Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 307, Hammond, Lake County, 12 June 1919 — Page 10

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Br rANK 0. MXNKE rSTrf CORRESPONDENT I N. SERVICE! TOLEDO, 0., June 12. The refereeing "buck" which Tex Rickard attempted to pass along to the national boxing commission, probably will be returned and without any profuse thanks. And then, about a week later, Rickard. nobly aided and abetted by the Toledo boxing commission, will attempt to force Messrs. Willard and Dempsey to accept for "third man' chores, the one and only man they have objected to in loud and plaintive tones. Ollie Pecord is that man. Ollie Pecord. one time bartender and now official referee for the commission. For p. long, long time Rickard has realized '-.at any effort on his part to hearken to the plea of the commission and name Pecord would provoke a free for everybody clash with the fighters. And so he attempted & shrewd diplomatic move which undoubtedly would

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turely. The situation, very briefly Is this: The rules of the Toledo Boxing Commission provide that its official arbitrator Pecord must preside at all fistic functions In this thriving purlieu. "Without doubt it impressed this upon Rickard when he got the license to stage the fight here and perhaps "Tex not cognizant of the stubbornness of Willard and Dempsey, promised to jam Pecord in the officiating job. But as soon as Pecord was mentioned to them. Willard and Dempsey exclaimed almost in unison: "No Pecord for us. He may be a great referee, but there Is too much at stake for each of us, to let an unknown handle the job. The referee must be a man of long experience." , In rebuttal, the commission took, the stand: "It's Fecord or nobody." In this crisis Rickard hopped a train for New Tbrk and hunted up Biddle. rresident of the National Boxing Commission. He- explained his plight and rked Biddle to influence his commission to handle the job. Probably Rickard at the same time put in a lot of kind words for Pecord, who after all Is said and done, has accumulated an enviable reputation. The Rickard came back, explained his Idea of submitting the whole thing to the National Boxing Commission and got the consent of all parties to agree to its decision. It is likely that Rickard did not mention the fact to the fighters that he might have espoused the cause of Pecord. All would have been well If It hadn't been for the fact thit some New York newspaper folks "picked off" Biddle Tuesday night to the extent of getting him to mention the name of Billy Rocap, a sport writer of Philadelphia. And when this news was flashed into Toledo, something akin to chaos began to reign. The fighters wanted to know how in

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before he got the letter and before the board met on the question. And Rickard, who had hoped that if Biddle made any announcement at. all he would mention Pecord, got more feverish the longer he thought about th whole matter. Late Wednesday he issued a statement in behalf of Pecord and right away the fighters got all "steamed up' about the statement. "We don't want Pecord." Meanwhile Biddle is quite unhappy and claims he was misquoted concerning Rocap that In speaking his name he merely mentioned his personal choice and not the selection of the board. Biddle undoubtedly has contracted a few more wrinkles on his forehead after reading what Rickard had to say about his personal selection. So it's a rather safe gamble that when the National Boxing Commission meets Friday it wilt decide that it has troubles enough of its own that it wants none Imported from, Toledo. And then will come a merry little brawl when the brace of noble fistcuffers, the anguished but determined Toledo boxing commission, and the disappointed Rickard meet to decide "Who'll referee this scrap, anyway?"

INDIANA HARBOR DEFEATS LAPORTE

Indiana Harbor traveled to LaPorte last Sunday and defeated LaPort s best team in avery fast and exciting game by a score of 1 to 0. The both teams were en their toes at all times and fcaseball was played to perfection throughout the game. Not an error was made on either side and the one run the Harbor got was a hard earned one. It came in the second inning of the game with two men on. Rogers, second rackfr for the Harbors, poles out a twobagger bringing in one run. There was only one out at this time but the next two men to face Migot. Laporte's pitcher, followed the strikeout route There was not a hit gotten afier the fourth inning off Migot and not one gotten off Young after the third inning. As a whole the game from beginning to end was a pitchers" duel. ' Toung pitched one of the best games of the season, striking out ten of the opponents and only allowing them two hits. He walked two men and hit one. but he seemed to have everything on the ball and had excellent control at all times. This Sunday the Harbors cross bats with the Edison Park baseball team from Chicago. They beat the Melrose

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Harry Grienke is bringing the Ragen A. C. here next Sunday to show Hammond fans the stuff which he ha.3 been claiming so loadly since the first of the season. Tou sec he was to have playt l the opener here but rain caused the cancelling of the match. , The signing of Eddie Stack by the Ragens is regarded as one of the best moves Grienke could have made and sounds good to local fans. On raDer

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GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP DECIDED TODAY

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Park team. 6 to 2. last Sunday and it "will be remembered that it vas all Indiana Harbor could do to beat Melrose here a few weeks back by a score of 4 to 3 and game lasting 12 innings. So a good crowd is expected as a tough game will be staged. So come out and help the boys put a team worth while in the Harbor. Game called at three o'clock at the Harbor Park. "

BOOK RIVAL BOUT OUTSIDE TOLEDO i TOLEDO. O.. June 12. Promoters, said to he disgruntled at not being declared "in" on th 'WiIIard-Denipsey fight, are back of iht Billy Miske-B.it-tling Levinsky fight. 'scheduled to take place across-the river Rossford July 3. An arena to scat ll.OOO prople i?

INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE "U'EST NEWTON. Mass, Jun 12. tValter Hagen. of tb". Oakland Hills club, Detroit, and Mike Brady, of Oakley Country Cluh. Boston, mot on thf Braburn Country Cluh, Boston, met on the Braeburn Country Club links today to decide the open golf championship of the I". S. The play was for IS holes. Fair skips looked down on the crack golfers and a gallery of several thousand followed each stroke. Hagen. the titU holder in 1914, made a

sensational finish in the last of the

bole 3 medal play

yesterday. The r.troitr pulled up into a tie with Brady, the Massachusetts open champion.

more class than any of the traveling clubs of the league. The last cloud of doubt regarding their ability was swept away last Sunday when they defeat e-i the South Chicago team with Mack on the mound, who. is well known to Him. mond fans. If names count for anything, the Ragens should be a peppy bunch as they are really the only club in the Chicago League who has a large traveling following who go right along with th? cluh, no matter where it heads for. However, after, this Sunday the Ragens will iu longer travel. They have leased the park -of thes Normals and will henceforth play as a home club. The main topic being discussed by Hammond fans now is whether Baichley is going to accept the terms offered him by the team at Regina. Sask., Canada. There li" would be in the Canada league and work for Frank Boyle, veteran Central Association manager. Boyle is the

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WHEN Cadore cracked in the eighth, the Dodgers chalked up their seventh straight defeat. THE time-worn but often successful double steal was worked by the Reds in th; third and the Giants never recovered. IT took the lowly Braves to put a check to the winning streak of the Cards.

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English girls of W. R. A. F. boxing for soldiers. Women's work for the fighting forces didn't end with the signing of Ine armistice. The importance of entertaining the soldiers grew with tb.9 cessation of hostilities and greater forces than ever were needed in this v-ork. The rhoto shows how two English girls have been entertaining the Tommies. These girls, adepts at boxing, are staging an exh'hitton bout for the soldiers. A Tommy cheerfully volunteered to referee. '

TAGGING ALL THE BASES By JACK VEIOCK I. N. S. Sports Editor

effort to stop the Senators, but 13 hits were enough for the boys from Wilsontown. BAN JOHNSON stepped right out and suspended Manager Griffith indefinite;;.'

j for that little dispute with L'mni:' Nallin.

Last Sunday there were two scouts at the Hammond game and before they left, Buckeye, O'neill and Blank had received tempting offers. Nagel announces that Baichley is in fine shape and will pitch the game against Ragen A. C. Sunday.

GEORGE S1SLER helped himself to a wallop over the right field wall while the Browns were defeating the Athletics. THOSE "hitless wonders, collected seven wallops from Carl Mays, thereby making it two straight on the Red Sox.

DUTCH LEONARD would not' play with the Huggins clan, so on his first appearance on enemy territory, the Tanks trounced him to the tune of 7 to 0. MEMBERS of the New Tork City Georgia Society gave their adorable Tyrus a box of peaches. Ty responded with two scratch hits, but he could not defeat the Yanks single-handed. PHIL DOUGLAS, the "in and outer." was decided in yesterday and the defeat of the Phillies made it five straight for the Cubs.

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On may eee by this map the location of the disputed eity of Flume and the nature of tfcj country tnat surrounds it.. The Istriao Peninsula is ceded to Italy the dotted line giving the boundary of Italy as outlined by th Treaty of London and the terms of the. Armistice with the defeated Austriacs. ' It will be noted "that Croatia is well provided with ports other than Fiume. This map gives one a very fina view and a correct idea of the harbor of Euccari. It is said that - Napoleon declared this harbor to ba one of the finest natural harbors in Europe and capable of splendid 'development at minimum expense. The numerous harbors and email towns 'alonr the Adriatic eoast of Croatia, as shown hare, dearly refute the rtatemact

that if J aeo Slavia was not given Fiume she would be without outlet on the Adriatic The statistirs of the pre-war times show just as ciearly that Fiume was never the most important port of the states that now compose the Jvy Slav kingdom. Croatia only used Fiume "for 7 per cent of her Imports and exports, and all of the Jugo Slav states, including Serbia, used Fiume for only 13 per cent of their combined imports and exports. As a port of importance it is much more recery to the Istrian peninsula and was used more by that fertile country than by all of Jugo Slavia combined. The matter of future protection fs to Italy a grave question. The Crostisns.

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were an effective part of the Austrian armies during the entire war. The soldiera that surrendered when the armistice was signed immediately became the Jugo Slav armv. and are now commanded by General Borovitch. who commanded the Jugo Slav armies on the Piave at the time of Austria's defeat. The Croatian. Bosnians. Slovenes and Herzegovinians met at Laibach as late as last August, after the defeat of the Austrian s on the Fiave in Juno, and attempted to form a a Jugo Slav kingdom with a Hapsbunt as kir.g. Since the anr.iettee the Jugo Slavs have shown no friendliness or kindly feelings for Italy instead they have opposed Italy bitterly. So far as present .Indications would lead the Italians feel that the only change in these Austrian (who devastated their lands, destroyed their

churches, cathedrals and temples, bombed their hospitals and razed their towns and inflicted the most barbarous cruelties on the peoples of the invaded territory), is that thev now call themselves Jugo Slavs and. propose to make of themselves a new kingdom that may menace the peace and prosperity of Italy as they did as Austrian! for so many years. Italy has been forced to expend large sums of money for many years in protection against the encroachments of Austria. This money was thus expended instead of being used for school purposes, and ether needed improvements in Italy. It is hoped by Italy that hereafter she may have such natural protection from her enemies that her schools and public works will not suffer development from lack of funds.

Fium is an Italian eity. The member of the H-mgarian parliament from Fiume was always an Italian. The city government has always been Italian, the school are Italian, and when the armistice was , signed Fiume immediately declared her "self-determination" in keeping with the Wilson Fourteen Points, that she would beeoma a part of Italy. Besides Flume, ther are oa the Croatian roast the ports of Segna. Jeblanac. and Carlopago, besides numerous smaller ports and coastal towns. Below the Croatian coast Jugo Slavia has even greater port than these, iacludir.g Maharska, Gravosa. Ragusa, Car.teinuovo, Cattaro, Antivaria, Dulcigno and numerous smaller porta Spalatto, Makarska and Ragusa is served by the largest railroad in middle Jutro ?lai-

The railroad from Agram, which Is thi principal rail line f Croatia, paseei through Buccari before it goes on to Fiume. A11 of the ports, large and small, on the Croatian Adriatic coast are reached from the interior by railroads or wagon roads and were deemed amply sufficient to the needs of ths country contiguous to them, before the war and. combined, these porta of the east Adriatic coat. other than flume, carried 87 per cent of the imports and export of what is now Jusro Slavia. Thus it is clearly shown that Fiume is not the natural port of Jugo Slavia. and that If Fiume is given to the Italians, Jugo Siavi will not ia any sense of the term be shtit out of the Adriatic, nor suffer from lack of port facilities.