The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-12
,NTIR ANlE
the DOPE
WILD AND WOOLLY
By VEDDER GARD

Ell Der of local fight fans for
clever boxing and otner
fine points of clever ring general
shin seems to be growing with
each succeeding fistic program,
according to Captain Clark, TT.
Harrison matchmaker, who has
watched the game for seVeral
years. ;,
"The time will soon arrive
said Clark last night, when pro-
motors will be compelled to arm
their contestants with clubs or
axes in order to satisfy this blood
thirsty element, who only get
kick when the seekers get into &C.
ton and the rays of the ring light
are crinsoned with a mist OF
gore"
The disciples of caveman ring
tactics will come into their own
Tuesday night, according to Clark,
when Wildcat Johnny Simpson
and Billy Showers are prodded out
of their cages into the punch bowl
arena.
The ten-round wind-up battle
between the two will have little
in common with a petting party,
according to the Harrison pro-
moter. Each of the bruisers re-
lies almost wholly on a murder
GUS sock, and the melee should
bulge with action as the two
tough boys clash, hell-bent on
putting over the poppy poke.
Johnny Simpson is unique
figure in the American ring. He
served time in the school of hard
knocks in Texas, Oklahoma and
Old Mexico. His freshman year
in the boxing game saw him bat
Ting older and more experienced
fighters in cowboy camps and bor-
der towns in the Lone Star State.
His sophomore experiences were
gained in a hellhole on the Next
can border, while he matriculated
as junior and eventually as a
senior in Old Mexico, usually
meeting boxers in their home
towns and giving away as much
as twenty pounds in order to get
a match.
His wonderful powers OF re-
sistance gained him the appella-
ton of the "Texas Catcher" but
the term was used in cOmpli-
mentary manner and not as we
of the North are used to hear
ing it, for Johnny usually re-
versed battery positions" dur
ing the course of fight and
started pitching"
Simpson has been fighting for
five years, meeting all corners, and
has more than 125 scraps to his
credit, more than a hundred of
which are on the win side Of the
ledger.
That mustfhaveSbee a difficult
task for the French committee to
select the Davis cup team to rep
resent France. The four chosen
were Borotra, Cochet, Lacoste and
Brugnon. Are there any other
tennis players over there? We
never heard Of them, if there are.
Carmen Hill of the Indians
looks like a mountain out there
in the box. He is having great
year. The specialized one has
pitched more innings than any
other hurler in the American
Association.
According to the last averages
he has struck out more men
than any other hurIer except
Hollingsworth of the MiIlers.
Hill has won thirteen games, be-
ing tied with Eddleman of Mil
waukee for the greatest number
of victories.
NY ONE who takes Bill Til
al den to five sets is racquet
wielder of rare ability. AL
fred H. Chaplin did that very thing
in the national clay court cham
pionships at Detroit last Satur-
day. Tilden won, SO, GA, 81, 2-6,
Ga. No doubt about that being a
battle.
This young Chaplin, as we have
been repeating, is a star-not be-
cause he has such a vast roper
toire of strokes, but because he is
a fighter and a remarkably accu-
rate performer.
For Chaplin the net is made to
shoot over. not into-the lines are
made to stay inside, not outside.
EU7 LILLIAN will have to take
IWI a back seat in the Weiss
0 family for while. His
thirteen-year-old sister, Virginia,
haaf him SUNDAY in +ho Joosia,-