Miami Tribune from Miami, Florida • 5

News THE MIAMI Telephones: 151-2-3 PAGE FIVE GATORS WILL MEET POWERFUL FOOTBALL TEAM IN TEXAS ifir 'i iV BILL REED AND HUGHIE WALKER STEP TEN ROUNDS EVEN INDOOR SPORTS By TAD BILL GOES DOWN ONCE BUT COMES BACK WELL FLORIDA IS EXPECTING TO HAVE HARD BATTLE SATURDAY OCTOBER 25 1924 By JOE COPPS An enthusiastic crowd looked down from the groy north slant of the Jai Alai fronton at Hialeah Friday night and saw Hugh Walker of Kansas City and Bill" Reed of Columbus Ohio trade even punches for exactly 30 minutes in one of the niftiest heavyweight exhibitions ever witnessed in Miami It was the opening night of the Magic City Sporting club and it was an auspicious occasion The Reed landed a right to the head and they slugged each other on an even exchange of punches Reed had a slight shade Walker lead into a clinch in the eighth They sparred in the open Reed pounded Walker on the nose Walker was shooting them to the body Walker was pushing the fight but Reed was countering well Walker pounded Bill on the body but the wild boy got the best of an active exchange The round was even The ninth was a hard fought round with both fighters pounding each other in a terrific manner Walker reached at nose and pounded it Reed aimed at the body and hit He beat Hugh with a smashing right as the gong sounded It was an even round Walker bored in to start the tenth and tie fighting was fast and furious Hugh was on the offensive throughout the round and rained blow's on body Reed was steady and countered with a pair of smashing lefts to the head Walker had completed a hard right to the body as the round closed Walker's round Tom McDuff 126 pounds substitute fighters gave Frank Moran a hard fight in the preliminary which ended about even Harry Allen of Macon Georgia again outpointed Ray Butler of Miami in a fast six rounds Butler constantly strove for a knock-out but could not best the skill of the Georgian It was a good fight Mutt Griffin of Macon outpointed Bill of Jacksonville in the opener Jack Fisher is to be congratulated for giving Miami fighters a splendid show Jack Shea handled the fight in an excellent manner Miami Play Today JACKSONVILLE WARRIORS CONFIDENT OF WINNING Duval high school Tigers fromRezeau (5) or The University of Florida football team this afternoon is facing one of the greatest tests of its brief but brilliant career as one of the leading elevens of the country when it plays the great University of Texas team in Texas IliLs afternoon the svne of battle being Austin Although Texas lias lost one game in three this year that defeat 10 to 5 came at the hands of the Southern Methodist University eleven a team which with Texas was unbeaten last ycat an rithis season with a veteran combination ranks with some of the best in the entire nation Tuesday the started for Texas and yesterday they got in a light workout for the game so that while they have had a long and hard trip they will have had some chance to loosen their muscles a bit and have had a little work although since they played Wake Forest they hav not been in a scrimmage worthy of the name Texas has long ruled as the great team of the Southwest Of course it does not win the championship every year but season after season the Texas crew steps along in the highest circles and generally shows its worth in intersectional battles Last year Texas played nine games winning eight and tying Baylor' In only two games was the team scored upon and it rolled up 241 points The 16-0 win over Vanderbilt and the 33-0 victory over Tulane were the high points on the season's schedule In 1922 Texas held for it a weak team and yet that eleven lost only 2u-10 to Vanderbilt beat a great Alabama team 19-0 slashed one of best elevens 32-7 and lost only 14-7 to the Texas Aggies The 1921 eleven won every game save two tying the Texas Aggies and losing 20-0 to Vanderbilt Texas went unbeaten back in 1920 playing nine games and winning scoring 2S2 points to 13 for its foes The 1919 team won but six of its nine games a bad year for Texas but managed to uphold its record of out-doing itself in intersectional games beat- ing the Haskell Indians 13-7 The year before that nine games were won in a row only one touchdown being scored against this eleven The 1917 eleven was wrecked by the World war and this team had a most disastrous season only breaking even in eight games The University of Missouri had one of its greatest teams in 1916 a missed field goal keeping the team from a perfect record yet Texas only lost 3-0 to this great eleven Texas lost one other game 7-3 to Baylor that year but won seven others Back in 1915 Notre Dame had a great team winning every game save that with Nebraska which was lost by one point Yet Texas was able to score on this team something which no other eleven save Nebraska had been able to do Texas beat Sewanee 27-6 and Alabama 20-0 in other intersec- tionat games that year The 1914 team won all bf its eight games scoring 358 points against 21 This team beat Oklahoma 32-7 Haskell 23-7 Mississippi 66-7 and Wabash 39-0 The year before that Sewanee was beaten 13-7 the Kansas Aggies 48-0 while Notre team which beat the Army 35-13 and also beat Penn State was held 30-7 in a great game Texas again scoring And so it goes Back in 1902 Texas slaughtered Vanderbilt in a Thanksgiving Day tilt and won the championship of the entire south This is the type of team Florida is meeting today an eleven with years and years of tradition behind it with years and years of that same sort of feeling behind it which makes Harvard Yale and Princeton teams hard to beat even by teams of far superior power Texas has the background and power of years pushing its team on toward victory this afternoon As first invasion of the Southwest this game is naturally of more than ordinary importance and of course as a part in the building up of a claim to premier football honors this contest must play an important partj The have plenty men on hand for use in the big game and two Miamians are likely to get into the fray for a considerable period Tiny Chaplin big bull back will probably be injected into the struggle He performed in brilliant fashion after the first quarter of the Wake Forest game and as he is steadily improving as a defensive man ho will toon he as good or better than the great Middlekauff Owen Pittman little half back is also sure to see service against the Texans Pittman was injected into the Wake Forest game and tore things up in the dozen go minutes He caught three long forward passes for a ret gain some yards and intercepted vxatly three Wake Forest heaves just about a record for the period in whFh he was in the game would McCoy at his best compare with the fighters of the writer asked would tand head and shoulders over all but two or replied de Forrest would have knocked out any the middleweights and light heavyweights when he wa sa middleweight himself and at his heaviest he would have beaten most of the heavyweights of this are the exceptions?" was the next query McDonald (7) lt-rt Brayn (41) McDonald (7) or Dubler (12) lg Dechman (25) or Newman Warman (10) Houser (31) Bean (13)- Jones (40) Warman (14) rt Barfield (36) Cowan (8) re Nolan (30) Carter (4) or Mizell (2) Mehrtens (43) Marsh (l)lh Bryson Buchanan (3) rh Lassiter (35) Mizell (2) or Rezeau (5) fb McGowan (34) Duval substitutes Lemon (7) tackle or guard Donohoo (27) quarter or half McCormack (39) guard or tackle Berry (32) end Joel (29) half back Perritt (33) quarterback Miami substitutes Hudson (11) backfield Perrine (9) end Whitfield Woolery Brossier Frink Frix Vegue Jarman Roberts Ing Harper McMahon Ogden Henderson Henderson Mangos Martens Overton Lyons Wigging-ton and Fossey club was launched and the first evening set a pace which will be hard to follow The show from start to finish was good It was better than that it was full of fight little clinching and a heap of blows From the gong in the first round of the feature event to the final tap both fighters were sending plenty of leather at each other the infighting of crouching style matching occasional crosses Hugh recovered from two consecutive sallies of rights and lefts in the fifth round when Reed drove to the ropes in the west corner and then to the east corner to floor the gentleman for a count of nine The count should have been two but Reed took a rest on his knees The fight was a draw Any other decision would be an injustice to one of the two men who stood on their toes and fought each other cleanly squarely and with little clinching It was a scientific slug-feast with both absorbing terrific punishment The initial round opened with a fast exchange and Walker came out with a pair of lefts to law Walker was leading and Veed countered nicely Both men vere blocking well Reed sent through a stiff left jab to the jaw and they clinched Reed duplicated the blow but Walker coun-jered with a hard left to the head was landing body blows at the bell The round was even Reed again led in the second and they exchanged rights and lefts In mid-ring Walker sent a long left to chin and Bill0 gave him a smashing right in return An upper-cut grazed cheek and they exchanged again Reed tatooed nose and opened an old vound Walker Bent Reed to the ropes with a series of lefts Reed sent a hard right to the jaw and Walker crossed wdth a left It was even Walker camo out leading in the third They exchanged blows as usual and clinched for a minute Reed got the better of the infighting and crashed Walter on the jaw after the break-away Hugh stung Bill with a left to the head and countered returning left with another offhand blow to the chin They clinched and Walker evened Reed's with a hard left jab The round was even They met with -volleys in the center of the arena to start the fourth and Walker wa leading with a left jab They exchanged rights for a change and Walker landed a fast over-hand left He sent another left to chin Reed bored in with a hard right and landed a pair in succession Walker jabbed and brought blood from Reed and had completed a right to nose when the gong ended the round Reed had an -edge on the round Reed fought his best in the fifth They exchanged and clinched and Walker sent a left to the jaw Reed countered and they slugged in mid-ring Walker sent over a light left and Reed drove him to the southwest corner of the square with lefts and rights to the head Walker backed out and Reed continued fds terrific attack driving Hugh 'o the east ropes' Walker land-id a left and Reed missed an uppercut but crossed Walker with a right Reed landed another -ight and Walker sent several Mows to the body Reed con-lected with a light uppercut round They started the sixth with a exchange and Reed slipped Vto the floor in a clinch Walker nnded a left and was leading constantly Reed got in a right and they Slugged in mid-ring going into a clinch Walker backed into a corner before and they exchanged to the bodies Walker got in a jab and they backed to the ropes in a clinch Walker sent a left to the jaw and crossed Reed before a clinch Walker floored Reed with a left to the chin Reed was on his knees in a second and waited for the count of nine The gong started before nore punches were exchanged round They exchanged rights and efts to usher in the seventh and Reed beat Walker about the head and body Walker sent a left to the chin and followed with a right Duval Friday Football Results SOUTH Florida Freshman 36 Southern Reserves 6 Henderson Brown 20 College of Ozarks 7 Lenoir 33 Tennessee Normal 18 Roanoke 9 Hampden Sidney 0 Russleville Arkansas Aggies 23 Dallas 6 Newberry 10 Presbyterian 0 Wofford 3 Erskine 0 Cuachita 34 Arkansas College 0 WEST Valpaxison 12 St Viators 0 Ohio University 6 Kenyon 0 Ashland 33 Findley 0 HIGH SCHOOLS Summerlin Institute 25 Plant City 7 St Augustine High 33 DeLand 0 Leon of Tallahassee 32 Quitman 0 Lake Worth 12 Winter Haven 0 Santa Rosa County of Milton IS Atmore Ala 0 Palmer College of DeFuniak 33 Chiplay 0 Geneva Ala 7 Walton County High of DeFuniak Springs 0 FOOTBALL BATTLES FEATURE CLASSICS NEW YORK Oct 25 Football games of national import are on the program for today In the East the big meetings call for Princeton and Notre Dame to clash at Princeton LaFayette to play and at the Polo Grounds and Harvard to battle Dartmouth at Cambridge 3ames between Penn State and Syracuse Laye and Brown and Pittsburgh and Carnegie Tech also held the popular interest In the Middle West the Big Ten again will get going with a schedule involving Wisconsin and Michigan Minnesota and Iowa and Chicago and Ohio State In the Far West Nebraska will hold forth with Kansas California jdays Washington State Stanford plays Idaho Nevada plays Southern California and Oregon Aggies take on Washington The meeting of Alabama and Georgia Tech ami Florida and Texas head the Southern card NOW YOU TFIIj ONE WASHINGTON IX Oct 25 The winter league stuff js beginning again Here's one on how Pitcher Tom Zachary went to Washington Twice in 19 IS Tom was tried out by the Athletics but didn't take He pitched a couple of times with terrible success and then entered the army becoming a free agent In 1919 he headed toward rhilly to try again He happened to be on the same train with the Washington club go' into a conversation with Griffith and when he landed in Philadelphia lie had signed a Washington contract Many years ago Jimmy de Forrest famous trainer of pugilists had a training camp at Bay St Louis near New Orleans One'day he came across a youthful hobo dirty ragged hungry sitting under a tree The boy asked de Forrest for something- to 'eat De Forrest took him to the training camp and set him to washing sweaters and doing other chores abound the canip The boy was Kid McCoy afterwards famous fighter one of the best ever produced by the Ameri can ring In later years de Forrest trained McCoy for some of his Important battles A few years ago de Forrest encountered McCoy in an elevated train This was long after the heyday of the1 celebrated Kid it going?" de Forrest asked replied McCoy Then he added: I was a bum when you first met me and probably die a bum!" Perhaps McCoy spoke with prophetic vision Perhaps he felt himself driven onward to a sad finish to destruction by a swift current of Fate that he resist Some men are like that Some men know' whither they are drifting yet continue to drift The world understand It merely pronounces them fools Perhaps they are all that Now' McCoy is in jail in Los Angeles awaiting trial on a charge of murdering a woman Once handsome debonnair a veritable Prince of Pugilism pictures show him a haggard worn bald old man was a real great fighter said De Forrest telling the story of McCoy's prophecy to the writer the other evening while watching the amateur bouts at Madison Square Garden was one of the most intelligent fighters I ever knew The old trainer was silent for a moment apparently lost in his recollections of McCoy Finally he said: a pity he maintain out of the ring the mental balance he always showed in the ring" You may say McCoy had a big advantage over most of us McCoy knew where McCoy was going as his remark to De Forrest indicated The trouble with most of us we know where we are going Perhaps if we knew there would be a general canceling of routes Then again some of us might drift on and on as McCoy drifted struggling in the clutch of unhappy circumstance It is a topic for tome authority Jacksonville represented by the strongest scholastic football team ever to invade a Miami gridiron will meet the Blue anti Gold Stingarees In Royal Palm Park at 3 this afternoon In tlie first home game of the season Duval's team pronounced a worthy successor to Duval's other great elevens is a near veteran organization Miami's green eleven lost the only game It played and that to Ft Lauderdale Duval has won two games Duval has not been scored upon Miami has yet to gain its first point Yet despite these drawbacks the Blue and Gold eleven Is going Into the game with the expectation of winning and that expectation wil lhave the vociferous support of the hundreds of high school students who will throng the field this afterrnoon to cheer on Miami's team Coaches Stanly and Seiler have worked wonders with the Miami team this week Lacking so far the great line crushing attack of former Miami high school elevens the team has a lightning-fast backfield with a forward wall which is powerful In spots Some of these forwards are going to hand the Duval eleven some startling surprises this afternoon Seats will be placed around Royal Palm Fark which gridiron had to be used for Jhe game because Miami field is in a flooded condition A double roping effect will be used to keep the crowd off the field and also to hold out the non-paying public Coach Marshall shook up his Duval team considerably before the Miami game Lucky Lowen-stein great end and star punter broke his hand and it out of it while Bianco and Bono regular backs of a year ago were loft in Jacksonville However the Jacksonville team will have a strong backfield with Mehrtens regular quarter of a year ago McGowan at full Lassiter a sub last year and Bryson at halves Bryson is a player new to Jacksonville but he is fast and is said to be the best back Duval has had since Jones graduated The Miami coaches are also planning a shakeup Rozeau has been working at full back this week to give the backfield more drive and weight and this may result in the temporary benching of Carter though Ray is sure to get into the game despite his comparative lack of weight The fracturing of Simmons' arm has brought Cowen to an end position and the former Ohioan is playing cleverly Tito probable lineups with numbers of players follow-: MIAMI Pos DUVAL Cooper (S) jle Yaucy (38) GAINESVILLE Fla Oct 25 With cold ideal football weather prevaiilng the University of Florida Freshmen grid machine snowed the Southern College reserves under to the tune of 36 to 6 here Friday afternoon The baby 'Gators though registering five touchdowns and one placement kick exhibited anything but perfect football However the Orange rats evidenced wonderful grid possibilities in their fiit encounter of the season The Florida yearlings marched right through the Southern defense making 12 first downs to their opponents one The only touchdown garnered by the Florida Methodists came as a result of a brilliant 60-yard run by Halfback Reese brother of the famous Gil Reese of Vanderbilt who was the individual star of the Southern eleven For Florida the shining lights were Captain Hensley center Curtis guard Burnett halfback and Walker quarterback The 'Gator first year men are looming up a most dangerous contender for the Southern freshmen grid championship MICKEY TO CLIMB OUT OF HIS CLASS NEW YORK Oct 25 Having everything in his own class Mickey Walker will step out after bigger game in the Newark Armory October 29 when he takes on Jock Malone a clever middle weight Neither has anything to gain and as each is already after the money fans around here figure that it will be a real fight HARVARD WORRIES CAMBRIDGE Mass Oct 25 Great preparations have been made by the Harvard football team for its meeting here this afternoon with Dartmouth It is believed by coaches that Dartmouth has one of the east's strongest teams and are eager to erase the 1923 setback when Dartmouth won 16 to AT EMPIRE CITY Winner Pays 4 to 1 In New Haven Handicap Feature EMPIRE CITY TRACK Oct 24 Nose Dive favored to win the fourth race the New Haven handicap at the Empire City track this afternoon was outrun by Fey Sun and beaten in a driving finish Thurber was up on the victor and Callahan rode Nose Dive Long Point rambled in in third place in the same race Isoceles and Frederiektown were also rans in the event STATE GRID BATTLE LOSES ONE CONTENDER BARTOW Fla Oct 25 One more contender for the Florida high school football championship was swept aside when Summerlin Institute of this city defeated the hitherto unbeaten Plant City high school eleven coached by Joe Barchan 25 to 7 The game was bitterly fought but Bartow could not be denied and finally won out Although a number of other teams are unbeaten it is figured the Florida championship will lie between either Barlow or Lakeland with Tampa and Duval having fairly good chances to break in on this pair said de Forrest think McCoy could have whipped Wills as Wills is too strong And I'm pretty sure McCoy couldn't have hipped Dempsey But all the others would have been easy was a real great GIANT WIN SECOND GAME PARIS Out LW NVw York Giants defeated th- White 5Vx hop today in the second game of their world exhibition tour by 9 score of 3 to 2.