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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-13
FAILS
To DECIDE

Boxing fans on deck when police
broke up the National Capital
Sporting Clubs show at the Arcade
were so engrossed today in that
feature OF the entertainment that
little talk was heard concerning the
bouts themselves.
What discussion there was had
to do with an alleged foul com
nitted by Joe Bashara on TIE per.
son of Johnny Gill in the second
round OF the main bout. They
fought a tame first round anu in
the next session Bashara socked
low.
Gill curled up on the floor, and
before Referee Pat O'Connor saw
fit to render a decision the police
were in the ring.
The preliminaries were lively.
George Leslie outpointed Lew Hay.
wood. Buster Dundee defeated Pep
Albee, Referee Ted Mitchell stop.
ping this contest in the fourth
round to make life happier for
Albee.
Phil Raymond eutpointed Jack
Cody and sylvan Bass knocked out
Andy Altman in the second
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-13
I GHTS To GUST
MINORS CHIEF

CATALINA ISLAND, Cal, Jan.
15.--While delegates at the twenty.
fourth annual convention of the Ma.
tional Association of Minor Base.
ball Leagues early today were on
sightseeing tours, waiting a bust
ness session this afternoon fight
doomed to Dust the association s
veteran president, Mike Sexton.
Sections five-year contract is UP
and forces headed by Al Tearney.
president OF the western League.
were reported after his scalp.
Tierney may be candidate against
Sexton in the fight for the presi-
dency. Scores of trades for play
ers are in the making.
"Gabby' Street. manager of the
Augusta Club Of the South Atlantic
League, announced the sale of Luke
Williams, third baseman; Homer
Adcock, pitcher and Dutch" Dit
mer, short stop, to the Muskogee
Club of the Western League.
Nashville, Tenn, traded pitcher
Ross to Salisbury. in the Piedmont
League for Pitcher Charles Brown.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-13
MARYLAND | n
COURT WIN

The University of Richmond came
up here just to absorb a couple of
lickings. First the George Wash
ington University tossers knocked
them for a loop. and then the Uni
Versity of Maryland basketers ran
them dizzy, the score being 30 to IA.
Mary1and's sheer speed was the
real difference between the two
teams. Richmond showed some
class, but they did not have the
speed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-13
COAST PROMOTERS FAIL
TO NOTIFY MULLINS

NEW YORK. Jan. 13.-Paddy
Mullins, manager of Harry Wills.
declared today that he had heard
nothing from the Los Angeles pro
moters, who announced that they
were raising a fund of $4,000. 900
to put over a Dempsey-Wills match
during the coming outdoor season.
II was said the promoters had
wired Mullins asking for his con
sent to the match.
The idea seems all right TO
me-" he said today. "All we want
is an even break in the financial
arrangements. / see where some
one claims that the bout WOULD
draw $4,000 900. II that is the case.
Harry ought to get more than the
$780, 900 these Los Angeles men
are talking about"
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city and no other location In
the United States win ever offer,

d1c OhAtoa OVAt06 VIII ever OIAeEs
THE football game is incidental.
The dedication of Soldiers Field, at.
tended by the future generals of
the Army and admirals OF the
Navy, Is the big event.
The cadets and midshiprnen at
tending the game in Chicago will
suffer little in loss of studies by
being away from their institutions
one extra day-the Friday between
Thanksgiving Day and Saturday,
the football day, each of which are
holidays, . Britten argued with the
authorities. THE Government will
be put to no extra expense. Chi
cago has invited all cadets and
midshipment to be the guests of
Chicago from the time they leave
their respective academies until
they return to them, said Britten.
Chicago will pay between $200, 900
and $500 200 in transportation and
subsistence for its guests on this
occasion. The usual allotment OF
admission tickets to the service ath-
letic associations will be more lib
erai than heretofore. :"
Other cities win want the Biz
I'll.
have suggested to the officials
the invitations from the cities
for the game should be given
careful consideration. after al
these cities contribute to the
support Of West Point and An
napOlis," Britten commented. 'The
Academies are not Eastern-tIaey
belong to the United States.
President Coolidge, in a public
statement at the White House last
Friday, declared: II should ike
personally to have the members Of
the Army-Navy football game go
to Chicago or go any other place
where they can without unreason-
able interference with their school
gratified IL they said they thought
ference with their studies.
Britten has secured signatures OF
16O members of the Senate and
House asking acceptance OF the in
vitation of Chicago that the next
Army-Navy football game be played
at Chicago. These men represent
a constituency OF more than fifty
million people IS much interested
in the welfare of the Cadets and
Midshipmen as the military authori.
ties said Britten. The dedication
OF the most majestic and most costly
monument to the soldiers of the
world war needs the Cadets and
the Midshipmen to assist In a
patriotic service"
President Coolidge will be asked
to dedicate Soldiers field on the
date of the game. November "a,
next. Britten said.
I'VE have at Chicago the great.
est and costliest soldier memorial
yet erected in this country" said
Britten, land it should be dedicated
by the President. Dedication
exercises can be arranged for the
date of the game"
Britten conferred with both Sec
rotary of War Davis and Secretary
of the Navy Wilbur today.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-13
SEEKS
HOPPE s TIL

CHICAGO, Jan. 13.-A champion
ship match at 1871 billiards, game
so difficult that Willie Hoppe. the
title holder. has had no competition
IN recent years. is in the making.
Edouard Horemans the Belgian
who was stripped of his 1872 cham
pionship by Jake Schaefer last
week. will be Hopes opponent Ii
the champion accepts challenge
wired him. Horemans' ambition to
try the harder game has been
famed by the statement Of experts
that he plays the 1872 game with an.
Isl touch
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-13
OHIO OPENS WARFARE ON
RACE TRACK oAMRLl INC

COLUMBUS, Ohio. Jan. 1s.A
resumption Of war on racetracis
gambling in the state by Attorney
General Crabbe was made yester.
day when he filed custer proceed.
ings against the Thistle Downs
Jockey club. Cleveland, ii the
state Supreme Court.
He alleges that the Cleveland
club ..raisused all franchise privi.
leges and rights conferred by law
ana asks the court to prevent tie
club from operating the North Ran
dali track, which il one Of the
largest in the State.
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The next great Army-Navy
football classic will be played on
Soldiers Field, Chicago, weather
permitting, Representative Britten
confidently asserted today after
conferences with leading Army
officials.
Two million people will line
Michigan Avenue, November 81
next and grow hoarse from cheers
Whine some 5000 boys from the
Naval and West Point Academies
march down to Soldiers Field to
root for their respective teams,
said Britten. This sight alone
will make it easy for us to fill
cur vacancies at Annapolis and
West Point for all time to come.
have a telegram from my
friend. Paddy Harmon, owner OF
the new Palmer Square Building
offering use of that building free
OF charge should weather prevent
the football game at Soldiers Field.
This building will seat $4,000 per.
sons.
This week will determine whether
Chicago gets the game. As soon
as Chicago is picked officially I
shall leave for Chicago to meet
with the South Park commission,
the Array officer at Fort Sheridan
end the Naval officers at the Great
Lakes to start perfecting arrange.
ments for the great football event. .
Britten said he had met with diff
nculty in overcoming the objection
from high military officials of es-
Publishing a precedent" In taking
the service games away from the
Atlantic Coast line. 1.-The precedent
is being established by Chicago
and not by the two academies. ,,
Britten commended. About the time
OF the big game the greatest and
most costly memorial to the soldiers
OF the world war will be dedicated
In Chicago.
We hope the President win
mako the formal dedication. This
great soldiers field will cost the
people of Illinois twice as much
IS the Lincoln Memorial and four
times as much as the unknown
soldiers grave with its beautiful
amphitheater. This offers a
precedent which probably no other
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-13
COMlSKEY IS PLANNING
TO BUILD A NEW PARK

TUCSON, Ariz., Jan. 13.-Charles
A. Comiskey. owner of the, Chicago
American League baseball club, said
here today that his club would be
forced to build new park this
year to accommodate the increasing
crowds.
N. L. O'Neill, who was with
Comiskey, said increased patronage
would demand a park seating at
least 1000 persons.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-13
ILLNESS CAUSES
GARDEN SHOW REVISION

NEW YORK, Jan. 13.-Re-ar,
rangement of the program at Madi-
son Square Garden on Friday was
begun today, following the an
nouncement that Tommy Freeman,
Cleveland weIterweight, was seri'
ousiy ill with pneumonia. Freeman
was to have met Joe Dundee, of
Baltimore. in the semi-final bout.
Jack Delaney, of Bridgeport, Conn
and Young Bob Fitzsimmons will
meet in the feature.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-13
IVAN PoDDUBNY PINS
MARTINSON TO MAT

CLEVELAND, Jan. 10. - Ivan
Poddubny, Russian wrestler, de-.
feated Paul Martinson, of Sweden,
here in two straight falls, the first
in Is minutes with using a head
lock; the second after 10 minutes
and so seconds with a combina ton
half Nelson and armlock.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-13
Eight Big Gridiron
Clashes Booked
For One Day

Saturday, October l16, viii be
red letter day in college foot
ball next fall. Eight games Of
major Importance have been
scheduled in the East alone for
that day. They include Yale
Dartmouth, Pennsylvania Chi
cago, Columbia Ohio State,
Princeton Navy, Army Syracuse,
Pittsburgh Colgate, New York
University Tulane and George
town West Virginia. Notre
Dame meets Penn State at
Souh Bend on the same date.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-13
CANADIAN CHAMPION TO
APPEAR IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK. Jan. Is. Gilbert
Holland, the Canadian champion in
the high hurdles. will anoear In two
sets Of games here next month. it
was announced today. He has
entered in his favorite event at the
Crescent al G. meet on February IL
and annual Wilco games two nights
later.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-13
Big Five Takes One

The Epiphany Big Five had d
nifty evening beating the Royals
3s to 10. II was figured that the
Royals were able TO give the Big
Five a real game, but they couldn't
get their eyes on the loop and the
churchmen ran away with them.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-13
They Win Two

The Epiphany Juniors won twice
in the same day, defeating Liberty
Seniors. Al to "a, and the Arrows
20 to 8. In neither game was the
winning team forced to show, its
real stuff.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-13
Erosh Are Winners

The Maryland University fresh
men basketball team got the de
cision over the Sparks High School
five, "a to IA. The Frosh passed
very smoothly and they shot with
rare abandon.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-13
Scotch Promoter
Makes Walker
$4,000 Offer

ABERDEEN, Scotland, Jan.
13.-David Smith, local fight
promoter, has cabled Mickey
Walker an offer of $4,000 for
a match with Tommy Milligan
at Edinburgh.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-13
Fort Washington Wins

Fort Washington met and de-
feated the Washington Barracks
team ~ to % in the first game
ot the Washington Army Basket
ball League.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-13
Smith Shines, Too

Jack Smith took his place in the
Yankee lineup and he celebrated
with fourteen baskets. The score
was IS to 20 against the Inde-
pendents.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-13
Phelps Five Lose

The quiHt from the Phelps Vo-
cational School lost to the Faculty
in q anne at the Twelfth Street
Y. NJ. c. A., "a to IL.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-13

The Anacostia Eagles had little
to do when they defeated the Cal
vary Church five in the losers gym,
II TO 10.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-13
TI COBB PL ANS
ON St ICEING
BY DAVIS j. WALSH
international News Service sports

NEW YORK, Jan. 10. Although
the volunteer pailbearers have
chanted litany over his compete
tive remains for upward Of three
years. every indication points to the
probability that ny Cobb viii con
tinue to play centerfield for his De.
troit Tigers well on beyond his
forty-first birthday. This state Of
affairs was suspected during the
course OF the 1925 campaign when
the old gentleman was observed TO
be hitting them soundly and with
great regularity.
Virtual confirmation OF the idea
was received today in advices from
Detroit. 1t seems that Cobb has
neglected to develop ia successor
who will guarantee to hit 1913 in
|1O1 complete games, as that great
Georgian did In 1925. his twenty
fifth season on the big time. There
fore, he must go on utnil such time
as he ceases to be so good.
Cobb now is thirty.nine years old
according to the records. and would
like to call 1t career. But the
Detroit fans won't let him. Far
from looking forward with an easy
conscience to the moment when he
will step down permanently, they
have taken to demanding that he
keep himself in the line up daily
because 1t is alleged that the
records prove the Tigers are a
better ball club with Cobb in center
field than they are with Cobb
managing the outfit from the
bench.
According to some unofficial
data advanced by way Of argu-
ment, the claim has been made
that the 1926 Tigers had a win
ming percentage of $50 for the
games In which Cobb appeared
for the full nine innings. For
those In which he appeared as
! pinch hitter or not at ali, the
club had q percentage of 400, it
Is declared. The ayes seem to
have il on that point.
In addition, the same source OF
information processes to prove that
the Tigers scored an average of
622 runs a game with Cobb in the
lineup and an average of 400 with
Cobb on the bench.
AS a matter of fact, lot of
these runs were scored by Cobb
himself and in person. The official
records show that he tailed 81
times personally and that he was
responsible for 102 runs altogether.
In other words, Cobb didn't drive
home many teammates, which was
fair enough. He batted in front OF
Harry Heilmann, the league leader.
Cobb, of course, is not the man
he was. He had his last great year
In 1922, when he hit .401 He fell
to $40 the following season and to
1898 in 1924, but came back like
bad check last year. So much for
his hitting, which probably will
continue as long as he has palms
to his hands.
On defense, however, the strain
of years has told. In 101 games as
a centerfielder, he handled 269
chances, which hardly compares
with Speakers total of 327 for only
eight games more. Mostil, of the
White Sox, topped the league with
457 chances in 153 games.
Total chances form the ultimate
low down on a fielder's ability. Yet,
the way Cobb hit last year. he
could afford to lose a few balls in
the outfield and still finish well
out of the red ink with which the
debts are written.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-13
More silly Stuff

lTHE New York State commits
mission is continually offer
ing perfectly silly stuff for
the pubic to gaze upon. Its mix
ling up Of the planned y Demp-
Wills bout couple of years
ago is still its top-liner, but it
adds to that some fair exhibitions
of utter brainlessness.
If memory is correct, Dempsey
was summoned to sign a contract
agreeing to defend his title against
Wills. Severe punishment, includ-
ing suspension, would follow dis
obedience. Jack Kearns, a willy
chap, Immediately agreed and the
commission had q white elephant
to feed and water.
Recently the commission promul-
gated ruling that in charity
shows, at least one-half the pro-
ceeds must go to the charity
named. It ordered Mickey Walker,
welter champion, to defend his
title in a charity show. Walker,
obeying another rule of the COM
mission, demanded his 371a per
cent, his challenger agreeing to
accept the 1914 coming to him
under the rules. Naturally the
promoter groaned and the COM
mission actually demanded that
WALKER DISOBEY ONE RULE
AND OBEY ANOTHER, insisting
that he take less than 37h per
cent for defending his title.
Walker quickly discovered he
had an injured toe. 1t remained
injured until after the charity
show was staged and then he de-
manded permission to defend his
title for the legalized 37K per
cent. The commission refused
hi mpermission. If you can make
head or tail out of this, you're
good, that's all, you're good.
Maryland's commission is
most somnolent board. 1t has
squelched boxing in the State
rather than built it up. Yet it
would be RESPECTED. Thus far
New York's commission hasn't
demanded respect. Maybe the
commissioners have, sense of
humor, even though they ara
silly.
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course, he may come back to
no more than once, either, win
Of professional ballyhooing to
affairs or his fistic performances
BY those knowing most about
boxing Gene Tunney stands to-
day as Dempsey's most dangerous
challenger. Harry Wills is 81
years old in the record books and
probably, SO years old by actual
passage of time. He and Tun.
ney are foremost among heavies
spoken of in the same breath
with the champion. Both are
wasting time:
Prior to facing Jess Willard
Dempsey toured the country
meeting and defeating every
possible challenger, good and bad
One Or two lasted four or five
rounds. Most of them were
stopped inside of three sessions
Dempsey fought himself into the
best condition of his life. He
was human panther that blazing
afternoon at Toledo, with the
wallop of a Rocky Mountain
grizzly.
Harry Wills, cursed with a
dumb manager, does nothing. He
does it perfectly. He just sits
and sits and sits, waiting for
lightning to hit him.
Tunney, with ballyhooers telling
everybody about his great knowl-
edge of Egyptian pyramids, the
Greek and Roman classics, music
and fine arts in general, with now
and then stirring tale of him
as a "devil dog over there,
travels around beating up such
poor fish as Boston" Dan
O'Dowd. Contrast him as a chal-
lenger with the man-eating Jack
Dempsey before the Toledo
slaughter.
The other day Billy Recap,
Pennsylvania State boxing COM
missioner, wired Dempsey an offer
to defend his title as feature
of the sesquicentennial. Almost in
every newspaper in the land that
story took a small headline. To
be frank about it, tbs writer con-
sidered it merely a boost for the
Philadelphia exhibition, nothing
more important. AND NOT ONE
LETTER CAME TO THIS DESK
from any wild-eyed reader.
Few promoters can offer Den11p-
SOU the fortune he demands for
defending his title. The longer
Dempsey is idle, the fewer fans
will there be willing to pay the
necessary fancy prces to see him.
While he is idle, he is no use to
the sports writer's. They have
already begun seeking other idols
and Dempsey is on his way out.
Sign O. the Times.
MAX WAXMAN, a Baltimore
M manager of boxers and pro-
AVA moter of boxing shows now
and then, has been suspended for
sixty days by the Maryland State
Boxing Commission.
Sammy Harris, another man
aver, ana hlQ w lIlldHS, h ooAcI
have been suspended for thirty
days each.
Williams butted and severly cut
Nate Carp, a fellow boxer during
their ring meeting week ago,
Monday. The referee stood for it,
so either butting is all o. K. in
Baltimore or Charlie Short isn't
so much of referee.
Sammy Harris, Carp's manager,
jumped upon the platform around
the ring to impress Referee Short
with his complaints against Will
liams' ring tactics. He and Will
liams must be idle in Maryland for
thirty days.
But Max Waxman, Williams
manager, earned a sixty-day sus-
pension by his dastardly action.
"If people can't have respect for
us they should be driven from the
game" said Secretary Kelly, Of
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BLOCKING En- OVER
. WITH LOUIS A. DOUaITR
DEMPSEY IN HIS WAY OITT
DEMPSEY ON HIS WAY OUT

lack DEMPSEY heavyweight champion Of the world Is his
out Judging from recent happenings NO boxer wneneI
titeholde afford to be ignored
by the writer's That wise who said
"Say something about want to-
but for the uvva Nike something about me- The boxer
much the pedicamen his public support he
must remain in the headlines Dempsey is already slipping out
the big headlines that beginning of the end OF
he back to the ring and probably
either, it will lot
professional bayhooing general public in his
affa his
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the commission, describing Wax
mans offensive language in pro.
testing against the selection Of
Short as a referee.
Williams may have injured Carp
beyond repair. Harris might have
melted d riot as he danced there
upon the platform. But worse
than all that, Waxman FAILED
no SHOW RESPECT for the copa-
mission, q far more heinous crime.
Lucky for him he wasn't imme-
Giately lodged in the nearest hoose-
gov.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-09-28
THE MODERATION LEAGUE, INC.

Would the Moderation League
Inc, the mission of which is to dis
credit so far as possible the pro-
hibition laws. have us suppose there
were as many auto drivers on our
highways twelve years ago as there
are today? 1t would seem so when
it attempts to show there are more
drunken autoists today than in 1914,
when probably there were not half
the cars there are today. yet the
Moderation League, Inc, in its re-
cent report makes no mention of
that very important fact.
Does anyoneS suppose that drunk
en- persons are given greater liberty
from arrest today than in 1914? On
the contrary 1t Is generally under
stood that now there is less toIer-
ance Of drunkenness on the streets
than In 1914. Besides We have sew
eral millions more of people, so that
comparison falls fat.
Maine by reason Of its location
would seem peculiarly accessible to
bootleggers. Maine people know
whether or not there is more Of
drunkenness here than there was
twelve years ago, whether or not as
much liquor Is probably being drunk
They will place little confidence In
the alleged statistics of The Moder-
alton League, Inc.,-unless they
should wish to do so, and then there
Is no telling.