Hammond Times, Volume 10, Number 11, Hammond, Lake County, 26 March 1921 — Page 8

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WHITING OVLS CLOSE SEASON IHVADBS TONIGHT

.SPECIAL TO THE TIMES) WHITLNO, Ind.. March 26. The ourtain will ring down on the 1923-21 basketball auuoa at Whiting tonight with what prwa!ae to he two of the in o.'-t interesting- game that ha-ve been playod in the OU City this neaon. 'iha p&l '.miliary tw or tonight 1 of mure ttuun ordinary Interest aa It .;;t bring together two Whiting tv.ms, the r.anowas and the St. Cyril". There haa been oo.nsideraV.s discussion as to the relative merits of both and many hot ax (Tenants have resulted from t3ie Question -s to which. Is tho better team. As both -team are veil supplied with backers It Is executed that they will bo on hand to ejpport their toams to the limit. The Chicago Invaders will bo tho opposition for the Whiting Owl In tho wind-up and there. Is much speculation as to just how they will compare with the Owls. Tho local maoRewent is skeptical aa to Juat why the Invaders have been o anxious t m-set the Owls, having- made reputed request for Kame. since the Chicago B.'g Five were trimmed so neatly la two games whloh, won. for the Owls tho championship of the Chicago district. Are they out to trim the Owls, thereby avenging tho Big Five defeats and carry the championship of this district back to ChiragoT If so one of tha best games of the year oan be expected, as tho Owls wUl take no chanoes and havo their strongest lineup In the game. Fran Jt MacIXna.:d of the Invaders Is confident thn-t his toua can trim the Owisk In hi correspondence relative ,

to the g-aane ne rciajs.es cne lonomng statement: "We hv a clean rewrd this season end hav not lost a yam. Do you think if we wore of the opinion the Owls were a better team than the Invaders that we would be after a game for the purpose of being trimmed?" From the si.imd of Che above the Chicago beys must have somethingup their lvua. Anyhow we'll find out tonight.

TWENTY-YEAR-OLD WIZARD PITCHER IN TRAINING FOR COOS AT PASADENA

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Splendid Record, Sizes up as World Beater. tlNTTRNATIONAL NEWS SERVrCEJ PABADEXA, Cal.. March 28. Every new-s writer wiho has vlelted the trainingcamp of tho CliicaKO Cubs htre this flpricg haa been "let In" on a "little aaeret.' In moat cacs the scribe wouldn't be roaming about more than ton or fifteen minutes until soxne ttramber of the Cub's org-anitatlon would drift alongside and conilda th lnfoo-roatlon tltat "the team has a world beater In a uiw pitcher this year." And after a half hour or ao the "find" would be trotted out for Inspection. Ho la Virgil Chewvos; twenty yours old. of ra!laa, Tex. John J. Evers. the new munagcr of the Cubs, la said to be very enthusiastic about him and Alexander "the Great,' Jim Vaughn and George Tykir, veteran of th Cubs' pltaMng staff, regard Chewos as being a youngster ot great promise. Oheawefl, who is a right tsander. was annexed in September last year by tha Cuba. He had been In the West

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ed In two big events fur the Chicago Nationals last pason, winning one gSLiiko from I'hll.idli)tii;i and having one with tho Boston liravt s sewed up. 2 to I, when he was relieved In the eighth frame. Cheeves is sit. fot taU and weighs 150 pounds. He has a "world nf speed," accvu-dlng tt the Cub catchers, and Alevander la Instructing him In the fine points of the game. All of the Cubs regulars really expect Cheevea to bo one of the sensations of t!i? year on the big time lots this Sumer. "I Jue-t naturally ha-d to learn how to play baseball," said Cheeves, with a delightful Southern drawl. "I was around tho professionals In Texas training camps fro mthe time I was knee high to a grasshopper." Cheeves Is a model young man. He never smoked "but once," never tasted anything alcoholic, he say.", and due?nt U!e a "cuss" word. H is a member of the Kapttst church and Is said by his toammatrs to be a fine exa.mple of the Ideal professional athlete. "What Is your greatest ambition?" Cheeves was a-s'."d. "To make enough money to make my folks happy all the rest of their lives. " he replied.

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NEW VOKK, .March The Demp-aey-Carpentler Imbri gllo may be lost tj New York after all. The latest oiisodo shon i Cumberland, Md., creeping up closo and making a nolee as If the good folks of that e.ctlon would like to Mage the big event. At any rate, the emissaries are In New York for that purpose and have had Tex Klckard buttonholded In secret conference. John W Snyder, a veil known hotel man of that thriving Maryland town, arrived yesterday and Immediately sought Itlckard and made arrangements for another meeting for today, when Mayor Thomas W. Keen of Cumberland, and Thil W, Blake, secretary of the chamber of commerce of that city, will be In conference.

Harry Arndt, One Time National Leaguer, Dies SOUTH BEND, Ind.. March :. Harry Arudt, 42 years old, form'-r third baseman for St. Ixiuls and Cincinnati Nationals and Douiavllle American association club, died yesterday of tuberculosis. His last engagement as a player was with the South Bend Central league teaan, of which lie was manager.

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Roper Gets Little Rest Between Ring Contests Oapt. Bob Roper, who has Just returned from Now York, where ne outpointed Honw-r Smith In fifteen rounds, wlil start training- Monday at Fwrottf & Forbes' gym for his bout April 1 at Saginaw, Mich-, with Chuck Wiggins. He will then re.turn to New York, where he will appear at tlb opening of the new Brooklyn Ioe Palace April 12, with Bill Brenaan, Bob Martin or Charley Welnert. A week later ha will m-t Heinle Heitzenroder. former wrrtstletr. at St. Ixmta. From St. Louis MimaKur Fiddle Long will take Capt. Bob to New Orleans for a return engagement with Marin Burke April 29.

Kill Find Him Playing More , Important Rcle Than Ever This Year BT JACK VEIOCK tmtaroaxlonal X 3. Sporting Editor.) NEW TOKK. MsjxSi 26. The basokell ooactk &as oocne rrnto fcJs own. Tlimigli rwoournlxed an asset to mAVte ieagoie clubs for yar-f hi position SoOay la tho anoat promliiont he has rrer known end tihe comin pennant rau&as win find hlrn playing an Unotait rol- in both big: l-.ruea, No thJi a. loz-n clubs wilt havo lb ervloes of thoroughly experienced ftoochea In the next campaigns. Five teasna boost two ooaolwid, who were Kited Sxyvtn in their day In addition K tbedr managers. Tbja B6W Giants have a etaff of tactliteoxa that resembles tho general taT f an army. Manager John MoGmw, inho -will etill bo the guiding spirit of hda fcoasn m the Held, will be assisted this yar by Huphy Jijunlnga, Jesse Burkott an4 Cony Dolan. These men trere grea players In by-gone days knl It eroes without saylnyr that the ft-a-ritft -will l&ck nothing in baseball fray (matter on the bench and tha toachfng- linee. The Yankees likewise will be dlrocti by a competent staJT huaded by Uanager Huggina. Charley O'ljv-y, li time Detroit shortstop ajid Frank fcth. one-ttme White Sox catcher, will ts-s'st the midget manager. The Washington Senators, now manVged by George McKndo, still have iha vftturan Nick Altrock. who is being roteined for hia coa-hlnfr aoi'ity as nuch. as Ills antics on the base linos. Vnd Clark Grifilth will lend Iils manISerial knowledge to the running of 2ie tencn Connie llifk, with the veterans. Sarry Davis ajid Danny Murphy, hopes o lift the Athletics out of tho ruck md at thla writ'ng appears to have letter than an even chance of doin Johnny Kvers, who at the outawt Harmed to run his teain alone, will le t3i.ted by Jack Doyle, a:id (jonrgo Sibson l-.as Chick Fra!zsr to help him kindle the destinit-s of the IMttdbu-rgh f'ifartee. "Noodles" Ha.hn, who was a great nuthpaw in Jus day &a a momlwr of the Cincinnati IXtids will bo I'atrlck Horan's right-hand bower. Fred klitchell wlil be agisted by direct inj; Ihe Braves by Os-csir Dagui-y, one of the craftiest interpreters of idnala In Idther major lea-uo. Hugh. Duffy, new manager of th? Red Sox. will have none other than fktmmy Burke, last year manager ot

Ihe Browns, bo help hi mniap out the i VunpAlgn of the erstwhile world's; thaxnpiena focr a. comxe-bai k, and Ian '. Howloy will act as Ty O.'bb'a first. IsutenaiLt .t Detroit. j B-anoh Rickey has the veteran scout j Ind catcher, Joe Sug-dm, on his staiT, 1 tnd Ijee Fohl will be helcd In the j landling- of tho Browns by Jimmy ! Tistln and Lefty Leifield. The vet- j Ban pttchr of the White Sox and i Cleveland Indians will lend a.-.i.t;i n.-e r ma.najK.er Gloaivin and .c,,''ai;cr in In.Ddllng the youngsters. j

INDOOR TENNIS TOURNAMENT NEW YORK. March 26. With 5S entrants in the singles the annual men's national Indoor tennia tourney got under way hero today at the seventh reg-tment armory. The doubles will be started next Wednesday and the flnalfl In both divisions will be played a week from today. William T. Tilden II, present mngles champion, will not defend his title because of a heavy cold but expects to play with Vincent Richards In defense of tho national Indoor championship.

Despite Transfusion, Not Much Hope for McCarthy BOSTON, March To. John F. McCarthy, kept alive for twenty-four hours by transfusion of blood from his mother and brother aftex he had been

serlonsly wounded In the barroom brawl In which Larry McItan was killed yesterday, was at the point of death today. Physicians at the City Hospital held out little hope for h!s recovery,

Benny Kauff Quarantined; Wife 111 With Diphtheria LANCASTER, O., March 26. Benny Kauff, outfielder of the New York Na

tional league baseball team, is Quarantined at his home here. Mrs. Kauff Is

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Victory Over Jackson Puts Him in Line for Try at Leonard's Title

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WOMEN GOLFERS IN TOURNEY tlKTERNATICNAL SERVICE PINEHUKST, N. C., March 2 6. Women golfers continued the annual north and south champlonehlp here todaj In the first round the feature match, vat BtagfMi by Mr. Dorothy Campbell Hurd. Pittsburgh, and Miss Glenna Collect, of Providenoe, while

Mr. Hurd and Miss Edith Cummin gs, Onwenteia Club, Chicago, tied for the tnedei 1n the qualifying round. Among prominent players In the tourney are Miss Loui Elk Ins, Pittsburgh; Mrs. Hope Gibson, Canada; Mrs. C. N. Holllngsworth. Greenburg; Mrs. O. M. Howard, Halifax; Mrs. J. S. Prltchard, Bstftlecreek; Mrs. Alex Prints, Cleveland; Mrs. M. W. Marr, Boston; Mls Dorothy Rldhards. Cleveland; Mrs. F. C. Letts. Jr., and Mrs, E. E. Harwood of Chicago.

Illini Tourists Win, 9-1, in Clash wtih Mississippi OXFORD, Miss., March 26. University of Illinois defeated Mississippi at baseball yesterday afternoon, 9 to 1. Barnes pitched for Illinois. This is the first game of the Illinois spring training trip.

SHOOT NEAR SNYDER A big hoot and smoker will be held Sunday at the Lake county gun club at the Devils race track, one mile south and two miles east of Snyder. Ind., accordng to H. E. Brennen, manager.

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cJi -tVatf-rs ji"TrTTvT HayTTSri-wVre" appointed to look aiter the cround. The Htae will be played in thu Oakland park.

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Rocky Kansas, the Buffalo llg'htwelght who recently knocked out Ritchie Mitchell, moved a step closer to a chance to try for Benny Leonard's crown when he won the decision over Wilile Jackson in a 12-round bout In Mad'-son Square Garden. This sturdy Italian, with the arms of a heavyweight, wa-s altogether too strong for Jackson and the boxin? experts at the ringside agreed with the judges who declared him tho v. inner of a whirlwind battle.

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LANSING BOOK DRAWS ATTENTION WASHINGTON. March 25. The sharp indictment of Woodrow Wilson's conduct of the peace negotiations at Paris, drawn up by his former s-ecre-tary of state, Robert Lansdng In a book of memoirs which went on public ale here today, created Intense Interest In governmental and political circles. Spokesmen for the former president aid today that Mr. Wilson has not read the book, although priva-te copies of it have been available to a select

few in Washington for the pa.Lt few days. Mr. Wilson has read, however, wi'li a great deal of Interest the stories from Mr. Lansing's pen which have appeared In recent magazines, but as he refrained from making any comment on them even to his most Intlrrsate associates, hia friends fald today.

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SPECIAL TO THE T1VES LOWELL, Ind., March 26. A meeting was held at the American Ieglon riuh rooms Thursday evening for the purpose of organizing a ball team for the season. An organization was effected. The team will be known ss the American legion ball team. The. following officers were elected: Manager Ben Lynch. Assictant Manager A. J. Moxell. frcretary Ed. M. Berg. Treasurer Harrv Alyea.

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