Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 225, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 February 1924 — Page 14

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Facts on N. Y. Heavyweight Situation* —Comiskey Explains His Idea of Star

MIXED SCRAPS BETWEEN BIG BOXERS UNDER BAN Dempsey-Wills, Firpo-Wiils Affairs as Far Off as Ever — Only Two Bouts for Champion, By HENRY L. FARRELL United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Feb. I.—ln the course of tracking down mysterious millionaires who are bidding wild for a heavyweight contest between Harry Wills and Luis Firpo, some very interesting facts concerning the entire heavyweight situation have been learned from a source that is absolutely authentic and reliable. These facts are:

That Jack Dempsey and Harry Wills positively can not fight this year and it is doubtful that they ever will be allowed to fight in this country That Tex Rickard will promote the Wills-Firpo fight—if they fight. That there is only one State in the country that is willing to listen to a mixed bout and that this State will sanction a Wills- Firpo bout only after some clever political manipulation. That New York State positively will not grant permission for a DempseyWills or a Firpo-Wiils fight. That the New York authorities will not permit Dempsey to fight here more than twice and maybe not more than once this summer. While positive information was not secured, it was understood that Connecticut is the only State that will even listen to a proposal for a mixed heavyweight bout and that Pennsylvania and New York will never permit one. SISLER IS TAKING DAILYWORKOUTS If Practice Wilt Help, George Will Be There, By United Press ST. LOUIS, Feb. 1. —George Sisler, manager of the St. Louis Browns, is working out daily in California, according to a letter received here. Sisler wrote that he was batting, fielding and running daily, but he did not venture any statement which could be taken to mean that he feels physically able to play first base next season. As the Browns’ owners are not making desperate efforts to secure <- first baseman, it is thought Sisler feels he will be able to play again. Basketball Results COLLEGE Franklin. 39: Wabash. 1". Evansville. 35; Bethel, 20. Lombard, 25; Western State Normal. 31. HIGH SCHOOL Shortridge, 22: Manual. 20. Manual Seconds. 13; Shortridge Seconds. 11 (overtime). Monrovia. 44: Eminence. 36. Greensburg, 33; Rushvilie. 18. Bushville Seconds, 24; Greensburg Seconds. 19.

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CANADA ENTERS HOCKEY FINALS England Is Defeated, 19 to 2, in Olympic Contest, Bu United Press CHAMONIX, Feb. I.—The United Slates defeated Sweden, 20 to 0, in their hockey game here this afternoon. By United Press CHAMONIA, France, Feb. I.—Canada’s great hockey team became a finalist for, the Olympic championship here this morning by defeating Eng land, *l9 to 2 in the first of the semifinal matches. The victory of the Canadians over England was expected, but there was some surprise when the English were able to score two goals. It was the first time in the championship tournament that the Canadians had been scored on.

Mixed Doubles By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 1. —‘Winnie” Richards, one of America's greatest tennis players, has entered the mixed doubles permanently. Last Wednesday, it was disclosed today, he eloped to Greenwich, Conn., and was married to Mise Claremont Gusse. “Vinnie” and his bride left today for Palm Beach on their honeymoon, will go to Paris next summer, where Richards will be one of the American representatives in the Olympic games. Elopement of the young couple was made necessary by the objection of the bride’s parents, who thought they were too young.

HOREMANS GETS CHANCE By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. I.—Edouard Horemans, Belgian cue champion, here for a match, said he expects to play Willie Hoppe for the world's 18.2 championship within sixty days.

SHORTRIDGE WINS FROM MANUAL BY LAST HALF SPURT South Siders Tough Luck Team of Series —Schaefer Stars for Winners. Shortridge played some basketball for about twelve minutes of its game against Manual in the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium Thursday night and, aided by a couple of the distant variety goals, nosed out their opponents, 22 to 20, in a city series game. It gives the north siders a ,000 percentage, as they lost to Tech in a previous contest. Manual has lost three tough games to the other city schools, two of them by two points and one by one point. It seems to be the hard luck team. The south aiders’ consolation is that they have a chance to redeem themselves in the sectional tourney. Too Many Fouls Manual may feel like placing some blame on the officials, as Harmesor. and Snodgrass left the game on personal fouls before the Shortridge rally in the final half. But they should blame only themselves. Karmeson, who had been a mainstay in the first half, went out on a very apparent foul uhder .he basket. He surely knew he was fouling and he surely knew he had three personals on him at the time. Both teams fouled too much. The first half of the game ended 16 to 6 In favor of Manual and Shortridge seemed completely bewildered. They passed wild and fumbled continually. But when they once got started in the last-half rally there was no stopping them.

Shortridge Rallies Anew spirit got into the north side players and they really fought. Shortridge seems to have one fine basketball player in Schaefer at back guard. He was easily the star of the contest. Bayce made ten of the points with two field goals and six from the foul line. Hnrmeson made three baskets for Manual in the first half and Snod- , rass, two. Eickman played his usual strong game at guard. Neither team could hit the net con sistently and there was much wild shooting and aimless running around. A pack ad gym witnessed the fray. PENNSY FIVES IN GAME Terre Haute Team to Meet Locals at I'. M. C. A. Saturday. The Pennsy, Indianapolis division, basketball team will meet the St. Louis division, Terre Haute Pennsy quintet at the local Y. M. C. A. Saturday night at. 7 o'clock. The St. Louis division team includes many star.!. "Duke" Lovell, "Babe” Wheeler and "Boots" Risher will be in the game Saturday. The Indianapolis aggregation has been strengthened by the addition of W. J. Shafer. The men's game Saturday night will be preceded by a curtain raiser in which a team of local Pennsy girls will meet a squad of Terre Haute girl basketeers. A large delegation of rooters will accompany the Terre Haute teams .to Indianapolis Saturday. They are bringing along the Pennsy shop band. ALTE TO BATTLE SPARKS IkK-aJ Feather Signed for Bout in Oincy Feb. 4. Merje Alte. featherweight title claim- | ant of Indiana, has been signed up by his manager, Nate Farb, to meet ! Tommy Sparks at Cincinnati Feb. 4. The duration of the bout will be ten | rounds and the weight 128 pounds. Sparks and Alte some time ago put up a sensational bout in Indianapolis, ; Alte having the edge. It is said the winner of the AlteI Sparks fight will he signed to meet | Sammy Sandow, the well-known Cincinnati scrapper, in Cincinnati on a ' future date. EM-ROES IN VICTORY (ireeusburg Y. M. C. A. Swamped —Montgomery, Williams, Adams Star. | By Times Special GREENSBURG, Ind., Feb. I.—The Em-Roe basketball team defeated the j Greensburg Y. M. C. A. team Thursi day night, 63 to 34. Montgomery and | Williams were the high point men ! for the Em Roes with ten field goals j each. Adams was a close second with j nine field goals. The passing of the Em-Roes was the best seen in Greensburg this year. H. S. Basketball Tonight Broad Ripple at Lancaster. Technical at Bedford. Wabash valley tourney finals. Fountain County tourney at Hillsboro. Martin County tourney. Pike. County tourney. Pulaski County tourney at Franqpsville. Tournament at La Porte. County tournament at Auburn. •Putman County tournament. Arcadia at Noblesville. Brownsburg at Plttsboro. Bloomington at Franklin. Crawfordsville at Thorntown. Castleton at Lawrence. Center Grove at Hopewell. Daleville at Fortvllle. Evansville Central at Owensvllle. Frankfort at Columbus. Greenwood at Beech Grove. Goshen at Elkhart. Greensburg at Rushvilie. Huntington at Bluffton. Hartford City at Montpelier. Jefferson (Frankfort) at Mulberry. Jefferson (Lafayette) at Greencaatle. Kokomo at Anderson. Lebanon at Martinsville. Liberty at Cambridge City. Liston at Danville. Lapel at Pendleton. Montmorenct at Locansport. Huncie at Shelbyviile. Maxwell at Oakiandon. Mooresville at Morgantown. McCordsville at Westland. Moores Hill at Brookville. Plainfield at Ben Davis. Richmond at Connerville. Southport at Carmel. Seymour at Mitchell South Bend at Emerson (Gaeg). Tlptou at El wood. West Lafayette at Delphi.

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”pT| C. QUIGLEY of St. Mary’s, r, Kan., is the only person in J the world making a profession of officiating in three major sports. Quigley, who refereed the 1923 Harvard-Yale football game, is one of the few professionals ever called upon to officiate in college contests. In addition to serving as referee and umpire of important football

HANOVER-PURDUE ON CARDTONIGHT Boilermakers Have Hard Big Ten Contests Ahead, By Times Special •LAFAYETTE. Ind., Feb. I.—The Purdue game with Hanover tonight will be the fifth non-Oonference game this year. The Conference schedule will be reopened against Minnesota here next Monday. A hard schedule with two games each vffth Michigan and Northwestern and one mote game each with lowa, Ohio State and Chicago, will follow. Wisconsin’s defeat at the hand# of Chicago has made a scramble for the Big Ten title. Michigan tops the list, but the Wolverines must play Purdue two games. Purdue, Chicago and Wisconsin are tied for second place. Scholastic difficulties will affect the team, with Neuman, Karmeson and Roseberg probably out for the remainder of the year. These three men constituted the strength of Coach Lajnbert's reserve material. f MORAN TACKLES DUNDEE PaJ and Johnny Kittle Tonight in New York Ring, By United Press NEW YORK. Feb. l.—PaJ Moran, New Orleans lightweight, has been made the favorite in the betting to beat Johnny Dundee, featherweight and junior lightweight champion, in Madison Square Garden tonight. Dundee's titles are not at stake. Young Queissor at Butler Arthur Queisser, son of Oscar Queisser, secretary to Police Chief Rikhoff, has matriculated at Butler College. He has entered for the spring semester. Young Queisser is prominent In local amateur circles because of his ability as a catcher. He made the spring training trip with the Indianapolis team in 1923 and picked up gome valuable baseball experience. '

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games each season during the last decade, Quigley has worked the last several seasons as an umpire for the National League and during winter months has officiated in basketball games throughout the country. Quigley, in addition to officiating in the three sports, finds tlftie to act as chairman of the faculty athletic advisory committee of St. Mary’s College'in his home town in Kansas. He also is a golf enthusiast.

SIATE NORMAL IN NET SCRAP HERE N, A, G, U, to Take on Teacher Five Saturday, The fast State Normal team of Terre Haute will appear in this city Saturday night against the N. A. G. U. five at the Athenaeum gym. The "Hut” outfit is rat#i very highly in the State. The Teachers gave Franklin a terrific battle at Terre Haute and lost only after an overtime contest. The State Normal line-up will fee Tudor or Van Horn and Burris, forwards; Willis, center; Conover and Albright, guards. The N. A. G. U. line-up will be Eecollier and Overman, forwards; Moore, center; Kortner and Gebhart, guards. There will be a prelim at 7:15 between two teams in the Central Church League, Broadway and Ebenezer. Independent Basketball The Communal Cubs are ready to schedule yanu-s. Cali Drcxei 3090 and aak tor Morris. Two irames will be played tonight at the Hawthorn gym ::500 W Ohio St. The Fairfax Christians meet the Irvington In angles In the first game at 7 30 and the Morris Street Christians play the Highland Jacks in the feature eon test Teams desiring games with Morris Street, write M. M. Skinner. 1735 W. Morris St., or call Belmont 2054. The Mapleion Maids will play the Lilly Indrt>en,ient Saturday night and the Maplrtons will take on the strong Southeasterns. After these games there will be a dance. 'rive Indianapolis Midgets defeated the Alabama Bulldogs by a set,re of 12 to 9. For games with the Midgets call Drexel 4287 after 5:30 p. m. and ask for Orie. fioldbcry Beats 7-tvic By Ignited Pri ss M’KEESPORT, Pa.. Feb. I.—Pete Zivic lost to Larry Goldberg, New York, in ten rounds here Thursday night.

BASKET SHOOTING DELUXE SHOWN BY FRANKLIN CHAMPS Baptists Once More Prove Class by Overwhelming* Defeat of Wabash, By Times Special FRANKLIN. Ind., Feb. I.—Franklin College demonstrated its class once more Thursday night by defeating Wabash, 39 to 17. It was a complete rout of the Little Giants, who failed utterly to stop the flashing attack of the State champs. Vandivier, Gant and C. Friddle swept through with their clever dribbling and pivoting for shot after shot at the net. At the start of the game Franklin was in the lead. 15 to 0. Wabash was at a complete loss and the first twenty minutes ended with the count. 17 to 5. The rout became worse in the final period and at one time the score was 39 to 9 in favor of the Baptists. When substitutes took the place of Franklin regulars the Scarlet five added to their small total and finally brought it up to 17. Vandivier got seven field goals and five of them came In the second half when the Wabash defense became bad ly disorganized. Gant dropped in three and C. Friddle four. Most of Wabash’s goals were made from a distance. Pete Thorn dropped in a pair of long ones in the final period from his back-guard position. It was one of the worst defeats Wabash has experienced for many a long day.

MAY WRESTLE JIU JITSU Nichols Offers to Meet Jap Matsuda at Own Game. Hugh Nichols, powerful young lowa wrestler, who will meet Matty Matsuda, Japanese star, in the Pivot City A. C. show here Feb. 6, is something of a Jiu jitsu artist also, according to word he sent to Matchmaker Markus today in which he offered to hold the match under Japanese rules (Jiu jitsu if Matsuda desires. Nichols' proposition is to hold all of the match, or just one fall, whichever Matsuda prefers, at the jiu Jitsu style. Markus stated that he had not transmitted the offer to Matsuda. but thought the latter would accept. INDIANA CENTRAL TRIP University Heights College Plays Oakland City and Evansville. The Indiana Central College basketball team will play two games this week-end. The squad left this morning for Oakland City College, where it plays tonight. On Saturday 'pvansville College will b© met at Evansville. Coach George has been drilling his men hard this week for the pair of contests. Curtis Takes Big Ix*ad Vogler, State champion three-cush-ion billiard player, seems hopelessly out of the running in his 150-point match with Curtis, which will be com pleted tonight at Cooler's No. 1 par lor. The score at the end of the first two fifty-point blocks is 100 to 66, with Curtis leading. The score Thursday night was 50 to 22 and on Wednesday 50 to 44.

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AVERAGES DON’T ALWAYS PROVE VALUE OF PLAYER / A 'Old Roman,’on Stand in Jackson Case, Says Intelligence and Aggressiveness Mean More Than Perfect Fielding, By United Press MILWAUKEE Feb, I.—Good bjseball playing is not always shown by the fact that the playgr fields 1.000, Charles Comiskey, owner of the Chicago American League team, declared when he took the stand in Circuit Court here in the trial of Joe Jackson, former White Sox star, who is sueing the club for-back pay which he claims is due him.

BUTLERNETTERS OACjUN ACTION Pagemen to Visit New Albany Saturday Night, With examinations over the Butler basketball men will lay off “hittin’ the books" and try "hittin’ the basket” against the fast Calumet five at New Albany, Saturday night. Coach Page lias been giving his men about an hour a day of light drill in order to keep their muscles limbered during the past week and a half. Speculative fans are hoping that the rest has revived the spirits of the netmen. There has been a general feeling in the Irvington camp that staleness was playing a role in the poor record. Ten men will make the New Albany trip, eight of whom have landed jobs. The other two will be picked -Saturday morning. Harker, Paul, Nipper, Strole, Griggs. Jones, Hooker, and Keach have berths. locaTbaseball meeting City Association to Get Together Saturday at Ulty Hall. R. Walter Jarvis, president of the Indianapolis Amateur Baseball Association, has called a meeting of the association to be held in the offices of the park board, City Hall, Saturday. at 1:30 p. m. Or. Wednesday. Feb. 6. at 7:45 p. m., the annual meeting of the as sedation will be held in the City Hall and will be addressed by John M. Dugan, president of the K. I. O. As soclatlon.

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Comiskey, “Old Roman’’ of the national pastime, presented an unusual picture as he parried cleverly the many statements hurled at him by Jackson’s attorneys while h® was on the stand. Comiskey, in his testimony, declared he had noticed nothing wrong in Jackson’s playing during the 1919 world series, but ridiculed Jackson's claim that his perfect fielding record showed he played a great and honorable game. "The great player is the man who uses intelligence, who catches and fields the balls that come his way and also those that do not come altogether In his direction,” Comiskey said. Comiskey will be called for direct examination next week. Harry Grabiner, secretary of the Chicago American League Club and the man who is said to have signed Jackson to a new contract following the 1919 scan dal series, was expected to take the stand today. PRESTOS LOSE CLOSE ONE Fast Markleville Five Downs Locals by Score of 29 to 27. By Times Special MARKLEVILLE, Ind., Feb. I. The Markleville Independents defeated the Prest-O-Lites of Indianapolis her® Thursday, 29 to 27, before a large crowd which included Coach Stagg and many others from Anderson. Leslie, Presto center, formerly starred in Anderson High -School. Young;, former De Pauw star, at back guard for the locals, proved a stumbling block to the Lite forwards, while Armstrong, Markleville center, led the local offense with six field goals. Leslie and Secrest each counted four two-pointers for the Prestos. Saturday nlgnt the Prest-O-Lites meet the Lebanon Elks at Lebanon.

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