I t _. , L pads, our Dundee No llUNDEi-I wills T0 man woman ‘ FOR worms LIGHTWEIGHT TITLE NEW YORK. July 27.—Johnny Dundee came to the end of his rain- bow last night at the Polo Grounds and the pot of said he found there. .Was fer outweighed by the honor of becoming world’s featherweight champion. after his thirteen-year quest of a boxing title. To Dundee—rugged little American- born Italian with a Scotch name. he has made famous in the ring——that title. earned in brilliant combat with Eugene Criqui. soldier of Verdun. means more than any purse he has ever won. And Johnny has strung enough big ones together to make him a wealthy citizen at thirty. In the twilight of an untarnished career. Dundee has realized an ambi- tion that kept him active in the ring long after the incentive torpile up his fortune ceased to spur him on. In van- quishing Criqui, the little men with the oddly twisted face and the right hand that laid Johnny Kllbane low. Dundee renewed his youth as brilliant- ly as did Benny Leonard a few days A sharpshooter always. Dundee was in tip-top form last night and from any angle his boxing was well-nigh faultless. Fighting men of his own weight. Dundee develops hitting power that he is not «edited with heavier opponents. They said that Eugene Criqui's jaw was invulnerable—that he could not be knocked out—but often last night Dundee. hitting with great precision and strength. had the little hero of Verdun tottering on the verge of a. knockout. " Had Criqui not been an “iron man he would have succumbed to Dundee's deadly punching long before the fif- teenth round. when Johnny all but battered him down to the canvas. Criqui was a good soldier in defeat and Dundee a good sportsman it vic- tory. Leonard Looks On. Dundee's ambition. fired anew by his conquest last night. now carries him up to hie old rival Benny Leonard who sat at the ringside last night ad- miring Johnny's thorough workman- ship. “Iieonard next!" said Dundee in his dressing room as his friends crowded in to see how his crown fitted him. “I am in earnest about this," added Dundee. "Normally I am a light- weight. but around 132 pounds I be- lieve I can keep up all of my speed. Inonerd end I have met eight times in no<decision bouts and each fight was close. 1 always had to give away weight to him. He was over the light- weight limit often. If Benny is a legitimate lightweight now and will do 1!! pounds for me I think I could step sofas. and I say that knowing how greet a boxer he is. I belive I am en- LUQUE’S SLUMP f ALARMS mans Cincinnati Fans Fear Star ‘\ Twirler From Havana - Is Stale From Over- . work ‘ t’Cihcinnati is getting worried over the condition of Luque. the famous Cuban hurler of the Reds. whose spec- tacular success on the Cincinnati club so far. has made the Reds a serious contender. Only a few days ago. they were snapping at the heels of the Gi- ants. but as the result of loosing four of their last six games, they have fal- len back. According to followers of the Reds. Luque is losing a lot of the stuff which made him such a terror to National League batsmen. Though he won a double header in Boston. he was prod- ded pretty hard in both games. and Brooklyn now has pounded him in two successive games. The Dodgers forced his retirement last Saturday. but Cincinnati was ahead at the time. and Luque received credit for his six- teenth victory of the season. However. 'Brooklyn hit him hard again in the late innings last Wednes- day. and he entered his third defeat of the year. There is considerable fear being felt in Rediand that Luque has been over- worked. or grown stale. He isn't a big fellow, and at the age of thirty- two. it is something new for him to be called upon to carry along a pitch. ing staff. When Pat Moran was recently in the East. he expressed the opinion that if anything happened to his first pitching trio. 'Luque. Donohue or Rix- cy. he would be even worse off for pitchers than HcGraw. Pat‘ has a lot of quality. but little quantity. His second string pitchers are a feeble lot. Even Break Gives . _ Yankees Pennant PHILADDLPHIA. July 21.—The New York Yankees close their series with the Philadelphia Athletics this afternoon. and having increased their lead in the pennant race to fohrteen games by capping three straight from the Machines tones they leave here reluctantly and look forward with pleamat anticipation to the series to be played here in early September. The Yankees imvs double reason for not wanting to lee . regardless of all that has been mid about people want- ing to stay in Philadelphia. The! have to testis the Western clubs in the Stadium tomorrow. starting with titled to this crack at him in a fifteen- round decision bout. ' ”It is almost too much to hope that I can hold three titles. but if I could take a decision from Leonard. I know I can get back my junior lightweight title from Jack Bernstein. I wasn't right the night I lost to him and at that I think it was a terrible decision. To-night I was right—felt good and after a few rounds I knew I was going to win. Criqui couldn't hit me. I felt strong all the way. My friends were afraid that m'aking the weight would sap my vitality. but they were wrong. "I tried hard to stop Criqui and thought I would surely do it after the three knockdowns in the early rounds. But I must say he is wonderfully strong to take the beating he did.fA fine fellow. Criqui. and a good sports- man. He gave me my chance at the title as he promised. I really am sorry so splendid a boy cannot go back to France a champion.. I'll give him a return match any time he wants it." A Long Road. Back of Dundee's belated capture of a real championship there is a long story of disappointment. Kilbane. after sampling Johnny's wares. stu- diously avoided him and Dum‘t‘e had to fight lightweights and wellr-‘r‘eights and as he was not as heavy or as strong as Leonard. Only the fact that Benny was a super-champion prevent- ed Dundee from annexing the light- weight title long ago. Dundee's persistent challenging of Kilbane resulted in the fading cham- pion being "ruled off" in this State. It was Dundee and not Criqui. who should have had last month's shot at Rllbane. for his money had been up for months. But through political wire pulling that Dundee. tho boxer. could not prevent. the French chal- lenger was matched with Kilbane. Dundee probably would have won the title as easily as Criqui did. and last night he would have been, defending his championship for a. big percentage of the receipts. As it was. Johnny fought as a chal- lenger for 15 per cent of the gate rc- ceipts. His and amounted to something like $30,000, but that was the least of his won-lee. Dundee has a tremendous following in New York. Not only are his Italian friends with him to a. man.- but he carries the respect of all lovers of clean sport. Last night he received a great ovation and he gave everything that was in him. Johnny Dundee has had nearly 400 ring battles and never has there been a breath of suspicion that he did not do his best in all of them. He was out to make the sup-, reme effort last night and he succeed— ed even beyond his own expectations. ever. they figure to go a. lot better in the fortnight they will grace their home lot this time. Anything that even savors of sun pense or mental hazard has just about been removed from the race by this time. All the Hugmen have to do is shade the .500 mark in order to carry the closest rival along at a pace which no club may well expect to carry. The Indians. who cling to second place. must go at a .767 clip now to tie the Hugmen. travelling at a .633 pace. for the remaining sixty-four games on the Yankee schedule. , With the mathematics of the race dismissed with a nod. the chief item of interest is the withdrawal of Babe Ruth from the game yesterday. It was mid the big boy stained a mus- Gig in his neck while swinging at a. ball. but Huggins laughed that one off handily and explained that the Babe had merely caught cold and might pomibly be out of action today —although he doubted that very much. In any exent. ah long as Har- vey Hendricks can hit two Daggers while the big boy is out of the game. there will be no complaint. Griffith Makes Offer to Schoolboy Pitcher ROCKLAND, Me.. July 27.—Clark Griffith. of the Washington American baseball club. has offered’ Elmer Ris- ing. seventeen-year-old southpaw hurl- er for Rockland High School. a chance with the Senators. Rising's record this season includes a perform- ance of twenty-three strikeouts in nine innings and another of twenty-six strikeouts in a thirteen-inning game. ——_'—'—r— The Past Commanders' Association or the Shepherds of Bethlehem will hold a card party Monday night at the home of Mrs. Charles Thompson. Fort street. On October 8 in Red Men’s hall. Main street. under the auspices of the association. and the Noroton Height Dramatic club will present the W ee ' ber. . Sport Barrage éggi Chat and Comment of_"Special Interest 56 N orwalk Fans. “‘cil we are in again. a e a -’ I see by the papers that the I. W. W. has issued an order to loaf on the job. Some people don't need that kind of an order. 0 O O Anumher of people took their lives in their hands. by going into the bar- ber shops yesterday and heing‘shavcrl by Italian barber-s: ' 0 O 0 Some of the barbers wet-e still cele- brating the victory of Johnny Dundee. If Dundee had not turned out to be a fighter. he would have been a bar- ‘s e e Theroisegrcetdcalnitalkgoing the minds among foul baseball fans that Doorman, the pitcher of the backwoods. is something on the ball, which he on on in his back pocket. 0 O O A man is not guilty until he is prcvcn so. That is the way I feel about Deerman. No one has proven that he is using anything on the ball. So why all the talk? 0 O 0 New Canaan will meet the East finds tomorrow on the “'icko lot. The hext to Heaven team is out to hire the scalp of the local team. 0 O O I see by the papers that F‘irpo is purchasing furniture out in Grand Rapids, Mich. He says that he is go By use: a. norm ‘ingto send it to his home in South America. Well there is one foreign lighter that is not going to take all of his sock back with him to his na- It took Johnny Dundee 18 years to win the featherweight title. I won- der how longAe-wiil keep it now that he has won it. ‘It will take a good man to knock Johnny on the feather- weight throne. O O 0 Babe Ruth and Cy Williams are having a mercy race for home run honors. Ruth batted out number 24 yesterday. Williams is leading him by uneasthcpresenttimc.butyoucan besthattbeBabewillbeoutinfront when the season come to a close. 0 O 0 Cincinnati baseball fans are begin- ning to worry over the reversal of Luque's form. During the last three or four games the little Cuban pitch- er-has been touched up rather hard. 0 O O Itiooksasifwewouldbavearest from the million dollar fights for a time. None are in sight at the pres- cnt time. JOHNNY DUNDEE liAS SOUGHT. «FEATHER. CROWN FOR 13 YEARS During That Time He Has Met Fighters of All Weights— Jackson Only Boxer to Knock Him Of His Feet—Popular Champion. BY LEROY D. DO‘VNS‘ It took 13 years for Johnny Dundee' to get he hands on the featherweight championship. and during that time he has fought about 500 lights. Dun- dee is one of the most remarkable fighters that the ring has ee'vr pro- duced. During the time that he has been seeking a. title. he has fought Benny Leonard the lightweight cham- pion in eight no-dccision bouts. During his career in the ring John- ny had made all kinds of weights. lie has fought featherweights. junior iightweights. liglltweights. welter- weights and in some instances has even stacked up against middle- weights. and only once during this career of his. has he hit the resin. Willie Jackson of the Bronx was the man that hung the knockout onto Johnny. This happened out in Phil- ndelphia. and it was more of a fluke than anything else. but even at that. it looked as if Johnny was all done in the ring game. This little man had the grit and came back a few weeks later and fought Jackson in Madison Square Garden and beat him in al- most every round. He has fought Jackson several times since then and has always been "able to defeat him. Today Jackson is all done in the fighting game. whi e Johnny Dundee has just won the f therweig‘ht cham- pionship of the world from Eugene Criqui. whose reign as a champion by the way comes near to being the shortest on record. Dundee had never held a real-hon- est to goodness world's title up until he won the featherweight crown from Criqui. He was the possessor of the artificial title of junior-lightweight champion. which was created for Dundee by Tex Rickard. who saw what a great little man Dundee was and wanted to hand him something in the way of an honor. This title Dundee lost to Jackie Bernstein. and he made one of the poorest showings in his ring career in this fight. The wise ones began to whisper around after that fight that Johnny Dundee was about at the end of his rope as a fighter. but this fact did not bother the little “Scotch Wop." he was sign- ed up for the bout with Criqui and started in training. ‘ When he started training for the Criqui bout the wise ones again spoke up and said that he could never g’et down to 126 pounds. without weaken- ing himself. but when he entered the ring on Thursday night. be weighed 124 1-3 pounds. He looked old and drawn. but when he got into action. play "The Mess Mates." emu-lemma“. m . i":- wew ls \r was: Gav? . he was in better shape than at any ”km ‘ ‘1 ._' ' "3 time in ~his career. ' Dundee never did seem to have a knockout puneh. and during his long career he has never knocked out very many fighters. but there were still less who could knock Johnny out. Leonard tried all means and ways to K. O. the little fellow. but there was nothing doing . ‘ Dundee's favorite trick is bouncing - of! the ropes at his opponent. It has been predicted that Johnny would jump. off the ropes some day into a good hard sock on the jaw. but outside of the one he met from Willie Jackson he has never been knocked off his hot. Johnny is one fighter that always tries to please his followers who are at the ring side. This fact was no- ticed Thursday night. when his Italian admirers at the ringside wanted to see Johnny bounce off the ropes at his opponents. Johnny was winning the fight with hard smashes. hooks and Jabs. but he was not to busy to please his friends; and did his little act a number of times for their benefit. The is one of the reasons that he is so popular. He is always obliging and he is a. little gentleman both in and out of the ring. Johnny was christened Guiseppe Ga'rrora. but when he was taken over by his former manager Scotty Mon- teith. who was a typical Scotehman. he found himself with the monicker Johnny Dundee-when he.entered the ring for his first fight. and this name has stuck to him ever since. His Scotch name finally got him the added title of the "Scotch Wop." . Take it all in all Johnny Dundee i one of the most popular champions that has ever held a crown in any class. and long may he be king of the featherweight for he will be a real champion while he has the crown and will not side step anyone. _srbrm.~ms_rms “I was suffering with a severe cold. headache. backache ‘eee pains in my abdomen." writes J.~B. Driag. New- port. 3. 1. “After taking, Foley's Honey and Tar in conjunction with Fol j,Cathartlo Table l was‘entirely relie ed. of my cod ~end pains." Coughs ,"resultina from_ - Bronchitis. Asthma. Hay Fever. Group and Whooping Cough are quickly relieved with Foley's Honey and Tar. —The largest selling cough medicine in the World. ~Adv. u ‘> - ‘ r \g. 4-! ~'~- Criqui Gets $56,250; 'rom O'Rourke. matehdaker of the Polo Grounds A. 0.. estimated the paid attendance at the fight Thursday night at about 80,000. with the gate receipts in the neighborhood of $150,000. This was somewhat below expectaflons. On such a basis th sflghtcrs‘ share of the gate woul be: Criv out (87 1-3 per cent). .8563”: Dundee (13 i-z-per centl. 818.- 160. Balboa-Powell Corporation. or Singing , star Exp es As It ' Tries for High C The rooster crowed a lusty crow For all the world to hear: "I am the barnyard boss.” said he. "The credit ail belongs to me.” But folks all smiled. his pride to see. The truth was Chanticleer. And so he traveled down the road Where pride so often leads: He lost his head before he knew That to succeed he'd best eschew His cocky cockadoodiedoo For cockadoodiedeeds. Vest Pocket Anthology. All day long the bantarn rooster sat in his cage before the Keep Clean Hand laundry. warbled the sextet from "Lucia" and made point- ed remarks about the sawtoothed coils lars of Ab Sing. who conducted an- other laundry next door. "Ah Sing uses an inferior grade of starch." he declared intermittently. “He doesn't put enough pins in his shirts. My next selection will be ‘Siiver Threads Among the Gold.’ " And many an Evanstonian stopped before the rival laundrles to com- ment on the singing voice of the rooster. Robert J. Casey explains in the Chicago News. It wasn't that there was anything remarkable in the tenor attainments of a chicken for this was Evanston. where ani- mals are given a chance to develop their intent talents. But at times the roofier sang quartets with barber shop ornament and imitated a banjo quite successfully. Presently the en- tire north end of Evanston’s shop- ping district was gathered in the street guessing at the name of the rooster's vocal teacher and hazarding the opinion that he imitated band in- struments by draping a paper over his comb. Mr. Ah Was Cains. Despite the excitement Mr. Ah showed no concern. lie stood in his shop tiling new notches in collars and removing surplus buttons from Dada-mas with a skilled iron. Be- the“ button removals he poured great quantities of Chinese incense into his small stove. This tended to plmto hi. favorite loss and also to spill soot on the white collared mul- titude in the street.. Mr. Ah ovr- lqked no bets. James Thomas. proprietor of the Thomas Furniture Repair Company across the street did not share Mr. Ah's apathy. He called the police. “This singing rooster is a nuisance and should be suppressed." he do- clared to Chief Leggett. .s "I don't believe there is any ordi— nance forbidding a rooster's sing- ing." said the chief. -"Thero is a law against poultry raising in the business district." or- gued the furniture man. “That's a legal point that will have~to be settled by competent au- thority." decided the chief. "But un- til we have evidence that the rooster is using fowl language we shall have no crow to pick with him." Blows Up On High C. And so the rooater went on with his lay- and the police suspended in.» terest in the ease- untii a sudden ex- plosion rocked north‘ Evanston and a frantic call announced the plight of William Muzak. proprietor of the Keep Clean Hand leund ~ The po- lice alighted from the pa l wagon to find the street covered with feath- ers and portions of plate glass win- dow. “My singing rooster exploded." complained Mr. Xuaak. “He was just hitting high C when 'he blew up." And hepointed to fragments of the cage from which a- rubber hose led for no reason it all to a phonograph behind the mangle. :"His rooster's voice," Seflt‘ hank Welding. ‘ suit Ah Bins." But Hr. Ah could not explain the mystery. "I am mandarin of the fourth4 grade, entitled to’weer the blue but- ton." he said. “How should I know that the rooster of my honorable neighbor. would eat capsules filed variously with gunpowder and phos- phorus. which somebody had placed up there on the awning near the can to kill rats and each? And how should I know that. eating them he would blow. up ilntthis aids of high commented "Let us con- to Judge Boyer. He postponed the hearing until such time as his collars came back from the laundry. Golf Star’ Texas Starts Marathon ‘ ’—_ sax ANTONIO. Texas. July 21.— Nick Home. of San Antonio. who re- cently lost th world's record for mare- thon golf. teed of! at one o'clock this morning with an illuminated ball. eon. fident that before evening he will have putted into 300 holes and have re. gained his laurcls. When he set a record of :38 holes. he felt it would hold for a while. but soon the 261 mark was reached. In arranging for the present effort. Mor- ris figured :00 holes should hold the crown. . His former record at 18! holes was made in fifteen hours and fifteen min- utes. and on that time basis must play until eight this evening for his :00 holes. Although the gallery was small at the start. there is no doubt that traflc cops will be necessary before the feat is completed. SAN ANTONIO. Texas. July :1.— “Nic” Morris. marathon golfer. had 126 holes behind him at eight o'clock today in his effort to set a new record here. Starting play at 12:40 A. 11.. with a luminous hgn and a full moon to aid him. he had made seven rounds of the municipal course at that hour and was still going strong. Morris' best round was an 88 and his worst a 93. The present record. set by a Cleveland golfer. is :57 hole. CONDITION OF ‘ ROADS IN STATE The following was issued today by the Connecticut department of high- ways on the condition of the state roads. New Milford to wooden bridge in Gaylordsville. concrete all in place. From east end of bridge a detour recommended through South Rent, to Kent due to concrete road construc- tion for five miles in Kent. Traffic controlled by telephone durirk work- ing hours. Roan very rough. Kent Center Bridge. work started on concrete floor surface in half sec- tions. Danbury-‘Padanaram road. grading nearly completed. Moc'odcm being laid but no detour necessary. Woodbury-Southbury road. steam shovel grading started. no detour nec- essary. Woodbury-Bethlehem road. con- struction work started. No detour necessary. \Voodbury-Bethlehem road. started. Weston-Georgetown road. construc- tion work started. no detour necemary. Clinton—Killingworth. trap sock road under construction. Open. Bethany-Naugatuck. open to traffic. Trumbull-Long Hill road. practically finished. Open to traffic. ‘ Naugatuck-Main street. completed. and open to traffic. started emother half. West Haven-Campbell avenue. No work at present. Open to traffic. anford-lv‘ederal Aid. Ono-half road open to traffic. \Vork started on second half. Delay on one-way trains about ten minutes. ' (Milford-Federal Aid. One way traffic around mixer. Very rough and dusty. Norwalk—No detour necessary. One one-half W0 rk way traffic around mixer. Not held over three minutes. Westport—Shore road. short but good detour around where stone is being put in at west end of contract. No worle at Saugatuck end. Westport—Shore road. short but good detour around where stone is being put in at west end of conrtact. No work at Saugatuck end. North Haven Bridge—not open for traffic. Temporary rail not completed. Guilford—Bridg'e. excavation for east abutment under way. Hamden-State street. Concrete on one-half of road. Open for traffic entire length. -Westport—-Post road—First section completed. Section base not inf» One way traffic around forms. One way traffic liable to delay of about five minutes. Btratford—Post road. grading com- pleted one-half road. Traffic tuing other half of road with no delay. Thomaston—Waterbury road, open to tramc. One way traflic being main- tained. Through tramc should go via Wetsrtown. Torrington—Litchiield. open to traf- fic. One way traffic being maintained. Through franc go via. Goshen. Winchester — South )dain street. Wineted. oven to traffic. .No detours. One way traffic. Sharon-Salisbury—Houaatonie river road. Line Rock to West Cornwall. No detour. - 4 Southington—Plainvllle. Main road between these towns under eonsu-nc- And “solithe mystery was named on FOIlard Lpoaely lost or soil ty their "ivcn the opportunity to traffic. New Britain—pm struction. One-h traffic. 'i‘hrou lit to Plainxille. :0 “ring West Hartford_3 to traffic. Rocky Hillfifro line to Cromwon, 3:51; time. Open to hurt e Hiddetown. so “3 gm, Berlin. “1 N Glastonbury—1mm ‘ town line to GlaStonbu ‘ time. open to traflic. 81:; south end. ' Middletou'n-Crome-alv bridge. under constr I" being used. “no: 0' East Haddam—Ton f‘ shovel at work. Very mug: East Hartford—Blanch“. Lane. passable. Through V ford to Manchrswn u, 3“.“ Manchester—South Mn? One side completnd. op“ Ooventry—Wllllmantlc RM construction. Fair detcur .- road. Stafford—Mensch M . traffic. East Hampton — Bimbo“, from East Hampton to s" turnpike. completed and open, Bristol—School sir-"ex. on being built at time. Other 5.3 to tramc. Get Wives or Slam from Chinese ' ' inx-uv,“ 3:! at um‘ nah, h ‘ If you are short a wife or in China make fur the mares On the wall of the plea: m t are hung pictures r! the we! girl prisono rs h-‘lli for pettye Many of the jourg glrls haw mited no crime, harmg been and found homeless. The only hope of «rape in: young girls and rhzldren vb thrown into cOnflrlerzten'. with ed offenders is that some use . attracted by their [:lr‘lur's. hug side the prison wall and buy According to Miss 525.9 P who has just returred 1m: years of Youm: “Kim-31's I. Amocintion work in Clams. the depends on the length (1 ant spend in prison. , “Beauty or youth ewes est: the transaction.“ sazd 3125s yesterday. "The prlce Capt" the amount of nee eater. in words. the length of time spent prison. The authentic: net return on that. "Sometimes the girls are gfl be released under aimr-s: any lions. Even as stares some get homes. One niisirrss who bought of the girls who had beer. in classes was glad tn have ebrcc The Y. “I C. A. and muss: alternate going to the prison to ale eagerly recalvul by 1:9 Handicrafts are taught and girl to sell - work in the bazaar. Impressed by the results the . uthorities are payznz for s':'. desks and other exprns‘s ::"’ jinrickisha fare. Climate of Ababia is cne K driest in the world. 00 B‘ 0 E I I O f" - I O E. II a?» "on. Onehalrroadetatime. Open
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