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The Washington times., 1921-08-08
GIBBONS MEETS
HARD RING FOE
IN JEFF SM| TIL
st. Paul Ghost Enters Ring To-
morrow for Third Time \
Within One Week.

NEW YORK, Aug. s.-with two
victories under his belt Mike Gib-
bons, the st. Paul phantom. will
turn his attention to jeff Smith, the
Bayonne middleweight. at the Arm
DRY A. A. in Jersey City tomorrow
night. Mike promises to be the bus
lest middleweight who ever giaced
the division. When he meets Smith
in Jersey City 1t will be his third
bout in less than a week.
III Gibbons Is successful In dis
posing Of Smith he will be matched
to fight either Bryan Downey or
Johnny Wilson at an early date be-
fore this club.
With both Wilson and Dovnay
barred from boxing in New York,
John Jennings, manager Of the Arm
DRY A. A, seized the. opportunity to
offer both middleweights an attrac-
tive guarantee to box the winner OF
the Gibbons-Smith bout.
Benny Leonard, lightweight chan.
pion OF the world, declared yester-
day that he believes Sammy Berne.
who is to fight Johnny Cole of New.
ark in one OF the other star bouts on
the card, will show the fans that
he Is one of the most dangerous
youngsters in his class. Berne has
been acting as sparring partner 10
Leonard at Coney Island, where the
champion is preparing for his bout
with Lew Tender in Philadelphia on
August IL.
Joe Borrell OF Philadelphia. who is
to meet Mike Burke OF the west side,
has ordered 500 tickets for Penn
sylvania fight fans who want to see
m battle. Borrell has met most of
the best men in the light heavy
weight division and has a long string
Of knockouts TO his credit.
The Washington times., 1921-08-08
Indifferent to the stranger, but a sec
ond glace identified him.

Indifferent to the stranger, but a sec
ond glace identified him.
The utterly forlorn stranger was
Hal Chase, who two years ago was a
member of the New York Giants, at
a salary that was probably beyond
that which until war times was paid
United States Senator. 1t was the
same Hal Chase who had been tried
by the National League on the charge
Throwing games when a member
of the Cincinnati Reds and acquitted
for lack of definite evidence; the same
Hal Chase who had been given an.
other chance by the New York Ma
tional League club; the same Hal
Chase who had been fired by the New
York National League club on charges
which were never fully explained, but
were clearly understood to be based
upon alleged crookedness; 1t was the
same Hal Chase who had left New
York. returned to his home State of
California, and had been barred from
the ball parks OF that State on the
ground of being involved in betting
transactions which had debauched
Pacific Coast League players.
III the same Hal Chase, who stands
before the world bearing mrefutei
charges of having crooked the game
which brought him fame and fortune,
and which is an institution of which
his country has been vastly proud,
should remain an outcast forever he
would be no more than bearing part
OF the penalty he deserves. II every
man who had a hand in the crooking
of the national game should die an
outcast In the gutter, despised by the
potter's field men who bury him, IL
IA M ha h...y
The baseball fan who patronizes
semi-pro or other games openly par
ticipated in by men who have brought
the national sport into disrepute and
cast a cloud over its honesty merits
the fate of a Chase for helping to en-
courage crookedness.
We are not exaggerating in these
statements. The effective penalty i'm.
posed upon Craver. Hill, Devlin and
Nichols in the 70s, which kept the
game clean for more than forty years,
was not their being dropped from base
ball and forced to turn to other means
of making a living. 1t was the ostra.
cism that followed them to their
graves and made them anathema even
in the society of professional thieves.
To impose definite penalty on base
ball crooks and then have the public
forgive and forget when IL is worked
out, would be nothing less than an
incentive to a repetition of the crime
Let the possible throwers of games
and the pawns of gamblers know they
will be sneered at on the street by
every pickpocket and dog-stealer who
recognizes them, and that bartender
in a black and tan speakeasy will re
fuse to serve them-and they are not
likely to remain possible throwers OF
games.
Let baseball crooks know that they
can throw games in organized ball,
can be expelled, and then be such
drawing cards in semi-pro ball that
they can make as much money from
that branch of the sport as they could
in the big leagues, and the possible
throwers of games will take a chance
The Washington times., 1921-08-08
TAGGING AL THE BASES

The Browns are here again today
and tomorrow and the next day.
Thursday and Friday will be open
dates for Washington fans, though
the Griffs will play an exhibition game
at Richmond on Friday.
Jim Shaw may have trouble making
good in the International League.
His control is absent and his fast
ball isn't what ii used to be. He will
probably go to Rochester in trade
within a few days.
Joe Bird, the Shreveport pitcher,
will report here next month. He is
pitching great ball for Billy Smiths
team and is expected to make good
here in q year or so.
or the three umpires working in
this series, Wilson seems misplaced
whenever he goes behind the plate.
Many fans wonder why Connolly and
Nallin don't alternate there and keep
Wilson In the field.
Sam Rice was credited with four
hits I'm five times up yesterday, but
his single to right in the fifth inning
was the only honest-t oRoodness
bngle. His speed gave him ere, :
for the others.
Griff fans expected Al Schacht to
get into the game yesterday in the
fourth inning and were disappointed
because he didn't. The comedian
finger has made many friends by his
earnest work and his nerve in right
places.
The Boston Red SoI come here Fri.
day for two games. Next Sunday
night the Griffs will close their pres
ent home stay. returning on August 80
with the New Yok Yankees as their
opponents. BY that time Washing
tonians will know whether or nor
the team will be in the pennant fight.
The Yanks managed to cling to first
place by the slender one point margin
that separated them from Cleveland
when they beat Chicago in an abbre-
waited game, stopped by rain. Rip
Collins gave up but one hit.
Donahue. Red pitching recruit. was
soundly raped in the ninth inning at
Cincinnati by the Pills, who came
from behind to win.
George Kelly slammed out his
nineteenth homer, Frank Frisch was
knocked stiff by a batted ball and
there was fire in the bleachers. but
the Giants were not to be denied a
victory against the Cubs.
Singles by Wamby and Speaker and
double by Burns enabled the In
dams to beat the Athletics out in the
ninth.\
The Washington times., 1921-08-08
CENTRE COLLEGE PLAYS
HARVARD ELEVEN AGAIN

DANVILLE. KY. Aug. S.-Centre
College has scheduled seven games
thus far for its 1921 football campaign.
All the members of last years team
have pledged themselves to return
with the exception Of 30 McMillin
but 30 is also expected back. The
football schedule follows:
September "a, Kentucky WESLEYAN,
at home; October s, Virginia Poly, AT
home; October %, Transylvania, Lex,
ington, KY; October 20, Harvard.
Cambridge. Mass; November s, Ken,
lucky State, at home; November 12
Auburn, birmingham, Ala; November
10, Washington and Lee, at Louis
vile, Ky.
The Washington times., 1921-08-08

general on the field is usually the sue.
cesstul manager. Soft hearts win no
more pennants than do soft heads
Iris Speaker showed n soft head in
starting Jim Bagby and Guy Morton
here last week. However, he recov-
cred quickly and shot in Ray Caldwell
and Allan Sothoron.
II George Mcbride is to swing his
team up to the top, or even close to the
top of the league this season, he will
have to apply a whole lot OF acid to his
handling of his pitchers. Feelings are
going to be hurt. Some OF the boys
may lose an hours sleep-which they
make up the next morning--and some
OF the lads arc going to nurse
grouches.
Fine! II George can make his whole
team carry a crouch, each and every
one, he may succeed in doing the well
nigh impossible, winning the 1921 pen.
nant.
But he will also have to work
quickly on lunches. and he most GER
tainly must have hunched that Mr..
Courtney was about due to be yanked
long before he yanked him yesterday
The long left-hander Is not a nine-in.
ming pitcher. that's all there In to IL.
He may be In a year or 80. But he
isn't now. No, and his record this
year won't prove anything TO the con.
trary, either.
The Washington times., 1921-08-08
JACK COOMBS PLANNING
EARLY BASEBALL START

wILLIAMSTOWN, Mass, Aug. s.
lack Coombs, who has been re-engaged
as baseball coach forth Williams Col
lege nine next year, is expected here
for a month in the fall to look over
the material and discuss plans for the
1922 season with the Purple athletic
authorities.
COMBS will arrive for the annual
series between the freshman and
sophomore classes, and he is planning
10 give particular attention to candi-
dates for the first-year team.
While the majority Of the varsity
PLAYERS at williams return in the fall,
several positions were not filled salts
factorily last spring and the old play
srs will be compelled to show improve
ment i'm some cases in order to make
good again.
The Washington times., 1921-08-08
YALE LEASES AN ARENA
FOR ITS HOCKEY TEAM

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Aug. SIT
was learned today that Yale has
leased the Arena for ten years for
the use Of the Yale hockey and box.
ing teams. The price is said To be
S25 900 a year.
All the professional boxing contests
in New Haven have been held of late
years in the Arena. 1t is not believ ed
the university authorities will allow
professional bouts there when they
assume control. Yale will probably
hold all its boxing and hockey
matches in the Arena
The Washington times., 1921-08-08
Secret Football Due
for Gate at
Old Yale

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Aug.
8.-Secret practice for the Yale
football squad this fall will prob
ably be abolished, with the excep-
ton of a short period just before
the Princeton ard Harvard games.
Head Coach T. A. d. Jones is I'M
derstood to be opposed to having
the "closed gate" system all sea-
son, as prevailed last year.
Captain Malcolm Aldrich has
announced his desire for open
daily practice, which is expected
to stimulate interest by the stu
dent body ir the team and promote
better attendance at the early
season games.
The Washington times., 1921-08-08
STIFF BATTLES
PROMISED FOR
GOTHAM FANS
Lightweights and MiddIeweights
Hold Fistic Sway This Week
With Star Bouts.

NEW YORK, Aug. Slight.
weights and middleweights will hold
the center of the spotlight in boxing
this week.
Mike Gibbons. in the midst of a
comeback campaign which he hopes
viii land him the middleweight title.
VIII attempt to add another victory
TO his growing string in Jersey City
tomorrow night. He will meet jeff
smith. the Bayonne battler, in a
scheduled 12-round bout.
On Wednesday night, in the Bronx
Charley White and Johnny Dundee
rivals for Benny Leonard's crown,
will meet to see who is to get a
crack at the champion. Leonard has
promised to meet the winner IL he
retains his title.
The if in Leonard's promise to
White and Dundee will be erased Fri.
day night in Philadelphia, where the
champion will defend his crown
against Lew Tender. Tender is
the one topnotch lightweight whom
Leonard has not met since he de.
fested Freddie Welsh.
Jersey City stands the best chance
or getting the return match between
Johnny Wilson and Bryan Downey
according to Mike Collins. manager
OF Mike Gibbons, who was in Bos
ton last week where Mike defeated
Gus Platts.
Wilson wants to take powney
again" said Collins. "Killilea told
me they would be ready any time
and that II was just matter of
taking the best offer. Jersey CITY
he said. has made the most attrac
tive propositions received to date. 81
killilea is Wilson's manager.
The Washington times., 1921-08-08
Pennant Races Are
Warm as End
Approaches

With the close of the major
league schedules just eight weeks
away, the pennant races in both
circuits were as tight as ever to-
day.
The Yankees held first place in
the American League by the
margin of Single point. In the
National the Pittsburgh Pirates
were an even three games ahead
of the Giants and there was no
indications Of letup in the hot
fight for supremacy in either
league.
The Washington times., 1921-08-08
Babe Ruth Is Lag.
ging in Chase At
ter New Record

Babe Ruth has eight days in
which to catch up with his 1920
home run record. He il two
homers behind, having registered
a total Of forty-one up to August
z last year. He got his thirty
ninth homer last Saturday.
George Kelly, meanwhile, is
threatening the National League
record with nineteen home runs to
his credit and he needs but nine
more to top the mark set by Ed
Williamson in 1884.
The Washington times., 1921-08-08

Outside OF San FRANCISCO in the
small towns is the Mission League,
composed of semi-pro clubs and con
tanning many old professional ball
players, who turn an honest penny on
the side i'm the sport now that they
have passed from the big show and
are regularly engaged In other occupa.
tons.
Among the towns in the Mission
League is San Jose. and San Jose has
semi-pro park that would delight
Ring Lardner. Far out in center Is
an ambitious scoreboard literally
decorated with the advertising sign
of the towns leading hardware mer-
chant and a strong supporter of the
team.
About a month ago San Jose was
playing at home and a ball was hit to
center. 1t was diligently pursued by
two outfielders, both formerly in or
gained baseball, one or them a major
Lacquer in his day. They chased the
ball up to the scoreboard, and tried
to retrieve IL before II took a bad
bound that carried 1t out tof sight of
the umpire, but faiIed.
Hal Chase!
AS the two veterans whipped around
the corner OF the board they surprised
a man peeping at the game through
the planking. He was seedy in ap-
parel, had a beard of several DAYS
growth, and general air of utter for
lorness. Both outfielders were at first
The Washington times., 1921-08-08
TENlEYTOWN TO TACKLE
BETHESDA ON SUNDAY

The strong Tenleytown baseball nine
defeated the Yankee A. c. yesterday
in seveninning affair by a score of
z to ..
The playing OF Cherry. J. Sullivan
and c. Stevens featured.
Sunday the Tenleytown team will go
to Bethesda and play Bethesda, which
Is to be the big game of the season for
the Montgomery county boys.
The Washington times., 1921-08-08
ITCHY" AND SKINNY" co
TO CHICAGO FOR MATCHES

CHICAGO. Aug. S.-Ichiya Kun
ugae and Zenso Shimidzu, star mem.
bers of the japanese Davis cup ten
mis- team, were TO arrive here today
20 begin training for matches with
India's team in the semi-finals OF the
International tennis classic. The MEM
bers of the Indian team will arrive
in New York tomorrow on the Car
The Washington times., 1921-08-08
WHAT BABE RUTH
DID AT BAT
White Sox at Polo Grounds.
fatal hn,n,ora 90

White Sox at Polo Grounds.
Total homers. 80.
Total homers OF career. 142.
FIRST INNING - Score. white
SoX, 0; Yankees, 0. Faber pitching
one out, Miller on Second. Foul,
ball, low; foul, strike two; flied TO
left. sending Miller to third.
FOURTH INNING-Score, White
Sox. 0: Yankees, 0. Ruth first VI,
strike, swung; ball, wide; doubled TO
right, took third on Bakers sacrifice.
scoring on Pipp's double to center.
FIFTH INNING-Score, Yankees,
2; White sox, 0. Two out, called,
rain.
Summary. Mt bat, two. Runs one:
hits, one.
The Washington times., 1921-08-08
This Golfer Played
One Fine Game
Then Blew

Two so-called golfers were
comparing notes as they were
waiting on the first tee for the
starter to send them off.
Couldn't seem to hit the ball
today" said Golfer No. /. kept
right in the course all right but
simply couldn't putt. How did
you play?"
well, said golfer No. 2. 81
did the first three holes ir
thirty. But then ! blew up. /
didn't keep the score"
The Washington times., 1921-08-08
FITZGERALD TO COACH
COLLEGE TEAM IN FALL

BOSTON, Aug. S.-Charles S. Fitz.
gerald, a graduate OF Boston College
in 1919 and captain of the varsity foot.
ball team in 1917, has been appointed
faculty coach of football and baseball
at st. Ignatius' College, Cleveland,
Ohio. He will report about Septem-
Der 10.
The Washington times., 1921-08-08
GIBBS are Beaten.

The Dominican lyceum team easily
defeated the Gibraltar A. c. yesterday
by a score OF IS to 3. The offerings~of
Mccoy and Beamer were hit TO all cor.
ners Of the field, while Gordon pitched
excellent ball for the winners.
The Washington times., 1921-08-08
YESTERDAYS GAMES.
JUST BUM HURLINC

Runs-Tobin (2), Elierbe. Sisler, Will
liams, Jacobson, Austin, sbocker, Milan.
shanks and Charity. Errors-Rice, MIL
Ter CD, williams. Two-bsse blt-Ellerbe.
Three-bsse hit-Tobin. Stolen bases
Rice, sisler. Sacrifice hits-Judge, ia
cobson, SEVERED, McMsnus shocker.
Double plays-O' Rourke to Harris to
st. Louis, z. Base on balls-Off Shocker
l. Hits-On Courtney, is in sl-3 in
nings; off schscht, 0 in "a inning. HIT
by pitcher-By Shocker CHARITY; by
Courtney tShockerl. Struck out-By
Courtney. :; by Shockcr. ?. Losing pitch
er-Courtney. Umpires-wilson Connolly
Nallin. Time of game--l:5s
The Washington times., 1921-08-08
DUCEY WILL COACH CUB
PLAYERS, BEING RECALLED

CHICAGO, Aug. S.-AnnouncemenC
OF the appointment of Oscar Dugey rs
coach of the Chicago Cubs was made
today. Dugey was released several
days ago, but with the appointment of
Bill Killefer as manager to succeed
Johnny Evers, Dugey was taken back
into the fold.
The Washington times., 1921-08-08
HAL CHASE, 0UTCAST, SEES
GAME FROM BEHIND FENCE
By THOMAS s. RICE.

8That the mills of the
well grind exceedingly fine illustrated by
OF the
Of the Pacific Coast League.
Putnam ran across Brooklyn Supebas ST. Louis
recently when swing through the major leagues buy sell
which summaly released
Smith last charges of throwing
uitht he
The Washington times., 1921-08-08
BROWNS STILL TOUGHEST
! OUTFIT in CIRCUIT FOR
Z GRIFFMEN TO WIN FROM
By LOUIS A. BOUCHER.

still the
the Gr to humble has already been shown this series Today
Walter Johnson will
the hopes of putting end this budding string defeats Two
battle the
OF the ladder.
is a bali club
shattered The Grff showed sign of such slump
yesterday They played spess ball marked their
through plate
hits had the right
The Washington times., 1921-08-08

cOppe0, 10 D.
Z The Griffs, from the very beginning,
were handicapped by unsteady pitch
ing.l Opposed to them was their old
enemy, Urban Shocker, an alright
and stingy guy whenever hits mean
runs. Shocker lived up to his Wanted
reputation. So did the Washington
niteher, who was driven to the bench
in the ninth when the game had al
ready. been lost.
The Brownies hoped upon Mr..
Courtney's stuff for a couple OF runs
in the third. One was gone when
Shocker singled to left and scooted all
the way around on Johnny Tobins
.resounding triple to the jury box.
Frank Ellerbe leaped on the ball for
assingle to center, driving it through
Mr.. Courtney's legs. In came Tobin.
tNs.. Griffs Get One.
Two were gone in the fifth when
Milan drew a pass, advancing on
Rice's clean single to right. Bing
Miller doubled to left, scoring Milan.
Ellerbe seized Harris bounder and
tagged Miller.
In the sixth the Browns beat an
other tattoo against the Griff thrower.
10 right Jacobson hunted in front
OF the plate and Williams beat Court
ney's peg to the midway. Both run
ners were safe. They went up an
extra cushion on Severeid's neat
sacrifice.
Gerber singled to right and in came
Williams, while jacobson trundled
after on McManus' long fly to Miller
in left center. Shocker was hit by
pitched ball, but Milan travelled over
TO the field boxes and took Tobin's
foul fly, ending the agony.
They Bump Shocker.
The Griffs bumped Shocker in their
Shanks singled to right. Gharrity's
hot one bounded off Ellerbe's glove to
Gerber. whose throw was too late to
egt Charity at first base. O'Rourke
hoped one over Shocker's head. 1t was
on its way to center field when Nc
Manus threw himself at it and made
a remarkable stop, holding Shanks at
third and filling the bases.
The fans were yelling for real hit
ter about there, but Mr.. Courtney
came up and forced O'Rourke, Shanks
scoring. A clean blow right then
might have decided the game in favor
of the Griffs. The chance was gone.
Judges long fly to center sent Char
rity in, and Milan's pop fly to Nc
Manus ended the last opportunity the
Griffs had to do anything. After that
Shocker was good, very good.
Mr.. Courtney failed to last out the
ninth. Schacht had started to warm
up earlier in the fray, but had not been
called upon. However, he appeared
long enough to retire the Brownies
after they had scored four unnecessary
runs.
Jimmy Austin singled to left and
went to second on Miller's sloppy
handling of the drive. Shocker sacri-
feed. Tobin singled to right, scoring
Austin. The fans were leaving the
park. Ellerbe doubled to left center
and over went Tobin. Sisler beat out
a bad bounder to Harris and promptly
stole second.
Ken Williams came through with
clean smack to right, scoring Ellerbe
and Sisler. Then, and not till then,
did Al Schacht enter the game. BY
that time the victory had gone to the
Brownies. but AL made Jacobson force
Williams and SEVERED hoist an easy
fly to Miller, ending the frame.
The Washington times., 1921-08-08
LOOKING 'EM OVER
BY 49, LOUIS A. BOUCHER
Handling Pitchers Is An Art


about All of which suggested
by yesterdays ball Georgia
Gandstand known to ball players
failed they would have done different II succeeded that's lust
have We
McBde handling of his pitchers in the first
The Washington times., 1921-08-08

TODAYS GAMES.
New York at Chicago.
Boston at st. Louis
Philadelphia at Cincinnati
Brooklyn at Pittsburgh.
YESTERDAYS GAMES.
st. Louis, IL. Boston, o.
New York, 7: Chicago, ..
Philadelphis,,6 Cincinnati. s.
The Washington times., 1921-08-08
STANDINGS.
AMERICAN.

TODAY's GAMES.
st. Louis at Washington.
Cleveland at Philadelphia.
Chicago at New York
Detroit at Boston.
YEsTERDAY's GAMES.
Washington. J: st. Louis. q.
Cleveland, 4; Philadelphia, 4.
New York, 2: Chicago, o.
NATIONAL.
w L. PC. w. l.. PC.
Pittsburgh 50 az $40 St Louis B2ts SIS
New York 90 ~ SOS Chicago a. So t22
Boston $50 .B7l Cincinnati. "a so az
Brooklyn. 81 SO .6Ie Phila 81 So $40
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-02-25
TRUSTEES AND OTHERS
GIVEN LUNCH TUESDAY

The trustees Of the citv schools
and Mr.. r. w. Sharp and the writer
were invited to q lunch at the city
colored school given by the domestic
science class on Tuesday. The menu
was q choice one and everything was
elegantly prepared. The service was
excellent indeed. This department is
under the direction of Sallie Gray,
who is a graduate of the domestic
science department of Mary Holmes
College. She is a very efficient in
structor and is greatly interes4sd in
the success of her class. Not OILY
was there given an opportunity to
see work in the culinary end Of this
department, but many and sundry
pieces Of needle work were shown
which still further mphasizes the
correct ideas Of the instructor.
In passing, The Sentinel will state
that the ladies of Grenada would find
it to their interest to entrust much
of their sewing to his department.
The work would be done reasonably
and at the same time would help in
a fund to still further equip the de-