Jim” Herman Matched to ( Sox Farmer Lodge ot Minnesota m- I' VIR of heavies who are very, very heavy will grace the ring In the semi windup to the Frankie Bchoell-Pave Shade fight here Friday right. They are "Pig Jim" Herman, Jack Lewis’ latest fistic acquisition, and Farmer Lodge, the big Minneapolis tioxer. Herman Ups the beam at 215 pounds when In fighting form. Lodge weighs 220 pounds. This will not be the first meeting of the big glovesmen. They met at Portland a year ago, and Herman won—that is, ho says ho did. However, Lodge claims Herman is a m iari< a tor of the ’nth degree. ®--—--— Anyway, both boxers survived their •itini encounter and will have a good pportunity to decide who is tho het ii- in.in when they meet here Fri ll' night. Herman halls from the coast. He * participated in a number of big itiles at Portland and Seattle and olds decisions over some good heavy eights. Big Jim. who is 23 years old. has speedy left for a big fellow and is i I i his dogs. Uoi ■ Shade, ivho has fought a mini n' of cards with Herman, declares c Is the fastest heavy in the game. Farmer Lodge was recently matched to fight "BUI" Brennan, but accord ing to the big Minnesotan, the Goth- j am product got “cold feet" at the last moment and stepped out. Articles bringing the two heavy weights together were signed this morning. Young Bige, who fough his first professional fight at the Civlahy club the other night, will take on a Hioux City welter in the opener. Bige, who Is under the management of Johnny Ford, made a big hit with firstic fans In his debut. Home de clared he has the speed of Beonard and the head of Britton, which is son^ combination. Tilden Fears Net Form Is Lost Philadelphia, Pa.. Dec. ?.—William Tilden, II, national tennia champion, declared today he would consider him self lucky to get into the first ten for 1923. Discussing for the first time his prospects since he lost the first Joint of the middle finger of his play ing hand, the champion was pessimis tic about the future. Tilden said it would be necessary for him to build up an entirely new sys tem of play aand that many of his trick plays would be lost to him. Con fidence in his shots, he confessed, would be greatly undermined. "I will have a nice orthodox gamo next yeaf,” he lamented, “nothing flashy and few forcing strokes. I am certain now that what is left of my middle finger will be stiff and virtually useless In gripping a racquet. That means all my strokes in which tills finger plays a part will have to be changed or modified. “My backhand drive and my alleged forehand drive are the only strokes that will not be affected. “As yet I in doubt about my service. All my volley shots and all those delicate little cut shots on which 1 always depended so much nre lost to me.” Tilden said he did not expect to play until February. Boosters Buy Player. i >os Moines. la., Dec. !>.—lidding Nelson, shortstop with the Lnd.ngton, Ky , Central league baseball team, has been purchased by the Western league dub of Des Moines, it was stated In a telegram received here last night from Lee Keeser, secretary of the Boosters, en route from the baseball meeting at Louisville Nel son's work at shortstop with Luding ton was one of the Centrat leagues sensations during the past two sea sons. WTTHTHE PUG9. Lob Angeles. Dec. 9.—Jack Josephs of Minneapolis. Minn, and tieorge Lavign* of Los A ngeles. welterweights, boxed a four-round draw hero last night. Toronto, Ont., Dec. 9.—Bobby Eher «>f Hamilton last night defeated Patsy Wal-j lace of Philadelphia iri a 10-round mutch billed for ike Canadian bantamweight championship. --r— Offers Made for Carp-Siki Rout Paris. Deo. P.—Three different purses for t light between Battling Siki and Ueorges Carpentier have been offered. Two of the offers, each for a purse of 300,000 francs, came re spectively. from a Marseilles merchant and a firm in Paris dealing in bicycles. The bicycle concern has deposited a check as forfeit with the Matin. The third, of 400,1)00 francs, is from the National Boxing ring. Bull other purses are expected to he offered. ‘'Franco is tired of this disgraceful dispute, and we want it settled to the. honor of all concerned if possible,” said the Marseilles merchant, in mak ing known his proposition. Siki has not accepted the challenge made by Carpentirr before Carpetter departed today for Brighton, England. The negro pugilist declared before he accepted he must receive his share of the 624.uoo francs receipts of the fight of September “4, when he knocked out Carpentier. The coldest capital in Europe is Petrograd. Blind Students ot Pittsburgh Institute Play Basket Ball Pittsburgh. Pec. 9.—{Special 1 — Pittsburgh may lay ctuiin to tho most remarkable basket ball teams til ex istence, probably tho only ones of their kind in the \vi rid. The Pitts burgh Institute for Blind has ac tually developed among Its members rival quintets, and in spite of their handicap they are said to play a fine game. Basketball for the blind is, of course, not the ordinary .ago game, but it is modified to a gnat extent. The chief obstacle in the way of tho sightless is tho inability to pass nnd shoot with any degree of accuracy, Thi- has been mot with at the Pitts burgh Institution by placing eight rubber marl's on the floor, four in the vicinity of each basket. These can easily be felt with the feel, and serve as landmarks from which tho players try for goals. They train to shoot from those spots, and acquire the knack of caging them at the distance with ease. The foul line is marked ! with a strip of linoleum pasted to I the floor at the regular 17-foot dis tame, and may thus be discerned by touching with the foot. Passing (tie ball Is really the great problem. Teams whose members possess all their'senses have great dif ficulty at times in keeping track of each other's movements in so fast a game ns basket ball, and It can read ily be seen how ban! It Is for blind boys to do so. The institute teams, however, seem to have found an ex traordinary faculty of feeling out just where the various plnyers are located. The floor markings play a great part in the formations and the passes aro made from one spot to another, so that the players develop mechanical perfection ip shooting the ball away and receiving it at certain distances. A system of signaling by stamping with the feet has been invented and helps the playprs in communicating With their teammates. Strange as it may seem, the teams know when they have lost the ball to their opponents, or when they have intercepted the sphere when the other side is bn the offensive. I Major Clubs to Get Less Newspaper Space Boston, Dec. 0.—I,ess sp/ne will ba devoted to professional baseball In tho Boston Herald unless there Is a de ci led improvement in the perform ance of the two big league teams which represent this iiiv. according to an edit rial signed by Burton Whit man, sports editor of the Herald, which will appear In that paper tomorrow. "I,ast season,” the statement says, 'this newspaper devoted less spa'e to 1 ig league games than for many years. Tho low ebb of Boblon's big league fortunes us represented by the Braves and tho Red Sox was reason enough for this curtailment." The statement also declares that the Herald Is pledged to keep away as far as possible from the "tiresome recounting of tho polities of profes sional base hull,” asserting that tho "forced and highly artificial yarns about what tho big league magnates wilt do at their business meetings do not have real merit ns sport fodder.” Tho 1'nited States owns the build ings in whieh it# legations are housed in China, Cuba. Japan I.ondon, Morocco, J’anaina. Salvador, Siam and Turkey. COMPLETE J?A0IO lmiallolio/i Radio the Practical Gift for Christmas Radio has taken the nation by storm and life has literally been made over for boys and girls, their mothers and fathers, the strong and the well ami the blind, and nothing has ever been offered to the public before which is as fascinating as the radio receiving set. It grips one—it never grows old. To hear a concert coming to you through space - to know that it is coming from Detroit or Pittsburgh—then, by the slight turn of a knob, to hear a voice from way down in Dixie; to jump from there to .some western station; seems almost uncanny—yet that is just what is being done by thousands of radio fans every night. 8*0t6j Make This a Radio Christmas! Surprise the family with a Radio Outfit so that you all will enjoy the con certs, lectures, music, etc., that will b e broadcasted this winter from all over the United States. Stop in and get our Radio Gift catalog or write for catalog R. G. describing sets. 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Not even the alert craft which guarded our coast during the war car ried such complete radio equipment ns the "dry navy” which today patrols the entrance to New fork harbor. Every unit of this fleet carries both bending and receiving apparatus of the most efficient type. Since they operate as a rule within compara tively narrow boundaries this equip ment Is not especially powerful. It serves nevertheless to keep the dry fleet in instant touch with headquar ters ashore at all hours of the day and night in all extremes of weather. The various units of the fleet are also enabled to keep in communica tion with each otner. The radio curators are experts in their line and brim* to their work considerable experience in marine sending and re ceiving. They relieve each other at their Ftations at regular intervals throughout the day and night, so that the fleet is never caught nap ping or taken by surprise. The radio installation as a rule is moro efficient and dependable than during the war. It is very complete in every’ detail For the benefit of radio fans it may be mentioned that it includes both spark and continuous wave trans mitters and receivers. It is operated by a 110-\olt current from tho ship's mains. The transmitter installed In the dry navy Is the same as that used by many amateurs on land. The send ing of these messages from one unit to another of the fleet may often be picked up by stations ashore. The news is flashed as quickly as possible to New York and Is placed in the h&nds of the operators of some naval transmitting station. From here it is broadcast to the entire pro hibition fleet cruising in near-by waters. As a rule less than 30 min utes is required between ttie time such information is turned in at, say Washington, and the time it is picked up by the alert radio operator abroad a unit of the dry navy at sea. The time is often considerably less. 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