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| 4 * MIDGET SMITH L — + 4 ‘ JOE LYNCH GIVEN AWARD BY 15TH ROUND RALLY Contest for Championship at Garden Was a Rather Tame fair, No Knockdowns or Real Sensational Fighting Taking Place Throughout Entire Distance—Lynch Hurt His Righi Hand in Second Round and Unable to Use It Thereafter. “By Robert Boyd. T« invisible erown symbolizing the bantamweight championship of the world stil, sets firmly to-day on the ruffled locks and wrinkled forehead of Joe Lynch of the West Side. Midget Smith of Harlem, ovnother New Yorker, whose non de guerre comes as a result of his small- ness of stature, strove valiantly through 15 rounds at Madison Square Garden to knock this invisible crown from hid fellow townsman’s head, only to hear the silver-tongued Joe Humphreys announce to an anxtous, unruly crowd that had packed the old sporting structure that the judges had agreed that Lynch was the victor and thus retained the title he lost to Pete Herman some time ago and later won back. It wus not a great fight. In fact, if one were not informed before it started, it might pass as a common- place battle The crowd was listless. The spirit af the fighters was very much lke the crowd at times. When the judges’ verdict was announced, the spirit of the mob suddenly gripped the crowd who thought that it was unjust, und voleed their dissension in terms of “yotten,”” “robber,'* &e. Many of these dissatisfied fans lost something om ‘the little blonde-haired gladiator of the roped arena, so it appeared, or were friends of the vanquished iehter SMITH CONGRATULATES LYNCH ON HIS VICTORY. Smith did not participate in the dissension voiced by his henchmen. He gallantly wiped some of the blood GROSS RECEIPTS OF GARDEN BOUT, $24,315.50 By John Pollock, ‘Joe Lynch, who successfully de- fended his title of bantamweight champion by g¢tting the decision over Midget Smith in their fif- teen-round bout at Madison Square Garden last night, drew down the nice sum of $7,874.90 for his victory, which was 3714 per cent. of the net receipts of $20,999.75. Smith received $2,- 624.96, which was 12% per cent. of $20,999.75. The gross re- celpts, including the Government tax of 10 per cent., were $24,- 315.50. The State drew down $1,105.25, whfeh was 5 per cent. of $22,105. Over 8,000 persons witnessed the contests, of which 7.494 paid for tickets. The tick- ets were sold for the bouts as fol- from his badly battered mouth and ‘ae $1.00 | $1,980.00 went ucross the ring to congratu-] 11422 at 2.00 2044.00 lute his champion foeman. 1,559 at 3.00 4,677.00 Lynch's margin of victory | was a 925 at 4.00. 3,700.00 slight ne. So slight, that only those] #08 at 6-00 nveatae lose to the ringside were in a posl-| ‘Total ...,..... $22,105.00 With Government Tax of 10 per cent. added, 2,210.50 Total ....... ++ «$24,315.50 tion to really seo it. This scant mar- win guve Smith's friends ample rea- son to dispute the verdict of the judges and referee in winning, Lynch displayed very Lat ote one, with little work worth mentioning. Nite of the championship ability that} "7 ) Midget AAs Gee (ut slight margin. The fight slowed up only fight as he can when he waslin this round. Smith did the better badly stung by Smith's punches, and] work and earned a shade. the Uttle soldier fighter stung him so] The eleventh also went to the little blond fighter. tarely that Lynch did very MMttle| phe auth was Lynch's aud the fighting. i thirteenth Smith's. In the fourteenth Many months ago these little fel-| Smith started to force his way to cer- lowa were barred ‘from boxing in] t#!n victory by shooting over his tong * an +, | Tight handed crosses that rocked the Madison Square Garden, pugilism’s| titiehoider's head. Round in favor of Mecca, by the august Boxing Com-| smith, mission of New York State, for not] This beating in the previous round displaying a better brand of fighting, PENH sian crwelg pois gate ‘Their endeavors were confined to the} segsion, which gave him the tight a smaller clubs of the city and out in] the judges’ decision. It was the fif- the sticks. Last night was their re-|teenth-round rally that aided him in turn to tne big purses. retaining his title. When the gong sent these two little | | Smith was given a rousing ovation fighting men to their corners in the when he left the ring, while very few accor e : fifteenth sound, Lynch, the champion, ssqnsoe redone lak apes et jad a slight bruise under his nose.| Referee John McAvo: ed tha Smith was bleeding badly from an} Harry Leonard had chlntenclonalty old wound at the mouth sustained in | fouled Kid Williams of Baltimore, for- another conflict. These were the only | mer bantamwelght titleholder, in the sears that the two fighters bore when | first round, giving the fight to Will- this championship struggle was over. |iams. They were sparring in the cen- There were no knockdowns. Neither | tre of the ring when Williams showed fighter ever got excited and lost his|signs of agony on his fuce, Leonard mental poise, so uneventful was this} hit low, but not low enough to pr championship fight vent the former blond champlon from Both fighters appeared after a poor | continuing setvof preliminaries in good physical vondition h was draped in differ ont sh of green fightung trunks LYNCH COOL AS A CUCUMBER AT THE OUTSET. \as Won him his title, He would —— SOPHS CARRY OFF Cc, C. N. Y. SWIM HONORS The champion, aneamic, unemo-| The sophomore class won the annual tions? and Jooking less like an athlete } Interciass swimming meet at C. C. N.Y. that his stalwart adversary ed | yesterday, garnering 24 points to 18 unconcerned as they made ready for] for the freshman class. ‘The seniors and the battle with the customary prelim-] juniors were tied for third place, just inary introduction: half a point back of the yearling Smith. with a heavy white plaster Murray Dundes, ‘24, was t Jouble winner of the day loft eye His boPis! in good con nd light tule to mude hin Me captured he 39 and 1vc-yard swine, with hi = BRICK JUST MISSES 316% ; ROBBIE’S HEAD AS i ends came to HE RIDES IN AUTO mit ad Lyng to the Kins hour i eine. 4 ANNAPOLIS. Md., De . Mued to be " Wobert insgn, manage { is intent it the Brooklyn Club of the \ tien Hound even a ae HAN toe ee and iexnch ational ague, narrowly wth a left t face escaped injury yesterday while whward in his attempts ding with Robert Strong of Heh was more deliberat South River in an automobile Suith's mout eGR, hee Robinson, who is spending Pe telisyareh tacked: Bias part of the Winter season on a is uwn corner and bot deat anting trip near here, was title fellow with rh ert driving is machine directly the head and Jaw, Smitl 2 A . My J nd oa truck loaded with © js corner with his mouth biceding badly yneh’s round bricks, Jn the third there was cr One of the bricks fell off and Jinching. They boxed, Uy was whirled by one of the rear up. Smith tore into Lyneb with bis wheels of the truck through Vead down and swung earnestly but windshield of Robinsun's witats ruind “ ght hand 1% Tobin . wered wit Lynch took the fourth, T : ra ote he was even. Lynch won sixt ‘nes : She seventh was oven Lynch we wise and) syste m me the eight and the ninth was ever ght cuts about the face from WU round was # repetition u the fying glas } A hse eee eterna name yea THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1922. OSES CLOSE DECISION FOR BANTAMWEIGHT TITLE: AT THE GARDEN LAST NIGHT - Copyright, 1922 (The New York Evening World), by Psess Publishing Ca, By Thornton Fisher LOCAL SCHOOLBOY ATHLETICS IN PERIL FOR LACK OF FUNDS Scope of P, S. A. 1. Bevond| ors conn s = Cusesanein see Point Where It Can Be M’GRAW ADMITS there HAS been talk of exchanging Senor Adolfo Luque of the Cincinnati Reds for Jess Barnes of Circleville, than that, there i that next April's more or less ardent sun will beat on Senor Luque in a Giant uniform and Mr. regalia Giants left his home against the advice of the Glants (o attend to business de spite the {uct that he is (o undergo an operation in a day or so. the Luque deal had bee ‘Tierne| niceting McGraw bad with Garry Herr-} 29 Ciweinnath Club meant on Luque," said Mi gested that T might wish to ma for the piteber the Keds withdrew thelr walver offer, But during the leag' met Herrmann and to tel] bls directo! he has refused thi make public the real inside of the n: Uations trade of Barnes for Luqu to be all in favor of th Was pointed out tt was » winning piteher in 1 with w championship team behind him, JOES SARE 1S ALWAYS SS MOST AMNONING A> “UG, CoMDITION OF SMITHS PAN (MOICATEO AT-THE VERY BEGINNING i! | atOger™ _ OCLASIONELLY SHOT & WICKED RIGHT ATJOE'S JAW AS THOUGH HE WERE) FIRING ar A TARGET “THERE AIN’T NO SANTA CLAUS” By Ed Van Every. JACK DEMPSEY—Guess I'll have to hang up my sock—Carpentier took Siki and is too light, Wills is too dark, Willard too old, Floyd John- son too young, Brennan ‘too slow, and I'm too rough. So there's nothing for me to do in the fighting line, and the stage will have tq suffe: BABE RUTH—So they've hung up the Baby's socking? Wait till | get through socking the old trees and I'll show the world. =P MILLER HUGGINS—My sock was busted a bit last year and Bob Meuse! put his foot in it too. And the World's Series—but all | wish a lot of folks is everything they’ve been wishing me. BENNY LEONARD—They say my socks are too heavy for light- weights. They think if they can keep forcing me to make 135 pounds Vil only need a half a set of legs. Just wait till | get my removable teeth ready and I'll make weight Ys JOHNNY WILSON—1 should hang up my stocking after having $37,500 hung up on me so long? The next time | fight (sure that was fighting) | hope | get what is coming to mi mean’ in the way. of Fyoney. ! WILBERT ROBINSON—If | could get my stocking full I'd have a lot of something—pitchers, infielders and outfielders is all | want to bring—but then | have a fat chance, . JOHN M'GRAW—So they took the sock out of the Giants’ bank roll? Ha! Ha! Now | don't have to spend heavy mone they won't tet us give our money, away, but | guess | can stand the Christmas present. GEORGE BURNS—My baseball stockings were changed on me, but I'm no kicker. | always gave New York my best (and some folks thought it was pretty good) and my reward was Cincinnati— Qh, well, they might have sent Ime to Philadelphia. FRANK FRISCH—Second basing cuts into my afternoons’ and I'm married—so | don't wanter be President. _CHARLES EBBETS—Baseball is in its infancy and this Players’ Union is a lusty infant and has us up a tree not of the Christmas variety. fielal | scorgs SARAZEN, INSURED HE TRIED TO TRADE | FOR $100,000, NOW IN BARNES FOR LUQUE} BABE RUTH’S CLASS Despite denials of the last few days, Gene Sarazen, national open and P. G. A. champion, will doubtless soon be the first of the golf professionals to be insured for $100,000 against accident or death. As soon as Chauncey Depew Steele, manager of the new Briarcliff Lodge at Briarcliff Manor on the Hudson, got Gene's signature attached to a two-year | "ev propert ‘an., and the New York Giants. More still a fine possibility near future. in Redland John J. MeGraw cleared the atmgs- » of doubt in regard to the rumored yesterduy, The manager of the contract to represent the club as its professional, he summoned a life insurance agent and applied for a $100,000 policy on the life of his star. Gene and Babe Ruth are now on the same level as regards insur- Babe being insured by the Yankeos for the sa jount, The Giants have insured Jimmy O'Connell, coming to the team on, for $75,000. Bush, Shawkey, Mayo, Hoyt and Jones of the Yankees, are all insured by the club for amounts ranging between $50,000 and $60,000. which still hysiciuns and came to the oifice the quarters A deniul of the affable & pis, because he didn't A nn, President of the Reds, during the uo mectings here a week or 80 ago. “Just at the close of the season Herr- bn sent ne & letier saying that the for 1 are rowin| Ming and, The fern 1 did nothing © meetings here 1 tion of s uuuue, ‘There Barnes for Luque Wa wus no action. Inasmuch as Herrmann has seen ft | ath Unat 1 owill business men with an insurance policy of $5,000,000, Sixty Ameri- cans are insured for a million or students offer DAGA SPOKANE, The great Mervich belongs up with the leaders of the animal world in insured value. Just be- fore the running of the Kentucky Derby, Ben Block insured the un- beaten two-year-old of 1921 for Gonzaga $225,000. At first blush the t altho! was from C! League boxmen in te ipoine. of ss NEW PRESIDENT FOR Crane ty liveness, 10 Sinner, according to thel aig, No dp GOLF BODY] whether Go ps who hi followed the work of pitchers clonely. Barnes might do better In another city, it was A new president for the New Jorsey hat “sore” ever wince M State Golf s.ssociation will be elected to trade him to (he highest}: the annual meeting of that body, to ¢ se A t body, to bidder in the spring of 1 when he]b. held at the Princeton Club o held out for more Ta day at 4 o'clock. Eac ———— ae the SCHOFIELD WINS — PINEHCRST] rent to be represented F CHAMPIONSHIP, delegate, duly authorized, tor furthe PINEHURST, De b.L pointine must be auth Sehufield of Stam and churst |e retary, Such certit Wor the Pinehurst Country Club's tment should be in annual golf tourned ve Barrow, the seer defenting RK. ©. Shan b “i " Street, New Y 4 up and 2 to play Monday, Jan BAN JOHSON SCORES SCORERS IN ADDING CHAPTER TO TY’S SCORE CHICAGO, Dec. 23 (Associated Press). sident Johnson of the American League in a letter last night to F. G Lieb, President of the New York Base- ball Writers’ Association, in which he official scorers “in many cases are grossly lacking in ef- ficleney and responsibility,” advised the Association to “put leges and schools with coaches from asserted baseball Baseball Writers’ their own house in order before sending scurrilous and questionable com- ints’’ {n the Ty Cobb hit controvers: The New York Chapter of the Bas. ball Writers’ Association recently for- fanta |Warded to President Johnson a protest against the latter's action in discarding the box score of the official scorer in a] it Detrolt-Yankee game at New York last for ball playerse— | May. In substituting the Associated Press box score of the game Ty Cobh gained one more hit, making his 1922 batting average Johnson said period of several y had much difficuky in securing the of- none [was*received after much tele- graphing and correspondence. Es ei BAKER FIELD MAY NOT BE USED NEXT YEAR Plans formulated by Columbia Uni- versity for the use of its new property at Baker Field games next year have practically been abandoned for the present. according to Information coming from the Universit; x yesterday. “This confirmed a recent ine | Women's Swimming Association, bi timation of Graduate Manager R. W.| decided to take up speed skating on the Watt that South the scene of the 1923 athletic contests tion change: ithin t ation changed within el rsist Street Ice Palace. Because of her | low unless the itu that the cost of ma gridiron for next year ts too high. Graduate Manager Watt said he does t believe that, in any event, the fleld ne oe ‘ete. fall dtowerer | toster and she will be afforded every will be ready t ctices will be held as w vi live and train tn the manor house|!¢¢ Palace team stands there. a the Stew, which has a now boathouse in| ation in New York, which was brought] prepared for the game with Columbia t nearby cove of the Harlem, will use| 'tto being at the tce palace by Mre.| on Jan, 5 SaaS stimulate interest in speed skating on S DATES FOR FIVE TEAMS POLIS, Md., Dec. 23.—The Ath- tetic Bourd of the United States Naval Academy has announced the schedules 3 in five branches of sport. They swimming, boxing, wrest tos. » event for the crew will] Robert H. NAVY: FIXE be the triangular r% Princeton and Princeton May Adolph Zukor leads all other | meet a Canadian from Toronto, Queens universities. more. DETROIT OFFERS Wash., Dee, nouncement of receipt of an offer from the University of Detroit for a football game with Gonzaga University next fall was made by Char! According to Dorais the offer Jes Bruce, graduate man- Sates ager of the Detroit institution and su; = ame be played late in ber at the Polo Grounds in New Dorais would not say ionzaga would accept the of- fer, but said he had telegraphed Bruce information. at the world's pest in two etition here this winter Some of the wealthy patrons have died. ‘The frequent drives of oe - . 4 vation Army, Red Cross and Financed by a Few. organizations for money and the pre- ip valing ferns) depression has de- ry prived the P. 8. A. L. of many of its HE future of the Public School} best and most loyal friends, y Athletic League, a private or- Gas fagenanid the is hai ae e point where it can be financed by Sanization maintaining an ex-}_ few enthusiastic and altruistic mt tensive system of grammar and high} The Lit serving without pecuniary ompensation realize that the time has school athletics {n New York City, 18 arrived where private appeals for thoney threatened because of lack of funds.|/must be changed into a general cam- The league has been supported by voluntary contributions, but these have been reduced, owing to business depression. Meanwhile membership in the league peg bossa ‘ The appropriation from the city to-~ RO. LNCH OIC | ard'the maintenance of the schoolboy athletic competition ts negligible. The major part of the city’s money goes Into payment of physical training teach- salaries and the upkeep of gymn & UIP-FLING Roun THE | fectiveness of the terioratea with this surplus of school- boys. The work of the F’. S. A. L. has never been of such a vital necessity to the present welfare of the city’s children and the future man power of the Not since its foundation in 1908 has this organization faced so difficult a financial outlook. The gram- mar schools’ annual indoor tract eid championships, held last Saturday at the 224 Regiment Armory, were only financed at the last moment when Gen. SMITH FOUGHT oy Lice & WHIRL-WIND to Bur THE SHOWING HE. MADE I THE Ear ROUNDS DID Nor ENTITLE Him TO THE DECISION | —— WHAT JOHN M’GRAW OF GIANTS SAYS ABOUT THE PLAYERS’ UNION Lavender Five Plays Brown Here To-Night—N. Y. U. to Practice During Holidays. “In the last twenty years there haven't been five players who really went through with their threat to stay out of baseball un- less their salary demands were met. | doubt if the players’ union seriously considers any such move, By Burris Jenkins Jr. THLETICS at City College have centred on basketball in the past five years with success. Besides turning out winning fives, C. C. N.Y, is now furnishing local col- {ts long list of graduate former cham- pions, si Max Krinsky, the brilliant forward of the 1920 quintet, is now foaching at Cathedral College. TubbyVRaskin, ‘aptain of the championship team of i id last year, 1s coach at Cooper Union. Artie Carroll, a former star not only on the Lavender five but also on the baseball nine, is a qoach at Manhat- tan College and rapidly turning out the first good team Manhattan has had in years. Irving Gemson is another star who is now gymnasium teacher at Boys’ High and former coach in basketball there, where he developed such win- ance at all. If the players w ners as Max Krinsky, Willie Ball, to join, that is their own busi- both of C, C. N, Y. teams, Johnnie ness.’ Baisha of Syracuse, and Nelson of oe Brooklyn Poly. Also there is J. Mc- DOROTHY WESLEY WILL Gill, former coach at Bushwick High, Brooklyn. BECOME SPEED SKATER The present City College, so far undefeated, plays the first of a trio of hard games to-night when it meets Brown University in the C. C. N. Y, gym. The following Saturday {lol Cross meets C. C. N. Y. and Ford ham the next week. The line-up for C. C. N. Y. fol- Salz, r.f.; Nadel, 1.f.; Curran, centre; Klauber (Capt.), r.g.; Edel- ability, Miss Wesley is expected to prove| stein, l.g. @ valuable addition to the fce palace] New York University will be the only basketball team which will con- tinue practice during the Christmas holidays, The Violet will workout in ‘m three times a week to keep Some very pathetic cases have been brought to my attention. Many old-time stars hi been «iti nam without a penny to thbir names. Let the union take will help, and many thousands of dollars could be raised by an old- timers’ fit game once a year. Frisch is concerned, it amounts to nothing that one of my players is either a member or an officer of the union, As far as | can see, that is of no import- it xtending through a ars, this office has in some instances for actual football Miss Dorothy Wesley, the metropolitan breaststroke champion of the New York ield would again be] ice and will be taught the rudiments of the sport by Joe Carroll, manager of the ing it a temporary| unusual vigor pd all around athlatic on the | OPPortunity to develop any latent talent, the football squad}, Simultai Joining the In the spring| Mitted to the Women's Skating Associ- the § Joseph K. Savage to encou anu Columbia opens the Intercollegiate the part of girls as well as supervise all] League season Jan. 9, when it plays activities of the girl skaters, Princeton. > BROWN ELEVEN BOOKS TEN GAMES FOR 1923 PROVIDE , Dec, 23.—Seven home games and three on rival fields are in- cluded in the Brown football schedule for 1923, announced by the manager, ort. The schedule follows: ee BURNS OUT OF RACE FOR UNION LEADERSHIP It begins to look as {f Jack Fournier, the first baseman of the St. Louis Car- dinals. will be forced to. accept the Presidency of the Players’ Union by de> fault. Frank Frisch of the Giants hi already declined to be a nominee for th pe between Harvard, Bept. 20, Haverford; 6, Colby e learned that wy, to be raced at Washi Petcoe: af Washing: | Office. and yesterday it was learn Tho boxing team wit | hs ee eee” she ntaton University Oct, | George Bums of the Reds, the leading squad compored of|27. ¥ New it Nov. 4, St. Bona:teandidate, has also notified the union r McG! and Nov. mouth; Nor that he would not consent to run for the ; 3b igh: chief ofice. _— wbiira States Nov. 2p, ee pO PLAY GUN- v HERE, 23.—An- BABE RUTH ACCEPTS CHALLENGE ROM his winter retreat in Sudbury, Mass, where he has beea chop- Fee ne inte caving nothing for a matter of six weeks or more, Babe Ruth has spoken. The erstwhile Big Hitter of the big leagues comes up for air long enough to say that he will come to New York in a few weeks and bat 4 ball over the fences of the new Yankee Stadium. The tidings came in a letter to Col, Til Huston, who is soon to re- tire as part owner of the Yankees. Babe possibly hadn’t heard the sad news of the Colonel's action 1m selling out, for he didn't mention it, What he did eay was: vet pnar Capect am down to 210 and still dropping, Work hard every . day. Hard as nails, and will be ready for anything next year. 3 WALRER COMs “1 am planning a trip to New York in a week or so and then I will biti be ready to'go up to the new park and bat a couple over the fence, just the great Italian] to show Barrow that it cau be done. J understand that a couple of the : "t do tt. newspaper men say I Chey wish to make home rise harder to hit~that they will mark Iines op the fences to show what !6 @ home rub anu what ie not. ’ i That goes for me. Put the marks anywhere you like Vil hit ‘em and a lot of these soft hits are going to go for two-baggers. I can hit ANYWHERE, You know that! I dun't care where the fences are. Dorais, coach of ups at Antwerp, will ording to t the Millrose A. A. Jen on (Signed "@. H, RUTH.” Cc. C. N. Y. Ex-Basketball Stars Coaching at Coll paign among the great mass of men. graduates of the public schools, who can appreciate the value to be derived from schoolboy athtetics. The present active membership of the P. S. A. L. fs 120 and these 120 per- rons upheld the entire financtal burden of 1922. The Trensurer’s books now show a balance of $1,019.73, Clarence Assistant Treasurer, already a campaign to bring bacie ‘nto next year's fold the men who have been Interested in the past and no | than thirty letters have returned ex- pressing thelr regret at not being able to continue thelr past appropriations, Figures recently compiled by John J. ‘on your marks,” “get set’ and “take your time, boys,” is fam'liar to every oolboy of the city, show that up to Noy. 1, 717,157 competi-| ~ tors were taken care of by the league. The junior high schools have added another field ready for cultivation. The outdoor championships drew 2,700 ath letes into competition from the elemen tary echools, and the indoor champion: ships only a few less, Should the nual intercollegi such a retinue of entrie . A. might herald tt eet in all its history eges and Schools: COLUMBIA, PENN, YALE IN TRIANGULAR REGATTA A triangular rowing regatta among Columbia, Pennsylvania and Yale on the Housatonic River, May 5, will be one of the new features of the 1998 eea- son. The schedule follows April! 21—Pennsyivania’ and reece, Severn River, Annapoli April 28—Childs Cup Rei Princeton and Pennsylvania), Schuylkill) . Philadelphia S—Harvard, ‘avy and Princeton, tri 6 ie Carnegie, Pri eniisylvania and ¥ ica, I'naca, N. Yat sasibly Columbia, triangul a wer. ay, 26-—American Henley, Sehuyfiill Rly Harvard and Cornell, dual regatts ries River, Hoston a June 28 or 26--Poughkeepsia Regatta (Pennsylvania, Columbia, Cornell, Syracuse and powsibly the Navy) THREE BIG HANDICAPS AT NEW ORLEANS TRACK NEW ORLEANS, Dec, 23.—Three $5,000 handicaps to be run off at the Fair Grounds track, following the New Year's Handicap, were announced by Racing Secretary McLennan, ‘Tho Rex Handicap for three-year-olds at one mile will be decided on Satur- day, Feb, 3. The Crescent City Handi- cap, which is a test at a mile and a sixteenth for three-year-olds and up- ward, is to be run on Saturday, Feb, 10, The Mardi Gras Han calls for w trip of a mile and a quarcer and horses three or more years of age are eligible. It will be staged on Feb. 18, the clos- ing day. cle eater FOOTBALL COACH VICTIM OF SLEEPING SICKNESS SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 28.—Gene Van Gent, former head coach of the Stanford Univeraity football and basket- ball teams, is seriously {ll at St, Fran cis's Hospital here .4 victim of epidemic encephalitis, commonly known as sleep ing sickness, it was announced to-day y his phyician, Dr. Milton B, Lennon. ‘an Gent was stricken shortly after Thanksgiving. Dr. Lennon explainet that Van Gent's illness ts extremely weakening, but is not marked by the usual long sleeping perlods common te the malady. es ILLINOIS PRESIDENT FOR VARS- ITY TEAMS. CHAMPAIGN, Ul, Dec ing his bellef in intercol Dovid Kinley, President of th sity of Illinol sid in a at the dinner of the Chic to the Ilinois football team und coaches last night that they should be coneid ered as legitimate parts of educational programs along with physical education and the intramural sports and fosteret to the extent ( they are a helpful division of the fleld of education. a eee ACKERMAN IS DEFEATED IN MET CUT TOURNAMENT, Martin Ackerman, scratch man in the Manhattan handicap pocket billiards tourney at the Manhattan Recreation Academy, was defeated last night by Dave Menist. The score was $3 to Ackerman played for points, while his opponent played for In’ a second match Ackerman beat M. leming, 76 to 24, Fleming played for 32 points, eee onsen: SMITH, GROVE CITY FOOTBALL PL DIES. CANTON, ©., —Martin Smith, twenty-one, centr College football t for the past home here ear COMMONWEALTH Te-*ight, 1350 SPORTING {ikkuy"Loxpom, sai HARRY GORDON.