South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-01-22
THE WORLD O. SPORTS

1 InE NOnGO " ST On -
Gene Tunney. a fighting marine.
is hot on the trsil OF Bob Martin.
A. z. p. heavyweight champion. for
a service bout
Fred Fulton offers TO meet Jack
Dempsey for $4,000 less than
Georges Carpenter demands Which
means nothingatsl.
Score one for tho svaaEehsts
Billy Sunday n the latest nominee
for Garry HgTrmsnn's old Job a.
National BASEBALL commission chair
man.
The Pershing stadium in Paris.
built for thu big army games last
summer. has already fallen into
suoh decay that Il has been con-
demned by army engineers
New Orleans promoters are Of
ferlng Johnny Kilbane $4,000 for a
I0-round go with Pete Herman, the
bantam champion The Cleveland
featherweight is reluctant to &C
cept.
Tickets 10 the best boxing bouts
are not worth more thar SO, says
the father Of a boxing bill soon TO
be put before the New York senate.
Cheering At rugby games in Eng
land is getting TO be the custom.
The undemonstrative Britons never
got Iuffed at sporting events until
they saw Americans so bugs
Indiana university fans are max
ing elaborate preparations for the
Purdue-Indiana basketball game az
Bloomington Friday night. The
Hoosiers stopped Michigan and the
Michigan Aggies last week.
Ed Walsh, former White Sox spit
baIIer. is one OF the applicants for
the managerial job with Rockford
in the Three Eye league. Earl
Mack. son of the famous Connie, IS
also in the running.
Cleveland has six teams in a
baseball on-ice league. The games
are played in city park Kinks. Most
of the major league players who
took up the sport early in the sea-
son found the going too fast and
have quit.
Local Eiks who have been hit
ting EN- hard IN South Bend alleys
will have a chance to display their
wares IN Detroit at the third annual
Elks' bowling tourney, Feb. s. The
local entry is large.
Judging from present plans. De-
troit university intends TO have an
all-intersectional football schedule
next season. The management has
games with Springfield Y. NJ c. a.
in the east and fill meet George
town, Holy Cross. possibly Syracuse
and other eastern elevens in the
Auto City.
soft drink cups are TO 90 to the
track athletes for their prize per-
forrnances in the future. In "the
good old days" cocktail cups or
highball goblets served az awards.
The Del Monte club OF the Cali
fornia fruit-julce belt is first with
the change.
In these days Of reform. Prest
! Hibben, of Princeton, astounds
many when he remarks:
Some say that we give too much
time TO football and stamp it with
too much emphasis: but I say this
is largely a mistake and believe one
OF the reasons why our American
Young men were able to carry on
through the great war was because
Of the initiative and the sportsman
ship developed on our playing
fields and on our gridirons.
George Cutshaw, Pittsburg second
baseman who began his baseball
{ career AT Notre Dame 10 years ago.
believes that it never pays TO let
q year slip by without doing some
thing notable In 1914 he made
/ history by hitting a home run with
the bases full in a critical Brooklyn
/ game. In 1915 he made six hits in
/ one game against he Cubs and in
1916 shattered Cub hopes with 4
+ home run in the nth inning OF an
/ important game. He has since con-
/ sistentlv led the National league IN
I fielding Rare is the day he is not
! i'm the lineup and few are the mis-