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vukmx, rumiUA, mimimi, km MIHKII IV Baseball Golfing Swimming Football Racine Boxing SPORT E'W-S THE OLD STALWARTS HILL WINS A. A. A. ItACli AT CULVER CITY, CALIFORNIA Citrus Growers Hold Banquet At Haines City vv fl i Vah-r' ROBINSON SAID TO BE RESTING -sr-V Av. rxrrv i i i vjs JomhIoh Stk Fcnvi AHD MofcAH vism Hie svlirc.lVt K'i Tint.

He COOl-t VIIH Vols Vo.W. science. He was as fast as Corbett and he just plunged in and roughed it through four rounds, keeping Corbett busy dodging and clinching. Corbett never was "invincible." He had skill and footwork, i and no punch. Boh Fitzsimmons was vinvinri-ble" too, in turn.

Nobody thought for a moment that Freckled Bob 'could bo neaten when he was matched with Jeffries, a younbster ifrom the west who had visited New I York once, a year before, without construction these last three year creating any Bob thought he was invincible, too, although he was thirty-six years of age. And he was as near it as any fighter I've ever seen. Only Jeffries could beat him, and Jeffries was a giant in strength Jim and Fitz at Coney The night Jeffries fought Fitz simmons at Coney Island Billy Brady Jeff strip and lie on a nibbing couch In his dressing room. 1 1 hen Brady went to Fiti quar- ters and asked him to come over to Jeff's place and agree on rules. I don't knoo' whether Fitz was foxy or simple in this case.

You nver could fathom his mind. Usually the champion would refuse to go see anyone. But Fitz jumped up and went right along. Probably his crafty brain was figuring upon surprising Jeffries and playing some trick to get his goat. But he hadn't seen Jeffries yet.

Brady thre wonen the door and for an instant Fitzsimmons stood there in the doorway with eyes hulging as he stared at Jeft'ries stretched out so that he looked even bigger than he was, with tremendous chest and shoulders and arms, small waist, hulging thighs and calves, short thick neck and huge square-jawed head. "Get up, Jim," said Brady, "we want you aijd Fitz to decide whether you want to fight in clinches or break clean." Jeffries got up. "That's it," said Fitz, sliding close to Jeffries and reaching out for a hold. "Po you want to fight like this, or "FJght any way you please" growled Jeffries savagely. "I don't care how you fight." And nutting his right hand aga'nst Hob's chest he thrust o'it suddenly like Bud Hauser putting the shot, silifting Fitz from his feet and hurling him headlong against the partition.

Dazed, Bob walked back to his room without another word. He may havo realized right there that his dream of invincibility was Races 2S0 Mile at Average Speed of 126.9 Miles An Hour. culver city, Cai. ivc. (By A.

Bennett Kill, IHv. Ine his rr at average speed of miles an hour, wun the 2-jO mile Tare under the auspices of the American Automobile Association re this afternoon negntiat-, ing tho distance In one hour, bfl minuted, 1H 3-5 mtoii.Is, Tli rare brings to a close the 1024 raring season of the American A-'Uimohilo Association and dedicates the new Culver City I board speedway. Sixteen cars roared pat the sturti.ri Marry Hnitre win second, Tom-my Milton thlnl, Fri Comer fourth and William K. Fhuttti'kf fifth. Hil' shattered the mile aver-.

11K.17 miles, made by Tommy Milton at Charlotte, N. lat year. Hill und Milton made, no 1 stops. Though Hill took first honors In today's rare, tin- result of the Mec clusfdi- was In put tho American Auto Association, championship In the deal hand of Jimmy Murphy, killed months ago at N. V.

Karl Cooper, the only driver In the. race with rhiuieo to win the championship, lost thnt chance when he dropped out of the race at the end of the seventeenth lap 'on account of engine trouble. Harry llartzfelt In nosing out Milton for second place, after having la-en forced to drop precious aeronda in the pits for a tire change, was the sensation of the race. Averaging around 13 miles an hour, the. handicapped driver thru-t hack the miles, with only 20 still to p-o, until In tho last quarter lan ho overtook and squeezed pa Milton.

Another surprise of the mile whirl was the driving of Shatturk. It was tho Loulsiville, sports-mnn's first race on a bonrd speedway, his previous experience having been confined dirt track and road raring event where tho sliced Is less than half that shown on the Culver City bowl today. Post Season Games In California Are Creating Interest NEW YORK, Per. ll(Hy A. I'.) For tho first timo in ninny years for undefeated football teams, which havo played representative schedules in their soe-tions of the country, will meet, in post-season games New Year's lny in California.

Tho meeting of two of these teams, tho I'niver-sity of California and tho University of will bo uilike many of tho I'ncific coast post sen; on games in the past inasmuch as lie teams meeting In former years, whilo undefeated, have not always played through a difficult whed-ule. The game will settlo somewhat the sectional chaininnslii) as each team has been ranked among the leaders in tho East and West. California, undefeated sinro 1919 when Washington state defeated It, to 0, will make a groat effort to continue its record. Pennsylvania, with tho be.it team since will ttrive to uphold the honor of eastern football, several times trampled in the dust by Western, elevens. Pennsylvania is rated by many critics, us tho greatest defensive team in the Hast, it has come thru an unusually hard sehe lule without a defeat and has been tied but once, that a scoreless draw with Rezdo.c's I'enn.

state eleven. Several of the Ponnu's. wins, however, have not been impro-sivo. The Penna. eleven barely beat (ioonve-town by the margin of a field goal; another field goal defeated Columbia and the verdict over I.al-'ayette was ptiinod by only three points.

The brisht spot in the lYnna. season was the derisive 20 to 0 victory BCored against Cornell. Southern Assoc. Club Presidents Start Meet Today MEMPHIS, Pec. 14.

Tho president of every cluh in the Southern Association will attend the annual winter meeting of the league which opens here tomorrow, according to advices received by president John P. Martin, who will preside. The executives will decide upon the opening and cV-inu dates for the season and upon the allotment of holiday games. A schedule committee of three will be appointed to report at the spring fchedule meeting. Discussion of the salary iJm't-1 now fixed at the class A.

m.isi mum of may be arcording to those already the President Edwards Gives Talk on Development of The Exchange. IIAIaKS CITY, 'pec. 1 That mass on-iirnpt i-m Is an ab-olute necessity if tl. program of development of Ihe Florid. Citrus Kxchange Is to lie carried out was the point brought out by President C.

Fdwacds of the orgunlat ion at a hamiuet given at the droves Hotel in Humes City Friday riMit by the Haines City Citrus A so-ciation. "A survey of the t0 markets handling the fruit of the Florida Citrus Fn-hsnge during the last year shows that oranges sell at an average of sixty rents s-r doi.en and gruticfruit at from if, to 2a rents each," Mr. Kdwards pointed out. "From figures which have hern cnii-fully obtained, it has been found that only per rent of the population of the I'niled Stu'es is financially able to consume our fruit at that price. "The problem which is facing the growers and officials of the Florida Citrus Kxrhantre is the production of fruit at Mich a price that the other per rent of the population of the rountry will la-able to coii-unie our fitii'.

"After a careful rtiidy of the situation, it apiears that transportation of our product by water is the logical solution for this need. Shipping by water is much less expensive than bv rail, and at present there is on the water one boat loaded exclusively with Fiori na fruits lor the northern markets. Th cost of transportation ran be greatly reduced through this method. At present, it costs Florida growers to ship their product miles. California growers can ship their fruit tho same distance for approximately f-0 cents less.

With the installation of water transportation by the Floridians, it will lie possible to transport our fruit for 70 cents." "This is the psychological time to go into the field of water transportation," President Kdwards continued. "There is ample opportunity to purchase any number of ships on long time payments from tho government, and it will be possible through this means to establish a line of service for northern ports at a considerable saving to the Florida growers. If this method is adopted. It will be possible to put our fruit on the market nt a price much lower than It in now. In this way, a large portion of the population who cannot now afford to buy Florida fruit will he enabled to do so because of the reduced prices.

"Thn Work before us is not a small Job by any means. It means that we must have plenty of time nnd lots of fruit if surh a marketing scheme Is to be adopted," he said. President Kdwards ronrtuded his address by urging the local growers to produce more fruit than they have dona lieforv. South Afrira nnd Knglaml are writing for Florida fruit, he stated, and will enter actively into the market if there is any possibility of the price of fruit being lowered. The evening's program was opened by President J.

F. I.indvall of the Haines City Citrus Growers' Association, who introduced Pr. M. Sample of Haines City as toast-master. Ho in turn introduced J.

lieed Curry, organizer for the state 'organization, who spoke concerning the number of trus, growers who have joined the exebnntre. Puring tha year T.I21. according to his talk, more than tiO per cent of tho fruit growers in the have allied themselves with the exchange. Business Manager E. C.

Stewart told of tha system of oneration of the Florida Citrus Kxehange, and emphasized the need of a greater volume of fruit in tho state. Sales manager G. A. Scott outlined the sales plan of tho Citrus Kxchatuv, and reported that there had been an increa-e hi the markets using Florida fruit from to 145 during the last year. Kvcry state in the union but Arizona and California, which have legislated against Florida fruit, is being supplied with this year's crop, he stated.

Approximately 200 local growers and their guests attended the function, which was held in the main dining roo mof the new hotel the dinner, the guests danced in the Crystal room. The Gateway Five orchestra supplied music during the dinner ami for tho dance. Ministerial Assoc. Meet Today The Orange County Ministerial Association will have their regular monthly meeting nt the First Baptist Church this morning at 10 o'clock. All members of the Association are urged to attend the meeting.

A change has taken place in the ownership of the Gulf Coast Speedway at Houston and the new management is plunging for a re vival of automobile racing on a big scale this winter. over. But Fitz was the gamest man the ring ever saw. He went out half an hour later and charged against Jeffries' iron defense and his battering ram left arm, fighting as if'he had all the confidence in the world, until Jeffries knocked him out in the eleventh round. A couple of years afterward Fitz said to me: "Jeffries is the greatest man I ever saw.

If he knew what I know about fighting he could be champion until he's sixty years old. Nobody could beat him." Jeffries was invincible in his early days as champion. But he ran out of opponents, had nothing to do, stopped training, opened a safe in Los Angeles and drank and ate, and grew fat until he weighed 315 which was just 111 pounds more than his weight when he beat Fitz at Coney Island. That Havana Milly Still the public thought Jeffries was invinribla that he could do anything that nobody could beat him. Six years out of the ring and much more than that out of condition, Jeffries was brought back to fight Johnson.

He trained off a hundred pound of fat, went through ten months of torture to do it. But he wasn't the old invincible Jeffries. Yet no sure was the public that something would drive the old knockout in Jeff's great fists that when Jeffrie? sunk down in the fifteenth round the huge arena at Reno was as soundless as a deserted cellar. People couldn't believe what their owi eyes saw. Then Johnson was "invincible," of course, touted as the most marvelous defensive boxer of the age.

They said nobody could hit him. Johnson through a streak of nat ural caution, had developed a style all his own. He never led. He'd wait week, if necessary, until the other man led, and then he'd block and occasionally counter. When Johnson tried lead he floundered and looked clumsy, but he tried so seldom that the public didn't know it.

Johnson kept his reputation, when he was champion, by not fiehting. He met litt'w Jim Flynn and Frank Moran. Finally he needed money and couldn't get anymore without fighting for it, and had to take on a match with Willard to git a real piece cf change. Johnson was guaranteed thirty thousand dollars to fight Willard bai.timork, -wnu-rt Robin -on, manager of the Hrook- lyn Niitiomil I x- a no hiiM-hull team, win reported tonight to he retniif ronitortahly at I mm Memorial Howpital, where he will undergo nn operation tomorrow Robinson's condition, it wan said Ht the hospital, Ik out serious. Tho operation was derided upon when an X-rny examination di-eloM-d a gathering on one I ii tr, the result of an attack of pleuri from which the liodirer manager had bee suffering for several weeks.

I TOIMV'S AI.EMHK I SPOUTS liitcinfr: Meetinir of Parish. Fair at Jefferson Ni'W Or- leans. of Cuhii-Anierirnn Jockey Cluii, llnvanua. Meeting of Tin Juana Jockey Club, at Tia Juana, llilliards: New York Slate pocket billiard championship opens at Hrnokly n. lloxinir: Charley Winert vs.

Sharkey. 12 at Newark, N. J. lla-il (ialiano vs. I'al Morun, 15 rounds, nt New Orleans.

Harry droli vs. Hob Sace, HI rounds, at 1'itl shurch. Kid vs. Mike Ihilh-rino, 10 rounds, at Milwaukee. Sid TerriU vs.

Whitey Fitz-I'eiahl, 10 rounds, at l'hiladi'lphia. Hagen, Sarazen Are Defeated By Duncan, Mitchell ST. AL'CUSTIXK. Pec. 14 (iwrpe Duncan and Abe Mitchell, of Croat llritain defeated Waller Hnircn and Come Sarazen, American professionals, I and in an exeitinij p(df match of V.fi holes.

Duncan and Mitchell were Inside the Americans on their approach shots virtually throughout the match. Duncan, the Scot, was in real form in the morning, when he hnd a score of for the round, and his team was three up. Hagen nnd Sarazen played hard in th afternoon, hut could not break through because of the brilliant team work of the foreigners. "WILD EILL" WADE IS INJURED RACE HOUSTON, Pec. 14 'Wild Hill" Wade, a professional automobile, rare driver, was injured seiiously at the Houston Speedway today in a race when his machine jumped the embankment and into several named auto mobiles, turned over and burst into flumes.

At the hospital it was id his condition Is critical. Maryland Gives Its Schedule for the 1925 Season COLl.KGK PARK. 14 November 20 -Johns Hopkins in Paltimore. Vniversity- of Maryland's foot bull includes nine games, as follows: September 2S Washington Col-lego at Coib'go Park. October V-extern Maryland at College Park.

October 10 Catholic University at College Park. October 17 Vireinia Polytechnic Institute at W-ashir-g ton or CoHeire Park. College of Virginia nt October SI North Carolina T'niversitv nt College Tark or Ilaltimore. November 7 Yale at New Haven, i November 14 Washington and l.ep at College Park or Washington. NUMBERS WILL MARK PLAYERS' OF BASEBALL CHICAGO, Pec.

14. Number ing of baseball players, rimilar to I tho system used by football players, iil be come effective in the American association nextl season, according to Thomas J. Itickey, president of the organization. Mr. hu-key said he has re-me ed hi? rluh owners to button fi 1 inrh fir-urn on the arms of tl rs so that Inns can reacii vUKI OUT OP down in twenty-nn rounds Bob KitAimmons probably would have knocked John L.

out in two or three, and very likely in the first round. At that timo his life John never could have taken one of lloh's solar plexus souks. When Sullivan was knocked out the world refused to believe the telegraph reports of the fight. Later course, it shifted the cloak of invincibility from the fall- en Sullivan to Corbett, and the pa- oers were full of stories of Cor bett's amimng unci skill. Corbett easily out Charlie Mitchell, who was then a rather decrepit figure himself, having gone tho pace that was so fashionable in pug circles.

that Corbett didn't have to fight for a long time and it was supposed he could easily whip any of the less polished boxers. They used to say that nobody could "lay a glove on Cm-bet if Corbett wasn't willing. Naturally, a man who can't be hit can't be whipped. Corbett and the Sailor Corbett anxiously fostered that Idea in training for Fitzsimmons. He almost believed it himself.

But Fitzsimmons weathered Corbett's jabs for six rounds, then took the aggressive and chased the champion until the fourteenth when he pressed Corbett slowly back across the ring to a position squarely in front of the moving picture camera taking the first fight film, left Jim a clear opening to draw a jab, rolled his chin nwny from the blow, stepped in with his right foot and. hooked a deliberate and crushing left into Corbett's stomach. With that one punch Boh proved that Corbett could be hit and wasn't at all "invincible," and won the world's heavyweight title. Of course Corbett had lost some claim to invincibility a few months before, when he boxed nearly four rounds with the raw Tom Sharkey, in San Francisco. I watched Corbett's daily training nt the Olympic Club before that fight and saw him batter him sparring partners.

Shortly Is-fore the fight I visited the training ramp with Helen Pare, a noted woman writer on a Frisco paper. Helen Pare asked Corbett if he expected 1 hard fight and Corbett said: "I'll knock that sailor dub out in a round." 0 But the "sailor dub" didn't play Corbett's game. He wasn't impressed by the fact that Corbett was champion, and he was too thick to. pay any attention to Corbett's Mrs. Ethel T.

Forter, vice president. March 7. Section 11 at Royal Falm State Park, Frank Strnnnh.m, vice president. March 31. Section 3 at Lake City, Ms.

I. J. McCall, vice president. April 1. Section 12 at Milton, Miss Nell Burrows, vice president.

April 3. Secticu 1 at Mariana. Mrs. W. L.

Wilson, vice president. April 4. Section 2 at I'natta-hoochee, Mrs. M. A.

Love, vice president. The above are subject to slight changes but. are correct in the main. A motor car that i a veritable "palace on wheels" is used to convey race horses about the country in England. The car contains two stalls, the sides of which are lined with canvas pneumatic pads to prevent injury to the horses while speeding over the highways.

The floor is mad? of sanitary cork composition. Drinking water for the horses is carried in a large tank under the floor and there are compartments for feed and hay racks. The interior is lighted by electricity. AtsDTntNHAD CHftt6 U)lUJsRXi HIS otCKv-W to instructions. Johnson was fift, After a few rounds of pushing around Johnson began to tire and he had to take a chance and fight.

Tho moment he did that he was no more "invincibl)." Willard did the counter hitting and in the 26th round knocked Johnson out. Jack Dempscy Knowa Then Willard was "invincible." Any notion of matching him against any mere six-foot heavyweight was jeered at. Frank Mo-ran was given a short bout, and Willard played with him. Then Willard didn't get any more fighting to do. He traveled with a circus, posed, was entertained, gC' fat and soft and conceited.

night before he fought Dempsey it Toledo he remarked to me: "I'm sorry for Dempsey they he's a nice boy and I'm going to knock him over the ropes into Jack Cur-ley's lap." What Dempsey did to Willard is recent history. Willard led a pon- derous left. Dempsey stepped in under it and cut loose such a ter- ruic lury ol blows as no old timer at the ringside had ever seen before. It was a massacre. Willard was like Goliath against David, struck down before he could throw his spear or swing his sword.

Now Dempsey is "invincible." Or is he? Dempsey is no doubt the most aggressive heavyweight we've ever seen, and the hardest hitter. He is fast as any lightweight, and he trains and takes good care of himself all the time, as conscien tiously B3 any college athlete. But Dempsey fights too little. No champion can stay out of the game two years at a stretch and hold or onH .1 i at. th'nff at nnakes on Pempsey will have to go hack to his old habit of fighting often if he is to retain the titte much longer.

And- perhaps the old ambition to fight is growing dim. If so he will retire after a while without fighting any more. And I suppose six years later some 'tyj-mondous thumper will come alorir anu me puouc win rememncr invincible Dempsey and draw him out to be also slaughtered. I suggested this to Dempsey the other day. He chuckled.

"Listen," he said. "This invincible stuff is all light when you're so fat you don't have to take it on travelled over 115,000 milei. Leaving El Paso, the group went up the East coast, sailing for Europe, there visiting all the important battlefields. To date the "car" has been in 72 different foreign countries, and the sides of it are decorated with coins Hnd curios of the various nations, besides a conglomeration of Chinese daggers, pipes and pictures. The present group includes Sergeant Duffy, who has just completed a 40,000 mile hike, and Privates Albert Carter and Howard Lewis.

Expenses of trip are defrayed by the sale of cards. "Since the starting of this tour, we have taken nearly 5,000 men around the country until they were well enough to work. Jobs were secured for them and others took th'nir places" stated Sergeant OareJ.fU njght. From here they will go, in a few days, to Miami, thence to Cuba, back to Florida and dn a jaunt to Alaska, Australia, etc. On completing the tour, the Ford will be turned over to the Smithsonian Institute, for a period of two years, for educational purposes, then it will go to the Fr Uatkl- UJA4 uihilw UaUARO ei KVt 'clM All chumpioni are "invincible" until they go down.

Ami as soon as they drop pr ar outpointed by Mime aspiring "contender'' the whole world discovers that they had a lot of undiscovered weak points and always had been overruled anyhow. The new champion assumes the robe of invincibility, and wears it until he is smacked down in turn. In his day as ihampion John Sullivan eurried name of terror through the pugilistic world. He was a terrifir hittor, and he fought with a ferocity that cowed most of his rivals. twenty-four Sullivan went downhill with increasing speed, owing to a habit of wild dissipation.

In those old days few fighters ever thought of taking cure of their health and keeping In condition. It was supposed that breaking training and carousing around between fights was necessary to prevent "going stale." Iloxers trained hard and long for fights, fought to a finish somewhere out in tho woods, with bare knuckles or skin tight gloves, and then celebrated until their money was all gone and they had to fight again. The Fnhellevahle Kvent When Sullivan fought Charlie Mitchell, tho Knglish middleweight at round draw in a rainstorm in the Chantilly woods he was 20, nnd he was 110 when he whipped Jake Kilrain in 73 rounds (London Prize King) down in the Mississippi woods for the heavyweight title. Sullivan trained hard for that fight yet in the middle of it his stomach gave out and was sick and almost helpless between rounns, Kilrain was no better, and there was more bulldog in Sullivan. You don't see modern boxers sick in the ring.

They take better rare of their stomachs between fights in these days. John L. was a mouth under St when ho was beaten by Corbctt nt New Orleans. At that titoe he was a wreck from dissipation. He couldn't train -couhint even run on the road.

He didn't try to. Yet the dread reputation of John L. was such that he was ma ie a three to one favorite in the betting, anil the "wise muney" was all on him. Hob Fitzsimmons, then middleweight champion, had been trying hard to get a fight with Sullivan. Hob missed becoming a sen-vriVion then, for SuiHU-nn t.mp-he.! at the idea of fighting a middie-I weight.

Judging from the fact thnt Corbctt was able to wear Sullivan Tentative Dates For the 1925 Sectional Meet Mrs. hntherine B. Tippetts. ire-Prestdent-at-Large of the Florida Federation of Women's Clubs, offers the following dates, places of meetings and names of the Sectional Vice-Presidents, for the itinerary to be used by the President, Mrs. W.

F. Blackman, and herself in traveling over the state the twelve sections: Feb. 3. Section 9 at Sebring. Mrs.

J. II. Hancock, vice president. Feb. 5.

Section 8 at Dade City, Mrs. Vet L. Brown, vice president. Feb. 21.

Section 4 at Ocala, Mrs. B. F. Condon, vice president. Feb.

Section 7 at Leesburg, Mrs. E. L. Schumacher, vice president. Feb.

2S. Section 6 at Paytona. Mrs. M. L.

Stanley, vice president. March 3. Section -r at Fernan-dina, Mrs. M. P.

Capen, vice president. 10 at to rounds in riavann. A big purse, tho chin. When lose that old in those days. Willard was coached i speed.

I'm through, and nobody's never to lead at Johnson after ever goine to drag me back again first jabbiro? Johnson a course of (Copyright 1924 bv The Bell Syn-times on the nos, and he fought I dicate, Inc WOUNDED EX-SERVICE MEN BRING "TRAVEL-CAR" HERE Li A -V videnred by the numerous tag plates nailed on every side of the conveyance. Sergeant Oare himself was instrumental in starting the tour from the Walter P.eed Hospital, El Paso, Tex. Tho "travel car" is a Ford, the donation of Henry Ford, and still has the original motor with which the trip was started, June 29. 192 w- What is claimed to be the World's Greatest travel car reached Orlando yesterday after-neon, in charge of Sergeant San-ford Oare. With the exception of a few countries a complete tour of the world has been made and accord- ing to Sergeant Oare these will be touched.

So far it has passed lougb 44 of the 4S states as is city. my the men on the Pel.