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Sammy Vick, Outfielder, and Fred
Hof man, Catcher, Sign Contracts With Yankees for 1920
Huggins Has Now Lined
Up 15 of His Ball Tossers
Armando Marsans Will Not Have Another Chance,
Despite Wally Pspp's Urging; Bodie, Vick and
jVleusel Available for Center Field Position
By W. J. Macbeth
Manager Miller Uuggins, of the Yankees, hopes to have all of his
players under contrail by the time the main squad leaves New York for
Jacksonville, Fia., a week from to-day. Something like fifteen athletes
are already under contract to Colonels Ruppert and Huston and there are
no seriou? differences as to salary between the owners and any of the
others.
Two additional signatures were an--?
nounccd by Huggins immediately on
his arrival from Cincinnati yesterday.
The signed 1920 documents of out?
fielder Sammy Vick and catcher Fred
Hofman awaited Miller here. Vick
is familiar to Polo Grounds patrons, an
he played pretty regularly last year.
At times he gave promise of real great?
ness; at others he sloughed off badly.
But he has only been playing profes?
sionally tor threu years and is still
young-. Me may arrive '.ict'ore the enct
of another season. Hofman comes
?-orn St. Paul. His sponsor, Mike Kel
Tey, declares him rt?ady for fast com?
pany and a sure-fire star with a little
more experience.
Satisfied With Outfield
Evidently Huggins is satisfied with
his outfield prospects as they are, for
he announced yesterday that he was
prepared to stand pat with the material
at hand. He is going to have nothing
to do with Armando Marsan?. Wally
Pipj came back from Cuba with the
report that Marsan.?, who is on the
reserve, list but in had standing, wan
anxious to rejoin tie Yankees, and that
he appeared to Wally as valuable an
asset as he hud been at the heyday of
his career. But Huggins says he la
through with the Cuban, who took
French leave of the club in 1918 for
all time, and Chat he will not send .him
a contract.
Huggins will await eventualities In
Jacksonville before determining his
line-up for 1920. Duffy Lewis and
"Babe Ruth will hold down the wing
positions of the outfield. Ping Bodle,
Vick and Bobby Meusel are available
?Cor centerfield patrolling, and so is
Wilson Fewster if Frank Baker should
return or "Red" Smith take on a new
lease of li'e, as he is in,the habit o?'
doing for one year after a transfer.
Huggins has decided that Al Wick
land is not worth trifling with fur?
ther. He thought so much of Wick
land last year that he kept him in
preference to Elmer Miller, the much
sought St. Paul outfielder, and Bill
Lamar, who starred for the lied Sox.
may to experiment with a lot of un?
knowns.
Huggins will employ his time from
now until the team goes South in
rounding up the unsigned players. He
is lik>iy to make a tour through the
immediate territory of the East, as
most of the veterans reside not far
from New York.
No Word From Ruth
Huggins has heard nothirg from j
"Babe" Ruth since his interview in
California she tly after the slugger
was purchased from the Red Sox. A
story came out of Boston to the effect
that Kuth would not ?accompany the
team from New York to Florida unless
Frazee gave him S15.000 of the pur-1
chase money. Huggins disregards this!
tale. He claims to have come to a
definite understanding- with Ruth and i
has every faith in the assurances of!
the player that he would give his best
services to the Yankees.
President John A. Heydler, of the
National League, will carry a staff of
ten umpires ?he coming season. Ernest
Quigley and Charles ??i?ler, two of his
veterans whose services were in doubt,
have both notified Heydler that they
would be on hand for duty. Quigley
may not be readly to start the season,
as he is in the automobile business
and has to arrange certain plans for
the summer before he can don mask
and windpad.
Bill Byron, the master plumber of
Detroit, has retired. Arraii.st the pos?
sible loss of three veterans Mr. Heyd?
ler recruited three new arbiters?Bob
Hart, Lew Fyfe and Charles Moran.1
Hank O'Day, Bob Emslie, lull Klem.l
Pete Harrison and Barry McCormickl
are holdovers, of course.
According to a letter from August |
Herrmann, retired chairman of the Na?
tional Commission, to John Heydler,
the check of more than $13,000, which
?presented the Yankees' third-place
share in the last world's series money,
was mailed from Cincinnati last Mon?
day. The missive had not reached the
Yankee offices at the time the force
knocked off yesterday afternoon,
Colgate Hands Crescent
Five Its Second Defeat
The Crescent Athletic Club basket?
ball team suffered its second defeat in
twenty-three games this season^by los?
ing to Colgate University on the
former's Brooklyn court last night.
The score was 2(5 to 19. Cottrell and
Linnehan were the stars. At half time
Colgate led by 10 to 7. Syracuse was
the other live to down Crescent this
season.
The line-up:
Colgate (26) Pom Crescent (19)
?">. ?'. Anderson .r.. F. Ntcktas
N. O. Anderson _It. p. Stannard
''?'?'?'?'?I .Conter. McTlgue
? teffer* .I.. O. Stewart
Linnehan .n. ?i. Hutler
Sub.itItutes?Dayton for Stannard, Parni
lee for McTlgue, Coals from :'. Id?Colgate
? X. i?. Anderson, 3; Cottrell, ?: Steffen
-; l.lniu'liati. ,i, Crescent, Mel-Ian. 2; Stan,
nnrd l: Stewart, 3; Dayton, 2. Goals
from foul?N. U. Aml?ir??w, 4: i'armlee 2
Stewart, 1.
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Wesleyan Five Beats
Amherst by 48 to 19
MIDDLETOWN, Conn.. Feb. 20.?
\\esleyan wan 48 to 19 from her old
rival Amherst, to-night. A crowd of
\\esleyan ulumni were hero to attend
the week-end Washington Birthday
festivities and the home team played
better than it has this season. Tom
linson. Travis. Hartman and Richards
starred for Wesleyan and Kennedy,
Elliot and Lames for Amherst.
Rico Wins With Cue
Julian Rice scored an impressive vic?
tory over J. R. Beardsley, 200 to 0-9, in
a game of the Class B 18.2 balkline
billiard championship tourney at the
Brooklyn Billiard Academy last night.
Rico completed his string with an aver?
age of 12 8-16, and had high runs of
<jy. 31 and 81. In another came Beards
ley lost to c. P. Matthews, '.'00 to 128.
O'Guttv Brothers Win
WHITEHALL. N. Y., Feb. 20. -Packey
O'Gatty, the New York lightweight,
knocked out Willie Green in the fifth
round at a local club to-night.
GLENS FALLS, N. Y.,* Feb. 20.?
Jimmy O'Gatty, the New Ybrk bantam,
.-topped Young McFarland in the sixth
lound of their scheduled ten-round
hint at the Glen? Falls A. C. here this
evening.
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Daisy in Front
Of Challenger
By 18 Seconds
RED BANK, N. J., Fet>. 20?In one :
'? of the closest ire yacht races ever j
sailed on the North Shrewsbury, :
George W. Bray's Daisy, ably handled ;
? by Reuben White, with Henry Apple
gate tending sheet, to-day finished
eighteen seconds ahead of James
O'Brien's Jack Frost. While it was a .
I twenty-mile event for the third class
I championship pennant of America,
' about forty miles were covered.
| The sticky ice and moderate north- I
! west wind made the skippers "bat
full" and tack on and off the wind, and
the yachts were unable to finish the |
race in the time limit of one hour
and fifteen minutes.
Not once during the race wore the
two yachts moro than twelve seconds
apart. Jack Frost led the Daisy by
six seconds in the first of the eight
i laps, while the Daisy gained the lead
i in the second and retained it until the
i rixth circuit, when by favorable
? slants of wind Jack Frost, well sailed
I by William Buxton, with William
! Duryea, at the sheet, regained the ad
Svantage.
? Just before the expiration of the
; time limit, Skipper White, by out
: jockeying Buxton, took the lead in the
: eighth round near the Guyon Point
stake, blanketed the Jack Frost near
! the home stretch and won in an ex
| citing finish. Thomas Irving Brown's
i Say When and Elisha Price's Imp
i were left far behind.
The Daisy and Say When are sail
? ing as defenders and the Jack Frost
| and Imp as the challengers. Another
race will be held to-morro ?At?
Mrs. Feitncr Reaches
Palm Beach Final
PALM BEACH, Fla., Feb. 20.?Mrs.
Quentin F. Feitner, South Shore, tie
feated Mrs. Ernest Byfield, Ravisloe, in !
the semi-finals of the women's golf :
tourney for the Florida title this after- ;
noon and to-morrow will meet Miss
Elaine Roscnthal, Ravisloe, in the
championship match. All three are
former title holders.
Mrs. Feitner started poorly by los?
ing the first three straight, each in
| one over bogey, and was still three
down at the turn. She squared the
! match on the thirteenth and won the
! fourteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth.
Mrs. Feitner sunk a putt from off the ;
green on the tenth and sunk 12-foot ;
put-s on the fifteenth and seventeenth, j
the latter after Mrs. Byfield had hbled !
out from near the edge.
In the upper half of the bracket
Miss Lois Stumer, Ravisloe, ft-!', an j
easy victim to Miss Rosenthal, 5 and 4. ?
Fair Greenwich Golfer
On Winning Combniation ;
PINEHURST, N. C, Feb. 20.?The j
Silyer Foils four-ball medal play over j
the No. 1 course to-day was won by j
Mrs. J. D. Chapman, Greenwich, paired !
with Mrs. J. D. Armstrong, Buffalo,
with 91 for best ball. Each played
from scratch.
Mrs. L. F. F. Warner, Hempstead,
L. I., teamed with Miss Carolyn Bo?
gart, Moore County, tied at 94 with
Mrs. M. W. Marr, Dorchester, paired
with Mrs. F. S. Danforth, Northfork,
and Mrs. H. H. Rackam, Detroit, teamed |
with Miss W. V. Callen, Summit.
Ruth Smith Outswims
Twin Sister for Title
CLEVELAND, Feb. 20.?Ruth Smith,
of the Morningside Athletic Club, New!
York, won the national junior 100-yard
swimming championship for women*at
the Cleveland Athletic Club to-night in
. the fast time of 1 minute 10 Beconds.
Her twin sister, Eleanor Smith, of the i
same club, was second, and Margaret
Woodbridge, of the Detroit Athletic
Clrb, third.
'There were seven starters. The
eient was held under the auspices of j
the American Athletic Union.
Penn Defeats C. C. N. Y.
In Tanlt Races and Polo
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 20.?Penn's
swimming team ovenvhelmed the City
College of New York mermen for the
second timo this season in the return
match at Weightman Hall pool to?
night. The final score was Penn, 44;
C. C. N. Y., 9. In the water polo
malch Penn was also a victor, 41 to 11.
Not one first place was captured by
\ the New Yorkers and exclusive of the
relay only two seconds were won by
the visiting swimmers.
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Condon Wins Ski Title;
Dartmouth Man Second
MONTREAL, Feb. '20?E. C. Condon,
of the Cliffside Ski Club, Ottawa, won;
the five-mile international intccol
legiate ski championship on the Mount
Royal course here to-day. Bowler, of
Dartmouth University, was second, and
Glenn, of McGill University, third.
Thirty-one contestants from Middle
bury College, Middlebury, Vt., the Uni- I
versity of Vermont, Dartmouth and
McGill universities and Ottawa Col?
legiate Institute competed.
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High School Meet To-night
Practically all the high and pre?
paratory schools of this city will com?
pete in the annual indoor games of
Dickinson High Schools, which take
place in the 4th Regiment ArnArv,
Jersey City, this afternoon.
Pratt Five Wins j
Pratt Institute defeated the Massa- j
ehusetts Institute Aggies at basketball
on the former's court, Brooklyn, last j
i ight, by a score of 13 to 5. Roth, of
Pratt, accounted for 7 points.
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$15,000 for Harness Races
TOLEDO, Feb. 20.?Several early
closing events aggregating in money
value upward of $15,000 make up the
first Grand Circuit racing program of
the Toledo Driving Club for the week I
of July 12 made public to-day.
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That Guiltiest Feeling
By BRIGGS
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Topping Will Play
Augustus To-day
For Golf Trophy
special Dispatch to Tlir Tribune
BELLEAIR HEIGHTS, Fla., Feb. 20.
? Henry J. Topping, of Greenwich, will
meet Ellsworth Augustus, of Cleveland)
in the final for the chief trophy of the
annual Washington's Birthday tourna?
ment lier?*: to-morrow. Topping, play?
ing again at ever, pace close to par,
eliminated F, W. whitmore, of Hart?
ford, by 4 to 3. Augustus had
a runaway match with W. A. Stickney,
of St, Louis, and won by t"> to 5.
Topping and Augustus will pla- thirty
six holes to-morrow in W*aa" should bu
the best match of the tournament. The
odds are about even money, with many
bees being made. ,
in the second flight, F. N. Beach, of
Saginaw, defeated H. Stacy Smith, of
Deal, by 2 and 1. " Tom Morrison,
of Oakmont, defeated C. D. Wads worth,
of Boston, by 4 and, 3.
The third flight resulted in a vic?
tory for D. N. Tallman, of Minneapolis,
over C. L. Fnrrell, of New Vork, by 1
up, and R. I, Quigley, of Williamsport,
defeated Fred Gardner, of Chicago, on
the twenty-third hole.
Poly Prep Swimmers
Triumph Over Manual
Poly Prep, Scnool easily defeated
Manual Training High School in a dual
swimming meet in the former's Brook?
lyn tank yesterday, 29% to 23 Ms points.
With victory safely tucked uway, Poly
did not enter its best performers in j
the 220-yufd swim, the linal event, in'
which Manual took first and second
places. |
Paul Genthner, the Poly star, cap?
tured the 50-yard swim in 25 2-5 sec?
onds, which bettered by one-fifth sec?
ond his effort in winning the Eastern!
interscholastic championship recently.;
Army and Navy Fives
Clash This Afternoon
WEST POINT, N. Y., Feb. 20.-?Inter- :
est in army and navy sport circles'
will be centered in the basketball con- ;
test between the Annapolis middies
and the West Point cadets, which is
scheduled to take place here to-mor?
row afternoon. The Army team this
year rates with the best ever turned
out here. Such high class quintets as
New York University, Springfield, Le
high, St. Lawrence and Onion have all
felt the sting of defeat at the hands
of the Army men.
Rowland Aided to Skating
Victory by Big Handicap
James Rowland, of the Brooklyn
I Skating Club, aided by an allowance
| of 110 yards, won the one-mile handi
1 cap race which featured the ice car
! nival held by the New York Athletic
Club at Notlek Rink last night. Ken?
neth Boyd, Notlek Rink (.75 yards'), was
second. Sam Hardie, Riverside Skat?
ing Club, defeated the Becker brothers,
William and Robert, in the half-mile.
Yale Gvmnasts Beaten
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 20.?Hav
erford to-night defeated Yale in the
first gymnastic meet held here in three
years, 30 to 24. Yale won all the
points in the horizontal bar competi?
tion, and first in the flying ring event,
but Ilaverford captured first place in
the four other events.
Big Night for Basketball
Every team in the Intercollegiate
Basketball League will be in action to?
night, when three games are scheduled.
Columbia and Dartmouth will meet for
the first time this year at Hanover,
while Perm and Cornell are clashing at
Philadelphia and Yale and Princeton
at Princeton.
Ainsmilh First in Camp
MACON, Ga., Feb. 20,?Eddie Ain- !
smith, catcher on the Detroit American
League team, was the first arrival in j
the Tigers' training camp again this !
year. Manager Hughie Jennings and ;
Pitching Instructor Jack Combs are I
expected early next week.
Swim Meet To-night
Handicapped by the enforced absence
of Ed Binney and Loren Thurston, who
were declared ineligible on Thursday
because of failure in studies, the Yale
champion swimmers will meet Colum?
bia to-night in the Morningside Heights
pool.
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(Copyright, 1920, New York Tribune Inc.)
Discussion is still rampant in select boxing circles as to whether or
'not Jack Dempsey lias ever proved his greatness as a defensive fighter
since he came to fame.
No one can question Dempsey's speed, power and general effectiveness
in attack. Those who carry any doubt along - is line might obtain some
intimate information from Carl Morris, BatUuvg Levinsky, Fred Fulton
! or Jess Willard.
The above statement will very likely be fully confirmed. Dempsey in
attack has amazing speed and prodigious hitting power, two of the main
ingredients that accompany the old K. O.
He strikes as the tiger strikes?with swiftness and crushing force.
His defensive qualities will be a big factor in his Carpentier engage?
ment, provided they ever meet.
If Dempsey is only ordinary upon defense, Carpentier, who can also
hit with speed and punishing power, will have quite a chance?not an even
chance, but a sporting one.
But if Dempsey is a skilled defensive boxer the Frenchman will soon
be borne down by superior weight and power.
Seeking Proof
Who can say just how skillful the champion is in a defensive way?
He is a good bit like a football team that has crushed all opponents by
keeping possession of the ball, a method that led one great coach to say: j
"A strong offense is the best defense there is."
In his last important engagements he knocked out Carl Morris in less |
than a round.
He stopped Fred Fulton in eighteen seconds.
He stopped Levinsky inside of three rounds.
He paralyzed Willard in less than a minute.
Dempsey's attack in all these episodes was so terrific that he had no j
occasion to prove his defense?
It was Jack McAuliffe's contention before Dempsey fought Willard !
that the former had no particular defense, but that with his speed in ?
attack he wouldn't need this element against the slow moving Kansan.
McAuliffe called the turn.
The Mbsing Kink
If Dempsey had staved off rushes by Fulton or Willard for several
rounds and then had produced the winning wallop, something could have
been told about his defensive ability.
But Fulton pawed at him only once before the lead pipe lit upon his
clammy brow.
He had no occasion to test any defense against Willard, as that
worthy was content to lumber slowly after him around the ring without
attempting a rush or a serious attack.
Ever and anon he would paw at Dempsey, but the latter landed on
? his jawbone before these pawing tactics assumed serious proportions.
j That one punch of Dempsey's concluded the budding Willard offensive.
i From that second he turned from a champion into a punching bag.
The speed and power of Dempsey's attack has prevented him from
showing what he could do under heavy fire when the other fellow was
swinging away at. his jaw and abdomen through several rounds.
It is true enough that the clever Levinsky had two or three rounds to
i test out Dempsey's defense, but Levinsky admits that he had so much
| respect for the champion's punch that he used up precious little of this
I time at close quarters or at any attempt to rap his rival on the frontispiece.
.So it is difficult to go back to any one of these major engagements
! ?nd find therein any decisive proof that the champion can block or fore
! stalle fast, clever, offensive.
Carpenfcier's Best Chance
If it should so happen that Dempsey is only an ordinary defensive
| boxer, Carpentier will have at least this one chance.
The Frenchman can hit and hit with speed. Now, if the champion
Is only an average blocker it is easily possible that the fast hitting Fren'ch
j man may insert one or two decisive punches before Dempsey breaks
through his guard. And one or two decisive punches applied to highly
I vulnerable sectors, are frequently sufficient to slow any man up or daze
| him so badly that his effectiveness begins to wane with astonishing
i rapidity.
As applied by Dempsey they would break up the contest in about
thirty-eight seconds. But if Carpentier is a cleverer all around boxer he
may easily get in the first important blows.
If these blows are not effective the. combat won't last very many more
minutes.
As to how effective they will he one could get a much better line upon
the situation if Carpentier would take on one more rugged customer
before shooting at th< main target left.
Kerr Finally Signs
CHICAGO, Feb. 20.?Richard Kerr,
pitcher for the Chicago American
League Baseball Club, has signed a 1920
contract, according to a telegram re?
ceived to-day by Charles Comiskey,
owner of the White Sox. Kerr is at
Paris, Tex.
Heai-ne Back With Braves
! BOSTON. Feb. 20.-Pitcher "Bunny" ;
I Hearne, a left hander who left the Bo?
I SSi, ? ? 105als two -vear3 aS?' will be
with the Braves this season, according
to an announcement to-night. He was
! ff?b?? r reporc March - afc the Co
L nimbus, Ca., training camp. |
McGowan Defeats
Moore for Title
In Skating Races
LAKE PLACID, N. Y., Feb. 20.?
Victory in the three-mile senior final
this afternoon won for Everett Mc
Gowan, St. Paul's skating sensation,
the internationa4 ice championship.
The Western youth finished with a
total of 1?0 points. Joe Moore, wear?
ing Lake Placid colors, was his nearest
rival, with 100. Edmund Horton, of
Saranac Lake, was third with a total
of 70.
Citarles Jcwtraw, of Lake Placid,
Eastern amateur champion, whoso show?
ing for the week was a dist.net disap?
pointment to his support rs finished
with 00 points. In th;' three-mile race
which decided the title, Moore fol?
lowed McGowan across th? line. Jew
traw was third.
Mis3 Rose Johnson, Chicago, won the
first women's international title. .She
scored 110 points. Esmeralda Dun'ap,
also of Chicngo, was her closest oppo?
nent, with TO points, and the other
feminine entrants were far in the roar,
none scoring more than a total of HO.
Miss Johnson clinched the title by win?
ning the half mile for women to-day.
The summaries:
220-yard championship ? Won by Jo?!
Moore, Lake Placid; Ed Horton, Saranac
Lake, second; Charles Jawtraw, Lako
Placid, third. Time, ? :20.
Three-mile Kontor- Won by Everett Mc?
Gowan. St. Paul; Joe Moor?', Lake Pia i.t,
second; Charles Jewtraw, Lake Placid,
third. Tim?;, 0:17 --5.
One-half mile (fot women) ?? AVon by
Rose Johnson, Chicago; Bsmoralda Dun
lap, Chicago, second; Charlotte Carey, Lako
Placid, third. Time, 1:50.
4-10 yards (for boys ten years ol<l)?Won
by James Shea jr., Lake Placid; John Sh??a
2d, Lake Placid, second; Hugh Farrell,
Lake Placid, third. Time,, 0:62 1-5.
One-half mile (for boy? fourteen years
old)?Won by Eddie O'Brien, Pittsburgh;
John Darragh, Lake Placid, second; Har?
old Fortune, Lake Placid, third. Time,
i :30 ?;-;>.
One mile (for boys sixteen years)?Won
by George Thomson, Chicago; Martin
Brewster, Luke Placid, second; Moins
Baker, Chicago, third. Time, 3:15.
220-yard hurdles?Won by Edmund Hor?
ton, Saranac Lake; G. Pickering, Verona
Lake, N, J., second; Bobbie II earn, New
York, third. Time, 0:24Vs seconds,
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Defer Dempsey Hearing
The Army, Navy and Civilian Board
of Boxing Control hns postponed the
hearing on the case of Jack Dempsey,
the heavyweight champion, pending the
arrival of further evidence from Cali?
fornia. The hearing was to have start?
ed last night. It is not likely that
any action will be taken in the near
future, as a Federal gitind jury in San
Francisco is now investigating allega?
tions made by Dempsey's divorced
wife.
Stecher Downs
Little Londos
In Two Hours
Wrestling Champion Scores
Victory in 2:13:35 With
a Simple Wrist Lock
By W. O. McGeehan
Joe Stecher, champion wrestler of
the world, threw Jim Londos, champion
: of Greece, at the 71st Regiment Armory
' last night after 2 hours 13 minutes
' and 35 seconds of rough and hard
: wrestling. The Greek, who has a go
\ rilla build, gave Stecher the hardest
battle he has had in his career. The
struggle ended with Stecher'? nose
bleeding from the bumping it had re?
ceived. ' The Greek was pinned to the
mat by a single wristlock.
Three times Londos was in the coils
of the scissors hold, and three times
he broke it by main force. The long
struggle told on him, and when Stecher
got. the final wristlock the Greek, after
bridging vainly twice, was crushed
under Stecher'? weight.
About 8,000 persons saw the bout,
7,000 of whom seemed to be Greeks,
judging from the shouts that rose,
when the ('reek champion secur#d an
advantage over the champion of the
world. Once it "looked very bright for
Greece. About 4,000 were turned away
\ when the Fire Department ordered the
gates closed.
Stecher had the pudgy Greek on
the floor after seven minutes, but Lon?
dos, lifting himself from a scjuatting
j position, hurled Stecher aside. The
' Greeks in tno gallery cheered. The
gents from the ?ami where burning
Sappho used to warbie became noisy
; again when Londos almost got a toe
j hold.
Greek Becomes Rough
The Greek had Stecher on the mat
, for a few seconds, but the champion
I wriggled free. A little later Stecher
? was tossed again and the classic Greek
cheer of "Attaboy" once more re
! rounded through the arena. The Greek
! then annoyed Stecher with a rough
j head hoid.
The industrious Greek again tossed
; Stecher by use of the intricate "grape
I vine" ho}d. Then he bounced the
? American against tiie floor by applying
? plenty of leverage to a leg hoid.
Steelier continued to tumble when the
'? Creek floored him with a crotch ho d.
Once more the "farmer boy" sat down
abruptly as the Greek yanked him by
both knees.
Stecher had the Greek on the mat
foi a lev/ seconds as both furtively telt
for a toe hold, but the Greek wriggled
out. The bout was halted here when
\ Joe Humphries tried to introduce
Stanislaus Zbyszko, but the crowd re?
sented the innovation and became sc
noisy that the introduction was in?
definitely postponed.
Stecher then f.oored the Greek for a
\ brief session, but Londos avoi :<**i beine
? gripped by the scissor:*. The America!
! then forced the Greek down with ar
armlock. Escaping from another am*
1 hold, the Greek threw Stecher over his
head. The bout got faster here.
Londos on Offensive
Again on the floor the Greek eurlec
! up like a little hedgehog to avoid the
clamp of the scissors. Just when il
seemed that he was trapped the Gree!
heaved upward and broke the holii
The Greek then held a head lock foi
twenty seconds. There was plenty ol
action at this stage.
Stecher got a head hold on the Gr?nl?
and held it for a minute and forty-tiv;
seconds, until it seemed that th
Greek's shoulders would flatten against
the mat. Just as it was about all ovei
Londos wrenched himself free.
Londos nad Stecher on the mat feel
: ing for holds till Stecher, who seemec
1 a bit bored, hurled !*im a.'-id**'. Tin
< Greek berr?n to ,-#iow signs of peevish
ness :it the easy fashion in wl??cl
Stecher evaded the holds. Londos mad?
a flying leap and seized' a head hob
which Steelier broke easily, causing tin
Greek to shake his head in discourage
ment.
Staves Off Defeat
The Greek again doubi'.d up anc
escaped the scissors hold just as h?
I seemed trapped. Again the hold seemet
I to have and again he wi-iggied free
Then the scissors clamped on th?
j Greek's chest, and a death battle began
i Like a little goriila in the coils of ?
' python the stocky Greek gasped anc
, fought. The coils hold for five mir.
I utes, until it seemed that all of th<
i ("reek's ribs would be crushed. Thei
: the coils slipped upward, and the gasp
j ing Greek sprang free.
For a tense moment or two, near th<
two-hour mark, it looked as thougl
there might be a Greek champion. Lon
dos got a head scissors hoid and ha?
, Stecher on the defensive. The Ameri
? can finally wrenched free and got th?
; scissors and .wrist lock hold that fin
ished Caddock. For nearly seven min
utes the coiis held again, but th?
stocky Greek fought his way free again
only to succumb a few minutes later.'
< In a preiimary Salvatore Chevalier
champion of France, threw Jack Daw
son with a half nelson and armlock ii
:{ minutes and 30 secom* . Sailor Wil
lard won from Young Muldoon on i
foul. Muldoon was irrussy. Demjmu
? Tofalbs threw Otto Samson with a fly
ing mare.
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Meagher Creates
A World's Record
In Distance Plunge
From a Special Correspondent
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 20.?Rich?
ard H. Metgher, of Chicago, twice to?
night created a new intercollegiate rec?
ord for the 75-foot distance piimee. On
both his first and second attempts ha
covered the 75 feet in 40 secor.ds flat,
again breaking his own intercollegiate
' record und also loweriig the world's
: record and also lowering the wov'.d'i
timers were L. E. Manly, Captain
Hoyle and J. Curran.
Meagher's record was made as a par;
? of the competition In 'he distunes
* plunge event in the Yale-Princeton dual
swimming meti*. which warn won by
Yule. 41 to 12.
The summary:
50-yard swim?Won by Solley, Tal?;
Johnson, Pi In????ton. second; Tyler, Yale,
' third. Time 0:24 4-'..
Fancy dlv??Won t':- M Meenan, Yale,
99 points; Gray, Princeton, 55, second.
Driscoll. Princeton, hi, third.
; 220-yard swim- W? n b * '" wnMnd, Tale;
Pratt. Tale, second; McDonald, Tali,
third. Time, 2::;', 1-5.
Plunge for distance?Won by 5!?a?h<*r,
Tale, 75 feet In 10 se : ids; ",' ... ?. Val?-.
;*. * .p. in .-.--. ??_.?;, seconds, second; Driscoll,
Princ? ton, 66 feet, third.
10( yards?-Won by ilincks Tale; Schaf,
fer Tal . second; Schriner. Pri it **.
third. Time, 0:58 3-5.
Team relay?Won by Tale (Mllroy, Coolj
Solley and Hincks). Time, : Hi-i
Vale's water polo team defeated
Princeton 7 to 3 to-night, both teams
scoring all their points in the second
half.
The summary:
Tale (7) Positions Princeton (!)
Bailey.Center. Bottine
Vorys.Forward.Bu?chn?f
Day.Forward. S< liaefftn
? lal.Bat l?.l'hlMp?
Frt nch.Back. Schattg
Adams. .Goal.Crano
Scon ?Yale 7. Prln eton . 'I uch eo?'.b
-?Vorys. Thrown goal ? Dotting ?'Oils
from foul- French 2- Umpire L E. Maa
ley, N. V. A. C. Halves- Eight mlnutjs.
Canadians Win at Hockey
CLEVELAND, Feb. 20. The Aura
Lees, of Canada, defeated the Clsve
land hockey team, J to i. here toi
night.
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