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Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-08
SKI TELLS FRENCH PRESS THAT
 CARPENTER FIGHT WAS FRAMED

Paris, Dec. 7-(By the A. P.)-rn a
 letter addressed to the French press, Battling Sil1i, the Senegalese fighter, to- day reiterated the charges which he made
 exclusively to- The Associated Press last
 Monday-that the fight between Ski and
 Georges Carpentier, which was won by
 the negro had been fixed"
 "The match was fixed" says Sikis
 letter, "and I could not avoid it until
 I go. into the ring. But now I have been
 deprived of my title. and I will push matters before the courts. I never re-
 ceived the amount of money I was en- titled to from tine stakes.
 But am merely a plain fighter :; don't ask me to be lawyer. From now on I will have nothing further to say. L must refer you to my lawyer, M. Del mont and to Deputy Diagne."
 The French boxing federation has de cided to make a most complete invssti- gation of the arrangements preceding the Siki-Carpentier figh:. It has named 6 sub-commiSSion which has been invested with unlimited powers for the collection of evidence and taking testimony. Franz i Reiche!, secretary os the Olympic con, | mittee, hG;t been appointed secretary 1 of the sub-comm;:sior, which will meet 1 for the fir=at time tomorrow. I: Is e&- pected to have the report ready prior
 to the expiration of the period of delay
 granted Deputy Diagne to produce his
 evidence oS unfair tactics in arranging l the bout.
 ] Although SiSi had dec.ared he would talk TO more. excep: through his ar' 1 torney and Senator Diagae. never thicss when seen this evening he said: Car pentier was one oe the easiest marks i had met :n my career. He never hat any business in the same ring with Jach Dempsey. The Ameriran pobiic has beer l imposed upon the same as has the F-eHcl l public, as there are surely ten heavE | weights in America who can knock Car pentier for a 'goaT. Maree! N';les Is : 1 much tougher man than Carpentie' Georges knows very wei he Is taEin'
 no chances in challenging me for re turn match. for I am disqualified nov
 and cannot fight for months"
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-08

Willie Darcy, BTc-x f'yTsig,,t. viii pat
 ienny CGtena Of Greenwich Village tI ths test 6: the Commonwealth sDz-t. q. cub SatnTeE- night, where they clash h A ten-rouaI sstto. h two other ten
 rounGers Tony Lyons Is to mizg,e VII Jack Mcfarland and Johnny Coaey w.il
 face FrarSzie Flc-:o
 Sc! ;ssen=an. cieTe- Ha=.szn battle, who won the junior lightweight cham pipnsh'n of the Pac'fi. cos q by de.eatirle thei- favr7It~s Fd6ie DIgg'rs and DaE- ny Kramer. will return to New TorS shortly before Christmas. Seensan. it .c said, cannot Induce any of the Western fighters to meet hir--
 Frankie Currs;. EAs- Side. Jew Yc-k .sed, hasG deserted the bsntaus=eiyhs l TaH.ls for thc featseTweight class an,
 has made good in hls first two starts. lie defeated Pete Red Mcdonald and held 1 Jack Stark to 9 draw. Curry wifi probc- hly meet some good boy at the darde.;
 on December Is.
 DantamwcighI champion Joe Lynch has ! signed for two bouts before hIs sShed uled engagement with Midget Smith q. | the Garden, Dec. % Thursday night.
 at Milwaukee. Lynch will Iaeet Josy i Sanger, while al Davenport, Iowa, on December 15, he ming!es with Eddie An deTzon.
 lief: Smith has been billed for fod:
 more contests. Next Wednesday night al l Dayton he Is to battle Bo5 Roper. at i Canton, O.. on the 18th, he VIII mee; Fay Reiser; ten days later at Atch:-
 son. Kan. he Is to oppose Billy Britto;.. | while Jan. F he will collide with Happy Littleton at New Orleans. Smith spotte I Martin Burke more than twenty-one i pounds in their battle at New Orleans,
 where he had little trouble in winning ! the decision.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-08
JOHNSON EXPLAINS RULING

ON JUDD VI N1S@ AAAA
 Chicago. Dec 7--President Johnson, of the American league today gave out the The explanation of hls ruling allowing She disputed hit to Ty Cobb manager of the Detroit Americans, which made Cobb's 1922 batting average .4ol. This makes his third year over 400 and tied the major league record.
 ''The official score Of the game O. May IS Cat New York between Yankees and D.Nroitl was no. authenticated President Johnson said in a statement given out as a reply to a inquiry from Brooklyn. Reports that the Baseball writer's association os New York was preparing a formal protest against over ruling of the official scorer, also were received at leasue headquarters. Mir. Johnson Is in Excelsior Springs, Mo.
 President Johnson's statement explain cd an arrangement made by the Ameri- can league official statistician for CO., operation with the Associated Press In checking box scores from all American league parks.
 This provision was carried out in tne game in question and Cohb credited with a hit" the statement said. If a change in the box score was made 1t was with out notice to The Associated Press and the American league official statistician
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-08
GOOD BOXING CARD
 AT DANIELSON TONIGHT

Danielson, Dec. 7--Hundreds of boxing
 fans will crowd the town hail on Friday
 evening when the Casino. Amusement Co,
 stages its second series Of bouts of the
 season. This was indicated today by the
 manner in which tickets for the sDiS even:
 were being taken, scores of seats being ordered from surrounding towns. Promoters Frank l1arDur and AlbecI Trahan have arranged q bill that pro- vides g rounds of boxing and four events that should De of unusual interest. Read inx the list of attractions is $ I@-round bout between Gene Terrier. ,[,ampion lightweight of Rhode Island. and Bobby ReiIner, one of CUnuectIcUt's leading lghtweights.
 Terrier has made q great record and among the men he has defeated are Bar ney Rivers of Noonsocket. FraT4A.e Burns, Mickey Devine and Howard Me Craig of Cambridge, one of the ntft!- est of the Iightweights in Massachusetts. Terrier has appeared in about 50 bat ties and has lost only one of t:!err--a r. round affair ill which the decision wen+ | Sailor Byron, rated the champion light- weight of New England. Terrier has 6 worM of speed i'll action and is consider l ed one Of the hardest hitters in his class. Among the Connecticut lghtweights Bobby ReimN, who will go against Fer rier in the Uauielson bout is rated Eea" l the top of the lightweight class. He has l been boxing five years and never yet has 1 been kayoed. Three weeks ago he made a remarkable showing against Young Angelo of Stamford, rated Connecticut 5 champion lightweight.
 For semi-finalists Young Donahue or Providence and Rocky Kansas of Central Village will meet in an S-round go. Young for 1 the past six months and has achieved q number of victories. Donahue recently l has contested for the state featherweight | title in Rhode Island and has been an l attraction at the Arena A. A. in Boston.
 Donahue has been doing some sensation ; ally fast boxing and is TIJArded as one 1 of the corners in his class in New Eng ] land In Rocky Lyons. the Central Vf!- ] lage boy. he will be up against prop 1 osition that should keep him going at ] top speed throughout the rounds. They i are scheduled to go This particular bout has stirred up unusual interest in all of 1 the territory hereabouts. and many 0G
 the local rooters are pulling for Lyons to win.
 As a preliminary attra sion Young Lib 1 by of Woonsocket will face Terrible Ter i ry of Dauielson in Ground affair. Here l Is another contest that will appeal tc
 eastern Connecticut fans and It's possi- bilities has aroused their imagination.
 As a seconi preliminary Young Dun dee of Hartford will meet Young Brooks of the same city. These boys have figurei in the r!valries of the boxing followers o1 Hartford and will rather enjoy getting
 at each other again over in this cornel
 of the state.
 Promoter Barber said today that T, | ha
 has arranged will be highly pleasSsg t
 the fans. The bouts to be held il accordance with the requirements of tn
 state laws.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-08
MISS LEITCH MAY GIVE
 UP CHAMPIONSHIP PLAY

According to word received in this coun- try recently, Miss Cecil Leitcn, three time winner of the British Ladies' cham- pionship, and one of the greatest women golfers of all !e, may never pay cham pionship golf again. Upon her arrival back in England recently, following an extensive tour in America, Miss Leitch told her friends on the other side that she believed that the injury to her arm, received in foursome match while here two years ago., would prevent her from playing golf in the future. The injury kept iss Leitch out of golf events for almost six months until she played in this years British championship but was defeated in the final by Miss Joyce Wethered. Coming over to America again last summer, the English player suffered a. relapse and althought she attended both the Canadian women's champion ship and the women's national champt- onship at White Sulphur Springs, she was unable to take part in either event.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-08
JOHNSON REFUSES TO
 CHANGE PLACE OF MEETING

CHANOE IlIACE UT MbE1lNS S
 New York, Dec 7-Officials of the New York Club of the American league have tried without success, they assert today, to induce B. B. (Ban) Johnson, league president, to comply with Com missioner Landis' request for a joint meeting in New York, next Thursday. of the American and National leagues.
 The only concession Johnson would make, they declared, was an offer to advance until Tuesday. December 12, the meeting of the American league which he had ordered held at Chicago next Wednesday. He refused absolutely to change the meeting place from Chicago to New York. holding that the change of date would enable those who wished 1 to do so to attend the joint session witt. I4anGis, after going to Chicago.
 This offer was considered unsatisfac. tory by the New York club, which, in negotiating with Johnson was said to have acted on the suggestion of sey- eral American league clubs, among them i Philadelphia. Cleveland and Detroit, all of which were pro-Johnson clubs during the American league feud of two yearS ago. rLo a74aaf
 ] After exchanging numerous telegrams with Johnson. officers of the New York club communicated with Tim today. by long distance telephone and with Com
 missioner Landis, but after .he conver. satiops, the situation remained exactly
 as before, 1t was said.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-08
DUGAs WANTS TO
 START BOWLING LEAGUE

The bowling season Is now in full swing but as yet there has- been no east ern bowling league in years past and there been a league in years pas. and there
 was good deal of interest in the matches and 1t promoted the game to a great extent If the managers of bowling al- leys in the eastern part of the state would get together a league could be organized that would keep up the tn-
 terest in the grand old indoor sport 1 throughout the season. i nice little lea
 que made up of New London, NorwicA, ! Taftville, Willimantic, Jewett City. Plain l field. Moosup and Danieison could be conducted this season with profit to all concerned. Fred Dugas of Taftville is willing 10 get things going if the other managers of the district VIII get together MT. Dugas wishes for opinions from the va rious managers of bowling alleys regard7 ing the proposition.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-08
BOXING NOTES

Phil Bloom has been chosen n sub stitute for Barney Adair n the latter'i bout with Steve Adair to take place at the Arnory In Hazelton. Pa, Dec 15-
 K. o. Phil Kaplan~ and Jimmy Su'- livan will come together in q twelve round contest to be decided at tine Sta dium Boxing club of Jersey City, Dec 22.
 Bill Brenna-A Chicago heavyweight, has been signed to box Hughey Walker ten strong Western battler, fin a sched. uled ten-round contest, 10 be staged al Grand Rapids. Hich., Dec 15.
 Billy Mascot will journey to Terre Haute, Ind, Dec. Is. where he Is car1- ed to ningie with Bud Taylor in a ten round contest Nascott has been comins along at . fast pace of late.
 Charley Ryder and Willie Curry, two strong. hard punching. lightweishts. will have 1t out in a tweive-round setto al the Brighton Boxing Club of Staten Is. land Monday evening.
 Panama Joe Cans and Young Fishe. have been rematched to meet in an other scheduled twelve-round contest al the Arena A. C.. in Syracuse. N. r. Dec. 15. The men recently fought a slashing Graw bout at the club.
 Joe Symonds. former English fly weight CT Tpion, will make his debn' Tn :nis CT ntry Dec. IS, at the Arens A. c. in Trenton, N. J.. where he is siatea to hook up with Martin Judge of Phil adelph!a in a twelve-round setto. Happy Littleton, the New Orleans ligh heavyweight, has been matched to 1T, conclusions with /the rugged Columbus Ohio. fighter. Bryan Downey. in a fiji | teen-round bout to be held at the Coli scum in New Orleans, Monday night
 The strong New Jersey heavyweight Italian Jack Herman. has resumed train 1 ing for his match with Larry William witch will take place at the Stadium | club in Jersey City. Dec. Is. Herma' also has a match with Floyd Johnsol pending, to be held at the Pioneer clut
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-08

Q free hand In the management Of the team. l. is expected that a number ot players or the pay roll Of tho club last season will bc sold Or traded
 Tommy Murphy, Of Los AnSes>S is the champion aItonsobiic race driver :Cr 1929, His unofficial total Is 2.4S3 poiats Harry HaEtz, Rlso of Los Angeles. fi.,- ished second, 1,So2 points behind Mur- phy. Tommy Milton. champion last year was third Frank Elliott was fourth and Benn!e Hill THas fifth Murphy won pra ,- ticaliy every big race during the year He was first Tn the 500-mEe race. led the way at Uniont0wn. Pa, and again was leader h the 250-m:le grind at Los Angeles last Sunday.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-08
SPORT WORLD BRIEFS

Poni Petcoff of Toledo, left tackle on the Ohio State football team of 1922, was elected captain for next season re- gently.
 The American baseball team composed of major league players has left fol Shanghai after a tour of Japan in which the visitors lost only one of the numer- ous games played.
 Colgate@wi,l meet Cornell at footbaT on October 20, next year, at Schoelkopt Field, Ithaca, according to announcement
 by Graduate Manager W. A. Reid of Colgate University.
 The Chicago Americans have purchas- ed Outfie,der Pennington from the Grand
 Rapids club and pitcher Phede Lambke. coHegian from Kalamazoo. Pennington led the league with forty-seven stolen 1 bases last season and batted 1920. Word has been received from Robert NJ. Weinacker, president of the Mobile l Southern Association baseball club. who l is in Louisville attending the baseball meeting that the St. Louis club of the American league will train at Mobile ] during the spring season. Hugo BeNdek, Penn State football
 coach has rejected the offer made by | President William I. Baker to manage 1 the Philadelphia National baseball team | nave QeClucQ IO III COloSe work and therefore cannot accept man.
 agership of the PhIllies," said Bezdek's l telegram to Baker.
 | Reports from the Riviera indicate a prosperous season in lawn tennis. Open tournaments will begin with the cham l pionships of Monaco at Monte CSrlo during the last week in December, which
 will be followed immediately by the two New York meetings at Cannes, on the
 Beau Site and Carlton courts, respec.
 lively.
 Harry Wolverton, one time manager oi | the Yankees, has signed a contract tc
 manage the Seattle club of the Pacific | Coast League next season. There were many applicants for the berth, but Vol
 verton was selected and will be giver
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-08
MINOR RLEAGUES TO MEET AT CHICAGO
 PROVIDED MAJORS MEET THERE IN 1923

Louisvlils, Ky, Dec 7-(By the A P0 L-ReachinR a decision to hold their 1923 convention in Chicago, provided Commits Bioner Lands calls joint meeting Of tn" major leagues there at the same time. the minor leaEuers concluded their aIi- nual meeting here tonight
 The decls!on to hold their convention next year at the same time of the joint session was the result of suggestion oy Commissicner Landis who informed the minor leaEuers of his desire to have all of the baseball leaders together In the same city at one time. If the ma for leaguers do not hold a joint ses' sion however the minors will meet In Nashville, Tenn, for next falls conven- tion.
 The National Association adopted res ohrtions condemning the plan oc the majors to increase the player limit From eorty to fifty. The fifty player limit would permit each big league club to have at least twenty-five men in the minor leagues under option. This. the minor ieague-s contended, would practi- ealiy give the maj tors control of the play or market The major leagues under khe major-mino- agreement, which mas five years to run, are allowed to have eight players in the minors under op- ton.
 A proposal to increase the salary ot Secretary Farrei; from $7,5Oo to $1O.- 600 was defeated.
 President Tearney. of the Western and Three I leagues caused surprise amons the western league club owners when ae announced hls reSiEnation st spectai meeting. President Tearney told the ciuh owners that he was disgusted with fac tional rows and desired to keep out.
 The Western leaguers. however, de- clined to accept the resignation and re- elected him for five years under con tract that binds them to do exactly as the president decreeA Under the. tArms of the new agreement there shall be nc criticism of President Tearney's admin istration.
 Arrangements were completed to havt the Boston Red Sox open Louisville: new $25O,OOO park with an exhibition game on, April 5.
 The Chicago Nationals released in fielder Joe Klugman to Wichita Falls Texas. :s-
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-08
TED RUSSELL ANXIOUS
 TO MEET FLAHERTY


 Now that boxing has been started again in Norwich Teddy Russell. hail. ed as coming champion from Norwich at one time. wishes an opportunity to show the Norwich followers of the game that he is still there Russell says that nothing would please him better than to go up against Martin Flaherty in the first show to be given by the National A c. of this city.
 is his ideal fighting weight and feels confident that he could give Flaherty all kinds of trouble if permitted to go against him at the opening show. Many of Russell's followers are confident of his ability while others are skeptieal but there were many local fans in ;he
 city yesterday who expressed their be- lief that such bout would be worth
 seeing.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-08
FENCING EXPERTS TO
 MEET AT HAVANA

New York, Dec. 7-An international team match between Cuban and Am erican fencing experts. to be played in Havana. promises to be a feature of the 1923 schedule of the Amateur Fen cers' league of America, which today made public itsi list of championship events for the coming year.
 The A. F. L. A. is expected to receive a formal challenge in the near future from the Cuban athletic league, whtch ! has signified a desire to hold competi- tion in three weapons, with teams of four men and two substitutes, the last week in February. The Cubans were vic tors in a team match with an Aneri- can team, played here last May
 The Natienal open individual cham pionships with foi.s, epee and sabres Will be held in New York the latter part oi April. Qualifying preliminaries for New York are scheduled Aprl 3.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-08
sPELLMAN ELECTED CAPTAIN
 OF BROWN ELEvE,

Providence, R. L, Dec 7-John F. Spellman of Somers, Conn, star left tac- kle on the 1922 Brown. university foot ball team. today was elected captain of the 1928 eleven.
 The captain-e,ect is member of the junior class and has been on the Brown varsity squad two seasons, playing at fullback as well as tackle in 1921. Spell man is one of the best heavyweight wrestlers in college circles and holds the open title in his class. He Is 23 years old and member of Phi Kappa Psi frat ernity
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-08
KU KLUX KHAN HOUNDS
 DONAHUE, AUBURN GOA


 Local people who have been follow ing the career of Mike Donahue, Nor wich boy, who has been engaged as head coach of athletics at the Alabama Institute of Technology at Auburn, Ala, will read with the interest the follow ing story recently printed in the New York Tribune. Donahue was graduted from the Norwich Free Academy with the class of 1900 and entered Yale being graduated Tn 1904. At Yale he was prom iuent in athletics. After leaving Yale he went 10 the University of Virginia where he was A professor and later went to Alabama.
 Donahue recently resigned from At abama giving his reason a5 Ill health but later reconS!de-ed and withdrew the res ignation. The following story gives m entirely dfffe -ea: version of the reason for his resignation.
 Atlanta, Dec S-How the Ku Klux Klan Is trying to force It's zoo per cent principles on the big educational insti- tutions of the South was told here to- day by prominent alumni of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, ot Auburn. After serving seventeen years as head athletic coach at Auburn, Mike Donn- hue. noted in Soothern athleItc circles 1 filed his resignation last week. When pressed for the reason he told the exc. l outive board that the Ku KIux Klar element in the college had bounded him l for more than a year because he Is a Roman Catholic He said the situation l had become intolerable. and he had daily l received threats from students and Ala l bama KlanSmen demanding his resigna- 1 tion.
 q have given Auburn the best in me and her football team this year was the best in fifteen years" Coach Dona' hue said But If the Klan wants me to get out because I have religion, il seems I must leave or stay and face aI 1 eternal row"
 1 The executive board, prevailing o- l Donahue today to reconsider his rests: nation, assured him every effort woult $e made 10 eliminate unpleasautness 1 The public announcement he would rs main at Auburn was followed immediate l ly by floor O. warnings. sent anony l mously 70 Auburn executives, that thi Alabama Legislature next summer wou't make terrific slashes in the college ap propriations unless Donahue got out.
 Trustees Of the school have determtn | ed to keep Donaime as head coach, ever if the legislature refuses to appropriat one dollar. They say the college wil run somehow. and that invisible gov ernment" shall not dominate 1t.
 According to the alumni who returned from Auburn tonight, the Legislature II Alabama Is packed With ,Kla nsmeu The! say 1t had been established beyond ; doubt the Kan started the custer move rnent against the Catholic athletic di rector"
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-08
-.s.---e ------

time. however, he had beaten some of the leading 1ightweights in the country. had boxed in all of the larger cities of the United States and in Canada and had conquered Shorty Cans" colored box CT, in aI spectacular seventeen rou@~1 setto in New Britain, winning the light weight championship of the state by knocking out his opponent
 When he assumed charge of the Yale boxing class, "Mosey" had only twenty five youngsters confronting him, eager to learn the inside stuff of the Marquis of Queensberry spot. Yesterday, when his seventh call was answered, 300 pupils put their names down as candidates for the Yale boxing team.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-08
ToDAY's SPORTS
 RACING

Meeting of Business Mems Racing Association, at New Orleans '. Meeting of Cuba American locke! Club, a: Havana.
 Meeting of Tijuana Jockey Club, at Tijuana.
 ATHLETICS Annual meeting Iowa Intercollegt- ate A. A. at Des Moines.
 CYCLING Fifth day of annual six-day race in New York. -, WRESTLING "Strangler Ed" Lewis. vs. Wallace Dugid, at Kansas City.
 BOXING
 Patsy Wallace vs. Bad News" Eh- CT, 10 rounds, at Toronto Midget Smith vs. Jabez White, 10 rounds. at Detroit.
 Johnny Shugrue vs. Young Tiger. 12 rounds. at Jersey City. Jeff Smith vs. Ed Tremblay,-. 12 rounds, a. Portland, Me.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-08
CARTMELL TO COACH PENN STATE ELEVEN

Morgantown W. Va. Dec. Mate
 Cartmell, trainer of the West Virginia football eleven for four seasons, resigned
 today to accept a similar pos: at Penn syiyania state college. He will succeed Bill Martin Martin is to coach the Harvard track squad.
 Cartmell was a spriuter of information al fame, when a student at the Univers;- ty of Penna. He was member of the 1908 Olympic team