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Huvyweight Champion Jack
Deempsey Is On Georgian Staff
17n Slow Fight Feather Champion
Outpointed—Frenchman, Over
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weight, Loses SI,OOO Forfeit.
By JACK VEIOCK.
NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—Johnny Kil
bane is still champion of the feather
weights today, but his grip on the
title isnt as firm as it used to be.
The clever Clevelander stood up
against Benny Valger, his foremost
cpallenger, for eight rounds at the
Mewark Sportsmen’s Club and came
away with a smile and a lot of easy
money,
Valger put forth his best efforts to
uncrown the champion. The only
way he could have won the title was
via the knockout route. He failed.
But Valger outpointed the title
holder. His long left arm and his
willing and tricky right hand puzzled
Kilbane. From the tap of the first
%ng until the bout ended Kilbane
tried to form a defense for the left
jab that kept beating a tattoo against
his stomach, but could find none. At
times the champion would show a
flash of his old time ability, and
would fly into Valger with a shower
of blows. But he did no harm.
Valger blocked many of Kilbane's
punches and won his shade over the
champion by using his let to the mid
riff.
The champion showed well only in
the clinches.
In open fighting the Frenchman
was far the superior, but he fought
too carefully to please the huge crowd
that jammed the Armory to the doors.
< Although the featherweight title
was not involved in the scrap, it
looks as if Kilbane is through as a
big leaguer.
Len Badgerly of Orange, who is just
out of the army, signallized his debut
as a professional by putting Jack
Kendricks to sleep with a right to the
jaw in the fourth round. Badgerly,
who is a 165-pounder, had it all his
own way and is likely to be heard
from later.
‘When the principals entered the
ring for the main bout Joe Hum
phries announced that Valger was
three-quarters of a pound overweight
_and that Kilbane had claimed the
SI,OOO forfeit. This brought a volley
of hisses fqr the champion, so that he
started off with the majority of the
crowd against him. It was an
nounced that Vriger weighed 124 3-4,
;véhue ‘Kilbane tipped the beam.at
5 1-4,
{Tech High Will Try
Savannah Quintet
Tech High has an off day today,
and will leave Friday evening for
Savannah where the Smithies will
play the Savannah High School. This
is a return game, Savannah having
played and defeated Tech High here
earlier in the season.
The game played here between the
two was a good exhibition of prep
basketball. The teams were pretty
well matched, and in this second
game as even more so. Tech High
at the time of the first game was
handicapped by several of the varsity
men being sick with the flu. These
players and several new men, who
have developed into varsity timber
make the Smithie line-up much
stronger than it has been before this
season.
Brooklyn Dodgers
Sail for Florida
NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—The ad
vance guard of the Dodgers sailed
for Jacksonville, Fla., today, aboard
the steamer Arapahoe. At Mamaux,
Chuck Ward and Clarence Mitchell
were the players to head for the
training camp via the water route.
The other players wiil go from
their homes by rail. Manager Wil
bert Robinson will arrive in Jackson
ville Sunday. Active training will
start on Monday.
Racing in Kentucky |
v, . ‘
Is Given Big Boost
FRANKFORT, Ky., Feb. 26.—Rac- |
ing in Kentucky received a new lease
on life today, when the State Senate,
by a vote of 21 to 14, defeated a bill
to abolish the parimutuel system of
gambling. |
Had the bill passed, turfmen said,
it would have spelled the doom of
racing in Kentucky, as the sport |
could not have been carried on with
out betting.
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THE ATULANTA GEORGIAN w 8 A Clean Newspaper for Southern Homes # B 9 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1920.
THE GEORGIAN SPORT PAGE
Heavyweight Champion Says He
Is Anxious to Appear Before
Court and Clear His Name,
{By Universal Ser.ce.)
LOS ANGELES, Feb, 26.—Jack
Dempsey, world’s heavyweight
champion, declared today that he is
glad of the opportunity to meet his
accusers in open court to prove false
the charges, which the federal grand
jury in San Francisco, according to
report, deemed sufficient to war
rant the returning of an indictment
against him.
Both Kearns and Dempsey, accord
ing to the San Francisco report, must
face a true bill on accusations that
they conspired to enable Dempsey to
elude the draft. Neither Dempsey
nor his manager has been officially
notified of the action to be taken
against them, but both were prepar
ing today to fight the charges.
“I have refused to worry,” said
Dempsey. “My conscience is clear
and there is nothing that can be held
against me. I would rather be taken
into court and have the entire mat
ter cleared up than to sit back, while
charges are being hurled around. ‘
“I have tried to play the game
square and am sorry I have become
the target for attacks, but since the
attacks were made, an open court,
where all sides can be heard, will
be welcomed by me. |
“I have done no wrong and will go
into court confident that my name
will be cleared.” ?
Jack Kearns, Dempsey's manager,
said: “There’'s nothing to it, but it
the reports are true, we will have
to go to court and prove our side of
the story. We can do this without
trouble. I want to say, however,
that enemies of mine and of Jack
have brought this thing about. 1
do not mean that the grand jury has
been unfair, but it has been misled
by false information. 1
“We will welcome any step thati
will give us a chance to prove that
we are innocent. lam sure that
there is nothing that can be held
against either of us in any way. I
Dempsey is guilty, then T am guilty.”
Two Battles
In Girls’ Prep
n Girls’ P
League Today
Fulton High wiil play Woodberry,
at Fulton, and Marietta is matched
with De Kalb High, at Marietta, in
Friday's games in the Girls’ Prep
League. Fulten is leading the league,
while Woodberry is the last team in
the race, so this game should easily
go to Fulton. ’
In the first meeting of the two
teams, however, Woodberry played
far above form, and Fulton had an
off day. The result in the first two
thirds was rather discouraging for
the league leaders, but in the last
period they delivered and got away
with the game, but the margin should
have been far larger than it was.
Marietta and De Kalb present a
far better attraction. The teams are
more evenly matched in size, ability
and the like. The game being played
' at Marietta will allow only a few of
kthe local fans to see the game, but
'the outcome will have much to do
with the final standing of the teams.
The present season has only a few
more games to go, and the teams are
fighting their best at present. Ful
ton is leading the league and setting
a pace that none of the others have
vet been able to equal. The final
outcome will probably be as in for
'mer years, with Fulton winning the
pennant, and Decatur and Marietta
running a close second.
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Tech’s Track
~ Stars Off for
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‘ Tilt in East
Capt. “Skinny” Pollard, George
Griffin and J. M. McCleskey, the
three track stars of Georgia Tech,
left Thursday merning for Baltimore,
'where they will take part in the
South Atlantic indoor field meet, to
be held Saturday night under the
‘auspices of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity,
A number of large colleges are en
tered in this meet. Georgetown,
Johns Hopkins, Washington - Lee,
Pennsylvania, Virginia, V. P. 3
North Carolina and others will en
ter teams,
Tech does not expect to win the
meet, but hag entered a team merely
as an experiment, and next year will
go into several of the big Kastern
meets,
Pollard will handle the jumps;
Griffin the dashes, and McCleskey
the distance runs,
Boys’ High Will Play
.
Gordon Institute
Boys' High will play Gordon In
stitute here Saturday at the Audi
torium. This is a return game, as
Boys' High played Gordon in Barnes
ville earlier in the season, and won.
This will be an interesting game as
both teams are members of the newly
formed G, 1. A, A.
The game is not one of the con
tests scheduled by the new league,
howeevr, as baseball is the first sport
that the league will undertake this
vear. Boys' High should again get
away with a victory,
The local team will put its strong
est arrny against the visitois, as play«
ing the scrubs the first part of the
game might prove fatal
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On Diamond for
Georgia Team
By TOM STOKES.
The crack of the bat sounded its
initial call Tuesday afternoon down
on Sanford Field. About seventy can
didates were out tossing the ball
and loosening up for the coming sea
son. Coach Stegeman was. master
of ceremonies and was pleased at the
initial turn-out, |
Ivy Wingo, renowned catcher of the
Cincinnati Reds, was there, too, look
ing over the bunch of recruits. He
said that he would be unable to be
with the Red and Black -'-~ in its|
practise season this year, since his!
close services would be required with|
the young pitchers whom Moran has
gathered together for the coming sea-‘
son. He ivet dropped over Monday
afternoof, and in a day or:two will
take the train for Miami, where the
Reds will gsoon begin their training.!
IVY HELPED TEAM. |
Baseball fans will remember that
Ivy spent about two weeks with the
Georgid aggregation last spring, and.
was a great halp in training the team
that missed the Southern champion
ship by a hair. It was hoped and in
|fact expected that he would be with
us again this year, but he stated that
he would be unable to take the time
off that he did last year on account
|of his work with the Cincinnati slab
prospects. {
“You ought to have a winning ctub
this year,” was his statcment of “Ye
case as he looked over the busy fleld.
Several regulars are back on the
job—Satterfield, Hancock, Mangum,
Cody, Mott—while the new material
is most promising. It is true that we
lost our pitching staff with the ex-|
ception of Satterfield, who took sev
eral very successful turns in the hox}
last year. But we would like to in
troduce to Southern baseball fans
| Mr. George Clark, who made such a
Irecord with G. M. C, last year; Mr,
Ja@® Slappy, who has had pitching ex
perience of a wide and varied and
| most successful character, and Pond
{ Lippett,. who made a neat record with
|{the Albany team in South Georgia
summer baseball last year,
There are a numbe=~ ¢f good men
out for the infield and outfield posi
tions. The material along this line
can better be viewed in a few davs
when the weeding season begins.
Coach Stegeman certainly has the‘
{material for turning out a winner,
and 1 believe we are going to huvei
lit.
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I CINCINNATI, Feb. 26—" T don't
want to take $2 from you, Larry. All
1 ask is that.yoft sign up with the
Reds. We fans want to see yvou in
lunlfnrm when the season opens,” said
Judge Yateman to Larry Kopf, when
[ the ball player was arraigned before
him in the Municipal Court,
Larry was charged with parking
his automobile too long in a restrict
ed zone. He smiled and thanked the
judge, but did not promise to sign up.
He and Hod Eller are holding out for
an increase in salary.
‘ Descamps Fails
To Post Forfeit
(By Universal Service.)
LONDON, Feb. 26.—A clash
between Charles B. Cochran, the
British fight promoter and
Francis Deschamps, manager of
Georges Carpentier, is fore
shadowed by Cochran’s an
nouncement Wednesday that
Deschamps has failed to deposit
with him SSOOO to guarantee
Carpentier's appearance in the
ring with Dempsey.
“My contract with Carpentier
called for the posting of this
SSOOO appearance money not
| | later than February 15" said
Cochrun, “and | intend to held
Deschamps to the terms of the
|‘| contract. There was no clause
| | that | should secure Dempsey's
| | signature in a given time."”
ONTHE LEVEL
By HENRY VANGE
The next sport dish to be servedy
local fandom will be the world series |
for the basketball championship, 80-'l
ginning March 10, twenty teams will !
start competition in :K. national |
tournament at the Auditorium, Thnc[
twenty teams will come from all sec
tions of America, and it will posi-l
tively be the biggest basketball at
traction ever brought South.
Games are scheduled to get going|
in this tourney on March 10, and it is |
thought it will consume March 11,
12 and 13 before the finals have been
played and the champions for 1920
decided. Los Angeles Athletic Club|
team, winners of the tourney of 1919,
will be here to defend their title
against all comers.
Of course, Joe Bean's boys, after|
playing out their schedule. with a
clean sweep thus far, and with but
one other game to play, will enter
the tournament, Local fans will back
the Bean boys to their last dollar,
and the more enthusiastic supporters
believe that the club team will emerge
from the national tourney with first
honors. |
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DOONAN A BUSY MAN. |
A. A, Doonan, chairman of the
Athletic committee at the club, work
ed tirelessly to bring this attraction
to Atlanta, and when he finally came
out victorious in obtaining the tour-|
ney he went right to work on plans
for makig it the best national tnur-!
ney ever staged. He has worked hard
all during the winter on plans for ths‘l
big show and now he has the pleas
ure of announcing that the entry Hstl
will probably break all records.
Teams from far ad near have signi
fied their intentions of trying for the
title.
The California national ‘champions,
the Rutgers aggregation, the Illinois
A. C. team from Chicago, the Y. M, O,
outfit from Detroit, the city cham
pions of St. Louis and a Salt Lake
attraction are some of the most
prominent factions already entered.
In all there will be about twenty
basket machines competing.
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GAMES AT AUDITORIUM,
All games are to be staged at the
Auditorium, and from the present out
look the series will take Atlantans
by storm. A large crowd should see
each game of the preliminaries, and
the chances are that every nook and
cranny in the Auditorium will be
filled for the semi-finals and finals.
The Atlanta Athletic Club is to be
commended for its effort in going out
and getting this attraction and civie|
priders and the like should lend a
helping hand in making March 10, 11,
12 and 13 four of the bhiggest sport
days Atlanta has ever seen. The fzu-lt
that the championship tourney is be
ing held here is a big advertisement
within itself, and fans should sup
port the proposition with their at
tendance, in order pat other big
awards will be sent South by the
A. A. U, board in the future,
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STARK TO GET PLAYERS.,
Dolly Stark, now managing the
Augusta eclub in the Sally League,
was in close touch with Tom Wat-'
king, Memphis mogul, all during the
Southern lweague directors’ session
here early this week, and it is under.
stood that Dolly has r“udn arrange
ments to procure several ball players
from the C‘hick outfit before the Sally
League season gets under way. Dolly
formerly played the shortfield for the
Chicks and had a brief reign as man
ager in the Bluff City. He is a good
personal (rx-nd of the Memphis mag
nate, and ugusta fans may rest as
sured that Dolly will get some good
Southern League cast-offs for the
Augusta outfit,
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McMILLAN HASN'T SIGNED,
Tommy McMillan, who is wintering
at his home here, was also mixing
and mingling with the moguls on the
la¥t day of the session. Tommy is
the property of the Mobile club and |
will again look after the shortfield
job for Bob Coleman this summer,
He discussed terms with Prexy Logan
of the Mobile club, Mr. Logan stated
that Tommy had not signed his con
tract as yet, but he feit sure that
they would come to terms,
. . .
TOMMY SPRINGS GOOD ONE.
McMillan tells a good one on the
Florida State leagne, which played
out its schedule after the Southern
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clock as stiff as pair o' cuffs.
League race was over last season.
Tommy says they have a rule down
in the orange country that any man
who has played Class A ball is not
eligible to hold down a berth in the
cirecuit.
“You should have seen those
Southern League boys down there”
said Tommy. “The woods were full
of Southern Leaguers, but each man
snagged an assumed name and went
right to work., The camouflage was
rather thin, sometimes, too. There
was Tiny Goodbred, for instance.
Tiny simply changed his name to Mr,
Goodie, and he got by with it, too.”
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-—AND HASTY WAS HIS NAME.
President Logan of the Mobile club
is vietim to many kidding matches
over his fight with Cholly Frank for
the services of Pitcher Hasty. So
much has been said of the famous
case that the directors have nick
named President Logan, “Hasty Lo
gan.” The Mobile mogul gets red in
the face every time the matter is
mentioned. And, the other night, Tom
Watkins of the Memphis club, by
simply greasing the itching palm of
a black boy with a coin, had “Call for
Mr. Hasty Logan” resounding through
the lobby of the Ansley, much to the
chagrin of the gentleman from Mo
bile,
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COLONEL QUACK WISE
Cholly Frank alleges uf:’n Quack
Smith is a pretty wise old bird, after
all. The Cracker boss says that
Colonel Smith sits back and says lit
tle in regard to the schedule. Then
later after it's all made, he hits up a
deal with New Orleans and Memphis
whereby he plays a few games on
Sunday, such as postponements and
the like on a fifty-fifty split in the
gate receipts,
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HIGGINS GETTING READY.
«Bob Higgins will econtinue with his
automobile salesmanship until Marech
1. Bob will then take a few days’
vacation and on March § he will ship
from Atlanta for Bay St. Louis with
a crew of pitchers. Bob says he feels
as young as ever, and 'his present in
tention is to catch as many games as
usual this season. He is the steadiest
wheel-horse ever catching in the
Southern lLeague, being dissatisfied
unless he is n there every day flag
ging the slants of the Cracker hurl
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Tail Enders
The first three teams in the At
lanta Prep League will do battle with
the last trio today. The championship
G. M. A, team will play Commercial
High, which team is gracing sixth
place in the league standing. Boys’
High, second team in the standing,
}vill play Fulton High, which is the
tail end club of the leagile. Peacock,
third in the standings, will phy
Marist, which team is leading the
second division,
G. M. A, in its first game with
Commercial High established the sea
son's record by not letting .he Com
mercial team register a field goal
during the fray. Tha Cadets should
win by at least lorty points. ‘The
game will be piayved at Commercial
High.
Boys' High will play Yualton High
on the Fulton court back of the
County Courthouse, Boys' iligh had
a romp with Fulton in the first game
between the two teams, and as Boys'
High has since shown great !mprove
ment, while the Vulton team seems
to be slipping with each game, the
Davidites should agaln win the gane,
and the result is enly a matter of
points,
The Peacock-Marist game is oniv
a repetition of the first two games.
Peacock has a good team. and so has
Marist so far as that goes, bat the
difference of the tnirl and fifth teams
in this league is appa'ing. Peacock
should win by about fifreer points.
Tech High is off.
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Against Champion o’Dowd
March s—Pappas Movie Man,
By GUY BUTLER.
Michael O'Dowd, the St. Paul
Irishman, who holds the middle
weight title by virtue of his knockout
triumph over Al McCoy a couple of
yvears back, will find himself face to
face, when he toes the mark in the
Auditorium ring the night of Friday,
March 5, with one Stockyards Tom
my Murphy of Chicago, instead of
Jackie Clarke, as originally an
nounced,
Murphy is thought to be a tougher
foe for the champion, hence the
change. The stockyards man is a
hardened veteran of the ring, and has
made his reputatipn. He has been
fighting for some years, and is looked
upon around the Middle West as one
of the greatest 158-pounders in that
neck of the woods.
Promoter McDonald is booking up
his preliminaries and will have some
of the promising young scrappers of
this vicinity carded in the semi
windup and the four-round events. It
is very likely that Freddie Boorde and
Stanley Meeghan, if the bout can be
arranged, will swap slams in the
semi-windup battle,
HUME BOOSTS RUDDY.
Kid Ruddy, the boy who lost to
Boorde the other evening, has come
in for a lot of boosting. It seems
that Ruddy made a distinct hit with
the fans by his ring tactics, and no
less a personage than Hume Me-
Donald declared that the only reason
the Kid was knocked out was be
cause he had just partaken of some
food only an hour or so before he en
tered the contest.
That, of course, will stop any
fighter. It was. Ruddy's stomach
which ended the go n the sixth round
and not his lack of gameness,
PAPPAS IN MOVIES.
Jimmy Pappas, the Atlanta Greek
flyweight, has been heard from. Lit
tle Jimmy writes from Culver (‘ity,j
Calif., where the movies come from, |
that he is assistant director in one
of the Ince studios. I
Pappas says he's doing splendidlvj
in his new work, which he emtered
last April, and that he is prospprtng.'
In addition to the shekels pouring in
trom his. picture work, Jimmy plcksl
up a little of the sporting money by |
indulging quite frequently in prize
fights aleng the Pacific slope.
He sends clippings from Califarnia
papers, showing that he defmtedl
several of the best youngsters in |
that section. He outpointed Frankie |
Dolan in three out of four rounds; |
trimmed Georgie Marks, a crack Cal- |
ifornia boy, in four rounds, and also |
left-hooked his way to victory cver|
Charley Jones, one of the gamest and |
toughest lads ever seen in Vernon, |
according to the elippings. |
Pappas informs us that Ray Kirke,
whose real name is Kirkwood, the
boy who fought Battling Budd and.
Young Feldman here several years
ago, was assistant director for |
Charles Ray until a short time ago, |
when he went with another company.
Pappas also formerly worked withl
Ray.
Edited By
HENRY C. VANCE
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Though No Definite Announce
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(By Universal Servize.)
NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—William H.
(“Big Bill") Edwards is to be the
next chairman of the National Com
mission. It is understood that John
A. Heydler, president of the Nation
al League, u?u Ban Johnson, presi
dent of the American League, agreed
on, KEdwards at their conference m
Heydler's office today, although
neither would make any announce
ment after the windup of the cone
fab.
The inside information is that Ed
wards can have the post if he wants
it and, inasmuch as it pays $20,000
a year, with a three-year contracty
friends of the big ocollector of in=
ternal revenue .are inclined to bes
lieve that he will accept.
Johnson left for Chicago this after«
noon. He is to return shortly when
the appointment will be formally an
nounced. Ban's. selection for the
place was Harry Woodruff, of Chi
cago, but most of the magnates were
for either Edwards or Judge Landis
and when the latter withdrew, his
backers switched their support ta
Edwards. i
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Judge Says He
Never Heard of
Benny Kau ff
(By Universal Service.)
NEW §OEK. Feb, 26—*Who id
this young man, Benny Kauff? §
have never heard of him and I am
somewhat of a baseball fan,” asked
Judge Rosalsky, in the Court of Gen«
eral Sessions today. The inquiry vwas
directed to Emil Fuchs, counsel for
the Gilants’ centerfielder, when be
applied for permission to inspect the
minutes of the grand jury, which in<
dicted his client in connection with
the theft of an automobile on De
cember 8.
The attorney’s request was madd
with a view to having the indict
ment set aside. He pleaded that his
client depended for his livelihood as
a ball player on his ability to retain
the gond will of the public.
The motion of Kauff's attorney
was opposed by Assistant Distriet
Attorney Ryttenberg, who said the
members of the grand jurv had been
unanimonsiy in favor of the indict
ment. Judge Rosalsky reserved
decisior.
Cadets Invade Macon
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To Take on Lanier Hi
The champion G. M. A. team of the
Atianta Prep League will make ite
last road trip of the present basket
ball season, when the team embarks
for Macon Friday night to phay the
lanier High School. This will ba
the second meeting of the two teams
this year, and the Cadets were vic
torious in the first game. That game
was played at College Park.
G. M. A. is about the strongesf
team in North Georgia, while Lanier
has quite a rep in the southern part
of the State, The game ean not be
called a State championship game, as
GG. M. . has not been played, after
ohallenging both teams. -
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