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Evening star., 1925-12-22
CALIFORNIA REGAINS
ITS FISTIC PRESTIGE
BY FAIR PLAY,

The sun of California is high in
the fistic armament these days.
Once upon time one could almost
judge a champions habitat correctly
by saying, He comes from the West
coast"
Then came slump, when the fight
game went dead in California, and the
East and Middle West proceeded to
grab all the titles
Then the Golden State passed a
boxing law. Invitations were ex-
tended to Eastern boys, and every
train took it's flock of wise. ones West
to seize the easy dollars.
First 1t was frankie Genaro, who
held the American fyweight title.
He thought the unsophisticated West
was the place to grab money without
hard work.
The coast promoters chose a for
mer amateur champion as his op-
ponent. Wham! went his title. Even
Genaro's specially imported referee
had to decide against him. Then Pal
Moran, who had made the long trek
to the sunny slope took on Mushy Cal
lahan. This Jewish lad with the Irish
monicker did not bother to wait for
the decision of the referee; no. in
deed, he doused Pals lights in three
rounds! First time 1t was ever done
to Moran.
Then Tod Morgan stuck a long.
lean left hand into the robust, rib
busting Mike BaIlerino's- face, until
Mikes seconds threw in the towel to
save him from being stabbed to
death.
Yes, and Charley Rosenberg. He
ducked out West to clean up against
the soft picked ones. He ran into a
California; n Sporfipy tho no,,o ~ Too
Lynch, former bantam king, and got
a fine pasting.
Who will be the next Fastener to
get hiS2
Evening star., 1925-12-22
JACK IN AGREEMENT
WITH FITZSIMMONS

LOS ANGELES, December % @.-
Jack Dempsey, champion heavyweight
fighter, and Floyd Fitzsimmons, pro-
moter of the Dempsey-W Wills title
match, yesterday agreed to new terms
for the bout set for next Fall, whereby
f1tzsimmons will pay substantial
amount ION account" to the champion
and the latter will post a large bond
to insure his appearance.
The new articles of agreement, it
was announced. are to take the place
of those signed last Summer, under
which South Bend syndicate was to
back Fitzsimmons in staging the fight
at Michigan City, Ind.
Under the new agreement, which is
tentative only until it is approved by
F':tzsimmons' lately acquired hackers
in Chicago, the champion is said to
have the same purse guarantee as
promised for the fight at Michigan
City.
The bout, according to the latest
plans, may be staged in Michigan City
or in any other town of several stated
where conditions are favorable. =
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y
Since that time Lazarus has not
done much. while La Barba has made
rapid strides. 1t looks as though
Rickard were pulling his master STRAIT
egy in giving La Barba a chance 10
make a blazing start.
Then. with interest in La Barba
keen, Rickard will pull big show
with Fidel as the top-line figure.
CurIey Champions Basque.
Jack Curley. who has forsaken thH
nastodons of the mat temporarily, has
turned his battery of typeWriters to
the work of booming out Il ballyhOo
for the tiger of the Pyrenees, Paolino.
Curley, as almost every one knows
is a close friend of Francois DeScamps.
next to Jack Kearns one of the grail
binest managers in the game.
Curley was the master mind behind
Georges Carpenter when the French
man came here and fought Tommy
Gibbons.
Although Tex Rickard denies that
he has been in touch with Paolino. in
siders expect to see the Basque wood
chopper in action in this country be
fore Winter is over.
Following the usual custom. he
probably will polish off d few steups.
and then be set for a. big outdoors shol
Wnen spring mas come.
The big fellow ought to make
sensation here, for he has the neces-
Sary color.
Paoiino's latest feat was to knock
out the German champion, Breiten-
straeter. in nine rounds. But this,
come TO think, is not d whole lot I"
boast about, seeing that Paul Samp-
son, a German-American light-heaNy
of little or any merit, did the trick in
quicker time.
But the little matter Of reputation
will be fixed up all right when Pao-
limo touches these shores.
II is claimed that he is willing to
tackle Luis F'irpo for the right to take
a crack at Dempsey. Descamps makes
a great show OF excitement over this,
holding that F'irpo left Europe TO avoid
the Spanish Basque.
All in all. there is a ballyhoo in the
wind of sizeable dimensions. Wait
for it, watch for il.
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Evening star., 1925-12-22


Joe Kirkwood was the author of the
play. 1t is doubtful if many others
could have accomplished the feat
which Joe performed. His well known
skill in the extreme niceties of han
ding club counted heavily.
On the sixteenth hole, a 400-yard af
fair. kfrkwood's drive carried to a
patch of heavy mud in the fairway.
When he came up to his ball he found
it buried in thick mire, only a little
patch of white showing at the top.
Joe had a distance of 160 yards to
travel to reach the pin. 1t seemed i'm
possible that he could do much more
than dig his ball out of the mire.
He got as firm a stance as was
possible in slippery footing, selecting
a mashie for the shot.
1t must have been a spade"
mashie, considering what followed.
Joe played his ball dead on line
for the flag, and when it came to
stop it was exactly 2 feet from the
cup.
1t was a miraculous play. I don't
know how he did 1t.
But strangely enough. with a short
putt before him for a birdie 8, Kirk
wood dropped from the sublime to the
ridiculous,
He missed his putt!
Evening star., 1925-12-22


Ban johnson had been the head
of the Western League before he set
out to make his circuit second ma
ior league, and he jumped all OF his
own cities, rather passed them by, to
start his second major circuit. Those
cities included all of the present
American Association circuit except
Louisville.
Lose Their Berths.
Expansion threw Buffalo, Minneap-
oils, COLUMBUS, Kansas City and In
dianapolis out of the American League.
Milwaukee remained in the league one
year and then was dropped because
it proved not to be a major league
city in those days. Minneapolis, ST.
Paul and Kansas City We're in the
Western League.
In August. 1901. Watkins of In
dianapolis; Ruschaupt, also of Indian
apolis; George Tebeau, a stormy petrol
in base ball always. because he was
resentful of interference, and Tom
Hickey met in indianapolis and de-
cided to start the American Associa-
ton. Mighty little they figured at the
time that they would have the best
minor league circuit of the West in
due season, and Hickey. president of
the American Association. got him.
self into hot water for the policy
which he pursued.
The American League had mighty
little use for the association, even If
it was made up of discarded American
League cities. The National Associa-
ton had no use for it, because the
American Association had broken into
territory which belonged to another
circuit in the association.
The Western League put rival clubs
in Kansas City and Milwaukee. The
American Association at last was out
lawed. That was about as far as
action could be taken. The associa-
ton crowd kept up it's fight. although
1t was costing it pretty sum for
IFS eyDeriment
Evening star., 1925-12-22

In 1902 the association met and
decided to carry the fight to a finish
in Kansas City and Milwaukee and
it won it. Hickey got into hot water
with his owners in 1903 and decided
to resign. He was succeeded by
J. Ed Grillo, who had been a base
ball writer in the West. The asso-
citation entered into the general or
ganization and its contracts were re-
spected.
Outlaws" Brought In.
The California outlaws also were
brought in with the right not to be
drafted upon except by the major
leagues, and with the privilege of
drafting from all National Association
clubs and TO be exempt from a salary
limit. Everybody agreed to all these
arrangements after having seen
some base ball promoters become
nearly bankrupt and satisfying them
selves that the easiest way in which
to lose money was to conduct So
called base ball war.
The weather had been so miserably
bad for the season of 1903 in the
Western League that Mike Sexton,
then president of the organization,
shut it down September H. Rumors
spread all over the base ball crowd
that the league was about through
and the act made no end of imme-
date trouble for the circuit, although
it was proved in the long run that
Sexton had done the best thing he
could have done for the owners, who
were about stretched out financially
with bad weather and bad base ball
to make their troubles never-cea sing
Eventually the league lost Kansas
City and Milwaukee, as it was pre-
dicted would happen, and then the
nucleus of the circuit moved to Den
yer, Omaha, st. Joseph, Wichita and
like cities around which it has re-
volved since then with excellent base
ball and the development of many
good pIayerS
Evening star., 1925-12-22
FIGHTS LAST NIGHT

NEWARK, y. J.-Pete Latzo,
Scranton, Pa. won a newspaper de-
cision over Bermondsey Billy Wells,
welterweight champion of Great Brit
ain 12 roundS).
BUFFALO, y. Y.-Jimmy Slattery,
middleweight, defeated Boy McCor-
mick. light-heavyweight champion of
Ireland G0).
NEW YORk.-Eddie Anderson of
Wyoming beat George Balduc, Lewis
ton, Me. 00). Davy Abad, Panama
bantamweight, outpointed Max Svit.
sky, New York lO).
Evening star., 1925-12-22
BENTLEY is EXPECTED
TO FIGURE IN A TRADE

Jack Bentley's name again appears
in the base ball trade market with the
return to New York from Florida of
the Giants manager. John McGraw.
The Giants need an outfielder who
can stand seasons campaigning in
order that George Kelly may remain
at first base.
Three clubs are understood to be
seeking Bentley. one of them the
Pittsburgh Pirates.
Evening star., 1925-12-22
TRIO OF CLOUTERS
PICKED UP BY CUBS

Here is the first bag of minor league
stars Joe Mccarthy has picked up to
boost the batting of the Cubs in 1926:
Frank O'Doul. right fielder of the
Salt Lake team; batting average, .375;
hits, 800; home runs, "a in 1925.
Joe Kelly, left fielder of the To-
ronto club; batting average, 1928; home
runs, "a.
Hack" Wilson, former center field
er of the Giants and batter of $50
with Toledo last year.
Evening star., 1925-12-22
MCCARTHY HAS CHANCE
TO EVEN WITH BURKE

Jimmy Burke, former manager of
Indianapolis in the American Associa-
ton, once told young infielder, Joe
Mccarthy, to grab that bat bag and
cart it to the clubhouse, for you are
no good for anything else"
Mccarthy, now manager of the
Cubs, intends to carry heavy bats
next season, for his assistant is jim
my Burke.
Evening star., 1925-12-22
FIRPO SUIT DISMISSED,

Luis Angel Firpo, Argentine heavy
weight, finally has escaped legal
shackles. The suit brought against
him by Andrew McCorkindale, his one
time manager. was dismissed yester-
day, when McCorkindale admitted that
Firpo owed him not a penny. Papers
in the case showed that Firpo had
gained about $203,600 in his American
bouts.
Evening star., 1925-12-22
GRID GAME PROFITABLE.

Foot ball was the only Penn State
sport to pay its own way during the
past fiscal year, according to the an
nual report of the Athletic Associa
ton. The great Fall sport showed
profit OF almost $4,000. This was
almost entirely wiped out in support
of the nine other branches of ath-
LEI les
Evening star., 1925-12-22

Hagen i'll position as we'll as in strok
However the admirers of Sir Wal
ter argue that Hagen'S record is none
the less quite as brilliant as Bobby's
in this same period and that his feat
of winning the British open champion
ship twice and finishing second once
in the past five years, as we'll as his
winning of the American professional
championship twice in succession, is
proof enough that he is the greatest
golfer in the world.
What is more, they argue, no man
has yet proved Hagen's conqueror in
match play, although, if forced to ad-
nit 1t, they say and whisper it, the
name Of Gene Sarazen in this respect.
Bobby has proved his mettle in
match play, as we'll as in medal COM
petition, and his feat of winning the
Evening star., 1925-12-22
RILLIARDISTS CLASH.

Bennie Clark and Frank Turton
meet tonight at Lewis & Krauss' par
lors to break the tie for first place in
the District championship 1872 balk
line billiard tourney. Powell won from
Ruark Last night. 22Q u liz
Evening star., 1925-12-22
FORMER GRID STAR WEDS.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, December o.
A foot ball romance which began
when Frank Godchaux was a quarter
back at Vanderbilt eliminated here
Yesterday in his marriage to Mary
Lawrence Ragland, daughter of a
local wholesale grocer.
Evening star., 1925-12-22
APPROVE BASKET BALL.

INDIANAPOLIS. December % CP).
of high school basket ball,
provided that players are subjected
to thorough physical examination,
has been given by 5000 physicians
affiliated with the Indiana State Medi-
cal Association
Evening star., 1925-12-22
LEONARD D-KANSAS FIGHT
SAID TO BE IN OFFING

Benny Leonard and Rocky Kansas
will meet once again for the light.
weight championship, according to
Kansas manager, Dan Rogers.
Leonard said recently that he would
return to the ring when a worthy
lightweight happened along, but that
Kansas was not the man.
Evening star., 1925-12-22
COAST BOY SCORES HITS
WITHOUT RAISING FISTS
Pleasing Personality and Familiarity With Many
Sports Besides Boxing Win Fidel Friends.
Curley to Boost Paolina
BY FAIR PLAY.

22-Fidel hyweght
big without raising his fists He has
onaly the by his familiarity with
besides boxing-oot ball and basket ball. chiefly.
the New York Boxing
Aywght title But La Barba with
he the control the New York Commission and that that
the
boost his by amming La Barba
Evening star., 1925-12-22
CAPABLANCA is UNLIKELY
TO OPPOSE BOGOLJUBOW

Russians will not support Bogolju-
bow, winner of the recent Moscow
chess tournament, in challenge
match with Jose Capablanca of Cuba
for the world championship.
This is the opinion of Capablanca,
who arrived in New York yesterday.
Evening star., 1925-12-22
Jimmy Donaldson Tells:
When Joe krkwood Played the NIudhorse at Worcester

HE finest play made during
rounds played the Eastern qualifying
4 Open 1924
This at Worcester Mass, the which
ID bhv
Evening star., 1925-12-22
CUE MATCH TONIGHT.

William Parsons and Fred Reynolds
meet in tonight's match of the Dis
trict pocket billiard tourney. Joseph
Crowley won from Chick Lappeinne,
LOO to 60.
Evening star., 1925-12-22
ROUNDING rH(RO
BY Hugh A.Jennings
CHAPTER Xxx.

A LTFOUGH King Kelly a with
~ han he still of the games leading catche Also he
the versatile for excellent catcher
oufeder wle all He
trickster with brain moved exceedingly Kelly the
base ball books than before his day. He
the coorfu all time idol with the base ball
Evening star., 1925-12-22

national amateur championship twice
in succession, and decisively, too, is
quite as brilliant as Hagens stunt OF
capturing the American pro title.
The forthcoming match will help set
tie the argument, although it is not
expected that victory for either side
will forever silence the admirers of
either golfer.
On form, Jones should win, for he
will be straighter from the tee and
through the fairway than Hagen, and
quite as brilliant around the greens
But there is also temperament to be
figured in a match of this kind, the
friends of Hagen point out. And, they
argue. in this respect Sir Walter has
no equal.
IConyripht 1908
Evening star., 1925-12-22
OFFICERS TRAP SHOOT.

Retiring officers of the Washington
Gun Club will be hosts to the organi-
zation's trapshooters Saturday at 1870
o'clock, when the annual farewell
shoot is held at Benning range.
Evening star., 1925-12-22
NATIONALS TO MEET.

National Athletic Club gridmen will
plan for next Sundays game with the
Palace eleven tonight at the home of
Manager Vic Gauzza.
Evening star., 1925-12-22
LINKS STARS WILL MEET
IN FLORIDA THIS WINTER
Impending Contest Between Amateur and Pro Title
Holders Arousing International lnterest-Bobby
Picked to Beat Walter.
BY THE SPORTSMAN.

YORK 22The golf match scheduled for the
which will international interest that
between Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen to be played early
Hagen home
Bobby
the The match
meeting lines will
the which Hagen
OF the links by something like 20 strokes tournament
9 Bobby has finished ahead
Evening star., 1925-12-22
History of Bush Leagues
y y
-By John B. Foster.
CHAPTER XIV.

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wv the domineering the early the
also having shindy
with those who wished
neither to
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-07-08

are now spending their honeymoon
behind the bars.
This is an interesting bit Of news.
A Jail is an unusual port from which
to begin ones voyage across the mat
rimonial seas, yet it is not altogether
inauspiciOus that one should do so.
Regardless Of the storms that may
arise in the future, it is hardly to be
expected that their hymeneaf craft
will roll so low in the water as it is
doing on the start Of the cruise. The
knowledge that the sea must become
calmer as the voyage progresses-be
cause it is so turbulent now that il
could not become rOugher - SHOULD
make the hearts of the newly welded
couple overflow with gladness. Blu.
it probably doesn't.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-07-08
F~ALL-PLANTED sWEETPEAs
(Helena Record-HeraIdl

Fall-planted' sweetpeas promise. to become the
style at Helena. In this climate, where spring
fingers so long in the suitcase or grip of winter,
in other words, where spring is almost imper-
ceptible some years, being not much more than
a gasp between winter and summer, sweetpeas
planted in late October or November are in bloom
at present, while those planted this spring are
only a few inches high. In one garden this sum-
-mer a volunteer from last year is 18 inches tall.
and has been blooming for a week, while the
spring growth is but four or five inches.
Fall planting takes time by the forelOck, and
the sweetpea seeds terminate under the heat Of
the earliest spring sunshine, and appear above
the sod long before it is warm enough for spring
planting. The stocks are several inches high BY
the time spring has advanced far enough for
spring planting and there are bouquets OF beau
tiful sweetpea blossoms by the time or before
the peonies are in bloom. Helena garden owners
should get the fall planting habit Of sweetpea
hedges.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-07-08
D FAST A PACE.

Delos W. Cooke has just resigned
as director of the Cunard steamship
line so that he "can get acquainted
with his WIFE" He has found big
business to be composed mostly of
p~erspiration, with only an occasional
trace of recreation. "The only alter
native, if one wants to get acquainted
with his wife and family" he an
nOunced, sis to resign. That's why
have given up my dictatorship"
Americans do travel a fast pace,
When Doctor Coue returned to France
he is reported to have said: "Ameri-
cans are wonderful people. They are
very fine, hospitable and generous
They have lots of money, but they
are always in a hurry. For instance
they don't have time to say: Every
day in every way I am getting bet
ter They just say: Hell, I'm well.''
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-07-08
PROSPECTS GOOD

Farmers and business men in central and
southern Montana as far east as Yellowstone and
north including Musselshell and Wheatland are
optimistic.
Good crops are in prospect and business is
slowly on the upgrade after several years of ex-
tremely bad times.
Rains have been plentiful during the present
season III most Of this territory, although in some
places moisture was needed. While rainfall has
been at least up to normal this season, there was
none in the ground from previous years, so that
those sections which have not had more than the
normal rainfall are still suffering somewhat from
drOuth.
This situation, however, is apparently limited
to a few localities.
Billings, Roundup and HarlOwton are feeling
the results of better times ahead and are pre-
pairing to resume the stride which was halted
in 1920.
Roundup staged a three-day rodeo and Fourth
of July celebration last week which was highly
pleasing to the thousands in attendance and the
business men who sponsored and financed it will
receive their money back.
This is the first celebration the coal city has
had since 1920.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-07-08
WHAT'S IN A NAME?

Captain Hartley, of the steamer
Leviathan, recently christened a babe
that had been born aboard that ship.
He named him John Leviathan.
While none Of US knows exactly the
nature Of the animal which the an
cient Hebrews had in mind when they
coined the word leviathan, it is doubt
full whether the pOssessor Of it as a
name will, when he reaches the age
of understanding, appreciate the cap
tain's selection.
We know the leviathan to have been
a water-dweller, but other than that
its nature is a mystery. In Isiah it
is spoken Of as a crooked serpent, "
and writers generally refer to it as
a crocodile or whale. In Job we leara
that one would have been "cast down
even at the sight of him. that his
teeth were terrible and his skin very
tough, probably like modern boiler
plate. His breath kindled Goals.
sparks Of fire leaped from his mouth.
smoke came from his nostrils as II
from a seething pot and his heart
was as hard as stone.
With such fiery insides, one car
understand why he lived in the cool
soothing waters and sympathize with
him in his misfortune. It is a little
odd, however, that one should lool
to him for inspiration when christen
ing time comes. The power Of sug
gestion is great. The yOungste,
might try to live up to his name.
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The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-07-08
MORE o ROADS

The writer Travelled approximately 500 miles,
traversing som 10 counties in southern and CEN
trail Montana, during the past week, and finds
that Gallatin county highways are the equal of
any and better than most found in any of this
territory.
All that is needed is proper marking of our
roads and some distinguishing mark, other than
the undoubted Improvement in the highway, to
show when the traveller enters the county.
From Hunters to Columbus the Yellowstone
trail is rough-very rough. 1t is well marked,
however, and a little dragging would place it
in splendid shape.
The Yellowstone trail, the Custer Battlefield
Hiway, the Electric highway and the Y.-G. Beeline
were all on the route taken by the writer, who
found that Wheatland county has perhaps the best
system of highway marking Of any county
visited.
On the Electric highway in Wheatland every
sharp curve and steep hill is marked with small
sign set on two posts at the drivers side of thu
road, close enough to be seen at night with the
regular headlights This is a splendid road
graveled and well cared for. It is a state high
way, and the marking was done by the county
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