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Show S TIIE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY i MUTT AND JEFF i WERE OF BALL Grid Manager and Coach Are in Direct Conflict T Baseball Realize Business Agent Says He Leaders Urgent Need of. Legislation to Curb the Evil. " ' By AC SPINK. The articles I have written recently about the worst of all baseball ev il the tampering with moriey-ma- d players 'by livnl managers of major amt minor league club have not only created .comment aH over the country, but the head! of baseball have at last token hold of the -- JMltC At the recent meeting of the advisory council jn Chicago the matter was dla, cussed pro and con by National Com' missloner Landis and rrerldent Heydler of the National and President Johnson of the American league. President lleydler declared that so many and such vigorous complaints have sources been received from responsible concerning alleged tampering with ball placers that the advisory council will enact and put Into effect a stringent rule "regarding the matter in the near future. Along about the time of the big leagues schedule meeting neat rnoruh. lt la prole. able that Commissioner and his conferee of the council, Messrs. Heydler, un- Johnson, Bexton and Farrell, will doubtedly have much to say about this practice, The point at Issue Is the tactics said to have been adopted on occasions bv tome clului to MO' me. In the breasts of baseball players of prominence or promise, attached to the clubs of low rating Personally Hired and Paidotre Dame Players; Pilot Says No South Bend Man Was In Lineup. CARLINVILLE. 111., Jan. 29 tBy ths Associated Pres. ) Rivers Anderson, business manager of the local football team, ton ght declared he had personally "hired and paid Notrs Pams university men to play ' for .arllnvllls against TaylorvlU laot fall.,T"whlle fjnnrt Memo, coach, said "to hla knowledge there waa not a Notre Pama plan In the Carllnvllle lineup. Both assertions were made In statements to the Associated iTess. Anderson cleared John Mohardt, of 'the charge halfback, nof playing I- the game'and "said several Notre Dame stars whom he had expected to have In the lineup did not appear, although he had been led to believe thev would come. "I handled the money for - the team and I personally hired and paid Notre Ifcime men lo play," he eaid. "I am not wdfling to eay how much they were paid or who they were. We thought we had arranged to have the- - entice Notre Jmme first team, but several stars did not show Mohardt did not play, although up. nearly everyone thought he was plavlng. There were eome regulars from the Notre Dam team, but there also- were several the standing, a dissatisfaction with substitutes. Moise, a star athlete at the Univertheir surroundings and to lead them to did not amplify desire transfer to teams so situated as sity of the South, 1905-to achieve greater things In tho way .of his statement. In monev and fame. Explicit Instances said to havo Involved maneuvers have been brought to the attention of the highest tribunal- - of organised, baseball and It Is these cases which will serve as ths basis for ths Svpected action of tho council. But despite the great evil there are some baseball writers who, due to their apparent tmoraucs of the real situation, ridicule the idea of passing legislation to curb It. Such Case of " Ringers. CHICAGO, Jan. 29. (By the Associated Press ) Indications tonight were that Gus Deech and John Mohardt, Notre Dame football stars, said to have played with Carllnvllle, IH In the professional game last tall against TtxylorvIRe, ill , w hlch resulted In disqualification of nine University of mmols athetes, would be cleared of eny cmsieetion with the collegiate football avandal. Developments today tended to show Cases Are Many. that Peril end Mohardt were Innocent There are five cases at ths present writ- victims of a case of false Identity which was the seoond Instance of g ing of tampering with pliixers so flagIn the bitter rivalry between the two rant and gross and so injurious to ths over the game, on which Oarlln-v4Wgame that they akne give cause for real town action to put a stop to-- tho practice for people bet approximately 9O.POr. It all time, or rather to provide penalties la said, after hiring ten college- - P la vers for the Stopping "of further work of the i double-crossin- e- sort The Groh case, disgraceful as It was, and despite the Injury Inflicted on a certain club, and the case of Kd Roush, are minor affairs compared to others that have occurred In both major and minor leagues and which have come directly Under my notice. Without mentioning any names I will Simply tell of one case that came under mv direct attention not Jong ago. It concerns a National league club and the scenes were laid In Chlongo. c Going, to the Cubs' paik one day 'and pealed near tho bench of the visitor. I heard one of the home piavers ask where a certain player of the visiting team was. Ths player referred to was a regular and one of the best In America. To the query as to where he was. came the H Isn't feeling wed today: we reply: were 11 drunk on pioophine.Jat night, hut he was drunker than any of, tho rest of thefr eleven, "only to find Taylorville had 'learned of the plait-an- d procut ed nine Illinois athletes for its team, which won, it to 0. Both Deseh, member of the American Olympic town, and Mohardt. sn halfnsck, Issued denials that they played and today presented evidence ttr the Notre Dame authorities at Bouth Bend, Jnd , that they were In school that When the Carllnvllle people, who day. players, thought ofthey had hired the tills, they frankly deviated that learned on by had been Imposed undoubtedly they some persons using the comes Desch and beaten Mohardt, and that, besides being At their Own game of "sofa betting." they nad been the dupes of tha "rtngeis they hired to make the betting aafe. At Booth Bend, Desch end Mohardt presented their evidence at an Informal meeting of members of the college athletic committee, and afterward these members expriaaeiT tho opinion that the two were Innocent and merely Victim of for. to he the twut lenlent. VVa cannot; for w have to protect our, college, and we must protect college football from the en-to croachments professionalism Is trying make tn tt. "Wo feel the highest regard for ths Illinois authorities lor thair action, and I know that Notrs Dams will be severs If are found guilty.'" any of hsr jn Eligibility Not Decided. l3o he' of tha 4 jiaxta Matches e Four-rounde- rs The second longest boxing program of the season will be staged at the Hippodrome theater tonight when Promoter Hardy K. Downing will deal Out thirty rounds of battling. The card Includes a triple-heade- r. boys will be three pairs In which of sent over the route, and three pairs will step the regulation four rounds or. st least will start on their journeys. Some of the bouts no doubt will be decided Inside the allotted distance. One of the d events will bring together Dick Ie Bay so, tbe Garfield cyclone, and Frankie Snilthers, two Of the most willing and g oversize lightweights in this neck of tha woods. As both of them possess a wallop that la apt to bring 'home the victory any time It connects, it promises to "be a mighty tough battle with the chances of ode or the other eilpp.ng over- - the k. o. being good. It Is these battles which finally wind up In A k. o. that give (he fans thole- real thrill, end this bout 111 never Be on ice until The final bell has rung Little Johnny Woodmansee, who has been- - the sensation of the present season and who promises to fill the shoes of Lou Pali. so, will get the acid teat of his boxing career tonight when he meets Charley Lavatta, the Pocatello Indian, In d another one of the feature events If the local youngster can bring home the decision he be roosting on d, Make Specific Six-fram- and Three Make Up Manhattan Bill. 29 Ten Jan. TATLORVILLE, 111., fool ball ptuiers who did not come from Carllnvllle spent the night of November 28 In Springfield and the next (Jay Joined a crowd of CHrlinville rooters to go to the Taylorvlile-CarlinviU- e game, accordfor the Taylorville ing to Investigator team who had been spying on Carllnvllle for a week previous to the contest. Un the regis.er of the hotel In Spring-fielwhere the players sie said to have stopped, appears the name of Lionel Meise, manager of the Carllnvllle team. Grover Hoover, Talorvllle coach, said tonight that Carllnv'llea attempted coup was discovered through a "spy" svstem established by him. One of hla aides, he said, spent the week in Carllnvllle and reported nightly. Another, he said, trailed the plavera to the hotel in Bpring, field when they arrived from Chicago. rs hard-hittin- . . four-roun- hard-hittin- Denial "six-roun- ht Tav-Inrvll- we-w- Hi U. 8. Reg. 1 at. Off -- By George McManus there PEDDLE IN MY ttA HURTING tHOE you Dior: i - Tt club has You Are If Your Size d Who meets Dick De Ssyso In battle at Manhattan club show tonight. a score of priests and students that I spent the entire day of November 27 on the university campus and I think it very unfair to use nry name In a manner which not only discredits Notre Dame and myself, but which gives the unito investigate, I versity no am willing opportunity to go at once to OarlinvIUe or Taylorville to meet any one who might think I waa ever In either town Johnny Mohardt, football and baseball star, who was named with Desch and Wynne, said"I absolutely deny having played In the game at Tay orville. III., November 27, end am willing to face any board of inquiry or anv Illinois players who took my Innopart In the game, to establish cence. On November 27 1 did not leave tho unlvers ty campus, as I was nursing a broken nose received in jhe Marquette game af week before and whlcly was further Injured In the Michigan Aggie game , Thanksgiving day. "Whoever has used mv name In connection with this game haa (done me an injustice and has also donej an injustice to other Notre Dame plavfrs. The attitude of the athletic; offh ials of the school "wag Well defined h j( their prompt action In the ease of the men who participated In the Milwaukee game. Tha athletic board haa already begun an In tne present lease and whoever haa used my name In connection y done an Inwith the game ha justice to me. but has .so been unfair to the athletic board," IsHere! - a snappy suit in the Dght weight for new anc early Spring for - not-onl- going, to get. to the old way. I expressed surprise when J heard this, but my triend said there waa nothing to be surprised at. "Coma.alcng with me tonight, and I'll show you the whole gang drinking moon Values up to 530 Paddock Not to' Don His Running Trunksr Any More shine," said my fiiend. "This one player playing for hla release has disgusted the entire gang, and Instead of keeping In coml.tlon, we are all plavlng for our release. Dut come along with mo ton'ght and 1 11 show you." FASADENA. Oal, Jan. 29 Charles W Paddock, known as "the fastest human." holder of ten records. Including the world's record of 9 5 seconds for the dash, announced last right that he had completed hla course at the UniverSouthern California and doe not sity of plan to appear on tbe tr k again. bvon running eight years and have 'l since my college work is completed. I do net feel the necessity of running again," he said. "I will not say that I will- never run again because conditions may develop that would make it necessary to run another race. Since my college work Is over I would have to be unattached or under some club, but' I do not plan to aa'peer on a track xigntn." Paddock also specifically declared he would not run under University of Calias fornia- colors thia spring, authorities at that- Institution have- - said that they exto. him pected sizes INhave. 23 33 10ft-ya- rd Injustice to Team. visiting team, ihe gfcat tiKver who was mlvsltrg That afler'ioon among them, ail hidrlrklng moonshine and having larious time Just a little later the gra( player absent from the field that day wae trans. He had played Pke a ferred to the drunken sailor for the , hut with the change he r turned to his old form, and In fact, never plaved better In his life Think of the Injustice done an entire team hy this one plxver; think. cD the comilm demoralization hla had brought about. But hs is only an Isolated case. Many other teams have been destroyed bv the same means, and the rases In the publie eye of this year will become more frequent as the years roll by unless radical measures are taken to curb the evil Under the circumstance, who t there, with the good of the game actually at TiearC who win oppose a war on the tactics employed even until very mentis of unscrupulous managers catering to the weakness of money mad players? Three Use Spyt System. day-wl- th That night I went to a dive on Harrison near Dearborn street and there were seated several of the players of the bantams around here and none of them has ever been abto to beat him.batLavatta la a tough and seasoned tler who has had a great deal of ring and on experience both here. In toIdaho be e mighty the coast, and Is going to meet, dangerous boy for Woodmansee for not only can be take a terrific punch, but he also carries a dangerous wailop that la apt to tip over hla opponent at any time. Woodmansee realises that he la fightof his ing the most Important battle career tonight and has put in some hard Apmatch. for the In work preparation of shape. parently he is In the best hia Lavatta has been doing training In Pocatello with Spug Mvers and la duo to arrive hero thlo morning. will bring out The other Eddie Jatk Ryan cf Ogden and Cyclone of George SoiliX. These Kelly, a brother boys are apparently well matched and should put up an interesting bout. Ryan has not appeared at the local club since he fought Jay Solomon a draw last to spring, but reports front Ogden are and the effect that he la in good shape of Kelly. expects to make quick work some spectacular batRyan has fought tles at the local club tbe past two or three years and Is likely to beat anybody If he gits away to a good etart. is never Kelly la always dangerous and has rung. hipped until! the final gong also promise some The wild and Hill the fireworks. Mitchell, woolly youngster who has been making such a hit at the club the past fear wek. L-- o another Hanson. classy and local lad, who has been beating everysent been he has against, are body d hooked up for the principal melee. George Sullivan of Bingham, who for fellows all the been big has knocking a goal In a couple of rounds, will meet In the first preliminary. Howard Nelson Both of these fellows are big huskies, who ean take and give a punch and one or 4 he .other. wiUjjrobabiy. be reposing In dreamland betore the scheduled jhatance has been covered. The opening bout will bring out a couple of brand new flyweightsandIn Tiny Dallas Stout, the pride of Keysville. Bateman of Sandy, both of whom are fellows. little clever ana said to be fast . good ' us" 15,009 -- URBANA, 111., Jen. 19. George Huff, director of athletics at the University of Illinois, explained that while the nine university athletes accused of playing professional football at laylorvllle had been temiorarily suspended, action on their eligibility awaited a meeting of the eligibility committee of the faculty. He added that they would not be permitted to take part m any university spurting event until this committee acts. was tho reply, Well, drunk or sober, "he Isn't plavlng his game this year." "We all know that. He's playing for his release. offered him the top rung A the Inlecmouctaln asban-he tamweight championship ladder, has a ready taken on all the rest of the FRANKIE SMITHERS 5 circumstances. A formal meeting will be SOUTH BUND. Ind , Jan. 29 Emphatheld tomorrow. ic denial was made that they hud participated in a profrsrlTm.it- - frxjtba l game Safe Betting Boomerang. at Taylorville, 111, November 27. The reports spread through Carllnvllle charged by the University of Illinois, by members of last year's Notre Dame thres the game were that ten previous to men The men are John Mohad been procured to football team Notre Deme Ous Desch and Chester Wynne. play and that the game had thus been hardt, Both Mohardt and I leech declared they and the btlng made safe clinched were on the Notre Dame campus NoMohardt and Chester Wynne, "Iech, added that the story and vember 27, whom the townspeople had been Informed were Notre Dame stars, were to play, but implicating them was an attempt to Inof the uniWynne i also ha dented participation In jure the athletic Itreputation was said, told Coach Wynne, the game add announced he can prove hia versity. Roikne Knute of Notre Dame that he assertions. 'did not play. Knute Hockne, Notre Dame Ooach, Coach Rockne saldr . -- "Illinois has had told the Associated Press that lhe months this' matter Hand authorities undoubtedly would tka drast- two onlv Information that has come to icshowed the action If the 9m estig-uioDame has been the stories of the that Notre Dsme men played in the Notre These sorlea ImpliAssociated Press. game. es: ed Mohardt, Desch .and Wynne, and "TVe do not want to go off ail have denied the Implication absolutehe said, "but we re bending ly. We can only give these boys a fair chance and Investigate their cases thorevery effort toward a thorough investigation. I "believe Desch and Mohardt ere oughly and demand a retraction If the Innocent, but can readily eea how the charges are proved untrue. Carilnville people might have been deGus Iewh made tho following stateceived Into believing Desch and1 Mohardt ment1 "I absolutely deny having In the football game at were, plnving on their team. man Is Dame Notre November 27, and further deny found "If any football or ever having payed In any professional professional gull tv of plavlng not e HI eel f anv- Haters 4 can - prove by vlelattewthe eollese-eule- er BRINGING UP FATHER By BUD FISHER (Copyright, 1922, ty H..C5. Fisher. Trada Mark Beg. V. 8. Fat. Off.) Cicero Is a Chip Off the Old Block StoriesQfCarlinville 30, 1922. RACJ OUVNY FOOT It ALU bVOLLe.N CAN'T ET MY SLlP&E.R'b ON -- I'LL HAVE TO tlT HERE ) awhile: 4VYOUR FOOT TOO tORE TO STAND ON? JICC&- - YOU COME. BACK HERE.! HOT WHEN I COT A COOO WART LIKE THItj- - to 3D of these only, Ve suits in mens and young models. They are and double breasted. are stylish, ments in fashionable and patterns. all-wo- Tweeds Samar ges After Bouts; , Would Meet Van Dusen mens single These gar- ol eolors Cashmeres Cheviots .Worsteds Come in this morning' for one of these suits this is a bargain offer you cannot afford to misi POCATELU. Idaho, Jan 29 Andrew Samsrgcs, known as the "slippery ureek," who Is a lightweight wrest r of some e note- - la seeking matches In the ntatn reg ext. Samarges is particularly eager to meet Royal Van Dusen. at either Balt Lass or Pocatello In the near future, lnti-r-mo- -- Dempsey Buys Home in Los Angeles for $42J5Q0 : - r)s,ANY;'-'ir.rs.- Xri.'"?Tja,.t TWpT " ev, heavyweight champion pugilist, hss purchased a Stouse hua an I a tnounced he would make it his permanent irntrienve for Ihstipsev we said to have paid tho property, which wae formerly owned bv foloml Jonitihon 8 Dodge, ts:a q. p rlnltndeilt of bunks of ld,forn.a WATER SPORTS ATTRACT ENGLAND By Tribune Ppeclal Sport Service. NEW YORK, Jan. 29 Ever since the Olympic games tn Antweip, aquatics have became, extremely, popuiartiwougn. out Europe, especially In England. Britain has Invited swimming competition with Sweden, Italy, Germany, Austria, 'Belgium and other countries ana has opened negotiations for Rudy lainger, Hawaiian star of this country, ant) Mrs Charlotte Boyls Cluna of the N. Y. W. 8. A. to make a trip to its shores to tn swimming meet. te Clothing Company StorejbrMeri and 2Ws 228-q- o Main St r , j f I |