The evening world. Newspaper, December 23, 1921, Page 22

SMITH Vv — A ter Holidays to Make Match. Ber Fehr, Wor) by lishing Company, 1921, CK DWMPSEY is due back in : York about the first of the year ready to sign articles for h or other in tho way of a Tex Rickard, with the knowl- and consent of the champion, ‘Weanning the fistic horizon for a 8 opponent for Jack, and has made up his mind that none formidable than our old friend, d Fulton, could be secured. The tonal ending of tho last meet- of Fred and Jack, when Fred hit @anvas with a thud just fourteen after the first bell rang, and Stories of a double cross some- following the brief battle ei seem to make @ second meot- ) ing of the men of more than pussing what you will of Fulton, he is doubt the best white heavy- fht aext to Dempsey, and before Jersey fight was considered by than one good judge as the bot- all around. ‘the ‘nate was to decide much. Fulton got pve good every stepped that pion Due in New York SLAM! BANG! HE SENT Jack RENAULT DOWN FoR & COUNT- THE ead BELL SAVING HIM —————- BuT BY THE MIDGET WHO PLASTERED HIM ALMOST aT WILL Faber Leading Pitcher Ea LOOKED tke TH ; ij} KID IN ree OPENER. WHEN PETE SEEMED Badly OUT CLASSED Gear wis THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, Ye21." SCORES EASY VICTORY OVER EX-BANTAM CHAMPION ~ LAST NIGHT. - - Copyright, 1931 (The New York Evening World), by The Press Publishing Co, fe REAL COMEBACK” SOMETHING AND LOOKED LIKE @ RED DANGER. a SII 4, SIGNAL PICKED ON {/ ae /7 vor When PETE ‘CUSTOMARY Aioenton ise aie wot ¢ RING SOE WE’ SEEM TO EARLE NEALE SIGNS TO COACH W. AND J. WASHINGTON, Pa., Dec. 23.— want 2:48 Earned Run Average) ‘2c: we for He was he had He was pre- when—zippo! to the had displaced of Jess Wil- iy rate, that fight has gone and Fulton iy aay. Fulton, ‘y. on, -he was jobbed out of match and the conse- championship, has professed to get at Jack agin Rick- good Le as he usually is of the Me will take to, is mut ready to tie Jack and Fred up contract. Rickard says that y is about the only one of it hampions who will title, and he Sisal eee ® siimpse at eo an Afraidi” S , 1m to have fights to a de- | ‘we hear. An amendment to fF the present law jnwalizing twelve- bouts there is to be put pr at the next session of the jure, and t! the Skeeter ‘Promoters will in _a-position QD more even terms with ‘York. This city has only its Square Garden, whereas has many such places for its including armories in Jersey and Newark, not to mention other places, all near enough York to attract fans to bouts h while, Rickard won't be in so bad if decisions come across the He still has that big stadium, its 90,000 capacity, on “Bayle's ty Acres” for big spectacles, so ean't register any serious objec- to the promised legislation. OOP and all as decisions may 7 look to Jersey promoters, they ues may have the «ffect of pro- ‘ducing cold feet among the cham- 2g as they evidently have done in > York. Although the big town . alone as the real money- for boxers of. all classes, mpions have shown a disposition dough for less 80-called “sticks,” they can weigh what they like get licked without any danger losing thelr precious titles. Sohony Buff an example of the it crop of title-holders. 1 Z Mer winning the bantamweight title from Pete Herman, fought one -) bowt with Jack Sharkey and_ then out West to meet Pal Moore. got $6,000 for it, whereas he have received three times that but here he might have lost because of the decision ys coming at the end ore he was champion Buff was too willing to box in New York, a ees here gave him ef establish himself profit- Now that he is “made,” Johnny ts to stay that way with the least trouble. Hi doesn't take sideration that there are ungsts who are entitled to that he got and of |i ‘he made so muc Whet ar aor ak ee went to Urban C. Faber, the White can Sox veteran, who allowed but 2.48 earned runs for each nine innings. Faber worked 831 innings before he was laid out with an injury and fewer runs were scored by opponents against Chicago when he pitched than were earned off the second best regular, George Mogridge of Wash- ington, who hed a sparkling season. The Chicago star was credited with twenty-five victories and charged with fifteen defeats, » winning ave- rage of .625 though his team finished Stars of the champion Yankees, were third and fourth, respectively, among the regulars with averages of 3.08 and 3.10. Mays led in percentage of games won with an gverage of .750, Shocker of St. Louls also won 27 gamos but lost 12 for a record of 692, Mays also led in actual work, five or more innings. Chicago Twirler Leads Mogridge of Washington—Carl Mays and | 2nd Jefferson football Waite Hoyt, New York Players, Finish in Third and Fourth Positions. ' coach” of the year, has signed a contract to coach the Washington the year of 1822. The public, but it was stated by Grad- Murphy that the coach has been given quite a \ Pitching honors for the season hurling 337 innings, six more than| raige over the figure he received Ueo, Mogriggs, Washingto: (. W. Mays, Now York. |. Pailadel pm Van Gilder, St, Lowe Faber. Urban Shocker, great spit-ball hurler of the St. Lou's Browns, won| Neale, but he expressed a desire nine stralght games in August and] to remain with the Presidents, finished the season with a record of} with whom he has made such an 27-12 for an average of 693, Davis! enviable record in his first year of the same team pitched and won as tutor of a “big time” team. His @ nineteen-inning contest from Wash-| work with the Presidents in the ington in which only onn man reached| season of 1921 has been regarded first base in the last nine rounds. Sam] ft Jones and Joe Bush of Boston, Edwin schedule. Pittsburgh, West Vir- Rommel}, Philadelphia, and 8, Covel- inia, Syracuse, Detroit, Buck eskie of Cleveland all were effoctive high and others went down despite the lively ball, while two| fore the onrush of the team N ung southpaws, Cole of Detroit and| developed. yne of St, Louis, were almost un- beatable during the final month of ——— ° seventh place, the season. Si Me Ve Dies Carl ‘go.|, Most of the pitchers found it very | WQUIL Y 1 Mays and Waite Hoyt, ‘60-| aimoult to cope with tte great sug: gers of the league and the burling, as a whole, was far jess effective than th any ‘previous year. As a resuii, shut out victories and Kames of fow| sam MoVey, the veteran negro fighter, died of pneumonia in the his record reading, 27—9. Urban| were not approached by the most suc-|Harlem Hospital yesterday. McVey Geaaful of the twirlers, was a native of Oxnard, Cal. and de~ Individual pitching includes ail - pitchers who have woracd in forty- veloped into one of the greatest col. ored fighters that the ring has ever hits were conspicuous »y their rarity and strike out records of former years little short of phenomenal. His team won every game on a hard known. He fought many great bat- hry ties in this country and abroad In P.O, 248 fighters. twenty-round affalre with Jack John- son before the latter won the tit fight with Jeanette in Paris, in which he was knocked out eS SS “SOCKS” SEYBOLD KILLED a 6 6 1 10 2 . * (Socks) Seybold, former Philadel- east of here early yesterday, accord- ing to news received by relatives. were driving to Ligonier when the been employed as steward of @ s0- cial club here. in the American League in his day. RecSctoces ene us and 1906 his batting av Seu auecewuuseores | games. ——————_ — Hodges tn Chess Exhibitt Albert B, Hodges, former United § cece coc -ceucccen cee ee cunucrecourcectnees ere e er ce d+ cee er weecenen+-euvesseetteoren American cable series, will give an hibition of simultaneous play in the room of the Hotel Bristol, No, 129 48th Street, this evenini wil Donovan wa ecleceeeceeceree cers =~ RENAULT STOLE ALS STUFF im THe 390 AND THE BELL mideer Smirk RESEMBLES A NICE MILK- FED INFANT IN THE RING— BUT PpoESNT SeRAP LUKE ONE ® Midget Moves Nearer Title By Beating Pete Herman; ‘Tunney Puts O’Hare Out Two Other Lively Bouts Sat- isfy Crowd That Jams Mad- ison Square Garden. the body and this riled the Greenwich Village pride. He hooked his own left to the body and then literally threw the same punch up at O'Hares jaw. Down went Eddie backways, landing luckily up against the r7 ting position. Kk the count that way and just as Gene was trying tc bring him down with a shower of rights the bell rang. Gene became ov By Vincent Treanor. OTHING wrong with last night's fistic doings at the Garden. Four good bouts, a packed house and decisions all on the up Jack Renault took a Well- earned verdict {rom Al Reich in the first, bout ofeight rounds. Rosenberg won a rip-roaring nip and tuck affair from Jimmy Darcy, Gene Tunney put a big blot in the shape of a first knockout on the record of Eddie O'Hare just before the end of the sixth round, and Midget Smith | Tw crossed the betting fraternity by giv- ing ‘Pete Herman, champion, the beating of his waning days as a fighter, -Aoxieus in th hree lefts to K fight right over O'Hare against die’s ribs. Then 4 the heart and drove the ropes floundering, with another right to the body and a left to the He then over-rvached himself with a right directed at the head and again the bell was @ timeiy sound for O'Hare. Gene sustained a bad cut on the left eye in the fifth and in a few seconds his face become a red smear. It was only a scratch, but the trickle of blood in the vyo piainly disturbed Patched up and washed off, Gene looked respectadle sgain in the sixth and he proceeded to hurry things. He landed a left and a right to either side of Eddie's face, and had him looking wobbly again. his favorite left hook to the jaw and before O'Hare cou!d get his blocking system working, more blows with They reduced Eddie very plainly and Tunney switched to the use of his He shot a half arm uppercut in right to the point of Eddie's chin and he stepped bac« ‘o aim for one more good punch. the ex-bantum He threw in Smith was a 2% to 1 shot at the be- In the final round he was a 1 to 10 chance. Every bout, with t possible exception of the last, was hotly contested, and there wasn't the disapproval of anything that transpired througtout the entertaining evening, The Reich-Renatlt bout was an The bell saved Renault in the very first round after he had been dropped cleanly by a left nook, and the old gong came to the rescue of Reich along about the same time in the second, when partly blicded from the effects of three left jabs to went down na the same punch. in Local Hospital Before he could let it up O'Hare crumpied up and slid to the ground, He rolled over on his stretched out, rid temporarily At the ten count ne wiggied, but there No get-up-fullness in him. He Was still flat ten seconds later wher. m up and haii carried him to his coraer, is ig feather in Tuaney’s cap, for had ali the earmarks of a genufne comer. The so-called star bout wasn't as good as the three which preceded it Midget Smith furnished another sur- by beating Herman nearly all In two rounds, the fourth Herman flashed He really was travelling gave the impression of being able to twist Smith around his fingers, but at other stages his work suffered in comparison with that of ps. Al got up blink’ dropped his hands to hi helpless drunk, recent years he had retired (rom the| Coto tot looked like « sure-enough game and confined ‘his activities to sparring with and training young) qrysner, clang wen His second and man- ager, Charley Harvey, hud to almost Jasso him to get him back to his Some of the greatest battles in which MeVey took part in were his bout see-sawed from Burns, and his forty-nine-round then the othe first one and about to crumple up again. ished very sick. a fighting brain, thing in the way of a punch hurts He can sock hard, but he has no creative knowledge of boxing. He can’t feint an opponent out and ‘s at at a loss when it comes to making openings. He must have a clear shot Renault {snot elf as a boxer, but he is discouraged as Reich, ke to see an opponent r he has floored him. enherg bout was fall rt gallery gods lik». Both boys fought every inch of th eight-round distance. like a cyclone but blew everything he had in _the basket, In the first tw* Rosenberg is on Al has everything and any old The Midget cut Pete's lp early, hunged up his right eye and plastered his ribs with rights until it seemed that blood would ooze through the Pete was there with his rat, tat, tat infighting at times, but not more than half a dozen times did he he had in a right crows mith took whatever he always was there with a re- Pete was on the retreat the entire bout, excepting in fteenth round, when Herman actually forced Smith around the ring. IN AUTOMOBILE CRASH JEANNETTE, Pa., Dec, 23.—R. O. phia American League Club baseball player, was killed in an automobile necident on the Lincoln Highway put everythin; Seybold and a party of friends motor car was overturned at a sharp curve, ‘None of his companions was injured. Seybold had for some time Darcey started By this time the Midget knew he had the fight won and was taking showed last night that he is in Ine for the champlonship. He ia improving all the time, or as he says himeelf, ls gettin, likes to fight and positively refuses to be awed or discouraged by any opponent. He'd probab! sor if he was no unnecessary rters who thrivi milling and he is particularly hard to He weathered the storm started by Darcy and when he began landing on the bedy with atick-like rights and lefts tt was Seybold was one of the best hitters During the seasons of 1900, 1901, 1902 ge went over the 300 mark. Seybold played in the 1905 world series between the Giants and Athletics in which Christy Mathewson pitched three shut out was feeling the bre 5 hard to turn the tide of battle in the sixth, but midway in the round Dave got busy with a left hw ag ghting Jack Certificates of Victory, fer Boston Schoolboy BOSTON, Dec. 23,—Athletes of Bos- ton’s high schools will be prohibited from accepting prizes in future athletic was o bard fight for Darcy to lose, s| but Rosenberg was clearly entitled to chess champion and undefeated in any of the thirteen matches of the Anglo- Gene Tunney, the Greenwich Vili idol, re-established himself among heavies by a combination of rely seen at the A long training session a! Staten Island Bducation Nathaniel Young announced to-day that the schoolboys may accept only @ certificate of victory, that acceptance of pris d|tton of a school committee rule. d| prize awards offered at the annus! in- terscholastic games of Ha: mouth, Bowdoin, Amherst and Boston fighting and boxing Harry McCormick's farm has put and his brittle Wild Bil Doneva: © New round W was seen that (4 Hare was “al for a stormy % » wien he begun inchs RUTGERS AT POLO GROUNDS By Thornton Fisher CAL AMATEURS |e INTERCITY MEET 32" BONNE ees es New York Boys Best in Three} Fordham of Four Classes at Cres- cent Club. * Amateur boxers of the metropolitan district defeated the best simon pures from Philadelphia, Pittsburgh ‘and Boston in ‘three of the four classes at the Crescent Athletic Club last night. Owing to the fact that three boxers from Philadelphia failed to get per- mission from the A. A. U, in their district they were not allowed to par- ticipate. A last minute wire from the Quaker City to Benny Levine of tho local body cancelled their entries, The finals of the 118 and 188 classes were fought between local boys. The visitors, being eliminated early in these two classes. Gordon Munce, national heavy- weight title holder, drew a by and then stopped Tom O'Brien from Bos- ton, The latter's seconds came to his rescue by tossing in the sponge after forty-ninn seconds of fighting in the first round. Dan Gartin, the only Quaker City a Beteal tai aay Das a weight, lost a decision to Cu ad " marco of PittabUrED ag. It’s often the littlest gift rank Fasano of the Pau! acs . 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