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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-03
Seat Sale Opens For Mary Ann

special cars have been chartered for
the seventy-five men, who will make
the road trip, which starts at Apple
ton, Wisconsin. and ends up in Mil
waukee, after a tour through
Illinois, Iowa and Indiana.
The orchestra Of the organization
and several speciality singers will
broadcast their numbers over
WFBM at $50 o'clock Tuesday,
April 10, the day of the performance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-03
MOSS IN SHERIFF RACE

Morris D. Moss, AZ, of State De-
tective Agency, 1909 Meyer-Kiser
Bank Bldg, today announced his
candidacy for Republican nomina-
ton for Sheriff in the May primary.
Moss, former president of the
South Side G.. o. P. Club, was a
candidate in 1920. He lives in
Ravenswood with his wife and
daughter. He denounced party fac
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-03
WALTER WILLS NAMED

Governor Jackson's office today
announced the appointment of
Walter Wills Of Linton as a member
of. the State industrial board to
succeed Henry l.. Humrichouser Of
Plymouth, whose term expires May
l. Wills is a former Federal pro-
hibition agent. The appointment Is
for four years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-03

Mail order sales for the Haresfoot
club show Mary Ann" to be pre-
scented at the Murat theater April
10, has started.
Mary Ann" is a modern musical
comedy Of youth presented by men
students at the University Of Wis
consin.
The annual spring trip which will
carry the men to eleven Middle
Western cities begins April 6. Three
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-03
FACES BANDIT CHARGE
Youth, Arrested at Noblesville, Said
to Be Filling Station RObber.

Walter Ward, %, arrested in
Noblesville this morning, was to be
brought here this afternoon to face
grand jury indictment charging
robbery and grand larceny.
Ward, detectives said, was one Of
the bandits who held up a West
ern Oil Refining Company filling
station, at Fall Creek Blvd. and
Thirty Eighth St.. in December,
1925, obtaining s16.50. The bandits
escaped in spite Of fusillade from
guns of ambushed attendants.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-03
FRUIT PROSPECT
GOOD, WALLACE
State EtomoIogist Looks
for Good Crop.

Prospects are, good for an excellent
fruit crop this year, although there
still is a lurking danger from kill
ing weather, according to State En-,
tomologist Frank n. Wallace.
With no damaging frosts thus far
and with fair weather reported in the
Gulf States, Wallace said he saw lit
tie chance for late freezes such as
occurred last year. Pointing to the
good weather prevailing in Southern
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States, Wallace said the Gulf wealth
er routine usually repeats itself in
Indiana six. weeks later. 1t is not
often that a spring frost Is severe
enough to -externlinate a fruit crop,
Wallace, said. Last year Indiana
produced a bumper fruit and grain
crop in spite of early summer frosts,
Wallace pointed out.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-03
ESCAPES IN BULLET HAIL
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April 3.-In a
hail of bullets fired by Federal post
office inspectors of Chicago, Bobby
Henderson escaped through the
crowds in Union Station here today.
He was being taken by the Chi
cago authorities from Hot Springs,
Ark, to a Wisconsin town. It Is
not known on what charge he was
being held.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-03
ASKS ABOUT CROSSING
Officer Inquiries Regarding Watch
man-Three Are Hurt.

Sergt. Frank owens Of the police
accident prevention bureau today
consulted members of the city legal
department to learn If the law re-
quires a crossing Waterman or safe
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-03
QUITS SENATE RACE
Attorney to Seek Nomination for
state Representative.

Quitting the race for the Republic
an state senatorship nomination In
favor Of Sumner A. Clancy. Attorney
Harry d. Hatfield today announced
he win seek the Republican nomina
ton for State representative from
Marion County.
Hatfield said he did not know
Clancy was going TO enter the sen.
atorship nomination contest when
he first announced.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-03
FRANCE SCORES AGAIN

Government Financial PROJECT
Adopted by Senate.
BIZ United Press
PARIS, April S.-The Senate today
adopted the Government financial
project to balance the national
budget by a vote of 323 to IL. The
Senate a few minutes before had
voted TO postpone application of the
sugar and oil monopolies advocated
by the chamber was adopted by the
Senate exactly as the lower house
had approved it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-03
"sP0RTING" STAMPS

IONDON-For the first time IN
the history of philately, football is
illustrated on a new series of Hun
garian stamps. In addition to foot
ball, hurdling, diving, skating, fenc-
ing and skiing are portrayed.
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Waldo Schoen will play one OF
the leading. characters in "Ariadne,"
a comedy by A. A. Milne, at the
playhouse of the Little Theatre So
cietY April 6. 5 and 10.
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DEMPSEY IS READY
TO SWAT SPARRERS

ATLANTIC CITY. y. j.. September
10 R.-His three.day vacation over.
Jack Dempsey, sunburned and thor
Oughly rested, intends to set q brist-
ling pace for his sparring mates from
now on. He promises to work within
the next ten days as he never has
worked before. Weighing around 1917,
he desires to bring the poundage to
about 1911. He has new fashy green
trunks and sweater to match for
his business toys.
While the titleholder has been loaf
ing around his bungalow. his sparring
partners have been nursing their
bruises for the punching they know
is coming to them. Sharley, Ander-
son. 212-pound negro from Chicago.
and big Bill Tate, veteran negro
shock absorber. are none too happy
over what Is ahead.
Dempsey is giving consideration to
the selection of the referee and the
two Judges for his fight with Tunney.
Frank Werner. chairman of the
Pennsylvania State Athletic Commits
sion, has assured Dempsey that care
will be exercised in the selections.
Dempsey submitted the names of six
licensed referees acceptable to him.
''It is understood the list comprises
Frank McCracken, sportswriter
from Philadelphia: Pop O'Brien,
Arthur Nolan. Tommy Reilly and two
licensed referees from Pittsburgh.
On Dempsey'S last day of rest he
smeared himself with picking brine
and went up on the roof Of his cot
tage for a sun bath. also he went
fishing and caught two-pounder.
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Famous Battles
Heavyweight Title

No. H.
ny the Associated Press.
Jack Johnson defeated Tommy
BURNS before the police stopped the
bout at Sydney. New South Wales,
December %, 1908. The constahulary
invaded the ring in the fourteenth
round. The affair was to have con
tjnued to 20 rounds. but as far AS it
went il was decisive enough TO have
the title go to the big negro boxer.
Burns was badly battered. and a
cracked lip prevented his smiling
when Bill S1uires. champion of Aus
tralia, challenged the winner. Bill in
his challenging speech omitted any
reference to n two-minute fight ne mad
with Burns the previous year.
There was a somewhat heated and
extended argument before the show
began over certain elastic HANDBAGS
covering Burns elbows. The referee
decided that Burns could not hit with
his elbows and was for leaving them
on. Burns. on his own motion. re-
moved the elbow covering and was
rewarded with big hand from the
crowd.
Cash on the counter was the imam
gial order Of the day, and the gladla-
thrs were paid off in the ring.
90 interested was the populace in
the ARRAY that a number Of the Gus
toners slept in the open. waiting for
the day of the fight to dawn.
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TUNNEY IS RELAXING.
TO RESTORE ENERGY

BY the Associated Press.
STROUDSBURG. Pa. September
10.-Restoration of nervous energy
by relaxation, which is Gene Tunney'
euphemism for loaflng. is preparing
the challenger for a week end OF nara
work He expects to box tomorrow
and Sunday.
Today he was satisfied with plans
to walk and run between nine and ten
miles. enjoy a motor ride along noun
tain roads and golf while. He mas
declined AL in-kation to go to Deia'
ware Water zap to be presented TO
the State convention Of the American
Legion. He SHE'D from the amount
of handshaking involved.
A suggestion that man. woman or
child has driven 100 or more miles 10
see him has thus far brought MIN
from his quarters to shake hands.
While visitors have been telhng
Tunney that they knew him when
the soup has been getting cold: Now
George Ransberry. chef, weighing 500
pounds and able to enforce ms
threats if need be. has ruled that the
dinner hour must be just that. Inc
chef is independently wealthy ana
cooks only for love of the game.
Lou Fink. tho trainer. and Billy
Gibson Tunney's manager. Will De
two Of the three handlers in Funney
corner for the championship bout.
The third has not been selected.
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build of body. Devil take me If I
know. I do know that l was run
ragged splitting him and his loves
out. He always had two or three of
them in love with him at once, and
with all he didn't have to change the
size of his hat band. He simply took
life as it came. He waded into loves
as he did larrups and he enjoyed the
excitement of it all.
AS l said before. he has PERSONAL lily.
He was the he-man type of fellow that
they've fallen for since Jerry with
the braided grogans fashioned a stone
Ratchet to bring in his lady love a
jungle beat or two. He had sense of
humor to begin with. and he could
laugh himself out of desperate situa-
lions of the heart If he decided things
had become desperate. He has a pecu-
liar and unusually pleasant voice, soft
and kid.glovey. like as compared to
his shaggy contour. His was a Won
derful line of chatter
You know he could CAB his way
through the drawing rooms of royal
England and make them like it. I
never knew q fellow who was so we'll
ba Snced in front Of maddeningly
beautiful women. If he found himself
going on the ropes mentally or So
cially. nobody in the room knew it.
He'd pull that smile of his and-well,
damn me. they'd let him lead them
around instead of them putting the
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Congress sional Country Club by two
ROesch's score of 1872 for the double
round of the Congressional course
was a brilliant effort, made in the
teeth of a fierce southwest wind that
played havoc with the cards of many
of the other contestants. The tourney
marked the fourth time in row kel'
lerman has been runner-up in the
championship.
ROesch and Kellerman. tied at 81 at
the conclusion of the morning round
with a margin sufficient to stamp
either of them as the probable tour
ney winner. battled throughout the
afternoon chapter right down to the
last hole before Roesch was certain
of victory kellerman. usually Drill
liant. was erratic and sometimes
mediocre suddenly turning at the end
of the last nine, when Roesch had
piled up six stroke lead, and annex
ING three IS in a row, to reduce the
margin of the Washington lad to two
shots.
Roesch played brilliant shot over
trees at the ninth to MAINTAIN Two
stroke margin at the twenty-seVenth'
picked up two more at the snort
eleventh. where kellerman pushed his
tee shot to the rough. was bunkered
and took three puts. and added stlii
another stroke at the twelfth.
The coming champion dropped
shot at the short thirteenth. where he
took three puts. but picked up TWO
Mt the fourteenth, where kellerman
again drew too intimate with a
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the ,oO-NOlc 1ntudl-pldy S'Cht a. eAA~
hotS.
bunker. Going to the short sixteenth
ROesch had a margin of six shots. He
dropped one at this short hole, and
but for the break that usually faVors
the winner might have virtually
Wiped out his margin at the seven
teanth. For here Roesch hooked MS
tee shot to the rough. half hit his sec
ond and put his third in bunker
while Kellerman'S second shot lay
practically dead.
Roesch got the ball clean in the
bunker. and it sailed far above the
green, striking the flag and dropped
down within holing distance. lie
sank the putt and transformed a
probable into good o, while
Kellerman was boiling 3.
The Columbia lad drove the
eighteenth green in a desperate eff
fort to catch 'Roesch, and nearly
holed a 2.
John G.. Shorey of Argyle. one or
the IRE tournament favorites, picked
up at the thirteenth hole of the
morning round. where he took an
3 after being bunkered three frames.
Scores Of those who finished follow:
Prank X: Rcesch. Washington ,.s Colt ana
Karl r. Keilcrman. jr.. Columbia. Si-S3-
Howard Nordli"ser. Tow" and Country
Byrne Curtiss. Beaver Dam. 95-93-IsS.
j. VI. Proctor, jr.. Congressional, IOS-S0-
Fed O.Conner. Columbia, 11e-9c-cOa.
Rurke Edwards. Manor. 10S-9a-SO6
John Tierney, Columbia. 11S-95-2i3.
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LEONARD TO COVER
FIGHT FOR THE STAR

NEW YORK, September TO-
Benny Leonard. undefeated light
weight boxing champion of the
world. left today for Atlantic City
to inspect Jack Dempsey's cOndi-
ton and report it for The Star.
After q five-day stay Leonard will
visit Gene Tunney's camp at
StrOudsburg.
Before leaving Leonard said, II
appreciate the honor involved by
Gene Tunney's asking me to act
as his second i'm the fight, and I
regret that it will be- impossible
for me TO do so, now that 1 have
taken the assignment to The
Stars sports staff to cover the
fight. want to he I'm u position, of
course, to give fair and impartial
treatment to both sides.
II shall try to discover i'm ad.
vance. by preliminary examination,
observation and reasoning, which
of the two men. barring accident
or fiulSe. will win. / plan to put
OH the gloves with them, and learn
al first hand just how they box,
feint. react to feinting, etc. I shall
make a prediction several days be.
fore the fight, and also report the
fight ITSELF"
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l do-tWo quarts Of milk a half dozen
boiled eggs, steak, some sort of
South American dish and lot Of pas
try. Is ii any wonder the man fell
down every time Dempsey hit him
a left uppercut to the body. just SUCH
a punch as the frail Carpenter took
without being seriously damaged?
Believe me. my stomach will he in
good shape and Dempsey isn't going
TO hurt me there. and as for head
punches. well. if Jack can snap my
top-piece back on my shock "A hsorhing
17-inch neck hard enough to hurt mo
it will he the first time any one has
ever done It.
He can't do II, I tell YOU but | car
hurt him. He has been hurt in every
fight In which he has engaged and
he'll he hurt badly by me. I won't
be any battered Willard. bringing y
ponderous upper-cut from the floor
and almost knocking Jack into Tho
nickel seats: I won't he any frail
Carpenter; I won't he any puncillc.'
Bill Brennan; won't he any incXl
rienced Luis Firpo. I'll be n man as
strong as Dempsey. as good a hittt
as Dempsey. Younger than DempS''
and cooler than Dempsey. That's VIII
III lick him for all his training
tCoDyrlCht. 1926
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in that respect that I've ever known,
his trail I don't suppose there is one
lave him back tomorrow if possible.
brass ring in his nose. Jack Demp-
sey would have been an amazing fell
low in the big feathered hat and silk
britches age. I can see the danes on
those old-fashioned balconies right
now, screaming him on as he fought
off whole courtyard of them with
his fists, sword or no sword.
Not Generally Known.
I'm telling you of a side of Dempsey
that isn't generally known. I'm not
putting any medals on him that he
doesn't deserve. The world loves a
great lover. and he is one in the pres
ent. He chatted his way into their
hearts. lie was forever doing some
| thing to enkindle their regard for him.
Boyish and unstudied, he made them
like him whether they wanted to or
not. I'll bet right now that Jack
Dempsey could walk into club of
man-haters and win them all over
They'd have him on the middle Of the
floor playing peas-porridge- hot in IS
minutes. The fellow is compelling
| with. them. He was and is the best
Judge of what a woman's whim is or
IS going TO be that | ever met. He's
got the sheiks looking like cigar.store
Indians-what's left Of them.
He had his way of sliding into their
| way Of thinking, and the first thing
you knew Bessie, Bridget or Bertha
would be saying. That's right. Jack.
You certainly are right" See what I
mean? Turned them right around in
. the boat without rocking 1t. I never
knew fellow like him. He would
| have been a success as snake
| charmer or lion tanner, for 1 do
believe that he can make anything
that lives jump through a blazing
hoop.
I'll say this for hm--women never
| interferred with his training. He
romped and played with them when it
was recess. Work to be done. and he
was A recluse, the easiest man to
handle. as I've said a dozen times in
my story. that ever I handled or ex.
pect to handle.
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got to fight. That's what they were
paid to do: that's what 1 was paid to
do. And that is what we did.
/ won my title fighting for it. When
I lose I'm going down fighting for it.
] don't want to lose it while I'm on
my feet. When I'm beaten I want to
he beaten beyond the possibility of
any alibis and without anybody's COM
plant about bum decision" or IAN
unfair referee
Says He'll Make Gene Step.
Tunncy thinks he can whip me.
Perhaps he can. But if he's to he the
next heavyweight champion Of the
world he's got to fight to the last
ounce Of energy within him to attain
any such goal. ] may not be the bet
ter man when | meet Tunney. but I'll
make that boy step as he never step
ned before in all his fighting lifetime
to prove that he's OF championship
q. caliber.
He may win: anything is possible
IN these days. But if victory goes to
him it will happen only after he has
demonstrated that he's a harder
puncher than I am and that he can
take il better. If Tunney can take
all that I hand out and then have
enough left to beat me to the ground
well. he deserves to win.
Most of my efforts in these training
iayS--the central effort the big idea
have been to develop my punch to the
greatest and most crushing power I've
ever had--and. at the same time. to
get back all the o!d-time accuracy.
I've heard that experts. basing their
conclusion on my early work. have
decided I'm a hit slower than in my
best days. But none of them keen
IS they may be 20 sing my swan
song, have gone to the point of saying
I'm not hitting hard when let go
In these days.
To Force a Punching Battle.
I've never seen Tunney in action
and. therefore, I don't know how fast
no Is. But have a funny little no
ton that on fight night he isn't going
TO outStep me. Maybe he has more
cleverness-hut I'll offset that with
eggreSsiveness. so that reduces the
whole thing to 'who has the better
punch?"
On fight night I'm going ont to
make our meeting a fight: I'm goiife
TO force a punching battle. Itll be
toe to toe If have my way about it
and guess will. And then we will
slug it out in mid-rfng-and may the
better puncher win.
Copyright. 1926
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sse There Will Be No Fancy Stepping In His Battle With Tunney
REFEREE TO BE NAMED
ON NIGHT OF BIG FIGHT

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA. Pa, Septem.
Der 1O.-The name of the referee of
the Dempsey.Tunney fight is to be
withheld until the night of the
fight.
1.-THE man who will referee will
not be known to any one but my
self until the night of the fight"
Frank Wiener, chairman of the
State Athletic Commission, says.
''In fact, he will not be known un-
til after the preliminary bouts
have started"
Wiener denied reports that he
might himself be the third man in
the ring, saying he wouldn't take
the. job for 100000.
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we'll as did Tommy Gibbons. SO why
fear the potency of the Dempsey
wallop?
Returning to the F'irpo contest. the
South American went into the ring
with Dempsey expecting to he beaten.
He told Damon Runyon and others. a
few days before the bout. that he was
not ready for Dempsey. Still, he all
but stopped the titleholder.
AS for being dropped himself. why
shouldn't he have been? Do you know
what that big fellow ate after he
weighed in on the day OF the fight?
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Sharing once more with little Bill
the Davis Cup safe for America. big
the courts, has utilized this role to
his return to the form that has kept
light years.
6-3. following triumphs over John.
ston and Vincent Richards, has
heightened the prospect that he will
retain his crown in the national sim
giles tournament next week at Forest
Hills. New York
Johnston beat La Coste 60, "a
Go. Go. Although he wilted badly
in the third set he had the grit and
punch in his strokes to pull out a
triumph.
With only one more victory needed
to clinch Americas hold on the Davis
Cup for the seventh successive year,
Richards and the American captain,
Richard y. Williams, faced the oppor-
tunity to settle the issue today in the
doubles match with Henri COchet and
Jacques Brugnon. These Americans
beat tho French pair in the national
doubles last week. The match was
scheduled for $3.50 pm.
Regn rdlesS of tine outcome of to-
days match. the series will be played
out tomorrow with the final two sin
giles matches. bringing Johnston into
action against BOrOtra and Tilden
against La COSte.
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GENE CONTENDS WALLOP
OF CHAMP is OVERRATED
Challenger Asserts Dempsey Never Has Proved Hint
self to Be Terrific Hitter and That He Ha,
No Fear of Jacks Clouting Power
BY GENE TUNNEY.

TROUDsBURG Pa September TO- surely hope Jack Dcnpscy
heavyweight champion from his stretch OF
- training which embraced about
pink during the
following his defeat
a for his setback
to will he
of fighter telling
good since he fought Willard rccupcra
diminished likely,
punching hard fast he
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FIGHTS LAST NIGHT.
y the Associated Press

NEW IORk.-Joe Dundee, Balti
more. knocked out Eddie Burnbrook
camp Ilolabird. Md. 49,. Jimmy Jones
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, and Jack Hood
welterweight champion of England
fought a draw u0). Harry Person
swedish heavyweight champion. beat
Carl Carter. Cuba n0). John Patrick
sullivan. New York. defeated Jack
llorner. ST Louis 10. Vince Dundee
Baltimore. won from Charlie Satko
New York a..
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SHOOT OPEN TO ALL.

FORT EUSTIS. Va. September
livery man or boy who can sho
a rife or pistol is offe0red cham
to compete in the Old Dominion ri,l,
and pistol championship matches, /,
be held at Fort EuStiS. Va. Septcm
her "a, p and &c. according to IN
preliminary announcement.
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know | can take
the blows that
floored the poorly
conditioned Luis
F'irpo. 1 know l
can take the belt
of a man who,
after dropping big.
fat Jess Willard
seven times in one
round, couldn't
knock him out. !
know | can stand
up better than
did Bill Brennan.
who licked Demp-
sey for 10 rounds
and then col
lapsed. And sure
" | can shake off
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~ "
old song "Off
with the old love,
on with the new
easier to say than
do"
S o. e times ]
wondera if there
is some Spanish
blood in his veins
Even before he
became champion
he was their idol,
They fell for him
in droves. 1t Nigh,
have been his
flashing teeth, his
deep black eyes.
or his raven hair,
1t might have
" -