Daily British Whig (1850), 6 Sep 1924, p. 12

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HUSSARS THE VICTORS IN FRIDAY'S CONTEST Defeated Wolfe Island 10-2 in First of 8econd Round Series In Intermediate O.B.A.A. The 4th Hussars, winners of the Kingston city league senior series, defeated Wolfe Island, corquerors of the Frontenac League and the Lennox and Addington League, 10-2, in the first game of the second round series in the intermediate O.B.A.A. playoffs at Wolfe Island on Friday. From the first the visitors 'ed and bad errors and the absence of their first-string pitcher held back the Is- landers much more than they should have been. Sammy Hogan's boys had fourteen misplays during the match, many of them costly and, on the other hand, the stout-hearted and strong-armed "Bob" Kyle had not the skill to turn back the Hussars and they collected fifteen hits from his delivery, one of them for three bags and three others for two. It was almost such another day as the first Tamworth game saw. A . drizzling rain beat over the field now and then but it failed to stop the proceedings and, unlike the Tam- worth fixture, ended in sunshine, Moore did the twirling for Hussars # but was not his usual self. He falt- ered badly at times and had the Is- landers been up to form they might have made him step to win. The soldiers tallied in all but three inn- ings, starting with two in the first, Wolfe Island, though they got many » runners on the paths, scored only with their two in the fourth and at . other times were left on. The second game is in Kingston on Tuesday next and shouid be a much better battle as botn teams will play in top form on the better { diamond. Nicholson, cf .. Arniell, ¢ Gourdier, 1b Fannon, ss .... Lawless, 3b ... EHO OoOoROWOD coococo~ool 48 10 15 Wolfe Island. A R 0 0 1 1 0 v 0 0 0 SHoocOoOwWwWB OT By innings: 4th Hussars ... Wolfe Island .,. ++..208021110--10 ve +000200000-- 2 Summary--Three base hit, Law- less; two-base hits, Nicholsor., Twigg, Conley, Spoor; base on balls, off Moore 4, off Kyle 1; hit by pitcher, i ,Kiell by Moore; passed ba.l, Spoor; struck out, Moore 9, Kyle 7; left on _ bases, Wolfe Island 12, Hussars 13; umpires, Derry, at the plaie, Sulli- van, on the bases. A -------------------- Sixers Are Off f Unless one side or the cracks under the strain, the Peter- ~ boro fans should this afternoon wit- ness one of the finest baseba.! battles of the season when the Lakeviews and the Kingston Circle-8ix meet up there in their second battle. They went twelve innings here on Wednes- day and must play here again and the Kingston gang, "at least, think they can do better.in Peterboro. The youngsters got away at six u'tlock this morning, If they come through the day with just the usual expenses they will have an empty treasury as the gate on Wednesday hardly paid the advertising and other expenses. They deserve much better support and should get in when they meet the Lakeviews here again. 3 . Manager Jack Derry and Umpire { umes | "THE GOOD SAMARITAN COULDN'T AFFORD TO I eS AT THE INNS other George Sullivan, who were officials at Wolfe Island yesterday, will both make the trip, Sullivan to call them and Derry to work his team from the bench, B ASEBAL SCORES FRIDAY'S GAMES. National, New York 6, 15; Philadelphia §, 3. Brooklyn 4, Boston 0. St. Louis and Pittsburg, rain. Chicago 1, Cincinnati 3. International. Rochester 2, Toronto 8. Syracuse-Buffalo, rain. Readiug-Jersey City, rain, American, St. Louis 1, Chicago 4. Detroit 7, 20; Cleveland 3, 1. Kathleen Gorman. Who is destined to be the next Alexa Stirling, Edith Cummings or Glenna Collett in golf? Kathleen Gorman of Parkersburg, W. Va, possibly. Miss Gorman has won the state golf championship three times in a row and is picked to win again this year. Her firet victory was scored at Wheeling when she was only 18 years old. THIRTY-TWO FIGHTS DURING FIVE YEARS Is Luis Firpo's Record in the Ring--Fights Thursday 4 ox If Not Deported. New York, Sept. 6.--Luis Angel Firpo, who meets Harry Wills at Boyles Thirty Acres, September 11th, remains the enigma of the prize ring although he is a veteran of 32 battles during the five years of his career, When the giant Argentine enters the ring to fight Wills for the right to challenge Jack Dempsey for the heavyweight championship of the world, his course of action will. be hidden behind an inscrutable mask. His chances of victory will rest upon the use he makes of a tramendous right hand and powerful body. Violating orthodox methods of training, ignoring ring technique and scorning scientific boxing, Firpo, once a stevedore on the docks at Buenos Aires, employed the elemen- tal equipment of a fighting heart, a rugged hody and a powerful right hand, to battle his way through waves of criticism and knock the marvel of modern heavyweight cham- plons--Dempsey--out of a ring a year ago, : A rugged body motivated by.a single-track mind, a stubborn will and fearless courage, earned for Firpo the name of "Wild Bull of the Pampus" during his rise to fame which constitutes one of the pictur- esque romances of the prize ring. Born October 29th, 1895, in Ar- gentina, of an Italian father and a Spanish mother, Luis grew up as a bootblack, an odd job man and graduated to the manly occupation of stevedore. Labor was irksome----ob- servers claim that Luis still shirks heavy work during his training per- lods--and in 1917, two months after he witnessed his first prizs fight, Firpo entered the ring and was knocked out in the first round by Angel Rodrigues, now retired. The setback only angered the fu- ture Wild Bull who bowled over a score of amateurs before his first professional fight in September, 1919, with an American, William Daly. Firpo won b ya knockout in seven rounds and had added 11 other knockout victims to his record hen he first came to this ¢juntry in 1922, Firpo wgs met by uo bands or r ¥HE DAILY BRITISH WHIG "SPORTING OUT OUR WAY Na "- public acclaim when he first arrived here. Landing unostentatiously, he trained in cellars, fought off hunger but never thought of abandcning the career whilh he had chosen. When an opening came he knocked out Sailor Maxted, Italian Jack Herman and Joe McCann before returning to Argentine, where he won his first big purse in beating Jim Tracy, an Aus- tralian. Since tha¥ time Firpo has been in the public eye. He cam: to this country early in 1923 and knocked out Bill Brennan, Jack McAuliffe and halted a come-back by Jess Willard. Before each fight his equipment was ridicufd, and it was freely predicted that Dempsey would easily 'conquer the crude workman from Argentina. But the champion was knocked down twice and hurled out of the ring be- fore he beat the Wild Bull to the canvas for the seventh time, to win by a knockout in two rounds in the most spectacular prize fignt in his- tory. Firpo grew in business sagacity as he advanced in power. His manages his own affairs, combs the country in barnstorming flurries and his financ- ial bouts with Tex Rickard and other promoters have attracted almost as much attention as his fights in the ring. In the midst of negotiations for a return match with Dempsey, the "Wild Bull" sudenly announced that he was thfough with prize fighting; but when Rickard offered more at- tractive inducements, he changed his decision. In his own country he has been regarded as a national hero because of the attention he attracted to the South American continent. He is now implicated with immigration authorities here in a legal = battle which has a woman in the) back- ground. Firpo won 24 of his 32 battles by knockouts, and seven by decisions. His knockout by Dempsey was the only reverse of his professional car- eer. The coming bout with Wills is considered by the impatient "Wild Bull" as a mere preliminary to an- Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Aug. §5.-- Men o' War's fame as a runner will live for ages. No greater horse was ever seen on American turf. retired and put in stud. This year his first set of off-spring made their debut in competition. It is seldom that a great thor- oughbred proves a great sire. Man 0' War seems to be the Inevitable exception. Three of his progeny Scored recent victories at Saratoga Springs. . 4 on Three years the champion was eh GENERAL YESSUH,T Was Havin' A O4AT with TH' SCHOOL MARM T'DAY.. PURKY GAL, | BUT WINDER SOT IN HER NOTIONS , DONT SEEM "T" EER MUCH FER DARK MEN, UWES BLONDES , DEAD SET AGN ANN- BUDDY WITH. BOMAIGS, anf SHE CAINT BEAR A OGARETIE SMOMER . SPRAWS POWPUL WELL O' COTYN BUT NEVER SPEAKS ATALL ABOUT SMOWY -- [ FOR "THE BENEFIT OF TROSE NOT PRESENT 7 By Williams' Twill (Copyright, 104, bv NTA Service, Inc.) i) wn other - championship affair with Dempsey. NO FAVORITES FOR ST. LEGER CLASSIC Winners of Season's Big Events Seldom Successful on Doncaster Town Moor. London, Sept. 6.--Doncasfer, home of horse racing for nearly two and a Quarter centuries, where for almost 150 years the St. Leger, the oldest of the five classic races for three- year-olds which feature the flat-rac- ing season in England has been run annually with but few interruptions, will be the racing centre of the country next week, with the St. Leger Stakes being run on Wednesday. With the running of the St. Leger all the classics for the year will have been decided, those rum previously being the Two Thousand and One Thousand Guineas at Newmarket in May, and the Derby and Oaks at Epson in June. Although the glamor and popu-| larity that surrounds the running of the Derby over the Epsom Dawns is not so marked at Town Moor, the St. Leger is generally considered a better test of the thoroughbred than the chief Epsom classic, or that at Newmarket. The Town Moor course is one mile, six furiongs and 132 yards, compared with the Derby course of-one mile and a half, or the Two Thousand Guineas course of one mile, and is admittedly a better course than that at Epsom. Coming as it does in September, the 'mares' month," when the fillies are pre- sumably at their best, and the more slowly developed colts are nearing the top of their form, the winners! of the earlier classics meet their most serious opposition at Doncaster, with the result that in many cases they go down to defeat Papyrus, winner of the Derby last year, was American Flag ran away for a big field of juveniles in his first start, Maid-at-Arms out-hoofed a dosen highly prized two-year-oids in a driving finish and By Hissell was first acroes the wire in near record time. Subsequently By Hisself was beaten, but an unfair impost was largely responsible for the defeat. Horsemen are watching the prog- ress of the three youngsters with keen interest. : g Will one of them prove another '| six competitors, while for this year's on October. 31st, 1922. added to the purse, making the value the new A.A.U. rule keep'ag ball- room dancers three inches apart Man o' War? beaten on the Town Moor, as was also Ellangowan, winner of the Two Thousand, Lord Derby's filly Tran- quil, winner of the One Thousand, winning easily. Excluding the war years, when a substitute for the St. Leger was run at Newmarket, winners of the chief Newmarket and Epsom classics have been failures at Doncaster tor tne rast 20 years, Rock Sand, winner of the mythical triple crown in 1903 being the last. Nor will this year supply an outstanding three-year-old, the four classics preceding the St. Leger having been won by different colts and fillies. | ~ Sansovino, Lord Derby's cnlt that won the chief Epsom classic this sea- son, carrying the Derby colors out in front for the first~time in 140 years in the race originated by and named after Lord Derby in 1780, was early installed favorite for next Wednesday's classic. Diophcn, H. H. Aga Khan's colt, the outstanding two-year-old of 1923, winner of the Two Thousand Guineas, proved a failure at Epsom, finishing 12th, while the two classics exclusively for fillies also resulted in upsets in form, | Lord Rosebery's Plack, winner of the One Thousand at Newmarket, finish- ing second to Sir Edward HalMon's Straitlace in the Oaks. Plack is the only classic winner this season that was not nominated for the St. Leger. The race for the St. Lege: Stakes was originated in 1776, fovr years earlier than the Derby, and took its name from Col. 8t. Leger, its origi- nator, who lived at Parkhill near Doncaster. On Sept. 24th of that year, during the Doncasta* races, | which had taken place annually for) 756 preceding years, a race for; a sweepstake of 25 guineas each for three-year-old colts and fillies over a two mile course was run as the re- | sult of a suggestion by Col. St. Leger. The stakes were increased to 50 sov~ ereigns each in 1832 while the | weights have been raised from time to time to time to keep pace with SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1084 "NEWS TIMELY COMMENTS FIT STROLLER JO for 15 25x35 In Tinsof 50for 70% J00KrSH0 SCHOOL OPENS Let your Boy have a WHEEL. He will be a better boy and more content with his lessons if you give him a Bicycle, --SAFER-- Statistics show . that there are fewer Boys and Girls hurt riding Bicycles than walking. SECOND HAND Wheels are a good beginner for the Boys and Girls, and we always have a few which we overhaul before selling. Treadgold Spor 88 Princess St., Kingston. ing Goods Co "Phone 529, "A Spalding Store" FOR FRAME HOUSE--6 rooms, 8 a -------- SALE A lights, gas, 8 bath, separate toilet, garage, henhouse. Good --$3,000 A DOUBLE HOUSE--Rougheast, eléctric light, 3 piece bath, good cell, garage. Price $3,200 M. B. TRUMPOUR 'Phone 704 or W72w . - - 270 PRINCESS STREET modern requirements. For the first' running of the race there were only St. Leger 316 colts and fillies had been nominated when the list closed to the stakes, 4.000 sovereigns are! to the winner between £10,000 and £11,000. THE NUT CRACKER By Jue Williams ' Who can remsmber the good old days when John J, McGraw was known to the world as the master mind of baseball? In addition | In theif recent series the --, Washingtons played effective- Before it is too late some one ly enough to dislodge the New York Yankees from the top should tell the Prince of Wales about position in the American League. This scene shows Catcher (Schang, of the world's champions, being thrown out at | third on a thrilling play in the opening game, We still think Tex Rickard could have made a better show of that Chi- cago murder trial if they had let him | hold it in the Garden.

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