Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 146, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 September 1926 — Page 22

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Football Reviews

By Dick Miller Times Staff Correspondent y REENCASTLE, Ind., Sept. 24. Jljj —Football, since the days of Coach Egbert C. Buss, has been more or less a yearly speculation at De Pamv University. New coaches, new players and new conditions each year caused a ray of hope that faded as November and late October arrived. Last year, De Pauw selected W. L. Hughes to succeed James Walker, athletic director, and head football coach. Hughes was unknown to many. He was the selection. In spite of a split l by two factions of the alumni. He was a selection by the university authorities and It seems after a year of work their foresight and vision might be rewarded with results this fall. The first Job Hughes faced was to turn the athletic situation at the Methodist school topsy turvy. Ho did that, and the result was he enjoyed a hectic year in'l92s, Just what Hughes thinks of the 1926 possibilities is contained In a statement he made to the writer after piaotlce Thursday: “I have a much faster team this year than last. It is lighter, but mere experienced. The squad as a whole will know more football. I have more knowledge of the opposition we will have to meet. There Is no need putting out bear stories and other yarns of grief. Wo have better stuff to work with and if we do not have a gdod year, we ■will be disappointed, but will have no alibis to offer.” • • S~|IX veterans of the 1935 machine are back. They are Sturtrldge and Cushman, backfleld men; Messersmlth, Reed, Anderson and Captain Taylor, linemen. Captain Taylor, 1925 all-State selection of the center position, Just about speaks for Itself. Taylor Is in fine condition. He will boa big help (Turn to Page 28)

Baseball Calendar

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W. L. Pot.| W. L. Pet. Louis. 105 59 .(5401K. City. 85 77 .626 Milwau. 92 (59 .5711 St Paul 79 81 .494 INPLS.. 92 70 .668 Minna.. 71 92 .4:1(5 Toledo. 83 76 .628|C0. im... 38 123 .230 AMERICAN LEAGUE W, L. Pct.l W. L. Pet. N. York 89 61 .693 Chicago 79 71 .627 Cleve... 87 63 .80 Detroit. 77 75 .607 Phila... 80 6(1 .548|St Louis 60 90 .400 Wash... 80 67 .544|Boston. 46 105 .305 NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct.l W. L. Pet. St Louis 88 63 ,583| N. York 71 76 .483 Clney... 85 65 ,56718rk1yn.. 69 81 .460 Pitts.. . 83 68 .550'Boston.. 63 84 .429 Chicago 81 70 .6361Phi1a.. . 55 88 .385 GAMES TODAY AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Minneapolis at INDIANAPOLIS. Kansas City at Columbus. St. Paul ait Louisville. Milwaukee at Toledo. AMERICAN LEAGUE Washington at Qhieago. New York at St. Louis. Philadelphia at Cleveland (two games). (No other game scheduled.) NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh at Boston. St. Louis at New York. Cincinnati at Philadelphia (two games). (No other game scheduled.) YESTERDAY’S RESULTS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Minneapolis 002 100 000—3 8 1 Louisville 000 000 100—1 8 1 Wilson. Krueger; Tincup. Wilkinson, Meyer. Kansas City at Toledo: game canceled; rain. Milwaukee at Columbus; both games canceled; rain. AMERICAN LEAGUE (No games scheduled.) NATIONAL LEAGUE (Game called end of Fifteenth account of darkness) Ctncln... 300 001 020 000 000—6 15 2 Phila.. 000 110 310 000 000—6 11 0 Rlxey. Donohue. Hargrave. - Plclnlch; Carlson. Wilson. Pittsburgh 000 010 000—1 8 1 Boston 200 000 00*—2 6 1 Kremer. Smith. Gooch; Edwards. Benton. J. Taylor. Chicago at Brooklyn; postponed; will be played Sunday. (It. Louis at New York: game scheduled for Thursday to be played today. TWO GAMES Tech Vs. Elwood, Shortridge Vs. Lebanon Today. The football season was to open today for local’ fans with a double high school attraction. Elwood was the attraction at Tech Field against the east side grldders. Lebanon came to Irwin field to battle Shortridge. Coach Mueller, who sent the Green and White to a position of State title claimants last year, does not have a wealth of material at Tech this year, and Elwood, which already has played two games, was expected to tax Tech’s strength. Shortridge was expected to triumph over Lebanon. Paul Church, coach at Lebanon, ha<d an undefeated team season last year, and football has become a popular sport there. Both games today were to start at 3 o’clock. BACK TO CUBS The Cubs have exercised their option on Art Jahn, hard hitting outfielder, who has been with Los Angeles of the Pacific Coast League all season. He Is to report in the spring. Jahn lias been hitting well above the .300 mark all year.

STATEMENTS AFTER BOUT I

Bti United Press PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 24.—“1 will defend my title against any man In the world,” Gene Tunney, new heavyweight champion, said after defeating Jack Dempsey. "I told yon before the fight that I was bound to win and I made good,” he said. “Anything I might add wmrj b> 4nat bragging. I am tired,

WITH OLD PUNCH GONE, DEMPSEY LOSES CROWN TO TUNNEY

Former Marine Wins Decisively on Points in Battle of Ten Rounds —Jack Badly Outboxed. By Henry L. Farrell United Press Staff Correspondent PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 24.—There is anew heavyweight boxing champion of the world. Gene Tunney, formerly of the United States Marine Corps, won the title and the richest prize in the sporting world when he was awarded a ten-round decision over Jack Dempsey here Thursday night. ’

In these more modern days of the prize ring, since Tex Rickard started offering thousands of dollars to fighters, It has been the opinion of those close to the game that the heavyweight title nover would be passed on a decision. But the title passed Thursday night before a crowd of 130,000 spectators, and there was not one voice of protest from the crowd. Wins Eight Rounds Tunney won eight of the ten rounds decisively. Two might have been awarded to Dempsey only through the courtesy that might be conceded to a champion. Dempsey made his beet showing In the first and fourth rounds. And they were the only rounds in which Dempsey looked like the champion who "murdered” Joes Willard, stopped Carpentier with ease and outslugged Flrpo In what the okMlmers called a “back-room fight.” The question ijrst asked here today was: “Why did Dempsey lose?” Those who thought Dempsey couldn’t lose and who had l>et three to one that he would retain the championship, recalled that all the race track money in New York had been planted on Tunney to win and that thq fight W'as In the bag. But any unprejudiced spectator who saw the fight Thursday night Knows Dempsey lost because he wasn’t the Dempsey of old, and that ho wouldn't have taken a dive for all the money in the world. A little tout from the New York race tracks, who came up to the press pit after the fight, offered In typical language the solution of the

ASSERTS DEMPSEY HAD ‘NOTHING’ BUT COURAGE Williams Says Long Absenc e From Ring Ruined Jack — Tunney in Superb Fighting Form.

By Joe Williams XEA Service Writer PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 24.—Jack Dempsey defied the oldest law of the game Thursday night and 130,000 people saw him battered and dashed Into oblivion. Jack Dempsey tried to come ba"k after three years of Idleness; he tried to come back Just as Jim Jeffries had at Reno; as Jess Willard had at Toledo and he failed, Just as all hoavyweighs who turn their backs on the ring once aihd remain away from it for any great length of time will fall. Jack Dempsey was one of the greatest fighters who ever pulled on the gloves seven years ago when pummeled Willard senseless In three rounds. He was still a great fighter the night he stopped the Luis Flrpo In two rounds three years ago. * Jack Was Rusty But there was nothing great about I the way Dempsey went down to defeat before the two-fisted attack of | Gene Tunney of the Marines at the! Sosqul-Stadium Thursday night. The cobwebs of antiquity <had settled j over his former fighting genius and the rust of Inactivity had corroded the Iron In his once mighty fists. Just as writers In days gone by said of Jeffries that he was but a shell of his former self, the writers of today, preferring aptness to labored originality, can say the same of Dempsey. The marvel Is that he was able to survive the ten rounds, because he had absolutely nothing. i •* > On the other hand Tunney was In trim for his greatest fight. After a temporary display of his old-time cautiousness In the first round. Tunney sensing that his great chance really had come, opened up a short. Jolting offensive that carried him to victory with grim relentlessness. Gone Strong All Over Tunney, three years younger and superbly trained, had everything Dempsey lacked. He had Infinite stamina, he had speed, he had clear eyes, he had legs that grew stronger instead jA weaker as the rounds passed, one by one; he had a fine defense and a splendid hitting style. If Tunney had been a real knockerout he would have finished Dempsey before the third round; Indeed, I was convinced Dempsey would not be able to last through the second after seeing him flounder around the ring in the first round with the awkwardness of a novice. One thing Dempsey did have was courage. He stood up bravely under a cruel battering. i The ultimate tip-off on Dempsey came In the sixth round when he landed three of his favorite blows flush on exposed parts of Tunney’s make-up and didn’t even as much as Jar him. This was proof that there was nothing left In his fists hut spent energy. These same ldpd of blows dropped all of Dempsey’s opponents in the years gone by. Jack Badly Marked Dempsey. In his losing fight, left the ring with a face torn, battered and distorted almost beyond recognition. It reminds veteran ringslders of the day seven years ago when

for don't think that Dempsey didn’t ■hurt me.” Dempsey said a false report of an accident to his wife had upset him before he entered the ring. “I simply could not get going,” he said. “I never lost confidence in my ability to beat Gene, but since fate and the Pennsylvania boxing judges decided otherwise, I wish Tunney all the lack in the world with the heavyweight championship.”

problem whjf Dempsey lost when he said; "Walt till Dempsey sees his face In the glass In the morning. He’ll feol worse than losing the championship because the wife Is going to be In town.” Dempsey’s friends know that he had a pride In his title. Haymaker Gone Dempsey didn’t have the punch and Tunney found, after the first round, that he could take the champion's best and ho gained courage and copfldenco round by round. In the fifth round Tunney started snarling at Dempsey, and In the clinches he began to out-wrestle and out-rough Jack. The losing champion committed fouls time after time. He pulled rabbit punches and kidney blows that were barred by the rules ol’ the Pennsylvania commission. but Tunney didn’t complain or protest. He punched Dempsey out of the clinches and countered him so viciously that for the first time since he has been the champion, Dempsey started holding. The description of the fight was probably the easiest to write since the old days of John L. Sullivan, the original Jack Dempsey and Jack Mo Aullffe. Dempsey, as he always has fought, tore at Tunney. every step of every round, hut for the first time since Toledo, Dempsey found an opponent who could not he stopped with his right and left body punches. Tunney was hurt several times and was In danger as many times, (Turn to Page 23)

Willard, surrendering hia title to Dempsey, left the ring as badly marked and scarred. Jack Kearns sat within ten feet of Dempsey, the man he made champiori, and watched him lose his title. There was no smile of satisfaction on the dapper little, manager’s face as he watched the cumbersome efforts of his old pupil, nor any spoken words to indicate that the result pleased him. In the second round Dempsey caught Tunney with a right-hand than landed solidly against his Jaw, but the punch had no effect on Gene other than to make him blink and fight back with greater fury. When Kearns saw that this punch, one of Dempsey’s best, hadn’t even staggered the challenger, he turned to a friend in the press rpw and said: "He’s through.” And he was. $240.82 Red Cross Fund Boost Bad weather held down attendance at Washington Park Thursday, hut receipts were $240.82, and this sum will be given the Red Cross for the Florida Relief Fund. Attendance at the Salnt-Indlan wind-up fray was 522, Including grand stand and bleachers. M. E. Freeman, a merchant of Lawrence, Ind., paid $6 for one box seat. W. C. Smith. Sr., president of the Indians, was responsible' for the arrangement which boosted the fund to aid Florida hurricane sufferers. feature~lmll~ clash Riversides and Keystones Meet Sunday for Second Time. The first game of a three-game series between the Riversides and Keystones wa staken by the Keystones last Sunday at Pennsy Park. A nlnth-lnning rally coupled with two Riverside errors enabled the Keystones to forge to the front with a 5 to 4 score. The same teams play the second game of the series Sunday, 3 p. m., at Pennsy' Park. The teams are evenly matched and represented by high class semi-pro talent. Schmutte and Duelsser will form the Riverside hatting and Klein and Klein -will work for the Keystones.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Big Boys’ Weigh In Before Fight

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Here are the old and new world’s heavyweight champions, stepping on the scales before their battle Thursday night. Jack Dempsey on the left and Gene Tunney on the right. l'>ntwyl vania State Boxing Commissioner Frank Weiner is watching the liaiances on Tunney’s scales. The ph itos were rushed to The Indianapolis Times hy telephoto and NBA Service. * •..

RADIO CARRIED FIGHT NEWS ALL OVER WORLD Millions Listened in on Blow-by-Blow Description—|i Ships at Sea Heard Report.

Bu United Press . NEW YORK, Sept. 24.—Mor per-! sons saw and heard the hoavyweight ' championship fight between Jack . Dempsey and Gene Tunney, Thurs- ! day night, than any other spctacle ; in the history of the wprld. In addition to 132,000 fan* at the ringsldo, a record in Itself, countless millions "listened In” to .the roars ; of cheers and the description of the ' fight broadcast for this continent on one of the mightiest hookups ever I made and relayed all over the world at both coasts. By United Press Officers and enlisted men of the United States Navy In the far-flung corners of the Pacific received blow ! by j blow description of tho fight though the United Press, whose ringside report was broadcast from the naval radio station at San Fran- j cisco. Honolulu, tho Aleutian Islands, Alaska and even the turbulent Yangtze River section in China were among the points reached. Ships at sea picked up the report. WGY of Schenectady took the fight to Australia. South Africa and the European continent. On Short Wave Set An amateur In Rio De Janeiro '

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tricked up the fight on a short wave set, but by the time he had telephoned Jornal De Brasil that newspaper already had received the United Press cable flash. The All-American Cable Company estimated that the United Press report of the* result was received 7.000 miles away in Buenos Aires thirty seconds after It was announced In the ring at Philadelphia. Such speed was attained all over the world, the United Press furnishing news of the fight to thirty-six countries on all six continents.

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SEPT. 24, 1926

ST. LOUIS IS NEAR PENNANT Cards Need Only One Game if Reds Lose One — Other Dope. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 24.—The St. Louis Cardln.'iln can cinch the National Leaguo pennant, their first one, today, when Rogers Hornsby leads his team against the Giants. If the Cardinals win and the Cincinnati Reds drop either end of their double-header with Philadelphia, tho Cardinals take the flag and Insure participation in the world series. * Hornsby told his boys the folks back home plan to ring the bells and blow the whistles If the “if” works out favorably. In tho American League, the Yanks and Cleveland Indians both open final four-game series today, the Yanks against the Browns and the Indians against the Athletics iu a double-header. The Yankees need threee victories out of four to be sure of playing in the world series if the Indians win all their games.

The New Champion

Gene Tunney was born in New York of Irish parentage. May 25, 1898, and christened James Joseph. His little sister couldn't say Jim so he became Gene, as she pronounced It. / His career: Early life spent in Greenwich Village, his birthplace. From public schools to a clerkship—from -clerkship to war with the Marines —went overseas. In his ring career, engaged In sixty-one fights—thirty knockouts, won fifteen decisions and lost but one. He was never knocked out. His weight Is 185 He is a bachelor. He is a reader of good literature. He is good-looking, confident and the Id*.l of the Marines and his friends.

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