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Show 1 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE. SUNDAY MORNING,- - APRIL Dempsey Agrees to Meet Negro Heavy weight. Wills, in This Country Labor Day to The Tribune. 15. With MILWAUKEE, Wla, April the flapping of the flapper and th depart ur of Champion Jack Dempsey for foreign ahorea, the rest of the heavies can rest In peace for a few month and battle among themselves for the privilege of taking a beating from the king of th heavyweights. From the latest reporta it Is announced that Dempeev. before leaving for Europe, entered into an agreement to meet Harry Wills, considered the best of the colored heavyweights in ths world, and also better than sny of the white hopes In this country, at the Jersey arena on next labor day. It Is understood that Dempeev Is to recelvs around 1200,000 with i ertain privileges for his share and Wills to 525 000 for ths chanca from of a crack at the title. Under the new rules In Jersey It Is almost certain that the admission price to boxing matches will bs limited to 1 15. Ths average price could easily be placed at 110, which would bring In 100.000 wtthtthe 0,000 seats filled and allowing still 1000 seats for free admissions to press' men, poletc. And the chanoet are that ' iticians the big bowl would be fined on Labor I day for such a match. match Interest In a Dempseyi-WlUwill be as great as between Dempsey and Willard, if not greater, and with ths ground In the east ths attendance - 'battle will bs .mors than double. There are many ..boxing :fan.. wbo.,would.,pcelat..to . have Dempsey Ignore the challenge from Wills, on account of the oolor line, fearing It will result In trouble for theIngame the should the colored man won. aa case of Jack Johnson whs nhe defeated Jim Jeffries at Reno. Nev.. In VI JO. Dempsey, however, la full of confidence and Just at the height of his career. He that he can whip any man ltv- - lng, feels in ths ring, and has not ths slightof the colored challenger, which est fear la more than can be said for some of ths champions of ths past. Jack has never sparring partner, Hill Tate, who has toa win over Will, thinks that Dempsey a certainty to beat ths colored chal longer. -- Tate should have a pretty good line on both, aa hs has taken Jack's wallops la training and has fought Wills got sough class to perform he ... Indications point to a Benny Leonard-LeTendler match for the lightweight championship atr the Jersey bowl July I Tex Rickard, with his partner and present matchmaker. Jack Lourney, are supposed to be working on the same and exin pect to get the principals together the near future. It is really the greatIn the at the est match country present time and without a doubt would draw Hoes to the half million mark at popular prices. When Tendler and Leonard were matched In Philadelphia last summer or ear'y fall the advance sale at the time Indicated a 1200 000 house. That 'waa at the baseball park. With the bout held at the big Jersey bowl the receipts will be more than doubled. It to the one match that eastern boxing fans have been anxious for. Many of them Uh the favor .Tendler ...far ..ft meeting champion, but the New York enthusiasts will back Benny almost to a man. At 135 pounds It should be a hard tussle between them, with Tendler always hav- In a chance, on account of his hitting. However, Leonard has proved himself a w Prospects Good for Two Divisions; Managers Talk ! of Champ Series to Close. i The City Amateur league to looking for one of the most successful seasons since Its organisation. - There wa a good representation from last Tuesday X number of different club enlng.and, judging from the number the last few days, It looks of applicant x though there will be two divisions In Some of the manager are the league. i ? YANKEES PITCHER SEEMS DUE FOR GOOD YEAR SAM JON. ths trick? -- Johnnv Buff, flyweight and bantamweight champion, will get back Into action this month. The little title holder may meet Keapie Ertls of 6t. Paul at Detroit April 18, In a at a match that would bout have been about five years ago when Ertle waa at his best! Kewple would have been favorite in the betting then and no mistake, but the bright lights did Johnny no good and instead of being champion today bs Is playing In the third-lin- e trencheSL It only shows what care and condition will do for a fighter! Ertls Is one of ths finest little fellows the game ever knew and It to to be re gretted that he could not be the Johnny of a few years ago to give Champion Buff a battle that would be a real one. Buff algo has a title match on with Joe Lynch In New York during May, Ths latter had the championship tori a time, losing it to Pete Herman, and mow ths back ten-rou- -- tV-s- V it -- P. - -- Ki wonderful little champion and when he to beaten, if he ever Is, It will have to be by a very classy rtan. Has Tendler -- twice While In Europe Champion Dempsey will doubtless do a lot of exhibition boxing, but it Is doubtful whether be will engage In a real contest, unless ths Inducements should be beyond what he experts now. It may be that some of the French sportsmen will get together with some of their English friends and endeavor to promote another Carpentler-Dempse- y bout, but It does not seem possible. However, Jack will have a good and will rake In plenty of abroad time muste halls of London and rohv at-lParis. And why not! He 1a a real champion! dicap. and la giving the rest of th contestants th laugh whtl he takes things very easy with th unlucky thirteen. Barney needs one more pair of cheater and about five more added birds and h win give the hoys a good race. There ar a great many other shooter holding front I to II point, who eould, with a few good scores, step Into a top position nd get In on the final. Th following table shows the standing of all th shooters holding points on the cup and also shows thslr percentage, yardage handicap and their new added bird handicaps. Any shooter' name not appearing on this list will hav asm han- dicap as previously published. Yardage SILVER CITY JUNIORS WIN TINTIC TITLE . Special 16, 1922. Bert Bailey J. M. Anderson 1 ... R. E. Worrell J C. Jarrett Harry Luff A. 1L Jones C. H. Rellley W. P. Fowler .. .. ... E. L. Ford M Skeen Frank Smith -- II It 24 .,22 .11 II As - Back row (lift to right) T. W. Dyches (principal and coach),' Joel Hickman, Bonald Dyche, Moffitt Fonts; Britt chat (associate coach). Front row Kenneth McShana, John Baker, Rouland Gurley, Ira Gurley and Mldo to The Tribune. Ipeelal EUREKA AprH H,A T n t ic Junior athletic association has been recently organised for the purpose of fostering athletics In the Tintic district, and thus prepare the boys -- and girl to become 1 mors efficient In senior high school and college work. -- There were four team In this organisation, the Tintic ninth grade. Eureka Junior high. Mammoth Junior high, and the SHver Cttv Junior high. A trophy and banquet was won by the Silver City Junior high, who were victorious in nine successive games F0I1 READY Presidents - o-f- Eleven CoU leges Resolve to Elin)i All Professionals. TILDEN HOPES TO MAKE CHAMPION OF FOURTEEN-YEAR-OL- YOUNGSTER D L. Weiner, abrlght-face- d a member of the ctose of at Germantown academy, Philadelphia, Pa., is under the care of William T. Tllden II, world's chapnplon, who predicts ths youth will develop into a great tennis star. Early last week Tllden and young Weiner teamed up in the doubles at th Seventh Regiment armory In New York for the indoor tenni title, but the pair wa defeated. This defeat does not discourage. Tilden with hto student, however, as the youth has been playing tennis little more than a vear, and plays an all court" gams, according to Tllden, which to a remarkable thing for any tennis player. Weiner received some Instruction , from the professional at Yale, and hto tennis Alexander of youth 1525 BATHE Livejy Program Scheduled ICIP1P90T for Boxing Fans at Hippodrome Monday Night. E rs Inter-Mounta- in k, - - Title ' to Risk Bout With -- Match Set ' for April 16; Revised Handicap Completed by Committee. By WALTER CAMP. (Copyright, 1932, by Salt Lake Tribune.) NEW YORK, April 16. The meeting commented upon last week of the presidents of eleven college ef New England and New York ha resulted In a resolution . which may be ummarlsd In detail aa follows: 'Beasonal coaches are to bs replaced by the fall of 1923 with coaches who ar member of th faculty, paid only by th college. They shall- - be in readiness throughout th year, having other duties in addition to coaching. They Shall h paid at the asm rat a other faculty member with th earns permanenc of appointment and selected In 'the tame a facth other member of th way ulty. An executive eommitte arm appointed, consisting of President Melkaljohn of Amherst, Ogllby of Trinity and Sills of Bowdoln. President Meikeljohn further states that thl to only i the first step toward the abolition of coache "professional, seasonal and Itinerant, talc will the Moreover, he stats, they coach off tho bench and side line and put him In th grandstand and wlU move along to th dtoappearanc of all coaches President Shanklln of Wesleyan had siege last !all with hto alumni when he In Dr. Fauvor, head of the physiput, cal education department. In charge of football, but the president ha now won hto fight Th general criticism wa voiced a to th sum paid for coaches, several instance being brought out where a coach was paid mor than the professor. Altogether, th contemplated action not out of keeping with th situation that culminated in disclosure concerning certain Princeton athletes. The action of the eleven Institutes will eertalnlr reeult In some thin morally worth white. On th other hand they undoubtedly- expect a low In athtotie prestige. Eventually will come the Inevitable action and then we shall be able to settle down to real comparison. Th smaller colleges cannot compete in th marketplace for high ooachet, and If for no other reason than thl they must come to the general director of Institufaculty coach. A for th larger tions, unquestionably they will oontlnue t th seasonal specialist. with There to right on both sides. But when all is said, th fact remains that th tendency In coaching has been too much toward sapping th Individual initiative of th player. If every oolleg had a corps of faculty members expert In teaching sport th Dr. problem would be easily solved. Spaeth has done It for Princeton rowing. But without a Spaeth, what are ths Inevitable result? Why, specialists, John Hoyle, Jim Rios, Jim Corderry, Jo Ten and Jim Eyck. Wright DA THROWS ROSCOE. MATSU EL PASO. Texas, April 16 Matty of th world's welterclaimant Matsuda, wrestling weight championship, last night defeated Bobby In th of Canada, Winnipeg, Roooe ninth round of a scheduled fifteen-roun- d fall in ths bout. Roeooe took tho first d fourth round, but Matsuda took th n the sixth round and th third In th ninth. s 1 Th trap gunner of the Sait Lek Gun club will shoot tomorrow under th revised handicap which balk just been completed bythe handicap commute. All handicaps hav been figured up on a 4 per cent baaia, and where th percentage figured out In half th shooter ha been given ..the points benefit of the half point. H. L, Bassett to leading th thirty-tw- o j in tho tiers with a total of 26 point He to ahead of Blackl Well by 4 point. Following Basaett and Well come Johnston, Fryrear and Barney, respectively, who are all within striking distance, but It .la evident by the revised handicap that all of these shooters will have .to go somd to gain any more points. H. I. Bassett, who has been missing for the past few days, waa heard from today. It was discovered that on account of having hto handicap, cut In half he had been In some secluded spot burning a lot of powder and throwing some lead Into the air. Blackl. howhandiever, feel that with a four-bir- d cap he to sitting pretty, which to. no doubt, correct, as Blackl ha proved in tha tie shoots that when he ha to deliver the, goods he can do It. been George H. Johnston, who ha training very hard- - to keep In shape, showed last week" that he was overtrained. and had to be satisfied with one point. George promisee, however, to do better from here on out, providing he gets over 'the soreness caused from .hto classwork In ths gymnasium, whtcb h thought might put him back Into good condition. safe with It han- Fryrear looks-pretty an sec-en- hard-hittin- four-roun- V .JU Limit Set on Hoop Garnet for University of- - T. W. r iht oJ to Hw Tribe d UNIVERSITY ' Idaho 4 OF y x. I OUT FOR RUTH 10(1 Hornsby, Heilman, Meusel anil Frisch' Touted as Pos sible Circuit Makers. By OEORGC CHADWICK. (Copyright, 1912, by Salt Lak Tribun.) NEW YORK, April 18 "Ban playr,: aid Frank Snydar, catcher of, th Qlanto today, "ar nor Interested thl season than for a long tim m th race for th batting championship of both big leagues. I heard mor talk about batting on th spring ttMnlng trip than hav heard In five i ear. TH tail 'Vou why. Ruth to out of th race, and Hornsby and Hell-ma- n. s, two or left to make it. Probably neither Cobb nor Speaker will get In it, if they nr oompeltod to lay off becaiM of Injuries. ' It looks Uko another cleanup for th righthander if both Hornsby and Heilman stick up to th Un and hit a thsy did in 1921. Player say that six weeks' layoff may get Ruth so out of whack that h never will get Into hi stride. Tho opinion of players about a thing of that character is well worth While. Their prophecies In regard to tho chance of other player doing certain things sometimes ar o accural a to b uncanny. I right-hander- Hornsby In Fair Way. Hornsby appear to hav a elean track to retain the National league championship. Everything favor him. It look aa if Roush la out of it for tho season and h 1 about th beat In th National toagu xcpt Hornsby. There ar no eastern hatter In th National more promising than Meusel and Frisch of Nsw York. Neither, however, look Ilk a batting leader. Mausel to too sluggish. Frisch can't mk th old ash ring Hornsby make It ring. There ar two men on th fit. Louis dub who may crowd Hornsby more than any others They ar McHenry and Fournier. The latter, had hatur en fit to throw about ten pounds more of steam into him, would have boon one of ths great player in baseball. McHenry, who wa looked down upon at first by wtoo manager, ha been mourned over many a time since then by those who passed him by. Heilman to not going to hav an alr fight than h had with Detroit In 1911 and If be show an Indication to start slower than ha did last year he may hav . to surrender hto hatting crown. Sister Has Chance. Should Sister get away to n good start, th Browns first baseman may win- - out. Slalar 1 n .400 hitter when things or going well for him. Offhand, he seem to b mor of n natural .409 hitter than Heilman. Part of last summer Heilman wqa batting AM, and It wa high-da- s, forceful batting. Tber were no scratch, mtocue and slipping fielder to help him. Ho drove tbs bail with tremendous fore " dose to the ground and hi betting stows so keen that gav on of tho host exhibitions that baseball ever ha seen. However, tbs pace waa too swift to he maintained. If Heilman had ended 1921 with a batting average of .800 he would have put Ruth In the shade. Unfortunately for Cobb, h turned aa ankle before th season started. That injury will affect hto batting, because n player whoa ankle bones ache to not In proper shape to beat out Infield hltA Cobb may eventually get going fast and may finish with aa averags that will put him on top, but It won't bo tho kind of a batting average that would hava earned him a crown had he played In every gam. Ruth may run up a whal of a batttnr average and he may not. The player are wise. They know that when a man alt , on th bench day after day and esse ' things going on In whloh be cannot parhe begins to fret. If he Is not ticipate the moat placid athlate In the world, there come a time when something nape. te The Tribune. SHOSHONE. Idaho, April 15. At a meeting of local baseball fan held her April 9. It was decided to break Into the game thla season with a local team. IC. A Bowler, and Charles Pethick were the appointed aa a committee to canvassascerbusiness Interest of the town and available. th tain support In a very short time they secured the promise of fund sufficient to guarantee a good, strong team for the entire season. Dr. J. An organisation was completed. El Potter and A. K. Bowler were ap finance committee; Perry Oxley. pointed Oi arise Pethick and J. C. Able, field and ground commute; Charles Carter, captain and playing manager. It to beUeved that there I enough good, strong local talent to make a team worth whito. Special " O SPUG MEYERS . ed Shoshone Plans to Have First-clas- s Ball Team K IDAHO, Mdaoaw, April 15 In future years a basketball o season at Idaho shkll'not exceed twenty-twgames, according to a curbing regulation passed by the faculty to control such promiscuous scheduling of game aa featured the season just passed. Top row (left to right) Kilpatrick, first base; Nils, pitcher; Chilton, pitcher; Borstadt, right field; Valentin, that twenty-tw- o The faculty feel Bottom row Stub' Peterson, left field and manager; Myers, center field; Fltspatrlck (captain), third has; backstop. n among the conference Evans, shortstop; Bnelgrovs, second baa. . games, . to and matches that sufficient, teams, of Ogdens new baseball team- - Ogden I edn win the 192 pennant In the North-- o w' n nonconference member are not ad- tisena hav a world of faith hi thlr I em Utah Isagus. ' season open Th able. ' , aggregation, being confident that they I During th past season the Idaho least pcUl Sam Jones, the pitcher recently by the New York Americas league club, was one of the few buriera who really rounded Into shape for the 192S aeaeon. Jn thevfirmt exhibition of the aeaeon In the eaet ginetfame the Brooklyn- - Dodfers, Jonee held the oppoa-I-nf players to three hits In five Innlnga 14. and" career then started. With Spug Meyer of Pocatello and Midget Smith of Midvale battling tor th junior lightweight championship of th Inter mountain country Jn the feature event and U pairs of to conclude ths evenings entertainment. the fans are looking forward to Hardy K. Downing's woekly boxing show In th Hippodrome theater tomorrow night with much more thn the usual interest, Ths previous meeting between these two and the fact that In both case the hoy scries already talking of championship decisions were so close that Jhey did not at theclose of the season meet with the approval of Midget and At the meeting to he held Tuesday hto friends have left Just enough evening at I o'clock at 115 South Main feeling between the bo s to make them one the most stubborn battles of street It is hoped that all of the man- put up ever seen at the local club. agers of th clubs will beg) re sent to elect This feeling was kindled after Smith officers and adopt rule for th coming had beaten Tommy Cello (ji the Salt season. - Th officers of the league will Lake theater a short time ago, when ALEXJWDERJLWEINER bo elected from the managers of the dif- Midget declared to a friend of Meyers on Pocatello hs could the boy whip ferent clubs, who also will draft the athat dime any place ki the world outside of rules. during which was Immediately told played practically thirty game Pocatello, Judging from" th list, to Meyers, and hs Immediately went on the season, but the outlay waa such that prospective were not gtven a Juet which consists of .Elec- the warpath and begged to be booked conference teams Kelth-tric, Smith-FeBrlen, Decker-Patrlc- here aa soon as possible, but Insisted deal. The faculty gave sanction to ths Utah Power Steam Heating de- that the bout be made at catch weights annual Christmas vacation- barnstorming Western aa. hs satd, he made weight for Smith In tour against the Independent, clubs, on partment, Capitol Electric, Auerbach Arms, Company, Arrow Press, their last meeting In Pocatello and weak, the ground that a long as It did not inClark Music company,' Beesley , Music ened himself or he would have won by terfere with scholastic work no action , need be necessary. company. Consolidated Music company, k. o. at that time. Paris Millinery company and th Hlrsch-na- n Smith declared he did ' not car if Shoo company, this will, no doubt, weighed a ton, as he eald (hat any Buff Decides be a good, fast league, with enoughrlval Meyers weight- he carried more than he .weighed to keep thing humming. ry at Pocatello would be excess baggage, - . In former seasons Lynch the City Amateur hut in h did Insist upon Promoter Downleague has been one of the most success- ing acting as the third man In ths ring, V In with the ful much Interest shown which wa agreeable to Meyers, and the By Tribune Special Sports Service. dtv, Two divisions match was cinched. throughout the season. NEW YORK, April 15 Bantamweight would hav a tendency to make things A large delegation of fans ha already Champion Johnny Buff has decided to all ths more .Interesting, and especially ordered from Pocatello, and Spug risk his title In a battle with Jo Lynch seats In ths championship series at the close will hav plenty of backing when they ait. Mad toon Square Garden on May 5. of the season. step through th ropes., Lynch, who held the title for a few Anyone desiring Information relative to been working harder than months, hr the most uncertain performer ha Smith membership In this league should attend ever. He realises that hs has got to beat among orthe meeting to bs held Tuesday evening Meyere thla time eradmit that he Is a es ting. the bantams andthe mot lot bettor man, and that to going to bs a It la the general opinion among those In close touch" with the boxing gam that bitter pill for him to swallow. While this to th big feature of the Lynch has shot hto bolt, and that Buff be card to of t wlH appears (he beat him. Pete Herman to still anxnight, honest mad up of real battles which should ious for a bout, but so far be baa been of a thrills, Johnny unable to arrange one. give the fans plenty Williams and Walt Hart, who are booked for the semtwlndup, are both rugged and g little fellows who always give the (an th best there Is In them, and It would not be surprising to e on or the other bring home the long end f th money by the k. o. route John Hanna, the youngster from Po ratello Vho created such a sensation hurt Monday night when he stopped Frankie Burns In two rounds, will get a real test this week when he meets Ted Titus, who lost to Bill Wallace lost Monday. ' Although Hanna was supposed to be from Pocatello, as that Is where e hs been doing most of hto battling, he Is In reality a Salt Lake boy, living herewith his parents, and, although practically a novice In the game, he has had seven bouts In the last few months and has established a k o. record by winning all of them within two rounds. .Tack Roth of Chicago and Jack Butt, who says he hall from Texas, also ar d battle. Roth ha here for a had a couple of bouts at the local club lately, end did prettv a ell. while Butts la a newcomer who 1aa claim to having j I ! D O beaten some pretty tough boy. Dick Jardlne and Fred West are another pair of battler hvho ar booked up for thl week fun. and Leo Hanson, the local boy, 'will meet another newcomer In Kid Tapperow. an Italian boy from Bingham, Who, through error, was called Papero, a Greek name, In a preAW'V-- V.; vious article lmev C.arflnkl and Oney Ouerts, th two flyweights who were aent to dreamland by Emil Paluso In two rounds, will tang! Hi the opening bout. u. 1 .... !( Ik1 k Ths introduction of Tommy O'Brien, Los Angeles lightweight, to th middle west fans wa quit an occasion for ths California lad. Tommy made his Initial appearance against Tony Dennis' Italian champion of Wisconsin, at Milwaukee auditorium, and certainly made a aensa tlonal start The bout lasted less than a round, the referee stopping the same while Tony warn In a helpless state and apparently "out standing -- up.. OBrien and Tory fought at Winnipeg, Canada, recently, and there was a dispute regardThe referee said that ing the result. Tommy had hit Tony low, but the commission took a' different view, after hav lng Dennis examined by a phvslclan, And reversed ths decision, although tinder no xlng rules they bad no right to do so. However, It resulted In the rematch be lng made In Milwaukee. Instead of going after Tony's breadbasket, as Dennis no doubt expected, O Brlen rushed out of his corner and shot a right swing to Tony's jaw, sending him to the canvas for a count of nine. He repeated and then Tony became helpless standing In his corner with the results above stated. O'Brien made a. big hit In ..Australia by his -- sensational work and he looks like repeating around ths west and east. He vould certainly make a great match for either of the Mitchells, Johnnv Mendel, son. Joe Jawrson, Willis Jackson, .Joe Benjamin or Charlie White S- t- .... Ira Dern Fred Ray Frank Rtunel H. C. Clark V.. but pep to thsy After seeing Pinky Mitchell battle Pal Moran of New Orleans at Milwaukee auditorium last week. It Is wondered at thaT 'Chaiplon BermV Leonard failed to stop the southern champion In ten rounds. Pinky carries a 'pretty stiff wallop in his right hand, but he was never able to put It over to ths point of ths jaw, aa Moran kept swinging about in, such a manner as to make it almost Moran impossible to catch ths spot. would be a great deal mord pleasing If would hs mix mors; hs takes fighter hi jaw ths chances all right out at times and Inviting hla opponent to hit him, but h would gain more by putting the same energy Inte reel aetkm; Pinky did not box In as good form a when h fought Bid Barberton of Detroit, but he had a more elusive opponent be. fore him than was the Detroit Armenian There have been times when Pinky looked to be the best contender In the In ths country, but lightweight ranks then again be ha shown none of the brilliant streaks and appeared anything but n contenuder. Apparently Pinky needs mors boxing and with different sparring partners. 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