Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 234, Hammond, Lake County, 1 April 1918 — Page 8
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By II. C. HAMILTON" (United Press Staff Correspondent.) NEW YORK. Arril 1 Jack Dempsey is a lucky bird, after all. A match with Fred Fulton would have been a bad thing for the young meteor who has been whirring- tha cream ana other parts of tha heavyweight brigade. Chances are Fulton would have- given him a licking at his present stage of development, tind there, would have been nothing but a lot of glory and some excellent rrcss-agentlng material if Jack had been so unfortunate as to ret him
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Thero is no doubt that tha public wanted to see Dempsey and Fulton in action. In view of the. fact that the public makes the. bouts and popularizes matches, it may bo considered that Fulton and the promoters went wrong In not pulling- off a Dempsey bout. But there should bo no wails from the Dempsey ,' camp, for Dempsey Is progressing in . nice, easy fashion, getting himself ready
for a championship bout in the future . that will mean a lot more to him than a bout of that size at present. With a man like. Dempsey on the horizon Fred Fulton will have to fight foon, provided he is successful in wresting the championship from Willard. And. . If Willard successfully defends his title against Fulton ha will be forced into a match with tha West Virginia-Utah slugger. Keen competition in the heavyweight Tanks is stirring- up a lot of favorable talk. Tho fans are eager for the thine-
to be thrashed out and started all over again. Even In these war times, the! bout that are in prospect look like, rec- j ord-breakers in the matter of gate re-1
celpts and attendance. When Jess Willard fought Frank Moran in the only bout he has condescended to enter sinco he defeated Jack Johnson, Moran was conceded only a very small chance of winning. The bout was only ten rounds a mere exhibition affair in tho ranks of the heavyweights, yet that bout drew more than $100,000.
Madison Square Garden held one of the greatest crowds that ever saw a boxingmatch. With these facts in mind. It!
seems safe to assert that, with a popular challenger like Fulton going into the lists for a bout longer than the degrad-! . ing ten rounds that have been prevalent, j ijXCll3,llgG(l C3TS
the receipts and gate will overstep anything ever seen. There won't berths chance for advertising and bitter argument that existed in 1910, when Jeffries was defeated. But the reople are eager to see tha bout, and there will be a fair amount of pre-flght talk. i
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RUGS and DRAPERIES FOR APRIL
George Cntshaw and Max Carey (above) and Casey Stengel. They may have merited the name "Pirates" in days pone by with such ferocious warriors as Fred Clark, Warner, Leach and Gibson, but the Pittsburg- team needs a new name now because they axe fierce Pirates no more. With such sweet-tempered and ralld-mannered lads as Stengel, Carey and Cutahaw doing mo3t of their starring the Pirates will not look the least bit bloodthirsty. Just the same, the team looks fit to put -up a strong game this year and Bezdek may be planning to surprise a few.
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Brussel Rugs $13.50 Seamless Bed Room Brussels Rugs, Cx9 feet, short, closely woven pile, easy to sweep, oriental or chintz designs. Priced at. g 50 Madras 69 Sunfast Madras for over-hanging in doors or windows, 36 inches wide, in plain or two color combinations. Priced at, yard 69 $1.50 Window Shades 98 A limited quantity hand painted oil opaque shades, mounted on lH-inch standard rollers; old rose color only, 54 Inches wide, 6 feet long. Special 98 Steel Door Mats 39 Protect your carpets with a drawn steel door mat, size 18x36 incheR, will not freeze or become soft like ordinary mats. Special Curtains 98 Voile lace trimmed or regular lace curtains, 2Va yards long, regular $1.50 values. Special for this sale at 98C BLANKETS AND COMFORTS Better Qualities, Lower Prices
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' Dining Tables Walnut, dull finished, 54-inch, extends 6 feet, has extra large pedestal and legs; the regular price would be $40.00 to $45.00 if bought at today's price. Special at $31.50
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of $20,000 Reported Sold First Day of Show.
Indications of the first days of Chicago's second annual exrhantred auto
mobile show roint toward doubling- tha success of last year's Initial exhibit. Nearly $20,000 worth of exchanged auto-J mobiles were bought during- the ilrst
aftf-rnoon and evening-, an increase- of nearly Ji.000 over the tlrst day's sales a year ngo. The management did not look for a large attendance on Kaster Sunday, but
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athletic fund at Camp Bowie. Tho con
test will be for ten rounds and the
laurels, the soldiers getting all the coin in tha way of athletic equipment.
McCarron Gets Decision Over Soldier Bartfield
PHILADELPHIA. PA.. April 1. Jack McCarron of Allentown. Pa., was given the popular decision over Soldier Bart-
MILLER LEAVES GOTHAM TO CONFEBjlTH JESS NEW YORK. April 1. Col. J. C. Miller disappeared from view Saturday and
as the day moved on the crowds con- loft the small army of noxlng promoters tinued to increase, and among them were Mat. At least five men who held exmany buyers, so that the second day of; elusive privileges In this locality called
the show, in spite of it being a day ,,n the rancher, bat their mission wasjflei,j 0j Xew York in a hard fought six
when most of the reoplo promenade and kep out, of doors to display Plaster finery, was better than the first, and the sales made up to closing time were approximately 50 rer cent greater than those of the opening day. Those who did not find what they wanted the first day or the second day
should remember that the exhibit is
constantly changing as cars are sold and others are moved Into their places. Accessory exhibitors did a thriving business the first two days of the show, and not an exhibitor can be found so far who is not more than satisfied with the sales made. There are many out-
of-town buyers coming in. and it seems that the man from downstate who Is, pernickity about buying an exchanged
car from his home town dealer for fear
he may be buying the car which his next-door neighbor turned in for a new
model can come to Chicago's exchanged
car show and buy without running any
risk of such danger.
All in all. the show promises to be a
greater success this year than last, when more than 375 run were sold for a sum
aggregating J27G.OOO. There is a $t.
000,000 exhibit represented in this show, and If half of the exhibits are sold the success of last year will be doubled.
j BRIEF BITS OF SPORT
not bprings. Ark., April 1. Young Jackson of Oklahoma was awarded the decision at the end of a ten round bout Saturday night with Patsy Scanlon of Pittsburgh. Rockford. 111., April 1 Tho Northern Iillinois Golf association will hold its annual tournament In Freeport the sec
ond week In August. The association!
elected E. D. V. Dickev
In vain. Tho colonel toOK an cany an-, round rout Mere Saturday, ernoon train for Baltimore to hold a
conference with Willard. Joe Mulvihill. one of the most per
sistent bidders for the Fulton-Willnrd
match, has secured permission from the
police In Danbury, Norwalk. and Green
wich to hold the match. Mulvihill has
offered $135,000 for the bout.
Central High school defeated Defo". Central at Ann Arbor Saturday, 26 to 1' winning the state championship. Over 2.500 people saw the most spectacular scholastic game ever staged here. At half time Kalamazoo led, 10 to 8.' Terre Haute, Ind., April 1. Owen Floyd, sabetball captain, has also ben chosen track captain at Rose Poly. Only indoor work has been done by the track athletes, owing to the cold -weather nn,i
Rreeport. presi-, as next week will be taken n i.h
dent; S. M. Vance, Freeport, secretary-! examinations the team will get little treasurer. I preparation for the first of the meets in Kalamazoo. Mich.. April 1 Kalamazoo which it will be represented.
AMERICAN FLYWEIGHT HAS LITTLEGHANGE WITH WILDE
Former Notre Dame Hurler Killed at French Front GOSHEN'. INT.. April 1. Dan Alderman. 30 years old. killed while fighting with the American expeditionary force In Franco, was formerly a widely known baseball pitcher. He played -with N'otre
Panie university and other teams in thi
section, nnd was once a reporter on tho
Ie Moines (la.) Register. His wife
is at Omaha. Neb.
YANKS HOPE TO FIND WINNERS IN THIS STURDY BUNCH
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New York Yankee pitching recruits at the training camp.
fore T 1 ??Kh tu, "i nS,i 6 nk.e new manajrer, has fewer pitchers at camp this season than ever before he Leneves that he has the materia! for a preal pitching staff. The eijrht men shown in tha picture are pro.ty sur to stick wuh the te?m throujrnout the.srason. Peadin- from left to rirht, as it always says, there are; Monroe, McOraw, Culd-.vell, Kussril, Shavvkey, Th ormahien. Love and MoRridge
NEW YORK. April 1. Dave Astey, who is going to England to have a whirl at Jimmy Wilde, the English flyweight champion, and claimant of the
world's title, probably will Just meet the fate of the other good boys who have gone across the seas to have a try at the British midget. He'll come hack with a knockout or else the Wilde man has gone back considerable. It's a strange thing that they're always picking on the half-way-ups instead of the all-the-way-theres to go across to England and tangle with James the Wilde. First it was young Zulu Kid and now it's Pave. Astey. Neither of them ever attained boxing heights that would entitle them to meetings of any Importance, to say nothing of making a trip across to meet the Englishman. Pete Herman never has given either serious consideration as a chaUenger for his crown. If James Wilde really wants some highclass entertainment from American bantamweights he should sign arti
cles for a meeting with Pete Herman. Kewpie Ertle. Frankle Burns or Joe Lynch. Then the boxing ruhllc on this side of the Atlantic could sit back and sigh until it was over for there would be an hone.t-to-goodness opponent ov- ; r Ihcrp mixine it. I
And. criticism of that kind Is taking nothing from Astey. for he undoubtedly Is a fine little battler. His manager, in fact, has offered to rush Dave through c. series with challengers here before departing overseas with his little charge. "If Dave Is beaten, well and good," remarked his manager. "We'll then
step out and let Dave's conqueror take
the purse and transportation offered
Dave. We're Just as anxious as are tho fans to make certain that a good
man goes across to crack at Wilde He's the undefeated amateur champion of America at the bantam limit, and that's saying something. He doesn't
fear these other boys, and if they will meet him perhaps they 'can prove that
some one else should get this chance."
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HOUSTON'. TEX.. April 1. Jack Brit-
ton of Chicago has been selected to meet
Johnny Griffiths of Akron, boxing instructor for the Thirty-sixth division at
Camp Howie, on April 13 in the feature
event of an athletic carnival at Fort
Worth Coliseum for the benefit of the
The merchants who have advertised have done a splendid holiday business. The people are all busy; they're making: money and they're willing: to spend it. The merchant who is going on with the good work and showing the people that he has what they want is the man who is going to keep on doing business after the holidays