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The Washington times., 1921-02-07
MAY STAGE SERIES
ON LARGER COURT
AIoysius and Yankee Managers
Talk Central Coliseum
for Games.

Aloysius Big Five players and the
Congress Heights Yankees have be-
gun negotiations for a series of three
games for the District championship.
The Aloysius elubmen apparently
do not care to play in Congress
Heights. The Congress Heights Yam
KEGS look as though they would like
TO take a chance with the Aloysius
lads somewhere. other than the Con-
zaga Gym.
Manager Long, of Aloysius, and
Manager Schaffer, of the Yankees,
have been dickering for the Central
Coliseum. II their plans materialize
the teams will probably meet in a
three-gam series downtown, where
there will be plenty of room to argue
the matter out.
The home-and-home series which
have been played this winter have
not been as satisfactory as was ex-
pected. The difference in size in the
floors and in conditions OF playing has
not met with approval.
Arranging the Yankee-Aloysius
games for a neutral floor has been
started by the rival managers, with
the result that announcements are
expected within the next few days.
The Washington times., 1921-02-07
TWO HEBES MAKE
RECORDS AT NAVY
Mckee, of Pennsylvania, and
Noyes, Of Vermont, Are
Proving Stars.
BY HUGH n. RILEY.

ANNAPOLIS, Feb. THE Naval
Academy has in its present fourth. or
plebe, class two Of the most versa
tile and promising athletes IT has ever
numbered among its student body Ira
Mckee, OF Butler, Pa, and Victor p.
Noyes, of Rutland. Va, being the
youths in this position.
Mckee. who ia nineteen years old. Is
from Butler High School. near Pitts
burgh, and made a regular position
as halfback on the football team at
the Naval Academy his first season.
He IL now a regular forward on the
basketball Ave, and has an excellent
chance of making the baseball nine,
as he Is a fine infielder.
Noyes had even . greater reputa-
tion as an athlete than Mckee. but
has not yet accomplished so much.
He played In many of the football
games last fall including a portion
OF the Army game, and IL on the bas-
Iketball squad, but has lost much time
on account of studies.
Noyes IL also a high-grade man at
basebah, field and track and wrest-
ling, and is almost certain to make
his mark along several lines before
he has gone much further in his Naval
Academy course.
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hand, with which he Is fairly clever.
l had often figured on stepping in
and beating him to that punch. but
it was so rapid that 1 feared I'd be
knocked out instead.
FINALLY, when we met at Canton,
1 decided to take the chance. As he
jabbed with his left and started his
right, I stepped under, jabbed him
hard in the stomach with my left
and shot my right to his jaw, beating
him to the punch. had him down
three times in that ninth round be-
fore being counted out. My study of
his style had finally done me some
good. intend to try the same thing
at the Garden"
WORKED ON A NEWSPAPER.
Years ago a youngster named Will
liam Breslin worked in the circula-
tion department of the Chicago
Journal. He thought that II would
be great to be a newspaper reporter
and mentioned it to Bill Phelon, the
veteran sports writer, at that time on
the sports desk of the old Chicago
Journal Phelon switched him from
becoming a newspaper reporter and
sent him on the road to the worlds
weiterweight championship.
Breslin had come with his parents
from New Britain, Conn, and his
playmates generally called him "Bri-
tain" as a nickname. Entering the
ring, he was introduced under this
name, the boxing scribes making IL
"Britton' and sticking a "JJack" in
front of IL. 1t has been Jack Brit
ton" ever since. That was in 1902 and
Britton split a $40 purse with another
kid. Danny Gillen, for boxing a six
round prelim.
Britton boxed preliminary bouts all
over the Middle West with fair sue
cess, but 1t was not until 1911 that
he attracted any real notice. He did
that by boxing a draw with Packey
Mcfarland at New Orleans in eight
rounds. While the referee called Il
a draw. most of the newspapers the
next day said that the unknown
Britton should have been given the
bout.
In that same year 'Britton decided
to go after the lightweight title. Ad
Wolgast. the champion, was in Cali
fornia and Britton went out there
after him. He defeated Willie Ritchie
in four rounds in San Francisco, but
when It came to making a match for
the title, the Coast promoters gave
ers know the result. wolgast lost
on a foul and away went Britton's
last hope, for Ritchie would never
consider him as a possible opponent.
PuCKED THE HARD ONES.
Britton did not quit boxing. though,
merely because the lightweight hon
ors were not to be his. He went
right along. picking the hard once.
For instance he boxed such lads as
Young Saylor. Tommy o'Keefe, Willie
Beecher, Harry stone, Leach Cross,
Frank Loughrey, Young Ahearn, Joe
Thomas. Charlie white and Johnny
krause.
He was always getting a bit heav-
Ter until he at last laid claim TO the
welterweight title and defended IL.
even as he will do again tonight in
New York. Britton has never picked
the easy ones. Within n couple of
years he has boxed both Mike
O'Dowd. middleweiRht titleholder.
and Benny Leonard, the lightweight
champion.
One of Britton's best feats was to
knock out Charlie White, the Chi
cago lightweight. In eighteen rounds.
White had one OF the best left hands
In the ring game He did little with
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HOW THEY SHAPE
IN RING

his right save to block and guarC
relying almost wholly on that awf
bar OF iron on the other side.
Britton, student OF his gan
studied Whites style carefully.
figured out way to keep from stos
ping that awful left with his jay
For the entire. eighteen rounds Bli
ton took II left on the side of hi:
neck. The next day his neck wa
fearfully swollen and remained so
for some time. But he had won by
keeping the Chicagoan from landing
his left hook.
MUST REACH THE END.
Nevertheless. while the welter cham
pion is filled with confidence before
stepping into the ring tonight. ht
must reach the end some time. The
most prominent Of the contenders ar,
Ted Kid Lewis, who is so largely be,
cause of his fewer years; Louis Bo
cash, the Bridgeport, Conn, slugger
and California Jimmy Duffy. Il
Pinkey Mitchell decides to enter tn,
class, he will have many supporters.
Lewis is clever, experienced boxer
II Briton Is right Lewis has lost hi,
marvellous footwork and his dangerous
left hook. Bogash is a youngster
coming 1ast through sheer strength
He has much to learn about boxing
and today Is far from ready to fac,
the champion. But he has been com
ing fast for the past season and need,
but another before he will he rip,
for a crack at the title. Duffy 1.
known only for good work in tn,
West. He has yet to face the tough
ones of his class in the East
Pinkey Mitchell the milwaukee,
lightweight, looks like a conner in
the welter division. His recent show
ing in New York made him a lot oi
friends who will back him IL he de
cides to climb a notch higher In class,
ification.
But tonight the grand old man OF
the welters," Jack sBritton, of Chicago
will defend his honors against Ted
Kid Lewis in a fifteen-round contest
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to abnormaIop and chaos toas converted
into disorder, the jdnttor JumiDdted the
room Dith equal parts of formaldehyde
and roach potoder. Future hearings OF
the committee tciI be held at Sing Sing
i1here the surroundings match the con-
Vors1tion. Spectators are earned to
bring along ear mu1s or plenty Of roO
cotton.
Moving picture rights to Mr. Dawes re-
marks were sold to one promoter but the
films caught on nre from the sulphur and
birthstone used In his vocabulary. Tex
Rickard wants 20 match him with Georges
Carpenter to see IL he can out-cuss the
Frenchman In hts own language The only
two French words Brtgadier Dawes knows
are, "oui. ouL' 90 he accepted
The crystal chandelier. In the cuss-
ing ward were rntfied loose from the
ceiling. The wall paper was scorched
10 n beautiful /brown sienna The
blond steDogrspher's hair was singed
as MT. Dawes flaming vocabulary
licked its way ylona her tinted jowIer
and incinerntea the lobe Of her spit
curis-
The Statue OF Liberty on the Cap
itol dome blushed crimson and green
at the same time. She's been green
for the last six decades, which help
ed hide her Embarrassment. Every
body within earshot of General
Dawes thought they were in a gas
attack. There was much lifting OF
eyebrows and struggling Of should
ers.
The Washington times., 1921-02-07
RUSSELL
TAKES UP BOXING
Former Central High Captain
Packs "Kick," Says
"Pop" Lanigan.

A Washington boy at the University
of Virginia, aPenrose Russell, former
football and baseball captain at Cen
trail High School, is making a big hit.
Pretty nearly every Central High
School boy and girl knows Russell.
He is one Of the best all around
youngsters ever turned out on top
the Mt. Pleasant hull -
At Virginia Russell is making him
self solid. Pop" Lanigan, the vet
eran Virginia coach, thinks Russell Is
a conner. .-..- ..s.t-s
Lanigan looked him over in football
last fall while he was playing on the
freshman team and liked his perform
ance. ..,.
Pop says which is a traditional
phrase. at Virginia. that Russell Is
doing well now and In boxing which
he has, lately taken UP, 80
The lad packs a kick like that of
mule" says Lsnigan. Wow, how he
The other night he went on in a
bout which we staged between the
halves of a basketball game. The fell
low that Russell was to box against
said he'd rather box someone else who
had had more experience. de, felt
that as Russell was SO new to the
game, he'd rather take on some more
experienced man who would make
better showing. -.. ...,- ..
According TO pop" word got to
Russell that his opponent held him
rather cheaply. And then, as Pop
relates 1t, Russell got right peeved.
I'll fight that guy bare fists or gloves
or anything else" said Penrose.
I'm afraidr said Pop, that there
was a bit more of fighting than box
ing. The young fellow can certainly
stand up for himself and he's been at
the boxing game only since Christmas.
too"
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=, ,1,Britton clinched the title by defeat
ing Lewis in twelve rounds at Boston,
October II, 1915, defending the crown
with all success until June 25, 1917
.Mhen Lewis received a referees de-
cfsion at Dayton, Ohio. in twenty
round bout
They met a number of times in no
decision bouts, but finally they climb
ed through the ropes at Canton, Ohio
March II. 1919. for twenty-round
bout. Britton knocked out his an
tent. ffyai in nine rounds. Since then
tfYey have not met in the ring. Lewis
6laimed TO have been Ill before enter.
13g the ring, but few took much stock
III that complaint.
oIA few months ago Lewis went to
England and there easily disposed OF
Johnny Basham, the British welter
champion, in two bouts. However
Basham would hardly rank with
efifrd-rate welters on this side of the
water, and so those two victories
Mean little. Indeed. Benny Leonard
The lightweight champion, is plan
fing to go over and give this same
1yasham a trouncing, and he'll do it as
sore as shooting IL he ever gets the
Bfitisher into the ring with him.
ny BRITTON REAL VETERAN.
/, Though the record books say Brit
ton began boxing in 1905, he himself
says he was boxing in 1902, which
would give him close to twenty years
inside the ropes. In all that time,
living quietly and working indus
61ipusly at his trade of swinging his
Hfs, Britton had hardly anything to
his name until two years ago. Then
The welterweight class began to at
.Iact attention and he began making
Bome real money.
eoAIn the last two years." says Brit
t6h, I've raked in about $4,000. No,
1tnisn't much. 1t doesn't begin to be
AS much as Benny Leonard has made
in half that time, but Leonard Is a
lightweight and they are more popu-
Iar with the public. It's the popu-
Arity that counts.
1oi"The biggest sum yer got at one
titne was s5, 900. That was for meet
1ng Marcel Thomas, the French cham
pion.. as a semi-fnal to the Harry
Wills-Fred Fulton contest at Newark
last spring. Now that IL is possible
Ior me to make enough money to take
care of myself when my ring days are
'dohe, / want to remain on top just as
i6ng as possible. That's why l have
prepared carefully for this scrap with
Lewis in the Garden"
PLANS A KNOCKOUT.
Jack Britton is planning a knockout
s6pight when he tackles Lewis. He
hss an explanation, too, for his be-
lief.
II really ought to know Lewis by
this time" is the champions expla-
pation. III have boxed him enough
upes. He used to be a great boxer.
particularly good was his left hand.
He could do almost anything with
that. His footwork, too, was excel
lent
"But Lewis has lost that left hand
now and his footwork Is gone. lie
vcaily has noting left but his right
The Washington times., 1921-02-07
WILL STAGE SIX BOUTS
FOR INDEPENDENT CLUB

Six boxing bouts for boys ranging
from ten TO sixteen years will be
staged tomorrow night by the Vet
erans of Foreign Wars at their hall,
91s w street northwest when the
Independent Boys Club. OF the Ludlow
School, will be featured.
Mrs. Nellie Nicholas. of the Trinidad
Community Center, who has been in
strumentai in fostering football, base
ball and basketball, is manager of the
Independent Club.
I. salder and r. p. o'Brien, both
overseas champions Will box six
rotnds for the benefit OF the women
and children who have been invited.
Fort Myer and Walter Reed men will
box, according to w. ". Dowder. who
is arranging the bouts!
Members Of the Board Of Bducation
have been invited to attend. Charlie
White will referee the bouts.
The Washington times., 1921-02-07
DOBIE MAY REPRESENT
CORNELL ON GRID BODY

Suggested changes in the football
code will. be considered in New York
on Saturday, March 3, when the foot
ball rule committee will hold its an
nual meeting. Il. X. Hall, OF Dart
mouth, chairman of the committee,
has sent out the call. 1t seems likely
that the personnel Of the body will
be changed slightly at the March
meeting. Cornell last year was rep
resented by DR.. A. II. Sharpe, who
has been at Yale for two seasons and
who is a Yale alumnus. The Ithacans
may send a Cornell man, perhaps Gil
Dobie.
The Yale influence on the commit
tee Ia, very strong. Yale men among
the fourteen members are Walter
Camp, DIR. Sharpe. A. A. staeg, the
Chicago coach, and DR.. Harry will
liams OF Minnesota. .t
The Washington times., 1921-02-07
PUBLIC DOES ALL
THE WORK

AS far as preparation goes
for athletic events, the public
does the most conscientious
training. The athletes would
always be in great shape if
they would only train half as
faithfully as the public pre-
pares for the events through
the newspapers.
Runners, wrestlers, boxers,
billiard players, and all the
others may be below form or
overdeveloped, but the dear old
public is always in the pink.
The Washington times., 1921-02-07
PENN'S CHAMPIONS MEET
Y. m. |. BASKETBALL MEN

PHILADELPHIA Feb 7.-Penn's
intercollegiate championship, flye
meets a tough proposition tonight In
the Virginia Military Institute team
in Weightman Hall The visiting
Virginians are well remembered for
their defeat Of Penn in football last
fall. Leech, Bunting. Stewart. Sum.
mers and Lee. four OF whom played
football, are on the v. NJ. l. team.
The Flying Cadets have not been
defeated this season. Penn has not
lost a game either.
The Washington times., 1921-02-07
Their Seventeenth Ring Clash

g Jack Bpton worlds wetereight champion and Ted Kid Lewis
enter their seventeenth ring contest tonight at Madison Square
frequently this pair Also few boxers have met half as frequently
the But the history of the contests
indication that whenever swaped playing fair with
Nh public and doing their best to F..
1913 Bon entered the welerwght class He has been
backing from making
ridiculous from entering the to the
Soldier Bartfed
Baldwin, Kid Graves, Mike Glover Billy Griffith Phil
Bloom and Ted Kid Lewis, 80
Bton and Lewis began their series of disputes 1915 Lewis
after clever boxing Boston August 81 1915 repeating
Brtton turned
tables receiving decision wenound bout at New Orleans April
Unr
The Washington times., 1921-02-07
Game Called Off.

Georgetown University and wash
ington and Lee were unable TO make
arrangements to play basketball in
Lynchburg tomorrow night, and the
game was called of. Georgetown Is
endeavorins to bring the Generals
here the early part OF March.
The Washington times., 1921-02-07
Peerless PLAYS Ball.

Peerless A. c. baseball players and
the Reserves pried on the baseball
lid yesterday, staging full nine
inning contest on the Patterson feld
The Regulars won by q 60 e.
The Washington times., 1921-02-07
A. A. U. Champs Play.

New York University, the A. A. u.
champions of the Atlanta tournament
last spring, come here for a game
with c. U. Saturday. N. Y. .. de-
feated Joe behring's Columbia team
by 20 to Is Saturday.
The Washington times., 1921-02-07
BIG FIVE In
WINNING BATTLES HERE

Aloysius Big Five players have
struck their winning stride. The
club men have defeated the Epiph-
any Comets, the silent Five, the ALI
Scholastic stars Virginia A, G. and
Arrows. The team has scored 332
polnts 70 123 for opponents.
The Washington times., 1921-02-07
Will Meet Toniuht.

Selectlve Service players and the
World War Division basketers meet
tonight in the Selective Service
at the Washington Bar
racks. Manager \. p. Rynearson,
1880 Water street, is manager of the
seiective Service nve and would like
10 hear from fast Washington tsans
The Washington times., 1921-02-07
Western 10 Battle.

Western HiEh school plays the
GonEaea High School team today In
for it's big game with
Tech on Friday
The Washington times., 1921-02-07
Preps Land Game.

Army and Navy Preps have scored
a "a to % victory over the Martins
burg High School team. They re-
turned yesterday with a victory.
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Arrows Want Games.

Charles QUAINT, manager OF the Y.
M. G.. A. Arrows, wants games with
local basketball teams. QUAINT would
like to hear from the Carroll Council
and Washington Barracks fves, He
can be reached at Main efo0. Branch
a7h
The Washington times., 1921-02-07
Cobb SiunS Another.

Ty Cobb has added another Coast
Lacquer 10 the Detroit pitching stan.
The added starter IL George Crump-
Ter. a southpaw, late Of the San Fran
cisco Seals.
The Washington times., 1921-02-07

WStedd oJ Olue pehcHS'
Dawes split, the Congressional de-
corum wider than the Eighteenth
Amendment split America Some Of
the Senators and Representatives ac-
tually took their feet of their desks.
Others were awakened from their
sound slumbers for the first time
since the Capital was moved from
Philadelphia to Washington.
Charlie is a right-handed speaker.
His cuss words break about three
seconds before they reach the plate.
His wind-up is magnifique. His de-
livery is superb. His recovery is
tres comique. The official stenogra-
piers could find no shorthand signs
equivalent for his spit-bawl.
Before commencing his testi-
meny he requested that all men
present who were not husbands
and fathers 10 leave the room. He
did not wish TO eudsnger the
morals of the innocent and tpex-
perieneed. After that crack all
the tickets were bought vp by the
specuIators.
Auditors at Congressional hearings have
heard -ome very romantic slang before
and since Joe Cannon came TO Washing
ton but Dawes brought along q bat-baE r
full OF the most rehned vulgarisms that
ever escaped from bottle OF Eau de
Cologne
His jsrsor surpas~er the intellect
Of the present generation Of tho
James Brothers Institute. where II
was sent % he decoded into the United
states. The Chiesro Loop District
has offered 20 send an slieni.t 20 as
sist In unrrveIing the Dawes revels-
tiops, rs has the Barbsry coast and
the Bowrry. swRmpoodie Pete fell
inta n fRint whcn Informed OF Gen
craI Dawes words, srd promised 20
no right from this on.
Wher ths oomppittcs room retayred
The Washington times., 1921-02-07
THE OTHER ANGLE
DAWG-ON-IT-DAWES
Bu KIRK MILLER

After translating the Charles G.
Dawes testimony for the Alaskan
export trade, it was found too hot to
print. AS fast as the printers set
it in type it melted the lead.
The Washington times., 1921-02-07

The Eskimos 20 to press on thin
sheets of ice and two papers had
TO suspend publication until the
Dawes version cooled OF. The
only thing which seriously affects
the print paper situation up there
is n mild winter.
The Washington times., 1921-02-07

The American editors all thought the
stuff should have been printed on the
sports pages, Uhere they handle copy
.oith asbestos gloves and blue glasses
Instead Of blue pencils.
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when the oomv,ittes room reiarred
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-02
VICE CONDITIONS
 PROBE ID START
Many Witnesses Summoned to Appear Before the
 Grand Jury

Seventy eight witnesses have al. ready been summoned to appear be- fore the Jefferson county grand jury when it meets October 12, when it will begin it's investigation into al legged vice conditions in Birmingham which have been charged by political candidates in the municipal election members of the League of Women voters and others.
 Statement to this effect was made yesterday by Solicitor Joseph R Tate, who stated that at least 25 additional witnesses would be sum moned and the grand jury would take up the investigation when it meets next week.
 The investigation will be complete and thorough, stated Mir. Tate, and as many days as are necessary to hear the witnesses summoned and anyone having any information they wish to submit to the grand jury will be devoted to this work.
 The investigation will not be rushed through he said, and 1t might be necessary for the grand jury to recess from time to time after the probe was started In order to sum. mon additional witnesses
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-02
Exchange Depression and Strength of War Issues Weeks Features
By Associated Press

] New York, October 1-The
 strength of federal war issues and
 the acute depression of exchanges
 on Germany and most of the new
 central European countries consti-
 tuted the noteworthy if somewhat conflicting developments of the weel. | in the financial markets
 On enormous transactions and all i most without exception, Liberty
 bonds and Victory notes registered gains of two to five per cent, the
 later rising to withing fraction of
 par. While the demand for these is-
 sues was primarily ascribed to the
 recent lowering of rediscount rates by federal reserve banks, it was all
 so accepted as evidence that the
 countrywide liquidation of the last IS months had run its course. On the other hand, the slump in marks
 to figure under s-10 of cent with corresponding or greater demorali- zation in the quoted values of Aus trian, Polish and Czecho- Slovakia remittances, heightened apprehension
 regarding Germany's ability to meet further obligations to the allies. In the stock market rails were the only stable isues, increased traffic and smaller operating costs being seen in the many additional state ments of August earnings. The plan of the interstate commerce commits sion to merge the railroads into 19 distinct groups met with little en- dorsement among railway executives. Industxjal and special stocks tra- versed the lines of least resistance their irregular movements most oft en reflectng the mixed views of professional interests.
 Traders again confined their opera
 tions chiefly to oils. steeis and equip
 ments, the net result being incon- elusive.
 General bushes conditions showed further signs of improvement as cribed for the most part to seasonal requirements. Activity was espec- cially marked in cotton, wooden and leather industries. there being no material increase of production in l manufactured steel and iron.
 The higher ration of reserves re- ported by the federal reserve board | is regarded by bankers as a strong indication of easier money in the fourth quarter of the year, Inter for banks at present are drawing on local reserves for crop.s moving purposes. but predictions are made 1 that 60 and go day commercial loans
 will be made on a per cent basis.