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MOST FIGHTERS OF TODAY DO NOT APPRECIATE THE VALUE OF A MANAGER
Leonard and Dempsey Are Two
Boxers Who Are Grateful
to Their Pilots,
By JAMES J. CORBETT.
Just a short time ago Johnny Dun
de# broke forth with a loud lament
over the fact that he paid “lots of
money” to Scotty Monteith over a
period of vears for managerial work,
A manager gets all the best of
11,” wailed Dundee. “I have been 1n
the ring for eight years—and look
At my ears——all scarred and battered
During «!l that time Monteith was
on the outside and nothing ever hap
pened ‘o him. T did the fighting and
got the junchings and Monteith got
some of the money for it. [ am off
of managers for the rest of my
pugilistic life.”
Dundee seems to he showing
something akin to Ingratitude by
statements of that sort. From all
1 know about Dundee's career he
owes a large portion of his success
to the skiliful handling and tutoring
of Monteith. It was this Scotchman
who took hold of Dundee when he
was an c¢hscure fighter He spent
vears trairing him to top noteh form.
1f Dundee had been a “flivver” Mon
ieith would have lost all the time
and energy which ha had expended,
Fortunately, however, Dundee he
came a stvecessfu! fighter and Mon
teith ghared in the financial returns.
That was only falr and only in
keeping with an agreement which
Dundee had made. It's true that
Monteith always was outside of the
ring—-and was not doing any of the
active fighting. But Menteith’'s brain
was working through erery moment
of eyery fight that Dundee had and
it was his calm judgment and his
schooling of Dundee that has aided
#0 much in enabling Dundee to reach
the top,
Fighters owe more to their man
agers than many are willing to con
cede. Most of them, after reaching
a certain point of success, get in
fiated Ideas concerning themseives
and think that they owe nothing to
thelr managers. Fortunately for the
“ring game, Benny leonard and Jack
Dempsey are not listed in this group.
leonard is always ready to inform
the world that what he is today y\‘
the prize ring is what Gibson made
him. And Dempsey gives to Kearns
the real credit for tutoring him in
ving lore and bringing him along
from obscurity to a place where he
dominates the pugilistic world, |
“I was jJust a preliminary boy when
Gibson took hold of me,” says Leon
ard. “I don't suppose I would ever
have amounted to anything beyond
that if it had not bheen for Billy. Ha
spent years teaching me the fine
points of boxing-—and I regard him
) the greatest teacher that pugilism
aver has produced. Ye was always
patient and kindly and hie didn't bring
me along too fast. He was satis
fied to get me small purses with er
dinary fighters until such time, that
by whipping them, T gained con
fidence in mvself and was able to
meet the starrier performers and get
bigger money.” |
And Dempsey, speaking of Kearns,
savy: |
“l was pretty much ors a hoob ax
far as fistic knowlejdfe was concerned
when Jack Kearns took me in hand
in 1917, He taught me more in the
first month that he handled me than
1 had learned in all the while pre
vious. Jack showed me tricks to use
in the ring, showed me the real knack
of hitting and 101 other things
which enabled me later to fight my
wAay to the top. I may have punched
my way to the champlonship--but it
was Kearns who showed me how to
do 1" {
Ted “K¥l" Lewis end Johnny Kfl
bane are men, like Dundee, who
tossed aside thelr managers when
they achieved fame and greatness.
Jimmy Dunn spent years tutoring
Kilbane. An old boxer himself, he
had learned much of ring warfare
and imparted the know'edge to Kil
bape. He bandled the featherweight
with the skill and the finesse of a
diplomat, But in the end Kilbane
threw him aside and declared that
he needad a manager no further.
Jimmy Johnston picked up Lewis
when he was a joke warrior. By
clever matching and by echooling
l.ewis through many monthes and
vears Jounston made a real fighter
out of him. Just about as soon as
Lewis reached the top lhe tossed
Johnston aside and since then has
been handling his own affairs.
A fighter certainly owes more to
hismanager than he oan appreciate
Lewis Expects to Win
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« Mat Bout in One Hour
NEW YORK, Marceh 15 —Strangler
Towin, whe ‘s to wrestle FMar]l Caddock at
Madison !’nln Garden tonight fer the
privilege of meoting Joe Steecher in a
world's championship mateh, is out with
an offical announcement that he will beat
Caddock within an heur. The Strangler
wante to pin Caddeck’s shoulders to the
flgor If !t iy the last act in his career
e is esger to get even for the point
decimon he last to Caddock a saw years
ago in Des Moines, lTowa.
U. S. Army to Compete
In Olympic Games
WASHINGTON, March 15, ~The United
States army will compote for representa
tion onh the American team that will par
tigipate in the Olympic games at Antwerp,
Pelgium, in August, it was stated by BSec
retary of War Baker
Contesting teams will be selected im
mediately at the army posts and forts
in rifle and pistol shooling, bhoxing, fence
ing, horsemanship, wrestiing, awimming
and track and field athletics. Klmina
tion contests will be held at each army
post and finished not later than May 16
Middlebury College Gets
Crowell as Baseball Coach
IDDLEBURY March 15 Minot J
Crowell, who was « pitcher on the Brown
University wase®all vine in 1914 and 1915,
and later played with the Philadelphia
Americans, has been engaged to coach the
Middiebury (College baseball team this
Year,
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Coughlin Elected Captain
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‘Of Notre Dame Gridders
SOU'TH BEND, Ind, March 15— Frank
Coughlin, giant ta e, has been eclected
captain of the 1920 foothall team at Notre
ame tn f the place of Capt-Elect George
Gipp, who has withdrawn from the uni.
Nerpity Caughlin is a junior in the law
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Linow Toughens Up
For Mat Bout With
Zybszko March 18
CHICAGO, Marelh 15 ~Wind and
endurance are all that Jack Linow
is la'oring to perfect for his finish
mat contest with Stanisiaus Zbyszko
at the Second Regiment Armory
March 18. To acyuire those nighly
desirable adjuncts in his preparation
for the clash he is doing a lot of road
work. Ten miles or more daily is his
schedule, and the work is commeno
ing to show resuits.
The giant Russ already is able to
work | nthe gym at top speed for an
unlimited stretch of time without the
least fatigue.
Of speed, sclence and strength Jack
has considerable. In addition he is
possessed of tigerlike aggresaiveness
and undaunted courage. Jack boasts
that in all his yvears of wrestling he!
has never backed up or quit. Foes
have to pin and hold him to gain a
vietory, and very few have been able
to accomplish that feat, especially
when the big fellow was in shape. !
Close students ofg the game fail
to figure how it is possible for the
giant Pole to get into any kind of
condition for so formidahble a foe in
%0 short & tUme after his return to
the sport from so long a lavoff. It is
true that Zybszko is wrestlin: him
self rapidly into form, but if the re
ports of his present poundage are
true, it will take a longer period than
six weeks to fit him for men of the
Linow type, the sharps contend.
Of course the Pole {s winning
matches, He is wrestling almost ev- |
ery night. But the class of men he
ir meeting are of the third and fourth
rates,. A man like Linow will be a
vastly different story
Louisville A. A. Players
Land in Mobile Sunday
MOBILE, Ala, March 15--The [first
squad of the Louleville American Associa
tion Basebal! Club, composed of Manager
MaCarthy, Cap Néal, &usmen Managsr
Phil Bean, trainer, several newspapernien
and nine players arrived hlere Sunday
Among the playvers were Catcher Bill Mey
er and Outfielder Roy Massey, who came
to the team from Columbus in exchange
for Bobh Beescher Fourteen olther players
will join the oeolopy Monda)y 'be team
will tral nhere for two weake playing ex
nibition sames Wwith the Mobile Southern
Association team
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Tigers and Braves Will
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Clash in Macon March 27
MACON, Ga., March 15 -—Two big league
teams will be seen in action here on
March 27. The Detroit Tigers and the
'Hnu(nn Braves will stage a game at Cen
tral C'ity park om the above date under
the nuspices of the local Shrine Temple,
"[‘ho famous Ty Cobb, the Georgia Peach,
will be seen In action In this game The
Shrine arranged the game for tne pur
pose of taking the proceeds to be used
in defrayin gthe expenses of taking the
Shrine band and patrol to the national
convention on the Pacific coast
Dixon Foster Will
Retire as Coach
Of South Carolina
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COLIUMBIA, 8. C., Mareh ls.—-D.i
Dixon Foster, for three years head
coach In football, basedball and has-l
ketball at the University of South |
Carolina, announced Monday that ho‘
will retire from active coaching u‘
the close of this session. |
Mr. Foster, who is president of
the Columbia Baseball Olub of the
South Atlantic Assoelation, has oth
er business interests and has grown
weary of coaching practically nine
months each year, He came to Car
olina in 1916 as freshman coach from
Porter Military Academy, Charleston,
and the next year was made head
coach. He was an ensign in the navy
in 1918, but returned last season. He
coached in West Virginia and Mis
sissipp! before ocoming to South
Carolina. It is understood that the
system of having oné man to coach
lall three major sports may be aban
| doned and coaches named for each of
| the big trio. The athletic council s
lexpected to make an announcement
in the next few days. Mr, Foster's
decision was communicated to the
council two months ago and he has
been working with the council in
looking about for a successor,
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)Peacock Nine Battles
~ Locust Grove Saturday
Peacock's Dbasketball team will g!-.n
locust Grove, in Locust Grove, next Sat
urday, 1t became known today This will
be the first game piayed hetwean an At.
lanta prep school and an outsider this sea
son Quite & bit of interdst is attached
'to the game as the Riuebhirds have quite
fn large following in this e¢ity
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Olin Challenges Winner
Of Caddock-Lewis Bout
NEW YORK, March I§.-—John Ollm, the
famous Finnlsh wrestier, has challenged
| the winner of the Earl Caddeck-'Strang
| ler" TLewis match to meet him in a finish
{ match, That Olin is confident he can
[ beat the winner of today's affair is proven
{ by the fatt he 8 willing to wrestie on
|a winner take all basis and will wager
| 31,000 on the side
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Columbia U. Team
NEW YORK, March 15.—~The Co
lombia University gélf team, headed
by A. I. Walker Jr., will play eight
and possibly nine matches this
spring, according to the su\son'si
schedule, which was announced by
Lester C. Danielson, gradoate man-l
ager of athletics. If a ninth matech
is played it will be with Gwrna'
Tech, which boasts as its captain |
{ Bobby Jones, the bey wonder of the
links.
Some difficulty™was encountered in
arranging the schedule owing to thol
fact that both Princeton and Har
vard wanted to play the Blue and
White on the same day, and a solu
tion was only found yesterday, when
it was decided to meet Princeton and
to forego the match with the L‘rlm-‘
son this season, The Princeton match
will be played at the Nassau Country
Club on May 14, The schedule: |
April 24, Fox Hills at Fox Hills;
May 1, Yale at Greenwich C. C.;
May_6, Dartmouth at Garden City; |
May 7, Williams at Garden City;
May B§, Scarsdale at Scarsdale; May
14, Princeton at Nassau; May 15,
University of Penpaylvania at Mers
son C. C., Philadelphia: May 29, Ged
ney Farmas at Whits Plaina.
| Jimmy Duffy Meels |
Denny in Savannah
i SAVANNAH., March 18 «~Jimmy Dufry
‘nr Lockport will meet young Danny of
New Orieans here Wednesday night. They
are lightweights. Charlie Metrie will ac
company Duffy to this city At the next
ilhnn Metrie will appear as ome of the
i principais
Camp Gordon Wins
First Ball Game of
Season Sunday, 5-0
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In the first baseball game of the
local season the Sixtieth Infantry
team of Camp Gordon walloped Fort
McPherson Sunday afternoon, 5-0.
The weather was a big d¥wback to
the game, and at the end of the sixth
inning it became so chilly that play
was discontinued.
Jesse Young, the young Camp Gor
den hurler, starred. He gave up only
two hits in the six innings, and none
of. the opposing players reached sec
ond base. His bat brought in two of
the five ryns. Kearny of the Camp
Gordon team also was in the lime
light. He scored one run and brought
in two more with a two-base clout.
Brown, who hurled for McPherson,
had hard luck. He fanned nine men
and walked three.
Both teams played a good game,
and the form of the players at this
stage of the season is very ecour
aging to the coaches of both'teams,
Fort McPherson will play a return
game at Camp Gordon next Sunday.
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Tigers and Braves Will
Play Game at Valdosta
VALDOSTA, Ga., March §—The work
of preparing the pinyin‘ field for the ex
hibitien baseball game hetween the De
troit Americans and the Boston Braves
here on March 25 is progressing rapidly,
and the grounds will be in first-class con
dition for the game
A diamond is being prepared at the new
fair grounds especially for the game It
is probable that the temporary grandstand
erected at the fajr grounds last fall will
be moved to a point directly back of
the home plate, assuring ample seating
capacity for the big crowd which is ex
pected
Valdosta fans are greatly interested n
the ‘dp;vroumnx contest, and inquiries re.
celved from neighboring towns indieate
that the biggest crowd that ever witnessed
a baseball game in Valdosta will be here
en March 25, Both the Braves and the
Tigers will have pienty of partisans to
root for them, though the personal popu
larity of Ty Cobdb. in this city may give
the Tigers a little advantage in this re
spect The fans are assured that tne real
stars of hoth aggregations will be seen In
action heie Cobb. Rudelph, Maranville
Boland, Ehmke, Fillingim Bush, Flax
stead and other shining lights will be in
the game
Casper Is Going to Have Comfort At Any Cost
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Experts Say Young Fator
Is Better Than Brother
NEW YORK, March 15.—8tuart Polk,
the Montana horseman, who has the fac
ulty of developing first class jockeys, has
a boy in Havana this winter who looks
like the Dhest prospect he ever had.
He is Elmer Fator, a brother of La
Verne, the young rider that created nu«‘h‘
a sensation on the metropolitan courses
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l‘st season, and whose contract Polk
disposed of for SISOOO to that astute
horgeman, 8. C. Hildreth.
Young Fator has had abeut 15 mounts
at Havana, and won with nine of them,
He was twelve times second amd elght
een times third. Experts say that he is
a much better jockey than his brother
was at this time last season. Consider
ing his experience, it is exiwcted‘ that he
will develop into a first clags rider.
All Pilots Participants in Games,
and Review Shows Each Man
Is an Infi‘lder.
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COLUMBIA, 8. C., March 15.—An
ante-geason review of the South At
lantic Association of baseball c¢lub
managers for 1920 shows that aside’
from their managerial ability every
pilot is a high class individual per
former. Perhaps the six managers
will set a record for the fifteen years
of the league for ability to play, as
well as manage. A coincidence is that
every manager igs an infielder, two
first basemen, a second baseman, two
shortstops and a third baseman.
In past seasons there have always
been one or two “weak sisters” at
the playing end of the game, Men,
valuable as managers for their
knowledge of the game and experi
ence, but long since having lost their
usefulness as players. Not so this
season. Every manager is in his
prime, and without question barring
injury or unforeseen happening will
be a star.
ZINN BECK AT COLUMBIA.
Columbia will have one of the most
popular players who has worn a Co
lumbia uniform, Zinn Beck. Beck
broke in here in 1910 and returned in
1911, going to the Texas League for
1912 and 1913, and thence to the SBt.
Louis Cardinals, where he playved in
1014, 1915 and 1916. He was with
Milwaukee in the American Associa
tion in 1917, and went back to the
major leagues in 1918, with the New
York Americans. lLast season he was
with Vernon in the Pacific Coast
League. Thus Beck has spent his last
gix years in baseball, four in the ma
jors and two in Class AA. He is a
clever thirdsacker and a dangerous
man at bat in a pinch.
Douglas Harbison, returning teo
Spartanburg, is a first baseman of
extraordinary ability and a splendid
batter. He formerly plaved for Co
lumbia and was manager for three
seasons. He took the Spartanburg
club last season, when it was hope
lessly distanced, and finally got an
aggregation of misfits to playing
regular baseball. Harbison has been
with the San Antonio and Waco clubs
of the Texas League, Atlanta, South
ern League; New York Americans,
Tacoma and Seattle, in the North
western; twice with Columbia and
in Spartanburg for the third time.
