The Tomahawk., 1924-03-20


treal added Cliff Kramer of st. Paul
to his long list of knockout victims,
the Canadian heavyweight champion
fiattening Kramer for the count in the
fourth round of fight scheduled for
10 rounds.
st. Paul-Eddie Kane, manager of
Tommy Gibbons, is indignant over the
attitude taken by Jack Dempsey and
his manager, Jack Kearns, in regard
to return championship match with
the st. Paul boxer. He accuses the
champion Of running out of a match
with Gibbons for fear that he might
lose the championship in decision
bout. Dempsey has promised Gibbons
a return encounter on a number Of &C.
casions, Kane stated, but when 1t
came to putting his promise in writ
ing Dempsey became shy, lodging
to terms
MinneapolisNwillie Hoppe, worlds
billiards champion, won both blocks
of his exhibition series with Jake
Schaefer, his closest rival, at the Dry
er recreation rooms. The champion
won the afternoon block, 400 to 129,
and the evening match. 400 to 294.
Sarasota, Fla-The Giants will have
to beat the Cincinnati Reds to win
their fourth straight pennant this sea.
son, in the opinion of John ]. Nc
Graw. The Giants leader expects
both New York clubs to repeat for
the fourth time handwriting, but he
predicts that the National league race
will be an open contest with several
clubs fighting it out for premier hon
ors.
Orlando, F1a.-Pat Moran, manager
Of the Cincinnati Reds, died in hos
pital here Of Bright's disease. He
died as he had lived-"playing the
game"-stubbornly resisting heavy
odds in fighting his last grim battle
with the same determination he
showed on the baseball diamond. Jack
Hendricks succeeds Pat Moran as
manager of the Cincinnati Nationals.
Hendricks managed one major league
club, the st. Louis Cardinals, several
years ago and has piloted many pen
nant winners in the minors. He
joined the Cincinnati club this sea-
son as coach and assistant manager,
after resigning his managership of
the Indianapolis American association
club.
Foreign
Mexico City-General Plutarco Elias
Gales continues to be candidate for
the presidency, announces the Gales
party. He has a majority in congress
and in the Oregon cabinet. He is the
only prominent candidate, as the De
La Huerta party refuses to present
candidate. The agrarians, revolution
lists and .workingmen's unions are be-
hind him.
Rome-What is said will be the
most imposing consistory ever held
in the history of the Catholic church
will be that for Cardinals Hayes and
Mundelein on March e. Pope Plus
decided to hold the impressive public
consistory in the basilica Of st. Pet
ers. 1t will be exclusively an Amer
lean function, insofar as new cardinals
are concerned, for no other names of
prelates have been mentioned as the
recipients of the red hat.
Moscow-Twenty-tw members Of
the bandit gang which held up the
Warsaw-Moscow express train near
the Polish frontier last October, rob-
bling the diplomatic couirers on board.
have been sentenced to death at Minis.
The leader, the former Polish Colonel
Monich, escaped. The evidence at
the trial was that Colonel Monich's
real aim was a monarchist uprising
in White Russia in the spring.
= Fiume, Italy-Fiums has been plac.
ed under Italian law in accordance
with decree issued by General Gard
inc, military governor, establishing
the civil and political organization OF
the city. The new territory, which is
designated at Carnaro, has not yet
been officially annexed to Italy, SO
the administrative offices there will
continue until after the annexation
formalities and the government orders
the holding of elections
Tegucigalpa, Honduras-General Ra-
fael Lopez. Gutierrez, former presi-
dent of Honduras, who, since the ex-
piration of his term on February 1,
has been dictator in Honduras, is
dead. The cabinet of General Gutieer-
ez, presided over by DR.. Francisco
Buesco, the foreign minister, has as
sumed all powers of state. The rev.
olutionists have rejected the over
lures made by the Central American
republics for an armistice, and have
issued an ultimatum to the govern
ment, giving it "a hours in which to
surrender the capital. II Tegucigalpa
is not given up, they announce that
an attack will be begun upon 1t.
Berlin-Foreign Minister Strese-
mann in the reichstag demanded re-
moval of the Allied military control
and declared that the German govern
ment could not accept guarantee
commission to see that Germany was