Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-24

And Just to think, If Dempsey had
Joined even as much as the second army
of the Potomac nothing would have been
said.
If Carpenter and Dempsey meet in
the proposed title bout how about Jess
Willard and Joe Beckett for the curtain
raiser?
What will happen If Dempsey is ellmi-
mated in prize ring circles because of
his lack of war record, some one asks.
It's painful to give the reply, but at
this stage it can be said that the fans
probably will have to stand for Fred
Fulton as the champion.
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So get ready for an increase in the
price of cheese.
If Babe Ruth slumps in his batting
next season no one can place any blame
on Manager Higgins of the Yankees.
Miller has taken time by the forelock
and announced that he'll not make any
move toward advising the big fellow
how to swing on the ball.
Yale wants to be certain of breaking
back into the win ranks. The Bulldog
track team is going to meet the British.
ers in the spring.
Two hundred Nebraska wrestling fans
will journey to New York to witness
the Caddock- Stecher match. No doubt
the Gotham crooks will be at the sta
ton to introduce the westerners to the
art of fr1sking.
IT.
visit England to show his skill but
champion golfer, but Papa Jones Is stin
boss around home.
1t takes more than city pride to en-
able a citizen to stand up for Indian
apolis these days.
Bill BYRON, the singing umpire, is
going to make his side line the main
line. Bill is a steamftter and has been
collecting quite a liberal number OF
smackers in the winter time. In fact,
Bill makes so much money at plum bling
that he can't afford to play baseball.
Funny, they call Bill a robber, thief,
highwayman, yegg. and everything else,
but no one ever thought to call him a
lead pipe worker.
"Gentlemanly" battles with the UNI
pires will be permitted in the American
association this season. That's the trou-
BILE with the system of umpire batting
in the pqst-who can be trusted to exer-
else the proper Judgment in drawing the
line between "gentlemanly" and "ungen-
tlemanly'' arguments? After a batter
has just been called out on strikes, with
three balls to his credit, can he argue
with the umpire without malice in his
soul? Can a golfer sing Good Morning,
Merry Sunshine" after missing a two
foot putt in the deciding hole of a con
test? Free speech is fine business if
the speaker isn't too free.
Wonder if Jimmy Wilde really wants
to meet Pal Moore again. Moore and
Wilde met twice in London. The scraps
opinion as to which one of the nidgdets
was the better boxer DOminch Tor
torich offers the Briton $4,000 to box
Moore in New Orleans. Tommy Walsh.
one Of Moore's business handlers, wires
he has personally guaranteed Wilde S10,-
900 If he will consent to a match. And
Wilde apparently IS deaf. Wilde can't
gracefully sidestep a meeting with Moore
over here. The fans want the match. He
owes it to Moore, who met him twice in
London. And the purse is a generous
one. There is no excuse for his refusal.
Joe Birmingham came very near pilot
Ing Cleveland to a pennant in the ante
bellum days. Joe was a real manager
when it came to putting the punch into
the diamond battle, but, perhaps he was
too young then for the job, for there
arose bad feeling on the team and it be-
came q "hOuse divided" Joe drew the
can. A few years passed along and Joe
comes back strone as manager of the
championship Pittsfeld team of the
Eastern league. 1t was a remarkable
team from all angles, but particularly
was 1t strong in putting over the big
punch Joe taught his boys how to
score runs and they scored 'em. Official
figures show Pittsfeld scored five runs to
the game. Pittsheld didn't lead in any