Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 194, Hammond, Lake County, 29 January 1917 — Page 3

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THE TIHE3 RICHIE MITCHELL, LIGHTWEIGHT STAR, TO RATTLE KILBANE, FEATHER CHAMP

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Nate Lewis Sees the Australian Today Concerning the $7,000 Offer Made Him to Battle Knokout Brown.

CHICAGO. Jan. 29. Note Lewis left last right fr Buffalo, acorn varied by Bed Dolan. rhn h.ui'j Frankie Murphy of Syracuse a scheduled f n round.--thre tonight, at 133 pounds. "Nathan has an appointment in Huf!";uo wi'.h riarcy. the widely ailvort "i A-ist ri li -i. ooncerninK ft match at John WnKnoi's club in Racine with Georg-i Kno. kout Urnwn of our North Pidc.

Jawn. oid Fcout, is win ins to Parry $7,000 to box th :rerk. from what i-pwis p.ithi'rod in a distance telephone oonvprsDiion Tex Sullivan, Darcy's mnnBger, thinks favorably of thin scrap. Gilmore of Austin i with Dsrcy sparring partner on hi? stnRe tour

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N"8t( is rc!yingr on hini to help hook I th foreigner. ! Aftwr teamin.e Dolrn apainst JrurThy and conferring with T'arcy. 1.pwi ! will trot along to New York, tlirro to, consult with "William Gihson. ho ! guides Penny Iponard. and Iihm s hi ; word hc-re that ha thitiks ihc limp is; ripo for a t'harles A hii-'-I.on'ti d roilision. Xat also will buzz lTufth ' Grant Browne and 11. run PcHok ancnt j that proposed t went y-Hve-round chara- ; pionsh p nioetinif betwven White and j Frederick Welsh in Havana. T?rowne ls the party who recently purchased!

Madison Sa'iare tinrupn wiui uie asistancq of some other sentlemen and also the person who has been fyinp to gf. these celebrated lightweights toj iier in Cuba. Lewis says h will .A',p(.i Browne and Pollok to put their

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1; Ogden Park and l'ilnen Sokol, each 1. Surnmariss. 11? pounds K. MIIIh. Armour; A. Beriaon. Slnla; I. n. Hul!. 135-pounds Peter and George iltrlropo'is, ;ery; M Glark, steward. 1.". pounds V. Mnurer. Hebrew; F. Grave. Seward; 11. l'anfilias. Hull. Heavy weiglit F. Heih. H:un!in; K. I.. l.ovldson. Hebrew; S. Krecz. Gary.

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Repeating its perf oru-an'-e of the week pre ious taRorge M. ('inneo'a Gary: Y. M. '. A. wrestling team on Puturday ; night won first place, in the balance of the A. A. F. ruba tournament at Gary., The uteel cit team got 21 points, t'ht cago Hebrew institute was second with 17. and Hull House third with other points were as follows: Armour Square. 5: Hamlin Park, f. ; Stanford I'ark. 3; Sinia Social Cen'er, 3: Cornell Square. 1

delphia was reached Uarcy was so discouraged with the number of persons who wanted to be lus audience that he left the theater, and It was only by argument and Ihreat that he could be induced to return and entertain the eighty or so fans.

! The reason for his fail. ire should he i apparent and should be a warning to other theatrically ambitious scrappers. 'Folks who really are in'erested in ting

battlers don't csre to sec a boxer step ! onto a stage and merely go through the

i motion.' of a tiff. They want to see him

j fight. j ' Anv one so popular as Darcy would'

have no trouble at ail in jamming a PARIS. Jan 2 'I. Georecs Oarpentter ! fight arena with fans to see him hat- ( boxed four .rounds Saturdns night at a i hie. Others who go to a theater to be j benefit f"r Georges Bernard. French ; i entertained are rarely interFted in the , middlereight champion, who was killed! doings of the borers, so they fail to. w-eek ago in an aeroplane accident at. I become greatly excited. ! t'au. ("arpentier met Jean Uicr-t. who, i Darcy was out of his sphere when j is nearly as bid and stronp as A! Palmer ; j lie went on the sta-e. He w ill hav- f anl overw eiched ("arpentier by thirty j 10 get the vaudeville reputation before ( pounds. i

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Surnham Making Good. "Fighting Joe" Htirman. of Chicago, is making good in New York rings J09 boxer in the sewl-windup to the AVetl-ing-Jobrson Tight there lt Friday right and easily whipped Willie Astey.

E. Sott is a Holdout. BOSTON, M.YS3.. Jan. 23. Kverett P'-ott. who played puch a wonderful game at shorstop for the P.ed So- last season, has returned the coniract sent, him for next season unsigned.

Richie Mitchell Richie Mitchell, the Milwaukee lightweight star, is booked to meet Johnny Rilbane, featherweight champ, at the Grays' Armory, in Cleveland, eonie time this month or early in February. The fight had been scheduled f o- January 28, but when Mitchell injured his hand in training recently ho wired to Matt Hinkel, the Cleveland promoter who will stage the affair, that he would like to postpone the bout a week or two. Mitc hell's hands had been bruised and swollen after his bout with Freddy Welsh and he doesn't want to take any unnecessary chances.

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WHITING HIGH LOSES TWO (Special to Tub Time?) ! AVH1TING, IND., Jan. 29. Whit ing high school lost in two games of basket-! bail on Saturday night, when they play-I ed the two teams from I.ane Technical)

high si hoo! in Chicago at the local high school g j m. In the frst game the score was 2 ? -1 7. end in the second game the score stood a tie, 8 to S. The teams were given an additional ten minutes in whhh the visiting team earned one point by a free throw, making the score !! to S and Whiting the loser.

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Willie Ritchie, former lightweight J champion, now a welterweight conj tender ncless a Treld'e Welsh match ) ihould niais It worth while to do I 13S pounds, it in town to make this j hie headquarters. He will box out j of Chicago the rest of the Winter and would like to meet Jack Britj ton, Ted Kid Lewis, Johnny Orif. I fiths, Bryan. Downey, Spike Kelly, Jimmy DutTy, Kid O-raves or any of : the leading welters in a ring in .he i Ticinlty f Chicaero. Ritchie brought ; with him from California George ' Thompson, a San Die?o bantam with

i oodlea of experience and plenty of ambition. Willie is handling- him. i Thompson wants a crack at Pal j Moore or Johnny Conlon in these I parts. Re also has his eye on Champion Fete Xerman. George boxed ' I two close four-round battles with i Conlon while the latter was cam. ! I paigning in California a few months ' ' ro-

' knowledge of the bolt's and if they a ro ; 1-uiied ofi' on Hammond soil, there wiili j ie wholesale arrests. Joe Bishop and . j Joe Gcnai! are billed for the scheduled i eight ro'ind windup. A six round semi-I ; final will bring together Joe Sullivan! ! and Dennis O'Keefe. a couple of 11V f pounders. O'Keefe is a favorite with j i South Deering gentlemen who sling ; about tons of iron as a daily pastime, j and bis hardy adherents oe expected j j to appear in force. ' A four round preliminary will engage i the services of Kid Hogan. the bc.u j copy chasing boxer around Chicago! i newspaper offices, and a youth labeled I j Young Barney, or something like that, i Barney scales 1 SO pounds, somewhat! ! more than Hogan j

Carpeiiticr showed ail his old time S craftiness, speed, footwork, and judge ' of distance, but two and one-half years i of cigaret smoking has had a marked

effect, on his wind. At the inil of Gie

third round Carpentier was puff lis

hard, and after the Hst round was blow-

I ing like a poi cose. Carpen-nier Hard to Hit. ; Curpenticr hi.--, familiar gurd.

which is a i omtima : ion of th. !,., h Crni and Ad Wolgast styles, !. iv arm :ouhl-l ew;r T'ace ami uloe over ear. V. O il l.odv c, u, h i) l.ov. Time after roic Cavpetif cr t,...; ,ig Hoil's btird- .-! biovs I'll I s eliuw .id just. swa,ii to li ft c- I o il'., birak'li- the force of the punches. Then ('arpentier pulled Corl.oifs (,. gj, me. dropping his hands ami jus! iuoi! p liis head and shot) Mors to dodge Bitot's swings. ('arpentier ducked like Bombardier Wells. Whenever iiteoit tried an upper cut Georges backed out of range.

WHITING OWLS DEFEAT LAPORTE I, M. G. A.

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(tixitert Press Staff Correspondent-) NEW YORK, Jan. 29. Bes Darcy. king of the Antipodean siuggers, found

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jlh Kreddie Gilmore and iU ruonsr r.i te the punches l.e used to win his way to Australian fame. Hi junket through eastern iiies lias been one of the most di ma! flivvers history ever has been called upon to chronicle. Despite the fact that Parey had received more publicity in a feu wok than the average so raprer gets in ( lifetime, the public didn't fall for his theatrical efforts. His first stop Bridgeport. Conn. showed the way the wind was blowing when the theater wasn't even comfortably filled. Jumps were made to other towns and the same sort of desultory interest was shown in hia appearance. When Phila-

WHIT1NG. IND. Jan. 2'J. The Polarines traveled to Crown Point Saturday; evening and gave the fans an exhibition j of what a lightweight team can do j against a much heavier opponent. j

Crown Point rugn acnooi won ;or io ,u, but the Polarines lead at half time, 2 4 to 21, and maintained a close score until about the last ten minutes when

Fisehrupp received injuries which1 would have retired him had there hern j anv one to take his place. After that i

the high schoolers scored seven or eight baskets. The game was featured by the Polarities' long shots and considerable rough playing on both sides, which Referee jester seemed unable to prevent. Lineup: Polarines (31). Crown Point H. S. (50).

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WHITING. 1XD.. Jan. The Whit ing Owl3 w r re tho attraction at Laporte on Saturday evening and defeated the Laporte - Y" team by a score of .LI to -4 The game was interesting from a Laporte standpoint because the score was so close. The Owls were handicapped by the loss of (Txton. who was injurned in the Llgin game alst Thursday. The score at the end of the first half was IS to 11 in the Owls' favor. The lineup: Owls (33). report e "T" (24). Kinzel R. F Flood Geviriz-Wayiie L. F Henoch Yater C Zaring Rartuska-Gevirtr. R. (', Orcutt Springga te-Rar'a L. f; Hampsoti H.- sket s K in zel (.). Gevitts (3.

i lVnjne. Vnte (Hi. Flood, during (5). ! Hampson (4). Free throws Vater tip. ! Hamjison t 4 ).

NOTES ON THE GAME. (By Jimmie -Uay). About twenty Whiting Owls (Tub

fans :,iade the trip with the team to j Laport?. j Hprir.ggate was ousted for four per-

sotial fouls. This was the, first time; i that Springy has ever been put out of al game in his long career. Wayne played about ton minutes and I showed We 11. ' I When Springgate was put out. it fore- ' j ed liartuska to play hack guard and Gc- ! virtz whs shifted to the other guard. I l'nhiii) t-'vton ..- a c l I

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- - '- o-iniin , I which showed that some Fgamen's w t re 1 i torn in hi.-- shoulder. I'hoer.iv Club of Valpo is hilled for j Wednesday eenmg at th- high school

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' Kinrel was the p,,in fr.;t,,r f,f tln-

(M iiing. niaksng 16 points for the Owls.

some long and difficult

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(By Uxiitea Press.) j DALLAS. Tex.. Jan. 2D. The sur- i face plan of the Polo grounds in New I York was suggested by a housetop in Oak Cliff, a suburb of Dallas. ! Yeats tigo when Harry Fabian, ground-kef per of the Polo grounds, was playing baseball here, he was j going home after a game in which : the local grounds proved almost ' hopeless because a slight rain had ; not drained off properly. ; Fabian noticed a cottage, the roof : of which was shaped like a saucer. He studied it for a while, then do- 1 vc-loped the Idea of the famous : "1 urCo-hack" diamond. He built the ! first one in Dallas in 1890. Later he built similar grounds in Galveston. Atlanta. St. Louis. New Or- j leans. Martin end New York.

(Special to The Times.; INDIANA HARBOR. IND., Jan. 29.i The Howard Majors team took three j games from the Nagdemans last Fri- ! day night in the Randolph bowling i league. The. Nagdemans rolled three ' slow- games, while the Howard's galher- ! ed a four figure total in their second . efort. The first and third games could i have been won by the Nagdeman's if

they had picked up a few of th" spares that were easily made. Pert Newell, taking (Tills place a? lead-off man. rolled a steady series, but a coup e of errors held him in the 1 S (lass. Next Friday at 7:00 p. m. the K Rector's are the Nagleman opponents.

! Friday night's scores follows: Nagdeman.

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ELLIS SECOND IN HIGH JUMP EVENT Luther L. Kills, member of the Hammond high school faculty ;md coa- h of the basketball am .was n. s,.( out by a fraction in the running high jump at one of the greatest mooor track meeis vei'-held in the west, winning second p'aoo at t", f eet 2'2 inches in Chicago Sa i u "da y night. Fills was entered un-d-r the 1. A. C. oiors. Sinbert of the

Norwegian Turners won first in the

high jump. Kills defeated Rnnstrem the c. A. A.. Douglas of Not- Dan and Loomis.

Karl K. P. K.

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fcandell 14ti

J. S. Clark

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BASKETBALL GAME The Hammond All Star basketball team play the Gary Y. M. '. A. at the Kmerson s hold in Gary. thi e vening. The Thompson brothers, pollard. Ie -Shane. Parker and Hudson play with the All Slars.

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Cashill in the ten-round semi-vv indup. ('ashiil was knocked out in a round in Philadelphia Saturday night and a substitute may be secured.

COLI'MBI'S. O.. Downey, of this city Tillman a scheduled here tomorrow- night.

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i 179 j CINCINN ATI. .. Jan. 29. Jack BritPi:'' ton, the welterweight champion. and 1 .-(i I Johnny Griffiths, the Akron flash, are 162 here for their t"n-re)und-no-decision batons J tie tonight. They have met several ! tim"S. are well matched and generally Mix ' furnish an oiiet-estinit bout.

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