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TIIE SUNT) AT , OREG ONIAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 18, 1920 WI'CORWIICK RAPS ' CftfiPENTIER'SCLftl! TOO MUCH OF A BOY FOR THE MOST OF 'EM. Right to Heavyweight Title Lacking, Says Champion. JOE BECKETT CRITICISED British Mittman Announces Inten tion to Challenge Georges to 2 0 -Round Match. MiTH AN X Hope THE Btfrop FIND M& 4 Ry rt toKi or His haik. yeo'i THINK HC WAS - A WILD MAN AW THINK wHS TrV BY RICHARD R. SHARP. Boy McCormick. light heavyweight champion of Great Britain, whose war record is not one whit less than that of Georges Carpentler, is exceedingly wroth as a good boxer might be over the controversy over the status of the coming heavyweight champion ship mill. McCormick says that Carpentier has no more right to the heavyweight championship of Europe than he has to the crown of England. Here are a few remarks that Boy dispenses as to how Carpentler "gets that way": "In 1914 Dick Smith of England was recognized as the cruiser-weight champion of England, as the light heavies are called across the pond, while Carpentier held a similar title of France. Smith was also the holder of the Lord Lownsdale belt, emble matic of the title which I now possess, having acquired it by right of con quest. Beckett's Claim Criticised. "Back in 1914 Smith and Carpentier were matched to fight to settle the light heavyweight and heavyweight supremacy of Europe, but owing to the outbreak of the war the bout was never held. "After the match fell through I was matched with Smith and won the title with ease and the Lord Lowns dale belt. Joe. Beckett then came to tho fore and beat Smith after I had stowed him away, and claimed the title. Beckett has never been recog nized by the National Sporting club as any kind of a champion and what kind of a real representative he was of England he proved in his bout with Carpentier, which lasted a little more than a minute. "While Beckett was claiming the title in England I was fighting with the colors and had no opportunity te dispute his claims or call him on them. Fight With Farmer Cited. "Shortly after the signing of the armistice I received my honorable discharge, and. seeing no chance to inveigle Beckett into a match and also the fact that he was not recog nized by the National Sporting club, took up a proposition to go to Aus tralia for a series of it least seven contests against the best mittmen in the Antipodes. "I sailed from Liverpool for New i ork and after remaining in the lat - ter city for two days left for San Francisco. Missing boat connections and meeting a former friend, who is now my manager, Mr. Edward Clark I accepted a flattering offer to box four rounds in San Francisco, and liked this country so well that I de cided to call off my trip to Australia and compete against the best men on the Pacific coast. "My ten-round fight against Frank Farmer in Milwaukie on November 25 was my first of that distance in - America. I was not in the best of shape for that contest, but believe that had the bout been scheduled for .15 rounds would have easily disposed of him. My second bout with Farmer proves my contention, when I put him away in the seventh round. Carpentier to Be Challenged. "Getting back to Carpentier, I plan to return to England along in June and will immediately challenge Car pentier in person for the light heavy weight and heavyweight champion ship of Europe. At the present time he has no legitimate claim to the title, I having rightly won the title of England in a 20-round champion ship bout against the recognized title holder. "Before returning to England I would like to meet Tommy Gibbons, who, I believe, is recognized as Amer ica's best light heavyweight, and am confident that I can best him. As for Captain Bob Roper, whom I will face at the Milwaukie arena, January 28, I hold him in no fears and am not alarmed over the fact that it is said he will scale 200 pounds. Since my arrival in America I have heard that the bigger they are the harder they 'fall, and although they say Roper is a formidable boxer, I think that I can trim him." There are only two reasons why I am going to return home, probably in June. One is to visit my folks in Dublin, Ireland, and the other to force Georges Carpentler into a 20-round match. After these two things are accomplished I will return to the United States and hope to remain here for the rest of my career." While in Portland, Boy McCormick will be the guest of honor of the Canadian Veterans', club. Matchmaker Frank Kendall of the Milwaukie boxing coramisison ex pected Captain Bob Roper to leave Chicago last night, accompanied by his trainer, Charley Cutler, and his manager, Sig Gard. CALHOUN TO BOX WHITEHEAD Aberdeen Tans Await SixsRound Go With Interest. ABERDEEN. Wash., Jan. 17. (Spe cial.) Aberdeen fans are watching with much interest the entrance of Red" Calhoun into the six-round "class. Calhoun will have his first eix-round go here January 20 at the Eagles' smoker, when he will meet Bert Whitehead of Tacoma. Calhoun and Whitehead will have the semi- windup place on the card. The chief local interest in the smoker, however, will be the bout be tween Archie Stoy, athletic director of the Aberdeen post of the American Legion, who will meet Harold Jones of Tacoma in the wind-up event. Stoy is a lightweight championship pros pect and if he wins from Jones he will be matched with Heinie Scbuman of Tacoma, the lightweight champion of the coast. If this bout matures it is expected that it will be held under the auspices of the American Legion the profits going to that organiza tion, fjtcr is fast and a hard hitter, aegressive, ni:d can take punishment. Stoy is under the management of Nick Randitch. who broke Into the promo tloa game .three - months ago matchmaker for the local lodge of Eagles. He has signed two of the best smokers seen on the harbor, which have drawn good crowds. Other events on the Tuesday nigh card are: Sailor Reynolds of San Francisco against Pat Borden of Ta coma, and Al Norman, Aberdeen against Bud Webb, of Portland. SAV PAfcD, 1 WHY PONT , V0O VtDPUfc J THE 5TAT6:y 4 A I X Of 14 Kfc SI-AK.Tft' TO. THE WO.U -WAR in a roNNti Tft n rM moot It HE SCRVP -f -2AS- ASr The Ooy CAWtRyw. WW ""N t v S t i C I ME II 5,1 fM A I " . ' . ... y-s " i - i j llllfifellMM -THIS fBPHAiRED k. V tT vas rue. poT him op TP MIS INTVASOA or rtie VNtTEP states ; THE IU0K OF EKGLAND iAST "APRIL. AX TUC CCOR.0 A OF STELLAR TRACK MEN I EflRn GORVALLIS Indoor Course to Be Used During Bad Weather. PROSPECTS ARE BRIGHT Wealth of Promising Material on Jfand for Coaches to Pick From in Choosing Team. 'LEMON PICKERS' ARE HIT ENGLISHMAN SCORES TENDEN CY OF AMERICAN BOXERS. Battlers Here Frame Owtv Adver saries, He Says, While in Eng land Man Selected by Club. TEN-ROUND FIGHT IS MIGHTY POPULAR IN SAN FRANCISCO Four Thousand Two Hundred Men and Women See Jimmy Darcy Battle With Ortega of Oakland Crowd Well Pleased. -i An English promoter calls attention to the difference between Yankee and British fight customs.' One striking variance pointed out is that the box ers over the briny meet men the clubs select for them, not lads they select themselves. He hit Americans a solid swat by this saying. It's de plorable that American battlers re sort to picking their own adver saries. This game has brought about a sorry condition in fistiana. Instead of drilling gameness into mixers it has an opposite tendency. Young men getting in pugilism may be fairly brave at the outset. Once they have secured an ordinary reputation, then they set in motion the practice of ducking real matches. They try might and main to catch on with all the stews in the sport. As has often been remarked, it wasn't thus in the good old days. Back in the dim past, when a leather man with championship ambitions showed a disposition to hunt soft scraps, he was booed by bugs and papers until he changed tactics. Just now it's nigh impossible to arouse resentment to the ugly gag. "Set ups" are a dream of every mauler. The manager able to dig up the worst opponent is rated the classiest of pilots. He is awarded keen credit, for being a marvelous lemon picker, or words to that effect. Not long ago research into the records of a noted pilot revealed the fact that although his warriors had boxetd hundreds of times in five years, only one of them had been in real danger during that array of meets. Cunning culling was given as a reason for this- splendid count. Another cotfld be added. Whenever any peril existed this craftv chieftain -"did business with the opposition." as the saying goes. AFTER J. K1LBANE FliOCK OF FEATHERS WANT CHANCE AT TITLE. Benny Valger, Young Chaney, Joey Ejjx of England, Among Lads Who Ache for Battle. Scenario writers instead of putting "Finis" at the end of their pictures could Just as wall write Philadelphia and give the Athletics a little adver Using. ' BY HARRY B. SMTH. SAN FRANCISCO. Cal., Jan. 17. (Special.) San Franciscans had their chance to vote on the proposal for ten-round fights the forepart of this week. They voted yes, discovering that the longer contests are far more thrilling than the four-round affairs. It was a packed house that greeted the ten-round main event of Jimmy Iarcy and Battling Ortega of Oak land and something like 4200 men and women were held to the close. Before the fights some croaker an nounced that we wouldn't care much for the ten-round version of Fistiana; that the boys would be immeasur ably slower and the evening would be voted a bore. It was nothing of the sort with the two middleweights. . Darcy was the boxer and Ortega the fighter. It was a splendid combination and kept the fans right on their toes. Round for round. Darcy seemed to have a shade. My own count gave the Portlander five of the ten rounds with three for Ortega and two of them even. Possibly it sounds foolish, on top of such a statement, to remark that Ortega was entitled to the victory. All the same I think that he was. He came with such a rush In that tenth and finally round that he fairly over whelmed Darcy. Darcy took . the earlier rounds. Ortega started in the seventh and was winning again in me eigntn. The Oakland lad seemed to slo down in the ninth but his rush was not to be resisted in the closing chapter. He fairly forced Darcy off nis reet. The match was a humdinerer and me crowd wen pleased. In addition there were two six-round sessions. bo well pleased was the Presidio Service club handling the show that it has been decided to stage a fight cara every two weeks. The next per farmance of the sort is set for Mon day night, January 26. Instead of one ten-round right there will be two. Alex Trambitas of Portland has been signed to battle with Joe Miller, while Bud Ridley, the flyweight from the northwest, has been matched against Joe King Leopold, who won a shade aecision in Oakland the other eveniner. By way of fair measure there will be two six-round preliminaries. Un doubtedly, the house will be nackeri for the local fans have decided there are more thrills per minute. lhe money goes to the Presidio Servjce club, which is an institution devoted to the enlisted men of the Presidio. Their present plan is to make the, old Oregon building fit for tne enlisted chaps and they are in fair way to realize their dreams. . Enthusiasm over holding the Demp-sey-Carpentier fight in Tijuana, or as a matter of fact anywhere else in this continent, is subsiding. Local fans were rather surprised at the an nouncement by Jack Kearns that Ti juana would not do and he considered the matter so much advertising for Jimmy Coffroth's racing enterprise. Also Kearns s'tartled the fans with his declaration that he believes the fight will take place in Europe. It seems to be a complete flop so far as Kearns is concerned, for seem ingly he was all wrapped up in the Coffroth enterprise. On top of this, the statement from the New Jersey boxing commission that neither Dempsey nor Kearns is wanted in that state has put a crimp inthe plans. So many of the Amer ican Legion 'posts are "resoluting" against Dempsey that quite an anti- fight sentiment is being felt through out the country. Kearns was moved to enter a denial, but apparently it was rather a weak and wish-washy affair. Possibly that is what Kearns had in mind when he said the fight would likely take place in London or Paris more likely the former. He is smart enough to realize that with a lot ot opposition the United States would not be a healthy locality in which to stage the match. At all events, local enthusiasm has dropped off to a considerable extent. and you no longer hear any talk ol the sort. Harry Lefkowitz. the former San Francisco fight man, but now con nected with the oil game in Fort Worth, Tex., who came to San Fran cisco in an effort to land the bout, has abandoned his plans. He says that Kearns didn't even answer his telegram, and he figures it is a waste of time to continue the negotiations. Lefkowitz, however, has not aban doned his idea of staging fights in Fort Worth. He has about decided that he will go after Benny Leonard. the lightweight champion, with some good opponent. It wHl not, of course, be as big a proposition as the heavy weights, but if a fight can be ar ranged it will advertise the oil re gions, and that is what the men of that section are after. Willie Meehan is contemplating a trip to Europe. Sam Fitzpatrick, old time manager, who once handled Jack Johnson and has had other notables under his wing, has telegraphed that the Phat Boy from New York, asking whether he is willing to accept an offer for such a trip. Fitzpatrick in timates very strongly that Meehan can have fights with Soldier Joe Beckett and Carpentier if he elects. Willie says he will be glad to make trip of that sort if there is a suffi cient guarantee. He hasn't done much fighting of late, and would like to im prove the appearance of the bank rolL Al Young, matchmaker and pro moter of the Association club in the Mission district, that unique institu tion that stages four-round fights on a small scale, is spending an enforced vacation in the county jail. Al Young and his bartenders were recently found guilty of selling liquor to cus tomers. They pleaded not guilty, and demanded trials, but were convicted. The court sentenced Young to pay a fine of $500 and to spend 30 days in jail. Of course that has absolutely nothing to do with the fight club, and as Al has a couple of very energetic and capable partners, the Mission fane will have their fight cards just the same. Young has had a saloon across the street from his fight club that has been a paying Institution. In the future he will find himself compelled to depend cm the boxers, as the saloon is now a thing of the past. If Coffroth eventually abandons his scheme of a Dempsey-Carpentler fight it is possible he will match Battling Ortega with Mike O'Dowd in Tiajuana for the middleweight championship of tne world Tommy Simpson says that before the Darcy match Ortega weighed as little as 156 pounds, which means he will have no difficulty In doing the middleweight limit The Oaklander is mighty anxious for a chance at the crown and would be glad to accept a fight over 20 rounds or a longer distance if the promoter thinks that ia advisable The bout is in contemplation, and it is possible that it will be arranged for the Fourth of July. Los Angeles Out for Meet. National track and field champion ships may be fought out in Los Angeles- in 1921. providing a stadium, seating 100,000 persons or more, hae been constructed there by that time, according to Robert Weaver, presi dent of the Southern Pacific branch of the amateur athletic union. Steps are now being taken, he said, to se cure the funds necessary to build such an amphitheater. He estimated that at least S250.000 would be required. BIG BULL DEALS ARE DUE NEGOTIATIONS EXPECTED NOW THAT ICE IS BROKEN. NEW YORK. Jan. 17. The boys who are expressing a desire to box Johnny Kllbane for the featherweight title are many. A small regiment oi them already has enlisted for the pur pose of relieving Johnny of the crown he has worn so many years. First of all. there ia Benny Valger. Joe Jacobs, .Benny's manager, says he is willing to post a side bet of xivou that Valger will knock out Kilbane the first time he meets him in tne ring. But Benny will have to am putate a hand or foot to make the weight for Kilbane, as Johnny insists on 122 pounds for Valger and 125 is the best Benny can do. He does. his best work at 128 pounds. Another eager claimant of a chance to grab Kilbane's title is Young Cha ney, who was given the newspaper decision over Kilbane at Jersey City. His backers now want to send him against Kilbane again over a longer route. Another would-be Kilbane adversary is Joey Fox, the English feather weight. He is another who would have hard work making 122 pounds, but Johnny probably would not have to fear him much were he to meet him at 126 pounds. Johnny Murray, the Harlem feather weight, who beat Joey Fox in six rounds at Philadelphia, wants to tackle Kilbane. He . can make the weight. He was discovered by Willie Jackson two years. ago and has been consistently forging to the front rank in the featherweight division.. . Joe Lynch also has a hunch that he could beat Kilbane. Bobby Josephs, a Bos ton featherweight, has a manager who claims his boy .can outpoint the champion. Then we have the irre pressible Hugh Shannon o? - Buffalo, manager oi hick Loaaman. Shannon always was a good adver tiser for' his boy, but the ease with which Jack Wolfe ..defeated Loadman does not make it appear that the- lat ter would have a ghost of a chance Willi Kilbane ' Rowland Gets Haley. KEWANEE, 111., Jan. 17. Ray Haley, formerly catcher with the Philadelphia Americans, has signed a contract to play with the Milwaukee club of the American association. Hardly Club in Either Major League, Outside of Champs, Is Satisfied With 1819 Lineup. NEW YORK. Jan. 17. Now that the Ice has been broken it would not be surprising if a number of sensational sales and trades developed in the very near future. There is scarcely a club in either major league, outside the champion Reds and White Sox. that is satisfied wUh its cast as it concluded the 1919 campaign. Even Gleason is not quite satisfied with the windy city bunch the issue of the past world's series aside for his pitching staff is none too secure for such a grueling run as characterized the American league struggle of the past year. Pat Moran will have little occasion to worry if his athletes are at all reasonable. Moran. with his wonder fully balanced staff of young pitchers and good catchers, should be able to hold the fort against any assault that inav develop, unless one of his strong est rivals is able to' develop at leas 25 per cent more driving power than that with which they finished the season. Eller. Ring. Ruether. Bressler and Regan are all youngsters who have won tneir spurs ana oy tne past successful campaign gained the' nec essary confidence to cover up any chance slip on the part of either of the veterans Slim Sallee and Ray Fisher. These last mentioned, how ever, were so very good last year that they are not likely to crark badly before the end of another stiff drive. 'Pat's team elsewhere shapes up well. The Infield is especially formidable and with Jake Daubert going as he went last year is quite the class of the National league. It is possible Moran may have a lot of trouble signing up his players. But that is only one of the many penalties for championship success World's champion athletes In partic ular learn to value their services highly. DOUBLES GAME BANE OF AMERICAN TENNIS PLAYERS Inability of United States to Hold Own in Pairs Often Proves Costly in International Matches Past 'Summer No Exception. BRITISH FIGHT PROMOTER IN AMERICA TO DICKER FOR DEMPSEY-CARPENTIER FIGHT. . r " - f' . - - - t I ' - t Wit l W . u V . . , " I - , - v 3 " s t F - r w v T i - : ' - I J -N ' - i f - J W i ij - r i Jupyrittu., .. uud & underwood. Georgre McDonald, British ffsht jiromtfter and 'mauler of boxers, who arrived on the S. S. Baltic. Is Interested In the efforts to clinch a Dempsey-Carpentler bont. C. B. Cochrane, European promoter, Is also here. McDonald says that Carpentler can beat any man he can hit solidly. He says the French boxer has won derful poncfalnsr ability and Is skillful and clever, and would . surprise sporting- men over here. T WOULD be difficult for the most experienced lawn tennis player to explain why the doubles game does not flourish in this country. At no time has it kept pace with the de velopment of the singles. Upon sev eral occasions fraught with Intensity in the Davis Cup competitions a vic tory in the doubles would have turned the tide in favor of the representa tives of the United States, only the pair in court was not equal to the ca.lL Another chapter In the some what lugubrious history of American doubles was written last summer when Norman E. Brookes and Gerald L. Patterson, the Australians, who were not sufficiently good to win the world's championships at Wimbledon against an improverished English field, carried off the national titles here. As soon as it was known that Brookes and Patterson were coming and that they intended to compete for the national championships in singles and in doubles there was consider able showing of activity on the part of the committee. There was a hasty patching up of pairs, the haste and the patching showing all too plainly when the men were put to the test. Of course, as was stated here at the time, it foreshadowed something new in the way of rules to govern doubles competitions In future, with the hope and expectation that the game might thereby be strengthened. At the recent session of the execu tive committee a new plan for the doubles championship was offered by Edwin F. Torrey, and it will be passed on to the forthcoming annual meet ing of the National association for its adoption or rejection. The founda tion of the plan is the development of sectional championships, the winners or the runners up as alternates being eligible to compete for the national honors. In addition and this is re garded as an important feature- provision is. made for the acceptance of entries for the national cham pionship of pairs that have received high ranking or that have gained special distinction in a stated num ber of competitions during the sea son. The opinion has been expressed that the newer rules as to qualifica tion should make it possible to have 32 pairs in the championship this sea son. The chief clauses of the new rules as framed by Torrey, stating the qual ifying conditions for entry in the na tional doubles championship, are as follows: , "First Members of a team which wins a current sectional doubles chanfpionship. If the winners can not compete the runners-up may take their place. Each duly accredited sec tion shall be entitled to a double championship. Entry shall be limited to residents of the section. "The sectional association, or in sections where no association exists. the club bolding the event will be entitled to receive from the United States National Lawn Tennis associa tion an amount equal to the rail road and Pullman fares of the mem bers of such team from the place where they respectively reside to the place of holding the national cham pionship and return. Any sectional association or club not so represented shall receive no such reimbursement. "Second Players who have been ranked by the United States National Lawn Tennis association in singles or the first ten in doubles. "Third Players who in the last three years preceding the champion ship have been semi-finalists or bet ter in any two tournaments sanc tioned by the United States National Lawn Tennis association. "Fourth Players who have in the current playing season played in not less than three sanctioned tourna ments 'and have made a reasonably good record. The committee of man agement of the tournament has the power to rule on the value of a player's record. "Fifth Players who have in the current season played together as a team In not less than four sanctioned tournaments." There is also provision to admit foreign pairs. Officials believe that the provisions contained in the new proposed rule should operate for the increased development of the Ameri can doubles game. It is expected to be successful, especially as the junior players are showing such phenome nal proficiency. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE. Corvallis, Oregon. Jan. 17. (Special.) Track athletes at O. A. C. will begin work Monday in earnest. The big armory will be used for the workouts for the balance of the time until the weather will permit out door training. During the last week the 210-yard track has been plowed up and graded down and the jumping pits put in order. Shot put aspirants may also have a chance to get in shape. but the armory is hardly large enough for discus or javelin practice. O. A. C. Is conceded to have the best indoor track west of the Rocky mountain and it is on this track that the far western indoor meet has been held on several occasions. Part of the track aspirants have been working on the cross-country course all fall and winter, in order to keep in shape. O. A. C. will send five men to the marathon race held In Portland February 21. and a goo 1 squad has been trying out for places In the entry. Track Prospects Hricht. Prospects for the track season look pretty bright to- the Aggie fans now, and it is probable that other track stars may return to college next term. in time for the meets. Captain Eikel man. the lanky and versatile Cali fornia lad, is in college again this year, and can be relied on for points in several events. He is now play ing basketball, but will be out for track a little later on. Practically all of last year's team are back in college, and a good many men from teams of two and three years back will also be competing for places. The way things look now field events will be a bit short of star material, but track events promise to be well supplied with competition. In the sprints Carter, veteran of tw years' experience, E. Greene, who has also ran for the Aggies two seasons. and Snook, the Portland boy of last year's rook team, are the principal contenaers. rue 40 has a big list. with Rose, Damon. Scea, Kirk and Anderson all !etter men in this event. Kellog. W. Greene and MoClanathan will also be turning out. Distance Men Return. Half-miie races will see Rose In ac tion, along with Durham. J. Rey- rolds and Bryant. .The mile and two mile have four men back who have won letters in those events in years 1ast. Swan, Lucas, McCormack and Spriggs are tne four, and others who showed up Well In the crops-country runs this fall are Bullard. llauge. Ford. Mendee and E. Reynolds. Key nolds has had two years experience in distance runs. Hurdles is where Captain Eikel man shows up to best advantage, and be is sure of a Job hopping the sticks. Ratcliffe, who earned an "O" in the hurdles last year, is expected back in college next term and will be counted on for points. Damon, Cur tis, Garhardt and Moon are other promising men. High jumpers are Eikelman, Waite. Metxler, DaVis, Goetz and Garhardt. Polevault ar tists are Motzler, Luebke, Garhardt and Pinkston. Waite, Snook, Moon and Ross will be contenders for honors in the broad jump. while Powell, Heyden and Luebke wilt be best bets in the shot. Eikelman, Luebke, Heyden and Powell will also throw the discus. In the javelin, Damon, Butler, Van Stone, Johnston and McClain will try out for places. Damon holds the best record ever made by an O. A. C. man In con ference meets, made back in 1916. New Stars Appear. Former interscholastic stars from all over the state will try out for places on the rook track team, and a good showing is in prospect. Two more letter men have returned to O. A. C. this term, one who won his "O" in baseball and the other a track man. Palfrey, left-handed first Backer for the Aggies last spring, is back in college again. Palfrey also played with the rook team his first year here. McCormack. who has done good work in cross country, and who won his letter In the two-mile event last year, is also on hand.' It is ex pected that Radcliffe. varsity hurdler. will return to college to complete his course next term, and if he does, he will be eligible for track. The Aggie track men will be en tered In seven different meets this season, according to tentative ar rangements up to the present time. Following is the way the schedule stands now: April 3 Far western Indoor A. A. U. meet, Corvmi-lis. A.pril . . Columbia indoor meet, Port land. April 4 Pacific coast relay games, Se attle. May S Duil meet with Leland Stanford university, Palo Alto. May 15 Paciftc coast conference mfet. Palo Alto. May 4 Dual meet with University of Orenon. CorvalUs. May 29 Dual meet with University of V ashington. CorvalUs. and Sothoron of the Browns, who each broke into 40 contests. Although Shaw and Russell ap peared in more games than any other hurler, neither was the most in dustrious pitcher in the league. Th real Iron man of the circuit was Ed die Cicottc, who, in bjis 40 games pitched a total of a07 frames. Shaw hurled 29S innings and Russell ill. The same is true in the National league. Meadows pitched in 22 games as a member of the Cardinals' pitch ing stafr. and when he went to Phila delphia appeared in IS games before the season closed. In these buttles he hurled 241 innings, but several pitchers who did ncft take part in as many games as he did pitched more frames. Jim Vaughn of tho Cubs took part in 3S .contests iuul pitched more fr.-rnes than any other National leaguer. He was on the slab for 307 rounds, the same num ber pitched by the American league's iron man of the year. Incidentally Cicotte and Vaughn, the overtime performers in their re spective leagues, each are rated sec ond on the lists. The Cubs' south paw, however, has an edge on the star of the White Sox in the num ber of earned runs allowed a nine inning contest. Vaughn held the op position down to 1.79 tallies a game and Cicotte was found for 1.S2 runs a contest. Vaughn won 21 games and was charged with 14 defeats, ajid in the 307 rounds he pitched he was found for a total of 264 base hits. He struck out 141 batters and walked 62. Cicotte. while he pitched, was found for 256 hits, struck out 110 men and passed 49. Sixty-one runs were earned off the member of tho Cubs and 62 earned tallies were re corded off Cicotte's patching. BEATING HELPS BMHT1H KARLY DEFEAT IN AKRON TKACHF.S BOB LESSON. Akron Boy Wipes Out Drnbning as Novice When He Kmerpes Vic tor in Army Bouts in France. In the panoramic life of Bob M.ir tin. of Akron, O., and Le Mans, Franc, stand forth prominently three pio- tures of ring battles. The scene of the first is in an Akron gymnasium about four years ago. The only spectators were a handful of fellow employes In a locaJ. rubber company and a couple of at tendants from the gym. At the clom of the scrap if it could be termed such Martin left the ring, battered. bleeding and badly beaten, while in the opposite corner stood the winner. man smaller than himself, but one who knew how to use the gloves. It was Bob Martin's first fight. From the Akron gymnasium to tho Cirque de Paris is a long jump, rxjt long jumps were In fashion for onr best young men a few months ago. It was April 26, 1919. a few months after the armistice, and 10.000 wearers of the O. !., including the comman der-in-chief himself, had Jammed themselves Into the building to set the championship final for the A. E. F. The contestants had narrowed down to two men Ifay Kayser, win ner of the Second Army preliminaries, victor In all the early rounds of the elimination battles, and the pro nounced favorite, and Martin, who represented the Le Mans area. Then the big surprise happened. Kayser danced in and danced out again, showing remarkable agility, but every time he got within reach of Martin's long arm and big fist there was a resounding thump, as of an ef ficient pile-driver at work. When the bout ended Kayser was still on his feet, but there was no doubt as to who was the victor. Bob Martin was champion of the A. E. F. The third Incident took place on July 4. In Toledo, O., not very far from Martin's own Akron, Jack Dempsey. on the same day was knock- ng Jess Willard scientifically and thoroughly out of the world's cham pionship. Three thousand and more miles away Bob Martin was lined up against Captain Coughlin, of Aus- ralia, the best that the allies could produce and the only man who stood between Martin and the championship of the allied armies. Previously Mar- had, in his first match, knocked. out Journie. representing France, early in the third round. The final event was even shorter, rnmy Bronson, now Martin's man ager, was at that time referee of the bout and had no personal interest in either man. The bell clanged, and after a few preliminary passes the American's right shot out and landed flush on the Australian's jaw. He was out. Bob Martin was champion of soldlerdom. CLOUTERS UP AGIST IT NATIONAL PITCHERS GOOD AT OUTGCESSIXG HITTERS. Hurlers -in Ban Johnson Circuit Have Harder Time Holding; Swatters at Bay. CONTROL HOLDS GUTTERS 'STICKING 'EM OVER" PROVES GOOD HURLING SYSTEM. NEW YORK. Jan. 17. The records of the major league pitchers for the season of 1919 show that the National league pitchers were more successful in outguessing batters than were the hurlers in Ban Johnson's circuit. The hitting In the American league was heavier and the managers were forced to change pitchers in cham pionship games more often than were j the leaders m John Heydler s organ ization. In the National league only one pitcher. Lee Meadows, partici-r pated in 40 games, but in the rival league no less than eight slabsters broke into at least 40 box scores and two of the eight worked in 44 games. Those who performed often in the American league were Shaw of the Senators, who pitched in 44 games; Russell of the Yankees and later of the Red Sox, who, like Shaw, worked in 44 battles; Covelesbie of Cleve land, 43 games; Kinney of Philadel phia, 43; Williams of the White Sox and Shawkey of the Yankees, each 41 names; Cicotte of the White Sox Records of National Moundmen Show Past Year One of Best" Slabinon Have Turned Out. CHICAGO. Jan. 17. The wail whu-h the big league batsmen especially those of the National league hav been setting up concerning arti ficially aided pitching, and the im perative need of rules to stop it. rouses a lot of sympathy. Neverthe less, it wasn't so much the artificial stuff that aided the pitchers as a dis play of the most wonderful control in the history of the game. The lSlO season might well be termed, "the year of good control." for never did the pitchers shoot them over so ac curately, or give such a scanty sustenance in the way of passes. Hitting, in recent years, had come to be largely a matter of outwaitinfc and outguessing the pitcher mak ing him labor till the count showed so many called balls that he had to groove one for the slaughter. This year the pitchers refused to be out waited. They made it a point to get the percentage of the first called strike, and then to keep on shov ing them over till the batsman had to punch at anything that came along. Under such circumstances the hitting dwindled and it will con tinue to dwindle as long as the pitchers keep the ball across the plate and refuse to get rattled. In the whole National league there was only one pitcher, during the 1919 season who could reall4 be called a wild man Jake May of St. uis. May. in 16 full games he won only three and lost 13 gave 87 passes and hit 14 men. He was a pitcher of the olden school fan 'em or pass 'ein. Lefthander, too but just to jrove that lefthanders are not essentially wild. Slim Sallee, the old fox of the Reds, gave only 20 passes in 2S full games, and hit only one batsman. The marvelous control of the Na tional league pitchers is shown by the following figures on flingers who gave less than two passes to the game and don't forget that some of these few tickets were issued pur posely to dangerous hitters when men were on bases: pitcher. SaUee Adams .... Karnes . . . Miller Alexander S. Smith .. Cadore Packard . . PIcffer ... Pet.! Pitcher. Pot. .. .071 Rurioiph l.llii . .. .nv.tironev 1.7 ...l.oti "'. Mitchell 1.7. . . IKiier . i ...1.41 Itioodwln l.s:: ...1.47 iOoupl-uss ........ 1 .st; . ..l.r.i IHenton 1 . . 1..14 IVauKhn 1 tH . . .l.tw IFishc-r 1.W5