Says Tex Rickard Will Promote Champion Jack Dempsey-Luis Firpo Fistic Go
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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 $50,000 cash
that Flrpo has demanded be placed
tn a New York bank immediately, it
is almost a certainty that the entire
enterprise will blow up very shortly
»nd the Argentine hulk will come to
Rickard asking for a fight with Wills
Dr Dempsey and will accept a sum
•Imilar to the one ho Is supposed to
be offered to fight Wills, to engage
In a battle with the champion right
n New York where such a fight is
»ure to be a financial success.
Fighters of prominence have
learned by hitter experience, it does
not pay to hook up with fly-by
niglrt promoters who offer big sums
20,/nd are unable to make good he
W cause they haven’t sufficient fi
nancial hacking to do so and can
only pay off if enough customers
are lured through the gates to make
paying off at 100 cents on the dol
lar ;> possibility. Dempsey learned
fills at Shelby. In 1912 Jack John
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Important Boxing
Bonis Tliis Week
February 25 —"Young" Btribling
aguinst Jimmy Slattery, fl rounds In
| Buffalo.
February 25—Mandril agalmd
Mickey O’Dowd, Ml rounds in Kast Chi
cago.
February 25.—Rddie Shea against
Hillr« l.c\inc. 10 rounds In Kast Chi
cago. I
February 25.—Italian Joe C.ans
against “Rocky" Smith. 15 rounds in
j New York.
February 25—Johnny Mendelsohn
against *‘l*al" Moran, 10 rounds in Mil
waukee.
February 2>—“Jock" Malone against
Mamie Smith, 10 rounds in Memphis.
February 25—“Tiger" Flowers
against “Battling" Gabes, 10 rounds
in Barberton. O.
February 2$.—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.
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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.
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Omahans Signed With Marshalltown
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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
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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.
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Golf Recognized
in Chicago Schools
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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.
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Omaha Only Club in western
League Able to Boast Handsome
Margin of Games 'ft on Since 1900
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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
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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*.
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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.
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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 ?
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The object is to give
you the utmost in car
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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.
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until you see the leaders
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fine-car field today.
Last year, 145,167 people chose them
against all rivals. They paid $201,000,000
for them.
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out knowing what Studebaker offers. You
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