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Show HERMAN CLAIMS I BOXING TITLE As Result of 20-Round Bout With Kid William at New Orleans. I IMPpRTANT EVENTS Football Schedule for 1917 Announced Tennis Association As-sociation Problems. Chicago, Jan. 10.- -Pete Herman of New I r leans today claims the bantam weight boxing title as a result of his having been awarded the decision ovor Kid W illiams of Baltimore, claimant of the title, In a 20-round bout in New Orleans last night. Williams declared he had not a square deal and asked a return match. In a bout between heavyweights In New York, Fred Fulton of Rochester, Minn . knocked Tom Cowler of Enp-land, Enp-land, in the first round. Thej were scheduled to go ten rounds. In St. Louis; Jack Moran of St. Louis won the J cislon over Jack Coyer of Denver in a ten-round bout. The nmn are henvy weights. In baseball circles interest attached to the efforts of John Powers, presi dent of thp Los Angeles Pacific Coast league club, to obtain the surplus players of the Chicago Nationals It was asserted In Chicago that George Zabel. the Baldwin, Kan., pitcher would be returned to the Pacitic Coast club without a trial this year. Announcement was made in Si Paul last night that Emmet Ormsby, a semi-professional pitcher of Chicago, Chica-go, had been Bigned by the St. Paul American Association club. Football schedules for 1917 announced an-nounced last night included those of the l'nhersity of Pennsylvania, Nut re Dame and Syracuse. Pennsylvania will play twelve all with eastern elevens. elev-ens. The Syracuse schedule con tained games with the Michigan Aggies Ag-gies at Lansing on November 24 and with the Lniversity of Nebraska at J Lincoln on November 29. Wisconsin and Washington and Jefferson are i the two new big opponents announced by Notre Jame. The Wisconsin game will be played at Madison on October 20 and will be the first game playerl by Notre Dame with a western conference con-ference eleven in years. A tendency to light off the "dan gers of commercialism" was apparent in a statement issued In New York last night by George T. Adee, president presi-dent of the United States Lawn Tennis Ten-nis association. In it he declared that It is urgent that the association "follow "fol-low the lead of other amateur sport bodies in the adoption of rules that will present players who desire to continue as amateurs from commercializing commer-cializing their skill or prominence in the sport." . |
