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SANTA CLAUS brought
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puppy. to little Julia Phillips, 3,
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The Washington times., 1927-01-08
DR.. John Fl. Smoke Quits
Post at Johns Hopkins

BALTIMORE. Md, Jan. S.-Dr.
John HI. Smoke, assistant director
Of Johns Hopkins Hospital, has re.
signed, and DIR. Frank M. L. Houck,
formerly OF Colorado Springs, Colo,
has been named his successor, DR..
Winfred Smith, director of the hos
pital, announced today.
DR.. Smokes resignation will take
effect February Is. He has &C.
cepted the position of superintend.
emit Of the Bryn Mawr Hospital at
Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Senator Carter Glass writes the
History Of the Federal Bank Re.
serve System" beginning Sunday in
the Big Sunday Washington Herald.
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Cloudy with rising
temperature tonight and
Sunday; lowest tempera-
ture tonight, 90; gentle
northeast winds.
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Evening star., 1927-09-22
Fistic Millions Make Dempsey
SMoney Fighter" Without Peer

to the ring with a fighting per.
sonality made to order for Tex s
ballyhoo.
Kearns Gets Big Slice.
Dempsey previous to tonight had
figured in eight fights in as many
years, the gate receipts of which ag-
gregated slightly over $6,S00,000. His
end of the purses has totaled over
1880, 900. although probably less
than half of that sum has actually
gone to Dempsey. Jack Kearns
worked ON a "50-50" basis when he
managed Dempsey, and there have
been numerous "cuts" or expenses
besides that.
Tunney, if he stays in the "racket"
as long as Dempsey, may do even
better. Gentleman Gene" has made
a running start by appearing in one
$2,000,000 spectacle and preparing to
take leading role in a $3,000.000
show. Whether he would draw as
much with any opponent other than
Dempsey is problematical. Attrac-
tive as his personality may be,
Tunney, the experts contend, never
has had the so-called color" or mob
appeal that Dempsey possesses.
Here are Dempsey's eight ring bat
les from the time he won the title
from Willard until tonight, showing
the total receipts and Jacks share
of the purse:
Evening star., 1927-09-22
CLEMSON IS HOPING
FOR BETTER eleven

Clemson College of South Carolina
banks on rehabilitating its foot ball
fortunes before the end of the present
season.
Clemson has nothing to think of In
connection with last season except a
series of misfortunes, but with a COM
plete new coaching staff, with what
one writer last Fall described as "the
consistently best material in the
South" it looks for better things.
, Josh Cody, former Vanderbilt star
at tackle, and for the last three years
Dan McGugin's assistant, is to have
charge. He will be assisted by two
other coaches. Gee and Carson, grad.
yates Of Clemson.
Clemson's biggest games are with
South Carolina at Columbia and Fur
man at Greeville.
The South Carolina game Is played
during the State fair. while the Fur
man contest is the Thanksgiving an
nual.
The Clemson schedules:
-, September 24-Presbyterian College at
October 1---Auburn at Clemson.
October S-NOrth Carolina State at
Raleigh.
October d144-Erskine at Clemson;
october 2O-SOuth Carolina at COlumOla.
October 29-Wofford at Clemson.
November 5--Citadel at Charleston.
November 12-Georgia at Athens.
November 24-Furman at Greenville.
Evening star., 1927-09-22
Chance Meeting as Job Hunter
Led to Ring, Tunney Recalls

had engaged in 80 skirmishes. win
ming 30 by knockouts. Is by decisions,
losing once and engaging in IA no.
decision contests.
Given Out ;de Chance.
Few critics and, close followers of
the game conceded Tunney more
than an outside chance of conquering
Dempsey at Philadelphia. During
the controversy over staging the
fight, when Rickard, barred from
New York State by Dempsey's fail
ure to secure boxing license, took
the fight first to Chicago. and finally
to Philadelphia, the New York State
Athletic Commission declared Tun-
ney undesirable" ito oppose the ter.
rife punching power of the Manassa
Mauler. Harry Wills was still first
choice as contender in Gotham.
Yet the supreme confidence OF the
Greenwich Village youth who wasn't
afraid Of Dempsey's punches after
facing machine gun bullets in
France" carried him triumphantly
through to the object of seven years
of patient and arduous preparation
the heavyweight championship Of the
world.
Evening star., 1927-09-22
lacks Chance at Lost Title
Came to Him i'm Record Time

ruled the roost. The first time was in
1900, three years after Fitz had
whipped Corbett in ID rounds in that
memorable bout at Carson City. The
second was 1908, which, by the way
marked Corbett's last professional
fight.
In their first battle Corbett had out
pointed Big jeff by wide margin for
% sessions. Then he got careless.
being flattened by the champ in the
next round. In their second meeting
jeff was complete master, Corbett
being sent to dreamland in the tenth
round.
Drift Out Of Picture.
OF the other one.time heavyweight
rulers since Sullivan's time. Jeffries
and johnson drifted out OF the picture
after their dethronements. Jess Will
lard, after knocking out Floyd John
son in a comeback campaign, quit
the game for good after his kayo at
the hands of Luis F'irpo in an elimina-
ton match to find a challenger for
Dempsey.
So Dempsey-the once ferocious
man-killer from the West-rates with
Fitzsimmons as the only defeated
king to work into a return match with
the fellow who took his crown from
him, and with Fitz and Corbett as
one of the few to obtain another crack
at the championship wreath.
Dempsey, however. stands alone as
the only heavyweight title holder to
IIase bis, tQga' en. p dseisisns : aal4~s..
Evening star., 1927-09-22
STADIUM AT CHICAGO
BUILT FOR $5,oOo,ooo
By the Associated Pres

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 22.-Ground
was broken for Soldier Field, scene Of
the Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey
battle For the heavyweight title, in
1921, and the horseshoe as it stands
today has cost s5,000,000.
Another $3,000,000 will be needed to
develop the arena in accordance with
the original plans, raising its seating
capacity to 10000.
AS it stands now, the colonnade Sec
tion, the two wings of the horseshoe
and the circle at the south end con-
Meeting them, have so rows OF seats,
while the north end of the two wings.
the unfinished parts, have 30 rows and
no adornment.
Thesstructure is more than 700 feet
long and 500 feet wide. The outer
walls are 60 feet high, with broad
esplanade on top, and from that wide
promenade 50-foot-high stone pillars
rise in a Grecian temple effect.
The stadium has sheltered many
notable spectacles in its brief span of
years.
The first Eucharistic Congress of
the Roman Catholic Church ever held
in this country assembled in the sta
dunn last Summer and filled the horse
shoe with the largest crowd 1t may
ever see. More than 100000 members
Of the Holy Name Society, each with
a cleaning candle, filled the arena and
the stadium floor.
A few months later the first Army.
Navy foot ball game ever held in the
West thrilled 10000 spectators. The
field was especially prepared for that
event, as the previous year had dem.
onstrated that the stadium turf was
unsuited to football in Chicago's Gus.
tomary November weather.
The first use Of the stadium, five
years ago, was for a foot ball game
between high schools of Chicago and
Louisville.
Evening star., 1927-09-22
ONLY A FAIR SEASON
EXPECTED AT NAVY

ANNAPOLIS, September 22.-Coach
Bill Ingram is out with a warning to
the friends of the Naval Academy
that too much must not be expected
from the foot ball team this year, in
view Of the absence of seasoned play
ers, but that prospects are bright for
1928 and 1929.
Navy's big games this year are
against Notre Dame, Pennsylvania,
Michigan and the Military Academy.
A victory over the Army cancels all
defeats and makes the season sue
cess, while a season is a failure to
Naval people if every other team is
defeated but the game with the West
Point eleven is lost.
Those connected with the Navy
team feel that if the Army and one
other Of the three big teams is de-
feated and none OF the small games
dropped, the season will be eminently
successful.
OF course, the Navy will make a
strong effort in each game and will
plan and fight for victory, but looking
at the matter without pejudice, a
straight string of victories hardly is
expected.
Evening star., 1927-09-22

By the Associated Press.
TN his fight with Gene Tunney in
Chicago tonight. Jack Dempsey
completed q record as a drawing
4 card that Tex Rickard believes
may never be surpassed.
Eight years ago Dempsey won the
title from Jess Willard at Toledo with
gate receipts Of nearly $500,000 in
volved, a record at that time, even
though a disappointment to Rickard' s
hopes.i Two years later, in 1921.
Boyle's Thirty Acres in Jersey City
was the scene Of another record
shattering spectacle, a gathering of
10000 fans who paid more than
S1,600,000 to see Dempsey knock out
Gorgeous Georges" Carpenter.
Getting Bigger and Bigger.
That mark, it seemed, would stand
the test for some time to come. but
Rickard moved another step up the
promotion scale with a gate" of
nearly $2,000,00 for the first Demp.
sey-Tunney battle in Philadelphia S
SesquicentenniaI Stadium last, Sep
tember. And now the Chicago Bat
tie of the Three Millions" .,
The heavyweight championship is
always the biggest of ring magnets.
It draws patronage from classes that
never or seldom see other fights. 1t
is a social as we'll as a sporting
spectacle. 1t il In the same class
with the world series from the view
point Of national interest, but. alone
when 1t comes to commanding world
wide attention.
But Dempsey. the colorful even If
uncertain figure, a Slugger OF the
old school, is and has been chiefly
the cause of packing 'em in" at
Richards fistic festivals. Jack came
Evening star., 1927-09-22
ALEXANDER BECOMES
TENNIS PROFESSIONAL
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Fred B. Alexander. four times holder
of the American doubles champion
ship with Harold Fl. Hacketr, has
Joined the ranks Of tennis profess
sionals. He has accepted position as
instructor at the new Fox Hills Coun-
try Club, Culver City. Calf, according
to word received from him by Sam
Hardy, a close friend and former
Davis cup captain.
Alexander was one Of the most
famous doubles players ever developed
in America. First gaining fame as an
intercollegiate titleholder in 1901.
while at Princeton, he was national
figure as late as 1918, when he ranked
third. He Won the national doubles
titles with Hackett four years in Il
row. 1907 to 1910. He held the indoor
doubles crown six times, with Hackett,
Harold Throckmorton and William
Rosenbaum as partners.
In 1908 Alexander shared the entire
Davis cup battle for America in the
challenge round against Australia with
Geals Wright, but the Americans lost,
to 2.
Aside from Vincent Richards and
Howard Kinsey, who turned pro"
last year, Alexander is the most prom
inent of Americas men stars to leave
amateur ranks.
Evening star., 1927-09-22

~HICAGO, September %. - Win
or lose in the new battle OF
the century, it was assured
~ Gene Tunney would be still at
least one jump away from his
big ambition.
This champion fighting Marine.
while honoring the crown that rested
hopefully on his solid brow, really has
been yearning to have at least one
million dollars. He would like both
the crown and the money. AT one
time he even was credited with say
ing that he would retire when he pos
sessed that million.
But IL isn't for him to get it--yet.
That accomplishment must wait at
least until the next big battle, prob
ably to be held in London next year.
OF course Gene draws a fiat million
for his encounter here tonight with
Jack Dempsey. But that's before
Uncle Sam gets in his wallops. The
rights to the jaw that this old gentle.
man swings are the severest blows of
all. as Tunney has come to realize.
For the moment at least Gene Is
barred from that exclusive million
dollar club. 1t works out this way:
The million dollars that Tunney draws
is income. On the first $4,000 of
that amount the regular income tax
rate applies. Then on the excess above
$4,000, il his income is S500,O00 or
more, rate of 40 per cent applies. He
can deduct legitimate expenses, so If
100000 Is so spent, that would leave
100000 to be taxed.
Uncle Sam Cuts Deep.
Altogether the collector of internal
revenue is likely to get away with
s4o0, 900 out of the 100000, leaving
Gene a paltry 100000. Since he al
ready is credited with possessing
100000, his total fortune would be
$S0O,00o or 100000 shy of his goal.
It's much the same with Jack Demp-
sew. He is a millionaire already. But
the Government is likely to get away
with about $150,000 of his $450,OO0
slice, leaving him less than $S00,oO0
for his end Of the gate.
Evening star., 1927-09-22
GENE STILL 100000 SHY
= OF MILLION SET AS GOAL
Uncle Sam to Get $4OO, 900 of Huge Purse Assured
Fighting Marine-Government Will Collect
Around $3.50, ZOO as Entire Tax.

The expenses Of these fighters are
heavy. Jack is supposed to be pay.
ing Leo Flynn $4,000 as manager,
and probably Gene gives Billy Gibson
much bigger sum. Then there are
over 90 persons in the retinue of each
fighter, with the sparring partners
drawing real money for their work.
Thus expenses mount up and they are
not all covered by the gate receipts at
the camps.
Besides taking some healthy socks
at the fighters, Uncle Sam scores at
the gate. In fact, he looks like the
biggest winner in the whole affair. II
the gate is $4,000, 900, as expected,
$500 900 will come to the Government
from that source, and this added to
100000 from Tunney and $150.000
from Dempsey would give Uncle Sam
$3.50, 900 hard cash.
: Dislikes Money Talk.
Tunney doesn't think people should
talk about the money question In con-
nection with prize fighting, however.
These so-called boxing matches aren't
shown in their best light when the
purses and the million-dollar gates are
considered, he believes.
The fact that he will receive $S,-
1888 a minute for his part In the
Soldiers Field struggle tonight. on
the basis of the battle lasting the
full 10 rounds, had better not be en-
phasized, Tunney thought. It might
hurt the boxing business.
Then, too, the thousands Of youths
struggling through college for an edu'
cation and for training that will give
them start in life might get the idea
that riches are the result of some
thing more than steady plOdding.
Gene Tunney, consequently, would
much rather have these tremendous
purses passed over casually.
Even with Gene losing his title. he
still would have a chance to get his
81, 200, 900. Both he and Dempsey are
signed up for another match in case
Dempsey wins. With Tunney winner
he probably would draw another OPP
moment, but the cash lies ahead in any
case.
tCopyright. 1927
Evening star., 1927-09-22
TRAINS AND GIANT PLANES
BRING NOTABLES TO FIGHT

| Of Philadelphia, Senator James A.
Reed: Irwin s. Cobb, writer; Frank P.
Walsh, attorney; Charles Blandon. st.
Paul Pioneer Press publisher; Preston
| Davies, New York capitalist; former
| Gov. Samuel r. McKelvie Of Nebraska;
| Robert Ripley. cartoonist: Roy How
ard, Scripps-HoWard Newspaper Syn"
dicate head; Gordon Bennettl M, oP.
Bernstein, vice president, Metro. Gold.
wyn; John p. Mills Los Engelss movie
| financier; H. FL. Finlkin, Canton, Ohio;
George G. Moore. New York: Wilder
Cutterson, New York; Webster Tilton,
st. Louis; Frank B. Thompsen, St.
Paul; DR.. Oscar Jones, Indianapolis;
p. H. Greer, Los Angeles. and John
]. Hopkins, New York.
Governor Flies to Fight.
Gov. Fred W.. Green OF Michigan
| was the first of the State executives
| to arrive, camping in the front row
| north of the ring. He, like ex-senator
| William Alden Smith and Arthur Van
Valkenberg, Grand Rapids publisher,
| favored Tunney.
':I saw Dempsey in each one of his
fights, except Shelby" said Senator
| Smith, from Toledo to Philadelphia.
One of Dempsey's close friends told me
| at Philadelphia he was in good con.
| dition. II that be true, cannot see
anything but a repetition of Philadel-
phia tonight, only more so."
Gov. Green flew to the fight with
Maj. T. G. Lanphier, commandant Of
| Selfridge Field, Mount Clemens, Mich.
| The aviator and his passenger lunched
with Dempsey yesterday.
In a new plane, purchased in New
VAx>ly h,y Do nc
business man, who accompanied him,
Bert Acosta, transatlantic flyer, was
among the fight fans who arrived by
| air for the Soldier Field spectacle.
Acosta and Foreman planned to
take off the first thing in the morning
| on their journey to Los Angeles,
| where Acosta was to be presented the
plane as a gift from Foreman.
Spectators Bundle Up.
The weather was cool, but not frigid
enough to meet the preparations of
the spectators. The temperature was
| however, came prepared for an Arctic
| blast. They were bundled in heavy
| Winter overcoats. top coats and even
slickers because of a. threat of rain
A stiff breeze swept out Of the South
west, carrying the haze of tobacco
smoke with it, but fresh haze spranG
up instantly.
When the first preliminary started
and the ring was flooded with light
the spectators became a sea of faces
as far as the eye could reach. The
crowd to the north Of the ring, how
ever, became q black mass, as there
was no illumination in that sector
except the red glow of burning cigars
and cigarettes piercing the night like
firefiieS.
Evening star., 1927-09-22

BY the Associated Press.
"OR three days after being mus
l. tered out of Uncle Sans Army
in 1919, Gene Tunney tramped
i the streets Of New York, his
home town, searching for a job.
Although he had boxed with a great
deal Of success in Army tournaments
while with the Marine Corps in
France, winning the ught-heavy.
weight championship Of the American
Expeditionary Forces and defeating
Bob Martin, Army heavyweight title
holder, the thought of turning to the
ring for a livelihood then was far from
the mind of the future heavyweight
king of fistiana.
A fight promoter from Jersey City
met Tunney during the latter, stages
Of a fruitless search for work. He
knew of Genes fighting record over
seas.
Gets 500 for Fight.
"Ill give you $100 to fight Dan
O'Dowd eight rounds, no decision, at
my club" he offered.
Tunney refused the offer, turned
away and started again to rejoin the
horde Of ex-service men combing the
city for jobs. He walked few steps
and turned back.
'T'll fight O'Dowd for that $780," he
said.
Once definitely launched on a f1stic
career. Tunney, then just big mid.
dleweight, conceived the idea that
some day he could and would rule the
fight game as heavyweight champion
of the world. That same year the
chance of a college education was re-
fused, he said. because wanted to
win that title"
The road to the heights was long
and tedious, just as the development
of a heavyweight's physique was
slow and laborious process. In 1919
Gene fought only five times, winning
four contests. one by knockout. in
addition to the no-decision contest
with O'Dowd.
Slowly Climbs to Top.
Then followed the slow building-up
process. Wading through a host of
third-raters. f1attening two-thirds of
them with stiff right-hand punch,
Tunney grew into the light-heavy-
weight ranks in the next three years.
His most prominent tussels in this
time We're victories over. Charley
Weinert, Battling Levinsky and
Chuck Virgins, in 1922. In that
year Gene lost the only fight Of his
career, a 15-round decision to Harry
Greb.
In 1923 Gene whipped Greb twice
and hammered down a host of lesser
opposition. The next year Tunney
disposed of Martin Burke, Erminio
Spalla, Georges Carpenter and Joe
Lohman. as well as fighting node
cision contests with Greb, Jimmy De-
laney and jeff Smith.
Branching into the heavyweight
ranks in 1925, Gene knocked out Tom
Gibbons in Is rounds, BARLEY Mad.
den In and Italian Jack Herman
in 2, in addition to meeting Greb and
Johnny Risko in decisionless matches.
Up to the time Tex Rickard chose
him in 1925 as outstanding contender
for Jack Dempsey's crown, Tunney
Evening star., 1927-09-22
TUNNEY TO TOUR NATION
LECTURING, FRIEND SAYS
Former Governor Cox Holds Fight
er Will Quit Ring to Speak
to Youth.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. September 22.-Gene
Tunney will abandon the squared cir
Gle Of pugilism for the lecture platform
of Americas young manhood. former
Gov. James NJ. Cox Of Ohio, once a
presidential candidate, said here today.
II happen to know that Gene Tun.
ney, perhaps the finest yet most mis-
understood man in sports. will devote
his future to lecturing young men on
how to live" Mr.. Cox said. II have
known him for years as the best son
any father could hope for-the clean
est and finest.
"Gene already has plans for touring
Y. M. c. A. buildings, *. of c. halls
and everywhere else he can reach
young men with his talks on how to
live"
The former governor said the pub
lie was suffering from a misunder-
standing Of the fighters aloofness.
Evening star., 1927-09-22
MOUNTAIN CLIMBING
JACKS EARLY SPORT
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DENVER, September 22.-While
the little town of Manassa, In the San
Luis Valley of south central Colo
RADIO, is not even a pin points on the
larger State maps, it's $50 Inhabitants.
more or less, view their community at
this time as about the most important
place in the United States.
There 1t was that William Harrison
(Jack) Dempsey was born and spent
his early boyhood days. incidentally.
that is the origin of the scrapper's
pseudonym, 1.-THE Manassa Mauler."
sans display in pointing out an old.
fashion frame and abode house near
the edge of the town as Dempsey's
birthplace, they are not of one accord
In their estimates Of his general abil-
ity. Some are pulling" hard for
Dempsey to win back his lost laurels.
while others are hoping Tunney whips
him.
According to the official records Of
the Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter
Day Saints, a branch of the Mormon
religion, with which Dempsey's parents
Hiram D. and Mary p. Dempsey, have
long been affiliated as active workers,
William Harrison was born on June
"a, 1895, the ninth child. A brother
and sister were born at later dates.
In all, the former champion has had
five brothers and five sisters, born in
the following order: Don Bernard, Eff
fie, Lavlet Florence. Estella, Mary
Alice. Joseph H., Robert. John, Elsie
and Bruce, the former champion ar.
irving between John and Elsie. All
were baptized in the Mormon faith.
according to the church archives in
the keeping of G. Wayne Rogers of
Manassa. secretary of the local or
ganization.
Dempsey's birthplace being $500
feet above sea level, he enjoyed the
benefits of rarefed air during his
growing days." as a. boy. The San
Luis Valley, Of which Manassa Is a
rich agricultural and live stock GEN.
ter, has an area equal to that Of Mas
sachusetts and is surrounded by Rocky
Mountain ranges, so the future world
champion had an ample playground
to develop his muscle.
According to the old Inhabitants,
he put in all of his spare time from
school, climbing around the noun
tains like goat" which may account
for his sturdy legs Of today.