Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-12-26
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fart 1922 wait. At ,hc marx 10 grab
the puck from Tho fal.crinr ola man
known az 1921 In the indcterrninute
relay az time. several Champiou; arc
sitting rght IN th.ir thrones grow
ing rat from lack OF competition. If
not. actually soliciting the CHALLENGE
Of the upHtart.
Take the bamLmo. Perhaps he has
reached the summit Of his career win
itf,y-ninc home runs In 1921 lie VIII
b" out Of the first thiTty-liuc gamc@
az 1872, du" 1. his sus pension so
there seems To- lie small chance Of his
/ hruising that ptupcEhpus record next
season. IN 1879 he may be too fat or
a cripple. I'll. Babe Ia u fragile bit
. u baseball furniture for ali his bulk
. But wi! ahy one els" make ATTY
nime hom.r> next year or the year
after or tho year after that? Prob
ably not unless til. biz leagues in
troduce mhgnihcd golf ball. In 1919
+ he mad. twsnty-uiue h0m"rs and
there WAS q record II i;2D he mad"
hfty-four and the spectators raspcd
how he seems 70 be secure az long as
the conditions ami the paraphcrnalia
OF the gam" remain what they arr"
Jack Dempsey has been fed three
set-Ups since lie tuiublcd tho Glacial
willard In Toledo.
The Brennan fight was Charlotte
Russo FOR the man Killer. but Jack
I had done his road work on a dance
nour and IT took him twelve rounds
. To stop the on"-tiin. bounc.r from the
Z caharct belt of chicago The Miskc
I hight was no fight And Carpenter
had no right 10 challenge as Deinp-
Soy proved Ia that dramatic fourth
round on MONSIEUR Egyle's country
estate hard hy Jersey City, y. j.
DEMPSEY IS coming 10 New York
after the first ot IN" year to silrn with
Tex Kickard for q battle with some
body, perhaps Fred Fulton. maybe
Harry Wills. Jack has repeatedly az
sur"d The United :l.ws That ne VIII
fight any man on earth IL the public
wants the match Now there is some
agitation for a battle with Wills. and
Tho thing may be built up 10 million
/ dollar size by mex; 9Th VI July But
the n.gr" giant failed TO stop Rili
Tate In "A recent twcivc-rouud fight,
and Tate was a rag doll in D"Upscy's
hands when Jack had him FOR a spar
ring partner.
! Thc ligh, heavyweight, title is an
! obs lure distinction. Carpenter holds
/, and he is matched WITH Tom Iiih-
hons for a iicnt sometime, somr.whe
under IN. auspices OF Tex HirkarG.
.Tohuny Wilson is matched with Harry
Gr.1, who should knock him from
dicwcicht crown II Gr"h can make the
weight, which is doubtful. Old Jack
Brirton is likely 10 be stopped any
time he steps into the ring. bat he is
still master boxer for all his years
which are many and hard 10 wear in
the ring. Benny Leonard. as light
weight champion. can Outlook any Of
his rivals. hut nobody but Benny and
1 his manager. Billy Gibson. knows
. .yt.l. a.
a, = o'clock. and neither OF them
. seems disposed >" prove II as they
. are cruising about III" country now
/ Fighting Al catchwcights.
Joining kilbanc made pretensc Of
I lighting Danny Frush III cleveland.
/ i'rush isn't much. Kubanc might have
beaten him fairly. hut he made the
| baltimore Hebrew comply with
weight conditions that amounted To
persecution, and, naturally stopped
/ him.
The bamtamwcight championship
/ changed hands three times in 1871.
| Pete Herman lost il 10 Joe Lynch.
Lynch blew the bauhlc back to Her
| man and Herman was outpointcd and
deprived Of his honors for the sec
ond time in Il year. by Johnny Bun.
Midget Smith seems just the size TO
, take the championship from Jersey
/ Johnny II. and when they meet.
The Giants by n Merry finish Of the
I 1921 season noscd out the Pirates for
the championship OF tho National
/ League after the Pittsburgh Club had
! built extra hlcachcrs in anticipation
| of a worlds Scrias The Pirates will
challenge again in 1922, but the Card
inals are the club 10 bear most watch
ing. especially If they acquire another
, dependable pitcher or two. In the
! American League the race seems To
! be again between the Ianks and the
| Indians with the Browns in a mildly
threatening attitude.
ON the cindcrs, Charley Paddock. the
scared iackrahbit OF California.
showed the shape Of his heels TO the
track men in 1921 OF the records
established or cquallcd in 1921. as
| performances We're authcnticat by
| the Amateur Athletic Union i'll Chi
cago. Paddock figured in nine. Four
times he cquallch Dan Kcilys dis
puted record 100 yards; once he COW
cred 800 in twenty and four-ffths.
breaking the worlds record Of Don
Lippincott, Bernie Wcfcrs and Rolph
Craig; he made 100 meters in 10 25,
one second better than Lippincott's
time, and he pranccd 500 yards in
30l-5 He also established new
| American records for 200 and 900
meters Ned Gourdin, the Harvard
negro athlete, knocked down Pat
O'ConnOr'S long standing mark for
the running broad jump with a leap
Of twenty-five feet three inches.
The American polo team easily de-
feated the British riders and took
back tho international cup. Ameri-
can amateur golfers Jared not so
we'll on British links, as Willie Hun
ter Briton won the British amateur
championship Mt Liverpool. and Miss
Alexa Stirling. at that time the Amer
lean woman champion, lost out in the
British women's tournament. How
ever, Jock Hutchinson, n naturalized
Scotsman, brought back to America