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0 Tom Heeney Sustains One of Most Severe (MEIER FIGHTS ON FOR TEN ROUNDS YANKEE STADIUM. New York, July 29. (AP) Subjecting Tom Heeney, New Zealand chal lenrer, to one of the most severe beatlngi any man ever took In any ring. Gene Tunney. heavy weight champion, tonight scored a technical knockout over the Ansae In the eleventh round of a 15 round match. Tnnney knocked Heeney uncon scious at the close of the tenth round but the bell saved the-chal-lenger, laying unconscious on the floor. Tunney weighed 189 pounds; Heeney 203. Rarely has' any man been sub- Jected to the punishment Heeney. tooa alter tne sevemn rouna nu,ai.ms golng by Tunney's head. Tom still keep his feet to plunge Btub-jCaught tne champion agaIn near bordly into the champions flail-tne rope8 Tunney's vital spot and ing puncnes. ine cnauenger s ii eye, hurt in the seventh round, left him half blinded throughout the rest of the fight. After reel ing through terrific punishment In the eighth and ninth sessions, . Heeney collapsed under the cham pion's bitter attack just as the tenth round closed. Tom rolled on his back almost out of the ring "and had to be carried to his cor ner. Although he survived some what for the eleventh, Tunney slashed him into a gory figure In 2 minutes and 52 seconds of the round before the referee called it About 50,000 spectators witnessed the battle. The challenger was helnless and Referee Forbes stepped between to halt the fray as Heeney collapsed. Round 1 Grimly determined, Tunney whipped a solid right to Heeney's Jaw. The challenger ducked and swarmed into Gene with short ieft and right hooks to j the chin that drove the champion j to the ropes. Heeney shot over a solid riaht to the head on the break. Sticking to his right hand, Gene crashed two rights on Hee ney's jaw but a sweeping left hook almost bowled the champion from his feet. Tunney was out fast, stabbing now with his left but Tom beat both hands like a tatoo on Tunney's chin as they swapped in close. Gene ripped a solid right to Heeney's head but it never moved the challenger and Tunney was on the run as Tom ripped after him. both hands flail ing to the head. There was a bad bruise over Tunney's left eye at the end of the round. Round 2. Tunney, obviously startled at Heeney's fierce offen sive, started boxing the challeng er. He shot his left to Heeney's head but could not keep the bull dog of the Anzacs away. Tunney blasted left and right Into the sturdy head of the hard rock with out causing a flicker of Heeney's eyelashes. Gene swapped with his challenger and they ripped left and right hooks to the chin in a furious exchange. Tunney sparred as Tom ripped In. When Gene's left hook dropped low. Tom men tioned it and Gene smiled and asked forgiveness. A second later they were crashing each other alongside of the ring in a slugging t exchange of head clouts that rocked both on their heels. The bell broke up the exchange as the crowd stood and roared its ap proval. Round 3 Absolutely unawed by the power in Tunney's newly found right, Heeney plodded into a right handed exchange with the titleholder. Tom dropped his guard and stood before the cham pion. Hands ready and daring an other exchange. Gere accommo dated him and they cracked lefts and rights, short vicious pokes that stung Jaw and cheek. Gene champion with a right to the head didn't seem to like that and he A right to the heart sent Tom reel bounced back on defense, spearing ing again. Tom could barely stag the challenger as Tom stalked aft-ger in the close places Hia back er him. Tunney slipped, as Hee-jto the ropes. Tom blindly stag ney swept a right hook to his gered forward. Tunney half kid head and nearly fell, but came ding, half stabbed him easily with back to firmer fooling, without a left and let him get away. Gene o ! Heeney slugged viciously at the champion's head while Tunney met his attack with solid left hooks to the body. Round 4 Rising in sympathy with Heeney the crowd bellowed the Invader on as he whipped a short left and right into Gene's chin. Tunney bounced two rights off Tom's flinty chin and shot the challenger's head back with a stinging left hook. Gaining the upper hand decisively for the first time in the fight. Gene threw a right Into Heeney's head with ev ery ounce of his weight and strength behind It. This time Tom's eyelids actually fluttered and Tunney pressed his advantage with two crushing rights to the heart. Sensing the turn, with blood beginning to drip from a cut nnder his chin Heeney tore sav agely into the champion and nailed him to the ropes with a rocking volley to the head. Back to the hemp, in the same position as when Dempsey floored him last fall, Tnnney fought vainly to sway out of danger but Heeney nailed him repeatedly on the head. The bell broke up the challenger's on slaught. Round 8 Tnnney smashed his right full under Heeney's heart but the Ansae seemed to like It and bounded In close to slug at the champion's body. Gene drilled a left and risht into Tom's rugged head and blood dribbled from the challenger's nose. Boxing cagily - again on the defense his natural style. Gene prodded the Ansae with jolts to the head and body as Tom sturdily ploughed Into what ever punishment came his way. Tom slipped as Tnnney hooked him In a clinch but was up with out a count. Tunney pecked at him steadily up to the bell.; Round 0 Tunney's masterly defense bad Heeney quite muddled now as Tom plodded in only to find his clouts caught on the champion's arms and his body bat tered by Gene's thudding right. The champion stepped in with a bullet-like left hook to .the body and bounced his right again off Heeney's corrugated features. In a clinch, with the broad shoul dered New Zealander half a head shorter, Tunney roughed it to the bell. Round 7. Taking a breather, Tunney was content to maul with the challenger, killing the effec tiveness of Tom's left hook by carrying bis right high against his cheek. As Tunney danced about. spearing Tom with his left, the Anzac m,B8ed frequently, his short ala,h., - ,pft -,, rleht to Oene'i hea5. Gene wabbled a bit and tore out of the precarious position so fast that he landed in the center of the ring before Tom could get away from the ropes, Gene was boxing his man easily, spearing Tom with his lefts deftly. Round 8. Freshened by half a bucket of water poured over his head and a new hair comb, Tun ney came out to hold the chal lenger helpless. Heeney's left eye swelled and nearly closed when something irritated it. Tom shook his head in desperation as he could hardly see from that eye. Finally he closed it of his own accord and tore into Tunney with one good eye. Quick to Bee his advantage. Gene held the challenger a mo ment, looked over difficulty and then pumped lefts and rights to Tom's head and body. Tom wob bled under the blows but blood spurted from his nose as he lashed forward in a despairing effort Tunney met his courageous attack right up to the bell. Round 9 Hardly able to see from his left eye, despite the min istrations, Heeney gallantly piled into the champion. It seemed dye from the tights had gotten onto Tunney's gloves and into the chal lenger s eyes. Tunney, a sports man himself, stood and slugged with the challenger, but Tom got the worst of that too, as Tunney's knifing lefts drummed on the An zac's head. Blood began to ooze from Heeney's battered left eye A gory sight and becoming gor ier, Hoeney- again summoned his strength for another surge and ripped his right and left to the champion's head Round 10 Heeney's eye looked almost normal as he came out dog gedly to follow the unmarked champion. Gene grabbed Tom as the Anzac lunged forward and sank a left and right into the body. The snap seemed to have disap peared from Heeney's punches and Tunney apparently had little de sire to cut up the challenger fur ther. Gene grabbed Heeney as the Anzac plunged in close and show ered him with left hooks to the head and body. Tom reeled under full left and right hand clouts to le head. Plodding forward now by instinct Heeney ran into a bar rage and went down under a right io the head. As Heeney rolled un conscious almost from the ring, the bell rang and ended the ses sion. Heeney was out, flat on his back and had to be carried to his corner. His seconds had him re stored for the next round. i . . 'wu 11 Meenev came nnt with a left that missed and Tun ney measured Tom for a final blow. Showing amazing recupera tive powers, his head a mass of blood, Tom plunged ar&ln intn th. JCU lvul aooui me bead on the ropes and Tom reeled under the punishment.. WINNING TEAMS ENJOY BANQUET : - " : The banquet for the winning teams of the Twilight baseball league was held last night at the YMCA. AH members of the Eari and Hansen-LHJequist teams were on handaa well as the managers oi me otner teams. Coach "Spec tveene or Willamette universitv acted as toastmaster, and respons es were made by team managers. Following the banquet a meet ing of the team managers was held, and plans for another season nexi year were discussed. Offi- cials of the league were well pleased with the past season, and declared it one of the best In re cent years WALTER HAGEN TIED BY SMITH ROSEDALE GOLF CLUB. To ronto, Ont. July 26. (AP) Walter Hagen, of New York, Brit ish open title-holder, and Mae- ponald Smith. oJ Great Neck. L. L. were tied today with cards of C9 at the end of the first 18-hoIes of the 72-hole Canadian open coif championship. The second round will be played tomorrow, j No corner loafer so insignifi cant that he does not have "the real Inside dope" as to who Is go ing to be the next president Danbury News. THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON, n M 1 ' Mr Tex Rickard Evening For Title Bout YANKEE STADIUM, New York, July 26. (AP) Early birds at the Tunney-Heeney championship bout flocked to the right field bleachers stadium where Babe Ruth hits many of his home runs. A sign in .big letters announced that they were 295 feet from the home plate this for the benefit of the home runs clouted by Ruth and his fellows and had no refer ence to the distance to the ring in which a boxing championship of the world was to be decided later. The ring was placed behind the pitcher's mound so that the first cash customers to put In an ap pearance were not so far away as they might have been If the rights and lefts had been thrown at tne same spot to which the balls and strikes are tossed. The customers who had made reservations did not bother to vis it the huge home of the world baseball champions while the bril liant lights over the ring tried un successfully to make an impres sion against the still bright lights of the late afternoon. Forty aluminum encased lights of 1000 candle power each cast their radiance on the ring resting five and one half feet above the ground on iron supports. , The ring was no stranger to the Yan kee stadium. It has been here be fore, one notable visit to the base ball park marking the knockout of Jack Sharkey by Demosev. When it Is not visiting outdoors the ring makes Its home at Madi son Square Garden. Tex Rickard appeared at the ringside as early as 6:20 o'clock. The promoter, second only to Tun ney, as an interested party to the bout, chewed his big cigar and looked at the array of seats he hoped would be filled. He did not voice any apprehension that the customers would not come, but he could not have been sure. As he left the stadium to attend to his other chores In connection with the bout, "Tex" remarked that it looked like be would have a good evening If nothing else. Neither the stage manager nor any one else could find any fault with the weather as twilight fell. A gentle breeze swept the big en closure and there were only flee cy clouds about. Rows of flags were flapping at Intervals atop the grandstand. David Belasco, who Is to direct the stage work of Jack Dempsey, another good tighter. In a play to" be produced In the late summer, was In his seventh row ring-aide seat more than two hours before he could hope to see any vital blows exchanged In the ring.. Cameramen fired at him and re-J porters astea tne stage wizard RETAINS WORLD GENE TUNNEY Has Good what he though of the fight he had not yst seen. Outside the stadium the crowd was small. The prospective spec tators in the bleachers had made their bargain purchases of $5 seats selling for $3 and those seeking the high priced paste boards had not put In an appear ance. There seemed to be fully as many policemen as fight fans in the immediate vicinity outside the gates. There was no excuse for any one missing his way as he sought entrance. Each gate was marked in huge letters so one who can could read. An airplane looked down for a minute but soon flew away. It gave the crowd a thrill when It swooped down to an altitude of about 1,000 feet. A big seaplane came along later but remained much higher. The enthusiasm of the crowd was all for the little fellow. The bleacher crowd grew and soon looked like the baseball crowd on a holiday. These bleach er fans were not the farthest re moved from the scene of the fray. Roofs of apartment houses blocks away from the stadium had full quotas of optimistic persons who might or might not see something for nothing. BILL DUG TIES I YANKEE STADIUM, New York, July 26. (AP) BUI Dar ing of the U. S. S. Arkansas, a youthful edition of the bull chest ed Tom Heeney, but entirely left handed, blasted Frank Lang, hea vyweight from South Bend, Ind., out of the picture In one minute and 53 seconds of the second round of the first preliminary on the Heeney-Tunney championship card. Daring, as dangerous in action as he was in name, found out all he needed of Lang's style In the first round. In the second he ap plied that knowledge and floored the mldwesterner with a crushing right to the ehln for the count of eighty Hardly bad Lang regained his feet before a" left, zooming into the wobbly Lang from the offside. stretched him motionless - nnder the ropes . In a " neutral corner. Lang had to be carried to his cor ner. - ' - The sailor, a terrific, nuncher with his port battery, spotted Lang two pounds in the weights. Dar GOT H FRIDAY MORNING, JULY CROWN ing scaled 189, Lang 191. The energetic bleacherites, who had almost filled the 16,000 seats available at $3 and $5, seemed too busy arranging themselves in vantage places to pay much at tention to the hard working youngsters. And when the bleach erites are silent there usually isn't much noise in a fight arena, The fans warmed up but little as Jimmy Byrne, Louisville light heavyweight, and the second southpaw of the evening, tried his unorthodox punches on Big Boy Peterson of New Orleans, In a six round engagement. Byrne, failed to make it two straight victories for the left hand ers but he did gain a draw with Peterson after six bruising rounds Peterson offset a bruising body at tack that had him wilting towards the close with knifing righthand ers to the head. After a bad third round, Peterson came on in the fifth to rock the Louisville entry BRAVES WIN TWICE BOSTON, July 26. (AP) The Braves made it two straight over the Cubs today by winning a long overtime game in 14th inn ing, 7 to 6. Score: R H E Chicago . 6 18 0 Boston 7 18 2 (14 innings.) Bush, Jones, Root and Hartnett. Barnes and Taylor, Spohrer. Cards Whip Robins BROOKLYN, July 26. (AP) Masterful pitching by Grover Al exander and home runs by. Frank Frisch, Taylor Douthit and George Harper enabled the Cardinals to win over the Robins here today 6 to 1. Score: R HE St. Louis 6 15 1 Brooklyn 1 7 1 Alexander and Wilson; Petty. Koupal, Ehrhardt and Gooch. Pirates Win 7-5 NEW YORK, July 26. (AP) The Pirates defeated the. Giants 7 to 5 today. Score: R HE Pittsburgh ; ..7 11 , 1 NewYbrk 5 t 3 Grimes and Hargreaves; Hub bell, Faulkner and'Hogan. Reds Beat Phillies . .... BAQPVMOOPHIA, July 26. (AP) The Cincinnati Reds de feated the Phillies today C to 4. Score: ; . . . R HE Cincinnati i j Philadelphia 4. 7 i May, Rlxey and Hargrave, Su kef orth ; Miller and Lerian. OVER CHICAGO CUBS 27, 1928 Beatings Mntitavilla Seeks Place In Valley Ball Circuit In case the Willamette Valley baseball league wants to Include a Portland team next year, chances are about 100 to 1 that it will be able to do so. Montavilla Is the team that Is going to break away from the city circuit, and as a matter of fact. If one of the val ley league teams dropped out right now, which Is extremely un likely. Montavilla would be ready to Jump right in at this juncture. That was the word received yes terday by Manager Leo Edwards of the Salem Senators from John Mickelson. Montavilla manager, and It all came about through action of the Portland city league directors over the eligibility of one Jim Fleischman, Montavilla out fielder. Prospects are that the Valley league will be in line to take in a Portland club next year, as it will give the valley teams more home games and more interest. Monta villa vied with Salem for the championship of the city league last year, and was leading up to the time the squabble arose this year. Here's how it all happened: Fleischman dickered with the East Tilden-La Coste Match Slated This Afternoon PARIS, July 26. (AP) Big Bill Tilden, American tennis ace, and Rene LaCoste, French master; will face each other across a net at the Auteuil stadium at 2 o' clock tomorrow afternoon in the opening match of the first Davis cup challenge, round ever held in France and one which will go far to decide the custody of the cup. It also may mark the last meet ing of these two great stars at least for some, time to come, judg ing by statements from them to day. While Rene reiterated his an nouncement that he would not go to the United States to defend his American championship, thus end ing any hope of another LaCoste- Tilden battle this season. Big Bill made the surprising declaration that if he makes a poor showing in these Davis cup matches he may retire from play at the end of the year. "No, I am not thinking of turn ing professional." Tilden told the MISSIONS DEFEAT PORTLAND 10 TO 5 SAN FRANCISCO, July 26. (AP) The Missions gave Port land a 10-5 beating today by chalking up 15 hits cf three Bea ver twirlers. Gordon Slade, short stop, figured heavily in the victory by batting in five runs with two triples and a double in five times up. Score: R H E Portland 5 10 1 Missions 10 15 0 Ortman, Ponder, Couch and Whitney; Pillette and Breniel. Baldwin, Sypher. Angels Whip Oaks OAKLAND, Calif., July 26. (AP) Los Angeles put on a three run rally in the eighth to nose out Oakland, 4-3 today, after the Oaks had held the lead since the second frame. Score: R H E Los Angeles 4 10 0 Oakland 3 8 0 Barfoot and Sandberg; Cooper and Read. Seals Beat Sacs SACRAMENTO .July 26. (AP) San Francisco took the fi nal game of the split season from Sacramento here today, 6 to 2 for a 2 to 1 advantage on the brief series which ended all playing be tween the clubs this year. Score: R H E San Francisco 6 10 0 Sacramento 2 7 2 Malls and Sprint; Kallio, Gould and Severeld. Indians Lose Sixteenth LOS ANGELES, July 26. (AP) Seattle's losing streak was extended to 16 straight here to day when Hollywood administered a 10 to 5 drubbing. Score: r H E 10 1 14 1 Seattle .. ' g Hollywood . io C. Sullivan. Collard and Schmidt; McCabe and Busier. 14TH STREET WINS FROM UIITES The large hova P"wwaa iCUi from the Lincoln ni.-ri.nm... cave the 14th atrt t.. tiff opposition in a game yestei- uierninra at the . Lincoln grounds. The-connt at th t,a n the game was 17-1 r with wit. street In possession of the extra wine uirecior Anderson said the tame was good from the begin UIM a nao praise lor the play- lnx Of the UnmtnltM TV. t m. - . . o Am street, small boys defeated a. Ua- wio team nv in wiii,, m m r . IUI(1B of lf-5. This afternoon Yew Park Ring History in Side Commercial club for a place pn Its team, and somehow that club filed a contract with his name attached to it. Fleischman claims he didn't sign it. Meanwhile, without playing any games with the East Side, Fleischman signed up as a regular player for Monta villa. Some mention of the alleged vi olation of the rules was made at the time, but Mickelson claims that Porter Yett, president of the league, assured him there would be no protest. Later Fleischman saw the president and the East Side club manager, and apparent ly ironed out the whole difficulty. To make It all the more aggra vating in MickelSon's viewpoint, he gave the East Side club per mission to use three unsigned players, although the East Side had 28 players on Its roster when only 15 were permitted by the league rules. Finally, at a meeting this week, the league directors voted to for feit the four games in which Fleischman had played, and upon that Montavilla withdrew from the league. Associated Press, but if we should fail to win back the Davis cup this time I feel someone else should try it next year." Although LaCoste . has bee.n vic torious over Tilden the last four times they have met, America's eight times champion has the en tire tennis world of Paris guess ing and there is none willing to prophesy he is going down to de feat. The result of their match is seen here as an important indi cation of how much of a chance the United States has of recaptur ing the cup. Concerning the other singles match tomorrow in which Henri Cochet is to meet John Hennessey, there has been less speculation as it is regarded hereabouts as al most a certain victory for the Frenchman. The smiling young Hoosier was able to trim Henri in the United States championship last year, however, and is hopeful I he can do it again. and 14th street will mix, with the smaller boys playing at Park. Last week a park team defeated 14th for the first time, and the fellows are anxious to repeat the performance. Because of the excessively hot weather and consequent lack of interest, the archery contest scheduled for tomorrow afternoon has been postponed until cooler weather arrives. Instead of the Indian sport, there will be swim ming races for large and small boys. The parade of decorated tricy cles, scooters and doll buggies for the girls at 14 th street will be held as scheduled. Prises will be awarded for the best entries. Yesterday afternoon one might have thought the 14th street pool was conducting a' tire washing service, from the number of tubes in the pool used by kiddles just learning to ' swim. Swimming rules as the most popular sport. The three questions successively asked of the directors now are, "Is your watch running?" "Is It right?" and "What time is it?" The longest half hours of the af ternoon are those spent waiting to get into the pool, and the short est are those spent In the pool. Yesterday afternoon's attendance was the lightest for several "days. LEAD WHOLE FIELD NORTH SHORE CLUB, Chica go, July 26. (AP) All the golf veterans, including , the national open titleholder, Johnny Earrell, of New York, tried in vain today to snatch the lead in the western open golf championship from- two . -. . joong pruieseuonais, wno scorea 70, or two nnder par in their first round yesterday. 1 The nearest anyone came to that brace of 70's, by Bill Tinder of Anderson, Ind.. and Phil Hess ler, of Bristow, Okla., was a 71 by Al Esplnosa of Chicago. Far rell got a poor start, taking 38 on the first nine and finishing with 14. His partner, Jock Hutch- won, made a splendid bid on the first nine by taking two strokes off par, but slumped near the end for a 40 on the In half to total 74 also. Esplnosa all but beat .the course record, set by Tinder and Hessler, having gone out in a record 3 4 and reached the 16 th tee three under par. Needing only pars on the last three holes for a 69. he twitched irons on the short 16th. and: toed the ball iDounas, takin 4. He still had two pars to tie the lead, but he let the opportunity slip4 by taking three putts on. the 1 8 th green to finish in tie at 71 with Jim Noonan of Gary, Ind., who scored his round yesterday. ; '"vv M YOUNG PROS New First National Back Building Directory BABEMEMT D Lux Shiniag Parlor Expert for Ladio sod Gntlcma TU&KIStf BATHS, UASSAQX Offieo Talophooo zl KaaidoiMO Talcphooo 2881 SECOND JXOOR Coffey 'a That Sarrica TaL 70S. Uvar tha Spa Morrla Optical Co. 101 802 in Pr. Uanry K. 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(AT - The Tigers out-scored the Ya s 13 to 10 after losing the openl' i: game 12 to 1, In 12 innings. First game: RUB New York 12 16 0 Detroit - :: 1 7 1 (12 innings.) Hoyt and Bengough, Graborl, Sorrell and Woodall. Second game: -R H B New York 10 n 2 Detroit -I 13 ! 3 Moore, Johnson, Pipgras ( 21m- bJl; Grabowskl, and Benf.-".vf Whltehlll, Vangilder Holl.vy and Hargrave. Cleveland Wins Two CLEVELAND, July 26 - I ' Cleveland won its secorni ii ble header In two playing with Boston todav bv lickir.t ' 1 Red Sox 4 to 3 with a two-11 ' ly In the ninth after taking first game 4 to 2. First game: R H " Boston ; 2 1 Cleveland 4 10 ) Ruffing and Hofmann; tt;i'i, and L Sewell. Second game: R H E Boston 3 10 1 Cleveland 4 12 0 Harlas and Berry; Grant, v or ris and Autry. Athletica Going Strong CHICAGO, July 26. m - The Philadelphia athktk their third straight of ti with the White Sox tod a 1 behind the fine pitching ty Grove. 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