Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 87, Hammond, Lake County, 29 September 1920 — Page 7
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FOOTBALL PROS M MOLESKINS
THEY'VE WAITED FOUR i YEARS FOR CLABBYi
Home Folks Get Word That! TT j ir: j ji ;,.
XXcUUIilUUU lUlUUIB WUliJUb is Coming Homo
Great Aggregation of Varsity j r
Men Represents Hammond This Year.
(BY L. J. l'ARF.T)
When Jimmy dabby. globe trotter i and far famed fighting general of the 1
auared circle. loar."ed a Nickle Flat
train at Hammund on the first lot; of
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podvs. ho waved a rone, tnrowi II to 1 op his brohters and a large gathering of friends, and with his customary happy-go-lucky smile said: "So long everybody. I'll come back .In a year with titles hanging '1 over me." That was four long: years ago and "Jeem's" return 5s still a matter of pleasant anticipation. Jimmy did live
NdWTOR BASEBALL
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Ludlow With Harley-Davidson
T. Those Who Corrupted White
Sox Are To B3 Drawn Into Grand Jury Net.
upjto his promise ot titles, however, as he defeated both the Austrailian lightheavywe.ight and heavyweight champions Loyd "and Tract y and on top of that
What sort of a football team 1 to represent Hammond this season la the professional field? Just ask Dr. A. A. Young-, who of all men has probably done more thin any other to keep the city's name high on the ilst as the rallying: place of the country's greatest football stars. Stop right now and consider a constellation like this: Gillo, Moran, Sondquist. Brunswick, Selliger, Cole sr-i Meyers. Pigskin fans who have been fallowing the game will blink. Then slip in such familiar names as these: Skinner, Kelley, Greggs, Johnson and Talbot. That's enough fur one tlino. There are still about half a dozen more. Think of all these men olavlnsr on
-nt. team !? . r-ict Thv n-ni w-..i,- i brought back by other American tight-
INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE
-JllV..AljU, fcpl. I 111: ;OOii county grand jury turned today to its investigation nf crookedness jn base-' ball an investigation that alrmdv lias!
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only just gotten well under way
cording to indioat; ns today. The f j;io:" of i-layers iin p i a ted in 'he affair, the surpri. iiig confessions of K-Mie Cico't" and Joe Jatkf.ri and the iiius.- of e idence placed b' ftr the mai-..i jjry at ("'l!iao, i-i expected to result in a comph te expos.- of r rry titub!er and plaver who had a hand In "i:.ing" the serus.
H'.'I IUKU tried the iron man stu!;t against rittsbur.?h and managed t' win his first game, but was f o"rr J to ret;r in the second, which fas u on by L'.rcnton, a lied recruit.
HUFF CONDEMNS SPORT GAMBLING
resulted in the indictment
the game's foremost star.s. ' Charles A. f'oiniskey. "The old K man'V and "Kid ' (lleason, owner and j
gave Toramv liuran. the lacing of the manager respectivly of the Chicago!
career and copped off the middleweight White Sox, turned to the wreck of a! strong contender for first l
..f eight of !
championship of the Island. iso wneii , ''an nuu aim oegan i ig
Jimmy does come home and he says ' plans for building anew the orgaiitz i- I
The above picture is of 1'red I-udlow astride his speedy. I Farley-1 a vidson. with which he will compote at Porter Speedway Sunday. I.udlow was a
ice in the.
o ''id -mi It
podge City ltii
July
5th, until forced out by tire trouh.e. lie is known all over the Unit'd States, and in addition to a mnv.ber Jt' world's records which he holds, he established a new wi'-milo track record for 2i miles at Cleveland. Ohio, S-;-temlur I'.'
CHAMPAIOKX, 111.. Sept. C? . Speaking before the Champaign 1". -tary club. George Huff, director of athletics a( the University of IllinV., condemned betting on college sp-rs. "The infuence of the community should be exerted to stop gambling on high school and college sports." raid Mr. Huff. "The growth of betting on college sports is a source of anxiety to their well wishers. You can see what
GEORGE StSl-KIl broke the Amcri- ts happening to organized baseball, an league record for hits in one sea- I Gambling killed horse racing. 1 lirmir
TAGGING ALL THE BASES By JACK VEIOCK I. N. S. Sports Editor
n lie registered his
30 th.
THK Indians stepped nearer the pennant by making it three straight from 'he Browns with Uag!y on the hurling top. THE l:ed Sox closed the American league season in F.o.-ton by breaking rcn with the Senators and finishing in fifth place.
believe that unless checked hot i'ig may prove the death of college a:i I high school sports." The card of boxing for the first sh v of the season at Kenosha on Oct. 5 hi been ( mpleted. The Avindup sends Tony Melichar and ("apt. Boh Roper into the ring. Other bouts are Tvho Itaynor vs. Vic Hirseh and Sammy Man lell as. T'.arney Pnolan.
1 its true this time that it vvill be soon, i he will hav three championships tacked l on his manly bosom. ! 1'robahly no ottiep American fighter ever gained as much favor or popularity ; as Jimmy and according to information
the Hammond colors through the first season of the new American Professional Football Association. These prima donna3 of the moleskins w'll carry the name of Hammond to Akron, Dayton. Cleveland and Canton, Ohio, to Buffalo and Rochester, N. Racine. AYls., Rock Island, 111., Detroit, Mich., and Pittsburgh. Pa. Quietly, for nearly a year. Doc
1 oung has been galaxy of stars.
ers Jimmy is &tid going big and in demand. He never has any tre)uble getting a tight and what's more a nice fat purse is handed him for his trouble of doning a pair of padded mitts. The. Austraiiians like the way he fights and the bundle e.f nerve, pep and cleverness that he is, they always come back for more. Jimmy has "made good" in every sense
working on th's j cf the Avord. Even Avith his reputation Now- he has them j o being a good fellow, a liberal spend-
rounded up and he s ready Tor the sea- i pr and always ready to help the "tinson. Right now the team looks evenj der dog.. h j3 the owner cf a fine hotel stronger than last year's crack aggro-,. K-.f 7.,0i,, aniA -nrr1ine to a re.
uon t'lat on- tell swoop 'f ilisas.er has-all but wijie-d out. Comiske y and
Gieasen are making plans for tin'
itig out the lt'-O s. ason and dee la' e that, despite the fact that seven cms in the pennant machine aie out of the game for this year and perhes ft.r a;i time, the A'hite Sox are not yet out ci" the battle for the flag. It was expected that Claude "Lefty" Williams. Whit Sox pitcher, will bo a witness before the grand jury t"div. Williams is under indictment, but it is believed he will go before the inquisitors and tell what he knows of liow the White Sox sold out the 131D world's series to a clique e.f unscrupulous gamblers. Williams was named in tne confessions made to the grand jury by Kddie Cicotte Joe Jackson as one ot
sideration because that they gave; t
of the
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grand jury
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i-, that both will testify as witnesses tcr j Chicago, said
vvirld s'-ries games should be ployd I
year in view of the indictments at
cation. It ts belieAed the line will be
heaA-ier than any team in the country.)
These teven men weigh OA-er three quarters of a ten and it is all hardened muscle. For the benefit of some who may rot have followed the game closely a few- cf the players might be mentioned briefly. Tere is "Red" Kelley who plays an end position. Kelley is a former Wisconsin man and made, the All-AVestern team in 1916. lie is 6 feet 2 irches in his socks, weighs in proportion and is considered one of the best men who ever played college
cent account in the Police Gazette, the Hammond idol has purchased a large ranch and has gone in for sheep raising near Sydney. Tea sir. and what's more, Jimmy is married. The papers had him married a dozen times to actresses, swimmers and other women cf note, but James stuck close to the batchelor life until he met .his honest-te-goodness bride, a pre tty und wealthy Australian girl and daughter of a prominent Sydney family. Dick Clabby, Jimmy's younger brother and also a comer in the fist.ic: game.
the me n who joined in the plan to i he-came of the otht "throw" the series tj Cincinnati for a Chick Gandil got it
price.
John J. McGraAv, manager of he;,sharr. of the bribe. He told me In'.' r New York Giants who dropped several ! ie never got it from the gamblers." members of his team presum.i'dy e-l Then Cicott- told how games were cause he had evidence of their ! throw n. He said:
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th" state when the- cases collie to triil. "Of coiiise the series ought to be Cicedte told lus story to the grund J played. Jt.st because lost year's series jury with streaming e yes and halting j v in crooked is i,. reason for stopping tongue. He told how Kisbe-tg. Gandilithe set i. s this year. The Chicago and McMullin had broached the- pl-i:ij posures don't brand all ballplayers as t him and how, because "he needed : crooked. I hope that every player who the money for his v.;:e and kids," he! has been crooked or involved in any agree-d to join in the alleged -ens)ir- j shady hase-h.-ill transactions will he acy. 11- told how til" eiejit men met j driven out of has. ha 1 1 -d ri ven so far in his room at the Warner hotel here j that even semi-prof csslo nal teams will and discussed the plan and agreed , refuse to play ith any of them." that they could "get away with it." j
"W li, ee. to our U e r e i 1 1 le n ( " Ct-
Citto said, "but wet were; double-cross
ed. Only three of us g"t any money! and none of us gr-t as much as had j been agreed upon. I don't know what
r $75, !". I think i or else Abe Atteil. !
Chick v. as supposed to slip us oe-i :
! SCANDAL IS
JUST STARTED
football. Then take C. K. Johnson j wrote him a letter several months ago,
who played end on the Northwestern j telling his brother champion that ho was
team In 1917. He's a gooei mate for Kelley. Moran tops them all with hts 6 feet 4 Inches of stature and 235 pounds of heft. He is only twentyfive years old and has a 54 inch chest. Wait till that boy gets his growth. Moran naturally plays center but no's
Fpeedy as a lightweight haA-ing made;
records in track event. Jack Greggs is another buster. He is a heaA-yweight wrestler, a crack athlete and a professional football star. Brunswick hails from the University of Coloredo and was the star back field man on the famous Camp Dodge team. Gillo. well known in Hammond, is the man who attracted so much attention as fullback for Colgate last year. The eastern newspapers conceded him a berth on the All-Kastern team. Sondquist Is a University cf Pittsburgh man; Talbert comes from the University of North Dakota where he gamboled In the baeVfield. Alspecl:, a backflelder, has been in professional r.lrcles for seA-eral years, and Skinner U a Purdue product. 6ell!ger. Meyers and Cola need no Introduction fir they are hangoA-ers from last year'3 Hammond siuad. The majority of thse men have quietly moA-ed to Hammond since the close of last j ason and are now living here so as to be ready for the opening cf the grid season. Practice has been going on for some time and they will easily be in sha.ne for 'he first Eranie at Rock Island,.
deling some fighting ami wished that he
Avould hurry back so he could givo him a good walloping. Contrary to Jimmy's rule and custom, he wrote right back and Dick received the letter several days ago. "Keep right at it." he advised Dick. "Knock the stuff'in out of them and
when I como home which will be soon. I'll show you somo things that maybe you don't know. Tell 'Pop' I'm going
I to bring him a new daughter-in-law too."
James Clabby, Sr., or "Pop" as we have referred to before and he is more commonly known, is waiting too, just the same as lie has waited for these four long years to see Kis boy. If Jimmy gets home before the snow flies there is no doubt but what he w ill be matched up witrj some clever opponent before the East Chicago club. Jimmy always did draw- a packed house in this neck of the woods and always will.
MICHIGAN GITY WINSJT GOLF Defeated LaPorte Golfers 27 to 16 Saturday Afternoon
vMiness oeiore tne grand jury ion a v. , h(. . f tI)ev could I- hit and McGraw has promised to give the jury, ; u liro" lf lf. ry. disobey a full account ot every fact he has , (.a,(.,1,.r av h-c;!a!u-;i ais and b-t regarding alleged dishonesty in base- , aUp1 jf , ,ta,, , in , ,w lo ,, t I Cincinnati win. Some- of he oth-.'s The grand jury's Investigation 's-,.ro instructed to fail to hit. in'." now expected to be directed chiefly at ' flies or grounders or make will gamblers who are accused of rorrqjt- j throw s. There was no general plan, ing baseball players. Indictment "t'ut. we all knew what was expected several gamblers whose names havcl,,f ,ls .n performed ciuite tii.kilv been mentioned since the investigation j ,.x,-rpt ). seh w hi clowned his mi.-s s began is nut unlikely at any tiniw. .i!,,f y balls so ridiculously as to scare is regarded as probable also that oth' r! m ail." bail players will be drawn into the! j'r ' j,llk , in hls confession, is regrand jurynet. v.,rti to have said: A report that the gamblers main-' "When a Cincinnati player wotiid
Py JACK YKIOCK '5TATF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE NKW YeKK. Sept. J5. The unraveling of the 19iH world's series scandal, startling as t lias beer, to elute. hai
Temme Springs Temme Exhaust Heater AUTOMOBILE BODIES PAINTING " TRIMMING WINTER TOPS SEAT COVERS Champion Auto Equipment Co. PHONE HAMMOND 663 Chicago and Sheffield Aves.
it if -.uid that is. fa.l to catch it. r.ut if it would look too much like crooked work to d thH I'd be slow ami make a throw to the infield that would be too short. My work netted the Cincinnati team several runs tliit
they never v. oold hae made be. 11 playing on the square."
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tained at least one man and in some hat a ball over in my teiriiory I'd muff :
cases two er three on every team in the major leagues on their payroll and ' in this manner sought virtually te c i-I trol the sport, wiil he given a thorough! investigation. The White Sox' expect to give a! practical demonstration of the value of, reserve stre-ngth to a ball club in the; remaining games of the season. Ray, Schalk, liyrd Lynn and Clyde? J tinard make up the catching staff, which is, intact. i "Red" Kaber, Dick Kerr, Ray WUk-i inson and Shorty Hodge, give G'.easiu! four capable jiitehers. An infield with! John Collins at first base, Kddie Col - j Lns at tecond and Harvey McCletlanj at short doesn't look so bad. but the! fans are wondering w h o""w 1 1 1 replace! Ruck Weaver at third base. That !s '
Last Races At Porter Speedway Probably the last big racing event
the biggest hole to fill. For the cui- for the Calumet region this se as.ni
field the Sox have Strunk. Lie!, old. Kd
die Murphy and l!il Faik. In a p.-nl, Ted Jourdan cemld be sent back to !!r.-"i I
will be held Sunday at the old Torter Speed wa y. The M neral Springs course has wit-
base, and John Collins duM return to n-sst d some exciting contests this
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12,000 GOTHAM FANS SEE SHARKEY SCRAP LYNCH EXCITING DRAW
NEW YORK. Sent. 23. Jo L.ncli
c-f th- west side, and Jack Sharkey, lo- ; c.l I.alian. fought fifteen rounds to adraw before a crowd of 12.nf0 widlyj excited fight enthusiasts last night in j Madison Square Garden. ! At the end of th contest one judge l voted in favor of Lynch, w hile th3 j other declared for a draw. Referee I Rill Brown under the circumsta noes j
refused a nogicial draw decision
In the third and final tournament cT the season held at the Pottawattamie Country Club Saturday afternoon
the outfield. This is the aggregation that will carry the hopes that Whi'e. Sox fans refuse to forsak" in the three remaining games in the 12'i schedub'-. Although heartbroken over tiie il's-
j aster that has fallen upon the club he j has given his life to building up,
Comiskey was greatly cheered today by the offers of aid anel sympathy tau
summer but this windup inert is ex-! pected to eclipse anything held In these parts. In the first place Pro-j
nioter Jark Leach has finally consented to holding automobile, races in addition to the motorcycle card. He lias held out consistently against the heavy cars all season because he was constantly improving the hud surfaced track and did not wish to
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came to him from his fellow base nail
magnates and from thousands of fun i turn the automobiles --'ii it until he felt
Michigan City partly redeemed itself! wn commended his action in wreck-! it was in perfect shape. Practically I for the two former defeats by winning,! ing J)is hall -il. rather than win a ; all of the contestants of last Sunday's!
2i to 16 from the Laporte go;rers. pennant with players he believed tits- races at the Rol y Speedway will be at There were GO entrants in the tourna- , honest. One cf these offers of aid came! Porter and many others have announ:ment and following the events on tncj frol,, ,-ol jar,,l, R.1;,pert and Col. T. I,. I ed they will enter.
dinner
W.
A. HaM.I
Morenus,
green a Ir'cil chicken served. Tl-.e Winers of prizes follow: Low Gross Score Dr. 7S. Michigan City). Row Net Score II. B.
(LaPorte). Second Low Score G. R
73. (Michigan City). I Third Low Score George U. Baker. I
73, (Michigan City). Rest Long Drive
owners cf the
w i Huston
tuu various j Yankees, who tendered the White
York
-Percy
the use of any players on the Yank'-., j roster. Harry Frazee. of the Boston!
I Red Sox. made a similar offer of ai l.i ! Rules of baseball forbid the acoeptam t,
I of such profrers, but the spirit in
Stoddai'l, wbich thev were made, rdeased l'oml--
key mightily. None of the players indicted by the
I grand jury are ur.der arrest as yet. James; i.ie Cicotte left for his home In ie-
but others f-
was entitled to a shad
vored Shr. rkey. Siiarkey lost a glorious chance in the third round. 11" sent Lynch to the canvas twice, once for a count of two end again for the doleful nine. The
little Italian, hov ever, was slo
Hollowing his advantage, wasting many valuable moments while Lyrch recovered rapidly from the punishment. In the fifth Sharkey again sent T.vneh snrawling. but. this time Joe
disdained a count' and jumped to hisj
feet to resume tbe milling, which vm interrupted by the gong. Sharkey's chance to av in decisive ly disappeared efter this session.
(Laporte ).
High Score B. II. Blocksom, 14S
(Michigan City). Birdies C. A. Taylor. 3 (Laporte).
I i.east runs i-. ij. l isner, . ( tor is
holes (Laporte).
Best Score on Holes A. P. Swaacy, part ;n the plot. I S mi holes S and 9. (Lanortel. ....... ... i.. ... : j
troit last night. Joe Jackson remained in Chicago after making his confession t" the grand jury. but. w as closi ly guarded by deputy sheriffs aft"r he had revealed a letter threatening hi:n with death K he did not tell of lis
P.. Moivi-
Raker. G
3 on holes S and 9. (Laportel.
I Best Gross Score 12 Handicap IF. Thomas. S6 (Laporte. j Second Best H. W. Hazelwocd, i (Aticliienn Ci!v.
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ton. vt t l.aporte i. I:est Looking Golfer M. A. Cushman I (Michigan City). j Sw e"istakes. First W. A . Hu'l ! (Michigan Cily. j
Sweeps! akes, isecor.d H. son (Laporte.
! Sweepstakes, third G A
R. Stoddr.rd (Michigan City) C. A. Taylor and Fred Fisher (Laporte) tied. I;est Form C. A. Arnt (Michi-; in CityL Worst Form John Ledhctter (Mb-ni-ga n City. The prizes were donated by H. It. Morrison. F. H. Morrison, J. Chancy,
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An A-B-C Electric Washer will be given and c. a. Taylor, of Laporte. g. p. j awav FREE during the run of Mary Rogers, a. o. Reed. v. h. Burnham.i
Cicotfe is said to fear federal nr e-
D.i, bf-c.-iiise tie failed to include the
throwing the
in his income tax
return. Roth JacKson and i. icotfe signed immunity waivers but it is undertsood that they will be given eon-
j jin iwn he got for ' games" he pitched ii
Leach ha prepared a motorcyo'e -ard which will make speed bugs gis7. He has been notified that Fred Ludlow and Ralph Hepburn, two Harley-Davidson factory riders of nation-wide reputation, Avill be there with their high speed machines. Walter K rrr Aili c n?e his Indian around the
course again. H s presence guarantee plenty of speed. Along w!th th--se will be practically all of the old faAorites of local fame a-, ho have been keeping the game at fever heat ail year. With favorable weather, the large. -t crowd of the year should be assemble! when the starters flag drops on the first race Sunday at 2 o'clock.
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Stop the World's Series? Braves' Owner Vetoes Idea BOSTON'. Mass.. Sept. I?. President Cm. W. Grant of the Boston Brav e when asked whether in Vs opinion t'i-
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