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TWELVE All Phones Hemlock-5200 THE CHARLOTTE (NG) NEWS All Phones Hemlock-5200 MONDAY JULY 11 LOCALS FACE Strengthen Position Top Of Brilliant Mound Work By Bush Holds Robins Away From Plate Divide Bill One Section of Seats In Big Stadium Complete Begin on Other Today SALLY LEAGUE TODAY'S GAMES Charlotte at Spartanburg Columbia at Greenville Asheville at Macon Knoxville at Augusta STANDING OF CLUBS Won Lost Pet Win Lose Cardinals and Giants Each Win One as Frisch and Hornsby Go Hitless in Both Games Tigers Beat Yanks were contributed by Llndstrom Harper and Schubel the latter now plaving sh-rtstop for St Louis The Gehrig-Ruth home run marathon was Interrupted In Detroit by Earl Whltehili whose south-paw slants gave the Tigers a 6-1 victory over the Yankees In the standout game of the American League Any defeat at this stage of the season is an upset Whitehill fanned Ruth and Gehrig each twice LISENBEE RAPPED Washington made it five straight from the Cleveland Indians by winning by a 10-9 score in seven innings tribe knocked Horace Lisenbee out of the box with a seven-run bombardment in the fourth inning but the Senators got to Levsen and Shaute and drove them out Rain stopped the game The Athletics pounded three St Louis pitchers hard and won a slugfest from the Browns 1411 of Philadelphia stole home in the fifth The Boston Red Sox lapsed into an old stride at Chicago and Ray team beat them 41 Thom-as gained his thirteenth victory of the year and was not scored on until the ninth up a battle yesterday with a line drive home run over the right-center field fence at Ebbetts Field The Cubs as a unit couldn't do much with the pitching of Norman Plltt but Guy Bush was even more of a puzzle to Wilbert Dodgers and the Cubs won 1-0 Chicago has won every game It has played with Brooklyn this season The Pittsburgh Pirates were Idle so the Chicago victory Increased the margin in first place to a full game BARNES IS RIGHT Virgil Barnes let the world's champion Cardinals down ith one hit in the first game of a double-header the Giants winning 5-0 St Louis came back to win the next 7-3 behind Bob effective twirling Manager Bob O'Farrell kept Barnes out of the hall of fame with a single in the second inning Frisch and Hornsby went hit-less In both games Home runs schedule followed for the last month calling for the pouring of 500 seats a day is continued the stadium will be completed the first part of August It has been definitely decided to proceed at once with the erection of a building to contain dressing rooms lockers and showers for the athletes as well as a conference room for the officials a first aid station and space for general utility purposes connection with the games This structure will be at the south end of the stadium and will have a court facing the front with the middle of the building set back between two wings One wing will serve as the quarters of the Carolina team and the other will be placed at the disposal of the visiting team During the last few days the parapet behind the East stand has been under construction The space between this and the stand Itself fifteen feet wide will be a sort of corridor for the circulation of the crowd Hundreds of truckloads of sand and topsoil have been carried to the arena since the middle of last month and the central portlofi where the gridiron will lay is now almost ready for planting The sowing will be done in the middle while the filling In the space nearer the stands continues Adequate graining facilities are being installed The Btadlum will be completed In time for mid-season football games but it is unlikely that it will be used before the Carolina-Virginia Thanksgiving game which Is to be the occasion for the dedication i 4 Charlotte News to Meet Observer in TwilighfiLoop By ALAN GOULD Associated Press Sport Editor New York July It is I peculiar twist of sport fortune that within eight daya thl week end next the ring will witnese comeback fights by the two men who less than a year ago stood around the heavyweight peak one the champion and the other considered a leading menace even if sidetracked It would have taken the seventh eon of a seventh son to have had the boldness to predict in the Sum mer of 192 that these two Jack Dempsey and Harry Wills would fall from their positions Within a fortnight of each other as they did and in another twelve months he striving to get back into the picture each trying to sidestep the decline that comes with age Within a few daye after Gene Tunney had dethroned the man he had trailed in a vain title hunt for five year Harry Wills was decisively defeated by Jack Sharkey Making his first appearance In the ring since that October night the giant negro battles the bounding Basque Paulino Uzeudun here Wednesday On Thursday of next week the same Sharkey that upset Wills will attempt to halt the comeback of Dempsey Fate teems to have cast the 25-year-old Sharkey for the role of a Jack the Giant Killer though there seem substantial reason to believe he will find the task of conquering the former champion more difficult to accomplish than the job of vanquishing Will last Fall There is this decided difference however in the present outlook for Dempsey and Wills The big negro even should he defeat the younger more agile and stronger Spaniard has no prospect of coming back into title consideration After seventeen years in the ring Wills the experts agree haa put his future behind him Dempsey on the other hand hag return chamionshlp fight with Tunney in prospect If he can defy time recover the accuracy of hie old devastating attack and can whip the youthful Sharkey The monopoly of heavyweights on the fistic limelight this year has put Its usual Jinx on the ambitions of smaller fellows to figure in title bout Or rather It has dampened the enthusiasm of promoters for championship fights which would be obscured by the focus of Interest and attention on Dempsey Tunney et al In the metropolitan sector only the Dundee-Latzo welterweight battle has enlivened the smaller divisions and it was far from a financial- success Even the proposed Delaney-McTigue light heavyweight title tussle ordinarily an outdoor natural has failed to arouse the expected Interest It has been postponed a month until August 11 A similar situation existed in 1923 the last big boom year among the heavyweights when Luis Flrpo was making hi spectacular advance to a fight with Dempsey That year promoters staged such notable engagements among the little fellows the Crlqui-Kilbane Dundee-Crlqul Yilla-Wjlde Greb-Wilson nnd the second LeonardTendler bout but nearly all suffered big financial losses In four title bouts in the lighter classes at the Polo Grounds promoters lost more than 1100000 but Tex Rickard stepped In with the Firpo-Dempsey climax in the same arena to draw approximately 1200000 from a capacity crowd of 85000 i if' i A YVith the above news of the greatest rivalry of the Twilight League sadly goes the news that the former the morning daily's baseball team stands the favorite due to an early season victory but the dope bucket Is tilting eo goes the word in the haunts of The News play- -era Following are the day'e line-ups: The News: Observer: Ison rf Rogers If Connell es 1 Cope cf Prim 2b Cauble es Frazier 3b Strotipe rf Heim Alexander lb Fullerton lb Holman Oadd cf Cope 8b Cook Panelia 2b Kistler If Hearn 0 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION St Paul 10-8: Loutevlfie 2-4 Milwaukee 18-4 Toledo 11 Minneapolis 8 3 Indianapolis 7-5 Columhus 9 1 Kansas City 2-5 The battle of the newspapers is about to go on! Independence Park is the scene: 5 o'clock is the hour The News and The Observer are the principles Johnny Heim and Mack Holnian are the pitchers YESflROWL AMERICAN LEAGUE Totals Warner Tiger 1 1 Hale Macks 1 1 NATIONAL LEAGUE Harper Giants 1 6 Llndstrom Giants 1 4 Schuble Cards 1 1 Pick Cubs 1 1 Can Always Chapel Hill July The last of the eeats in the East stand of the Kenan Memorial Stadium being erected at the University were poured Saturday night and construction of the eeats in the West stand will begin Monday If the Sharkey Perfects Varied Style for Dempsey Scrap New York July Speed a right uppercut and a left Jab appear to be what Jack Sharkey is perfecting for hie fight with Jack Dempsey here the night of July 21 vaunted left haa been noticeably absent hi his early training sessions and his right hand hook the punch that erased Jimmy Maloney from the heavyweight picture lias been on display only once or twice and then under pressure The right hook according to a member of the Bostonian's staff is being developed under cover- The uppercut is being brought into play often and yesterday Sharkey used it effectively on Leo Gates Paul Cavalier Johnny Urban and Marco Polo He boxed Jimmy King for speed and by keeping an the defense found opportunity to keep busy avoiding the little fellow's assault The ex-gob is sticking faithfully to his road work and he gets In four miles or more each morning before going to the gymnasium for his sparring sessions His wind is excellent he proved that yesterday by going at top speed for six rounds without breathing hard STARS READY Best Netters in South Start Play in Southern Event Memphis Tenn July 11 (AP) Players from seven States in the South and Indiana today were playing in the open matches of tlie Southern Lawn Tennis Association tournament which opened here There were 98 registered with the officials this morning as the first ball was served and 53 of that number represented cities and towns in the South exclusive of Memphis Three Memphis tennis clubs were mustered into service today to accommodate the record list of entries It was planned to have at least 34 matches In the first round this morning he second bracket had fourteen entries mostly from the seeded players and the winners of first round matches are to go Into the second round to fill out the lower bracket Dan Murray Jr of New Orleans was sent into the second round as a seeded player to defend his Southern title against the large field of contenders His first competitor will be Ed Crump Jr of Memphis Arthur Waters and Charlie Granger of New Orleans defending the doubles title will compete in the play which starts against their throne tomorrow Piedmont Loop Teams Worried By Rainy Days Raleigh July Raleigh played at Winston Salem today Rocky Mount at High Point and Salisbury at Durham in the Piedmont League lineups The Caps Saturday defeated Durham 4 to 2 to get on the top side of the 500 mark In third place topped by Salisbury on top and Rocky Mount In second position Winston-Salem In fourth High Point fifth and Durham at the bottom comprised the standings The rain has had Its part In the second half race for with but nine days of play passed four postponed games are already on the calendar HOW BEES STING CORRECT AVERAGES Duel Between Ruth and Gehrig Occupies Spotlight in Baseball Chicago (AP The American dual home run derby between Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig of the Yankees continued to supply It current thrills last week with Ruth regaining his usurped throne by a week-end spurt Ruth hit his 27th Friday and then slammed out his 28th and 29th Saturday to pass Lou Tony Lazzeri a third reason why the Yankees are leading the league moved up into third place alongside his illustrious teammates by knocking four for the circuit during the week for a total of 14 one ahead of Slmonsm of Philadelphia who hit only three for a total of 13 In the National League the only notable event was the lone home run hit by any of the seven leaders and that rlout by Hornsby made his total 15 and moved him up into a three way tie with Wilson of Chicago and Wiliams of Philadelphia for the lead Foreign Bom Golfing Talent Sends Challenge New York July 11 (AP) America's foreign born star golf professionals desire a team match with the Ryder cup team of homebreds Willie MacFarlane former open champion of the United States is gathering together a group of foreign horns and will ask Tommy Armour the present American champion to act as captain Among its members will be MacDonald Smith Bobby Cruickshank and Jim Barnes A challenge is to be issued to Walter Hagen captain of the Ryder cup team for 72 holes of team play on four courses as yet unselected Lott Is Winner of Tennis Crown Dayton Ohio July George Lott of Chicago won the Western singles tennis champion-hsip in a spectacular tive-set contest with John Hennessey of Inal-anapolis here 6-3 2-6 fi-2 4-6 ti-4 hackhanl work was particularly brlllant and his Pash-ing drives forced Lott to forsake the net and play in the hack court ByTha Associated Press (Including Games of July 10) NATIONAL Harris Pirates 387 Runs Hornsby Giants 7ft I Waner Pirates 115 Doubles 1 Waner Pirates 24 Waner Pirates 14 Hornsby Giants 15 Williams Phillies 15 ilson Cubs 15 Stolen Frisch Cardinal 21 Meadows Pirates won 11 lost 3 AMERICAN Gehrig Yankees 398 Ruth Yankees 86 Gehrig 121 Doubles Burns Indians 33 Triples Manush Tigers Homers Koutli Yankees 29 Stolen Sisler Browns 16 Tavener Tigers 16 Ructher Yankees won 8 lost 2 TEx7S LEAGUED Waco 4 Houston 5 Dallas 10 Shreveport 5 Fort Worth 3 Wlrhita Falls 5 Beaumont 5 San Antonio 8 Ruth Leads New York July Babe Ruth swept Into the leadership of the "Big Fight" last week marking tlie first time this season that he has directed tlie march of the reputed high salary pace setters of the pack Ruth enlarged upon his Club Ruth Frisch Cardinals Cobh Athletics Hornsby Giants Collins Athletics Roush Giants Kelly Reds RESULTS No Sunday games LEAGUE GAMES Philadelphia at St Louis Washington at Cleveland New York at Detroit Boston at Chicago STANDING OF CLUBS Pet Pet 66 24 42 37 532 Wash 43 32 584'Cleve 34 45 430 Detroit 42 33 645'St 31 45 408 44 37 543Boston 19 58 247 RESULTS Philadelphia 14 St Louis 11 Washington 10 Cleveland 9 Detroit 9 New 3 Chicago 4 Boston 1 NATIONAL LEAGUE Games Today St Louis at Philadelphia Chicago at Boston Only two scheduled STANDING OF CLUBS I Pot i Pet Chicago 48 28 632 37 41 474 Pitts 45 27 625'Phila 31 44 413 St 43 33 566 Boston 29 43 403 42 38 525 Cincl 28 49 36 RESULTS New 1-3 St Louis 0-7 Chicago 1 Brooklyn 0 Only two played SOUTHERN LEAGUE Games Today Atlanta at New Orleans Birmingham at Mobile Chattanooga at Little Rock Nashville at Memphis STANDING OF THE CLl BS I Pet I Pet B'ham 55 31 640 Atlanta 44 42 512 Or 51 37 580 Mobile 41 44 428 Nashv 47 38 553 Rock 33 54 379 M'phis 43 41 523 Chatta 31 60 341 RESULTS Memphis 6 Chattanooga 6 Atlanta 2 New Orleans 1 Little Rock 10 Nahvllle Mobile 3 Birmingham 3 PIEDMONT LEAGUE STANDINGS Pet! Pet Salisbury 8 2 80ft -Salem 4 500 Mount 6 3 66711 Point 3 6 333 1 Raleigh 5 4 556 Durham 8 20ft RESl LTS No Sunday games Maiden Beats Stony Point Maiden July Maiden defeated the Stony Point team 4 to 3 in a brilliant game played here The contest was featured by the pitching of Haney hitting of Cur-lee and heady catching of Manager Lowe The locals are after games with other fast teams Monroe Takes Third Straight Monroe July The local dia-mond crew licked the Iando Club to 4 making their third consecutive victory Monroe 0ft9 006 O20--8 I-ando Ill 010 batting average over the week by nine points for a mark of 366 Ty Cobb is deadlocked with Frank Frisch for second honors with 358 while Hornsby trails at 348 The rankings including games of Sunday: Possible for Insects to Reach Third Place by Tonight WILSON-BUGGY SLATED TO HURL Kennedy Undecided as to Who Will Take Mound Today Although they arc in fifth place the Charlotte Hornets are noly seven games back of the Greenville Spinners and It will be possible for the Bees to be In third place after today's game with tne Spartans provided the Beee triumph over the Kele and Asheville trims Macon Charlotte Macon and Spartanburg are virtually tied for third place with the Peaches and Sparta holding an advantage of one point over the Bees Ray Kennedy boss of the Insects announced before leaving for South Carolina where tne Bees will visit Spartanburg and Greenville that Buggy or Wilson would take the mound In game with the Spartans This tneans that either Buggy or Wilson will work tomorrow provided the starting pitcher lasts the full game today With Buggy and Wilson slated to face the Sparts Jack Leroy will go after his eighteenth victory of the season Wednesday afternoon In Spartanburg and then pitch one of Saturday's games against the Spinners Brown Is expected to open the series with Greenville with Wl-cal going to the hill In one of the games Saturday Wilson or Buggy will take game In Greenville with Bob Brenaman University of West YWinla pitcher being held In reserve for relief duty fine work on the mound this season has resulted In scouts getting on the trail of the It Is said that the New Yak Giants Pittsburg! Pirates and Phillies are after the pitcher who has burned up the Sally I-cague this season Grand Circuit Will Open Today Toledo Ohio July The 1927 Grand Circuit Harness racing season opens here Monday Two large stakes a trotting and a pacing fixtures each worth 320000 headline the opening wek's events The meet will move to Detroit next week The Circuit will shift back Into Ohio again In August when a two program will be held at North Randal The Cleveland meet will be marked by the Rainy Day tow-year-old trotting sweepstakes worth approximately 318000 and the championship stallion stake with a probable purse of 310000 Louisville Lad Captures Title Memphis Tenn July 11- (IP) Arnold Simons 17-year-old Unher-slty of Pennsylvania freshman who hails from Louisville Ky was rBowned king of Southern Junior Tennis players here when ho decisively defeated Maurlre Rayon of New Orleans for the title Dayon won last year The scores were 3-3 6-4 and 6-3 Two new heavyweights coming in today passed a trio on the way out end the looks of relief in the eyes of the departing guests could be matched only by the anxiety of the boys who had Just appeared for socking duty with the former champion of them all After hacking waivers on Jack Hildebrand Pietro Corri and Bill Bn fey Leo Flynn handed them releases and one way transportation south simultaneously The usefulness of Hildebrand a Syracuse heavyweight ceased with two successive knockouts at Dempsey's hands in the last two workouts Pietro Corri strong man from Austria had been badly battered and Batey was found too light for the rugged going Bill a lightweight hails from Nashbille Tenn TWO NEWCOMERS Both newcomers Chief Metoquah a 185-pound Indian from Oklahoma and Marty Gallagher an Irish lad from Washington were ordered to bear their part of the boxing burden today Juhnnv Saxon a tough little welterweight from Bridgeport Conn who fights Dempsey as though the former champion were just his size and weight has recovered the use of battered ribs after a two rest and Eddie McMuilin for whom the atmosphere was just a cloud of left hooks for a time Is again able to breathe through a disabled nose SEVERAL RESTS The schedule for Dempsey this week his last full seven days before the comebaek battle with Sharkey in the Stadium a week from Thursday night contains about as many rests as a musical success Jack will lay off tomorrow to start the Lake George swimming marathon and his splendid physical condition forecasts another break on Thursday and Friday Yesterday Jack played eighteen holes of golf with Manager Flynn and managed to score 104 PACIFIC COAST Beattie 9 8 Missions 4 4 Portland 6-0-Oakland 6-2 Los Angeles 11-3 Hollywood 12 4 San Francisco 6-4 Sacramento 4-1 Leading Swimmers Enter Event Scheduled for Lake George Lake George July (AP) Swimmers of six nations will compete In a 24-mile swim In Lake George tomorrow Nearly every State In the Union as well as Canada Belgium Germany Norway and France Is represented in the list of 146 entrants who include four conquerors of the English Channel The race will start at Hague at the lower end of the lake Jack Dempsey will hold the gun The Lake George post of the American Legion is sponsor of the race Among the entries are Ernst Vierkoetter massive German who swam the channel Ernst Moore Jr brother of Mrs Lottie Moore Schoemmel Myer Mendelsohn nineteen-year-old Montreal swimmer Sam Richards Jr Boston Mrs Schoemmel Ethel Hertle breaststroke champion and Ethelda Bleibrey Olympic woman's champion Madame Jane Sion conquererof the Seine River Belgium Georges Michel France holder of the record for the English Channel swim Charles Toth Boston and Henry Sullivan Lowell Mass both of whom have bested the channel Homer Perreault Canadian champion and Olav Farstad Norway Newsies Lick Observer Lads The News carriers licked the Observer boys 14 to 3 a homer In the fourth Inning starting the fireworks The game was played at Independence Park Turner Baldwin and Yandle led the hitting THE NEWS '030 506 OBSERVER 001 101 3 Etheridge and Baldwin Hunter and Collie HE TWILIGHT LEAGUE STANDINGS Dempsey Has Tough Time Keeping Sparring Mates Get It At Sleeve Lengths AN AiWH or careen Floor Men Call It Best Shirt and well worthy of such honor A lustrous White English Broadcloth with collar at- a tached or neckband style well made roomy permanently good looking And remarkably low priced Saratoga Lake juy The life of a sparring partner i3 short and bitter in the training camp of Jack Dempsey for the rest a sliork absorber can ret is the worst of it CHAMPION MAY Mushy Callahan Likely to Stand Chance of Losing Title Chicago July Mushy Callahan may be compelled to defend his junior welterweight title against Sammy Baker of New Yoik tomorrow night at the park despite the fact that he had no intention of doing so when he signed for the match The articles provide that both men shall enter the ring for their ten-round scrap weighing than 34j pounds" which is five pounds over the junior welterweight limit Callahan probably will weigh in slightly under 145 pounds Baker however was within a pound of the Lmlt today and said he easily can get down to 140 pounds Thus even though the champion is over the limit Baker has a chance to grab the crown by making the proper weight himself For the second time In a fort-a champion on a Chicago fight card wa on the small end of the betting odds Baker was a six to five favorite today juift as Tony Canzoneri was an odds on favorite before he met Bud aylor for the bantam title In the same park last month WESTERN LEAGUE Dea Moines 1-j Denver 4-8 Wichita Falls 4-6 Oklahoma City ftmaha Jl Lincoln (1 (second game tied) Tulsa Amarillo 4 $175 You Need a New Straw Hat Discard your old straw and get under a new one Your old one has seen its best days Our selection is complete and your straw is here 00 and up THE STORE RECORDS RESULTS No Sunday games SUNDAY SCHOOL LEAGUE STANDING OF THE CLUBS Won Lost Pet Dilworth 1 3 7(jQ Caldwell 3 5 500 West Avenue 5 a 435 Duncan 4 7 '364 YKSTERD YvST RESULTS No Sunday game! 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