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Speaking of Sports Despite the continuous boasting of * Jack Sharkey, Boston Lithuanian, that he stands ready and willing to fight Dempsey again, there will al- ways be & question in minds:of fol- lowers of the fight game whether he will be able to fight again, at least for a long, long time. The reason for this doubt, is the fact that when Dempsey put them out, apparently they stay “put.” — Demsey's knockout victims have literally all been killed as far as thelr pugilistic aspirations are con- cerned. After standing up before him and his territie body punching power, they have never seemed able to come back to meet with any suc- cess in the ring. Take the case of Jess Willard. Dempsey knocked him out in To- ledo, O, in four rounds, thereby winning th€ - world’s heavyweight title. That was the beginning of the end for bulky Jesd. Jess did come back and beat Floyd Johnsonm, but he eurled right up before Luis An- | gel Firpo. Carpentier, French idol, w: clean fighter before he met D“h sey at Boyle's Thirty acres in New Jersey. Carpentier came out of the fight with a broken heart and a broken body. He tried several come- | backs but was met with failure at| every turn. / Tom Gibbons stood up .before Dempsey for 15 rounds out in Shel- by, Montana, but he didn't amount to much after that fight. He could- n't wear a hat on his head for weeks and couldn’t tighten the bglt of his trousers. It was only a short time thereafter that he was knocked out by Gene Tunney, present heavy- weight champion. Firpo, strongest brute-man that Dempsey ever faced, wasshammered unmercifully in their memorable fight. Dempsey took every possible advantage of him and there is a strong argument that he could have been disqualified for three separate offneses. Nevertheless, Firpo was completely shattered after that fight. The Bull of the Pampas didn’t have a thing left after that fight. Jack Renault, the Canadian Northwest Mounted Policeman, was at one time a comer in the ranks, but he was punched out from acting as a sparring. partner to Dempsey in his training grinds. Harry Drake another good number in the heavy- weight ranks played the role of punching bag when Dempsey was in training for the go with Tom Gib- bons, Gene Tunney survived the Demp- sey attack, but the merits of Demp- sey's showing in Philadelphia last year will always be disputed. Demp- sey's fists did very little work that night and Tunney took the lead away from the ex-champion and held it. Last comes Sharkey. His stomach has been badly injured. The bleed- ing and hemorrhages which he h suffered after the fight of a little more than a week ago, speaks vol- umes for the hammering he suf- feréd before he was knocked out. With a weak stomach, shaky legs and a whole lot of force taken out of his punches, he may come back to make plenty of trouble for the heavyweights still in the business, but the odds are greatly against him. Dempeey may be a wreck, but he has wrecked more good men in the tight game than any other fighter in the history of pugilism. He still re- talns his terrific punch as he dem- onstrated in the fight with Sharkey and any man who gets in his way’ will suffer a like fate. The big question is Whether Dempsey can hit Tunney or not. If he is able to get close to Gene like he did to Sharkey, then Tunney will most probably be numbered among the “has-beens” victims of a pair of mauling fists. Still again comes word from Chi- cago that the old bug-a‘boo of Dempsey's failure to shoulder a gun in the late war would stop him from meeting Tunney on Soldlers’ Field. Once again we call to mind at least 25 great athletes who never moved towards getting into the ser- vice during the war. We again “why pick on Dempsey all alone The Church league managers un- dertook the delicate business of re- versing umpires’ decisions last night, ordering two games replayed because : the officlals had failed to call base- runners out for interfering with fielders. Had it been a question of whether the umps saw the play or not, no kick could have been forth-! coming, but in cach instance the um- pire saw the play and called it in correctly. The rules state specifically that if the base path is occupied by a field- er in the act of .flelding a ball, the basc runner must run out of line and behind the fielder and shall not be declared out for so doing. They fur- ther provide that If he interferes in any way, intentionally or uninten- tionally, with a man flelding a ball, he shall be_declared out. those circamstances' ‘the but to Under managers had no recourse throw out both games. LANDERS TEAM WINS The Landers, Frary & Clark base- ball team of the New Britain Indus- trial league defeated the Berlin Con- struction team last night score of 6 to 1. game for the Berlin team and the squad showed up well. Any teams in this city wishing games with the south enders should telephone Man- ager Thomson at 1244, Follow the arrows to the Motor- eycle Hill Climb at North Guilford, Conn., Sunday, July 31, 1927. One Steel National professional hill climb champion, also his greatest rivals, John Grove and Chick Remington, will compete. Promoted by the Meriden Motoreycle club, A. M. A. sanction 354.—advt. by the | a4t was the first | LEAGUE STANDING AMERICAN LEAGUE * Games Yesterday New York 9, St. Louls 4. Washington 13, Chicago 3. Detroit §, Philadelphia 3. Boston 3-4, Cleveland 0-3. Philadelphia . Chicago Cleveland ... St. Louls . Boston . St. Louis at Boston. Cleveland at New York. Detroft at Washington. Chicago at Philadelphia. NATIONAL LEAGUE Games Yesterday New York 6, Chicago 5. Brookliyn 7, Pittshurgh 6 Cincinnati 11, Boston 6. St. Louis 10, Philadelphia 8. The Standing w. L. Pet. 602 591 564 531 448 447 411 Pittsburgh .. | Chicago | St. Louis . New York . Cincinnati . | Brookiyn .. Philadelphia Boston .... . 56 55 53 52 . 43 . 42 37 35 Games Today New York at Chicago. Brooklyn at Pittsburgh. Boston at Cincinnati. Philadelphia at St. Louis. EASTERN LEAGUE Games Yesterday Albany 7-6, Providence 2-4. Springfleld 7, Hartford 5. Bridgeport 8-2, Waterbury 0-4. Pittsfield 12, New Haven 2. The Standing W. 55 48 49 43 . 45 45 e A6 . 39 L. 41 42 44 43 Pl 578 533 Albany .. Pittsfield ! Bridgeport . Hartford Springfield . ! New Haven Waterbury Providence 500 489 AT4 406 \ Games Today Waterbury at Hartford. Providence at Pittsfield. Bridgeport at Albany. New Haven at Springfleld. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Games Yesterday Jersey City 4, Newark 2. Syracuse 6, Rochester 4. Other clubs not scheduled. . | The Standing 1 w. | Buffalo LT, | Syracuse . ' Baltimore Toronto | Newark ... Rochester | Jersey City Reading .... L. 30 Games Today Reading at Jersey City. Rochester at Buffalo Other clubs not scheduled. MAIN DETALLS OF BOUT ARE SETTLED E(lhicago Ready to Take Fight if Rickard Agrees Chicago, July 29 (M—The main details of the Dempsey-Tunney i fight, if Chicagoans land it for Soldier Field next September, are {agreed upon and it remains only for . Chicago’s civic and business leaders today to convince Tex Rickard that Chicago means business and wants the match. Rickard meets fhese leaders at luncheon today It the fight is staged here the largest crowd and the largest “gate” in the history of boxing appear as- 1sured. Preliminary conferences between Rickard and George F. Getz, mil- ilionaire coal operator, and the mov- ing figure in Chicago’s campaign as official representative of Mayor Thompson, have decided upon some of the arrangements, subject to the actual agreement for holding the fight in the lake front stadium. Prices rangiing from $5 to $40 tentatively have been set, and the | announcement, if it comes, will be made next Tuesday, after Mayor Thompson returns from the gover- nors’ copference at Mackinac Island. “I have come to Chicago with an |open mind on this business,” Rick- jard eaid. +I'd like to put the fight jon at Soldler Field but there are a lot of details to be froned out. If Chicago really wants the fight, I guess there will not be much trouble about bringing it here: “The talk about me staging it in the Polo grounds is the bunk, Phil- adelphia has asked me to-put the battle on’ there but I don’t think Philadelphia ought to have another big fight for a couple of years. It's not likely that the deal can be set- tled up before then.” FIGHTS LAST NIGHT By the Associated Press. New York — Paul Berlenbach knocked out Fighting Bob Lawson, Alabama, 7 rounds. fartin Burke, ew Orleans, defeated Lester Gaines, Toronto, 10 rounds. Benny Touch- stone, New York, knocked out Ro- mero Rojas, Chile, 3 rounds. Harry Fay, Louisville, beat Bert Finch, Savannah, 6 rounds. Dick Savan- nah, 8 rounds. Dick Fullam, York- ville, defeated Jack Golden, Ireland. Norwalk, Conn.—Tiger Flowers, Atlanta, Ga., beat Bill “Bing” Con- ley, Lewiston, Me., 10 rouhds. Philadelphia — Harry Blitman, Philadelphia, won from Eddie 0O’Dowd, Columbus, 10 rounds. Fights Tonight Detroit—Maxie Rosenbloom Bob Sage, 10 rounds. v 389 527 | 500 ¢ CONEBACKS SEEM 10 BE THE RULE Veterans in All Lines of Sports Patting Up Battles {By the Amociated Press. New York, July 29 (#—The “old guard” may be having its trouble with the young and ambitious talent ibu! it is staging a comeback along several fronts nevertheless. Jack Dempsey, the “hollow shell” of 1926, is now acclaimed the “gat- ling gun'sof 1 He has hurdled the first obstacle, Jack Sharkey, in a Lattle to win back the heavywefght crown, soniething no ex-champion has ever done. “Big Bill” Tilden, in spite of de- feats at th. hands of youthful Frenchmen abroad, is back burning up home courts again. He will be in the thick of the fight to keep the Davis cup as well as to win back the American singles title, with at least a fighting chance to come through. His veteran companion in interna- tional play, “Little Bill” Johnston, also is eager to show that age and expcrience cannot be counted out, {at least this year, on the courts. Meanwhile, such polo veterans as | Milburn, Webb and Stevenson—all near or beyond 40—are fighting for places on this year's American “big four” against a hard-riding group of voung horsemen, among them the 22-year-old Freddy Guest, Yale cap- tain. Milburn, at 46, is still rated the greatest “back” in polo but |Webb may have trouble keeping his position from Guests's challenge. The veteran Stevenson also has a keen rival in J. Cheever Cowdin, an- other young player. Even the old lightweight cham- pion, Willie Ritchie, has been bit- ten by the comeback bug. It is co- incidence that Willie's return to the ring came shortly before the tragic death here of Freddie Welsh, the British “dancing master” who won the lightweight title from Ritchie in |London in 1914. Welsh died yester- ,day at the age of 41, while Ritchie, inow 36, has one knockout victory uready to mark his comeback. | Willie may not go very far along the upgrade but critics assert he “still possesses the fine punching qualities he had when he was the champion of the world.” Jack Dempsey seems fated to be linvolved in the ring's most hectic debates, whether they are in or outside of the ring, with or with- out gloves. The Manassa Mauler's last three fights have stirred up more confused chatter than any dozen other battles combined. There were many excited claims lot “foul” after Dempsey outslugged whisper compared to the outburst that has followed the Dempsey- OUR BOARDING | | | | A vov MilD BRINGING A DECK OF CARDS, MASOR AN’ MV HUSBAND - k P SR Firpo in 1923 but the cries were ay HEY BovS'!w \F You Go NEAR -TH' CAMP STORE, [P SOME CANNED BEANS; S0UP,~CANNED GPAGHETTI,~ GOME STOGIES FORTH' Sharkey match. It is still going on. 'he debate raged last S-:plembel" lover whether Dempsey was a ‘“hol low shell” or merely a victim of | “mental worry” when he lost to Gene Tunney; whether some drug was slipped into his coffee before- hand or whether it was the bite of a poisonous mosquito that made Jack lethargic. Bobby Jones, due home today from triumph in the British open champlonship, has taken away |from Walter Hagen the recognitio | as golf's greatest pinch-hitter. Bobby has been the “marked | entered, whether match or medal play, in the last four or five years, yet he has come through with an amazing string of triumphs. Under | | pressure or when the o were heaviest against him, Jones — like the Hagen of a few years ago—has !had the stuff to come through in the majority of tests. Last year, victories, Jones was approached by an eager seeker after the Geor- gian's golf elixir. “What is the secret of your game, Mr. Jones?” he was asked. Without batting an eye, Bobby | replicd: = | “Hitting the ball.” FALCONS 0 FAGE BAY STATE TEAM Three Rivers Club One of Sea- ! son’s Best Attractions | The Falcon baseball team of this city will have its hands full Sunday afternoon when it meets the Three Rivers team of Massachusetts at St. man” of every tournament he has|P B after one of his big|s. | Mary's field. The visitors are rated |as one of the strongest clubs in the | Bay State and at the present time | F: | they are leading the Quobag \'aueyf |league, one of the fastest semi-pro | | circuits in this section of the coun- | | try. | The visitors have two stars on the team and & number of college play- ers all of whom form a strong com- | bination. White the second base- | man is a former Manhattan College {star and is a strong sticker. Beatty, | the shortstop is a former Tisk Red | Tops star while Richie the third baseman was formerly with the Rochester International league team and a member of the New York Giants. The visiting team will lineup as follows: B ¢. Paquette 1b, White 2b, Beatty ss, Richie 3b, Rog- ers If, Daly cf, Henderson rf, & | manczyk and Jachym p. The Fal- | cons will lineup as follows: Green 2b, Huber rf, Alexander 1f, St. Bud- nick ss, Si Budnick 3b, Klatka 1b, Kredar cf, Kopec ¢ and Bucholtz or Bergeron pt The game will start promptly at 3 o'clock with Herbie Sautter holding the indicator. The Falcons will prac- tice tonight Mary's field in preparation for the ame Sunday. Win From Westfield The Falcons defeated the West- fleld Athletics last night in West- fleld shutting them out by the score of 3 to 0. The game was a pitch- er's battle between Bergeron and Jachym with the local boy having the edge. The Falcons were in rare form for the contest scoring four snappy dou- ble plays. Each team got six hits | and committed two errors. Only | one Westficld man reached third e. Kania and St. Budnick shone for the locals on the defense while Starhead” and Kopec hit timely. Clark’s fielding and the hitting of James featured for Westfield. The summary: FALCONS A. C at 6:30 o'clock at St. | AB. Budnick, Klatka, 1b ‘ 4 3 4 ‘ 4 o ‘ A R ] 0 1 1 0 0 1 n 0 [Bisas = Bergerson. p . wlrosssonsall Totals ATHLETICS S ] ol omunossssolt e of game— | 1:40. INTEREST GENTERS | IN NATIONAL RACE (Continued from Preceding Page) | ‘ Bancroft, Gautreau, Urban, ¢ ... Genewlch, p ... Wertz, p - | worwnsoconon ol oan Totals B2, BOSTON AB. R. Dressen, giis) Ford, s Crit; Picinich, Rixey, p . her. v Umpires—Moran, Pfirm i «nd Time—1 WAS DUB AS SOPH Charles T. Hill, Penn crew cap- tain this vaar, was an awful bust as | an oarsman in his sophomore year. HOUSE WouLD £ BACK ¥\ JUST OM OUR WAY AN S P 2R HIGH PRESSURE PETE 15 15 600D— HERE. \ QUIT tW 306, AND LOSE (W GARL— ALL \WE_ GOT (5 #2000, AND THAT WONT Vs WON LONG LOW LAT ToREVER & KD SOCRO ule { NoW'RE A MIND READER MRS. 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