Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 161, Hammond, Lake County, 26 December 1916 — Page 6

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Finally Admits That Professional Football Has Come to Stay West as Usual, Sets Pace for All Good Things. (By United. Press.) BOSTON". Dee. 26. Professional foot- j bull. briiifcinK with it a cluster of old-i lime stars, is due East next Fa!!. ! I'lan are bting: made there for game.15. I and if the "pros" produce the brand of' tVotbaH they show in the "West they; probably win be sen in -other bigr cities of the Ksst. The deserted ball parks. with their bleak bleacher?, offer an ideal setting for th" i e-appearance at the ancient pigskin same of some of the former favorites. Professional football went like a prairie fire in the middle "West this year. Former all-American stars and college captains played to capacity crowds wherever they went. In the effete East are even more iars of yesteryear than decorate the wild and wooly, butmfw thy..000 Dh c w )ld and wool-. Many of them are pinin jr for the discarded moleskins and elected shoes. But as yet they have made their appearance only in alumni contests, or, in Boston, as members of the Battery A. or I. Corps Cadets, in their annual game. Salaries of $100 a week and more were paid in the West to stars who! called back, more perhaps by the j lure of the gridiron than by the remuneration. Jim Thorpo. the Indian all-around star. 1-1 a team known as the Canton Kulldogs this fail that was a whale. On it played such brilliant performers a -Soucy of Harvard. Ghee of Dartmouth. Costello of Georgetown, Spears of Dartmouth? Calae. former Indian star, and many others who have at tained no little fame at the gridiron J rame. j 'Ernie" Souc3". former Harvard cap-' t'n and crack end. 'back from "Wisconsin, where he's been coaching, is enthusiastic over the prospect and incirienlly had a lot to say about Jim Thorpe and his playing, which he greatly admires. YOUNG AHEARN BEATS O 'HAG AN A LB A XT, X. T., Dec. 26. Toung Ahesrn defeated Butch O'Hagan in tn fast, rounds at the National A. C. Ahearn showed wonderful form, winning every round of the ten fought.

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I BENNIE BRIEF STAR

OF COAST SWATTERS i Bennie Brief. Bennie Brief, who has had a few try-outs in fast company, seems to be still working hard for a chance to land in the big leagues. This past season Bennie led the Pacific Coast league in long distance swatting. H has been booked at different times by the Browns and the White Sox, and though he never quit . made the pace he hopes to land yet. Last season he poled out thirty-three homers. SIGNED UP BY PITTSBURG ATIOK West Hammond's greatest athlete, Joe Kowalski, erstwhile director of physical training at St. Slary's College, Ivy., pitcher for the Hammond tem last season, was Signed up Friday in Chicago ts pitch for the Fittsburgh Nationals. Kowalski played last summer with the Hammond baeball team nnd in the fait twirled a game in which Shupp of New " York opposed him on the mound. Joe's showing was brought to t!-e attention of big league scouts. As his contract at St. Mary'a does not expiie until .June 1, Kowalski will Join Pittsburgh in Chicago the firr week of that month. There are 10,000 lUe Count r people ti ho are living all over the V. S. A subscription to THE TIMES will ure you the trouble of writing; a letter to nr one of tkvm.

GUY IS AS

Joe Jackson, the slugging gardener of the Chicago "White Sox, is often spoken of as the original shoeless and stocklngless wonder of the national pastime, but Jack Farmer, the Pirate utility man, avers Joe has nothing on art acquaintance of his, now a big league star. The person referred to by Farmer is Guy Morton, whose great hurling kept the Cleveland Indians in the running throughout most of the present season. Before Jack had stepped out into league ball he was engaged to play fd all-important game with the Selma (Ala.) Independent team against one of the neighboring aggregations. Several nickels were wagered on the outcome of this game, says Jack, and Morton was engaged to do the slabbing for the Selma rivals. Morton was there that afternoon in all his "glory and had everything a Pitcher needs except a pair of socks or stockings. He. came without either. Guy's teammates couldn't figure out why their twirler didn't bring any legwear along with him, either on his person or in his suitcase. He climbed into his "unie" and his mates watched him pull on his shoes over his stockingless feet. They were puzzled, but knew the green kid from the mountains would have some sort of reason for his dislike for the conventional garb. After being fully dressed minus, of course, the 6tockines Guy started for the field, when he was stopped by the manager, "Why didn't you put on those stockings I gave you?" inquired the boss of his pitcher. ' It's too hot for socks," replied Morton, and he'd have gone through witii his stockingless program had not the manager used well nigh physical force to make him change his mind.

PASSING YEAR BLOW TO BOXING BY K. C. EAJQLTON. (United Prtii Staff Cormpoadnt.) XEW TURK, Dec. 26. A year of inaction by fighters and their managers, another year of demands for enormous sums to box. and a year in which some of the flabbiest champion ever produced have been content to sit securely on their laurels, is the pugilistic analysis of 1916. Championship bouts of high calibre have become so scarce that the man who formerly became all worked' up over the prospect of seeing a champion and a near-champion get together grows very little . excited nowadays when the word is passed out that a title-holder is about to risk it. Xo-decision bouts and the mercenary tendencies of the fighters have done their duty. The old fight game is laboring under a tremendous handicap. In the year that is just slipping by there have been mighty few bouts for championships. The elusive Freddie Welsh, lightweight title-holder, has engaged in two mixups over a marathon route. First he tackled Ad "Wolgast, poor old wobbly Ad. who still thinks he can beat the best hnd then he snared Charlie White and the public for a twenty-round affair in Colorado Springs. Both touts were "ridiculous, judged from the standpoint of champion-making exhibitions. Xeither of the men could be classed as worthy of a champion's skill. Aside from these bouts Welsh has engaged in many ten-round affairs and has, demonstrated that no one can catch him over the ten-round route when he chooses to run. Jess Willard, the heavyweight trail blazer, has been even worse. Following a circus in the summer months and protesting against publicity .at other times, the big hulk has engaged in only one fcout, and that with Frank Moran over the ten-round route. There seems to be no chance. of getting him into a longer bout, although, several attempts have been made. Johnny Kilbane has defended his title just once in a bout of more than ten rounds, and he easily disposed of George Chaney on that occasion. There is some excuso for Kilbane. for there are no men of his weight competent to give him a real tough fight. He has been angling for a match with Freddie Welsh, and if he gets it he may help stir things up in the game. Al McCoy still is the alleged middleweight champion, with no one taking his claims seriously. Les Darcy has taken on everything lie could find in Australia and has headed for this country for new fields. It may be that this youth will help bring back the old-time pep. Tex Rickard. the man who made possible the world s championship bout between James 3. Jeffries and Jack Johnson at Reno, has been doing his best to kick a little life into the dying game. Negotiating for Madison Square Garden and some of the best touts the world could produce, the master promoter has promised a revival of championship contests that will liven up Xew York to suit anyone. Aside from the Cs rpentier-Willard go. one between I.es Darcy and Jack Dillon or Georges Ca rpentier, Packard has announced that he will go after bout between Welsh and Kilbane. He also Is figuring on an elimination that will place Stanley Ketchel's crown on j some deserving head. The coming year now promises mucn ! more, than the one nearly over. If it j doesn't pan out, the game of hit and ' run will take an awful shoot down the incline. FBANKIE BURNS IS SIDE QVEH MOORE NEW TORK. Dec. 26. Frankie Burns, the Jersey veteran bantam, shaded Pal Xloore of Memphis in ten rounds at the Tioneer Sporting Club vMtfrdtv afternoon. A persistent body attack earned the honors for the S Jerseyite. .. The weights were, Moore, 1 1 3 ii : Burns. IIS. Fail Bloorn'won by a narrow margin rrom Chii-k funler in the main bout at th Hroadway ?portn Club. Simler subbed for Irish Patsy Cl'.ne who is ' threatened with pneumonia. The weights were: Bloom, 1344- and S'.mler 133EiDutch Brandt and Teddy Jacobs boxed a sensational draw. These lads battled hard all the way. Jim Healv. the Kerry cloutcr. scored yuick knockout in his bout with! T.m ?nllin, the b eight from'

BAD AS JOE

YELL AIDS C0RBETT j TO BECOME CHAMP Jamas J. Corbatt was lm a Fifth araiina, New Tork, Hotel rcntly, whaa a littU old Xrishmaa made his wax through tfca crowd of Corbatt admlrars aad, grabblajr the oac famous pugilirt by tba band, said; "Bay, don't yon kaow ma, Ki, Cor. battT" "Don't know that X can remember yon," replied Oentleman Jim. "Well, yon certainly ongbt to remember me look again." Corbett sized the fellow np critic, ally, bnt could not place him. "Wij, Jim Corbett, X'm the fellow who sat back of yonr corner at New Orleans . twenty-fonr years go on Tuesday and yelled at yon, "You're not Irish if you don't lick him la the next round.' And you Jumped from your corner at the sound of the bell, and with rifht-aaai jolt knocked SnUlraa out and became the champion of the world. X always will bellere that X made you the champioa." "Bay, X do remember some one yelling that at me," exclaimed Cor. bett, "and, by the way, it w Just tweaty.fonr year ago that X knocked out SulUraa and became the new champion." : boston, at the Olympic A. C. The other star bout between Willie As ley and Toung Marino w as a slugfest f rom the first tap of the gong." OWLS HAVE . HARD GAME .Special to The Times.) WHITING, JND., Dec. 26. In one or the best basketball games seen in Whiting, the Whiting Owls were defeated by- the-Hamlin Park Triangles of Chicago by a score of 41 to 36. The Owls were minus the services of Girard their . stellar forward. who was injured in the game with Hope College last Friday, and of Eddie Hartuska, who was caled to Ohio on business. This forced Kinzel to play the entire grame with his hand in 'bandages. Gevirts played a good garnie at forward although he was not in the best of condition due to injuries received in the game with Hope College. The Owls led a half time by a score of 25 to If. By"" excellent work the Triangles obtained the lead but soon headed by the Owls Club who again lost the lead when Smith was inject, ed into the game. Tomorrow night the Owls play the First National Bank team. This team gave the club its hardest fight last year and lost only by two points. A hard contest with this team is looked for, as the bank boys have been winning with consistency this year. The game will be played at the high school auditorium: Owls 3. Trisegles 4I. Kinzel R. F. Jassoy Gevirtz . I F. Pchnaebel Vater .C Dixon-Smith Kxton R. G Trettin Springgate- U G Michels Baskets Kinzel 3). Gevirtx (S), Vater (4. F.xton. Jassoy (3), Schnaebel (4). Lixon 9). Smith (4). Fre throws Kxton, Gevirta. Kinsel (2). Jasoy. Time of halves 10 minutes. Referee Doty, In a. game in which the Folarines were minus the services of three of their regular prayers the Hamlin Clippers won from the Polarines by a score of 22 to 11. Pelerines III. Clippers 2a. Uynch-Smith . R. F. . . . Rosenwald Greenwd-O. N'aef.l. F Wachter Fischrupp C Johnson D. Xafcf-Coilins. . . R. G Riewer T. Kaef George.. . U G ... White Baskets Fischiupp 3, Smith Rosenwald S. Wachter 3. Johnson (2), Riewer. Free throws Greenwald (2, D. Xaef 1. Time of halves 15 minutes. Referee Doty. On Wednesday night, tlie Polarines will play the Gary T. M. C. A. Reds. (olden eppertmnltiee . for yea la TIMES want ails. OurLost andfoui?d Colurm WiHput theSptlcf Esulis on it end help you Find what you have Lost

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PIPP LEADS LEAGUE IN TIMELY HITTING

Wallie Pipp. Walter Pipp, the Yanks' large first baseman, led the American league last season in driving runs across the plate. Though Wallie was hot at the head of the batting lists, the hits he made must have been timely, as he sent across the plate sixteen mora runs than Tris Speaker and thirtytwo more than Ty Cobb. Pipp drove in ninety-nine runs, which was seven more than Derrill Pratt, who was his nearest rival, and eleven more than Bob Veach of the Tigers, who came third. TE WINS IN EASY STYLE OVER HARRY PIERCE CHICAGO, Dec. 2S. The rink was jammed to caipacity long before the main bout was on and the police finally ordered the doors closed. Fully 1,000 fans were una'sle to get in. In the opening round Pierce did not land a clean blow, while White peppered his left to thn jaw very lightly. In the second Pierce began to swing 'wildly, .finally landing a wide swing on White's jaw which spun the Chicagoan. After tantalizing with snappy left hooks to the jaw in the third round White backed him to the ropes while the crowd yelled for a knockout. The most interesting round. wa the fifth. Pierce caught White off his guard anj crashed a wild swing to his head and then landed several stiff rights and lefts to his -body. Whte counter-attacked with ft stiff right and left hook to Pierce's jaw. pierce did some good fighting In the eighth, working both hands to the body This was the oniy even round. Joe Azevedo. with a ten-pound advantage in weight, outpointed HarryCondon. COWLER OUTFIGHTS GUNBOAT SMITH ROCHESTER. N. V.. Dec. 26 The Flower A. C. in this city was packed to the rafters last evening when Tom Cowler outpointed and outslugged Gunboat Smith in ten rounds. Smith was made to look foolish every time Cowler loosened up and held on every time Cowler drove terrific hard hooks into his body. Would Seem Probable. "Last Friday I lunched on one of nr battleships." "Didn't you flud it rather hard to digest?" Boston Transcript. Tub Timbb lves the world's news.

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CRITICS NEW YORK. Dec. 26. Tester Darcy fs somewhat of a sparkler on his side of the world. Fistiana admits it, and most of the critics are of tha opinion that Darcy is all that he is cJaimed to be. ' Followers of the gare who have seen Darcy in action V agreed thai he is one of the most peculiar battlers who has ever come to the front in his division. Darcy, they say, has a pair of hands that are aonormally large, and when his punches land they carry the weight of a sledgehammer behind them. , "Darcy' wallop isn't as much of a punch as it is a flail,- aaid one devotee of the game, who has seen Darcy in action. "He strikes rather than punches, and when he lands th man who stops the blow is jolted through and through." Several battlers of this good old L". S. A., who have traveled : all the way to Australia to meet Darcy, have come back with tales of his prowesa, and for the most part they are agreed that Darcy can clean up anything in the United States with the possible exception of Jack Dillon, who can probably stand up under more bombarding than any other boxer of his weight in the world. Dillon, they explain, would have better chance with Darcy than would Gibbons. Levinsky or Jliske. A boxer, it is said, is made to order for the Australian star, and it takes a rough and ready fighter like Dillon to stave him off. Open Monday, Thursday, a,nd Saturday Evenings