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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-22
ARMY OFFICERS TAKE
WAR DEPARTMENT PLAY

Officers connected with the adju-
tant generals office won the golf
championship of the War Depart
ment in matches played over the
course of the Chevy Chase Club.
They defeated representatives of
the Secretary of Wars office.
There were two four-ball matches,
with the officers from the adjutant
generals office losiAg only single
point. The victorious team was
composed of Major General r. c..
Davis, Colonel John p. wade, Major
James Burns, and Major Paul A.
Hodgson.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-22
Shower Baths Worth
Three Dollars To
This Team

Not long ago a cerain man
ager went to Dover, of the
Eastern Shore League, with his
team and when he was given
q check for his portion of the
gate receipts he noticed 3 de-
duction, of So for showers.
The manager couldn't. under
stand this item of expense and
asked if it was to reimburse the
Dover club for the baths Of the
players after the contest. He
was told that it was.
WELL" he said. "I'm sure
my boys didn't use three dol
lars worth of water"
Maybe not" was the reply,
'fbut when the Dover club plays
in your town we have to rent q
room at the hotel so our
players can battle and the room
costs US 3d."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-22

TAD, the Washington Times famous cartoon
i list and leading authority on boxing, in this
article speaks a mOuthfur' concerning Jack
Dempsey's tactics in avoiding a fight with
Harry Wills, the colOred heavyweight, for the
worlds championship.
He picks to pieces Dempseys many excuses
for ducking Wills ever since the champions
promise, Immediately after whipping Jess Will
lard, to fight all worthy cOntenders.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-22
CAPITAL, CoRINTE5IAN
CLUBS IN BIG REGATTA

The Miles River Yatch Club re-
Eatta at Easton. Nd, on August z
and 8. will see some active com.
petition from the boats Of the Capt..
tai and the Corinthian Yacht Clubs.
Twenty cruisers are scheduled to
take to the Potomac and try their
luck with the Eastonians.
The local clubs nave some of
the best boats they have ever had,
and they are ready TO send them
into action with the Eastern Shore
competition. Boats from many Of
the neighboring States are entered
In the regatta.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-22
o'NEIL AND CoNSIDINE
ADVANCE IN NET PLAY

Maurice O'NeiI and Bob Consi-
dine kept up their winning ways in
the municipal tennis singles cham
pionships. George f. Robins and
A. z. Yeatman were the only other
two to win through actual combat,
all others receiving their victories
by virtue of defaults.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-22
WESTERN MARYLAND NET
CHAMPIONSHIP IN AGAIN

The sixth annual tennis tourna-
ment for the Western Maryland
championship will be held at Noun
tain Lake Park, August 10 to Is.
No District man has ever won the
event
Five events will be striven for.
Mems singles and doubles, women's
singles and doubles. and mixed
doubles are on the card.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-22
Tactics
Tire Ring Fans

fight Wills He says that he needs tuneup bout before
tackles Wills Was there another heavyweight cham
pon be tuned up Dempsey does7 there
was name him.
If Dempsey hasn't time to get into shape this year, why
he fight ALI Why should he pick some sucker
into the ring half ready and call that fight Isn't he liable
George stffened by Kentucky Rosebud setup
Kid Mccoy flatened by Jack Mccormick, setup Jim
Corbett was knocked in fourround bout with
Tom Sharkey Cat that time q navy recruit).
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-22
- - 1YN-@
GTIDBIIS

Jack Dempsey playing fair The rank and file of the
boxing public in this city beginning tire of the tactics
used by him his efforts avoid match with Harry Wills
The writer spoke to number of people in the past few
days about the thing and the majority of fans appear be
bit sick of the chdke of the worlds champion For
the past five years ills has beWen ready and willing to
fight but has sdetracked time after time until the
affair is of joke than proposition
Wills ready to fight Willard in 1919 but the latter
cepted Dempsey instead of the coored giant When Dempsey
the title that he declared that he would be fight
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-22
Bangor Ball Club Quits

EASTON, Pa. july %. - The
Bangor Baseball Association has de-
cided to discontinue competitive
baseball for the rest Of the season,
when 1t could not meet the finan.
cial demands Of the Allentown
Dukes for their services for the
rest of the wear.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-22
To Go Under Knife

BALTIMORE, July 22.-Bobbv
Garcia, the boxer. will be unable to
fight for several months because of
an attack OF appendicitis. He had
complained recently during a bout
In Cleveland of pains in his side.
Garcia came here for the onera tian
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-22

It was the findings of the best
local minds today that New York
had seen the last OF Jack Dempsey
for long time. His nesrest APP
proach to this fair metropolis is
expected to be Michigan City, Ind,
where on Labor Day he probably
will strike some fistic bankrupt "a
nasty blow on the chest
According to the boys, tDemp.
sey is giving New York and its
solemn commission the old ca
rOussel-arOund and around and
around.
A doubtful point, however, Is that
this procedure would put Tex
Richard, the man who helped to
make him, on the flying rings
with the rest OF the troupe. 1t
wouldn't seem probable that Demp.
sey would care to leave Richard
holding an empty bag, except for
the fact that only a few days ago
Dempsey made an engagement
with Richard he knew he wouldn't
or couldn't keep. He had his rail.
road reservations to California in
his pocket at the time.
If Dempsey fails to show, the
commissions of course, will take
steps that will chastise him Sc
verely. The members will issue
another statement.
They might even go so far az 20
declare the title vacated, as they
did in several other classes, but
unfortunately the rest of the
country has a sense of hunior and
our worthy commissioners have no
wish TO pose as comedians.
Dempsey realizes as well as the
next that the board has done to
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-22
GOODRICH IS SOMETHING
MORE THAN DUB CHAMP
By DAVIS J. WALSH.

NEW YORK July 22-Jmmy Goodrich the young mans
quite Of the boys to think it should be Jimmy
"Goodluck"
lightweight tourney by
lightweight
the deserve it, others that ne
me is fortunes fair haired friend.
that may wasn't luck that has saved him from the
him fight better and better as tne
-L-.~~
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-22

IOQIudHICLlL RLOSICocCAs
Goodrich is a much better fighter
today than he was when the tour
nament started, and this angle has
been overlooked by those who are
writing his history with a sledge-
hammer. They have confined
themselves largely to the indisput-
over K. o. Clyde Jackie carrier in
the tournament was not altogether
a popular one, nor. was the decision
whereby he eliminated Eddie
("Kid'D Wagner, not to overlook
the fact that he was running q
bad second to Sammy Mandell when
the latter landed an unintentional
foul blow and was disqualified.
The course Of events seemed to
indicate that Goodrich was 3 man
of destiny. However. there was
nothing faIsettO about the way he
Outstepped Benny Valger in the
seImi-finalS and scored two
round knockout Of StanisIaus
LOayza i'm the finale of the series.
His detractors say that Goodrich
Ii uninteresting and hasn't the
punch Of an empty sleeve in his
right hand. But they fail to mem
ton that he is tough. fast. smart
and has an adaptable style. The
latter he varied with remarkable
nicely during the tourney, boxing
with Mandell and Valger, the box
ers, and fighting with Wagner and
Loayza, the fighters.
Perhaps, after the anvil artists
- -
discovered that the youth is no
mans push-over; neither Leon
ard nor a Cans, Of course, but
something well above the present.
day average.
He hasn't even reached his best
vet, for Goodrich entered the ring
less than seven years ago and then
only by accident. It happened
thus: ras ~
Our hero was born of poor but
inevitably honest parents at
Scranton, Pa, on July 80. 1900,
and at an early age he started
out to make his way In the
world.
He became an apprentice tool.
maker in the Buffalo On. - plant
of the Bethlehem Steel Company
was heclSled by the factory's strong
man and decided to learn boxing
with the laudable idea of giving
the latter a lesson. He became so
good he forgot his purpose. quit
his job and entered, the ring.
One Of his early opponents was
Billy De Foe, then one of the most
promising of featherweights. He
took quite a shelIacking, but lasted
the limit. His subsequent climb
was slow. but steady.
In all, he has taken part in about
125 fights, beating Alex Hart, Pal
Moran, Wagner, Valger, Loayza
and Lew Paluso, among others, and
holding his own with Sid TerriS
and Johnny Dundee.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-22
BABE LIKES GRFFS MORE
AND MORE ASPENNANT
CONTEST TIGHTENS
By BABE RUTH

NEW YORK July 22-For time since I've
with the
with grand big show-an
spectator perform worry
What is that this is the first time I've been with
of the The
be able make little trouble for the
upt haven't
backs S the of
That's what we're dong-and lot
different slant things of the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-22

him all 1t can do. In addition, he
knows that next year will follow
this one. something of a precedent
having been set in this respect.
The harvest of customers will be
just as great then as now.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-22
Close In On Orioles

Baltimore for while looked like
sure winner of the International
League pennant. But Toronto is
closing in on the Orioles and are
In position to forge ahead should
Baltimore slump.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-22

ing champion and accept all
.defies. In 1920 Dempsey took
on Bill Brennan, a second
rater, and poor Billy Miske
and passed up Wills. In 1921
Dempsey took on little Car.
pentier and passed up Wills.
In 1923 Dempsey took. on
Tom Gibbons, saying that he
needed that bout to tune up for
a Wills bout. That was in July.
That same year, in September,
Luis Firpo-"Dead Pan Louie"
was bulled into a match with
the champion. Wills was push
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-22

Public sentiment with Wills and when asked about
Dempsey stated that he would fight Wills within weeks
after the Fpo bout The public stopped yelling for the Wills
bout then and Dempsey knocked the novice Frpo
rounds Wills waited patiently, and in the meantime beat
every the public asked him to face, whether the
black white.
Now Dempsey ready to fight again but he's ready
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-22
Mitchell to Meet Harmon

MILWAUKEE,, July 22.-Pinkey
Mitchell, the clever local welter-
weight. will oppose Willie Harmon,
of New York, in a ten-round battle
here on August ia,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-22
DEMPSEY PAYS NO HEED
TO COMMISSION EDICT

NEW YORK. July 22-An edict keeps the champion away
The solemn New Athletic reported
have engaged somewhat acrimonious debate the
whether Jack Dempsey should meet Harry Wills Gene Tunney
this
weeks in which the issue.
of the bets
Dempsey within two weeks Another is that he will fight neither
Wills Tunney this il at all.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-22


he should not fight. He has
had five years to get ready for
Wills and the boxing public
thinks it is about time that
he either fight or retire.
Five Years to Get Ready.
These are just facts. The
writer is not taking sides.
Prize fighters don't mean 9
terrible lot to America in
either peace or war.
A canoe. would have been
crowded with the champions
who went to France to fight
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-22

for this country in the big AS for that rot about black
fighting whites, say is poppyeock-n else
The the ringside Reno when Jack John
beat Jefries and there wasn't much harsh word
spoken after the bout Fight followers had their money on
both and there just at that rlngslde
favorng johnson there favoring Jeffrles
There has been any trouble mixed matches
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-22
Won Elm a Boxer

George Won Elm, the Vests
crack amateur golfer, once was
the amateur boxing champion of
Salt lake City. He won four major
golf tournaments on the Coast last
SprinR
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-22
Two Clubs Take Tumble

The New York Yankees and the
Boston Red Sox are the only Amer
lean League clubs that have fallen
far below their standards of the
last pennant campaign.
Evening star., 1925-11-06

tuary and retrained from plying his
vocation In this ,ity. He visited the
attorney many times during his free
years and. according to Mr.. Baker,
invariably notified Detective Capt. Nc
Donald OF his presence In this city, to
avoid the humiliation of being picked
up in the street and taken to police
headquarters for questioning.
Mr.. Baker said he would arrange to-
have the body OF the bandit inferred
in Muskegon and would then COM
municate with Madame Won Teller as
to the final disposition of the body of
her son Ivan.
she does not get the American
papers, he said, "and for many years
her only news from America has been
the regular letters from her SON.
Anderson met Gerald Chapman,
equally famous bandit, in Auburn
prison, when he was serving a SEN
Evening star., 1925-11-06

one of the turpentine camps operated
by convict labor"
Although Mr.. Baker said he had
received no direct communication
from Anderson since his escape from
Atlanta nearly two years ago, he
expressed no surprise at the way in
which he came to his end.
Never Worked With Women.
Anderson always said he would
never be captured alive again." the
attorney said, but the thing I can't
understand is this story that he had
a woman companion with him when
he was captured. Anderson never
worked with women, to my knowledge.
and I've known him for q long time"
From the time of his release from
Auburn until his escape from Atlanta.
Mr.. Baker declared, Anderson looked
upon Rochester as a kind of sane
Evening star., 1925-11-06

various kinds and soon his genius for
crime began to assert itself. From
petty crimes he soon became a men,
ber OF larger 'mobs' and it was not
many years before he found himself
a leader in the circle of those who
lived by pitting their intelligence
against that of the police for big
stakes.
I'm his Bertillon pictures there is
an unmistakable sneer in the down.
ward drawn left corner of his mouth.
Although even among the police he
was always characterized as the
gentleman crook he himself frankly
admitted a vicious hatred against
organized society.
This he attributed to an experience
in South Carolina when he was con-
victed of a crime because. az he
would have phrased it. there was no
one else to hang it on and sent to
Evening star., 1925-11-06
CURRENT JUDGE ISSUE
Is BARRED FROM MAILS
Exceptions Taken to Burlesques on
Popular French Period
icals.
~ IN. Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. NoveThsr Ga Post
Office Department order was served
yesterday on publishers of Judge, a
comic weekly, prohibiting the use of
the mails for distribution of the cur
rent issue, known as the Partisan
number" Exceptions are made TO
the issue as a whole, the editors said,
but particularly to certain articles
purporting to burlesque popular
French pictorial periodicals.
1.-The editors of Judge are at a. loss
to understand the basis for the de-
partments action" declared a state
ment issued from the publications
executive offices. THE burlesques
were prepared to show the miscon-
ception of French humor widely held
IN this country and we think are en-
tirely free from suggestiveness and
really comprise nothing but whole
some humor."
Evening star., 1925-11-06
OIL-ELECTRIC CAR SWIFT.
Railway Test Shows 2,937 Miles
Within 67 Hours

VANCOUVER, B. c.. November 6
P).-One of the new oil-electric cars
of the Canadian National Railway has
made a trip from Montreal TO Van
couver, a distance of 2,937 miles, in
slightly under 81 hours. This is a
record for ira ranscontinental travel.
The trip was made to test the car.
which will go into the regular service
of the railway in British Columbia.
The motive supply is provided by an
oil burner which operates an electric
generator.
Evening star., 1925-11-06
By the Associated Press.

ROCHESTER,, n. Y, November D.
The veil of mystery that shrouded the
real identity of Dutch" Anderson,
SLAYER bank robber and desperate,
whose career was ended by bullet
from his own gun in Muskegon. Mich,
last Saturday, was pierced yesterday.
In copyrighted story the Rochester
Journal and the Post Express prlhtS
the life history of the bandit, as gwen
bv William J. Baker, an attorney ol
this city, and to whom the police OF
tho Michigan city have turned for
advice now that the curtain has
fallen on one of the amazing crime
dramas OF America. The records al
Atlanta Federal prison gave the name
of Mr.. Baker as the person TO De
called in case of death.
Danish Mother Waits.
While the bullet-riddled body or
George Dutch" Anderson lies In the
morgue at Muskegon-it Will be tenn
porarily inferred in that city at the
direction of Mr.. Baker-a widowed
mother awaits patiently in Denmark X
for another letter from the boy she
thinks is prospecting in business IN
This country, That letter never will
come.
And to the Rochester attorney falls
the lot of breaking the sad news.
Nine Won Teller, representative OF a
noble Danish family, never knew that
her son, Ivan Dahl Won Teller. and
Dutch Anderson, internationally
known bandit, safe blower and des-
perado. were one and the same.
Mr.. Baker said:
"She does not know and l nope she
never will know.
NO matter what others may say
about Andersons real name being
Brown or Helms. or any of many other
aliases he used. and fixing his birth
place as ST. Louis, or any American
city, the fact remains-and can
yol1ch for it's authenticity-that he
Evening star., 1925-11-06
Collision Fatal to Woman
DAYTONA, Fla, November

DAYTONA, Fla, November oP).
Mrs. Carrie Clark, SO, of Benton
Harbor. Mich, died yesterday in the
arms OF her husband. Albert w. Clark,
a few minutes after she was thrown
from his truck when 1t was struck by
car driven by John =. Auxier of
Morristown, Ind, police reported. A
coroner's jury rendered a verdict that
Auxier was not TO blame for the &C
cident
Evening star., 1925-11-06
ATTORNEY DOUBTS
CHAPMAN HANGING
Return of Bandit to Com
pIete Prison Term Forecast
by Former Counsel.
By the Associated Press.

Nv VIIC 4tsH"VIdNOH FVos.
NEW YORK, November 6.--Doubt
that Gerald Chapman would hang was
expressed today by Frederick j.
Groehl, who was the bandits counsel
at his trial for killing Il New Britain,
Conn, policeman.
Mr.. Groehl said efforts would be
made in the Federal court at Hartford
to have Chapman returned to the At
lanta, Penitentiary to complete his 20
year sentence for New York mail
robbery. He expressed the belief that
Chapman could not be legally exc
cuted before completion of his Federal
term. He added that an appeal to the
United States Supreme Court was
likely, if necessary. Chapman was
taken to Connecticut from Atlanta by
special arrangement
Evening star., 1925-11-06

tencc for a jewelry robbery in Roohes-
ter. He was at that time teaching
Spanish in the prison school and found
in Chapman kindred spirit. Fror2
that time, Mr.. Baker said, their paths
ran together until Chapmans arrest
in New Britain, Conn.
Evening star., 1925-11-06
ANDERSON WAS SCION OF NOBLE
DANISH FAMILY, LAWYER SAYS
Man Who Knew Bandit Ayers He Was Ivan Dahl Won
Teller, and Avowed Enemy of Organized
Society-Body Sought as Exhibit

Ivan Dahl Won Teller.
AT the age Of 20 he ran away from
home and came to America.
with the lid of 1t was not long
before he fell in with criminals OF
Evening star., 1925-11-06
WRIT Is DENIED.
California Editor Serving 1000
Days in Jail for Contempt

SACRAMENTO, Calf, November
N).-The Court of Appeals yesterday
denied the application of Alfred Linds
ley, Eureka editor, for a writ Of hs-
beas corpus. Lindsey is serving o.
sentence Of 1000 days in the Hum
boldt County jail for contempt OF
court.
The opinion holds that liberty OF tbs
press, rs guaranteed by the CoEsti-
tuition. does not permit publication Of
items bearing on pending cases when
such publication is reasonably cal
cuiated to interfere with the dus ad
ministration OF justice.
Evening star., 1925-11-06
CHAPMAN LOSES FIGHT.
Sits in Cell Anticipating Death Within
a Month

BRIDG EPORT. Conn. November s
P).-Gerald Chapman sits in his cell
in the States prison at Wethersfield
today knowing that presumably he
has less than Il month to live.
The notorious mail robber and CON
victed slayer has lost his fight for a
new trial. The State Supreme Court
of Errors decided against him yester-
day, sustaining the verdict of the
lower court, which found him guilty
OF the murder of Patrolman James
Skelly Of New Britain on October 12,
1924.
Chapman was sentenced to be
hanged last June. but was granted "a
reprieve by Gov. Trumbull when an
appeal was filed He now must pay
the death penalty on the morning of
December 3, unless proceedings con-
templated by his counsel succeed.
No More Than He Expected.
When notified by the prison warden
Court had ruled against him, Chap
mans comment was:
Twas no more than | expected. y
The Supreme Court decision review.
ing the bandits murder of the patrol
man when surprised while attempting
TO rob a store concluded there was no
error in his trial.
Chapman has lost his legal battle
for life a few days after the killing by
a detective in Muskegon, Mich, of his
companion in crime. Dutch Anderson,
really Ivan Dahl Won Teller, black
sheep of a noble Danish family.
Chapman has not been informed of
Anderson's death.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-03-12
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