The evening world. Newspaper, April 7, 1922, Page 34

er NOT, B4 ‘GIANTS THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, PLAY FINAL EXHIBITION GAME Circumstances Which Keep a Good Fighter in the Background. 4, J ever a good fighter was a victim ] of circumstances, Benny Valzer is now and has been almost from the Start of his career. He always ot eeen a near-champion. When \V was in the featherweight divi Benny Leonard once said to 11s, in the tourse of an introduction, “I hope this little fellow never grows big enous! 26 tight me for the lightweight cham- */-pionship.” Benny wasn't idly boos +vimg Valger, as fighters sometimes do with one another. He meant it. At the time Valger was handicapped by a none too scrupulous manager one of those who never permits facta “to interfere with any story he wants “to put over. This manager burdened the youngster with the name “Frencl: * Yash.” = Later Valger placed him- self under the management of Billy Gibson, and again he found himself “handicapped through no fault of his sewn, During this particular interva | Gtheon had troibles, mostly imagin ary, with the Garden management an’ couldn't get any work for Valger ding that he didn’t want to stand ‘the way of the boy’s advancement reluctantly let him go. scouraged, Valger became sic! \d through one thing or another ped off the fistic map for nearly ar. Lately he came back, appar good as ever, and the past week Wohim as the logical opponent of ohhny Dundee in a match involving he 180-pound title, Dundee was signed and sealed for bout with “Pepper” Martin at the xington Avenue Opera House April next, but suddenly Martin devel- fred a bad hand or something and he match was off as suddenly as it as on. Then casting around for a ubstitute for Martin the matchmak- s thought of Valger, He would do et _as well, they figured, but from ip Toronto way came Dundee's 1 ly to the proposition. “Nothing doing,” or words t, ESifect, wired Johnny. “The V K not a question of joney with Dunde he says. “He nly knows I can heat him.” & AKEN WITH A GRAIN OF SALT Be $N'i1lle Hoppe has retired from billiard competition (following his two de- E# feats by Young Jake Shaefer) be ie cause the game has become com B Merclalized, so now. according to S his manager, Willie has decided to open up.a chain of billiard parlors throughout the country AND he two colonels, Ruppert and Hns- ton, are lmcking up Miller Hug- gins, in his stand of fining Carl Ma 200 for ‘misconduct on. the field." “Huggins is running the team and we don't interfere," says i. an announcement from the Amer can League office. And then Col, Huston suddenly gets « notion that he will hop South just to ride back home with the t Guess the colonel Nik 4 that? No, Mays bh with his fine as y AND ack Dempsey is willing to give Bill Tate a chance at the heavyweight title, and Bill's entitled to it. Didn't he recently get a decision over Har ry Wills? Or, as Jack says, Vet Tate and Wills get toge isn't kicked In t mM 3 3 R consideration by social Secretary Teddy Hayes, while Jack is hob. nobbing with Europe's swells and belles. OF BE ber of the Kearns-MeKetrich stable, doesn’t intend to let any hing cut into that tour of Europe th the Dempsey delegation. Joc has spected a plan to sidetrack him and 18 been taking no chances of bein ft ashore when the Aquitania pul! tne i t Tuesday morning Quite r ve sume atches, intending of ¢ jo fatten up bis bank roll ould rather th m to the ot neg hey'’d like to get me ‘b a give the vr battlers of the eff.” Joe was heard soliloc ve gther day, “and then 1rd at all on the other side. 1 won cht even @ one-armed guy unt t in dear old Lunnon, and then hat fellow, I mateh match, I'll take him on. Benjamin has been fee 1 mind since Hymie Gold went bac me Before ii.t he w lous of Gold, who came Kast fror Wisco, as “Oakland Jimmy Duffy dgstined as Benny Leonard's succes Ir. Hymie got the benefit of all t cKet k boosting, and fo: a whit pe felt on the way to 4 Vin nie Rice, over t jon hey picked a “such A, Puan THEY DID MASTER TILOEN WAS RUNNER-UP TWICE IN SUCCESSION Pa foe THe MATL TITLE- He NEVER. QUIT HOWEVER — TODAY WoRLDS } 7 Ug HUGGINS REFUSES-10 HE “PLAYS FAVORITES” However, Yanks’ Manager plains Delay Fine on Carl Mays. in Imposing (Special to The F RICHMOND, the anti-Huggins clement on, the New York Yankees had that the fining of Carl Maye yesterday and the row which followed would result in the deposition of the manager was dashed when would be backed to the Yankee owners. The may quit the club and go to playing independent ball if he wishes, but the $200 fine for throwing a ball over the grandstand at Little Rock, imposed stands five to four, can Leaguers having the advantage, One & Bancr iM stand. That Is final. Huggins is manager of the Yan- “The club is in his } he says will go. will support him to the Hmit action he takes. “I did not come because of the 4 mention of T left New York Ruppert and T lost a The entire matte will do nothing in the slowne “played favo He explained the delay in in without acting the pitcher in Memphis on Tuesday he took action, he put out at tt um from Kd By: railroad travel, What's Huggins was |). 0. suggestion that slump. MeG JESS GUILFORD, NATL AMATEUR GOLE CHAMPION FAILED TO EVEN Quaury IN 1q20 — tie WOM THE CROWN IN N’T KNOW HOW TO QUIT ut, 1922 (The New York Kve WE APRIL 7, IN THE SOUTH TO-DAY’ s* Publishing Co Saw UTTLeE JOHNNY BUFF KNOCKED COLD ONE NIGHT BY A COMPARATIVE UNKNOWN BUT BUFF EVENTUALLY Won or ES OUR OWN BENNY LEQNARD WAS K.O'O -e TWICE BEFORE HE ACQURED THE CHAMPION SHIP— ONCE BY FRANKIE FLEMING ANC ONCE BY YOUNG SHUGRUE o With Bancroft in Line-Up REPLY TO CHARGE THAT | World’s Champions Show Their Best Form to Date Giants’ Crack Shortstop Unex- pectedly Returns to Game and Displays Old Dash. (Special to The Evening World NORFOLK, Va.. April Davey Bancroft already back In the line-up, ana with Heinie G for third base duty, the Gig play their final exhibition game in the South with the White Immediately after world’s champions homeward where to-morrow make their first appearance before 3 New York gathering. iants looked and acted lik: different ball club with short yesterda champions beat the Whit any trouble. The ft displayed more d rest, due at: Meridian, Miss. the little short stop, showed it in the previous games B in going after ground balls e in Dallas to the White Sox king a low throw to frst bai Hancroft’s leg bothered him # d this was the reason for ut times. But yesterday he the dashing Bancroft that the fol sof the Giants have number of faultlessly everything that ASIONS, and brought the pa close by going behind second bs McClellan's grounder and throwing Rawlings for a foree out terday, Rawlings’s hitting ci Sox this after at Bristol series with the Ame: ne ende * around short than in any other me and his fielding was brilliant The enfol operation that his wife had performe on he ene ame yesterday nny has been slow King about Rawlings helped himself to a three- bag: ns of coming out of aw has not been pleased mueh-needed hit was a possibility of Bill Cunningham startng the scason at second. But wlings’s terrific smash to left field yesterday just about put Cunningham out of the running for Frisch's posi- tion Arthur Nebf the southpaw, will start the game nst the White Sox this afternoon and Virgil Barnes will finish it. Indications point to Nebt pitching the opening game of the se ‘on against the Robins on Wednesda is he is at his best and has been fool ing the White Sox butters without really exerting himself. If Nehf does not start, then Shufflin’? Phil Dougla: will draw the honor of pitching ainst Burleigh Grimes As a baseball attraction the Giants even though world’s champions, are not the equal of Babe Ruth. The Yankees and the Robins played in Bristol on Wednesday and packed them into the grandstand, and when the wooden stands were bulging with humanity the fans overflowed to right fleld. Nearly five thousand spectators got a peck at the mighty Babe sut the Bristol inhabitants did not get Whit cited about the Giants and Sox. They had seen the home run king and the fied Empty seats there were aplenty yes terday, and not more than a thousand pe uw the gam sons he champions made sixteen nits cit Charles Robertson and Lefty Rus sell yesterday and put the game in the bat bag ly as the second inning by scoring seven runs. The Giants ulso played faultlessly in the field and ran the bases on Yam Yam Yaryan Sehal who is no plate Drank Frisch of Giants In Home on Crutches, Ftank Frisch, the Fordham Flash and second baseman of the New York Giants, arrived home yesterday on crutches. h looked well and insists that his from a spike wound, was niveh und that he hopes to be out on the diamond within two ‘ceks, He has tittle hope, however, of starting the season with the Gi in t! open- fies game against the Brooklyn Robta at the Polo Grounds next Wednesday. MORGAN TO MEET JAY GOULD IN FINAL. her aguin Morgan will be and prove who's the best man. Toth submit briefs for that the chal uydam Cutting weight, received $1.0 te both Kearn nd Mcketrick combination ve been unduly interested in getting Herman at Hou ankie Murp! ri} 25, He receives > Johnny Tilman, Kid } Werner Smith and Frankie Murphy His Foes By John Pollock. Dave Shade, the Califort Seigel day ni noof St. Pau April 10; Werner Smith City on April it Tillman and $2,000 ner Smith te Hobin han A.C. of Philadelphia nai eight alifornia meets kiyn in another eight show wh Johnny Curtain « t be able to fight again fo Shade, W lterweight Comer, Signed For Four More Bouts This Month FIGHT RESULTS, LIVE WIRES “By Neal R. O'Hara. Commuting as he does between Los Angeles and New York, Jack Demp- sey takes » Jot of punches from rail- oad conductors ee A lot of semi-blind umpires ought o be farmed out to the Three-bye League Chicago and Cincinnati may have weak teams, but they also have Sun- day ball Only a few days now to the first crucial series accounts will ason and show Amateur expen come higher this iderable padding |work both at the Queen's Club and The Yankees’ 1922 expectations are exceeded only by their expense Poetic expert says Connie Mack will lead the A’s out of the wilder- ness this year. But Connie ‘will be doing a full size job if he can lead his pitchers out of their wilderness, a) ihe) e It would be a novelty at the open- ing of the season if the Governor or Mayor or some other official would throw the first strike instead of the first ball Chicago will be leading — boti eagues as soon as Landis gets home ind starts passing out decisions —— Head May Be Able to Run for Penn After All : World) by Copyright (New Yor Press Publishing Company, 18 (Spectal Cable Despatch to The Evening World.) LONDON, April 7.—It is expected that, under favorable weather condi- tions, new records will be hung up at the Queen's Club to-morrow when the relay team of the University of Penn- sylvania meets teams: from Oxford and Cambridge Univers nile relay ev ities in the four- Despite the cold prevailed here al val of the Pennsyi yanians, they have been able to do go weather, which ha most since the a Oxford, where they haye been oo 8 for the last two day Aithough Donald Head seems 1 uperated pretty weil, after haying fered from blood p un,, which would be # damper on Ametiean hopes for he is one of the outstanding men of the team. ‘The fact that both Oxford and Cambridge havc teams competing and have not picked t both vars lone team to repre {ndieates that the Br confident they will take the Pennsylvanians’ meusure. Cambridge is the favorite for the race for its m compr ste Yard, Seagrove, Tatham and Moun. tain, Nevertheless, the Americans ur strong outfit and Larry team regarded as 2 own, Captain of tl dered very formida iret Workout Cornell € * ITHACA, N. Y., April 7 nell crews celebrated the open ot sprig vacation by going out on ¢ Lake on the West course and rowed ab he crews found the & twelve mile A train table has also ° ganized at Baker Tower Varsity and two freshmen ¢ group of oarsmen chosen by Hoyle to remain over constitut ve “who's who" in Cornell rowing this year. They are as follows a stimate Wive Wins, Hstimatae and Appor NW team turned the ance Departi By Thornton Fisher RRS MUM, * SNAG THE CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS, JACK OEHPSEY, WAS ONCE KNOCKED Our BY THE ANCIENT PUEBLO FIREHAK JIM FLNNNo Leonard-Tendler Match Planned For Boyle’s Thirty Acres July 4 Negotiations are now under way, according to Tex Rickard, to world’s lightweight championship title against Lew Tendler, his great Philadelphia rival, at Boyle's Thirty n Jersey City on July 4, There is a lot of bitter feeling between the pair becouse Tendler last year grabbed Leonard's $5,000 forfeit when the later injured his hand while training for their bout scheduled Tendler has claimed right along that he doesn’t want the money and will return it to Leonard as soon as he enters the ring Onthe other hand, the champion says he won't consent to sign with him unless he gets the money first. have Benny Leonard defend h in Philadelphia. But Rickard thinks that Leonard and his manager, Billy Gibson, have too much business sens to prevent their getting together and arranging a match with Tendler for Boyle's Thirty Acres in Jersey City July 4. started negotiations for the match. At any rate he has —oOoOoOOOOOOO OF iPENNANT RACES SIZED UP IN BOTH LEAGUES 16—CHANCES OF ST. LOUIS BROWNS. prea ieee | Pennant Chances of Browns, Like St. Louis Cardinals, Depend on Pitchers—Fohl Has One of Best Outfields in League and a First Rate Infield. Following ts tho sixteenth of a series of daily stories dealing with the 1928 The stories are written for the United Press by experts who have followed and know each club. has two major league@—————————________ baseball clubs that are almost like » Cards "stand"? for the prospects of the sixteen major league teans, from Missouri University, may be the find of the year and a life-saver for Wohl says he looks good enough to become a regular from the a lot of natural ability clubs have a Their chances both thing—piteh- League honors, lot in common. depend upon the same Davin Wins Decision. At the Columbus Sporting Club, Yon- kers, last night Willle Davi Judge's decision from Jack Gritz in ten rounds. other bout Bill Wolpin, the Bronx mid- for the pennant is the combination of outfield in the league, an in ield that hardly can be improved up- Harlem in th » Bood catchers, ind the strongest atta¢k in the cir- to be enough he good management that it bas With the exception of addin pitching rookles, aggregntion in July of last eason, finished with a Woh! is standin enth place to the runner-up positton looking team in edule was fin and inade It ague when, the best outfield in the league. If the five-week handicap is too Williams ought the homerun king of the league much for Bi Chippendale The finish is an ideal of craftsman ship realized. Travel far and you will find no better smooth workin the brilliant MieManus on efficient combination. doesn't have to worry about his inne: Hank Severetd 1s an underestimated A new quality standard not gacrned by business and he loo! 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