The evening world. Newspaper, March 3, 1921, Page 18

| From London for Dempsey- Carpentier Battie. ONDON, England, is again in the field for the Dempsey-Carpen- _ tier fight. Sounds strange, it, after the recent withdrawal ‘Charles Cochran, the London pro- who originalty associated bim- with Tex Rickard ‘in offering the $600,000 when the match was But these be strange times and anything may be looked for in out of pugilistic circles. The latest from across the pond comes from MeDonald of the London to @ cablegram + According ts received by Rickard, McDonald give $750,000 for the match and ‘throw in the moving picture rights. ‘McDonald is well known in this as a shrewd student of box~ aac in Gneland & hi are as there the world over, and it is possible has corralled 3 i : Sif iy ta of the Ama- Athletic Union in its efforts amateur boxing. ittan, State cham- hips, and inter- tournaments held under our Cg sect agg See ‘Gar- December havé been T © proven The general interest is reflected in the in- in amateu i Clouds. { ss We WENT wwe Feelings While Sailing at Fast Speed High Above the By Thornton Fisher. HROUGH a roaring biast of wind blowing against our uncovered heads with irre- sistible force, Bert Acosta, noted pilot, and I navigated the ozone yesterday afternoon, racing at the pace-killing speed of 160 miles an hour. No cloud of dust marked the trail of the flying ship, each strut and wire pulsating with the throb of the powerful 2%5-horse- power 8. P. A. motor. Only a thin smoke stream followed in the wako, of the rushing plane as it sped like an arrow to its mark. Huddied low in the observer's seat for protection from the heavy wind, which at times threatened to tear the goggles from my face, I watched th orama beldw go careening by tike a dish of scenic succotash.” The first thrill was the “take off.” “Giving her the gun,” Acosta raised the tail of the machine a: it acquired momentum until suddenly left the ground like ky rocket, Up and up we climbed the rate of over a thousand feet a minute, our shoes being almost in a direct line with our eyes. We were fairly flat on our backs in the ‘Thrill! Boy, tell it was. Imé@gine the ing roar of the motor pounding the sensitive ears, while the wind like an tnyisible band Strikes Bowlin ment which will open April 2 instead lof March 29, as prevjously announced. ‘The change was made at the request lof the committee that has the tourna- ment in charge so as to avoid @ con- flicting date with another tournament | that is now In full swing at the White World headpin bowling tournament | has been bowlers carried off firut honors. Entry fraternal bodies all over Greater New| York, and the outlook is for a record) breaking entry, In case an entry! biank and a circular fail to reach you, within the next few days write to: Joseph Thum, No. 11 Broadway, dered in the interest of amateur | sport, Tam | Yours very truly, | FREDERICK W, RUBIEN, President. | [7° sport world in point of years | spent in continuous competition jin bleyole races, will have a big job on his hands at the Garden Saturday when be will attempt to uphold the honor of America in an international championship sprint against Italy, Rumsla and Germany as represented reepectively by Orlando Plant, Abe Kautman and Walter Rutt. This and other races are preliminaries to the |mix day event which begins Sunday night. Kramer has delivered before. Let's hope he is not too old to re- R HUGG 150 MILES AN HOUR! Copyright, 1921, by The Preas Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). GOING 24 MI ; |iEvening ‘World Artist Describes| will medal, ; up Slike a SkYROCKET IN =~" JHE SPEED DENON SV-A zt SENSATIONS OF AERO RIDE LES A MINUT pushes your head back against the cushion. The only relief is to keep your “top” down, Instead of com- ing up for air you go down. Friends on the ground wave to you, and in response you try to put out your hand only to find it in the grip of an element that is doing its derndest to pull it off. You take out your camera and put it back ‘again. Around you go, first on one wing then on the other. Nothing means much in your young life except to pray that the pilot will not let his mind wander from the subject. However, a re- reassuring smile from bim restores your cournge and you begin to like it, The speed is intoxicating, and the poor, insignificant tribulations of the toy world below cease to annoy you. The mundane sphere, 3,000 yards under your feet, i¢ a pitiful thing after all, In fact, you detest the idea of coming down: Finally, in a graceful sweep, you find yourself descending with a speed that seems to send your vertebrae through your hat. Like an elevator, only different, You have been travelling 150 miles an hour in the fastest two-seated plane in the country. It takes extreme skill to handle these speed ships. Two of the most expert flyers in America are driving (hese air racers, They are Lieut, Lloyd Bertoud, former in- structor of acrobatics in the army, and Bert Acosta, who was a noted civilian fiyer during the war, Sitting behind elther of these two veterans of the air the most adventurous are sure of a tew thrills that come to few in a lifetime, At last L have had a rea! sensation. One hundred and fifty miles an hour! Bring on the next “hair-raiser.” and Spares ERB, are’some interesting tacte New York, and you will recelve them by return’ miall. concerning The Evening World| *¥,(reiare tho conditions that are te headpin championship tourna) eovern the contest: The tournament is open to all b..wi- ers in Greater New York and viciniiy, ‘There is no restriction to the number of teams which a club, business house or fraternal order may enter. Each member of the team making the highest score in the tournament receive a fourteen karat gold A bowler making a score of | Elephont alleys where The Hvening 115 or more will be presented with a bowler rolled since it was organized rolling a score of 100 or over will 16- 5 the Igonquin | clive a sterling silver medal. tn 1908, when grock Algonquin °°No entry fee will be charged the ‘Dianks are belng mailed to bowler for participating. the only bowling clube, business houses and|charge being 20 cents per man for i4-karat gold medal. Each bowling. acGrmnis, Value. Qikaate, Ragnar er are to ae fhaten sortie ‘et Louis Mlala's Brosdwey’ Arcede.al- love this evening, st. § o'clock? to. decide ‘an old [ fitme ‘Giepute as io ‘whch tecm. te the betice,” i fatoes Will be ralied, tote) Sina to ‘oune Albany ‘ween women bowlers from thet city and the contoat tan tolled at ie Sopchinan aiheps “aera an allers, aura Street and reas be. auras: “Sibu a "Br. Now "Yort—fis" fea, Charter, Trucks of Phils match RANK KRAMBIR, veteran of the | pune with il ‘ara Aton yeaa In Vtladslphie. Tent ‘a. total was reload tbe winter by « cousortabie = _ SHREVEPORT SELECTIONS. Firat Race—Litle Niece, Haj ba cee Do: He (ooo co Roma, Nicklondon. — Third. Raco—Thunderbird, Dal- wood, Galway. Whourth Rave—Corydon, Lad, Capt. urna, FifthRace—Clean Up, Tige 5 Plain Bilt, % dees Bixth Reco-—Coekroach, Willigan, King. COMING DOWN - SOMETHIN © LIKE ONE MiéHT FEEL IF SOME- BOW SUDDENLY REHOVED THE FLOOR OF THE DLE VATOR- ONIN FASTER. INS HAS ALREADY DECIDED ON HI By Thornton ‘Fisher| A oO > FROM OUR VIEW IN THE SHIP IT LOokeD AS THOUGH SOME ONE HAD GALLED UP THE WORLD GELOW US WHOLE Arrangements All Complete for Schoolboy Races Ail arrangements have been com- pleted for the intercity schoolboy skating championships between New York and Chicago Saturday afternoon at the Brooklyn Ice Palace. Both teams have been selected and great excitement prevails throughout the entire school system of Greater New York as. it awaits the outcome of the races. ° ‘The New York team has been pre- paring for the past four weeks under the watchful eye of. the chief coach, ‘Tom Howard, famous Canadian hockey player.’ He has been assisted in this work by Tom Moore, Bobby Hearn, Robert Potts, Don Baker and Charlie Jakob. They have do! all that wes physically possible to fit these boys for the contests, They have brought them to “edge,” and now their greatest concern will be to keep them in this condition until they are called to their marks on Saturday. The boys are confident and fully anticipate the severe physi- cal test which they will be pul to during the contest and are now look- ing forward to Saturday with much encouragement, The Ohicago team will arrive in New York on Friday at 10 A: M. They will bo met by 6,000 high and elementary school boys and will be paraded wp Park Avenue to 60th Street, and then south on the ave- nue to be reviewed from the Board of Education Building by Mayor Hylan, Anning 8, Prall, President of the Board of Education; Dr. William L. Mttinger, City Superintendent of Schools, and the District Superin- tendents. The Fire Department Band will furnish the music. The afternoon will be given over to sightseeing for the Ohicago team and in the evening they will be entertained at the Hip- podrome. On Saturday morning they will try out at the Ice Palace and then go out on a sightseeing tour prior to the contest. * are no lightweights worth mention- Talked-Of English Trip Wouldn’t Add Anything « To Leonard’s Bankroll o haven't heard yet when Leonard Enough Punching Bags for Lightweight Champion on This Side. nea e By Robert Edgren. ENNY LEONARD doesn’t need a trip to England to get the money. He might go over and take on a couple of bouts in London and come home in debt. After the English taxes had been collected from Benny and then our Government had used the two-handed axe on his in- come, Benny would owe himself money, Besides, whom could he fight in England except Johnny Basham, who is welter champion over there when Kid Lewis is out of town? Ther ing. As for Basham, he's referred to in England as the "crack welter weight.” It's a mistake. He isn't a crack welter—he's a cracked welter, On the 1th of November last Ted Lew cracked him, Lewis bashed Basham in mineteen rounds and the referee counted a thousand. It wouldn’t ada | reputation to go over and Basham, He can find dozens o punching bags on this side if he |’, wants to, But perhaps Benny wants to meet the Prince of Wales. Safety Is Always Tempting. Hear a lot about Lew Tendisr's touching anxiety to get a chance to fight Leonard for the Mght- weight title. Also @ jot about what Lewis could do to Ben. But Bantam Champion Joe Lynch Is Matched | They Will Meet at Cleveland |» on March 10—Other | » News of Boxers. ; By John Pollock. Joe Lynch, bantamweight qyam- pion, will go against another one of the contenders for hie title at Cleve- | land, O., on the night of March 10./ ‘The lad he will take on in this go is) Joe Byrman of Chicago, one of the) best bantams in this country, They will clash in a ten-reund go, no de- cision, at the big roller skating rink in the above named city, According |to the articies signed by tne fighters, | Burman must weight in at 118 pounds at 3 P. M. on the day of the contest. This go is expected to break all at- tendance records for a bout in Cleve- land. ‘ Flora Wissimmons, the popular fight promoter of Benton Harbor, Mick, who bas ,braught ff fights at hie big open sit Arena between Houny Charley White and Jack Dempsey now trying to book ® maich Wookes Weneas, bar Kenss and Richie Kanws’s forfott of $500 ot Wisconsin may for si mouths for tweaking bis adeno sale for the (emendously Large, With Joe Burman: meet Johnny Wilson, the .niddisweight cham- plon, ip & ten-round bout at the Lig Auditoriaw At Milwaukee on March 28. Afullowen expects 1@ clinch the match, as the managers of the mem have practically sconpted bis terme, Tohany Shepperd, the crack fnglish lightweight, will make his fir appearance in New York to- ight against Matty Brooks before the Star Sport- tng Club, Shopperd has worked bard for this con- teat, 49 he ls anxious to make # showing before the New York fans im order to get ® return mateh with Beony Leonard before returniog to England. In the other twetve-rounder Manager MeMahon has ar- ranged for Johnny Hart, the crack middlowalgbt Harlem, to mest Steve Callaan. Red Allen is at weight for his twetwe-round bout with Al Norton, the up-State welterweight sensa- tien, at the Columbos Sporuing Club of Yonkers to-night, Young Britton end Jack Critz will ap- peer in the semi-final. } A” change hae been made in the main bout at the Pioneer Sporting Club on Saturday night Johnny Curtin, Jersey City's fighting Iriaeman, will box Bud Dempsey, instead of Marty Collins, for twelve rounds. In the other fen'uro bout, Oakey Keres, the Knockout King af the oam meet Jimmy O'Gatty of the weet rounds, for ten Phil Franchini, the “Brooklyn Flagh,"" hat placed himself under the management of Jobony Keren, Franchi} im bis last Deut knocked out Radic Anderson, He mys he would Ike nothing better than & bout with Midget Smith ou ® winner-take all bests, Philly fights Jimmy Tommasulo at the Pioneer on March 12, Willie J who is Wok at ule howe with aa attack of grip, & in great demeid from the out-of- | town ciubs who want him for figsts sinne bo de- | feated Jomony Dundee. A cub xt Columns, 0, wants him for March @1, ong at Cloveiand ts aftor him for April 4, aud tho Olympia A. A of Phila delpkia will book bim at any fime, If he in weil tm (wo weeks his manager, Wrink xy, will ac pt all three bouts, A match was arranged ‘ody betwom K. 0. Loushita, the welterwetght of South Bethlehem, and Johnny Gill of Harrisburg, Pa They will have bes tated spiral mpor- & ton-round bout at Marrsburg on Maret | in ought to be a siambang affair’ as cach ee ae eee eee Sone enemies eee = ere: see are wr Hm = 8 re} fused to fight Tendler. As a matter of fact, Tendier and Ja fair lightweight, ckson, and perhaps a few other are making o lot of money as alleged “contend- ers" for the lightweight champion- ship. -If they actually met Leon- ard bor trimmed. in a fifteen-round . decision they'd probably be well Aft ‘ard their draw- ut ing power would slump. It’s much safer wh If Benny wants action he might fight Charlie White again. 1 several letters from White. letterhead he assures the world that he came so near knocking Benny for took the united efforts of the whole Leonard training staff to heav on Benny to wake ten seconds limit. catch Leonard when he had been working in movies for two or three months and was a little soft, and did‘ knock hiv out of the ring and scare Billy Gibsoh half to death. CAME BACK AND KNOCKED OUT WHITE. a goal to remain a thout contending. “contender” last time that it Fac! <;_It was a good deal like the Leon- \ard-Ritchie Mitchell fight, \knocked Leonard down for a nin |count and Leonard knocked Mitchell anything to Leonard's already, fat that” two reste area 2. ard, and any one who can knocl cha next time mpion down may do it again, and seconds may the nine tretch to ten. For.my part, I'd rather see Leonard fight Mitchell or White than see him meet any of the bold laddybucks who | challenge him dally over the wire and demand all the gate money and a hock ticket on the promoter’s ban roll before they'll condescend to bi gin to discuss the possibility of think- ing about considering tentative terms for @ prospective match. Will Try for the British Titles. Chick Evans, present title holder. Francis Ouimet and Bob hampions; Bobby Jones, Reggie | Lewis, Nelson Whitney, and several | others are now named as members of | an American golf team to pl: the British amateur championship in Gardner and Ouimet tried to lift a few cups abroad, but} never got very far. Bobby Jones, the nineteen-year-old | golfer, who has been winning cham- pionships said by Harry Vardon and Walter ‘Travis youngster in America, bbie's form is the best he has seen | He thinks Bobble might upset some of the English champion: June, on this side. ‘The golf invasion of England this| confined entirely to Stirling, national aymmer won't the twenty-three champion, who has won the premier title three times, will also compete in’ A silp of a girl, shé plays| driving tar and taking turf with her irons like a pro- Miss Stirling is the daugh- ter of an Atlanta doctor, who is of Hence the goiting Miss Stirling trains for golf along original lines: To strengthen her hands and writ England. the fessional Scotch descent. | strain. Evans, ce he was fourteen, to be Women Will Play Abroad, Miss years Alexa old, maies. game like a man, 8 whe took course in carpentry, Polo Players Training Hard. ‘This year’s American polo team will have On his enough water up within the is, White did BENNY Mitchell ct remains round here {now have knocked Leonard down Gatdner, y in) be different from the team that lost the cup to England in 1914 outfit was overconfident and indiffer- ent and refused to train. Harry Payne Whitney had to take the team out on bis yacht to keep it from drinking too much ice water (oh the side) during) the last couple of days before the game. With new and younger players more attention is being paid training. Tommy Hitchoook and De¥ereux Mil- burn are practicing in England. Eari Hopping is working out at Coronado, Cal,, while other members and subs are training in Florida, ‘The Ameri- can ponies have been in England for months, and will be fully acclimated by June, when the international Tho '14) Return of Homerun Baker | Forces a Change in the New York Infield—Fewster May Be Used in Left Field. (fipecial to The Brening World) SHREVEPORT, La., March 3. IN the New York fana trek | their way into the Polo jas Grounds on April 13 to wit- ness the opening game of the Amer- jican League season they will find Wally Pipp on first, Aaron Ward at ‘|second pase, Roger Peckinpaugh, | short, and J. Franklin Baker at third base, | In the outfeld they will discover Bobby Roth, recently obtained from \the Washington Senators, the incom- ‘parable Babe Ruth in center field and either old Ping Bodie or young | Chick Fewster, the Baltimore boy, in jleft field. Behind the bat Wally | Sehang will be digging his spikes into Henry Fabian’s pet turf. Huggins told the writer yesterday |that he finally decided to play young \Mr. Ward at second base. ‘There was some question as to what Hug- na would do with Ward in case ker returned. The little manager said yesterday that Ward played wonderful ball for him at third base last year and believes that his fleld- ing about second base this year will be even better, for this is his original position. Bodie has a man size job on his hands to keap Fewster from breaking into the outfield, The Baltimore boy already is here, and during the ‘prac- tiee worked out at second base, Former Detroit Leader Sure a Smashing Attack Will Insure National League Ftag for New York. . SAN ANTONIO, Tex., March 3. UGHBY JENNINGS, Jess Bur- kett and Dick Kinsella led thirty-five eager ballplayers to the first day's practice of the New York Gjints’ training season at tha, San Abtonio Club's ball park this morning, and the 1921 battle is on in earnest. With the arrival of George Burns and Mike Gonzales, the Cuban catcher, from Havana this morning, less than half a dozen Giants are missing. All have been heard from except big Fred Toney, the 250-pound Tennessee hurler, who is usually late in reporting. There are no hold-outs; every man, from “rookie” to veteran, is imbued with the feeing that this is to be a Giant year, and there is a remarkable lot of “pep” and enthu- siasm on tap. It may wear off when the usual soreness after the first few ‘8 on the field comes around, ‘Hustle and hit,” are to be Jen- 2/nings’s watchwords this spring. me the fensive play and wishes to build up sweeping system of attack, the od “bing-bing-bing” style, which rattles out the and wins games before an opposfig pitcher has’ the chance to settle down. He has been given a great assistant in Jesse Burkett, who was a batting champion in his day 11 there is to know about There should be a fine race between Ross Young and Rogers Hornsby this year. Young weighs 176, and while he ‘will get some of it off Burkett believes the added weight will give the young- ster more power in his punch. Young hit .351 last year and was right on Hornaby'’s heels at the close of the year, after a bad start. Ty Cobb and his Tigers started work too. They are at Breckenridge | Park, which the city has turned over to them, or as much as they need of it, Ty's menagerie will play. the Giants on March 12 and 13, and the Texans are beginning to bet already. It would not be surprising if the Giants put through a deal with the Philadelphia club by which either Greasy” Neale or Casey Stengle | comes to the Giants, a catcher and an inflelder going in payment. body here wants to go to the Phillies, The men all want to stay with a winner. That's why they will fight hard and show their best. Frank Frisch is slightin over weight is S LINE-UP aron Ward Will Be Played at Second Base — By Yanks This Season * "Chick" would like to play in the tr field, but, of course, don’t mind doing, some outfield duty. He played im sev~ etal games in the outfield last yeat and with a little more experience might deyelop into a good fly chaserh Fewster does win the battle with Bodle for the outfield position, will be the lead-off n. This Huggins admitted yesterday. Either Roth or. Peck will bat second. Ruth will be” either third or the fourth batter’ -\ Huggins has not decided yet where Baker will bat, but the Tormer home, run king wil! hit either before or afier, the only Babe. Johnny Mitchell, the expensive young shortstop from the Vernon Club of the Pacific Coast League, blew into town yesterday morning. He was accompanied by Bill Piercy, the young pitcher who has been on the reserve list of the Yankees for sev~- eral years, and Nelson Hawkes, an- other youngster from California. Mitchel! did not arrive in time for morning practice. He worked out at seoond base Se the afternoon practice and flelded faultlessly every- thing that Huggins hit his way. There ia no doubt about Mitchell being « nifty flelder, but the big question {s, can he hit major league pitching. The Yankees were ready to indulge In some batting yesterday afternoon when rain fell and the session was called off. In the morning the young- sters had a lively workout, Fred Hoff- man doing a lot of catching and some infilelding. The young catcher also smashed a long drive over the left field fence. A lot of folks think that Hoffman is about ready. Anyhow, he will be a handy man for Huggins to have around in case Schang gets hurt. Nearly all the re- crults are here. Some are good and others will hardly win a place with an AA club. Tom Sheehan acts like a real pitcher, while Ferguson, Clif- ford and Doyle have shown plenty of speed, although neither one of the trio, has attempted to curve the bal! ‘There will be no curve ball pitching by the youngsters until Saturday. ‘Hustle and Hit,’’ Hugh Jennings’s Watchwords With Giants for 1921 but expects to be in playing shape tm a week. The “Flash” says he'll play second or third, wherever he’s put, but thinks “the pat corner” suits him aa well as any place. He says he'd Hke to show the fans he can improve even on his phenomenal showing of last year, 92-YEAR-OLD PLAYER CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY WITH ROUND OF GOLF PINEHURST, N, C., March 3—Dwight N. Clark of Woodbridge, Conn., dean of Pinenurat golfers, celebrated his nigety- second dirthdey by playing the nine-hole putting course in twenty strokes, includ- | ing four sees. A large number of his | friends attended a dinner given by the ‘Holly Inn in his honor last evening. Mr. * Clark, who was characterized by Walter Travis @ few years ago as the greatest golfer of his age fn the work, has been coming regularly to Pinehurst for nearly | twenty eeasons, His most remarkabi> | golfing feat, performed when he was ¢ eighty-four years old, was the playing of * 100 eighteen-hole rounds on 101 consecu- | tive week days. His best score in recent | years was a 45 for a nine-hole round, played at the age of elghty-eight AKE what | you have last twice as long by mixing it with Mouquin’s non alcoholic Italian Vermouth — the new vermouth with the old-time * flavor and blend. ° His Excellency Mouquin's Ginger Alle, has hat Frenchy taste” and Cy for what * AUS you.” Smoke our Cigares Boniface. ABeouquity Restaurant & Wine Co., ‘ 183 Privce St, N. ¥. Tel. Spring 5845, ! matches will be played. on ORL, ok, og Lodeaes Bian —