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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03

sus, has a population of 5,212. 1t
has a tile and monument works,
brickyard, coal mine and is a trade
center for the agricultural district.
Blackburn college, a small institu-
ton, is located there.
The word was passed to the Car
linville sports to bet the family
plate on the home team. The Sc
cret, however. leaked out that a
number of college stars would be
imported for the game.
CONSERVATION refgned in Taylor
vile when the news arrived via the
gossip route. 1t was preposterous
to think OF sending the home town
boys against nationally famous
stars.
Then few of the leading cit
liens. among them being the pro-
prietor of the leading grocery, the
keeper OF the inn and the owner Of
the flour mill. set about to strength
en- their eleven.
Taylorville landed nine of the
Illinois stars The Taylorville
sports We're wise enough to get a
good quarterback. Carlinville over
looked that feature. 1t was the
quarterback who decided. the issue.
Sternaman, the Illinois quarter
back, kicked three goals.
Down at TaYlorville and Carlin-
VILE they are still discussing the
game. 1t will furnish gossip for
years to come for the sports down
that way
incidentally Coaches Zuppke of
Illinois and Rockne of Notre Dame
are no doubt using language at the
present time that can't be printed
in the best family newspapers.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03
KILBANE MAY
DEFEND TITLE
ON OTHER SIDE
Sends Advertising in Advance 10
Make Trip to Europe Finan-
cial Success.
BY FAIR PLAY.
Copyright, 1922, by The Argus

Copyright. 1922, by The Argus.)
New York. Feb. 3.-What. fighter
is going to Europe next? The man
who picked the right guy would
deserve the rubber toothpick as a
champion guesser. 1t is Johnny
kilbane. 1t leaked out today that
the featherweight champion has
been planning 10 sail this month
with his manager, Jack Garvey.
His idea is to give sparring exhibit
tons with Al Zeimer and hook
onto match in Paris with Crioui
or LedouX. In order that Johnny's
exhibitions would not be frosts.
Garyey has taken care of the mat
ter of setting Kilbane right before
the French public. Here is a COW
of the letter he sent Leon See
Criqui's manager, which no doubt
by this time has had ample repre-
sentation in the Partisan press.
Champion Johnny KiIbane"
writes Garvey, lis on the point of
leaving for Europe, and it is his
desire to visit France. It is even
possible he will come to Paris he
fore he goes to England. KiIbane
you know, has been the chamnion
featherweight of the world for 10
years, having beaten Abe Attell for
the title in 1912. He has held the
championship longer than any 9th
er boxer without exception. He has
beaten with equal ease two other
champions, Freddie Welsh and Kid
Williams.
''Kilbane thus will not ha
stranger If he decides to come TO
Europe. He will give exhibitions
with his sparring partner. Al Zei-
mer, and with other boxers who de-
sire to put on the gloves with him
He is also disposed to put his title
OF worlds champion at stake and
IN particular to meet your ponuIar
Criqui.''
So Johnny will put his title at
stake, will he? Tell that TO the
French. 1t might be suggested to
the French also that Kilbane NOT |
only has held his title 10 wears bnt |
IS likely to possess it 10 years more !
II he continues his present tactics |
Of refusing to defend it.
italy and the United States rem /
in a title bout is the snort
ng sensation, promised for Boston
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03
CRAVATH NOT
HOME RUN KING
OF NATIONAL
Check Of Records and Old News
papers Gives H0nors to Sam
Thompson.
By JOHN B. FOSTER.

copyright, 192Z, by Inc ArguS-J
New York, Feb. 3.-Gravvy
Cravath never has rightfully pos
sessed the National league record
for the most home runs in a life
time, it became known today. He
had been credited with it for ma ~
seasons. Now and then some one
Of the old fellows would half dis
pute it and insist that Sam Thomp-
son was the National league star in
that respect as Ruth is the Ameri-
can league star. Ruth, of course,
isn't through yet. No one knows
what his record will be. He may
have a home run for every week in
decade before he gets through.
1t looks like it now.
Careful checking of old scores
and some investigation here and
there in the musty files of newspa-
pers has given Sam Thompson the
throne seat and the old fellows will
chirp up when they hear the news
and carry their heads higher than
ever. Sam was the fence buster
par excellent and preeminent when
he was playing ball regularly. Cra-
vath had a total of III home runs
in the National league and those
figures are right His mark hasn't
been shaken awhisp, but Sam
Thompson, it seems, after the most
painstaking investigation had 127.
They were scattered through a
term OF years that began in Detroit
in 1885 and ended in Philadelphia
in 1898. The most that he made in
any one year was in 1889 when he
was batting for Philadelphia and
raped out q circuit hits.
In his time he batted five home
runs against the great Clarkson
and four against Radbourne. He
hit one against Hank O'Day, the
National league umpire, who was
pitching for Washington at the
Tune, and one against John X.
Tener, once governor of Pennsyl-
van1a, who was pitching for the
chicago Nationals. 1t happened to
be rather odd that the very last
three which he batted were agains.
Roaring Bill" Kennedy of Brook
lyn. The first of those three was
at the finish of the season of 1897
and the other two at the beginning
OF 1888. Then the mighty Sam
dropped out.
Credit had been withheld a long
time from Thompson because in
compiling the scores someone had
lett out a home run here and there
IN the summary. Naturally the
man who made up the figures for
the summaries could not give
thompson that which he seemed
not to have.
Some of the old fans continued
20 insist that they knew that Big
sam mad been rumored to have 120
nome runs and then another chan
came along who insisted that he
mad kept Thompson's home rims
lot part OF the time and was posi-
tive that he was a better home run
hitter than Cravath.
So the scores were dragged ont
Oh their musty cupboard and from
the time that Thompson began 10
play in the big league until 10
hhlshed they were gone over one
by one IN such painstaking man
ner that there could be no mistake
ana sure enough Sam was found TO
nave surpassed Cravath by 10I
nome runs IN a lifetime record.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03

this month. Gene Tunney is going
to defend his title against Erminc
Spalla. Italian heavyweight cham
pion, in the Hub, Feb. II. Spalla
has been hanging out around New
ark for about year and has picked
up a lot of knowledge of the fight
game which he didn't possess when
he landed here. He is not a world
beaten, but is qualified to put I'D a
good battle against the best. II is
reported also that the vacant
Dempsey-Brennan battle at the
Madison Square garden will be I'LL
ed by Midget Smith and Joe Lynch
March II.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03
SOME BELIEVE
FRED STALLED
IN LAST BOUT
Boxing Fans Willing to Think He
Is Has New Scheme of Get
ting Matches.

New York, Feb. 3.-Suspicion
that Fred Fulton may have been
stalling in his recent bout with
BARLEY Madden in order to lure
certain fighters into the ring whom
he has been trying unsuccessfully
to meet for the past two years, may
or may not be true. Future bouts
will tell. But whether it is true or
not, the fact remains that stalling
has ever been a practice of the
grand army of pugilists. Not all OF
them have been clever at it. Many
have been detected and made TO
suffer for their trickery. 1t is now
generally accepted that Jack Demp-
sey stalled with Bill Brennan in
the interests OF his fight with Car
pentier. He may not have, but such
is the belief.
If so he was a clever staller,
more clever than Fulton whose
actions puzzled the experts as they
watched him, but of all clever
truckers, according to the consen-
sus Of a group of sports in Ike Dor
gan's office at the Madison Square
Garden today, was Norman Selby,
known to ring fame as Kid Mccoy.
The exponent of the corkscrew
punch came into fame, as a matter
of fact, by putting one over Oh
Tommy Ryan, whose training
camp attendant he used to be. He
pulled the hobo stuff, concealed the
fact that he was training like a
beaver and secured match with
Ryan as matter of charity.
Then in the fight, which took
place at the Maspeth A c. at Coney
Island he scientifically and cruelty
cut Ryan into ribbons. But that
was not his great stall That oc-
Cured in South Africa a few years
later. He went down there under
an assumed name, went to johann
nesburg where there were a lot OF
English sports and fighting was in
high favor. The reigning favori Z
there was Nick Dunn, a fair fighter
only fair. The Kid made the
match with Dunn and then estab-
lished training quarters.
He let his sparring partners, all
OF them Of the British prize ring,
whale the daylights out of him. He
took it all with a smile and each
day bobbed up for more. And the
sparring partners went about the
sporting resorts filled with laugh
ter.
The American boy is orful am
table," they would say. "e's a real
nice gentlemanly-like cove, but OF
sye wot a rotten foighter e is"
The night of the fight with Dunn.
the Kid laid his plans with a keen
gambler who had accompanied him
to South Africa and who had a seat
just back of his corner. In the
first round Mccoy took a WALTON on
the jaw and went down. Thereaft-
er he was on the defensive. In the
second round he took another wal
lop and went to the floor again.
Same in the third. When he came
into his corner after this frame. he
tipped the wink to his friend who
went through the
crowd taking bets at long odds.
Mccoy went carefully through
The fourth round and Just at the
end of the fifth, with the bets laid,
ne applied his corkscrew to Dunn's |
chin and he went to sleep.
Accommodations had been en-
gagged on the boat for England am
he day it sailed the various sport
ng editors of johannesburg re-
;eived cards containing the com I
,liments of Your Esteemed Friend. |
Kid Mccoy, champion of nowhere. +"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03

even putting and not perspiriDg
greatly.
when I first started to run las,
spring." said Ray, q used besyv
leather boots, the sort that lace
up in front I dog-trotted two az
three miles cross country abopt
four times a week. Later in the
fall I put on heavy walking sboes
and did daily work. Finally a time
came when I decided to prove nv.
self. l busted over the mile AMI
turned in 4:23. Then 1 knew I had.
something, for I didn't even blow
in that mile run
When did you first do the mile
and a haIf?" he was asked.
Ray grinned. Il never did do #
Wednesday night was the first I
had run the mile and a half under
pressure since last winter.
didn't have to. I knew from the
way l felt after my mile tests, par
ticuarly that 4:23 run, that l could
click off an additional half mile
without trouble. And as you saw
l was not mistaken"
Ray said that he would run again
in the Garden next winter. in Or
der to win, if he can, the final leg
on the big solid silver Wanamakef
cup. He doesn't wish to put Mr..
Wanamaker to any expense, he said,
but just the same he has banker
ing to take that handsome mug
home with him as a permanent
household ornament
Roctop TOrDmu Eibbo,- - O.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03

In order for a college athlete to
impair his standing, it is not neces-
sary that it be proved that he re-
ceived money for taking part in an
athletic contest.
Rule Is of the code which gov
ems athletics in the western con-
ference reads:
students shall not represent
their college in athletic contests, if
they engage in such contests as
representatives of any athletic or
ganization not connected with the
college, whether in term time or in
vacation"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03

Saranac Lake, N Y.-WilIiam
Steinmetz, Chicago, won the inter
national outdoor skating cham
pionship.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03

New York-Miss-M oIIa Bjurstedt
Mallory won her way into the finals
OF the-invit1tion indoor tennis tour
ney at Heights Casino. Brooklyn.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03

South Bend. Ind--Eght Notre
Dame athletes were formally dis
qualified by the Notre Dame facuItv
board because of participation in
the Taylorville Qll.) football,
game
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03
PHILADELPHIA.

Philadelphia. Sailor Miller.
negro boxer. died after having been
knocked out by Spike Boyer, a
negro. in the first of a siX-round
match
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03

AS a result of this rivalry, ath-
letics at Illinois and Notre Dame
have received a severe jolt.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03

Seventeen players, stars in all
branches of sport, have been sus-
pended because they INDUCED in a
post-season football game under
assumed names.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03

A bitter rivalry in athletics be
tween two tank towns has created
a sensation in western college cir
cleS.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03

For years there has been a great
rivalry between the towns of Car
linville and Taylorville. In 1920,
so the story goes, Carlinville won
from TaylorVille, 10 to 7, at Car
linville.
Last fall the two teams were
scheduled to play at Taylorville.
The Carlinville sports, desirous of
again trimming Taylorville, hit
upon the idea of loading up with
Notre Dame players. 1t was the in
tention to financially clean out Tay-
lorville.
To digress for a moment and tell
you something about these two
burgs that have stirred up all the
trouble in western intercollegiate
athletics.
Taylorville is credited with a
population of 5,S06. 1t is located 20
miles southeast Of Springfield. the
state capital 1t boasts -four mills,
two carriage and wagon works, pa
per mills, agricultural implement
works and a couple of banks. All
of which make Taylorville look like
a lively burg.
Carlinville, according to the CEN
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03
POSTPONE GEE0A MEKTs

Paris. Feb 3-Official circles here
regarded the postponement OF the
economic conference at Genoa like
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03

The Illinois and Notre Dame play
ers who are involved say they didn't
receive compensation for their ser
vices. They looked on the game in
the light of lark. Not until the
two teams met on the field did the
players know they were to face
rival collegians, SO the story goes
! While Notre Dame is not a mem
Der of the western conference,
Coach Rockne is a stickler for a
strict observance of the rules. No
sooner had the players admitted
their guilt than an immediate sus-
pension of all concerned was de-
| cided upon.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03

Boston-Tommy Gibbons Of St.
Paul scored a technical knockout
over Pat Mccarthy OF Roxbury.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03

Italy and the United States rem
resented in a title bout is the snort
ing sensation, promised. for Boston
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03

Ash about the G. NJ. A. C. PlGr
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-06-10
GAS REDUCTION
PLANT PLANNED
Chilkat Oil Company to In
stall Katalla Plant to Re-
cover Natural Gas.

The UniKat Oil Company, operat-
ing at Katalla, contemplates install
ing a Plant that will enable it to
recover the gasoline from the gas
that escapes from it's oil wells, ac-
cording to Falcon Jcslin, manager
OF the company, who was in juneau
today while the Alameda was in port.
and Katalla, where he will spend the
remainder of the summer season.
The new 10-barrel well that was
recently brought in at Katalla gives
the Ch.lkat Oil Company an output
of so to 60 barrels a day from its
various little wells It is all very
high grade. The company has been
trapping the natural gas from the
wells and using it for heating, cook
ing and lighting purposes about the
plant. but thus far no effort has been
mode to extract the gasoline from It,
ton process would enable the COM
pany to recover 200 gallons a day
of the very best grade of gasoline
from the natural gls. This will not
lin any way lessen the value of the
natural g3s for heating and lighting
purposes. for. it is said by the en-
g'nccrs, il is even more valuable for
those purposes after the gasoline has
been extracted than before
Mr.. Josiin continued west on the
Alameda.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-06-10
MONTE BLUE AT
LIBERTY SUNDAY

The eternal clash between the
mountadneers of Kentucky and the
inhabitants of the valley, is thrashed
out again in the Charles Maigne pro
duction of THE Kentuckians," fea-
turing Monte Blue. the attraction for
the Liberty Sunday and Monday. The
film was made from the popular
novel by John Fox, Jr, and it re-
tains the fine characterizatiOns, the
simple mountain atmosphere, the dra-
matte situations that abound in the
book
Monte Blue is heroic figure as
Boone Stallard, the backbone of his
clan, and the only man who could
quel feuds between the different
families. Stallard is sent to the
Kentucky Legislature and early there
he has a clash with Randolph Mar
shall of the Blue Grass country, who
has his own ideals about the way to
rule the mountaineers. In the end.
however, Boone convinces Marshall
that he can handle his own people
and that they can fight their own
problems, thus making for a union
of these two elements of Kentucky
civilization in common accord,
Mr.. Blues leading woman is
Diana Allen. Others in the cast in
clude Frank Joyner, Wilfred Lytell
and John Miltern
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-06-10
DARING PARTY
OFF FOR COLD
Twenty Adventures Leave
Seattle to Brave Kapchat-
ka' S Barren Wilds.

SEATTLE, June 10.-Twenty hardy.
adventurous, mo- ern argonauts, left
pleasant homes in Sunny Seattle the
cher day and set out across the
trlckless Pacific in frail 60-foot
craft for Northern Siberia and for
gold.
gathering. yellow, reckoning
gcld-said by fur traders to exist
aplenty for hazardous souls in that
vast. waste land. lured Capt William
Tobin and his dauntless crew on the
two-nasted power schooner Duxbury
out of the harbor here
Clearing Cape Flattery, the little
Duxbury will head westward and
rfcrthward skirting the Aleutian
Islards of Alaska, then heading pole
ward into the Okhotsk Sea- Their
ultimate goal is the Peninsula of
Kamcllatka
Here for two years they will hunt
the yellow metal under the leader
ship of Edgar S. Young and A. P.
Arthur, old-time, experienced Alaska
mining men and sourdoughs, lodging
rowing bands of COssacks patroling
the peninsula heavily armed with
rifles.
Expenses and profits of the expedi-
tiCn are to be shared alike The party
was organized here on the co-opera-
tive plan.
All on Equal Basis
i'm, tc
on an equal basis" said Young. 1--WE
have pooled our money, pooled our
chances for making a fortune and
will share and share alike of all the
gpt1 we obtain.
mo company has been formed no
bonded ourselves together for the big
adventure of our lives We are TAX
ing long chance and we know it,
"'The master, the mate, the en-
einecr and the cook of the Duxbury
have been hired by us for the voy-
age and will not share in the gold
we hone to obtain We are provision
ed for two wears, but may stay longer
in Siberia"
Young and Arthur own the Duxburg
and have chartered Dor to the party
for the expedition. She is famous
for her trading cruises in former
years in the ice-choked Arctic and
along the Siberian coast
Smallest voyager
Built in Benicfa. Cal. in 1896, the
schoOner iS 81 foot long 10 feet
beam and five feet depth. She is Of
% 4net and 38 gross tons register
and is one of the smallest vessels
that has veer attempted to voyage
from Seattle to the Far East
She is commanded by Capt TObin
with George Edmunds as mate and
l.. Gundersen as engineer. Others of
the argonauts are:
Oscar w. Anderson, J. r. Johnston
r. 0. Dubig. John f. II. Robinson
S. E. Dahl, F. w, Book, A J. Fels-
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-06-10
1.-THE CALL OF YOUTH"
AT lIBERTL TONIGHT

telepathy? Volumes have been writ
ten pro and con on this question, but
at any rate it serves to make one
of the most dramatic scenes ever
shown in motion pictures in Henry
Arthur Jones' THE Call of Youth"
which has been picturized in London
by the Famous Players-Lasky British
Producers, Ltd. and will be exhibited
at the Liberty tonight
The story lis interpreted by cele-
DRAFTED all-Englash cast headed by
Ben Webster, Malcolm Cherry and
Mary Glynne.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-06-10
ATTENTION MASONs.

A stated communication of Mt.
juneau Lodge No. LAT F. & A. NJ.
will be held in Odd Fellows Hall,
Monday evening, June 18th, at 1880
O'Clock. All members are requested
to attend and sojourning Brethren
are cordially invited to be present
Work in the e. A Degree.
CHAS. h. NAGHEL,
adv. Secretary.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-06-10
FINE EXCURSION PROMISED

The Island will be we'll represented
at Eagle River tomorrow, according.
to the number of people who have
declared their intention of going on
the Alma excursion to that place,
provided the weather does not look
too unpromising.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-06-10
DOUGLAS ISLAND NEWS
IN FROM CHiCHAGoF

Mrs. Edward Hurlbut and two chill
dren arrived here yesterday afternoon
for a visit with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Mccormick.
Gus Erickson and Vernon Nelson
were also Douglas arrivals from the
Chichagoff mine.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-06-10
CONGREGATIONAL COMMUN-
ITY CHURCH

Sunday School 100 p. m.
Preaching services 2:30 p. m.
DR.. Bruce will preach the second
of series of sermons on the
Glories of the Cross.
A good church is financial in
vestment. ~t
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-06-10
Seattle Furniture Dealer
Implicated in Booze Ring

SEATTLE, June 10.-Jacob Dalz-
man, we.ll-to-do furniture dealer here,
has been arrested by prohibition
agents in connection with carload
of wfhrskey mixet with household
furniture discovered here recently.
The car is said ITO have come from
Canada destined for California with
Seattle as a trans shipping point.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-06-10
FOUR YEARS OLD

Betty Irvine was four years old
yesterday and celebrated the event
with party for all her young
friends at her home in the afternoon
They enjoyed a dandy time with
games and nice refreshments.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-06-10
Will Refund Six Billion
Dollars Short Dated Debt

WASHINGTON, June 0-Secretary
Neon expects ito refund about half
miyion dollars OF the $4,000 900 900
governments short dated debt by
June Is This is the statement made
at the Treasury office today
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-06-10
GOING TO JUNEAU

The Douglas baseball team goes
over to Juneau tomorrow for a re-
turn game with the Capitol City team.
Manager Osterberg of the locals re-
quests that all the players be on
hand in uniform for the 2:15 o'clock
ferry to go to juneau ..
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-06-10
PROSPECTUS BACK
FROM ADMIRALTY

r. J. Brown and James Stevenson
returned to town yesterday after
spending two weeks prospecting some
lodges on Admiralty Island They
expect to return there again in few
days.