New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 26, 1924, Page 8

SHELBY OFFERS ALF MILLION FOR DEMPSEY-GIBBONS FIGHT—ALL NEW BRITAINS AND MAPLES OF NEW HAVEN PLAY TONIGHT AT STATE ARMORY—TRACEY FERGUSON TO MEET BOSTON BOXER AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN | o amoam SARA\}ZFIEJR L e e 36 More to Come Tomorrow When He Mests Havers Again jated Senegalese Mauler Has Police ! | And % i Promoters Worried As He Does The Unexpected New Orleans, Jan. 26.—Po > here re for Battling Siki, who disapp: Matchmakers who are ! inte in future bouts in which the Senegalese is scheduled to appear wired lc authoritics to locate and hold the elusive boxer. It was learned that Siki is register- ed at the Chicago hotel, a negro hos- here, where he has had accom- ations since his fight with Battling Owens Monday night. Wi Press. Jan, pro By The San Francisco, azen, American champion, was le first ha match with A of the British the Lake Merce Gene Sa onal gol up in the An insurance poli for $5,000 against any further disappearance of Battling Siki, the Senegalese boxer, has been taken out here. The “dis- » appearance insurance” was taken out, Tommy Walsh, matchmaker announc- ed, to insure the presence of Siki in razen will c; second half of the m be played at the H cub at L. ngeles The American throughout t} British champio BT YR, FRENZIED FINANCE GETS BIG PLAY IN SALE OF STARS | SRR W ats Sl s SRSt | = 3 SPARTANS WIN THO Ring Up Double Victory By Defeating Young Mohawks And All-Stars On Same Afternoon. . In a well played game at the Cen- |tral Junior High school gymnasium | yesterday afternoon the Spartans de- ifeule\] the Young Mohawks by a score of 24-4. Tnability of the Mohawk de- | fense men to hold “Red” Matulis, who |sank them from every angle, cost |them the game. This flashy forward | with nine goals from the fioor ac- counted for 1§ of his teams 24 points. | Spartans . " Young Mohawks. | Matulis . ... s .andino Right Forward H. Carlson . Downes .+v+ Zehrer Legano | Romenici eft Guard Goals from floor—Matulis, 9; Nowe- |grask, 2; Carlson, Landino, Romenici, SHELBY PUTS IN BID FOR DEMPSEY-GIBBONS BOUT Offers $500,000 For Battle But Tex Rickard Fails to Become | Excited New York, Jan. 26.—Shelby, the little Montana boom town where the Dempsey-Gibbons heavyweight cham- pionship fight last July 4 left a trail of financial disaster has risen again from obscurity to offer $500,000 for: the 1924 version of the Dempsey-Gib- | bons fued. Tex Rickard, who plans to stage the return title fight here during the first week in June, announced he had re- ceived such an offer on behalf of the Shelby chamber of commerce for a bout there next July 4, The promoter hastened to add, however, that he did not view seriously the offer, which is $200,000 in excess of the guarantee/ made Dempsey a year ago and which | the Montana men failed to meet after a financial struggle that eclipsed in the day and in the greens were the contestants greens to drive t puddles used ma w Minneapolis January 31, when he will meet Joe Lohman. of Toledo, Siki is expected to come to *Chicago from | New Orleans to spend the intervening the Referee—Garston. | The Spartans also trimmed the All- Central | Stars of the Timer—Kirben. Junior High | | time before Minneapolis match and while here the insurance com- pany, it is said, will have two men | keep track of his movements. zen in the aft- was unable to ne- gotiate the p razen, however, was ste ty of the cup and got most of his lead in ihis way. Par for the the distanc The cards: Morning Round. Havers outdrov ernoon round, bu New York, Jan. 2 the Seneg boxer, was scheduled to appear in the Weehawken police court yesterday an answer to a disor derly conduct charge, made against kim when he was arrested in the West 8hore ferry housc a few days before Christmas. Siki failed to appear and on request of hig counsel the heari was pestponed indefinitcly, the fifth postponement thus far entered In answer to reports that Siki was . ot Sl 272g (1, William 8. Stur, his attorney, said While both champions were in and | that it was to him, adding that S G treu various times, and |the boxer had merely written several occasionally sliced and hooked as bad |¢2¥8 ago requesting a postponement | as duffers, Havers' downfall came on (©Of the hearing. Siki's §100 bail bond the greens. Sarazen usually was well |Was continued. He was arrested when up to the cup while the British cham- | e Was found giving away dollar bills pion was either short or over, |to persons in the ferry house, Sarazen in Difficulties | razen found sand traps and the shots but his re- | short of marvel- v steadler on than Havers, Battling Siki, s is 71 and Sara e vers—Out Sarazen—In Havers—In. . Afternoon Round. Sarazen—Out 534444446 NHayers=Out—— 5 4 5 35 1 LEFT TO RIGHT: MARTY (By Billy Evans) | Sarazen—In. . 135 finance” in purchase of Who started “(renzied baseball, relative to the | minor league stars? Fifteen years bdel, if some league” phenom sought by a half| dgzen major lcague clubs brought! $7,600 it was regarded as a fabulous| price to have paid for an untried re. eruit, ‘ Those days, however, are over, for| at present there is no limit to what u“ big leaguce will pay for a player of | Speaking {.:. : o : increased value now “placed | of Sports at | “bush | 8 rough on many tec coveries were little ous, Throughout he the greens and fairw Only once, on the Tth hele in the morning round, was he ever down to | the British champion, but on the next hole he squared the match, From that time on it was Havers fighting to keep even, Havers, credited with being one of the longest drivers in the world, was out-driven by Sarazen in the mory but in the afternoon, the British ex-| pert found his stride and outdistawced almost every tee bush le on the guer also goes for the | veteran rated as onc of lhc; outstanding stars. | When Eddie Colling was sold by | Conniec Mack to the Chicago White| " | Rox the price was reported as 850,000, | That is probably what it was, Cer-| talnly no more, | NEW HAVEN QUINTET AT STATE AKHORY TORIGHT Maples and All New Britain o Meet—— | Some people don't know when th arc beaten ke the town of Shelby for instance. The poor old burg was cleancd out and a mile in debt after Dempsey ibbons bout, Now the sporting promoters in that place have 10 up—or threaten to dig uy 000 for another Dempscy-Gibbons af- tair, Shelby is game, as Tex Rickard suys. But so is an eiephant when It is mad. And any school boy knows thut there is more ivory in an phant than therg is on a pool table, Sarazen from I ry a rea this morning falling steadily, for a birdl gave the on the 13th hol with the rain arazen thrii! whén, he sank four. The referee m wished to continue ying through the water or If they would prefer to iift the balls from the pools. “They Jeft it to his discretion and he order d play to continue as pre On the eleve h hole ing round Sar played sensational shot of the on in two while Havers over in three and his ba boy puddle Between Sarazen's ball two the cup was a large pool of water |Juniol deep enough to compl tely cover the |14 20, f ball, Sarazen took a day's work for pitehed right into 1 Gene 2 Up in Morning. Starting the afternoon rou d 2 up. ftor teenth Rarazen, after twenty- be anything remarkabie this the wenty ) g :fl.l:'u:?\?fl \ ame 4 up at | were it not for the fact that West is L ] . 3 twenty-first, y halved the a wegro. Proving that talent is rec- janything but make life sweeter for the twen 2om took the |ognized regardless of color or creed. |them. The first game will start at § nineteenth hole "o B e & and = - o'clock. ; . " It rod three more horses | The All New Britains and Maples $t05. S & the w Orleans fair will line up as follow: 1 ,“::.,’.:,v . . lny We hope the ANl New Britains owed ar extra | LaHar 8 won supper t night in ap- came 3 d0WN ve the twentythird in | preclatio his achigvement Taylor . oot_putt Batve th . pba Left forward 4. The twe Afte at 1 rst N "“, red 2o " % 4 ) f the Massa- twenty-fl putt eles they Rangers and Eagles in | sk old friend th Africa and France But why ll the would st hours, it bout Hon, Mr., Siki, has disappear- wild excitement put two would be something That would be front City League, The |10 stage when th of All New Brituins wiil attempt u come-back this cvening v face the fast going Maples Haven in the state armory. With the defeat by the Insllcos still| in their minds the local boys will at-| {tempt to take the visitors into camp, | @ thing that has been done but once | this season. Practice was held last evening and Dave Ellison's charges {Will be all set for the fray when the whistle blows this evening. In the City league the Rangers and Bagles will fight it.out. Tobin's pets | have been in a slump for the past| {two weeks and being defcated by the Mohawks last Saturday night did| It he secutive to worry page ne viously the the H morn- most was zen Keep your eye on “Ied” Matulis, a playing with the Spartans. In games yesterday the Central High school gym, he scored I from the floor. Not a bad 1 youngste mashi . —— Charley West | elected cap- | tain of the Washington and Jefferson track and field squad. There wouldn't cup & bec halving the ¥ twentieth about 1 Parke at ar to victory grounds young mar Maples | Schatzman Sarazen missed hole 3 to 4 vers sank 2 tw and Havers won 1 nd was a ' twelve Right forward ’ Shruge | | |Larson FFairbanks | Center Morris, Gough | ruard ammerano Pelletier Right ind Go Restelli « Dreuht | | school by a score of 31-22. | Nowegrask at center was the stdy | for the winners while McCabe played | well for the losers. Lincups: | Spartans All-Stars | Matulis | Right Forward ‘(‘nrlson ceis . H Left Forward |Nowegraske .......o0ueunnns McCabe Center ... Casey Augustino Brewster Mauro | O'TOOLE, BILLY KELLY The other day the wires carried a story that the Boston Red Sox had| purchased Infielder Dudley Lee from |from four, Arem the Tulsa, (Okla.) club of the Western | league for $50,000, Fancy Price for Rookic Lee Fohl, manager of the Browns, tells me that someone slightly pndded; | F thIC muii> er L YT Lt B S than $560,000. Even at that, here is a | | club paying at least half as much for| a youngster as did the Chicago club | for Collins, then rated the best second | sacker in the game. | When John McGraw paid the In-| dianapolis club of the American As-| sociation $11,000 for Rube Marquard | it was heralded as one of the sporting | sensations of the year. It was used as| first page news. ’ | Yet, to my way of thinking, the sale | that started “frenzied finance" in| baseball with relation to buying minor | league stars, was the deal that Barney | Dreyfus of the Pittsburgh club made | 9 for the famous St. Paul, (Minn.) bat-| 4 g | tery, O'Toole and Kelley, | A : | Remarkable pitching by O'Toole, | i # who was a spitballer, caused practical- g7 | ly every major league club to bid for | # | him. Dreyfus finally secured O'Toole | and his catcher, Billy Kelley, for the | sum of $22,600, a figure heretofore | 3 | unheard of In baseball, For weeks the | | magnitude of the transaction was the | main topiec of conversation on the sport pages of tho country, | Check Proves Big Sale In certain quarters tf® sale price | was regarded as mere “bunk.” The 8t, Paul club finally produced the can- celed check as proof. Said check was reproduced in as many papers as the photographs of O'Toole, O'Toole proved more or less of. fizzle, The possessor of a decepti spitball, he lacked control, and when the major leagues walted him out hie effectiveness waos greatly minimized. He {s classed in the light of a fallure. It is sald that O'Toole’s fallure who hae proved in this year of *his caused Barney Dreyfus to put & ban|,,.gjty debut the most dangerous | on ail spitballers, and that his scouts wearing the orange and blue | were {nstructed to pass up any pitch- j, v er who depended on the spitter for|ning, line succees, No more trick pitchers for|catching forward passes. Barney. passes It matters not whether Today $22,800 is a piker figure for|were tossed by his own or the a minor league star, Tteam,” Goals from floor— Nowegraske, 6; Matulis, 5; Carlgon, 4; Alpert, 3; Me- Cebe, 5; Casey, 2; Brewster, 2. Goals Reteree—Guarston, e e g - v MAJOR JOHN L. GRIFFITH Chicago, Dee, 21,-="peed, strength | and sonse—~that's Grange of 1liinois a athletic commissioner. “In th or bucks, inside tackle Me and Mine BiLL - | WANT You To Amheérst Ball Team Has | | town; 17, Williams at Amherst. | 4 » k |Brooklyn Signs Olson w | veteran Brooklyn National league jn-| Dodgers during the 1924 scason. Olson was given his unconditional relcase to | | hitter and an extra infielder, | | Barroom Plano Has Been Superseded clal apparatus devised by D. J. Rich- ards: | patrons advance information as to the says Major John L. Griffith, Blg Ten | !mmediate availabllity of ethereal en- | tertainment and posts a warning twen- » days of the “triple threat” | ¥ seconds before another nickel is fad, that's the offering of the Univer. | reauired.to enable them to enjoy an sity of Illinols sophomore halfback [uninterrupted performance. ars, whether for open field run- | ed that Rumania withdrew her appli- or [cation to the French government for As to the [a loan of 100,000,000 franes when she they | found that she could obtain in Eng- other |land better terms for the armaments she required. intensity the ring battle, it involved. | “Shelby,” commented Rickard, “is game, anyway." 22 Games on Schedule | Amherst, Mass,, Jan, 26.—Twenty- two games, including a spring trip, have been booked for the Amherst basebal Iteam. Two games with the University of Virginia opens the| southern activities, which include con- tests' with the Quantico Marines, Georgetown and the Navy. Fred Jack- litch will again be on the job as coach, The schedule: March 27 and 28, University of Virginia; 29, Quantico | Marines; 31, Catholic university; April 1, Georgetown; 2, U, 8. Navy Acade- my; 12, U, 8. Military Academy; 18, Princeton at Amherst; 24, Tufts at Amherst; 26, Clark at Amherst; 30, Yale at New Haven; May 3, Trinity at Amherst; 7, M. A, C. at Amherst; 8, N. Y. U, at New York; 10, Princeton at Princeton; 15, Wesleyan at Am-| hersty 22, Harvard at Cambridge; 24, M. A. C.at M. A, C.; 30, Willlams at Willamstown; 31, Union at Schence- tady; June 14, Wesleyan at Middle. | | As Coach for 1924 New York, Jan. 26.—Ivan Olson, fielder, will serve as coach of the will suecceed Charles Schmidt, who | manage a minor league club, In addi. | tion to acting as Manager, Wiibert | Robinson’s assistant, Olson will be | available to the Dodgers at a pinch Olson began his big league career with Cleveland in 1811, going from there to Cincinnati and arriving at Brook- lyn in 1015, where he h played ever since, ' NICKEL-IN-SLOT RADIO | By New Device Washinggon, Jun, 26.—A nickel-in- he-slot radlo receiving outfit has made Ats appearance here, The recelver is equipped with spe. of Washington, which gives WITHDRAWS LOAN Bucharest, Jan. 26.—It is announe- | Idellllu of which {the American FERGUSON TO MEET FLYNN AT GARDEN Jiorthlord Battler Will_ Make Debut Before Gotham Fans ot ates Meriden, Jan, 26—Tracey Fersu\lon.v Northford walloper, who has trod the rocky path of Fistiana, has stepped another notch higher in the fight world, so it was announced late last night. Tracey makes his debut at Madison Square Garden on the night of Fébruary 15 in a six-round fight meeting Paddy Flynn; of Boston, at 153 pounds ringside. Fergusin is a member of the same stable to which Louis (Kid) Kaplan belongs and the promotion from Con- necticut fight clubs to what is gonsid- dred the greatest arena of swat in the world 'is a good promotion, With Kaplan appearing in the Garden Feb- ruary 1 and Ferguson February 15 Denpis McMahon, manager of both, will be almost a more traveled man than a vaundeville actor and, taking that last crack into consideration, they are on the go practically all the time so one can call the genial Denny quite a globe-trotter. The gatire card has not .been made out yet for the Garden show on this date, but the Ferguson-Flynn bout is assured. Ferguson will go in- to training at the Casino within a few days for the big event. Kaplan Stepping Fast. Louis (Kid) Kaplan, local entry in the race for the featherweight title race with Johnny Dundee, champion, as the ultimate goal, went through & hard workout yésterday at the Casino where he is carrying ol rigid pro- gram of training for his éoming bout, Louis is dated up with Eddie Brady, Brooklyn leather pusher, for a 12« round swatfest at Madison Square Garden February 1, as a preliminary joust to the Pal Moran-JohnnyDun- dec battle, the main trick in the bag held by Tex Rickard, impressario di- rector of fights in New York. Louis and Young lLeonard, ihat blonde-haired Sheik of Wallingtord, went four rounds yesterday with the padded mittens and both were in bril- lant shade of pink when they had called it an afternoon, Leonard is, by the way, preparing himself for a bout with Young Marccl Tuesday night at I'ootguard hall, Hartford, as a part of the prpgram fa conjunction with ihe Jimmy Cooncy-Al Shubert affair. By the way Leonard has been working with Kuplan, and the labor they have piled on his shoulders he wiil be in condition for the Holyoke Frenchman when they meet, National League Meets In New York Feb. 25 New York, Jan. 26.~=President John A. Heydler has issued a oall for the Natfonal league mid-winter meeting here on February 12, Ratifieation of the 1924 schedule already have been worked out in joint conference with league and a report on plans for the National league's 60th anniversary jubllee in 1925 are among matters to come before the magnates. BEATS B, A, A, Boston, Jan. ~<The New Haven Hockey club the Noston Athletic assoclation three goals to two In an exhibition game last night. NEW HAV Bowling and Billiards WITH BEST OF FQUIPMENT PRIZES EVERY DAY Rogers Recreation Co. HEH ~HEHW 50 CHURCH ST, - TALK ABOUT A FIVE Ti1D You EVER PLAY MY - COURSE 7 SAY FReD You've MIGSED SOMETHING - WE HAVE A 550 YARD HOLE , THE PRETTIEST FIvE SHOT HOLE oV EVER D\D SEE PAR HOLE ! OWe- poy! 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