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Show TII rr.OVO IILf.ALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY IS, 1021. m m ?rovo "Timps" Snapped At The The Central Utah baseball league will be opened here at the first game of ike season "today. Every citiwn of American Fork is behind the baseball club. 'v ' 'TuelucaT's'qiiai woiOn"' champion ship last year, but this year there are ', . i 5 It the census man did not make a mistake hen be made hi last report on Provo" the town has sure done grown some since a year ago. This was evident when the crowd gathered to witness the parade this afternoon which opens the baseball Bishop J. A Buttle was decorated' more luumtv .w i .men i. it iun than any man In th nmmAwjiuo ,.... WiLB " : ' season id Provo. ""'"',' was sure eonie crowd and going some. t jThere inlc-aguteams vend in two,jnore sure some: enthnsiasni. if the latter mJw many surprises are looked tor, but would win a baseball game, well, it At first Mvn vi.uu j jusBBj 10 join local fans believe that America Fork was won an hour beforeoe the uuless parade he was furnished "ump" has the strongest eam in the league. called ?play " ""J- half; msisiea that ns J he men who will pwylhis year are There was hoys there from 6 toToh; wanted to save all of his energies for k as follows: well just to he safe, 80, and the girls, the first bM. When Sherlt.f Boyd . . . Captain, ' Happy" Holm 5 lead; pitch heaven bless them, from 6 to 30 years hnr1 nf it- ha MfuS.rJ tiu " .vocti eiituQj Demna ers, Addie Miller, Ross. l'axkcrT Eslie old.: As near as The Herald man could tne hat for ajriy Dermrrrr t!lere waa Beverai thousand htpfi"arrTX7-gueij- a eea iooinson; ursi Dase, women present and not one of them ; The mayor "marched, . ' Burke: second base, Alan Sheley; over 30. third base, Qeorge Binch; lelt field, And-4he- n CunnFngham Trtokvfiae on a ther was two bands and center field, Walter they certainly did give the crowd the horse, but. well, please Eddie get" there early Homer- Durrani right fields A next time -- Bob." kind of "pep" music right Coach Holinstead will play short The hoys of both bantra seemed to -. stop. have entered into the spirit of the oc - The Spanish ptiyers are a The celebration for the opening of casion and sent forth the best they looking bunch. started Tuesday evening, had, r when the baseball club and the city fit is useless to attempt to write of Milt Jones refused to sneak nv. band staged a ntonUr-baseb- all one unless ha rally thfeheaflgftar of theudifferent-organlza.-tionwith a twtfrainiuifip speechesarid to use an old they wanted to talk beta street dance On ain street in front of "beggered or baggered"expression description. i i 1 J. "Park :n:m ot;a:s sr.:! v.iiii a - J .... -- . jo 6 . V-- r- the-kag- Pork-husk- -- ue : s, fhe celebration continued - today. The businVss houses closed at I o'clock and an automobile parade was held on Main street. At 3 p. ni. at the Farmer. T6p row, left to right Nelson, Snow, Hillman, Hall, Dodge, Sheeban, Singleton. Bdshard, Raile, Kinney, Shotz, Bottom rowElliott, . uuhs m m mil fw ism at sheriff would not take his place be. hind thejbat he would refuse to apnext bill that the sheriff prove the ' The Provo Klawanls "' club today in. sent . County Commissioner Jesse ill. grand 'Anyhow- the " sheriff .was behind the made its presence felt In the Harmon did not catch the first ball as bat. this Parkwith at stand Timpanogas he had promised; in fact he did not yell COAST LEAGUE 8TANDINQ. try to catch it. Who's got the team? I - More to the point Mr.' Harmon was J team! We've i got the Won. Lost PcL conspicious by his absence at the WTio's got the team Provo .643 27 ". H ' San Francisco game. .625 15 25 ' And thereby hangs a tale. Sacramento . Who's for the teamt Late" last night the commissioner .575 17 23 Los tor team! We're Angeles the -- called Sherif Boyd over the telephone Seattle ...2J 17 .637 Who's for the teamt: Klwanls! - and announced that, he had to leave .486 19 Vernon ,.;..22 ' . town this morning. 19 .486 18 Oakland Rad a gazette, gazette, -all be .I::. The sheriff said it would 25 -- "".306 Salt Lake - - -Qazimps, knew. as as he far right "30 .211 Provo KiwaniB, - Portland ..Tr.T.,.T.T.. 8 the commisand there then - Right 7 AH for Tlmps! billed to was he - - sioner announced that 1 "mood Kiwanlans a When in RESULTS." "TYE8TERPAY'8 singing catch the first ball at today's game indulged In: the sheriff to take his x"and Wanted ? Vernon 8. Salt It's a hard thing to beat JU Lake Salt , p!ace.. V It's a "hard thing to do,, ... . The sheriff entered a demure and Lake 5. ' announced that he was no ball player. At San Francisco Sacramento 4, You'll go a long way to beat the big "3.- chiefs, . "'Well, you seem to be able to San Francisco At Los AngelesPortland Los An- - It's a job you can't get through. catch anything.' you go after, whyynot Then "come, my traveling. base ball?" the commissioner is al- - geles game postponed; Oakland-Sacr--a it to you, At Sacramento J am telling leged to have said. --to beat -You'll go long way Th sheriff nrotested and keot on mento game postponed; traveling. n - At Kiwan is, San Francisco Seattle-Saprotesting until, so it is said, theif torn Francisco we are for you. game postponed; traveling. the announced that missioner .-- - "" -- '"" -- fellow-booster- ill si This story of Jack Dempsey'a lift has been written for the - Newspaper Enterprise association by Sport Writer JaLiCochranf who Is stationed at Oempaeyfa training camp, and purports to be the story as Jack Demp-'ce- y himself talis it It will ba continued In Friday's Herald. BY HAL COCHRAN. . Chapter parade moved promptly at p. m. in tiie "following order: Provo players, Rotary club, hugh ball with thwprd ;;Ttinp-o- n both j d. cit yparkttrc irantwirraTry-trperfeaiaes, a giant bat wiui ' The u. jv o. . Mayor Walker pitcjied tne Jirst Dan, Is With You Boys." The members of and Tohn Hunter., the executive mem the Commercial club, followed by the ber of the board, caught it. Vaudeville members of the Elks lodge, then the simus and TOLisjcalmibers byJLhe Kawananelnb.foliowed by theB. V. U. band were civen preceding the game band,, automowhich the American- - Fork biles, BtudentSTof the Franklin school after AUTOMOBILE TIRES BETTER. reOne of the noteworthy-featur- es champs; played the opening game of 3D0 strong, and students of the Parker the season with the strong 1 leber school 300 strong. --- -garding the manufacture of automobile .. leani- - is the fact that tires Friday,;-AmericaFork will play The classiest decorated automobile during the last five years tires Tiave their second' game with Heher at seen in Provo In a long time was that improved so greatly in quality that the Heber. of the Nineteenth Century club. The average number of tires used on an decorations, green and gold, were ar- automobile during a year has dropped ranged by Mrs. Ray Tlmujerman, Mrs. from five to considerably under tour. Oldest Root. This drop has come, too, in the face O. A. Spear and Mrs. I. H. Masters. The roof of Hotel Rhlnebeck in New of sn increase in winter driving so Tork "city Is supposed to be the oldest . Ray Sutton spent so much bf Tils large, as to be a vital element in the !t was minted lo time sluto roof In Many cars now operate looking for Spanish Fork money calculation. 1700 with slutf. hroutlit frw twelve months in the year but in spite the that.he nearly missed the parade. of this increased period of service, the Well!! for iVnf urM'!4f. " flay Borne was as busy as cran- average annual consumption of tires per ear has steadily fallen. berry merchant as Xmas time, " ' With the return to normal times and Mtndoro. The Island xt Mhidoro In the rbll- Ray Timmerman was a hard man to with money less plentiful, car owners tpplnMharBbwr.TOO'lnbaWtantA; find this morntnge It is said that the are certain to watch their expense and those 'Include. iS.fW" Tagsjogf,, president of the Provo . team spent bills more closely. The exercise of ofrhTs tlmeTn praying for good only a moderate degree ol care by the 100 Mangnynes rad 2,fKX) Vlsayans, most ear oowners will lift the average mileage-sweather. ecured from tires to a point many What Lynn Sutton lacked inslze he thousands of miles above any hitherto Especially the Qoat reached. made up in noise. . -- J" So far. as known,' the best record "What s your pet peeve F. Mi life's pets.": Speaking of noise that Kawanas ever made on a set of four tires was that of itlBoston- merchant' who got al crowd sure did make It CORN FOR-TOSILO Iowa'Gold Joe Farrer was kicking like the pro 35,152 miles on a Mt of United States-RoyCords. He attributed this phenMine, Iowa Silver Mine, Improved verbial mule. He Insisted that the Learning, Pride of the North, King of grandstand was not half big enough. omenal record to the cars given to the tires by his chauffeur. the Earlies. Carpenter Seed Co. Otherwise Joseph was all right 111 . Andy Malloy held no malice toward Jack Dempsey because the latter had knocked him out. Rather, he saw a bright future for. the husky slugger, and arranged" a match for him with v Spanish-Pork-playe- rs,- - n - Ann-rlcn- yc-nr i , . . ' -- . UR J-- 8 t Ifllj' mpsey TTOSoirbTThnrffffoTtyaTi 3 lid Tonii ioChampionship to flop him the first time and allot l Downey was an oldster at the game Ben Parrish at Olatbe, Colo. time. Jack drew down and' Jack picked up a tot of valuable When Dempsey arrived:, ready to less the second decided but 110, that a Doxer had nof pointers while he was taking the druF1 had put on the mitts, Parrish suddenly in business the bing. Later the two were matched in game. wrestling a change of mind. He guessed he go. It ended m a Dempsey's next trip was to Cripple another 'wouldn'- t- f ight but -- he'd, aaka- -JJack CreekvrK3elovlaf reight 4Ie wa44Fa w. -- . on a wrestling match. That set fight fans to waritine an TheTe was little , or ndthlng Jin- matched to battle with George Copematch between the two. Their out other lin. for the miners turned Many gling in Jack's Jeans at the time and bout an Copelin, being fairly well bouts had been fast and furious and he readily agreed to go to the mat "It looked a sure the crowd liked them. was anything to pick up some odd known as a battler, . . Hardy Downey set' the machinery j winner. change," says Jack, I Jack surprised the crowd by pujtting going, but Dempsey threw a wrench in Career Ends. Wrestling for" a short time. He - recalls that he was . abou- t- as (over the sleep punch in the seventh it. .t Gets $12.50 for a k, O. round. canon a at much borne, wrestling -Several smaller bouts turned" up "I Tigured I was getting better," vas, as a Jungle tiger in front of a fireand there, but they paid - but Jack says, "so I asked Downey for SI. here 18 took minutes Parrish It Just place. little. Jack worked as a miner In be- for a third match. I had been paid $7.50 for the second go. Hardy was set tween scraps. The next real bout was staged at at iz.au ana wouiunT nudge so Durango, Colo. with Andy Malloy." It finally agreed at that price. I needed was a affair and ended injtne aougn." ..i j This time Dempstfirknocked-Do- wa draw. " ; ney out in the second round. Walks 40 Miles to Fight bouts came Smaller to Salt hoofed around It Jack 4fcaiu: Jack 4t!t-est-- .0? iks-Salt iLake and then to 'Silver " miles awav to etteaee in another Pocatello, Idaho, to appear with Chief four-roun- d ' - ! itfsd to"n--T- battlehenhfrfeturnM4o-4rfntroae- 4 and worked on a farm ; as a peach and take, picker. : - "f"' r - The Dempsey - family had moved again, this time to Salt Lake City. Jack had a habit of runninr: back home .every now and then, to stick hi" feet .under the old family table lie shortly grabbed a rattler andbeat it for home. Salt Lake, at this time was quite a center of fistic doings. Dempsey discovered this and drifted tnto Hardy Downey's athletic club. ; There were several boijts In progress and after eyeing a few, Jack asked permission to step' Into the arena with some bird. Downey turned two brothers loose on him, one at a time. Jack knocked the first one cold in .one round and then repeated on the second. , - draw, Rufe Cameron, a negro boxer, had given Jack the" once over and signed him as a sparring partner. He towered Over Dempsey; and ihanded him a lot of hard wallops. But Jack liked d r in It' !t ?::iil! .!j!lt: ... .:::iiii! .i.f,IV..l -- m, ' .::::!!!. t;i. ; I .!:::.:!t a . i.f , ; ;!! w.r i It r; U r V, a rr t ,:::!!!!;!!!;!;!!!!!" . SnM ::"i::"i!!!:!ii:!mmijii!i )' L.I 1 J" : ::::::ii;:;!:;::!,,; ' It he war getting ..traintafcisJi, : - Two-Roun- one-roun- lzS-.J- i s! t::;l -- Jack Meets a Tough One. . Reno, Nev next saw him In action, with Animas CapmbelL Jack laid hlra low in three rounds. His pay was practically nothing and he shortly freighted - it to Goldfield to fight Johnny Sudenberg. Johnny had earfeed quite a reputation and practically all of the betting was in his favor. ' "If was one of the toughest battles I have ever had," says Jack. "I took some nsighty hard, slams, but managed toknock Sudenberg down about 12 times in the early rounds. The . Spurns Medal. ch Downey iWasr-nru"impressed with affair was called a draw. Later Dempsey won from Sudenberg the .newcomer's ability. He offered , in 10 rounds at Tonopah. Jack a nice medal. "Nix!' said Jack. "Come through : He then beat it for Salt Lake and worked .'on a steam shovel crew. with some coin." DEMPSEY WELL REMEMBERS After much argument he got $2.f Months later, when the fight game WHOM HE SPARRED, LOOKED LI opened up In Salt Lake, he returned $1.25 per K. O.! ALSO RECALLS THE DEFEAT JAG d There - were many other f ightery home and got a match with Gilliam. Jack finished him In WORK ON A STEAM SHOVEL CRE who hung around this club and Dempsey was a regular customer for one round, .' Boxer. ' Colored a long time afterwards. He got, a 1 ' d It was a A: negro boxer, the Boston Bear other Johnson. of training, nthroug7i nirxlng with whirlwind in which Jack again he "and declared saw match the heavyweights snd middlewelghts, and Cat, a knockout . He 'then battled was finally matched to meet the star. could trim Jack. A go was arranged Jock-Koe- kn forOBdenr Utahr JaclrslippedOTer-- a four frames to ' of the" cluhV ' put him to sleep. Then Dempsey got the surprise wicked right .in the first frame and. was next It fori the battle that the Bear Cat was buried in slumber-landof his finite career! : real Dempsey drew $50 "for this k. 0. Dempsey did his first his training; a Chapter IV. that gave him largest purse Just before Jack Dempsey stepped Mis smashes were picking up in value battle to that time. up along. into the ring with Jack Downey, star right partat the Hardy Downing Athletic club, His next Job was asofSparring Colo. Pueblo, (In the next story Dempsey Invades In his ner to Eddie Johnson, he 'tucked an advance five-spo- t Nav the east and scores three wins.- - See WHEN DEMPSEY WASN'T FIGHTING HE WAS EITHER PICKING Jeans. hatlle.d "'at "Ely, Johnson When four in took he rounds, Then, PEACHES, WORKING IN A MINE, OR HIKING. a good beating his first real defeat! jack got on In a prelim bout with an- Friday's Herald.) " 1 HOW RUPH CAMERON, WITH KE A MOUNTAIN TO HIM. HE K DOWNEY HANDED HIM. AND HIS W. i COMMITTEE .TO MEET. The commltteesjiavjng. Jn charge-th- e, preparation of plans for the Memorial day celebration In Provo will meet at the city commissions i chambers at p: m, tomorrow. It is expected that detailed plans will he outlined at thtf meeting for one of the best celebrations of fhe day ever held In Provo. - |