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THE BEE: OMAHA. SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 1921. 7 A' Up-to-Bate News and Gossip of Interest to Sport Fans Recruits Fill Shoes of 1920 iWhite Sox Stars Bit Falk of Texas Takes Place . Of Joe Jackson Nearly as Well as Former Outfield er Sheely at First Chicago, June 18. Chicago has forgotten the former White Sox idoli who brought the world cham pionsnips to this city and a group of comparatively inexperienced rookies, playing on a team losing more games than it wins, are becom ing greater heroes in the eyes of the lans than were the men who once won games almost at will, but fell into disgrace through the alleged selling out in 1919 world series with Cincinnati. Joe Jackson, Happy Flesch, Chick Oandil, swede Kisberg, Buck Weaver names once on every youngster's tongue and in newspaper headlines nearly every day now are. mentioned in LomisKy par oniy when a fan eexpresses his approval of some rookie s playing by saying "Why that fellow's got it all over." using the name of the former star whose place the rookie was taking. .The Sox rookies came into the league facing the handicap of hav ing to fill the shoes of some ot tne greatest players the game has ever known. None of them has become a league leader, but every one of them has won a big place in the Chicago's heart by hard work and a trio through the stands would con vince most anyone that the persons who pay admission day alter day are more than satisfied with ther new team no matter how many games t loses. Falk Most Popular. Bib Falk, who came from a Texas college to replace the great Joe Jack son in left field, is probably the most popular of the youngsters. Falk virtually owns the left field bleachers. He is cheered every time he makes a catch and when he makes errors there is no booing or criticism. Every time he goes to bat the young collegian gets a big hand, for he has developed into the slugger type so popular with the fans. The fans will tell you he hits harder than Jackson and whether he does or not his recent game-winning home run with the bases full and his fence-hitting clouts have made Jack son little more than a memory with the fans. At first base Earl Sheely is con sidered the best fielder at the first corner since the lays of Jiggs Dono hue. This youngster takes wild throws with the ease of George Sis ler and his brilliant fielding has made the fans forget his weak hitting. At shortstop. Ernie Johnson, found wanting in the big leagues in past days through weak hitting, has made himself a hero through sensational gelding and is batting more than Is Steady Player. Mullitran, at third, is hardly Buck Weaver, but the youngsters farnest work and desire to make good mingled with steady playing, hav made a favorable impression, Mulligan, Johnson and Sheely played together with bait Lake last year ana with the veteran Eddie Collins to steady them make an infield which more than satisfies Owner Charles A romiskev's customers. lohnnv Mostil from Milwaukee anH flip veteran Amos Strunk alter nat. in renter while Harry Hooper. procured from Boston, is the idol of the right ticld bleacners. The two men whom Comiskeyhas been able to replace, however, are Eddie Cicotte and Claude Williams, pitchers. Faber has been the only consistent pitcher, Dick Kerr falling down badly, and the rookie pitchers having failed to show more tnan flashes of form. With Faber in the box, the Sox look like a pennant winner, to their supporters, but on the three days between his turns in the box it is easy to explain their second division position. Two good pitchers and Comiskey will have in one season, seen a world's champion team wrecked and rebuilt, the tans believe. Have Made Good. The rookies have made good with Chicago partly through their appar ent attempts to do their best at, all times, but much of their success has been due primarily to the work of Manager Kid GleaSon, Ray Schalk and Eddie Collins. Gleason keeps them at practice every morning and Collins and Schalk, two veterans, spend the mornings coaching the viimffclrA Batting averages show that Jack son is the only newcomer outhitting his predecessor, but only in the case of Mulligan and Weaver is mere a wide discrepancy in the averages. The marks of the discarded players last year and of the newcomers thus far this season follow: Joe Jackson, left field S2 Bib Falk Bur Weaver, third base 33S K.ldh Mulligan t Swt RlBber-. shotstop 2C6 Erni Johnson xCh'dt Gandll, first baa 29" Earl Sheely 233 Huppr Felsch. center field 338 Jtnmr Mostil 30S Amoa Strunk .33 xArrae "given to for as GandU was nt with the club in 1920. Principals in Title Ring Bouts JOE LYNCH, BantMm champion. s ... J fc". Scores Two Runners And Gets Double On 15-Foot Bunt SU Louis, Mo., June 2S.A two-Use bunt, 15 feet from the plate, that tallied base-runners from first and second, was a fea ture (f the recent New York-St. Louis Nationals series here. Carlinals were on first and sec ond hen Shortstop Lavan bunt ed alaig the first base line. Catchfr Gaston stopped the ball on tht chalk mark. Umpire Suiglej ruled it was fair, but aston argued that the hit was foul. While this farce was being staged, hme plate was left un guarded and the two runners scored, tht batter reaching sec JOE BURMAlt, Challenger. ITBIBUmS Photoa.l That the heavyweight contest be tween Champion Jack Dempsey and Challenger Georges Corpentier at Jersey City on next Saturday after noon will not attract the entire at tention of the pugilistic world is shown by the heavy demand for tickets for two championship fights 3ENNY LEONARD, Uehtweight cbtmpion, SAILOR FREKDMA&, in other classes to be held in the middle-west within the next 10 days. On Tuesday night the Twin Cities A. C. of East Chicago, Ind., has secured Joe Lynch, bantamweight champion, and Joe Burman of Chi cago as the principals in the main bout. It will be the fourth meeting of the little fellows, and a great con test is expected. There was little to choose between them in -their previ ous meetings, according to friends of both fighters. Benny Leonard, kingpin of the lightweights, will defend, his. title against Sailor Freedman of Chicago in the main event of a show at Ben ton Harbor on the afternoon of July 4. Freedman was selected as the champion's logical opponent because of his fighting in the lendier and Dundee battles. Meusel Fails to Add Homer String Chicago, June 25. Old King Sol was much in evidence in the base ball world the past week and his warmth apparently has brought pitchers who were slow in rounding into condition back to their stride. As a result batting has suffered materially. Babe Ruth of the Yankees, king of home run hitters, made two cir cuit drives during the week and brought his string to 25. In the Na tional league, "Irish" Meusel of Philadelphia failed to add to his mark of eleven circuit drives. Jack Fournier Of St. Louis, however, managed to get two, bringing his total to nine, which puts him in a tie with George Kelly of New York. The old warm weather also is helping the base stealers. Harry Heilman, the Detroit slug ger, continues to top the batters of the American league with an average of .421, according to averages re leased today. However, HeilmarJs mark has dropped 17 points below that of a week ago. Tris Speaker, pilot of the world's champions, who is the runher-up to Heilman, also slumped and now is hitting .397, 11 points below his mark of a week ago. Ty Cobb dropped only two ooints. He is in third place with an average of .396, while Babe Ruth is in fourth place with .370. Oeorge Sisler is fifth with .366. Sisler is out in front among the base stealers of the junior major circuit with 14 thefts, while Harris of Washington is trailing him with 13.- The International Sporting club of New York, which has nlgned Joe Lynch and Fete Herman lor it rounds 10 a decision for the world's bantamweight crown on the night of July 25, has guaranteed the boxers 70 per cent of the net receipts. The first 137.600 of this amount will be paid Lynch and the remainder to Her man. Retirement of Arthur Fletcher Finishes Former Star Infield fSli" mm . - -i imi hoi. .a W n ssi Much has been written recently of the retirement of Arthur Fletcher, yet the outstand !ng feature of Fletchers retire ment has been lost by the fans as well as the critics, It means that all four members of the famous in field which repre sented New York in three world's series Merkle, Doyle, Fletcher and Herzog slip ped out of the major leagues " buck " herzoq. with the close of tribune Pnoto.j the 1920 season, All four were regulars at the start of the 1920 season, Doyle and Fletch er in New York, Merkle and Her zog in Chicago. Today their names have become a memory. Five years from now the blcachente will be as ing: "Who was Fred Merkle?" Fletcher's Passinp- Blow to Phils. There never was a similar instance of a quartet of famous players slip ping out of the majors together as this old Giant mtield has done, Fletcher, of course, still had big league ability and his retirement was a blow to Philadelphia. Doyle is serving as bench manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Last year he covered little ground for the Giants, but the territory that he ac tually stood on. Fred Merkle slowed uo too much to be of any further use to the Cubs and caught on with the Rochester Internationals. Herzog's Last Year Embittered. Herzog's passing unfortunately was embittered by charges men tioned against him by Ru6e Ben ton, in connection with the base ball scandal." Buck, however, was Picker of Last Four Champions Is En Route From Spain to See Bout New York, June 18. Earl (Skat er) Reynolds is en route from Spain to see the Dempsey-Carpentier fight and is backing the world champion. "You know I picked the winners of the last four heavyweight cham pionship fights and also bet on them, writes the Skater. "I aim betting on Dempsey to win inside of three rounds. Like the Spanish bull, Carpentier is licked the minute he enters the ring. Bull has no chance. Neither has the Frenchman." Reynolds once was the betting commissioner for the late John W. Gates on the New York race tracks. Two years ago he made the trip from Australia to Toledo to see Dempsey whip Jess Willard. He wagered heavily on Jack to win and had a bet of $500 against $10,000 on sporting world, isnt so sure that by the present champion, which was lost by a narrow margin. Reynolds has seen every big fight in this coun try, England, France and Australia auring me past ju years. - There is not much big betting on the Jersey City mill so far, although the rank and file like Dempsey's chances. Max Blumen thal, well-known in the racing and spoting worlrd, isn't so sure that Dempsey will prove invincible when he shapes up with Carpentier. Just as a flyer, Blumenthal wagered $400 against $10,000 the other day that the Frenchman would land a knock out punch inside of the 12-round limit. He argues that a fighter who can hit as hard and box as cleverly as Carpentier has a chance to win and that odds of 25 to 1 against a knockout by the challenger must be snapped uo on general Drincicles. given a thorough bill of 4iealth by both the Cubs and Giants officials. The Giant infield of Merkle, Doyle, Fletcher and Herzog will not go down to base ball history with such combinations as Mclnnis, Collins, Barry and Baker of the Athletics' world's champions; Steinfeldt, Tin ker, Evers and Chance of the famous old Cub machine; or McGraw, Jen nings, Gleason, and Brouthers of the Baltimore Orioles in the '90s, but it was one of the most powerful in the game. Great Base-Running Quartet It was one of the fastest infields ever put together, and all four men were great base-runners. Fletcher was the slowest of the lot on the base paths, but not on the field. The other Jhree rank among the leading base-runners of the present century. Doyle once was voted the most valu able player in the National league, and on another occasion he won the National league batting title. Leonard May Fidit in -England Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leased Wire, New York, June 25. Benny Leonard, the lightweight monarch will in all probability invade Eng land some time this summer. Billy Gibson, uilot of the Leonard craft announced todav he had received lucrative offers from Maj. Arnold Wilson and George McDonald, pro moters of things fistic in England, for the title holder's services. Major Wilson recently arrived in this coun try to attend the Dempsey-Larpen-tier contest. He wants Leonard to box Johnny Basham, the much knocked-out welterweight champion of Great Britain. McDonald desires to promote a match between Benny and Ted Kid Lewis, who is at pres ent sojourning m London. Jackson Wins . Jersey City, June 25. Willie Jack son. New York lightweight, out fought Charley Pitts of Australia, in a 12-round bout last night. By JACK DEMPSEY. Heavyweight Champion of the World (Copyright, 1921, by King Feature Syn dicate, inc.). Atlantic City, N. J., June 25. Celebrated my 26th birthday yester day by loafing. Took a ride, in the auto during the cool of the morning, then entertained some of my newspaper friends at the house and stuck indoors the rest ot the time. This was the hottest day I've ever experienced here almost as hot, it seemed, as that day in Toledo when I whipped Jess Wil lard. Those who were there that day will never forget it and always will insist that the thermometer touched about 190. I certainly was keen to jump into the ocean for a swim, but my train ing rules bar the water treatment. I have found that bathing of long du ration has a tendency to relax the muscles, and that s something I want to guard against, as a fighter's train ing plan is designated to tune up those very same muscles. Some of the boys wanted to know if I had made any battle plans. They asked what sort of fight I would wage against the Frenchman, but yesterday being a vacation day, with aU work barred, I ducked even dis cussion of the fight with them, and I don't dip very deeply into it here. it this weather continues as hot as it was yesterday I'll likely shed three or four pounds due to the fierce sun and stiff workouts which I plan for today with my big sparring partners. My day was gladdened by gifts from some of my most intimate friends and by letters and telegrams of coneratulations from others. One telegram came from Georges Car pentier and Francois Deschamps and I certainly do appreciate their thoughtfulness and courtesy. It was a "regular" fellow act on their part. Nova Scotiana May Raise Schooner Which Beat Them The Halifax (N. S.) Herald, whkh offered the trophy for the annual in ternational fishermen's races, has suggested that Nova Scotians might beat Yankees with their own boat. The paper said it had been advised by experts that the Gloucester, Mass., schooner Esperanto, winner of last year's contest, which recent ly sank off Sable island, could easily be raised. It added that if New Englandcrs did not salvage her Nova Scotians might. Dempsey's Former Manager Bets Jack Will Win Before 6th Chicago Trlbunr-Omaha Dee Leased , Wl'e. Atlantic City, June 25. It was learned here today that A. C Eur bach of Salt Lake. City, who was Dempsey's first manager, has wagered $12,000 at even money .that Carpentier does not last aix rounds against the champion. This is one of ' the most substantial wagers that has yet been record ed. It is said that he has $25,000 more that he Is willing to wager on the same proposition and at even money. Bonesetter Is Regular Member . At Jack's Camp Bernard Dempsey Is Dr. Han ley's First Patient; Makes Thorough Examination Of Champ Every Day. In the training camp of a world's champion pugilist (and we have in mind in this instance the camp o Jack Dempsey at Atlantic City) there is a bisr corps of attendants, Every man who is a member-is there for a purpose, from the manager down to the rubber, and even the bov who travels with messages from one place to another. The presence of a physician in a camp,' however, never has been deemed necessary, but at Airport, where Dempsey does his training, there is one man who is new to a training camp. 1 hat man i a bonesetter. Shortly after Dempsey pitched his camp in Atlantic City there appeared a young man by the name of Philip Hanlev. who hails from Chicago, Hanley is the bonesetter, and Jje is a reeular one. too, for he carries along with him certain parts of the human carcass which come in nanay in th humness of demonstration It wasn't long after his arrival that Dempsey and his manager saw that the honesetter would be more than' a welcome member at Airoort and auicklv made him a member of the camp. Jack's Brother First Patient. Bernard Dempsey, brother of Jack, appeared in the camp with a hip which caused him to nmp because oi twisted muscles. Walking was nainful. Then he saw Doc Hanley, and in two days' time Bernard was doinar the boardwalk of Atlantic Uty minus the limp and minus the pain. The bonesetter, by a bit ot manipu lation which required 10 minutes, had the brother of the world's champion fit and O. K. As for the champion, neres tne occupation of the bonesetter as u concerns Tack:. Every day when Dempsey's training is finished Dr. Hanley gives the champ a thorough examination to see that there have been no dislocations of bones or muscles. This could easily happen, but the prying eyes and hands of the bonesetter prevent them from es caping unnoticed. Dr. Hanley isn't called that at Air port. They just cal him Phil, and he is one of the regular fellows. They called him by his first name 10 min utes 'after he became a member of the training corps. .at;. Analyzes a Knockout The causes and effects of a knock out are interesting as disclosed by the bonesetter. Here's what he told us today concerning a knockout from a chin punch: "There are 26 bones in the spinal column, seven cervical. 12 dorsal and five lumbar, sacrum and coccyx. The first bone of the spinal column in the neck is the atlas, upon which the skull rests. Inside the spinal col umn is the spinal cord, which is a bundle of nerves. These nerves, as they go through the spinal column, branch off to the different parts of the hodV. "On the back of the spinal column there are five layers of muscle and on the tront one layer. Top Bone Is Moved. With that much learned concern ing anatomy, we asked Hanley to explain something about how the knockout affects the brain, and he said: "When a hard punch is landed on the point of the chin it knocks tne atlas bone out of .place, thereby pinching the nerves and arteries run ning into the brain. If the atlas bone is dislocated even a quarter of an inch, the blood and nerve supply to the brain is cut off. The result is a coma which is productive of temporary paralysis. The head be comes filled with blood. "The methods of producing nor mal conditions, which means the re placing of the atlas bone, introduce system shocking. That is one reason Captain-Elect of Husker Tracksters 111 w Manager Kearns A Former Boxer Lincoln, June 25. E. G. Smith, captain-elect of the Nebraska track team, was the Huskers mam point collector at the recent track and field meet held at Chicago. The new University of Nebraska track leader placed in the 100 and 220-yard dashes. . why cold water is dashed in the face of a man who has been knocked out. 'The cold water stimulates the nerve and blood supply. The atlas bone naturally will return in time to its proper place. If it remained permanently out of place the result would be insanity." Dr. Hanley incidentally explained that men with heavily muscled necks suffer more from knockouts than men who have necks not so heavily muscled. This is explained oy the fact the muscles help to hold the bones out of position for a long er period. Drake Golfer Wins Conference Title Chicago, June 25. Robert Mc Kee of Drake university, won the western intercollegiate individual golf championship yesterday by defeating George Hartmand of the. University of Chicago, 1 up in 38 holes at the Indian Hill club. Manager of Heavyweight Champion of World Is Devoted to Dempsey. . Br tlnlrersal Serrlee. New York, June 25. Jack Kearns, manager of world's champion Jack Dempsey, was something of a boxer himself in his earlier days. Kearns was never a world-beater in the Ting but he fought a number of battles before he abandoned the actual scrapping, for the compara tively easy life of a manager. But the fighting end of the game did not give sufficient play to Jack's rather obvious managerial talents. He gradually drew a number of boxers under his managerial wing Abe Attell, Eddie McGoorty, Jim my Clabby, Killy Kramer and Fight ing Billy Murray were a few of the many boxers handled by Kearns be fore he abandoned them all for Jack Dempsey. 1 Kearns met Dempsey in a San Francisco hotel in 1917. Dempsey asked Kearns to manage him, and Kearns, not having a very choice collection of boxers under his wing at the time, agreed. Dempsey at that time possessed little except re markable gameness, according to Kearns, but the manager set to work to develop him into a good boxer. What Kearns could not do particu larly well in the ring himself he could teach effectively to another.. The crowing triumph of Kearn's career as a manager came with the sinning of the articles for the Wil- lard-Dempscy fight at Toledo. When the battle was over Kearns was the manager of a new world's champion. Former Iowa Star To Coach Pikers St. Louis, June 25. J. A. Davis, former University of Iowa star, has been appointed a coach at Washing ton university, completing the 1921- 1922 athletic staff of the local insti tution. Davis will hav echarge of the base ball team and freshman foot ball arid basket ball. 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MM COMPANY, Dept.ll SOaaaprf, Street (too RtN PtaluWrpela BOXING . at the Rialto Theater STARTS TODAY Sensational Middleweight Battle Between CHARLES RAY; ("Scrap Iron") Amateur Champion of Milltown BATTLING BURKE Welterweight Champion of the Middle West THE GREATEST RING FIGHT EVER SCREENED Get every thrill of it in "SCRAP-IRON" Four Rounds of the Fastest Fighting You've Ever Seen ALSO SHOWING The latest pictures of Carpentier and Dempsey Training for their Big Fight D DNo I Setups D S ICE It Must Be Good Auditorium No Stalling W1B Be COOLED For the American Legion's Boxing Erogrea 78. I! fi July 4th 2:30 P. H D 5 Oapt Bob Rom u D D D D D n 0 flrlos Fanning Andy Schmader 10 Bounds Ever Hammer vs. D D n 10 Bounds Note Every Man Must Box to the Best of His Ability or He Gets No Money. H Admission, $2, $3, $4 and $5 (Plus Tax) i DNo Setups D ELde Buy Your Tickets Early. No Standing Room Will Be Sold. No Stalling j 'A