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WILLS NOR FIRPO A MATCH FOR DEMPSEY
DEMPSEY HAS NO CAUSE
TO CONSIDER FIGHT
WITH EITHER
By DAVIS J. WALSH.
International News Service Sports Editor.
NEW YORK, Sept. 12.—Taking due advantage of the fact that
general attention was diverted elsewhere for no reason, at all a
ntodishly elegent gent with a reconstructed Greek profile and. a
politely bored expression suddenly arose from the ringside seat be
tween the eighth and ninth round at Boyle’s Thirty Acres and tip
toed out into the night.
The gentleman in question was William Harrison Dempsey doing
• walk-out on the twelve round frolic involving Harry Wills and Luis
Angel Firpo, alleged to be his foremost challengers. He had seen
enough.
champion was conservative, at that. The writer, among
others had seen more than enough. It was that kind of a fight, to
M term it for lack of a better name.
As one distressed eye witness ex-‘
pressed the general sentiment, Firpo
couldn’t and Wills wouldn’t. , The
colored man carried eleven of the
twelve rounds, the other being even
and from first to last was the
winner away off by himself, but his
victory left much to be desired and
a dark brown taste in the mouth.
Wills should have finished his
man after scoring a knock down in
the second round with a right to
the jaw but he lacked the necessary
punch. Firpo was ready for the
end at any time thereafter.
It never came largely because
Wills either couldn’t or wouldn’t
slug with the Latin after it was
demonstrated to everyone’s satis
faction that the Senor’s right was
harmless. Only Wills* super cau
tion or super-impotence carried
the affair along to a dreary con
clusion.
At the end, Flrpo’s body was a
cerise mass of welts from Wills’
punching right, applied to the stom
ach and kidneys times without num
ber by the colored man’s usual ex
pedient of holding Firpo with his
left hand and socking with his
right. Luis liked this not at all
and complained bitterly to Referee
Danny Sullivan that Wills was vio
lating the rules but apparently the
so-called brown panther must be
accepted as a foul fighter, if he is
to be accepted at all. He cannot
seem to hit effectively otherwise.
Sullivan cautioned Wills re
peatedly in the late rounds and
this seemed to cramp Harry’s
style no little. Perhaps that was
the reason Wills failed to score a
knockout. Paddy Mullins, his
manager, also homed in with the
alibi that he had broken his
right hand in the fourth round,
a singularly unrolginal idea.
Our guess is that Wills simply
lacked the finishing punch.
The tip off is that neither man
sufficiently interested Dempsey to
keep that gentleman on the prem
ises. Wills, was unimpressive. Firpo
lost. Neither therefore can or will
occasion a serious misgiving on the
part of the champion.
Both, in fact, were made the
target of no inconsiderable abuse
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A disgusted but capable phi
losopher once remarked that
there were two things Omnis
cience did not knpw. One was
whom a woman would marry,
and the other was how a jury
would decide a case.
That lad was right in his gen
eration, but today he would have
added two more: What’s in your
bootleg liquor, and what a base
ball team will do.
from gentlemen of the press this
morning, Firpo being the shining
victim. Some said that he landed
only one telling punch, which was
a gross exaggeration. He landed
two telling punches. The first
came in the seventh round and the
second in the ninth, both being
right handers to the body. They
hurt Wills, no mistake.
let the Bull’s right was a
weakling weapon for the most
part. All the snap -seemed to
have gone out. of It after the
second round knock down, which
by the way was quite within the
code in spite of the claims that
ills hit Firpo on the break. It
was a vicious, lightning fast right
swing, launched out suddenly after
the men had been separated.
Firpo’s head hit the floor as he
went down and few looked for
further activities. But the bull was
clean, straight game. His standing
up before Wills’ body punishment
for the rest of the fight proved
that.
Ever .and anon he shot the famed
right hand for Wills’ head but it
landed all too seldom and even then
It seemed to lack power. It is
probable that the arm was deadened
by Wills’ vice like clutch in the
clinches, the negro using his
superior strength to spike Firpo’s
favorite weapon every time they
got in close.
But why, when he discovered that
Firpo was harmless, he failed to
open up and try for a knockout in
the late rounds, will forever remain
a mystery to the writer. Only by
a knockout could Wills hope to
convince the skeptics. Yet he made
no serious attempt to score one
after the second round.
THE WASHINGTON TIMES • • • The National Daily • • FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1924.
F* LOUIS A.DOUGHER
NOW FOR THE GREAT OPEN SPACES.
PITTSTON, Pa., Sept. 12.-—Bucky Harris and his gang of fighting
Griffmen are headed for the great open spaces where men are
men. Some of the boys are due in Detroit today, going straight
through from Philadelphia. The bulk of the team, though, came here
for the season’s lone exhibition game in the home of the youngest
manager in the big show, Stanley Raymond Harris, not yet twenty
eight years old. It should be a proud and happy day for Bucky.
Here he is, in his fifth year as a big league player and leading what
is rapidly shaping up as the 1924 championship aggregation of the
American League. If his Pittston friends want another peek at
Bucky in action they will have to place their reservations for the
world series. Indeed, they are fortunate in having the Griffs play
here in the midst of their wild rush to the finish Tine.
“We haven’t won this pennant,”'
says President Griffith, old in base
ball. “It will be decided in the
West, possibly inside of a week,
possibly in two weeks. But one
team or the other should know
the fatal news before we leave
Chicago. Until then we must keep
hustling. The pennant goes to
the hustler."
The fighting Griffs hike out of
this man’s town immediately after
today’s exhibition contest, heading
for Detroit, where tomorrow they
open a three-game series. This
coming series with the Jungaleera
will tell the tale so far as Ty
Cobb’s -team is concerned.
The only hope the Jungle Cats
have of remaining in the flag hunt
is to make a clean sweep of thia
three-game series. Winning two
won\ do them much good. They
are too far in the rear. It must
be three or nothing, and Walter
Johnson smiles enigmatically it
the suggestion that he will loss
tomorrow in Detroit.
Real Test on,Way.
THE Griffmen have twice
fought their way into first
place, surviving more than
one vicious assault, but their real
test is ahead. It comes in the
West, in the great open spaces
where men are men.
First come the Jungle Cats,
then the Indians and last, but not
least, those confounded Browns
in St. Louis.
Strange as it may seem, though
the Jungle Cats rate the most
powerful team in the West, the
Griffs fear them the least. They
feel sure of taking two of the
three games booked for Navin
Field on this final swing around
the frontier. The Griffs have
more respect for the Indians and
the Browns.
“We’ve simply got to do some
thing in Cleveland and St. Louis,”
says Bucky Harris, “and I feel
we’re going to. Winning one
game in each city is a disgrace.
We’ve got to better that record.
I don’t know what we will do,
but I can say that we are going
to do our best to win all six
games coming in these two cities,
if only to be revenged for what
we. have already failed to do.” *
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Have Beat Wishes.
THE fighting Griffs closed
their season in Philadelphia
yesterday, taking with them
the best wishes of most of those
talking with them.
Bill Brandt, word-painter on
the Public Ledger, said to this
writer at Shibe Park, “I hope I
have to- go to Washington for the
world series, and I haven’t said
this to anybody else this year,
either. Here in Philadelphia, with
no chance for the pennant, every
body is pulling for you fellow*.
You are taking our best wishes
for the champions away with you.
Stay with ’em and you’ll win.
I’ll see you at the series in Wash
ington.”
Brandt, wrote pleasant pieces
of congratulatory stuff about the
t Griffmen while they were playing
the A’s. He meant every word
of it, too, or this‘writer is mis
taken.
Gordon Mackay, sports editor of
the Philadelphia Inquirer said he
was pulling for the Griffs to win,
promising to come to the series
in the Capital. (
"It’s about time some other club
showed up those Yankees,” said
Mackay, "and it’s Washington’s
turn, anyway.”
Morale Is High.
THE morale of the Griffs on
the eve of their final swing
i around the Western fringe of
the American League circuit is
high. It could not be better.
There is no sign of any mental
strain because of the high rank
of the club in the daily standings.
One and all, the Griffs believe this
is their year and that they will
have to battle some National
League club for the world title
of 1924.
Uncle Nick Altrock and A. Gene
Dearborn Schacht have no little
to do with this lack of strain.
They are the cut-up kids around
the hotel as well as on the field
and the effect Is good for the
team. They are assisted, too, by
Thomas Cyclades Taylor, the sub
stitute third-sacker, whose collec
tion of animal noises is at the
beck and call of gang on the
slightest notice.
Twelve games are facing the
Griffs in the West, three in each
city. Then comes the long ride
back from Chicago to Boston,
where the final four contests of
the campaign are to be played.
Bucky Harris believes that his
team will have cinched their grip
on the pennant by the time the
first game is played in the Hub,
though he declines to put himself
on record about it.
“Can’t do that, you know,” he
says. “Might be the jinx for us,
but I have my own ideas, just
the same,” and he grins with a
faraway look in his eye.
There’s nothing the matter with
the spirit of the Griffs. They’ll
be in there to the bitter end.
TWO LIKELY CANDIDATES
LOST TO PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Sept.
11.—With the arrival today of Bill
Helbig,- substitute halfback last
year, and Fred Schnac.ie yearling
center last fall, the Penn State foot
ball squad is complete except for
two players. They are Kay John
ston, varsity halfback, and Bob
Lukens, former freshman guard.
While no definite word has been
received lately, ;t is sail that John
ston will not return this fall be
cause of poor physical condition
following an attack of blood poison
ing this summer. His loss will be
a severe blow, for he showed a lot
of ability last fall in his first year
on the team. Lukens is expected to
report, a death in his family having
delayed his arrival. He is consid
ered to be a fine line prospect.
Schanche, former Penn Charter
center, is very light, but he is rated
as one of the sci apples) men to
enter Penn State in a long time.
Dundee Gives Reason
Johnny Dundee says he re
linquished the featherweight cham
pionship because he thought making
weight would shorten his fighting
career.
Give Helen An Auto
Friends and admirers of Miss
Helen Wills, the tennis star, have
presented her with an automobile.
LO A N S
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GOLFEfIS 'STURT
WALKER GUP
MATCHES
Americans Rule Favorites to
Gain Trophy From Invading
British—Drawings Given
By ROBERT E. HARLOW.
GARDEN CITY, N, Y„ Sept. 12*—
America is a top-heavy favorite to
win the Walker Cup matches, em
blematic of the international team
championship, when the American
golfers meet Great Britain’s chal
lengers on the course of the Garden
City Golf Club beginning today. The
first matches will be two-ball (four
somes with four pairs on each side.
Singles will be played tomorrow.
This will be the third meeting for
the cup donated by former President
George H. Walker, of the Uplted
States Golf Association. The United
States has won both previous
matches, at Southampton in 1922,
and at St. Andrews last year.
Drawings for today’s matches are
as follows:
Francis Ouimet, of Boston, and
Jesse Gullford, of Boston, vs. Cyril
Tolley, Royal and Ancient, and
Major Charles O. Hexlet, Royal
Port Rush.
Max R. Marston, Philadelphia,
and Bob Gardner, Chicago, vs. E.
F. Storey, Lancaster, and W. A.
Murray, West Hill.
Robert' T. Jones, Atlanta, and W.
C. Fownes, jr., Pittsburgh, vs.
Michael Scott, Royal St. George,
and Robert Scott, jr., Glasgow.
Jess Sweetser, New York, and
Harrison Johnston, St. Paul, vs. T.
A. Torrance, Sandy Lodge, and O.
Q. Bristow, West Byfleet.
The two members of the Ameri
can team left out of today’s games
were Chick Evans, who probably
has won more honors in golf than
any other American golfer, and
Doctor O. F. Willing, of Portland,
Ore., hero of the close match at
St. Andrews last year.
The pairings In the singles
matches tomorrow will bring both
Evans and Willing into action,
however, in the following line-up:
Max Marston Vs. Cyril Tolley,
Bobby Jones vs. Major Hezlet,
Chick Evans vs. Murray, Ouimet
vs. Story, Sweetser vs. Michael
Scott, Gardner vs. W. L. Hope,
Guilford vs. Torrance, and Willing
vs Dennis Kyle.
AMATEIinOLF
TITLE FIELD
GROWS
The field which will participate
in the national amateur golf cham
pionship to be ployed at the Merion
Cricket Club, Philadelphia, the week
of September 20, has grown to 162
players, according to announcement
made by the United State* Golf
Association.
In addition to the original quota,
based on players with handicaps of
four strokes or less, the eligibility
pionship to be played at the Merion
committee of the association has ap
proved the entries of fifty-eight
others who have asked to compete.
Ten other competitors will be the
members of the British Walker Cup
team, headed by Cyril Tolley. Two
other nations will be represented,
Canada sending two players, G. M.
Turpin and J. W. Yuile, of Montreal,
and Edmund L. Koperski, the Pan
ama champion, has forwarded hie
entry. «
In the supplementary list there
are ten players from the metropoli
tan section. They are G. L. Conley,
of Siwanoy, former trans-Mlsslsslppi
champion; Neal Fulkerson, of Balle
clair, and Jack Mackie, jr., of In
wood, two of Long Island’s promis
ing junior golf stars: C. E. Van
Vleck, jr., of Garden City Golf; Ed
ward F. Sturgis, of Winged Foot,
former Westchester county amateur
champion, and his successor, George
I. Lawyer, of Grassy Sprain, runner
up in the recent army championship;
Charles H. Paul and Richard A.
Jones, jr., of Westchester Hills, the
latter holding the metropolitan
junior championship; George E.
Morse, of Garden City Golf; Joseph
G. McMahon, of Sleepy Hollow, for
mer pile star, and Hamilton K.
Kerr, of Greenwich.
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