The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 13, 1923, Page 13

___ VEDNESDAY, | DNESDAY, JUN] Missed by Not Being THE P~LACK OF BOXING COST JOHNNY KILBANE HIS RING CHAMPIONSHIP SEAT" STAR Great Falls Sees Champion Jack Dempsey Preparing for Title Scrap in Action His Right Hand Couldn't Land Because Judgment of Distance Was Off Henry L. Farrell BANE By NN} Dempsey has Harry Drake, up with rights and lefts to the stomach, at his training camp near Great Falls, Golf Luck ss\ Sticks to i . Walt Hagen “He | WhO wa | e best 1.—Th land, June 13.—T ‘k of golf finds Walter Hagen almost out of the running two days ago, set for a repetiti his triumph of year, with six of 4) {the most dangerous obsta n the |path of hix progress toward a | British open ch ) removed. OON n't hit him ny mplonsh im Barn A omer, Ha fon and Wethered doxen of tt a his Um: | ve te was one n n eliminated by r in the qualifying round, while Hagen, [awa « disastrous start, got in just wire, The title holder is us advantageously as any of Q-odd golfers whone qualifying | popular with |#6ores were lower than hiv; more 80, R steel ne | Perhaps, for he got some bad golf— jan §2—out of his system on Monday and showed he could come back. Another American entered tho chosen field that will start play for the open title tomorrow, when the golf committee revised the score of Frank Clarke, of Asheville, N. C., n the head of t f he had kept him m instead of stay two years he t danger tid not make any new friends when he lost the championship. Perhaps he doesn't care, because he doesn't depend on that element. “Why didn't he give some Amert- can boy a chance for that title? He| knew he was going to lose,” one of |. 1s been reported to have turn: en we eee oe 1 in a card of 184. Clarke's scoro In As bad ais he looked (6 be, Kitbane | © lost his title against |now given as 159, which pute him os t Y American contenders. | “™On® ee There is no American featherweight | as good and ag strong at the weight | With « foreigner when he might have “viqui | known that he was going to lose. ane, no doubt, will never de-| He could have picked no worthier himself for matching himself|“nd more deserving successor than Eugene Criqui. There {ant an Amer lean fighter in any division who has a war record like Criqui The for his country and the only thing that can be pointed out in the rec ords of most of the American “fight had the chance to do some real fight Ing. Criqui has the chance to make a fortune, weight champion, and it ts only to be hoped that Eugene Criqui can make twice as much as his predeces sor. He deserves it Jack Kearns and Dan MoeKetrick are the American representatives of the Frenchman, and it is a cinch that | he will be placed in the position of ties, Kearns ts the smartest mana- ger in the business and McKetrick isn’t far behind him, Criqui was forced into an agree ment to fight Johnny Dundee before {he won his fight with Kilbane, but from Dundee. Johray is well along, he isn’t what he used to be and he doesn’t like making weight Outside of Dundee, the American featherweights aren't much Kilbane, ax a champion, was al ways a business man, and he went down as one, There was little sen- timent in him, accepted it in a business-like fashion and remarked “Aw, what the hell!" GOLF PRO GOES One-T hird of Your Life —is spent in your office. Why not choose it as Frank Peebles, widely known Los Angeles professional, ha: epted a you would. position, ‘with, the Lake Placer, N choose a Y, Golf and Country ‘club. He home? leaves Tuesday for his néw position, GET INTO A |RICKARD GETS GROWING BUSINESS DISTRICT. HAVE OFFICE NEIGHBORS OF RECOG- ; NIZED BUSI- much yivdent he re NESS STAND- See Our Specialist AND GET WELL ALL ACUTE AND CHRONIC DISEASES LATED ADVICK FREE LINCOLN MEMORIAL Metropolitan sin LINIC Building “ippesite ‘the P.O. Company Tex Rickard, New York fight pro: moter, had 10 big championship fights slated for this summer, but so far he has been able to cinch only one of them. He complains that the boxers are asking for too RENTAL OFFICE: 1301 4th Ave. DIAGNOSIS 718 Senhoard Midge. | Frenchman can boast of what he did} ca is what they didn’t do when they | Kilbane did as the feather: | making the most of his opportuni. | the Frenchman hasn't much to fear| and when ke lost, he} TO LAKE PLACER) BUT ONE SCRAP) Electronic Reactions of Abrams DR. T. J. APPLETON English heavyweight, doubled Mont. | | Report Says ‘Champ Was Knocked Out Lo ANGELES, Cat, June 13 Walter Miller, wrestling in: tor of Por Dem the hand. Kid’ New York colored heavy said the information was him by Mayor Jim Johnson Mont. Jo #0 #ald, given of Shelby, ccoming to Mi had been having a good timo, mi had been train! The knockout, accorting to Joh son, via Miller, 6 God frey surp tock In the chin. Dempsey went to the floor and was grogsy a| full minute before his trainer could | get him on his feet and take him| out of the rin nsOn & that Demprey than he when nm with a LOS ANGELES, June 13 [Friends of Jack Dempsey today| jvolced their disbelief of a story re-| lated here by Walter Miller, wrest- |ling Instructor of the Los Angeles Athletic club, that "Kid" Godfrey, | Inegro heavyweight, knocked out! |Jack Dempsey recently during t Ing for his fight with Tommy bons at Shelby; Mont. Miller said Jim Johnson, Shelby, told him story their meeting in Portland, Ore., week Mike Collins, mayor of upon last | promoter of the match, who was with Johnaon,| neither affirmed nor denied John: | son's story, according to Miller. | Frank Crowley, ex-lightweight, now matchmaker for a tocal fight} jclub and warm personal friend of | Dempsey, said “It's possible that Jack did run |into one which momentarily stopped | him, but that is, nothing to his dis credit if it fx #0. He is only human. ig seen fighters in the ring lose| ja fight by one punch after having an opponent whipped for 20 rounds.” Others seem to think the story | unfair to Dempsey, as well as tena. | ing to dismay his backers who might | believe the champion has less than an even chance with Gibbons as the [result of the stor; |BERT COLIMA. TO | FIGHT TONIGHT} Bert Colima hag been a busy lad this week. He beat Frank Farmer in Vernon Tuesday night and Thursday night he is billed to meet | Sailor Larry, a colored boxer, in a | Ventura, binah hn eee, show. JIM JOLLEY TO BLOOMINGTON Jim Jolley ber of the club. He has left to join |Bloomington team in the Three-I league. The Tigers retain an option to recall him in the fall | feist | SAN FRA jor# from the P rd at Vernon the 'O, June 13.—Sall ific fleet filled the | Dreamland rink last | Sailor Etsell and Sailor Os fought a snappy draw, and |Patty MeNuity, former bantam | Weight champion of the Atlantic fleet, trimmed Sailor Ferna night. | welt \|Which Would You Do in | This Case? GAN FRANCISCO, Juns 138. 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