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The New York herald., 1921-12-25
BASKETBALL

The passing year has witnessed u re-
markable progress In the field of basket
ball. In the search for sport to bridge
over the hard winter months between
the football and baseball seasons schools.
colleges. Y. NJ. G. AS and athletic clubs
have been attracted In unusual numbers
to the popular indoor game. Basketball,
with its tendency to combine the team
work of football, the strategy OF baseball
and the speed and fascination Of hockey.
has within twelvemonth reached that
stage Of popularity where single game
in New York attracted $4,000 spectators.
In the Eastern colleges during the past
year basketball was generally conceded
to have had the best year In its history.
The University OF Pennsylvania quintet
repeated its triumphs in the Intercol-
legiate League. winning the champion
ship for the third consecutive season and
established an undIsputed title to the
premier honors In basketball circles. It's
clearcut victory over the New York Uni
versity team, winners OF the 1920 ma
tional A. A. u. championship, dispelled
all doubt as to the superior calibre of
the Red and Blue Ave.
AZ in the higher institutions OF learn
ing. the indoor cage game has found an
increasing number of devotees among
the thousands of prep school athletes.
With SO many colleges adopting basket
ball as q major sport, the youngsters In
the secondary schools have given more
OF their time to the game, with the
result that better and more experienced
players are entering the colleges and
greater competition has developed in the
schools.
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FENCING

Undoubtedly of leading interest IN
fencing this year was the International
event here between British and Ameri-
can teams. IL brought together the
most prominent swordsmen of both
countries and il necessltated tryout
tournaments that attracted considerable
attention and brought new contenders
20 light II proved to be we'll contested
international affair. The British had
the better OF it In dueling swords and
1t was an even thing in sabers. but with
the visiting team outfenced by wide
margin in fols the victory In the series
rested In America.
The event was Just what the sport
needed to revive the interest that had
been somewhat dulled since the start of
the war. One fact that Is gratifying
fencing officials is that the colleges and
preparatory schools are taking up the
sport with greater earnestness than ever
before. The various athletic clubs that
have led as devotees OF fencing are hav-
ing their squads replenished from year
to year from the ranks OF the college
graduates.
While the veterans in most OF the
tournaments of the year managed to
win the major share OF the victories
as heretofore. yet two new national
champions were crowned. In sabers the
title went 70 Chauncey Il. MACPHERSON
of tho New York Athletic Club. who
had been threatening the leaders for
several years. In foils the title In the
absence of Sherman Hill, champion. fell
to the skill OF Major Honeycutt OF the
army, who was captain of the American
Olympic fencing team In 1920.
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TRAP SHOOTING

Organized trapshooting enjoyed tho
greatest popularity in the annals OF this
splendid sport during the season Just
closed Every section of the country was
represented by the pick OF their per.
formers when the Grand American
Tournament took place at the South
Shore Country Club. Chicago.
The outstanding feature OF the 1921
season was the great performance of Nick
Arei. OF Singman, AriZ.. who won both
the singles championship and the eigh.
teen yard championship. In winning
these classic events he broke 1913 out OF
300 In each event. 1he new champion
has been well known figure in the
game for several years. His brother
was also classcd as one Of the greatest
amateur shots and at the last Olympic
games won tho worlds championship.
On his return from tho 1920 Oiympi,
contests he turned professional
Among the women competitors the
performances OF Mrs. E. Il. King stand
out as the best ever turned in by
woman. Her finest performance OF the
season came In the Minnesota State
Handicap. Standing up on her native
soil she competed against the best male
shots OF the State and all were forced
to bow to her prowess from tho 1S0 yard
mark. The Minnesota champion met her
match and little more, however when
she faced Mrs. Toots Randall OF New
York In the national woren's champion.
ship for the New York woman broke 9S
out of 800 targets.
r. A. King of Delta. Col, won as he
pleased in the national doubles shoot
At all distances the entry from Delta
was the superior Of any In the field
B. r. Hask OF Canton. Ohio, won the
stellar handicap OF the year when he
emerged with highest honors in the
Grand American. In the all round
championship King again showed the
best work OF the large field, breaking
767 out of a possible 800 targets.
Art Killsn OF St. Louis won the pro-
fessionsl championship at the singles
from HarlS Arie, former Olympic cham
pion. In shootoff. In the doubles Arie
showed his class BY defeating all com.
ers. This event also was decided by
shootoff. John Joan was the man that
Continued on rago Twenty.
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ROWING

The great Navy eight assimilated most
Of the rowing spotlight during the 1921
rowing season. Champions OF the world
by virtue OF their wonderful win at Ant
werp during the Olympic contests in
1920, this we'll coached crew were. natur-
ally looked upon as the best in rowing
circles at the beginning of the season
last year. They met with an early sea-
son reverse when the Princeton oarsmen
defeated them on Lake Carnegie, but
when the big test came at the Poughkeep-
sic regatta in June they showed their
class by winning from every crew of note
in the country, including their Princeton
conquerers of few weeks before. Yale.
after n stormy political session, during
which her coach was released from his
duties, won over Harvard.
Kelly and Costello of the Vesper Boat
Club of Philadelphia won the national
doubles and Hover of Duluth the sin
giles scull championship.
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three days racing off Newport The
races off Newport proved to be OF more
than ordinary interest because Rear
Commodore George Nichols had the ri-
OF his SO footer Carolina changed anI
that yacht, with IA jib headed mainsail.
or so-called Marconi rig. easily defeated
the other yachts of her class. winning
the Astor Cup. She proved TO be IS sec
onds n mile faster than the so footer5
with the gaff rigs. This race was sailed
In fresh wind and rough sea. The next
day in light weather Carolina wen the
Kings Cup.
G.. M. Pynchon's Istalena wen the
Larchmont series for 80 footers and the
Sound series. The Alerte was the best
yacht In the popular victory class.
II. S. Shonnard. owner OF tie schooner
Sonnica. challenged for n race for the
Cape May Cup. Rear Commodore III.
S. Vanderbilt entered his schooner Va
grant. The race was a fast one and
was won by Sonnica.
The Seawanhaka Cornthian Y. G. ar.
ranged an international team match
with British yachtsmen. -Four yachts Of
the six meter class were built and sent
to England, where they sailed six races
against four British built yachts. Grcbe
proved TO be the fastest of the Amerl-
can boats. The match. however. was
won by the British. This was chiefly
due to mishaps on the American yachts.
Among the new yachts completed dur
ing the year were the Delphne, the
largest and most costly steam yacht
built in this country from designs by
Henry J. Gielow for the late II. IL.
Dodge the Nourmahal. a Diesel englned
yacht for Vincent Astor and the Guine-
we're. Diesel-elcctric schooner risged
yacht built for Edgar Palmer.
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DOG

To Midkiff Seductive. the cocker
spaniel Of w. r. Payne, must be award
ed the premier dog honors OF the year.
She was the winning dog, best in the
show, at the Westminster show of last
February. She defeated LOO other
dogs and made dog history by being the
first cocker spaniel to win the coveted
honor.
While this country has no test to
definitely award a national champion
ship. II is generally conceded that the
best at the Westminster feature Is the
real champion OF the year. There is no
gsinsaying Midklff Seductive Is a beau
tiful animal when IN the condition
shown at the WestminsteT but during
the summer she was shown when she
might much better have been left at
home. 1t was injustice to show her In
that condition.
The day may come when there will
be a regular championship American
Kennel Club show TO determine real
championships such as Is held In Eng
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POLO

In the first international polo tilt since
the war America showed decided
supremacy last summer. This was not
unexpected. for England had lost most
os its polo stars in the great conflict and
lad not had sufficient time to develop
this reason that the United States held
back its challenge for the international
cup in 1920. the feeling being prevalent
here that the British ought to have at
least another year to prepare for the
defense. of the trophy they won from the
Americans just before the war.
The international matches brought
two American polo stars to the front
who had never before played for the
famous Hurlingham Cup. They were
Thomas Hitchcock, Jr. and J. Watson
Webb, who distinguished themselves be-
yond general expectations. Devereux
Milburn, captain and back, and Louis T..
Stoddart were the other members Of the
team that was hailed in many circles
as the best that ever represented this
country.
In the tournaments held I'm the United
States entries were far more numerous
and general activity greater than at any
time since 1914. Most OF tho younger
generation of players, having shown de-
cided Improvement in their work, re-
celved a boost in handicap rating, and
before another two seasons there Will be
new contenders crowding the veterans
for places on the international team.
The growing popularity of the game
was indicated by the fact that the ma
tional championship held at Philadelphia
In September attracted record crowds.
On the day of the senior title match
more than 10000 persons invaded the
grounds of the Philadelphia Country
Club at Bala.
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HANDBALL

The Junior singles and doubles In
handball, which were held under the au-
spices OF the New York Athletic Club.
were keenly contested from start to fin
ish. In the semi-finals OF the singles
Charles Ruggles of the New York Ath-
letic Club defeated A. X. Brissei OF the
Central Y. NJ. C. A. p. J. McDonagh OF
the Pastime A. G. defeated w. j. Barry
of the Loughlin Lyceum. In the singles
finals +. ]. McDonagh defeated Charles
Ruggles by a score of 21--12. 20-21.
2i--17.
In the senior national championship
DR.. Hedge of Minneapolis defeated w.
Stoclman of New York in the finals.
In the Junior doubles senlifinal r.
Butler and II. Grodeu Of the Trinity CluS
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HARNESS RACING

In one respect the harness racing sea-
son of 1921 was unexampled. For the
first time In a century of sport two
trotters earned new records faster than
2 800. Peter Manning lowered the worlds
record from :5S. made by Uhlan In
1912. to :57H in an exhibition against
time at Lexington In October. and Arion
Guy on the same track reduced the
record for four-year-olds from 2 :02 to
59Ia. Both trotters were trained and
driven by Thomas W. Murphy OF
Poughkeepsic, N. Y, who again heads
the list of winning drivers with forty
FIVE races to his credit during the sea-
son.. Murphy also drove to her record
Rose Scott. 2:03h, the fastest three
year-old trotter OF the season. as well as
Czar Worthy. :03&, the fastest "green"
trotter of the year. Helen Dillon and
Suavity. the contending trotters In the
Junior Kentucky Futurity. made the best
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E. Ralph Greenleaf. formerly Of Mon
mouth, ILL.,, finished first in a profession
a, pocket tournament, held at Philade!-
phia. October II to 20. and scored his
third consecutive victory in champion
ship tournament.
At the Cleveland Athletic Association
Charles Heddon of Dowagiac, Mich, won
the national amateur championship at
IS p balkline. He also scored q run Of
1S9. a national amateur record
Fer the eighth consecutive time J.
Howard Shoemaker of the New York
Athletic Club won in the national anna
teur pocket competition. The tourney
was held at the Chicago Athletic Asso-
citation, March to IL.
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BILLIARDS

Billiard chronology for the year 1920
is illuminated by the meteoric progress
OF Jacob Schaefer. son of the late Jacob
Schaefer, the wizard" OF the game,
who. above all others, developed it from
crudity to the most beautiful and sci
entiflc of all pastimes. The Jacob
Schaefer of to-day flashes as a search
light across the billiard horizon of the
past year. In a period of eight months
he achieved the pinnacle of eminence in
his profession, the championship of the
world at 1872 balkline. the standard Of
superexcellence. Beginning on March 5
by making run of 1876, in a match Of
$500 points, against Edouard Hore-
mans, played at Maurice Days. New
York. he scored the greatest possible tri-
umph when he won the emblem of pre-
emlnence in the tournament, held No
vember IA to 22, in the Elizabethan
Room Of the Congress Hotel. Chicago.
In that event, which will figure in tho
annals of the game as the greatest tour
rament held to date, on succeeding
nights, he defeated the redoubtablc and
generally considered invincible William
II. Hoppe, who for eleven years had
dominated the profession. The first
night, by defeating Hoppe 400 to 26, he
tied him for first honors. Deciding the
tie. he demonstrated supremacy by a
score OF 500 TO 346. In addition to win
ming the championship. he established
two extraordinary records. BY defeating
Welker Cochran, 400 to 0. in two innings,
ho made a single average OF 200. Final
ly In the tournament proper. In which
he was defeated by Roger Cont only. In
the six games he played he scored 2,203
points, thereby attaining a grand aver
sge of 81 10-43.
In the same tournament, playing
against Sutton, Welker Cochran made a
run of 3Si, which Is the highest ever
scored at 1872 in championship match
or tournament.
In tournament held at Pittsburgh
early in October. August Kieckhefer of
Chicago won the professional three cush-
Ion carom championship. At Chicago,
December 10, 1G and IL, John Layton
OF Sedalia, Mo-. defeated kieckhefer, $50
to III. and secured the title.
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YACHTING

Yachting recovered from the war and
postwar depression and racing and
cruising were very successful. All re-
gattas were well supported and at
Marblehead all records were broken for
the number of starters In open regattas
during the four days racing OF the
Corinthian Yacht Club.
Through the efforts OF Commodore J.
p. Morgan the New York y. &. revived
the cruise in which more than 100 yachts
participated. These raced on the squad
ron runs from port 10 port and then had
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land. Such a show would be handled
ty the best judges obtainable. tho dog
winning best OF each breed would I've
the national champion OF his breed and
the best In the show would be the
acknowledged champion OF this country.
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defeated r. ]. Ripley OF the New York
a. c. aud II. Boherty, unattached.
Charles Ruggles and ]. Han.ey defeated
w. Sacknan and f. Curry in the second
semi-final. This was won by forfeit. Il.
Butler and Il. Groden of the Trinity Club
were too much for Charlie Ruggles and
]. Hanley in the doubles finals and won
by the scores of l2-21, 2l--l1, 2l--1t.
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BILLIARDS


November 10
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JAY GOULD
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mark of 2:0SH. Single q. IL years
old, paced the fastest mile Of the eeason
II SO
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CYCLING

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TAKE UP APPEAL OF
GEO. GRAHAM RICE,
Counsel for Convicted Broker,
Now in Utah, COnfers
With Dooling.
SPEEDY ACTION is URGED
Prosecution on 4 Other Indict-
ments Considered-Await
Move in California.

Assistant District Attorney Dooling
and Max Forst attorney for George Gra-
ham Rice. the blue sky stock manipula-
tor. conferred yesterday regarding the
argument of the appeal on which Rice
avoided immediate service Of his three
years sentence to Sing Sing imposed by
Judge Malone in General Sessions. jan
uary 20. 1920.
Mr.. Forst said the conference was the
result of the publication yesterday In
THE NEW YORK HERALD of Rice's re-
cent exodus from San Francisco where
his operations in mining stock resulted
In that State issuing a warrant for his
arrest Rice now is in Salt Lake City
exploiting the stock of the Bingham
Galena Mining Company. AS THE NEW
YORK HERALD revealed. he has gained
temporary immunity from extradition to
California by invoking the protection of
the Utah Securities Commission. which
is investigating Rtce's activities in that
State and those of the brokers with
whom he has been associated.
Mr.. Doolng told Mr.. Forst. who IL
assistant to Rice's chief of counsel.
George q. Medalie, 120 Broadway. that
the respondents brief was now in the
hands of the printer and that the APP
peal was so located on the Appellate
Divisions calendar that the argument
probably would be heard soon after that
body convened in October.
Il told Mr.. Dooling that we want TO
expedite this case as much as possible.
said Mr.. Forst. I'VE are ready to go
ahead any time. l am writing "a letter
to that effect so that 1t will appear in
Mr.. Dooling's records.
In the appeal bureau Of the District
Attorneys office it was said that no in
ordinate time will have passed since
Rice was admitted to bail (February.
1920, and the date of the argument of
the appeal Officials cite numerous ap-
peals that have been argued three years
after the release of the sentenced person
gaining such respite. 1t was explained
further that the Appellate Divisions
calendar is too crowded to permit of
abandoning the consecutive order in
which the cases come.
According to Mr.. Dooling, much de-
pends upon what success California ex-
periences in that States efforts TO ex-
tradite Rice from Utah
IF California gets him and sends him
to jail he said. I'VE can do nothing un-
til he is released in that State. Then.
unless there are other indictments
against him there on which California
Immediately would rearrest him. we
would get him and bring him here for
tSe appeal
Mr.. Dooling told Mr. Forst that he
was now considering prosecuting Rice
on the four other indictments pending
against him here. He was sentenced
to Sing Sing when he pleaded guilty to
appropriating to his own use $720 given
him by Rudolph w. Hartman of Mans
field. Ohio, for the purchase Of stocks
Rice then was operating in William
street. The Hartman indictment charged
him with grand larceny in the first de-
gree. The four other indictments arr
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JEREMIAH O'LEARY
CASE IS REOPENED
Bail of $4,000 Jumped; State
Tries to Recover.

At the direction of William Hayward.
United States Attorney. Earl B. Barnes.
an assistant. will reopen the bail jump
ing judgment case against jeremiah A.
O'Leary, former editor of Bun The Gov
ernment in June. 1919. obtained a judg-
ment against OLeary. who had disap
peared, and his wife for $4,000, the
amount of the bail bona declared for
feited by Judge Rufus E. Foster. A writ
of execution which followed the docket
ing of the Judgment was later returned
by Thomas d. Mccarthy, United States
Marshal. who declared he was unable
to find any property to levy upon.
Judge John c. Knox issued yesterday
in the United States District Court an
order directing Mr.. O'Leary to appear
before Mr.. Barnes and make discovery
as to his property. The court also
issued an order enjoining the defendant
from making dispositions of any of his
property until after supplementary pro-
ceedings. which have been set for
July 21
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SHIP ARRIVES WITH
2 HELD AS SLAYERS
Three Ohio Detectives Bring
Prisoners Here After Out
whiting Mexican Officials.
EYTRADITION rs REFUSED
Men Are Wanted in Connection
With Robbery and Murder of
Two in Cleveland.

Three detectives from Cleveland ar
rived yesterday on the steamship Mon
terey of the Ward line. bringing with
them two prisoners they had eousht for
a long time in connection with the MUIR
der cs two men in payroll robbery in
Cleveland last December. The detectives
also brought story of how they out
witted the scheme of Mexican officials
to cheat the detectives OF their prisoners
by deporting them to Spain or Italy
Captain of Detectives, George Mato-
witz. with Detectives Charles Cavola
and George Koestle, were sent to Mexico
to hunt down Dominic Benigno and
Carlos Colletti for the murder of Will
fred C. Sly and George K. Fanner. On
June 2, while walking down the Alameda
in Mexico City they came face to face
with the men they wanted standing in
front Of the Regis Hotel. They placed
them under arrest, and trouble starred.
Though the prisoners are Italians they
speak Spanish fiuently and they called
for assistance. Guests of the hotel Joined
with a mob in the streets and pelted
the detectives with stones and flower
pots. After a fight the detectives took
their men to a police station. where
they were placed in a cell without a
lock. the Mexican police refusing to
guard them or be responsible for their
safe keeping. For the next month the
detectives were busy night and day
guarding the prisoners, and preventing
the Mexican police from arranging an
escape.
Capt. Matowitz asked for the extradi-
ton of Benignoi and Colletti, but the
request was refused by the Mexican off,
cials. who said they were willing to de-
port the men to Italy. as they were
Italians. but that they could not hear
of extradition to the United States.
When it was found that no vessel was
sailing for Italy it was decided to de-
port them to Spain.
On the day the prisoners We're to be
deported they were taken to a quay by q
Mexican policeman VINO mad just been
called away from his lunch. The Cleve-
expressed regret that he had been called
away from his lunch. gave him some
cigarettes and money and told him they
would see the prisoners on board.
Instead of putting the men on the
Spanish ship the detectives took them to
the Monterey, an American vessel which
lay on the opposite side of the quay
The detectives left their prisoners last
night at Brooklyn Police Headquarters
and had their first complete nights rest
in more than a month. They will take
their prisoners to Cleveland to-day.
Seven men are said to have participated
in the robbery, which resulted in the
murder of Sly and Tanner. Two are
under sentence of death. one is await
ing trial and two others are still at
large:
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GIRL AMNESIA VICTIM
IS FOUND IN BRONX

A girl about Is years old. well
dressed and of refined appearance was
found last night in front of the Alex
ander avenue police station in The
Bronx and was unable to tell who she
was or where she lived. She was cry
ing. and continued to cry when sent by
the Children's Society to Bellevue, where
1t was said she was suffering from
amnesia.
Marian" was the only name the girl
could give, and TO all questions she
sobbed out the answer that ii was
awful not to have home or a place
to go where could be happy" A note
which she is supposed to have written to
"Vlidi' was found in her pocket. but it
told nothing which would aid in Identify
ing the girl.