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ee ae a eee a da ea m WILLARD WANT. REPORTS UNTRUE THAT JESS CHALLENGED TITLE HOLDER Former Champion in Los Angeles—Laughs When Asked About His Secret Workouts—How Willard Regards Second Fight. By Robert Edgren. - much smaller than I was, and I know I expected to find Jess Willard sur- eee match me in strength and rounded by a training staff and ready} sarotegs” 'y'worked tn the pletures to shoot out a lot of information about] until my training time was too short. what he expects to do to Jack Demp-|It would haye been long enough for rey along in September. Arriving In] Any one but Dempsey, but as T say, erestimated him, On the level, tana that ne ane in tov knew wit-|E,%a8 Sorry for the boy—aorry T had , to knock him out. So I started easy lard was there. He hadn't visited they in mind and a little careless, thinking newspaper offices. There was a rumor} I could take my time and win when I that some one had seen him on the} wanted to, and the first thing T knew, pop, he was inside with a punci street, but that was generally disered-| Sa cticanty knocked me out ch i ited. It took four hoyrs of trailing t0] feet. Of course I took a lot more, but locate him on the outskirts of the|the first punch got me. I was sur- town down in the newest part of the| prised more than anything else when Wilshire district. I rang the bell. The Peae se what hfippened. It didn't front door opened and there stood Jgss, | he mane e:, X don’t think I'd ever be caught the filling the doorway from side to side] «what do I think ot Soneny? and nearly bumping his head+on the] Well, I think enough of him to’ train lintel. Jess looked just about as usual.| Seven or eight months if I ever meet He wasn’t fat, but he was at least] !™ again. It" take a man in good condition to beat him. It was a joke plump and his face was round and/¢o match a small man like Careentice smiling. As I stepped in there Was] against him, I haven't been follow. none of the familiar training camp| !ng the sport very closely, but I don't smell about the place—no mixture of Leeeaeten any one around who'll . nd acrid odor| &'V¢ Dempsey any trouble." arnica and witchhazel ai ie “Then you haven't challenged him of sweaty woollens and sodden gloves.| an@ haven't any intention of going There was no punching™bag lying in| after another match? And the story the corner. No photos of Jess in| that you have been eecretly training fighting trunks decorated the mantel fer ale months past is the bunk?" 1 piece, Instead of the usual coterie of ( Willard laughed. young huskies with bent noses and] }iavYen't had a glove on,” he sald overhanging brows, I found only Mrs.| “Only thing on my mind just now, Willard and the five little Willards— peer ad fixing up @ new home for my . ; cath ‘amily and keeping track of the oil Se Sk least: Mioes who werent Ml cinneaita thet I want ¢6 Suh over school. and see my old friend Jim Jeffries, PREFERS BUSINESS TO FIGHT-| How !s Jim, anyway? Fine? ING: “And say, wait a minute, do you “Don't look as if you've been tratn-| {Tom, Where there's any good fish- Ing very hard, Jess,"’ I suggested. (Copyright, 1922, by Rob Ei “Traiming?” said Williard, ‘What ee ze ERE EVENING WORL S EIGHT MONTHS TO TRAIN FOR DEMPS 1 ® ey D, SATURDAY JUNE 3, 1922. , JESS WILLARD AS HE IS TO-DAY (Copyright, 1922, by Robert Edgren.) 7 of.B MONTHS OF HARD TRAINING (F HE Teer ONLY TRAINING STAFP Tess HAS Now (5 THE Five ‘Youne WiLLaRos.: Waar WARD NNANTS MOST VusT How 1S SOME Goon FISHING « "T WAS SeRRY FoR. Dempser” , Sars JESS “THE {DEA OF SECRET “TRAINWY SAVSED WILLARD: Tess wie ve : ENERLAIGHTS DEMPSEY. AGAIN. MoU T TARR ont ANoie ELOm BarRE Demoser.... "L Woven’? LEARN ANY MORE ABouT Borinia THAN T Mow Now", a SATS Wittamn, nl & CouPLE OPLITTLE Feary! CATCHING A STRAIGHT FLUSH BETTER THAN HOOKING FISH; ‘ TRIP SUCCESSFUL, SAYS 0’HARA Bor?’ “Why, that fight with Dempsey In September, I see you've been chal- Tenging him." Jess leaned back In his chair and laughed comfortably. “Have 1?" he chuckled. ‘‘Well,]| NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING. that's news to me. There's been al Payer, club. pee little talk about making a match with] Gowdy, Roston’... oa Dempsey, but I'm not thinking seri-| Gicsves Chiceee on ously of fighting him again.” Tex Rick-| nigbee, Pittsburgh’. ard has been wiring me about it, and] Ronwer, Pittsburgh’: I've sent him a message or two, but] jjornrey,, St, Loulas I haven't agreed to anything. Tex] T. Griffith, Brooklyn. has @ notion in his head that I can] Mann, St. Louis beat Dempsey any time I'll train, and] Ginnineham, he wants me to do it. He gets after] Maranville me every once in a while. But I don't] 4, Harnes. Sew Yor know whether I want to box Jack] Grimes, ‘Chicago... again or not. It would mean a lot of| Paulert, Cincinnail hard work. I'm in good health and J or Dork go out and do a little road work now y Pitteburat, 02 and then just to keep in shape, but on, Brooklyn; not with any idea of fighting again. HOMs Ss « I'm 80 out of touch with sport that I hardly know what's going on in the ring nowadays, I don’t say I won't meet Dempsey again, but I'm not con- sidering the possibility of it seriously] Cary, Littsburst at all. nyder, New Yori. “Getting ready to fight for the] Mokan, Pittsburgh . championship again would take a lot] {fells Bere eee. : of time. I would need seven or ethgt| \insmith, At. Louls months of hard training to get into} Powell, Boston shape to do my best. I can't afford] Young, Xow York... to give so much time to it. Ting, Phitadetphia “I don't know that I'd care to go Pittsburgh a... back to the ring even if I was sure of While Hy Lame. i beating Dempsey, I'm in a much] Mcttenty, St, Louls bigger game now, I have some pretty 1, Boston good oll flelds developing back in Kan-| jc; Hieayn sas—haven't put down a dry well yet.| iigh, Brooklyn 1.000000. It's a risky business and you can] Wrightstone, Philadeiphin,. make or lose a lot of money in It] helerry, Brookly but I've been lucky. I'm in .t as al Frisch, straight businers proposition. ayen't| Janvria, any stock to sell. I've had a lot of people after me to lend my name to stock selling schemes, but I won't have anything to dq with that sort of bu ness. It's bad stuff—letting your rep- utation be used to get money out of people who believe in you, and worked hard for their money and afford to throw it away. I'm develop- ing oil flelds to make money by selling the oil, and it keeps me busy, I'll have # few weeks here with miy Laiily and then I'll have to go back to the oil flelds again for a while, In time I expect to make my home here in Cali- fornia. I the finest place in the , New Pittsburgh York Pitcher, Chub. w. 1 Hamilton, Pittsburgh Miller, Boston, a 6 4 8 8 Louie ittaburgh Chicago Cineinnatt 6 Tonoht world for the youngsters to grow up| (Ayes : in Che donee 4 "Yes," said Willard, “a world's) Vance. Brooklyn 1 8 champion can make a lot of money seas een © Hit 1 like business better than I ever liked fighting WHAT HE THINKS OF DEMPSEY. Do I think 1 could beat Dempsey? io Well, 1 don’t want to say anythin aah 4 that might seem to take away any Cinelnnatt ... oy 4 credit belonging to Dempsey, but if 1] Osborne, Chiengo , ot ey t lim again I'll expect to] Sirians i I win, Winning in the ring depends « hoo Jot on the sta mind. [ would ex 4 pect to win, and if Tf fought him again H I'd hav seven or elght months ‘ herd work behind me and I'd be fit 1 would be as good as ever with that yi workout 1 wouldn't take on any ; ‘ houts first. Wouldn't need to } J wouldn't learn bout box- | Marauard, Boston ny mo} nz in a couple of little fights than 1] (tien, Ue! know now. All I'd need would be] Qevohger H condition Junea, ¢ ‘ “I've never offered an alibi for what | apened Toledo. Alibis are no \ 1 good. Dempsey beat me and that set-| SM)! § tled it, He beat me with the first] 1 o 3 punch he landed. 1 never knew what | happened after that. 1 under NAT'L LEAGUE CLUB BATTING. mated Dempsey. He has bull-like} ; an Hx strength and he has a good punch, || x r ieee mT don't think he's a clever boxer, but Kell Capes teAl Hy has all the speed in the world and a ' punch. He didn't need anytiing| "4 More. 1 thought it would be casy to fyi niin fepak Dempacy because be was #0 Cicuey 5 Fistic News and Gossip and Made Good by Having onne Iast week, won't be twenty years old ho Intends to box six-round| ner and Supper. boutw here until ho becomes of age, accord- ests. <del ae ing to the Commission's new ruling. Harry Greb, the new light heavy- weight champion, who intends to take a rest for a few weeks, will engage in his next fight in Philadelphia on the He will go against Tommy Loughren, the promising bat- in an eight-round bout at the next show to be staged by Promoters Gunniss and Taylor at the baseball park there. AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING. Stephenson, Cleveland. Miller, Philadelphia. Witt, New York O'Neill, Cleveland + Earl Baird and Kid Kaplan put up one of bouts ever seen in Bridgeport and they want them back again Baird ts willing but {t looks \ke Kaplan won't break any records jump- ing at another chan night of June 26, most #ensational tler of that city, to meet Baird, McManus, &t. Louls . hampton Jack Britton, who fights Benny Tebnard for the welterweight title on June 28, either at the Velodrome in the Bronx or at Boyle's Acres in Jersey City, has arrived in town from the West, training for the bout in a few days. He may work out at Harry McCormac! ing farm at Red Bank, N, J. Despite the fact that title to Harry Greb, his manager, Bagley, has reecived many offers from clubs Hagley decinred to-day y to fight again the jene ‘Tunney lost his Jack will start in for Gene's services. unney will be rem After the’ bout with Midget Smith at tho Garden on Thursday night, Joe Lynch and ddie Mead, declared that they jake @ trip to the West where Mead has practically signed up Joe for four will be with Jaber White of Albany, N. ¥., at Houston, Texan. battle within the next few months. The ten-round bout b n Jack Malone nt of Columbus, at Aurora, lil, on the Eddie O'Dowd of Columbus, 0. jannon ef Brooklyn have been matched tin the main go of twelve rounds at ink Sporting Club of Brgoklyn on Bat Harry London of ew York battles Johnny Solsberg in an- other twelve-round scrap. the contest was put back & few days. Joo Welling, weight who oulpointed Mel Coogan of B lyn in a ten-round bout at a show which was brought off at Indianap E: received a guarantee of $1,500 for his "The grosa receipts amoun The bout was held in a tent thore rday evening, ‘There are four fight promoters of Boston in town to-day trying to clinch a ten-round Jock Malone of Bt. | Dicinteh, Washington PSE heat nee chars, Washington decision bout betwe hee tan oa Vaul and Mickey Walker of Elizabeth, N. J. ‘They want the bout for June 19 and the club offering the best induce It 1s expected the bout will be John Welsmantel Is no longer the Club of Brooklyn. He resigned last « and Andy Neiderreiter has been selected take his place. night, Jack Werman va, Sid Bernard, twelve Wille Jackson Hart of Cleveland may be matched by Pro: ‘aylor of Philadelphia » meet in the semi-final of eight rounds to elght-round go between Harry Greb and of “Phill Smith, Washington vas, ten rounds. noters Gunnolas and PITCHING. Augie Ratner, Harlem, will mect Frank Carbone lyn in the main go of twelve rounds at Rink Sporting Ci Frankie Quill v -20F b of Brooklyn ¢ Williams, ten ro teen Young, Marine vs FIGHT RESULTS. NEW YORK featherweight, yund decision from Jack Hausner. Young Fisher, ®yra- won a twelve- Jimmy Darcy, Record, Montreal, Jack Holland, Syracuse, Jack Sharkey, New won a twelve- Al Lippe declares that admirers of Terr: the crack Allentown bi are stil willing to guarantes 000 to defend the bantamve 15-round bout SYRACUSE. middleweight, meet in a twel rounds: Brooklyn for ten rounds Joe Downey outpointed veff in § rounds. ten round bout welght who has held his H even bouts, will | is a big card, June etween Billy 1s been postponed from Monday un- til Wednesday night a FIRST ENTRY FOR 1923 RACE ON SPEEDWAY INDIANAPOLIS, y already has’ be seeking another Smith-Greb bow Bridgeport, Conn., In m twelve-r the Brighton Boxing Club of St tn to recelve { of the net recetpts for hin Harry Milton of Pepper Martin, Brooklyn's leading fenth Delmont, the Mermphis | again in Boston part of this month. in the car Ji victory here last 1 machine for the next ‘Three ten-round bouts will be bh Automoolles eligible for the next race be required to hav ment of not more This is a radi AMER. LEAGUE CLUB BATTING, rules regulating the contests of the t three years here, machines haying a piston displace- will be two othe nut of not more ‘ fish ail mornin, Fancy 34° beans for dinner. | apes For SALE EveRY WHERE an 163 inches. | Not !Roon and have boiled exgs for wpe, | LEARN TO SWIM NOW k will be Whatever fish we ent are sardines GUARANTEED BY AYVAD MFG. CO. HOBOKEN = Nov b evens, Mb owasn't for the puker chips, this eae made suc would be @ rotten fishing excursion. see The educational value of this trip is expansive, We prove that fish do not make a fishing trip any more than rabbits make a Welsh rabbit. We prove that a straight flush ts bet- ter to the eyes than a speckled salmon or a three-pound trout. We prove that warmth and good cheer do not necessarily flow from the brook that pours into the lake. All our proof is 110, After all, it was that old sportsman that said it, your old friend Omar Khayyam. “A jug o° wine, a leafy bough and thou.” Yea, bo! And you can leave behind the leafy bough und thou and still have a good fishing trip. a BIKE RACES PUT OFF TILL NEXT TUESDAY Vincent Madonna, largest pOtnt win- ner of the motor-paced riders last sea- son, will make his first appearance at the New York Velodrome next Tuesday night in a thirty-mfle paced race against Frank Corey of Australia and Willio Applehans of Germany, Ma- donna, a product of Italy, was the peer of the pace followers last year on the Philadelphia, Boston, Providence and other Eastern tracks and promises to eclipse all records for distance races this year, ‘The scheduled races for last Friday night were postponed on ac- count of rain, but the entire pro- gramme, aside from the motor-paced event, will be run next Tuesday night. NAVY NINE ELECTS HEDERMAN CAPTAIN Invaded Maine Lakes to Re- 5 move Some of the Tenants Beans for Breakfast, Din- Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening World), y Press. ishing Company, By Neal R. O’Hara. RANGELEY LAKES, Mo., June 3. —The third day of the great back-to- nature expedition is at an end. The fish in the lakes are all present and accounted for. Not a one of ‘em miss- ing. The members of the party are all present and accounted for, Not a one of ’em missing at meal time. Everything connected with this* pil- srimage to the Maine lakes and for- ests {8 present and accounted for— except a few chips that fell on the floor. Socially, esthetically and artis- tleally the trip has been a success. Sportively it is not so good, in the language of Shelly and Keats. This idea of casting fish hooks into a lake and yanking out salmon as big as a rubber boot—all that stuff is the bunk, Our personal statistics can prove it. - ernsine Isaak Walton's handy volume tells you that angleworms make good bait We aro not disposed to confound ‘Wal- ton's dope, but angleworms have got very little for this bunch, We all “ have the worms, but maybe we miss ona LE eid seria the angle at which they ard placed | Hederman of Webster, Masa., has been on the hook. Something, somewhere, named as Captain of the Naval Acad- is radically wrong. The Maine lakes|?my baseball nine for next season. He a nora | BAS. P a brilliant game in the in- Bn Coane Nis taety ne Heat ai, | Held and ts a good hitter, but has never i played against the Army, injuries hav- vision dubs. The trouble must be with|ing kept him out of the game for the Isaak Walton or Maine. And on sec-|last two games. ond thought it must be with Isaak| The members of the field and track Walton. What can you expect from team have selected Homer B. Hudson oi 2 re 7 st. Captain. any guy that spells Isaak with aff St Louls as Captain, He is a Ke? hurdler. a ee ee According to Walton—and Hoyle in| ENGLISH POLO TEAM MAY to poker what Walton 1s to flsh—a PLAY IN BIG TOURNEY yound worm, if properly impaled on « hook, will excite the culinary complex] poston, of @ fish, In other words, the hook|the Hritish polo team that 1s being re- Hes in ambush behind a coy angle-}eruited by Lord Rocksavage to play in worm, The salmon sees the worm,|the tournament at the Point Judith snaps at it a la carte and then pays|Country Club, at Narragansett Pier, R. dearly for what he eats hat is the] 1., beginning on July 26, was labled to- ain and John- ta will get and Alec at the Na- Park there on June %.—An invitation to theory Of ‘the thine, Practivally, {t It Is understood the team expects Johnny Till-| doesn't work out that way, Our fishin Ren AB OnE Fae Wats Oe ee nae ck Palmes,|demons lance the worm, as dirocte Dechert Se Ua Bayer. Will, Be Ja a » | de s a eligible for the junior national title They toss the bait und line into the|competition is not known to local oM- Kid Norfolk] lake, Then the salmon, trout and all}cials in the absence of their handicap Johnson in 12] the other wgll known fish proceed to] rating There will be several other eat the worm right off th four-alarm fire would eat off the steel springs of a mattress. At TT IMI hook like ajeup competitions f ie stuffing |™men will be eligible which the English- Keyan and Dave Shade] the end of a minute and a hait of] HUBBELL WILL JOIN League Park|fshing, all our heroes have left are PHILLIES NEXT WEEK their two stee! hooks and the boat - they're ‘out fishing. In ne of the) pILADELPHIA, June 3% —Physt- salmon are bolder than that, They've} giang yesterday reported that Walter even tried to bite Initials in the hooks. | y1 hon, pitcher of the Philadelphia Na- tional League team, atruck by a batted Tho achoola that these'selmon ere liban guring n@ with Brooklyn last syne Sens members of must be high or prep] week, renege iets trees ah DOREY al oO eh st orde The aroha! way for thepscnoal of the highest order. They! probat are taught not only to mult! by| Hubbell left the hospital yesterday, laying eggs in the sun. ‘They are{It was at first thought that bia Injury taught to swim and dive, to eat and] Was serious when the ball from Tommy arate ta anueh ut the inane fith's bat hit him on the head and boat, The Goyerninent doesn't have acked him: unconsclou to send them di avoid the hook party of ang are only the cor to Maine's lange automobile of the motor hy drove has nomi- ections on how to WINGS on dis- cuble from AC YAO BWATER: FOR POUGHKEEPSIE Coach Rice to Take Smaller Squad Than Expected to Training Quarters, Jim Rice, coach of the Columbia Unt= versity crews, announced Inst night that the rowing squad will leave here om Thursday for the Blue and White head+ quarters at Poughkeepsie, where inten= sive training will take place In prepaita= tlon for the annual Hudson classic, late this month, The personne! will include the sity, Junior varsity and fresh nan eights and a “mixed pickle” poet made up of four varsity and four fresh- man sweepswingers, The announcement caused a dea of comment as Columbia was expected to send a much larger delegation up the Hudson. It has been definitely .dectled not to enter the 150-pound elght in the race for the “bantams" which brush df {t takes place, will be an innovatioh at the Poughkeepsie regatta, If Syracuse should fail to enter her lightweight crew there will be no race in that divie aior It is probable that the varsity will not use the shell Bogue, which has beer used by them almost since they first took to the water this spring, Rlee likes the sophomores’ shell which: she ordered In Philadelphia a month oF 80 ago for the second year men, and much as the s voted favorably on the question of lending it to the varsity: this will be used. Z. Ralph Swinburne, Captain of the War- sity, has not been present at the” inst few’ practice sessions and Ferris has also been absent. Obviously this neges- sitated making a few changes in the boating. ‘ ‘The mentor's biggest surprise Was the shifting of Franklin Brodil, the stroke, to No. 7, Dixon Griswold, Who has been setting the pace for the Ju~ nior oarsmen, taking his place. ‘This te rather surprising in view of the -fact that Brodil was rated one of the best strokes in the East last year, How= ever, Griswold is developing Into @ cood stroke and 1s one of the finest oarsmen on Rice's squad. Brodit stroked the junior eight of the Utilon \ Boat Club in a starboard rigged shell. If he is kept in the starboard seat he should prove a strong reinforcement for that side, With the exception of Henderson, all men who rowed in the varsity, $1 varsity and freshman shells will the trlp to Poughkeepsie. In addition, Swinburne, Ferris, Chrystie, Cunning= ham, Neale, Bradley, Gaffney, Sher- man, Dealy and McCarthy will £0... The squads follo VARSITY. — Thees, Lovell, Nelson, Thess Ruffalo, Cooper. Brodil, Griswold, Lev. 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