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.
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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
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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
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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
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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. He was named on West
ern Conference all-star foot ball and
base ball teams by a number of au
thorities and was director of athletes
at Kansas Wesleyan.
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