Show 5 SPORTS O Jo u hi 1 S By Robert Edgren I Gene Tunney and Mike both have ve skinned knuckles but Tunney wants to go on with their match while Mike hasn't t any objection at all to a postponement from December 10 to some other date Meanwhile Young Stribling I a. high school boy 1 I Georgia who vho gave Mike a a. tough afternoon down that waya way f few w w weeks ago ao lingers in New NewYork NewYork NewYork York willing to fight either or both of them any evening It might as well vell be Stribling and Tunney which Tunney-which which would probably make a much better fight than any bout careful Mike takes part in New York referees must be bo reformIng reforming reforming reform reform- ing when Dave Rosenberg Is fled on only the third repetition of an Illegal backhand blow Next thing ing you youfe fe know some New York r fl referee will ob oh- to letting STarry Harry Wills hold p- p around the neck with one arm while he batters in his hili ribs with the theother theother other and boxers who deliver knockout knockout knockout knock knock- out blows after the bell at the end of ot ofa a a. round will be heartily admonished Figures show that Dempsey in his last three bouts In New York and amid New Ji suburbs drew less than 3 at the gates the exact figures being a amere amere amere mere However this Includes the beggarly 20 drawn In the Brennan fight tIght In the time other two With 1 Firpo and Carpentier Jack attracted for 01 less lesa than half halfa a. a dozen rounds founds of fighting As our financial expert figures this I to come como to approximately 30 per round boxing promoters need not net be en en- discouraged TOte rhe rh game hasn't gone one back yet to tIme the point where a a. champion and a a. rival fight tight to a a. finish for 1636 1536 In small change collected in the referees referee's s nai hat hat-a. a. a thing I once saw happen In Manhattan Jn In the time lean days between Horton Morton and Frawley Laws S SIto MHO WIIO Ito WAS WA THIS TOIlS CHAMPION How do I 1 know about bout that Well Wen it Its It's s a short story so here goes The champ was was' busted and was waa talking about his willingness to fight tight anybody for tor a a. ameal meal ticket at t and a a. bird u who lived In a back bacic parlor up on ty sixth street offered to fight him and furnish the back parlor as an arena Three ot of us chipped In 5 J each to see I the iCe tight fight nt and the fourth spectator anted the 35 so cents cent II that being the extent of ot otI I his wealth at he moment I I was was on a a. New Nev Y York rk newspaper and needed a story about a fight to round Jound fu out a dull day In sports We Ve retired to the back parlor cleared out the fur fur- allure tied the gloves and called time I Because there wasn wasn't t a bell handy bandy DinK Din Din- nets Were deere so scarce around there nobOdy nobody no- no K bOdy 5 l ial a 1 any uso use for a dinner bell beil The ine champion knocked out the other i bird oira In the first tilSt round After we revived re- re him I t explained that a round one-round tight right was too short t to make a a. story so the defeated gent obligingly offered to try again after a a. minute five-minute rest and fought rought four more rounds rounds- before h he l was knocked out a 0 second time No Ill I'll pass up naming the tho champion He lie afterward rose from poverty to opulence and on one occasion at least fought for tor a. a purse of ot 1600 which was waa all big money in those days He is still in New Iw York Is Known In Wall Wail street and has friends all over town and If It he wants to disclose l his Identity and tell what he did with his hIli 1024 10 24 which was wall two thirds of ot the purse he can I wont won't give him hint away and this one isn't In the record books bools Decisions will not be allowed in PennSylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- enn- enn sylvania boxing bo bouts ts under the new law until January 1st Champions de desiring de- de siring to risk their titles will wH Join the rush to fight there tIters before these happy no decision days daya are over ver i The Nebraska football team has lIas been invited to play the University of South duth- em ern California in Lo Los LOll Angeles Christmas day it Is la estimated that 80 loyal I rooters from Nebraska would fill the big Coliseum without additional exa exa ex- ex pence n for railroad a fares as there are areat re reat at least that many a ll- ll 1 ready read wintering In southern California Harold Harole Red Tied Grange famous Illinois football player Is said to have havo an ambition ambition am am- to beat heat Jack Demp ey Demp-ey ey with the f gloves fairly s. s ge good Some fighters football S Jack players Munroe have r made who blat beat a a. lot of ot good men and was a knocked out by Jeffries was a H. great football player before he took up fighting lighting playIng playIng play- play Ing lag tackle on the famous Butte Mont team that Marcus Daly gathered to beat beatI I Senator Clarkes Clarke's aggregation ot of col ex-col- legs lege I Frank Moran played football tor for s sey- sey veral v- v I eral years jears before he found his hIli Mary Ann punch and deserted the gridiron for the squared circle And Jack Dempsey Demp- Demp Ce sey is said acid to have played a pretty fair game of ot football himself before he ho was wasa wasa a a. fighter Asked Jack his hili favorite sports once and he said sald swimming and football e I II 5 There have been bee thousands thousand of ot great football players who might have bave been I good men in the g Fe Few Tew have tried It It because football players players of ot note noto are usually college men men and don dont don't t care for I I boxing a as a a. profession The colleges I 1 l have ave turned put Out some fine amateur boxI box- box I eu era Probably Grange who la Is only IS 10 Just wants to box Dempsey for the fun ot of It It it-it If there theres there's s any fun run In boxing I Dempsey DempslY tt Copyright 1923 by the Belt Bell Syndicate In |