugging seafaring man whose fists had worked in plmoét every port of the seven seas. | The b sallor mussed up Firpo in thlnrst a N New York, Aug. 31.—The New York Giants defeated the Brooklyn Robins yesterday in the first game of the Brooklyn series 5 to 4 and advanced their lead in the National league to four games over the Reds. The Yanks added to their already large lead by defeating the Senators 4 to 3. .~ The Red Sox swamped the Athletics in Boston winning 8 to 1 in a pair of ‘inning rallies. The Browns shut out the Tygers in St. Louis 4 to 9, al- though the two teams had nine hits apiece. . Uhle pitched the Indians to victory 3 to 2 in a 18 inning bat- & tle in Chicago. “ ¢ ; . : s | | The Cardinals beat the Pirates in Pittsburgh 6 to 4. The ; ; ‘ ‘ ‘- o3 : ) | Braves beat the Phillies 2 to 1 in Philadelphia in a pitchers’ bat- o ; . tle between Marquard and Ring. three rounds of their bout, bul ran into a sledge hammer right in the | fourth that took the wind out of his salls. He was beaten to the capvas for the count of ten in the sevanth round. Joe McCann, a New Jersey youig- ster, was the South American’s second vietim. Joe finished in six rounds, but he hold the distinction of being oje of the few to land effectively on t Argentina. McCann sent Firpo | his knees with a heavy right to th chin in the fifth round, but was s | badly battered immediately after tha he proved an easy victim in the sixth. Ttalian Jack Herman of Newark, N.| J., holds the distinction of sleeping longer under a Firpo punch than any other man who opposed the South American giant. Herman was hardly a match for iy 9 L | the strong man from below the equa- |tor. He managed to evade Firpo's | wallops for four rounds, but forgot to| [ duck in’ the fifth. A Firpo right/ HARRY GREB JOHNNY WILSON |landed on his paw, then a left senf Championship boxing will return to the limeiizliit temorrow night at the Polo Grounds where Harry Greb, the Pittsburg_h L e “Windmill” will attempt to remove the world’s middleweight crown from Johany Wilson, of Boston, in a 15 round match. It will ':;‘;"‘ch‘i'r‘: ”}‘fcd:‘,af;“r';‘z”‘d"'a '}“o‘;‘ ‘3{ be the first of three title matches scheduled here within two weeks, as Johnny Dundee and Benny Leonard battle for the light- | (ho fioor and landea fiat on his back. weight championship next Wednesday while Jack Dempsey and Luis Firpo clash for heavyweight laurels the following week. Thirty minutes later he woke up afid NO HOMERS STAMFORD IS ANXIOUS TO STAGE o PO, [ OISTY VANCE SURPABERS | 1 WILLS-DEMPSEY GO—KEARNS DELAYS |{cusic uriet soonins st o) LEAGUE STRIKEOUT MARK league circles yesterday, and for the first time in many moons the sluggers - %55 ST lr} both L!u‘ .’\'u}mnul 4;m‘l A\n?vricnu 2 Championys Manager SayS GLYDE THE GREAT wle circuits went without a home run. Cuban This Proposition Must| BIG PURSE AT READVILLE Wait—Conn. City Would it Give No Financial Back- ing. AMERICAN LEAGUE Yanks Win. New York, Aug. 31.—The New York Americans returned from a long road trip yesterday, and defeated Washing- ton in a closely contested game, 4 to 3., The Yankees knocked out ach- ary in the sixth, when they won the game by scoring two runs on Dugan's triple, pass to Ruth, Pipp’s single and Meusel's sacrifice fly. S Washington, ab. r How They Line up in Four Leagues NATIONAL LEAGUE Yesterday’s Results New York 5, Brooklyn 4. Boston 2, Philadelphia 1. St. Louis 6, Pittsburgh 4. (Others not scheduled.) Standing of the Clubs w. L. .80 46 T4 48 W72 50, .68 56 461 63 .51 64 40 81 .30 83 'y he po. A & Evans, cf. s Peckinpaugh, ss. Goslin, P.C. 635 607 500 548 492 471 330 320 Five Leading Batsmen In Each Major League National League G. AB. R. H. Hornsby, 8. L .. 96 380 82 150 Wheat, Bkyn. .. 80 287 55 107 Botto'ley, 8. I..115 457 66 169 Traynor, Pitts. .121 486 85 173 Fournier, Bkin..100 390 59 139 American League G. AB. R. H. New York . Cincinnati Pittsburgh Chicago . St. Louis . Brooklyn . Philadelphia . Boston .... [P OVRNNOOSY His Nearest Rival is Luque, Pitcher for Cincinnati Reds. lcosoorssoonn loocoscunncuna olosuracssssus Home Run Leaders Williams, Phils .. Ruth, Yankee Cincinnati, Aug. 31.—Arthur “Daz- | Williams, Browns 4 > zy'" Vance, star pitcher of Brooklyn, Vournier, Dodgers . -+ 17| has surpassed his strike-out record of Heilmann, Tygers - 171 last season by turning back his 146th [ Miller, Cubs .. .. 16 victim this year, according to aver- Hauser, Athletics . . 1fiiagos compiled from Associated Press Meusel, Giants 15 | box seores, which have been verified 5 Hi J °d | Ruth, N. Y ...110 405 120 164 | Hornsby, Cards . .+ 14| through official figures of the Nation- Heilmann, D...10% 402 84 159 McManus, Browns . - 1 al League including games of Wed-|; : 121 433 81 163 brobin Tarbiyie Lo Pl ass setson Vanco was ‘dreaitea|SPCANer, CL ..114r463 05 160 Ll : mieson, Cl. .120:513 103 183 {Traynor, Pirates .. with 134 strike-outs in a total of thir- |*™¢ 3 | Brower, Indians x games. His recqrd this year | Miller, Athletics been still more remarkable in tSpeaker, Indians 111 tkat he has retired 146 men on strikes IPrisch, Giants ...... ‘1"in but, twenty-six games. J. Harris, Red Sox . 1 Vance's closest al for the Na- - tional League strike-out honors 'is ] oy H. S. PLAYERS RETURNING. ‘Ai"‘;'}“’fih‘;,i ’;‘i‘r:‘"_“h g“:?"‘" ,"""‘"‘,;r' e nator won the senior division | A majority of the High school foot-| ARy A American Horse Breeder Futurity for| pai squad is due back in the city| [@fned 131 men in thirty-clght games. Ryl T Galiers s Ao el squad us: i o S0Y) The league record for strike-outs straight | y\jopday, when Coach George Cassidy 1 h and Guy Richards w gl { : .t | for a season was established in 1890, eats and Guy Richards won the ju returns after a summer spent at | * nior division event for two-year-old farm in Vermont, ‘Several of the| DY, Amos Rusie of the New York Gi- £ At ants, who struck out 345 men. his 'I;hv ;‘iu‘n';\{) Day stake for trotting| pjavers worked on Vermont farms foals of 1920 was captured by Mr.|{pig summer, and others had employ- T g Leanders of England Win Race Over Phila. Oarsmen McElwyn. IForced by Tirla Guy in the | ment at brickyards, on construction Toronto, Aug. 1. — The Leander [ first heat, the bay colt trotted the 1ast| jons, cte., so that all are in protty cluded in the ing i |crow of England won the final in the |oiaco i the Corningfjineup. - The ]m\! in 1.01%. good condition | Cox, driving Lambert Todd, won his | & Creston team, followin| Mann's obe invitation ecights at the Canadlan na- | jections, refused to play second race of the day in the Nepon- | set, 2.07 class pace, While Murphy won a second race by driving a Count | |tional exhibition vesterday, defeating | Bugle a winner in the 2.09 trot. night between the Independents he Undines of Philadelphia by a lit- | [ the Cubs, the former winning 6 to 5. tle more than a length. The winning | The score was two against them until|crew covered the mile and ore-eighth | the ninth inning when heavy hitting|course in 5:56 1-5. | tied the score. With Nelson on third,| The Philadelphia shell was lapped | MeCourt worked the hidden ball trick, [on the Leanders for the first half mile, | putting out the base runner and sav- but then the Englishmen gained a {ing the game. ~The batterics were:|length lead, which they held to the | Cronin and Jones and Casey and Den-|end. A crowd of 50,000 watched the ton, race. - Games Today New York at Brooklyn. Chicago at Cincinnati. St. Louis at Pittsburgh. Boston at Philadelphia. AMERICAN LEAGUE Yesterday's Results Boston 8 Philadelphia 1. New York 4, Washington 8 St. Louis 4, Detroit 0. Cleveland 3, Chicago 2 (13). Murphy’'s Mount Cops the Massa- chusetts Trot, Worth $10,000; Peter Manning Breaks Mark. Readville, Aug. 31.—Clyde The Creat, black horse, piloted by Tommy Murphy, captured The Massachusetts 2:03 trot for $10,000, the feature of the third day's Grand Circuit race meeting here vesterday. The Murphy horse; after coming in third in the first heat, beat Eleanor Guy and Ia- vonian in two spectacular finishes. In another feature Peter Manning trot- ted a special mile against time in 1.5 clipping a quarter of a second from the track record he established last| year. The convonunny olocccsusonnuen larowconuop wloo 1 !oce9roc0s? oloocscococsscsoco sl occosonuon 10 200 001 000—3 101 002 00x—4 Goslin, Dugan, Ruth; three - base - hits, Peckinpaugh, Dugan stolen bases, Gharrity 2, Ward; sacrifice, Meusel; double plays, Dugan,j Ward and Pipp; Harris, Peckinpaugh and Judg left: on bases, New York 8, Washington base on balls, off Pennock 2, off Zachary 1, off Ruesell 2; struck out, by Pennock 5, by Zachary 4, by Ruasell 2, hits, off Zachary 7 in 6 (nome out in sixth), off Rusgell 3 in 3; losing pitcher, Zachary; Umpires, Dineen, Ormsby and Morlarty; time, 1:57. Browns 4, Tygers 0. St. Louis, Aug. 31.—St. Louis ad- vanced within one-half game of third place by defeating Detroit yesterday, 4 to 0. It was Shocker's 20th vic- s tory of the season. Score': 1 New York, Aug. 31.—At a meeling held in the Yale club in this city yes terday it was disclosed that about everything necessary for holding a Jack Dempsey-Harry Wills heavy- weight championship bout in Stam- ford, Conn., this fall had been a lranged except the necessary essential of securing the consent of the two principals. Alfred N. Phillips, J mayor of Stamford, was present at the meeting and said that sentiment in that city, and he thought throughout the state, was favorable to the bout. He made it clear, however, that he was speaking only as a representative | of Stamford and not of the entire state. Mayor Phillips also said that Stam- | ford was not Shelby, Mont., and that the city would offer no financial as- sistance to the proposed contest. How- ever, it was said that Thomas I Riley, a restaurant man of Stamford, had- $100,000 in hand which he was willing to post as a guarantee of good b 5 ) A faith in case Jack Kearns, Dempsey's nianager, could be made to see the light and come to terms. In fact, it | was broadly intimated that Riley was willing to guarantee the champion | 8500,000 if he would sign a contract to meet the negro boxer at Stamford on' the night following the last game of the world's series. It was said at the meeting ihat there would be no difficulty in getting | Paddy Mullins, manager of Wills, to] affix his name to-a contract for such | a match. Later developments showed | that it might be exeremely ditficult,| tor Mullins said that George Dwyer of | Bridgeport, Conn., was the only pro- | moter who had approached him with Two base hits, MANN CAUSES FORFEITURE Creston Joins Him b Refusal to Play Team Using fn Outlaw Omaha, Neb, At{g. 31. — Leslie Mann, outfielder, projerty of the Cin- cinnati Nationals, +las the direct cause of a game hetwten Corning and Creston, Jowa, being firfeited to Corn- ing when on advice ¢t Commissioner Landis, he refrained ¥rom playing, because the opposing |team had au “outlaw’ player. Harry Manush, who| jumped ths Omaha Western leagu¢)|club, was in- Standing of the Clubs 3 L. 42 55 56 57 63 64 7 T P.C, 647 546 New York . Cleveland . Detroit St. Louis Washington Chicago ...... Philadelphia Foston ... vo 45 Gameés Today Philadelphia at Boston. Washington at New York, (Others not scheduled.) INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE INDEPENDENTS WIN. A hard fought game took place PLAYING IN FINALS., Miss Marian Bennett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. (. . Bennett of this city is playing today in the tinals in the golf tournament at New london in the second sixteen, Mrs. Bennett is in the finals in the beaten eight of the second sixteen ‘ (Continued on Following Page). ALL THE SP{RTS GATHER PILZ’S SPORTING GOODS AND SMOKES BRIGSS BAN ON JACK JOHNSON Baltimore 8, Syracuse 2. Toronto 6, Newark 1 (lst). Neward 8, Toronto 6 (2nd). Rochester 6, Reading 4 (1st). Rochester 1, Reading 0 (2nd). Standing of the Clubs EWee (B .89 45 .87 53 .69 69 .76 76 Reading .68 7t Syracuse Sl 5 Jersey City . 4 85 Newark .... .52 87 Jersey Officials Refuse to Grant Per- | / mit for Miske Bout Trenton, N. J, Aug. 31.—Jack Johnson, former heavyweight cham- plon, will not be allowed to box in New Jersey, according to a decision announced yesterday by State Boxing Commissioner Newton A. K. Bugbec, ‘which forbids the proposed match be- tween Johnson and Billy Miske of St. Paul, at Newark on Sept 10. The bout was .being promoted by the Broad A. C. of Newark. While Johnson has not yet applied P.C. 650 | 621 500 | 500 | .489 | 460 | .388 375 Baltimore .. Rochester Toronto .. Buffalo How to End the Vacation Wrong wWoww U] 'Ll Teres e W/ORLD | TIWAS | HAD A PEACH, OF A TIME - WELCOME HomeE Jim! HAVE A OH You MISSED SOME BIG DOINGS for a license, the ban on the heavy- weight was issued by Mr. Bugbee be- cause of Johnson's conviction for vi- olation of the Mann Act in the Federal courts several years ago. HARTFORD STREN '"HENS. Joe Schultz, former St. Louis Card | outfielder, and Pitcher Dyer of Rick- | ey's outfit, have been loaned to Hart- ford and will report to Paddy O'Con- nor tomorrow. Schultz batted .313 last season in the “big tent” and has been with Houston, Tex., this year. Dyer is a southpaw, a product of the University of Texas. —_— YESTERYEARS IN SPORT 1922—Eddie Held, 19 years old,won gublic links championship at Toledo, 0., defeating Richard Walsh of New York, 6 to 5. 1921—Alfred Grenda, Australia, es- tablished a new mile mark for riders behind human pace at Newark, N. J. He did the dis in 51 min- utes, 18 2-5 seconds. 1920—Exterminator, aged five and carrying 128 pounds, ran two miles in two minutes, E seconds at Bel- mont Park, N. Y., and established a| new American record for the distance. 1899—Cleveland sustained its 100th fefeat of the season, being beaten by Brooklyn in game transferred by agreement from Cleveland to Brook- Iyn. 1894—William R. Hamilton, Phil- lies, stole seven bases in eight in- H N B kS game with Washington, Wynne|J. Garda, cf; 8mith and Kania, p; Ben. sitching and Dugdale catching for sepators. T 3 ~ecord B Games Today Newark at Toronto. Reading at Rochester. Baltimore at Syracuse. Jersey City -at Buffalo. a proposition and was the only one that he felt he could do business with at this time. Kearns Turns Down Proposal. Jack Kearns, who was reached by GooD TIME ONg Your VACATION ? THASS Good VL You TerL ABOLT HERE WHILE You WERE AWAY-- The Poss GAVE A A PARTY - T LASTEDP THREE DAYS -- SOME OF THE BoYS ARE Worcester . Springfield Pittsfield ' Albany Waterbury New Britain this city goes to Middletown Monday for a championship game for a silver loving cup to be played agalnst the Derby called at a National League|son or Kopec | telephone just before he lett for Sara- | toga Springs, voiced statement | which was much to the same effect. Kearns said that he not only would not enter into an agreement, but would not even entertain a proposi- | tion for the champion's services at | this time. He gave as his reason that | it would be untair to Rickard, Demp- sey, Firpo and everyone inte {ested in the approaching Dempsey- Firpo bout for him to enter into ne- f;&‘gmatmm now for another title con- | 2-7|test to be held in the metropolitan -621| gistrict before the close of the out- | 2; oal doqr season. A 2a 2081 Until Mullins and Kearns threw | ! +#2%1 cold water on it the proposition ad-| L 435 | vanced by Mayor Phillips and Tom 76 .415| g'Rourke, who outlined Riley's plan | " |in the latter's absence, sounded prac- | ticable and interesting. Briefly it was as follows: To build a stadium seating persons at Stamford, Conn., which is cnly fifty minutes ride from New York city, to hold the bout on the night following the final game of the World's Series in October, to charge from $3 to $50 per seat and to allow | the city of Stamford to take up a col- lection in the crowd for a municipal athletic field and goif course Mayor Phillips said that recently a poll had been taken among the busi- | ness and pdofessional men of Sta ford and that the sentiment, inclu ing that of several ministers who had been approached had been practically vnanimously in favor of bringing the bout to Stamford if possible. He said that he had not talked with Governor Templeton about the propoaed bout (Conurnued on Foilowing Page) | EASTERN " LEAGUE Yesterday's Results Springfield 10, Pittsfield 4. Waterbury 9, New Haven 3. Worcester Hartford 7 (1st) Hartford 10, Worcester 2 (2nd) Albany 6, Bridgeport 3 (1st) Albany 7, Bridgeport 5 (2nd) “ else Standing of the Clubs W. L Bl 4T 49 artford- ... ew Haven . ridgeport Games Today Albany at Springfield Bridgeport at Hartford New Haven at Worcester, Waterbury at Pittsfield £0,000 FALCONS PLAY MONDAY Team Will Clash With | Nine From Derby. The Falcon A. C. baseball team of Falcons. The game will be 3:15 p. m. and the locals ill line up as follows Jervis, If: Klatka, 1b; Zeigler, 3 Kania, 2b; Kulis, ss; Domain, rf; ¢. Subs are Kuklinski, udnick, Summers, Quirk, Senk. TN E«R\{v HE SAID WE WERE ENTITLED To A GOOD Time - Too BAD You WERE AWAY ON YouR uACATl QN — A > AND HE SAID DON'T RHAVE CHALK IT UP AGAINST OUR VACATIONS ALL EXTRA NOT PACK YET YouR (VACATION WHEN WHERE DO'| GET ofFF T wHYLPULL PARTIES LIKE . THAT WHEN I'M AWAY 1!'? | CouLD BE HERE ONTTHE ToB .FORTY YEARS ‘WITHOUT A ! VACATION AND NOTHING ‘D HAPPEN LIKE THAT © 7S _— 'i : we To =TS i D