The evening world. Newspaper, March 10, 1921, Page 22

Official Da Se nounced To-Day. | HE racing dates for the coming! season on the metropolitan! tracks will be announced to- ) diy by The Jockey Citd. Several * have been made already on the probable cpening day's date, but “MMi are very likely to prove wrong. which have been printed Mipke the curtain raising on May 7, VUE there is nothing certain or offi-! iM about this. May » is more like- ly to be the “big day.” May 7 falls on Saturday and the yth is on Monday. _ Last year the season, began on May | doth, and the Jamaica meeting was’ f Hit in two with the opening at Bel- ‘ bet sandwiched in between. This @ar the Jamaica Association would ie to have a straightaway méeting no interruption for Belmont S<.% ‘This of course is for The Jockey | Club to decide to-day, if, indeed, it (asn'tiready decided. ‘If Jamaica begins on May 7 the meeting will run ‘iy Seven days, and that of Belmont | ‘Will follow. If, on the other hand, the | pests is put back to Monday, or| 9, Jamaica will probably be al- mtted continuous dates. 4 3 ‘4 t b 4 N uninterrupted meeting at Ja:| maica would be more satisfac- tory to both the public and! ‘Borsemen. It would afford the former | jee to get 2 line on the candi- for the importu..; stakes which @lways a part of the spring Meeting at Belmont, and would fur- ih trainers a chance to get races e horses ica. The always important politan Handicap followed so) and no other than business rea- ‘The Jockey Club should grant! ; continuous dates. With the d value in purses, as has announced, the meeting would the best of horses and, as said the public would merean surty > Tread unity of separating th: ee} the goats before Belmont ‘8 open- HE sponsor of the bill at Albany to extract a 12 per cent. tax from the race track receipts have been sorely disappointing, nobody representing the racing ‘Interest appeared -at the hearing in The Jockey Club probably the measure as being too fo meric cathy oy Dil loons Wb Meow ve blades created to regulate some other ‘8 business with no attempt at Hg whith would be of mutual to thd State and to racing. tracks ave paying 5 per cent. tax a8 is boxing, in addition to the ‘tax, but it never occurs to our tors to inquire how beneficial State's treasury a similar tax ball receipts would prov on racing and exclude Gcher sport which is equally if not popular, particularly when haa its hands full making ends ‘s neet after many long and lean years? q bo — « ICKS and kicks flow into our * sporting department. Many are| trivial and others are real and legitimate. R. Owens, who writes us B , i one of our readers ~7ho has reason to register a squawk. his complaint: He went to the A. C. the other night, as he the date, at 7.45 P. M., to get Seat for the boxing bouts. When’ get to the wondow he was told more $1 seats.” Just as the box him, one of the club's: officers came up and got ten Seats and went around on the} palling them for $1.50. Quoting 7 “I saw two special officers to the same window four I was refused @ $1 seat and got hands full, to sell them to the x Mecanaeny dnvectiante 2a sxe see the offense tsn't repeated. BOXING club has been organ- ized in Brooklyn which, if Present plans go through, will) memories of the days of Coney it ites for Coming Rao-| ing Season Will Be An- | | “rmek" we SCRE JME ATTACK On BUFFALO 13 Teams From This City Bowl In Buffalo Meet At % o'clock this evening at the Broadway Auditorium, Suffalo, thir- teen teams of expert tenpin artists from this city will start bowling in the twenty-first annual bowling tour- nament of the American Bowling Congress, America’s classic, and at 10.16 the Knights of Columbus five are to take up ithe running. Charley Lieder, who will captain the Recrea- ion Selects of Brooklyn, is of the cpinion that he has an excellent chance of copping first money, which amounts to considerable this year, as the purse for which the bowlers ‘are rolling totals $44,000. F. ‘Trench of the Westinghouse E. and M. Co. five, is mighty sweet on the chances of hig quintet, who. hail from Newark, N. J., to land welt up among the prize winners. Then there are Lee R. Johns, of the Hudsons ot Hoboken, N. J., the team that wou last year’s Metropolitan; Jimmie Wi)- son of the Saginaws, F. W. Reynolds of the Inter-City, Jimmy Senatore of the University, George Jarrett of the Spartan No. 1 team, J. H. Mad den of the Metropolitan, M. Ros berg of the University No. 2, Joe Thum of the Spartan No. 2, Billy Amann of the Fidella, former A. B. C. champions; A. V. Dunbar of the Standard Bight, and William Valen- tine of the Mohawks, all of whom think mighty well of the chances of the te hat are under their con- sie doubles and singles will be rolled to-morrow, so should the New Yorkers fail to grab off any of the top prizes in the five-men event they are apt to go out and land well up among the winners in these events. While in Buffalo some of the stars wil) roll match games with the best bowlers of the West. Joe Falcaro, who will represent the Bronx Park Casino alleys in the coming Bastern Individual Championship, has an- nounced that he is open to meet all comers during his stay in Buffalo. He should have no trouble in ar- ranging matches. Three twelve-round bouts will be contested at the boxing show of the Central Manhattan Sporting Club at Manhattan Casino, 155th Street and Eighth Avenue, to-night. In_ the feature bout Kid Norfolk will go against Pinky Lewis, both oolored heavyweights. They recently fought at Madison Square Garden, but Ref- eree Louis White disqualified Lewis in the second round for disobeying the rules. In the other two bouts Battling Levinsky meets Homer Smith of Kal- amazoo, Mich., cd Jack Wolfe of Cleveland battles Frankie Daly of Staten Isiand, ‘Tee opening boxing show of the National Sport- ing Club, which is located at Halph Avenue and Chaunoey Sucet, Brooklyn, will be beld to-night, ‘rere will be three main bows of ten rounds and © special aix-round contest, In the windup Fraakie Fay va Charile Goodman, “Weo Wee" a t ts beck in town again. Hartley, the » Frank Bagley, that the ‘has done him s lot of good and it als helped et mronger, He expects ‘Durable up by Herman Taylor of the main go of elgut "ae Yanks Further Advanced Manager Huggins and Lieuten- ants Pleased by Way Team Is Rounding Into Form. (Special to The Brening World.) SHREVHPORT, March 10. ‘HE temperature here was still somewhat below normal this morning, but Miller Huggins led the Yanks to Gasser Park early to make up for the time lost yester- day. After taking his men to the park yesterday morning the Yankee leader found that practice was im- possible on account of the muddy condition of parts of the field. The afternoon drill yesterday was limited to a light batting and field- ing session, during which Babe Ruth knocked four balls out of the park The “Rupperts” and the “Hustons’ forewent their usual practice game yesterday on account of the weather, but locked horns this afternoon soon after the start of the post-matinee practice, The fans here still flock to the ball park by hundreds to see Babe in action. He gives them the greatest satisfaction at all times, Like baseball followers in American League cities, they enjoy only two things the Babe does, to strike out or to knock the ball over the fence. The insatiable among them are smacking their lips in anticipation of watching some unknown Shreveport hurler jump into far-flung prominence by NS Jimmy Duffy, the west side lightwelght, will moot Al. MoRae in the main event of fifteen rounds at te Ridgewood Grove Sporting Club of Brooklyn on Saturday night, Duffy takes the place of Kiddie Wallace, who eskat that be be released from the go on account of nt boing in the best of shape. Billy Shine of New Bruns- Wick meets Willie ‘Thompson in the semi-final of ten round, to meet Al Shubert, the voteran fighter of New Bed- ford, Mim, in Boston,” has bem compelled to call off the contest aa he injured bis hand tadiy in his recent bout with Freddie Jedi, the Englishman, in Harlem, punches in the other, Charlle Dossserick bas clgned Oakey Keyes and Jimmy O'Gatty for © retum match at the Ploneer Club on Marck 18. This pair met recently, Keyes belng counted out in the first round. He claimed evenly matched local figitem, ‘Three ton-round bouls are on the card for # Than at This Time in 1920 fanning the Yankee slugger Saturday or Sunday. Miller Huggins and his coaches and trainers are quite well satisfied with the condition of their men and with the ability of several of the young- sters. Huggins and his lieutenants are unanimous in their opinion that the team is much further advanced along the road to perfection than at a relative time last year. BANCROFT IS STRONGER; FRISCH A STREAK, AND RAPP IS GOOD. (Hpecial to The Brening World.) SAN ANTONIO, Tex., March 10.— The Giants’ managerial staff held a short seasion of praise, thanksgiving and jollification after the Giants had put through another double-ended session of intensive practice in red hot mid-July weather yesterday afternoon. The occasion for the rejoicing was the continued improvement in the phyaical condition of Dave Bancroft, resulting in quite a bit of work in the inner defense yesterday afternoon, the sensational way in which Frisch has adapted himself to conditions at second base, and the quickness with which “Goldie” Rapp {9 picking up big league ways. If this infield trio shows the im- provement in the next nine days they have in the last titres, the Giants feel that they can leave here on the trip North, afraid of nothing the National or American League can produce. ‘That takes in the Cleveland cham- pions too, for the Giants will meet them on March 19 and 20 at Dallas in the first two games after breaking camp. Bancroft is getting stronger, al- though he still goes easily in his fielding work. He does a good deal of hitting practice in order to find his eye, as the players say, but doesn't exert himself in throwing. It is just the other way with Rapp and Frisch. ‘They are tireless, and are lining the ball across to Kelly just as they will have to do in April and May. saeeieaieeeie CHAMPION DODGERS ALREADY IN FORM FOR PENNANT RACE. (Special to The Brening World.) NEW ORLEANS, March 10.—The present condition of the Robins brings back memories of last year when the National League champions met the New York Yankees in sixteen exhibi- tion games, of which number they won ten, Robbie's athletes, or rather the players now in camp, are in splendid shape and are anxtously awaiting the games with the New Orleans Club, which are scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, and the contests with the St. Louis Browns on Tuesday and Wednesday. A striking example of the Dodgers’ condition is the pitching ability of Al Mammaux. Al was called upon to do some pitching in yesterday's game be- tween the regulars and the rookies. The Dodgers had only been here but three days, but Mammaux was able to send many ourves across the plate. Mammaux, however, was not the enly pitcher to show mid-season form. Caddy Cadore, who is accompanied by his wife, was also able to curve the pamiag vight. Phillie Lewis of Newark ve, Kiddy er, Loudon Ww, Doy nan ‘Saith' ve, Jobuay Kline,’ All six of Watters have deeb “aaproring in thelr boxing. ball, and occasionally Young Sam Post, who held the rookies scoreless for three innings, bewildered the am- bitious recruits with his benders, Jeft Pfeiffer is in such good condi- tion that it is a safe work D he wag read: ‘against to plod, posed ‘chee! “trim, Beat THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, MAROH 10, 1921 Touches to ——— Smith Completely Knocked Out by Young Staten Is- lander in Tenth Round. By Robert Boyd. HE “Gunner” is finished. ale This might have been writ- ten in all truthfulness a year ago, but Al Roberts, the phlegmatic, lumbering heavyweight from Staten ‘Island, put the final touches to Gun- boat Smith's career fifty seconds after the tenth round in their twelve round battle at the Commonwealth Sporting Club. ‘There was a touch of pathos to the scene at the end of what had been ‘an interesting fight, Near the centre lot the ring, with his long legs stretched out toward a neutral cor- ner, the “Gunner” lay, measuring his six feet of fighting bone and sinew on the resined canvas, arms outstretched with the palms of his gloves toward the ceiling, stiff as a log. Referee Danny Sullivan tolled off the fatal ten, but he could have ad- ded a few more, and still the old blaster of white hopes of a few years ago would have laid there dazed, Across the other side of the ring stood his opponent, A! Roberts, at least ten years younger than his ex- hausted rival, waiting for him to drag Rickard’s $100,000 Forfeit Completes New Plans for Dempsey-Carpentier Bout Tex Has Posted Money With Stake Holder and His Sole Direc- tion Will Make the World’s Championship Battle Greatest Sporting Event of All Time —A New Angle on Carpentier’s Gameness. By Robert Edgren. HE battle between Dempsey and Carpentier is going to come off. ‘There isn't any room for doubt about that. The two principals and Tex Rick- ard are going to stage the show, and it Is going to be a récord event How do I know? As sole arbiter of the forfeit money: and custodian jot the funds, I can assure you that Rickard alone has posted $100,000 to my order in certified check and bonds, thus covering the entire amount originally posted by Rickard, Cochran and Brady, I have instructed the Central Union Trust Company to return Cochran's forfeit money to him, and Brady has received his. Tex ig just as well off without his partners, His methods are daring and original and he will now have a free hand, and you can wager, that the result will be the greatest sport- ing event the world has ever seen. Both Cochran and Brady wished to withdraw from the venture and justified themselves on grounds of technical violation of the contract. Carpentier posted his forfeit money in French bonds which the law pre- vented from leaving France. Conse- quently they were deposited with Morgan,. Harjes Company in Paris, which Rickard’s associates declared was a technical violation of the con- tract. Everything is in order-from the financial standpoint. Now for the battle! A REAL TRIAL. Is Carpentier game? Tll say so! This Georges boy is one of the gamest birds I've seen in years. Just before he left for France I saw him perform an act of cour: unequalled by any guy who ever posed before a moving picture cam- era. 1 had carried a golf challenge from Dempsey to Carpentier and arranged for a match at a New Jersey golf course. We drove out from Now York together. Dempsey brought an outfit of golf clothes along in a grip, being an experienced golfer who had played at least three or four times. Carpentier brought nothing but the clothes he wore. Georges had only a vague idea that golf was som thing not played on a billiard table. In the club house Dempsey and Carpentier stripped for action. Demp- sey produced a well-fitting Jersey that drew tight around his trim waist and showed the bulging muscles of hia back and shoulders. Some one explained to Carpentier that golf was played over the hills and a long, long way from the club house, that there was an icy wind and that he'd freeze in his silk shirt, and produced from somewhere an ancient sweater for Georges to wear. Georges put it on. Itwas a sweater built for a large fat man. It could ave been wrapped around Carpen- slender waist six times. It draped his ginewy, athletic figure like the wrinkled skin of a hippopot- amus might hang over a gazelle. It hung half way to his knees, flapped in the wind, rolled up in bunches about his wrists. It was the worst sweater I ever saw. It made Georges look like a slope-shouldered poor fis) It disguised everything about him but his smil Carpentier is the neatest, trimmest looking fellow in the world. Never a hair out of place. And he had just been in the movies. I expected to see him pull off that sweater ana throw it back into the locker, But he didn’t. He appeared entirely un- conscious of it. Smilingly he told went out 1e ie camerss Dempsey snapshotted the pair for the papers, picked up enough golf in four holes to give Jack a battle all the rest of the way, and when it was over re- turned the sweater with a smile and @ compliment. Game! Say, any other fighter in the world under the same circum- stances would have been figuring for a week how to dress to impress Dempsey. Any other fighter matched with Dempsey would have gone into a blizzard in his bee-vee-dees rather than let Jack size him up in that sweater. And as for appearing in that dis- guise etanding beside Jack “for the pictures,” boy, it simply couldn't be done. That Carpentier did it, and didn’t even appear conscious of it in the least, showed either that he is a game sport or that he is so chuck full of self confidence that he doesn't care a whoop how he looms up beside the champion until he meets him in the ring. KETCHEL BOOSTED HIMSELF. Other fighters I have known al- ways liked to “make a showing” in the presence of the enemy. The most celebrated case I remem- ber was the great Stanley Ketchel on the day Ketchel was to make his match with Jack Johnson. Ketchel was a middleweight, and he longed to loom up like a heavyweight and fight the big fellows When I met Stan that day it seemed to me he was taller than I had thought. It was only after care- ful scrutiny I discovered the reason, To look like a match for Johnson, Ketehel had added about two inches to his height by putting on a pair of high-heeled cowboy boots! Then there was the time Tom Shar- key was matched to fight Jeffries for the championship. Tom was a tre- mendously powerful fellow, broad and squat. He didn’t like to look too short beside Jeff's 6 feet 2, But he didn’t wear cowboy high-heeled boots, You can see high heels. Foxy Tom wore his own shoes, but in the heel of each he put a stocking rolled into a ball, raising his height an inch or more. “You look bigger than you used to, Tom,” said Jeffries. “Sure,” said Sharkey unblushingly. m near a foot taller than when you bate me out in Frisco.” O'BRIEN BEAT THEM ALL. A few years ago it was the custom for all fighters to wear tremendously padded shoulders. Some even had the padding extended down the sides un- er the arms to give the effect of a wide wedgelike back—the kind of a back that denotes hitting power. But when Jack O’Brien was posing as a claimant for the heavyweight title he had them all beat. All that Jack wore,,if you had seen him put on his armor in his boudoir, were pads strapped to his shoulders like a foot- ball shoulder guard, a padded vest, a padded coat and a padded overeat, The wonderful. Husked, O'Brien weighed about 165 pounds. Bob Fitzsimmons had thin legs and worried over it. He longed for heavi- er legs. At a matter of fact his legs were like steel wire for strength, and their thinness no handicap. When Bob was matched with young Jim Jeffries at Coney Island he had a lot of photographs taken for the posters and for a book. In the pic tures he wore full length flesh col- ored tights and under the tights the- atrical “shapes,” cunningly put on so they didn’t show at all. That put a very fair looking pair of legs under him. Bob arranged to have a set of the pictures reach Jeffries. But the impression missed fire. It happened that Jeffries had a longing for thin legs—his own being extra- ordinarily sturdy—and thought Fits- simmons's shifty footwork all due to the Hghtness of his underpinning, “Muh!” said Jeff, “the old boy's legs are getting heavier; I ought to fast as he is.” be as as ‘WwBL, by Robert Edgrem) a combined effect was someting himself together. But the one time exponent of the occipital punch was “dead” to the world. It was a case of a great boxer who is finished, resulting from the wear and tear of the ring, pitted against a youngster who still has his beat years before him. A youngster com- ing and a veteran going, so to speak. ‘The salient feature of the b¢ the veteran. the secon Roberts caught the “Guan short left hook to the jaw. Smith hit the floor and took the count of eight. He regained his feet and weathered a hurricane of blows that would have sent many another less game man to the canvas, but his superior generalship saved him. Again in the ninth round Roberts caught the veteran on the jaw with a right swing that sent Smith down tor the count. The bell came to his rescue here just as Referee Sullivan had reached seven. Smith came out in the tenth and worked a few of his famous occipital rights on the youngster, but he re- fused to budge. There was no steam in back of these wallops, They were delivered in the same sensationa manner that made him the wr of white hopes years ago, but the old sting was missing. Roberts came out in the first round and started his customary left jab- bing, and it generally hit its objec- tive. Roberts was out to make the affair strictly a boxing bout, but the Kansas Again MILWAUKEE, Wis., March 10.— Rockey Kansas of Buffalo wi awarded the newspaper decision over Richie Mitchell, local lightweight, i a tenround no-decision bout here night, The bout was given to Kansas. } by the majority of the sporting writ- ers. A few, however, decided on Mit- chell, Two knockdowns were scored throughout the night, both in the fifth round. Kansas hit Mitchell with a left hook on the chin and the M waukee boy went to the mat. | arose after a short c and with a short right, sent Rockey down for a_few seconds. The blow did not effect Kansas and he came back, win- ning the round easily. The winner had five of the ten rounds. Two weat to Mitchell and three were even. Before the contest, Kansas was a 10 to 7 choice. Over 8,000 fana witnessed the bout. After news of Rocky Kansas’s vic- tory over Mitchell had been received by Tex Rickard, the Garten p ; ter stated that the Buffalo boy would meet Willie Jackson in round decision bout at Square on March 17. The will call for 135 pounds at 2 the day of the fight. Hickey Wins Decision. Young! Hickey, after an absence of four years from the ring, met Matty Mc- Cullum before the biggest crowd that has been drawn at the Star A. C. under the Walker Law, and » decision after a hard-fought ten-round bout. Bab Spellman won the decis' Eadie O'Keefe in the other ten-rv with a | Defeats Mitchell JNE-TIME WHITE HOPE PROVES HOPELESS HEAVYWEIGHT HERE N. Y. BOWLERS AT BUFFALO TO-DAY Copyright, 1821, by the Pres Publishing Oo, (The New York Rrening World.) By Thornton Fisher| Roberts Puts Finishing Ring Career Of Once Great ‘Gunner’ veteran, throtgh his excellent gen- eralship, made Roberts forget his in- tentions and It developed into a real slugging match. Smith looked very good in the fourth and fifth rounds. He worked a ® eeping long left hook to Roberts's head and followed it up with his fa- mous rieht everhand. Roberts faltered after recetving a few of these and the seventh round had bin in a bad way. In the eighth the “Gunner” caught his young op- ponent again with his famous wal- lop. and Roberts again showed signs of distress. Roberis weighed 182% and Smith 178. ‘The former looked somewhat soft, while Smith was as lean as a panther, In the semi-final Earl Hartman of Philadelphia _won the referee's award over Marty Pierce of the Bronx in an uninteresting six-round affair. Har’ man did the fighting and Pierce marred whatever chance there was to make a good fight of it by his continuous stalling. Both of these boys weighed within the feather- weight limit. Little Sammy Vogel, a fast little featherweight, displayed real “class” in his 4@feat of Willie Morris in an interesting ten-round fight. 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