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Show ' I "ATKIL 25, YJ20. KUN DAY MOKMA'O, f THE SALT HAKE TK1HUNE, FIGHTERS KflKE Atheletes Who Took Part in Track and Field Meet Last Thursday nTOPT TItTF u .. - I'JJf. - Board BritUh ' Control Takes Unprecedented - - Performances Season With Pleased Well Coaches School Early High ..alt I V.n Tmt (W. MM. o. U,l Jup: HI W '"."StlJ!? jTi,trt M,d C.mrrnM 22 7wi zz ssss i; r.r rTY, r; r CL. 1. Bun D. 1. 0.1. -- Pol, U - (Wert high), third. 8. Start of mile ion. nma ' --op r mum Battle Means Huge Fortune for Each. , Dempsey-Carpcnti- er . , Step. R 7 T. S. ANDREWS. MILWAUKEE, Wi., April 24. ful bowl among There would be an of them, tbe boxing (me wt least tome ad tb Bugera themaeive- - 1 tb Utw of champion wore to be tehee from one of the number. That it what happened title recently to one of the British evholder. let OKeefe and, when not erything i considered, tho Idea is eo bad ae it at firtt appears. Imagine tome of the follower trying to depose a title holder like John L. Bullivsu when The tame the latior wae championl of feeling prevailed in tome quarter England when the suggestion wato firtt tako made regarding the proposition O'Keefe eheaipionship nwnv) let when more eoher thought wa but there wa a given to tbe suggestion The action wa different feeling. taken by tbe international board of control In England, the body having ntmulute charge of the boxing game. .. Thi 1 thi way the well known writer of boxing, Henry I leveland, put it In the Birmingham Detpatehi 'lh action of the international board of control tn refuting to reeog-eixa the official middleweight champion of Great Britain the popular Bat OKeefe, may be criticlred in tome gunrtera, but will generally come in for commendation. The OKeefe la held in affectionate regard by the boxing community, and there are people who view tbia daemon ee being rather hantb; but, come to weigh the pros and cone of the eitua-tion- , the eoncluaion wiil be arrived at that the L B. C. haa acted wisely; la fact, haa been cruel to be kind. There are more waye than one of looking at the situation. Pat ia far beyond the age of athletie perfection. Thi was shown in his later contest, and perhaps th ruling body bad in mind tb fine but ineffectual display which wound up Jim Driscoll 'a boxing career. To pat a man In th nag with grim old Anno Domini shadowing hit every movement i to place one of the worst handicap possible upon him. lie ha to mostly depend upon the chapter of aeaideate to pull him through. No; the comeback' stunt is played out, and about tuna, too. We want young blood ia tho game. We have defended too long upon our veterans, and her is one of the reason of our boxing decadency laid bare. Sentimentalists wall naturally bate to see a nng idol deposed without 'just one more,' and Tat will back them up. It is not the money OKeefe needs, as he is well on Easy street, and hi Lonsdale belt is surely enough honor for him. It la hie splendid fighting epirit that l urging him to carry on to the bitter ena, which can only in defeat feportsmen do not want . this to happen to the big hearted and ' witty Bow boxer with tho Hibernian name, and are averse to attempt to expand the limit laid down by Dame Nature. The match with Balxao u, of course, off, in the circumstances. This brings us to the cold fact that we need a new middleweight cham- best known. Dilloi scaled only around 180 to 165, but he battled with big pion. Such a move as the one noted would heavyweights such as Gunboat Smith be impossible in the United States, ae and Joe Cox, 220 pounds; Battling and Frank Moran, 200 pounds, there is no national organization with the power to put through sueh a rule. and a score of others around the his mark. Dillon alwaya fought If there had been a strong organization of that kind here, the chance are that best against the big fellows. It might betJack Dillon would never have been per- be said that Carpentier has fought amall ter against the big men than the mitted to lose his title of champion the way be did, nor to ones no has met, for such boxers as suffer defeat at the hands of very in- Billv Papke, Jeff Smith and Frank Klaus, all middleweight, gave him tbe ferior boxers. harden kind of fight. Hi work Leonard Reaps Harvest against big fellow like Dick Smith, all When a boxer makes money so fast Bombardier Wells and Joe Beckett, mark, ws of the that he can hardly keep up with his near the to work aa well he can well afford to best. Will be bef able bookkeepers, The American chamDempsey think of retiring from the roped arena egainst scales around 100 and Carpentier and all its attractiveness. That is the pion a difterenc case with Benny Leonard at tho pres- 170, to there will be quit ent time. Benny is young, being only in poundage. Richie Mitchell, the Milwauke 24 yeare of age, and lightweight (ham-pioit being sought by clubs lightweight, is with Ho a to boot. making hit all over the country sino his sensathe movies, and is taking it more Willie Jackson a few than his manager, Billy Gibson, tional fight with A Detroit club offered him ever dreamed of. Bennv is reported to weeks ago. Leonard at the have cleaned up over $150,000 in the $15,000 to meetbutBenny the ehancee are that park, tire business during the war, and ia ex- baseball Richie will not take on the champion pected to clean up another $100,000 m for some tima to come. The match will the picture game. He had close to keep for a while, and there are others $100, 000 from his boxing earnings, which Will, Richies manager. Brother Ton-dlewhich, as a whole, gives film a tidy r, Lew bout. Leonard to tho prefers of sum to worry along with tho balance Jack Lawier, Willie Jackson, he a hat very hu life. Besides all this, Edwirds M6 nil nd fine anto tire business, which Is bring- Benny Vnlgtr and any one of them matches, seeking income. a in (rood ing figures at a big attraction. .Then, again, Benny is a Mel Coogan, gave Richie Mitchell is a oven he scrapper, chap, though good battl at Detroit a few week and ae ia not anxious to tako too man y taken nnto himself a new manchances with having a set of cauli- ago, hasMel Jo has hooked up with ager. flower ears, o? even one. While he is Woodman, manager of Bam Langford a champion he is always in the ltmei for many years, and now they are trylight and it is quite an asset to hie ing to land Mitchell for a return entrimbusiness; but, despite all these the gagement. Woodman point to were mings, Benny is thinking seriously of fact th papers of Detroit that all the time. for game By divided on the verdict, two of them retmng from . the end of another year it Is very probtwo giving Richie the dociuon, while able that he will be known as the Coogan had the shad. - At any lightweight. He may take thought was a great fight and worth remore contests, as there rate, it 0 part In a few in it is up to some of th proeight for him, with peating, to get them together again. is big money Ant little chance of losing hie crown, moters also haa Fred Jack, th Enand both he and his manager, Billy Woodman and Frankie Daifeatherweight, glish Gibson, figure that another pot of who bantamweight, the Brooklyn ley. al$100,000 added to what thev have returned from a tour of Ausrecently some them will giv ready garnered tralia, in tow. Jack has made a good rtra spending money. in America by defeating Tougher r Jack McAuliftq is another light-weig- start while Dailey got Murray at Detroit, decision champion who retired with his the nt Boston short end of tb title intact but a a rule, ehampions with Pal Moefe. Doc Almy, the boxI sever reth , until forced to do so, and ing Critic of the Post, said Moor reI thea with the loss of their titlen Benny ceived the verdict, but that Dailey bad ) will be using good sense if he follows maionty of the rounds. Dailev He has been a won a to ; out his present plan. wants get Moor again, and offers to his and friends credit to the game, and box him at any weight end for the en' boxing f ana at to would large prefer agree. The pure, if Moor will i see him retire while champion rather tire tough on when Brooklyn bantam is i tha wait until someone comes along in shape, and haa beaten some mighty and puts him with tho rest of the ex-- 3 good star bantam. ones among th champions. Jacks is particularly anxious to get I chance against Benny plgar or Jack Bigr and Little Boxers. in the Lawler, the latest sensation Eddie GrasEr, the Ban Francisco lightweight rank. , referee, wae telling one of the news paper scribes of that city recently that SULLIVAN CAUGHT he considered a small man as having a good chance any time against. big maa. 1400 BALL GAMES in th rng, wnsreupoa Eddie was quot-- i over as ed Demp favoring Carpentier Billy Sullivan, former White 6ox catch--atr ' sc v for the big battle. However, Gra- now a prosperous apple rancher remarked and tack a different took Nawbar. P!1 Portland ena of hla tohOrt ney as tha other day. BiUy happens that the conditions were very different visits revenuy where Rey for a match between the men men- - in ona Ofwhotheia papers also a Whit Sox racelvar. Schalk. , tinned, but at tbe same time pointing Intended to try and break the major out that Charlie Mtebeil had prove laafue cetohlng record thle season by to bring hla total games ..hit worth against John L. Sulliva catching anough the majors to mors than , when thera wa a difference of over since ante-i- n count on h Billv hasnt tha exact 1000 fif'v pound in weight Thera are own record, but aa It I between 1M0 .many small men who eould be compared and 14o0 that Schaik thinks ha game to th big fellows, and very favorably, lU hava several more years to go before too, but the greatest of all th small ba beats this mark. In addition, there f ghters of recent years was Jack were many epnng exhibition games sot the Boosier giant killer, ae he wae Included in this count. e let re-u- lt TUSSLE TUESDAY FOR WORLDS TITLE YOKEL AND DERN FIT tmmu ' - , -' 4 DU-.Io- 4 MIKE YOKEL. I ' - ' ' v ' i - e V 4 r' I , - Y ' i j ' t I.' . , ' v V . m ' r y A I' t v - '! i C ' 1 v ' ' I f : V V ' , v' , - y .A ' . . t' ' A -- . U j NEW WORLDS CHAMPION ' t- - -- V V - 1, f t'j 'm'' , h 4 $ v- v? JjP' ' f TvV ?' " - K v -- k ' V - . .x" v w 111 .8 Successful Candidates Will Have Ten Days of Special Training. 4 Y y " v 5 v , Look for Wrcitling Desperate Clash at Salt ' Lake Theater. Fan LAKE wrestling fan profess firm boiler that Tuesday nitht'S between Mika Tckel and Da will ba a grdat exhibition of the art that mad ean famous The match will ba atagad nt tha Salt Lake theater and will ba for the midJ a. championship of tha world. Yokel neight la cnee more th holder Of th 1 mid lie the htn-o- r weigut crown, having recaptured by reason of his defeat of Waino mt Boston two month ago. Tho men are supposed to weigh n more than 160 pounds, tha new middle-w- e gh limit agreed upon by eastern wrestling authorities, and ach say ha w.tUu- - Within that poundage. SALT catch-a-catc- h- Ke-lun- ar - Both in Condition. realizes that the bout I hi opportunity to win a worlds championship, which than carries w.th it moraI engaueinents confisupremely ha could fill He i mld-gnt Tuesday dent that, along about hampton there will ba a new wortd middleweight wrestler and tint hi nam will he Ira Dern. Salt Lk mat devotee are well acYokel started quainted With both men.some ten year hit career In this city h battled how rcall and everybody ago hi way to tha top. For years ha wa unbeatable, and there are many who believe him still unbeatable. tart in Salt Lnkw Dern aio made hi Ha defeated all hi local opponent and last year took a trip aat, where ha mat with remarkable auece. In th estimation of wrestling sharp, th oonteetant will ba evenly matched. To Yokel la conceded tha greater knowl. vast edge of th gam, having acou trad Dern, wisdom In hi year of wrrshing hi and 'd on hla however, haa youth thi element will mora than frand r Yokel a greater experience. a Tha atvla of wrestling Tuesday Many parson matter f conjecture. think both wall tear tn from th ball, whtl other bel'.tv that It will b a cautiously conducted labout. n At any rata, thera a a prevailing opln-leand ba match, good that it will a match fOr blood ' Thera wiU ba two wrretllng preliminaries and a boxing bout to wheat tha tha main appatitaa of the spectaisr mgagement. off! v , - 1 , Peach. 71 Inches Chest. SS, normal. Expended, 63 inches. Waist, St tnebe U Inches. Picep. inch. Inches. 12 Thigh, 13 Calf, 14 Inche eck, 171 Inches. -- I I 'VlT' inches. norm'll. Expanded, inches, i JS1 inches. 124 Inchew. 31 Inches. 131 Inches. 17 inches. 73 S9, i. NET CHAMPS SPEAK FOR COLLEGE SPORT Flv been tennis player who hav prominent pot only tn IntercbUSfiat tennis, but in national and International matches as wall, hava signed a latter t tha athletlo authorities of American col- leges, requesting their Support for tha Tennis associaIntervoLltgiet tion. Theta man are Charles S. Garland. captain of tha Yla team; Dean Msthty of Princeton, R. Ltndlev Murray, former nations) chemp'on and Le and Stanford alar; ft. N. Williams II, former Harvard Captain, national champion and Davis cup Piayer, and Watson Warh bum. former Harvard plsver and representative of tha United States abroad la 181. In that? letter they call attention to tha fact that tha United Beales Lawn Tennit etseclkUon. besides changing tha date of tha Intercollegiate championship from September to June $7. also approved tha reorganisation of that body to make tt truly national In scope with tha Idea that the intercollegiate championship will eventually rank second only to tha na- Both Yakel and Dern proclaim them, selves in top condition. Yokel has bean wrestling all winter, having mhad numerwhich ha ous matches la tha east u. tformly successful. Ha returned wa to Salt Lake n week at with tha announcement that hi winter campaign had bean tha best ha bad aver expe- How They Compare. rienced Sines hla return Yokel he besn tional singles and doubles event Per tha purpoaa of comparison tha doing th daily grindIn on tha reads and statistics are given reeoectirg th ha gvmnaslum. tne usual prietiee Dern: attribute of Yokel and Lacrosse in Canada. Last night Mika said he could desire phyttcal Yokel ..Dern. In tha way. of condition that h amateur lacrosse league will Ontario ruiningnave. i year. Age, St years. dldn t tn public eehoois I fat 10 inches promote tha game He ght. ( feet I Inches. Lera haa been training for Tuesdays W the Dominion of Canada. 166 166 pound. throughout pound. Da eight. with energy. Indefatigable match fr THE v I r , Ji ; :' S 4 x t X- '- i - T a s - . . , v vt a b , - v ff t - , ?- 4 '' Jf- - -j a - k X rt ir f c v 4 ' . 4 JtvA -- i it" J v - . V k- ' A fu : f .,-- f, rw--v . . - -- fine-lookin- g FOR-STRUGGL- E IRA DERN. d -- By CHARLES B. COCHRAH. British Flkht Promoter. LONDON, April 24. How muck ia it pootbl lot a bx to money amai during hi career! aro dskiag that because of Poopl th offer of princely auma to bring toX should gether two men whoa name, known throughout th imagine, ar world George Carpentier and Jack Bttl difficult But it ia Dempsey- to calculate, with any degree of accuracy, what th amount of sack mans bank balance will be by the tim b goe into retirement Before the war Carpentier wae comAll hie caving paratively wealthy. German wrecked were lott when th th coal mince around hie native home, auLena; but we have it on his own thority that he haa alreadyhiretrieved, fortuc in less than twelve months, of something like $200,000. ia slightly different. Dcmpaey'a Before b fought tttd boil J lard, h wa practically an unknown man. He did not make a great deal of money out of hi fight with ntUard, but by hla victory he brought himeolf which within sight of a fortun manr a business man, after a lifetime of hard work, would be glad to call his o"wn. To bring Carpentier and Dempsey tooffered a. gether tn the ring I Imv In addition to huge enm of money. l eagage-meutmusic-halthis, film right, exhibition, and appearance eonh film play have to bo taken into aideration, Out of thie one fight alone I estimate forthat Dempsey will accumulate tune of, roughly. $500,000. But one must bear in mind that out of thi enm the United State treasury will take something like 60 per cent. ehar of tho proceeds Carpentier o large. Aa will probably not be quit th challenger, hie part of the pura is about half th amount hi opponent will reeeiTe. No one can foretell what th future hold for Carpentief, al though ha has stated hi intention to after hi fight with Dempaey. When that time arrive I fully expect Carpentier will hava a fortana or at $500,000 This colonial um will have been accumulated aiuce ha fought Dick Smith in Franc last year. Few professional men can boast of a similar achieveBine he left the army. Car ment. to fight pentier ha .appeared atwice decisive con what I might describe tests. Th first one laeted les than half an hour: the eeeond with Beckett wa over inside two minutee. Even supposing the fight with Dempsey goee on for th full twenty rounds, which is by no meant likely, th time occupied by th three contts will not aggregate two hour. Wa a ver man paid so highly! ia what many people No doubt that But it must be will ask themselves. remembered that Carpentier began to lay the foundation of his fortune when performances of Righ school he was sixteen, eorae Sine vear ago, in the traek and field and that he has been striving hard eve V at Cummings field last since. 7 Even o, 300.000 ia immense, and Thursday wsre most gratifying would make it appear that boxing is to the local coaches. This year the one of the most profitable and desiraweather haa been against athletes from ble profession of th dV. But how many boxrs have retired the very beginning of the track amV half, a quarter, or even aa eighth field season, so that proper training with of that eum in the bank! Verv few. and practice haa been out of the ques To mv mind, moreover, ' nurse have reached their limit. As in every tion. to dn th get In the meet Thursday, the East high Other profession, the other are thankful knle; athletes experienced little difficulty in the the crumbs which drop from his Yet hich, foT coining out on top over th tWf. D S. L U., and Daria county. Tho The average boxer has to work hard last three mentioned school finished time for verv little, and when th in the order named. Th Leopards come for retirement he is lucky If be rolled up a total of 76 a points, score that exceeded that of their com- is able to live comfortably ever afterwards on his savings. bined opponent by 27 points. Rifle and Pistol shots who aspire for membership on th teams that will represent the United State in these tw branch of shooting in th Olympic games will have an opportunity to demonstrate th!r qualification In tryout which will ba held atiths marina baas at Quantlco, V., .during th weeks beginning May 15 and Jun 1. . Tha contestant wlnhlng places In ths trjouta will ba placed In training aa a team for about tsn day prevlou to th alltng date. ,T.h? rlOe. pistol and trapshooting event will ba held July 33 to 81. Inclusive and tha United ttale rpresntat)vei win laava our shore about July 1. No rifl or platol shbt Is barrad from tha competition. The committee wants td send tha best teams abroad. Amsrlca won In 1812 and the idea is to keep thi winning tr-for an Indefinite period. Tha rifle tryout win b at 200, 106 and 00 yard, and tha asm kind of target m wars used In the Olympia vents In Rttjckholm In. 1812. Th firing yrd-tand- ng. ,.6w I Shot; $00 yard prone, alow fire 10 shots; kneeling, slow fir, 10 shot; 0 yards 6prone, slow firs. 10 shots, JoO shots prone and ( shot kneel. yards Ing, rapid ftra. In twenty minutes, starting with tha gun loaded An string of 10 shot, with tho 'exception of the rapid fire, win bo preceded by two sighting hot. In tho pistol tryout tha will ba need and the ura will b (low ftra, consisting of 10 shot at 2$ yardx 10 at 60 and 14 at 160 leven-ma- n team wtl yard. ba chosen. Araro yet t bo meda for derangement tho of tho oxpensea shooter. It fraying I estimated that tho trip trill coat about $1000 a man. ak -- Liargf 4 s i? l j, Y, Y f ? ' f Ji& ' ;.v, v i vrss ' - Y A? Cf Jt f V t ' wr - ft i JS , ' .j i- - ; - - -- ..s1-!- V "aENE '"jrt' - - i .J X; v YUS - X ; 7ur i jft fj U t , c'-- - fY-1- ; ( .J v i . y , t , ' VV fi 5 . WALKER BETTERS WORLDS MILE MARK comes from Daytona Beach, Walker, th that Gene Apni star, had, on Monday,motorworld 12, bettered th established by cycle record, recently Leslie Red Parkhurst, Walker waa timed over th same course, used th NEWS on-m- ism timing apparatus same refers Walker with a e was SL72 and had th at Farkhurst had. official time for th inch seconds. mght-val- v Parkhurrt, mil motor on a motor, did 34.88 seconds. Walker bettering tha eld mark by 3.17 seconds. In tb stock class Walker turned off a mile in 34.92 seconds, aa against Park-hurstime of 36.34 seconds, bettering th eld mark by 1 42 seconds. Another ride wa that ha feature pi Walker inch eigbt-vaibettered with his the unofficial mark mad by inch motor, Parkhurst with a Parkhurst doing 32 45 seconds with tha than 73 seconds or slower 68, 10j alker with a 61. Parkhurst a averag an hour, while was about ill mile Walker did hia mils at aa averag over IIS mile n hour. (Adv inch eight-valv- e ts v Fans Relay Ore? Event. Th Untvaraltr of Fonnoyvanla relay race at Philadelphia, April SO and My i, will b th pres tot events of th kind ever held. In addition to tho entry of a teem from Oxford and Cambridge universities of England, tho best athletes from colleges and school of thi country will oompet. e |
