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NORWICH BULLETIN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1920 Wants" Slacker" Charges investigated Exempt from all . Federal Income Taxes Xmt York. Jim. 22. Jack l)emp. t-.v, heavyweight champion 01 me v. ai d has asked that am officii! in- esMirat.on be made o the inlormal charges that he was a draft dodger during the world war. The request was made In a telegram received to day bv Major A. J.-Drexel BiddM', tha president f the Army, Navy am I Ci vilian Boxing Board, which it id un der; od will conduct the inquiryj ask-, ed in the near future. i Dempsev points out 'in his tele) tram that the board issued a professional boxer's license to him, just priOT to the match with Jess Willard, u hlch. certified that he had a ciean and ihon orable record as a professional tjoxer and that ho had the full sanction - and approval of the board. Dempsey re ceived License Number 2, the ( first card going to Willard, who then, was champion. . The present champion states that he followed implicitly the instructions giving him by the representatives of the government in draft matte rs and denies that he was a draft dodgjer. He offers to present himself personally before the board of to submit :t com plete statement of his war activities in affidavit form ainl agrees t abide by the final decision of the board and its findings. . The board ha3 announced that Dempsey's request will be refetred to the arbitration committee of t'ftat or ganization for decision as to -whether such inquiry should be undertaken. It is stated informally that the investi gation will be made ty a special com mittee including svf-al important of ficers of the American Legion if they "Will consent to serve. . Dempsey's telegram follows: "Last June you garre to me a box er's license. Number Two. which cer tified on the face of? it that I had a clean and honorable -.record as a box er. ' ' "Since that time a few posts of the American Legion, whp are not in any way familiar with my record .adopt ed resolutions condemning me as a draft dodgf d' in the fete war, an in dic'ment wholly unsupported by facts. "What I have done Has been to fol low implicitly the instructions as Riven to me by the representatives of the government. The iVjogan at that time was 'Follow the government's instructions.' That applied to me as to every other citizen im the United States and I was earryhtS out their orders and abiding by thtir instruc tions, and I was not a 'dxaft dodger' ns these fw Legion posts have de Hared and base their decision on false evidence through persons who are trying to put same oyer to further their own selfish interests. . Am I to '. crucified and condemned because I followed the orders as given to .me by he government? "This is an appeal to you- as a body of thorough and honorab'e ' sportsmen whose aim has always befn justice and fairness and a square deal for I all, to investigate this matter thor- ougmy, ana it ,x am innocent. v. un charge of . 'draft dodger," clear me pub libly before the world,- and if I am guilty, condemn me. .. "I will either present myself per sonally for examination by your board, or submit to you, upon ,tele grcyphid request,- a complete state ment of my activities during the wal in affidavit, forjm .and I agree to abide by your final j decision in the matter, as ,to be misjudged without a chance to prove my "innocence, is cruel and 1 feel that your honorable board will at least see that ustice will be done to me," . PASADENA WANTS OLYMPIC ATHLETES TO TRAIN THERE New York .Jan. 22. The American Olympic. Committee today received from Pasaclena, Calif., a request that the Pacific coast Olympic try-out games to be held in that city next summer. 'Tjae question will be con sidered by the committee and a de cision made later. The petition is signed by Charles "W. Paddock, hold er of the irater-allied one hundred and two hundrcil metre championships, and John T. Pearman, secretary of the Pasadena board of trade.. The communication stated that the city offers the best quarter -mile track ;.. Wtio, anri will fllflrante ! satisfactory i accommodations for the competitors at reasonable rates. It is urged that She city be selected as De ing suitable; in location, climate and all other respects .both from the ath letes' and i spectators' standpoints. Suitable en'n-ies are assured from all of the colleges and athletic clubs of the section.1 Secretary; Frederick W. Rubien of the American Olympic Committee said today that three, if not four, pre liminary meets would be held next suromeir, one , in the east, one in the middle west-near Chicago, a third on the iPaeific coast with the possibility o fa fourth a some southern point. KELLY TO ENTER SCULLING EVENT IN HENLEY REGATTA Philadelphia, Jan. 22. John Kelly, of the ' Vesper Boat Club, and national sculling champion, will try to win the diamond sculls at the Henley re gatta in England this summer and expects to enter the Olympic rowing races Utter in Belgium. He said to day he (would not row in fours and eights fiW the Vespers this year but would ctinfine himself to sculling.. If he wins i the) diamond sculls and is picked among others to represent the United States at the Olympic regat ta .he saiil, tee expects to pair up with Paul Costc'llo, of this city, for the dou ble sculling event. The Ve:pt-r Boat Club will make application to the American Rowing Association for membership so that Kelly can wompete in the English Henley, Tte American Rowing As- BONDS AT PAR AND INTERST TO YIELD 5 City of Seattle Municipal Light and Power - Plant and System 5 . - Gold Bonds , Annual Maturities October 1, 1925 to 1938, inclusive City of Seattle Municipal Street . Railways Sysem 5 Gold Bonds ' Annual Maturities' . September 1, 1930 to 1939, inclusive Descriptive circular on request BODELL & CO. 10 WEYBOSSET STREET PROVIDENCE BOSTON NEW YORK BASKETBALL . TONIGHT. BALTIC GYM. CARDINALS VS. ACES, RAMBLERS VS. BANTAMS. GAME STARTS AT 8 P. M. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL MARKET WAS LISTLESS. New York. Jan. 22. The stock mar ket dragged along in listless fashion again today, the only essential changes from the two previous ses sions being a slight accession of ac tivity . and the more settled state of forc-gn exchange. British, r'rench arid several of the less important Euro pean remittances dipped to new points of depreciation at the outset, li-jt these ' were recovered as soon as the -pressure of offerings relaxed. Mnrh nf vesterdav's denretssion of foreign exchange was ascrfbd to heavy ofier.ngs from foreign interests, mainly those represented in London, but in well-informed circles the break was again associated with the deflation" process recommended by the federal reserve board. The order of the federal reserve board advancing virtually all forms of discount was not announced until long after the close of the stock mar ket. It was anticipated, however, because of similar action earlier in the day by the Philadelphia branch of the Central Bank. Other incidents which exercised more or less influence as market fac tors were the reported agreement be tween the Mexican government and foreirn oil concessionaires and ad vices from "Washington which indicat ed progress in railroad legislation. The money market was feature less, apart from a disposition by local and interior banks to resume pur chases of commerical paper in moder ate volume. Call money ruled at six per cent, and time funds were quoted at recent rates, most negotiations be restricted to renewals. Prices tended downward after the irregular openln, but among the more important issues fluctuations varied c.niy from fractions to a little over a point Steadiness prevailed at the close, in consequence of short cover ing among steels! motors and equip ments, flales amounted to SCO, 000 Bhares. Liberty bonds again lost ground, the foreign bond list eased and stand ard rails were inclined to react mod erately. Total sales, par value, ag gregated. $12,350,000. Old TJ. S. bonds were unchanged on call. Rirtte & Suntr i. . . . i . . " Canadian Pacini r Cent-.il Ix-Ither .'antral Iithcr ..... CHantller Motor Chen f. Olilo -hl. M-I St P Th II & SI T ,-pr Chic & N'vrct Oil. R I ft P 7 pet .... Chl Ccpper ... Chtrft Copper ' Columbia att Cnirib Pterl , frirlble Steel fir IMaware & Hudson "'ill ft Klo ..i. i. Pome Alines . Krie . V.i e 1st pr . . . Ofn Klecttlc .. ...... 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Kelly is a member of the Philadel phia fcjchuplkill navy comm.ttee which will make a strong bid to bring the annual championships of the National Association oi Amateur Oarsmen and the Olympic trials to th.s city. CRESCENTS TO PLAY AT NEW HAVEN TONIGHT The Crescent basketball team of Taftville will play jts hardest game tonight against the All Stars of New Haven at that place. A New Haven paper says the following about the two teams: Morris Franlcel has secured the ser vices of three of the greatest basket ball artists in the country. Jakey' Ful ler, Dave Wasserner and Chris Harvey make up a trio that can almost beat any combination single handed. These basket-tossers have performed in nearly every large city in the United States. While on their tour across the continent and back during the lat ter part of last year, they' won every game of the 46 contests that they played in. Jakey Fuller is one of the freaks of the court today, he is only five feet four and a half inches in height and is a marvel in dribbling and shooting baskets,, while Wassemer and Harvey stand second to none as floor workers and short and distance shooting. Frankel has one more play er that he will surprise the fans with when they see him perform, a man that is known to every basketball lover of this city, and who will no doubt be the star of the contest. The Crescent Athletic club are with out: a question the greatest quintet in New England. During the past 18 years they have won the champion ship of New England for ten years. The bright star of this team is Denny Murphj-, substitute catcher of the, New i'ork American baseball club, and pos itively play a guard position against Frankel s All Star aggregation. The forwards are taken care of Capt. Belair and White both of whom are i-ery popular with the fans of north ern Connecticut, while the pivot pos ition will be none other than Slim Vickery, one of the fastest centers in these parts, while the other guard will be taken care of by Smith, a player who will make a busy night for any forward he plays against. Bobby Hertz will referee. ' llr ' WITH THE OLD NAME pgl Al lsoda bimjamsjresfaiannfolcluiks ana 'hotels, bi tfie caseatyourgro- DISPUTE BREAKS UP EASTERN CONN. BOWLING LEAGUE The Eastern Conn, bowling league which has been in operation since the first of last November has been bro ken up owing to a dispute arising be tween the Danielson and Moosup teams in the league. The Moosup team protests several of the games that have been rolled at the Danielson alleys, claiming that the alleys which the games were rolled upon were not of regulation length. A meeting of the league was recent ly held at Plainfield and the league voted to disband as no agreement or settlement of the dispute could be reached. Several of the other teams in the league say that they rolled on the short alleys but at the time supposed that they were of regulation length. TOM Attend MERCIM. SCHOOL Special Classen Now Forming Phone 1431 Near Post Office OVERHAULING AND REPAIR WORK OF A-L KINDS Automobiles. Carriages, Wagons, , Trucks and Carts Mechanical Repairs, Painting, Trim. ming, Upholstering and Wood Work. Blacksmithing in all its branches Scott & Clark Corp. 607 TO 615 NORTH WAIN STREET There are, according to reports, two sets of alleys in Danielson, one of reg ulation length and the other five feet shorter. Several of the players on-different teams say that the games were rolled on the short alleys and the vis iting team was always at a disatvan tage. ' There is a possibility that the league may continue by the dropping of one or two teams and continuing with only four teams. JEWETT CITY SWAMPS WILLIMANTIC .QUINTET At the Bijou hall in Jewett City on Thursday evening the Jewett City basketball quintet completely outclass ed the fast team' of Co. B. of Willi mantic and piled up a score of 42 points to their , opponent's 23. The Willimantic boys - played a strong game but the Jewett City boys had no trouble in getting away with the long end of the score. Blake and W. Ben jamin starred for the home team while Cronin was Willimaptic's mainstay. The lineup: Jewett City W. Ben jamin, If; Blake, rf; C. Benjamin, c; J. McLean, If; McLean, rg. Company B. Cronin, If; E. Lewis, rf; A. ewis, c; Tighe, lg; Leonard, rg. Referee, Flynn; Scorer, Olsen; Timer, Wyatt. AT WILLIMANTIC ALLEYS. Overseers of American Thread Co. Higgins .' 117 97 99 313 Aspinwall 85 124 123 332 Jacobs 99 85 79 263 Tollett 97 103 -104 304 R. Higgins 100 111 112 323 498 '520 B17 153ol Officials of American Thread Co. Costello 95 114 87 296 Anderson ...... 86 83 95 264 Hill . 89 119 "85- 293 Graves 76, 82 . 98 256 A. French ...... 110 104 116 330 456 502 483 1441 LEGAL NOTICE DISTRICT OF MONTV1LLE. PRO- bate Court, sa., Town of Montville, Jan. 21, A. D. 1920. Estate of Sally Fowler, late of Mont ville. in said. District, deceased. . . Pursuant to an order from the Court of Probate for the District of Mont ville, I will sell certain real estate of said deceased, situated in said Town of Montville, in the State of Connec ticut, as bounded and described in the application for the order of sale on file in-said. Probate Court, either at public auction or private sale. EDWIN C. FOWLER,. jan23d Administrator. Baltic Wins From J. C. Rovers. Wednesdayi evening in 'the Baltic gym the Jewett City Rovers came to Baltic to play off the tie with the Bantams. The Rovers in the first half played some good basketball and .had the lead on ' the Bantams with the score of 11 to . In the second half the Rovers went to sleep and the Ban tams played all around them and made the score 2 7to-14. Adelard Si mineau was the star of this game. He was put into the game about 10 min utes before the end and as he -only weighs about " a ' hundred ' pounds scored two baskets and ran away from the man that was playing oppo site him.. All the Bantams put up a good game. . Aces Confident of Victory. The Greeneville Cardinals play the Baltic Aces this evening and ,' the Aces expect to win this game and have the, following players; Swanton, Sullivan ,F. Erickson, Ridgeway Ro bitaile, Smidth, Almquist, with a dark horse to fall back on. Manager Tay lor is some live wire. If the boys don't cop the bacon don't blame ' the manager. Daredevils Want Games. - The Daredevil Five of . Taftville would like a basketball game with any team averaging 90 to 110 pounds. All games to be arranged by notify ing Manager A. Roy, Taftville, Conn, P. O. Box 34. . SPORTING NOTES. The question of whether ,or.:. not Dempsey is a true "slacker" will he an interesting one to follow. It lg'- .:ex pected that the problem will come, in for considerable editorial comment in the newspapers: throughout the coun try. . The statement : made by . John's. Smith, chairman of the New Jersey State Boxing -commission, . that - Jack Dempsey will never be allowed to ap pear in any ring fight in New Jersey because he has been branded as a "slacker" by numerous American Le gion posts, has brought forth consid erable comment from New York sports writers. Dempsey has many, friends among the sporting editors and boxing critics and when approached recently on the subject of the champion's, services during the war many editors swung indiscriminately on Jess Willard, Fred Fulton, Jack Britton; Johnny Kilbane and Ted Kid Lewis for not going to war either. Several of them took a crack at Benny Leonard on the ground that the lightweight J.ite holder was in no danger in giving boxing lessons to army novices", which, it was assert ed, was his sole duty in the army. Jack Kearns, Dempsey's manager, recently denied that the champion was a "slacker." Kearns pointed out that during he war Dempsey was classified in the draft, but was not called, which was not his fault. He also comment ed upon the services of Dempsey in the two shipyards, and the various bouts, in which he figured, fought for the benefit of charity. Some of the sport writers think that Dempsey's war record would never have been attacked if Kearns. had kept his mouth shut. Others want the champion ruled out df the ring and all other "pugs" that did not go to war. One sport writer in particular says that the other champions with the ex ception of middlekeight champion Mike O'Dowd did about as much as Dempsey in he war and he points out that Fulton was allowed to box in New Jersey a few nights ago and that the big plasterer did not go to war. Another sport writer says that every time Kearns opens his mouth lie makes a fool out of Dempsey. To some extent this is true but who ' can deny that Kearns isn't handling the champion's .business affairs to a nic ety? John E. Madden, probably the most extensive breeder of race horses in America, will retire as a breeder Jan uary 22, when he will sell at Ham burg Place 100 brood mares and 25 yearlings. Among the mares to be sold are daughters of imported Star Shoot, Rocksand and Hanover, three of the leading strains of producing blood in the country. Others include mares by Ogden, Sir Dixon, Ormon dale, both American and British blood being well represented. Tthe White Sox have abandoned Mineral Wells, Tex., as - a site for their training camp and this ear will return to Waco, in the same state, where the prepared for the champion ship grind of 1913. On their previous KEENKUTTER AXES AND TOOLS OF ALL KINDS SPECIAL LIGHT HANDLE AXE, $1.75 OUSEHOLD BULLETIN BUILDING ' 74 FRANKLIN STREET TELEPHONE 531-4 The H fV GEOfKSE tOANE TUCKE " ProductK ef f THE MIRACLE MAN visits to Waco, the Sox liked the cli mate an dthe playing field, but found fault with the hotel accommodations Which the town' afforded. Since , then a modern hostlery has been erected and the conditions- generally have heen greatly improved. Kid Gleason will assemble his squad of regulars and rookies in Chicago on March . 12 for he departure for the training camp. 1-ncidentaily, Waco is only 26 miles from Marlin, the Giants' old stamping grounds. Oharle White, the Chicago light weight is planning to take a trip to London and Paris. Left Hook Charley is at present out on the Pacific coast, where he will take part in a few more bouts before going abroad. It will ba interesting to see wtoat the English critics wHl think of White and Me : style. Charley is not exactly ,theU idea of what a. boxer should be' H does not dance in and out wifih traighi lefts as the English boxers do, but waits and counters. While English referees may not a'ard him many points, White, still carries a tremen--dous thump in his left mitt, and if he happens to land it on some of Ekig land's best, points will not cut much figure in the result, . ... - Bob Murphy, an outfielder, has beesi purchased from the Washington Am ericans by the Minneapolis America;! Association Baseball club. Public Speakers 1iim1 Mnrked ' Relief Id x L.C. COUGH DROPS Stops throat irrita-' ' tion dryness and stops the , tickle.. You will , enjoy the' pleasing effect of these cough, drops. Eminent physicians pronounce them a perfect remedy for throat Irritations. 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