Evening star., 1920-01-13
Ed JORDAN ADDED
TO GR|FF'S STAFF
Assistant Business Manager
Will Look After Fans at
Nationals Park.
BY DENMAN THOMPSON.

If the programs you Duy at AIherl-
can League Park next summer fail
to correctly enlighten you as to the
newcomers in Griff's lineup, if the
peanuts are understood or the ginger
ale needs ice blame Ed Jordan. He
is the man who has been assigned
the job of looking after the creature
comforts of the fans at Georgia ave-
nue..
Jordan's appointment by Clark Grif-
fifth as assistant business manager of
the Nationals just about completes the
personnel of the executive branch of
the club and rounds out what the
president believes will be an efficient
organization in carrying out the chief
aim of the new regime-service for
the fans. In casting about for some
one to assist him in caring for the
wants of his patrons Griffith sought
man who understands the advertls-
ing business. has the executive abil-
ity to run the concessions, and can
hustle, and he is confident Edwin
Wood Jordan fills these requirements
to a nicely.
Directed Sports in Army.
Griffith first became acquainted with
Jordan when he was lieutenant
with the 312th Machine Gun Battalion
stationed at Camp Meade back in the
summer of 1917. and was impressed
by his interest and ability in the pro-
motion of sports there, where he was
battalion athletic officer. vice chair
man of the division athletic council,
manager of the division base ball
team, coach of the division gridiron
squad and played on the officers foot
ball team.
Jordan was born in Winchester, Va.
in 1892, and after attending school
there. at Baltimore City College and
Kiski Prep School, worked for
short time in Pittsburgh before en-
listing in the Pennsylvania National
Guard, with which he saw service on
the Mexican border between 1910 and
1913. In 1915 he re-enlisted and
served until shortly after war was
declared. when he entered the first
officers training camp at Fort Nj
agara, n. Y. where he obtained u COM
mission as first lieutenant. Assigned
to the 312th at Camp Meade he sailed
for France with his organization in
Montfaucon and in the Argonne
drive, when he was promoted to capA
tain. After the signing of the armiS-
tice he was made division athletic
officer, serving in that capacity until
a few weeks before sailing for home
to be mustered out of the service
last October. Jordan's home is near
Newport News. Va. but he has been
living here handling advertising for a
local firm.
Approaching the Chestnut Stage.
Francois Descamps, Jack Kearns
and the assorted lot of promoters who
are seeking to stage ,ne coming fight
between Georges Carpenter and Jack
Dempsey are pursuing tactics that
threaten to have the sporting public
surfeited months before
the scrap ever is he'd, if it ever is.
Over a stretch of weeks a hat full
of bids, bona ffde and otherwise, have
been received for the privilege of put
ting the show on. On behalf of the
champion Kearns finally accepts an
offer of a purse of 100000 by Jim
Coffroth and announces definitely that
the bout will be held at Tia Juana,
Mexico, while c. B. Cochrane, the Eng
lis hpromoter, who claims to hold an
option on Carpenters services, jumps
around the country voicing threats
of legal action, and William Fox. the
movie man, demands to know kWhy
his bid. exceeding Coffroth's by
mere $150,000, is not considered.
Cochrane stoutly maintains the show
will be put on in London and nowhere
else. then intimates he will take in a
partner and stage it here and now as
serts again that England must be the
scene of the affair. Carpenters man
ager fires over a raft of unintelligible
cables, one to the effect that the fight
will take place in New Jersey, and now
kearnS comes forward with the an
that he has soured on Tia
Juana as a Site and that the champion
ship battle is likely to go abroad, to
either London or Paris.
Dates Galore Mentioned.
Almost as many dates as places have
been mentioned for the fight. First
day and then Labor day
have been favored, and there also is
talk of carrying it over until some
time in 1921 Publicity Is necessary
to the success of any sporting feature.
but too much of the wrong kind is
fatal The public is just about fed up
OF. the narrowing preliminaries of this
show now. ...-
Kearns' visit to Tia Juana, which
resulted in his announcement that he
cant see a chance in the world" of
holding the fight there, must have
borne out the estimate of the place
made by Tom Hickey. the guiding
spirit of the American association, who
is responsible for the following pretty
pen picture of the Mexican town and
conditions prevailing there:
Tia Juana is absolutely impossible
for the Dempsey and Carpenter bout
says President Hickey of the Ameri-
can Association. i've been there and
I know the place. 1t has, for years,
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