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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS. CHARLOTTE. N. C, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 24, 1921. 13, jTp BABE RUTH ' FALLS IN U. S. fnable to Solve American pitchers' Curves; Japs Love to Play. rfcirasro, June 23 American college ' S "have proved too much for K. p ak centerflelder on the Waseda pv-itv Japanese ball team now l!,!)i the United States. In the Tokio , , . Tiniko 1 c knnwn a o 4Va b lb. Buth." of the league. He holds l ord of six home runs in six Karnes -,e lat winter's season in Japan, "''fL. far he has failed to soIva nit i""" the circuit American puzzlers tor a clr l" Taniguchi. the Japs' star left- ler has been likewise unable to "lica'te his record made in Tokio, , his American trip. Last win- he pitched two no-hit. no-run games hii far every American team has His effectiveness is Champ T akes 24-Hour Lay-Off LATE FIGHT DOPE No Chance For Carp To Rest ter Nit tn;is ii" nn him. mainiv to a swift drop, with which d V's often retired his opponents with er!'eWikeouts in a row. Taniguchi (i rear? old and a freshman. IS " j v,oe. tarn cnnH rio-l-it-Via nrlr n iPfiii line- " it - -- in at 'Vlast of the three games series with :SI university of Chicago, Arita re- ',,.(! Tanigucni in tne tn inning th the hasps ful1 and tWo out- He 'uck out the next man up, but when n,jCao filled the sack3 again in the Hi isinsle drove in two runs and lost game" and the series for the Nip- Matsumoto is a short little fellow, nu'te in contrast of J. Kuji, the catch JrVho is probably the tallest man on ,y. team. In practice Matsumoto has to pitch unhill to his lanky receiver, ' when Kuji crouches behind the rate he pick3 off tne speediest balls nd unwinds himself in ample time to ,'hip them over to second, rqnta'n S Takamatsu. the" left-hand- 'st baseman, is a lively player and eastern baseball men told him he was worth a substitute's berth in major ;fa2ue hall, according to II. S. Benning heff. an American professor of political Kiprue at "Waseda, who is acting as illness manager of the American m:r. ' t. Kato and T. Oshito cover left and right field, respectively, X. Tomonaga plavs second T. Kubbta scoops. up the tali in lively American fashion at short. The third baseman, J. Ishii, is one of the best all-around men on the team. J. Nagano is- the reserve catcher. The. Japanese seem to have a differ ed psychological slant on baseball ban the Americans. The whole team plays with constant smiles wreathing their countenances and a mistake means only an excuse for another dis play of pearly teeth. They are an alert lot of ballplayers, never still, and always eaeer to get at the ball. There : none of the serious expression or the half-angry look which is seen on the faces of most American ballplayers in the middle of a hot game. Heal pleasure in playing the game crors ou: all over the Jap team. So paeer are they to "Get into the game"' that twice during the last game with Chicago, p'aycis collided in the field in their scramble after the ball. Each time they came up smiling and took the mistake good-naturedly. DEMPSEY Atlantio City, N. J June 24. Jack ii ?K8ey today is celebrating his 2th birthday by taking a 24-hour lay-off from all training activities The cham pion did no real work and suspended ms usual gymnasium exercises. The camp was closed to the public for the day and iiis sparring partners rested up preparatory to the resumption of boxing tomorrow. Dempsey received a hundred or more telegrams from admirers and relatives extending birthday greetings and wish ing him good luck, in his defense of the championship gainst Carpentier at Jer sey City, July 2. He looked eagerly forward to a riiessage he expects from his mother in Salt Lake City. With the championship battle only eight days away Dempsey is progress ing so rapidly in his training- and is in such splendid condition that IVTanager Jack Keams has decided he will not re quire the services of Kid Norfolk, the negro heavyweight, Harry Greb, Mike Gibbons, and others who were expected to b in Dempsey's camp for the final week of training. It is planned to have the champion and his party leave here late in the af ternoon a week from today and spent the night in Jersey City, quietly at a private residence. He will remain in seclusion in Jersey City until time to! go to tne arena. HARVARD AND YALE CLASHING For Supremacy in the Wa terRivalry Began 66 Years Ago. pull - away Piedmont League CLUB STANDINGS. TVon Lost Pet. Greensboro.. .. .. . 29 19 .604 Ralegh .. ..... .. 28 21 F.71 Itham 24 23 .511 Knston-Salem .... 23 27 .460 K:;h Point..-. .... 22 26 .458 Danville 19 29 .396 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Raleigh 3; Greensboro 4. Heh Point 5; Danville 3. Winston-Salem 6; Durham 8. TODAY'S GAMES. Durham at Greensboro. Danville at Winston-Sah-ra. Hogh Point at Raleigh. BOXERS TIE. Tfrre Haute. Ind., June 24. Harry Oreh, of Pittsburgh, and - Chuck Wig gins, ot; Indianapolis, boxed ten rounds here Thursday night with the honors ivcn, according to local sport writers. W J n jf jr. jr Title Battles of The Heavyweights Jack Dempsey played the accompan iment to Jess Wlllard's swan song on July 4, 1919, at Toledo. O. It was all over in the third round. Jess got $100, 000 for the performance, many times the amount Caruso earns in a whole opera. Dempsey got $27,000. The champion fell down and got up so many times in the first round that the referee became dizay from count ing, and failed to hear the bell. This was on the fifth liason between Wiliard an the floor. The gong sounded feebly on the sev enth count, but Referee Pecord con tinued chopping the air over "Wiliard. When he had finished he Inform 3 Dempsey that there had been a knock out and the ehampion left the ring, only to have his manager come run ning after him with th einformation that there had been a mistake. That first round was awful. JSut it prepared everybody for the worst and no one was surprised when Wiliard lost in the third round. Dempsey opened the fight by accept ing some taps on the face. Then he hauled off and busted Wiliard in the stomach so hard that a lapsed expres sion overspread the champion's counte nance. Dempsey then landel several blows to the jaw and Willar I dropped to the floor for six counto. nly to fall again with a blow that coveted his rose. As he got up a second timo fto turned his head away but the Giant Killer struck him twice anl ho fell on his hands and knees. Arising once more, Wiliard was cor nered by Dempsey who nounded him to tl.o mat with rights and lefts to the lece. Again he got up and once more h was knocked down. Pcmeln.w the giant groped his way through the second round. suffer'i nothing more hvmiliating 4hsn a f.tll pvly t'Tcugh the ropes. Denipsev tor into l::m when the tnu'd roi;r.-l j..-t !..! WtiJcrd was sxj-:y i.d cV.ik with ere eye out "f shape and evvjy.-iv.ng cra wrong. His seconds tn-. w :he ttwel into the ri;ig an i ( a.i ed it a, day. . CARPENTIER Manhasset, N.'Y., June 24.' Omens of good luck have been seen in strange things appearing in the camp of Georges Carpentier. A white horse with a star in its fore head strayed from a nearby farm and fouf d its way into the Carpentier barn. A ybuthful admirer of the challenger in formed him that the coming of the animal boded good fortune. The horse got some oats and was sent home. The next, good sign came in the- form of a black cat; it appeared at the front gate late yesterday when Georges was standing here. It jumped to the fence post," arched its back against the Frenchman's hand and purred. "It's good luck," exclaimed a boy in the road. Last night somebody slipped a hand ful of four leaf clovers into the chal lenger's boots. ' Little rest is on the training pro gram for Carpentier next week. The camp sparring staff, now numbering, six, of which Joe Jeannette is the only heavyweight, will be bolstered by three men of over 200 pounds, who are due to report within a week. Trainer Wilson said today that the challenger would probably work every day excepting Sunday until July 1 and that sparring sessions would be held daily providing the weather was good. Plans have been made to protect the champ from the many visitors who call determined to see Carpentier in action. In addition police, it was announced, had been employed so that the camp will be entirely surrounded beginning Saturday. Xew London, Conn., June 24. Sixty six years ago next July Yale and Harvard started their time-hallowed struggle for supremacy on the water, and Harvard won. Today, with honors evenly divided between them after more than three score year? of rowing competition, thu Blue and Crimson oarsmen of the of.mil6S t0 watch today's regatta. battle ' royal when they from the startin . line. - New London put on its gala attire for the big event, of the year. Yaie and Harvard banners waved every- wrere, and every incoming train, many of which were specials from Boston, New York and other points, bl ought hundreds of spectators, who will line the banks of thetThame-s, or follow the races in observation trains on cither side of the river. Pleasure craft of every description dotted the river, decks crowded by so ciety folks, and masts and flagpoles flying streamers in profusion. Hotels and restaurants were crwoded. Roct ers from New Haven and Cambridgo thronged the streets and the hotel lobbies, mingling with old grads from both schools, and just plain rowing xans, many of whom came hundreds rival universities renewed their an nual struggle on the rolling waters of the Thames in their fifty-third re gatta. Out of. fifty-two races, the first of wi ich was rowed in July 21, 1855, Yale has scored twenty-six victories against a like number of Harvard, whose stalwart oarsmen evened uptthe score by leading a badly beaten Yale eight to the finish 'line last year by more than eight boat lengths. The schedule of today's regatta in cluded three races, with the classic cight-oared varsity event at four miles scheduled for late in the afternoon, the time of starting depending en con ditions of the tidT and the wind. The freshmen and junior Varsity crews were scheduled to row their races this morning or early in the aft ernoon. These races were at two miles. Despite the fact that neither Yale nor Harvard has shown flashy form in previous races this year, interest in today's race was at a fever heat as usual. The crews of the rival schools are always pointed especilaly for this one race,' and, regardless " of what fortune they meet in other. events in uny season, there J generally a Ring Battles of Jack And Georges L Harvard's varfeitv crew was a slierht favorite in the early betting, and the Yale contingent was none too enthusi astic, for Gpy Mckall's oarsmen piovcd a disappointment against Penn, Co-urn bia, Cornell and Princeton over the Henley distance of two miles, and what they might be able to accom plish over the four-mile course . today no one could foreteii. With English shells, oars, tholo pins and rigging; Coach Nickalls had everything in the way of apparatus to his liking for the first- time, and if his Bulldog crew, using the -English stroke, can defeat Harvard today hi wi'l have made good at New Haven. Both varsity crews have been here for several weeks, the Yale oarsmen at Gale's Ferry and Harvard at Red top, across the river. ti !L v: ,Byg Jack Hendrick's Indianapolis te.m , - Lowe got four circuit smash.?, two is setting the pace in the American Association. On" the Indianapolis team are several former members of ttw Giants. Doug Baird is playing third base. Eddie Sicking second and Dick Kmsella right field. . Henline and Dix on, two of Hendricks" catchers, went South with the Giants this spring. Ste-!-ing Strykcr and John Paul Jones, pitch ers, are former members of McGraw's team.- - - ' - , . ' , For several years Earl Sheely was a much discussed ball player. ; Th? crit ics had it that he was one of th game's greatest hitters, 'held down- onl .- be cause of a weak ankle that mads him slow. The ankle stuff went the rounds and major league clubs laid off h4m until the . Chicago White Sox had to hav somebody to fday first base and took a chance. Sheely came up and fandom -held its breath, waiting for Sheely to do Babe . Ruth stunts with the bat, willing to admit lie wouldn't Vlo .vjch else. But Sheely has crossed all opin ion. As a hitter he had not Uvea up to expectations, while as a fielder hrt hag in one inning, and a single off Cham berlain of the RovS at Boston on 3l.iy 30, 1894. , Hittm.f homers In, that lit tte bandbox park was comparatively easy. v Delehanty go: f.ur homers and a sin gle off Adonis Terry in Crvcuiro on Jiiy 13. 1896. Delehanty was the old proto type of Ruth. Ruth has yet Vj make two home runs in c. inning. he already i Is record.' a pMity. as follows: 1 Fifty -four hjir.o rum lor na eon. - 2 Seven home iun.-s in five succes sive games. 3 Three ho -no nn s i.-i.thr etc slve times at bt-.t Jum4 13 and 14. 4 126 home iu-is f o his ma.lcr league career. 5 Greatest nunbor cf h-imj runs with bases fill id in on season t:ir, m 1919. vB Eight ga.n -3 in which he hit two home rims in 1920 7-r-Greatest number of home runs hit off any, pitcher by one man 10,: off Dauss. It, was in 1892 that the pitching rale was changed whereby the pitchers MANY ENTRIES FOR TENNIS TOURNAMENT The list is filling up for the men's tennis tournament at the Charlotte Country club to start Monday after noon. There are already fifteen en tries in the singles, and several in the doubles. Entries close at 6 p. m. Sat urday. Those who wish to enter are urged to do so at once. shuffled around the first sack for the were moved back in the diamond to the vviuie oux so miiuy mat inv story iom? distance which is in vogue now. about his ankle has been thrown Into The batters revelled in hitting that the fiction class. Here of lafe 'the for-,vpn Thpv af.e(a the ball all over the green grass and players, who had not mer Pacific Coast player has be -i hit ting better. If he can locate , thu , big show pitching he's jxomg to he ri. real find, for awkward is he seems nfoot lie can, as stated, hold his owA" with me at fielderT around first base. N " . " - There are only two home run rec ords which still defy the prowess' of Babe Ruth that for hitting homers in one game and the mark for clouting Ifour-baggers in one " Inning. . Bo'iby Lowe of the old Boston Nationals and Ed Delehanty of the Philadelphia Isa tionals hold the record for hitting hom ers in a game, with four each. batted in the lodge of the .300 all their lives cluttered up the premises as if they had been born sluggers. It didn't last. The pitchers caught up with them. The pitchers always catch up. Give them time and they will eaten up with some who. are running wild now. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. At Kansas City-St. Paul. rain. At Milwaukee 8-6; Minneapolis 0-8; At Louisville 6; Columbus 5. At Indianapolis 9; Toledo 4. ODDS ON TENNESSEE TO WIN GOLF TITLE Nashville, Tenn.. June 24. Odds were on Tennessee to win the southern amateur golf title when the semi-finals were reached here today for three rep resentatives of that state and one Geor gian were left to fight it out for places in the firials tomorrow. Perry Adair, Druid Hills, Atlanta, faced Frank Godchaux, Belle Meade, Nashville, and H. R. Wenzler, Colonial Club, Memphis, was pitted against Pol lak Boyd, of the Chattanooga Golf and Country Club. NEW LEAGUE BEGINS SEASON ON SATURDAY Ashbville. June 24. According to an announcement made Thursday nigh: the newly-organized - western Carolina baseball league will te formally opened Saturday with Hendersonville at Aeheville. The new league will com prise Asheville, Hendersonville, Bre vard an4 Canton. The. final schedule will be adopted Saturday and the teams will give this section semi-professional baseball. . "ONE ROUND" DEMPSEY. . During the journey across the con tinent. Dempsey was establishing a rec ord which would have made the name "One Round" Dempsey not inappropri ate. The record book recites with monotonous regularity in list of knock outs: Homer Smith, 1 round; Jim Flynn, 1 round; Bill Brennan, 6 rounds; Bull Sadee, 1 round; Tom Riley, 1 round: Dan Ketcher. 2 rounds; Arthur Pelkey, 1 round; Kid McCarthy, 1 round; Bob Devere, 1 round; Porky Flynn, 1 round; Fred Fulton. 1 round; Jack Moran, 1 round; Carl Morris, 1 round, with others of more or less note meeting the same fate. It was in mid-summer, 1918, that Fred Fulton, the Minnesota Plasterer, six feet, four and a half inches in height and weighing 220 pounds, was selected to stop this sensational drive of Dempsey. The bout was held in the open in Jersey City, July 27, 1918, and proved to be one of the shortest bouts on record, Dempsey winning in t 27 seconds. Fulton, who is still fighting, is one of the most curious of American box ers. Possessed of a frame that should make him a champion, he nev er has been able to emerge from the second-rate ranks. On this day, he appeared nervous as Dempsey glow ered at him from the other side of the ring while seconds laced, up his gloves. At the gong, Dempsey tore at him with the fury of a tiger. Easily get ting. Inside Fulton's guard, despite the long reach that should have protected the Minnesotan. Dempsey rained rignts and lefts to Fulton's jaw. Fulton went down under the furious pelting and stayed down. The Minnesotan tried in various ways to explain his poor showing after the bout but to the spectators, the fiasco only gave one more indication that Dempsey was the proper challenger of Jess Wiliard for the heavyweight championship. VIRGINIA LEAGUE. At Norfolk 15; Newport News 8. At Richmond 4; Rocky Mount 9. At Portsmouth 2; Wilson 4. " At Petersburg 7; Suffolk 5. aboard Air Line Railway W ANNOUNCES eek-End Excursion Fares to Wilmington And Return, as Follows: From Fare Hutherfordton, N. C. .$ 8.06.. Bostic, N. C 7.87 elby, N. C 7.27 Lincolnton, N. C. : " 6.62 Charlotte, N. C. ..: 6.02 Monroe. N. C 5.00 Children five yars of age and under twelve will be charged one-half of the fares shown above, sufficient to be added when necessary t ttak fares end in ."0" or. 5." ' : - . - Tickets will b sold each Saturday, June 11th to September Srd. 1b- ciuslve. Tick,!, will be limited to rech original starting point prior to; mid- c'8ht of Monday 'following " date of sale. ' ' ' E W.LONG, W. L. McMORRIS, division Passenger Agent,v General Passenger Agent, Charlotte, N. C. . Norfolk, Va. Tax Total $ .64 $ 8.70 .63 8.50 .58 7.85 .53 7.15 .48 6.50 .40 5.40 ' FIRST SENSATION. Georges Carpentier, fighting from the bantanweight ranks to meeting firsf-elass middleweights. scored his first great sensation in 1912, when he won the European middleweight cham pionship from Jim Sullivan, an Eng lishman, in two rounds. The bout was fought at Monte Car lo. English sportsmen, confident that their man would easily defeat the Frenchman, journeyed by hundreds to that famous sporting resort to wager thousands of dollars on Sullivan. Witnesses of the bout declare that Carpentier with his clever footwork and speed, was the winner from the timethe first blow was struck. Feel ing out his man in the first round, he started with the gong of the second to administer- terrific punishment which the Englishman could not Withstand and took the count. The result m.4 Carpentier the most talked-of boxer in France. In the same year, Carpenter scored 20-round victories over George Gunthcr and Willie Lewis, the American middle weight and also knocked ; out Hubert Roc, a Frenchman. Th victory over Willie Lewis force fully impressed the worth of the French boxer in the minds of ring ex perts both in Europe and America. Lewis and his manager tell an inter esting story in connection with the Lewis-Carpentier bout. They met Car peritier's manager, Descamps, early in the morning to arrange for the contest and in a few minutes, all details ex cept one comparatively minor point had been settled. They argued with Descamps until three o'clock and then went out for lunch. Returning at four, they found Descamps still gesti culating. Through an interpreter the argument was -kept up until 2 o'clock the following morning and then Lewis, with Descamps still talking "gave up the ship." The incident is eloquent testimony of the careful manner in which Carpentier's interests, have been cafed for by his shrewd manager both inside and outside of the roped arena. WILL PROTECT REAL HOLDERS OF TICKETS New York. June 24. Holders of "bona fide tickets to the Dempsey-Car-pentier match in Jersey City, July 2, will be protected, Tex- Rickard, pro mntpr nf the bout, announced today. The arrest here of several men charg- ( ed with counterfeiting tickets to the fight, and the knowledge that many I fake tickets" have been distributed ( throughout the country has caused cte tn hft taken to detain every per-, son who presents a'lrauuuicui auum. tahce paseboard. WRESTLING MATCH y SATURDAY EVENING John Elliott has matBhd Ben 8ta fansky and Charley Metros for a wres tling match at the Auditorium Satur day night. It is announced, that good preliminaries will precede the match. KING TO PRESENT TROPHY. London, June 24. King George will present the international polo trophy to the American team at - Buckingham Palace on Monday. 22 Off With A Bang!! Our Sensational Sale f V We're going to make a lot of noise tomorrowand weVe got something to make a noise with! 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