The Tomahawk., 1924-06-19
Sports

Sports
New York-Harry Wills, the Negro
challenger Of Jack Dempsey, is slow
~ giving quarter to that great in
visible fighter, Father Time. Wills,
oven his staunchest admirers admit
den OF years. He failed to knock out
BARLEY Madden, the fighting Irish
man." in Is rounds here, and suffered
an almost irreparable loss of prestige.
The Negro, feet and weighing 213
pounds, was as menacing a looking
physical specimen as ever crawled
through the ropes.
Michigan City, Ind.-Georges Car
pentier and Jack Curley left for Cur
leys home at Great Neck, l.. l., where
the Frenchman will rest in order to
recover from a sprained ankle before
engaging in another match in this
country. Georges limped to an auto
with the aid OF a cane, assisted by
Curley. The swelling in the ankle
has been reduced but there Is still
much pain. Georges has denied re-
ports that he will retire from the
ring and expects to engage in other
matches in this country this summer.
Minneapolis-Dr. L. ]. Cooke, head
basketball coach at the University OF
Minnesota for the past 27 years and
one of the outstanding figures in Co
pher athletics, voluntarily resigned
his coaching position to become ticket
manager OF the new stadium. The
athletic senate announced the appoint
ment of DR.. Cooke. The Gopher coach
was offered the position as ticket man
ager some time ago but he said that
he would not acrept unless his work
was lightened somewhat.
Foreign
London-Foreign warships travers-
ing or stationed in Turkish waters
have been forbidden to use their wire
less equipment without permission
from the Turkish government.
London William Marconi spoke
from Poldhu, Cornwall, to Australia,
by radio telephone, according to the
Daily Mail. Transmission occupied
one-sixteenth Of a second and was
acknowledged by cable. The distance
from Cornwall to Australia Is more
than 10000 miles.
Riga-Russia mas 17,700 automobiles,
according to a census compiled by the
Moscow government There are 6S
private automobiles in Moscow, As Of
these being in the hands Of chauffeurs
who appropriated the machines from
their wealthy employers during the
revolution.
London-Of the nine new judges
appointed to the high courts in Dub
lin, including Hugh Kennedy and
Timothy Sullivan. none Is able to
speak Gaelic, although that now Is
the official language Of the courts,
and the statutes are printed therein
with English translation, according
to the Daily Mail.
Brescia-Bishop Baggia has deter.
mined to put an end to lmmodest
dressing and has had posters placed
on the doors Of all churches, and
also orders read during all masses,
stating that women and girls will be
expelled from the churches if they
dare present themselves with naked
arms and low necks."
Christiania-The president Of the
Norwegian labor party, Oskar Torp,
and the chief editor of the partys
organ, Martin Trammael, have been
sentenced to five n.onths imprison-
ment for advising members Of the Ia
Dor party to refuse to serve in the
army and urging striking laborers to
attack men willing to work in their
places.
here by airplane from Bucharest says
that, while NJ. Bratiano is in Difficult
ties, he Is still the prime minister.
Ten thousand peasants with General
Averescu at their head entered Blu.
charest Tuesday Averescu made a
long address denouncing Bratiano and
demanding his resignation. The peas
ants then quietly dispersed. Prime
Minister Bratiano's position is great
ly weakened, however.
London-Radio telephone communi
cation between Europe and America
is coming soon," Guglielmo Mar
conf, wireless inventor, declared in an
interview in which he discussed the
results of his recent radio speech from
Cornwall which was heard distinctly
not only by prepared listener in
Australia but also by friend in Can.
ada, J. H. Thompson, Of Montreal. The
beam system was not used in this
experiment Mr. Marconi said the re-
suits OF beam system transmission un-
doubtedly would prove its availability
for high speed telephony.
Nogales. Sonora, Mex.-Oil inter
ests were upbraided as the most for
midable barriers" in the way Of Mexi-
co.'s desire for moral, social and po-
litical revindication," by President
Alvaro Obregon in statement. MA
terial interests have constituted real
gravestone which prevented any move