Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 249, Hammond, Lake County, 8 April 1920 — Page 8

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Benton Harbor Proniotor Says He Has Secured the Champion for July 5. B7 XDDIE OEIOEB. nUTF CORRESPONDENT I. N SERVICE CjLilCAGO. April 8. Jaok iH-mpsey is cniDg to return to the ring aivl defend his title on July Z in Ronton Harbor. Vllsh.. aga-inst the best heavy w tight obtainable. Fred Fulton. Willie Mehan. Billy MisXe, Fill nnau an l Tony

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opponent is be nck.rd. Jack, has accepted the date and only a disastrous ending of his trial can prevent the match going through,. In the. event the government halts this plan. Kenny Leonard and Richie Mi:chll will till in the date. This was the word given out today by Floyd FitBKtmmons, promoter, of .Benton Harbor, jMich. Filzsimmons has just returned from Ijos lAngoles. where he say lie signed both Dempsey and Tonard. Dempsey is eager to defnd

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They only cauje fire loss to the extent of $8,583,375 per year cigarette stumps! Smokers in the U. S. get away with three thousand miles of cigarettes in a day. Do you know that your property is at the mercy of some careless cigarette smoker? Are you content to let the matter rest thus?

j You ought to have more fire insur-j ance in the Hartford Fire Insurance

Company to cover the added value of your property. Thi agency is as near to you as your telephone. FIRST TRUST & SAVINGS BANK, Formerly Lake County Savings and Trust Company. Julia H. Meyn, MgT. Insurance Dept. Phone 1700 Hammond, Indiana.

A multimillionaire in private life, with a passion for the aesthete and beautiful, and an artist's fez-ling even in minor things, such as matters of drfss and personal adornment, Clifford Durant. No. 1 entrant in the eighth international SOO-inile race on the Indianapolis sppdway, Monday. May 31, harbors within him an atavistic strain that persists in breaking out at periodic intervals, to the complete "ubniersion of the idealistic side of his personality. In his troplodyte mood. Durant is a modern cave man, with a lust for the thrill that coursed through his forebears when they faced the saber toothed tiger and hulkinjr behemoth-. Danger is his cherished pwctune, and

automobile racing the aport he chose to gratify it. Thua is presented the odd fpeetacle of a millionaire, with ererythinjj in the world to live for, risking his life in the dizzy whirl of speedway competition. The faster they go the better iMirant like it, and while a race is on. there i no aatiafying his speed appetite. Once a race is run, however, the other aide of his dual personality asserts itseSf, and he returns to the responsibilities of his vast business enterprise and the luxury of his private life with little thought of racing until the next attack of speed ferer send him into another orgy of thrills at the wheel of a hundred-mile-an-hour racing car.

his titl?, raper to pet hick into the rinar. Jfe ps.ii. aeeordir.B to i-'itrlm-mons, he would rathi-r tisht than pick ur the cHsy money of the movie. l-"itzs: mmon.. w ho has been eta pins: bo-vins bout"; at T'.'-nmn Harbor for th past ten ears, !r'acl- hos th permission of thy Michigan state boxlnc commission, for the Ftaginp of either or both matches and also huf the assistance and eo-openi t ion of the city and county ofVia's. , II is his plan to hol3 h" match a'one th Lake front at Uenton Harbor. cr"r; an ar'-na that will sf-at ."O.finn people, and m."k it a big July i'h celebration. That h will have thousands of poopi

to draw from is seen in the fact that July 4th i the closing of the national Republican convention and the opei.inp of the Elk lodpe convention. Th" K!Us plan to entertain 230,000 people in C icapo. many of whom will take in the f.ght. F.ontnn Harbor Is Just outside of Chicago njid is so situated that it will draw from six or seven Mates that are close by. Dempsey's trial is set for April IT. Jack, according to Kitzsimmons. is sur h will be exonerated. As soon as he is freo from the eharps he will come on to Chieapo and start plans for his training. Ife will train here, he says.

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FRANK B. McILROY OF HAMMOND Candidate at Republican Primaries, May 4th, 1920, for Senator In announcing my candidacy for State Senator at the republican primaries election May 4th. wish to inform the republican voters of Lake County that I have aspired to the office of Senator at previous conventions and primaries and withdrew twice in favor of the Gary candidate. I am now placing myself before the republican voters of Lake County, asking their active support in this campaign. In rerurn I pledge myself ifjiominated and elected to perform the duties of that office to the best interests of Lake County. Further Explanation Given in Next Announcement I Am Not Seeking the Office of Senator for

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Holderson Trimmed In Kenosha

KENOSHA. Wis.. April S. Jack Br!

ton pulled the ''old master" stuff la--

night, and pave a crowd ihat packed every avaHable spot in the Coliseum rena. a good idea of why he is welterweight champion. Ha handed out a nice little lesson in the art of boxing to Dennis O'Keefe and worked through t"U rounds without any inconvenience. It was a Kooif flpht to wat'-h because O'Keefe luale every effort to provide thrills, which failed to materialize because Kritton had just the proper sort of defense to prevent successf ill execuf ifltl V T Tl . t. I ' I 1 Ttinl'. r a a . . ' ,' 1 tilun

in the ten rounds that Krlttoti didn't i have the nrperhatid. j After a couple of rather easy round) Jnck smothered and blocked most of j

O'Keefe's blows in clever style and i moved ou of tl.e av of orJiers. To j

score points himself he left Jabhed and i hooker) while his right also was crossed!

over on numerous; occasions for a hit i

which landed a bit too high to do any' great damage. As early as the third j

round one of . lock's hooks raised a door knob over O'Keefe's right eye and 3 couple rounds la f t- a small spit Tas opened on Tennis" nose.

The crowd yelled for a knockout in J the tenth, when Bri'lon spurted just J to show what he could do. He pasted Dennis with a few- well meant wallops i and then it seemed he slowed up. Brit- j ton took K'X of the rounds by safe mar- ; gins and the other four were even. IJrit- j ton weighed H6 rounds and O'Keef 9 ; 146i. j The rising young Italian. Biid ChrN-

tlano, slipped an artistic trimming to Tommy Holderson in the scmi-windup.

It was a rough night for Holderson, fori

Christiana, a cool. designing oung scrapper, worked over him as a mechanic

works over a job and was an easy win- j

ner. Tommy earned the applause of the fans for his gv.meness! when he stuck the limit of tn rounds, hut be carried a walnut over his left eye and was bleeding from the mouth at the finish.

Wiilie tlreen. the former navy boxer. ; found soft picking, due to a shift In the program. He was opposed by Eddie i Kripps. who lacked training and showed

it, with the result Green won by a wide, j

margin in eight rounds. The crowd put something like ?6.fi"ft

in the box office. About 61 fans camel

up from Chicago.

Oswego Signs Up "Prelims"

Johnny O'Neill of South Hi tea go and Young Riley of Chicago, two promising 118 pounders, have been signed by George Oswego for the six-mund preliminary bout at the Indiana Harbor' Auditorium on April 16. The double windup of ten rounds each will be between Sailor Friedman and Morrie Johnson and Red Russell and Jack Steel. Friedman and Johnson will fight at 1.1S and Russell and Steel will tip the scales at IE".

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What is the motive behind all this Jack Johnson publicity? For the past t;,r(n weeks newspapers have devoted columns to interviews with Johnson, to his activities. hi.r.. misfortunes, the possibility of bis icmo-back to the ring and to the United States. Why? The le.test dispatch Includes the statement that the ex-heavyweight champion "tlp the scales at 2T0 pounds. Is only seven or eight pounds aboe his fighting weight, and shows no s.gns of dissipation." declared "Woodbury, a San Tlego fight promoter. There is a reason for alt this publicity favorab'e to Johnson what is it? x x Seven New Tork Giants" recruits have been rek-aaed to the Rochester club. X X X Students of the University of Illinois are pginning to have a healthy appreciation of the baseball ability of collepeR south of the Mason-lixon line. The third defeat of tbe Illfnl baseball team at the hands of the southern collepe teams was perpetrated yesterday when the University of Alabama beat the Illinl. 5 to 1. x x x They continue to spread the butter and sugar. latest: Jack Johnson will he matched nt an early dat. eitber at

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Tla Juana or Mexican. Fight to be staged by Da.to Brothers. X X V Paul Pilgrim, track lieutenant at the X. T. Athletic Club, has been appointed assistant manager and athletic director for the United States Olympic team. This Is a similar position to the one he held In 1913 when American athletes competed at Stockholm. X X X After much angling by all parties concerned, Pete Herman, bantamweight champ, has been matched for a fifteenround decision bout with Pal Moore of Memphis. The fight is scheduled for May 30 ai. Vancouver, B. C. X X X Jack (Twin) Sullivan, who began boxing back in l&Hfi. Is reputed to be the only pugilist of that clay still in the Tinp, He lives In Buffalo. X. T., and is r.ot only appearing steadily at the local clubs but winning his bouts. X X X Five important stakes with an aggre

gate value in added money of $42.rno !

and a gross value of $50,000 are to be decided in the course of the Maryland Jockey Club's race meeting of Pfteen days, beginning May 1 at Pimlico track. The most important event will be the $30,000 Freakriess. X X X Wild rookie pitchers continue to take loll. Walter Barbare .shortstop of the Pittsburgh Piratrs. sustained two fractures of the jaw- yesterday and lost several teeth when he was struck by a pitched ball. He'll be out of the game for several weeks. X X X France, England, Italy and Belgium will enter teams against the United States in the Gordon Bennett balloon race to be held from Indianapolis October 22. The trophy Is now in possession f the United States. X X X According to Manager Mitchell, the Cubs" staff has only two pitchers who are In shape to hurl a full game. They are Alexander and Vaughn.

limme club of Buffalo for a ten-round bout here on Friday, Apr. I 16. The Velodrome club also has matched Benny Valger and Teddy Meyers of Buffalo and has the contract of Jhnny Kilbaue, featherweight champion of the world, for a ten-round bout here with Herman Smith of Buffalo on May 3.

New Jersey Passes Bill For 12-Round Fight Limit TREXTOX, X. J.. April The state senate yesterday passed a bill that ex

tends the prize fight limit from eight to j

twelve rounds. It has been passed by the assembly and will go et once to Gov. Edwards for his signature. Sen

ator Simpson in advocating the passage'

of the bill, said legalized boxing bad leen honest and successful in Xew Jersey and that it a.i desirable to extend the number of rounds to enable the clubs to compete with those of other states.

Upinski by more pins than he did th last time tliey met. Both men are practicing for their second match and i' will be a hot bowling contest when the two meet at 2:30 Sunday afternoon. The purse will be $200 this t!m. A 1 those who want to see a good Individual match s-hould be on hand when the two start off. This should be another interesting match.

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Gary Grappler Wins Title Down South

BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. April Karl Kttnert. T. M. C. A.. Gary. Ird., won the title 1n the 175-pound class of the A. A. U. national wrestling championthtps after a bitter struggle with Fred Meyers. Chicago Hebrew Institute. Sam Fsmmow, Chicago Hebrew Institute, won from Curl Benson. Swedish American Athletic nub. New Tork. In the 115pound class.

WOODS WILL ROLL AGAIN Ed. Iipinski of Hammond, who was beaten by Joe Woods of McCbols In their last bowling match, will try to gt even when he will bowl Woods again. The match is to be ten games, five to be bowled at McCools Sunday afternoon and the other five at Perrin's alleys Monday night. Woods says he will beat

Barbare, Pirate Shortstop, Out With Broken Jaw

SHHEVEPORT. La.. April 16 Waltr Barbare. shortstop of the Pittsburgh Pirates, was Injured yesterday afternoon when struck on the jaw by a pitched bail. The accident occurred In the eighth inning. Barbare's jaw was fractured in two places and several teeth wer knocked out. He will be out of the game for weeks.

Tom Jones Promises Early Match for Jack Johnson IaIS ANGELES. Calif., April g. Jack Johnson, former heavyweight champion, now at Tijuana, Lower California, wit) hi given an early match, either at Tijuana t r Mexicall, according to "Cherokee" Tom Jones, who announced hev yesterday that he had been engaged a." matchmaker ty the Dato brothers. tKrt promoters and brothers-in-law of Gov .Esteban Cant.u of Lower California.

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