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THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1922, ° ANOTHER CRACK TWIRLER ABOUT TO BE ADDED 10 GIANTS THE FUSSY FOURSOME Copyright (The New York Evening World) by the Press f hing Co., NEH DOC ~ DON'T Look UP THIS Time! You DON'T WANTA — TART “THIS SWING “/\ Wt YOUR, ANKLES EITHER AN! DON'T “WINK of “THar DEEP G@RaSsS “His Rie NDE OF “y'GREEN — KEEP R k, ie ~ DON'T SHOVE. IT Too Fast ff HEAD DOWN AN' WE'LL ee 7) OW KNOW YON ALWAYS Hook [Py 7 ON His HOLE ~ GRip Loose. [47 pr \ “ou FIND “TH BALL , ov deart! WITH THAT RIGHT AN’ DON'T a SS am PH FORGET "% FoLtow ThRoven'!| ai REMEMBER meal hen ste J “WAT RIGHT WAND “ LAy'ER ON “TH PIN Doe - You've Gor IT IN YOUR SYSTEM — Now Get Davis Tennis Cup Beats All _ Records for Globe Trotting. 1TF greatest traveller in the world, with a mileage record that makes Marcy Polo's look Tike 30 cents in the United States Mini, has just been discovered. The greatest traveller is the Davis Cup, which, since presented as a sort of fats;mational tennis championship tfophy by Dwight Davis of St. Louis, bas covered 210,000 miles by rail and steamer. The favorite jaunt of the Mavis Cup is to Australia, and the { Auistralians are working hard to do- velop a team that can take it across again next year. COMMERCE AND BOXING. Benay Leouard’s trip across hasn't — come off Like other kings of com- merce, Benny is waiting for foreign X@hange to come up a bit. Why box UF 10,000,000 ducats in some Euro- Sab country, and find on coming ome that he has earned the price of ‘vp fee cream soda in American money? A NOVEL FORMULA, Jack Dempsey gives a recipe for vols a great fighte ny = peas sl Hove 8. No 12! “sy 44 ay yA UN phe: APY SMe Olde pe THE FUSSY FOURSOME, Vic's New Comic, Appears Each Monday in The Evening World. Copies Will be Ropeinted’s on a Hed Paper and Mailed to Evening World Readers on Receipt of a Five-Cent Stamp for Each Copy. You Will Want the Series in Your Home or Your Golf Club. This Is the Thirty-First of the Series, the First Having Appeared May 30. Address Sporting Editor, Evening World. 1922, You feiiaus suut uP AN' LEY "VE Gor ENOUGH TO WORRY ME WITHOUT HavIN' “TTHINK ABOUT FIFTY OTHER Things — Now YOU WATCH —“THis 1s GONNA ME bo “his! BE A HUMDINGER Wt rut, * dime Oe) sand. “You've got to be a clean, square fellow, let liquor alone, and be gen- apaniy, says Jack. Ail a guy needs, aside from this, is a hefty waliop and room to swing It. Dempsey adds a few lines. Says he: of fat old men and hard i at rs think they can ‘come back,’ it’s never been shown that they fonder who Dempsey had tn mind? He has the right idea, in any case. rereee. are the birds that “never come one.” WORKS BOTH WAYS. | king about the old claim that K er might have beaten Jack ‘t could have worn four ounce - Gloves instead of eight ouncers at jerscy City, Dempsey says that the Our ounce gloves may cut a little, mt the eight ounce mitts lend weight _ \© the blow and are better for knock- a oso It woul io It wouldn't have made any dif ference,” he adds. “If it was possib:: the French boy to tip me over would have done it, He didn't miss me a whole jot! GOING SOME! Th answer to several queries about the oe st mile ever travelled by a peed boat, bere are a few figures: At the 1921 Gold Cap-Harmsworth ‘lad : egatta at Detroit, Gar iiss America IL.” broke the s mile record of 78.655 miles ‘am bour, formerly held by Miss 7) America T., establishing a new record 80,567 miles an hour George |WILSON TURNS TEX DOWN ON MATCH WITH GREB AFTER GETTING $35,000 Tho proposed middleweight, title fight between Champion Johnny Wild son and Harry Greb of Pittsburgh {s off. Marty Killilea, manager of Wil- son, notified Tex Rickard that Wil- son would not take part in the match supposed to be fought In Madison Square Garden next month. Killilea sald that he was forced to promise Nickard that he would sign for Wil- son to fight Greb under his manage- ment In order to collect the $35,900 due him for defending his titic against Bryan Downey Jn Jersey City Labor Day. “Wilson felt no compunction in withdrawing from the match under ‘these conditions,” Killilea stated. Eastern Football Superior In Game With California ———— Only Penalties Prevent W.) LIVE WIRES BY NEAL R. O’HARA. Coprright, 1922, (New York Evening World) by Press Publishing Company. California's football team is known as the Bears, and the California co-eds could get by under the same title too. eee “Every morning I open the Madison Square Garen it costs me $250 just to look over the place."—Tex Rickard, Now Tex knows how the customers felt the day they looked over his arena at Boyle's Thirty Acres. 1921, haps th eee Big colleges are now booming boxing on the grounds that it’s not only a manly sport but a money-making occupation, oe 8 Yelling between rounds is prohibited in the college glove game, but yelling over the gate receipts when the fight is finished is allowable, of course, ee Babe Ruth may get $3,000 a week in vaudeville, but Benny Leonard often cops $15,000 a night for his dancing act. Jackson a draw TILDEN WILLING 70 PLAY THROUGH ENGLISH TOURNEY received 20 pe LONDON, Jan. 3—Some of the leadiny players have decided not In the initial period, after heavy|or 10 per cent., | Hasnesernas at the Bears’ line, Wash- Woes, who is Gars brother, drove} to take advantage of the recent 7 , Wa: Ee wont, Se nace cata fuling by the Enalish Lawn Ten- and J. Beating Western | ington ana Jegterson shoved over alot slide, which The mile record can be made only | nig Association to have all cham- Champions | touchdown, which, however, was not “5 c IS. , ¥ eels Ad tg ewes AN Ie pions play through in 1923, but Is | allowed when Capt, Stein was called imine by running with a favoring giving them the option of stand- . for offside. oa tt. Three heats are run down- out out through the challenge PASADENA, Cal,, Jan. 3.—East Time Nisbit'’s punting in the first halt ed the tening scores. tanced Brenkert and three upstream, and the overage time ts taken, and the rate ia. miles per hour is computed. In America’s trials there was less than ae second between her times “yew? and downstream. he fantest single mile was run In round during the coming uttendance also W. T. Tilden, lawn tennis champion of all-Engliand, Max Woosman and Randolph Ly- cett, holders of the doubles cham- pionship, among the players Who expressed their willingness to battled West on even terms ‘yester- day, California, for the first time in tw years, was held to a scoreless tie by Washington and Jefferson, Californians from He far outdis- » Whose kicks were ill- The California's Big chance to sec Johnny Dundee received the nice sum of $9,676.50 for boxing Willie day night. Dundee got 25 per cent. of the net recelpts of $38,702.05, which gave him the above sum. which made his share $7,744. The re- ceipts, including the Government tax seipts up to the enormous amount amount that has ever been taken in at the Garden for a boxing show at the popular prices from $1 to $5. The there being present over 14,000 por- sons, of which 13,443 paid for tickets. State redelved $2, was five per cent. of $4 Startling Upsets Mark Both of Big Holiday Gridiron Contests Football dopesters are at a loss to figure the upsets the favorite elevens suffered in the intersectional games yesterday. Centre, conqueror of Harvard and undefeated through the season of at the hands of the Texas A. and M. College at Dallas, was per- greater surprise than the inability of California to do better against Washington and J Westerners were 3 to 1 favorites against the Presidents, and the 40,000 people assembled at Pasadena to watch the game were willing to blame the inability of their favorite team to score over the Easterners on rain, mud and the i team numbered among its ranks such celebrated gridiron stars as “Bo” McMillan and “Red” Roberts, but even with the as: o they were unable to beat the team that played a better game, in spite of the fact that it lacked the renown of the visitors. lerson than play them to a 0 to 0 vitable and excusable fumbling, T! istance phis on Jen. 14, at the Garden on Fri- Jackson of $38,702.05, fifteen rounds at the Garden next r cent. Sass manager demands one-third refuses to give to nim. brought the gross re- hewapaper writers in tat city is the largest no truth in the report, as Smith Atte Smith the great fighter he ts created a new mark, 086.95, which 39, Harry ‘The defeat of his second with elther Bettling Leonard oF Bat- (ing Murray st the National 4 C. of Philadel- ‘Tet Rickard hae practically given up the idea of bringing together Rockey Kansas of Buffalo and Low Tendier of Philadelphia tn ® return battle of receipts for his battler, which Rickard absolutely Boosuse Benny Leonard had Midget Smith 90 along with him to BMllwaukes as kis quest, the printed articles claiming that Smith was now under the management of Billy Gibson. the management of Harry Neary. who has madq If Tex Rickard will stage the proposer return bout between Midget Amith and Joo Lynch at tho Garden on either Jan. 23 or 37, Instead of Jan. 20, Neary will ecorpt the bout for Smith. Neary would sooner hare Smith battle on Jan 23 That’s Why He Is An vices of Bespectacled By Bozeman Bulger. HE super-determination of the Phillies. purchase, price won't figure. The only bespectacled pitche baseball on MoGraw’s 1922 to a dot, It would not only McGraw the best rounded out pi ing staff in the league. It would him the best Jot of curve ball pite in the business, their own, Meadows, here as a rooter, was of the very first to point out the vantage. Lee himself is a marvel! handler of the benders. After the Yanks had won games, and it looked bad for Giants, Meadows, a student of dinner. and beat them to death," he “If I was McGraw I'd make sary, to use notwing but That's all the Yanks missed to-di McGraw likes a thinking ballpla Always After hearing that suggestion wanted him worse than ever. tie. The the minors. lected his musc! ntre =| if Slim only ha of thi It know that Sallee came to the league first as a member of Yanks. the American League. Salee showed up at Cleveland. showed up with a pint flask on he could find a pool and billiard ro month, Kan- of the gross was on his way South, without « having a try-out. and Chleago} night with a pint on his hip.” Griffith lost a great pitcher that, but {t may have been best Sallee. He learned learned, at least, There 1s ‘o sttll under one ¢ay and Slim was missing, game was called off for some rea Giants to cinch the National League pennant in advance is again shown in the rumored efforts of McGraw to get Lee Meadows from Whether it be trade or list makes the plans and specifications complete gamo as well as a player of it, outs lined his fdeas to a group of us “Curve balls will beat those fellows sald | pitchers work their arms off, if neces- curves. he as wanted ‘eudows. Philadelphia they still insist that a deal will go through. Here's hoping. Speaking of good, old-fashioned curvers, Slim Sallee, now a free agent, says that he has two or three offers —one in the big league and two in Considering the time that old bird has put in and the way he has neg- s, that is remarkable. a fast one he would be up there winning for any club, is lixely that few of tho fans He lasted just three hours and was sent back to Birmingham—I believe it was Birmingham. Anyway, Sallce’s departure was most rapid. I happened to be with him the greater part of those three hours he was in Clark Griffith was manager then. hip—yes, they carried ‘em, even back in those days—and asked’ me where As we returned Griff got a whiff of the flask. The next morning Sallee “T don't care how good a pitcher he ‘s." said Griff, “I'm not going to stand for a youngster coming up the first something to hide the flask. After he joined the St, Louis club and was a wonder I was out there ‘The and we wandered about that scetion of the city In search of adventure, In a little beer saloon we found none "ROSTER Giving Advice to the Doc! Giants Want Menrloine Because of His Ability To Pitch Curve Ball Curve Pitching Won World’s Championship for McGraw and xious to Fortify His Staff With Ser- Twirler. agreement with other club owners not to engage in abuse when he mado the crack about Frazee being the chammon wrecker of all times.’ Frazee has inquired a3 to whether Johnson really sent that out for pub Ueation. 4/ he did, Harry declares himself no longer bound to observe the the rule and will open up for pot shooting ut any time he pleases, + in| AS yet Ban’ has not replied. It | would be nice ve a little mu/e warfare, This winter has been du considering the fireworks 60. the oughly enjoyed when everybody was taking « wallop at Ban two yea ago. lusicad knocking, tho writers up at Boston may find © that Frazee is their friend after give teh- give hers And, it you have | th noted the recent trend in baseball you | G2°4 copy is scarce. will have noticed that curve ball ———>——_—_ pitchers, once more, have come into RICE HEADS FIELD Since the death of the spithall, the emery ball, and such, McGraw’ was! IN HOLIDAY SHOOT. first to note that the heavy hitting} ,, ,, Be was due entirely to an absence of |," I. Rico was the winner of the hoil- the old-fashioned curve ball. By not-|ay shoot over the traps of the New ing it in time he won the world’s | York Athletic Club yesterday. He took championship, It was the curve/the high atch prize with a card of pitching of Barnes, Douglass and|1s6 out of a possible 200 targets from Nehf that beat the Yanks, Lee a field that numbered about fifty gun- one} ners, Itice led throughout. At the end eas of the first 100 targets he had a score of %. This was tied by T. H. Lawrence. A. Siebert was third with a cand of On the second round of the traps ce kept up his good work and again sed only 7 of the & blue rocks. The winner had strings oe 22, 2 33, 2 and 24. W. erguson, who came strong in the vresan 100 “birds,” finished second with a card of 188, ‘Third scratch prize went to T. H Lawrence with a card of 181. In addi- tion to the-scratch prizes, there were three handicap cups. ‘The first was won by R. O, Sinclair with a full card of 200 targets, His score was 169—31—200. ———>__ Myositia Bars Mitchell From Box- ing Leonard. MILWAUKEE, Jan, 3.—Benny Leon- ard, lightweight champion of the world, and Pinky Mitchell did not meet in their ten-round no-declaion bout yesterday, and more than 8,000 boxing tans were turned away disappointed. At the last minute word came that Mitchell was suffering from an attack of what physicians termed myositis, which {s an inflammation of the mus- cles, The trouble settled in Mitchell's left fcuses and practically paralyzed his left arm two the the 92. at my lay.” yer, he In big the ‘After a hurried conference the bou was postponed until Monday, Jan. 9, when it is thought be tm Mitchell condition to face the champ! postponement wan a bitter. dits- appointment,, not only boxing fans, but to the promoters and all con 1, a8 a lot of money hung in the He his Every seat in the Auditorium hed been sold and Tom Andrews, the pro- moter, said that over $41,000 had been taken’ in at the box omce. ‘This om, | had to be refunded RN: flab Pitts Breaks Dempser's Leas ven String of Victories, c Charlle Pitts, the clever Australian lightweight, sered another easy vic- tory yesterday afternoon at the Rink A. C. of Brooklyn, defeating Italian Joe Dempsey easily. It was the lat- ter’s first defeat in twenty-five fights. Dempsey went to the Bene in the third gnd waa dropped again in the seventh, ‘The management is no Willle Jackson for lta, In ug Nel other feature Young Mike Donovan won th award over by for oung Hickey, son HAPPY, HEALTHFUL NEW YEAR TO ALL ; —_ or 21, as Smith fights in Philadelphia on Jan. 14, other than SaHee slicing and broiling 4.44 ecconda, or at the rate of 81466) play through in the tournament The slippery, muddy gridiron| came late in the last period, A poos| gia? Stade, the munts fan or Ca tornts; | wich would be 100 close to Jan. 29, hot dogs, waiting on the counter. Ai |26 Lessons Body Building § ieiles an hour. The average time.| next season, aided materially the flerce running] punt by Brenkert gave the Bears tho|rok up with Dave Romnherg, the promising intervals he was both serving beer |26 Lessons Flesh Reducing however, Is the recognized official an = attack of the heavy Eastern backs.|huit on W, & J.'s 23-yard line, te Iirookiyn middlewelght, in the feature bout of | At tho laceacteppnsabiq bared ed pein and weeny Be nee sane of | Use chrrt niaag oe 10 Randall cours ’ ' ok wu 2 ‘ Men) aie c | to-morrow nisi meets Edto 3 Wats BT crinig racers tor boxing the California's touted open attack was] \ine bucks failed to advance, On the |i mounds at the Gar ierine Cie i as|ot the Bronx in the star bout of twelve rounds. | the greatest of them all, a) wit HILA. JACK O'BRIEN ime coranent ia held mutually bs Fimiale Smith practically nll on the rainsoaked| third down a forward pase wan im {t% Tatt cua (0 be an interning ext eel tn the ecmitinal ot ten rounds Jitany Werner LA. IEN | @terweight champion Jack Britton fleld, only two passes, both forltercepted by Hrenkert A ica ak sah will swap punches with Wille Morris, Lew Cap-| Somehow the gang is kind of wish-- MAD.SQ.GARDEN [aimee id Ted Lew's. Britton and Lewis M T; ry fl losses, being negotiated nia’s scoring hopes went ilimmerine,| 4 ~ Vin meets Jimmy Brooks n another contest ing that Pan Johnson did break his Madison Syuare 1540, 7883, and 613 ‘eve fought each other, tn a rine 7) ee rlo 0. i salbcatsat a 2 a's Scoring hopes went slimmerin ‘vex Rickard will stage another attractive card A with a referee and all the trim = of bouts for tho wal bp eo Msting mifrs, just twen wo times, They LEONARD AND MITCHELL Garden on yy uleet. ere: ought to know each other when they Bowling Stars Smith, Woods Captures Opening Block inget on the street. NO SUCH ANIMAL. aad charges that Joie Ray. DATE SET FOR JAN. 9. enters fo Jimmie recognized the ch MILWAUKE! Jackson ipion match game bowler of the ; \ Jan 3. “e Ben \ United states, oine to Brookismn Leonard. Welght champion, ang F, G I rr accounts United states, Is Koing to Brooklyn! iiicy sfitchell will meet here next Mo rom Greenleaf’ MMetic trips to compet : PEN, SATASE ue ational) day ina 10-round no-decis’on bout he a fought to have Hi Recreation Alleys Saturday and Sun- yout s seduled ¥ lay was called nt of & muscular aff ton 41 In his handl {ta Arthur Ap pocket Dillard mater Wo 1 Jabez White, waste basket. ay, He has bi tyto th n booked to on a s at the Erers is no ouch thing ag an Phil Spinella, Leo Lucke and Glenn | Miteheil's shoulder | Acaduniy, the cham: |oiroam of ducking boua with aide Sith and wbitant apense account” for Tiddoll, throe of the wety 4 lon lea B40 ¢ the other good youngsters bere 1 ount’ 68] meidac, of the very best pin — 1 240 to nd of the % ioe pinleve. iat 6 ie ple Y« | toppicrs In the Metropolitan District. at day'a pi te suiting: (Cte Ne Carine hee ee epee INTERNATIONAL SOCCER vg exaibitions othlete n longing for honey nt's 600 In the six Hetow bas det stiehon? at_ then? Had on: ma GAMES PLAYED IN COLD. | leks of tie match, or tor 120 to Dieaaig at x % hotel tn i pleads . n block, Woods wo ond all y charged hi With the temperature 10 derrees| oon black bye score of 100 |r ad ie Broa OM Bice sat T had to WOK | 99 J shove zero and a biting wind howllne |? af's 114, but was defeated in| iyi, scrap are Harry At a $1.25 that m across the fleld. the bare-le he evening. 128. to 76 fieuter, and Sammy 2 not a nickel less than vg Avanetation agave twente | layers who, under the d Phe champion had an exceflent chanci : eeu Satan FRR CRE eoek: hontlinllore: Gye win in the afternoon, but in the I niin at tbe tase took pact the first two! twentieth Inning with only five to go. [x ¥ . i avovlation | matches of the annual iaterr s mae t msecutive scratches ani | wo looks afer the puenos. Ne, VislUns At | K 7 a) | ties at New Yorke Oval yes en | n Again In the thirty | a him dizzy. He: en ie A | Sareea: arenes He |i asd fone ap ally at the wait und r a by a ae » about the table a = i ay vhiile S n defeated |W f mowith bis high ry hee ener. } Th amy got golng in bis us of owelve rounds at Scofield Wins Visture at) form the evening Jan. 12 PINPHU ent Ne mateh this “atterneon thud," oneld — de contin four ten-round bouts between the following good Jimmy Kelly va Frankie yones, Abe Gold- in ym Billy Marlowe, Archie Walker of Call- ‘a ys. Benny Valger and Babe Herman of Call- fornia va Andy Chaney of Baltimore in the main Champton Johnay Buff will sal! for England on Jove SS Baltic om Jen, 15 with la m: the Albany, N. ¥., His manager ts taking blm to England for the A match has Jus been clinched which will arouse considerable Interest among the fight fans of Har- wlve rounds at the Statr Sporting Club on Jam & Inber White, the rugged little fighter of albany, bas @ new wanager, He ls Lew Diamond. {the bantamweixat tde-older, White Jolned with Diamond a few days ago. He was Jacks reocntly was awarded Use decision George K. 0, Ohaney of Baltumore on @ foul Word has Just reached New York from New Or nd antamwelght Butt will be gone at the different musto balls ‘The lads who will figure in London, the promising itttle Nable. wey will bette faire of vtampioa Joanny management of Connle Me- ‘n arranged between Freddie and oc Dundee, the ‘Tacy clash 'n Uke star bout at the night of Baltimore Straight Virginia to- bacco... rich and pure and mellow . ripe and sweet and fragrant «»- that’s why Piedmonts are 80 good! , ‘and nd went to New York thel ms ’ nEstown, 11 to p venlug. ‘@ - take the entire gate re final round of the winter tanwelght okamplon, will announce bis retirement i y they Ive ther a AenE VErien and Dnfly Battle Sena | from the ring on Jaa, 15. Falling eyesight te fodder at wh Racing Scofetd, a former metropolit anal Dead: | Herman quitting the game Her. expense accounts!" |" prin Ae vutel Ghded” on ‘ihe seyenteiinh | What proved to be the best bout of | Ra FS Teas Sin AI NRE Da aay Sra oh Peas Pe |the afternoon at the Ploneer Sporting Minden ‘ wade : alt —_——— yet was the affair between Shamus | Charley Dorsserich bas completed Bis card of ‘ BANG ae Wperee ice a fon wad Jimmy Duffy, ‘Pho [bows for the next boxing sow of the Ploneer Launare ily i eve efeats Phita- Sporiing Club on Tuesday aight. George Daly vs. now lof New .York j ot} delphin, Hlon was a draw, The bat: | (nq) Dave of dermy City, Frenkle Qensro re paw ot ew ere the] pimnapenoiar iw, J New [tits Was so sensational all the way | duis Levaard, and Bobby Wists ve Sammy ol TC a es ball) Glue: deton a Cit had the fans in & constant up-|coben, tm ten-round contests while Jokmny Sum- 1 4 rane ti FG. before a tar Jat Pints [F9at, Pally, had an advantage at. the tie A. 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