Los Angeles Evening Post-Record from Los Angeles, California • 12

FRIDAY APRIL 17 1925 12 II A It CORD JACK DEMPSEY QUITS LOS ANGELES AND HIS MANAGER 444 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 TIGERS TRADE DEAL FOR BEAVER PITCHER COP PREP CAGE LAURELS MITT KING IS OFF TO EUROPE TACK DEMPSEY and his bride Estelle Taylor embarked' today on their belated honeymoon The champion and Mrs Dempsey headed for New York where they will be filmed in the final scenes of their latest movie thriller before sailing for Europe on an extended honeymoon They will stop a day or twro at Salt Lake City to visit nfother BROTHER GIVES RED WRONG MAN SACKAMKNTO April 17 Elliott young first baseman of the Seattle club is out of the game for several weeks as the result of injuries sustained in game against Sacramento It is believed he broke an ankle bone in sliding By ED FRAYNE (Snorts Editor Tbe Knoril) Seattle ball club lost 11 out of the first 14 games it A played last year When the season closed the name -of 1 MIDGETS IN BIG BATTLE AT LEGION Fidel IatBarba professional flyweight boxer meets Newsboy Brown in a 0-round fight at Hollywood tonight Brown will battle to win the favor of local fans as he has never fought in these parts and he wishes to live up to his reputation as a lighter in the east and middle west LaBurba will be battling for national recognition for although his name is already known in the east if he beats Brown lie will be listed among the top-notehers there Mickey GUI meets Young Polo in a six-round semi-final Joe Salas will cross gloves with Joe Pimen-thal and Johnny Gerarden will fight Ralph Downs in the Seattle led all the rest Before his departure Dempsey and his manager Jack Kearns held a conference and arranged to split up their business partnership Kearns and Dempsey are joint owners of the Barbara hotel and Wilshire apartments valued at approximately $500000 each Neither has sufficient cash at present to buy out the other and it was understood that Kearns and real estate agent would attempt to sell the properties during the absence and the pair would divide the proceeds B4- -4 4- EFORE Dempsey returns from Europe therefore the famous De psey-Kearn partners!) i probably be finally broken up Dempsey's unwillingness to fight under his present contract with Kearns under which the latter gets half the earnings automatically nullities the fighting end of the partnership Kearns on his will own initiative expects to break up the remainder of the "60-50" combination before Dempsey gets back from his honeymoon Both Dempsey and Kearns U13HI the final minute of the departure denied the break in their relations aro still under the old said Kearns -4- 4 4- MP8J3T even threatened to whip news pa per photographer who camped on liia doorstep after servants tokl him the was out I not the champion only a movie the photographer told a servant Dempsey who was packing his luggage rushed through the door in Ion apparent rage and told the pho-j tographer to "Who said I was only a movie actor?" he demanded did" replied the photographer "Well maybe I am but going to see Tex Rickard about a fight In September when 1 get to New I am not wasting any time worrying about them said Charlie Lockhart president of the Indians to- men 1hav 'T? 1 i represent Southern Vilitorma in (he day LOCKhalt IS in Los An- national swimming: championships geles for a lew days to be held in San Francisco April Seattle split even with San to -7 inclusive The team is composed of Dee rancisco last week winning mi Jarvis Island Tipton Clove Mor- three and losing thiee They rjuOI1 -and jerry witt of the Hoiiy-have slumped badly at Sac-j wood Athletic club George Leach rameilto losing three los Angeles Athletic club Hay uj Kegeris unattached Paul Nelson ilclljni unattached and a relay team from Most Of the trouble was i Venice which includes AVallac Caused by well-meant advice Hoggin Harrison George of Killefer manager XVulf ui Daubcnspeck Picked For IN CENTER CART DUNHAM LEFT TOP TO BOTTOM CHURCHILL AND FULLINGTON RIGHT McBEjWEY AND FOWLER SLIGHTED LINEMEN QUIT ON RED? MEET the new national scholastic baseball! the Wichita Kas high quintet winri rs of the title at the recent tournament held at Chicago Not only did 1 he team from the Sunflower state romp through the affair in victorious fashion butit defeated practically all of its opponents by decisive scores In tho final game to determine the championship Wichita crushed El Reno high of Oklahoma 27 to the ultimate losers failing to register in the first half 6000 SIGN ANTI-ARENA PETITION HIGH LIGHTS OF LEGION SCRAPS Newsboy Brown is as good a short-ender as was Muehy Callahan last week according to the boxing sharps who hang around the Newsboys gymnasium The newsboy has had about 50 fights and has never lost a decision -4-4 4- Georgie Rivers will challenge the winner La Barba won a close decision over Rivers about a month ago 4-4-4- George Blake has two boys on the card at Hollywood Besides Fidel he has Joe Kalas Kalas and I a Barba went to Paris together as members of the American Olympic Boxing team -4-4-4 Johnny Grelia makes another start in the semi-windup at Hollywood If Grelia continues to show the class he did against Herman Auerbach ho will soon be a main eventer at Hollywood 4-4-4- Joe Salas is picked to beat Joe Piinenthal in the special event Salas is booked to meet Jackie Fields at the Hollywood stadium just as soon as ho thinks he is strong enough to meet the clever Fields Salas has been sick and this is his first start in many weeks 4 4- Johnny Gerarden boxing in the of the Chicago Cubs He offered Brother a his choice of two Cub first basemen Cotter or Elliott Wade wanted to take Cotter who had watched both men daily urged him to take Elliott Elliott has been a sad spectacle at the plate He looks so impossible that Wade will use led Baldwin a third baseman at first Other reasons for failure to win are Sammy ran and Eldred The latter is regarded as a natural hitter one of the best the league He has been in a slump since the season opened Crane burt his ankle running to a fire at an exhibition game in Sun Jose lost 11 out of 17 last spring and still won the pennant" said Lockhard smiling "We have won three games already We can afford to lose five more before I begin to worry" ffi THE Los Angeles club lost game yesterday but it saved the price of a telegram to Chicago After every victory it is the custom of President Patrick to send a message containing the high lights to William Wrigley Jr AVhen the team loses he keeps the harrowing details to liimself Does one outstanding star who is constantly basking in the limelight play havoc with the morale of a ball team or a football eleven? It is a well-known fact that one individual no matter how great cannot achieve success unless he is ably supported from various angles Walter career Is a shining example of such a truth Johnson at the height of his career was a member of just a so-so Washington club Recently he met a former University of Illinois star now a leading realtor of the southland Unsolicited he told me a story that was decidely Interesting Take it for what it is worth After asking me if I had seen the Minnesota-IHinois game and I had second spot is a stable mate of Ace I replied in the negative he told me A mass meeting Judd las nig lit at Southern Branch was attended by 250 persons Tom Kennedy Ias Angeles box-wig promoter is planning the structure lie said lie was going ahead with his plans despite had tired of the one-man thtory at Illinois 4 4 4 Being an outstanding star has its drawbacks Incidentally unless said player is a most unusual person I lie manager or coach gets a kick--back BENJAMIN HANGS UP HIS MITTS Joe Benjamin the handsome lightweight who might have been champion had he cared less for his good looks has finally decided to forsake the prize ring and go in for the movies After an attempt to be good and take the fight game seriously Joe has found himself cut off from the nicer pugilistic pickings Whipped soundly by AceHudkins suspended in California and New York at odds with ills manager Benjamin has decided to chuck hU ling career and seek to make a living with nothing more dangerous than a camera shooting at his beautiful features Benjamin was to begin his new career today by leaving writh Jack Dempsey and the bride on their trip to New York ECKER IS GAINED IN BIG TRADE Charles Eckert pitcher of the Portland hall club became the property of the Vernon club in a trade made today Charley Deal Vernon third base-man goes to Portland in exchange for Eckert Deal has accepted terms and will report to the IScavers Eckert will join Vernon at Seattle next week Eleven Swimmers Rommell Hero of Play Ilcro Kdilie Rommel bold tbe lied Sox scoreless after (lie tirst inning and liil a liomer with two runners on I use helping the Athletics win their third straight game 7 to 3 Hard hitting off four Brooklyn pitchers enabled the Phils to win their first game of the season to 1 Three runs urod in tho ninth inning With two down gave the White Sox a i to 2 victory over the Tigers Coo-' Ooslin accounted for four run with two hono rs anti helped the Senators boat tho Yankees 7 to 6 Washington scored five runs in the ninth Inning Coaim rant Judge flitting successive homo runs off Urban Shocker Charley Hartnett hit two homers and helped the Cubs heat the rates to 3 Cincinnati took possession of first place in the Aationai league by winning the third straight game from the Cards 7 to 3 Itixey did not alien a hit after the second inning With a barrage in the ninth inning that bloated McNamara out of the box the Giants beat the Braves to 1 LEAGUE STANDINGS I At II IC OAST LEAGUE salt lake ami Oakland 5 500 333 8 200 9 100 Angels 2 800 Seattle 3 Sacrum to 6 4 800 Vernon 2 So 1 risen 5 4 555 Portland 1 YESTERDAY'S REsl ITS Vernon 4 lots Angeles 0 Salt lake IS Portland Sacramento 5 Seattle 2 sau Francisco 5 Oakland 4 NVTTOVVL EE AG PE ineinati 3 I ooo New-York i i 500 Brooklyn 3 0 1000 Pittsburg 1 2 333 Chicago 2 007 Pfiituda 3 00(1 boston 1 I 500 St Louis 3 000 YESTERDAY'S RES I I Cincinnati 7 St Ixal 3 Brooklyn 8 Philadelphia New York 8 Boston I Chicago 8 Pittsburg 3 AMERICAN JEAGt Pet VV Pet JMiiladn 3 0 1000 Detroit 1 2 333 IcvlinJ 0 1000 New York 1 2 Chicago 3 1 67 Boston 0 3 VYashton 2 1 007 Si Louis 0 3 RES I LTS Chicago 4 Detroit 2 Philadelphia 7 Boston 3 Cleveland 2 St Louis I Washington 7 New York 5 AMERICAN ASS RESULTS Minneapolis 10 Toledo 0 Columbus 0 St Paul 6 Indianapolis 2 Kansas City 1 Milwaukee 10 Ixtuisviile 5 INTERN ATX LEAGUE RESULTS fill I lain 5 Jersey City 3 Newark 8 Syracuse (j Rochester 8 Reading 4 Toronto 4 Baltimore 3 SOUTHERN RKSt ITS Little Rock 7 Memphis 5 Atlanta 8 Chattanooga 1 Nashville 10 Birmingham 8 New Orleans 9 Mobile 8 WESTERN LEAGUE RESULTS Denver 8 Wichita 5 Oklahoma City 8 Omaha 7 Tulsa 9 Des Moines 8 St Joseph-Uneoln rain TEXAS LEAfiCK RESULTS Houston 12 Beaumont I Wichita Falls 0 Shreveport 5 Fort Worth 9 Dallas 0 Waco 13 San Antonio RESULTS I i (I i 0 0 I 0 LOS ANGELES AB Twombly cf -i 2 Jacobs ss 3 0 Whaley 3b 4 0 Horan i 4 1 Grimes lb 3 1 Hood ii 0 Spencer 2 Beck 2b 3 0 Wright I 0 Gunther Myers i) ct Sandbergs i 0 Pi-r-khaiuL 1 Phillips 9 0 2 3 1 11 A 0 1 2 6 1 0 0 1 4 0 i i 0 Totals 30 5 24 11 Gunther batted for Wright in (Stic Poekharn batted for Myers in 0 0 1 0 FOR the first time this year a southpaw is scne Bill" l-Issiek loses today Unless Manager iuled to face the Angels heart "Red" Oldham will Assertions by the Angels that few managers will have the hardihood to fool the Angels try CRACKER JoE williams Hudkins He looks like a comer The boy is tough and carries a pretty good kick 4 4 4 It looks like a packed house at the Hollywood stadium tonight Dwellings which are supposed to date back to 7000 have been discovered by workmen digging along the shores of the ltkle of Zurich Two runs sooreil by Glenn Mvatt star catcher enabled Cleveland to beat the Browns 2 to 1 Myateii homer in the ninth cinched the irame to start a southpaw' against them may have had something to do with Essick decision Essick is quiet but he never lets a dare slip by unchallenged The Angels have been boasting that southpaws may as well lake a week off when their clubs play Los Angeles Essick will have "Wee" Ludolph ready to work but bis intention was to start Oldham formerly played for Portland and San Francisco in this league He was with Detroit when he quit baseball He had a wrangle with Tv Cobb for which any player cun be forgiven SEVERAL thousand fans gave "Babe" Twombly a tumultuous ovation in the eighth inning of yesterday's game Twombly made a seemingly impossible catch of a high drive by Jim Blakesly The ball was hit on a line and it traveled almost to the center field fench at top speed for the fence and made a one-handed stab over hip shoulder The ball stuck in the webbing between his thumb and forefinger It was rank robbery lor poor Blakesly That smash was an honest base hit in any league To have an outfielder make miracle catches on punches like that is enough to dishearten Babe Ruth Blakesly with his head down walked past Essick who was coaching at first "Never mind Jim 1 11 give you a two-base hit for that" said the manager sympathetically "My loss responded -the player sadly "I certainly made a star out of that Illinois' unexpected reverse in that game was the direct result of too much praise being showered on Grange In that game Grange lost more ground than he made if I recall the statistics correctly The Minnesota line outcharged Illinois throughout the game The former Illinois star said tho Ulini linemen by their indifferent play in that game made it apparent that Grange without assistance from the forwards gain at will as he did in other games They 652 he Biggest Value in Los Angeles at Six thousand names have been secured to a petition protesting I he erection of a proposed fight arena at Vermont avenue and Santa Monica boulehard The reason given was that it would be too close to the I nivers ity of California southern branch and California Christian college lias been established that Babe Ruth dui not hurt b- load when I fell i i ust he wash basin In the smoker The extent how- lever of tho damages sustained by I the basin is not revealed 4- 4 4 Tlie panhandler asked the kindly looking old gent in the bull park for the price of a meal MAh the first touch of breathed the estutle poet 4-4-4 The automobile racers have begun tuning up for the Annual speed We suppose the tune they like best is "I ntil Death Doth I 4 4 4 AKKRA LI has hanged a whoie lot since Aunt Sara used to wear long lace gloves but we note that Old Sol is still a big favorite with the bright young men who write for the papers -4-4-4 A statistician shows that it coat Michigan students less than 35 cents a game to see thir athletic teams in action We guess they at least got their moneys worth when ited Grange broke loose in the Illinois game 4 4 4 The news of the prize ring doesn seem the same any more now that Bud arm has quit jumping out of place every other Tuesday night 4-4-4- THERE ISN'T ONE NATIVE-BORN PHILADELPHIAN ON CONNIE MACK SQUAD THIS YEAH THIS IS A FINE BOOST FOB THE CALlBEIt OF Pit I LA DELPHI AH CITIZENRY 4' 4 4 JACK DEMPSEY is quoted as say mg he does not need a manager What he means to say is that he does not need two managers the new wife being quite sufficient Classics The Referee did Benny Leonard heat Freddy Welsh for the lightweight title and how many rounds did the fight (J Leonard defeated Welsh in 191 winning on a kayo in the ninth session Did George Mullins of the old De-triot Ty ge rs ever pitch a 110-hit gome and if so Mullin hurled a no-hit contest against St Isiuis in the afternoon game of July 4 xfH2 Has Glenna Collett ever competed for the British golf title in the past? No this will be her first foreign invasion By SEPULVEDA READY FOR GREAT FIGHT The way Carl Sepulveda is tearing into his sparring partners at Dutch training camp bodes Oo good for Joe Hanahan whom he battles in the ten-round main event at the Lyceum tomorrow night Carl expects to make as quick work of Hanahan as he made of Joe Sommers recently at Jack Sepulveda who is doing wild and daring stunts on horses at the Universal Studio is a big favorite with the film employes many of whom will be at the ringside tomorrow night to give him their moral Speedway Stars In Last Sprint Automobile racing drivers who are to me al the Culver City mile and a quarter board oval next Sunday afternoon have announced themselves and their cars ready for the event Today is the last day many of them will practice before the race Sensational times were hung up in practice yesterday Peter managed to attain a speed of 1D49 miles per hour while Benny Hill and Pietro Bordino had to be satisfied with 11522 miles per hour NEW OKIv Sammy Mandril and SmI Terris leading contenders for the lightweight championship may be matched to meet at the new Coney Island stadium on May 2( the club announced Terris has accepted terms and a reply is being uvajtrd from Mamieil N'KI HAVEN Tony Travers New Haven featherweight won a six-round decision from Earl Baird California YANKEES TURN PAIR BACK TO MINORS Two of the Yankees highly touted rookie outfielders John Levi and Nick Cullop have been turned back i to the minors for further seasoning letting out of Cullop cuttle 08 more or less of a surprise as he hud been picked by many experts to make the grade LEFTIES UNLUCKY NEW YOB April 17 star left handed pitchers who had been counted niton as arcs have had a hard time getting started in the young season Lefty (roves Connie $100909 beauty was knocked out of the ho in his first game Art Nehf best was defeated in his first game Earl WhiXeliill big hope lasted only four innings and Wilbur Cooper who was traded to the (Mbs by the Pirates was knocked out of the box on his first start Major League Sketches LUZERNE BLUE Detroit Tigers First Baseman Born Washington March 5 1807 Major League Purchased by Detroit at end of 1920 season from Portland club Pacific Coast league Outstanding Feats In game played September 8 1922 made two double plays unassisted equaling major league record for first baseman Batted 311 in 1921 Scored 131 runs in 1922 The Only Cafeteria With Dancing During Dinner and Saturday for Luncheon No Extra Charge Volume of Selling Makes the Low Price Possible! This season the better dressed men of the younger set are wearing this popular Baker model Im the New Black Let Your eet Be the Judge ry I hem On omorrow! MEN'S SHOPS 629-Jf51-IflO South Broad wa 1 U2 West 7th St 311 West 5th St 6661 Hollywood Blvd Los Angeles 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Hits I) 0 1 I 0 1 -5 Vernon 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 4 Hits 1 0 1 I 4 1 1 0 9 Two-base hits I'enner Hemingway Sacrifice hits--Hemingway (2) Jacobs Moore Blakeslc-y Huns batted in Mur-i phy (2) Hemingway Innings pitched By Wright 5 Myers 2 Charge defeat to Wright At hat Off Wright 19 Myers (i Hits Of Wright 7 Myers 2 Runs Off Wright 4 Myers 0 Runs responsible for Wright 4 Struck out By I'enner 2 Wright 1 Myers 1 Bases 011 balls off Wright 2 Myers 1 Pen-i uer 1 Wild pitch Wrght Stolen I base s- Blttkesley Hood Out stealing Twombly Time 1:31 Lin pi res Carroll and Kinney )'S AJSX STORK IN TOWN WITH OUR LOW FRICKS and SICK WOKKI NL MK vs CLOTlfKft CAM ITUS' AND lilKKKS COMFLKTK OUTFITS ItKAPKK HKMt STORE THEY ALL TALK ABOUT r' OIO South 0 LlO Main St WASHINGTON PARK Today Game Called at 2:30 LOS ANGELES vs VERNON For Reservations il ATlautie 9 8a 2.