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THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1921. FRANCES WAR HERO a8 CHALLENGER OF DEMPSEY. = FOR WORLD'S TITLE “ee Ny ted Fo Senta, A i ed Rares patie" I Win La Savate Championship. CHAPTER Iv. | They WALKED with nonchalance to the | and ring. Descamps had preceded me. consisted of tumbling by me an alleged hypnotic and mind- reading exhibition by Descamps, By Tentered. Descamps smiled with|the way, it occurs to me that re- his white teeth shining and an-| ports of the “hypnotic punch,” by use Rounced: “Georges Carpentier, fa-|of which I was supposed by the Eng- mous pupil of Professor Descamps!” |lish to have defeated Beckett, Joe The crowd was silent for a mo-|have reached this country and found ment and then broke into joyous|their way into the newspapers, This mirth, T was pale, slender and small.| is so ridiculous that it scarcely needs My opponents were six or seven years my senior. a denial, but I can clear the minds of Americans somewhat, I believe, by “What have you brought to us?"|saying that I probably came under ehouted one, “What Is this sucrifice|this suspicion as a result of these you are about to make? This infant,| exhibitions by Descamps. he shall be killed." Deseamps was known for a long Descamps merely continued to|time in Lens as a mysterious person- thrash his arms about and talk in/age and it was freely said that he very his grandiloquent fashion probably practised magic I won this championship and be-| sorts. How queer! There Is, of course fore 1 had reached the second round! nothing more to it than the immense. Thad become the darling of the avd!-|1y strong personality of the lovable ence, They declared it was nothing] ittte man. He has hypnotized people but a miracle which enabled me to! of this, but hyponosis in the outpoint a big Corporal named Le- has been brought about by my grande in the final round. He had rushed me, launched vicious kicks) time and again, but always the train-| of various by use ring Des amp ing of Descamps stood me in gooa| We Fav ughable exhibition stead and I skipped out of harm's! three times on the road to Lens. The ; Say. francs, however, were few, so we were ind very grateful when we I was elated when the judges de-| vais Guiattaclialy Hen | reached home @ared me the winner Descamps 41 ghbor: Fushed to me and grisped me in his ee eee ee ne sof. Detwanna arms, How happy he was! Tears of | ply se biinld ape RE a bce te and his famous pup! to walk from the triumph. had been forced ene of their first tenderness rolled down his cheeks aa| he caressed and petted me. Oh, it} was wonderful, that first champion-| ship. at expe at Bethune made “You have done a wonderful thing,” | lize t w some- he told me, “but, Georges, we are| thing as an exponent « but I without money. You are still an am-| ad yet to make my first appearance ateur and there was no money prize|!® Public as a boxer. It was another year in fact before I in the savate tourna with this victory, fore, while Rest yourself, there- 1 think of something that] nt, On March will get us out of thia acrape and]? 1% Descamps took me to the back to Tene? tournament which was to decide the I lay down on a bench and waa in-| ¥0Fld's amateur boxing championship | stantly asleep. Lack of money meant| (PTench method) nothing to me. 1 was happy, for 1] This time boxing 1} had won a championship. I doubt if] sufficiently T even considered whether we should| made, and 1 get back home. | featherweights, When Descamps wakened me It was | #out with a laugh, and he told me he had| ¥eeht Goan w Wey out of!the dimodity, third honors and had the satisfaction “We shall walk,” he sald, “and on) °f hearing the admiring plaudi our way will attempt to pick up some | Crowd, for classificat! was placed among the | and then was six or seven pounds under- to be even ota M won until a thp savate | club, how to place his feet and how to tournament, in whieh I fin-|tove his arms, Fort ne reason, ished third, for the first title 1 had|no man can become a fighting cham- won at Bethune was only for the|pion who hasn't first learned how to district adjacent to Bethune. How- | deliver a Ww eaxily but still foree- ever, my third tournament resulted | fully. He must learn to dis- in a victory for mo and with it the] tnces and he must learn utmost title of champion of N hern France accuracy I defeated sixteen other contestants. Ta great future is ain that March 1, 1908, I was proc LHC xing,” said amateur champion of the wor Des a id me off in by, of course, was only in the French vid eo ssons, “Men of method of boxing. [iz teees. OF of nerve and fire Then it was that Descamps began They are di and gritty. Box- } to lay bis plans for sending me PS requires couri suid a tempe against the best boxers in the coun- ment ke that. You muat bea Spar- try—toxers at the English method. |‘®% but you must be careful not to ject yourself to unnecessary pun- He has since told o he had an in- tuition that I would immediately win a place. | hat is not a ma u must til y have I learned very rapidly, At any rate, it was only I suppose. 4 few months before I had my fi professional | bout as a fighter with my fists, Durir these months Descamps werked daily with m nd it wa a sweret yurse of instruction L under- went, for y fi r again raised ob- jections to my nuance in the)! boxers und mr when he learned that T was to| * his instructions ¢ ws pt the Mnelish method of boxing. ; PRCA He IneATY enN6 alee wa ane of four- aight he sought out my mother, vert- Yon, and he thought it time for me] ed the repor( und then set about t Ito get to work in the mines, whore | Punish me. . Mmy two elder brothers already had| Supee Gay when Tapered for star to we Arguments, how- | had ae ever, prevailed, and I was allowed! bad t a T to continue re under ery r h 1 De edd ut © teaching at the hands of Wulf Dexcamps st be told before one th a c vppreciate the entirety with anv with the which 1 gave myself to my lessons tart net , and the nderfil patience Desoumps jnbly had in fathering me around the rough ' spots auisht i ungster who places bimselt in (TAU Y gin BY Gee ots the hands of an ina' tor for boxing 1 was ast ted and perplexed never will make progress if he doesn’t Tater I became neious for Des Jono his personality in that of the|;ampe Muy prone on the Moor, Breath. teacher, He never will get anywhere } 1 he! n omy ary if he doosn't admit at once that he vr my eves when knows nothing about boxing and tnat |)" V"¢ ee. Leaping to hia teacher knows all. Otherwise it) ty 4 "It was will be impossible for his instructor) wonderfn) Hous! “No to drive the fundamentals of the game {onsen } von hall \ Into his head, Fundamentals are wi Ms aunt. everything in any sport, The golfer, & ps of the world hall foved nt formatter , He wa what T hod done and had the pun's)ment (To Be Continued To-Morrow.) the baseball player, the foothall play- er, all must start by learning the v: first pointe of the chosen sport. No own good fists and not by any baleful | again competed | Despite the handicap, I won| which was just as sceptical of | francs by public exhibitions at the|™Y bility as the gathering at Be- roadside,” thune French Federation of Th exhibitions, let me explain, | Boxing Pa gold medal for my had been rehearsed by us before,| Showing in this tournament, CHAPTER V. [man can successfuily play golf who| Y first real championship wis | hasn't frst learned how to hold his - BASEBALL A AT A GLANCE NATIONAL LEAGU | AMERICAN LEAGUE. Wok. PO.) Clubs. Wek, PC.) WoL. PC.) Clubs, wok Soe | = sol | fl 39 | 15 7 882] Boston 6 Bx Pr 4 " oy, Shs 6.682 | Bosto ‘a | 126 s7i/st tov an) Many “Bone” Plays Mark| 8° {sevens ue eS ee tie adr 4 12 & 000] Phitacetphia ‘300 0 8 .886{ Phitadeiphia.. 711.399 | Cub ae AE Avner ener | 10 9 18268. Lovie 294 SAU son fonienge ..... 612 3! Opening Gun Fired in | Rapp snated and sent Walker to see.) GAMES YESTERDAY, GAMES YESTERDAY. iy oval AROnIRE CHa Tae aa aes thie Ganen, eel DS | Eastern Invasion. dropped one down along the third 30 2.0.0.0 2 0 0-715 3/Now Yor 200000000 | base foul line—that looked good either BY hdit Sotn ak tytbent | Mel ooo oh et 88 - way. [t was called “fair,” sending | shia Sich | By Robert Boyd. down tor eutonds AL diacuasion. Tels A : At Chic | ER careful observation o' e| lowe 0 oa e cours cope eet oy ose H pate Cg ob et ont eal reful be rvation of the) } wed at th plat and in the bags od ue, Napler and ‘Hargraves; ov100 0 0 3 430 0 manner in whieh the St. Louis) of the wrangie I er Hornaby, t i Hie, Kuwell and Ruel, Faber aod Cardinais play the national| Celebrated second baseman, persuaded | pits 0003 a os Lincs |Rapp to return to frat, ae it was a piers ge eg 28g Ook § 0] At Clevetand— | Kame of baseball, tt is quite clear why] fouj, Goldie took Hornaby's word for | Dearie Cooper and schmidt yet, Soot they are p in the cellar position who merely was working an old Lay Muh RNG of the National League, And th | houlboy DK, and went back to! Pigiee Giants, well, they have alwaya beon| {St Jennings, who was on the coach: | det Freeman ene hitadeipite St. Lula game at St. Low elt high est amet . made no effort to atop him Merman, Weiner and ‘Pet mae He pews) held in high esteem and recognized! returning. After trapping him in this GAMES TO-DAY. GAMES TO-DAY. us contenders for the pennant, but almanner, Hornsby asked the pitcher Bt. Louis at New York. | New York at Detroit few mor wines such as they played|for the ball and went up to Rapp at Cincinnati at Brooklyn. Washington at Cleveland gainst the Westerners, yesterday, |["S! and touched him with It. This Pittsburgh at Bosten. Phitadeiphia ‘| without dou was the most absurd Chicago at rananon | i When the Cardinals sauntered into} [0 the first Inning, wits Neht «teh INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE, | A JAPANESE _BABE RUTH. Jeno miust of our busy city we dtd [Me f for the Glants,’ the exrde xcorrd wet Clube. : did) three runs. A scratch homer by 7 Toronto. ¢ J t Rot expect much of them. They have|Schultz a double by Stock and. sine 11 8.879) Syracus CEB oy May 1 tke. he | heen travelling along since the open-| gles by Hornsby and McHenry send sl 9 $80] Rochester I of its own. ‘The cham: ling of the playing season hitting on| !Mg,the runs across Jersey City...10 9 828] Rei sit) Plon ee He y iter et t ie ate ' st lone cylinder; consequently the natived The Gi nt batted 1 tn three rune Jia K, Tanaka of the Waseda Univer-liooked formurd te the ale in ‘st on Burne‘ base GAMES YESTERDAY. |aity teams with a record of ax homers) oKed forward to the aries with] halle froin Tertica, a single by Friach| fettericeKawyer, Sabwarts and Preitagz; Dob: | the Jupanose University teain on it*) pittsburgh Pirates, } Slim Salles relieved Neht in | Sats reall Bite, | Oey ean Nous ae Hesy ee tet i2} At the end of the ninth inning, ere h fler Weaterners hud hit} At Battalo- g, | hroad-shouldered and stocky and plays ne lone nning, | 90 0 O18 O 1 Og 8 te eee rcid ‘wonition na. the. Nuw nen fy to Mann in runs Does? tbambr nd’ stuiths Seca | Yorker, He alo bats left-handed, ed the most weir tica “Barnes, tarye Sanith; re | wei jpapatercating and tiresome game pe surth after the had evar ; haps that one might sit through even|iwo runs in the previous and | At Ruxnemter oregon et ey | Glanta-t ‘ardinaln in Benefit Game y down in the cks," the Weat- maced him agely in th fourth. Bstinore 1 0 8 1 4.8 8 8 s8 Gl To-Morrow. erners were the winners by the He was later relieved by North tn attertes ‘mien,’ Coskwrignt ‘and Egan; Juba Geo Kelly will try to make a home {0% 8 to 7. aint foo abd Mattox Bovton at Chicago, ‘Cards Nose Out Giants | In Bush League Game, Ing lin and it will not be long before tt joining them y are | of baseball displayed in the ‘comedy of Errors | 1 their lowliness. In nearly ; ale) Sve. thing that is list Hornst tt oro — RWB, | Tun and the Giants will make every |i the tery ything in lie jornsby tripled in the seventh and | Rabe —o 0 0 0.9 1 0 1-841 Olemort to defeat the Cardinals to-morrow | ball eae Bush” Lengue bi came home on Fournier's nel. to | » bo11000 0 62 ams gave a wonderful left, and Lavan « he w Toront Cotter: | afternoon at the Polo sunds In order Nete, “ . hd Nth inning | acnee” Fuser and Cotter Vormoe ty : ; : Rumgaein Tan the drtan Ait aie wie vee ecg 10,000} run on Clemons'’a double to left ts | that the be came for the Irish Re ‘ M8 Who Watched the bur RS EEE ' GAMES TO-DAY. hee Fund may have a happy endin eaten a a plain, or at least so tt FRENCH | Jersey City at Syrac or Hylan will see the context, anda |APPeared, tliat ong team was en dase te arts 9.8 leavening te oun tne ciara ieee WOMAN MAY PLAY | Rochester. landing and) Gen, shing |INg sandiot basnball | HERE IN TENNIS MEET. | ing at Toronto (two auctioned Tt would be difficult to say what| was the outstanding yne” of PARIS, May 11.—Mile. Suzan Hi ‘Ea Time afternonn, there wate go many. Some | renlen, wor’ champion worm | 0 t oung for the ‘ | . unded bal Oo rehte edd. | tournament held in the United incinnatt Po be aur eT LHS anos | States thls Nammor, according to. hey afternoon, Sipe . t incon 7 - oe |Pacitle Coast rookie ee Whole <a hi A Ve Seven Hee a RRETIITS: bala down ae mound antil he was] That Duich Ruether’s Pitching T00) 775. ‘and dash, und while Ruether|to shone. resplendent. tree te oe TESA atenINL mAyS Much for Former Redland | was touched for elght solid smashes, |{UNDY, Afternoon. He buried so many | | 4 Wild tos: past his backstop that > Te alee five of them good for more than athe Jattor, Clemons, asked thet eh | eammiates. single base, Moran's playera were|game be halted while he went ott | Princeton Honors Two Football lable to score only in the seventh in Baie sucken box that holds the SONI wot I i] SABE Laduawout of they box| cine balla, clowe to e Plate, to wee if] PRINCETON Ne Ou a Ny 1.—Stan-|]| obtaining at special pric w more ‘left ut{ton Keck, All-Ame ackle and cap: | oF hitting him for everything from) | Wheat made 1 run in the}even’ the. "ry waa Got the stat| tain of Hext fall Prineoton —teotment home runa, the Robins|¢ighth inning that brought the crowd |ar the afternoon. No. it way 485 ty a is fect. With Napier pitehing! Happ: forma Legendre, caay victory of 6 to 2, over | Zach mont one walling over the Hebel aeoetiaten Bae eee fered Ore lieiek h low pric the Cincinnati Reds in the opening] field wall. ‘Thers was nobody on at| third for tiw Chane Haine down | nd to the senior! | such low prices. game of the series yesterday after- [the time, But She Spectators) Gave [the asslats ot Hugh Jennings ic student | | pbhete 4 @| Zach quite a hand as he was going) helping Rapp pull Ma oneine reraduate noon at Ebbets Field. At no Um ieee seat ices It was his thitd| that could not de Prin ee but She Pac al |during the game did the Reds | shoW pit of the gam Youn; tb: up isian honors a | | ° | Ruth’s9th Homer Gives Yankees Lead in West ———— DETROIT, May 11.—Babe Ruth's ninth home run of the season won for |the Yankees the opening game of their series here with the Tigers yes- (orday, The crash came in the first jinning, with Roger Peckinpaugh on first base. These two runs were the only New Yorkera were able to score, but the excellent pitching of Carl Mays, who held the Tigers down to four hits, made them sufficient to win the game by a score of 2 to 1 When Ruth came to bat the fans were divided, some wanting Pitcher mes th Midd n to pass him, and others who had never seen the great at work, roared that he be chance to hit. Middleton may not have meant to give it to him, but Rube got the chance and swung. The . hit would have » the b ers at the F gone inte rounds almost a place but dead centre Mays got some help from Ruth an that ninth, too, uch opened with a triple to centre and the crowd bexar to rour for a rally and victory hit to Ward and Bush scored, Ty. being thrown out at first, Vea a high fly to Ruth, and there when the Babe clutched Ie He ded game a moment later by grabbing Heilman's twis drive headed for the left field stands, Up to that. inning only one mar had hed third base Ward made a great fifth, With Veach out, bled to the scoreboard slashed a terrific liner towa which Ward beat down, then r ered in time trip the runner at first. Hellman took 1 That was the only time the s threatens Mays til the ninth, t Inning ended with Blue's fy Rob Meusel quick play in th olled to War sled to cent nt he ball, then ma + throw to first yan, Detroit play in the Heilman do in lefl. 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