Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 93, Number 28, 1 February 1923 — Page 12

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., THURSDAY, FEB. 1, 1923.

PUGILISTIC CIRCLES AGOG OVER DECISION ON DEMPSEY BOUT

NEW YORK, Feb. 1. Everybody in pupilistic circles Is on the qui vlve today. Some are standing with their mouths open and ears pinned back;

others are stuffing their auditory ap

paratus with cotton and preparing to smile. A few are preparing to sigh and one or two heavyweights are arranging to die.

The world may know late today

unless Tex RIckard changed his mind overnight when and where the world's heavyweight boxing championship is

tt he defended and who is going to attack the holder of the title, and, perhaps more important, approximately how much the gladiators are going to

be paid. . Rickard Still Interested

Although of late Rickard has appeared somewhat soured on the whole

business he still is interested especial

ly today' as his six-day option on the

attentive ear of Jack Kearns, manager of Champion Jack Dempsey, expires at midnight The Texan plans a confer

ence with Kearns today, and Kearns,

It is said, plans to also confer with

other promoters.

Announcement last night from Newark that the New Jersey state boxing

commission will not permit Jess Wil

lard, th Kansas catamount, to fight Dempsey in that state for the title

Jess lost to Jack at Toledo in 1919,

was only one more state added to the area that has forbidden, the proposed

meeting. Others May Bar Bout New York state was first, and box

ing circles here believe that states affiliated with the Empire state in a pugilistic way will likewise bar the proposed battle if asked to permit its being staged within the borders of any of them. ' The New Jersey announcement does not mean, however, that Dempsey will be unable to fight Harry Wills, the negro challenger, or some of the other men mentioned as possible opponents of the champion in that state. Rickard, It has been understood, however, has had his heart set on a Dempsey-WiW lard match and he himself has permitted it to be known that he isn't keen about staging a mixed bout between the champion and Wills. At any rate, real developments in the heavyweight situation which has been simmering quietly for a week, are looked for to-

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Passaic, N. J., high school "wonder" basketball team reached one gc' it had set for itself by winning its 100th straight game by defeating St. Mary's Academy of Odensburg, N. Y., at the Paterson, N. J., armory. The score was 59 to 38, the first time in eight years, or since there is a record of Passaic's basketball activities, that a ri"al has scored more than 34 points against Cotch Ernest A. Blood's proteges. A crowd of 5,000 persons packed every inch in the drill shed. Photo shows the Passaic High School team. Left to right Amasa A. Marks (coach), Fred Merselis (center), Michael Hamas (forward), De Witt Keasler (forward), Fritz Knothe (captain, guard), Milton Pashman (forward), Meyer Krakovitch, (guard), Samuel Blitzer (guard), Ernest A. Blood (physical director of Passaic public schools and coach. .

FOUR COLLEGE FIVES FACE HARD GAMES BEGINNING TONIGHT

INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 1. Four col-lr-pe teams of the state face hard basketball games the remainder, of the week, beginning tonight. Franklin college's sensational freshman team, which has debated the best college and independent quintets in the state and has yet to be beaten, will play the strong Indianapolis Omars in a return contest tonight. The game will be played at Franklin. The collegians trimmed the independent aggregation by one point in an overtime game played in this city last month. DePauw university's quintet, which has been winning consistently this f-p.fon, will play Earlham college at Richmond tomorrow night. The Earl

ham team sprang a great surprise re

cently when it won handily over the

Wabash college five. The other night it cave Franklin a hard tussle, being

heaten in the last five minutes of

play. '

Tat Page's Butler team will be seen in action in this city Saturday night against DePauw. The local college

quintet has not played here for several weeks, its schedule having been

interrupted by examinations. The

team swung back into action, however, on Monday night of this week,

when it won handily from the Lni

versity of Notre Dame at South Bend.

It was the second basketball victory of the locals over the Notre Dame

team.

WHITEWATER DEFEATS

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WHITEWATER. Ind., Feb. 1. The Whitewater Independent basketball live won a clean contest from the Campbellstown quintet here Wednesday night by a C5 to 23 score. The locals have been stepping out this season, winning 14 out of 15 starts. This is the second time. this season they have t?.ken the scalp of Campbellstown. The locals will meet the Kewpies at Richmond in a preliminary to the Earl ham- Depauw game Fridav night. Summary: Campbellstown (23) Whitewater (35) Benson F ,. Mutchener Hamm F Blose t'ampbell C Wright Reid O Jennings Cohee G Brown Field goals: Benson 5, Hamm 3, Swisher, Mutchener 5, Wright 4, Blose, Jennings 3. Brown. Foul goals: Benson 4, Hamm, Mutchener 3, Wright 2, Jennings 2. Substitutions: Swisher for Hamm, Surface for Campbell, Knoll for Blose. Referee: Stisleman.

Nothing sizes up as a bigger gam

ble than the purchase of minor league baseballers.

Marty O'Toole cost something like

$22,500; and those were in the days, when $22,500 was about as big as $100,000 is today. What happened? Nothing other' than that' Marty was a

terrible bust, and the outlay for him

almost a total loss.

On the other hand, Tris Speaker

cost $500, the rather well known Ty Cobb about $700 on the auction block, and Rogers Hornsby nicked the Cardinal bankroll for something around

$750. .

Ray Schalk cost the White Sox

about $15,000 back in 1912. It seemed

like a lot of money and it was. But Schalk was a bargain at that figure

---one of the best bargains of all time.

The mighty Walter Johnson cost

the Senators railroad- fare from Idaho to the Atlantic seaboard just that and nothing more. He was pitching

semi-pro ball when a friend of the Senatorial management lamped him

at work. He liked his style. He wired the Senators about it. And the

Senators, finding that Walt wasn't un

der a definite contract to anybody

telegraphed him money for fare and

eats. And on came one of the won der pitchers of baseball. Nehf Cost $3,000.

Art Nehf cost the Braves about $3,000 when they got him from Terre Haute. A few years later he was sold

to New York for f 40,000.

Jack Dunn harpooned Babe Ruth in

a school, and gave him a job with the

Orioles as soon as the big fellow became old enough to labor in league

baseball. Then Dunn sold the young

ster, who didn't cost a dime, to the Red, Sox for about $15,000. The Sox kept him long enought to assist them in winning a few pennants and world's championships. Then they retailed

him on the hoof to the Yanks for

$125,000.

Grover Alexander, sold by the Phillies to the Cubs for a reported price of about $50,000, was secured via

the draft route a total cost to the

Phillies of $700. Purchase Lee Magee-

Meanwhile Lee Magee was pur

chased from the Federal League by the Yankees for about $22.000 and

was a fearful bloomej. The White Sox bought Larry Chappellefor ?1S,000 and Chappelle proved to be worth about 18 cents. And then the Yanks got another jolt by paying $25,000 for Fritz Maieel, who third-based for them for a while but in a feeble fashion. "Lena" Blackburne cost a flock of shekels- but "Lena" never did a gosh darned thing to merit one-tenth of the

expenditure. Walter Maranville cost the Red Sox $1,000 when they grabbed him from out of the New Bedford lineup. Wilbur Cooper, of the Pirates, one of the best left banders in harness, cost only $3,500. And George Sisler, former

collegian, perhaps the greatest first

baseman that ever lived, didn't cost'

a jitney.

Makes Good Record. Elmer Brown maae a great pitching

record with Montgomery. Everybody wanted him. The Dodgers got him

for $10,000. EJmer flivvered. He was

sent to Newark and he was a "bust" there.

Eddie Collins went around begging

for a job after he left college. Connie Mack gave him one. You know the

result. -

Eddie Roush, purchased from the de

funct Feds by the Giants, cost $7,500.

McGraw couldn't see Eddie at. ihe

time. He traded him to the Reds. And

since then McGraw has offered $150,-

000 for the same athlete without suc

cess. - ' '

The fleet footed Hollocher, short

stop person for the Cubs, set back the Chicago team only $3,500 liye seasonago. Hollocher perhaps would bring

$50,000 if put up for sale at -this hec

tic time in frenzied baseball. . And Heinie Groh, who cost the Giants a

few hundred dollars in 1911, who was trated to the Reds in 1913. was repurchased by the Giants -in 1922 for a fig

ure around $75,000.

So it goes, in the game of baseball.

where you never can tell what's liable

to happen.

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WEST RIVER. Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Beckerdite motored to Losantville Monday Harold Bteson spent Saturday night and Sunday with Gerald Beeson. near Hagerstown Dick Wood and Dewy Dowe attended the trial of Emmett McGunnegill at Winchester Saturday Miss Mae Eliz-

abeth King called on Mrs. Emma Mae Beckerdite Sunday afternoon Mr.

and Mrs. Floyd Beeson and children Goldia . Helen, Iva, and Robert spent Sunday afternoon with" Mr. and Mrs.

Harley Beeson and children and

mother. Mr. and Mrs. Zol Galiher and family were guests last Sunday of

Mr. and Mrs. Lute Goliher and chil

dren, Anna and Frank Miss Mary

Louise Beeson entertained Sunday at

her home east of here the following

girl friends: ' Misses Lois Belle Rost,

of near Hagerstown. Mary Catherine Beeson and Vera Norpht. ....Miss Zelma Dennis called on Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Dennis and daughter. Sunday

afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Melvin

Wood and daughter, Lois, were visi

tors in Modoc Sunday Mrs. George

Johnson and Mrs. Kltt Sulteen visited with Mrs. S. R. Templin.of Mun-

cie last week Curtis Bales called

on Mies Eva Raffe Sunday evening... . . Misses Gladys Halstead and Victor Jellison were dinner guests Sunday of Miss Oma Murray Miss Novella Noblett of this place, who is attending high school at Losantville, is boarding with Mr. and Mrs. Amos Luka... .Miss Gladys Grubbs called on Mrs. B. C. Maitin Thursday Mrs. N. B. Driscoll is ill Mrs. Clark and Gale- McCormick attended church at Nestle Creek Sunday night. '. . .Misses Oma Murray, Gladys Halstead and Victor Jellison called on Miss Nelie Burrows Sunday evening. . .John Short of New Paris, Ohia, spent Saturday

night with Jesse Weaver.. .. .Ms. and Mrs. Emmerson G. Benson and son, Charles, were shoppers in Newcastle Saturday.. . . .Attorney Obe Kilgou and Col. A. E. Brown, of Muncie, called on Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Driscoll and son, Raymond, Friday.. .Mrs. Amanda Patterson and children, Walter and Maxine of ModaCf called at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Emmerson Benson, Saturday Miss Vada Wigmore spent the week end with Miss Opal Hard wick.. Mrs. Benjamin Martin called on Mr. and Mts. Dan Johnson and daughter Lena, Sunday afternoon Several from here attended

the sale of Samuel Kendall, near Modoc Monday Charles -White is ill. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Beckerdite called on Mr. and Mrs. Frank King and daughter Mae, Sunday evening... ..N. B. Driscoll and son Ray, are cutting wood for Elmer Lumpkin this week Moses and Ashberry Wood called on Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Williams and daughter. Dorothy Marie, and William Smith Wednesday night Mrs. Zeldia Lumpkin was in Losantville Monday Miss Bertha McCallister spent Sunday with Miss Freedith Holcomb Richaid Conway of Carlos City, and Lloyd Kuhn called on Ash

berry Wood Wednesday Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hanson and Miss Florence Logan entertained Sunday the follow

ing persons: Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Chamness and children, Luther. Mar

garet and Charles, Miss Frances Heal-

ton of Economy and John Short, of

iew Paiis, Ohio A large crowd attended the meeting at Nettle Creek Sunday evening. Clifford Chamness

sang two special songs.. .Frank Han-

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Mrs. Frank Waltz and son Ralph Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lumpkin and daughter, Miss Margaret, were guests Sunday of Mrs. Ameiica Cheesman, of , Losantville Mr. and Mrs. Job Dea j nis are spending this week with their;" daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Jackson and daughter. Marthaetta, of Boston. Ind Walter Beeson called on B. F. Hanson Monday... Mr. and Mrs. Will Bookout spent Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Abijah Allred Mr.and Mrs. Emmerson Benson called on Mrs. Elizabeth Paul. Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lumpkin and children attended the farmers' institute at Modoc Friday.. .Master Charles Benson called on Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Weaver Sunday evening . . .Byron Smith called on Piene Beeson Tuesday evening Mis Clalrice Benson is ill.

Speakin' o' too muck of good king there's th' embarruaing moment whin an ex citable player discover one too many aces is 111 deck.

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- iresn air, a good leep and an tft Tablet to make your daya better. Nature's Remedy (K? Tableta) exerts a beneficial influence on the d;gestive and eliminative system the Stomach, Liver and Bowels. Tonight take an N? Tablet its action is so different you will bo do. llghUully surprised.

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Eaton High Net Squad .

Will Battle Norwood EATON. Ohio, Feb. 1. Eaton high school pill hurlers are traveling Friday night to Norwood, Cincinnati suburb, to exhibit their wares to the high school knights of the circular net. The locals have the edge on the downstate lads, having nicked them for two in three games last season.

Lawn checkers is proving a popular game in New Jersey.

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son is able to be out to attend the meetings Ashberry Wood is hauling his farming tools to his farm near Carlos City. He hopes to move soon. Mrs. Laura Rash of Blountville, spent Friday with her sister, Mrs. Martha Wood, of this place Mrs. Winifred King called on Mrs. Robert Beckerdite Friday aTternoon Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lumbkin and three sons spent Sunday with Mrs. America Cheesman, at Losantville.. .Mrs. Martha Wood and daughter, Cora, were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Wood and daughter, Mareella. of Modoc, Mondaj- Rev. Rae Ambrum was a guest Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Beeson and daughter Norma Mr. and Mrs. Emmerson G. Benson helped Mr. and Mrs. John Patterson circle wood Thursday Mr. and Mrs. John C. Lumpkin and daughter, Mary Ann, and son, Paul, were dinner guests Sunday of Mr. and

LIBERTY, Ind Mrs. Flora M. Freeman returned Monday evening from a few days' visit with relatives in .Muncie and Connersville Ed Fogarty has sold his grocery lo Walter Sharp who will conduct it. Mr. Fogarty will leave Liberty after the school term...

L Slivers snent Saturday night and j Sunday in Rushville William Knott has sold his farm to George Ridenour. The farm is west of Liberty. . .-.Mts (Theresa Beard and Alva Barnard were i married in Indianapolis Friday. . . .Mrs.

Bess Crist Black of Rochester, N. Y..

win come for the funeral of her uncle. Charles Nathan Knowlton, who did Monday night at the home of his niece Mrs. Ollie Moore Mrs. F. W. Shock will entertain the Tuesday club Wed-, nesday evening at her home or,. Esst Union street The Methodig; Epworth is giving a musical ir th church Thursday evening. The talent is from Connersville Charles Crist of Indianapolis is here to attenl tbfuneral of his uncle. Charles Kiowlton The Delta Theta Tau wil entertain with a theatre party those who assisted them with the minstrel lext Wednesday evening. . .Miss Ida Daa-es was married Saturday afternoon to . Charles Moffit. of Connersville. Tp$-.Ty Walter Reynolds performed the ce-f mony and they will live in Conne-?-ville A Franklin county road ce has been venued to this court to e tried by Judge Sparks of RushviH. A new road has been petitioned and being approved. The hearing will o cupy several days.

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