The Connecticut labor press., 1920-12-25

We're all glad to learn that Christy
Mathewson is gradually showing some
comeback spirit in his convalescence at
Saranac Lake. Report had Big Six suf-
fering another relapse but we're all
pulling as of yore for Matty to do a
real comeback in the Get Well" league.
Suppose before long they will be
christening Keith Kane, the newly
elected captain of the Harvard football
eleven Hurry Kane" especially if the
under his leadership as the Cambridge
eleven had last season. The selection
of Kane means that Harvard is going
to have another doughty leader to try
and pin defeat on the Tigers and Blue
next season.
Jack Dempsey has come to the con-
clusion that he hasn't chance with
the hstic critics all over the country no
matter what happens. Jack writes: IF
l licked Brennan in three rounds l
would have been lion tanner, and as
Brennan went II rounds | was doing it
for the good of the pictures. So what
chance has heavyweight champ at all
in the fighting game these days :"
All of which recalls that in spite of
the fact that Tex Richard was not said
to have made pile of dough on the
Dempsey-Brennan mill he slipped one
over on Dempsey and Kearns by taking
movies" of the contest. Before the
mill not a word was said about movies
being taken of the mill but at the last
minute Richard slipped the operators
in and Kearns raised ructions when he
discovered that pictures were being
taken of the contest. But at that Demp-
sey and Kearns ought to be perfectly
satisfied with the 100000 guarantee that
they received for their end in the bout.
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George Tuohey is expecting big things
of Nat Pendleton the former American
amateur wrestling champion, who has
forsaken the simon pure ranks and
hereafter will compete among the
money chasers. PendIeton already has
won his first professional contest and
he showed enough among the wrestling
followers to show that he will bear
watching among the big fellows this
wrestling season. Tuohey has selected
Tom Draak to give him a thorough
tryout in his big Christmas night carnl-
val at Mechanics, and he surely could
not have selected a tougher grappler.
If Pend1eton can hold his own with
lie Will DC Ill 1O1 d lllCSl1ilS
with any of the bio fellows before long
Louis Bogash is parading around New
York and Philadelphia with the title of
New England welterweight champion to
his credit-but it would not be we'll for
him to try to get away with such stuff,
particularly if Nate Siegal happens to
be around. Siegal was supposed to
have won that title from Young Kloby
in their memorable mill at Braves Field
a short while ago, but apparently Bo-
cash has forgotten all about that little
seance.
Earl Eby of the University of Penn
sylvania, who was said to be all
through running, has again hearkened
to the call of the indoor running game
for reports from Chicago have the for
mer Quaker crack training and going
after some of the middle-distance in
door plums this winter. Eby last sea-
son won the Millrose 600-yard and is
now booked to start in the ga mile run
at the Millrose games in Madison
Square Garden, February 8. Ted Mere
dith, Jake Driscoll and even that old
war horse Dave Caldwell, also may be
among the starters. This looks to be
one of the most formidable fields that
ever contested in a middle-distance
event.