The evening world. Newspaper, January 5, 1922, Page 26

aly edie aa ana aa ‘Gibson Says Leonard Will Box 7272 for Anybody Except Adare Rickard. Y GIBSON writes me a letter = that may be interesting to the ge Dubie, in view of recent dis- about Benny Leonard and the it question. Writes Bill: Baw Tex Rickard's statement hich he intimates that the for Benny Leonard's re- to bex in Madison Square n is that he demands ‘net- a8 opponents and that Rick- demands he inake weight. ich it is alleged Benny refuses THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1922." “NATIONAL LEAGUE’S PREMIER THIRD BASEMAN SIGNS WITH GIANTS [CHAMPIONS !!! : | EA Be - By Thornton Fisher |Heinie Groh Returns ——- Copyeitht (The New York Evening World) by the Press Publishing Co., 1923. After 10 Years’ Absence . To Sign Big Contract PR eh PRE What’ a Difference in Recep- tion for Giants’ New. Third Baseman From Time He First Cane to New York! By Robert Boyd. 'N the year of 1911 Henry Knight Groh came to the New York Na- tional League Club from Oshkosh in the Wisoonsin-Mlinols League. He was a chubby-faced youngster then of twentysane, When he hit the! metropolis he was unknown. That year he played with Buffalo in the Hastern League under optional agrec- ment, coming back to the Giunts io 1912. On May 22 he was traded to Cincinnati with Josh Devore and Leon Ames for Fromme arid Eddie Grant. The manager of the Giants did not think well of Groh's chances of-ever developing into a great major league gtar, so he passed him to an- other club. Ten years passed and yesterday Groh returned to the Giants office in the big town to sign a contract to play with the team that let him go, He comes this time in a trade that involved a sum ranging from $75,000 to $100,000 and two ball players, Gon- BOTH BIG LEAGUES OPEN THEIR SEASON APRIL 12 FRENCH LICK, tnd., Jan. 5.— The schedule committees of the , two major leagues has decided on April 12 as the day for the v opening of the penhant races of peth thi be and American trap lay falls on w ind if precedent: ia New York Giant: it the Polo Grounds with n Braves as their quests. The Yankees will open either in Philadelphia or Bosten. The schedule will not be announced until the regular spring meeting about the middle of Februa but it calls for the usual 1 lames. The work of drawing up e schedule is completed and Guo d dates have been, re- duced bog a minimum, N.Y. U: Five Scores Victory Over Toronto New YouR Universtty defeated the Toronto basketball players by a ince the Inception of the iker law, Benny Leonard has d two champlonship contests ison Square Garden and exhibition bout. ‘The first of matches, Leonard: vai: Joe ling, was promoted by Rickard. » er, Miss Anne ‘Morgan the Leonard-Mitchel! af. the proceeds of which’ Went devastated France, while the d exhibition was {or the ben- of the Jowish Hospital in the | zales and George Burns. 00H EAD to . | This time Heine did not walk into} tional game played on Se laters : |the Big City unheralded. A troupe of| tie - joa , ° newspaper and a battery of cameramen! j.). jc. sity's gymnasium were on hand to assist the owners | rie Socal te of the club greet the Rochester boy.| ors at all angles of eyayee the visit | To-day he is the greatest third base- | barsing was ‘and their man in the National League, His/*haiirs more accurate, | ae chubby face is atreaked with a few| popiy 40° « 0 firat ‘tines, the handiwork of time, ang ne! S74 to 13 in fayor of N. is slightly bald. Hatterer and Goeller, the two for- Such is the talo of Heinle Groh'a in-| wards on the winning’ toam, played teresting career in the National Ranue caer The halves were twenty League. eee ‘Of course, Heinie was pleased to get! freshmen def back to New York aga player. He| freshmen by a ‘Armory Bouts | 2: down in rievana when the trade aes a" Y PROUTS [2 Sa, nsteoe tm Yon the | BARNES AND HUTCHISON TO | Sure If This v52 Syit®nome'is’ Gocinnat! over: | PLAY IN COAST \ST TOURNAMENT. | joyed with the news that he was to) | i become a member of the Giants again.) os Bill Passes | *cr:2. member ot 2 Giants 2520.) Los ayarips, Jan i—Enteante tn the California State open golf cham- | 192 , and wore a broad smile * pen KK at as ne indicating that there | Dionship tournament, to be played here Yank’s new shortstop, has struck oil, which goes ALBANY, N. Y., Jan, 5,—Legislation nr been no financial disagreement | Jan. 15, 15 and 17, include Jock Hutehi- designed to provide for professional) petweer the club owners and the for-|S0P and Jim Barnes, respectively Brit- . A cost the Cincinnati Natiénal League to prove that n as a ball player is traded to New York his latcand: American open theca PRINGETON, Ind, Jan. fortune is rahe: boxing in State armories probably will| mer Cincinnati star. gre terms were | “Isetween forty und fift fe sil sae spreads pil age 4 fortune iis pr foo Bae | be submitted to the present session of! announced. are ‘expected no eginpote (¥ proteacionats 7 ha Lip saadhal ; the New York Legislature, jt was an-| ‘¥es, 1 am pleased “10 come back,” | grexnting $1,000 © first prize will stellat outfielder, back into ee (fF 60? POINT, raed a obean me {to Boston Bi prihiange, Jot snel Box, giprisioy. | tN” (kay ay vasssemivmatnars| gall Grom celine tone pie eee | |e and the’ second $350, Roush made this statement here walle! bis bd meee: Pi ON Spee MRA aly thur E, Brundage, Republican, of|and play the same brand of ball for — on his way to is home at Oak.and City, Ind, foom a trunting trp. Roush, ‘dec! iis minimum price Orange. He has under consideration an/ the Glante that 1 did for the Reds. amendment to the present law whereby me Gants. yall seed en oie ene. for the next three years is $18,000 an- Willie Plant’s Walking Abitity the State Athletic Commission would be ually, He said the Cincinnati man- 5 i Fy Agement hud wt leust $160,000 tied up Big Help to Club During Past Season. unive: here last night. . BUFF I> owe To PARK Hi: TITLESIN EUROPE Bal) Salaries | MORNINGSIDE A. ry game the N. ¥. U. ed Brooklyn Poly 10. both of his nampionship Leonard weighed in at 1s4 fands at 2 P. M., one pound: yn- the recognized class weight LIVE WIRES By Neal R. O'Hara. sNew York Esening World) by Press Publishing Co, _ “Rickard says he has offered es Which hé refused to . @ven look at. I have not held any Poenversation with Rickard or his tatives since last May, _) “1 have my own good and suf- it reasons for refusing ty do with Tex Rickard, How- 1am ready and always have . ready to close for Leonard defend his title at the light- it mit with any contender a Pritar is moter tn the country, \« 3 same Rickard, Baier se wishes from Benky Copyright, 1 Lverett Scott, hed Connie Mack should be thankul for one thing. His ball club doesn't play in winter when It’s easiest to slip’ e8 ——> As wé understand it, ¢ in Killinger will join thel Yankees, play professional football and eoach a cotlege gridiron team-as soon as he Mnishes schooling next June. What he will do with his spare time does not loom as a problem for Glénn, f Some one adked Heinie why lie compelled to license clubs desiring to ‘ , aa. .| hold bouts in armories after they hayo| Sumed such an unusual pose while that he wil'recelve his price before he is permitted to re- ne ity to hit e} met the reqfirements of the licensing ete tee pond Var eggs Gaede Sate provisions of the law. Mr. Brundage main out of the game. Roush added “When I broke | he answered. hi ee had charge of the bill reorganizing the hkosh Club, of the Wiseun- 0d EN GIBADNTD” | that he expected to play baseball tor | ; : el : commission a year ago. Hecliccs taaaae lnnivostie Meee Miooks like a rhe: chapsal't sheee smote years only. He said he| |The record of the Morningside A.C. _, Judge Landis’s th ae te ey of gray ‘airs, but worry over | Assemblyman Brundage said that he | made a fool out of me with curves, ul es ioe ot her. “bromotere--and pebep atch rytits, 4 rerrhiatrgg Pema tor: 4081; 18 reliarkable, «The | Babe Ruth didn't ‘give "em to him, | | believed boxing sitive permitted in could ony. hit an I Saenged ay ry ition "tor “a bout win {to New York, ees ph me) i #05 paints, There are no post-season battles in boxing. Nothing but post- Lgl teeth eat Ginter a faite ornate comma curve pitching and Su rior Fs has been so much |= = SPAM ee Cvarr oy coin ee ath-] forfeit stuft in that pastime. able places in which to put on boxing | the next year I hit .285. Since then T F. 0. B. win _ Se ge Tateh that it would ¥ te | ora) Willy is a very decent fallow, ick, fleld and swimming. The Oe ee bouts other than Jn the armorie: have never batted below, .250. My fh fun off and Tendie ns ene 0, h2ve [not a louféry jot boastful, not inctined {DY SUN In, the scoring in, of course, i " 4 William Plant, America’s greatest tion as Leonard's closest rival |the patie ty im the face. Of walker and holder of the fatenal onee and for «i, : He i 1 |three and seven, and the metropo}itan ‘hey would be. not busy Tit sees watt eee nek tree seven and fifteen mile walk to his fh es. le rolled up the enormous ITE WANTS A CHANZE, | the New York whagren ge SPH AE! total of 81 pointe: during the Year of Bos ton Follows Suit ther young man who has bevo | “focidentally, this makes him an ex- loatner, BHD dRCT OTR or are cpaue| cecdingly dangerous fighter, for he abet Oo rele ca te lies tae, the tiene peat never grows fat ant soft. He is al- within a year is by far the best per- Leonard when they sust mot--whou | a5 In condition, 2 381 | Pr “Lam perfectly willing,” he said. "to | yer year was in 1921 whh T hit .381 4- or Change, visot t | confine the amendments to the present 4 | Groh gaia be ready to en-| S di. otto.) law that 1 have under constderation to | ¢,GToRsmid,ne would be rendy to en- | Segoe } the up-State localities wnich desire box- | for the South, and he would work Ike | | ing in the State's armories, before { in-| Tyojan to bring another National Ts Now On Dis play troduce tne bill, embodying the proposed | League championship to New York. amendments. However, I intend to con- - | at Broadway & rts St. fer with New York City legislators aa There seems to be a hitch 1 the} lew fe 7 of | ascertain whether or not they desis the | three Comerad Zeal bat wean ther etal | A jee jens bs | ou an uspenas S Wilson nie ere peat cee | Raw Athletics ant Senators. Clark || low a price: so far as he was interested in boxing he} GriMth 4s here and he and Harry i ii p would propose no other amendinents to | Frazee heve been in conferences that wted Ls Aske soley es oe ote the present law, lasted many hours. There seems to|§@00rs- Fisher steel body. Frenc! Fe Greb Match) ship: Several months berore ov, Miller, when asked if he had de-| he nu trouble about getting Dugan | § Plait velour upholstery. are UCM) job in Wall Street as u “runner.” “Phen | cided to take any action regarding ‘j| from Connie Mack. ‘The Frazec-Grit- | §any window rails. Poli: s Walkow, his ing in armories, replied that "16 I Min aide wilt have tobe earceanty | trimmings. Separate clutch and tered the ring | no But 1 m liable to do so." r took It upon | added, out > Sm Male + | Settled before anything definite is an- edals; also hand emer- orts trom Paris state (at Carpentier isn't satisfied yet that Dempsey can lick him. All we can remark is that it certainly takes a lot to satisfy Carp. $8 formance of any modern athlete [1 Along the water- is seldom seen in any phase of sp kn n' tront they like to tell stories about ee m' » Bek ead Bon te era oe orhes EM | Willete. ona ot stcenethe A favorite |, Besides winning the tities, Pant the Note rallied, und da. | {Ticis of his is to walk up a‘gangplank | Broke two Amer aD reenter. | to te eet, Mmatohe ts |joad for tt neous iron. Shoulders—@ | Goulding’s long-standing. marks. Running Out ¢ re 7th Regiment would be a good champion-} If Dempsey puts in his spare time |Pecember at the aoe better, perhaps, than pn+|between bouts at one of his ola | Mory he or exe BE Here Gets Johnny i mard and Tendier, Whit | trades, lumbering. road building or| lent Ume of 6m, nas | of Trouble himself to i a nounced, Piaoedl rake lever. iron steadil ring the | mining, he'd last longer as chum | behind the world’s record for that dis- is Archie. V fn x pe en Athletion Sell Shortstop. At sixteen he won the amateur ban- PHILAD aga vy B.,. Jan. 6.—Joe Moore, tam title und in the Kkating champion, and allop. Aside fiom his hacd|for many years, However, no chams | t@2 championship ‘at Macomb's Dam re ‘ Time Paymen Plan R pitting. nite isn't leonard’s equal |pion ever did anything Ike that. so|Park early in November, Plant cume m by the Massuchusetts Box-| xt tWo years hej} 5.—Robert Peas Santee eonserul onangy Dick inGks an inspiring axample. "| Witla four seconds! of the world’s| ie ere teen ery a te charred, feather, und lightweight | Raymond Murray of New. (ork, ten: | &. Mo Prliadeiphia "Amarican’ irteue || CHEVROLET MOTOR CO, Fe he rapier hd to tight desperate. Bob Fitusimons came nearest tc it, | record for ten Ay Ll as © one Nt | prototype in suspending Johnny Wit-|champlen Wall fought many thrilling | Canadian amateur outdoor Vice sk has been sold to the Tel. Circle 3100 ta trouble, for he hed a habit of hunting vp ajAmerican recor Ry two. Nourse. Of | ( battles in the Garden witil he was de-| ing championships on Lily Lake, Jan. of the Pacific Coast re horseshoer’s shop in every. town he] Walking and finished up the day by | sen, middleweight champion, aecord- aren by Be 1X und 1 it was announced to-day. nae don't draw the color line, und 11 visited and spending a eouple of |SUrpassing his American mark Bo personal objection af all to | hours turning cn horseshoes, As for |Afteen-mile walk. terday, Bug H, Buckley. « ing Willa or any cne cise.” #aV8 |the: ast of them, Sullivan never drove| Second on the scoring list in the! man of the Hoston Commission, waa| >A d Wi | iz Dempsey. “Juck Kearns tmn- | Mere ying ilies Semi-pro ball ‘after | Morningside A. C. 1s John Hohiing, | uoted as sayin arvar ms GUPAM the tatobinacing, ard inte Pais is | that suspension of] Sq uash Title the |ing to despatches from 1 i vs vecoming a ring champion; Corbett | Who scored 39% Wilson would follow automatically] Sateen ee ee a te | fipora ety jount rolled up by | cally | Maras Well as any other match, 1) H4n't even sweep out a paok: Brar-|more than the am ring are the New| as svon as formal notice 7 key never salled any ships; Jeffries |John Gaughan. Both Bobling and! Yoo °Suspension. is received. only ‘wish 1 Douls, Smt twidag Weel lear out abe: Poller "shape stas uasat| Galeian ere-altamot.mon. Tho for-| *orns “uapension ts received, | husetts! lt) on, the fe and net halt | Ggned lacrosse; Johnéon didn't go|mer did most of his point gatheving|bourd was forecast in this column De autt\ wraee code |Back ‘to loading cotton bales on the|at track meets during the past sum-| yesterday. Showid Wilson enter a veil demas | im hard luck, not having any |Galveston wharves, and Willard never | mer, but both took advantage of their | protest againgt the suspension by the| ee ; one id fa mea fight. There's Bhreps |drove a six-borse’ team or punched |condition and did excellent road work Boston Commission, the local author!) Without as much as lifting a racquet ply -h€/ the Harvard Club fell heir to Metro- | ounds 0 ch they acted c! , eriviison DP Marty’ Witt | hig | politan Class B championship at squash manager, came in for much critictam| yesterday, on the courts of the Harvard t He may be good for a match |cattle while the crown was tilted|at the beginning of the season q 4 be h athwart his battling brow, Arthur Treble is another of the von- it any time, Miske wants an-| ON THE FIELD OF BILLIARDS, | haired youngster came over from E: “M-m-m-m, a A aie Club, when the D, K. B, Club defaultea id land early in the outdoor season. He | }¥) ement to the effec in the match that decided the disposi- ” Ili ares about he Gonay ee ste | a a With eon along like & | ran for the London Harriers, the same thesniy Scatern oe tb ine, sttect wit tion of the title. In the official records some smokel the “Gibbons-Carpeutier |Confidence he'll, gain throush? fae {club for which Abrahams, the Oxford | son's $10,000 which was due him fr] the Harvard Club is credited with win- F inh * Gibbons. lquentes axhinitinn "matanea with’ me {star, competed, Treble joined the] fighting Bryon Downey in hike Wie oharanionahio Boe’ D. x. Be . ry JGarpentier said he was sat'sfied | closest rivals he'll he twice as hacd to | Harlem organization upon his arrival. | 46% Jest summer, was ty tree to | by four m our last bout, | the match with Greb. In this way, tches to two, in ‘the ac- ‘ re Vane neal tual matches played the beaten teain for Willa, he's a tough baby. 1|veatn wate Wa maser ppe, meets him) sete Smith Wins Awar over | Militien, cal reogreed | bad a winning margin of two to one. 5 cai s i ‘At the end of Tuesday's play Harvard ail about that. If the public jot of strength in xnowing what you Maer pt: Te | gut pis bull Fane an Madison Square | 425 jeading by a ecore of three matches & bout with Wills, and the | can do, Confidence cuts out nerves, TULSA, Jan, 6.—Jeff Smith, New | Garden af ue ball Toast. | (two. although inability of D. K. io ee ee lite rete offer for! Schaefer has shown the best beand | Jersey's leading middleweight, won a) MMi’ Save the. ments players to appear had caused the de- the peering, , There's nothing in |of billiards ever played. He has given | fitteen-round decision over Kid Vatoer| eavorting in his thow p fault of two matches to the Crimson, Hoppe an advance date for a return | of Oklahoma City here last ight rt tt} row night, The Ss. p referee's verdict. ON there. The only trouble is tha: no Palmer: is one theive States, While ['m willing to jengagement, but from the form the | Was & OF, BOM m. P ‘ared on the courte y Fees jperort big bouts are held wants | now clampion is showing now, Hoppe ee Eden Mocruecremau feveloped RERUN? Ane Ryan P eat. Huntington of Doi. ul have to exered pI P+ H re af Pre Ave idy Chano: he latter, e several 01 is team- vaio Go} Governors have told me “hey |Win pach she Udle he hele eat tO tring the favorite over hia to, nee If they can't ¢ uitable the cis falied to appear, thus defaulting » won't stand for a championship bout | Hoppe: ought. to be satisfied Foe tnd "took tie ead “at tn st | epee vinner {the mateh and title to'the home team: | thatimight cause race antagonism in egy ms intained it all the wa 4 1 toes oo | Jever blocking \% d Ga + Jen jor ea ts | dat night, box and exer hewtldered Palmer’ ‘Phe promote du" ?°" CENTRE ELEVEN OFFERED pet might injure boxing, so I'm cat oe a -Ithe conclusion of the battle, said { taottae am or} PA? ally——all because it was | te conmition o Guarantee’ Charme t | ALIFOR Gol ready for Wille Tit getrendye [necessary to taico the est poxsi- | Johnny, Wilson $35,000 to con much interest | GAME WITH cl i NIA} *“[uwouldn't havi Fer pen dy. ver| ble care of his supple hands and his|and defend his champlonship sacaint champion lightweight. a | a mesting "Wills. He's & big, ang 2 ¢¥e% If he wants to, now, he can {Smith Both men weighed In utder 0 Valrur, | DANVILLE, Ky., Jan. 5.—The Uni- “ @ dig, and ai have a go ut all the sports he, has | pounds at 2 o'clock. : Charley vey pre s Archie | versity of California athletic officials oR Raby, and’ be has a good right | ised since a small boy mio — Walker uc to ‘Benny | Yrs 9 4 f but I think he has one weak janet ler non ae Harvard Oarsmen to Build Leonard.” Two other souls will Dring] have invited Centre Cc to fill the bs ae te papules) td ity His ne “ BOSTON, Jan The constructis soxether an AR, Rollex and Mrankle|nonor date on the 19 football | Se |W. & J. TO GET $50,000 | cul ior "aren “oar “in | apie eee oe eta Walker began boxing \ Ne ta Y “RA rimgon rowing coaches instructed crew : was! annual home-coming celebration wil, HOPES TO SETTLE DOWN, FOR NEW YEAR’ S$ GAME | Candidates to-day to study the construc. Mon the Hywelght ane uet ime hel be held and the new $1,000,000 sta- A Of arriving in Los Angeles re- |uion of shetl_ now being | Won eight amateur champions | BO Mla dicated Pees Reicen' 4 Dempsey gave his mother «| fewell boat horse : ay) =| This announcement made here ef for $25, 5000 as a Christmas PASADENA, Cal, Jan, 6.—hat | a a tate |stenywood Club After om Foutneealiouine ty Coach Charlie Moran, who 20 now 18c present, with instructions to buy a| Washington and Je Is to ve Vind varsity in 1910. One serious rival ¢ Knickerbocker | sald he would ask “entre's Athletic Home for herself, He will join the | ceive $50,000 us a donation for its en-[ing designed by the Advisory > to er sy the| Bourd, at its next meeting, to con- 10 now 9c Ed the tomily in California when |dowmest fund from the Tournament of | Committee : é heat trip ts over, unless an] Roses Association for i Golt ein home late (Two 10's-—-18¢) a ed match should coine up in| the Now. Yess gain ; at night from the fy where Twol —and for cigarettes veraliy of Ca f 4 defeated the | pee Wills, ‘by the way, is very | dey by Presid: ‘Tournamen A it from Jack Johnson, whose ey a De Virginia tobacco ts the best t#- | ing championship. fre ts that the lover a three and ions during the time he heid the | Pycajae ' an ‘amount jon the Wangasu oot tian ihe ‘Texas A. and M t Dalia 7 Soepions gaused practically ull{ sical ia’ inet 1 and vecelved thy alx longth. ils tine was 1) Rinbere: ofthe int on Quarterback Bo" MeMillin's Licuerr & Myers Topacco Co. ef the pi against colgred box- by California be would play, 40 seconds, Commiltee are aw ithetac, ~~» ding day, Jan. 2. ° y ] ‘ >