The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 324, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 9, 1923 Page: 59 of 76
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HP READY
BUTNOBDUTS
E IN SIGHT
Dempsey and Kearns Talk
Conversationally of
Their Plans.
FIRPO WILL BE
No Slugging With Its Risk
to the Title Next Time
Says Jack. >
By ROBERT EDGREN.
"When I saw Jack Dempsey and
Jack Kearns they had just bought arf-
other Los Angeles hotel.
‘•No” said Jack Kearns “there’f
nothing in all that talk about Jack
being matched immediately with Tom
Gibbons for a January bout in New
York. We have been listening to a
few propositions but nothing definite
has come of it yet.”
Perhaps you are going to give up
the ring and go in for real estate en-
tirely” I suggested.
‘‘Nothing like that." said Kearns
laughing. “Dempsey in the ring is one
of the finest business propositions in
the country right now and we aren't
thinking of retiring for a -long time.
Jack is just taking a little rest after
a fairly busy year.
“But we plan to make next year
the busiest he has had since winning
the title. From January to January
Jack expects to have at least three
big matches —more if any new challeng-
er comes along with the public sup
port. Nothing could suit us better
than to take on a bout every month
but the trouble is lack of heavyweight*
of real class who would draw with the
.champion.
Ready for Firpo.
“They have to be good to go with
Jack these days. Before he took the
title from Willard he could box every
week if he wanted to. Dempsey ha-
improved so much as champion that
it's hard to find a real contest for
*••1.
“Firpo? We have no plans for an
other Firpo match. Firpo gave Jack a
great fight in New York and any time
the public and the promoters think
he has a chance and want to put him
on again they'll find us ready.
•‘Firpo will meet a different at-
tack next time. Jack will make him
miss and pick him off deliberately.
Dempsey is the fastest and cleverest
big man that ever held the titler—and
he isn’t so big. either compared to
some of the champions. He has the
speed and the punch and he knows
how to use it. He may get Firpo
quicker next time and I don’t expect
to see Firpo put the right over again.
Forgot About Science.
“He won’t if I can help it” chuckled
[Dempsey. “I took too many chances
plugging with that bird. I didn't be-
Jieve the. stories about nis right and
he was a iqt faster with it than i
thought or I never would have thrown
my boxing awiy to try to get him
■with the first punch and then stand
up and trade punches with him like a
longshoreman. We all make mistakes
hut a fellow's dumb if be makes the
same mistake twice. I probably woulu
have fought him differently if he
hadn't knocked me goofy with the
first righuhand punch when X missed
him. I was just fighting on instinct
after that until my head cleared for
the second round. Guess I forgot all
about science.”
“Firpo won't be so confident next
time” said Kearns. “He knows
Dempsey's punch will drop him and
he knows Jack can weather his right.
Before the fight Firpo thought he
couldn't be knocked out. and be
tboqght nobody could take his right
on the jaw and stand up. But there
isn't any Firpo match ye*. so there's
no use talking about it. Firpo will
want more experience nnd we'll have
to wait until he gets it.”
“Who is on the cards for the next
match?"
“Nobody at all" said Kearns
“That all depends on what the pro-
moters say. It might be Tom Gib-
bons. Tom stayed fifteen rounds with
Jack and made a better showing than
anyone else and if they want Gibbons
he can have another match. Jimmy
Coffroth has been thinking of that
match for Tia Juana where they can
go the old championship distance. It
would suit us. Gibbons is fast and
clever and a harder man for Dempsey
to fight than any of the bis slow fel-
lows. He has the old-time stuff and
he can come near beating the rest of
'the bunch. But Jack knows all about
him now and it might be a short
fight.”
“Perhaps you're sore about the
things Gibbons has been saying—-
about the referee helping you and all
that" I suggested to Dempsey.
No Fear of Wills.
“Not a bit” said the champion. “If
Tom thinks that way I don't blame
him for saying anything he wants to.
Tom's a fine fellow. If he thinks he
can beat me he's welcome to a chance
I always said the fast clever fellows
give me more trouble than the slow
big ones. Harry Greb would bothet
me more than Willard did. He's so
fast and awkward that you're more
likely to hit him on the eibow than on
the chin. Hitting the big slow fellows
is just like hitting a mattress.”
“How about Wills?”
“We were ready to take Wills on
when the New York boxing commission
put it aw to us the first time.” said
Kearn^'and whem we signed up they
barred the bout. I know Dempsey
can beat Wills any time.
“I saw all of Wills’ fights in Call-
fornia eight or nine years ago when
he was at his best. He could fight like
e^n streak until he was hurt but he
R/couldn't take it. He knocked Sam
V Langford down and Sam kept jump-
• ing up without a count and outgamed
lAVills and knocked him out when it
looked as if Willa couldn't lose.
“Wills can't fight unless he's al
lowed to hold his men around the
SUNDAY.
Jack Kearns Says—
BOXED
neck with one arm and hit with the
‘other which is against hll rules. If
Wills tried to hold Dempsey with one
liiand and slug with the other Jack
would tear him to pieces. Jack is fully
as strong as Wills and ae'd keep tear-
ing into Wills’ body and break him
up. He'd never take Jack's punches
either in the body or on the jaw. But
there's no prospect right now of a
Wills match. Wie different states don't
seem to want it. and we’re not trying
to kill boxing. If the public and the
promoters and the authorities favor a
Wills match I won’t be hard to talk
to. Until they do the less said about
it the better.”
“What do you think of Wills?” 1
asked Dempsey.
Always Feds Confident.
“I'm not anxious'to help him make
any money after what he and his man-
ager did before the Firpo fight try
ing to get out an injunction and stop
us and making a4ot of trouble the lust
week of training.” said the champion.
“But he looks just like anyone else
to me. If Doc says fight him. it's all
right. Doc does the matchmaking and
I do the fighting. Whatever Doc de-
cides goes with ma They all look alike
when Doc says go to it.
“I guess Wills is pretty good or
there wouldn't be so much talk about
him. Anyway I never say I can lick
anybody. Of course I always ^el*
confident when I get i/ito the ring
but a fight is a fight and anything
can happen.
“If I fought Wills I’d train as hard
as I always train for anyone else and
I'd figure everything that could hap
pen and be ready for it. That’s the
only way to look at any match. If tin-
other fellow didn't have a chance he
wouldn’t be there.”
This is about as much as Dempsey
ever commits himself in regard to any
of his opponents. I’ve never heard him
say he was going to win or knock the
other fellow out. I mentioned that to
him.
"Of course. I always feel confident
and expect to win.” said Dempsey.
"I’ll go on feeling that way until
some young fellow comes along and
beats ine to the punch. A fight isn't
like a foot race where the faster man
can always win. One pilnch in a fight
may upset everything. Nobody’ll ever
know how near Firpo came to getting
me when I walked Into that first clip
on the chin. I have more confidence
now that I know I can be socked out
of my senses that way and keep right
on fighting and win. I never felt sure
of mvself before. That did me more
good than anything else that ever hap-
pened to me.” •
"How about Renault and the rest o.
the bunch?”
"I’d like to see Renault come to
the front” said Kearns. ’ “Or anyone
else. The better they are the more
business we can do and what we re
after is business. When there isn't
anyone left to give Jack a fight we 11
have to retire. I hope that won't hap-
p<n for a long time.”
"Jie too” said Dempsey.
(Copyright 1923 by the Bell Syn-
dicate Inc.)
Gets His Deer After
Swim of a Mile and
Expert Use of Lasso
Victoria. Tex.. Dec. B.— There
are more ways to kill a eat than
choke it on butter and more ways
to bag a deer thau shoot him. This
is the experience of Alphonse
Schlein a young ranchman of Vic-
toria county.
Mr. Schlein encountered a
seven-point buck on the Edward's
ranch while getting bis cattle out
of the bottoms through which the
Guadalupe river flows. He was
unarmed and gave pursuit. The
deer plunged into the water and
Mr. Schlein rode his horse in after*
it The chase continued for about
a Aile. Mr. Schlein finally got a
lasso oscr the animal's bead
brought it near and cut the throat
He brought the head and bide
into town to prove it had not been
shot.
Heavy rains recently have
driven a great many deer from
the bottoms and hunters have had
numbers of open shots at them.
THE SPORT PAGE
MANAGER OVER-RULES
PLAYER-UMPIRE' WHO
CALLS AN ENEMY OUT
Clark- Griffiths Tells of
. Strange Happening of
Other Days.
BY BILLY EVANS.
On day last summer in a game at
Washington a certain play came up
in which the base umpire after ren-
dering a decision of out was overruled
by the plate umpire and the runner
galled safe. The ball beat the run-
ner but the first-baseman juggled
the ball several times and it was in
the air when the runner passed over
the base. The bnse umpire couldn’t sw
the juggling ball because of his posi-
tion back of the fielder. When in-
formed by the plate umpire that the
ball had been juggled a number of
times the base umpire changed bis
ruling declacing the runner safe.
The reversing of the decision caused
considerable gossip and incidentally
cause Clark Griffith president of the
Washington club to relate an unusual
thing that happened to him along
those lines during his days as a star
Sitcher for the Chicago Nationals
riffith always a close student of
the game one day essayed the role
of big league umpire and thereby
hang* the story but we will let
“Griff” tell it himself.
“The umpires failed to show np
for a Sunday game at Chicago and
"Cap” Anson then managing the
Chicago club of which team I was
a member selected me as one of
the umpires. The other umpire was
a visiting player. I umpired the
bases. *
"A rather close play came up at
first base in which I declared the
visiting runner out. I felt sure that
I had rendered the proper ruling
but from the kick that resulted a lot
qf folks must have thought other-
wise. The visiting players surround-
ed me. called me all kinds of names
threatened to leave the field and do
many other dire things but I stood
my ground and insisted the man
was officially out and that settled it.
Imagine my surprise when I shear
‘Cap’ Anson say to the captain of
the visiting club:
“ ‘florae on and let’s play; quit
kicking. The man was safe. I know
it nnd he is going to stay on first.'
“The game was resumed with the
man I had declared out taking his
place on first. Later he scored and
that run decided the ball game
against Chicago. As an umpire
therefore. I believe I hold the record
in having a decision in favor of the
home team overruled by the leader
of that club. Beat that one if you
can.”
FULL OF “ALL-STARS”
American Baseball League Lists Fa-
mous Footballers Galore.
Speaking about All-American foot-
ball teams it would be an easy matter
for the exnerts to pick such an ag-
gregation from the baseball players
who hold forth in the American
League.
Dick Richie now playing the out-
field for the Boston Americans was
a star end at the University of Ill-
inois.
The New York Yankees have three
renowned footballers on their roster.
Mike Gazclla. who plays shortstop
was a star halfback at Lafayette.
Outfielder Hinkle Haines was a sen-
sation on the gridiron _ with Penn
State. Outfielder Hendricks is a for-
mer Vanderbilt star.
Riggs Stephenson who second-
sacks fnr Cleveland was a star half-
back at University of Alabama one
of the greatest players the South’has
ever turned out.
Shortston Gagnon of Washington
and Outfielder Bill Barrett of the
White Sox starred in football at Holy
Cross.
The White Sox have In Pitcher
Castper one of the greatest backs
ever produced in the .West. He
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
starred at Notre Dame and won much>
praise from Coach Rockne.
First-baseman Lou Gehig of the
Yankees was a player at Columbia and
Bob Knobe qf the Cleveland Indians
played at Michigan.
MOST CHAMPS HAVE
JINX AMONG BOXERS
• OF INFERIOR GRADE
“Toagh Eggs” Dim Rec
ords of Many Title-
holders.
By JOE WILLIAMS.
The mental hazard exists in the
prize ring too. Only the knucklers
don't call it that. “Tough egg” comes
closer to the phraseology used. A
tough egg is an inferior battler who
always manages to make some particu
lar star look bad.
Most of the champions have at least
one tough egg on their list. Bonny
Leonard’s tough egg is Johnny Dun-
dee. Considering the difference in
weights and the added fact that
Leonard is accepted as the greatest
lightweight since the days of Gans
and Lavigne Dundee has no license
fven to give hint an interesting fight
Dundee however always gives him
a great fight. They have fought a
dozen times or so. Leonard has yet
to knock him out. Only once has he
scored a knockdown. Usually at the
finish Dundee is fighting on even
terms with his heavier and more gift-
ed foeman.
A suspicion exists in some quarters
that Leonard “carries” Dundee.- Thi»
is untrue. Dundee is Leonard's mental
hazard and the champion can’t shake
him off.
Harry Greb champion of the mid-
dles has an active two-fisted mental
hazard in the person of Soldier Joner
of Canada. Very likely you sever
heard of Soldier Jones before. You
dosi't hear his name mentioned when
the parlor chit-chat concerns the big
leaguers of cauliflowcrdom.
Jones is pastry for some middle-
weights and poison for Greb. The Ca-
nadian came within a w>nk of knock-
ing out Greb v^hen the Pittsburger
held the light-heavyweight title.
Jones a wild swinger who starts his
punches from the sub-cellar caught
Greb on the chin with a right-hander
and the titleholder went down with a
resonant boom. A few minutes later
Jones caught him with another whiz-
zing wallop and knocked him across
the middle rope.
Greb's amazing recuperative powers
and fine courage alone enabled him to
escape serious “trouble.
Some several days ago Greb and
Jones met in a return bout at Pitts-
burg. This time Greb knew what te
expect. He knew Jones was a wild
swinger and a terrific hitter. Greb
adopted cautionary methods but back
deep in his memory flameo pictures
of bis first fight against Jones and
the knockdowns.
Greb couldn't get them out of his
miud and in less time than it takes
to tell Jones had him on the floor
again the result of another sweeping
right-hander. As. soon as Greb got up
Jones knocked him kicking again thus
rewriting in almost identical terms
a chapter from the first fight.
Greb reassembled his addled wits
and came on to win after a sensa-
tional up-hill fight; but he won't for-
get soon the second narrow escape he
had at the bands of a battler qf
mediocre talent.
Other champions have had their
mental hazards.
Jack Dempsey next to Bob Fitz
simmons the greatest of all heavies
could never do much against Willie
Meehan the Pacific coast roly-poly.
Meehan on the other hand could win
from nobody else.
Pancho Villa who knocked the
great Jimmy Wilde into retirement
has thrive been beaten by Frankie
Genaro a New'York Italian of nega-
tive skill. Easy for others. Genaro
in some manner or other finds Villa
an appetizing disb.
I‘ete Herman in his purple days of
greatness was always a sucker for
Pal Moore’s freak style.
Man of Convictions Never
Waggles His Golf Sticks
So Says Veteran Who
Played When St. An-
dre’s Was “Most Wonder-
ful” Course in New York
and He Tells Some Terri-
ble Stories to Bear Out
the Disturbing Statement.
By FAIRPLAY.
Copyright by Tho San Antonio Light.
New York. Dec. B.—One of the vet-
eran golfers of New York City who
began to play when St. Andrew’s was
the "most wonderful course” of the
city when Morristown became the
center of summer and autumn attrac-
tious to an extent that it never has
been since nnd when the golf ball Was
not the agile antelope that it is now
has come out strongly against the
waggler. v
•• Tuere is no necessity for wag-
gling when shooting” he said. “It
is a waste of vitality and a sign of
mental weakness. Once I- thought
that it was as necessary to waggle as
it was to make a shot. Now I am
convinced that all such motions is
unnecessary. .
“A golfer walks to the tee to drive
the ball. If he is a man of convic-
tions. a man who will dare to decline
to wear a cerise necktie that had beeu
selected by his wife he will have in
his mind exactly what he intends to
do and without any preliminary wig-
gling of his feet nnd waggling of his
club will take a swing at the ball
and knock it down the fairway so far
tbnt he will have his handicap erased
within a week.
The “Really” Kind.
“Take one of these wagglers. What
is he likely to be? It's two to one
that he passes the plate in church and
never says a harsher word in his life
than ‘really.’ If he was reading a
hook on horse breeding and came to
the family tree of a famous racer he
would read it aloud ‘sired by The
-Cloud and darned not dammed by
Arabella.' He lacks nerve. That s
why he waggles. It's a condition of
nerves and I am glad to see that the
younger generation of our golfers is
growing away from it.
“I know a wagglcr whose case was
sad. In the first place he bad St.
Vitus dance and he played golf to
help him get rid of it. Doctor said
he needed exercise and golf was as
good as anything else. Sawing wood
would have been all right but there is
no longer any wood to saw. He went
to the golf course and got along fairly
well. Helped his health and he be-
gan to play a fair game. Then as he
became proficient he became a wag-
gler. The better that be thought him-
self the more he waggled. Players
who came after him began to get ner-
vous and discuss the Supreme Being
somewhat irrelevantly. Instead of
helping the wagglcr to overcome his
fault it added to his confusion. He'd
get his club suspended and his arms
waving and after the thing had gone
on teu or eleven times somebody
would say ‘good gosh let go.’ and all
he could do after that would be to
hang on. It was aggravating his St.
Vitus instead of curing it.
“They bawled him out one after-
noon without interruption and the
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poor guy nearly went to pieces. He
couldn't stop waggling and be couldn't
hit the ball and his feet got going
and his head began to wabble on his
neck white his teeth played a cas-
tanet solo.. They had to take hold
of him and stop him by sheer force
or he would have scattered himself all
over the course. That's what the
practice of waggling will do.
“An eminent English critic watch-
ing the younger United States golf-
ers commented on the fact that they
walked to position driver in hand
Jook a look down the course a swing
over their shoulders batted the ball
on the center and were on their way
for the next shot.
“ ‘Far superior to our waggling and
squinting.’ he said.
“Isn’t it so? If you waggle it's
because you're afraid to hit the ball
and the more fearful you become about
hitting it the safer to say that you
will bust it out of bounds in the rough
nnd probably lose 75 cents’ worth.
Waggling not only is useless but it's
costly. There are fewer lost balls
where the waggling is confined to one
hoochy koochy rather than a series
of ’em for nine innings.”
WANT MEDINA “DOPE”
Sportsmen in North Offer to Pay to
Hear Furlong But Too Late.
The sportsmen of the North are not
willing to listen to all the boosts of
Medina Lake as a fishing resort that
San Antonians can give but want to
hear them. This is the obvious con-
clusion Bill Furlong of the chamber
of commerce booster for Medina
reached Saturday when he received a
wire from Vice President R. P. Hol-
land of the American Gamo Protective
Association in which Mr. Holland said
that he was depending on Mr. Furlong
to speak on the program of the asso-
ciation's big annual meeting in New
York Tuesday and that in case a local
appropriation to defray traveling ex-
penses was unavailable the game as-
sociation stood ready to “help to the
limit.”
Mr. Holland's telegram came too late
however as Mr. Furlong had given up
hope of attending" the national gather-
ing to talk of Medina Lake and had
made other plans. To arrive in time
for the meeting he would have had to
leave San Antonio Saturday.
Mr. Furlong who has been keeping
in close touch with his pet propect the
Meding Lake fish hatchery announced
Saturday that the plant would be
ready for operation next week if
weather permits the finishing touches
to be made. The superintendent's
house is ready for occupancy. Hugh
K. Robertson permitting the electric
lights to be hooked on to his own pri-
vate plant.
DIAMOND STAR TOO
Uteritz of Michigan Hailed m An-
other Sisler
Ann Arbor Mich. Dec. B.— Mqny
of the western football experts regard
Quarterback Uteritz of Michigan as
the best pivot man in the Big Ten.
Uteritz. in the game with the Marines
suffered a broken bone that ended
his playing for the year.
Despite the brilliancy of Uteritz on
the gridiron he is regarded as au
even more sensational performer on
the diamond. He is picked as the
best baseball prospect at Michigan
since tlie days of Sisler.
Uteritz plays shortstop. He cap l
tained the Michigan nine last sum-
mer to Big Ten honors. Ray Fish-
er. former big league star now base-
ball coach at Michigan says that with
a little seasoning Uteritz would have
a great chance to make good in the
majors.
Not * Hunter's Paradise.
Alice. Tex. Dec. B.— Deer hunting
which has been the source of general
disappointment this season to sports-
men visiting this section due to the
scarcity of game numerous rattle-
snakes and the rank growth of vege-
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tation received another setback ly
reason of the heavy rains of the Ist
few days which have put the roads hi
impassable shape. Numerous TbanAt-
giving hunting parties from otb^r
parts of the state were either ma-
rooned in camp or returned borne by
rail. The largest buck to pass
through Alice this fall was dispatched
with a six-shooter several miles south
of here when he crossed the road in
front of an automobile the latter part
of the past week.
BASEBALL TODAY-
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Morning Game—lo A. M.
Aztec* vi. Apaches
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Sunday Afternoon—3 P. M. ’
Union Bus Lines vs.
Pittsburg Heaters.
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direct to ground.
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