Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 146, 20 June 1922 — Page 11

SLIGHT POSSIBILITY THAT DEHPSEY WILL MEET GIANT NEGRO ; Sy FBASK U. MEXKE The simplest procedure to start a free-for-all fight these days Is to wander Into a group of fistic enthusiasts and ask, nonchalantly: "Well, how about this DempseyWills thing, hey?" Everyone that . ever saw a glove whirling through the ozone has some sort of idea about that much-discussed tilt. Each has a most positive one. And so, when one of these Greeks meets a Greek with opposite ideas, something usually transpires which makes a police department a necessary adjunt of human life. "Dempsey won't fight Wills because

he's scared of him because he knows! that the negro will knock, him askew and a whele lot else,' 'one faction insists. "Say, Dempsey could kill off that big smoke quickern he took Fulton," enarls a Dcmpseyite in rebuttal. "If he thinks that way why dont he take him on why don't he take him on?" is the comeback. "Because white people don't want their champions to fight negroes 'ats why," is the next utterance. "Say. I'm a white man and I want Dempsey to fight Wills and If you pull any more of that stuff I'll sock you a few on the sniffer," Is the hot retort. "Oh, you will, eh? you will, eh! I'd like to se you try " Bang and the battle Is on. , Hope Lost Now. For several months folks who have 'been keen to see what would develop if Dempsey and Wills were tossed into the same ring, were quite hopeful that someway, somehow the affair .would be staged this summer. But they aren't now. All hope has fled since Jack Kearns casually remarked: "Sure, I'll send Jack against Wills if I'm guaranteed J500.000 for 1 Jack's end." ! The anti-Dempeey clan construes ithe Kearns' attitude this way: "Kearns doesn't want to have Dempsey meet Wills because he figures that Dempsey couldn't win from the black giant. But Kerns is too smart to risk deliberately adverse public opinion by 6aying Dempsey positively will not fight Wills. So he just goes ahead and places his figure so high as to make the fight impossible." The Dempsey faction looks at it this way: "Dempsey got $300,000 for fighting Carpentier. There was big interest in that match, yet the interest wasn't one-half that there is now in the proposed Dempsey-Wills thing. Such a battle, because It involves a bigger element of defeat for Dempsey than did the Carpentier match, should draw as much, if not more than did the Carpentier fight. So why shouldn't Kearns demand the $500,000 for Dempsey's end?" And that's that. "Bout Is Unlikely. At this moment it seems unlikely that Dempsey and Wills ever will get together. The announcement by a member of the New Jersey state boxing commission that no license ever will be issued for such a match during the lifetime of the present body, kicks the props from under the only place where it seemed possible to hold such a bout. If it is held anywhere else, it would mean that an arena jseating from 75,000 to 100,000 persons would have to be built. Its cost would be between $150,000 and $250,000. Where in America, or Montreal, or Europe, 13 there a promoter who is going to put that much money" into an Q rein Q vithnnt tVia aKoj-ilnta tainty that he can stage the bout? And he can't be absolutely certain of putting on the affair up to the last minute because a white man-black man fight, being unpopular with the masses, may be halted at any time by a court injunction started by "blue law" folks. And so it begins to look a3 if Jack Dempsey's title, as far as acquisition by a black man is concerned is perfectly safe and that Harry Wills, wonder-man though he may be, never is going to get a smash at the King largely because of Jack Johnson's misbehaviour years ago. (Copyright ll2t Ity Kins Featnrea Syndicate, Inc.) EXPECT REGIONAL MEET TO BE HERE The Southwestern Regional outdoor athletic meet of the. Pennsylvania probably will be held in Richmond in August, according to word received at the local Pennsy offices. Nine other divisions aside from the Richmond division will compete in this meet, and those qualifying in the respective events will go to the finals at Altoona in October. Track and field events will hold the attention of the majority of the athletes of the Pennsylvania divisions, while baseball, tennis, boxing, swimming, trapshooting, horseshoe pitching, quoits, shuffle board, wrestling, tug-of-war and other events will be entered into by the best on the Pennsy system of thi3 region. Provided the meet is brought to Richmond, the local management under Omer Todd would have one of the biggest tasks in taking care of the athletes which has faced the local railroad authorities in some time. DEMPSEY TO APPEAR IN EXHIBITION BOUT (By Associated Press! OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., June 20. Jack Dempsey will meet Andre Andersen of Chicago in a five-round exhibition bout here on the night of July 3, Dan Lackey, local boxing promoter, announced today. Contracts have not been signed. What .to A mm

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. ." f Sox team after a brief absence. And from that date to this he has not missed a single game his team has played. He is now with the Yankees. During the first five and a half years of his wonderful record he played under the Red Sox banner and under four managers Carrigan, Barry, Barrow and Duffy. Then he joined the New York Yankeesr-a championship outfit and with a new club and under a new manager, stepped right Into the first game and continued his work without interruption. During the 6lx years that he has played baseball day in and day out he has delivered the goods- to satisfy fans of two towns, five managers, half a dozen magnates (owners and part owners of the 'two teams) and the sport writers following his teams. This in the face of real opposition from stars who-were sitting on the bench waiting to take his place at the slightest slip. Think of it! Nine hundred games at the pace the public and everyone else demands of a big league player. NEW PARIS VICTOR OVER VERONA NINE NEW PARIS, O., June 20. With a polished lineup, New Paris defeated the Verona, Ohio, baseball team on the home diamond Sunday afternoon by the score of 9 to 0. Breece, New Paris pitcher, held the visitors to three hits and prevented them scoring. The local players stole ten bases during the contest, while the Verona runners could pilfer but two. Several changes have been made in the local lineup and the team is now strong enough to meet any of the fast teams in the community. Dunlapsvllle will come to New Paris next Sunday for a game with the strengthened local team. They have lost only one game this season. Score: NEW PARIS AB R H PO A E Daugherty, cf 5 0 0 0 0 0 Harrigan, If 4 2 1 0 0 0 Diggs, If l Swanson, 2b 3 McGill, c 4 Benson, 3b." 4 Breece, p 4 Cunningnam, lb. ... 4 Jennings, ss 5 Melody, rf 3 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 2 0 1 2 0 0 14 1 0 Totals 37 9 11 18 11 1 VERONA AB R H PO A E Overholser, cf. ..... 5 0 1 0 0 t Huffman, rf. 4 0 0 3 0 0 Emerick, 2b., ss 4 0 0 1 2 3 Haines, 3b 3 0 1 1 2 0 Burley, If 4 0 1 0 0 0 Cupp, c 4 0 0 9 3 0 R. Sellers, lb . 3 0 0 10 0 1 Myers, ss., p 3 0 0 0 2 0 Harsh, p 2 0 0 0 2 0 Hill, 2b 2 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 34 0 3 24 11 4 Two-base hits Melody, McGill. Double plays Jennings to Cunningham to McGill; Cunningham (unassisted). Struck-out By Breece 10; by Harsh 6; by Myers, 4. Base on balls By Breece, 2; by Harsh, 3. Stolen bases Swanson, Harrigan, 2; Harsh, Myers, Benson, 2; Jennings, 3; Melody, Cunningham. FIVE LEADING BATTERS OF EACH MAJOR LEAGUE National League. G Hornsby, St. L. 59 Kelly. N. Y. ...58 Bigbee, Pitts. ..54 Grimes, Chicago 57 Johnston, Brkln.60 American G Sisler, St. L....61 Speaker, Clev...49 Heilmann, Det..56 Cobb, Det 47 Blue, Det. 54

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" ' " ' " '" ' ' ' Nine hundred games without a day off for illness or other reasons. Nine hundred games without a day off through an ill-timed run-in with an umpire. Nine hundred games without a severe batting slump or fielding slump that would force any fair-minded manager to bench him temporarily to give him a rest. Nine hundred games uninterrupted by a jump from a mediocre club to a championship outfit an all-star aggregation where even star players warm th bench. t There ought to be some recognition for such work. He has demanded a place among the leaders in fielding quite aften. He is known as a brilliant shortstop. But alongside the men who have ted their league in batting, home-run hitting or in hanging up hurling victories, he has gone almost unnoticed. And yet he has shown himself to be one of the most valuable men if not the most prized man in baseball. He is in a class by himself. If he isn't "The Perfect Player," name one. How They Stand National League. Clubs Won Lost Pet. .638 New York 37 St. Louis 33 Pittsburg 28 Brooklyn 31 Chicago 27 Chicago 27 Boston 24 Philadelphia 19 21 26 26 29 31 31 30 34 CZQ .519 .517 .466 ,.482 .444 .358 Pet. .607 .565 .533 .500 .483 .475 .415 .404 Pet. .639 .638 .603 .516 .459 .444 .391 .322 American League. Clubs Won Lost tt. LiOUlS 37 New York ..35 Detroit 32 Cleveland . 30 Chicago 29 Washington 29 Philadelphia 22 Boston 23 24 27 28 30 31 32 31 34 American Association. ciuds Won Lost inaianapolis 39 Minneapolis 37 St. Paul 36 Milwaukee 33 Columbus 28 Louisville 28 Kansas City 25 Toledo 19 22 21 23 31 33 35 39 40 GAMES TODAY National League. Cincinnati at Boston. Chicago at Philadelphia. Pittsburg at Brooklyn. ' St. Louis at New York. American League. Washington at Chicago. New York at Cleveland. Philadelphia at St. Louis. Boston at Detroit. American Associaton. Minneapolis at Louisville. St. Paul at Indianapolis. Kansas City at Toledo. Milwaukee at Columbus. The Reds were rained out of Boston Monday, but they were slated to get busy Tuesday in an effort to improve their record with Eastern teams BICYCLE TIRES $2 to $4.50 ELMER S. SMITH 123 Main St Phone 1806 U. S. Royal Cord Tires Steve Worley Garage 211-213 N. W. 7th St EXIDE BATTERIES are sold in Richmond and Wayne County by OHLER & PERRY Exide Battery Station 16th and Main Sts. Phone 2677 Boys' and Girls TENNIS SHOES i and Slippers All styles, lowest prices. Best quality, S9 to S2.48 THE H00SIER-STORE

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I H Ml II. , I IJOHNSIIN IS SHIITflllT MONARCH OF MAJORS; HAS RECORD OF 95 WASHINGTON, June 20. Local baseball statisticians digging back Into the records of Walter Johnson, who by blanking the Chicago WTiIte Sox Sunday l to 0 ygistered his seventh victory this st"t4K)n against three defeats have found that not only has the "Big Train" of the Washington staff entered the ultra-select class of pitchers with a life-time average of .600 or better but he has clinched his title to the champion shutout king of the majors. Sunday's blank drawn by the White Sox was the 95th Johnson has handed out in his big league career. - Johnson's total number of 527 victories against 217 defeats for an average of .601 is considered a remarkable tribute to his prowess as he has been backed by clubs- of a second class in a great majority of the sixteen seasons he has worm a Washington uniform. There is only one pitcher now in harness who is consedered to have a ghost of a chance to top Johnson in shut out fame and that is Grover Alexander, of the Chicago Cubs. As Alexander had but eighty goose-egg verdicts to his credit at the start of the present season the chance I of his overhauling the Washington jtwirler is deemed exceedingly slim. intra on tne list of shutout artists is the veteran Babe Adams of Pittsburg, who had 43 to his credit when the Beason opened. Next in line are Jim Vaughn and George Tyler with 41 and 34 respectively, but both of whom are regarded as about finished. Johnson's closest rival in the American league is Dutch Leonard, Tiger holdout now suspended for pitching for an outlaw club. He is credited with 33 shutout victories. Others who have over a score of shutouts- chalked up, not Including this season's results, are Joe Bush, 27; Bob Shawkey, 26; Carl Mays, 23; Stan Coveleskie, 22, and Ray Caldwell, 22. Champions Kilbane, Wilson Mast Fight or Will Forfeit Their Titles, Is Ruling 1 (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, June 20. Today was the last day of grace granted by the New York Athletic commission to Johnny Kilbane and Johnny Wilson, featherweight and middleweight boxing champions, to agree to meet challengers for their titles. Failure to do so the commission announced in a reAltering, Repairing, Relining By Experienced Tailors JOE MILLER, Prop. 617 Main St. Second Floor I fuiuiliiniinmm.... : """''"""iiiniiiimmimimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiini 132 i IN

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