Special Trains
for Homecoming
Arrangements Made for Spe
cial Service From
All Cities.
Iowa City, la., Oct. IS.—Reduction
of railroad rates to a fare and one
third for the round trip will be made
from all points In Iowa on the lines
of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pa
cific railway to Iowa City for the
Illlnois-Iowa football game and the
Iowa home-coming day celebration on
-Saturday, October 20. The Illinois
Iowa game, which will begin at lawn
field at 2:30 p. m., will be the princi
pal feature of the home-coming day
program.
Announcement Is made that tickets
for the trip will be on sale October
19 and 20 at all points from Des
Moines to Council Bluffs. Des Moines
to Manley, points on the Decorah
division and points on the Minnesota
Dalfota division—the line from Vin
ton to Sioux Falls, S. D.—including
branches.
On the return Journey arrange
ments are limited to trains leaving
Iowa City before midnight on Oc
tober 20.
Other railroads In the state may
announce fare reductions for the
home-coming game, it Is announced,
although no assurance has been re
ceived by the department of ath
letics. The Rock Island railway will
run three special trains on the day
of the game: One from Burlington,
one from Des Moines and one from
Moline, 111. The Burlington train
will leave the latter city at 9:10 a. m.
and the Des Moines train will leave
Des Moines at 10 o'clock.
Hearne Must Win
to Retain Honors
By CARL L. TURNER.
By International New* Service.
Kansas City, Oct. 13.—When four
teen of the world'* fastest drivers
face Starter Fred Wagner In the
Kansas City Speedway Thursday. Oc
tober 13. In the 250-mlle national
championship event "Grandpa” Eddie
Hearne , must emerge the victor to
clinch highest honors In the motor
racing game, the championship of
1923.
The veteran Eddie'* winning streak
began In the bowl here July 4, when
he won the 250-mll* race, end kept
him company In Altoona, Pa., In the
200-mll* race September 4. His stock
waa raleed 159 point* when he came
out second In the recent contest on
the Fresno (Cal.) track.
Hearne leads Jimmy Murphy, his
nearest rival for this year'a epeed
crown, by 188 point*, that la If Mur
phy'* credits, which were taken away
from him by the American Automo
bile Association when he went to
Europe, passing up the Altoona and
Fresno events, are reinstated. Officials
of the association have Indicated they
will meet the popular demand and
return Murphy's point*.
The speedway racing game has Its
"If” column the same as baseball, but
It Is more difficult to distribute the
"ifs.” This Is the way It looks now:
Driver Pts now K. C. L. A. Totel
Hearns.1268 600 ... 1758
Murphy .1070 ... 600 1670
Hartz . 820 600 BOO 1820
(1 Milton .*00 500 600 1100
, Thus, If Ilearne wlnH either the
Kansas City or the Los Angeles race
and Murphy docs not win either event,
he will be champion. Outside of
Murphy the track veteran will have
little to fear, as It Is highly Improb
able Hartz or Milton, the runners up,
will win both races, which they must
do to capture the title.
Murphy Has Chance.
However, the little Irishman could
nose out Hearne by winning both
races. He nwiy run off with the Los
,5 n:-eles race Thanksgiving day. but a
' seems to be following him on
,il board walk. Twice he has
d races here, and twice he has
f J to finish.
If Hartz and Milton, the 1921 cham
pions, have Interference In their bat
tle for third place It will come from
Bennett Hill, Earl Cooper or Jerry
Wonderlich. The latter three each
have shown well In races this year,
all having a comfortable percentage,
which would become dangerous ihould
they win either of the two remaining
events, or should one place second In
both events.
Local racing fans are about evenly
divided In their eupport of Hearne
and Murphy for first place. Mur
phy's hard luck In his starts here has
won him sympathy, and h!s clean and
daring driving has brought admira
tion. Hearne, a former Missourian,
by his nativity, claims a large per
centage of applause. He, too, failed
to finish the first racs hero last year,
„ when hi* Disteel Special blew a tire
and turned turtle from the middle of
a high curve.
The veteran was more successful In
the race here July 4. While he won.
the race, additional honor wae given
because he never entered the pits af
ter facing the etarter
Both Drive Durant.
Both Hearne and Murphy will pilot
Durant cars In the race Thursday.
Murphy will drive a Durant Special.
Tommy Milton will continue as cap
tain of the H. C. Stutz team, and
Harry Hartz will sit behind the wheel
of the yellow Durant that won the
Fresno race.
Harlan Fengler, a local boy, who
placed third In the race here July 4
and was a runner-up In the Fresno
grind, will seek victory In a Wade
Special, the car Ralph de Palma drove
here in the last race. Racing authori
ties are agreed the youngster—for he
Is only 20 years old—will b« a con
tender for higher honors next year.
The championship slate wdl be
erased clean January 1 for the 1924
battle, which will begin In February
on the Los Angeles Speedway.
Football Season Starts,
Audubon, la., Oct. 13.—Audubon
will have an independent football team
In the field this year, 17 men having
already signed up to play. R. W.
McDonald has been elected captain
and coach. Several members of the
local team have had high school and
college footbnll experience. The first
game of the season, will he played
with Coon Rapids today on the local
fair grounds.
Want (»ainf*.
Scribner. Neb., Oct. 13.—Any and
all comers will be welcomed hv the
American Legion football teem here
The team has been well organized
and trained, but so far have been un
et'lc to contract games.
Dempsey Is Champ of Champs;
Could Whip Them All at Best
Fight With Firpo Shows That He Is Still at Top Form—
Johnson Would Have Worried Him Very Little and
Fitz Might Have, While Jeffries Would Have Made
Best Match of Any of the Old-Timers.
New York, Oet. 13 — A boxing ex
pert says that Jack Dempsey's recent
performance against Lula Firpo
proved that there was nothing in the
thaory that the heavyweight cham
pion had gone back and never again
would be as good as he was at Toledo.
Dempsey's victory over Firpo was a
better performance than his victory
over Willard. The Willard affair
stands out only because the title
changed ownership on that occasion.
Dempsey was good that blistering
hot day at Toledo, but he was still
better at the Polo grounds. In the
recent battle Dempsey was hit both
hard and often. At Toledo it was
just like punching the bag. The way
Dempsey came back and polished off
Firpo after being knocked out of the
ring in the first round shows that
Jack is as game and tough and hits as
hard as any of the old timers. There
are many persons who followed box
ing closely during Horton law days
who think that if Bob Fitzsimmons
were alive and at his best today he
would flatten Jack in short order.
They say that if the unschooled,
clumsy Firpo was able to knock him
to his knees with the first punch and
later knock him out of the ring, Fitz
would have hit him so hard that Jack
never would have gotten up again.
That Fitz could hit more accurately
than Firpo, > there is no doubt. The
Cornlshman had the knack of getting
more shock Into his blows and he
picked out vital spots to hit. But
Fitz did not have a very good de
fense. None of his opponents had
much trouble landing on him. Demp
sey would have been able to hit him
and Fitz would not have been able to
withstand his wallops. Like Firpo,
Fitz would have had only one chance
to win. That would have been to
land a crusher In the first round.
Gibbons Not ss Good as Corbett.
Although Tom Gibbons Is not as
fast nor as brilliant a boxer as Jim
Corbett wns in his prims, the man
from St. Paul stood off Dempsey for
15 rounde without ever being In seri
ous trouble. But that does not mean
that Corbett could have outpointed
Dempsey. Corbett was nothing like
as tough as Gibbons.
Dempsey would have been xast
enough to break through Corbett's de
fense from time to time, and it would
have required only one good wallop
for him to win.
Dempeev would have had plenty of
trouble with Jack Johnson, but he
might have won. Johnson's long suit
was hie remarkable defense. As a
hitter he did not amount to much. It
took Johnson 1* rounds to stop little
Tommy Burns, a second rate light
heavyweight. Although fighting for
the championship Johnson could not
end the thing until the police stopped
the bout
Johnson Best on Defense.
Johnson tools 14 rounds to etop Jef
frlee, who was so weak on going Into
the ring that he had to hold himself
up by the ropes, while waiting for
the opening gong. Johnson could not
stop Frank Moran, a mere chopping
block, and he had to yell for the po
lice to help him when little Jim Flynn
began to use hie head to roughly In
the clinches. If Johnson had been a
real hHter he would have ended Flynn
with one smash.
Johnson, however, was e wonder at
protecting himself In the clinches,
and It Is only during the close fighting
that Dempsey Is really dangerous. The
black might have been able to wear
Dempsey down. Whichever way the
battle went It would have been a won
derful contest.
Another great battle would have
been one between Jeffries as he was
when he beat Corbett for the second
time, and Dempsey. The Jeffries
that Johnson beat at Reno would not
last two rounds with Dempsey, but
when Jeffries was st the top of his
form, he would have been a terrible
opponent for the present champion.
Dempsey Is a more pleasing fighter
than Jeff was. Dempsey Is faster, a
harder hitter and probably gamer. It
Is said that Jeff wanted to quit dur
ing his battles with Fits and Sharkey
at Coney Island. It Is a sure thing
that Dempsey would never even think
of quitting In any fight.
Carpentler to Meet Gibbons.
Georges Carpentier's one round
knockout of Joe Beokett, English
heavyweight champion, means that
Georges will meet Tom Gibbons at
Madlsen Square Garden In December
or January. Tex Rickard recently re
celved a cable from the former Eu
ropean heavyweight tltleholder, In
which he expressed the deetre to meet
Gibbons.
Gibbons, the eame day the Oarpen
tier cable was received, notified
Rickard through hla manager that he
was anxious to get In the ring and
preferred Carpentler as an opponent.
Rickard cabled Carpentler that If he
was successful In his match with
Beckett he might consider the Gib
bons match closed.
Tex Rickard said after the Carpen
tler Beckett fight that Carpentler
may come here before the end of the
month. Carpentler, It Is understood
figures a victory over Gibbons will
he a stepping stone to a return match
with Dempsey.
freedom, firmness, rhythm and power.
She hits the ball, nnd those who win
today must do Just this. They may
win matches with the sure and
shorter game, but rarely champion
ships.
On the other side both Roger With
ered and Arthur Havers, two of the
new champions, have been near the
front rank for several years. With
ered tied Jock Hutchison for the open
title at St. Andrews In 1921. He was
due to win a crown and his victory
was deserved.
So 1923 has been a good year in re
ward,Mg merit that for some time had
been forced to go Its unrewarded way.
It has turned out the old champions,
all a fine lot of golfers, to render de
layed Jlistlce to the new. In this re
spect It has been the most, notable
year on the list.
Golf has merely shown again how
quickly It become* bored with kings,
queens nnd crown wenrers In general.
No other game Is quite ns humbling
for star nnd dub alike No other
game Is quite so Insistent upon the
old query: "Oh, why should the spirit
of mortal he proud?"
On (lie Spoor of nu i'ndersludy.
Conceding the fact that Lula Angel
Firpo will be Dempsey'* main oppo
nent next summer, most of the winter
campaign ahead will be devoted to
the matter of building up a capable
understudy In case some untoward in
cident should happen to Luis Angel.
The four leading white parties in
volved In this program will be Tommy
Gibbons, Jack Renault, Floyd John
son and Georges Carpentier. '
The best outline suggests that the
winner of the Johnson-Renault match
will put on a show with the winner
of the Glbbons-Carpentler scrimmage.
the survivor to draw Rempsoy in
1924.
Harry Wills will also figure to s< ipe
extent In this layout, but Wills now
must battle his way back to a ehal
lenglng chance.
Three Rig Shows.
The above arrangement will guar
antee at least three big winter car
nivals.
Renault and Johnson will provide
fust entertainment. So will Gibbons
and Carpentter, if the Frenchman can
show he Is physically fit.
Gibbons should win and be ready
for the Renault-Johnson selection. If
Gibbons can slip by here safely he
will be all set for a summer's bally
hoo of considerable proportion.
The heavyweights still hold the
acene In public esteem. The multi
tude hasn't forgotten the thrill yet of
the Dempsey-Flrpo evening and this
thrill will carry over a long, long
way. .
Firpo’s OullooU.
Firpo has more than on* problem
upon his large, hairy hands.
lie must first go after moije ring j
skill and two-handed ability.
Also better training methods,
After this follows the problem of
ills ring preparation. He needs at
least two battles against capable op
ponents, yet it Is Just as well not to
have these opponents too capable
with Firpo’s lack of defense.
lfv Isn't as hard to topple as he
looked to be and some fast boy with
a punch may kick the mlllion-dollar
gate aout from under his feet.
Or^perhaps this next one will be a
two-million-dollar gate.
Anyway, It's a delicate matter.
Set-ups won't help#to any great ex
tent In the art of further develop
ment. But he can hardly afford to
crowd the risk of defeat.
Vale’s Kampart Ahead.
Harvard and Yale are both hoping
to reach their annual entertainment
unbeaten, but Yale faces the harder
hike.
Both have Princeton Int be way and
both have found Princeton more than
either could handle in recent years.
They may get by this time with
the Tiger rebuilding, but Yale's main
trouble will be against the Army.
Harvard has no such redoubtable
foe to put away. Captain McEwan
will send a great outfit to battle
against the Klue three weeks sway,
and only a great Yale team will
escape defeat.
It Is quite possible that the Army
may be the strongest eleven on Yale's
schedule, even stronger than Harvard
looks to be.
No team on copy paper looks more
Impressive than Syracuse. Chick
Meehan has a big, strong line and a
set of big, fast, experienced backs.
Unless hard luck hammers him at
some vital point Chick will come upon
the greatest season in Syracuse his
tory, although ho will need all he has
to whip Colgate, with Ueonard, Welsh,
Tryon, Redinger, Cornwall and others
around, another spectacular array.
Hans Wagner's successor in the Na
tional league has been definitely es
tablished. The name Is Rogers
Hornsby. Wagner set a National
league record by leading his organisa
tion.* four years In succession at bat.
Hornsby has now tied that Wagnerian
procedure and lis is still under 30,
with 10 big seasons ahead.
The Cardinal star will lie the best
bet for 1924 with a crack at a new
National league mark. Cobb's record
of nine successive years in the Amer
ican league will remain Indefinitely—
if not longer.
Golf Is Golf.
In her forenoon round against Miss
Cummings Alexa Stirling needed four
strokes to get down from the edge
of the green at the eleventh hole.
The net collection Included a short
chip shot and three putts.
(Copyright. 1&23.)
Final Game Today.
Audubon, la.. Oct. 13.—The final
game of the season to decide the
baseball supremacy between Audubon
and Klk Horn will be played at Wal
nut today. Kpcece, Omaha Western
league pitching ace, will occupy the
mound for Elk Horn, and Surnma,
who war with the St. L»oula Cardin*
ala th<» paet xNi*m. will do the hurl*
Ing for Audubon. Kerr, another
Omaha league player, will also be In
th» lineup for Elk Horn. Each team
has woo three game* and the game
laat Sunday went to a 12!nnlng 2 2
tie.
When in Omaha Sae '
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