Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-22 | Page 28 | Sport Gossip

IMPORT HOIP UTTLEITEMSI OK UUI UUUil! OF INTEREST CHICAGO, Dec. 21. "If it is the purse that is keeping Jess Willard out of the ring with Jack Lempsey, that can be supplied to the perfect satisfaction of Jess "Willard." This news came in a wire from James F. lougherty of Philadelphia Phila-delphia today, who declared he would offer Jess his own terms to sign with Dempsey. Dougherty says he will start a crusade against Jesa and keep after him until he signs. Joe Mandot. who was making a bid for the lightweight title some four or five years back, has lost all pugilistic form, according to eastern writers. In his recent re-cent ir-round bout in New Orleans he was outpointed by tho third-rate Pal Moore. iteports of the battle describe Mandot as slow, wild and ineffective as to hitting. It was Leaches Cross who started Mandot down the decline of defeat, de-feat, Cross stopping Joe in the tenth round. Bud Anderson then knocked Mandot out in the twelfth, and in IP 15 Benny Leonard knocked out the Crescent City boy in the seventh. Mandot won a 20-round verdict over Joe Rivers. LOS ANGELES. Dec. 21. Lieutenant Norman Boss, world's champion all-around all-around swimmer, now . an aviator at Rockwell field, probably will represent the Los Angeles Athletic club in swimming swim-ming meets during tho spring and summer, sum-mer, ncording to a statement, made yesterday yes-terday by Bob Weaver. Lieutenant Ross has expressed a desire de-sire to remain in Los Angeles. He will make Ins home here a tier being mustered mus-tered out of the service. ije Ktrangler Ed Lewis is moving along some. Yi'ord is that the heavyweight wrestler, who entered the army as a private, has b?en commissioned a lieu-t lieu-t eiiant. Lewis is stationed at Camp Grant. Rockford, II!., and wants his western west-ern friends to know of the good news that has come his way. Lewis can be rated one of the smart professional athletes, ath-letes, and the word that he has been comm'ssioned will not surprise his friends. j The fnilure of Pat Moran to live in Ph. lad el ph in and lie the fchenherd dog for . his players v. bile the team wa s on the h - u."ie g rou 1 ids. cost h : m h 's po-s;tion po-s;tion :.s manager of the Ph i hoi -; :-h a X a t i o : , a i 1 e . ' gi 1 e team. a cc or d 1 11 g to Wi'iiam F. Baker, the pres. dent t.f the club. In a tail; wit h Gr-orge M. Young of the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Baker said that the conduct of t lie plavers, Among them Grover Cleveland Akxaich r. was such as to have an injurious el'f.-ct on the team, and Moran's absence from the city at night, when he shmiid have been on hand to act as a restraining hi-i'luvnce. hi-i'luvnce. tended to work agiir.st the test ' interests of the club. Baker ai.-o f.i.,l that Moran's release was not ;s pr.-- c:p tat; cs outward occurrences nryht : ind :eat e, heea us.? he ha d writ' h' m as .-a:ly as Acg'ist 2 1 l.iM. that he w:.s t,, : be made a free :c-ot. Str-vin'r T - secure a return c"ir.' with the .,!:,;! Irland Mar.r.-s. th- Math--F:e:d. S.-.-ram.-nfn, eh-v-n b-is off.-r.-d :l g'lai a:vL"e of i '"0 to tiie I 'evil I.)0g.' for anoi i;. r strugT''1. The flyers are not f it isfied with the outcome if the game w:m the Mar.rn-s. and still believe that Lhey cm turn tiiu , table-i. If a game is arranged, it will probably take place at Buffalo park, Sacramento. Sam Rtce, "Washington outfielder, is probably the only big leaguer who has served in two branches of the TJ. S. ser-v.ce. ser-v.ce. Mo served a-term in the navy several sev-eral years agi, joining the Petersburg, Virginia, league'veiub when discharged. That was six years ago. He remained a pitcher until 1915, when Clark Griffith gave him a trial in the outfield. Last spring he enlisted in tho coast artillery and was sent overseas several months ago. Jimmy Clabby, now an Anzac corporal, recently arrived in Italy with his regiment, regi-ment, having sailed from Svdnev, X S W., on October 15. It is probable that he did not reach the battle front in time to get into the fighting, as the troopship on which he sailed was due to reach the j shores of Italy about the date of tho signing of the armistice. The fact that I he was prevented from taking a hand m the actual fighting, of course, does not detract from the glory of the American boxer who cast his lot with the fighting Australians. His decis;on to enlist with tiio .Anzacs came about as a result of the excellent treatment accorded him by the fight fans in the Antipodes, where he spent so much time in recent vears A day or two before he boarded the transport a dinner was tendered to him by a few of his many friends in Svdnev, Svd-nev, and he was presented with a wrist watch, a silver cigarette case and a wal let stuiiea w.tn nani; notes, SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 21. Sailor Frank-e Kirke, old -time four-round s 'Tapper in this section, is nn inmal of the navy hospital at Norfolk, Va. Several Sev-eral week's ago Fran It ie, who is a member mem-ber of the crew (f ttie Ringgold, was severely injured by the bursting of a main si earn -pipe 1 no. He was scalded about the chest and face and had to be rushed to tiie hosphal for relief. According Ac-cording to reports. Kirke is showing improvement.