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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 24, 1924)
Says Tex Rickard Will Promote Champion Jack Dempsey-Luis Firpo Fistic Go - »■ ■ ■ — — ■ \* Only Promoter to Stage Bouts Successfully Predicts Dream of Lew Ray mond to Promote Cham pionship Scrap Will Soon Burst. HE -latest addl tions to the hordn of would-be pro moters of fistic enterprises of gi gantic proportions, who are afflicted with wild dreams and much conver sation about fab ulous purses, most of which Is shot out over the neck of a hootch bottle soon will pass out of the picture, Tex Rickard, who has been the man be hind every championship match of *ny consequence In the last feva years, will re.onter It, holding as his trump card the confidence of the public, and 10# stage for the benefit of a horde cash customers a fight between Jack Dempsey and Luis Firpo for the championship of the universe. lie also may find time to put Vlrpo Into a hemmed enclosure with one Harry ■Wills, known in ring parlance as the Brown Panther from New Orleans, as a sort of preliminary to whet the ap petites of the customers for the big smnsh, when Dempsey s right paw will collide with the square Jaw of the Argentine hulk and the smash referred to will be the crashing of the Kouth American against the res lood canvas. Ntdhing could lie wilder Ilian tlie drealil of I*'\v lia.vinond of New York, who recently jumped into I lie Ihncltght with an offer of $250,000 In Flrpo, a similar sum to Wilis, the guarantee (verbal only) that lie will' bnild an arena in Connecticut that will cost $200,000 and there promote the said Finn)-Wills fight of 15 rounds some time in July, No matter whether or not Raymond posts the preliminary $50,000 cash that Flrpo has demanded be placed tn a New York bank immediately, it is almost a certainty that the entire enterprise will blow up very shortly »nd the Argentine hulk will come to Rickard asking for a fight with Wills Dr Dempsey and will accept a sum •Imilar to the one ho Is supposed to be offered to fight Wills, to engage In a battle with the champion right n New York where such a fight is »ure to be a financial success. Fighters of prominence have learned by hitter experience, it does not pay to hook up with fly-by niglrt promoters who offer big sums 20,/nd are unable to make good he W cause they haven’t sufficient fi nancial hacking to do so and can only pay off if enough customers are lured through the gates to make paying off at 100 cents on the dol lar ;> possibility. Dempsey learned fills at Shelby. In 1912 Jack John f---X Important Boxing Bonis Tliis Week February 25 —"Young" Btribling aguinst Jimmy Slattery, fl rounds In | Buffalo. February 25—Mandril agalmd Mickey O’Dowd, Ml rounds in Kast Chi cago. February 25.—Rddie Shea against Hillr« l.c\inc. 10 rounds In Kast Chi cago. I February 25.—Italian Joe C.ans against “Rocky" Smith. 15 rounds in j New York. February 25—Johnny Mendelsohn against *‘l*al" Moran, 10 rounds in Mil waukee. February 2>—“Jock" Malone against Mamie Smith, 10 rounds in Memphis. February 25—“Tiger" Flowers against “Battling" Gabes, 10 rounds in Barberton. O. February 2$.—Bobby Molgast against Midget Smith. 12 roumls in lew York. February 28.—Roland Todd against Allentown Joe Guns, 10 rounds in M Ilkes-Barre, Fa. February 28.—Bobby Barrett against Charley White. 10 rounds in Phila delphia. February 29 — Johnny Leonard against Jimmy Cooney, 10 rounds in Holyoke. Mas.*. February 29.—George Russell against Danny Cooney, 10 rtiund* in Harris burg. Ta. February 29—.Joe Slmonleh against Morrle Sriilaefer. 10 rounds in Omaha. March 29—I<oii ISogasli against Jack Clark. 10 rounds In Hazleton. PA. March l — Irish Johnny Curtain against George lluteh. 10 rounds In Memphis. V --> son and Jim Flynn learned it at Las Vegas. Those are only a pair of striking examples. There are many others. Many have wondered w}iy It Is that Rickard has the Inside track on all of the fights in which Dempsey la engaged. To the initiated this Is ob vious. Rickard only promotes bouts he knows will succeed. He has the financial backing necessary to make them successes and he has the sup port of newspaper men—support only because newspaper men know they can have confidence In Rickard and realize that this confidence haa not been misplaced. Dempsey sticks to Rickard because Dempsey has learned by experience that It pays to do so. Dempsey is smart. Refore many weeks roll by there will be something definite about a Dempsey-Firpo fight. This may be \ery shortly, but when the match is actually made Tex Rickard will be the man behind it and the bout will be staged In New York or New Jersey where it is sure to prove & success. Previous to that time there will be offers from various places and much press agent chatter, but It appears that these things are necessary as part of the game of "smoking up” such a bout to a point where its fi nancial success Is a certainty. Conference Records at Meet. Evanston, 111., Feb. 23.—Northwest ern university won the swimming meet from Iowa last night with a score of 46 to 22. The hot rivalry between the two purple swimmers, Ralph Breyer and Dick Howell, caused two conference records to fall. The 160-yard relay was timed to be 2 seconds faster than the confer enre and western Inter-collegiate rec ords and three-tenths seconds slower than the national inter collegiate rec ord held by Vale. The 100-yard free style swim threw' the spectators into an uproar when Howell finished 1-10 second ahead of Breyer and 1-5 second ahead of the time of the national inter-collegiate record, formerly held by Davy Jones of Brown university, and the I. A. C. In the 40-yard freestyle swim Howell and Breyer tied for first place, leaving the rest of the field. f---^ * • Omahans Signed With Marshalltown _;_' ' ' :_—---t-t--J cmw 1 3*ei Kipicek j .W JACK I*ACV, Omaha boy, who will manage Marshalltown, la., In the Mississippi Valley longue this season, believes hi patronizing his home town. This Is shown by the fact that while in Ornaha last week l,acy succeeded In obtaining the sig natures of four Oinnhans on Marshall town contracts. The four who will play for the Iowa club this season are Frank Stavniak, Clifford Hogue, 1 red Krajicek and Theodore Thrane. Frank Stavniali broke into ama teiir baseball with the champion* >■11111 lhi\e If Yourself team in 1911. The nevt season "Stiffie” jumped tlm auto livery men to play inde Itemleut ball uitli tin* Corning did), champion of southwestern Iowa, and at the beginning of last season was with tin! I.iiuoln dub of the Nebraska Slate league. He ob tained bis release from the capital city club Iji play, with Fullerton, Neb. Frank* fc';» third baseman, bats right ha tided and is the posses sor of a sifting Throwing arm. Clifford V-ogue, 'dutfl. Idcr, is con sidered one of the Pe- t base runners ever turned out of the local sandlota. Hogue sturtci) ,pja> tng amateur base* I ill with the Do him art Knights, which duly was In i*ed by the present mayor of tjnigha in la 17, following which he p.a I with the McCaffrey Motors, Walter, VV. ' larks and Ernie Holmes club*, pll .members of the lo cal amateur association. In the sum mer of l!t;f ini"played his first pro fessional gantQ with the Watertown club of the South Dakota state league club and (lie next year be returned and played syrwther season with the same club. I.a.-t season “Cliff" jdayed with Ernie Holmes’ White Sox anil Today’s best buy! % combined make fresh Tuxedo the outstanding value In pipe tobacco. Ounranteed trv Rickard After Chilean Boxer New York, Feb. 23.—Quentin Romero Rojas, Chilean haavywelght boxer, may be brought to this country by Tex Rickard as a possible op ponent for Jack Dempsey. The pro moter has cabled the Chilean an of fer of three bouts with the guarantee that If he wins all of them he will get a bout with the world's champion. Rickard plans to match Romero Itojas against boxers of tho type of Fred Fulton, Jack Renault, Hartley Madden and George Godfrey, to de termine his fitness for a match with Dempsey. It Is the promoter's Inten tion to arrange three trial bouts for this year and develop the South American for a championship match in 1925. May Loses Two Malt lies. I.akeworth, Fla., Feb. 23.—After having fought his way through four days of play and losing but one same. Loren May, Akron, O.. pitcher, lost two matches yesterday at the mid winter tournament of the Na tional Horseshoe Pitching association, lie attributed his bad luck to a wound from a piece of steel that Imbedded itself In his right index finger, neces sitating lapeing the diget. tho Papillian (Neh.) club, both teams playing semi-pro ball. Fred Krajicek, outfielder and pitcher, is considered by amateur fans and players as one of the most popular and heat hall players that ever graduated from local ama teur circles. Krajicek is fast for a man of his size, weighing around 190 pounds. Most of I'red's base ball experience has hern with the Woodmen of the W <Wld Ileadqtiar ters team, he having been a mem ber of that team for four years. Fritz led the Metropolitan league in home runs last season, garner ing 10 circuit clouts during the amateur league's season. f- \ Golf Recognized in Chicago Schools __; Chicago, Feb. 23.—fiolf was for mally recognized aa an ihtersclinl iiStic spoi l today when Chicago high school students participated in the first high school indoor golf tourna ment. , , The tournament is the forerunner of plan* to establish a links to be used exclusively by high school students for tlieir outdoor tnurnlb ments and where high school stu dents can be trained for university competition. Cardinals Leave for Training I St. Louis. Feb- 23.—The advanqe [squad of Cardinals composed of five recruits, left hele today for Braderi town, Fla., wiigre spring training for [the St. Louis Nationals will be of ficially opened Monday. Of these five, Lattie Holm, who Manager Rickey states will be given a tryout as a catcher. Is the only one who trained with the Cardinals at Rradentown last spring. The other four are; ‘‘Terrible” Thomsqp, from Nebraska university, Lotfls Barrel!,, from Hugheon, Cgl., Herman Bell, Al ton, la., and George Berry,-from Ok lahoma, Cal., Thomson and Farrell! are catchers; Bell and Berry, pitch-1 ers. California Track Meet. Los "Xngeles, Feb. 23.—Some 400 field and track athletes gathered at j the Coliseum here today to compete j :n the first official southern Cali for- ; nla meet of the 1024 season—tlie an- j nual Amateur Athletio Union relay’ carnival. This year’s meet offers an add! j tlonal attraction to the aspiring com- j petitors as many of the athletes com-j petlng undoubtedly will be chosen to j represent the United States in the i Olympic games this summer. r Omaha Only Club in western League Able to Boast Handsome Margin of Games 'ft on Since 1900 ■ '|iat IffciC.tefrA of j9j« * n • p t thfij^iKito ^pen nant ‘ • l*t»- the Omaha piAathead floated on a Western (T“»guc gonfalon, but In Omaha iv the only team in the circuit which can Isiast a hamisoine margin oa. the glde of 'i4he ledger' for its quarter of a century in baseball. « During this time It has non nearly 100 more games than it has lost* and lias won exactly its proportionate share of pennants — tiirec. Three times it has been the runner up, four times it lias finished third, six times it has been fourth, making 16 times it lias finished in first di vision to eight times out of it- Only twice it has trailed the field. , . 6 put Ha's greatest season . W^Pxthat when It Penn ST2 gan*S. While losing only 37 foY a percentage of .619. This was the third time it had won .500 per cent of its games. Its most miserable year was that of 1903 when it won only 49 games, while losing 78, a percentage of .383. Here is Omaha's record, year by year, including the games won and lost, percentage and the position it finished In the league standing, as taken from the official record liooks: Won. TeO«t. rrt P04 19AA . ftl 63 4 9ft 4 1<»nt '. *1 1 - 4 9* l I 14A2 . *4 - 19 r,* . 49 7* 393 * 1904 .. 9 0 * 0 .40 0 ]*nr m’. 94 .'it 1 190* . 7 9 74 .4*»: 7 1907 . 9« *3 1 19A4 .... *4 99 .69 3 3 15>A9 . *4 44 1919 . 94 97 .5“* t*ll ! ’ ! . 96 9A .5! 5 4 1912 . 9* 71 .664 3 1913 . 79 S4 .47* 5 1914 . 77 17 .470 6 1915 . ... 71 49 .607 4 1916 . 92 67 .617 l 1917 . 72 75 .493 5 191 * . 23 32 .60* 6 1919 . 56 *0 .412 * 1920 . 76 77 .497 4 1921 . 96 72 .665 1922 . 91 77 .549 4 1923 . 92 74 .564 4 Tot«l» .1 *44 1.666 .521 — Cornell Eidit c to Get Workout New York, Feb. 23.—The Cornell crew at Ithaca Is preparing to get busy on the machines and later at the lake. John Hoyle will he In charge of the crews this year. He succeeded Charles K. Courtney. Although his task has t.een difficult, it Is believed he has found a solution to his most perplexing problems. The solution lies in the appoint ment of Bill Newman as assistant coach. Hoyle is primarily a boat builder and coaching is not a par ticularly pleasant Job to him. He would much rather observe a pretty crew in action than whip one into shape. Navy Olympic Crew Will Seek 1920 Honors Baltimore, Md.. Feb. 23.—On* cf the notable things st the Unite.1 States Naval academy at Annapolis is the preparation that is being made to compete for another Olympic championship on the water. The Naval academy crew of 1920 won the Olympic championship at Brussel*. Are We Extravagant? Here are some costs on Studebaker cars Would you have us cut them down ? WE are .avish on Studebaker cars. For some features we pay three and four times what they need cost. Here are some of those costs which affect you. Tell us—would you want any one reduced? Our prices on high-grade Sixes run from $1025 to $2685. They stand at bottom in the fine-car field, despite these extra costs. All because the de mand requires 150,000 cars per year. But they could be lower if we cut these costs. Would you have us do it ? Engineering—$500,000 Our engineering departments cost us $500,000 yearly. Our Department of Re search and Experiment employs 125 skilled men. It spends vast sums in analyses and tests. Our Bureau of Meth ods and Standards fixes every formula, every re quirement. It makes 500.000 tests per year to maintain our high stand ards. We make 30.000 in spections on every Stude baker car during manu facture before it goes out of the factory. We em ploy 1,200 men to do that. Those are heavy costs. But remember how they are divided — by 150,000 cars per year. They form but a trifle per car. $50,000,000in plants We have invested $50, 000,000 in modern plants and equip ment. $8,000,000 in drop forge plants. $10,000,000 in body plants — as the only way to do Studebaker coach work. These plants are equipped with 12,500 up-to-date machines, many of them very expensive. But consider the alternative. Profits to other makers. We save up to $300 for you by building Stude baker bodies in our own body-plants. 15% extra on steel On some steels we pay a bonus of 15% to the maker. Just to get our formulas exact. We could save that extra on “commercial runs." We are one of the very few build ers, either in Europe or America, using crankshafts machined on all surfaces. It costs us $600,000 a year to give you this. But it results in that smoothness of operation, that lack of vibration which characterizes only the most expensive cars. Every Studebaker car is Timken equipped. The Special-Six and the Big-Six have more Timken bearings than any car selling under $5,600 in America. The Light-Six more than any competitive car within $1,500 of its price. Other costly extras Our bodies are finished with 18 operations, including' 15 coats of paint and varnish. We use real leather upholstery. We could cut the price of our open models $25.00 were we willing to use imitation instead of genuine leather. We upholster our closed models in the finest Chase Mohair. Cotton or ordinary wool, or a combination of both, would enable us to reduce our price from $100 to $150 per car. But we would thus sacrifice Studebaker quality and reputation. The many extras on our large closed cars would cost much if you bought them. The nickel-plated bumpers, the extra disc wheels and cord tires, the steel trunk, the cour tesy light, motometer, etc. Extras to our men We pay the highest labor scale. Then we add extras to it. Men who are with us five years or over get 10% of their year's wages in an anniversary check. Those an niversary checks last year cost us $1,300,000. After two years all employes get a week of vacation with pay. That cost us last year $22S,JOO. Old employes who re tire get pensions. AH this to keep men with us while they grow more and more efficient. To make them happy, so they do their best. This is all paid by peo ple who buy Studebaker cars. But we figure that each such dollar saves us five dollars. Don't you agree with us ? The utmost in car xxduc The object is to give you the utmost in car value. You will find we do that if you make com Earisons. In any Stude aker model, you will hnd scores of ways m which it excels any rival car. That is why, in the fine-car field, the Studebaker leads. The demand has almost trebled in the past three years. These cars have become the sensation of Motordom. On some of these models we have never yet been able to meet the demand. We spend money lavishly. We build without regard to cost. But, in our quantity production, we still bring costs to bottom. You should learn what these thing* mean to you before you buy a car. Don’t Buy a Fine Car until you see the leaders Studebakers hold the top place in the fine-car field today. Last year, 145,167 people chose them against all rivals. They paid $201,000,000 for them. For 72 years the Studebaker name has stood for the utmost in quality. 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