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The Washington herald., 1922-12-04
DRASTIC RULE
PROP OSED BY
BOXING HEADS
Commission to Take Summary
Action in Bouts Ending in
Disqualification. i

AYEw YORK, Dec. s.-A rule
~ providing drastic action for
offenders in bouts which
end In disqualifications for foul
ing, will be adopted Tuesday. aft
ernoon ct the regular meeting Of
the State Athletic Commission.
Chairman William Muldoon,
alarmed at what he termed the
growing frequency Of these un-
satisfactory ehdings to boxing
contests under the Jurisdiction Of
the commission, yesterday dis
closed the boards plan for COM
batting the Questionable condition.
Under the rule which Nuidoon aid
the commission will ratify at its next
meeting . boxer who loses on Q foul
viii be deprived Of his share Of the
purse. Any money revertfng 20 the
coInmission under this rule, Chair.
man Muidoon said. win 90 to the
State treasury.
MULDOON ISSUES STATEMENT.
"The steadily increasing number Of
bouts won or lost on fouls has made
It necessary for the commission to
adopt some restrictive measure to
eliminate this evil" said Chairman
Muldoon. "The recurrence Of these
uhsatisfactory endings to bouts has
come to that stage now where boxers
are disqualified for fouls on an aver.
age Of one q week. The proportion
10 altogether too large to be safe.
"It II a positive menace to the
life of boxing, and carries a possibil-
ity Of serious injury which necessi-
tates precautionary measures. Rather
than walt until some serious acci.
dent occurs, the commission has de.
cided to adopt this measure, In the
hope Of correcting this violation and
abuse OF the boxing rules. We are
hopeful that the ruling will serve
its purpose and discourage these con.
stantly recurring fouls. II II does
means Of safeguarding the boxers
and the sport itself"
CHAMPS DODGE BOUTS.
Another condition to which the
commission has decided to give some
attention is what Chairman Muldoon
terms the unsatisfactory manner of
boxing now followed by some Of the
ring champions.
The commission head said II has
come to be an accepted theory that
champion must defend his title
against loss at all hazards, and that
in accordance with this view ring
champions have developed a ten
dency to cover UP and avoid long
range boxing, and to stage the un-
satisfactory mauling style invariably
produced at close-quarter work.
Chairman Muldoon said club match
makers will be notified not to ar
range bouts for the champion or
prominent boxer who does not box
in satisfactory manner.
The commission at its meeting yes
terday morning took no action in the
case Of Dave Rosenberg, Brooklyn
middleweight, who lost on a foul to
Mike O'Dowd in the eighth round of
bout at the Rink 8. c.. Brooklyn,
last Thursday afternoon. Rosenberg
was automatically suspended when
he was disqualified for the foul and
was scheduled for q hearing yester.
day. He failed to appear and stands
suspended until such time as he does
appear before the board, Chairman
Muldoon said.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-04
Georgetown Rif1emen
Have 9 Dates Listed

Members of the Georgetown rifle
team are sharpening their eyes
daily on the Blue and Gray range
for the coming matches. Mai. W.
H Hobson is instructing the marks
men.
The first match will be against
Columbia on January IA Nine
dates are on the schedule and
matches are pending with Maryland,
Harvard and Georgia Tech. The
schedule follows:
January 14-Columbia
January 21-Lehigh and Lafay.
cite.
January 2S-University of Yer.
mont
February 4-Princeton.
February 11-Drexel Institute.
February 1S-Penn State.
February 25-Open.
March 4-Yale
March 11-Boston University.
March 1S-Syracuse.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-04
ROANOKE GETS
HIGHEST MARK
FOR SCORING
"Pinkey" Spruhan's Eleven
Registers $50 Points to 96
for Opponents.

q ALEM, Va, Dec. 3.-With a
~ total of $50 points to their
opponents 90, the Roanoke
Maroons stamped themselves as
the highest scorers of Virginia in
the gridiron season just closed.
Aside from the disastrous opening
game against v. M. l., played on
a rain-soaked field, the entire COL
lege community regarded the sea-
son as a successful one.
The Maroon varsity itself was
greatly disappointed over the result
Of the North Carolina State game
in which it completely outrushed
the Tar Heels. making a total OF
Is to first downs and forcing the
Down Homers to kick from behind
their goal line a number of times
and yet finally losing by a margin
Of two touchdowns.
Following the V. NJ. /. game
William and Mary was the only
Virginia college to cross the Ma
rooms goal line. The top form OF
the Roanoke eleven was reached in
the final game against Elon when
the North Carolinians were smoth.
cred $50
The football machine which
"Pinkey" Spruhan is building at
Roanoke should take high rank
among Southern colleges in 1923
Spruhan has now built the nucleus
of hard fighting team that knows
football.
Only four varsity men will be
lost by graduation: Hite and Roller
ends, and Lifts and Ould, guards
The return of White, who has been
handicapped by illness part Of the
season. is uncertain.
Potter. the mainstay of this
years line. will again be in Maroon
uniform. Davies. giant right tackle
has two more years to play. Bissin
ger and Giesen have just finished
their first year of college football
and possess all of the qualities fol
developing into great stars in the
line.
The pivot position will again bs
taken care of by Logan, who is
reckoned as one of the leading
Virginia centers. Smoot, who has
been usued as a utility man, ha:
made an excellent showing through
out the season and should easily wir
a regular berth at end in 1928
Roanoke's entire backfield will
again be on hand when practics
starts next fall. Couk, Caldwell
Hurt, Yost. and Woods, are all oi
first-string caliber.
None of this seasons squad will
be ineligible, according to the pres
ent requirements of the Virginia
Carolina intercollegiate Athletic As
sociation.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-04
FORDHAM Is
SCHEDULED IN
GAMES HERE
Maroon Quintet Meets Navy
Quantico Marines and George
Washington U. on Trip.
EORDHAM COLLEGE, of New

TORDHAM COLLEGE, of New
II York City, will play three
games in this section this
winter, according to Graduate
Manager Frank Gargan. The New
Workers meet the Navy, Quantico
Marines and George Washington
University on q trip.
The Maroon quintet will make two
trips this year on each Of which at
least two games will be played. The
annual Southern trip will take place
from February 8 to 12 and Ford
ham will meet the Naval Academy
at Annapolis. the Quantico Marines
at Quantico, Va. and George Wash
ington University at Washington In
the order named. A week later the
Bronx Collegians will travel to Al
bany to meet Albany Law School
and New York State Normal Col
lege on successive days. Ford.
hams other out-of.town games are
those with Trinity College at Hart
ford, Conn: Lehigh at Bethlehem.
Pa. and Rutgers. at New Bruins
wick
The Fordham basketball squad,
under the charge Of Bud Colloton,
who has succeeded Eddie Butler as
coach of the Maroon five. has been
lpracticing daily for the past three
weeks. The original has been re.
duced to twenty-five. Among these
are: Captain Mcmahon. Cavanagh,
Healey and Crowley. regulars on
last years team, and McNamee and
Grote. who were substitutes on the
j1s21-22 quintet. In addition there
are O'Connell, Landry AMI Leddy,
regulars on the freshman team OF
last season.
Among the other candidates are
vanderbeck. pitcher or last seasons
nine; and Manning, McDonough
football team.
December Is, Cathedral College al
Manhattan Casino: Is. Trinity Col
llege at Hartford. Conn.,; 20, HOLY
ICross at Worcester, Mass.
January 6, City College at =
College; 10, Manhattan Col,cs
Fordham; IS, Cooper UpiS
School at Stuyvesant
l17, St. Johns College
20. Lehigh at Bet
i February J Fyi
College at = cros
at Fordh3 -. Nava
Academy y.is. Nd; 10
!. lQuantic. q Quantico. Va,
liz, Ger ngton University
lat Wa a.. New York Uni
lversity Albany Law School a
. Albany. -. State. Normal School q
: Albany: q. Rutgers at New Brun.
i wick, N. j.; "a. Crescent Athleti
SCuA ~ Oreecsnk ~ O. Breok1yz
The Washington herald., 1922-12-04

dead.
Men in the main bouts now will
fight on a percentage basis"
So ruled the august cornish.
DOWN WENT PURSES.
And bango went those huge
purses; bango went the $4,000,
$4,000 and $4,000 stuff. The
fighters and their managers walled
and whined that they couldn't fight
for such little money as the cut
rate admissions and percentage ar.
rangement would net them.
But they're doing 1t.
Here's the odd angle:
Rickard for a time held to the
maximum admission figures al
lowed by law. And for q time he
peopled Madison Square Garden.
But eventually the natives decided
that even. those reduced prices
were exorbitant. They forget to
show up on fight nights.
SLASHED AGAIN.
again-cut them well under the top
limits. That was a good move be-
cause the popular price shows have
oCCh tHC WHICH.
earlier in the season, was little
more than half full.
The fighters?
All, there's the gloom squadron!
For under the new price arrange.
ment in New York, the intake is
only one-half or one-third what II
used to be. And under the per.
centage thing the headline fighters,
| as rule. are now getting only
about one-fourth or one-fifth Of the
money of two seasons ago.
NO USE IN THAT.
A lot Of them would like to turn
back to Boston. to New Orleans, to
| Milwaukee, and those other cities
| now which they deserted when the
gold rush to New York was on
| But it's little use.
And the reason is plain.
During a two-year lull Of star
bouts in those cities. many of th<
fans turned away from the sport
and either adopted another or de
cided that sticking the money in the
bank and the shins up alongside the
fireplace at home these winter
nights was a better arrangement
than parking in a fight arena.
So there's wailing and much Rnash
ing Of the teeth in the world d
knuckle showers just now. And
there's a prospect Of its increasing
for the game is in a bad slump
and slumping.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-04

to the Empire State the game
flourished in different parts of
New Jersey, in Denver, along the
Pacific Slope. in Milwaukee, in a
half dozen other towns in Wisconsin,
in certain parts of Indiana. in
Memphis, New Orleans. Boston and
a lot of other places.
The prices charged were reason,
able. The fighters didn't get the
price of kings ransom every time
they met-but they got plenty OF
work, which, at the end of the year.
meant a nice healthy bank balance.
Then back came New York with
a blare of trumpets, a blaze OF
glory and staggering prices. Rick
ard. for the dual purpose of getting
real talent and lots of publicity
offered fighters anywhere from five
to twenty times what they were &C
customed to getting elsewhere.
The stampede was on!
WANTED NEW YORK.
The boys of the tin chins, the
flattened beezers and the meaty
ears forgot all else in the world but
the hope of q New York bout
They scoffed at the offers made by
Boston, Milwaukee, Denver. New Or
leans and other promoters-offers
which once were eagerly snapped at
They wanted offers from Rickard
they wanted the $4,000, $4,000
100000 and $4,000 donations of the
gambling Westerner."
Rickard got away with the thing
for a time. For New Workers., de
prived for several years of the sight
of fighters in action. were SO fistit
hungry that they paid the huge
admission prices which Rickard wa.
forced to ask to make good on hi.
purse guarantees and to clear a lit
tie profit for himself.
But all the while Richard wa.
killing the geese which were lay
ing the gilded eggs for himself
and the fighters. The reaction
was sure to set in; the revolt
against huge admission prices wa,
certain to come after the first figh
hunger Of fandom was appeased.
FIXES PRICE LIMIT.
Then the boxing commission
stepped in. 1t fixed a limit fo
| admission tickets. That was fai
enough-for the common people
But not for Rickard, for the sim
pie reason that the fighters, hav
ing become money-mad, cared no
that the Rickard intake had beef
decreased by official ruling.
They wanted those nice fame,
purses, please-'or we won't fight.
In this emergency, the commits
sion. which had previously helpe
the cash customers, turned aroun
and helped Rickard. 1t ruled tina
henceforth the purse guarantees syl
tenn EQVld BE- the hupk-thst 1
The Washington herald., 1922-12-04
BIG TEN NOW
SERENE WITH
FIGHTS OVER
Wisconsin Illinois Differences
Patched Up and Schedules
Announced at Chicago.

|NHICAGO, Dec. 3.-Strained
u relations between the Uni
versity Of Wisconsin and ILL.,
nois as . result Of charges of. in
eligibility made by each school,
have been patched up during the
"Big Ten" meeting, and a football
game between the teams was
scheduled fer November 10, 1928,
at Urbana, at the request of the
University of Wisconsin.
Negotiations have been opened by
Chicago for q game with Carnegie
Tech of Pittsburgh for October l3,
but no agreement has been reached
yet
The 1898 Big Ten Conference foot
ball schedules, issued by the coaches
and directors after a meeting here
today. are:
University of Iowa-October Is,
Purdue at Iowa; October 20. Illinois
At Iowa: October 27. Iowa at Ohio
November 8. Michigan at Iowa
November 10, open: November IL,
Iowa at Minnesota; November "a
Iowa at Northwestern.
Purdue - October Is, Purdue al
Iowa; October 20. open; October "a
Purdue at Chicago; November 3,
Purdue at Nocre Dame; Novembes
10. Ohio at purdue: November IL,
Northwestern at Purdue; NovembeI
"a, Purdue at Indiana
T-nfunr1stx ~ Chfco 0CfnhQr 4
open; October 20. Northwestern al
Chicago: October q, Purdue at Chi
cago; November s. Chicago al
Illinois; November 10, Indiana al
Chicago: November II, Ohio at Chi
cago; November "a. Wisconsin 81
Chicago.
Ohio State-October Is. open
October 20, Ohio at Michigan; Octo
Der q. Iowa at Ohio: Novemoe,
8. open; November 10. Ohio a
Purdue; November Il. Ohio at On,
cago: November "a, Illinois al
Ohio.
University Of Michigan-octobei
IS, Vanderbilt at Michigan; October
20, Ohio at Michigan; October q
Michigan Agsies at Michigan; NO
Ivember 3, Michigan at Iowa: Novem
Der 10, open: November IL; MICH
gan at Wisconsin; November -
Minnesota at Michigan.
University of Wisconsin-octobei
1 I3, open; October 20. Wisconsin a.
Indiana; October 81, Minnesota 4
wisconsin: November 8, open; No
yember 10, Wisconsin at Illinois
November IL. Michigan at Wiscon
sin; November ~. Wisconsin al
Chicago.
University Of nlinois-october s
Nebraska at Illinois; October lS
Butler at Illinois; October 70. III
nois at Iowa; October %, Illinois a.
Northwestern: November .. Chi
caro- at Illinois; November 10. Wis
consin at Illinois: November IL
open; November "a. Illinois a
Ohio State.
The annual outdoor track and
field meet OF the conference wa
awarded by the conference schedule
committee to the University o.
Michigan. II viii be held at Ferr,
Field, Ann Arbor. June l and 2.
Northwestern University at Chi
caxo was awarded the conferenc.
| indoor meet to be held March Il
and Is.
The swimming meet was awardet
to the University Of Chicago. to b
held March Is and 16.
The annual cross country run fol
the conference championship wa
lawarded to Ohio State and viii b
held at Columbus November "a, tn,
date. of the Illinois-ohio football
II
The Washington herald., 1922-12-04
GRADUATES IN
MINORITY AS
GRID COACHES
Big g Adhere to Alumni Men,
tors, But Many Other Sue
cessful Teams Have Aliens.
BY TOM KENT.

I is interesting to note while
i so much is being said and
written about graduate and
professional coaching of college
football teams, how few colleges
Of the front rank have stuck to the
graduate system. Many colleges
cling to graduate coaching year
after year because Of tradition, and
this always has been true in the
Big Three.
Harvard. Yale and Princeton
graduates would raise their hands
In horror were a nongraduate sug.
gested to handle their teams. Going
over the list of prominent colleges
throughout the country we find
more graduate coaching. Syracuse
is piloted by Chick" Meehan,
Dartmouth by Jack" Cannell, Brown
by Ed Robinson. Pennsylvania by
Johnny -Heismann and Notre Dame
by Knute Rockne..
Against these few, however, the
number Of big institutions coached
by men who learned their football
at other colleges presents an over.
whelming majority.
BEZDEK FROM CHICAGO.
Penn State has Hugh Bezdek, q
former Chicago star. Cornell has
Gil Dobie, an old Minnesota player
Michigan is coached by Fielding
Yost. who once sported the colors
Of West Virginia.
Chicago football is handled BY
Alonzo Stage Of Yale. Pittsburgh
has Glen Warner, q Cornell alum
nus. Georgetown's football teams
the former Carlisle star.
Iowa has another old Yale player
In Howard Jones. Greasy" Neale
| West Virginia. Nebraska is ably
| veteran; West Virginia by Cutie
| Spears, a former Dartmouth guard
California by ANDY" Smith. an Ole
Penn player; the Navy by Bob
Folwell, also a Penn graduate, ant
who learned his football undel
| w diiicI ~ IiltSUuI Su.
EASTERN MEN IN WEST.
A careful study of this list viii
show that while the Western col
leges have had strong teams in re
cent years and have raised tn,
question Of their superiority owe
Eastern teams. they have had t,
come East for successful mentors
and the colleges that have beel
heaping abuses on the so-called pro
fessional coach. have been forced .,
stop and consider the system thes
men have built up at other univer
stiles. systems ana q spirit that ma,
well excite the envy Of any football
lover.
| College heads may shout loudl
for the abandonment of the Pre-
fessional coach and for his replace
ment by an amateur, preferably
graduate who shall be q member q
, the faculty. yet, in the final col
sideration, 1t must be admitted ths
the man who makes q business q
teaching football. no matter whs
| his alma mater In, viii be a NOR
competent instructor in the Ion
run than the best amateur facult
The Washington herald., 1922-12-04
Forming Court Teams -.
At Good Shepherd Gym

In another week everything will
be going full blast in the gym"
of the Church of the Good Shep-
herd, Sixth street. between H and
/ streets northeast.
The choir boys seem to pre-.
dominate in the advantages afford.
ed by a recent acquisition of mod
ern athletic material. Preparations
are under way for the formation
of basketball teams. and classes In
physical training.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-04
SHERWOOD TIES PIERCE.

The Sherwood A. C. Of Langdon
fought the Pierce A. c. OF Hyatts-
Vile to a standstill on the formers
field yesterday, the game ending in
6-to-6 tie. The Pierce gridders
STAYED off defeat by scoring a touch
down In the closing minutes of play.
Pierce is open for game at
HyattsviIle next Sunday. Phone
Manager j. A.. Hickey. Hyattsville,
15l-R between 6 and d. m.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-04
GREB IN HOSPITAL.

PITrsBURGH, Pa. Dec. a.
Harry >eAmerican light-heavy-
weta hg champion, was un-
eatment in a local hos
ky. Greb's eyes. injured
sent bout with Bob Roper.
Infected with a cold. His
Z.ysician said there was no inme-
liafe danger Of the sight being i'm
paired.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-04
EAGAN WINS TITLE,

OXFORD, England, Dec. Sc. A.
Eagan, Of Yale and New College,
Oxford. won the heavyweight cham
pionship of universities. hospitals.
and cadets In the boxing contest
which took place in the Town Hall
last night. He defeated c. r. CAP
per, Royal Military Academy On
points IN thrnA IppndA
The Washington herald., 1922-12-04
NEW YORK BOXING INA SLUMP
AND SLUMP is ON ITS GAY WAY
Frank Menke Gives Whole Story of How
Ring Game Mounted to Heights, Ran
Away With Itself and Is Now Back Into
the Depths.
By FRANK C. MENKE.

m HE knucke bouncing sport in something of slump.
1t looks like rather drear winter for of the
with busted frontispece nasmuch the business of dollar
making has skdded considerably New Yorkand perishing
elsewhere.
New York the rollers under the fight other pueus
around the country-and New
drunk itself.
The high and ultimately runous purses hung
mainly responsible for it all.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-04
AND SPEAKER AT TOP OF AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTERS LAST YEAR
Wolverines M a ke
Better Showing
Than Iowa

Most Of the football crit
ics in the middle Wet &C
claim Iowa as the Confer
ence champion for . second
time. But there are . few
who are inclined to give
half Of the title to Michi-
gan. The Wolverines fin
ished the season without q
defeat and against the three
teams which both Michigan
and Iowa met, the Wolver-
ines made the better record.
Here it 10:
Michigan
1o-Ohio ... o
24-Illinois ........,.. o
16-Minnesota ....S.... 2
5s-opponents .........7
Iowa
12-Ohio .............. 9
6-Illinois ............ 2
28-Minnesota .........l4
26-Opponents ........ so
There IL no doubt that
Michigan deserves q lot of
honor. But in oil sports the
time honored custom IL to
let the champion keep his
title if he has obtained as
good a. Q draw. So to Iowa
the title goes again-and
here's hoping that the Hawk
eyes return to the Yale Bowl
in 1928.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1922-05-26
Fast Boats In 1910.

Although the Cunard line operated
the first regular passenger schedule
on the Atlantic ocean, inaugurated by
the Britannia in 1910, the Savannah,
an American ship, was the first steam
vessel to make the crossing, depend
ing, according to the records, more
upon her sails than her engines, which
ran for less than 100 hours. She was
built in New York city and sailed from
Savannah for Liverpool on May %,
1919, arriving 80 days later.
The Royal William, built at Three
Rivers, near Quebec, made the entire
voyage under steam in 1888. Her first
trip from Quebec to London consumed
40 days. The Britannia's maiden trip
from Liverpool to Boston in 1910 was
made in IA days and hours. Her Sis
ter ship, the Acadia, crossed from Liv-
erpool to Halifax in the same year in
II days and 4 hours The next year
she made this voyage in days and 20
bours, a record which stood for many
wears,
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1922-05-26
Church Services in
Leesburg

Baptist. II. Wyatt, Pastor.
Preaching End, and 4th Sundays
Morning and Evening.
Sunday School 10 O'Clock a. m.
B. Y. P. U. 6 O'Clock pm. every
Sunday.
w. NJ. U. Monday afternoon fol-
lowing 2nd and 4th Sundays.
Mid Week Prayer Service and
Choir Practice Wednesday evening
7 O'Clock.
Methodist-J. d. Snyder, Pastor.
Preaching Bird Sunday. morning
ard evening.
Sunday School 10 o'clock every
Sunday.
Presbyterian Grille, Pastor.
Preaching LIST Sunday morning
and evening.
Sunday School 10 O'Clock every
Sunday.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1922-05-26
EnoIish Place Names.

The charm Of English place names
Is not only in their bewildering va
riety, but In the fact that almost all
of them seem indigenous. At any rate,
they are all rooted deep, from what
ever original soil they came. Latin
and Danish names have been wealth
cred and mellowed in so many CEN
turtles Of English history that one re-
members only with an effort that they
are not English in origin. Only the
Norman names have the slightest
tincture of foreign suggestion about
them. French is still a rather tender
exotic which needs to be trained
against the sunny southern wall of the
language. Beaulleu does not seem to
belong naturally in Hampshire. But
even TO domesticate the names from
the three or four other languages Is
no small triumph in verbal horticul-
ture.-Chrlstian Science Monitor.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1922-05-26
GRoRGIA-LEE COUNTY.

Will be sold before the Court House
door in said County between the le'
gal hours Of sale, on the first Tues
day in June, 1922, to the highest bid
der for cash, the following reality
All of land lot number one hundred
and fifty-one mo. 1917 in the First
District of Lee Couty, Georgia, ex-
cepting twenty-five (25) acres in the
Southwest corner of said lot, the land
hereby excepted being the twenty-five
(25) acres sold for taxes for the
year 1920.
Said realty is levied on and is to
be sold as the property of j. X. Avery
under certain executions issued from
the City Court of Leesburg, in favor
of Citizens First National Bank of
Albany, Georgia, against ]. r. Avery,
the said j. r. Avery being in posses
sion thereof. Owner and tenants in
possession have been notified in terms
of the law.
This 9Th day Of May, 1922.
p. C. CoXWELL, SHERIFF.