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The Washington times., 1923-09-05
GLENN WARNER FACING
HARD YEAR ON CRIDIRON

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5.-Coach
Glenn S. Warner faces perhaps one
or the hardest years in his football
career, as no less than nine of the
eleven Pittsburgh men who started
the Penn State game last year have
been lost by graduation. Among
these are such stellar performers
as Charlie Bowser, picked by many
as All-American center; Jack Sack,
one OF the bet guards the Panthers
ever had, and Tiny Hewitt, full.
back, who has entered West Point.
The Panthers have also lost Dick
simpson. tackle; John Clark, guard;
cullen Gourley, tackle; pie" Will
liams, end; Charlie Winterburn,
quarterback. and John Anderson,
hanback,. Grip" Sauer, left end,
and "Hoot" Flanagan are the only
men left of that varsity.
Tom Holleran, who was captain
OF the team last year, is also listed
among the graduates. He did not
get a chance to show much for
Warner in his final year on ac-
count Of injuries.
The Panther football MANAGEMENT
Is giving out no predictions as to
the outcome OF the season, as the
team will have TO be rebuilt and
the line material Is hardly what it
should be. Pittsburghers hav
enough confidence in Glenn Warner,
however. to feel that he will at
least produce good fighting team,
and one that will be hard to beat.
The Washington times., 1923-09-05
GEORGIA TECH STAR is
BACK, BUT CAN'T PLAY

ATLANTA, Sept. 5.-TalIv John
son, one of the greatest halfbacks
ever on Grant Field. and captain
of the 1916 Golden Tornado. will re-
enter Tech this month. He will
nIatriculate in the textile engineer.
ing department.. and strive for his
degree there.
The unfortunate part of it ali is
thac Tally is ineligible for any of
the future teams. He must con-
tent himself with helping Alexander
mould the machine that will face
Techs hardest schedule. Johnson
will not be member of the Off
cial coaching staff. but ia certain
to lend his talents and knowledge
Cf the game TO the staff and help
out the coaches every afternoon.
Johnston was assistant coach to
Johr Heisman in 1917 when he
helped make one of Techs two
greatest teams. He is not new TO
the coaching business and will
prove a great help to Alexander
Wood. Clay. Griffin and Amis.
The Washington times., 1923-09-05
No Doubt About Babe
Being Yankees
Best PLAYER

When the men who pick the
most valuable member of their
teams among the American
League ball players this year
are going through with their
deliberations there is one name
that will not be passed over
lightly. Without delving deep
into the thing, it would seem
that G. Herman Ruth is as good
a candidate for the honors as
they are likely to find this sea-
son.
Ruth is the hitting star of
the Yankees and about the best
hitter in the league; he is the
home-run leader of both
leagues and has scored a flock
of runs. His fielding and base
running, and all-around ability
have improved a hundredfold
this year. He has done more
for the Yanks than any, other
player.
The Washington times., 1923-09-05
GUIDE
FOR WEEKEND
ANGLER

This weeks trail leads US back
ever the same route. not because
the guide is at the end Of his line,
but fishing from Chesapeake Beach
during the week has broke all
records so far this season. Situated
on Chesapeake bay, just 4014 miles
from the city; this popular salt
water resort offers wonderful op-
portunities to the angler.
.Hardheads, trout, blue fish and
Norfolk spots are now running at
their best and big catches are being
made by both day and night fish
ermen The sporty trout will soon
be in full swing, closely followed by
the famous fighting blue fish.
Bats to catch these fellows, as
well as perch and rock, are blood
worms, shrimp, soft and peeler
crabs. Cut spot is also an excel
lent lure, especially for trout and
bluefish.
Motor boats, under the direction
OF Noah Hazard. are always to be
had at the pier. The price per
L person is $1.25. Row boats may
be engaged at the crab house al
so cents per hour.
4 ular at the resort, the motor boats
3 returning in time to meet the early
morning train returning to the city
This allows the office holder q
chance to fulfill his Waltonian de
sire without interfering with his
office duties.
chesapeake Beach may be reach
ed by automobile or by train.
BY automobile: Pennsylvania ave
hue. cross Pennsylvania avenu.
bridge. Seventeenth street south
east. Marlboro pike to Meadows I:
Marlboro to Mt. Zion, turning south
TO Friendship to Owings to Mt
Harmony. east to Chesapeake,
Beach. Distance. 4012 miles.
BY train. Take II street car lin,
to District line. then by Chesapea
Beach Railway: Saturdays, 9I5. 10
1870. 2, 2:30. 1925. $50. 8; Sundays
$50. 1890, 11:30. 2, 800, 4:45, 8
other days. 9:15, 10, II 30, 2:3O, $40
$50, 8. Frequent trains returnin,
The Washington times., 1923-09-05
T RPO CERTAIN
He WILL K. D.
DEMPSEY
Champion Concentrates on
Development of Speed for
September ~ Bout.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Sept. 5.
Luis Angel Firpo is confident
that he is rounding into shape ard
will be in the pink of condition
when he meets Jack Dempsey on
the night of September IA. And the
Argentinian believes he will annex
the heavyweight title.
Firpo today said he did not know
exactly when his moment of
triumph" would come but was sure
that some time during the fifteen
rounds he will drive his powerful
right through Dempsey's defense
and the fight will be over.
Firpo went through his usual
early morning jog today and fol-
lowed this by gymnasium work and
boxing.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
n. Y. Sept. SACK Dempsey went
at his training with renewed vigor
today following his day of rest yes
terday.
The champion plans to develop
speed during the next week and
most of his training for the rest
of his stay here will be with that
end in view.
Dempsey expects to enter the
ring against Firpo weighing about
189 pounds. He now weighs 1913.
The Washington times., 1923-09-05
mean about Dempsey. He and ]
have been good friends.

Corbett Greater Than Dempsey.
k6DUT facts are facts. | don't
figure that Gibbons is
anywhere near as clever
as was Jim !Corbett.
"He's a much smaller man than
Corbett. He can't punch near as
hard. Corbett, therefore, also fig
ures as a greater champion than
is Dempsey.
"Corbett was in San Francisco
few months ago. He had seen a
great deal of Dempsey.
"I asked what he thought of him
as champion. Tim he said, we
haven't the fighters we had in our
day.
''That was as much as he would
say. Corbett has reached that age
where he won't say anything un-
kind if he can help it.
81 have reached that age, too.
But being kind to dempsey is be-
ing unkind to the old champions.
"I've often wished, to be per-
fectly truthful, that my old sailor,
Tom Sharkey, were at his best
now"
The Washington times., 1923-09-05
SWAvELY SCHOOL NAMES
GUY B. FARLEY COACH

Guy B. Farley, Of Dayton, Ohio.
has been named athletic coach of
Swavely School. formerly the Army
and Navy Prep School. At silver
High School in Dayton Farley was
successful in tho coaching of base
ball, football land basketball. In
1920 Earley's team won the. high
school basketball championship OF
Dayton without losing a game.
Farley went from Silver High to-
the Miami Military Academy
where he coached football for two
years. Farley. while at student at
Miami, was an all-Ohio back for
two wears.
The Washington times., 1923-09-05
McGINNITY WINS FLAG
WITK DUBUQUE OUTFIT

DUBUQUE. Iowa, Sept. 5.-The
Dubuque team. managed by Joe
Uron Mani McGinnity Of New York
Giants fame, won the championship
of the Mississippi Volley Baseball
League for 1923 yesterday, when it
won two games from the Marshall
town team. Dubuque has held the
lead almost continually for the past
two months. McGinnity is now
fifty-four years old, yet he pitched
twenty-five games, winning fifteen
of them.
The Washington times., 1923-09-05

That is the next step in the con-
troversy between Leonard and
Dundee, principals, and Jimmy
Johnston, promoter, over John
ston's action in ordering post
ponemenJ on the ground that Dun
dee is not in condition to do him.
self justice.
81 was never in better condition,
and will prove it before the COM
mission" Dundee said today. Amy
physician will bear me out.
weigh 128 pounds, my speed and
wind are good, and my hands are
perfect. Look ! at them-not a
bruise or a mark.
'"They- can't make me the goat
in this difficulty. If Leonard
isn't at the commission offices at
o'clock to weigh i'm l will claim
his forfeit. II he isn't at the
Yankee stadium at the scheduled
hour tonight / will claim his title.
They OveGmatched themselves
when they tried to shift the re-
spOnsibility to me. Leonard caIl-
not make the weight and has
asked for this pOStpOnement."
Public opinion today is divided,
some believing Leonard has found
the weight too much for him and
others alleging that Johnston has
not sold tickets in the manner to
which he is accustomed. The pro-
moter, however. declared that the
advance sale has been "tremen.
dous.''
Speaking for Leonard. Billy Glib
son stated that he did not see the
necessity for the lightweight cham
pion weighing in today, now that
a postponement has been demanded.
However if they want Leonard
to prove that he is Il legitimate
lightweight" Gibson added, he will
do that in short order"
Meantime, William Muldoon,
chairman of the commission, has an
nounced his intention of being pres
ent for the weighing-in ceremony
since neither he nor the commission
has been notified officially of the
postponement.
The Washington times., 1923-09-05
~ LOUIS A.DOUGHER
MORE ON BASEBALL ABUSES

ETS talk about baseball taking
today the ball players before the public Undoubtedly
Babe Ruth is known than
the greatest scholar and all
and than other rival The world gain from
having been the abiding place of the greatest scholar though this
to argument but has something
the worlds greatest batsman Just the occupies
The scholars has been fixed years players
It is ball
envable as ten years '' =
The Washington times., 1923-09-05
They're Entertainers.

TO-DAY the big leaguers are
entertainers in an open-air
show and nothing has been
done by the magnates to dispel
this belief in the last ten years.
Huge prices are paid for play
ers who, in turn, receive fancy
salaries for doing what many do
for fun, though not so well, natu-
rally.
Huge throngs crowd spacious
parks Millions ale on every
tongue.
World series mobs pay fancy
prices to see the gladiators.
Sports pages in October have a
smell of the stock market.
Bands play. Chieftains bow.
The mob throws up it's sweaty
nightcaps and great is the win
The Washington times., 1923-09-05
Canada Gals Cheerful Chirps
Humor in the Headlines.

OoAGAUU NGAA - OAA~N4 IA OAAAA P0
HumOr in the Headlines.
<<0UR Relations With Tur-
I'D key"
we'll be looking around for along
about Thanksgiving time and
Christmas.
Burglars Make Big Cleanup
in Jewelry Store"
Here is clearly one instance
where cleanliness is not next to
goodness.
Former King of Heavyweights
Now an Evangelist"
James J. Jeffries, an ex-pounder
of his fellow-man, becomes an ex-
FOUNDER of the Gospel also.
A million pounds of copper were
used in the construction of New
York's highest skyscraper.-Item
IN the paper.
And here we've been going along
believing all the time the Wool
worth building was built from
dimes.
The Washington times., 1923-09-05

$1EVery now and then the names
0f6kaonne of those White Sox play
ef4 who were kicked out of base
ball come up. and we wonder how
mehey get by nowadays. Cheered
one minute. Jeered and disgraced
the next It's a queer racket some.
ttnes7this baseball, business, but l
love 1t: It has taught me a lot of
Il haven t. seen a word in print
about the White Sox who We're
messed DIP in. the series of 1919.
Whit Aas become of them? What
ape tdey doing?
Naturally, i hear some things
about bali players that newspaper
men don't. Lately I've been buzz
ing about the White SOX and I've
found out what they're doing and
what's happened to them.
Joe jackson who maybe got the
worst deal and was used as a
dummy, is down South near his
home in South Carolina playing
semi-professional ball when the peo-
pie will stand for him-and just a
few years ago baseball men were
saying he was the greatest natural
hitter in the game, a fellow with
out single batting weakness.
Eddie Cfcotte, a marvellous slow
ball pitcher who was in his prime,
is a game warden somewhere
around Detroit and just managing
70 get by. From one of the high
est safaried players in the league to
game warden is quite a drop.
ySwede Risberg, I heard, is in bad
shape and doing the best he can
which, they tell me, is not so good.
Happy Felsch-they called
him Happy" in those days
shingles roofs i'm the summer and
cuts Christmas trees in the
~sinter. A Chicago newspapeTman
wills me he saw Felsch about six
months ago and that FelSch was
brOlken-hearted and wore a black
tie and pointed to it with tears i'm
his. eyes. What an Outfielder he
was!
Lefty Williams, when last heard
from was floor-walker in a Chi
cago department store and acting
as sort of ''bouncer."
Or all of the Sox who were mixed
up in the series only Buck Weaver
and Chick Gandil are getting by
pretty well. Gandil, you know, quit
baseball before the inside story was
published Weaver is in the drug
store business with his brother-in-
law and making good living.
This baseball racket is a funny
Business. We have our day md
then pass on, and it's a wise player
no holds on to his dough while the
going is good. Unfortunately,
that's something we learn only by
The Washington times., 1923-09-05
Ward Playing Well.

Aaron Ward is playing flashy
game at second base for the Yankees
this season and New York writer's
are grooming him to succeed Eddie
Collins as the greatest ever.
The Washington times., 1923-09-05
EYES LIKELY TO PREVENT
SISLER MANAGING

George Sister, adudgd the valuable around player in
baseball has probably will
to game.
Reports trucking through secrecy surrounding
Washington indicate that the
right which is keeping him in enforced idle
The Washington times., 1923-09-05
Has Late Start.

Yale has a late football start this
season, the first game not coming
till October 6. when North Carolina
will face the Ellis in the bowl.
The Washington times., 1923-09-05
Brown at Brown,

Reggie Brown will again plan
fancy offenses and defenses for the
Brown varsity eleven this season.
He did this for Harvard for years.
The Washington times., 1923-09-05
It's About Even.

With Hank Shanks hitting FOR
.270 and Ossie Bfuege for .269. it's
about Stephen between the
Red Sox and the Griffs.
The Washington times., 1923-09-05

~
The small boy has the best
view of the big Lacquer. He
wants to grow up and be one.
There is no greater nor more sin
cere flattery in this world.
By and by the boy grows up
and becomes a player. Then he
finds that all is not roses and
candied musk. But then, so do
We all about our boyish heroes
and heroines. We had bit of a
shock when we found out the
facts about poor old Dido.
There was a time, and not so
long ago, either, when the major
Lacquer had some heroic attributes
for the man in the stand. That
day has gone now. Today he is
a performer, and worse than that,
a paid performer.
The amateur performer has at
least the defense that he is do
ing his best and getting nothing
for it.
The professional ball player is
well paid for whatever he does,
and the public knows it, which
makes all the trouble.
The Washington times., 1923-09-05
Gibbons Outgeneraled Dempsey.


XII FAD the accounts of the
TX Shelby fight carefully.
AZ If you know fighting
you will see that Gibbons just
outgeneraled Dempsey. That's
all there was to it.
Dempsey was the stronger
man, the harder puncher; time
and again he was at close quar-
ters with Gibbons.
"But still he couldn't put him
out. Gibbons, making a losing
fight, was too smart for him
and at times he did so well that
he bested Dempsey.
eff Gibbons, who has never been
rated a topnotcher among the
heavyweights, could do that, what
would Fitzsimmons, the greatest
ring general of all the heavy
weights, have done if he had been
in Gibbons place?
81 don't want to say anything
The Washington times., 1923-09-05
.JOHNSON FORGOT TO WINK

Jimmy Johnstons office the other DAY
just Jimmy putting in plug to some customers re-
~ gardng coming Leonard Dundee quarrel
telling his headnes ms caro-
greatest cawed through the
Broad piped James, looking at the door just
Of Broad busted in Hell tell how these
fought of them and
he knew others well.
"Now, square, Kid how long would Leonard and
Dundee let and McGovern ring with then?
ust would be enough pped Broad without smiling
The Washington times., 1923-09-05
DUNDEE, READY, DEMANDS
FIGHT OR FORFEIT
Rv DAVIS. J. WALSH.

NEW YORK Sept 5-Declaring he will be neither goat
lamb the postponement of the lightweight cham
onshp bout scheduled for tonight Johnny Dundee will before
Athletic Commission this
weigh the lightweight limit of 1876 pounds claim
The Washington times., 1923-09-05
ALL BUT TWO BLACK SOX
FINDIT TOUGH WORLD,
.B,AMBlNO LEARNS
By BABE RUTH.

1PHIADELPHA, Sept 5The world series Will be along IN a
players mighty thing;
ahyet can't help thinking world series of four
the tragedies baseball knew Play
everything that with the
aafne wronp-and they?
The Washington times., 1923-09-05
Philadelphia Pros Bid
Highest To Sign
Corcoran

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. b.
Bunny" Corccran, former
Georgetown University star,
whose work with Akron and
Buffalo against the Yellow
jackets last December capti-
waited the spectators, will be
among the newcomers with the
Frankfort Yellowjackcts, one
Of the city's strongest profess
sional football teams, this sea-
son. Corcoran plays a rushing
offensive game that makes
hit with the stands, and will be
available for duty either at end
or in the backfield.. To obtain
Corcoran, Manager Bowker had
to outbid both the AKRON and
Buffalo arrangements.
The Washington times., 1923-09-05
SpaIIa Not Coming:

Frninio Spalla, Europeans. heavy
weight champion. has decided not
to come to the United States this
season.
The Washington times., 1923-09-05


SisIer can play golf and can drive
an automobile without danger, but
is afraid to stand at the plate and
ball.
I'm not sure could see a COM
paratively little white ball coming
toward me with great speed, and
consequently I'm afraid of being
hit he is reported to have re-
marked recently.
That his fear is we'll grounded
and promises to be of lifelong
duration-is attested by eye spe-
cialists, who base their conclusions
on the nature of Sisters eye af-
lection.
According to the specialists. the
danger lies in the optic nerves,
which were affected after Sisters
recovery from an attack of influ-
enza last February. His left
eye was unframed, but the nerves
Of the right eye are in such
delicate condition that the small
est aggraVatiOn will break them
and cause total blindness.
In his present state, the famous
athletic product of Akron Ohio.
public schools, and the University
of Michigan can see with his right
eve at irregular periods. He can
never depend on consistent powers
of vision, however, and is well &C
| quainted with that fact.
The Washington times., 1923-09-05
Report on Sept. II.

Gil Dobie's Cornell varsity foot
bali squad will report for duty
next Tuesday.
The Washington times., 1923-09-05
It Explains Much.

II GApl01hS uuCus
"HIS attitude of the game it
self explains much of the
increasing razzing on the
part of the crowd.
Respect for an athletic hero
would stifle the first fazz. But
there is small respect these days
for the athletic heroes. They
have taken on much Of the char
acter of the ancient gladiator, and
if you've read much of them you
know it was usually thumbs down,
which meant death.
There are reasons behind this
change in the spirit of the pub
lie. They caused, first of all, the
changes in the players. They
spread rapidly to the public until
now we have the game of today,
filled with money, with financial
glory for magnate and player,
with cheers and empty sound for
the winner and wreaths of the
wild razzberry for the bankrupt
magnate and the defeated player.
No, the player doesn't have to
endure personal insult, but let him
try to stop it and see where he
gets off. 1t just can't be done,
that's all. Arguments that used
to appeal are now without weight.
They pass into one ear and out
the other.
! What is baseball coming to?
Who knows?
Is it improving? We would say,
no.
Will golf eventually supplant it
as Americas national gamev
We doubt it. We are a CONNER
cial nation and it would be diff
cult to cash in on professionalism
golf as on organized professional
baseball.
Baseball and the baseball player
are today in a condition of change
and hardly for the better, accord
ing to the standards of the past.
The Washington times., 1923-09-05

Naturally. SisIer is the favorite
topic of conversation among st.
Louis fans, who. in their eagerness
for the success of the Browns. have
forced upon him all manner Of
solicitation and questions.
This interest and obvious curl.
osity has become so aggravating to
Sisler that no one Is permitted to
approach him when he sits in his.
private box at the ball park watch
ing his former teammates play.
The telephone which formerly
rang necessarily at his home has
been disconnected and every effort
to discuss his eyes In CONVEX.
satiOn is quickly discouraged by
him.
Even were he to regain his full
powers of vision-which now seems
impossible-it is doubtful IL Sisler
will become manager of the Browns,
as has been so frequently limited
Phil Ball, owner of the team, and
the st. Louis fans appear delighted
with the leadership OF Jimmy Aus
tin, WHO was promoted to the mana
gerial post upon the dismissal of
Lee Foil recently, and the peppery
little pilot no doubt will be re-.
tanned ,
Sisler has no financial worries,
however, as to the future. Being
one of the most exemplary players
in organized baseball, he has not
1avished his earnings and is reputed
to be well fixed -
The Washington times., 1923-09-05
Jeff Would Have Licked Dempsey.
Saws McGrath.

" I'M McGRAIH, who handled
Tom Sharkey just after the
latter left a soapy battle
ship deck and stayed with him
for years, still puts in boost for
the sailor and other stars of a
few years back. He says:
II do not think Dempsey
classes with Jeffries Or Fitzsim-
mons.
81 may be wrong, l know
that some of the younger fellows
will say l don't know what | am
talking about.
"But l may have a little ad-
vantage over most of these
younger fellows. I've seen Demp-
sey fight since he became cham
pion and / saw the old-time
champions fight.
"Jeffries, l think, could have
whipped Dempsey easily. JEFF
fries, to begin with, was bigger
than Dempsey, stronger, and had
a fine left hand. That left hand
alone, l think, would have been
enough to whip Dempsey. Demp-
sey, though taller, is no bigger
than was Tom Sharkey, and
Sharkey, though he gave Jeffries
two hard fights, sticking the
limit with him each time, was too
small.
"Fitzsimmons could undoubted-
ly have whipped Dempsey. Tom
Gibbons removed whatever doubts
/ may have had on the subject
if | ever had any.
The Washington times., 1923-09-05
Lost Their Friends.

would rally TO the support
~ of a player holding out for
a salary raise. The American
League gained most Of it's early
supporters with the argument
that it was paying players what
they were really worth" and not
holding them down to the Ma
tional Leagues $4,000 limit. The
fans, who paid the freight then
as they do now, took a personal
interest in that argument and
the American League flourished
like the green bay tree.
Not like that now. Today the
fans have sickened of the con-
slant chatter about baseball and
money and money and baseball.
They blindly seek a return to
that day when the players had
more of the heroic about them
and less of the gladiator.
Ball players hold out nova
days. Indeed, hardly a year goes
by without it's stars of the pro-
fession holding out for salary in
creases. But the public worries
not a whit about their bowls. 1t
knows the players will eventually
sign and, if not, somebody else
will and the old circus will be
seen again in all it's glory when
April rolls around.