The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-02-01
SPORT NOTES TOLD
IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS
Condensed lnformations Concerning
stars Of Diamond, Ring, clnder
Path and Basketball Court

Star5 OF Diamond, Hlng, SlHueT
Path and Basketball Court.
The first tangible move toward
worlds heavyweight championship
bout between Jack Dempsey, titlehold-
er, and Harry Wills, New Orleans ne
gro contender was made Saturday
when William A Brady, tho we'll
known New York Theatrical man, who
has offered purse of 100000 for this
important scrap, posted $4,000 as o
forfeit TO bind the proposed match
The theatrical producer placed his
personal check for the sum OF $4,000
at the disposal of Charles A. Sackman,
Trea urer OF the Mutual Bank, with
instructions that the amount was to
be held subject TO the call OF Mr..
Sackman until final details of the
bout under Bradys direction are ar
,anged.
Burlington High School basketball
team still heads the Northern Vermont
basketball league with four games and
none lost Montpelier Is second with
three games won and one lost. Spauld'
ing and St Adams High School are
tied for third place each having won
two games and lost two. Waterbury
High no d. NTH place and Peoples
Academy hold last place.
Milton Academy, Of Milton, Mass,
haJ eleven hockey teams practising
on six rlnks
Sam Langford, one of the greatest
battlers the ring has known, is slip
ping fast, TO judge from the showing
an his recent bouts.
Sammy Goldman and Charlie Rose,
managers Of boxers, have been barred
in Philadelphia for alleged violations
Of the boxing rules OF that city.
Philadelphia and Scranton having
dropped out Of the Eastern Basketball
League, the organization will continue
" tn six team In the circuit.
Nick Altrock Is selling cure all
1 liniment on the big circuit this winter
( Nick works IN store window while
demonstrating the wonder oil
With $1,000 in money prizes to the
winners Of the Texas open golf cham
lionship at San Anton o next month.
| It looks as If goliinii is breaking into
the big money" class.
Shortstop Burkett, recently signed
by the Birmingham club Of the South
ern league, Is son Of jesse Burkett.
tue old big league star and present
coach OF the champion Giants.
Princeton, Harvard and Yale furn.
/ ished the players on Walter Camps
1889 Al.-American football team, while
his 1921 eleven Is composed OF players
from eleven different universities.
Manager Bill Gleason Of the White
Sox will give his young pitchers two
ecks extra training this spring, in
the hope of developing a twirlng
taft able to stand the pace.
After the recent Johnny Dundee
Charley White bout IN Boston many
Hun fans were Of the opinion that
Champion Benny Leonard would find
soft picking in either Of the fighters.
The Pacific Coast League having
turned down the $500 draft PROPOSE
ton, the International league will most
likely follow the example Of the coast
eaguc in refusing the MAJORS Office.
New York baseball fans declare that
Kelly, Frisch, Bancroft and Groh,
the Giants have the strongest infeld
he's have had since 1895 when Nc
Gam, Gilbert, Dahlen and Deylin held
down the innerworks.
sammy Butt ChicagoS one-arm
boxer, has a string Of ten ring vic
tories to his credit. Though boxing
win one mitt and weighing only 1l2
pounds, he doesn't hesitate TO tackle
the bautamweights.