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YELLOW JACKET VARSITY BASEBALL TEAM IS SELECTED BY COACH JOE BEAN
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Final Cut Made at Tech—Scrub
Players Not Yet Picked—First
Game Saturday.
*. - By W. E. GEORGE.
" After carefully surveying the Yel
fow Jacket squad for three or four
weeks, Coach Bean yesterday an
noeunced his selections for the 1920
baseball varsity at Tech. Sixteen
names are on the list and included
among them are three catchers, rour
Hurlers, five infielders and four men
in the outer gardens.
On this list are the names of only
five men who have not made their
letter in baseball on Grant Field be
fore this season. These are Liddell
béhind the bat, Cobb, who won his
varsity “T” in football in 1918, on
short; Buck Flowers, of All-South
érn and All-American football fame,
on second; Connie Armbrecht, who
has scrubbed for the past two years
with the Jackets, in the infield, ana
J. T. Edwards, who has. also playea
on the scrubs for a couple of seasons,
in the outfield. 5
Heading the 1t of catchers is
Jimmy Wheeler,-who is to captain
this year's team and who is playing
his third year on the varsity. A sec
ond member of the catching staff is
Epivey, who won his letter last spring,
and the third member is Liddell,
¢ t aned above Liddell {8 well
known in amateur baseball circles
i i Avadud, having played sev
¢ral seasons at Marist and also ‘in
the City League. He handles himself
excellently behind the bat and will
make one of the strongest additions
to the team of all the new men.
OLD PITCHERS BACK,
In the box we find four familiar
facep. Three of them, Pruitt, As
bury and Murphy, are now enjoying
their third year on the varsity, and
each is well remembered by every
-~ one who has followed the work of the
Jackets in the past twp seasons. The
fourth man who will take his tum|
ai the flinging duties is Dan O'Leary,
who held down right field for the
Jackets in 1919, It was along about
the middle of the season that Coach
Bean discovered, almost by acctident,
'g;at Dan was a_hurler of some note. |
e put this fact away and when the
curtain was lifted for practise thlil
ring he insisted on him forsaking
:f., outfield for the box. O'Leary 18
& portsided hurler, by the way, and
this accounte for hig being shifted,
since the other three pitchers were
all righthanders.
Over on first, we find most natur
ally “Bevo_Webb,” who, besides be
ing first baseman on the Jackets' for
the past two years, has also won a
place on the mythical All-Southern
pick for the same number of seasons.
Over ol the opposite corner of the
diamond is another equally familiar
¢ountenance, who bears all the ap
pearances of Charley Turner. Charley
is sort o fa fixture on A Tech baseball
team and last year filled the position
of ‘captain,
+ Guarding the keystone cushion is
Buck Flowers, who needs no introduc
tion. Buck baseballed for Davidson
for two geasons and last year was
consequently ineligible for the Tech
varsity. He played a bangup game
for the scrubs all'season, though, and
when he announced his desire to keep
watch over the second bag this
§pring, the other men who had ben
casting covetous eyes in this direction,
began to lcok for other fields to con
uer, .
g‘l:me. on short, plays\the game like
professional. A little sickness dur
the latter part of iast week and
the first of this sort of put him un
der the weather, but he is back again
sw and going strong. He has a rare
g'e for snatching ground balls and
hen he turns the ball loose in the
rection of first it always hits its
rk. Armbrecht has been elected to
Id down the duties of substitute in
elder and will be able to take care
them ve?’ well,
WO OUTFIELD VETS.
In the outfield, two men who have
geen service as regulars in other years
the Jackets are nolding down.left
d right field. Esau Settle of "18
d 'l7 in right is going like a house
ire and "Soc” Ingram of 'l7 and ’lß.‘
it in left, isn’'t looking to anyone to
t the pace. “Red” Barron is hold
g down center this year and himng}
e 4 combination of Ty Cobb and
beglulh Only yesterday he broke
t practise game by driving the
d horsehide clear over the new right
eld -&ndu with a territic wallop. J.
obe wards, who in former years
ayed to catch behind the plate
owed rare judgment when he gave
p his chances there for a shot at
e outfield, for right out of the box
has landed the fourth place on the
rsity outfield. {
On paper and in practise, this lcoks
e the strongest combination of
ball artists that Georgia Tech h*‘
sembled in many a day. There i
t a single green or inexperienced
‘snan on the squad and not one that
n not put up & game that would do
edit to any college in the South
st. A chance to show just what they
n do will be given the men next
turday afternoon at 3:30 when in
1 probability they go up against
;Iu- Atlantic Steel Company ™.
The roster of the scrubs is as yet
sncermln and will probably not be
ven before next week. The third cut
the squad came last Monday and
elve names were lopped &(f the
gn out list. This leaves twenty-six
en on the scrubs and to cut ten of
m off will be no easy matter,
here are some dandy players on the
‘Eorubs this year, many of whom would
v on the varsity were there not so
any letter men back
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% NEW YORK., March 17.—American’
Adenley regatta probably will be
wed over the 1 mile and 550 yards
raightaway course on the Schuylkill
jver, Philadephia, May 2. The
*hilde Cup race may be an added
| ture this year.
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:: ST. LOUIS FLAVOR TO DALLASN, ‘
. The Dallag Texas League team will have
Quite a Bt. Louis flavor this year, as Man
r Ham Patterson, who is a nhear =i
ouisan himself, has mnot less than six
ound (City residents on his list. They ace
Gbfierr. Jean Dale, Butch Kerns, Joe
ahn, Mrthur Forrest, Dave Greenburg,
y Bell and Chink Mattick. He may
. gven more who have been onflaflud.‘
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THRILLS.
A robin pipes In yonder tree
And thrills & o'er und o'er,
A blessom bursts on yonder ten
. And makes me thrill some more,
Bu.l!‘&uh all hemlock when I see
FIRST
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SCORE!
Despite the laws recently promulgated
by the powers of beseball, there is still
a lot of freak pitching 1f vou don't
believe it, cast your lamps on the scores
which emanate from various training
- camps;
‘ GAME LAWS,
The animals have rmo preserves
‘ Where gunmen will net wreck thelr
Nor whoot s _bunch of bullbts throus
or a_bunch o ets th h
i their hide;
While we r common human folks
Are busy S.am stick-up blokes
Whe roam about our city far and
wide.
{ A great many of our athletes refused
to in South with the team until they
went south with the jack.
Boxing statisticlans who hand us the
weights and measurements of the gladiae
tors always overlook two important dee
tails, viz: The attitude of the brow and
and the weight from !.ho neck up.
TOUGH LUCK!
Consider little Joie Ray.
A sorry lot is his.
- e has to hike his weary way
And hust a reord every day,
- Or disappointed folks will say:
| “Gee whizz!"
Various wrestlers are acused of at
tempiting to duck the income tax. It is
difficult to keep tab on a wresatler's in
come, but ane suspects that it con
sists largely of unearned inerement
There are two classes of /ouuu who do
not pay the sncome tax:/ Those who
have too little and those who have too
much. - -
8 Zbyszko landed on these shores
weighing 265 Ibs. on the hoof What
do they mean starving Europe?
THE H. ¢ .OF DYING.
Now come the mournful tidings of the
aurr.nl and physicians
Whoe d-mw their allment as en
largfhw of the bill,
You ean't afford a doctor under up-to
date conditions
And yet it simply makes: you sick to
think of being ill.
They tell us a docior bill is the hardest
~ bill in the world to collect, but every.
| body is willing to pay cash for pres
criptions.
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'He strok ».‘{‘.’"";.-‘“TJ."'. rd
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And &fi%"fll mildly when he heard
That reuts soon would sonr,
The barber's scissors, celd and grim,
Were but & harmless toy to him,
And they were nething more.
‘ Not that we are inclined toward su
perstition, but we have a hunch to risk
& few shekels when Willie Green fights
- on the seventéenth of March.
“Qreat oaks from little aoorns grow.”
ete We are reminded ass the gore
going words of wisdom by the size of
the house drawn by those two infinitesi
mal pugilists, Messrs Wilde and Mason
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And still they gabed and still the wonder
grew
- That two small pugs can draw the
‘ house they do
DOUGHNUTS,
I remembher, 1 remember
‘ The careless dayvs of old
When every cornar had a shop
Where beer and hooch were sold
But John B. Corn has seen his day
‘ And roams lln\‘nrlh no maore,
And every ancient rum basaar
Is now a doughnut store
Roene in the Loop: An aviator
pulling daredevil flipflap up in the
air and a crowd looking through »
window at a guy cooking doughnuts,
Connie Mack's tu:«m‘ is the first to stary
trafning n the American lLeague The
last will he first, so to spoak
The report that Chick Gandil will
manage a team in the Snake River
League lead one to suspect that some
correspondent ha been trying (0 cure
a snake bite.
SPIRITS,
In dear old Mich.,, where the red.eved fisy
Are swimming in boore a-plenty,
They've abandoned the “Spirit of '76"
for the “Spirits of 1920
Mocks of forelgn wrastiors e e naw hent
Ing it to these hospitible shores, O%s thing
to be said im their favor ls that they are
not coming here to deliver lectuvres
Among thase whéd are coming hith
er is ope Chazeau, whom you prob
ahly hvzvv‘ heard if you are a wres.
tling fan. He is one of those birds
Lu‘ho wrestles audidly.
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NEW ORLEANS, March 17—
(Claude Simons, Young Men's Gym
nastic Club director, has been ap
pointed track and field coach at the
ITulano University, and will assume
his duties on Thursday, March 18, on
which date the 'l“ulane athletes have
been requested to report for initial
practise,
The appointment of Simons is ex
pected to boom track sports at Tu
lane, as the Y. M. G. C, mentor is
one of the best conditioners of ath
letes in this section, in addition to
being a hard working and peppery
I individual.
Dual track meets with Louisiana
State, planned by Simons, and final
arrargements with Auburn, Georgia
Tech and Alabama probably will be
lefiected as soon as a manager and
{ captain is elected. Meantime, Si-
I mons will personally confer with the
| directors of Southern colleges re
tgm'dmu the meets.
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ALBION, Mich., March 17.—-All
members of ,the Michigan Intercol
legiate Athletic Assoclation, includ
ing Albion, Alma, Tilsdale, Adrian,
and Kalamazoo (College, have voted
favorably to allow the return to the
association o fthe Michigan State
Normal College at Ypsilanti, which
fwas a member for many years until
];mnu: 1900. Normal takes the piace
of Otivet College, which closed down
%twu years ago Yysilanti school
i probably will be unable to make
schedule rearrangements to figure in
this spring’'s M. 1. A. A. baseball
| race, but will be represented in cham
lplonsmp track and tennis meets to
be held here early in June.
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The Winners Play the Victrola
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|Ledoux Knocks |
OutJ. Coulon; |
Other Results
AT PARIS, FRANCE—Charles
Ledoux, European bantamweight
champion, knocked out Johnny
! Coulon, former world’s champion, in
i six rounds, \
! AT BAYONNE, N. J—Leo
| Houck, veteran Lancaster middle
weight, shaded Johnny Haoward in
eight rounds.
AT CLEVELAND-—Blilly McCann
of Akron won a popular decision
l ovorquillio Beecher, New York, in
| ten "rounds.
| AT SPRINGFICLD, Mo.—Bob
i Martin knocked out Dummy West |
| in three rounds. |
| AT TERRE HAUTE, Ind.~Clint |
| Flynn was disqualified in the first
| two minutes of fighting with Tom
| my Teague, when a low blow
| knocked ql'cmmy to the mat. Lee
I Roberts, lightweight Indiana cham
pion, knoiod out Kid Smith of
I London, ONio.
lßu:e and Aggies on
! Tulane Grid Schedule
| NEW ORLEANS, March 17.—~The
!in “Texas; the University of l:?mit
{in Texas: the Nniversity of Dftroit
lund the Mississippi Aggies are the
inew teams given games by the Tu
lane University on the Greenbacks’
1920 schedule, announced Saturday
by President Westerfield of the T.
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| The annual game with the Tigers,
| Southwestern and University of
| Mississippl are carded. A return
igame with Florida at Tampe, Fla.,
i 3 also scheduled.
| There are two open dates on the
| Greenbacks’ schedule—October 23 and
[October 30, The season is to open
!on October 2 and &lose December 4,
!nnd is to include nine games in a
period of two months,
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Pa Is As Mad As a Hatter
BY JEAN KNOTT
Attack Launched On
Walker Prize Fight
Bill by Canon Chase
ALBANY, N. Y, March 17—Canon
Chase of Brooklyn, representing the Inter
national ‘Reform Bureau, .launched an at
tack Tuésday gagainst the Walker prize
fight bill. It is alleged that the bill makes
the International Sporting Club, Inc., and
the Army. Navy and Civilian Board of
Boxing Control, Inc., sole arbiters of box
ing or prizefighting and that both or
ganizations are bnck‘d by the same men
and are in effect one and the same.
The gontrol of the boxing game given
to these organizations, Canon Chase as
serts, would be analagous to that exerted
by the Jockey Club over eighteen race
tracks agd would enable them to conduct
prize fights in defiance of the will of the
people. #
Canon (‘h?e urges friends of amateur
boxing and all citizens opposed to a re
sumption nf'&rue fighting in the State to
write to Senators «nd aspemblymen op
posing the Walker bill
The Walker bill legalizes bouts of fifteen
rounds, not te exceed three minutes each,
between professional boxers for cash pur
poses.
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Petrels to Open With
Camp Gordon Today
The Oglethorpe baseball team will play
its first game of the 1920 season this
afternoon, weather permitting, with a mili
tary outfit from (‘am; Gordon. The game
is scheduled to be played at Oglethorpe.
Anderson’'s men have played several pracs
tise games of L‘w or four innings, and he
is anxious to t his men into shape for
the opening game of the real season with
Georgia which will Le played in about two
weeks.
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McMullin Joins Sox;
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1 Risberg, Gandil Out
. WACO, Tex., March 17.—The * Pacific
Coast holdout combination, whioh has been
worrying Manager Gleason of the White
Sox was broken today with the return of
' Fred McMullin, Gandil and Risberg stiil
‘are in California, however.
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Chick lelo_way Has
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. LAKE CHARLES, La, )lnrfh 17.~—~Me-
Cann, an Athietic recruit, aspiring to the
}berth at short, played a wonderful game
against Beaumont yesterday. He fielded
the ball in brilliant style and gathered in
three timely singles.
ONTHE LEVEL
' By HENRY VANCE
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss.,, March 17.
When the twenty-tl‘lrd Cracker ar
rives in camp, that will make the sum
total of the outfit. If Boss Frank
has any more than twenty-three men
up his sleeve, the others will be
marked “forward” and shipped back
upon arrival here. There's a reason.
Bob Higgins eonfessed today that
he had only twenty-three uniforms.
These he lifted from a musty old
trunk in the stock,room and distrib
uted to the hgys already here. There
are a few left, but the first-come
first-served system will prevail, and
when the Cracker outfit runs out of
uniforms the tardy arrivals will have
to bedeck themselves in overalls and
go out on the piers and fish to get
in condition.
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There are two kinds of water In
this burg—salt and sulphur.
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As soon as I had stepped from the
cinder-scatterer and made my way to
the hotel Bob Higgins and Sammy
Mayer opened up with a fishing yarn.
Bob and Sam, according to their sto
ry, accomypanied by Bunkum Morris,
a left-handed rookie from Buford,
Ga., went on a little fishing excursion.
Jt was Bunkum's initial glide on
the bay and he was very much tickled
over the bigness of the mill pond. He
suddenly caught a flounder on his
hook, however, and grew very much
excited—just as much excited as if
he had three on with no one down
and the laundry man at bat. Bunkum
drew his line in and attached to it
was an innocent and well meaning
flounder, which had no other intention
than to get caught. Bunkum looked
at the wriggling fish and jumped
back with a suddenness that almost
caused the hoat to turn turtle.
“T gnys ‘“Take it off the hook!!"™
chirped Bob Higgins in recounting
the varn. “but Bunkum looked at me
in a horrible tone of voice and yelled:
“‘ ain’t genna do it!’
Y “‘“Why? . And my voice reeked in
sarcasm. o e
“‘Cause the durn thing will bite.
Look at them fangs.'”
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“Slats” Ledbetter is busy with the
boys. cuttin' 'em loose now. “Slats”
couldn’t work for the first day or so
on account of his baggage showing
up tardy. His shoes were in his
trunk. Gunboats and baggage came
in finally, however, and the rangy
slabster, who came to the Crackers
from the Little Rock Razorbacks via
the waiver route, is now taking daily
workouts with the bunch.
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The train I came down on hit a
man just this side of Mobile. Tt
cauged a deal of excitement among
the passengers, but when the train
eame to a halt, and after the en
zineer had been revived with spirits
of ammonia. the vietim glared at said
eneineer and snarled:
“Say, whyn't you look where you're
going?”
This doesn't sound like it was gar
nished with veracity, but it's the ab
solute truth. /The cowcatcher saved
the fellow’s life, and apparently he
was unhurt.
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“TPhat guy wonld make a wonder
ful batte=" said Ray Roberts when I
reconinted the incident at the dinner
table. “No hean ball would make the
slightest impression on him.”
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Sea food is th®ruling dish on the
menu at the hotel. And it is cooked
bv the fellow who put the Q in Q-sine.
The pensive ovster. the riotous red
fish. the- frivolous . flounder and
<shrimn bv the hushel are caueht right
nnder one’s varv mose. And the hote'
crhef sees to it that a #and nart of the
dav's eateh is fed to m ball players.
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fkv juice iz plentiful. too. and they
do tel! me that Jupiter Flavius is
monarch here very spring. For the
uninitiated I'll explain that one:g!bon
a time I saw where some baseball
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writer said a game was called off on|
account of Jupiter Flavius. The word |
has been creepirzg around from pillar
to post in' my memory eevr since, and
I vowed I'd use it some time. It was
a novel way of saying it rained. I
admired the newspaper man's genius
for conning the word, and I don’t
think I've ever peen it since.
A I 1
Ball players have also coined some
new expressions this spring. I heard
one man say: “Atta boy!” yesterday.
It struck me as being both new and
novel. And another nonchalanly
yelled: “At’s the old life!” One will
surely learn something if one sticks!
around with one’s ears propped open,
won't one?
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Walked about 2 miles up (or is it
down?) the beach yesterday to give
Cholly Frank’'s bungalow the dou
ble-o. Cholly’s house is a peach. It
faces the bay, and one isn’t béthered
by the dust of the sea traffic. l
The Crackers have a man in camp
who should fear little from a base hlt!
barrage. This man is Bull Durham.’
a left-handed pitcher. Bull was in|
‘e four-year fracas over in FEurope,
and was with the doughboys right on‘
the frontest front. He's been over
the top exactly twenty-four times. He
says he doesn't know how many
boches he got, but that he found the
going extremely .good in bayonet
work. You see, Bull crossed the Ger
mans up in bayonet fighting. He!
was a left-hander and went at the'
thing differently from the average
fighter. Before the kamerad howl- |
ers knew what was coming off, Byll
had slammed the bayonet with #is'w
fork hand leading and had prodded
the embonpoint of some Hun, with |
all the precision that one sticks a pin'
in a pincushion.
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“Slats” Ledbetter was also overseas
during the war. He helped pilot thel
choo-thoos in France, returned last
summer inß;lme to play a month wlth]
the Little Rockers and this winter he
has been railroadine again. “Slats”
is a fireman, and’ this fact accounts
for all .the steam he uses while in|
the box. |
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The Crackers have a couple of ex-!
hibiticti games with the Cleveland In
dians. They have a grand stand,
n'everything at the baseball park.
Sammy Maver says there are 4.000
people in this burg the year round. If
that's the case, they must be night
watchmen and sleep in the daytime. |
. * .
The slogan in traiinng camp for the
first week is: “He who cuts loose too
early in the spring will get cut loose
late in the spring.” .
o .0 ( |
No telling how many oysters the!
Crackers will open before they open'
the season.
. . "
Had vou ever noticed how much one
bay resembles another? F'rinstance,
1 would have sworn the bav here was
the bay at Mobile. They look very
much alike. Can’t never tell about |
bpye and coons.
| . 8w
. Due to the fact that a goodly por
tion of the inhabitants here are
French, those Crackers who were in|
the service and got overseas have |
been booksoing and weeweeing to|
‘beat the band ever since they hit |
town, |
.
Dedger %ecruzt Hurls t
i .
‘ 17 Scoreless Inmngs‘
. JACKSONVILLE, Fis®, March 17—
|P|tch-r Mohart, Dodger recruit, has now
pitched seventeen scoreless innings in the
peries between the nculr and recruits.
By J. E. MURPHY
By CALLAHAN
International Sporting Club Of
fers $350,000 to Dempsey for
Bout if Boxing Bill Passes.
By JACK ‘VEIOCK. s
NEW YORK, March 17.—Tex Rick
ard, acting as matchmaker for tho
International Sporting €lub of New
York, has offered Jack Dempsey
$350,000 to meet Georges Carpentier
in a championship bout, it was
learned here today from an authori
tative source.
The International Sporting Club, of
which Maj. A. J. Drexel Biddle is
president, plans to stage the cdontest’
on Labor Day, the number of
rounds to depend on ‘the limit set by
one of several boxing bills now be
fore the State Legislature at Al
bany. Officials of the club, it is
said, are confident that one of the
boxing bills will pass.
The offer, it is understood, is con
ditional upon the passage of a boxing
bill in New York and the outcome
of Dempsey’s trial in San Francisco.
From the same source the Interna-,
tional News Service learns that the"
diamond-studded belt, emblematic off
thé® world’s heavyweight champion=
ship and donated by the Army, Navy
and Civilian Board of Boxing Controi,
will be presented to Dempsey when
the new boxing club opens its doors
for the first time. 2
‘ 3
Not Ready to Talk .
. , =
Fight,” Says Kearns
LOS ANGELES, March 17.—“1 have*
not heard anything of Richard’s re
ported offer of $350.000 for Dempsey:
to fight Carpentier.” .
Such was the statement given out
this afternon by Jack Kearns, man-.
ager of Jack Dempsey. wurld’'s heavy -
weight champion, when told of the
International News Service dispatch
containing the report that such an
offer had been made.
“I'm not ready to talk fight with
Kearns added. “I want tirst to clean
up this black mail they are trying
to pull en Dempsey. After that T
can think and talk fight with any of
them.”
Bushes vs. Youngs;
Cobb Reports Monday
MACON, Ga., March 17.—The annual St
Patrick’s Day fight between teams cap
tained by Donie Bush and ‘Pep”’ Young
occupied the Tigers’ today. Chief of Po
lice Harris refereed the fight and Harry
Tuthill was in charge of the ambulance
corps.
Ty Cobb sent word that he would join
the club in Columbus, Ga., Monday.
3 g
Ruth Goes Hitless; Fans
. .
Twice; Yankees Victors
MIAMI, Fla.,, March 17.—The Yankees
were out to make it two out of three from
the Reds today, following their easy shut
out victory. Babe Ruth went hitless,
striking out twice.
Recruit Heffner also did well.
. . .
Griff Wields Pruning
.
Knife en Senators
TAMPA, Fla., March 17.—Clark Griffith
has begun to ‘reduce the size of his squad
of Senators. Mayer, catcher, and Starlk,
infielder, have beeh released to Minne
apolis.
iS B bl B L
sy y
Cravath Is Giving ’Em
.
All a Fair Chance
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.,, March 17.—A1l
players fn the Phillies’ camp are getting
their chance—rookies as well as regulars.
It is up to the individual to make good,
Dode Paskert’s Return
~
To Form Cheers Cubs
PASADENA, Cal.)» March 17,—The su 1=
den return to form of Dade Paskert, out?
fielding star, has cheered Manager Mitch
ell of the Cubs mightily.
The team will play the Los Angeles Pa
cific Coast League club today.
.
Statz, Hero of Giant
. 9 .
Rookies’ Wins Over Regs
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., March 17.—Arnold
Statz, Giant recruit outfielder, is the hero
of the rookies today. His four hits ecn=+
tributed to the defeat of the regulars in a
practise game.
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Leggett Starts Work
In.McLean County Golf
BLOOMINGTON, 111., March 17.—
C. H. Leggett of Chicago has been
engaged as golf instructor for the
McLean County Country Club here,
and reported for duty this week. He
is a member of the Chicago“ Heights
Golf Club, and has had extensive ex
perience as an instructor. He will
supervise the improvement§ upon the
buildings and grounds authorized by
the club tor the coming season.
\ » o i . _:—
National Commission
y .
‘ Settles Two Disputes
NEW YORK, March 17.—President John
A. Heydler of the National League today
announced that the National Commission
have decided a dispute hetween the Philas
delphia Americans and, Pittshurg Nationals
over the services of Plaver Herbst from
Waterbury, Conn., in favor. of Pittsburs:
The Waterhury club, which sold the plaver
to the Athletics, is directed to return the
purchase money to Philadelphia, The
commission has also decided that Pitchep
Weinert, formerly of the Reading Club, is
the property of the Philadelphia Nationals,
having been recalled from Reading under
a previous agreement.
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