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Latest Heavyweight Sensational Jumps From Four-Round
Pacific Coast Boxer to Leading Contender Almost
Over Night; Jones and Curley Disagree;
King Kicking Up Fuss.
By RINGSIDER.
Chicago, March 3. No boxer that has bobbed up in recent
years has garnered the publicity that has been accorded Jack
Dempsey, the Utah heavyweight, who is on the trail of Jess
Willard, the coy champion of the big fellows.
ALMOST UNKNOWN 0
Unknown except to the four-round
game on the Pacific coast, when he
came east two months ago, Dempsey
has leaped into the limelight with an
agility that is remarkable. Before he
had fought a battle in this section
sports scribes were lauding him as
a prospective champion.
After Dempsey dumped over Homer
Smith, a promising heavyweight from
Michigan, newspaper men -'vied in
coining new phrases to extol his
prowess. Scribes of the far east
began to wake up when he trimmed
Carl Morris. Then Dempsey returned
to Chicago and put the skids under
Jim Flynn. After that he just about
owned the newspapers.
While all this was going on Demp
sey began a series of assaults in
tended to bring Jess Willard into the
open and into a championship match.
His efforts by no means curtailed the
publicity accorded him. On the other
hand it probably had some effect on
Willard, for the champion for the
first time in months began to talk
as though he intended to defend his
title.
Kearns on Job.
One reason Dempsey hit the news
papers so hard was because he had
Jack Kearns, who knows the game,
for a press agent and manager. An
other was that he was the refreshing
type of scrapper who showed no re
luctance to enter the ring. Dempsey
proved it by accepting every match
offered him.
After his first appearance Dempsey
was lauded as a righting man. He
is not yet a champion, by any means,
but there are competent sports critics
who predict he will make things live
ly for Jess Willard, Fred Fulton and
all of the top-notch heavies.
Ed Smith, who referred the Demp-sey-Flynn
battle, has been one of
Dempsey's ardent supporters. Smith
characterized Dempsey "the Stanley
Ketchel of the heavyweights." He
predicts Jack will come nearer upset
ting Willard than any , man in sight
today.
Two Viewpoints.
Tom Jones, who was thrown over
by Willard a few months - ago, and
Jack Curley, who once piloted Wil
lard's affairs, have given free ex
pression to their opinions of the Utah
lad.
"Dempsey is the man to beat Wil
lard," Jack Curley said. "I have
watched him carefully and he showed
me enough in his bout with Carl
Morris at Buffalo to convince me,"
"Dempsey never saw the day and
he never will that he could beat a
man of the Willard type," declared
Tom Jones. "Dempsey never would
get near enough to Willard to land
one of his punches."
King Kicks Up Fuss.
Mick King, Australian middle
weight, who has been hailed as the
successor of Les Darcy, is kicking up
quite a fuss among the battlers of
the Pacific coast.
After fighting with considerable
success around San Francisco, King
moved north to Seattle, and already
has put the crusher on two of the
leading scrappers of that section.
Both men were heavyweights, but
that made no difference to the Aus
tralian. King's first victim in Seattle was
Steve Reynolds, a city fireman, her
alded as possessing a robust wallop,
but very little boxing skill. King put
ln'm away in less than four rounds.
Then he knocked out Chet Mclntyre,
heavyweight champion of the north
west, in three rounds. Mclntyre, who
is a clever boxer, but not an excep
tionally hard hitter, had been ruling
the roost in the northwest tor several
months when King stopped him.
Dan Salt, the fistic impressario of
, Seattle, has taken King in tow and
expects to send him east after battles
with Mike O'Dowd and other , top
notchers in the middleweight division.
Gibbons Makes Hit.
Mike Gibbons, the St. Paul phan
tom, is making such a big hit as box
ing instructor at Camp Dodge, Des
Moines, that other army cantonments
are anxious to try 6ut the Gibbons
methods.
A few nights ago Gibbons took a
team of boxers to Camp Grant, Rock
ford, 111., where enlisted men have
been looking after the boxing instruc
tion, and the Camp Dodfre boys
cleaned up in great style. They won
three out of six bouts, got draws in
two and lost only one decision.
The boxers from Camp Dodge
showed themselves to be adepts at
Mike's shifty style of fighting, and
outclassed their opponents by a wide
margin. ..... .
Chagrined over the showing made
by their men the Camp Grant sports
men decided to try for a more capable
boxing instructor. They are after
Packey McFarland and if they cannot
(jet him they may offer the job to
Tommy Gibbons, brother of the fa
mous Mike, and by many critics be
lieved to be his equal as a boxer and
fighting man.
Heilmar. and Ericksen
Sign Detroit Contracts
The signed contracts of Outfielder
Harry Heilman and Pitcher Eric
Ericksen have been received by the
Detroit Americans.
Heilman improved greatly as a
fielder last season when he was given
Sam Crawford's job in the right gar
den. He hit close to .300 and Jen
nings expects that he will do even
better this year.
Ericksen was the star twirler of the
Pacific Coast league where he made
a remarkable record. He won 31
games, a record for any league last
season. He pitched 443 2-3 innings
and opposing clubs averaged but 1.93
earned runs per game. He struck out
307 men. passed 152 battf '
AT CHAMPION
DUNN RESCUES
BABE RUTH FROM
BOYS' SEMINARY
Baltimore Manager Gets Him
self Appointed Guardian in
Order to Land the Big
League Star.
Jack Dunn of Baltimore, gossip
ing about the reputation he has made
for developing ball players and selling
them at big prices, declared the other
day that he considers Babe Ruth the
best of all the lot and he picked the
Red Sox pitcher out of a score he
has sent up to make good.
"Ruth, in my opinion," said Dunn,
"ranks second only to Ty Cobb in all
around ability. There isn't anything
that fellow can't do on a ball field. I
think he is the greatest southpaw the
game has ever seen, and when I say
that I include among his inferiors
Rube Waddell, Ferdie Schupp and
anybody else you can think of.
"It was in the winter of 1S13 that a
friend of mine in Baltimore told me
of a boy named George Ruth, who
was in Mount St. Mary's school in
that city. This youngster, I was in
formed, was a big, husky fellow and
had the makings of a great ball player.
So one day I went out to the school
to see him. I'll never forget my first
glimpse of this youth," who was des
tined to become a big league star
within two years from that day. There
were a lot of kids from the school
sliding on a pond on the school
grounds and one of the Christian
Brothers at the institution told me I
would find Ruth among boys at play.
Ruth Leading in Boys' Play.
"I asked one of the boys which of
them was Ruth and he pointed to an
overgrown kid who was enjoying the
fun on the ice to the fullest extent
and who appeared to be the leader of
the crowd. Afterwards I talked with
him in the office of the school and
asked him if he cared to pitch for the
Orioles. He was delighted at the op
portunity and gladly assented. I at
once began proceedings to get him
out of the institution. It seems that
his mother had died when he was 7
years old, and his father, being
ill and : unable to support him,
he was committed to the school
to stay until he reached his majority.
He was only 20 at the time I went
after him, but I had myself appointed
his guardian and he joined our club in
the spring.
"It didn't take me long to see that
he didn't need a great deal of polish
ing up to make him fit for the big
show, and soon after the season
opened I got in touch with Clark
Griffith and asked him to look Ruth
over. Grif promised me several times
to do this, but put me off so fre
quently that I decided he didn't care
anything about the youngster and
finally I sold him to Boston. Griffith
has never forgiven himself for passing
up the chance to grab a great pitcher,
and you can bet I remind him of the
matter every once in a while."
Denver Slab Artist Wants
Chance in Major League
Jean Dale, who pitched for Indian
apo!is and Denver last season, and led
both leagues in hitting, to say noth
ing of pitching good ball, thinks he
would like to come back to the ma
jors as an outfielder or pinch hitter.
As a batting pitcher Dale holds the
premier record of all leagues and
Dode Criss in his prime never had
anything on him. For instance, he
batted .370 with Indianapolis, then
went to Denver and batted .367 in the
Western league. A man who can hit
like that, even if he isn't a good
pitcher, and Dale's record shows he
can pitch, should not be overlooked.
Los Angeles Club Signs
Indian Hurler From Bush
The Los Angeles club announces
signing of an Indian pitcher named
Jamison who is said to be a wonder.
He has been attending a government
school in Arizona and pitching for
an independent team at Kingman.
The ball club at Needles, also an in
dependent organization, determined
it must beat Jamison's team, so it
imported Slim Love of the New York
Yankees as its pitcher. Three games
were played and the Indian beat Love
in all three. He is A six-footer and
weighs 185 pounds.
Honus Wagner Takes Stump
To Boost Thrift Stamp Sales
Honus Wagner has found his voice
at last, even if for only four-minute
intervals. The greatest German of
them all has been enlisted as a mem
ber of a speaking party in a Pitts
burgh loyalty campaign and is helping
boost the sale of thrift stamps and
such by making four-minute talks to
audiences at moving picture shows.
He is a big boost to the movies and
his efforts also are said to be boom
ing the sale of thrift stamps.
St. Louis Athletes Enlist
For Service in the Navy
Ray Neusel and Fred Hoffman, two
youngsters from St. Louis who have
been making their marks in minor
league base ball, have enlisted at the
Great Lakes training station. Neusel
played in the Texas league last year.
Hoffman was in the Three-I and then
with. St Paul in the American asso
ciation, where Mike Kelley declared
him to be the best catching prospect
he had lgoked over in years, y
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Eleven of Players Stationed Overseas
Walter Camp Passes Up Glo
rious Opportunity to Select
Squad of Stars in the
Service Abroad.
Most experts, Including the vener
able Walter Camp, have overlooked a
wonderful opportunity to make known
their choice of an All-America "Over
There" foot ball team.
Scores of athletes who held promi
nence in every walk of college sport
are awaiting the gong that will bring
them to the ring for the big battle
against the German menace.
While some of the players selected
for the "Over There" team are not as
trim as they used to be, all were
prime performers in their day and
good' copy for the sporting writers.
Each of them has a rendezvous
with death awaiting, but the majority
no doubt will be able to sidestep the
grim reaper or dodge their way
through his keen-sighted scouts.
Three Tigers Selected.
On the eleven are three Princeton
ians, Eddie Hart and Hobey Baker,
former captains, and Bluethenthat.
Eddie Hart, who is an officer in the
reserve corps with General Persh
ing's forces, captained the Tigers
when they beat the Harvard eleven in
1911, the year when Sammy White
signalized the resumption of foot ball
friendship between the two colleges
after a breach of fifteen years by gal
loping 80 yards for the touchdown
which made the Princetonians victor
ious, 8 to 6.
Bluethenthal and Baker also play
ed in this epoch-making battle. Later
they tasted the dregs of defeat,
though not without honor. Charley
Brickley defeated the Jerseymen un
der Captain Baker by a field goal in
1913.
Baker's fame is better known to
American sport lovers as a hockey
player than a disciple of the gridiron.
Both men are flying, and Hobey has
been reported as having already
brought down one German.
Three Elis also grace the "Over
There" team. Harry Le Gore, right
halfback on the 1916 eleven, which
was the first Yale team in a number
of years to accomplish the downfall
of a Haughton coached team, is with
the expeditionary forces.
Yale Stars "Over Three."
He has been placed at fullback. His
running mate, Charley Comerford,
who played a wing in both the vic
tories over the Tiger and the Crim-
Managers
In National
League This Year
New York John J. MoOraw, most succei
ful of National league managers, born at
Truxton, N. T., 1873. Played first profes
sional engagement with the Oleen N. Y.)
team In 1890. Joined the famous Baltimore
Orioles In 1892 and almost Immediately
shared honors with the great stars of that
team. Later played with the Bt. Louis
Nationals and Baltimore Americana. Since
becoming pilot of the New York Giants In
1802 McQraw has won six National league
pennants and one world's championship.
Philadelphia Patrick J. Moran. who Is
credited with piloting the only Phllly team
to win a National league pennant, was born
at Fltchburg, Mass., In 1878. Began his
bass ball career at Lyons. N. Y.. In 1897, and
two years later Joined the Montreal team.
Entered National league In 1101 aa a catcher
for Boston. Developed Into a star back
stop. His big league career covered five
years with Boston, four with Chicago and
five with Philadelphia. He piloted a pen
nant winner In if IS, his first year as man
ager of the Phillies.
St. Lonls John C. Hendricks, recently
signed to pilot the Cardinals, was born In
Chicago In 1872. After a varied career In
semi-pro and minor league bell he got a
trial as an outfielder with the New York
Giants In 1102. He failed to stick with the
Giants and returned to the minora aa man
ager of a Central league team. His next
move sent him to Denver, where he piloted
a Western league championship team. Last
season as manager of the Indianapolis team
he won the American association pennant.
Cincinnati Christy Hathewson, manager
of the Reds and former star pitcher for
the Giants, was born at Factoryvlllo, Pa.,
In 1880. Before entering professional base
ball he was a crack college player at Bnck
nell university. Ilia first regular job as a
Dastlmer was with the Taunton (Mass.)
team In 1891. Ths following year ha was at
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 3, 1918.
Heavyweight Sensation
All-America Team
From "Over There"
Comerford, I. e. (Tale).
Hart, L t. (Princeton).
Tnunbnll, L f. (Harvard).
Bluathentbal, a. (Frlneotoa).
Taylor, r. t. (Harvard).
Iamb, r. t. (Penn 8tat).
Souey, r. e. (Harvard).
Baker, q. b. (Plnceton).
Phllbin, L h. b. (Tale).
Hard wick, r. h. b. (Harrard).
Le Gore, f. b. (Tale).
son with Le Gore, has been stationed
at left end.
Comerford was playing big time
foot ball for the first time, and dis
tinguished himself mightily. He is
connected with a Mobile hospital.
The third Blue warrior tapped is
Steve Philbin, who has been placed
at left half. Steve is a real old-timer
and was with General Ted Coy in
1909 when the Eli cohorts went over
the top in the Harvard stadium to an
8 to 0 victory over their dearest rival.
Philbin is with the aviators assigned
to General Pershing and will act as
one of the "eyes" which will direct
the land movements of the American
forces during their present engage
ments along the western front.
Four Harvard men have been
tapped for the team. Trumbull at left
guard was an excellent linesman,
while in college, and Tack Hardwick,
who some experts have claimed is
the best gridiron performer ever
turned out at Harvard, is placed at
right half.
Soucy is at right end and Mose
Taylor at right guard. All these men
except Taylor played with Brickley's
champion teams. Soucy and Taylor
were on Mahan's eleven which beat
Yale, 41 to 0.
Hardwick and Soucy are lieutenants
in the trench mortar section. Trum
bull is doing Young Men's Christian
association work and Ensign Taylor
is in the naval branch of the aviation
service.
Levi Lamb, who has been placed at
right tackle, was one of the best
known Penn state players. He wore
the Blue and White for four years in
foot ball, track and wrestling. Lamb
is a lieutenant in the infantry.
There are also a number of other
good foot ball men overseas with
plenty of past performances to back
this statement up.
Walter H. Wheeler, who gave up
the Harvard captaincy this winter, is
Norfolk, and at the close- of the season he
joined the Giants. During the ensuing IS
years Mathewson was the mainstay In the
bos for the McOraw outfit. He became
manager of the Beds In 1117.
Chicago Fred Mitchell, pilot of the Cubs,
was born at Cambridge, Mass., 1871. Joined
the 8t Johns (N. B.) team as a pitcher In
1900, and the next season was with the Bos
ton Americans. He continued bis major
league pitching In Boston, Philadelphia and
Brooklyn until 1(04, when be Joined the
Toronto team. In 1910 he bocame coach
of the Boston Braves and last season en
tered the managerial ranks as pilot of the
Cubs.
Boston -George fitalllngs, veteran leader
f the braves, was born at Augusta, Ga., In
1870. He began as an outfielder back In
the middle '80s and played with several
minor league teams and with the Philadel
phia and Brooklyn Nationals. His long
career a a manager began In 18(1 at Au
gusta, where ha piloted a pennant winner.
Later he managed teams at Nashville, De
troit, Buffalo, Newark and New York, go
ing to Boston In 1(14. Though he found
the team in the Hub a tall-ender he won
with it the National league pennant and the
world's championship.
Brooklyn Wllbert Robinson, leader of the
Dodgers, was born at Hudson, Mass., In
1889. He made his professional debut as
catcher for the Haverhill (Mass.) team In
1888,. and later played with the Athletics in
the American association, the Baltimore
Orioles and the St. Louis Cardinals. Robin
son was a member of the wonderful Oriole
team of 1894-8 and shared honors with such
stars as McQraw, Jennings, Brodle and
Keeler. . After retiring from active pastime
Robinson Joined the Giants as coach and re
mained with McOraw five years. He took
charge of the Dodgers In 1(14 and won the
NaUonal league pennant two years ago.
Plttsbargh Hugo Betdek, manager of the
Pirates, was born In Chicago In 1884. ' The
selection of Besdek last July to succeed
Jimmy Callahan as pilot of the Pirates
came as a surprise to base ball followers,
owing to the fact that he bad had no con
nection with big league base ball other than
a brief period of scout duty for the team
he now leads. Biidek was at one time a
tar fullback on the University of Chicago i
foot ball team.' Later he was a tucceesful
athletic coach at the University ot Oregon.
Scores of Star Athletes, Well
Known to College Fans, in
France Training for
the Big Game.
in command of a number of submarine
chasers.
Flo Dussosoit of Dartmouth, who
likewise relinquished a captaincy, is
also in action. With Steve Philbin in
the aero service are Aleck Weather
head and Dug Campbell of Harvard;
Casey Jones, half back at Penn State
in 1915 and 1916, and his teamates,
Whitney Thomas.
Pudrith of Dartmouth and Fido
Kempton, Yale's wonderful little
freshman captain in 1916, are also
overseas.
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TWO MORE FAMOUS
LEMONS HIT ROAD
FOR UNCUT BUSH
Dan Tipple and Cliff Markle,
Heralded as Peacherinos,
Pass From Sight With
out Regrets.
The passing of Dan Tipple and
ClirT Markle, who have been released
to St. Paul by the New York Yan
kees, call final attention to two of the
greatest pitching disappointments in
the disappointing pitching history of
the New York American league club.
Tipple was one of those $11,000 beau
ties who blossomed like an orchid in
the minor leagues, but when trans
planted to the harsher soil of the
majors took on the general appear
ance of a citrus bud. Tipple was pur
chased from the Indianapolis club of
the American association three years
ago after he had won 11 games in a
row. No sooner had the New York
club taken title to the pitcher, who
was permitted to finish the season
with the Hoosiers, than he suffered
a blight and lost eight in succession.
Tipple had the distinction of being
the highest priced, minor league re
cruit in 1915, when the Yankees went
the limit in outbidding five other
clubs, It might be said that no minor
league player has brought as fancy
a price since. In some particulars,
Tipple's case paralleled that of Rube
Marquard. Rube also was purchased
from Indianapolis for $11,000 and his
first two seasons with the Giants were
dismal affairs. However, in the third
year, Rube got another chance and
made good, while Tipple has been
shunted back to the minors.
On reporting to New York late in
the 1915 season, Tipple pitched a two
hit game against Cleveland. The next
spring, when he was expected to be
the brightest luminary among a large
assortment of prize rookies, Tipple
displayed absolutely no major league
ability. He was farmed out to the
Baltimore club in 1916. Last season
Tipple further hurt his chances by
being a holdout and refused to report
at Macon until a few days before the
Yankees broke camp. He was sent to
Toronto and later to Baltimore, As
Tipple was able to scratch together
only ll games and lose 14 on teams
which finished first and third, Miller
Huggins informed Colonel Rupnert
that tie did not think it worth wliile
to take Dan on another training trip,
The Yankees might as well have
taken their $11,000 for Tipple and
dropped it overboard.
Markle did not reach New York with
as great a reputation as Tipple, but
acquired one shortly after he landed.
He came from the Waco club of the
Texas league in the latter part of
1915, and was a success right from
the start, ico-injj easy victories over
Boston a;i'1 Chicago. He also started
the 1916 ; on in a blaze of glpry,
and at one stretch had three straight
victories over the then world's cham
pion Red Sox. Last summer he did
not earn his . salt. .
Another Trial for Wood.
Word from Cleveland has it that
Smoky Joe Wood is to have another
trial next season as a hurler for the
Indians. '
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PESKY GHOST OF
FEDERAL LEAGUE
BURIED AT LAST
Sagacious Ban Johnson Cooks
Little Pill, Which, With Aid
of Bank Book Balm,
Settles, Dispute.
BY JACK VEIOCK.
New York, March 3. The pesky
ghost Qf the Federal league has been
laid low at last.
After much haggling, many confer
ences and a lot of diplomatic dealing
the attorneys fox Organized Base Ball
and the disappointed angels of the
defunct Fed circuit finally got to
gether and patched up the agreement
whereby three former Federal league
club owners are to receive bank book
balm.
Ban Johnson, shrewd and sagacious.'
with his colleagues on the National
commission, helped cook up the little
pill that was to put the ghost of the
Feds to sleep for good and all, and it
was administered at National league
headquarters here In mid February.
Just what agreement was reached
regarding the payment of Installments
on $550,000 to the Brooklyn, Newark
and Pittsburgh Feds was not an
nounced by the joint committee of
the major leagues. But 'tis said that
O. B. will fork over about $100,000
this year and continue payments to
the Feds amounting to at least $30,000
per season for nearly twenty years to
come.
Pay Ward Estate.
The Ward estate, which will receive
payments made to the ill-fated Brook
lyn Feds, will get $20,000 per year for
ahout eighteen years, 'tis said, while
Harry Sinclair is to receive $10,000
per annum for ten years to cover the
rental of the Newark ball park. Ed
Gwinner of Pittsburgh is said to have
made arrangements to settle his
claims for $50,000 flat.
According to the best available In
formation O. B did not fall for the
claims entered by the Baltimore Feds.
The Balto-Feds, 'tis said, were duly
represented when the peace agree
ment was reached, and, as no pro
vision was made to reimburse Balti
more owners for their losses, the
Balto-Feds have no comeback.
During the recent schedule meet
ings of (he major leagues in New
York a feud of long standing between
Scout Joe KeUy of the Yankees and
Mike Donlin was patched up.
Kelly was manager of the Cincin-.
natl Reds in 1904 and Donlin was a
member of the team. During the
world's fair in St. Louis several of
the Reds had an all-night session with
the pasteboards, and as a result Kelly,
and Donlin had a falling out which .
later resulted in Donlin being sent
to the Giants. .
That was nearly fourteen years ago,
and not until the two were prevailed
Upon to shake hands in New4 York
were explanations made. Donlin said
he had retired early the night of the
card party, but that several other
members of the team came in late
and got him out of the hay, so1 he
made a night of it with them.. Kelly
had always thought that Ddnhn was
the prime mover in organizing the all
night vigil over the cards and chips.