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* j ¢ , t F $ } j : iy ; e i. ‘ / ; ' ) t se 2) { & ; h i e @ ae 4 | t ; t ; | — ee el a ee ; “INVISIBLE” SYNDICATE. 1 PULLING POLITICAL WIRES Sporting Figurehead Has Military Building on Jerome Avenue With Seating Capacity of 57,000 Under Inspection— Big Matches Are Planned, the First With Benny Leonard, Light- weight Champion, and Britton, King of Welters, as Princi- ih pals—Boxing Commission By Vincent Treanor. . OLITICAL wires are being pulled these days to secure at least one of the big armories in each city of the State for boxing purposes. | success will come to the efforts of those behind the plan re Some time ago a similar movement was started, but Junt as everything was set for turning over the State-owned structures to Ww mains to be secn. Private interests, the Military Board buildings, put the xibosh on the entire proposition. ander the last Administration, headed by Gov. Al Smith. be different now. At any rate, a group of prominent Republicans—an invisible syndicate—are working behind a sporting figurehead and are reasonably sure of dcing what was impossible under the Democratic regime, Several of the armories have been@ inepected, with a view to transform- ing them partly into fight clubs. One of these, that of the &th Coast Artil- lery, located at Jerome Avenue and Kingsbridge Road, in the Bronx, would in the mind's eye of the would- de promoters make Madison Square Garden look like a furnished room in comparison, It !s said that this par- ticular building has a floor «pace that could be utilized so as to seat 567,000 people comfortably. The only drawback in connection with It is that it is « ttle bit off the beaten path for @ fight club, but in these days, when fight crowds are made up largely of automobile trav- ellers, the location of the fight club te considered of secondary !mpor- tance, It is pointed out that last year a crowd that made up a gate of $180,000 travelled over cinders and ash heaps, through broken fences and what not, to a far away Harrison, N. J., baseball park to see Benny Leonard and Rocky Kansas box 9 no- decision bout. An armory here offer- ing one hundred and one facilities of which Harrison could never boast, would, it Is estimate, draw twice as much money. The Boxing Commission professes to know nothing of the plans referred to, But as Deputy Commissioner Tom O'Rourke says, it wouldn’t be a bad idea at that. The power of the com- mission to issue licenses, however, would rest on what Gen. O'Ryan and Adjutant Genera] Kinkead of the Mil- itary Board had to say. If they per- mitted the use of the buildings, O'Rourke says the commission would Dave no alternative but to hand the necessary licenses to the persons fill- essary requirements of the alker Inw. O*Rourke has heard of some attempts to lease the Tist Regi- ment Armory for boxing and wres- ting. He says Promoters Billy Well- man and Jack Curley have been after it, but that's all he knows about the matter. Ee syndicate behind the armory scheme has nothing but dig matches in view. The first under consideration is one between Benny Leonard, ‘ightweight champion, and Jack Britton, veteran title holder of the welterweight division. This match has been talked almost to death, but never has it been so near the making. Everybody knows that Leonard so far outplasses ali the 195-pounders that it is mecessary for promoters to seek an opponent for him among bigger men to insure a match that would prove the real thing, a-genuine test for the popular lightweight king. He and Britton have met before in decision- jess bouts that were hair raisers, but at that time Britton hadn't reached the championship heights over which he now lords. While there was plenty of interest in these bouts, !t was as nothing compared to what another meeting with a decision to be ren- dered and a title at stake would arouse. ‘The suggestion of such a battle re- calls the memorable Kid Lavigne-Joe Walcott handicap bout years ago at Maspeth, L. L, ome of the greatest ever seen anywhere. T no time before in Leonard's A career would a bout with Brit- ton have carried so much ap- peal. Leonard, instead of being the fast, sbifty, in and out dazzler of Fistic News In the main go Madison Square Garden to-night Midget Smith, ban- tamwetght, will hook up with Barry Hill of the west side. In the other bouts Morris Lux vs. Marty Sum- mers, Eddie Anderson vs, George Lee, from California, and Mickey Brown vs. Joe Leopold of Denver. tonal Rporting Club will hold tte og show for ite members oa the night Matchmaker Tex OHourke bas igned @ Nor. 11 Midget Smith to meet Roy Moore of the West in the mals contest of fifteen rounds, Herbert Cromiey. the English hearyweteht meet A. of twe Nov. * wn nd in the mato go rounds af the Pioueer Sporting Club Haba Sullivan of Greenwich Village apd Danny Fields of the east ide have signed -smicies calling for them to mecet in s twelve-tound dediaion bout : the 1024 Medical Regiment Armory on Taurs- ey nigbt, In the semi-fioal Joe Mastery meets Dominick Servidio fer ten rounds. Jobim Attell, who formerly sesisted Prank Ragity and Peddie Mead, t# now affiltetet with Alberts, manager of Bammy Sieger and Marty Sum: mere Wee Wor Berton. the colored fgbte. and Terry M©itabeld will have tt out ip & twelve-round ga st the 1th Infamtry Armory oa Priday night, Young deck Jotmson va Sallor Bagnano in the sami- final. Sa besieged with offers for the servion ef ugh. the oreck Allentown bentam. whe Dit t the Garden and who woo inom over Chick Suge. the New Eng 08, Mast week. McHugh Ropes to be with the Buff-Sharkey winner, e us ba itt t : Andrew, he Milwaukee promoter. Wad Ted Jamison, the former amateur beary Mivaukee, and Bob Moba, the veteran tht mame city, te mont is the mais oe Wa 1Y JOHN POLLOCK Would Issue License. of the State militia, controlling the That, however, was Conditions may | few years ago, is a more settled type | now, Still a wonder, a creato- of openings, a hard and sharpshooting | puncher, his style would conform) more now to that of the old fox, Brit- ton, whose superior, at least defen- sively, doesn't live in the boxing World. It doesn't take much imagina- tion to picture this pair outwitting, outgeneralling each other, each with a wallop when it will do the most good. Britton has never been re- garded as a knocker-out, but just the same he is a wicked puncher when | the time comes ty let it go. Britton has done a lot of boxing outside of New York. He has met some tough customers in his travels. He has been stacked against local prides from Maine to California, and often the stage has been set to sep- arate him from his title, but the old fox had always emerged on top. Sev- eral times he has been musged up. once or twice dropped to the floor, but he always got up and finished the job, to the chagrin of the other fellow and his backers. THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, USE QF STATE ARMORIES F OR BOXING BOUTS THE PARDON ME, BUT HAVE You A, (stick OF ARGUMENT) So NOW ALL A ACK’S no fool, He knows he can't go on this way forever, He's thirty-eight years old, His man- either about the perennial youth stuff. He admits that “old” Britton is ready to be clipped on the jaw, but in the next breath he says he'll rig up $75,000 as a present for any welter- weight who can do the clipping. Morgan ig a bit jealous of Leon- ard’s reputation for fnvincibility, afd so {8 Britton. They would like to puncture it, especially if the punctur- Ing would carry with it a shot of real dough. At least, that's the impres- | sion you would get if you saw them seated discussing Leonard seriously, Britton appears to be more anxious to fight Benny now than at any other | time. He thinks he could do more with him, for some reason or other. How Leonard feels about this isn known. Benny, ‘t chasing him for | a match, but if !t comes there's no | doubt he'll be in there on the night selected with everything, We don't know anybody better qualified to administer the clipping | on Britton’s chin for which Mansger | Morgan says the welterweight cham- pion is ready. IME hung heavily on the hands of racing regulars yesterday. For the first time since Inst spring they were out of action. They | had absolutely nothing to do but kill time. The metropolitan season closed | Saturday and the gates were down in Kentucky, too, Laurel wound up its October dates, and the off day was hard to pass. To-day it's diffe “They're off” again in Mary Pimllco begins a meeting which com- pares favorably with any that has gone before In New York. Some of the biggest stables of the local circuit @ quartered there, and from now on til the end of the month racing should be interesting day in and day out. After Pimlico comes t): winter ses- | sions at Havana, New Orleans and! Tia Juana which will serve to keep! up the interest in King Horse until next May rolla around. when the old bugle will call ‘em to the post again t Jamaica, and Gossip Of tex rounds at « show which be will stage at the Auditorium tn that tty om Nov. 7, Al Boyle, © protege of Leach Crom and who re cently stopped Cyclone Clifford, 18 now ready to hor Bett Spenoes, Phi) Delmaot, Immy Duffy or Gen Delmon: Boyie balls from the east aide and has a large following. | Fred Fulton bas been booked to fight Jack Helgan of Chicago for ten rounds at a abow of the American Legion mistice Day night, Nor Mochester, Minn, nL om Ar of Harlan, Dave Shade the California welterwelgtt, and | Jimmy Kelly of the Bronx, wil come together in & twelve round battle at the Cotumonwealte Sport tng Club, of Hazlem ou next Saturday nigot. Semamy Bleger, who showed by his battle with Joe Gorman ta the Garden Friday night that he| ls once again fighting in the chainptouskip form he Giaplayed last winter when he kayoed Johany Murry and fought @ great draw with Billy Defoe, will be kept busy from now on, as his manager, Harry Alberts, is besieged with offera ing Leonard, bantamwetght of Philadeipbie ‘Bum. y Uitte Haat Side bantam wel trent. Levine “te the Eadie Wyoming Anderton ‘aah for ‘the cout ‘of ‘nina Talend tty Crystal in the sta lub ef Long” Talend oo r Jimmy Mars va Young im the! Terry Martin, the Providence, Rt | welgot, boxes Danny Kramer ot Py round at the Fenway 4 B Copyright, 1921, by The Press Publishin; To let the college correspondents tell it, a football team would gladly ager, Dan Morgan, has no illusions| lose eight games in order to win the last one. . A lot of football teams’ “stone wall defences” are beginning to look like one of Hindenburg’s lines. Ss Don't know what the Centre Coll final score of Harvard game looks as . Considering that the Centre tea: ympire, it's a wonder they make so ° since the Bulldog hae had its day. fhe linotypers have anything war tax on the tickets, . the truth, . single. WITH THE BASKETBALL PLAYERS New York Quintets Setting Fast Pace for Visiting Fives. New York basketball teams are set- ting a fast pace for quintets from other States. In the past two weeks the local aggregations have succeeded m setting back the majority of in- vading fives. The Original Celtics up to the present lead the field with a clear record, having defeated somc of the best quintets from Jersey, up State and Pennsylvania. MacDowell Lyceum 1s another local team playing | in excellent style. The Italian tho- Me Club and All Americans have also shown the class of New York fives. Over in Brooklyn the Nonparetis are Iding up that part of the town’ restige, The Brooklyn Whirlwinda, Knights of St. Anthony and St. James ‘Triang) © giving the Nonpareils a close-race for first honors. The game scheduled for Wednesd: night between the All-American Fiv and the Oviginal Celtics has been set back one night, These two leading local teams will clash on the All American's court at the 69th Rcgiment Armory. The Celtica will rely on the yegular line-up, while the home team will send wee Norman, Dick Smythe, Charley a Artie Powers. Jerry Sullivan and Borgeman on t floor in an effort to win coumplon- ship honors OTHER GOSSIP. Lieut. Elmer Oliphant of Point, considered the greatest football star who ever donned @ gridiron uni- form, and the choice for All American honors for three consecutive years, has joined the New York Basketball team. With Oliphant, Stretch Rey- nolds, Bob Grody, Joe Grabel, Ernie Seifert, Birdie, rell and Goldman, the New Yokers offer an excellent at- traction to all teams. Games may be booked though Manager Joe Grabel, No. 814 Greenwich Sereet, New York Manhattan Lassies Baskethall Club, composed of several graduates of New York high schools, has re- organized for this season. Games have been booked for every Wednesday ey ng at Central Casino, 134th St and Macombs Place, one block east of Highth Avenue TEAMS WITH OPEN DATES. Origival Brooklyn Triangies, with leading = be Stn eo LIVE WIRES BY NEAL R. O’HARA. . Yale is certainly due for a comeback this year. . Moszezenski of Columbia will never make the All-American team if to say about it. . One reason that accounts for football's popularity is that there ts no . The honesty of football is undoubted, can't tell the players without a scorecard,” you know that (hey are telling é . In the parlance of the show business, the Home Run King COMMISSION HAS*HULED THAT A MANAGER SHALL NoT 6ROB OFF Hors THan 834% OF WHS. MEAL TICKETS 3} THE GAN ON SMOKING (wich I OPEN To QUY CaM 00 1S CHEW THE Far. g Co, (The New York Evening World.) . lege players prayed for this year, but if they got tt. ° m is coached by @ National League few mistakes, ° It's been many a year e . Even when the kids ory, “You now a ONE OF GREATEST FORWARDS PLAYING BASKETBALL NOW | GRORGE NORMAN | Georgie Norman ts considered by the leading basketball authorities one of the greatest forwards in the games. Georgie has been playing on the courte for several years and has always put up a good game. He will line up with the All-Americans when that team tackles the champion Celtics Thursday night. In addition to playing with the Yankee five, Norman is a member of the Non- parells, one of Brooklyn's leading teams. He plays a forward position for thie quintet. Norman played with one of the Eastern League clubs last year and finished the season as the second highest point scorer. Willie Dipples, Arfert, Dubletn, Hayes, | ¢,Mc@tmney, Chpncil tortelted two waunes fayette and, 'WE HAVE A BUSY LIL’ COMMISSION. - Copyright, 1921, by the Press Publishing Go. (The New York Evening World). “NOW "By Thornton Fisher PiMliCQ RACING WHY PERFESS@R YHE LEGAL STATUS 1S SOME TING A 6S GOT IN HIS {N THE SWEET BYE AND BYE — Yipee WITH NEW LAWS BEING PROMULEATED BY THE” BOKING COMMISSION IT Witt BE NECE pice se Tie SobIE yea Nis A 4 NEARS 2 LAW eourst PLANNE MISS CECIL LEITCH COMING BACK AFTER THE TITLE IN 1922. Miss Cecil Leitch, the famous English golf woman, whose ability on the links has carried her to championships in three countries, will leave to-day for Canada, where she will spend a few days with friends before returning to ip for home on Nov. 15. ish girl announted yes- terday that she was certain (o make the trip to America again next summer in quest of the title which she failed to gain this year at Hollywood. In addition to play- ing in the 1922 national, she will also enter the Canadian cham- pionship in defense of her laurels which she won this year and aleo to engage in a number of exhibi tion matches, Miss Leitch ended her stay in thie country with a victory. Yesterday, over the fa- mous National Links, in a four- ball foursome, Mi Leitch, teamed with Miss Marion Hollins of Westbrook, the national wom- titleholder, and they defeated Emmett, ‘t golf nd W. H. Follett, the ind champion, by 2 up. TACK’S GOSSIP AND BOWLING. NEWS The Funnell Bowling League ts to} open this evening at Billie Cordes’s| Grand Central alleys, Brooklyn, with | a classy lot. of competitors. Games whl be rolled Wednesday and Thurs-! day evening until the lengthy sched- ule arranged by the tournament com- | mittee has been completed, The Fun- nell League {s one of the best known leagues in Brooklyn. Flatbush was the winner of » dvuble-heaGer tn tho opening series of games in the Brooklyn Knights of Columbus tournament at the Pali Brodkism. de mth the Moris “Part a wee bout last night. ‘Yor sey or some of they are bankering ® mal faccdalre veams in the Knigmts of Columbus League at Dunbar's aileys waa the first forfelture of the season, ‘The United Bowling Clube will make arrange ments for theit sonst srctional tournament ot the Bert meeting of ihe delegatcs, maediled to do D°id re Stinday. te the Lae. New York | the Schoolboys Start —_—~— New York Lads Get Early! Practice for Dual Meet Against Chicago, New York have just completed plans for one of the largest| skating seasons in the history of their athletic activities, Skating in the East was a dead sport until The Evening World last year donated . trophy, to vevive the winter pastime, for a dual meet be- tween the best schoolboy skaters \f Chicago and New York. The sturdy Middle Westerners defeated the East- erners in such hollow fashion that the local P. S. A. L. officials decided to make skating a major sport in the public schools, The defeat of the New York boys last March was the result of the bet- ter skating factlities provided for skating in Chicago. The Mayor Thompson Ice Skating Committee for years has been flooding playgrounds and providing skates for the school | children, with the object of rehabili- tating what Mayor Thompson himself termed as “the most healthful outdoor sport in existence.” Following the example of the Middle Western municipal officials, Anning Prall, President of the Board of Edu- TW P. S. A. L, officials of Greater Mies Durack Plank Aquatic Co Back, Miss Fanny Durack of Australia, for many years undisputed champion wom- an swimmer of the world, who was de- feated by American mermaids in 1918 and retired "from competition the fol- lowing season, out to return to activity. Word comes from Sydney, her home town, that she {s preparing for the appr Australian title tests and that ecepted an in- e vitatign to attend th aival ‘of the a) fan A. U. Honolulu. Her attempt to effect a comeback will be watched with keen interest from this side. Gibbons Defeats Littleton. NEW ORLBANS, Nov. 1—Before the’ largest fight crowd ever assem- bled here Mike Gibbons defeated Happy Littleton in a fifteen-round Littleton sent Gib- bons down for a count of four in the first round with a right and left to jaw. From then on Mike won round. Ss Potustette Golf Winner. Allen S. Poinstette, President of the New York Newspapermen’s Golf Club, won the final out-of-town tournament at the Pelham Country Club, Pelham, yesterday afternoon. Poinstette, who is a member of the Associated Press every New York City, offer inducement to home teams for 4 reasonable guar- antes. Manager, Charles 5. Russell, No. 588 Teasdale Place, Bronx. booked with some of the best teams and are anxious to book a few more games, Manager, Marron; tele- Murray Hill 8220, Montana Five of Brooklyn, composed of Kane, Travis, Mitchell, Bowe and Btutchbury, are anxious to play light-heavyweight teams on op- ponents’ courts. Manager, James Mc- ee Semmy Vogel Makes Success Debut as Pro Boxer, PHILADELPHIA, Noy. 1.—Fighting his first contest in Philadelphia, Sammy Collegiate Wanderers, champions of| Vogel, former Olympic champion, en- Greenwich Village, Ines up: with| deared himself to the hearts of the fistic Schilling, Shutsky, Christin, Lesnick fens bere ast oven when eave and Schell. For games address wm. | 2rankie Clark of this city Christin, No. 82 St. Marks Place, New Ee en Foe City. Victory for English Team. ‘The New York Strollers have games| poston, Mass, Nov. L—The Eng- shwomen's field hockey team yesterday defeated the Boston School of Physical Education a score of 22 to 0 at the Long wood Club. te New Pl for Red Sox. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Nov. The Boston Red Sox have drafted Hendryx, staff, turned in a low score card of §3—6—77. Nearly twenty-five players) teed off, Training For Big Indoor Skating Season’ cation, has taken a real interest in the attempt to encourage skating and has promised that he will co-operate in every way within his powe> to do what Mayor William Thompson ha done for the school children of bh city. The Eastern schoolboys will make the trip to Chicago this year. They start training earlier than last ye under a competent staff of conc and Dr, A. K. Aldinger expects the ew York boys to make a better showing than they did last winter, In order that the schoolboy will be held every week at the 18ist Street Ice Skating Palace, beginning Nov. 9, These series of weekly races will lead up to the scholastic cham- pionships to be held March 1, from which the team will be selected to make the trip to Chicago during the month of March, 1922. The winter skating schedule fo> elementary school boys is: 85-POUND DIVISION. Noy. 9, 220-yard dash; Nov. 23, 440-yard dash; Dec. 7, 220-yard dash Dec, 21, 440-yard dash; Jan, 11, 220- yard dash; Jan. 18, 440-yard ‘dash; yard dash; Feb, 15, 440- 100-POUND DIVISION. 21, 220 yards. HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION. Nov. 16, 880 yards; Nov. 80, one mile; Dec, 14, one-mile relay; Dec, 28, 440 yards; Jan, one mile; Jan. 880 yards; Feb 8 880 yards Feb, 440 yards. The championships which wil be held on March 1 comprise a 220-yard event for the 85-pound boys; 440 and 440-yard relay for the 100-pound di- ision; 880-yard race for the L15- pound o! and one-mile match and 980-yard relay for the heavyweights, 21, Hugh, No. 86 Worth Street, New York City: or telephone, Worth 9109. Fairmont Five, wh oasis of a vietury over the Emer 1 ust K ga with, te cs Davidson, are anxious to book games! [with ne teams, Address (. BE. Ar fert, 2401 Catalpha Avenu Brooklyn. The Bankers’ Five, composed of ke courts, strength on home Booking Manager, opponents’ | Willlam J.) ¢ players of several banks of Wurlex, No. Mi4 Mash 10d Street New « an outfielder, from the Chattanooga Southern Association fb, it was an noun erday by Sammy Nick!in manager of the loca m ~_ Sam Mossherg Is Winner fant bau! conieah baga ina tniadon, 20 for 15¢_ Nov. 16, 440 yards; Nov. 23, 880-| yard relay; Dec. 7, 440 ys Dee. 21,] 880 yard } Jan, 18, 880 yards: relay; Feb, 15, 880-yard relay 115-POUND DIVISION. Noy. 9, 440 yards; Nov. 30, 880 yards; Dec, 14, 440-yard relay; Dec. 28, 220 yards; Jan. 4, 880 yards; Jan, 25, 440 yards; Feb. 8 440 yards; Feb. Their Quality price distinction in cigarettes BEECH NUT CIGARETTES You cant help but like them! a » MEETING OPENS WITH GOOD CARD | Well-Filled Fields Make Up Classy Programme for To-Day’s Inaugural. LTTMORE, Novy, B, 1,.— Only “@ casual glance at the list of entries for the opening day of the Pimlico meet to-day is sufficient to lead any one to the conclusion that it looked more like an opening to a racing sea~ son. Well-filled fields. /n which clase ( predominates, make to-day's pro- gramme a notable one. Fifteen of the vost horses in training have been amed and incude such horses ag Tryster, Careful, Billy Kelly, Auda- cious, Knobbie, Dominique, ‘Georgie and ‘Horologue, So anxious were horsemen at Pimlico to enter their ines that there J from one n entri were Sixteen ex- ce. There are sev- the Pikesville Purse, which will bring out a number of the among the H0 candidates two-year-olds Futurity, to be run programme erial Hands the first of the Pimlico § for all ages. We have the right slope! That’s the scientific ex- planation of why our shirts \fit! | The right slope of neck- |band! The right slope of shoul- ders! 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