East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-29
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BY HENRY L. FARRELL
Omitted Press Sports Editor)

NEW YORK, July 29.--(U. PD-
Somehow or other the boys will talk
It's good business to keep in print, put
sometimes the boys open their mouths
SO wide they put their foot in it,
frankie O'NeiI, prominent Amerl-
can jockey, has to pay for doing some
big talking, according to a recent
story from Paris.
O'Nen has been going big on the
French tracks and, in a burst OF en-
I thusiasm, he told a newspaper friend
how much money he was making.
| Without malice the correspondent
wrote a story announcing Frankie's
| entrance into the millionaire's class.
! Some one in Washington saw the
| story and found that his income tax
return did not show such prosperity
and frankie is busy telling them that
jockeying is the poorest paying busi-
! ness in the world.
| Several of the big American dancers
and cabaret performers in Paris are
said to be writing the same address on
the same kind of envelopes.
l
! Among the sensational rises of
youngsters to the top in sports the
name of Eddie Geers is seldom men
| toned
| Geers, the seventy year OLD
,youngster, is back on sulky' seat do
fling the same things on the Grand Cir
cult tracks that he has been doing for
forty-two years.
Pop" says he's good for fifteen
years more if the reformers do not
get out a prohibition against cigars
and when he is to feeble to pile irto
buggy. he'll still be around to pat
the ponies. -
The veteran old driver has been in
enough jams to kill a dozen ordinary
drivers, but he always comes up. Sew
en- years ago he was given up for dead
I after a bad spill in Columbus, but he
was back on the seat before the band
Il ages had dried.
| Alex Mclean, veteran fight trainer,
who handled Jack Johnston in his
! prime is one of the experts who be-
| lieves that Harry Wills has good
chance to take the heavyweight title
from Jack Dempsey.
wills has every physical advan-
tage in his favor and if he can use his
strength properly, he ought to win."
Strength isn't the all important fac
tor, however. Jess Willard is the
biggest and strongest man in the ring,
yet the feeble little Dempsey mauled
him in Toledo and he'll probably ruin
him if he ever meets him again.
Johnny Dundee, the only junior
champion eXtant, has one of the
greatest records in ring history. He
has been one of the busiest fighters
that ever put on the gloves
In twelve years of battling he has
engaged in 566 fights and he has met
every leading fighter under the light
heavyweight division.
The Italian has cashed in large on
his labors and has been successful in
a venturesome little side line of racing
horses.
Tex Rickard is ready to produce q
DlrCh certltlcate that Jess Willard is
only S9 years of age and is therefore
not effected by the forty-year- ban
of the New York Boxing Commission.
The real difficulty will be coming in
getting some legal papers to show that
Willard is a good fighter
y
The general run of opinion seems to
be that affidavits will be necessary at
coroner's inquest if Dempsey and
Willard ever meet again.
Richard says that Willard didn't
have chance at Toledo, but he fails
to describe the process by which Big
jess would have a chance in a second
meeting between the pair