FANS EAGER TO
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rAnd That's Why They're
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, tu Buy Tickets Madison
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New York, Jan. 14. ? As show
ing what will happen when a real r
fight looms In the ofling it may In
stated that the fans are falling ov
er themselves to buy tickets for
the Tiger Flowers-Jack Dolanev
bout which will be held at the
Madison Square Garden next Fri
day night.
The way things shape up thi<
looks like the high light affray of
the winter. Certainly nothing
has already happened that has up- 1
proarhed In point of thrill or bit
ter battling what this coming bout
promises in (his respect and there
la nothing to indicate that bouts
to be held will equal it.
Delaney showed rather poorly
In his last appearance at the Gar
den against Pal Heed, but Heed
baa always been an awkward rus- i
tomer and tho fact should be con
sidered. too. that Delaney was not
spurred up to that mood wliieli
a fighter attains when he feels he
Is going to be confronted by a,
top-notch mixer.
' The Bridgeport middleweight
M will have every reason to gear
? himself up to his highest fighting
X Pitch when he .steps into the ring
against the Atlanta negro. It re
mains to be seen what I lit* white
boy with his cleverness, liis speed
r.nd his ability to hit hard and ac
curately will be able to do against
the negro southpaw, who never {
cliuchcs. who can hit hard with
either hand and has a curious
style of milling that is not easy to |
solve.
i Reports of t lie two men at tlielr j
training camps indicate that
neither will make the middle
weight class limit. Flowers is ex
pected to weigh 1 6 r? and Delaney
two or three pounds less.
?Flowers really Is in trouble
when he has to fight at 16"
pounds and yet he does not scale
high enough to come into the'
light heavy class. It is rather a
mean position to occupy, or would
be were It not that Flowers cares
little what is the weight of an op
ponent.
New York. Jan. 14.? ;-A cham
pionship Is within the grasp of
Charley Weinert. Don't laugh
boys, it's true.
Charley, who grew up in New
ark. was, however, born in A us- ;
tria and ho has had a request .
from the leading citizens of his |
old native province, or county or
whatevor It is. to come oyer there _
and win the heuyweight cham
pionship of Europe.
And the Adonis Is going to do
that little thing. Don't think he
can't. AM he has to do is to
meet Jack Bloomfleld or Joe
Beckett in England and what lie
would do to either or both is a
crime and then tackle Erinino
Spalla, whom he should get by in
handy style.
Charley would sit pretty na tin
heay weight champion of Europe,
with Austria claiming him as her
son. And Chermany would he
likely to butt In with a hearty :
hocli for the Teutonic rare ?
which has been pretty much un
der a cloud since Kaiser Hill start- j
ed something he could not finish. ,
But first Weinert Is going to put
himself in the best shape of his
life by fighting a number of bouts.
In his recent starts he has her. ten j
Homero, Flrpo and Sharkey
among others, "and now ho I*
hooked to mingle once more with
the Chilean in Boston.
Tommy Gibbon* stowed Jack
Burke away the other night, a fact
which lands color to the fact that
the St. -Paul mauler is improving
in his hitting.
Jack Burke, who worked out
with Dempsey when Jack was in
Montana preparing for Gibbons,
Is nobody's set up and in knocking
hlin out Tommy turneft a credit
able feat.
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CAGERS 5 SEASONS
WITHOUT A DEFEAT
Thai's lite Rr corii of lliiifi School H^-kclhnM Tciim ?it
Pussiao, INt'w Jersey* iNnw Aflrr Sixth
Season I'nhrukoii \ iclorirs
My l..\\\KK\ri: I 'Kit It V
Passaic. X. J.. jnn. If.? Out
here In this thriving manufactur
ing city which i : chh riv famous
liowev?*r. for a basktn -ball team
thai lias gone through five consec
utive scanoRs without a defeat and
Is now under headway in a sixth
nenson with a record ??f 152
straight victori< s to date, an In?
U-r?-stlng problem is being worked
on.
I: hears up on thp .quest ion of ;;
coach and the quality of his ma
terial. K i nest A. Hlodd, the co-idi
who ^uve to Passaic lifr winning
style of play, is sitting among' tin
spectators these days, a couch
emeritus, while the boys play un
der the Instruction of a new men
tor. Amasa A. Marks.
So far the Wool City five has
kept on wimilr _? chiefly. would
seem, because It has had the hene
flt of Hlood's eoach'ng iri recent
years and know? the stylo o( play
lie tenches.
Iiut in most sports win re a
change ?f t li?* sort |i<h been made
a time conies when the dope, for
some mysterious reason, is lost
and the winning outfit returns to
average in the matter of d< font
and victory.
Will Passaic continue her win
ning course under Marks, or will
a day conn- this season or more
likely next, when tin* players hear
the final whistle blow and stare
with a blanched wondering faces
at the sinister figure of d?feat?
Ernest I llood will not nine
this question. He insists that the
winning of games is but inciden
tal to the development of good
sportsmanship, sound physique
unci character through competi
tion. Illood is still director of
physical training in the l'assaic
schools and tjius has general over
sight over coaching, but ho is do
ing no active work in this re
Not every. school board would
Ik* large naturf-d as to consent to
a ri"iu?>t hiicIi ax Blond to b?- re
llev. i <?f responsibility of coach
ing in basketball. especially in
view f bis unvarying success. It
would liPcm to indicate cither tiiat.
k)i<* hoard would no liiclln< d to no
t > pt ; oin?* dvfi'MtH us being f"r the
K ?od r?f the souls of those hoys, or
that they repose Implicit faith in
?!:<? n?w coach's ability t;? keep up
tiit* winning procourf,
Illool himself f.-el* that in one
way ii would be a good thing were
the r? cord of sequential victories
lo in* broken in order that the
strain upon (lit1 players might l?e
t.M'd. The teiitn of each year
feels it ban been handed a record
and taunt maintnin It.
This man i:j "on extraordinary
coach beyond ul I doubt. In his
whole couching career he hnx lo*t
but one high school game and that
wan when I'assaio ? racked in the
final guinea of tiie state tourney.
ugaln>t Union Hill In Itl9.
Before he came to I*as*aic he
had coached Potsdam Normal iu
upper New York state. winning
nine straight championships. Af
ter Blood left that school went
six years without a champion
ship . Then when the school won
the title again Blood arranged for
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If you have souk* question to
ask about baseball. football,
boxing or any other amateur
or professional sport ?
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l?ret?'(l ?
If you want to know any
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Write to John II. Foster, on
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Quest it n .low is it possible I"
Kit a |M?iti..n in a small lcagu<
as an umpire? I |ia\e h;?d exper
ience and I would -like to try to
develop into a hiv.h class umplr.
All: wer Apply (o ill,, pros:
d*'ii? of the l- whi<*|i you t><
I'Ci u* one f.?r v.'ileh you woul-l
lik< t-? work. Kvpirii iitt- will help
von although it is a ?l ? f f iota It p?
i-illoti.
Qwoiion \V'hi? ha\ Ih'i n Kiii
IIkIi world's champion* In ihu pa i
t!u years?
Anw-. r Ja in. h WUd?*. fl*
w.' -Iistat title hold. r. ||o|? Fitzsim
mons v.*as hn:li-.|i burn hut mi
American citizen wli. n he won th>
title from Jim Corfu" tt.
a Pai-saii- Potsdam came at Pols
dam and t lie Jersey bovs won 63
to 12.
No high school team ever d<
let! ted Potsdam while lllood was
ihere. \n.| i he team of this
| school defeated many a strong'
college outfit.
At Passaic under the lllood
regime the -c.lt y went basketball
' cra;:y and still Is. Grammar
ich-iol teams grow as luxuriantly
as berries.
. Yet oddly enough professional
basketball has not made much
headway. Patcrson. four miles
.away, ha : a professional league
tiam but the Passaic team in the
satn ? league dropped the city for
lark of support and moved away.
It is the* amateur spirit that
l h rives.
roaches ask what is Blood's se
cret. Itut he insists Ihere is no
j secret. .Ma y he there is not. But
it does not look that way. Analys
ing Passnio le.ims one may learn
al least something about his
methods.
1. ~ Dazzling passing. lllood be
lieves the snappy loss here, there,
and everywhere is basketball,
while running with the ball is
not.
2. ? Accurate shooting. Many a
time at practice when IiIh boys
were raring to go lie kept them
at i lie foul mark, first dropping
?is or 4 !i shoots out of f?0, to give
' them a mark to shoot at.
3. Team play. Temperament
and a desire to star always result
ed in a player being retired from
the team.
4. Reserve strength. Blood
often used three squads in one
game.
BE SPICED WITH
CUSTOMS OF '76
Fin?l Bum'IwI! Sicicty
Function Attendant i poii
(Vlchrution 50th \iuii
vrrsary i>n Fel>riiar\ 2.
By JOH\ li. KOSTKU
It "<V> i i* it b> Tut- Ailtili" >
New York, Jan. n Flavored
with tin- customs of *76. llu* first
baseball bocli-ty fund ion attend
aut upon Jhe celebration of (ho
fiftieth anniversary of the Na
tional League, will take place on '
February l! at the Broadway Cen
tral Hotel in thin thy. The hour
noon sharp.
The original delegates of th??
league met u: the tuinto hotel Go
years, but the first delegate, as
nearly as run be ascertained, ar
rived at 1U o< lock in the morn-,
ing and the others straggled in all
the way uulil uoull. I'll Is was
done with premeditation. William
, A. llulbert. wbo called the con
I ventlon together. di<l not wish 1 1?? ?
I guests to arrive oitiuau*o. ' 11 ?* had
a special word for each as tb?*y
entered se|?arat? ly.
When all ba.l assembled, llul
bert locked the door of the assem
bly room and put the key in bis
poeket. Turning to his unloiilshed
guests, he explained to k?? p them
there until they heard what he
buil to say.
John A. Ilev.ller. present head
of the league, thinks be will be
able to omit the locking i:i cere
mony this time, though I here
have been times when it seemt'd
as If league members would hav*
to be locked in or locked out in
order to keep the peace.
"TYut In many rpspect*. the meet
ing will have the flavor of that
momentous meeting a a years ago.
tine of th?- attendants at that first
me< ting. Charles A. Chase 'of
Louisville still is alive and may b?*
present. Hulbert und Albert ti.
Spalding, who really built the
league and who has been dead for
some year*, will - be eulogized.
An old fashioned .buffet lun
cheon of the kind fashionable in
; thi- middle seventies will lie
served. It will include a great
joint of beef, dished up byja. white
cupped chef.
An effort being made to trace
t be living linll players of ls76 and
bring them to the meeting. Not
many of course, will be found. ? So
far the officials have located Tom
York, Jack Burdock, John 1"\
Morrill, George Wright. A. J.
I teach. Jim White, Cal McVey.
(Jeorge Washington Bradley and
one- or two more. The rest of
them have passed on'. One of the
latest to die was Anson who had
counted, up to his death two years
ago. on living to see the auuiver
, sary.
'the minutes of the first meet
ing still arc preserved, and one
of the ceremonies will he their
reading by President Heydler.
who also happens to lie secretary
and Treasurer of th?* league,
i Two former presidents of tho
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In the Stale of North Carolina, at the Close of Business,
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Furniture and Fixtures 4,776.98
Cash in vault and net amounts due from
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Cash Items held over 21 hours 70.00
Cheeks for Clearing 137.03
Total $110,890.15
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Undivided Profits, less current expenses
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