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THE KENNA RECORD
YOUNG FITZSIMMONS NO FIGHTER
Bob Fltzslmmons, Jr., will never fill the boots of his distinguished dnddy
as a boxer. Lftorts of a few nioney-snotehing managers to put Hob, Jr., forth
as championship hope within the Inst
few years hnve ended In dlsmnl fall
ure. The lnd's Inst "coming out" af
fair wns pulled off down In Newark,
N. J., after the boy wns discharged
froiD the army, lie made a fair show
ing with his opponent that was all
While stationed at Camp Dix, New
Jersey, young Fltz boxed with the sol
dlers and appeared In exhibitions
there'; so when he wns released from
service more than one manager be
lieved he could be turned Into a fight
er of the stripe that made his father
famous.
To ,ihose who knew Bob In his
boyhood days when he resided at
Dunellen, N. J., the turn of events
was no surprise. Young Bob was a
modest chap and detested the word
"prizefighter." lie loved to roam
about the fields, Ann In old Stony
brook, catch butterflies and kill snnkes,
and play the games with the village
boys. All this was only a dozen of
years ago when old Bob's fame wns
slipping away from him.
Fight wns not In young Bob,
Even the little scraps, thnt nre common
among boys, Bob, Jr., was never mixed
up in them. The nearest to a scrap he got Into wns in a footbnll game, when
he played on the Dunellen boys' eleven against an eleven of a neighboring vil
lage. When the Dunellen team emerged from the first hnlf by a good lead
It became breezed among the players on the rival team that the "big feller"
who played center was "young Bob Fltzslmmons" and that he was going to
"clean up" In the finnl hnlf (there were only two periods in a game In those
days). Thnt wns sufficient to scare Dunellen's rivals, and they refused to go
nwhen the whistle blew for the second hnlf.
Young Bob was also a Sunday school boy. He bowled and played ball
on the Sunday school teams. In his studies In the day school he was no
wizard, but he held his own. He didn't love school any more than the ordi
nary boy. lie liked to be with the crowd and despite the popularity of his
father he wns one of the most modest chnps in the vlllnge.
So, young Bob wns never cut out for a fighter. He did not like the gnme.
He disliked it. It wasn't born Into him. Thnt's why Bob Fltzslmmons did
not emulate his famous father.
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HELPS FORWARD PASS
Colonel Michael J. Lynch,
former Brown university base
ball star, who received a tryout
with the Giants In 1907, is be
ing credited as being responsible
for the dendly accuracy of Gus
Oden, Brown quarterback, In
throwing the forwnrd pnss.
Lynch is working on the theory
thnt a footbnll can be passed
with all the accuracy of a base
ball with proper training and
he has been coaching Oden In
throwing the ball. The coach
ing of Lynch is benrlng fruit
and Oden Is now regarded as
one of the best passers in football.
INTERESTING
SPOPT
PARAGRAPHS
University of Illinois Is planning to
build a stadium seating 60,000.
Mllllken university has accepted an
Invitation to piny Center college next
year.
Harvard and West Point may meet
in a footbull game at the Polo grounds
next year.
Sylvester T. Fltzpntrlck was re
elected cnptaln of the Fordham eleven
for next season.
An effort Is being made to revive the
old Arkansas league, with cities In
Louisiana added.
Mnx Houser, former stnr hnlfbnck
of the Lnfayette college team, will en
roll at Georgia Tech.
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Several eastern football conches are
expected to lose their positions be
cause of poor seasons.
nermnn Bronkle has been signed to
manage the Mobile Southern Associa
tion club. He wns formerly with St.
Louis and Cleveland.
Francis K. Scovil, tackle on the Co
lumbia 'vnrslty elevens of the last
two seasons, hns been elected captain
of the team for 1021.
Ynle footbnll ofllelnls deny thnt any
action hnd been taken relative to drop,
ping Boston college from Yale's foot
ball schedule next year.
Billy Mlske, who succumbed to Jack
Dempsey at Benton Harbor In three
rounds the Fourth of July, has begun
training to re-enter the ring.
Bon McLood, veteran curler of Du
luth, Minn., will accompany the Cana
dian curling team to Scotland this
f Inter for a series of games.
BEST AGE OF HEAVYWEIGHTS
Fighters Begin to Go Back at 27 or 28
and Roll Off on Passing 30,
Says the Dope.
They say Jack Dempsey Is better
now than he will be a year hence.
Heavyweights are said to be at their
best at the age of twenty-six. They
start going back at twenty-seven or
twenty-eight and roll off on passing
thirty. A list of champions of the
past proves this. The list follows:
John L. Sullivan at the age of thirty-four
was knocked out by Jim Cor
bett. Jim Corbett was thirty-seven when
he was knocked out by Fltzslmmons.
Fltzslmmons was thirty-seven when
he kissed the canvas at Coney Island
and Jim Jeffries was made champion.
Jim Jeffries was thirty-five when
Jnck Johnson put the skids under hlra
at Iteno.
Jack Johnson was thirty-seven when
ho played the dying glndintor to Jess
Wlllnrd at Havana, Cuba.
Wlllard claims that he was thirty
two years of age when Dempsey
dropped him at Toledo.
Thirty seems to be the dangerous
age.
MORNINGSTAR MAKES RECORD
Californlan Sets New High Mark for
18.2 Balk Line Billiards In
Tournament Play.
Ora Mornlngstar of San Diego, Cal.,
made a new world's record for. high
game In tournament play during the
final day's play of the nntlonal 18.2
balk Hue billiard nrnament at Saq
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Ora Mornlngstar.
Francisco when he made a run of 272,
beating the previous mark of 205 made
by Welker Cochran In New York last
year.
KOLEHMAINENISTO
RETURN TO FINLAND
Noted Distance Runner to Spend
Winter Here.
Winner of Premier Prize In Marathon
Race at Olympic Games Plane to
Take Charge of Big Athletlo
Program.
Ilnnnes Kolchmalncn, Finland's vet
eran distance runner, who captured
the premier prize In the marathon race
nt the last Olympic games, has nr
rlver in this country for a visit be
fore returning to his native land
where he plans to make his permanent
residence.
The Antwerp marathon winner ex
pects to remain in this country until
next April, when he will return to
Finland. Kolehmalnen did not dis
close his plan of action, but it Is un
derstood he is considering a proposi
tion to assume charge of an extensive
athletic program which the Finnish
authorities contemplate for the pur
pose of stimulating interest in differ
ent sports there.
Kolehmnlnen does not intend to do
any Indoor running on his present vis
it The veteran dlstancer plans to
stick to his trade and forego athletic
competition during the winter months.
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Hannes Kolenmainen.
It is probable, however, that he will
make one last American appearance
in the early spring, before he makes
his departure. The Finnish star will
make his home, while he remains here,
at Great Kills, S. L
FOULS IN BOXING
1. nitting below the belt.
2. Hitting an opponent who Is
down or who is getting up after
being down.
8. Holding an opponent or de
liberately maintaining a clinch.
4. Holding an opponent with
one hand and hlttlnrr with the
other hand.
5. Butting with the head or
shoulder or using the knee.
6. Hitting with Inside or butt
of the hand, the wrist or the el
bow. 7. nitting or "flicking" with
the open glove.
8. Wrestling or roughing at the
ropes. x
9. Purposely going down with
out being hit.
10. Striking deliberately at
that part of the body over the
kidneys.
11. The use of the pivot blow.
12. The use of abusive or pro
fane language.
13. The failure to obey the ref
eree or any physical actions
which may Injure a contestant,
except by fair sportsmnnllke
boxing.
Note: The referee shall im
mediately disqualify a contest
ant who Is guilty of a deliber
ate und willful foul, and award
the decision to Ids opponent.
PICTURE FOR JUDGE LANDIS
Group Likeness of Champion Indiana
of Cleveland Is Presented to
Noted Jurist.
The very first picture that Judge
Lnndis. will hang in the offices of the
National Commission in Chicago will
be a group of the Cleveland Indians of
1020. Jim Dunn presented it to the
Judge during the conference when
Landls was asked to become high
commissioner.
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Bianchi's Diplomatic "Break"
Senator Moses of New Hampshire,!
a member of the foreign relations
committee, introduced a resolution In
the senate the other day which seems
to contain large possibilities of Inter
esting rending. The resolution set
forth all sorts of trickery and bad
faith by the, government of Guatemala
in dealing with Estrada Cabrera, the
dictator vlio was deposed by revolu-:
tlon Inst April, and called upon the,
secretary of state to transmit to the,
senate sucli information as he might
possess on the subject.
Ami then, to emphasize matters,!
Dr. Julio Itlanchl (portrait herewith) i
minister of Guatemala to the United!
States, made a bnd break which Is:
to say, was guilty of undiplomaticj
procedure in going to see Senator
Moses nhout It, Instead of going to!
the stnte department Ministers have
been recalled, you see, for things like1
this. i
According to a memorandum accompanying the senate resolution, the;
agreement guaranteeing Cabrera good treatment wns drawn up ot the American
legation. He was to be lodged in the military academy and his property was-;'
to be safeguarded. The memorandum asserts he is in a common Jail, andj
that he has been stripped of $15,000,000 of property, emi to his false teeth. :
Mondell's Jinx Is Persistent
Representative Mondell of Wyom
ing, Is shown in recent Washington
photographs to be getting about on
crutches, with one foot in bandages.
It hns been an unlucky summer in
a way for the majority floor lead
er in the house.
Last June, soon after returning to
his home In Wyoming, the Wyoming
legislator took to playing farmer. He
quit abruptly at least for a time
when he fell from a haystack. The
haystack, was big and high and he
fell hard. The result was two broken
ribs.
Then ih October Mr. Mondell's
official between session's activities
took him to the Shoshone dam, in
Wyoming, on the Cody entrance to
Yellowstone national park. Here his
Jinx rolled a boulder down on him.
This time the result wag a broken
leg.
As Is well known, it 1st hnrrl tn
keep a good man down, and November found the Republican floor leader back,
tn Washington getting ready for the opening of the regular session scheduled:
to begin early in December, ne was on crutches, but was getting along nicely.
But his Jinx had not yet finished with him. The night of November 23 he
was hoisting himself ud the front stenn nf
broke. In consequence Mr. Mondell got a severe fall severe enough to lor
mm uy m pea ror several days.
Vanderlip's Soviet Concession
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Washington D. Vanderlip arrived
In New York theother day from Rus
sia, and more reporters went down the
bay to meet the Los Angeles man that
have ventured on water at one time
since Dr. Frederick A. Cook returned
from Copenhagen and the Northi
pole. And vo wonder. The American
mining engineer says he has put
through the biggest business deal in
the world's history. He says:
"Over 400,000 square miles in Si
beria Including the entire peninsula of
Kamchatka has passed Into possession
of the syndicate 1 represent for a pe
riod of CO years. I also obtained from
the soviet government concession to
buy $3,000,000,000 worth of goods from
the United States in the next three
years, payment to be made in the
products of soviet Russia."
He says he comes to do "a little
missionary work," in behalf of re
suming trade relations with soviet
Russia. Until such relntlons are resumed, he admits, his "$3,000,000,000 con
tract" as fisonl agent and his 00-year coal, oil nd fishing concession in Kam
chatka are valueless.
Sixty Years to Pay War Debts
Senator Watson of Indiana (por
trait herewith) advocates extension of
time for the payment of the war debt
over a period of CO years. He urges
that to lighten the tax burden. Re
peal of the excess profits tax and re
duction of the surtaxes on large In
comes also are urged by him.
Senator Watson's declaration for
the extension of the time for payment
is presumably significant as showing
a decided drift of opinion among the
Republican leaders.. It has been the
program of the treasury department
to pay up the war debt within 25
years.
Anyway, Senator Watson dis
cussed the tax situation following his
return from a conference at Philadel
phia with Senator Peurose. The Penn
sylvania senator is chairman of the
finance committee. It was Senator
Watson's opinion that hearings on
either tax or tariff legislation should
start soon after the holidays to get it well under way by the time a special
session Is called under the new administration. '
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