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The Washington times., 1922-09-13

Jack Probst. who has been pitch
ing for Greenville, S. c., in the Sally
League, has been purchased by tho
Griffmen and is expected to report
to Manager Milan for early tria
against the Western clubs.
. The Browns gained half a gamc
on the Yankees yesterday when theI
defeated the Tigers, while the Yanks
were travelling westward TO open
their series In Chicago today The
Yanks now lead by full game.
In the National League thore war
no change, the Giants still retaining
their advantage of five and onc-half
remes over the Pirates, Neither
club played yesterday.
A setback by either tho Tanks o.,
Browns will prove disastrous e
either team. Each must 20 at tor
speed to forestall the other. Th'
Yanks have lost two less games than
tho Browns, with each having the
same number OF Victories, The
Yanks have seventeen more games
to play, while the Browns have fif.
tscn. Tho series between the two
teams. which begins Saturday In 81,
Louis, may have a marked effect or
deciding the .pennant,
The Giants have twenty more
games to play while tho Pirates have
nineteen. The possibilities Of the
The Washington times., 1922-09-13

Giants winning can be seen from the
act that they need only travel at n
ipeed little above 500 while the Pi.
'ates must go at a $50 gait to over
'omc the handicap.
The Yankees and Giants have the
hardest schedule in the next two
weeks. Each must meet first d.
vision clubs while the Pirates and
Browns, outside Of their games with
the Giants and Yankees, play Sec
ond division teams.
Minus George Sisler, their star
who may be out Of the game for the
rest Of the season, the Browns gain
cd half a game on the Yanks by
whipping the Tigers, to 0. The
Browns came from behind TO earn
a beiated victory. They are now
one full game behind tho Yankees
Rain intcrfered with the Pirate.
and Cardinals yesterday. They were
scheduled to play the Braves and
Phiilies. None Of the other National
League teams were scheduled to
play,
Although tho White sox staged
a triple play, II awaited them naught
The Indians romped home with the
game. & to 0, Four men took part
In the triple play In the first inning
when the bases were fifisd-Collins
johnson, Bheeiy and Yaryan,
The Washington times., 1922-09-13
AGAIN THEYCRY
AGAINST MONEY
CRAZE IN RING
Promoters Fail to Heed Fans
Protest on Commercial
izing Sport.

The gigantic financial proportions
Of. the proposed Dempsey. Wills
glove contest are simply hinted at
in the edict of the boxing officials
that the promoters must put up q
guarantee of $250,000. The cry
against the commercialism Of the
sport grows louder and louder, but
the promoters go right along, re-
gardless of the effect on the mind
of the boxing public.
The public has long been famous
for it's endurance, and in the past
II has been through many trying
ordeals with professional sport
Common sense should be permitted
to edge into the situation some.
where. Naturally that Is a great
deal to ask Of those interested in
the boxing business.
No one with a real interest in
boxing as a sport wants to see II
come under a legal ban again. The
strong undercurrent OF feeling
against the profiteering in the
business should have the effect Of
bringing conditions back to normal
before any radical action Is taken.
The Washington times., 1922-09-13
GERTRUDE EDERLE ENDS
GREAT WORK NEXT WEEK

NEW YORK, Sept. 13.-Miss Ger.
trude Ederle. the latest and greatest
swimming sensation, will make her
final outdoor appearance Of the year
in the open-air pool at Brighton
Beach. The date for the momentous
occasion has not been definitely set,
but 1t probably will he Tuesday or
Wednesday of next week.
Miss Ederle will mark her final
1922 appearance with an attempt to
lower the worlds records for 200 and
220, yards. 1t is planned to arrange
a handicap race in order to bring out
the utmost speed of this fifteen'year.
old marvel Of the Women's Swim.
ming Association.
In the last six weeks Miss Ederle
has broken eight worlds records, six
Of them at Brighton, at distance
ranging from 22O yards to 500 me.
ters. and has also won the Joseph
P. Day Cup international ocean swim
at 3h miles.
The Washington times., 1922-09-13
JESS WILLARD
!. IS IN No SHAPE
TOBOXDEMP PSEY
Skipping Rope in Vaudeville
Act Won't Help Condition
of Ex-Champ.

SAN FRANCISCO Sept. 13.-Jess
Willard, who claims TO weigh 26O
pounds and looks as though he might
tip the beam at 400, entertained
flock Of persons recently at local
theater.
Gene Doyle. business representa-
tive for Willard, did all OF the talk
ing. Jess hasn't word TO say in
his entire act. Gene, before intro
during the former heavyweight
champion. makes IL known that VIII
lard is chasing Jack Dempsey around
In the hope OF winning back III" title.
The orchestra plays Hearts and
Flowers" and Jess slIips the rope.
This is actually funny. Jess looks
as serious as a guy trying to set
out Of a restaurant when he has for
gotten to bring his pocketbook. His
skipping is a cross between an
desthetic dance and Charlie Chaplin's
walk The house gurgles with JOY.
(Mr. Doyle then announces hat
Jess will box three rounds. A oald-
headed sparring partner Is dug up
from back stage and Jess proceeds
TO wallop him. After the first round
the giant is putting like a walrus out
Of shape.
He sticks out his protruding front
porch and allows his partner to wal
lop him on 1t. Every time the gent
takes a sock 1t sounds as though jess
had broken a steampipe.
Willard uses a couple Of rabbit
punches and a left hook to the body,
and in the first round knocked his
partner to his knees with a straight
left to the head.
Willard worked in desultory man
ner and showed none Of the wicked
ness that should go with big fight
er's repertoire. He is slow on his
feet and doesn't appear to be any toe
steady.
Yes, indeed, Il will be a long time
before Willard can ever hope to fight
for a title.
The Washington times., 1922-09-13
GARDNER WILL
FACE KETONEN
IN MAT CLASH
Freeman Matches Two Con-
querors of Joe Turner for
Capitol Theater.

Waino Ketonen. middleweight mat
champion, who defeated Joe Turner
here a couple Of weeks ago, has been
matched with Pinky Gardner, OF
Schenectady, n. Y. by Promoter Joe
Freeman for a finish match, best two
in three falls. at the Capitol Theater
on the night OF September l9. Gard
ner's signed articles here today.
Ketonens work against Turner
is so recent that little is needed 10
tell his class. The Rutland, Mass.
farmer is considered the best man of
his weight in the country. He will
weigh 15S pounds when he tackles
Gardner.
Pinky Gardner has twice defeated
Turner in this city and won for HIM
self hundreds of wellwishers by &C
doing. He is by all odds the most
popular wrestler ever appearing In
Washington and merely to have him
on the card means a packed house.
when Ketonen won from Turn.
err" says Freeman, there were loud
cries for me to get Gardner. / have
done so, though the New Yorker is
a few pounds heavier than the Mas
sachusetts farmer. Gardner can
hardly scale lower than l62 pounds
and he may go higher.
"I have been pestcred to death
ever since the Ketonen-Turner bout
to hook up the Finn with Gardner
so I have done it. The fans will then
see two men in action, both of whom
have defeated Turner right here
The Washington times., 1922-09-13
SOFT PEDAL IN
FOOTBALL SEEN
IN UNIVERSITIES
But Candidates Have Been
Getting Into Condition Dur
ing Vacation Time.

The soft pedal which faculty
influence placed glently on football
enthusiasm durirtcthe past year is
having it's influeY be on the pre-
liminary season, lat New Haven
more than seventy candidates have
reported and are going through the
preliminary exercises Of tbs season.
1t is many years since the players
have reported so late in the season.
Coaches. of course. have been in
touch with their players during the
summer, and when the players re-
port they probably will be in better
condition physically than they would
have been II the training season had
started earlier.
The football talk has been quiet,
and coaches and captains have
shown remarkable restraint in dis
cussing the seasons plans.
No coach has yet cried from the
housetops: THE eleven that beats
us will win the championship"
The Washington times., 1922-09-13
SECTIONAL IDEA
|SREVEALED IN
GRID SCHEDULE
Even Most Conservative East
ern Universities Tumble
for Broader Plan.

Football reformers who delivered
sharp attacks against the intersec'
tional contest last winter will Ind
but cold comfort in the sch' lies
for the coming season. A g eful
scanning of the 1922 list dis osed
that there will certainly t,e as lany
important and outstanding ines
between elevens from differeI sec
tions Of the country as ther were
last year.
There Is. however, a chan that
the number Of games will be luced,
although 1t would take the rvices
of an expert statistician te detect
any decrease in the number I such
battles scheduled for 1922.
Even the most conservatiy Of the
Eastern universities are goiT in for
the intersectional idea this all. II
will be recalled that last III Yale
and Harvard refused to ft iow the
lead of Princeton and tchedule
games with members of the Western
Conference.
1t is something of a I iparture,
therefore, to find that Yal will en-
tertain the University of owa, Btg
Ten champions. in the boz at New
Haven on Saturday, octoi F IA.
Princeton, of course, ll return
the compliment paid last season by
Chicago, which came to Tigertown
for one Of the biggest games of the
season. This year will find the
Orange and Black playing a return
contest in Chicago. II only Harvard
succumbs to the Western invasion
the happy trinity will be complete.
Even at that, the Crimson will
have its usual tussle with the Colo
nels from Centre College and an
added battle with the University OF
Florida in the Cambridge stadium.
Some Of the more important in
tersectional games are contained In
the following list:
Oct. 7-Georgia at Chicago, Uni
versity OF the South at Pennsylvania
Virginia at Princeton, Kansas al
West Point, Western Reserve at An
napolis, North Carolina at Yale.
Oct. 14--Iowa at Yale, Michigan al
Vanderbilt, Alabama Poly at West
Point.
Oct. 21-Centre at Harvard, Geor
gia Tech at Annapolis.
Oct. 28-Princeton at Chicago. No
tire Dame at Georgia Tech, Amhers'
at Oberlin.
Nov. 4-Nebrasixa ut Syracuse
Florida at Harvard. Alabama a
Pennsylvania.
Nov, 7-Louisiana State vs.. Rut
gerssat the Polo Grounds.
Nov. 1i--Bayior at Boston College
Georgetown at Georgia Tech, Mc0il
at Syracuse tan international game)
Notre Dame at West Point.
Nov, eb-Notre Dame At Carnogi,
Tech. W, and J. at Detroit.
New, s0-Vsymont ct Detroit,
The Washington times., 1922-09-13
SUZANNE OUT
Of NET CAME
SAYS FATHER
Worlds Champion to Quit
Courts Until Health Warrants
Play; May Never Reappear.

LIZ TOQUET. France. Sept. 13.-
Suzanne Lenglen. worlds champion
woman tennis player, has forsaken
the courts. No amount of prevail.
ing will bring the fair Suzanne into
action again against Molla Mallory,
Mary Brown, Helen Wills, Kitty
Kane, Mrs. Beamish or any other
aspirant for the crown.
Suzanne was forced to default to
Mrs. Hannah, of England, in the
international championship tourna.
ment here. Her father stated to.
day that she would quit the courts
forever unless her health permitted
a resumption of the game and the
affection of the heart from which
she suffers was entirely gone.
The Washington times., 1922-09-13
Two Successful Ball
Clubs This Year
In "Infs."
"When a Guy Gets
in Late

There were two successful
clubs in the International League
this year-the Orioles and the
Jersey City Skeeters. The for
mer is success because it is
winning its fourth pennant in
a row. The latter is a success
because it is doing much better
than anyone ever figured it
would do.
All other entries in the Inter
national League race of 1922 are
failures. They did not accom-
phsh anything.
The Washington times., 1922-09-13
T|LDEN Likely
TO:EOSE.P PLACE
BEFOREF FINAL
Growing Minority at PhiIadei-
phia Expects Champion to
Come cropper in Tourney.
By DAVIS j. WALSH.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 13.-
There is q. feeling among a grow
ing minority here that something
unseemly will happen to our es-
teemed National tennis champion.
Mr.. Tilden, before he reaches the
final round Of the championship
tournament, now in progress. They
seem to feel that our Mr.. Tilden
Is about to, come a-cropper and
point hopefully to Pat o'Hara-
Wood, his opponent of today's
fourth round, as most plausible
croppee, as it were.
Tilden Is no more popular than
some other champions of the past.
and the wish Ii probably proud
papa to the thought. .O'Hara-Wood
In playing the tennis of his life
just now and Is certainly no man't
sap, but only the greatest Of up
sets would permit him to beat Til
den.
However, the free thinkers look
beyond the Anzac to the cham.
pion's possible. opponents of the
subsequent rounds :, and express the
opinion that he must play more
careful tennis than has character
lZeu MS game mere 10 GATE 10 nur-
die either Wallace Johnson or
Zenzo Shimidzu tomorrow, and
Dick Williams and Gerald L. Pat
terson on the succeeding days.
In other words, they are looking
to Tilden to beat himself before
getting a shot at Bill Johnston,
who is figured to survive the upper
bracket. ....--
On sheer ability there are only
two possible finalists in the field
and both are Americans. Tilden.
the champion, and Bill Johnston,
the former title-holder.
Manuel Alonzo. of Spain. is dan.
gerous. equally so with Williams,
another ex-champion. more so than
| ShimidZu and the Australians, Jim
Anderson and Gerald Patterson.
Both Tilden and Johnston, there.
/ fore. will have to play champion.
ship tennis every day to survive
the rounds before the finals. John.
ston seldom, il ever, neglects this
slight detail. and il it, remains for
AlonZo or Vincent Richards to beat
him within the next several days.
! the chances arc good that they will
have played better tennis than the
wasp of the courts. Tilden's most
dangerous opponent, as stated. is
! Tilden himself
The Washington times., 1922-09-13
WASHINGTON LADS PLAY
WITH FRESHMAN ELEVEN

STATE COLLEGE. Pa, Sept IS.
Buckley, former Central High
star, of Washington. d. c., with
Huse, April and Shanks, other
Washington boys, Of the Tech High
School, reported here with the
Penn State freshman eleven and
made a .first-class showing.
The State freshman team went
through q stiff workout despite the
heat and wet going. Prospects for
a first-class eleven arc fine,
The Washington times., 1922-09-13
HAVANA MAY BE SCENE
OF DEMPSEY WILLS TILT

NEW YORK, Sept. 13.-Havana
may be the scene of the Jack Demp'
sey-Harry Wills fight.
Sam r. Tolon. Cuban boxing and
automobile racing promoter said
today before sailing for home that
he was interested.
There has heen some talk about
holding the fight in Havana" he
said. land as soon as l get back |
will get In touch with the National
Tourists Commission and officia s
of the government on the matter.
The Washington times., 1922-09-13

Christopher Feinle, jr., Of Buff
falo, who was spending the week
end of his bankroll in Brooklyn at
the time Mr.. Tut fought and fled,
makes himself attorney for about
10000 morose spectators.
He claims that Mr.. Tut did not
battle as advertised. He didn't
weigh 200 pounds. He wasn't six
feet high. And he didn't have
punch like a twenty-mule team.
Therefore, he thinks that sport
writer's are to blame for shillaber-
ing Tut all over the lot.
But christopher, jr., forgets hat
he didn't go there to see Tut as ad.
vertised. Although what happened
was as one.sided as a trial by a
Ku Klux jury. he went there to see
Harry Wills eXaRgerate his stuff.
Mr.. Wills pulled his goods aud
stretched his merchandise all over
the circus grounds. He knocked
Tut pale.
That's all any possible champ
can do. When the bees started
humming, Tut started toward the
resin which has excellent medicinal
properties for the cure Of stings.
They won't let Dempsey migrate
around the works pushing over
wax figures. but they do let Wills.
Jack is the first champion who
has been denied the champs privi.
lege OF the slap-stick. John l..
used to clown with the neighbors'
children. Corbett toured the coun-
try, putting the heavy finger on
set-ups. Leonard toys with COM
petitors who haven't got any more
chance than a handcuffed pick
. pocket.
They did 1t different in the bad
old days. Any man who stayed
four rounds with the chief bully
got $1,000.
Kearns and Dempsey might get
fights the same way. People used
to come many a mountain mile to
see Sullivan knock the boys for a
sanitarium certificate.
II Dempsey fought Brennan
again the bugs wouldn't turn out
for Brennan. They'd go just TO
see Dempsey do his routine.
They pay to see the champion
champ.
The Washington times., 1922-09-13
CHICAGO WILL BE SCENE
OF AMERICAN DERBY

CHICAGO, Sept. l3.-Yhe Ameri-
can Derby, carrying with II the rich
est purse In the world, will be run
at the Hawthorne race track here IN
1923, according to plans of the Ill.
nois Jockey Club.
The date win be the third Saturday
in June, and the purse will consist Of
500, 900 in added money. II will be
divided as follows: $4,000 to the
winner, $4,000 to second, $1,000 TO
third, s2.b0o to fourth and $1,000 to
fifth.
The Washington times., 1922-09-13
kiIbane Bout OF.

CLEVELAND. Sept. 13.-Johnny
Kilbane. featherweight champion,
admitted today that his proposed
bout with Johnny Dundee in Jersey
City for september 81 has been de-
clared off. Dundee was threatened
with suspension by the New York
State boxing commission II he faced
Kilbane. who is now under suspen-
sion.
The Washington times., 1922-09-13

While Central's coach is as yet
unnamed. it is expected Charlie GUY.
on will return to Eastern, Wilbur
M. Apple to Tech, George f. Green
to Western. and Mike Kelley to BUS
iness.
During the past week some eight
cen Western High lads stole n
into southern Maryland for the
harvest season. They expect to
retarn on Saturday in the pink aft
er cutting corn for ten days or so.
Tech apd Business will probably
do their training in Potomac Park
this season. Eastern will work out
on the Rosedale Playground while
Western will probably ask George
town University If II will-be agree
able to use the upper Hilltop field.
Central will work in the stadium.
Within the next ten days the high
schools will announce the schedule
of games for the year. Each school,
outside of the ten championship con-
tests, lists anywhere from five TO
six additional games.
Judging from the stand made in
laSt year series Dy DuslileSS' THaSI
ern and Western, the big schoolS;
Central and Tech, are going TO ilnd
stout opposition all along the line.
There will be no rest for anyone
from the start of the campaign until
the end.
In the meantime most interesting
announcements are expected from
the big school relative to the coach
of the football team. While all are
settled as to the coaching problem
they are intensely interested in Just
who is going to do football business
on the Mt. Pleasant gridiron in tax.
ing over the reins of the Blue and
White candidates.
The Washington times., 1922-09-13
WEST POINT STAR HAS
ENTERED CHATTANOOGA

CHATTANOOGA. Tenn, Sept. 13
w. Z. French, star fullback of last
years Army eleven, has entered tho
University of Chattanooga and will
play with the local gridiron team
this fall, II was announced today.
A recent ruling Of the Southern
intercollegiate Athletic Association
which held that West Point was
military academy. makes Fren
eligible at Chattanooga, his firs
year.
The Washington times., 1922-09-13
SandlOtters'
Salt and
Pepper
By r. ID. THOMAS.

Washington sandlot fans are
thoroughly excited over the three
cornered fight for honors in the
unlimited class OF the independent
series. Another triple tie looms.
Today the Mohawks and DO
minican Lyceum will clash in the
play.Off Of a tie game ut Wash
ington Barracks.
II the Mohawks win. 1t will be
all over and the Indians will have
the hardest fought for champion
ship ever competed for in the Cap
ital. II Dominican Lyceum wins,
there will be a triple deadlock
among Dominican Lyceum. the Mo-
hawks and the Printers.
Heinie Webb's old soupbOne
ruined Dominican Lyceum's OPP
pOrtunity to come through q
champion without another play
off.
Webb's pitching beat the Domini-
cans, 3 to 0, and made II impos.
sible for the southwest clubmen to
cop the title by winning today's
game. The best they can do is
create a three-cornered tie.
With players scattered over the
city and some leaving work late.
Dominican Lyceum and Mohawks
have found II difficult to start
play as early as they have been
and contests starting at 4:45
o'clock, or even 8 o'clock, have
been impractical.
The early start proposition was
thrashed out by the three teams
before the play-off began. Only
the Printers found themselves in q
position to play early.
Webb yielded three hits to Do
minican Lyceum and the Typos
counted six off Krupp.
1t looks like BeaIl for the Mo
hawks and Mcconnell for Domini
can Lyceum today.
The Washington times., 1922-09-13

The resignation of C. A. Metzler, for the past six
years coach Of the Mt. Pleasant school, left a
vacancy which as yet has not been filled.
Several prominent local men have been mentioned.
Principal Robert A. Marrer, busy with organza-
ton and certain overwhelming influx of students
at the big school, has made no intimation Of just
who will direct the destinies of the big school the
which emanates the regular appointments, offers
the information that there are vacancies and
eligible candidates for positions, but gives little
help as to who will coach at Central.
Next Monday morning when the old school bell
clangs throughout the District some $1,000 young.
sters will rush to the summons. Several thousand
Of these boys and girls will have an immediate
interest in the football situation.
boys of Central, Eastern, Western, Business, and
The Washington times., 1922-09-13

this place on the ounce was in
verted slap at few INSCRIPTIONS
patrons OF cemetery who insisted
or sleeping two deep in the same
trench.
Grave diggers got indignant.
struck and demanded new deal
All Of that controversy was can
celled. howbeit, when mayor and
common council passes resolution
making it misdemeanor for more
than one occupant to crawl into
same catafalque.
For you know those two broth
ers, Flotsam and Jetsam, the
Siamese twins: No? Well, they're
brothers to those two famous SIS
ters, Flora and Fauna. Anyway,
what we started to say was that
there is a pack of flotsam and jet-
sam residents of TOMBSTONE
don't believe in. but only law in
cluding gravitation they do believe
in, is this flora and fauna about
one pedestrian to each shoe.
Yes. sir. one foot in each slipper
and one corpse to a grave. That's
the slogan which gave TOMB
STONE n prominent place in the
United States Postal Guide.
People all over the world read
about the exclusive, copyrighted
privilege of sleeping in your own
private velvet-lined garage and
thousands of tourists, flocked to
TOMBSTONE TO die.
They all knew that they would
have to turn states evidence sooner
or later and release every fee sim
pie right TO live, so. by using such
rare foresight and keen judgment.
came here and picked OUT their
own last resting place.
Part OF am.hcated cemetery
Is devoted solely as final resting
posture for people who have rest.
ed all their lives with chin in their
hand and elbow on dining room
table.
The Washington times., 1922-09-13
Newby With Tigers.

Dick Newby. a Washington boy,
has reported to the Princeton foot.
ball squad. He may become q rsgu.
lar this year In the baokfisld.
The Washington times., 1922-09-13
Says SKILLET"
Finn, Esq.,
One Corpse to Each Grave
Is Idea of Civic I'm
provement Which Put
TOMBSTONE in
Touch With
Civilization.
BY KIRK MILLER.
vToMBSTONE, Ariz., Sept. l3.-
Before this town was a grave
l. yard there was nothing on
earth here except a mere -ceme'
terry.
Business for the undertakers got
no good the customers Of the
By KIRK MILLER.

I o W n ; s
leading IN
dustry ap-
pl ie d to
the Post
office De.
p a rtment
for a char.
ter and the
= o s tmas-
ter Gener.
al picked
ou I t he
above in
S cri b e q
n o m ID e.
goof.
S ] o gan
which nut
The Washington times., 1922-09-13
Expect Strong Team.

Buck o'Nsiil. Coiumbia's coach.
expects a strong team made up
mostly Of veterans this season.
The Washington times., 1922-09-13
CENTRAL IS EXPECTED
TO NAME GRID COACH
WITHIN NEXT WEEK
By BRYAN MORSE.

High school football followers awaiting with co
terest the naming of the football coach at Central