Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-16 | Page 19 | Sport Chatter

SP9KJ CHATTEPjf fACK HEMPSEY and his manager, J:iek ECearns In an interview have discussed the relative merits In which they hold the five principal oha'.lon-Kers oha'.lon-Kers for the heavyweight championship. champion-ship. The title holder and his :nan-aget :nan-aget agreed In giving tl;o contenders the following ranking: First Jcs: Wlllard. Second- Bill Br en nab Third Harry Greb. Fourth Georges Carpentler. Fifth Harry Wills. Neither Hempsey nor Kearns consider con-sider Wills has more than an outside chance for the crown Kearns has predicted that JDempsey would d:spo-;e of Wills in shorter time than It look, him to knock out Fred Fulton. The' Minnesota plasterer was eliminated In I Just 18 seconds. Wlllard is the gre.-te-t fighter of them all There is no question about that. Kearns has been heard to remark. re-mark. it now, therefore, appears that the BO-called Joke match between l"iii- ey ami Wlllard Is becoming a serious proposition. .a DENY RUMOR. The report that .Mile Lenglon. world's greatest woman tennis rhark Is the representative of a well known garter manufacturer. Is herewith denied, de-nied, In spite of the many photographs! photo-graphs! In a hasebaP game recently played In one of the major league parks, a fan was hit In the head with a batted ball and refunod to bo taken home. Probably he preferred batted bails to rolling pins. m Alma Richards, world famous athlete, ath-lete, will don the colors of tho Los Angeles Athletic club in the national A. A. U track and field championships champion-ships In September. The title gamc-s will be held at Newark. N J Richards Rich-ards wore the colors of the Ogden Athletic association In the 1920 trials for the American Olympic team. CANCELS PLAN. Charlea W Paddock world's greatest great-est sprinter, has decided not to enter the national title games. Competition Competi-tion In the east may have some heir- ing on Paddock s decision to remnin on the coast. Early to bed and early to rise is a first class motto for everybody except night, watchmen a Ty Cobb has slowed up something awful with the Detroit Tigers. All ho does Is cover h much ground as he ever did before, pound the apple and run bases like a colt. Time does not wither nor age decay that bird. Do you know that Josh Devote ol Mew York stole four bases In the ninth mnmg of a j.iinr with Boston in 191 2? IFTFEK wn.LARD. Sonic bird has Just offered Jess VTil-lard VTil-lard $25,000 to meet Bill Brenn.n And some one chirped tha Jess didn't need the coin. 9 a Twill soon he time for the grldders I to rto" their to and start preliminary prelim-inary practice for the 1922 season With three colleges In the limelight m I'tah In the grid sport for tho new season, the sport Is expected to havo s banner year. Jack Dempsey Is having a tough time getting matches. From the fls-tlc fls-tlc offerings the umpires are having throughout the country Jack should don the mask, protector and shin guards and fights together with pop bottles would no doubt greet him also. nn