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HARD FIGHTER AND GENTLEMAN Bill Brcnnau Who V us Killed Sunday Night in Every Way Kunked High in Pugilistic Profession. By J AIH I'LtY CMyrlihl, Ittt, by Tha Now York. June 17. ? Hill Bren nan who wa* done to death- it is thought hy hired assassin* in hi-: uptown cahniet nstaurant Sunday ni*ht, was in ? v? iv way a cr?dit to the imuilistic i>r.>fe>Mon fn?iu which he retired last l;?ll. Horn in In land Rill raiio to the Middle W. st at i n * arly aw. Il? first showed a marled ability as a baseball play. r and tin- h.-nt i.os h> carried ti;i<? nlif? rain** net rrom a punch hut from holnj: struck by a baseball. lie prufittol hy his micc?-s?k hi lh< prize ring to improve himself in many ways. N?? lluhter had a more phasing manner than Rr-nnan and his genial disposition and?qui* t de mon our were luoro suggestive of a Wall Street man than a pugilist, lie was one of those fighters who Im prove nil their opportunities and at the titno of Ills death he was a well read man and altogether a fellow of high Intelligence. Ring annals will certalny assign him to a high place in his profession. ?There never wan a tougher opponent than Rrennan and it was his mis fortune to come into his prime at a time when Dempsey was at his zen ith. Dill was not only a clever boxer but a good hitter?what might be called a knocker out of second rat ers. It was only the really first class men who could withstand Brennan's attack and the writer has always be lieved he would have hit with the best of them had he been endowed with a natural ferocity. This he did not have. Rill was a natural gentle man and when the crucial test came against men of first rank he always fell short. His two best fights were against Dempney in 1920 and Firpo in the winter of 1923. He caught Dempsey at a time when Jack had been try ing to train mainly at 42nd street and Broadway and for 12 rounds he gave Jack as good as he got and a little more. Finally he was stowed away with a blow to his solar plexus. Carpentler is still a real drawing card. Francois Descamps has to keep a card index of bouts that are of fered. Lots of them are good ones from a financial standpoint, too. The trouble Is that Descamps agreed to box Gene Tunney If Billy Gibson, the marine's manager, would lay off it until after the Carpentier Gibbons fight. Now Francolfe wants Gibson to set hack the Tunney en gagement again so that Carp can grab ofT a lot of the good money now offering?money, be it noted, that might not be offered were the orchid man to be flattened by Gene. This well may happen, for while Tunney Is a first class good fellow his heart is not so large and his in stincts not so sympathetic as Tommy Gibbons' are. It looks as though Pancho Villa and Abe Goldstein will shortly be matched. It Isn't so much that Abe wants Villa's title as that Pancho wants Goldstein's bantam crown. About the only thing a crack fly welghtwelght can do is to look high er, there being so few good men In his own class. True, so far as Villa is concerned, there Is Genaro, and it seems to be on the cards that a bat tle between the two for the world's flyweight title will be held this sum mer. ' What Bud Taylor needs la more experience. He has everything else. Villa's crouch seemed to bother him more than would have been the case had he had a wide .experience. Bud says that experience Is Just what he Is after these days. When he comes East again he will he filled up with that valuable commodity, he says. Taylor, hy the way, will meet Pete Sarmlento in Milwaukee on June 19. A real battle promises. BASEBALL QUESTION BOX If you have some question to a*k about, baseball? Write to John B. Fo?ter, the man who helped make the rules under which the game la played today. It you want a personal r*ply enclose a stamped, self-addressed en velope. Otherwise your quea tlon will be answered In tfc'j column. Address: John B. Foster, special baseball correspondent of The Dally Advanco, 811 World Building. New York. Question- Hal tor bunts (lie ball in front of the plate and the ball bound* up and hits his bat which is still in hiH hand. la the bntter out? Answer-?If the batter was In his box when the ball hit his bat I should rule It a foul as th<? batter's b9X la In foul ground. Question?I)ld Merkle make hl? not-touching second baa** play In a world aerie* game or in a National League game? Was It a boneh?>a<i play? In what year wan It made? Anawer?The play was mad<' In a National league game between New York and Chicago In 1908 and It wan not a bonehead play. For yeara players had been In the habit of run THR APOTHECARY SHOP Phone 400 A Good Drag More nlng from the field the moment the winning run crossed the plate. Thst was all that Merkle did. Technically he could have been forced out for not touching second. There was abso lutely no reason why he should touch second as the winning run had scored on clean hit by which the batter could not be thrown out at first Chicago protested an<l was upheld without any conslderation as to the I play from the merits of sportsman ship and the actual compK tion of a run. Question?Two hand* are out. | Kuiiner is on second. Hatter sinules to the outfield and i?* run down try ling to make second. Itunner who was on second scores before the third 'out is made. Dues tin run count? 1 Answer?The run courts, and .the ? batter gets a slnule. ?* Qltej.tl?Ul? If there are t\VO strikes j 011 the hatter and the tu-xt pitched i hall hits, the hat aeeidi ntalJ.v and i rolls lair is it Mippos><! to he a lotil [or fair hit? Answer?It is a fail hit. The f;?et (that the hat and tin- hall tin ? I acci dentally does not take away the re sponsibility of the batter. Question?If a player hats a home run and lie skips a base because he is too fast is lie out if you touch the base with the ball? Answer?He Is out If the hall gets to the base before he can IcKally re-1 trace his way to It.. Players who are too fast are as much a menace to I their teams as those who are tool alow. CHICAGO CLUB IS BIG GAINER With the Giants B<>l>hing in and Out of First Place and Yanks Feeling Shaky New York Teams May Yet Lose. By JOHN' B. FOSTKR iw. by T*. New York. June 17.?Perhaps the nioHt significant fact In major league baseball, as the clubs enter upon the fighting center of the season, when they must reduce to 25 players each. Is that the Giants stand some 50 points lower in the percentage col umn than they did a year ago. The Giants were In first place Monday, but by the narrowest kind of margin, and they have been bob bing in and out of first for several weeks. They are a good half week back in the race, as compared with 1923, and they have not the margin of games won to fall back upon in case of eventualities that they had then. The big gainer in the National is Chicago. The Cubs have a net ad vantage of some 175 points over their standing last mld-Junn and ithey are the first club that has dropped the Oiants from first place. !even temporarily, since 1922. The Giants, it is true, have taken great advantage of the other East ern clubs, as they always have done In years In which they won the cham pionship. But they have met a dif ferent kind of resistance from other sources and they are on the defens ive against the West, which has the better of them to date. Brooklyn, Cincinnati and Pitts burgh have not done as well, so far, as they did in 1923, but the relative difference la not great and they still have a chance to get Into the fray, which would make it all the harder for the Giants. St. Louis seems to be inferior to Its 1923 form. The clubs that are better than last year at tills time are Philadelphia and Bo6ton. Obviously neither of them can win the cham pionship, but the more they Improve, the better It will he for them and for the rest of the league. Boston es pecially needs to make a showing, for with the Boston Americans going strong in the American League race, the Braves are having a hard time Interesting the bean city fans. The Cubs are the finest team of runners-up. They have fought their way lip because they could show something. Hut for the debacle against Cincinnati, they might now be leading the Giants with two laps to spare. If Cincinnati and Pittsburgh gel Into the fight the West will at last be a real menace in the National League. The New York Americans have found It harder to get along In their lengiio, too. and their percentage has been cut, hut there Is yet to prove a downright pugnacious, well found ed and well fortified runner-up there. Boston Is making a lot of trouble and hns gone through the West more llian holding Its own. Hut the fight must go further than It has to make it appear that Boston will Inst out both Detroit and St. Ixiuls. ir It does, there may be enough defeats sprink led lu re and there to hurt St. Louis and Detorlt In the same proportion that the Yanks are hurt, and the Yanks may squeete through. It Is a tighter race than the National, be cause it Is more compact. Today there are, less than 200 points sep arating top and bottom. New Millinery AT Mitchell's Shipment Kvery Week LADIES' HATS. $8.m, w oo. vo.no CHILDREN'S HATS. 91.98. 99-49. I3.99 Mitchell's SHATTERED OLYMPIC RECORDS I Leroy Brown, clubmate of Scholz. !who bettered the Olympic running: .high Jump with & leap of 6 feet C 12 Inch**. (C?*yr**L I tJ4. By TH# Aim**) Npw York. June 17.?The great er boat load of American athletes ever assembled are off for the 192 4 Olympicii. Their greatness was es tablished beyond question at Harv ard Stadium on Friday and Saturday. But one question, more Important perhaps, than whether they will win or lose, remains. That is: what sort of reputation for American sports manship will they bring back from abroad when they come home? America has the highest type of sportsmanship. That fact has been demonstrated on many a field in this country. But somehow, in the past, we have failed to secure the friend ship and admiration of our foreign competitors. Some say it is because they are so jealous of our success. But that would hardly seem to account in full for the general foreign distrust and enmity which at times seems actual ly to bristle with antagonism. If we are so provocative, then, we must be a disturbing element against the very purpose for which these Olymple games were revived by the good Bar on Coubertin. If, therefore, we err this time, let it be upon the side of magnanimity. We want no favors. We need none. But we do need, overwhelmingly and above all, the sincere good will of all these nations against which we compete. And it will take the highest grade of diplomacy, backed up by the con duct of every representative of ours, to turn the tide which has been set ting steadily against America in this respect. ROTARY CLUBS ARE MEETING AT TORONTO Toronto, June 17.?"Rotary'* des tiny la the establishment of a world fellowship of business and profes sional men, united In the Rotary Idea of service," said President Ouy Gun-i daker opening the fifteenth annual Rotary convention here today. "A world fellowship, while neces sarily contingent on the extent and successful establishment of Rotary in all the nation* of the world, is likewise contingent on the correct ness of the standards of business practice of the men privileged to en ter that fellowship," he continued. ''Until men meet on the common ground of correct business methods, there can be no world fellowship of business men. The major Rotary ac tivity for the Immediate future will be an Increasing and unceasing ac tivity for better business methods and their standardisation in codes EAT OJsatWlj/li PURE LOLLYPOPS * Jac kson Seholx. of the New York Athletic Club, who Lettered Olym pic records for the 10-meter dash at try?out? (or the Olympic games recenUy Mused. Major League Baseball NATIONAL I.KAGVE .Monday's Scorw New York, 7; St. Louis 2. Philadelphia. 8; Chicago. 3. Brooklyn, 5; Cincinnati, 2. Baton, 9; Pittsburgh. 4. Standing of Team*. W. L Pet. New York 33 20 .622 Chicago 31 21 .596 Brooklyn 28 22 .560 Cincinnati 26 26 .500 Pittsburgh 22 27 .489 Boston 22 25 .468 St. Louis 21 32 .396 Philadelphia 18 28 .391 AMERICAN LEAGUE Monday's Scores Detroit. 3; Boston 0. Chicago, 9; Washington, 8. Cleveland, 2; New York, 1. St. Louis. 10; Philadelphia, 2. Standing of Teams. W. L. Pet. New York 28 21 .571 Boston 27 22 .551 Detroit 30? 25 .545 Chicago 25 24 .511 St. Louis 25 26 .490 Washington 24 26 .480 Cleveland 23 26 .463 Philadelphia 19 21 .387 of ethics. 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