New Britain herald., 1923-07-28
s p e a kin g of Sports

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 The Federals of Hartford will be
 the opposing team at St. Mary's play
 ground diamond tomorrow afternoon.
 The Yankees have made a clean
 sweep of the Athletics. Incidentally
 Babe got homer as did Tillie Walk
 CT.
 A belated, but nevertheless just as
 successful, rally by the Reds won
 over Brooklyn in the 12th yesterday.
 Caveney's single, Harris sacrifice and
 Bohne's hit drove over the needed run
 after two were out. ,
 Johnny Dundee, who in his willing
 ness to fight out of his class is not
 unlike Joe Cans, now wants to mix it
 up again with Benny Leonard in a
 lightweight title bout. .
 The Hawaiian tennis team was easi-
 ly eliminated from the Davis contests yesterday by the Australian netmen.
 Thanks to Johnny Dundee, a highly esteemede citizen of West Orange, N. J., the last championship title of the boxing ring has returned to this coun- try His defeat Thursday of Eugene Criqui of France brought home the only title that has been in the hands Of foreign boxer, the featherweight title. The defeat was a decisive one and from the first round it was for seen that the war battered Frenchman was fighting against odds too great to win.
 Dundee has pursued the title for more than ten years and the victory came as crowning glory for his abili- ty in the ring. Long has been the patch to pugilistic fame that Dundee has trod. He has met the pick of every weight he has fought in and has always given his best in each engage ment. Could the fight fans ask for any better a champion or successor to Criqui? It certainly could not. Criqui on the other hand should not go un- praised for his brief flight into the spotlight. His gameness made him friends but his gameness failed to win for him. He won from Kilbane ! and for short time enjoyed the popularity that accompanies cham pion. Now he sees himself displaced | and the kindly attitude of the public | switched to someone else.
 Paris indeed must have been a for lorn place when it received ,.. news of their idols defeat B.lhing so heavily on Carpenter three years ago to defeat~Dempsey it must have been used to taking the bad news lightly. Now Criqui has lost and they have nothing to offer as aspirants to boxing titles. Not even Ski can be considered. If he could who is there in France that would consider him as formid- able opponent for anything but the police?
 With so much publicity issued as to how Europe has gone ahead in the fight game there is little doubt that they have yet s- long journey to make before they can even be considered l The defeat of Kilbane by Criqui and the defeat of the latter by Dundee brings out the thought ''how terrible Kilbane must have been" Dundee would have anihilated KilbGne in the ring for the latter wasp surely no match for Criqui when they met. Dun- dee would have probably welcomed chance to do to Kilbane what he did to the Poilu for the Cleveland fighter had repeatedly refused to meet the Scotch Wop." Anyways Dundee won ( and saw his dream come true after many years of hoping, planning and for the big event. Incident ] ally this is the second worlds cham pion the state of New Jersey can boast of. Dundee and Walker-can you beat that combination? You sure cant.
 Swinging from aaffirs puglistic to affairs baseballistic one finds an in ( .eresting little race going on in the National league the oldest organized baseball circuit. John McGraw in New ork, is trying the retain the honors $ won last year. Managers Bill McKech- { lie of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Pat r Moran of the Cincinanti Reds are hitting in an attempt to defeat Me F Iraw and his clan of hard-hitting \ Iiants New York lost Thursday and s he Red and Pirates won which means ' he latter two clubs drew nearer for day to the top position. Can they F ,vertake the New York team? Well V hey have the rest of this month and E III of next to determine whether or