Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 5, Hammond, Lake County, 23 June 1919 — Page 3

Monday. Juno 23. 1919.

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FOR FIGHT OT CHOSEI ,T'?,TE,'NATIONAL NEWS SERVICE TOLEDO. O.. June 23. A deadlock exists at the rrestnt writing over the selection of a referee for the Jess AVil-Inrd-Jack IVmpsey fight on July 4. Ana until the "third man" is named bis? betting on the big contest will be in status quo. Tex Rickard's dream that passing 'he Job along to the National Boxing Commission was the solution of th problem now seems to have developed into a nightmare of worry. It Is all because the noble athletes so far have been utterly unabia to agree on the same man. A list of approximately a dozen names was submitted to Rickard and his fighters by the commission which Intimated at the time its willingness to O. K. the acceptance of any man of that group. Willard is said to favor some of the commission's nominees; Pempsey does likewise. But up to the rresent moment both have failed to place th'e stamp of approval on any one individual. But raw It Jooks as if the hauling over the ' man" question, so far veiled In secrecy, may break out into an open clxsb so that all the world may learn tHe whys and wherefors. MaJ Anthony J. Drexel Biddle. presidnt of the National Boxing commission, planned last week to arrive here today. He hoped that prior to his advent the warriors would settle upon the man for the source. But from the most, authoritative source a member of the commission comes this information. "No settlement whatsoever has been reached up to now over the refereeing matter, and the matters concerned show no' indication of reaching an early agreement. Some are rather nasty about it." The original articles rrovlded that ties fighters were to name the referee about two weeks before the date of the contest Failing to do so. the tusk was to be passed along to Rickard a Job that it Is assumed Rickard was not at all keen about tackling. Apparently the warriors, in preliminary discussions of the question, convinced other folks most concerned that they were not in any agreeing mood and might squabble indefinitely over the matter. Then it was. undoubtedly, that Rickard conceived the thought of letting the National Boxing commission do the work. On June 10. he wrote asking the organization if it would accept the task. On June 13 it accepted and Just about that time sent along to Rickard and the fighters a list of names embracing the moEt famous fight referees in America. The fighter were to agree on one man from that group. If more than a week since that list arrived, yet the fighters haven't come to any agretment. "V. A. Gavin, a member of the commission, came here a few days ago and made efforts to adjust things, but in vain. It seems that just as soon as Willard approves a man, the Dempsey crowd vetoes him. and Willard returns the compliment by doing vice versa. " Just whose names are on the commisFion's list is a deep secret. But if those of Ed Smith of Chicago, Bill Brown of New York. Billy Rocap of Philadelphia, Jim Griffin of California and Walter C. Kelly of Buffalo, are included, it's a rinch they won't officiate. Smith and Rocap haw announced that they wouldn't take the job. Kelly is objectionable to Willard and Willard has voiced disapproval of both Griffin and Brown. AUXSICAX LEAGUE. Won. Lost. New York 29 IS CHICAGO 32 IS Cleveland 31 IS St. Louis 24 24 Detroit 23 IS Boston :0 25 Washington 1? 30 Philadelphia 13 33 Yesterday's Result. Detroit. 5; Chirago. 4. New York, 6; Boston, 2. St. Louis. 3; Cleveland. 0. Philadelphia, 8; Washington, 4. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Won. Lost. New Tork 33 IS Cincinnati 31 19 Pittsburgh 29 22 CHICAGO 27 24 Brooklyn 24 2 St. Louis 22 2S Philadelphia 15 29, Boston IS 31 Yesterday's Kesulti. Chicago. S; Brooklyn. 1. Cincinnati, 4; New York, 3. Pittsburgh. 7: St. I-ouis. 6. Jso other game scheduled. Pet. .644 .fi40 .469 .444 .3 75 .23 Fct. .fi73 .620 .F-,9 .529 .42 .440 .36 .326 TIGHEST PINCH I EVER FACED By EVOH JENNINGS (Written for the International News Service.) Tightest pinch. I was ever in f I've been ia a number of tight pinches, but I believe a grams played by the Giants and the old Baltimore club at the Folo Grounds back in 1835 developed the tightest situation X ever faced as a player. The game in question practically meant the championship for the Baltimore club. If we had lost to the Cleveland club, which was pressing us very closely for the pennant, would undoubtedly have won. i. Baltimore was leading" with the score four to three in the ninth inning', and there were runners on first and second bases with one man out. A young player by the name of Larry Eatton, a left-handed hitte, hit a line drive over shortstop for the Giants. I ran over toward short and mad one desperate leap. The ball stuck in my glove aad double play was the result. Because cf the importance of this fame and a double play resulting from my sptarin? Batton's drive, I consider that the tightest pinch I was ever ia, for the game ended four to three in favor of Baltimore and we carried off the championship. Z have always considered the fielder up against a tight pinch any time he faces the chin.ee to make a play at a crucial moment, and although I ace many a tttuaticn at bat wh'r.h

WILLARD'? TUMMY

V Jess Willard landing his left on cheek The Fourth of July will hold no treat pleasure for Jess Willard's stomach and Jack Dempsey's head meant much to oar club, X dont re. member a play X ever made which weighed more heavily. Punching the Bag With Jack Veoick. International News Sports Editor. Want to grab the low down, about the fountain of youth? Go page Jack Britton. Thirty-five years old, the veteran cf hundreds of rin? battles, the daddy of two bouncing children and a revamped champipn. That's Jack. How does he do it? That's ome.hing Ted (Kid) Lewis is trying to figure out, and Ted has company. Britton has been fighting for sixteen long years. He has met and outpointed dozens of clever boxers and dozens of tough fighters. They all look alike to Britton. He goes on his feinting, jabbing way. winning decisions as the years come and go, and you wouldn't guess that he had seen the suns of thirty-five summer to look at him. In winning bark the welterweight championship at his age Britton has set a record that will probably never be equaled by any boxer in his division. Packey McFarland was a brilliant afar when Britton was just crossinfi the line from the light to the welterweight division. Jack fought Packey and got a draw with him. Leach Cross, Kay Bronson. Kid Farmer. Pal Moor. Eddie S'one. Willie Be-rcher. Young Ahearn, Milburn Saylor. Mike Glover and many others have seen the hieh tid of their firstic careers ris and fall. They have served their best days in ringdom. but Britton, who fought and bested them all. still goes on like the brook. Othr fighters, among thm Mike O'Dowd, whom Britton numbers among his onetime victims, have graduated to other classes. Today Britton has won back the welterwegiht crown from a man ten years his Junior, and all because of the fact that he has never permitted himself indulgences which pave the way to the land of has-been. Britton. in all his years of boxing popularity, has taken the best of care of himself, and above all things he has made it a rule to keep In constant training and continuous action. Britton does not work hard to gt In shape for any bout. Prior to his mering with Ted Lewis he worked out daily for several months, doing only light work and boxing in exhibition bouts almost exclusively. But those exhibition bouts he indulged in for the benefit of Uncle Sam's wounded Doughboys put him on edge for Lewis, and even taught him aJesson about the value of keping in action that he w ill never disregard a3 long as he keeps on boxing. OS?IAN Rev n. W. Hunter, former pastor of the Presbyterian church here, who was abroad with the Y. M. C. A . has accepted a call to the First Presbyterian church at Orawfordsv.

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if the plans of both men materialize. For Dempsey hopes to beat the champ by pounding away on FRESH SCALP Pfill another scalp dangles from the belt of the Hammond baseball team. The latest belonged to Aristos. sporting Jack Ness, formerly of the White Sox. h snowea iimi ne can still n:t tnball but was unfortunate !n got t :n; twice hit by pitched balls. Fans found the game to be the most exciting staged in Hammond this season as the score. 6 to 4. indicates. Both sides had lads who could land on the pill at critical moments slipping runners over the plate at just the right intervals to keep the outcome in doubt and the fans on their feet right up to the ninth inning. Naael is to try out his team on the road for the first time next Saturday. Instead of hunting something easy for the first match on a strange lot he did the unexpected as usual and signed about the stiffest aggregation he. could hook up with, the Gunther Parks. They have bf-en sailing along winning about everything in sight and Hammond buns are a li'.Ue worried owing to the that that thir favorites will be handicapped by a strange fld and the majority of the crowd will be supporters of ihcir rivals. To offset this every effort is being made to have an enormous mob of Hammond's wildest fans accompany the team. Yesterday the Gunthrs trimmed the Magnets who gave Hammond such a hard run several weeks ago. Paday Driscoll who hads their batting lift copped off two hits. Baichley's finger is in good shape again and will probably pitch for Hammond. Pete Henning arrived in Hammond Saturday night and fans are hoping he will soon be. sten frisking n the lot aagin. HAMMOND BAD MAN WILL TRY FARMING William Planto. an all around bad man. who with his wife and three little children lives between Hammond and Hessville. was arrested by omit baliff James Trost and Officer Lut of the Hommand police on a warrant charging wife beating. When the Officers arrested him h reached for a gun and threatened to i shot them but was overpowered and taken to the Hammond jail fighting oil the way. Several months ago Planto served 6 months in the penal farm for hitting a man in the head with an axe. This morning in tie Hammond city court Planto was fined $0 and given a penal farm sentence of 12 days by Jiljre Klotz in the Hammond city court.

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his bread-basket and Willard hopes to end Dempsey's ambitions with a waUap the dome.

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' T . , , ... j HUge lime JCjXpeCteCl at .Dig Fourth of July Athletic Meet In Gary. Arrangements for the care of 30.onn people ai being completed at Gleapon "Park. Gary, where the annual national field and track meet of the American Industrial Athletic association will be hld July 4. - In addition to the permanent grandstand located in the big' athletic field, bis bleacher additions are being .erected in stadium shape around the cinder paths. Seats are also being placed along th wrestling ring where th" amateur championships of the A. I A. A. will be conducted. Over .nin seats were disposed of on ' the first day of the advance sale of tickets in Gary -and it is probable that more than half of the paste boards will be taken up by local supporters of amateur sport. Entries to the games continue to pour in and inquiries regarding the meet come from all directions. Several inquiries have been received from Philadelphia shipyard corners while others come from the steel districts of Pennsylvania, Ohio and hundreds fr'mi Illinois. There wiij be an abundance of horse shop pitchers entered in the meet. Some mill athletic associations are fending onli.- horse shoe entries while others are only entering relay teams One hundred crack cinder path stars w;U represent Akron rubber shops in the meet. They are coming here by special train. Chicago industrial concerns will be heavily represented here. A huge tra,-t of land adjacent to the athletic field will be used for the free cheeking of automobiles. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE I CAH'MKT. ("kla. The first victim of sleeping sickness in this locality is Mrs. P.obert Crowley, who died here after fixe months of sickness. Taken ill in December, she had been asleep most of the time since December IB until her death just before Memorial Day. The woman had an atlaui of influenza early in December, and the sleeping sickness followed. HOTEL LOBBY

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Effective July First Saturday Evening Hour to Be Abolished. The five banks in East Chicago today are announcing in the advertising columns of The Times a change in Friday and Saturday evening business hours, whlrh means the elimination of Saturday evening transactions and tho substitution therefor of Friday evening. This change is effective July 1st. Abolition of the Saturday evening business hours will work no inconvenlence to the public, while on the oth(r hand it will enable employes of the banks to have the benefit of the weekc:vi early closing. Banks signatory to the agreement aro th- Firt National. First Trust & Savings. Fast Chicago S'ate. American Stat?, and First Calumet Trust & Savings. Vndor the new arrangement the banks will bo open from i:00 to 8:00 o'clock Friday evenings (starling July 11th. as the first Friday fall on July 4!h. and they will be open for the last time Sa'1 ' urdays on Saturday. June' 25th. Sat-I urday morning banking hours after July! 1st will be from :0ft o'clock to 12:30 1 o'clock. Men working in industries will j find Friday evenings a suitable on for ' j cashing checks ani making savings dposits. BORAH STILL DEFIES MUM PACT Idaho Senator Will Go Down Fighting Until the Bitter End. By J. BAST CAJCTBEX.X. STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE WASHINGTON. Jun 23. The lull in the storm of league of nations controversy promised by the abandonment of the Knox resolution, for the present at least, said Senator Lodge and other Republican leaders of the senate would not prevent Senator Borah and other anti-league senators from continuing to insist that league opposition be made an ou and out Republican issue, it was ascrta:ncd todiy from an authoritative source. Bora'i was openly dissatisfied with the trend of events. He was among the uncompromising foes of the league plan who had anticipated a fight all along the line, as a result of the Knox resolution. He has repeatedly stated that he would "rather go down fighting than compromise." The Lodge announcement that the Knox resolution was not to be prfsented until the pending appropriation bills were disposed of by the senate was not to his liking. GARY LIQUOR ' LAW VIOLATOR Joseph Wertes. 1009 Washington street. Gary, a liquor law violator, was arrested Sunday by the police and brought to the police station, where he furnished bonds in the sum of SSofi for his appearance !n court. Watch We believe in doing things, and we want the people to know the Wadas Dept. Store is the store for the entire family and a place where real values exist. For one week we are going to offer specials in our various departments. Here's the Program For The Week: Tuesday: $5.00 Bargains Wednesday: $4.00 Bargains Thursday: $3.00 Bargains Friday: $2.00 Bargains Saturday: $1.00 Bargains

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Penn Train Through Carelessness of Watchman, Hits. Harbor Auto. Mrs. Jane Shilling, of 4122 Parrisn ave., Indiana Harbor, while driving ., . . , , ' Maxwell automobile across th Pennsylvania tracks at Washington and Outhrie sts. was hit by the New York t-xpress train which was on ias way to Chicago yesterday morning. Mrs. Shilling, who is a nurse at the Inland Steel Company hospital and was t n her way to a sick patient when the I accident happened j The victim says that when she started I ' to cross the railroad tracks she did not hear or see any train coming until she I was almost half way across the tracks. ! , ., .... . . DI.fl thrn tVirt train (iwiiit pft if e.-. I away from her. When she did see it sho says she ouldn't turn around or back in time to save herself. The engine struck the tail end of the machine, turning her completely around, breaking a wheel o!7 and tearing off the whole back of th' machine. The injured woman says the gate:? w er7" not downwhen she was passing and thought it was OK to cross. After the accident the watchman in the shanty came out with a newspaper in his hand, Hr- admits that he is to blame, and at ; the time he was away from the shanty. Riding w ith Mrs. Shilling was Mrs. E. Duncan of Indiana Harbor. Mrs. Shilling suffered a few small cuts from flying glass and Mrs. Duncan suffered i strained back and shaken up badly. The conductor, Michael Guily. and the engineer both say that it was rank carelessness on the part of the watchman. BAD PLACE IS CHICAGO FOR FARMERS Otto Nearing Has a Mean Time With Five Roughnecks. Five kindly strangers were automobile whirl, ran dow n the machine ! driven by Otto Nearing. farmer cf Val- I paariso on th south side the other f night. They rromisd to settle fori damages and took Nearing to a poolroom to talk matters over. They beat

him into unconsciousness, took his bank . roll of $50 and when he returned to Saturday at Gary the Mid-City Rea!Ashland avenue and W. Madison street i t. Co who are dnjng a Urge amount he found his automobile missing. . j nf building, took out fifteen permits ' ! aggregating JfiD.Ofto, for erection of

14 GAMBLERS TAKEN IN TOW Last night at Gary eight gamblevs w-ith the keeper at 10th and Roosevelt, and six with the keeper at 33 West 7th avenue, were raided by the police and gamblers and keepers taken to the station, where each furnished cash bonds of $25 for their appearance in court. Take The Times Mid keep touch with the whole world.

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