The evening world. Newspaper, August 11, 1921, Page 14

THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1921, FEW RING CHAMPIONS EVER LOST AND REWON TITLE Pete Herman sali Jack Britton, With Two Suc- cessful Comeback Perform- | ances, Stands as Ring Marvel. | By Robert Edgren. HEN Pete Herman won back W the bantamweight champion- ship by outpointing Joe Lynoh in that fifteen-round bout in Brooklyn, he did a fine piece of work, Dut didn't break any records. Win ning back a title has been done be- fore. Still, the cases on record ar very few. ‘No heavyweight champion ever re- won a lost world championship. Sev eral had a chance and couldn't make good. Sullivan never tried bec: When he lost to Corbett he was a fat old man and far beyond all possibility ef coming back. Corbett tried and was twice with ease by Jeffries Fitzsimmons lost the title to Jeffries and years later trained hard and made a heroic attempt, giving Jeffries a terrific gruelling, before nature gave oat and Fitz dropped when Jeff dug one into his body and cracked him on the chin with a straight left. Jeffries retired and failed to come ack when he was dragged out again aix years later. Burns gave it up after losing to Johnson, and Johnson became a hope- lems has-been after being whipped by Willard at Havana, Willard might come back, and, ac- cording to report, seems willing to try. whipped One middleweight lost the world title and came back. This was the famous Stanley Keichel, who was beaten by Billy Papke in Los Angeles. Ketchel ‘was a rare sort of a bird a man who didn't recognize the pos- sibility of defeat. Ketchel was 60 constituted that he couldn't feel fear. ‘The chance of losing a title meant nothing to him and he felt in his heart that he could beat any man he fought. Be when be met Papke again a few months later Ketchel entered the ring with all the confidence in the world end Papke the champion was nervous and on edge. Ketchel whipped him. But among all the fighting men I've ever known, Ketchel, Dempsey and Fitzsimmons ‘were unique in having this feeling of abeolute invincibility. It gave them fighting strength and an edge over all ts. A DOUBLE COME-BACK. In the welter class Jack Britton is motable for having rewon a lost world's championship twice. Britton fa @ cocky, confident fighter and very skilful, He has made a remarkable record in the ring and has held the ehampionship long after the time bso) be might have been expected to Thy closest rival was Kid Lewis. Lewis was many years younger than Britton when he beat Jack and took the championship away. He held it for some time, meeting Britton in a number or no decision Bouts. It seemed that age was “grab- Ding” Britton, as Joe Gans used to say. But Jack came back unexpect- edly, knocking Lewis out. After that be beat Lewis aguin easily. A funny thing—Lewis seemed to grow old and lose his fighting form, while Jack Britton is still as youthful as ever in the ring and delivers the goods in championship style when all of the men he used to fight in his early days have long retired or been ed into oblivion. Lewis “came back” Britton and retrieving the title, but that was a long time ago, and he soon Yost it again. Still, he classifies as ome of the few champions who have een beaten and have fought their way to the top again. Buch great welters as Joe Walcott, Rube Ferns, Matty Matthews, Mys- terious Billy Smith and Honey Mel- body were through with the title when they lost it. No lightweight ever won back a beg championship. ' McAuliffe had sense to retire when Carney ba England outfought him, although he didn't lose the title, the breaking down the ring and the affair without going to a finish, as fights did in the London prize ring Wigne lost to Erne and never was ’s Feat Shows Little Fellows Are Best Recovering Lost Honors use | once by beating | crowd | decision Lavigne, His when he tried to Welter title from Mysterious Smith in San Francisco and was ked out. | Erne killed hims by fighting at va He made 126 pounds f errible ‘Terry Met ‘n, burned up his vitality with the pounds he sweated out in train- |My and was knocked out he fought Weiter Champion 1 Was Knocked out. And still ooks the title in a puneh That finished one of cleverest ers whe ever held the lightweight lopeee neld lightweight Gans burned himself out by making 133 pounds ringside in his) fighting (runks and sh for Nelson at Gold- A when he met Nelson again st he hadn't the vitality. to | come back in a return match Nel man for years. The de ast, in which he was hammered helpless while still on his fect, in’ over y rounds of| | desperate fighting, finishe Wolgast wasn't much good aft losing to Ritchie, Ritchie might have come back beaten Welsh, who took the tit a close decision in England, but was unfortunate in having to make his attempt against Benny of the greatest little r wore the crown In the featherweight class, Dixon went down for good when McGovern beat bim, and none of his successors ever won back a lost title | The greatest —bantams, bes, Frankie Neil, Kid Williams, all over lost world honors Herman has shown himself to be remarkable little fighting man. After losing to Lynch he went to England and knocked out Jimmy Wilde, re- turned and won many’ good fights. He fought much harder trying to me back” thin when he was on, If he keeps up his hard streak he'll be one of the! most popular little men his class ever knew (Copyright cha fighting 1921, by Robert Kxlgren ) Downey and wi Rox on ab Aug 11.~-Martin wi announe n mate BOSTON, ker weight champion, Wilson had Rickard to meet Bryan twelve-round no decisio py City on Labor Day In 4 recent bout at Cleveland the ref- eree awarded the decision to Wilson on a foul, but the Cleveland Boxing Com- mission announced that it had over- ruled the decision and would recognize Killilen, n, middle~ to-day | ed by Tex Downey in a bout at Jer- hony Downey as champion on the ground that ud actually scored a knock- out, ‘The Massachusetts Boxing Com- mission has action of the to recognize th and body. ai Wilson will receive of the proceeds, it was vney's share of the purs » public. Both men are 160 pounds at 10 o'clock in the morning. PSN Golf Tourney to Ne Held Sept. to Oct. 1. The date of the Professional Golfers’ Association championship tournament | has been dofinitely settled upon as Sept. to Oct. 1, according to the announce- ment of the P. G. A. to-day, The course will be the Inwood Country Club, Which was selected at the conference held during the time of the national nat Columbia k Hutchison, jer of the British open title, is the Present champion, having won the event at th samoor Country Club. Inst feating J. Douglas Edgar, the lish professional, who was killed by an automobile at Atlanta Tuesgay, Loughlin, the welterweight champion of Pennsylvania, who holds two referees’ decisions over Bryan Downey, middle- weight tile claimant, won on a foul from Jack Perry of Pittsburgh here last night. Up to the landing of the acct- ental punch Loughlin hud a alight lead, The first six rounds were sensational, the two box: ding toe to toe ex- | changing pu Ce American Cricketers Beaten. LONDON, Aug. 11.—The Philadelphia Pilgrims cricket team, yesterday, in the sixth match played in England suffered their first defeat, losing to the Free ters ot Wimbledon. The visitors were all out for a total of #9 In the first inning, with the Fors scored pts, By William E. Simmons. HIGH WATER. ae “ 4m Gar (Eastern standard time. Add one hour for daylight saving time.) Fair weather, moderate, variable Winds is the promise for to-day. Gome fine weakfish were taken on | Tuesday in Gerritson Channel, of Pum Beach, Samates Bay. ommeore Anus “meeting of the United Anglers’ League will be held back @his evening in the assembly room om the fifth floor of the Pulitzer ‘There will be interesting Building. talks and displays of picture ‘The Honest Plumbers’ Fishing Club weports that the bottom has fallen out of fishing in Hempstead Bay Its Monday trip was fruitless, even @@ to fluke, and the wise heads are ‘wendering what can the matter be. ‘© Theis, Richmond Valley, 8. 1, |this column that a party of Block Island fishermen labored a day and @ night to land a swordfish has stirred the scientific world to action. Word comes from Massachusetts | that Joseph Hammond of Brooklyn itis devised a method of electrocut- ing that sturdy fighter of the deep. A retired Philadelphia manufac- turer having won fame this season anding sharks and other big fish | t Cape May, N.J., has, intro- |duced a thirteen-year-old boy into the game, who hax gone him one better by landing, single handed, two eight-foot sharks in one day. ‘The boy is Bmory Byesmanx, son of the Gen- Traffic Manager of the Pennsyl- a Railroad | ve | Which. The | second place and Robert Oliver was a distant third Wisest Fool was promptly disqualified. After the it’ developed that Say Which had bi which ac- AT DAYTONA: HEE You a HELMET ANO "eho \JA22 INERT WE TURNED OVER (N THIS THING - 1 HAD 3 RIBS AND MY COLLAR BONE BROKEN ANO— > a ee d All Those Concerned to Be Ruled Off Turf If Suspicions Are Proved. By Vincent Treanor. SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y,, Aug. \1,— Stewards representing The Jockey Club are to-day investigating the Stillwater Steeplechase, run yes- terday and won under most peculiar circumstances py C. Tenenbaum’s Say race had an ugly look, and if the suspicions which prompted the officials to start this unusual in- quiry prove well founded, all those concerned will be ruled off the turf. All Saratoga is talking aveut the ra The Jockey Club took ho offi- clal cognizance of betting, but in con- nection with this particular event it has been deemed necessary to col- lect slips recording wagers on the], race, with a view to finding out who Profited by the victory of Say Which. For some time it has been generally believed that a certain clique con- trolled the steeplechase game with a| well known layer and a trainer as the central figures. These men will in the final round, 2 and 1. Jim Bafhes,|he- on. the official ourpet st | the national open champion, has al Reh Ohne feady won the title twiceeand the fehe| Whether anything will come of th between the pair at Inwood Is expected | iRVestigation or whether it will blow to be keen, over and be buried in secrecy is prob- eet lematical. K, 0, Loughiin W From) Say Which won the race yesterday Jack Perry. jin the only possible way she could YOUNGSTOWN, ©., Aug. 11.—K. O,| Win, ff a “show in” had been crim- inally planned in advance of the run- ning. Backed heavily, she went out in front as if to make a runaway race of jt, leading both Robert Oliver and Wisest Fool by twenty lengths in the first mile. At this stage she weak- ened badly and began to “oome back” to the other two, When they finally caught her she dropped back with every stride until she was a sixteenth of a mile in the rear and apparently out of the race. Wisest Fool and Robert Oliver then ran so close to gether that the riders might have conversed while astride the horses. From the grand stand the rest of th> race looked like a nip and tuck 4. Suddenly, when almost direct- ly opposite the stewards’ stand in the back stretch, Wisest Fool on the out- side swerved over against Robert Oli- ver, with the result that both were carried inside the hedge at which they were running. Both reached the infield before they could be pulled up and taken back to the course. This consumed time, and meanwhile Say Which had continued slowly on her way until she had cleared the jump at which ber rivals bolted. When Oliver and Wisest Fool took their second try at the jump Say Which was nearly home. ither of the pair had a chance to catch her. She won in a walk. Wisest Foo! plodded in about thirty lengths after her in counted for he: in the first mile. Say Which had becn heavily backed to win, while Sir Oliver, the logical winner, had receded in the stopping so suddenly Charles KE. Hoyer of Stapleton, 8. 11, who is on a vacation trip to Mock Island, wri to his friends that be is having fine tishing He does not say what fish he is c ching but his friends are hoping they are tuna or | swordfi Both varieties are abun- idant there just now and game worth but many other varieties | bunting; of fish are also to be weighing 35 pounds, had. A pike with a writes: “It may interest your fishing |trout of 3% pounds in its stomach, veaders to know that John L. Sipp| was landed mcently at Stokestown, @f Richmond Valley caught a fine |County Roscommon, Ircland. The @ees of croakers and weakfish last|letter announcing It was received by Sundey femng from the Billy-Billy.|Wurra Warra, formerly sporting ed- Sigp treated bis friends in the (, royally.” = itor of The World. Roscommon 1s famed for many unusual big things —including the “Moving Bog” and @ oral wagering and Wisest Fool at- tracted only a scattering play. On the face of the speculation Say | Which looked like one of the Steeple chase good things, which had to fall down or die to lose. To put it plain- ly, it was a raw piece of work on appearances, but Patrol Judge Me- | Laughlin's report put a different as- | pect on the race. The Judge said that Byers, who rode Wisest Fool, was not responsible for his mount |and Robert Oliver going wide of the ‘jump. He said Wisest Fool made a AND GIVE YOU A LIL LasT SPRING AT LOS a 1921, oer GosGie 5 uae! sure iTS WORKIN’ Sou rar ea SHOVIN' PUP Con YOURE STTING WAS Josseo 7S FEET ovel- AN EM@ANKMENTS HE LINGERED For 4 bavS- HE WAS & CORKIN' BOY, T0- Stewards Investigating Peculiar Steeplechase Won by Say Which the inquisition will reach an interest- ing point The trainor of Robert Oliver had been quoted befo: eo PACE say- ing that his horse was all right, but that he couldn't teli what “the boys” (the jockeys) would do. A well- known layer, who has been supposed to be the clearing house of the stceplechase game, is said to have played Robert Oliver in this race, sing quite a bundle, but somebody “cleaned up” on Say Which, Bert Reilly of Flatbush, who a few years ago raced a string of horses on a pretentious scale only to drop suddenly out of sight, is planning a come-back Yo the turf He has three promising yearlings here by Brummel and Josie A, which raced in his at- tractive colors, and the mare also has a suckling at the Barber Farm in Lexington, by Campfire, which is said to be the finest looking foal on the farm, To-day Reilly closed a deal to breed Josie A to Sweep, the great sire whose son, a full brother to. The. Porter, was bought for $21,000 by J. S. Cosden at auction here last night. | ‘The cross country set here is pre- paring to outbid itself for The Trout, who Will be sold here Monday night next at the Xalapa Farm auction sale, and it wouldn't be surprising if he proves the star of the lot. The Xalapa Farm interests refused several good offers for the good jumper this spring. He is a young horse, being only four years old, and has a promising carcer before him. Sir Hugh, the winner of the San- ford Memoria] Stakes, ran @ smart race in the United ' States Hotel Stakes and deserved to be supported yesterday on that performance. He is by Light Brigade and was bred by his owner, Johnson N. Camden, at Hartland stud. His dam, Enigma, is a daughter of Requital, the big son of Fothen, which won the Futurity and other good stakes for Gideon and Daly, Sir Hugh is only one of many good colts and fillies that J. C. Milam has developed for Senator Camden. Milam 1s a very capable horseman, and will be remembered in the old 4 hereabouts as the trainer of Komurasaki and other winners for J Wadsworth of the Genesee Valley. There are few better judges of a horse in the rough than’ Milam, who is buying and selling all the time and generally making money on his trans- actions ete Se 7 HITS FOR 7 RUNS IN 7TH PUT INDIANS IN 2D PLACE. PHILADHLPHAA, Aug. 11.—Cleve- land ran up against a bunch of sevens in the game against the Ath- letics and the latter sent the Indians further down the line by winning 9 to 5. Philadelphia bunched seven hits in the seventh inning for seven runs. ‘The tallies were helped along by four errors. , OTHER BASEBALL GOSSIP. After losing ten straight games to the Red Sox the Tigers finally broke through and grabbed one 8 to 4. The Browns made it three out of four from the Senators, taking the last game, 5 to 2 The Reds and Cards split a double bill. The Cards won the first, 6 to 4 but the pitching and hitting of Coumbe gave the Reds the orge Swartz to the New York Swartz will re- port to Now York after the close of the Texas league season, Swarts is a southpaw and came to Dallas this season from the West Canada League GRAD D RAPIDS, Mich. ed the local ( am into idleness yesterday for the Aus. 11 League crazy move and that the rider couldn't contro! him, | The officials took McLaughlin's re- port into consideration, but it didn't stop them from questioning the thi jockeys and their trainers, and call ‘ng others before them. Capt. Du- bane of the Pinkertons was put on tha job, too, and eome time to-day } ing first time since the 1919 season, Dur that period 138 games were played on schedule. ed TROP MEP ataia va, Geka acre, by The Press Pultishing Co. ar THaTs HE DEMON | WON wiTe es NOW WHEN BY 1 NUDGE ds conessin second, | DAR Tex, Aue JUeThe mane! ent of the Dallas Baseball Club unced to-day the sale of Pitcher |A GUY GUY IN A SPEED DEMON - - Copyrieht. INDIANAPOLIS @UN WHO WAS @OSH, X WE HAD LAST YEAR at WHERE You ARE WA'S THROWN OUT ON & CURVE AND> —— ALONG TODAY on DOIN’ (/2 MILES AN a Hour BUT HN STEERIN® - By Thornton Fisher|\ (The New York Evening World.) THE Poor. LAD He sTTIN" 1 (m sorry To CRawe WE WERE GEAR HAS BEEN & BIT LOSE AND | WASNT SURE OF MY TRES BUT— WAS PRAPED ALL OVER THE ROAD — ELT TERRIBLY SORRN FoR HE WAS & BRIGHT FELLOW AND WOULD HAVE HAD ( A WONDERFUL FUTURE a, Next SAT'DAY AND ILL SHOW SOME SPEED! you NEW YORK FIREMEN. WIN FIRST GAME OF SERIES IN ‘CH 25,000 Piaplé, s ineledic Ma y-| or Thompson, See Windy City Smoke- Eaters Lose. By. Jere Daly | (Staff Correspondent of the Evening World.) CHICAGO, Aug. 11.—New York fire- tien defeated the smoke caters of Chicago sterday afternoon in a fast game of baseball before an au- dience of 2,000 Chicagoans, led by Mayor William Hale Thompson. The firemen ball tossers of Gotham took the game by a snore of 5 to 2, but as long as it was for the benefit of the Chicago firemen's widows’ and or phans’ fund the New Yorkers said they folt backward at winning a game for so humane a cause. ' Comiskey’s ball park was filled to the rafters when the game was called. ‘The residents of “Chi” pre- dominated and the local firemen were encouraged by the fact that they had gathered in over $100,000 through the sale of tickets for the | three games, the second to be played | to-day at the Cubs’ park, and the third to-morrow at the Sox park. The Chicago Firemen's Mutual Ald Fund is the only medium of financial relief other than the statutory pen- sion, which is insufficient to meet the needs of the dependents of firemen. It 1s much like the Firemen’s Honor Emergency Fund of New York cre- ated last summer by Honorary Deputy Chief W. W. Cohen, who is leading the New York delogation of fire of- ficials and baseball players at “Chi.” Fireman Henry Marshall of En- gine Co. No, 294 pitched for the New Yorkers. The hitting of O’Brien and ern at first carried the smoke eaters from Gotham to victory. The firs: inning ended in three for New York on Fireman Kingsley’s liner to far centre, which sent Fireman Berkiey and O'Rrien home ahead of him, ‘The Chicagoans tried desperately to overcome the lead, but in the seventh Tommy Dowling of Engine Co. No. Dowling and the fielding of 2 eaters | 83 in the Bronx hit to right fleld and Maurer and Marshall came in, mak- Ing it five for the day. ‘The locals gave the Now York fire- men a most flattering reception. A programme of entertainment has been planned for the entire week in con- junction with Chicago's pageant of progress. Dr. Harry M. Archer, New York's ardent medico fire fan, treated sevi asualties on the ball field just as he is used to doing at big fires ne are forty in the New York delegation, including the team. ‘The itinerary includes trips to the stock- yards, theatres, country clubs and in- apection of Chicago's Fire Depart- ment. a LEW TENDLER WILL CLAIM LEONARD’S $5,000 FORFEIT AND LIGHTWEIGHT TITLE. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 11—-Lew Tendler, challenger for the world's lightweight boxing championship, who was to have met Benny Leonard in a bout for the title here to-morrow night which was called off when the champion dislocated his thumb, has announced he would appear at the promoters’ headquarters at the sched- uled weighing time and claim the for- feit of $5,006 1 by Leonard with & local sporting write endler also announces he will claim |the title, declaring he trained faith- fully for the match and was ready to carry out bis part of the contract, to put a summer show across, but now they the customers. * A ringside seat isn't quite so desirable at a moving A barnstorming tour of the Black Sox would make the pop bottle department © slipping bai se se Question is who's going to umpire the Black Sox gun Brindell See ie Jack Dempsey they've had was fifty- fifty on Jack Nobody understands why unless Jack Dunn wants to begin at British Golfers Win Easy Match, In an indifferently played best ball match at the Woodway Country Club, Stamford, Conn., yesterday, George Duncan and Abe Mitchell, British golf- ers en tour, overwhelmed Louis Chiap- etta and Charles Mothersele. The |mateh proper ended on the twenty- ninth hole, where the Britons won by a score of 8 up and 7 to play. They played the bye-holes, Duncan and Mitchell having a best ball of 140 for the thirty-six holes. The best ball of Chiapetta and Mothersele was 191, this. virtually consisting of /Chiapetta’s card in full, Mothersele was far off his normal game and was of slight as- to his partner throughout the two round: ———__ Star Oarsmen to Row in Bayo Regatta. One of the best regattas ever held on waters adjacent to New York City will ain denies having a Baltimore is the jam Jersey City purse ard after the Phi bottom und work 1 owed next Saturday Newark Bay co will be oa ot ably to picture with Kearns irse, under. ispices of the Bayonne Cambridge and Philadelphia, among the latter being world champions Kelly Costello, who will row in double quadruple sculls. ‘The Union Boat Club eight, which will compete in the big event’ of the day, is composed almost entirely of the year’s Columbia varsity —____ American Rifle eam in Mateh| With French. LYONS, France, Aug. 11.—In the In- ternational Rifle Shooting competition here yesterday the American ami French teams fired from the kn positic Notwithsta Weather the ‘scoring wa \ | LIVE WIRES 2 i} | BY NEAL R. OHARA. | Copyright, 1921, by the Press Publishin ¢ Co. (The New York Evening World.) | The reformers, for once, could be popular if they started an Ante- Bellum League for prices. +38 % Winner of the Wilson-Downey fight can't be decided till we find out | which suy trained on, Nix-ain’t-it [ron sey vs So many crucial series these days, it's a relief when the Phils are Playing the Reds o 8 6 Experts now concede that i/ the World's Series are played in New | York, Babe Ruth should pack the Polo Grounds, | oe Pete Herman-Joe Lynch film on Broadway. Once it took the chickens ntams over on fight mes. Ponzi or Only split Mi franchise up again, over the one the Rowing Asso- 1 from Boston. rked ou! p-morrow DANISH TEAM IN. DAVIS CUP MATCHES Semi-Final Round Will Open To-Day on Cleveland Club Courts. Aug. 11.—The pair- matches in singles in the und of the Davis Cup CLEVELAND, ings for the semi-final tennis tice |flela Coun and Saturday, have been made. Bri \* ‘Tegner of Denmark meets Norman | Peach of Australia at 3 o'clock to~ . while J, U. Anderson of Aus- tralia is pitted against Vagni Ingersiey at 3.30 P.M. The doubles will be played on Friday and the remaining singles on Saturday, Both teams have been practising at Mayfield ‘his week. The matches will » referced by 1H. C. Torrey, Vice Presi« dent of the United States Lawn Tennia | reeociation. Have you caught yours The rain of savings keeps pouring down, as the Suit Sale goes merrily on. Thousands of suits still here, each showing a sav- ing of $20 or more. $35 for suits formerly $55 and up. $45 for suits formerly $65 and up. Summer and Winter weights, and it’s a man of mighty odd size who can’t find something he likes that fits him. RoGers Peet COMPANY Broadway Broadway at 13th St. “Four at 34th St. Convenient Broadway Corasrs” at Warren TO-NIGH 7 MARTY’ SUMMERS ¥ hibition JOE DAl Fied mont —and for cigarettes Virginia tobacco is the best to be contested at the Mi y Club to-day, to-morrod} / at Tins Beek % 4 Be 2775 Sroaesa fey | 2522