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"i PAGE FOUR THE WICHITA BEACON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24. 1930T. Kicks 90 Goals, "Red Weaver's Toe Staff May Be Useless Next Yea CHIP BILLIARD Wichita is Taking A Lot of Interest ooooooooooooooooo ON WAY TO ENGLAND English Boxers Come to America New York, Dec. 23 A second con A three rounds, with a fourth In easea a decision is not reached. jj These bouts will be followed by- it series In which the principals will be the sectional champions of the var-lons industrial boxing centers Including the timber, mining and steel Industries.

The ultimate winners will be matched against the champions Juf similar Industries In England for another series of international bouta late in the spring. More than a hundred belts and trophies have been provided by sponsors of amateur boxing for these industrial bouts and the holders will afforded every opportunity for special training and boxing I VU 'r-k- 5 tingent of English amateur boxers arrived from London yesterday to compete In a series of international bouts in this city next month. In the party were Captain E. V. Chandler, heavyweight champion of Great Brit Bin of the British army and runnor up to the winner In this class r.f Olympic games boxing championships and John Watson, heavyweight champion of the Britsh navy.

The party was In charge of Tex O'ltourke official matchmaker of the International Sporting club here. Opponents from the Newf York police force and the United States army and navy have not yet been selected to meet the English amnteurs. In order to find the best boxers a series of tryouts will be staged at several points thruout the country and various winners will compete In final round here to decide the oppon ents of the Englishmen. The bouts probably will be staged under International Federation rules Those Who Are fu fill GUUMS WICHITA Reports Say He Was Member of Local Baseball Team. li Johnny Layton the new world Ichampion of three-cushion billiards ls an al; around athlete, jncinueu ir -Lis lone list of athletic accomplish yinents It Is mentioned that he once Splayed baseball on the Wichita team tin the Western League.

Wichita Is .1 Indeed honored by the mention made by Lavton. Old baseball fans how fever fall to remember the name of Layton. If he played here, he used another name or as a lesser light was i'forcotten by the fans. The story of the new billiard cham- "pion Is that of an all around Athlete. He is an expert Isnxer, wrestler, swimmer, trap shooter, and tennis Honors in every kind of snort have been his.

He uses the lessons he learned In baseball and boxing In the game In which he has now made his greatest success. He believes like Babe Ruth that you must hit the first hall right to get the best results. This Is the secret of his success. Layton has been playing billiards for IS years. In 1902 he showed re- markable ability as a- youngster and until 1013 was developing.

He cu tcred his first professional match In 1914 and won the world champion- ship from De Oro but two weeks ago. Layton Is thirty-three years of age. His athletic accomplishments have endowed him with a perfect, body and a steady set of nerves. Billiard ex perts pronounce him the greatest cue artist In the game's history. He de veloped his body in athletics before he took up the green cloth game.

Wichita congratulates Johnny Lay- ton, If he ever played baseball in Wichita they are with him and if he never played here we appreciate the honoc extended us thru an error, Layton deserves the honors ho has won and Wichita is glad to be men tioned with him. SPORTORIAL PRACTICE KEEPS PERFECTION. Practice makes perfect, sliut unit's only part of Jt. It require more practice to keep the perrecteu macnin perrect. Also after one's powers have reached the peak more is expected of him than 7 fellow who Is Just a comer.

V- The same critics who. a few flavs asro. "tyeKged Jack Dempney as a super-man and 4 'unbeatable, are now jazzing a different -i-melody. They are calling the champion, who de-i; i layed his knock-out of Bill Brennan until twelfth round, an ordinary sruy. The picture shows Red" "Weaver, the f.ourht? Centre College center, who established a new record in football this year by boot 1ns; ninety consecutive goals after touchdown.

There Is an agitation headed by coaches to abolish the goal kick next year. It they do' Weaver's accomplishment will be consigned to the scrap heap. "Bo" McMUlln held the ball for all "Red's" kicks. That's "Bo" in the picture (kneeling). BT DEAN SNYDER.

The Investment which Uncle Charley Moran has tied up In "Red Weaver's goal-kicking toe may be lost next year. Weaver will be back again, shining on the Centre eleven, but the goal kick after touchdown may be abolished by the football fathers before the 1921 whistle blows. Several coaches have brought forth Impressive reasons why the goal kick works an injustice to teams in deciding close games. As the result of much argument a ear ago an attempt was made to satisfy the pros and cons by permitting the goal to be kicked from a point directly in front pf the goal posts this fall. But the majority of schools don't like the wind-up kick after touchdown at all and are seeking to have It abolished altogether.

If they do. Weaver's highly developed, accurate kicking power will be tossed in the scrap heap. Ninety In a Row. The star Centre player registered his ninetieth consecutive goal kick on Thanksgiving Day a new accomplishment in football. The nearest approach to this record was made by a young high school player by the name of George O'Donnell at Billings, last season.

This youth booted his eightieth on November 14, getting fifteen lu a single frame. Two Tears' Record. Weaver has not missed his toe-shot since the first game of 1019. He piled up itt during the year. He got the other 44 this fall.

Hie record of 1919 was even more illustrious than this, for then he was forced to kick from difficult angles. Telegraphic Meet For M. V. Freshmen Normnn, Dee. 24 May 18 has been set as a tentative date for a telegraphic traek meet to be staged by freshmen traek teams In the Missouri Valley conference, according fo an announcement by Kdgar I).

Mca chain, freshman athletic coach at tne University of Oklahoma. According to the plan, the nina schools In the conference will hold track meets on their own fields simultaneously and this results will lie telegraphed to the conference secretary at Kansas CltyJ There they will be compiled and the nnmes of the winners wired back to all the contesting schools. Officials of the Missouri Valley conference will direct the meets at the various schools and events will be staged as at a regular dual track meet. Freshmen are not allowed to meet (ffasl Who will Become Patrons; Extend Best Wishes Merry Christmas and a New Year 1 In Bowling Game More interest than was ever before shown in the game is being demonstrated by bowling enthusiasts this year: The Wichita Bowling League and the Sunday School League keep the two alleys in Wich ila busy a part of the time and many bowlers not. playing in the lcaghe are becoming regular indulgers In this inside winter sport.

Downs of women accompany their husbands regularly to the. Princess Bowling Alley, and there are several women in Wichita that are experts at the game. Fans cliam that bowling is one of the most interesting of games and with a perfect score. as an ulti mate object that has never been at tained by but few, there is always something better to strive for. Two big days are planned for the bowlers at the Princess Bowling Al ley on Christmas and New Year.

All scores on those days will be held and the ten high frames will be awarded a gold bowling medal. As the league tcums do not compete during the day, the alleys are open for individual competition. At the T. M. C.

A. alley, there are several fast matches planned for these two holi days. A match between a woman team from Kansas City and a team com posed of Wichita women is planned for the near future. A challenge is said to have arrived recently from Kansas City and a team of women here will soon accept it. Whether the match will be staged in Wichita or Kansas City is not known.

Johnson Answers Col. Huston's Charge Chicago, Dec. 24. President Ban Johnson of the American League last night issued! a statement replying to tlic charge made Sunday in New York by Col. T.

L. Huston, part owner of the New York club, that the Amort car. League had violated a precedent In choosing its board of directors by ballot. President Johnson said the league had always rescrted to the ballot. Instead of using ihe usual ro tation method when It was found the rotation method would bring "an undesirable member" to the board.

"At our meeting," he "it was the sentiment that two members should not be brought into the direc- toiate, as they had attempted to wreck the American League. Mr. Rup pert of New York was elected a mem' of the board, hut declined to serve. The club, owners then elected Mr Shlbe. Colonel Huston once removed from tte files of the New York American league Club a private lefter I wrote Colonel Ituppert regarding the gambling situation in Boston.

He con-veyed'the contents to President Heyd- ve of the National Ticague, thinking could not prove the statements I had made. I did prove them and it led to the removal of Lee Magee and Hal Chase from baseball That is the kind of a man Colonel Huston is." Chicago Takes Over Control of Mat Game Chicago, Dec. 24. Wrestling was placed under control of a city athletic commission today when counci' passed an ordinance creating the commission to regulate the sport. The commission will be composed of Mayor Thompson, Chief of Police Fitz- morrls, two aldermen and two citi zens.

The body has full power to Issue or revoke licenses for shows. Wrestlers must obtain a license be fore they will be permitted to appear matches. All matches must be submitted to the commission for ap proval. Another Eastern Team Invades the Coast Cleveland, Ohio, Dec, 24. Coach Sam Willaman and his east technical high school football squad, twenty strong, left here today for Everett, where they will contest on New Year's day with the holders of the Pacific coast title for the national high school footbnll honors.

They will arrive in Everett the morning of December 30. LECION FOR BOXING Topeka, Dec. 24 The Kan sas Department of the American Legion will make an effort to get the coming session of the legislature to legalize boxing exhibitions in the state. ALL-STARS TAKE TOUR 'DU. anun of v.R 1 Stewart, former Wichita Western League baseball player, th.

AIy. Athletic Clufc'a basketball flva will make a tour n( kt. eaa, Oklahoma and Texaa during; the holidays. This team la an all-star aggregation and willing to mast any tiva in the xvew xorit, jec. z.

rete Her- man, of New Orleans, who lost his title as world's bantamweight boxing champion last night to Joe Lynch of this city, was a passenger today on the S. S. Im- perator sailing for England. He is matched against Jimmy Wilde, English flyweight for a 20-round bout In London. oooooooooooooooo Clever Fighters Gave A Pretty Exhibition San Antonio, Dec.

24. Tom my Carter of El Paso end Battling Barrere of New Orleans fought 12 fast rounds here last night, the ref eree giving a draw decision at the end of the battle. It was a strap between a clever boxer and a sldshing southpaw, Barrere taking the latter role. Jack Dillon of Indianapolis and Young Fltzsimmons of Oklahoma City will battle here Dee 28. To The to Those Our We for a Happy When Eddie Mahan asked.

Weaver how he managed to run up such an amastng number of consecutive goal he said that it was due largely to hla keeping his eyes on the ball. Charley Tnoght Him. 'Uncle Charley took he out on the gridiron one afternoon," said Weaver, "and showed me the goal posts. 'Those goal posts do not he reminded me. 'The ball does, so keep your eye on the "I have always remembered that Instruction." Weaver practices consistently during the playing season.

Every afternoon he kicks al least 25. "Bo" Holds Ball. "Bo" McMUlln always holds the ball for him. No one else Is trusted. "Bo" Is a pretty good man In whom to put faith for any angle of football.

Weaver kicked all hla goals with a knee so seriously Injujred that he was forced to in athletics according to the rules of the conference, and this is respousi ble for the arrangement which al lows them to compete without acta ally coming la contact with oppO' nents. Society Women Aiding Boxing (N. E. A. Staff Special) New York, Dec.

24. Society women here are backing the Stillmun movement to establish athletic clubs thruout New York and maybe the rest of the country for free instruction In boxing and other allied sports. They are staging bouts in ball rooms to raise funds to endow clubs "We've got a new outlook on box ing," they say. "Just look at the young lady schoo1 teacher in Chlcugo. who refereed fights between her pupils as a means of stopping rowdyism.

Didn't she But too much was expected of a fighter iyyvrho has rot been working at his trade i regularly. m. ir ne over was a eiipfr-man. It was after he had flattened Wil ard. His tiger Instinct, developed so highly while he was earning his right to fight tne cnampion, has lain in state since In any business where skill Is involved reunions one keeps pegging away at It the TMUscles fall to co-ordinate with the nerve t' centers, the eye loses Its cunning, the heart gets out of step the punch.

lacks ST. JOHN WON CAME Tonkawa, Dec. 24. Two lucky field oali from tbt center of the court the St. John' College basketball team a 2S to 19 victory over the University Preparatory School team here Tuesday The tt-ame were evenly matched and the ecore was tied 0 to 10 at the half, and 17 to IT at the end of the game, bringing about an extra five minutes of play, durtnjr which time the aoala were made.

The U. P. 8 five-man defense wu too much for the faster vlsttinfr team, causing them to throw most of the foals from the center of the court. and Eldorado 1 -its steam. Hiif Dpmnnnv let wIbm Annnvh trt Irnnw al! this.

oinan In the world." Those are his words. After Wlllard he iwpnts Wills. Carpentler is already on his submit to an operation Immediately after the football season. He la of slight build, and his' arduous duties at center keep him Dm i sea ana oauereq. tnruout tne cam Pftlgn.

Generally he Is so bandaged that he stoops with difficulty. Opposing players can mm tne "cnarging roof. Plunging Center. It has been his job to tear holes thru the enemy lines for the Centre backs. An Injury to the little fnlger on hit left hand made amputation necessary.

Weaver has sacrificed himself to the gridiron game. Due In part to his greai kicking and plunging the Danville "Pray' ing Colonels" piled up a total of 469 points to ineir opponents' do in nine games in tne season just closed. But if they revise the code book this winter and strike off the goal kick after touchdown, an of weaver toe talent will be valueless In 1921. get the school board td furnish bo ing gloves to each the boys the man ly nrt?" Ball room 1 outs are arranged by a committee including Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mrs.

Henry l'otter Russell and Mrs. J. Theus Munds. Among those who occupy ringside seats at the shows are Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, Miss Anne Morgan and Mh Herbert Shipman.

ITKEEP IS HIGH. iloston. It costs lot to develop a foot-bull team. Tills Item rung the Harvard caeti register for 140.847.81 during the ear Just closed. That Inoludes th.

trip to the coast for the Orea-on came. The Crimson athletio fund show, a deficit of (6,000, 11 GRIDIRON TIP. Chicago. On of th. tip.

couch receiving from football fans la to urge the National collegaite Athletic Associa. tlon to adopt a resolution against th. continuance In play of injured or ill pla.rs. BENNAH'H BOUQUET. New Benny Leonard saw Jack Dempsey hit Bill Brennan h.

told the champlonlhe wouldn't take one of his punches for all the money in tne world. Soma bouquet that was. to IJou "caning tfij None know better than the champion 'wthat it takes practice to keep perfect. )K He Isn't flinching under the barbs that fsre being stuck into the super-man that has been lavishly poured out jc'to him. So give him credit.

That's the kind of ja champion the world wants, and which It has in jJempsey. tZ Kansas City, Dec. 23. Frank Mo-jGowiin of Kansas City and Mel Ktevenson qf Ia Salle, fought a no-decislon round bout here last night. McGowan v.

tutboxed his opponent at long ranee, but i ii Ptevsnson landed damnglng punches to the In the ln-fightlng and finished the stronger. Newspaper men agreed honors were even. The men are welterweights. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOuOOOO 0 hunts mm a pig. Natchez, Dec.

24. Tucker Gibson, champion big game hunter of Tenas Parish, Louisiana, claims he owns a pig which he uses In the capacity of a bird dog and asserts that the porker makes perfect stands and never flushes a covey of birds. Mr. Gibson states that soon after the birth of the pig, on the death of its mother, it was adopted by a pointer dog with a litter of young puppies, and that the pig still associated with its foster brothers and isters even after it became well grown. He states that the hunting proclivities of the pig were accidentally discovered 'the first time the young dogs were taken to the field, the pig accompanying the party and taking an animated part In th hunt 40000000000000000000 Our Christmas Thought Yen rarely hear the price of the car mentioned.

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