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THE EVENING SENTINEB-k-SOUTH NORWALK, CONN. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31,1926.
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from the Elke,
Lodge Teams Battle For
Honors In Alley Circuit
Moose Take Elks Into Camp — Dawson ‘Rolls
High Single With Score of 143—Marino Has
High Tot—at For Evening.
The Grotto captured three straight
games from the Red Men and the
Moose took tWo out of three games
in the Fraternal
League games rolled on the Clif-
ford Alleys. last evening.
The Grotto and Elk teams are
tied for the lead in the circuit. The
Moose and Red Men are also tied.
The leaders have won eight and lost
seven games and the other two
teams have won seven and lost
eight. making it a real close race
for championship honors.
Marine. of the Elks. turned in
high total for the evening with a
score of 326‘and Dawson of the
Grotto outfit had high single with
a score of 148.
League Standing.
1V. L PC.
Grotto............. 8 7 .533
Elks ......W... 8 7 .633
Red Mon .......... 7 R .467
Moose 7 8 .467
The scores follow:
RED MEN.
Cocchia 99' 83 -182
C. Cnvaiio .......118 so 103—311
'1'. Youhas 97 107 97—301
F. Cavallo «...... .114 91 96—301
. Downey ........ 90 97 93—280
Mills....... ...... 97—- 97
578 468 486 1472
MOOSE.
Ri‘tzo ..103 99 90—297
Petricclll ......u 87 106 90—283
Williams ..100 115 111—316
J. Youhas .......110 120 94—324
Sencsc . ..... 87 107 98—292
492 547 463 1512
GROTTO.
Godfrey ....... ..113 96 102—311
O‘Connell ....... 94 92 96—282
Dawson ....... .143 104 87—334
Roberts "...... 92 88 97—267
Olsen ..100 105.110—815
542 485 492 1509
ELKS.
Marino ..........100 117 109—326
Finch ....u..... 83 80 —16.'t
Blank........... 85 ~85
Harris .. 92— 92
Ayrnult ”...... 80 102 107—289
Noack .........116 86 111—312
F‘rnnk 101. 94—195
._...._ ......—..__
463 486 513 1462
Legion Defeats
Stamford .Team
On the Court
The Stratford Legion took its
turniin sending leaders of the Fair-
fleld County League down to defeat
last night when it defeated the
Stamford Big Five, 26 to 21 in a
fast game. Beddell and Risberg
were the individual stars.
In another. Stratford game. the
Carmel Hall Alumni defeated the
regulars. 33 to 23 with Peck. the.
Alumni center carrying away indi-
vidual honors. Following the contest
Doley was elected captain of the
school team.
The score:
STRATFORD
G F P
Lewis.rf............1 3 5
Meseroie.lf..........2 0 4
Anderson.c.......... 1 1 fl
Bedeli,rg............ 3 1 7
Risberg.lg.......... 2 3 7
9 8 16
STAMFORD
G F P
Moruke. rt .....3. . 2 3 7
O'Connell. if ........ 0 2 2
Brennan.e e...........0 3 :l
Carlson.rg...........1 3 6
Hunt. lg ......... 0 4 4
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Referee—Waters.
One Less Worry
CHARLES I’liA'l‘l‘
Charles Pratt. recently elected
football captain of the. Harvard
eleven for 1927, already has one
worry erased that has been troubl-
ing Crimson captains for yours—-
Princeton. Tifi‘ro will be no game
with the Tigers new fall. Prince-
ton hnving scvcrcd relations after
Harvard had rcpcutcdly threatened
to do so.
Eleven: Drill
For Grid Game
PASADENA. Cal., Dcc. 31,—Two
field generals of football drilled
their teams in widely different fash-
ion here yesterday for the Rose
bowl clash i'ew Year's day. between
the University of Alabama and Stan-
ford university.
Coach Wallace Wade. two time
winner of the right to carry the flag
cast at the annual tom-nnnmnt of
roses football classic. drove his men
through hard scrimmage while
"Pop” Warner. coaching the red
shirts from Polo Alto. put. his west-
ern champions through a mild. but
snappy drill.
I’ll Post got the most action in
the backfield general's position. and
it is expect-2:1 he will direct the
opening skirmish against the Crim—
son Tlde. Walker. Shipkey. Poulson.
Harris, Swan. Robesky. McCcrry.
Huiand. Hoffman and Boguc likely
will finish out the red sound which
takes the brunt of tho'bnttio.
“Biff" Hoffman, reversing artist
and pass beaver, is throwing the
ball lower and faster. sports critics
said than he did during the regular
playing season. Hoffman is kicking
faster and farther and fills the trl~
pie threat bill almost to perfection.
Deepest secrecy surrounded ‘the
work of Alabama. “Sherlock"
Holmes again took the field and ex-
pects to play the pivot station Sat-
urday.
HOULIHAN BE ATS KELLY
Frankie Houiihan defeated Jimmy
Kelly in the main bout of twelve
rounds at the 102d Regiment Arm-
ory, last night. 17 ddle Enos beat
George Ward and Willie Jackson tri-
umphed over Tony Crusco in six-
21 round bouts. Soldier Buckley knock-
ed out Buster Moore in two rounds.
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At the bell signallinggtho seventh round,
Fits bounded from his corner nearly catching
the champion in his chair.
Fitz had been more or less strumming when
he took the nine count in the sixth.
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It was clear that ground.
He jnbbcd t‘urhctt a vicious blow in the
kisser whcrellponldlm spit out one of his gold
From then on (‘orbett hogan giving
Suddenly Fitz shifted and sent a left
to (‘orln'tt's wind followed by a left to the low.
Corbett doubled up. slowly sinking to his
knew. and apparently in grant-pain.
his paralysed legs br‘himl him. he crawled to the
ropes. his mouth was open seemingly stricken
with lockjnw.
Grasping filo ropes. he tried to
to his feet.
He smiled to be COIISCIOUS of all
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pull himself
flint “as going on about. him but the lower
part of his body apparently was as if paralyt-
od. As he grasped the rope—-
(Watch tomorrow for more of this most
famous knock-out of all time).
The final day of 1020 is with no. It
has been a year of. upsets in the
sporting world. Many a head that
wore a crown on January 1. 1920, is
resting without it today. Mickey
Walker fooled the public and turn-
ed right around nd won
another championship h dgeur to
replace the one that he lost. 'l‘hat
boy knows something.
Jock Dempsey was the most famed
of those to fall by the wayside. Jack
was separated from his title by
Gene Tunney. It. was a severe blow
to Dempsey. Jack doesn't feel the
same without. the title and his
bankroll will not look the same
either. Jack has hopes of regaining
the lost. title. but i think that ho is
all done as a champion. ' .
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Gene’Tuuncy was offered a cool
half million dollars to defend his
title yesterday. Humbert J. FugaIy
who is trying to run Tex Rickard
out of business was the . .ntlcman
that made the offer to (i no. This
is some purse, but others say that
they willgo even higher' for the
honor of staging the battle. Jack
Delaney will' probably be the first
opponent of 'I‘Imnoy's.
Jack has defeated all of the pro-
minent light heavyweight: and has
proven by his victory over Bud Gor-
man that he is a match for any of
the .hcavywelghts. A bout between
Jack and Gene would be a great
drawing card. Fugazy would not be
able to get them all into the Polo
Grounds. It would be a great
crowd and unless I am badly mistak-
en it would also be a great fight.
Biekslcr‘s All Stars sprung a sur-
prise the other evening. when they
took the Port Chester outfit into
camp, in a Fairflcld County Basket-
ball league frame. and the Strat-
t'ord American Legion team sprung
another last evening. when they do-
fcated the fast. going Stilmford
flint-s. Thcso victories bring the
league leaders down a peg and
makes the race more interesting.
Now that there doesn't seem to be
any action in the professional box-
ing ranks. the amateur promoters
are getting ready to stage another
showin the Armory. Plans for the
show will be announced in the
near future. ‘
The
Final day.
Conn. Golfers,
Far Behind ln
' Miami ”tourney
MIAMI. Fm. Dec. 31.—Connectt-
cut golfers finished in ‘the rear in
the first half of the Miami open golf
championship over: the Municipal
links at Hialeah yesterday. Henry
Ciuei. and his brother Al. were but
two strokes apart at the end of the
first 36 holes. Henry turned in
rtmndsfiof 78, 80—158, while. Al had
83. 77—160. Ii. D. Sanford. of Litch-
field. Conn... was but. one stroke be-
hind Ai with 82. 79—161. Gene Sar-
azen. former American open title
holder. led the field with 74, 71—
145. Willie Dow. of Greenfield, Mus.
turned in the lowest 18-hoie round,
with 70. made in the afternoon.
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periods. is made possible-by dona-
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Battle Planned
For New Haven
According to plans announced yes-
terday afternoon by Matchmaker
Paollio of the newly organized
Cohen-Brown-Paolillo combination
which will stage the boxing attrac-
tions in the new arena. New Haven.
Louis Kid Kaplan of Meriden and
Mike Dundee of Chicago will clash
in the star bout of the opening card
in the new ice palace which is ex-
pected to be ready for occupancy
within- three weeks. The promoters
are planning to stage their show in
the first or second week of Febru~
ary and this would make an ideal
headliner. Kaplan is now in training
for several big bouts and in meet-
ing Dundee he would be picking a
tough one.
Landie After
Bil—berg Story
' CHICAGO. Dec. 31.—Charies
‘8wede" Hilbert. former shortstop
for the Chicago White Sex, last
night was invited by Kenesaw M.
Landls. baseball commissioner. to
come to Chicago and formally place
before him the information Risberg
has been quoted in newspaper inter-
views as saying he can give and
thereby connect with baseball scan-
dal a score of major league players
never before mentioned in connec-
tion with crookedness. .
Risberg’e fair compensation and
expenses were guaranteed in a tale-
nun Commissioner Landis sent to
him at Rochester, Minn.
“Earlier the Better"
"The earlier the better," was the
Lanths reply to Rlsberge "challenge
to the commissioner." printed in yes-
terday' s newspapers.
“Landls and the big bosses of
baseball don't want: to know the
meta." the newspapers quote Bis-
berg. who was ousted from organized
baseball in 1920 along with the
other “black Box" of the Chicago
team of 1912. “This is a challenge
to the commissioner. Let's see what
he'll do about it "
The following telegram represents
what the commissioner did:
"Papers print statement purport-
ing to come from you to the eflect
that you can give information that
will implicate twenty big le‘aguera
who never before have been men-
tioned in connection with crooked-
ness. Assuming that you made the
statement. I earnestl request you to
come .here with t e facts. Fair
compensation for your time and ex-
penses guaranteed.
"Wire collect when you may be
expected. the earlier-the better.
(Signed) “RENE-28A“? M.LAND18."
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“SHOW OR PLACE JOEY,” THEY CALL
TURNESA
By JIMMY POWERS
"SHOW-OILI’LACE JOEY!"
The boys who flock around parl-
mutucl windows nntf slide their
dough over the sill on noses of mul-
titudinous sure-shots will prick up
their ears and focus the old field
glass on the fairways a minute in—
stead of the oval.
Show-or-I’lace Joey isn't a jockey.
Neither is he a pony. He's a golfer.
It seems lately a whole wagonload of
nicknames have come wandering
away from tho homesirctch to. glue
themselves on the ball busters of the
tee. Wltiiess. for instance. "Light-
horse Harry" Cooper.
Show-or-Place Joey is a young
Italian professional with ' olive
cheeks. dark eyes. raven hair and
the whole ensemble is tagged—Sig-
nor Joseph Turncsa.’I«‘airvicw Club.
Philadelphia.
A bunch of pros were chewing the
rag one day down at Scioto and 1
heard them refer to Mr. Turnesa.. in
those race-horolsh terms. I thought
at the. time someone had taken him
for a. cleaning in the paddock.
But now a summary of all'the
important events of the year shows
where and how the dapper young
pro merited his nickname.
Show-or-Place Joey played in all
the major golfing events of 1926 and
the tragedy of it ls—he failed to
win a single one of them. He finished
either in second or third place.
Hence the nickname.
Just recently to show the boys he
knows his succotasli. he copped off
first place in the Sacramento open
Cop Halts Bout
After Bell Rings
MINNEAPOLIS. Dec. 31.—When
the bell failed to stop Mike Man-
dali of st. Paul and Lou-Rollinger
of Waterloo. La.. at the end of their
six~round setto last night a. police-1
man stepped into the ring to pinch
hit for the gong.
The 175 pounders gave the boxing
fans plenty of thrills in the slash-
in: six frames and then kept right
on until the policeman separated
them. Mmdaii had the best of the
so- '
PISANO MATCHED IN ALBANY
ALBANY. N. Y.. Dec. 31.—Augie
Pisano. conqueror of Johnny Koch-
tbulky and Mike Ballerino among
otherjtars in the featherweight dt-‘
invlslon. was matched today to meet
.Iuy Cooper of New York in a ten-
round bout here next month. Pinno
lab 1 mitehed to fight Eddie Am.
ell! - ood Greys S.
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with a. brilliant 287.
The slim margin of one
kept him from taking the U. S. open
at Scioto. Joey had 294 while Bob—
by Jones shot :93.
Then he packed' up his kit and
bled himself to Canada. He played
brilliant golf there. but when the
final cards were announced he was
just a shade away from the Cana-
dian open championship with a. neat
287. Gene Sarazen and Macdonald
Smith finished ahead of him.
He came back to the States for
the P. G. A. final. Ho was in rare
form. but a certain Walter Hagen
was a wee bit rarer and the Turnesa
card of 146 was third.
There Were three of the biggest
and juiclest pots a pro could bag,
and the young fellow just missed
each one of them. The value of the U.
S. open to him would have been 350.-
000. but over that long journey Bob-
'by Jones took one less poke at the
ball and away went the 60 grand.
In minor events. the eastern open
won by Hagen, the western open by
Mr. Ditto. the Westchester open won
by Johnny Farrell. the metropolitan
open won by Macdonald Smith. he
finished right up with. but never
was the winner.
Fate let his young heart quicken
at the nearness of fame so many
times and then rudely perked it
away. . ,
Now. what with picking off the
Sacramento affair and all. it seems
the young fellow is slated to swap
his show or place ducats for major
"win" ticket in 1927.
Donovan Named,
‘ Gray’s Manager
PROVIDENCE. R. 1.. Dec. 31.—
Albert II. Powell of New Haven.
yesterday completed a transaction
which gives him full control of the
Providence Grays. champions of the
Eastern League in 1926, and en- ‘
nounced that. Patsy Donovan, men‘-
ager ofJersey City in the Interna-
tional League last year, had been
named manager‘of the Providence
club for 1927. with George '1'.
White. business manager in 1926, to
be president and business manager
in the future.
'PILKING'I‘ON SI‘OPS ADNIT
GLENS FALLS. N. 1.. 'Dec. 81.—
Johnny Pllkington of Harlem. scored
a technical knockout over Jackie
Adult in the eighth round of a
scheduled twelve-round bout at the
Queensboro A. C., last night. Pill:-
lngton. punished his opponent so
badly, that. the referee stepped the
stroke.
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of BARE FIST DAYS
(MY LII'E STORY)
by Jack McAuliffe
EDITORS NOTE—in the next
chapter McAuiiffe tells how he
first met the original Jack Demp-
sey. how he trained with him
and how Dempsey sneaked oil‘.
to Flushing for a secret {fight
with the sensational lid Mc-
Donald and knocked him out
with his bare knuckles in the
27m round.
I suppose if i were a fancy prior
1 could draw word pictures tlat
would fire the blood and thrill 116
heart of every mother's son of you.
Romance. you might call it. 10-
mance and color—but to me it you
LIFE.
Rings pitched stealthiiy in 'he
dead of night. Rich idiers. sons of
the aristocracy of early New Yil‘k
and New England, dodging the bl‘lSS
buttons and blue coats of the 11W
‘ to see me fight.
Bloody battles that lasted twerty.
'thlrty. forty and fifty roundsi Men.
ireal he-men with hearts of oak and
fmuscles of steel. jabbing. blocking,
lcovering. lashing out with sudccn
’spurts. backing away‘cagily. Fights
won dirty black barges under be
.summer stars. liurricd flights end
all the thrills that makes this game
the greatest in the world.
i wish I could do justice to this
story of my life and to the original
Jack Dempsey and all the great
muscular gods of the ring. but if I
slip a bit now and then and my
grammar isn't so good, please re-
member l‘m doing the best 1 (an.
for my heart is in every singm.
of it. '
I first saw the light of clay it
of the prettiest towns in ”1' 7‘.
-——Cork. lreland. March 24. iii;
came-to America in 1871. .51 'ti
Bangor. Me, Where my 141114;:
a cooper shop. Later we mo:-
Cambridge, Mass, and I sinrth
ing papers. in 1879 no lilO‘ll
the famous “li‘ourteenth \\ :t!‘ -1'
Brooklyn and all the hardy.
Micks from all Ireland. it 57
lived there.
I “as timid at first bu a.
sound smacks on the Jan 13' . n:
log and I became quite i. 5 mi
In those days it didn't man 1
to be a. good fighter. Yen 11nd
the whole works or stay 1:; lift!
Well. 1 finally whipped on who
our block but good old l'uilllfi'
rity.
He was one of the best iigl:
eter saw. Naturally g ml. m;
age and weight.
My fight with him wt
real big fight. of my lift]
the
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vivid in my mind. ‘We lli-l
night under the corner Ruin
North Second street.
My, how our pudgy ‘5
flow. We battled on and ( ~. at
evenly were we matched ii. iii
the cops broke it up. We new
the next night—and the lfiixl‘.’
the next. Each time the min.
came bitteror. After each luv 2.1;»
encounter the cops ran
gcd. We kept that up or
a gruelling pace. . ,
NIGHTS! f s"
On the sixth night Garrity
to show up and I was accept:
champion of the block!
The long-winded process of build-
ing up a championship heavyweight
battle for Gene Tunney next sum—
mer got. under way yesterday. Hum-
bert J. Fugazy made the first formal
offer for the battle between the
champion and the leading heavy-
weight eontender, to be held at the
Polo Grounds. Fugazy did not men-
tion the name of Jack Delaney. but
this is the fighter he expects will
stand out over all the heavyweights
and will fight Tunney for his title.
Tunney signed no agreement with
Ifugazy and is open to receive any
other offers which may be forthcom-
lng. Fugazy's offer was for a per-
centage of the receipts. according to
the state boxing laws. Fugazy's of-
fer. it is understood. was made on
the basis of a $1,500,000 gate. 37 1-2
per cent of which would give Tunney
more than a half-million dollars.
At the same time that Tunney
was listening to Fuguy's offer and
the' flashlights of the camera men
were popping at the conference in
the champion‘s suite at the Hotel
Breslln. Tex {Rickard announced
that he had taken alesse on the
Yankee Stadium for the season of
1927. It is Richard's claim that he
can provide a greater seating capsiz-
ity at the home of the Yankees and
will be able to make a more attrac-
tive offer than Fugazy when the
proper time comes.
Fugezy made his offer to Tunney
on the e've of the champion'e de-
parture for St. Louis where. on New
Year's Day. he will again don the
sock and buskin and do his bit in
the best interests of the drama. Tun-
ney's vaudeville tour will talre him
ough the West to the coast and
he will be gone for twelve weeks.
"There are many angles to consid-
er before I make a decision on my
neat fight." said the champion, "I
will wait to see what offers the other
promoters make. This Is the .flrst
real offer I have received for my
next fight. I am after the best of-
fer I can get. -
"I will fight for the promoter who
offers the best show, ~the biggest
crowd and the most money." said
the champion. .
Tunney would not say anything
about who his opponent was likely
to be. When' asked if he thought
that Jack Delaney would be his like-
ly adversar. the champion answer.
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Offer Tunney Half Million
T 0 Battle Jack Delan j
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Humbert Fugazy Makes Bid For Title Bout—:
O’Rourke Says He Will Go Higher — Rick:
Leases Yankee Stadium.
p
cuss the merits of any boxer
is likely to be named as my 0
eat. The man who is put to-
to box for the championship
unquestionably be e. worth-win
ponent. There are several good
around."
Tunney stated that, now 111
first offer had been made, be c -
ted others would soon follow. Ft
had hardly left the hotel yeste
afternoon when the champion's
phone rang. and Tom O'lionk
the. other end of the wire. told
ney that he was coming tin
with a. big offer. He said be u i‘
be able to promote the fight
new openalr arena here which “i
have a seating capacity of 150
The offeis will come thick and
from now on.
With renewal of Rickard’e
on the Yankee Stadium it is e
ted that the Madison Square Ga
Corporation will soon come for
with a bid for the Champion's
battle. However. it isn‘t likely
Tunney will be in any hurry to
any papers. He has plenty of .
for there will be several h:-
welght battles before spring to
termine the outstanding heavy“ '
contender.
Basketball Resui
Tale. 28; Holy Creel. 15.
Vermont. 60: Tufts. 20.
Penn. 21: Penn Mil. COL. 17.
Notre 'Dame. 28; Northwe
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. Muncie Normal. 45: Bottom
Butler. 30: Chicagd, 23.
Manllus. 29; Theodore Rt"
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De La Salle. 60; Alumni. 48c
Itegie Prep. 26: st. Joseph
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Norwalk Chronicler