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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-10
KANSAS TO Get,
SECOND CHANCE
Buffalo Boys Opportunity to An.
mex LeOnard's Crown Comes
Tonight.

New York, Feb. 1O.-Rocky Kan
sas of Buffalo will tonight get his
second chance at the worlds light
weight title in a 15-round decia
sion bout with Champion Benny
Leonard.
In an open air arena in Harri-
son, n. j., last summer, Kansas met
the champion in combat for II
rounds, a no-decision contest as
required by New Jersey law, and
Leonard was acclaimed the victor
on points by majority of fistic ex-
perts in attendance.
Leonard can lose his title three
ways in tonight's contest, by deci-
sion on points, by being knocked
out, or, by committing a foul with
consequent disqualification. He can
retain his crown by knocking out
his opponent, winning a decision on
points, or being fouled, or by a de-
cision of drawn contest.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-10
CLUBS HAVE TWO
MONTHS TOLINE
UP Their TEAMS
Mississippi Valley League Members
Get Busy at Once Signing
Players.
BY ]. L. HUGHES.

Franchise holders in the new Mis-
sissippi Valley baseball league have
a little more than two months il
which to sign managers and CORA
players for spring tryouts, and il
is certain that no club will lose
time attending to this important
matter. The dispatch with which
the clubs organized and agreed or
details incidental to the infant cir
cult at Cedar Rapids this week is
indicative of the enthusiasm with
which the assembling Of teams has
been entered into
Marshalltown is understood to
have signed Frank Boyle already
as manager of its team. Boyle led
Cedar Rapids last season in Three
Eye company He is popular with
Marshalltown fans and unSOubted-
ly will give that city a first class
team.
In signing Boyle, MarshalItown
Of course, valves its right to the
services of a playing manager.
Frank is long past the years of
services in the field but his brain is
still keen Marsha1ltown will have
TO stand the gaff of the champion
ship race with II players as Boyle
must be counted within the 13-play-
er limit.
Rock Island Fans association has
several managers under considera-
ton but favor has not yet settled
upon anyone man. The field will
be thoroughly secured and consid-
ed before a choice is made. The
field will be thoroughly secured
and considered before choice is
made One of the likely prospects
was a stellar catcher in with a
Western league club last season,
who has indicated he is anxious to
break in as a manager.
Securing players should not be
as difficult for the new league as
is the case in other circuits where
the rookie rule is not in effect or
enforced. There are hundreds of
young fellows eager and ready to
leave the tall and uncut and make
a name for themselves in the Or
ganized game. Many of them are
endowed with plenty of baseball
ability which they have found diff
cult in showing because Of the pref
udice often encountered in attempt
ing 10 break in among a predomi-
mating list of veterans. Usually the
vets do not take kindly to the kids
until the kid himself fights his way
into the select circle. In this case
the youngster coming on for a try
out will find himself among his
kind and the utmost of his powers
iS hOUn6 tn assert itself
Earl Coughlin, in the Cedar Rap
ids Gazette, speaks highly of. the
selection of NJ. H. Sexton of Rock
Island as president of the new
league. He characteriZes the selec-
ton of Mr. Sexton as a major
stroke"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-10
RACE IN AMERICAN LEAGUE NEXT
SUMMER THAN CRITICS EXPRESS
BY JOHN b. FOSTER.

| Copyright, 1922, By The Argus. J
I'm only a poor novice manager
in the American league" said Ty
Cobb today after his fellow manag-
ers had attempted to lure his play
ers from him at Washington. I'm
just beginning. haven't got to The
stage OF experience where my hair
is white enough to put me in the
class Of the prophets, but I'll bet a
Georgia peach against a Virginia
persimmon that there is more
fight in the contest for the pennant
next year than some of the critics
are predicting. Listen to me. I'm
not taking up any fight against
these boys who write, but 1 think
that some of them have under-esti-
mated things a little.
"All of them seem to forget that
New York just managed to nose
Cleveland out Detroit helped to
do that. Almost at the end of the
season when the Yankees wanted
Cleveland beaten as often as pos
sible we got out the old pudding
stick in Detroit and rode roughly
over Speaker and the Indians. We
could hear iris groan inwardly
every time that we scored a run.
Ours was mighty handy victory
for the Yanks. They weren't 60
ing so well themselves that you
could call them visitors on Easy
Avenue and the more frequently
that they were indirectly helped by
having some other team defeat
Cleveland the better their pros
poets for winning.
Toward the end of the sea son it
got in the air as such things do,
that the Yanks were coming
through. Ball players began to
talk about it and every time that
National League player saw an
American league player, the first
thing he would say to him would
be: We'll, looks like the Yarks
have got it copied all right in your
league When players hear that
sort of thing coming from the out
side they begin to figure that maybe
they haven't got things sized up,
well in their own league and then
everybody gets nervous"
You figure on the closeness of
last years race as an argument for
the closeness of this years race,
of any changes in
was asked.
That's just about it. Tip four or
five games the wrong way for New
York and Cleveland just when
things begin to warm up and see
where they land this year They'll
be fighting for a chance as hard as
they were in 1921 and some of the
other clubs are likely to come
along and give them more of a bat
tie in 1922 than they got in 1921. Z
don't say that Detroit will do it
but I'll bet that we play better ball
this coming season than we did
last.
NO one needs to tell me where
the Detroits are weak. When 1 had
to let Donnie Bush go from short
stop last summer, after the long
term OF years that he had been
with Detroit, that was the begin |
ming of the breaking up of the in |
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-10
TEARNEY SOUNDS
TWO MORE CITIES
ON OPTIC BERTH

Chicago. Feb. 10.-President A. R.
Tearney of the Three-I league to-
day sounded out baseball interest
at Springfield and Danviile, Ill,
with the view of procuring a town
to complete the league circuit. Rock
Island and Cedar Rapids dropped
out of the league during the win
ter and one of the vacancies has
been taken by Decatur, Ill. TeIe-
grams were sent to William Buck
ley at Springfield, and to James
Boyle at Danville, concerning the
possibility of one of the towns
placing a team in the league.
Springfield, Ohio, also is seek
ing admission, it was said.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-10
TRACK Men BUSY
AT MICHIGAN u,
Freshmen Stars Looming Up as
Promising Performers for
the Varsity.

Ann Arbor. Feb. 10.-Fresh-
man track material at the Univer-
sfty of Michigan is the most prom
Using since 1917, when the versatile
Carl Johnson and Larry Butler
were trying out for the yearling
cinder team, according to Archie
Hahn, a freshman track coach. Out
of the 1925 delegation, Hahn ex-
poets to select a number of men
who Will be strong candidates for
the varsity next year.
Heading the candidates is Hub
bard, a negro athlete of Walnut
Hills high school, Cincinnati. He
has furnished a number of sur
prises in Waterman gymnasium.
He is practically as versatile as
Johnson, and in his indoor work
outs has been showing remarkable
form, according to his coaches,
Hubbard is said to have done 23
feet in the broad jump indoors, is
running so yards consistently in
:05 3-5, and is displaying good form
as a high hurdler. He also is a
high jumper and discus thrower,
although he is not performing in
these events.
Several other freshmen are re-
ported to be almost as, good as
Hubbard in the 50-yard dash. Witt
man, Neville, Steger, Clark and
Jones push him hard in this event.
When the squad moves out of doors
several of the more promising will
be turned into 220 men or quarter
milers.
Gowan and Gibson have turned
the 40 in :55, regarded as remark
able for freshmen indoors SO early
in the season. Jones and Richey
and Marsh are other good men.
The half mile event finds Renke,
Gibson, SPEEDING and linn the most
promising. They have not run
against time this year, but Renke
is credited with having won the
wis consin interscholastic in
2:01 3-5 last year.
Coach Hahn declares the candi.
dates for the mile present good
possibilities. Isbell, without being
extended, made the best time of the
year on the gym track. 4:30.
Cochran and Nicholson are look |
ed upon as exceptionally good tim
Der. Isbell and Amstutt will be |
worked in the two mile.
The freshman squad is not par |
ticularly strong in the hurdles. The |
high jumpers have been doing
around 5 feet inches indoors. |
Prosser and Gum are the most |
likely looking candidates. Booker. |
who transferred here from Michi- |
gan Agricultural college, has been |
making IL feet in the pole vault. |
Prosser has cleared the bar out
doors at II feet 3 inches
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-10
JUNIORS BEAT
CEDAR RAPIDS
BY ONE POINT

The st. Ambrose Juniors accom-
plished something last night in a
basketball way that no Iowa team
has been able to do in the last three
years by scoring a victory over the
Cedar Rapids high school. The
score was 16 to 10 and the Jun
iors won only after ten minutes of
over time play left them with with
one point advantage.
Cedar Rapids won the national
title last season and for several
years have been the most formid-
able high school team in Iowa.
Naturally the infant Ambrosians
are feeling pretty chesty this morn
ing, and they have a right to feel
SO.
The st. Ambrose varsity will meet
the Muscattne Independents tonight
at the college gymnasium.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-10
ISLAND CITYS
BILL FEDERALS
All of Regulars are in Shape to
Participate in Game Mon
day Night.

The Moline FederaIs will furnish
the opposition for the Island Citys
next Monday night in the high
school gym
The Island City's entire squad of
II men will be on hand for this
game and for the first time this sea-
son every regular will be ready
to start the game
At almost every game this year,
at least one or two regulars have
been out of the game but next Mon
day will find the Island Citys' "big
five" raring to go. The Island
Citys are putting in some hard
ticks these days preparing for the
titular game with the R. 1. Boosters,
scheduled for Friday, Feb. IT, at the
Rock Island "Y" gym.
Tickets for the Booster-Island
Citys struggle have been placed at
several points in the loop and an
early sell-out IS anticipated.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-10
SPORT PROGRAM
AT NOTRE DAME

Notre Dame, Ind, Feb. 10.-More
than 125 Notre Dame athletes will
engage in active competition Satur-
day, when contests in three sports
will be held at the local school.
The hockey team will begin the
day by taking on Michigan.
Coach Rockne will pit 100 fresh
men and varsity candidates, includ-
ing Gus Desch and Johnny Murphy,
against each other in the gym nm
mediately after the ice game.
Northwestern will meet the
Notre Dame basketball team on the
floor of the South Bend Y at s
o'clock in the evening.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-10
Cap0ni Beats Roster.

A press dispatch from Galveston,
Texas, this morning credits Tony
Caponi with a newspaper decision
over Kid Roster of New Orleans,
last night. The boys fought at 12S
pounds over the 12-round route.
Caponi was given eight rounds,
Roster two and two were declared
even. An interesting part of the
dispatch, aside from Tony's victory,
is the fact, that he is billed as a
Rock Island boy. All of which in
dictates the freak wop has not for
gotten this city, despite the fact
that he is doing most of his fight
ing in the east now, under the di-
rection of Leo P. Flynn.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-10
VARSITY GIRLS
TEAM AT AUGIE
is ORGANIZED

Basketball is game just as pop
ular with the girls as with the
boys. Therefore the organization of
the girls varsity team at August
ana college, which will meet the
Rock Island Y. W. C. A. quintet
Monday night at the college GYM
nasium as curtain raiser to the
Augustana-Illinois Wesleyan con-
test. The varsity girls line up as
follows:
Marginson and Jamison, for
wards; Olson, center; Framing and
Burch. guards. The substitutes are:
Rinehart and Westerberg, for
wards; A Marginson, center: Os-
sian and Acuff, guards,
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-10
GRADS CAUSE
OF PRO EVIL,
SAYS FRENCH
Often Start Athlete Wrong by Pay
ing His Way Through College,
Claim.

Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 10-(By
The Associated Press )-Recruit-
ing of high school athletic stars by
alumni of various universities is
the real cause of professionalism in
collegiate sports, Prof. Thomas r.
French of Ohio State and president
of the western conference said to-
day, in a statement to the Asso-
ciated Press, discussing the recent
athletic scandals in middle western
schools.
"This proselyting OF college ath-
letics through the recruiting OF high
school stars by the alumni Of the
various universities is a growing
evil that is causing more concern
to the authorities of western coz
ference schools than the financial
temptation to college players TO joiE
the ranks of the professionals" he
said.
Professor French said the matter
had been discussed at meetings of
Big Ten officials and that it I'M
doubtedly would be taken up again
at the next meeting of the confer
ence in June, at Iowa City. Alonzo
A. Stagg, athletic director at tAe
University of Chicago, and presi-
dent of the western conference di-
rectors, has announced that the
directors will meet "at an early
date to discuss high school re-
cruiting.
While declaring that he believed
that present athletic rules and the
attitude of the public were suffic-
lent to combat professionalism in
sports in Big Ten schools, Prof.
French said the establishment of
college conferences in all parts of
the country, together with the pro-
mitigation of strict sport rules by
these conferences, would do more
than any other thing to purify col
lege sport in general.
There is no doubt" Prof French
said, that some high school boys
of exceptional athletic ability are
being paid to attend certain schools
in order to play some sport
Il am confident that the authori-
ties of western conference schools
have no part in this practice be-
cause they are taking drastic steps
to break it up.
IL SUN toSSoS GRADUATES VI
groups of alumni generally pay
the expenses of high school stars.
Several alumni may chip in a Ger
tain amount to send a good ath-
letic prospect to their school. This
is the worst form of PROSECUTING
and the thing we are trying hardest
to break up.
Whenever we find a boy who has
been sent to school on a pot made
up by alumni we refuse to permit
him to take part in athletics. Such
cases are hard to detect and west
ern conference authorities are bend
ing every effort to find some means
of Graduating this evil"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-10
EN- PRECEDENT SCORES ALUMNI
BOWLING
OFFER SPECIAL PRIZES.

inducements in the way of spe-
cial prizes for bowlers who are new
or comparatively new to the game
are announced today by the direc-
tors of the Davenport Bowling as
ISOLATION as a means of securing
entries for their sixth annual tourn-
ament at the Blackhawk alleys.
Feb. 10 to 26, inclusive, from among
this class of pin toppiers.
AS a rule the newer bowlers have
hesitated to participate in tourna-
ments because of the small chance
they might have to figure in the
prize awards. The association is
confident that the special prizes, for
which no bowler on any regular
league team will be allowed to com
pete, will serve to stimulate inter
est. The prizes are announced as
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-10
ISLANDERS AND
DAVENPORT ARE
SET FOR SCRAP

The Rock Island high school bas-
ketball team and hundreds of its
ardent followers will journey
across the Mississippi tonight to en-
gage the formidable and indicated
Davenport high quintet in battle
at the ]. B. Young school gymnas-
ium- From all advance indications
this promises to be the scrap OF
the season.. Davenport has already
beaten Rock Island once and the
Islanders naturally will enter to-
nights tilt with the avowed inten-
ton of winning, or failing, die hard
in the attempt.
Tomorrow night Rock Island has
another game. Cambridge high,
which the Islanders defeated last
week at Cambridge, is coming to
the Rock Island Y. NJ. C. A. for Il
return game and promises to make
the going rough for Kimmel's men.
Cambridge will play Moline at
Cambridge tonight. The Pillow City
lads will be without Dick Toline,
who is out of the game with an
injured nose. Tomorrow night Mo-
line meets Wyoming at Moline.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-10
HONOR SYSTEM
WOULD Benefit
COLLEGE SPORT
Movement Under Way Now in Va
riOus Institutions to Adopt
Student Code.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.
Copyright, 1922, by The Argus.

tSOpyllShI, -oAH, ny AhC ~ 6oS.(
New York, Feb. 10.-A movement
which if carried out should do more,
not only to curb but totally to elm
mate evils growing out of intercol-
legiate sports than anything that
is under way at various colleges
has been devised. So simple is the
plan, clea its logic, that it is a
wonder some of our college athletic
idealists have not thought of it be-
fore. The scheme would put the
purity of athletics, professionalism
and all that sort of thing, squarely
up to the athletes and the student
bodies. 1t would relieve faculty,
trustees and all college authorities
of their present over-burdening re-
sponsibilities. In a sentence the
idea may be described as the honor
ststem-such as obtains scholas-
tical1y at Princeton, Stevens and
elsewhere, applied to athletes.
Student athletes under the honor
system, would be required to place
themselves on their honor, as GUS
todians of the reputation of their
alma mater and the well being of
amateur code. Every member of
every team would be so bound and
executive, legislative and judicial
authority would be invested in
them and in the student body only.
at Princeton and Stew
ems and other institutions where
the honor system prevails has
shown that nothing ever devised in
our collegiate system is SO rigid, so
so swift, so certain as
the execution of judgment by a
body of honor bound students when
the code has been broken. The Of
fender is tried and upon conviction
finds that he has no further place
in the institution. Applied to ath-
letics, culprit would not face mere
to continue in inter-
sports. He would be
driven from college, branded.
The plan put forth by Albert Nc
Gall, Stevens alumnus, who
coached without compensation the
unbeaten Stevens eleven of 1917, is
now being taken up by some of the
most prominent athletes in the
east. There will be an organiza-
ton meeting at the time of the in
tercollegiate indoor meet in New
York next week, when students rep-I
resenting many colleges and unizl
versities are expected to be pres
ent.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-10

fields l. had to come some day and
1t was just in the order of things
that / had to do it the first year
that l tried to be manager. If l
hadn't been manager the man W 10
filled the job would have had to do
the same thing.
They have been trying to get
Veach away from me. New York
isn't the only club that is after
him. New York wants him because
the Ruth suspension hangs heavy
and menacing over the Yankees. I
need Scott as badly as they need
Veach and I'm not giving players
away. What 1 mean by that is that
want players for players. The De-
troit club is not hard up and cash
will do it no good if it can't get
players.
"I'd be fool to let Veach go for
cash, and leaving a hole in the
team find it impossible to fill il
with a player. That would cost me
more than what l could get in
money. Probably Dugan would
fit in pretty well for the Detroits.
If Boston can let him go Detroit
can try him at shortstop as well as
Boston, but I haven't heard that
Boston is permitting any shortstop
to get away after dropping Scott
to New York and Peckinpaugh to
Washington.
eff the Yanks have no more in
Scott than they had in Pecken-
paugh that keeps the race on some
thing like an even shot, but the
impressions are no stronger I'd
like to see how anyone figures out
that two pitchers are going to
carry them though against the
handicaps that they will have in
other ways and the fact that every
team in the league will be after
them
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-10
BOWS
To COAL VALLEY
Especial Correspondence

Coal Valley, Feb. local Val
ley high school defeated Reynolds
in close, hard fought game on the
local floor last night, the final score
being 20 to II. Blaser led Coal
Valley in the scoring with four
field baskets to his credit. The Coal
Valley boys journey to East Mo-
line tonight for game with the
high school team. The lineup and
summary follow:
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-10
CITY BOWLING LEAGUE.
Games of Eeh u

The M and S and Island Citys
pried off the lid in the new city
circuit and some fine bowling re
suited The first game was a real
thriller, the Island Citys shooting
992 against the. NJ and S teams 93I.
StarofskTs club came right back
with 956, annexing the nightcap and
the series. "Hy" Gibson stood out
with PAS for best single game, and
593 for total. Graham with sci was
second, and Danielson with $50 was
third. The Regulars-Harms series
was postponed.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-10
GENESEO LOSES
TO BATTERY B
Especial Correspondents

Geneseo, Feb. 10.-Geneseo hide
pendents met defeat last night at
tn hands of Battery B quintet OF
Davenport on the local floor, the
score being 10 to IA. The battery
boys went into the lead early in
the first quarter and were never
headed. The score at the half was
II to g.
John of Davenport led his team
in scoring with four field goals.
EFdman of Geneseo, playing oppo-
site him, registered three from the
floor. The lineup and summary fol-
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-10
Golfers Favor Coast.

Eastern golfers favor in theory
the proposal to send the National
Amateur Golf tournament to the
Pacific coast from time to time.
There is no question that as a mat
ter of fact this should be done. A
trip of this sort would involve at
least three weeks and a lot of mon
ey, and no one seems to have any
idea how it could be brought about.
Some eastern, southern and mid
die western golfers could make the
journey, of course, but question is
how adequate the representation
would be. Francis Ouimet sug-
gests sectional Journeys with win
ners coming to the national, located
at some permanent course half
way between the Atlantic and Pa
cific, at the expense of their re-
spective organizations.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-10
Battling johnson Wins.

From Eldorado. Kan. comes a
bit of news telling about a victory
of Walter johnson of Moline over
Young Franklin of Shreveport, La,
Wednesday night The referee
stopped the bout in the fifth round.