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FRIDAY.
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
JULY 6, 1923.
17
IE SPORT
Threats by Hard-eyed Montana Men With Guns Kept Fight at Shelby
BEARS HURL -
TH JRFRTH
Moran’s Reds Show ’Em Something |
Cincinnati’s Steady Climbing Vindicates Manager and Makes team Danger- '
ous Contender.
■
■ 1 929 BY BILY EVANS
TIOT n Illin I CRI Not many managers have been
FTTUICET1EE able to rebuild a pennant machine.
1 161.1 18191-126614collapsed, during the short period of
I UlMIUIUI four years.
The Detroit Tigers have never been
able to return since their triumph- I
ant days of 1907-1908-1909.
The Chicago White Sox nave drop-
T CLE
FIGHT
1 one round and could do it again, so
I don't see much object in fighting
| him."
Kearns revealed today that he still
retains a 33 1-3 per cent interest in
the motion picture rights of the Shel
by battle. Gibbons has a 25 per cent
1 interest, while Loy J. Molumby and
Mayor Jim Johnson of Shelby has a
Baseball Briefs
The St. Louis Nationals stopped
off in Philadelphia for a one-day
SEVEN EX-CHAMPIONS
AMONG 360 GOLFERS
SEEKING OPEN TITLE
Marshall Outlasts Jacobus
in Nerve-wracking
Struggle.
MORE DOUBLE PLAYS
Bears and Beaumont Com-
plete Ten Two-ply Kill-
ings in Series.
Dewey “Rube” Marshall pitched
the Bears to a berth in the first di-
vision when he outlasted Stuart
Jacobus, the Beaumont veteran, in a
snappy but nerve-wracking ten-inning
encounter at League Park Thursday,
and the Bears won, 4 to 3. The first
division hold of the Bears is pre-
carious, ’tis true, more of a half-and-
half affair, a tie with Houston for
fourth place, with Galveston just one
measly point behind.
Houston is here Friday to see
abo the presumptious Bruins, and
will stay four days, during which
time the right to the lowest first di-
vision berth should be definitely set-
tied. "Red" Lucas, who has been
winning consistently for the home
gang, is a possible selection to face
the Buffs in the opener.
Marshall turned in another fine
game Thursday. Jacobus twirled
steadily, but all he had on" Rube"
was a couple of tonsils. The Vir-
ginian had everything a pitcher needs
after the third inning, allowing but
six bits in the ten tight frames.’
Anybody’s Ball Game.
It was one of these games that is
generally referred to as "anybody's
till the last man's out."
Be__mont scored in the first in-
ning on a double by Turgeon and a
single by DeMaggio. The Bears
matched the run when Booe walked,
Aook second on a wild pitch after
Gross fanned and scored when Boone
doubled to right.
Beaumont scored another in the
second when Huber walked, took sec-
ond on an infield out and scored
when Gross let Lothes’ grounder go
through his hands. Huber hopped
over the grounder as he ran in front
of Gross and probably threw Ewell
off the scent.
Again the Bears matched this run.
Meyers beat a bunt, the first of his
three infield hits, stole second, took
third on Fuller’s sacrifice and scored
on one of Schulte’s three wallops.
ped back since the seandai that
stripped them of Joe Jackson, Eddie
Cicotte, Buck Weaver, Claude Wil-
liams, Chick Gandil, Swede Risherg,
Happy Felsch and Fred McMullin.
The Pittsburg Pirates have won
but one pennant since 1903. The
Cubs have won only once since the
days of Frank Chance’s great ma-
chine. And so it goes ao to the
present hour with Patrick Moran
whipping the Cincinnati Reds back
on the pennant-winning track.
Moran put over two master strokes
giving the Philadelphia Nationals and
the Cincinnati Reds their first pen-
nants. Like other manager', he saw
his 1919 Reds fade and disappear.
While the 1923 Giants have not
been beaten as vet, the Reds have
been accepted as one of the most
dangerous opponents in the flock of
oponents trailing McGraw’s chai-
pions, along with the Pittsburg tears.
The spurt of the Reds really is the ,
feature of the National League race.
During the closing day of Mav the
anvil chorus in Cincinnati shouted
for Moran’s scalp. His previous suc-
cess had been forgotten entirely.
Returning home from the first 1
eastern journey, the Reds were in ।
seventh place—just a few steps in |
front of the misfit Phillies. Appar- j
ently the Reds were bound fir the
cellar and it was freely predicted |
that before July arrived Jacob Dau-
bert would be elevated to the man-
agerial seat.
Moran attended to his own knit-
ting, never saying a word.
The first thing the critics knew
the Reds were on a winning streak.
Lap by lap was covered. The Reds
were sixth. They were fifth. They
were in the first division and finally
admitted to the field as a pennant
possibility.
During a period of three weeks the
Reds reduced the handicap between
themselves and the Giants from 13
full games to four full games.
There is nothing particularly spec-
tacular or sensational about the Reds,
just a collection of athletes playing
together, featuring with team play,
tie
harmony and intelligent baseball,
which, after all, succeeds more than
home-run specializing.
Only Jake Daubert, Eddie Roush,
Patrick Duncan, Ivey Wingo and
Adolfo Luque remain from the 1019
champions.
Sammy Bohne has succeeded Mor-
ris Rath, Caveney sits in a short
instead of Larry Kopf, Babe Pinelli
is wearing Heine Grohl’s shoes, Har-
grave has succeeded Catcher Bill
Jacobus, p ...
Totals ......
3 6x29 14 0
xTwo out when winning run scored.
San Antonio
Booe, rf ....
Gross, ss ....
Roone, If ...
Galloway, 1b
Simon, 3b
Meyers, of ..
Fuller, 2b ...
Schulte, c ...
Marshall, p .
Totals .....
AB. n. H. O. A. It.
2 2 0 210
9x29 15
Scored After Two Out.
Undismayed, Beaumont went at it xTurgeon out in 8th, hit by batted ball,
again in the third and scored run - -
number three. Two were down. De-
Maggio was passed. Kirkham sin-
gled to right and the Exporters’
midget right-fielder hustled to third.
Allen's single scored him. Kirkham
decided to try for third and _ was
pegged out, Booe to Gross to Simon.
The Bears failed to square matters
in the third but Schulte came across
Beaumont ...
San Antonio .
By Innings.
..........111 000 000
110 100 000
I—3
— I
Skinner, er
Moore, 3b
Stow, ss ..
J. Burns, c
Schilling, p
Totals ...
Dallas—
Connolly, ss
Wano, 1b
Donohue, rf
Vache, cf .
Mathes, 2b
Griffin. If .
Segrist, 36
Adams, C .
Bryan, p...
‘Totals ...
Shreveport
Dallas .....
...........31
By Innings.
000 000 001-
*THE 1923 REDS VERE
‘ HEADED STRAIGHT FOR
THE CELLAR
-******
THE SPURT 0# THE FED
15 TRE FEATURE OF
THE NATIONAL LEAGUE
HARMONY IS The key volt
To THE SUCCESS
Rariden, Burns is in right in place
of Greasy Neale, while Pete Dono-
hue. Rube Benton, Eppa Rixey,
Frank Keck and.Johnny Couch pitch
instead of Hod Eller, Ray Fisher,
Harry Salee, Jimmy King and Wal
ter Ruether.
Having gained nine full games in
three 1 ks the Reds feel that they
can make up the necessary distance
to the top row between new and Oc-
tober. -
The Flag Chasers
TEXAS LUAGU C
W
st.
4123 per cent interest in the pie-
n Al tures. Plans are being made to ex-
ll Al hibit them throughout the country im-
1 I j mediately. The pictures were declared
U inby experts, to be perfect because of
weather conditions that prevailed at
Shelby on the afternoon of the fight.
Reports circulated that the big pine
Kearns "Plumb Scared" bv bowl at Shelby was unsafe were de-
1 1 nnied by A. J' Trodick, fire chief of
Mean Looks and Buie- Great Falls, who was in charge of
• n 1 P the safety of the arena. He said that
ing Hip Pockets. 111 n few points there was a general
- settling of the big bowl, but that this
-------------| was natural and should not have been
BAD A MD AEr A cause for alarm. In one portion of
HAL CHAM UUAKDEL the arena, just behind Dempsey’s cor-
ner, the arena dropped almost a foot,
knocking over one row of seats. This
was caused by the fact that a pool
of rain water hed accumulated under
this particular spot, making the
ground soft, and .no beams support-
ing the structure settled. Chief Tre
dick said he found that the settling
at this point had not affected the rest
of the structure.
The gloves Dempsey wore in the
Slicby battle were presented to Mike
Trant, a Chicago detective sergeant,
and close friend of the champion, by
the title-holder. Trant has been with
Dempsey in all of his important
boots.
Dempsey is starting out on a few
days vacation after his confining nine
weeks training grind for his champion-
ship battle with Gibbons. The title-
holder, accompanied by hill father, Jer-
Armed Body Guard Accom-
panied Jack Into Ring;
Referee “Advised.”
By LAWRENCE PERRY.
Copyright by The San Antonio Light
Shelby, Mont., July 6.—Now it ear
be told.
Jack Kearns, Dempsey’s manager,
was plumb scared in the week preced-
ing the big fight here. Failing to re
ceive the third payment of $100,000
he would have called off the fight, had
he dared. Montana made it clear that
it doesn't approve of fight managers
who demand the ultimate pound of
flesh, even though legally entitled to
it.
Westerner though he himself 1
Kearns’ experiences in this affair were
altogether novel to him. All the
chances are that any further contracts
he makes in behalf of his champion
will call for action in centers nearer
the Bowery, where the statutes against
gun packing apply to all save crooks.
Responsible citizens of Great Falls
men of standing and influence in the
community, didn’t hesitate openly to
assert that if Kearns failed to go
through with the projected figift with
Gibbons, his exit would be attended
by material damages.
Colts Bulged Behind.
It is not pleasant for a manager
accustomed to grabbing huge sums of
money from the public in exchange
for a few rounds of boxing on the
part of his meal ticket to sit in con
ference with stalwart, hard-eyed gen
tlemen, whose .44 Colts make huge
bulges in the rear when they take
seats: men who journey to ami fro u
Shelby in airplanes that crash to
earth yet leave the occupants mirae
ry Lavattas, his trainer: Lloyd Stan-
nard, a nephew, and Mike Trant, Chi-
eago detective sergeant, left for Salt
18, Lake City, Utah, to visit with his
mother before proceeding to Los
Angeles.
stand Thursday and beat the home
team, 10 to 12. in a hard-hitting game
in which Hornsby starred with two
homers and a double in four trips to
the plate. Four other round-trip
pokes were made during the game, one
by Mueller, the St. Louis tenterfielder,
and the other three by Philadelphia
artists, Leach, Tierney and Wright-
stone. There were seven two-baggers
and one three-cushion hit. Thirty-
two players took part in the game,
and lour pitchers were used by euch
International Atmosphere,
However, Lacking
This Year.
with a long hit to knot the count
in the fourth, slamming a triple to
left-center which Kirkham judged
badly, after Meyers had walloped a
hit off Jacobus' anatomy and stolen
second and Fuller had filed to Al-
len,
Then the pitchers screwed down
the lid anti batting averages fell off
something fierce. Marshall pitched
five hitless innings in succession, and
a scratch hit by Meyers was the
Bears’ only safe blow for the same
distance.
In Beaumont’s eighth, Black was
safe on Fuller's bobble. Turgeon
bunted but kicked his own batted
ball and was called out, DeMaggio
fanned and Galloway made a blind
stab of Kirkham's bermuda-high
scorcher to retire the side.
1 Schulte Prominent Party.
In the ninth, Huber singled but
went out trying to steal. Black hit
with two down in the Beaumont
tenth but was also a victim of
Schulte’s bullet arm.
Schulte, who was a prominent
party throughout the afternoon,
opened the Bears' tenth with his
third clean hit, a single that kicked
up the dust as it passed the second
sack. Marshall neatly sacrificed.
Booe waited and received his third
base on balls—Jacobus issued but
four—and the small crowd began to
sound like packed stands.
Here’s where Gross almost became
the hero of the day. He slapped a
hit over second base; that is, it
started out to be a hit, but Allen
I rapped It on the first bounce and
threw to tilled base, forcing Schulte.
That robbed Gross of a single. But
up came Ike Done and slashed a
line-drive just beyond the outstretch-
’d glove of Second-baseman Black.
Hooe ducked his head and tore for
the plate with the winning run.
Three more double plays were
made, two by Beaumont's infield,
running the total for the thee-game
series to ten, six of them by the
Bears.
Credit For Turgeon. .
Something ought to be said about
Turgeon’s fielding. The Exporter
hortstop was all over the field, in
leep center, in left, across the foul
ine. back of third base and ini
I round the pitchers' box. He’s e
Summary.
Two-base hits, Turgeon, Boone; three-
base hit, Schulte: stolen bases. Meyers
(21; sacrifice hits, Fuller, Marshall;
struck out, by Jacobus 3, Marshall 2:
bases on balls, off Jacobus 4, Marshall 3;
left on bases, Beaumont 4. San Antonio
6; double plays, Boone to Fuller, Black
to Jackson, Huber to Black to Jackson;
wild pitch, Jacobus; tline, 1:58; umpires,
Daly and Sweeney.
SPUDS BACK ON TOP.
Coombs, Fort Worth Castoff, Main
Factor In Beating Old Mates.
Wichita Falls, Tex., July 6.—With
Cecil Coombs, Fort Worth castoff,
driving in four runs with a homer
and a timely single, Wichita Falls
beat Fort Worth Thursday and went
back into the Texas League lead.
The score was 7 to 5. There were
three homers.
Fort Worth-
Calvo, cf.....
Sears, If.....
Edington, rf.
Kraft, 1b.....
Hoffman, 2b.
Phelan, 3b ...
Tavener, ss.,
Moore, C. ..,,
Wachtel, p.
Ross, I.......
Score:
AB. R. H. O. A. E.
A I 0
.040 001 21
Summary.
Two-base hit. Bryan: three-base hit.
Skinner; runs batted in by Adams, Bryan.
Connolly (2). Donohue. Griffin; stolen
bases, Connolly, Vache Adams; caught
stealing, Skinner, Donohue: earned runs,
off Schilling 5: sacrifices, Mathes, Grif-
fin: struck out, by Bryan 1; bases on
balls, Bryen 3, Schilling 2; batsmen hit,
by Schilling (Griffin): wild pitch, Schill-
ing; balk. Schilling; left on base, Shreve-
port 7. Dallas 4; double plays, Sargent
to tow to Riley, Donaldson to Sargent:
time of gaine, 1:50; umpires, Estill and
O’Hearn.
CRABS WIN CLOSE ONE.
Deviney and Berly Have a Great
Pitchers’ Battle at Houston.
Houston. Tex.. July G.—Only sjs
hits were made by both teams Thurs-
day in a tight game here, captured
by Galveston, 2 to O. The Crabs
scored when Kircher walked the first
three batters in the second inning
and infield out followed. Berly, form-
er Houston amateur, relieved him,
and he and Deviney of the Crabs
staged a great mound duel. Score:
Wichita Falls ...... 43 so
Fort Worth .........40 31
Dallas...............45 33
SAN ANTONIO......38 41
Houston .............38 41
Galveston ...........36 33
Beaumont ...........SS 13
Shreveport ..........24 50
Play Friday.
Houston nt San Antonio.
Beaumont at Galveston.
Dallas at Fort Worth.
Shreveport at Wichita Falls.
Thursday’s Results.
San Antonio, 4: Beaumont, 3.
WVichita Fal s, 7; Fort Worth, 5.
Dallas, 8: Shreveport, 1.
Galveston, 2; Houston, 0.
AMERICAN LEAGE E.
New York ...........18 23
Philadelphia .... 35 34
Chicago ............33 33
Cleveland ...........35 35
Detroit ..............33 36
St. Louis .......... 33 36
Washington ..........30 39
Boston ..............26 27
Play Friday.
New York nt St. Louis.
Washington at Chicago.
Philadelphia at Detroit.
Boston at Cleveland.
Thursday’s Results.
Pet.
.600
Boston, 7; Philadelphia, 3.
At Boston— It. it. E.
Philadelphia .....010 100 210—5 18 :
Boston ...........010 400 02x—7 10 .
Batteries: lasty, Kelletts. Harris and
Perkins; Quinn and Picinich.
ist youngster.
The box-score:
Beaumont—
B. R. H.
Totals .....
Wichita Falla
Grigsby, If, ...
Coombs, cf.
Tanner, 3b,
Cotter, lb. ...
AB. R. Jr.
2 0 0
Galveston-
Bittle, if.
Westerzil, 3h.
Ostergard. 2b.
Brown, cf. .,
,Munson, rf. .
- of Kearns, 1b,
AB. R. H. O, A. E.
3 0 0 3 10
St. Louis, 4; Chicago, 3.
At St. Louls-r K. H. r
Chicago ..........021 000 000-3 8 1
St. Louis .........601 120 00x- 4 X 2
Baterics: Evengros and Schalk; Dav-
is and Severeid.
ulously whole and ready to talk tur
key next day.
The night Kearns called off the
fight—Monday night the crowd in
the corridor outside his hotel room con-
tained several irate citizens of Mon
tana who had come with the obvious
intention of picking a fight. And only
Kearns' willingness to disregard habit
and let them have the last—and the
hardest—words prevented something
nasty. At least, so it seemed.
Word had come to Dempsey, on the
other hand, that it would be just at
well for his health if he were not toe
inconsiderate of Gibbons when The
faced Gibbons in the ring. And, ar-
riving here on the morning of the bat-
tle. Jimmy’Dougherty, the referee, war
advised by a self-constituted commit
tee that if he displayed any partiality
toward the champion he would make
the journey home to Philadelphia IP
unconventional atitude; to be specific
SIGNS OF FOUL BLOWS.
Gibbons Asks Time -keeper Not to
Tell Papers of Marks on Groin,
Glacier Park, Mont., July G.—
Richard T. Burke, of New Orleans,
who acted as official timekeeper for
the Dempsey-Gibbons fight, made the
statement today that as the result
of Dempsey’s low body blows Tom
Gibbons bears on his groins black
and blue marks as large as a man's
hand.
Burke said, however, he did not
believe that Dempsey intentionally
fouled Gibbons.
The only words spoken by the
combatants during the fight were
uttered by Gibbons. Timekeeper
Burke said. It was in one of the
early rounds and Gibbons, while ex-
changing blows with Dempsey, said
"Jack, get ’em up." He was re-
ferring to three or four body blows
that struck him in the groins, Burke
explained.
"I saw Gibbons before I left Shel-
by for Glacier Park," Burke went
on, "and Tommy showed me the black
and blue marks on his groins. I
immediately said: 'Why Tom. the
press ought to know about this.'
whereupon Gibbons beseeched me not
to tell the newspaper men. 'I don't
have to have any alibis in this
fight,’ Gibbons said."
PROMOTER PROPOSES
TO REMATCH TENDLER
AND FREEDMAN SOON
Weiss, rf. ......... 4 13 10 0
Berger, US............3 01 230
Hollis, 2b.............4 1112°
Bischoff, c...........3 1 111 1 0
Meine, p..............1 0 01 00
Feigert, p......... 0 0 0 0 0 0
Carlson, p............2 1110 0
xBescher .............1 0 1 0 0 0
Totals ..............33 7 10 27 10 2
xBatted for Meine in fourth.
By Innings.
Fort Worth .............010 201 100—5
Wichita Falls ..........000 204 01x—7
Summary.
Two-base hits. Hollis, Hoffman; home
runs, Coombs, Tanner, Sears: double
plays, Hollis to Berger to Cotter, Coombs
to Bischoff; pitching record, 3 runs 4
hits off Meine in 4 innings, no runs no
hits off Feigert in 1 1-3 innings, & runs
S hits off Wachtel in 5 1-3 innings: stel-
en base, Weiss: sacrifices, Grigsby,
Coombs: struck out by Wachtel 4, he
Ross 1, by Meine 3, by Feigert 3, bv
Carlson 1; wild pitch. Mein: time of
game, 2:30; umpires. Fanning and Kane
GASSERS LOSE FIFTIETH.
Bryan Has Shreveport In Palm ci
Hand While Dallas Hits.
Dallas, Tex., July 6.—Dallas tool
advantage of the see-saw Fort Worth-
Wichita Falls series to edge up a
little Thursday in the pennant race,
beating Shreveport for the third
straight game, 8 to 1. It was the
Gassers’ fiftieth defeat of the sea-
son. Bryan allowed five hits while
the Steers walloped the ball. Score:
I Donaldson, rf •: .....4 0 1 1 1 0
Sargent, 21 .......,... 4 0 1 1 30
Riley, th ............ 3 0 *0 19 o •
Simmons, it ...... 4 0 1 4 0 0
Distel, ss.
Wendell, c.
Diviney, p. .
Totals ....
Houston —.
Bagyan, rf. .
Schultz. If.
Handley. 1b.
Dyer, cf.....
Bell, ss.....
Griffith, c. ...
Hellstrom, 2b.
Stansbury. 3b.
Kircher, p. ..
Berly, p.
Tott is .
Galveston
Houston ..
AB. R. 14. O. A. E.
...........2M
By Innings.
...........020 000 000—2
...........000 000 000—0
Summary.
Westerzil . (2). Kearns,
Handley: two-base hit. Bell: double
plays. Bittle to Ostergard to Kearns,
Handley to Bell. Westerzil to Ostergard
to Kearns: base on halls, off Deviney 1.
off Kircher 6. off Berly 6: struck out
by Deviney 3. by Kircher 1, by Berly 2:
Innings pitched, by Kircher 2, by Berly
S: hits, off Kircher none 2 runs, off
Berly hits no runs; losing pitcher. Kirch-
er: left on bases, Houston 3. Galveston
12: umpires. Wier and Brashear; time
Of game, 1:55.
Sacrifices,
Handley:
-+-
TEXAS ASSOCIATION
Thursday’s Ite alls.
Corsicana, 4: Mexla, 0.
Waco, 16; Marlin. 4.
Austin, 9; Sherman, 4.
WESTERN 1.8 10 K.
Thursday’s results.
Wichita, 18: Tulsa. 2.
St Jorenh. 5: Oklahoma City, 3.
Two games played.
WESTERN ASSOCIATION
No games scheduled.
( leveland, 10; Detroit, 0.
At Cleveland— R.LI. E
Detroit .........000 000 000— v 1
Cleveland ......110 041 03x 10 18
Batteries: Holloway, Wells and Bass
ler, Manion; Smith and O’Neill.
Three games scheduled.
NATIONALLEAGL E.
feet first.
Protection in the King.
One may gather from this that those
associated with the champion's parts
were not altogether at ease. They
were more so, however, four hours
before the fight, when it became me i
fest that Dempsey was going to < .pi
talize upon the friends he lias made
throughout the country. First of all
there arrived Joe Tapscott from Chi
eago, a celebrated foe of bad men.
Accompanying him were two detectives
from Chicago, colleagues of Mike
Trant, who have spent their lives mess,
ing around Chi's underworld. Then
too, there came Sheriff Bud Chaffin
of Logan county, one of the tougi
I mountain districts of West Virginia
■ All in all it was a tough bunch.
They had themselves deputized as
marshals as soon as they arrived
Shelby was entirely apathetic concern-
in ; Jack’s protection.' Thus sworn in.
they strapped their forty-fours around
their waists and advised Dempsey they
were very much at his service. When
the champion entered the arena with
his handlers and armed body guard it
was a truly imposing procession and
nothing occurred in the course of the
battle to suggest that any two-gun
man of Montana was swayed beyond
‘the resisting point by an ambition to
start anything.
Perhaps if this body guard had been
available on, July 2—well, there is no
telling what Kearns might have done.
I As it turned out, the fight was held
Fitzsimmons Says Tendler
Broke Contract on
Labor Day.
team.
In Brooklyn, the Braves blanked the
Dodgers when Jess Barnes, ex-Giant,
served his second shutout within six
days, and Boston walked away with
the game, 3 to 0. The play was tight
throughout, Brooklyn using tiest Ca-
dore on the mound, and then waving
him to the showers in the end of the
second inning after some heavy bat-
work by the Braves’ swatters. Henry
went to the mound in his stead, ex-
tricated himself from a very difficult
position without permitting further
scoring, and kept up his good work
throughout the same.
Jack Quinn, the Red Sox catapult,
hammered a single in his game against
Philadelphia at Boston, scoring two
runs and winning his own game by
the margin of 7 to 5. The Philndel-
phia swingers made 18 hits to Bos-
ton's 10, but got the habit of staying
on bases.
The St. Louis’Browns, playing on
their home ground, won the final of
their five-game series with Chicago by
a slim margin, 4 to 3. a double by
Williams in the fifen scoring Schlieb-
ner, who had singled, and Ezzell.
In Cleveland the home team evened
up the series with Detroit and stuck
in the first division by winning 10
to 0. Smith held Detioit to four hits
against Cleveland's 12.
Other teams in both leagues were
not scheduled.
Clifford Happeny, former Univer-
sity of Illinois football and baseball
star, is playing grant ball for the
Chicago White Sox since Captain Ed
die Collins has been out with an in-
jured knee. Hanneny has shown him-
self to be a fairly good hitter and
his fielding has been perfect in the
few games in which he has played.
Tris Speaker, manager of the
Cleveland Indians, was largely respon-
sible for his club remaining in the
first division. By poling four hits,
including two doubles, drawing one
base on balls, and scoring three runs.
"Spoke" helped defeat the Detroit
Tigers. He drove in three runs.
Clarence Galloway, Connie Mack's
star infielder, will be lost to the PAl-
adelphia Athletics for several weeks
because of a broken finger.
Babe Ruth, home run slugger of
the American League, came through
with his specialty in the ninth inning
of an exhibition game with the Pitts-
burgh Pirates and gave the Yankees
the verdict. Two runs behind. Babe
stepped to the plate in the ninth with
a mate anchored on first and drove
the ball over the right field ‘vall.
Hendricks followed Ruth with another
homer with a man on. but the Pirates
in their half could put over only one
run.
The Coffeyville baseball club of the
Southwestern League was awarded the
pennant for the first half of the
league's split season and the "rookie
rule" was modified to admit only four
recruits on each team at a meeting
of officials of the league with C. F.
Moll, president, in Kansas City.
By the Associated Press.
New York, July 6.—Seven former
American open golf champions and a
galaxy of state, sectional and national
titleholders will tee off with a record
field of 360 players next week at In-
wood, Long Island, in quest of the
crown now held by Gene Sarazen, of
Briar Cliff Lodge.
Two of the seven ex-champions seek-
ing new laurels are amateurs, Francis
Ouimet, of Boston. 1913 winner, and
Chick Evans of Chicago, 1916 title-
holder. The others and the years they
sealed the heights are: Walter Ha-
gen of New York, 1914 and 1919:
Jim Barnes of Pelham Manor, 1921;
Alex Smith of New London, Conn.,
190(1 and 1910; George Sargent of Co-
lumbus, Ohio, 1900, and Fred MeLeod
of Washington. D. C., 1908.
Hagen and Barnes still are among
the top flight of professional stars
and will be favorites in next week’s
title hunt. McLeod also is capable of
championship golf, but, with Smith
and Sargent, he ranks with the veteran
clan that has given way before the rise
of a new generation of stars.
Among present holders of nation-
al honors entered, besides Sarazen, are
Jess Sweetser of New York, the ama-
teur king; Richard Walsh of New
York, newly-crowned public links
champion, and Dexter Cummings of
Chicago and Yale, intercollegiate cham-
pion. Sectional champions include
Frank W. Dyer of Upper Montclair,
N. J., New Jersey and Metropolitan
amateur title-holder; Eddie Held
St. Louis, trans-Mississippi amateur
and former national public links cham-
pion, and Marty O’Loughlin £ Plain-
field, N. J.; metropolitan open cham-
pion.
..»
AZTECS BOOK AUSTIN
Del Rio and Milmo Teams Also On
West Siders' Schedule.
The Austin independent basebail
team will be here Saturday and Sun-
day for games at Van Daele Stadium
with the Aztecs. Morning and after-
noon games, at 10 o’cloc’s and C:.
will be played Sunday. Del Ri# will
follow the next Saturday and Sir
day, and the Milmo Bank of Laredu
will come here on July 21 and 22,
Three players now with the Milmo
team will join the Aztecs Sunday, ac-
cording to the management.
There is talk of a series between
the Aztecs and the Apaches, the team
lo play alternate games at Van Dacke
Stadium and Navarro Field.
Bart Cahill will pitch the Saturday
game against Austin. Tamayo will
get the Sunday morning assignment
and Perez the afternoon nomination.
temperature
reducing
SUITS
Michigan City, Ind., July 6. -Floyu Muskogee, Okla., July 6.—Roy Cor-
I gan, last year manager of the Musko-
kve Southwestern Lea vie team, had
been recalled from the Ard more West-
Fitzsimmons, promoter of the Tendler-
Freedman boxing bout which failed to
materialize here Wednesday, declared
today that Tendler had broken his con-
New York .....
Pitsburg .......
Cincinnati .....
Brooklyn ......
Chicago .
St. Louis ......
Boston .........
Philadelphia ...
Won
Lost
Pct
2u
17
50
Play Friday.
Pittsburg at Philadelphia.
St. Louis at Brooklyn.
Cincinnati at New York.
Chicago at Boston.
Thursday’s Results.
St. Louis, 16: Philadelphia, 12.
At Philadelphia— K. H. E.
St. Louis .......212 231 014— 16 19 1
Philadelphia .... 010 013 151—12 19 a
Batteries: North, Stuart. Pfeffer
Barfoot and Ainsmith, McCurdy; Wein-
ert. Winters, Ragan, Hubbell and Wil-
son
: Boston, 3; Brooklyn, 0.
At Brooklyn-
Boston ........
Brooklyn ......
Batteries: L.uve -.
dore, Henry and Taylor.
20 000 001-
R. H. E.
I In 1
VQ0 000—• 1 4
d E. Smith; Ca-
No other games scheduled.
---• *--
INTERNATIONAL LEAGO E.
Thursday’s Results.
Syracuse, 12; Jersey City, 1.
Rochester," 10; Newark, 4.
Reading, 5: Buffalo, 1.
Toronto, 8. Baltimore, 6.
Kearns, Dempsey and company got
all the money that was good for them
and Montana saw a fine prize fight.
: Correspondents escaped from Shelby
i without suffering the evil things that
1 had been promised them. And the rest
— so far as Montana is concerned—19
silence.
TO FIGHT WILLS NEXT?
Dempsey’s Manager Seeks to Close for
Bout With Negro.
Great Falls, Mont., July 6.—Harry
Wills, the negro heavyweight, prob-
1 ably will be Jack Dempsey’s next op-
ponent. Jack Kearns, manager of the
heavyweight champion, said today.
Kearns said he expected to finish his
business here tomorrow and would
leave immediately for New York to
close negotiations for a match with
Wills, to be decided probably oil La-
bor Day.
" We want to box Wills if for noth-
ing more than to convince the public
that Dempsey does not draw the color
line and has no fear"of him." Kearns
said. “The match was red hat n few
months ago, but, for some reason, it
was sidetracked. It is my opinion that
it will draw better than a return
match with Willard. Dempsey knock-
I ed Willard down over seven times in
tract in failing to post a forfeit of
$3000 prior to the fight, but that he
proposed to re-match the men for a
contest here in August or on Labor
Day. Tendler failed to appear in the
ring when his guarantee of $15,000
had not all been paid but Fitzsimmons
said the amount was short only $1400
and that was made by Chicago men.
“Tendler broke his contract by not
posting his $3000 forfeit." Fitzsim-
mons said. "He was trying in every
way yesterday to find some way to
get out of the fight. His manager
and he locked themselves in a room
at their hotel and refused to admit
anybody. The conference was held
through the closed door."
Fitzsimmons declared he would try
to re-match the men for an August
date and that all rain checks issued
yesterday would be good then. He said
he would not discontinue boxing here
and denied that any attachments had
been issued against his arena. The re-
ceipts from yesterday’s attendance
were $20,000, and a complete and ac-
curate check had not yet been made,
Tendler was paid S3000 in advance.
Fitzsimmons asserted, and was offered
$10,000, more but refused it although
the total paid and offered was only
$1400 short,of the contract guarantee
of $15,000. Johnny Torrio and other
Chicagoans made up a purse- of more
than $1400 but Tendler then insisted
that the ring was too wet to fight in
A drenching rain had fallen and Tend
ler refused to enter the ring and soon
afterward left for Chicago.
Freedman appeared in the ring and
announced he was willing to fight.
Dick Curley, Freedman's malinger,
today declared Freedman was willing
to meet Tendler at any place but pre-
ferred Michigan City.
Fitzsimmons, who could not be
found yesterday afternoon when the
wet and angry fight fans were leav-
ing as it became apparent that the
main bout would not take place, de-
clared statements that he had gone in
Chicago were untrue. His automobile
was teen at the arena but it was
learned that he hired a taxicab and
drove into Michigan City.
---------
SOUTHWESTERN LEAGE E.
No games scheduled, .
ern Association tt |m, where he was
farmed, and is expected to play sec-
ond base for Muskogee at Hutchinson
today, it was announced by Ensley
Barbour, Muskogee manager, in a dis-
patch from Kansas City.
HERE’S TIGERS’ SIDE
New Braunfels Tells Story of Game
Chic Cities Kicked About.
New Braunfels, Tex., July 6.—
Hard bitting combined with the
steady pitching of Snyder won for
the Tigers here Wednesday over the
Chie-Chie team of San Antonio, 9
to 0. The visitors collected only five
hits off Snyder who hurled his sec-
ond victory in a week, and seven
whiffed. The Tigers got to Irvy
Dresch for 12 hits, including Trim-
ble's’ triple and doubles by Moos.
Naylor and Liepart. In the first
frame two runs were scored on a walk
a double and a single. In the third |
n double and a triple made one more. |
An error, a single and a double made
another in the fifth and the last
five were made in the sixth inning
on two doubles, two singles and an
infield hit. Roberts got two singles
for the visitors and Wagner should
have had a homer when he parked the
ball in the lake. He was called out.
however, when he rounded third and
the coach slapped him on the back and |
ran towards home with him.
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and approval.
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$10
Palm Beach Suits
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GUNTER HOTEL
".I Good Place to Trade”
' Conrad robbed the Tigers of a hit j __
when he stopped Tietze’s hard drive
with one hand. Walls of the Chie
Chics was also robbed. Tietze going
to the side, moving back and finally
leaping into the air for the fly.
The Tigers have an open date Sun-
day and want a game. Score: .
K. H E.
Tigers ......201 010 50s—0 12 3
Chie Chics .. 000 000 000—0 5 4
Summary: Two-base hits, Moos 2,
Naylor 2. Llepart: three-base hits.
Trimble. Wagner: struck out, by
Dresch G. by Snyder 7: base on balls,
off Dresch 3; wild pitch. Dresch.
Snyder: passed balls, Rossman:
stolen bases, Navlor. Niepart, Hoth:
left on bases, Chie Chies 6. Titers
6. Time of game, 2 hours. Umpires, j
Trimble and Duncan.
BASEBALL
TODAY AND TOMORROW
AT 4
San Antonio
vs.
Houston
Reserved Box Seats at Wagner’s
Drug Store No. 2
Take Hot Wells cars on
Houston Street
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