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and won. but. on the square, I
looked worse than he did after the
fight. I've taken many a licking in
fights since. but Sudenberg gave me
one in the first few rounds that was
a pip. We took up a collection after
the fight and each got seven and a
half bucks. Wasn't that rich7 Then
the mayor heard we'd staged a prize
fight and ordered us TO get out of
town.
JACK sDRIF-TEDs ON.
How did I get into thering? Oh, I
just drifted along kind of, you know.
and got out to Frisco and Oakland and
then went right on up. Doc Kearns
got me started on the coast and I
guess we were lucky because in all
the starts I had ] only lost to one fell
low and that was Willie Meehan-
Meehan was the hardest fellow to
hit / ever fought He had a way of
sliding in and out. ] almost broke my
back trying to get one In good spot
on him. Who was the cleverest? Oh.
Bob McAllister. Gee, / couldn't un-
derstand how a guy could get that
good. beat him the night we INST
but IL was like shooting a ghost. &
The hardest hitter? Well, / don't
know whether you saw the punch or
not but the hardest punch I ever re-
member of stopping was the one that
Willard hit me in the third round a&
Toledo. ~
BLOWS DAZED HIM.
You know Doc Kearns told me to
go out and take things easy that
round and l was doing as I was told.
All of a sudden Willard hooked me
with a right handler on tine chin and
had to grab him to hold myself up.
Gosh, it was a beaut. IL felt az
though I had a boiler factory inside
my head / couldn't hear good for an
hour afterward. Yes, Gunboat Smith
hit me beaut in Frisco. was dizzy
the whole four rounds, but 1 won
from him Couldn't that fellow sock.
though
! do I talk to fellows in the rinCr
No. What's the good7 Kid Carpentferf
No. Georges wouldn't understand me
anyway. The night we shook hands
at the Garden l said: George I'm
glad to see you He smiled and saidf
Il thank you. / came to fight this
time; no movie pitch
"I laughed and said: Tn glad to
hear that George: I need the money
That's all we said though we laughed
for a minute afterward, still holding
hands
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pitched behind a barn In the shade
OF big trees and Georges gets most
OF his summing on the road In the
early morning. 1t is noticeable that
he has so far failed to show what
might be called even a fair coat Of
tan and as he is naturally fair-skinned
this is unusual
one more thing is very essential
In connection with the handling OF
both fighters from now until they
enter the ring and that Is the nursing
OF their mental attitudes. Dempsey,
according to all reports. and certainly
when 1 last saw him, has exhibited
the best nature of any heavyweight
champion who ever trained for such
an important battle.
Carpenter, though usually cool and
self-possessed, has shown several
flashes OF nervous temperament
though for the most part his ready
smile has been easily provoked. Keep
ing these two lads In a happy frame
OF mind means almost as much as
whipping them into just the right
physical pitch.
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He Improved Property
Himself And So
He Knew.

AArtie" Lyons, the popular one
armed rolf professional at Briar-
cliff Lodge, has a new story to tell.
A genial golfer and corpulent
member of the Municipal Club of
Brooklyn, which recently held it's
annual spring outing at Briarcliff
links, in Westchester, had succeed
ed in badly hooking five consecu-
tive attempts at drive from the
spectacular first tee into the woods
at the left, $50 yards down the
steep hill in the general direction
of the first green. AS his fifth
little white rubber core disap-
peared in the tree tops he turned
to the other members of his patient
foursome and a highly amused gal
lery to remark: aye gods. but that
property down there is going to be
valuable some day!"
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ATTIRED IN ~LUCkY' ROBE.
] stood upon the hill which slopes
from a pair of barns become gym
nasium and ring, and watched the
tall boy. with the chattering Des-
camps, his manager. and his sparring
partners, pick his way from the back
door of the house. He wore a most
dfsreputable looking lounging robe.
I'm told it is his lucky garment. At
least II wrapped him round with the
dignity of aged light silk and faded
Japanese figures.
He moved with the stealthy, alert
tread of a cat on the prowi. The
wind ruffied his long hair sunburned
as cornsilk. j caught his cat-trick
of stealing glsnces, under his heavy
lids Ice-edged calculation there,
thrust through the next movement
by his smile. His features are clean
cut and his eyes, with head raised,
blue and straightforward as a child's.
HIS PHYAaUE-
He made his dainty way round the
pasture land to the gymnasium. The
robe of fortune fell into the ready
hands of a satellite. In his shred of
Jersey vest and blue trunks he
seemed broader. His legs are those OF
a ballet dancers, deformed by sliding
knots OF MUSCLE. But torso and arms
are not accordingly developed His
neck is slender.
He fell upon a punching bag. Said
my friend. the Italian Cans:
EYE training and arm speed. Look
at him! Say, about them pearls
wearied or bored OF listless with the
sandbag. There was little pep behind
his blows. He curtailed the three
minute allotment to have his hands
bandaxed and then went into the
outdoor ring with the Dempsey-like
Journee. Descamps, the vocative.
buzzed around. His was the hand
which smeared vaseline over the
pointed face and sun-burned hair.
His. also, THE hand to WELD the
sponRe after each three-minute
round, and 20 hold the orange against
the championship aspirant's tongue.
Journee's blows fell light, but his
lips soon began to drip blood. Ever
and again they went through the
same gestures, crouching. punches,
sly, sudden cat-thrust from the
panther, a clinch. After two rounds
Marcot, who Is combination partner
and cook, climbed the ropes.
Perhaps the others were slow.
They seemed to me to tumble. When
their fists came out Georges no
longer was whore he had been. His
feet moved like the spots OF light
in the leafy shade below the plat
form which held the ring.
Georges skipped rope for three
minutes, lithely as cst--a small
cat huttering along a picket fence.
He lay upon his back and did aero
hatic movements for the benaat of
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SULLIVAN LICKED
RYAN IN ORIGINAL
WORLD TITLE BOUT
Historic Scrap Took Place at
Mississippi City July
7, 1882.

The coming Dempsey-Carpentte
battle for the worlds heavyweight
championship recalls records of the
former title-holders and the manner
in which the championship passed
upon the head of present defender.
The first of the modern clashes
officially advertised as OF heavy
weight championship Importance took
place July z, 1882, at Mississippi City,
just across the Louisiana line from
New Orleans John L. Sullivan was
the victor, walIoping Paddy Ryan
with bare fists
The bout lasted nine rounds. There
were only eleven minutes of fighting
however. In those days a round
could be anything from an emphatic
gesture to a days work.
There were important fights long
before then. even as far back as the
one-round encounter between Cain
and Abel But the sport record books
count time from the collision at
Mississippi City.
Sullivan. born in Boston. weighed
100 pounds, and Ryan, native OF
Tipperary, was ten pounds lighter.
Paddy sank beneath a cross fire oil
rights and lefts in the ninth round,
and his seconds tossed up the sponge
The Irishman's left jaw had been
broken in two places by sullivan
smashes
Paddy staggered to his dressing
quarters to discover that while he
had been taking a sound trashing
some rascals had stolen all of his
clothes and the 5000 they contained.
He was Nat broke. for the winner
got the entire purse.
News of the Boston youths vic
tory set of a big celebration among
the sports of his home town.
The boys were out In full force"
said a Newspaper account of jubila-
tion, and the nght was freely dis
cussed. Money and wine we're as
free as water, for the winnings were
heavy.
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BILL MULDOONIS
new BOX|NGH HEAD
IN EMPIRE STATE
Former Worlds Wrestling
Champion Receives official
Appointment

ALBANY, N. Y June William
D s<puIdoon- former champion wrestler
Of the world has been named chair
man of the new State Athletic Com
mission by Governor Miller. The
other members of the board, which
takes the place of the present State
Boxing Commission, are George X.
Morris, of Amsterdam, Montgomery
County. and Frank Dwyer, of Ge-
rsva. Ontario County. Morris Is
chairman of the Montgomery Coun-
ty Republican organization. while
Dwyer formerly was a member of
the old state boxing commission
created under the Frawley act
The new commissioners are to
serve without pay-unlike the pres
cnt boxing commissioners, who re-
ceive $1,000 a year each. They viii
have the appointment of four depu-
ties at s45oo year each. The new
commission will have supervision
over wrestling, as well as over box
ing matches.
Commissioner Muldoon will be
chairman OF the commission, as he
~ given the full-term appointment
OF three years. his term expiring on
January 1. 1924. Commissioner Nor
ris i@ given a two-year term. whils
commissioper Dwyers term expires
JansAxy 4. 1874
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He Knew a Bloke Who
Could Mend Old
Liberty Bell

Danny Williams. recruit out
fielder of the Cincinnati Reds, wan
dered around Philadelphia one
Sunday, lamping the sights. In
cluded among them, Of course, was
the Liberty Bell. He surveyed
that venerable relic with admira-
ton, but finally burst into a TRADE
of wrath against the Philadelphia
authorities.
"Why, gosh hang 'em!" cried
Danny, "it's a darn shame to let a
fine bell like that go to ruin. Why.
i know a fellow out in Portland,
Ore, who would fix it so that You
wouldn't know there was crack in
at for seven dollars"
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RESCUES
TURFMAN IN GRIP
Of HORSES Teeth

NEW YORK. June How many
times have you heard the expression
used when two men are discussing
the merits of the various horses in a
race: "Oh, he's dog7" This term is
applied to contestants which do not
seem to have a chance OF leading the
field to the wire. But there is a
dog at Belmont Park that is a dog.
"Chie~ is owned by Mortimer l.
Murphy the well-known trainer. II
was "Chief" who saved Mort from
serious injury on Saturday morning.
Among Murphy's charges is the no.
torious man-eater, Jock Scot. While
looking over his string. Murphy walk
ed close to Jock Scot and the vicious
horse suddenly swung his head and
sank his teeth into Mort's left side.
With a cry OF pain, Mort fought the
horses head as he would a man. Be
fore any of the stable hands could
come to his assistance, "Chief," who
had been browsing near one OF the
stalls, made flying leap for Jock
Scot and in an instant had his sharp
molars buried in the horses hind leg.
Jock Scot kicked out viciously but
the dog held on. Releasing his grip
FOR an instant the dog took a fresh
hold and this one made Jock Scot
loosen his grip on Murphy and turn
on Chief"
AS soon as the dog saw his mas
ter out of danger he scurried away
barking toyfully while the stable
hands took Murphy into the barn
where a doctor enoased his side in
plaster of Paris Mort was pain
fully but not seriously hurt and witt
messed the race during the afternoon
from his usual perch in the grand
stand. Would Murphy part With
"Chief," Not for barnful OF Man
o. Wars
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IL WAS mere tnat dempsey put 1n
some real hard work He had Teddy
Hayes hold the sixty-pound stuffed
felt bag steady while he punched it
for ten minutes, ripping teSribie vol
ley of rights and lefts into the bag
DROVE CoMBINAIIoN FEET.
Hayes weighs 100 pounds, but
Dempsey's punches often drove Hayes
nd stuffed bag a distance of four or
five feet In his open air bouts with
sparring partners, Jack doesn't hit
that way, but he cut loose with the
inanimate bag to work on, and he did
IL with such a win that his audience
gAsped in astonishment
The cut over Dempsey's left eye has
already begun to heal but 1t gives his
swarthy features a sinister appear
ance. Tho wound was painted with
iodine and left uncovered so that 1t
can be treated frequently. Early in
the afternoon Manager Kearns show
ed up
side the gate. Champ" he said to
Dempsey. what do you want to do -
PUNCHED AT STUFFED BAG.
~weIl, they won't SEQ much today
Dempsey replied. but II they want
TO come in they're welcome
Dempsey's workout Monday con-
sisted of ten minutes with the big
stuffed bag, three-minute rounds of
walloping the heavy bag suspended in
the ring. shadow boxing and ring
calisthenics- His sparring partners
entertained the crowds with bouts
after he had finished.
To-day the champion was scheduled
for A seven mile hike on the road and
another workout, though no boxing
this Afternoon
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in very fine physical condition to-
day. They have reached the point
where 1t would be very harmful 10
do too much or too little work,
though the chance OF over training
is the most dangerous
MIGHT ovERsTEP LIMIT.
This is where the value of q
trainer who knows his man comes
in. And from what the lighters have
done within the last few days
imagine that Kearns and Descamps
have both entertained fears that
their proteges might overstep the
limit
Carpenter has not expended any
great amount of exertion In the
presence of reporters, IL IS true.
But he has been working very hard
in private.
And to my notion the slight cut
Jack Dempsey received over his eye
Sunday came as more of a blessing
than anything else for IL was not
serious and IL gave the champion
chance for a respite from too
much boxing.
Dempsey'A training schedule of
boxing in public every day makes
his handling much more difficult
than that of Carpentier, for no mat
ter how fast or slow a pace he sets
with hts sparring partners. ne ex-
pends energy and what is more, he
boxes in the fun glare of the broil-
ing sun.
Al carpsntieTs camp the rins Is
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Says Tin Cans Are Alley Flowers, and They
Bloom Whenever There's Can
Opener Handy
Opener Handy
BY JOHN p. MEDBURY

This is the time of the year when
people are thinking about vacations,
and that's as far as lot of them are
going to get
Most people buy so many things to
wear to the country that they hs <n't
any money left to go to the country.
The best way to do is to sit out
In the sun and read time table, and
then tell all of your friends what a
good time you had.
Most girls spend lot Of money to
go away and ret lot of freckles,
then come back and spend a lot of
money to get rid of them.
They drink pure cream in the coun-
try and use freckle cream in the
city.
A freckle is a milestone. and for
every mile you 60 from home you
get one. Some girls come back look
ing like they'd been round the world.
II you've got fifteen or twenty
freckles on your face, don't worry.
Think OF the poor leopard.
Spend your vacation underground
and You won't come back booking
like a daily dot puzzle.
; Some people don't need a vacation
any more than a postman has to go
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DEMPSEY SAYS HIS STYLE Is
KNOCK OR GET KNOCKED
BY TAD.

NEW YORK, June 7."Who hero when kid? Why
Jeffre' Dempsey
port recently.
81 thought Jeff the greatest that lived
didn't President When
simmons almost went nutty with joy. ~
"Do still think good? Bet life do No
him box saw Of the old stars in fight Never
Georges Carpenter has times
heavyweight
that between Barney
Ashei in
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pcSCtAhpss WHY 1nAudBtI
of the European champion. an
nounced today that henceforth
Georges will perform for the mem
bers of the press only twice a week
on Mondays and Thursday
get but seven more chances to look
him lover before he crawls through
the ropes with Dempsey at Jersey
City. July 2.
HAS SHOWN LITTLE FORM.
In the few workouts Carpenter
has performed with press represen-
tatives looking on he has failed to
exhibit more than fleeting glimpse
of the thing called fighting form
His workout Monday was no differ
ent than the rest with the exception
that he put Joe Jeanette down for
a couple of seconds with a right
hand punch. ~
Jeanette seemed to walk into the
punch, which was delivered with a
quick snap, and the fact that he
got to his feet right away and
etuck out the round indicated that
he wasn't very badly shaken up.
Regardless, 1t takes quite punch
to toppIe a big heavy fellow like
Jeanette.
RIGHT HAND Is BEST.
Carpenters right hand Is without
doubt his best His left is fast and
he shoots true enough with It, but
the real wallop is in the right mitten
and as the writer has recorded be-
fore that right is very dangerous
one for Dempsey or any one else
Perhaps the most puzzling thing
about Carpenters showing to date
has been his failure to exhibit the
marvellous defensive ability with
which he Is credited. Jeanette and
Journee have had no trouble reach
ing his stomach and his jaw with
rights and lefts. and a number OF old
time boxers who have seen him work
have agreed that he is wide open for
good left hand.
Harry Greb, OF Pittsburgh, watch
ed Georges work Monday. and after
the session ended refused comment
regarding his personal chances
against the challenger. He remarked,
however, that Dempsey Is his choice
July 2, "for every cent I've got
The Washington times., 1921-06-07
KEADY ACCEPTS CALL
TO COACH AT VERMONT

BETHLEHEM, Pa, June II.
Thomas Ready, for nearly dozen
years coach of football, baseball and
for a time basketball at Lehigh Uni
yersity, tody said he had accepted
terms to coach football at the Univer-
sity OF Vermont at a salary said to be
$500 and for term OF five years.
All that Ready now awaits is to be
released from his contract at Lehigh,
which has two years TO run.
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out and take a walk for exercise
after he comes home from work.
But June brings in the scent of
flowers and the odor of time tables.
1t isn't the vacation that they like:
it's the going and coming from the
station which gives them a kick. You
can have this thrill all year by NOV
ing down by the depot.
Either that, or marry a railroad
engineer.
IL it's the smoke and noise of
engines you like, you might be able
to rent corner in some roundhouse.
A vacation doesn't mean anything
to anybody except the owners of the
different resorts, and they spend
their vacations in the city, forgetting
the tin-can pile at home.
Tin cans are nothing but alley
flowers
They bloom whenever there's a
can-opener handy.
The only beautiful flowers Won see
are the pictures on the labels of
the cans. II you do go away this
summer you're bound to go one of
two places. broke or bankrupt.
Copyright, 1891, sy py.yn,er svra,.a,.
The Washington times., 1921-06-07
DEMPSEY I'm "DAY OFF"
SHOWS ONLOOKERS HE IS
REAL DEMON FOR WORK
By SID MERCER.
WRITE. For I.t.rn.t,..., New. service.


ATLANTIC CITY, N J., June boxing Jack
take Monday wondering
o horse for work he a day.
Monday to
the OF his though he no
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mo, / never had any Of them TO
copy from. When j started fighting
just went in to knock the other
fellow over or get knocked over my
self The hardest fight ever had
in my life was with a fellow you
never heard of. 1t was near Gold
field, New. The fellow was Johnny
Sudenberg. We fought ten rounds.
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Want Sunday Games.

The Sterling Club wishes to ar
range Sunday games with teams in
the nineteen-yesr-old class. Address
Manager j. s. Neviaser, B12 Third
street northwest or cali Franknn
-io31-w after @ u, m
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stomach muscles; stunts remember
ed, no doubt. from those circ~s days
before he was the thirteen-year-o old
fiyweight champion of France.
Then he stood upon his shoulders
and did a queer shadow dance with
his legs in the air. How they would
love him on Broadway
After all panther is quicker than
a tiger; he has less to move around
when he sidesteps- And IL his paw
holds no sledgehammer weight 1t
does possess the rapier thrust
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FRENCHMAN'S CATLIKE WAYS
PICTURED BY WOMAN SCRIBE
By WINIFRED VAN DUZER.

NEW YORK June IA long, lean panther of with pointed
face heavy-idded
Sun and wind cody shining like old Cats
ments; but the sly sudden of small cat flashing smile
This Carpenter the aspiring him his training
panther, will Jack Tiger" Dmp
N a spectacular on 2.
According friend Italian Joe Cans who of the punch
camp will defeat the jungle
king that mad said the while he nud cauifower
The Washington times., 1921-06-07
BOYS Club Wins.

The Christ Child Boys Club defeat
ed the Congressional A. c. on the
liberty hut diamond yesterday, 10 to
s. The Boys Club plays at Brent
wood Sunday.
The Washington times., 1921-06-07
Carrico Wins Game.

The Surratsville, Md, team took
the measure of the strong Brentwood,
A C., IL to s, yesterday. Carrico
pitched well for the winners
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He'll Enjoin Him.

Connie Mack says he'll go TO court
and have Scott Perry, his jumping
pitcher, enJoined from playing with
the Steel League team at franklin,
Pa
The Washington times., 1921-06-07
HiIltops Close Winners.

Hilltops nosed out Pine Grove, ~
to II, Anderson's home rtD,, triple and
single in four times up contributing
largely to the victory.
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HANDLERS FEAR OVERWORK
GETTING BOXERS INTO SHAPE
BY JAMES ]. CORBETT.
Former WerId's Hesvywetght Champs~~.

vtoe)
Georges Carpenter
consider the critical the bo bat
Jersey City July 2. = ~ Ae ''1e a'
20 both fighters
fully and the which they handled during the nxt
ten days. will lot = -
After June 20 will the their trainers having bn; then,
up TO certain point of physical fitness
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CHALLENGER FACES
SERIOUS STAGE OF TRAINING
By JACK VEIOCK.

MANHASSET L l. THE serious Car
penters training for Jack Dempsey has arrived
the French challenger will the hard
Hcks his
the shell he brought with him Atlantic.
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Marines Beat Peerless.

The Peerless A. c. was badly out
played yesterday and lost to the fast
,2uantioo Marine team 10 to 9
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TUESDAY, JUNE - 1921.

EXPERT WRITER'S on baseball, golf, ten
mis-, prize-fighting, and in fact all branches
of sport, contribute daily to these snappy
pages. Don't miss them. They're alive.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-04-28
HORACE MANN STUDENTS TAKE
 FIRST PLACE IN MUSIC TEST
 HELD IN LOCAL HIGH SCHOOLS

Nlo wrote "Anitra's Dance from Peer Gynt?" 'Pizzicatco" "Berceus q from Jocelyn?" Anvil Chorus, II Tro- va:h- e?' Overture To William Tell - and are the compositions vocal or in stlUmental. and if the latter, are they played by band, an orchestra, yio- lin a piarO. an CtOe. a harmonica. or what? are some of the questions that students of the high and junior high schools ot the district answered as easily as they can spell "cat,' in the finals of the music memory con. test at the high school auditorium yesterday afternoon.
 The music memory contest has been in progress in the high and jun for nigh schools of the district during the last six weeks with the aVoweC intention of bringing to the minds o the students the fact that although 'iazz'' is all right in it's way it does not weigh much, and although it hal a distinct place there is still lit | tie room left for appreciation Of soo' | music of another sort. The musi memory contest has gone long wa, i to fulfill it's object and as a resul there are many students in tn | schools who know and appreciat
 many of the classics in musical con position.
 The method employed was for tn | students to familiarize themselve
 with numerous compositions by pla. ing them over on the phonograph. contest was then held in each ind
 yidual school, prize of B being gr