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The Washington times., 1923-11-09
RENAULT AVOIDS
N|LLSFOR SIX
MONTHS
Wants More Experience Be-
fore Taking On Brown
Panther.

KINGSTON, N. Y. Nov. SACK
Renault, on a hunting trip in the
Catskills, said today that he would
refuse to meet Harry Wills for at
least six months. He said he felt
that he needed more experience with
a few good fights under his belt
before he would be Grady to tackle
the Brown Panther.
This came as a surprise as 1t
had been thought Renault would be
eager to grab a chance to get into
the big time" Tex Richard had set
aside December II for the New
York American Christmas and Re-
lief Fund bouts and was figuring on
this match. Since Renault refuses
positively to go on now, another
match is being arranged and will be
announced within few days.
Paddy Mullins, manager Of Wills.
had accepted terms for the Renault
fight and says he stands ready to
have Wills go in with any suitable
opponent who can be found.
The Washington times., 1923-11-09
HORNSBY- I
DEAL CROWS
COOL
Charles Stoneham Indicates
St. Louis Wants Too Much
for Star.

NEW YORK, Nov. 9.-Charles F.
Stoneham, president of the New
York Giants indicated today that
the proposed deal that would bring
Rogers Hornsby to New York has
grown bit cold because of what
he termed the "exhorbitant" de-
mands Of the Cardinals for their
star.
hickey and Breadon want the
whole New York club for their
star" Stoneham said. cit seems
the very men that McGraw has
mentioned as absolute fixtures
here, namely Frisch, Young and
Jackson"
The Washington times., 1923-11-09
That Final Contest Is
Sure to Offer Bit
Of Everything

The Southern Methodists last:
Saturday beat the Texas Chris
tians 40 to 0. The Oklahoma
Backsliders beat the Bayou Bap-
fists Fl to 8. The Bayou Bap-
fists earlier in the season beat
the Louisiana Reformed Luther
ans 13 to 0, while the Texas
Christians disposed of the Ar
kansas Freethinkers overwhelm-
ingly in September. This will
force the Southern MethodistS
to fight it out with the Oklahoma
Backsliders for the religious
championship of Dixie. The win
ner will probably challenge Notre
Dame for the whole holy honors
of the nation, all- K. X. K. holds
and tactics being barred, of
course.
The Washington times., 1923-11-09
JOINT MEETING
To END DRAF I
CONTROVERSY
Minor Leagues Will Gather in
Chicago Next Month to
Make Peace.
By FORD G. Prick.


NEW YORK, Nov. "A joint
meeting of International, Pacific
Coast and American Association Of
cials, which has been called for
December 10, in Chicago, spells the
end of the present baseball draft
war, in the opinion Of local baseball
satellites.
Up at the Yankee offices, Ed Bar
row read the notice Of the meeting
with grin.
They've got enough of It," he
commented. This draft war has
hurt those fellows a lot more than
1t has us. They can't get players
from the majors and they can't get
rid of their stars to advantage.
You'll see them accept the draft
again after that meeting"
Following that little explosion, Ed
turned his attention to the eternal
problem of suitable training camp.
1t seems that the racy atmosphere
Of New Orleans is not exactly suit
able to Yankee temperament, and
the world champions will look for
new quarters in keeping with the
dignity of their recently acquired
position.
Giant officials, too, were inclined
to look upon the Chicago, meeting a3
indicative of minor league dissatis-
faction with, the present nondraft
rule.
"Yeh," remarked Jim Tierney, Sec
rotary of the Giants, this draft
business is tough on the minors
alright. The draft war is about
over!'
It would seem that the draft war
bids fair to come to a subtle and
uneventful close.
The Washington times., 1923-11-09
HOWARD BUFFALOS TO
PLAY PETERSBURG ELEVEN

With five games won and three
to play, the Howard "Buffalos"
take the field Saturday afternoon at
3 o'clock in the American League
Park against the Petersburg Normal
and Industrial Institute, the team
which held Hampton, the conquer
ors of Towards ancient enemy,
Lincoln, to a 7-to-6 score.
Coach Watson is taking no
chances Of letting Petersburg spoil
Towards perfect record for the
season.. On Wednesday the regulars
and scrubs held scrimmage and
the regulars were able to put over
but one touchdown on the scrubs.
The Scrimmage showed an abund-
ance of excellent backfield material.
Striplin, Brown Bowles, and Dodson
showing up Wen alongside the regu-
lars. The Petersburg lads are said
to have one Of the best eleVens
among the smaller Eastern colored
schools.
The Washington times., 1923-11-09
SCHWAB MONEY
WOULD BUY
BALL CLUB
High-class Investors Being At
tracted to Possibilities of
National Game.
INDOOR SooRE7
By HARRY NELLY,
Cosmopolitan News Service Special
COrresDondent.

CHICAGO, Nov. 9.-Baseball has
attained a responsibility in the last
two decades which has attracted
men Of unusually high class, not
only upon the playing field, but as
magnates, as well.
The latest man of national prom
inence to express a desire to ac-
quire a major league club is
Charles M. Schwab, one of the big
gest steel men in the country.
Bill Carrigan, a Massachusetts
banker and former catcher and
manager for the Red Sox, wants to
purchase the Braves in company
with Marty McHale, who used to be
a pitcher. Mr.. Schwab is the money
man Of the proposed syndicate.
However, the company, headed by
Christy Mathewson has shown no
disposition to get out of the game.
The Red Sox changed hands not
long ago. Palmer Winslow, a bust
ness man Of Columbus, o., put up
most of the money. He is a ma
tionally known glass manufacturer.
Right here at home the standing
in the business world of William
Wrigley, jr., and A. d. Lasker is
too well known to need comment.
Phil C. De Ball, biggest builder
of artificial ice plants in the coun-
try, owns the st. Louis Browns.
John Kelsey, multi-millionaire man.
ufacturer Of automobile wheels and
bodies owns a liberal slice Of the
Detroit club. Only recently George
B. Christian, who was secretary to
the late President Harding, ex-
pressed a desire to purchase the
Cleveland club.
Slowly but surely the men who
earned a living as professional ball
players are being edged out of the
game. Charles A. Comiskey owns
all Of the White Sox, being the
only ex-player to possess a club
entirely. Connie Mack in Phila-
delphia and Clark Griffith in Wash
ington, hold liberal slices Of stock
in their clubs.
Christy Mathewson, who ranked
as one of the greatest pitchers of
all time, is president Of the Boston
Braves, but he had the backing of
others and it is doubtful If he holds
anything like controlling interest.
The Washington times., 1923-11-09
SCHOOL SERIES
CLASSIC IS
ON TODAY
Central and Tech, Undefeated,
Clash in Grid Champion
ship Game.

Central is slight favorite to win
from Tech today in their annual
football battle at Central Stadium.
The game will begin at 3:15 and a
capacity attendance viii be there
to see these two leading high school
elevens in action.
Tech has one victory in the title
series, defeating Western to o..
Central has twD victories, winning
from Business and Eastern. Neither
rival has been defeated In the
championship series and there is
wide conjecture on the outcome of
today'ss contest, which is by far
the biggest of the series.
Tech and Central have been meet.
ing for twenty years ard the an
nual game always has been hard
fought. Central has won nine
times and Tech seven There have
been four ties. In 1918 there was
no contest, due to the flu epidemic.
High school students, represent
ing all five schools, alumni and
just plain dyed-in-t he-wool football
fans will flock to the game, and
Central stadium, without doubt,
will be filled to overlooking.
T : NJ. :
The Washington times., 1923-11-09

.,..ss weighs zoo pounds against
Renault's 1856, is much stronger,
taller and has much longer reach.
RenauIt win be wise to confihe
his immediate development to
lighter men and lighter punchers.
Gibbons, Greb, Tunney--that Is
the type Of opponent he needs
now.
Paddy Mullins, who collects the
pork chops for Mr.. Willis, thinks
somebody is kidding him about Re.
nault wanting to step with Wills
now. Paddy will not consider the
match at present. He would have
to fight 1t in the Garden, and he
is not fond of Tex Richard at the
present moment.
Wills and Mullins also remem-
Der the Norfolk experience. Wills
was warned against so many things
that he feared disqualification for
any slight infraction Of the fu,es.
He therefore abandoned his DO ~
attack and though he won tile
fight he battered his hands badl.,
against Norfolk's skull.
The Washington times., 1923-11-09
RAY BRONSON, oLD-TIME
BOXER, NOW PROMOTER

Ray Bronson, of Indianapolis.
who was one of the star light
weights Of the profession before he
retired from the game several wears
ago, is now the matchmaker of a
club at Springfield, Ohio. He
brought off a ten-round battle Ia Of
Thursday night between Jack Tay.
lor, the negro fighter of Omaha.
and Lee Anderson, another negro
scrapper, which was called a. draw.
The gate was over $4,000.
The Washington times., 1923-11-09
EDDIE FARRELL NAMED
HARVARD TRACK COACH

CAMBRIDGE. Mass, Nov. o.
The Harvard athletic committee yes
terday authorized the appointment
Of Edward J. Farrell, of Newton, as
'cting coach of the Harvard track
team. Two assistants yet to be
named will be appointed by Fred
Moore, Harvard's graduate mana
ger. Approving a varsity tennis
schedule, which includes a game
with Columbia here May 3, the ath-
letic committee frowned on Harvard
Joining Yale in playing oxford and
Cambridge in England next summer.
The Washington times., 1923-11-09
Rabbit Punch Sole
Discovery-Of
Dempsey

If you didn't get an eyeful of
freak punches in yesterdays in
stallment of Jimmy De Forests
interesting fight serial now rum
ming in The Washington Times,
read today's seventeenth chap
ter.
You. will learn among other
things that Jack Dempsey in
vented, discovered and copy
righted the blow known as the
rabbit punch - that fateful
whack across the back of the
neck where a hunter or trapper
usually strike a rabbit if he IS
not completely dead when
brought to ground. That is
indeed a delicate portion of the
anatomy, both with humans as
we'll as dumb animals and ring
enthusiasts will tell you it rep
resents a step forward" in the
science of the gloves.
The Washington times., 1923-11-09
ST. XAVIER PLAYERS
LOOK OVER WASHINGTON

st. Xavier's football players to
the number Of thirty arrived this
morning and put up at the Willard
in time for breakfast. The Cincin-
natians went sightseeing after feed.
ing. This afternoon they will work
out on the Georgetown University
field.
About 100 rooters are following
the gridders. Tomorrow morning all
will go to Annapolis, where St.
Xavier will battle the Middies.
The Washington times., 1923-11-09
HILLTOP ScoREBOARD
WILL SHOW BIG GAME

Georgetown University has in
vited the alumni of Princeton and
Harvard to follow tomorrow's big
game between their alma matters on
the electric scOreboard at the Hill
top. The scoreboard is said to be
faithful to detail and "the next
thing to seeing the game itself"
The Washington times., 1923-11-09
VIC SCHWARTZ REFEREE
OF TOMORROW'S CONTEST

NEW YORK, Nov. 9.-Officials
of the CorneIl-Columbia game at
the Polo Grounds tomorrow have
been announced as follows: Referee:
Victor A. Schwartz, Brown; umpire.
David Fultz. Brown: field Judge. r,
J. O'Brien, Tufts: linesman, E. G.
Taggart, Rochester. Schwartz and
FultZ will be the referee and um.
pire respectively. at the Yale
Princeton game at New Haven on
November IT.
The Washington times., 1923-11-09
IMPOSSIBLE FOR NOTRE
DAME TO VISIT COAST

DENVER, Nov. o. Knute
.Rockne's Fighting Irish" Of Notre
Dame will not play their brand of
tornado football in the West this
year, NJ. ]. Walsh, president emerl-
tus Of Notre Dame, announced def
nitely in a telegram received here
yesterday.
1T is absolutely impossible" ne
telegraph
The Washington times., 1923-11-09
YALE WILL LOSE ONLY
TWO OF ITS BIG LINE

Yale will be we'll fixed next sea.
son, for only Shark Blair and
Jack Diller among the seven line
men are due to graduate. Huffman
is also a senior, but Bingham was
first-string end on Saturday. Be-
hind the line Jones will again have
Neale. Pond, Stevens and CottIe.
The Washington times., 1923-11-09
DO McMiIlin Plays
in Cleveland in
Pro Contest

CLEVELAND, Nov, 9.--Bo
McMilIin, former Centre College
quarterback and captain, now
coach to Centenary College at
Shreveport, La, will play with
the Cleveland Indians in the
local professional teams game
with the Dayton Triangles here
SuAAuay. centenary plays Bos-
ton College in Boston tomorrow,
and McMiIlin has accepted
terms to stop off here on his
way back to Louisiana and play
with the locals.
The Washington times., 1923-11-09
Giants Seek NAYS,

NEW YORK, Nov. Carl Mays,
the Lankee pitcher, will be with the
Giants next season If he can be
waived out of the American League.
McGraW is willing to take chance
with him
The Washington times., 1923-11-09

are not so parIlcs..41. 49,. e4N
glad to get work even If the Job
is canvas pressing for Mr.. Wills.
Those are the reasons why Wills,
one of the three outstanding heavy
weights in the world, is fighting for
PORK chops instead Of apartment
houses.
on Monday night over in New
ark Wills staged his semf-annuaI
rough negro veteran who had been
fattened up for the occasion.
Thompson is one Of the toughest
men in the ring. He can absorb an
amazing amount Of punishment. but
otherwise he is burned out and can't
hurt anybody with his punches.
wills knocked Thompson ont I'm
the fourth round on Monday night
and Immediately his detractOrs de-
cIared he had lost his punch or
I1e would have stopped his man
IN the first round.
IF Harry goals them" quickly
they are 'tset-ups"; IL he plays with
them a few rounds he is no good
himself.
Judge Of the gentle art OF fist1cuffs
Jack Thompson took more punish
ment on Monday night than Luis
Angel Firpo, bigger, younger
fighter, did from Dempsey last
September. Aside from Firpo we
do not believe there is heavy.
weight in the ring today-Dempsey
not excepted-wh could stand up
under the mauling that wills SUD-
s.l&1I5 r1k1nT10nann IN
There is no particular secret
about Thompson's ability to take
it," He is a thick-skulled citizen,
and an opposing hand viii crumpfe
sooner than his jaw. Wills clipped
Jack with many long rights to the
head. hut it was the terrific right.
hand iolts to the body that took
ali the fight out of Thompson.
Even so, he remained on his feet
| lIntil the fourth round and then ne
did not succumb to the pain OF
Wills blows. He was so weak
after three rounds that Wits.
swings actually knocked him OH
his feet without robbing him OF
his sense Of balance.
The Wills who fought Monday
night needs work in the ring. ne
grew arm weary HI III
round himself and his punch an
the last two rounds was not what
Il was i'm the first two. However,
he was q real ''br0wn panther" at
the start. Possibly Dempsey would
bring him down quickly with body
punches, but what whale OF 9
fight it would be as long as u
lasted!
Wills has never made more than
a fair living out Of the ring, but ne
can retire with "a fortune if he can
defeat Firpo and then go on to
Dempsey There are two fights
that any promoter would bid cool
million for.
There is much talk of matching
Jack Renault with Wills. It's just
talk. Tex Richard is angling for
the match-not because he thinks
it would be a real fight, but be-
cause he knows what 1t would be
worth to him.
We doubt, however, whether Leo
p. Flynn, RenaNIlt's astute mana
ger, has even the remotest idea of
sending Renault against the Brown
Panther at this time. It would
last only as long as Renault could
run or cover up-might be another
of those Dempsey-Gibbons things.
The Washington times., 1923-11-09
WILLS PROVES HIS RIGHT
TO MEET LUIS FIRPO
By SID MERCER.

NEW YORK, Nov. boutpo decrep old
Wills, the melancholy Uncle Of Ffsiana.
They Harry can't fight ick hit,
"take it, Can't of his
of thing Yet this sambng Of Che ring can't
work from the white boys who blowing
ike to do to Dempsey
Wills probably he sud agree take
thin dime for his share and promise not to
him their
fight want all the :
The Washington times., 1923-11-09
Gleason for Braves.

Though Kid Gleason refuses to
talk, rumors are becoming stronger
that the former White SOx man
ager will succeed Fred Mitchell as
leader of the Boston Braves for
next year.
The Washington times., 1923-11-09

For the solar pleXus blow par
alyzes the nervous center III the
torso and the entire muscular OF.
ganization is temporarily paralyzeo
the while. however, the mind of the
stricken man remains perfectly
clear.
And thus the story of Corbett's
defeat was a tragic one. For ne
lay helpless and writhing, but open
eyed and conscious throughout the
whole time that the referee was
tolling off the count which was
costing him the championship or
the world.
His helplessnes was pitiful, while
: his manliness in attempting to get
up and back into the fight with
legs and arms that would not,
could not answer the call supplied
q splendid exhibition. Of gameness.
Two seconds after the count he
was on his feet, the shock over,
strong as q bull and so enraged
that he had to be held back from
an attempt to carry on the fight
against his cOnquerOr.
Ad Wolgast introduced the ''loop"
punch. It was more spectacular
than damaging, however, and / al
ways advised boys that I trained
who were anxious to flash it to- lay
off, for the blow meant nothing in
the winning of a battle.
It consisted in holding a man off
with the left, bending low and and
looping the right up and over the
left and to the opponents head.
But the force OF it was spent by the
time it landed.
The subway was developed from
1t, and / don't know which boxer
began it. While it was no winner,
1t was more effective than the
'1oop." The opponent was held
off by one hand. while the boxer
bent low and brought an uppercut
under play to the chin. But few
boys could deliver an effective up
percut from the cramped position
they were forced to take on de-
livery.
The meanest punch on record, and
one rightfully barred by all sensible
commissions and referees, was the
kidney" It consisted of low
chop to the small of the back de-
livered in the clinches and on the
getaway.
It carried no knockout properties
whatsoever, but was supposed to
be damaging in fight that went
any distance-that is, if delivered
I'm the early rounds. its effect would
be- felt keenly in the later rounds
and slow a man up if it did not
cripple him entirely for continuing
the encounter.
The Washington times., 1923-11-09
Lewis Wins Bout.

LONDON, Nov. 9.-Ted Kid Lewis
defeated Fred Archer in twenty
rounds here last night.
The Washington times., 1923-11-09

But I never saw it work that
way. It did not figure during the
contest, but would have a dis
fressed effect on the fighter some
twenty-four to fOrty-eight hours
later. This would take, the form
of bladder hemorrhages lasting all
Of a week.
The blow was brought to this
The Washington times., 1923-11-09

country by George Dawson, an
Australian, who battled Harry
Fischer, Tommy Tracey and other
good men. But a campaign Of
newspaper letters, led by Jack Far
relI, a fight enthusiast, stirred SEN
timent rightfully against the kid
ney" punch as thoroughly unsports-
manlike and vicious, and it was
thus sent into the discard.
Jack Dempsey, the present cham
pion, introduced ''the rabbit punch
and the whirlpool" The rabbit
punch" ls-a chop to the back of
the neck just at the base Of the
skull and is sumner. The "whirl-
pool is a series of punches, a
medley Of right crosses and hooks
delivered with a peculiar winding
of the body and a constant rolling
of the head, the head suggesting
the center Nof the whirlpool and the
arms it's outer circle.
The public got the. impression
that the "Firpo," the blow that won
the South American so many fights
after I had trained him, and which
nearly stopped the great Dempsey
himself, was the rabbit" punch
But it was not. The "Firpo" lands
just back of the ear on the occipital
bone. 1t is not a knockout, but is
nearly as good as one, for it dazes
man and lays. him wide open for
the finishing touches.
The Washington times., 1923-11-09

It was first delivered by Pal
Moran in the fifth round, just at
a time when White had every rea.
son to think Moran was his canary.
1t consisted of a quick shift that
brought Moran behind his man so
that he seized Whites farthest
shoulder, swung him around and as
he came Moran put his right with
crashing effect against Whites jaw.
The strangeness and suddepness
Of it so startled the referee, Patsy
Haley, that he warned Moran
against the repetition of the blow,
but Pals manager, when he heard
that, vigorously and justly pro-
tested that it was fair attack and
legitimate blow, struck only with
the hand and not with the wrist
as in the prohibited pivot" where
the assailant does the whirling and
does not, as in Moran's case, whirl
his man to bring him to the point
OF attack. He carried his point and
Moran made use of the blow four
times again-twice in the eleventh
and twice in the twelfth.
The blow hurt Charlie White in
the fifth and it hurt him again
severely in the eleventh and twelfth
and went long way toward weak.
ening him for the technical knock.
out.
The Washington times., 1923-11-09

The most sensational freak
punch in a long time is that
which i mentioned i'm the be-
ginning as having been put over
on Charley White and which
have dubbed the ''merry-gO-
round"
The Washington times., 1923-11-09
FAMED SOLAR PLEXUS
Is INTRODUCED BY
FITZSIMMONS
By LANES (JTMMY) DE 70

Sharky right terrific thing and dubbed the
of Toms former life as one OF Uncle Sans
sailors
"od Master not only won fame hy knocking out
him. but in that unusual punchthe solar
plexus -.
punch belly hard to take under any
land
top OF it. But when FIT andeo
Of further punch to
The Washington times., 1923-11-09

Two seconds after the count he
was on his feet, the shock over,
strong as a bull and so enraged
that he had to be held back from
an attempt to carry on the fight
against his cOnquerOr.
The Washington times., 1923-11-09

wills knocked Thompson ont In
the fourth round on Monday night
and Immediately his detractOrs de-
cIared he had lost his punch or
ne would have stopped his man
IN the first round.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23

 STORY, HOAX
Report of Starving Persons on Fox Island, Play to
 Secure Tobacco.

NORTHPOBT. Mleh.. April 23.-Ed- ward Horn. one of three men who risked their lives to travel across slush ice and open water and who reported nine men and one woman starving on Fex Island and which re. suited in aeroplanes being rushed to the relief of the supposed sufferers, today admitted 10 newsnapefmen the story was a fake
 Horn said the men were not suf- fering from lack of food. but wanted tobacco. He thought if supplies were sent by aeroplane they would in- ciude tobacco
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23
ANOTHER VERSION.

CHICAGO. April 23-According 10 a wireless from the Harbor Boat Ferry Carry stories of starvation on Fox Island are substantiated by eight men and one woman who have been rescued. One man, Nels Ash, foreman on the island, refused to concur in conditions on the island
 The ferry is also carrying back to the mainland John Miller, Chicago men who were maroaned on the island last Friday when their plane was wrecked.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-23

education system of Alaska to make Q change at this time
 American Legion for Henderson.
 A telegram from Owen E Meals. Post Commander of the Valdez Am arican Legion Post to Senator A. J. Dimond. said:
 An unanimous resolution passed by local American Legion Post en- dcrsing the present Territorial school Commissioner and specifically cCndeanins those endeayoring 10 make the Commissionership polti- cal issue. Please inform the Gov ornor and the Educational Commit tee of both Houses that we would consider any change in the Com misionership an injustice to the ris- ing generation of Alaska"