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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-13
Mt. Rainier Jrs. PLAY

The Mt. Rainier Juniors will omen
their 1924.1925 basket ball season
when they hook up with the fast
Boys Club fCeltics in the Washing.
ton National Guard Armory. This
will be the first time in the history
OF sports that a Mt. Rainier team
has placed a qufnt on the floor.
The backbone Of the Mt. Rainier
team will be Bert Thompson the
star guard Of the champion Eastern
High School team.
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PALACE LAUNDRY CUNT
HAS NEW NEW YORK NAME

The Palace Laundry quint, which
has Its home in this city, but never
plays here, is known in New York
city as "Bucky Harris Washing
ton Senator's" This comes through
Harris connection with the team
as manager and trainer. When the
team recently played in. Rochester
the name was stuck on to the
team by the sports writer's Of that
city, and II has chung ever since.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-13
WOMEN's NET TOURNEY
HAS BIG PRIZE LIST

Handsome prizes will be awardAd
the winners of the Women's Ath
letic Association tennis tournament
at the University Of Maryland next
spring. The first prize is probably
the least desirable of all, being
merely gold medal
Other prizes include tennis
racket, and other essentials to the
game. The best player will proba.
bly, try to come in second.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-13
STuFFY McINNIS MAY
BECOME A BUccANEER

BOSTON, Dec. s1S.--Stuffy Nc
Innis, Of Gloucester, may be with
the Pirates in 1925. Bill McKechnie,
manager Of the Pirates, thinks he
needs some standby at first base
since he traded Grimm to the Cubs.
Dave Bancroft, of Allston, talked
over the McInnis angle with Nc
Kechnie. The Pirates are recog.
nized as pennant contenders.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-13
He Beat All Four.

"ARRY GREB, middleweight
III champion of the world, at
tended the New York Jour-
nails Christmas fund battles at
Madison Square Garden, musing
as he watched Tiger Flowers
knock out Johnny Wilson and
Tommy Gibbons stop Kid Nor
folk.
dts funny" he said to d friend
at his side, 1--WE fought and
beaten all four men in tonight's
star bouts. Right IN that same
ring l defeated Gibbons two years
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WALLER WINNER OF THE
BlRNEY CUP TOURNEY

William J. Waller won the
Birney cup, emblematic Of the
championship Of thu q class play.
ers Of the Washington Golf and
Country Club Waller defeated r.
M. Waldron up and s.
Because of the difference in
handicaps Waldron was compelled
to give Waller seven strokes in
the eighteen holes of play. TIL.
handicap was slightly too heavy
for him, and Walters margin of
advantage. was just about the diff
ference in handicaps.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-13
They Had a Purpose

In retaining Jack Hegarty as
coach, the Mohawks had IN mind
the regaining Of their football cham
pionship in next seasons campaign,
which, even this far away looms rs
humdinger. Several Of this
years younger eleven give promise
II making things Interesting in
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NJ UT FAhSE DEhAES.
Team Standings.


Records.
High team game columbia, No u.
SIT.
High team set CCapitaD. 1,616.
High Individual game q. l.. Motyka,
Capital; L. l.. Rinaldi. Columbia, No.
ID, l4s.
High individual set q. L. Motyka.
CapitaD, 377.
Greatest number Of strikes IL. L.
Rinaldi. Columbia, No. /; F. Benedict
Columbia, No. ~, II.
Greatest number of spares q. L.
Motyka, Capital), So.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-13

FIRST 1t was Babe Ruth, the
Busting Bambino," who donned
habiliments of Beau BrummeI and,
later, of an English gentleman.
Now it's Johnny Dundee, with
equal success
Now let Byron Bancroft John.
son, silenced president of the
American League, be snapped in
Mexican bandits garb.
Let Tommy Gibbons dress up
like the village undertaken.
Let Bull Montana come forth
from his Hollywood fastness at
tired like Ariel.
Let Clark Griffith be shown as
Ajax, waving his latest resolu-
ton in his right hand in letters
Of gold.
Let Tommy Connolly be shown
as a blind man, selling pencils.
Let all these more or less
prominent folk step out of their
well-known characters. Every
body's doing it.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-13
NAVAL ACADEMY LISTS
8 LACROSSE CONTESTS

ANNAPOLIS, Dec. 13.-The Naval
Academy lacrosse schedule for next
spring was announced today. All
games except that with Princeton
will be played at home.
April 5, Stevens April II, Yale;
April IS, New York University;
April 25. open; May 2, Princeton:
May 9, Johns Hopkins; May l6,
Rutgers; Nav 90. U. of Toronto:
May 30, Army.
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mat Gibbons six-round knock.
out OF Kid Norfolk has prompted
revival in dropping cauliflowers
was also indicated by the fact
that Luis Firpo, the well-known
human being, also stepped out with
a challenge today. The senior in.
ferred that Thomas would be his for
the asking.
One thing the writer wishes to
make clear: OF all the leading
heavyweights, Gibbons is the most
sincere. He said that he was
ready to meet Wills. / viii adj
NIT that he hasn't suffered a rush
OF promoters to the head, in conse-
quence, but the fact remains that
IL Gibbons says he will fight
Wills, they are as good as in the
ring, provided the dark one is
Quiescent. M
Our MIR. Richard has been
strangely silent ON the subject
! however. There is q persistent
idea along Broadway that Wills
is to be kept out Of the big
shots as much as possible, and
certainly, If Gibbons goes on to
another match with Dempsey
without first climbing over Wills,
this belief will be tinged with
faint suggestion of fact. A Glib
bOns-Wills bout would pile the
customers in neat, compact stacks.
Further, it would provide the so.
called logical contender for the
championship and permit the pro-
moter to make a single dollar grow
twice in the same place, highly
desirable situation. Yet the silence
remains profound.
However, today's demands" may
mean the preface for big business
ahead. The bout needs little smoke
up because Wills, regardless OF in
different performances last year, re-
mains the most dangerous chal-
klenger, and Gibbons is a gent who
may make q sap out of any man at
any time.
How he would fare with Wills is
to give away thirty-ffve pounds in
weight and much in strength, which
counts plenty in the wrestling that
must come in a bout of fifteen
rounds. Yet, in several ways, Wills
would be an ideal target for such
as Gibbons.
The writer saw him tie up
Dempsey for fifteen rounds Of CATCH
as-catch-can at Shelby. Wills Is an
infighter, first and last. and not
as clever at it as Dempsey, at that.
His right to the body is his lest
punch, and Gibbons is seldom hit
solidly with that hand. At long
range, Thomas would be playing on
his own home grounds.
All in all, it is quite an interest
ing equation. In fact, far too in
teresting to be settled out of the
ring.
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GEORGETOWN WILL MEET
FORDHAM NEXT NOV. u

Another football date has been
settled on Georgetown's 1925 sched-
ule. The Hilltoppers viii play
Fordham next November 81 in the
New York Polo Grounds.
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GIBBONS WILLS BOUT Is
RAPIDLY BREWING
BY DAVIS j. WALSH
International News Service sports Editor.

NEW YORK, Dec ia possible bout between Tom Gibbons and
Harry Wills prelude to championship shot Dempsey
new profile began cooking slow fire today critics
publicly that Wills be granted the recognition his record
talking to hear his teeth rattle when he stated upon his
for the West several days that willing to froc with
Wills Others and timated that bout would clear
the to Dempsey like q tank tractor
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COLUMBIA NO. / PRIMERS
TOP PYTHIAN LEAGUE
By S. N. PEARSON,


. . nnHsH" IN7.u.J :.
The Columbia No team has the hand the the
Knights Of Pha League but there half dozen
make trouble for before
Columbia leading
bowers Pacn Rnad Each average
after Benede with 1O5 Several other members of the
league shooting 1O5 POWELL of RathboneSupeno has
ILL., could hardly be called the leader nasmuch
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Stantons Challenge

The Stantons challenge 125-pound
basketball teams. Manager Morry
vi zgerald may be reached by phone
u Mi IL $500 at night.
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They Like Football.

THEY like schoolboy football
out in Los Angeles, accord
ing to the following para
graphs from the Evening Herald
of the movie town:
clos Angeles grabbed another
record when $1,000 football fans
crowded into the coliseum to see
Los Angeles High and Poly battle
to a 7-to-7 tie for the city foot
ball championship. All attendance
marks for high school gridiron
contests in this country were
shattered by this mighty throng,
according to our best known Stats
ticians and collectors of data per-
tanning to the athletic activities
of the prep stars
"When two high school teams
can attract crowd of $1,000 it
proves that football enthusiasm
is rampant in Los Angeles and
that Southern California leads the
nation when it comes to gridiron
turnouts."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-13

BOVE Johnny Dundee featherweigh champion
~ world through his defeat Crqu Johnny
Of his junior lightweight long and he
cdd graduate the lightweight after taking vacation
Europe Johnny really Joseph Carrora born in Shaa Italy
and he intends visiting OF Sharkaine
fore returning New York and taking the tools of his trade
And don't think he's making his style look
at this picture grabbed during his
moments at his London hotel step give
the Londoners treat he takes the air in Pccadiy
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-13
Form in Line on Right.

HAPPENING to read the
III Brooklyn Eagle the other
day, the following item
"Allie Wolff, halfback on the
Erasmus Hall High School foot
ball team and member of the
Eagle All-Scholastic eleven, may
be playing football in Pennsyi-
vania next season if he accepts
an athletic scholarship which has
been offered to him
"The scholarship has been offer
ed to him by a prominent foot
ball coach Of one of the Brooklyn
scholastic elevens in behalf of
Franklin University, Lancaster,
Pa. Although it is small col
lege, Wolff would be able to
bring it into the limelight by
captaining the football team and
trainingfa strong squad.
Although Wolff has not de-
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ago. / trounced Norfolk in ten
hard rounds in Pittsburgh, made
mess of Flowers in his own
bailiwick, Atlanta, and repeated
over Wilson right here. I'd ike to
be in there tonight with any one
of the four, and I'd win under
wraps"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-13

~ AANsAg NVANN7N4 0NNNJ AtAHA~ EHFAAANRts
J. l.. Motyka, Of the Capital
team, and L. L. Rinaldi. of Co.
lumbia No. /, are rivals for the
individual records.
Here's the dope:
END OF FIRST SERIES.
49,. 0A,uAa.-.
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Chicago Amer. OO0O1 %
Chicago Nat. -. 0 0 0 o o / o o Ell
Left on bases-Nationals. s: Amer
leans. 3. hree-base-h it-Rohe Sacri-
Stolen bases-Isbell. DOugherty. Struck
out-By Brown, (Hahn, IsbelI,
Donohue, 8; wynnehill. Altrock); by
Altrock, Drown Hoffman, Evers.)
Off Brown, Il; Atltrock, 1. Wild
pitch--Altrock, Il; Brown. I. Umpires
tombstone and O'Loughlin. Official
scorers-Richter and Elanner. Time,
l:46. Attendance, 1893.
(MOnday-Ed ReuIbach Holds the
White SOx to One Hit in Second
Game.l
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cided to accept the scholarship,
he is almost certain to do so If
a better inducement from another
college is not forthcoming"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-13

Moe was . little
off balance yesterday.
He slapped his cakes
on New Hope, but the
racoon couldn't raise
enough dust to spoil
4 Ave cent shine.
''Bill" Lahrnan, the
sauerkraut expert,
has received word
that Moe is taking .
smack at one that
looks like the cara
way seeds. Bank roll
to date, $31,11S.54.
The Washington times., 1924-06-17
AND
MARRIOTT To
BATTLE
Matched for Twelve Rounds
Next Thursday Night at
SportIand Arena

Jumbo Eggleston, the Mohawk
clubs sturdy clouting middleweight
and Bobby Marriott, army titlehold.
er, have been matched for twelve
rounds next Thursday night at
Sportland. This viii be- the feature
contest on a card promising much
smuggling.
Eggleston is well known to Wash.
lngton fans as a hitter and absorb.
er OF punishment. He wins most
OF his victories by the. kayo routs
ana has seldom been on the floor
himself. Marriott has shown him
self, however, to carry a terrific
wallop and his friends are counting
on him to stop the Mohawk slugeer
inside of the distance.
Marriott's one-sided victory over
the redoubtable Jack Renzo has
earned him the support of the ma.
1ority and he will probably enter
the ring a favorite to win.
The semi-final will have Tex
Stoval swapping clouts with Jimmy
Brock, the Baltimore veteran mid.
dleweight. They are booked for eight
rounds.
Two six-round prelims complete
the card, George Leslie, of Camp
Meade, meeting Louis Guglimini and
Young Tony taking on Reddy Tend.
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fighting on the field. They know
better. They know that one By
ron Bancroft Johnson would take
their money away from them, if
they dared to get into fist fights
on the field.
1t is also interesting to note
that FORTY THOUSAND fans
FOUGHT TO GET INTO THE
PARK for the game on the follow
ing day. That just about explains
what the fans think about ball
teams in earnest about winning.
Bucky Harris is known among
ball players as a scrappy player,
but he has yet to NIT it with any
body on the field. He is also one
cool-thinking young man. That
explains why he is q manager at
the age Of twenty-seven.
And yet, if the Griffs would
only develop some player who
would EXPLODE EVERY NOW
AND THEN, take a whack al
somebody and get . suspension
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F|NNEGAN WINS
KNOCKOUT
VICTORY
Left to Solar PIexus ParaIyzes
Chick Ward in Very
First Round

Honey Boy" Finnegan didn't
take long to hang up q decisive
victory over Chick Ward, Of Balti.
more, at the Kenilworth Arena
last night. One round was enough
to find Ward lying on the floor
unable to move from a terrific
left to the solar plexus. 1t required
couple Of minutes for the little
Baltimorean to get his wind.
The Finnegsn.Ward contest had
been postponed n week because
Of cruel weather. The fans, there
fore, had plenty of time to talk
over the coming affair and a pack
ed house turned out under the big
moon to see the mixup. They were
not detained long by the finalists,
but the entire card ives satisfactory,
being loaded with real ring action.
Finnegan protested the appoint
ment Of a Baltimore referee and
two Baltimore judges, but finally
entered the ring. He did no: look
as sturdy as his rival who promptly
started in to make q rough. house
out of it.
Ward landed several hard rights,
at least one Of which seemed TO
bother the slender southpaw. Fin.
negan was dancing away mos. of
the time, calmly awaiting an oppor.
tunity. 1t came shortly before the
end Of the round. Ward, rushing
in. missed with his right and Fin
negan's darting left connected with
Wards body. Down went Ward
paralyzed by that heavy wallop Il
the solar plexus.
Nick Brown, the Baltimore Greek
received an earned decision over
Terry O'Day, of Belfast, Ireland
In their six.round semi.fInal, O'Day
excelled at long range and AZ
Brown kept working in close, beat
ing a tattoo on the Irishman's ribs
Willie Potency, Of Fort Myer
was outclassed by Kid ShattucR
and. after hitting the floor fire
quently, was stopped altogether ir
the second with a hard right tt
the head.
Jack Winstead, Of Northeast
Washington, received a decision ir
four rounds over Kid DocowItz, OF
Washington Barracks. Kid Groves
defeated Joe Rivers, Of Washington
Barracks, In their four.round tilt
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LEFTY GROVES NEARING
TH0USANDTH STRIKEoUT

Lefty Groves, the young Balti.
more pitcher, will soon chalk UP
his 1,000th strikeout in the Inter.
national League. Groves at the age
Of twenty-four IL serving his fifth
season in this league and has
tanned 'e70 men. His first season
he famed eighty.nine, then 254. $40,
$50 and so far this season forty.
seven. In a game against SYRIA
cuse last summer he famed seven.
teen batsmen. It Is nothing un.
usual for him to fan six or seven
batsmen In a row. but he loses con.
troll, or his stuff, now and then,
and is driven to the showers. But
he never tires. He says his arm
never has been sore.
The Washington times., 1924-06-17
Penn Coach Is High
in Praise Of Yale
Crew

POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y, June
17.-Head Coach Joe Wright, of
Pennsylvania, said that the Yale
varsity is the greatest crew he
ever saw. Coming from a man
of Wright's experience and
knowledge, this is not only a
remarkable statement, but q
fine tribute to Coach Ed Lead
er's eight.
Wright has rowed in and
coached some Of the finest crews
in the East, and is a recognized
authority. He said that Penn
rowed a fine race against Yale
only to be beaten by eight sec
onds, and that no crew in the
country is capable Of coping
with the Blue sa it rowed on
the Schuylkill Friday and Satur-
Q0y.
The Washington times., 1924-06-17
MCGUIRE ACCOUNTS FOR
AUTOMOTIVE TOURNEY

w. A. Mcclure accounted for the
low gross score in the golf tourna.
ment Of the Washington Automo-
tive Trade Association on the Con.
gressional Club Links, with a card
Of SO. Walter B. Guy was second
with a card Of 81.
David Luttrell, with a low net Of
10 which he got through the
medium Of a 80 handicap. c. H.
Warrington got second with a net
card of n. l.. S. Julien, e. M.
Wallace. Frank Justice, George Bill.
ungs, D. A. Beatty, Royce Hough,
Oscar Coolican, and Irving Hender-
son were among those who failed to
place.
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how the fans would flock to the
ball yardl
Baseball is still supposed to be
a game for he-men, for those who
give their all to win: It's greatest
drawback is the lackadaisical at
titude Of so many major leaguers.
Going through the motions never
brought any riots from assembled
fans.
Without honking for a riot,
here's hoping that Bucky Harris
will work up his gang when they
get home to start a few on the
part of those bugs occupying right
field. It would be great stuff for
the ball club and the town in
general. We'd know then we were
still in the pennant race.
The Washington times., 1924-06-17
BUCK ASTON IS SEEKING
CONTEST WITH MARRIOTT

BALTIMORE, June 17.-Joe Bar.
rett has middleweight he wants
to sic" on Bob Marriott II the local
promoters will give him a chance.
He Is Buck Ashton, q veteran Of
Lancaster, Pa, who himself has
done quite a bit of knocking out.
Barrett also has Billy Cannon, his
junior lightweight, primed for action
and doesn't bar anybody at Billy's
weight.
The Washington times., 1924-06-17
ROCK CREEK PARK GOLF
FINALS FOR TOMORROW

w. A. MCGUIRE and Earl McAleer
viii meet in the finals Of the Rock
Creek Park golf tournament to.
morrow. While both have been
chosen to 60 to the national pub
lie links tournament at Dayton, the
match win be played to determine
the winner Of the park event.
Mcguire won his way to the
finals through defeating Page
Hufty, while McAleer had a default
to help him on his way.
The Washington times., 1924-06-17
BALSA PROVES A BUST
AND LOSES IN THIRD

NEW YORK, June 17.-Andreas
Balsa, champion heavyweight of
spain won't do-he will never fight
JACK Dempsey. Upon that all box.
ing experts today were agreed.
Ba!sa, a bull-necked, heavy.bodied
individual, was given his first
chance here last night to show what
ne could do against American
fighters. He was pitted against
the fast, clean cut young Iowa
heavyweight, Floyd johnson. He
was beaten almost to a pulp, beaten
80 badly, in fact, that the referee
stopped the bout in the third round.
The Washington times., 1924-06-17

Asst winter listened after naming this
and that of the Washington Gfmen Eddie Col
ns veteran second sackr bobng about third
from anywhere Well Eddie has had his chance and he has made
Collins named to handle the White Sox Without
he did just that little thing When the playing here in
Washington he the conclusion that
shoopper and that Johnny Mos batting slump costing
the team ball games should So he Bill
from the bench and played him the nf Maurice Arch
deacon to centerfield. Both have been making
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side, for over two months with no
signs of anything but the most
cordial feeling.
or the squad Of eleven, Ga1lag.
her, Lee and Jacomini, who az mem.
bers of the Naval Reserve were
ordered to active duty for the olym.
pic effort, viii return to civil life,
while Lieutenant Harris and En-
signs Graves, Sanborn, Frawley,
Walsh, Bolles. Higgins and Clark,
win rejoin the ships to which they
are assigned.
Here 1t is felt that the efforts
of both aggregations have reflect
ed credit on Naval oarsmenship and
pointed the way to greater successes
in coming years.
The Washington times., 1924-06-17

Six college crews. trained to the
last minute, four representing the
Mast, two the West, were resting
ct their respective boat houses
( awaiting the signal to start In what
promises to be gruelling and sensa-
tionally thrilling three-mile varsity
race this afternoon. These Fights
represent Cornell. Columbia, SYRIA.
cuse, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and
Washington.
''The race will be decided in the
last MILE" experts predicted today.
For days spIendidIy put up
YOung men, with muscled arms
and brOnzed bodies, have been
earnestly pulling at oars up and
down stream in all kinds Of
weather I'm "time trials" and try
outs. The newspapers have
recorded some Of these preparatory
tests as records" others were
classed as "heart breaking" and
"discOuraging." Hopes have been
alternately high and In the
depths.
Today all crews announced they
are ready
Not an alibi Not q bombastic
prediction. Not a single cry of des-
pair. And no predictions. They
left the problem of picking of the
winner to the experts" and the ex.
perts, with corrugated brows and
doubtful minds, "doped" the race
about as follows:
Washington-the favorite. But
hNY III eli nrhf To-
This eight, which won the annual
perts say, by the loss of Max Tuft,
it's veteran number four. who is Ill
with fever
Columbia-Formidable. Inside"
Information is impaired that this
crew negotiated the coure in the
spanking time Of ii minutes and
2S seconds.
Observation-Disclosures con.
tender. Wonderful short-distance
crew. The question seems to be:
"Can Pennsylvania squirt in the
last mile and hold it?"
Cornell-A dark hore." This
crew has tradition, If nothing more,
back Of them. In years gone by,
1t was merely necessary to say
Cornell" at Poughkeepie.
Syracuse-Problematical. A good
crew, coached by the great Ten
Eyck.
Wisconsin - inexperienced. Has
improved steadily since it came
East to train. however, and may
spring a surprise.
1t will be a desperately fought
race, critics agree. Crudely painted
expectations on the various crews
boat houses, with wording such as
"a crew that can't be licked, won't
be licked" gives an idea of the
psychological methods employed to
bring about victory-to say moth.
ing Of moral support that will be
lent by the cheering, pennant.wav-
ing goods lining the river banks.
The weather was clear and
warm. Fifty thousand persons will
witness the classic.
The Washington times., 1924-06-17
HARRY GREB KNOCKS OUT
WELSH BOXER IN SIXTH

WATERBURY,, Conn.,, June IT,
A hard right hook to the jaw
brought a kayo victory to Harry
Greb. middleweight champion of the
world, over Frank Moody, Of Wales,
IN the sixth Of their scheduled
twelve-round bout here last night.
Moody struggled to rise to his feet,
but lacked the strength and was
counted out. Greb led from the
start,