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Sport Talk Age and Athletes Women Golf Stars Wild’s Training BY PAUL R,. MALLON i t PS getting to be complin t tead of an insu tm c } an old OW i Since Jess Willard <a bt G b 4 by knocking out Floyd Job a for C Bee taser cr wes Benny an Draw Jess Willard, it seem Lightweight champion Ber be the of men in tho un 1 ard, who battles Alex H rising up against youth of Lorain, Ohio, tn a FF Just a few days » “tron || elwht rounds tn Philadelphia July Man” Joe MeGinnity « 9, is to receive 30 ber cat of spat a yard of s ag y aed k @ hotel cuspidor of Leonard, ture Bi and decided he would pitch a fou warantes of 32 for hit game and win from tt : claiming tha work Marshalitown club of the Mi pe ing on a percentage ores Leon 4 Valley league, 1 to 0 aS Sein gal draw more a It's been 20 years or more since the “Iron Man” was tho idol of New York fandom. They still talk about as him in the Bowery saloons and M l | Mention his sacred name in the al Ss oseés Same fragrant bres w Steve Brodie, But the young fans had to Tribe in tI Sei forgotten him y heard of him Gnly as some vague character who 2 @id more for baseball in New York d T lt Bef John McGraw and Christy| 5 4 Mathewson. The} thought surely bai Uy ATTY WALTE MAILS at retiring young fellow who he was dead McGinnity, it seems, is ma the Dubuque club in a minor * Yeague and still ts contributing his Share in the battle to establish the kiand, steppe day against the ayed tho eritire lost the game, 2 ng ball fo und ye lians, but ne innings, to 0 Mithnate supremacy of age over! ne big reason for losing the game youth. was Elmer Jay rack Seattle ‘Then, of course, Fred Merkle 's) twi 4 © Acorns only batting 472 in his first but thr a shut-out games in the International league on entirely BS Merkie—the same man who failed 0 touch second in a & t the Meant the world series some ye: » both by ago, but who touched every pitche ed. Brick d to ne than his the seasons. fifth inn jon Billy Orr’s sing! ed again in the eighth. Hoe tripled Ito * " i" right and galloped across after Reclavings, were, ebro ae red jYaryan’s long fly had been handled Merkie’s legs. But McGinnity has |>¥ Cather Jost none of his cunning, and Mer. |, OsXisnt skie has nothing wrong with his | coop batting eye. Ariett, Both were forced out company because they had up and were getting too old. eaean on There are dozens of men in the | Matis, p “smaller leagues who are conquering | the ‘inevitable depredations of age} ‘and can still walk up to the plate} Vane’ and sock a baseball as good as any- | Job one or curve them around the corners with the best. ore ERE are two women in the United States who are Going at a rate at present which should throw scare into the two British stars, Joyce Wethered and Cecil Leitch. They are Alexa Stir Ting. who recently won the metro. politan women’s championships, and Glenna Collett, the American cham- | pion. A match between the two nt "wouldn't be uninteresting, and a) p30" te | foursome with the British should bring down the house. eee WILDE brought the Eng: lish fashion of training over here | and: tried.it without much success om Pancho Villa up at the Polo Grounds. Wilde says he never has in sl Jong tarcer got down to the hard and scor dred count fn the league for more share of base hits many Long ago the steam went out | H. PO, A ° ese of fast slowed erase ston, 1b et Yaryan, rf... golfers 208 on bal Baldwin dase hit— in, Eldred. r, Yaryan, Becker : OPEN TOURNEY, TO START IN | Umpires. training practiced by every Amer:| FLAST MONDAY | can boxer. He never boxes much|/ 0 before his fights and avoids any pe nasional cham Strain of any kind. He walks a) ~ gia part on the In j tle, rides a bit and plays a lot Mad mon Jolt club course Eft gett, Monday afternoon ‘The little Welshman says he won| Some of the greatest 358 of his latest 400 fights by |“ the histo knockouts. If he had trained hard|"!° °tered In it would have weakened him, he pases The training method, towever, KALAMAZOO TO cannot be dismissed because Wilde GIVE $38,000 ‘Was knocked out. He certainly took! Owners and drivers who will com. Bs much punishment in seven| pete in the sixteenth annual meet Founds as man or beast ever stood ing of the nd Circult at Kala before. mazoo, Mict ly 16 2 Il see, The greatest argument. against|a share of th 100 to be offered the British training method ts events of the in the 20 the prog Mist of fighters they have developed |The prize money is the lar in recently. With the exception of!the history of jamazoo turf his Wilde, there is no one in the whole | tory. British empire who could seriously compete with those who have trained under the hard American, CRIQUI SAILS | system. ON AUGUST 2} Eugene Criqui, wor feath weight champion, will teturn to his native France on August re; “i. less of the outcome of the scrap on July the Polo Grounds with Johnny YALE-HARVARD ATHLETES SAIL STAR MELEE BOOKED FOR BROADWAY OUIE'S French Dry Cleaners and the Three Brothers Dye Works are going to play at Broadway play field Sunday at 12 noon instead of in Dundee. Rt South Park at 4 p. m. as pre-| Twenty athletes, stars of the Ya Viously announced. The change was | and F rd track and field teams, made at the request of the former |satied Wednesday for England club as they have several players | where, on July 21, they will meet Teaying the city in the afternoon. These clubs are playing the final game of The Star Junior Baseball series and its the deciding game of the series as both clubs have won & decision and a third gome was a te, | ‘The Cleaners will bo without the | services of Milo Manca. crack third | a combined Oxford-Ci in a dual meet. nbridge team | FIGHTS VILLA | sacker, who is out of the city. will fi Otherwise both their usual lineup JOHNNY JORDAN | IN DRAW BOUT) clubs in the have 14. SAN FRANCISCO, Jul John- ny Jordan, Tacoma lightweight, and | Jack Silver of San Francisco, boxe: d | four furious rounds to a draw here | Tast night. The same pair boxed a} torrid draw here a week ago. In| the semi-windup, Eddie Roberts of | Acoma knocked out “allor” smith |SAC TWIRLERS in the first round. | are Bit | | ARE LEFT HOME x ro SACCO WINNER bom a and Canfield, Sacra. |( Mee tapucn ‘i OVER JOE DUNN | | mento pitching stars, ¢ not with iF vi r rT the fi | jthe team on this trip, They have | Nooney replaced Magn Keine itn th E VANCOUVER, B. C., July 7—Jim- | |been left at home by Manager | col fe unable to stop the my Sac Boston lightweight, was |Charley Pick because Shea js suffer. | Unie f Eiwarded the decision over Joe Dunn | |tng from a sore arm that has both: |. Puy Seca it Portland in the 10 round bout ered him all season, and Canfield |colcrea dant Bites “here last night. It was a slow fight. | recently injured his portside wing Webb and Kelly; Moore, Mooney and Heinie Zimmerman, Winnipeg light heavyweight, won the call over Chuck Koeber of Everett. Johnny Mack bf Pittsburg won the decision | over Frankie Britt of Tacoma, ofot the ladder, leerday’s scores bring out leard of the day. BECKETT WILL THE SEATTLE STAR * z= PAIL TAYLOR LOOKS LIKE WINNER OF OPEN TOURNAMENT. Wietorian Shoots 71 in (OUR BOARDING HOUSE Saturday Morning Round 7 Totals 217, With 18 Holes Yet to Play; Clark Speirs in Second Place; Some Scores Are Yet to Be Heard From Saturday morning, Phil took the lead in attle Golf Shooting a remarkable 71 Taylor, Victoria, B. C., professional, the P. N. G. A. open tournament at the S club this morning with a total of 217 strokes, He has shot two 73's and a 71 in his three rounds. Taylor, who was tied with Clarke Speirs yesterday with 146, is now leading the field by five strokes, as Speirs took a 76 this morning. All of the Saturday scores were not in yet, The last 18 holes are being played this after- noen, The scores as turned in this morning follow: / TUB! - AN) HOUR SS | 4 q | \ SOME Noonan, 84; Dutra, 77; Taylor, 71; Nader, 79; Duffy, 75; Wall, 81; J. Junor, 81; Ayton, 79; Mogel, | 79; Huish, 80; /, Black, 80; Espinosa, y —"TZ 76; Hanley tein, 75; Brown, 77; Minch, 80; R. Smith, 86; Christian, 76; Henwood, 78; Willing, 76. see BY ALEX C, ROSE Coming with a burst of speed on the afternoon round of the opening day’s play for the Pacific Northwest open golf championship at the Seattle Golf club yesterday, Clark Speirs, the Inglewood crack, went into a tie with Phil T lor, the Victoria Golf club pro, for the low scoring hono for the 36 holes, each having a total of 146 strokes. Follow ing close on the leaders’ heels came Al Espinosa, the Ingle- wood pro, and the “old maste Chan Egan, each with 149; Bon Stein, the North End star, with 150, and Bill Hanley, the Waverly pro, with 151. Dave Black, the Vancouver pro- | fessional, who has held the title for the past two years, is} |ntill a dangerous contender as there } are only six strokes between him Pat i and the leaders when the field tees off on the final 3¢-hole journey to- day, and the same thing goes for several of the others who are crowd ing their way to tX@ topmost rung iiaandl s Scores SAY BUG- SNAP OUT OF YouUVE CRUISING W IT FoR | Now!» I've GOT A DATE “ToNIGHT AN! WOULD LIKE “To SHAKE HANDS Wit SOAP» C'MON, LET DOWN YOUR GAILS AN! PULL IN 10 SHORE, ~— c'MoN You WATER SOAKED LoG!. TLL BET YoU'RE AT TW’ WHALE ACT AGAIN OF | FLOUNDERING IN COLD WATER \ To COOL OFF!» WHY DON'T J, Guns «1 Jes’ Ru SHED THiS TUB \ YGET MRS. HOOPLE “0 PUT | ; THAT \| B IN YouR ROOM wrt | A MINUTE AGO !« sec,) \\ CASTERS ON Ir AN You WAIT YoUR “TURN = BEEN \F You GUYS Were FIREMEN, TH’ FIRST THING You'D MAKE FoR WwW A BURNING HOUSE WOULD BE 7H’ BATH “TUB! \\ WOULDAI*T NEED A NEA SERVICE With almost half of the 49 con: | Mill Haniey 1 jand Connolly remembered him. They i |teatants grouped together—each one | Dare Diack tt) T d ° M t H l U jmet at Shelby and Dan Kad some : e pod fighting co to win | Won Gpeneie Lp cigars in his pocket. Connolly ask- len «rnd “avng chance to win si dndtans Must Hold Up on Road to isi:.2%5 re ing to have a hard Ume deciding ' tf al. ya E t t L d ° F ° D * 6 «6 rie . fil two bits before he Serer i era's me ts oma (cee eae i Xpect to Land in First Division io? sad th ieaktdriants fn { EATTLE has proved to be a pretty fair home club this year, losing two series by Pao 2a ae Vs Lei fon dt cailan oe ysis ee the odd game, one to San Francisco four games to three and the other to Port- gate itt on ahs soae ae ps tae ; ic - i land by the me margin. The Indians overwhelmed Vernon, Los Angeles and Salt true bush league style radi ratied paces Lake and | nosed out Sacramento at home. They have split even with Oakland — in four; ‘he pretimi s were terrible, nid: Weak Cae fale grees games. Thisi s their record —— —————|and they wouldn't go into the ring, and on putting areas being Mawlens, for their home stands, Won | |which caused a lot of delays, And and he equaled the par of the co’ $1, lost 15. That’s good ld h t IT |the seconds didn't bring the gloves c eich boyy oa Ng Memes + enough to tein mat say Set} Announcement |/of OFUIUSTOM £8 sisi esse wait cor the This blond lad showed tp the re rant , ’ D, ¥. ‘Dugdale'n weekly” re. |semi- windup. ‘ cent proamateur meet at the Rein. jor Unks that he was an artis, in the art of golf shot-making and yea- the fact And yet the club ts 160 i 161 161 jiist.Ae:. fe not only = steady. per They have been cleaned up some-| ne week. This will give him ltormer, but a brilliant one. Sbine puimaalae tho opportunity of reviewing the ee me Aside from tying for low medal | jhing. scandalous ayay. from the|| games of the Sunday. preceding. TRBLEDON) Bass pay. “Wil ¥ ainier valley’ park, losing all but Nam M. Johnston, California ten- honors, Clark Speirs turned the bent a 71 made in the w a very f big mar afternoon journey. SALT LAKE IS from the Detroit headquarters ELINO FLORES MEETS BARRETT VICTOR, 5 TO 4 Los Lake ANGELES, scored a 6 Angeles to here A match has been made between Elino Flores, the Fipino light Hts) 4 11 1|Welght, and Bobt Borrett, the Gould, Myers, McCabe and Peters;|PoPular Philadelphia lightweight Hughes, Thomas and Baldwin, The scrap will be staged at the esline Dark in Philadelphia MEET GEORGEs | Mack Discards . Kid Williams, who has A —— 8; 8 | Beckett, the British hea N Ww S COMPAGNO BOXES | signed to fight Pancho Villa, |» has definitely uel. | , ECENG tars In l i ey. oe agpo,' Han eo} new flyweight champion of |tixht Georges Carpentior on duly 26,|| aimoriied hae sk ee Mihi n lacrosse this’ time, aT 4 meets ne = «cle a discarded by Connie Mack of the eAVONIA according to London ers. Beck 4 H Mickey O'Donnell of Martinez in the | the ct orld, 44 an dein round,| por aka 9 Pa in eens Philadelphia Athleticy, are still main event of the 1 Mateo |70-decision bout at Philadel-|, playing major league | smoker on Thursday nivh* + |phia July 30. t bayeball in y fit by that time ,the pape mut is prepared to do his best, | | ut other uniformy. Jican team in action, hovering | around the cellar because the Red. skins have been a bust on the road. ers in ngland ina series of games, One of the most picturesque player. ican team is V. K. Ross (right), an Indian chief, who plays in hi ing the feathered headdre View of baseball, which has been printed heretofore on Saturday, will be published In the future on Monday, beginning Monday of Cabin | nis star, | ship to his string here this afternoon 16 for his morning round, the lad ~ bs ae Cees . TOM GIBBONS when he easily defeated Francis T./a stunt. from the lakeshore course found the ot es as fan TALKS ABOUT | Hunter, another American, in the} Bir cone of population are green more to his liking on the $ , can Be aks - ne all-Eng. | Mcessary to draw the crowds wecond trip and beat the par of the : sags no Sern ePaetiou pose ce gine ig Preps aetna as a sad lesson for Shelby, Sere ty be eran A pion fe cmocruest,| DEMPSEY MIX|"* 07 “tte ana ay er was righ hin game, hi pry eo4 pars weet OO. PAU. 4a 2 + ant Winning the first set at love, “Lit town will ever attempt it. in the first round and a pe ga ree S Ms seed uly 7 ck | th @ Bill” had no serious opposition. | = ne |second, and the Inglewood pro w Sales att Dempsey isn't the man killer! rere were cheers when th¢| DEMPS have many supporters when he tees-| LL WIS WILL pa 1 read about. He's easy to felnt) American pair, Johnston and Hun-| DISTANCE off this beeriscnns = Asse fight i REFEREE IN Pesta’ : ene ae I: r singed mn the court and! qiere's no doubt’ but what Demp- be un or close te the there een: the ) more tomorrow “Alta: cn on | Seecgta caaynd Gettilantiy in ing [ant Caen Eee mney, Jenths: OF ae f agenda rsh 1 Sasa npgtage | cohoston played brilliantly in the/tance in the ring as he was fresh \ ty oe BIG BATTLE ‘wc: ri agg an ey ace aes‘ acetate tot sl DeRInE ohn teat ih an match will) ATEW YORK) Ju 1, | fore hitt h lot once more Rear 8 eee broke | ee age ie oer kl 15th round. There was some doubt | ; us he would set “me back so that) fathom the shifty play of his OP-/ a, to whether he could last a long h\ Araw the largest ¢: Th t seems “ Law 8 of New York w yemy could jump in and bat) ponent, and was bewildered. |nent thru, but he showed he could ot ie he atc, Many |i, Wiles fet fe | SOLONS DEFEAT. |= | tore nn took the crcond act eualy| "72 Gibbon as ing national champion. | Was announced Friday by Tex R ck SLUGGING SEALS , a t bi amr in Til be at 6-3 See nips, he was con the finest |ard, promot SAN FRANCISCO, July 7 xe th he Hameiaies aheot is! Johnston's wizardry enabled him golfer in the country, not because| Jim Jeffries hea BaRthititter July Fouth= teeouna Pepin rd |to outclass his opponent. He cov he was a champion, but because | cham 7" named ae ale pea itstecnsg ert cae gah ne ed court with ease, sometimes | he had the grace and rhythm that eree 8 disqualified by t a hares Fe rol "Bheby, got nding still and returning Hun model golfer. He still retains th he hah not been resident Wranciaco Ol his peti Sith nis shasta = rom hurried expertnese. Hunter was} sac ; distinction in the jon of local/state for three years, ariniér Gear o rachel be 1AGb6 pare tw spectacular, but Johnston was math. NATIONAL bs sib fans who had the pkasure—and it ve sey law ney and Ylle eae E, eee ne TADS 28) ematically. & ate at all times. New York. Sept is a pleasure—of watching him at je stepped from a Great saharag A Mile. Lengien and Miss Elizabeth |piespure 243 |the North End links, yebterday. ‘Tho rnin Wee hive train |Ryan defeated Misses Austin and |Cincinnati +40 4 etice ‘with oracGa: toy, andl *"GOOD SLUG e + Ota ee Klir TREMALN ON CARD Eas vasublel, "Wa. 61." es the Chicas gether with Espinosa today, and it ¢ ookline, EMAIN ON 0! women's doubles, 6 St. Li should be a great battle. Wye ecleiiea 8 IGGER ata , Hae been elected n of] Pete Zi Pittsburg — batt Lycett and Godfrey then won the Beeton 2 wrens Dr. 0. F. Willing, the Walker cup|Waner, the Senle outfielder, js alfor nes nive ty baseball team |meets Carl emaine of Clk = doubles championship by de | 5 Jsensation, talfed’ to atitke. hls. (rue |iucky hitter” remarkel a vidyes on leo ew © is also n foot-|in @ ten-ound scrap ut Pittsburg |feating Count DeGomar and. Fla; ; |form, finishing well down the ligt, |the Sacramento club the other day | ———— Lets Quer, 6-3, 6-4, 3-6 and 6-3. |omhe. peanee ? re 3 di | or nes postponed; rain, but be will be a tough man tolin the South. “If a fellow beat by the time play starts in the | along afew games ond hits wa Amnee ateur event next Mo | ab the natural gait, then New York Several of the leading lights from | slumps, it is all right to « he was Southern California arrived late yes. |lucky, but T haven't n Waner oulcages terday afternoon and got in a little | slumping as yet. The more he | Detroit pract ter the open field got un-|Plays, the harder he hits, He's St. Louie. der wa; Willie Hunter, the former | lucky; rather, I'd he a peren ur . a8 Sritish amateur champion, did not | hitter. | epme North h the Californian: Ling _ ESULTS and it is very doubttw: it he will/ TY COBB WILL Cievecad etwnatee ta compete in the tournament Dr. } Other games Ls Paul Hunter, however, is in. our TRAD Bae EE Tay tor vt | Sap Seat oa ee racer fons, ieibes links stats from down South the Detroit Americans, is about to Ben Fpanceoe: 55% League club, according to a | The Syracuse university team soundly defeated the Oaford play- on tne Amer« native game while wear- 88 of his Wibal rank, Picture at the left shows part of the Amer- Easy Vitor 2 in England sath: Sin added another champion-| SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1928 eedien Go for Title Cinch Now Gibbons Will Make Stake on Next Fight, as He Can Demand Purse BY LEO H. LASSEN iyosaee GIBBONS, has more chance of beating Jack Dempmey than Charlie Chaplin has of becom- ing kin of England, but just the same Gibbons will make a mint of no dough out of his defensive fight ainst Dempsey In Shelby. \ bbons held on for dear hfe, made no real effort to win and at times even ran away from Demp- ey, but he stuck the 15 rounds, something nobody else has heen able to do, And Den couldn't knock him off of his fe The St. Paul man ts in the 1 light now. He didn’t get any momey from the Shelby fight, but he is jalmost a einch for a return match wit Dempsey soon and when they do f t he can demané a big p * on the strength of his Montana showing and he'll get it “ONE- EYED" CONNOLLY Is MOOCHER rone wanders 4” Connolly, the bug who claims never to 1 to nee a big fight, is just 4 moocher. He got in for nothing at Shelby because he worked for the promoters, helping them in the Arena building by packing lumber, and on the day of the fight he was | walking up and down the main drag |yelling for the fans to beware of counterfeit tickets. He ran into a snag in Dan Salt Wednesday, however. Salt had em- ployed him here a couple of years ago in setting up seats at the Arena local promoters put over ragged until their cami: smoked, NS PU ‘TTING jON BIG FIGHTS THRU Heavyweight championships these days envolve big business, Shelby will probably be the last not the small towns to attempt such Lon Angeles Salt Lake Vernon... Seattle Vakland RESUL Seattle 2, Oakland 0, Salt Lake 5, Los Angeles ‘ Sacramento 6 Portland-V INCE TO RACE HIS SCHOONER Thomas H. Ince, nfotio ure produver, has entered hi §0-foot schooner Edris in the Santa Bare bara to Honolulu race, which is to start July 21 as part ofthe South: ern Californian Yachtihg association’s annual regatta, ' Pacific Coast League | Ball Park eae © your sent mi