New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 22, 1927, Page 17

Speaking of Sports The fighting populace of New Britain after the frenzy caused by the startling result of the Dempsey- Sharkey fight last night ,is about fully convinced that the fight game is anything but on the up and up. One of the first questions pro- pounded in many quarters this morning was, “How can you explain the showing Dempsey made in Phil- adelphia last fall?” On the face of Dempsey’s showing last night, that's a hard one to toss over one's shoul- der, The glorious comeback of the former heavyweight champion is marred by the disagreement over the finishing blow. Whether it was a foul or not is the pressing argument among those who saw the battle. Many claim that it was a foul while others say it was a fair blow. Not being there, we can”t say, but we do know this, that the great ma- jority of the fight fans who made up the immense crowd in front of the Herald building last night was de- cidedly in favor of Dempsey. Every announcement that the ex- champlon had sent in a hard blow was the occaslon for prolonged cheers. Dempsey at last has come into his own as far as the popular feeling of the American public is concerned. Has anyone heard about the tele- gram that Officer Anthony Waline- zus of the local police department recetved from New York this morn- ing? “Tony” was one of Sharkey's most ardent supporters and he had predicted that Dempsey was due for | a horrible beating. The telegram read: “The downfall of Lithuania is complete.” His brother policemen certainly are having a load of laughs over the crestfallen aspect of the popular of. ficer today. Mention of the Dempsey-Sharkey fight would be incomplete were we not to say something about the ef- ficient police work accomplished in the handling of the large crowd of listeners on Church street, Under the | direction of Police Sergeant Thomas J. Feeney, the detail of police kept the jam good natured all evening and had no trouble in allowing trol- leys and other vehicles to pass up and down the street. SPLIT BIG PURSE Dempsey and Sharkey to Split About $450,000 Between Them For Last Night's Fight. New York. July (P—Jack Dempsey and Jack Sharkey split a purse of slightly for than $450,000 for their battle, which drew a “gate” of $1,075,000 and attendance of 82,- 000 according to Tex Rickard's es- timate. It was the fourth million- dollar fight in ring history, in all of which Dempsey has been a prin- cipal. The former champion now is assured of a “cut in his fifth big- money fight waen he meets Gene Tunney in a return title bout. Rickard’s con(racts with the fight- ers called for Dempsey to get 27 1-2 per cent and Sharke; Dempsey was understood to have been guaranteed $250,000 and on a percentage basis, it figures to go slightly over that, with Sharkey get- ting & little over $200,000. Here are the promoter’s figures Total receionts, 31 Hon Dempsey's share, $252.759. Sharkey's share, $206.803. Federal tax, $107,500. State tax, $ 0. Rickard's share, 344,158, SETTLE TITLE BOUT Chicago Newspaper Says that Ob- stacles to Dempsey-Tunney Fight Are Removed. Chicago. July 22(P—The Herald and Examiner says that all obsta- cles to Jack Dempsey's comeback bout with Gene Tunney for the world’s heavyweight title in Chicago in September were cleared away in New York last night at a meeting between Promoter Tex Rickard and a committee of three Chicagoans. The selected site, Soldier Field, is expected to accommodate the biggest crowd and draw the biggest gate in the history of pugilism. It was es- timated that at least 250,000 specta- tors could be accommodate. ard it was understood asked a $40 top for ringside seats. The Illinois boxing code limits ull‘ houts, including championship con- tests to ten rounds, and provides for a judge’s edcision. The Tllinois state athletic commission, through it chairman, John C. Righelmer, ha: expressed itself in favor of the fight. ‘The newspaper says the bout will be promoted by Rickard with the aid of a committee of representative Chicagoans, who will be appointed by Mayor Thompson. BASEBALL'S the United Press. Ruth, Gehrig and Hornshy each made a double, Ruth was at bat twice against four times for and five times for the Rajah. Cobb singled once in four chances. ab. h. pet. hr. 137 .391 31 119 .3606 0 111 30 100 .35 4 3 16 BIG FIVE Gehrig Speaker . Ruth Cobb . Hornsby . . Estelle Taylor Certain Her Jack Would Win' Los Angeles, July 22 (P —Jack Dempsey's victory failed to surprise his wife, Estelle Taylor. “I was certain that Jack would win,” said the actress, who, ill in bed, recelved radio reports of the progress of the bout between Demp- sey and Jack Sharkey in New York The fiim actress had taken carc to see that she was not disturbed last night. Her telephone was dis- connected and she saw only a few friendn. Rick- | Lou | HOLLOW SHELL HAKES CONEBACK (Continued from preceding page) They went into a clinch. Démpsey rips for Sharkey's body in close. It is | bitter fight. Dempsey bores in and keeps at Sharkey's body. It is all Dempsey's 8o far. Sharkey lets go a hard right to the head. Sharkey staggers Dempsey with lefts and rights to the body. Dempsey staggers | Sharkey and hooks a left and right {to the head. Dempsey is almost | done. One good punch more and he would have been floored. The bell Jjust about saves him. ROUND TWO—Sharkey rushes and sends Dempsey to the ropes with | sey goes back at the body. He hooks a left to the body. Sharkey 2 left to the head. Sharkey sends left and right to the head. Sharkey staggers Dempsey with a right to the jjaw. Dempsey sends a left and right |to the head. There is blood under |Dempsey’s right eye. Dempsey's nose is bleeding and the crowd roars when Dempsey sends Sharkey to the I ropes with left and right to the head. Sharkey hooks a hard left to the head. Sharkey sends a left hook to the body. Dempsey’s round. ROUND THREE—Dempsey sends sends a left to the body. Sharkey sends a left and right to the head. Sharkey works close and sends left and right to the jaw. Sharkey sends a hard right to the face. Dempsey hooks a hard left hook to the head. Sharkey hooks a left to the head. | Sharkey coolly walks around and ratches Dempsey out of the corner ot his eye. Dempsey tends a stiff right to the ribs. Sharkey hooks a short right to the body. Sharkey works on Dempsey's body. Sharkey slips on his own wet corner and i on one knee when the bell rings. No count. About even, all told. ROUND FOUR—Sharkey jabs a left to the face. Sharkey sends a {left and right to the jaw. Dempsey sends a hard right to the body. Shar- |key jabs with a left to the face. | Dempsey forces Sharkey to a corner, | but is weak on body attack. Demp- sey's right eyebrow is cut. Sharkey picks his spots and punches cleanly for the head and body. Sharkey isends a left to the head. Dempsey sends two hard lefts to the body. Sharkey takes a hard body beating without wincing. Dempsey evened the round. ROUND FIVE—Dempsey miss | key hooks a left and right to the head. Dempsey sinks a hard right to the hody. They poke at each other's body in a rally. Sharkey mis sey bleeds from the mouth and nose. Dempsey does all the chasing. Sharkey sends a left jab to the face. Sharkey outboxed Dempsey here. ROUND SIX—Dempsey jabs a left to the face. Sharkey jabs a left {to the face. Sharkey's left met Dempsey’s In mid-air with a loud smack. Dempsey’s left eye is dis- colored. Sharkey hooks a left to the head. Sharkey backs and awaits an !opening. Sharkey upper-cuts Demp- [sey twice with rights. They maul each other in close, and then Shar- key drives a left to the head. hits after the bell, his blow being on the way when the bell rang. | ROUND SEVEN—They bore in and are fighting close. Dempsey | sends a right to the body and a lef { to the chin. Sharkey goes to the floor on his face. He claims foul, but the pays no attention to him. is counted out. Time, 45 s, of seventh round. FALCONS T0 PLAY Team of Chicopee Falls Massa- chusetts to Appear at St. Mary's Field Sunday. The Falcon baseball team will meet one of the strongest clubs in St. Mary's field when it stacks up against the Chicopee Falls team in the weekly diamond attraction. The |visiting club has a number of | former Fisk Red Top players on its roster and fans in this city are to see a realy classy outfit in action. Manager John Cabay of the Fal- {con team hasn't decided as yet on _the lineup shifts he has planned for i this week's game. His team hasn't been winning and he has found it necessary to make one or two i changes in an effort to bolster the club up. | The lineup of the visiting team will be as follows: Lolas, if; Fady kula, 1b; Rucka, 3b; Reynolds, Noel or Christofori, ¢; Stolar, of; Yucha, 2b, and The game will start promptly at 3 o'clock with Herbie { sautter holding the indicator. PIRATES IN MERIDEN Local Baseball Club to Mcet Strong L St .Stanislaus Team in League Game Sunday. The Pirates will clash with the strong St. Stanislaus nine of Meriden in a western Connecticut league game Sunday afternoon in Meriden. The Saints are travelling along at-a high pace, and, at the present time are leading the league with three out of five victories. The locals have one win and one loss to their credit and have high hopes of gaining their second victory in the race at the ex- pense of the Saints. The Pirates ha practiced three nights this week in preparation for the game. “Huggy” Carlson, who is burning up the town this year with his long string of vic- { tories, will take the mound for the | Corsairs with “Butsy” Hall on the receiving end. “Ed” Williams, Nor- wich college star, will be held in re- | serve. Johnny Sheehan will again appear with the Pirates, probably at 1 second base. Beagle, Wicr and Char- | low will also be seen in action Sun- i day with the Pirates. The Saints will send Buckley to ‘ the mound and the locals will have to travel fast if they hope to beat | him. He is rated as one of the best pitchers in the Silver city and holds a victory over the Piratcs from the 1926 season which the present team hopes to wipe out. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1927 Shark: hopes of being heavy- Hartford at New Haven. GOLFERS 10 PLAY STANLEY WORKS AGAIN TOMORROW LOSE TO CORBINS sWMlsmkes Toumament {0 Be (Continued rrtflecedln; Page) Staged at Shuttle Meadow A peculiar fcature of the game was the fact that only Krause, | Smith and Eric Anderson were able A sweepstakes tournament with a e s 8 LUl Do e e T th 13 |to connect with Casey's slants, the | B, will be run off at the Shuttle | Meadow Golf club tomorrow. Al-|was the only Union Worker to get though the beaches have started to | inore than one pingle off Ference. take their toll of golfers, the entry | McKnight hit a home run into deep list tomorrow is expected to be fairly right field in the third inning for large. The ranks of the faithful have | the feature hit of the game. started to thin down but the tourna- | ment committee hopes to see many lof them out tomorrow. | rest of the team going hitless. Casey |trast in the defensive play of the Tt was, however, the distinct con- | weight champion of the world are by |no means blasted | “T'll be fighting," muttered Shark- ey, “when Dempsey's got gray hair. “You'll manage a champion yet,” he told his manager. LEAGUE STANDING AMERICAN LEAGUE WRITERS STATE FOUL WAS STRUGK {New York Herald-Tribune Says It Was a Strange Fight New York, July 22 (A—Although |the referee, Jack O'Sullivan, de- | clared the punch was fair, a ma- |jority of sports writers whose | opinions were reflected in metropoli- [tan newspapers today apparently |considered that Jack Dempsey landed a low blow just before he | knocked out Jack Sharkey with a Games Yesterday New York 4, Chicago 1. Philadelphia 8, Cleveland 3. Detroit 7, Boston 3. St. Louis 5, Washington 4. (1st). St. Louis 2, Washington 2. (2nd). 8 innings, rain. The Standing 1% ‘Waterbury at Springfield. Bridgeport at Providence. DENPSEY INPROVED OVER HAN HE HET Champion Gene Tumney Nevet Saw ex-Champion Fight Better New York, July 22 (P—It Jack Dempsey has been away he has come |back. So said Gene Tunney, whe | knows Dempsey, both in and out of the ring. “I never saw him fight better,” said the champion as Jack Sharkey, the confident, was belng carried to his corner. A left hook | from the gloved Dempsey’s fist & INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Games Yesterday Baltimore 6, Jersey City 4. Buffalo 5, Rochester 0. Syracuse 3, Toronto 0. ’ Newark-Reading, (postponed). The Standing w. PcLl | Buffalo ceee 64 66 62 55 52 51 46 42 614 567 520 | Baltimore . Newark . Toronto . Rochester . Jersey City Reading . Games Today Jersey City at Baltimore. 'a hard left hook to the head. Shar- | s a hard right to the head. Demp- | He ! hooks a hard left to Sharkey's head. | He | Massachusetts Sunday afternoon at | Ted Hart led the fleld for the first ‘\\M‘k in the twilight medal cham- plonship tournament with a net of |67. This was four strokes better than his nearest rival. But this is only the first week of the tourna- ment which has three more to go. | The other players are hot on Hart's |trail and he will have to keep up his |good work if he wants to through a winner. i Although the entry list in the { weekly twilight play is by no means ilal"ge ,the interest among those who | come | are entered is at a high pitch. Every | |evening at the club the “Iffers” have | |a serlous session and if the bunk- ers weren't here and if that putt wasn’t missed, Hart would certainly {not be leading today. | It is thought that the members [of the club didn’t fully understand | |the rules of this tournament theerby |cutting down the entry total but the | next tournament of its kind will have !more specific instructions. There are | {certainly many out during the early | evening to make the tournament a big one. P. F. King came through last Saturday to win the match play gainst par tournament. He took the {“old man of the links" by the horns {and threw him for a loss of seven |strokes. This is the second tourna- {men in succession that P. F. has won and he handed “poor old Par” a | neat lacing. ! Not to be outdone, ! Percy plm! {who was also in the running and, tied with Noah Lucas, he trimmed | the “old gent” five up, winning sec- ond place for the second time in uccession. Earl Higbee came next with two up and Tom Linder nosed | through with 1 up. The rest of the | | pill chasers, however, took a severe | | drubbing, the “old cripple” known as ar coming back strongly to have his innings. The results turned in by King, Platt and Lucas has proved to b just meat for the handicap commit- \tee. These scores with others which have been scored in the twilight tournament have started the butch- er's cleaver swinging and several strokes have already been looped off a number of scores. Around the club this week, in- stead of “Let Me Call You Sweet- |heart” being agonized by the old| quartet, the refrain that has became | popular is “O Didn’t He Ramble, He Rambled 'Til the Butcher Cut Him | Down.” Golfers who ramble over | the course consistently with better | scores will ramble more carefull in the near future. However, when all is said and done, the past week has been the imost prosperous one the handicap | committee has experienced in some | time and if necessary “spotters” | will be placed around the conrse to i check up on strokes as an ald to en- forcing the law. CITY LEAGUE GAMES Most Important Game of First Round to be Played Tomorrow Between Pirates and Burritts. League Standing w Pirates Burritts . Rangers .. West Ends .... Speedboys Tabs ... The most important game of the | {first round of the City baseball | league will be played tomorrow | {afternoon when the undefeated Pi- | rates meet the unbeaten Burritts for first place. Both teams have bowled | over their early opposition, the Bur- | ritts perhaps a little casier rivals, but the Pirates have a slight | advantage over the champions by 'reason of their victory last week and the stopping of the Burritt game by rain. The contest, which will b played at 2 o'clock on Diamond No. 2, is expected to draw the larges owd of the season . | The Rangers, now showing signs (of life after a poor start, will play the cellar champs, the Tabs, at the same hour on Diamond No. 1. This game should be easy for the Rang- | er salthough the Tabs are beginning to develop and may give trouble. At | 4 o'clock the West Ends and Speed- hoys will meet on Diamond No. 1 in what should be a battle between | veteran hitting power and youthful speed. The Colliers and American Legion will play a Junior City league game | ‘\B.l 4 o'clock on Diamond No. 2. ‘ | { | cas | Brie Anderson, | Argo | Cosgrove. Union Works team in the field to the exhibitions put up in previous contests. that made the game last night extraordinary. The team pre- sented a million dollar infield with hold the belief that Dempsey should | Tagerlof on third, McKnight in short, Schubert on second and Zack | The outfit turned in a to- assists with four errors on fir tal of | chalked up against them on halls that were hits except that plays were made on the runners. The Newmatics got the fump in the first frame when Krause the first man up, whaled out a sharp single to center. He went to second and scored when Smith scaled double into right center. Smith scored on two inficld plays. ing again until the sixth. The Union Works got one run back in the third on McKnight's home run. They scored another in the fourth when Casey hit a single | to right ficld and Arena let the ball | get through him placing the runner on second. He scored from there on | two infield plays. The Newmatics scored another brace of runs in the fatal sixth, fatal for the Union Works. Krause dumped a Texas leaguer over sec- ond that Schubert got his hands on but could not hold. Smith struck out for the second out of the inning. Fric Anderson crashed a hit through short and third and took second on the throw in to catch Krause who scored. ATgi dumped another Texas leaguer behind third base and Lagerlof stumbled as he whirled | around for it and dropped the ball, | Anderson scoring. The Union Works got one back In the eighth. Williams flied out to left. | Casey singled over second but was forced at second on Moore's bunt. AMcKnight ran for Moore. He stole second and went to third. Heinz- mann then came through with a single to bring him in. Tn the first of the ninth, Schu- bert, first man up, was hit by a pitched ball. Chotkowski rolled one to Ference who thréw wildly to sec ond base, both men being safe. Zack | sent up a weak fly to second base. | McKnight then drove a hard fly nto center that Eric Anderson pull- d down after a hard run. Williams followed wvith what looked like a sure two bagger but Pattison in left made a spectacular running catch of the ball and the game was OVer. Casey's hitting and the ftielding of fcKnight at short featured for the Tnion Works while Moore held the runners safely on the bags. Eric Anderson was the heavy sticker for the Newmatics with three out ‘of four. Pattison turned in the fielding features with four exceptional put- outs in left field. The summary: UNION WOR AB. R. MeKnight, a8 Williams, f . ond o Moore, Heinzemann, Lagerlof, Schubert, Chotkowskl, ok 1b of 2 . i3 | (oo Ty Totals ] cmommracmonl 2 b Krause, mith, . 3b Pattison, 1t Arema, rf Matnello, rf ss . Petras, Halnes Ference, p . elossssssesnuy alosssssssuwand Totals Tnfon Works .. N. B. Machine . Two base hit Home run—McK 001 100 200 002 . Eric Anderson. Umpire—Maher. | Time of game—1: WASHI B 'INS In the first home game of the sea-| son the boys' indoor baseball team of the Washington playground de- feated the Burritt indoor team yes- terday afternoon by a 10 to 9 score. | The game was close throughout and was featured by two home runs made by Washington players. Tod- zia made a homer in the third in- ning while Kloski made one in the fifth. The lineups follow: Washington—Todzla ¢, Capadic p. Corcoran 1b, Johnson 2b, Haber 3b, Zambrow: Macora If, Kloski cf. Nibble rf. Burritt—Carr ¢. Jones p, Lipman 1bh, Paul 2b, Volte 3b, Varhol ss, Osakowicz If, Murphy cf, Lipka rf. Washington 103 032 01—10 Burritt .. . 001 220 13— 9 HIGH PRESSURE Dolly WiLL O MPARRY, GET #2000 To FARRY PouN was To G@o (NTO PARTNEASHI(P| 1_ Doy |TAReaTENS. i| 1o owe. {® THES GATE. UNLESS HE 1 VP THE i| PRRIE AP —th b \ WOLLDNT MARRY THaT \ WIDOW F SHE WAS T LAY WOMPN ON ERRTH PETE Toort = WHEN | GET ¥2000 BE CRAZY ME AND BESDES PLACE. WHERE AN BE BLL o The | | Newmatics then went without scor- C'MON PeTe t's o o LUNCH — KNOW & €0z L\TILE !left to the chin. | The New York Times says Demp- | sey’s “accomplishment wa by many who saw the test” and | have been disqualified on a foul.” The Herald-Tribune, in one ac- count, refers to “two foul punches’ by Dempsey, “to which Jack O'Sul- |livas, the referee, paid no attention, "‘ul'hollgh they were delivered a | good eight inches helow the belt”. The same paper adds in another story: “It was a strange fight, as strange as the rumors that were flying through the stadium when it started, as strange as the shifting of the odds that made Dempsey the favorite be- fore the two men entered the ring. All the circumstances were start- |ling, not to say peculiar.” The World says the right to Shar- | key's body “did seem to be close to the belt,” but points out that the referee refused to allow a claim of foul and that the official physician of the hoxing commission found no evidence of injury. The American suggests that | Dempsey adopted the old frontier code “to shoot first and argue after- ward” but its observers passed no definite opinion on the location of the disputed blow. SHARKEY PLANNING 70 FIGHT PAULING Boston Fighter Believes Knock- out Blow Was a Foul New York, July 22 (#—Undaunt- ed by his knockout at the slugging hands of Jack Dempsey, but #per- sistent in his belief that the ing | elief at the telling Pittsfield . . | Bridgeport ... New Haven . Hartford ... Springfield Waterbury . Providence . blow was foul, Jack Sharkey will set out after a few weeks' rest to fight his way back to the fistic heights from which he has fallen for the present. Paulino Uzcudun, the sturdy young Spanish conqueror of Harry Wills, | will be his next foe in a bout to be |held in New York in about two | months, if the plans of Sharkey and |his manager, John Buckley, mater- ialize. Still certain he ‘“can lick Jack Dempsey,” Sharkey today was firm in the opinion he would have won but for the manner of Dempsey's at- tack. Sharkey's face and body bore lit- tle evidence of the pile-driving force of Dempsey's blows. He suffered no |apparent ill effects from the disput- ed body punch which helped to send him down. Dempsey's attack was centered bout his hips, Sharkey said, and on | more than the one occasion in the scventh round, the bombardment dropped below the waist line. While believing his fighter “was fouled half a dozen times,” Buckley aid he would not appeal the de- cision. “The Teferee's word is final,” he said, and turned to plans for the Paulino fight, which he expects will | be staged in Madison Square Garden ilate in September about the time Tunney and Dempsey are to meet for the title, In the meantime, the Boston box- ler will seek solace and renewed erve force in a fishing trip in the nterior of Nova Scotia. Leaving New York about noon to- |day, he intends to drive home to | Boston with no one but Mrs. Sharkey ccompanying him. The fighter's first thought upon leaving the ring a beaten man was |of his wife and family. Two small | children—both girls—await them in Boston. } While the battle was being waged last night, Mrs. Sharkey sat alone in | their hotel room in upper Broad- | way. First news of her husband's down- fall came to her faintly in the | shouts of newshoys in the street be- low: “Dempsey wins by knockout.” A fast automobile carried Sharkey to her through a way cleared by po- lice outriders. There were tears in the eyes of both when they met, and | their friends left {he two alone. “He's only a big kid,” said his [mmanager. 2 big clean kid, WE. Washingt will | Detroit Philadelp] St. Louis Cleveland St Cincinn: Boston Chicago Brooklyn Boston (Called e Albany 4 Louis 7, Hartford 0, A g New York .. on . Chicago .... Games Today New York at Chicago. Philadelphia at Cleveland. ‘Washington at St. Louis. (Other clubs not scheduled). Games Yesterday Philadelphia 7, Chicago 3 New York 6 Brooklyn 1. 2.5, Pittsburgh 1-2. ati 2, 2.5 The Standing Pittsburgh St. Louls ... New York Philadelphia . Cincinnati Games Today St. Louis at New York. Pittsburgh at Boston. Chicago at Philadelphia. Cincinnati at Brooklyn. EASTERN Games Yesterday Pittsfield 0. Tth, rain). New Haven 3, Providence 1. Springfield 4, Bridgeport 3 (14 innings). 5, Waterbury 4 (15 rounds). nd Games Today Pittsfleld at Albany. OUR BOARDING HOUSE s 0L BOV,«xJUST RUN = {F wv SOCH EGOe BOT 1T 15 PARDONABLE,«VYAS;« T FELTTHE SAME WAY WHEN I SHoT MY FIRST ELEPHANT ! wu LET ME EXPLAIN HoW You CAUGHT -THOSE “TRoWTwe L SPENT “TWo HOURS ENTICING THE WILY w CREATURES ~T0 “THAT PART OF “HEF. P2\ GTREAM, v WHICH REQUIRES —THE . SKILL OF A WALTON,«x AND WHER You APPEARED T LET Vou HAVE “HE SIMPLE GESTURE OF CATCHING “THEM, vone BUT-TRUE -To VouTH, Nod “NE_CREDIT OF AN ELDERS) I w. 65 51 48 48 47 36 37 23 NATIONAL LEAGUE w. a4 51 . 51 48 40 36 36 32 LEAGUE Reading at Newark. Toronto at Syracuse. Buffalo at Rochester. few seconds before had caused the youth from Boston to lose all inter- est in the subsequent proceedings. The titleholder's first observation jafter Sharkey had been counted out CHURCH LEAGUE GAMES Three Games to Be Played Tonight | Between Teams That Appear to Be Well Matched, | The Inter-Church Raseball leuguc[ |offers three games tonight between | |teams which appear fairly well | matched. The most important will | be that between the Iirst Lutherans and First Baptists, which will take place on Diamond No. 2 at Willow | Brook park at 6:45 o'clock. The St. Matts gained half a game on the s des while the latter were idle | Monday, and the Swedish team is inxious to win tonight and go back into a tie for first place. The ag-| gregation is a well-balanced though | not brilliant one and it ranks a slight favorite over the Baptidts, who are flashy but not so steady. | The Center Congregationalists and | Trinity Methodists will mix it up on |Diamond No. 1. These teams oc- cupy ninth and cighth places, re-| spectively, in the race just at pres- | ent and will work hard to rise a lit- | tle. The Methodists are a good combination both in the fleld and at | bat and are steadier than the Cen- | |ter church. The latter team has |heen playing poor ball lately, but if it can be recruited back to full strength it will make trouble to- night. In the third game, to he played on | the “grass diamond,” the Stanle Memorial team wili play the Every |ban's Bible olass. The Stanmors | |have dropped their last two gnmes\ ., |but are still in third place with an | 512 500 494 494 478 427 OUR ASTIGMATISM UP AN' Dowl “THIS STRING OF TROUT ! wwane «« BY EXERTING YouUR HATBAKD A AUD MEMORY, VoU WILL RECALL QUIFTING -TH’ STREAM JUST AS 1 STARTED, wee AN’ ALL NoU CAUGHT WAS \ouR BREATH W SHORT GASPS ! v OF COBRSE NoUWLLTELL ME ABoUTTH ONES AT GoT AWlAY ! —n WELL, WERE -THEY aggregation of dangerous hitters. | The Bible class has been coming up | of late and is now tied for fourth place; it can tie the Stanmors if it | wins this evening. | WEST ENDS PRACTICE | The West End basehall team will practice tonight at 6:30 o'clock at| Walnut Hill park. ANl members are | asked to be present. TAKE ALL s =0, SODDEN — 1S was a question. “Did you notice how far that last blow carrled?” he asked. There was no objection to his answering his own question. “Not very far, not many inches, but, oh what power there was behind it.” “Yes, Dempsey can hit,”. Tunney continued. “He has always been able to hit and I suppose he always will." Tunney liked the bout. He follow- ed it closely from start to finish. He saw no foul. “The blows that were questioned were not in the groin," he said. ‘As I saw them they were fair. “Yes. I think Jack (there was no question which Jack he meant) was better than he was against me in Philadelphia. Surely we should have a great return bout, wherever and whenever we meet. “No one can accuse me of hold- ing Dempsey lightly,” Tunney said. “I know how good he is. I knew it before I won from him, and T have not changed my opinion of his abili ty since. He is always dangerous. Tunney reverted to a bird's view of the night's bout. “The last blow. of course, was the one that counted most and doubt- less the one that will be remember- ed after the others have been for- gotten,” said Tunney, ‘but it should be forgotten that there were many of them. r instance there was a right— the one they question—just before the left, and there were some blows to the body that carried power in plenty. The champion had some kin@ words for Sharkey too. He was not able to speak with so much au- thority of Sharkey for his acquain- ance with the Boston boy is not so extensive as that with Dempsey."” “He's ju rting,” suggested the champion. “He will win many bouts before he is through.” ISSUES CHALLENGE The Cardinal Juniors challenge any team in the city averaging 10 te 12 years of age. They would like to play the World Winners. For games telephone READ THIY HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR YOUR WANTS By Ahern Z. e, j By SWAN aT'S OURL NEW MINGTER