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me out. had him sized up. saw
what he had and believed ms
strength superior, my punch a
least equal, !
Georges Goes Down.
1, sailed in, and the rest you
know. He was courageous, very
courageous. He took an awful bear,
ing without a whImper, and KEEP.
coming in for more until he didn't
know where he was at,
Beating him made me the cham
pion heavyweight OF Europe and
the middlewelght champion Of the
world.
That talk about tho fighting
.chimpanzee is crazy. The point IS
NOT the beauty or ugliness OF nv
manner in the ring. The point is
! won fairly by taking the best
Georges could give and returning
blow for blow when saw the
chance.
l want to meet more big men.
make no predictions. / simply fight
my best. Who and where / fight
next, that Is up to Charley Hellers,
He's my manager, and when ne
says fight; fight.
Wants Dempsey Go.
If he says: "siki, you must re,
ready to fight Jack Dempsey"
would get ready. Dempsey may be
mountain OF a man and a won.
dertu! boxer and great puucher
and quick as cat and ali the res.
Of It, but would take a chance.
! would try to make It lively fa-
Monsieur Dempsey. would do
more. would try 10 bring tho
worlds championship to France
for mel am a French citizen.
I want to so on fighting and
make money aud save It. Then,
some day, when | am beaten. as all
fighters arc, plan to. settle down
In the country 10 France with my
wife and be a farmer. ! like to soc
things growing calves. babies
chickens and trees,
THE END.
Copyright, 1922
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VIRGINIA READY
FOR>HARD FIGHT
Team Leaves Today for Home
of Mountaineers.i- To
Stop Here.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. Nov.
1s-substiutte backucld men on the
Virginia eleven are being giveu
especial attentio by Coach Tom
Campbell. The regular ha lifIeld
with either Foster or Mccoy run
mig the team at Quarterback,
Arnold and MaphIs in tie halfback
positions and Wilson In full has
been rounded into q fast combin-
alton. oppleman's injuries are
keeping Ihim out Of the game.
Paul Walp. a substitute back
who Is playing his first year on the
eleven, has. shown such form thiE
season that he is easily REGARDED
as the most promis ing Of the less
experienced men. This Charlottes.
Vile youngstcr appeared as a
shining light first In the Hopkins
game, AeuS Washington aud
Lee he scored q touchdown by q
forty yard run through the entire
General team and HIS work against
Georgia was tlashy during tho few
minutes he was In tho contest.
Walp is also u good runter.
Herbert Dean. Nike Hubbard
and Hal Little nrc other backfIeld
men who have show In the games
this year that they have the stuff
that good football mon a-e mh:e
OF. Dean and probably 'flbba-d
will I ntsh college this year but
Walp and Little with Gibson, =
fast youngster who has yet to get
a trial IN regular comba. and Tn2-
lor. Src expected to Dc valuabln
men next season. and the coaches
arc training them With an eye 20
the future.
On Lambeth Field all L. IN u
tate Of preparation for i;e Wes.
Virginia game Satur1at. Another
scrimmage was held yesterday,
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Who Put West Virginia on
the Map? Initials II. A. S.

versity by his wonderful system Of
publicity and his ability 70 arrange
big games, often wondered how he
can stay there at the salary he "
getting. OF course. he is getting
a good salary, but whatever he is
getting he Is worth twice as ;nucn
at a low estimate.
It Is an open secret that severhI
large corporations have tried to get
Adam away from horgantown, o..
fering large inducements from the
money end OF the line, but Adam
has stuck 10 his knitting. Every
one does not appreciate this fact,
but those who do appreciate It
fully.
Every once IA awhile. the rumor
starts up that Adam is going 10
leave TO take one Of these big Jobs
Real, big business men know
Adams worth. They are sitter am.
VIII someone tell me candidly
what would happen 10 West Viz
ginIa II Adam dropped out: on
second thought, don't tell met
would make me feel Too badly. DO.
ing royal West virginia rooter.
OF course, West Virginia could sc:
another athletic director-but nev.
er another Stansbury.. Tho Ulst
man - the world would no a rank
Eorice at handling the, situ1.:31 Al
West Virginia compared to STAINS.
buy
Think it over! Glvs him credit,
boys.
This article isn't inspired. Adam
would kill me II he knew was
writing it. He'll murder me when
he sees 1t and call me tweuty.sev-
en- kinds Of naughty names, i,Lt |
don't give Adam II he does. rs
the whole truth and nothing but
truth.
This article is not written for the
benefit of the great mass OF real
football fans and loyal supporters
of West Virginia who worship MIN.
but :Lr few members Of the lack.
ass society WIN still think 1t is
proper to drink out o. a FINGER
Fowl
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WARNSNENTHAT
Battle WILL Be
0NEOFHARDEST
Southernefs Expected to Do
Best ID Game at
MorgantoWn.

MoRGANTowN. November 10
In a talk yesterday to members
Of tie west Virginia University
football squad which meets the
uniyerslty Of virginia on the ath-
lctic field here this Saturday Of
ternpon; DR.. @. w. Spears en-
phasized the importance Of that
struggiel He also informed the
Mountalneer players that he had
learned from several sources that
the Virginia eleven was easily one
Of the best in the south and COM
bination capable OF giving the
yaFsit the hardest fight 1t has
had d tall, not excepting tho
Pitt nl4up.
You fellows are looking too
Tar ahead he said IN part. The
W. g j. game Is still two weeks
away and our big job now is to
win from Virginia. You think you
are better than Washington and
Iees You Will get your chance to
prove IT on the field here this
Saturday. Virginia defeated tie
Generals 1926. You know what
happened when you met the same
team ;at Charleston Just week or
o before. ! want every man to
stop thinking about ". & ]. t07
tiie present and get down to work.
Any team that can defeat Wash
ington andsLee 22-6 and bold the
Princeton. Tigers, who trounced
Harvard. to a SO, score is worthy
Of q lot of consideration. It is my
PERSONAL opinion that Virginia
will be the strongest team you
have met this season. 1t Is going
70 be- q hard game and you arc
going to5find those fellows fight
ing every minute
Preparations for the Virginia
game have been going on uninter-
ruptedly this week. Secret SEES.
sions are again In vogue aud
Coach Spears has forbidden detail
ed accounts Of the teams activity
10 be mad e. public. He does not
promtse q surprise for this Satur.
day but no does hope to strengtn-
eu the team IN several depart
nnents In which they have been
wpefnlly weak all year. Another
long workout is!scheduled for this
afternoon and tomorrow a
tiloronsh signalYdrill will be stag
cd
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WESLEYAN READY TO
MEET NEXT VICTIM

BuoKHANNoN, W. Va, Nov.
is-rhe West Virginia Wesleyan
College football Team held it's final
praetice here carly. this afternoon
and Will leave. here at 10:40 tomor.
row morning for Charleston where
on Saturday the Methodists meet
Morris Harvey College at LaIdIeS
Field:
Wesleyan. speaking in modern
parlance, us all set for the gam.
with the Barboursville eleven
Coach Higgins has not indicated to
date iust what lineup he will start
on Saturday but 1t is safe to say
that some new faces will be eesn
in the line and backfield.
One pleasant bit of news Is that
Cecil Ross veteran Wesleyan quar-
terbaek, viii be going good again
Saturday. Ross was In the game
list Saturday for a short time, and
his work at passing the ball STOOD
faf above that of army attempts at
throwing the oval. OF fourtee,
ttiNis Ross passed successfully
eisht times netting a gain OF 172
Yards Bulman was on the 70.
ceiyihg end Of a majority Of tho
passes with Dietrich and King also
pulling down the oval from tho
clouds.
Ross Is considered to be one o.
me best forward passers ever de.
yslopea In. West Virginia. Guy
MprTtsonT and Harry Stansbury
were great passers in their day,
While wearing Methodist moleskins
and many think Ross closely rivals
thetr success. The Buekhannou
hoy g playing his last season with
Wesleyan, this year.
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sity of Washington or tho Uniye--
sity OF Southern California may
get the assignment. It Is said, nj
though no official action has been
taken IN the matter, since the
withdrawal of California.
Say, Mr.. Camp
Walter Camp thus far this sea-
son hasn't handed out an official
praise for tho 1922 West Virginia
eleven. 1t appears to me that tho
great picker" should forsake tho
Pitt-Pen State game this year OH
Turkey Day and come down TO
Morgantown. where the Presidents
and the Mountaineers will pull at
each other neckties. 1t will be a
better game than the Pitt-Penn
State affair, or miss another
guess. With both teams keyed I'm
for the affair. Camp would see
some mighty nice football and in
ctdentsllv might discover a star or
two in the lineup Of the Spears
men. While the rules regarding
tho new press box at Morgantown
are rather rigid, everybody might
move over for Camp. or he can
have q seat on the sidellnes WITH
"Horse" Lanham,
Causes Comment
Whether or not East Sido was
entitled to a safety in the game
with the 1cemen on Saturday is
being discussed widely by the To-
cal fans. From what can find
out without actually seeing tho
play, think the officials were
correct for the impetus that sent
the ball over the line was from,
the East Side punter's toe and
apparently there was no actual
juggling fthe bail by Lafrerty.
A Ike play came up In the Havarc
Princeton game Saturday, only
Wingate did not touchdown tho
ball behind the goal line but in
this instance Wingate fooled
around and juggled the ball before
1t went over. which makes the mat
ter different. In any event for q
safety it sens that the ipf1etus
must come from the defensive
teams mlEplay and not from tbs
impetus of tho kick. Daniel In the
New York Herald, commenting on
the Wingate play. says:
There was considerable discus
sion In Boston last Saturday night
as to whether Harvard would have
got two points for a safety IL Win
gate Of Princeton had touched
down the ball behind his own goal
line after inuffing chat punt, an
error which led to Ovens booting
the goal from placement. There
were some who declared that tho
impetus came from the kick and
that 1t would have been touch
Continued on page eleven)
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Willard ENTERS
RING GAME AGAIN
Negotiations Under Way for
Fight With Dempsey
Next June.

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 16-Jcss
Willard made his first public ring
appearance last night since the
day three years ago when Ja:k
Dempsey wrestlcd his heavy
weight boxing title from him, In
the opinion OF sport writer's. the
big Kansan failed to s',o cham
pionship form.
Tho former champion boxed
two exhibitions bouts Of Two
rounds each With Tom Kennedy
and Joe Bonds, Los Angeles
heavy-weights, as the feature OF a
boxing program given at the Hol-
lywood American Legion stadium
for the benefit OF the Assistance
League for Ex-Servlce men.
Willard was quick on his feet
and his rapid sparrlng. as QUE
writer explained it, gave one the
idea he was not far from being In
fair fighting TRIM"
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RAIN S0FTENS UP
FIELD FOR BATTLE1

MoRGANTowN. Nov. 16-,1n
view OF the fact that the memory
OF the Oldest Mountaineer football
fan fails to recall the Thanks
giving Day In Morgantown when
rain did not fall, or at least that
a wet field was not provided for
the football game. hundreds Of To-
cal fans have actually been woF-.
rylng about! thelong drouth which
was ended with the rainfall on
Tuesday night. They feared that.lt
the weather man did not provide
some moisture soon, there woull
be no mud In which to set in
shape for the Turkey Day clash
with W. a ].
Saturdays game with NtrGtEga
here, however, promises to bettc
first Of the season on a real wet
field and although the prese1t
athletic field Is well drained ito
turf can Withstand the downp6nrs
OF Tuesday night aud "Wednesday
without being wet,
The Mountalneers have already
shown their worth on several
fields and Saturday viii proy4Ial
an opportunity for tetnrmIntns
the qualifications OF the inch +,
mud, so to speak.
According, TO an agreement
signed today by practically lao
per cent Of MorEsntown who'll
salers and retailers. all establish
ments In the city will be close
Saturday from ISIS. TO 1890 p! II Z
so that all of their employees ina
attend tho Virginia game. Frac.
tlcally the whole town will fllfIt
out for i';a game according 10
present Indications. ~ Z
The Dayis-EIisIrs-F Freshman
game will be played at 1890 p.
m. on Saturday as n preliminary
10. the main encounter and willebs
finished well before the time tdt
the main so" between the li.is
rerslties Of the two vtrglnlas 81
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HOPPE AND COCHRAN TO
PLAY MATCH TONIGHT

NEW YORK, Nov. led
ourad Horemans Of Belgium aud
Erich Hagenlacher, champion of
Germany. will meet In the matt.
nee game Of the international | So
baIkllne billiard tournament here
today. The Belgian has los, on
and Hagenlacher lost his second
match when he was defeated by
Welker Cochran yesterday, 500 to
All,
In the evening Welker Cochran
OF San Francisco will meet Willie
Hoppe. Jake Schaeter Of Sar
Francisco defeated Roger Cont.
500 to 251 last night.
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PUNTS AND PASSES
Getting Ready
By LARRY.

Getting Ready
Today and tomorrow Frank Ice
will send his men through the
final workouts of the week in pre-
parauon for the game with Yves.
ton at Weston on Saturday.
Mitchie and Abbott. who were in
jured last Saturday are back 10
tho lineup and VIII be able :, play
against Weston. This afternoon
tho scrubs will so over 10 Grafton
for a contest with tho second
string over there. On the Ea:.
Side of the river, tho boys arg get
ting ready for a twin bill at SorNi
Side Park Saturday, The first
string will meet Salem High
School, while the second string
will meet the second string from
Morgantown.
To Sec Squad
The Virginia football team IS
booked to arrive here tomorrow
morning from their home town,
and 1t is likely that they will have
light signal drill tomorrow after.
noon at South Side Park. 1t Is not
known yet whether they will do
as did Rutgers and request a pri-
yate session. Even IL they do, a
number Of local fans will get t.
see them going on and off the
field. This will give tho bugs a
chance to see how husky they
look. Rutgers looked big and fast
In practice, but the bigger they
come tho ahrder they fall at Mor-
gantoIn. However, l expect Viz.
gssSia to make n better showing
against the Mountaineers than did
Rutgers.
Yes, Yes!
Chester Smith Pittsburgh sport
writer, says that Il Wash-Jeft ami
West Virginia so into the Turkey
game indicated, Il will be .he
greatest game in the EaN that
day. Come on down for the tilt,
Chester. Speaking OF Coach
Spears, he says:
Dartmouth Tubby Spears has
worked wonders with the Noun
tain State eleven. He has turned
the material, always formidable,
into a we'll organized unit and the
West Virginia teams Of last fall
and this could hardly be recoSniz-
ed. They were smart alert teams
not the laundering awkward
squads which PittsHJgh grew ac-
customed to see coming out OF
Morgantown."
And what Smith says is merely
what great eastern writer's are say
Ing In just little dlffere@. langu
age. The writer's on the Philadel-
phia and New York SSpers are
handing a few bouquets to the
Mountaineers, while tho Chicago
papers are also saying a few kind
words. Stony McLinn, writing In
the Philadelphia Public Ledger
says:
Down Morgantown way they
regard 'Tubby' Spears as the
greatest gridlron mentor in the
whole world. And why not? II he
can defeat both Indiana and w
& j., he will establish West Vir-
ginia as one Of the truly great
elevens Of the year"
The article was written before
the Indiana game. so that only
Virginia and Wash-JeEf stand III
the way of a great season, unless
you consider that Ohio University
is going to spill tho beans.
To Go Anyhow
So far as can be learned at this
time. Penn State will be the east.
ern team to play In the tourna.
ment of rose game at Pasadena on
New Years Day. However, they
will not play California, tho team
that seems certain to capture the
Pacific Cost Conference title for
the third successive year. Coach
Smith objects to keeping his men
in training that long after tho
close Of the season. The Univer-
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BY LARRY,
There amt no man
Like Adam.
There aIn't, there amt
There amt.

DAAd AhoHs
There amt, there amt
There amt.
While the West Virginia football
machine is rumbling along to M.
tional fame and football glory, did
you ever stop to think who put
West Virginia on the mapi
Little Adam stansbury mus:
| plead guilty. He won't do, It, so I'll
have to do It fer him, along vita
all the other newspaper boys who
know Adam like a book-yea, yer
lily, the Little Black Book.
am not trying to take any glory
from DR.. G. W. Spears for his won.
derful teams Of the last two years,
or any OF the coaches who have
gone before. But they only pu!
football teams on the griGlron.
Adam put the whole damn place
on the map.
A few years ago West Virginia
University was little known. Per.
haps 1t had some stun, but there
wasn't anybody capable OF telling
the world about It.
Then Adam came 10 town Wits
his little typewriter and Little
Black Book. He started to pound
out his eighteen carbon copies
twice a day, and the stuff was 50
good the whole world started ID
read It. In fact, It got so good that
athletics at the University Just
simply had to pick up and try 10
be as good as Adams stories. Now
they are running neck and neck,
and West Virginia Is recognized
everywhere as some university and
| gaining more recognition every
year.
Often as | aave watched this
genius write the story Of a football
game with one nand, caress a small
child with the o'her, get the detail
OF every play and answer a million
questions at the same time. have
marve!ed, When I figure the mon,
ey that he has brought to the Uni,
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Topeka, khan, Nov. 10
Ray Archer, manager for Jess
Willard, announced here last
night he would be IN Kansas City
Friday to interview Jack Dempsey
in regard to a championship bout
next June between Dempsey ard
willard.
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VILLA MEETS eoLpsTElN.

NEW YORK. Nov. 1s.-Pancho
Villa, Filipino holder OF the Amer.
can fly.weight championship, will
box Abe Goldstein Of New York to.
night in q fifteen round contest u;
Madison Square Garden.
Villa was expected to weigh 100
and his opponent liz or 116.
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MORE SHOCKS FELT. :

SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. 1s.-
Strong earth shocks were felt at
1906 o'clock this morning in the
Copiapo and La Serena districts,
where great los sot life was suffer-
ed in Saturdays quake. according
to National Telegraph dispatches.
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CARL MAYS, TO REMAIN
WITH NEW YORK YANKs


NEW YORK, Nov. 1S.-The ques.
tion. What is to become of Carl
Mays?" which has been agitatins
baseball circles for the last weeSs;.
with rumors that he was to be sent
to the miners, denied by equally IN.
verified reports that he was 10 60
to the Cincinnati Reds, appeared
to be settled today. Col. T. l..
Huston, part owner OF the New
York American team, has an.
nounced that Mays will remain
with the Yankees.
GET vour dollar readvI
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This afternoon the team must
leave for Morgantown but the boys
win probably stop over in Fair.
mont for an afternoon workout
Friday and move on to Morgan
town the mornins Of the game.
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He filled the football up With air,
And Kicked IL IN the sltyj
Il zen short Of the old cross-bar y
And what's more-he knew
Why
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me out. I had him sized up. saw
what he had and believed my
strength superior. my punch 81
lieaaf nnnaI
New-York tribune., 1922-11-25
Bedtime Stories
The Building of. the New Dam =
BY Thornton W. Burgess
You soitl neVer haze TO ask
When ones heart is IN has task.
Paddy the Beaver.

Peter Rabbit couldn't keep away
from the new dam Paddy and Mrs.
Beaver were building. It was the
nrst chance he had ever had to see
dam built from the beginning. just
watching Paddy and Mrs. Paddy work
fairly made Peter ache, for you know
there is nothing he is more anxious
to avoid than work. Perhaps YOU
know some people like him.
Paddy and Mrs. Paddy dragged all
the loose sticks they could find, and
laid them in the Laughing Brook with
the big ends pointing up. They CUT
bushes and dragged these there and
placed them in the same way. From,
time to time they piled mud and
small stones on the sticks. AT first
5he water in the Laughing Brook
Kept right on running. But presently
when there were enough sticks it be-
gan to back upa little and srickle
through slowly. A little pool formed
above the new dam. -.se
AS the water began to run around
the ends Paddy and Mrs. Beaver built
these ends out further and further.
My, how they did workl Anything
small enough for them TO drag they
pulled over and put ON the new dam.
~~NSSa @Hd A0uSST IL grew. AT frSt lG
was very low. Then as the water
above it increased they kept building
the. dam higher. Every night and ali
night they worked, and often in the
daytime. You see they were in a
hurry TO get that dam completed.
Now and then the water would
work its way through, and at once
one of them would hasten to plur nm
that point with mud or sod. The
mud and sod were stuffed in on the
upper side of the dam. What at first
had been little pool became a big
pool. Then it became small pond.
Still those two Beavers worked.
Longer and higher the dam was built.
AS the water spread out they would
cut the. bushes and the small trees
along the edge of IL, and tow them
down to be used in the dam.
VI course this hadn't been goinQ ON
very long before news of 1t Mad gone
all through the Green Forest. and
everybody who could. came over TO
look on. Some came Just out Of Curl
osity. But mere than curiosity brought
others there. Old Man Coyote was
one Of these. Yowler the Bob Cat
was another. Both of them bonad
zor Beaver dinner. They hoped that