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Boxing Commissioners 18 +4 + THE NE:w YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY :13, 1921. Threat by Judge Landis Resuits Abanin donment Attempt to Curtail His Power a s Commissioner of Baseball AGREEMENT SIGNED" They Say the Real[ Estate Business Isn't S o Bad These Days EAGLE IS VICTOR HIGH LIGHTS AM SHADOWS FOOTBALL STRATEGY BY MAJOR CLUBS v j OVER HAROLD TURK IN ALL SPHERES OF SPORT AIDED BY TELEPHONE ABOUT Y5 HI MOT By DA NIEL. W- 7 »l'$ Harvard Coaches Perched ori Landis ( WALK PROM TH" STAT U Defeats Opponent in State Copyright, 1121, by T he Neva York Berald. Jndjre Officially ^ T Head of Baseball ^ v~| GoeP \M6ArHtK.TVi Title Billiard Tournament THERE is every" Indication that the revival of the Intercollegiate Top of Stands, Wire Installed is T) on on June 22 5ERVICC ROT25.H lng Association's regatta th Hudson at Poughkeepsle Rowe ^ aih'tvwired .Other Cue Results. the Observations. Organization. I house alii be the biggest lnterv«^sitv event In the history of sport. electric>TV AN TW GAI Charles Halsted Mapes of Columbia, olHalrman of the Board of Stewards of - ©COO WU that there t no at least crews 1 IN . AJ30U-T STANDING OF" TUB PLAYERS. the I. R. A., said yesterday vas doubt that eight Cambridge. Mass, Jan. 12..Harvard's NO POWERS CURTAILED ~\ Put TH House IN 60cV Won. Lost. H.R. P C nrmiM or.\ tr% thfltRrtlnc ilnp in thA vhirsity race at three miles. If eight do football strategy in important games for "TVi* PRiCC n George J. Wyatt 1 0 4 1.000 go It will be a record field, for the blggiiust number of starters In the past wis several years has been developed in part f^£p/KiR~. I^-/. "l« 1 O It 1 IS hi over in 1907. That saw Corne telephone wires while the game* CASH. TaicC George Kaubai'h 10 7 1.0<W> seven, year U, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Syracuse, were In ( # t+2,OOG T.nul- A. 8ir\*!lu» 0 14 .000 the and Georgetown In the event, which progress. It was learned to-dsy Ultimatum lias Desired Effect **" Wisconsin, Navy compete major In the . 0 14 .000 games with Yale and Princeton for Robert Crt"<pie a most finish hi tlle of navy Harold Li. Turk 0 14 .000 provided picturesque dark, with the searchlights the last two years, the game with Centra on Those Seeking Chancre monitors showing the way for the swe<ep swingers. last fn >> candidate College 11 and In tl intersections! George Eagle, a promising The Navy's appearanee in 1907 *vas its first and one at Pough- game with of at State amateur three only University Oregon ill Wording:. for the New York Last season the midshipmen won the world's ana a year ago Crimson coaches perchedPasadena billiard last keepsie. championship, cushion championship, night they feel that they can retain that title only if they take part In the on the top of the stands telephoned defeated Harold U Turk. 30 to 25. In That Is and suggestions to supplementcriticismthe In the Rational keepsie regatta.and win. feelinj shared by most of the Pough? By WILLIAM B. HAXSA. fllfty-seven Innings no lo side line observations of Head Coach of Brooklyn. The tournament,Recreationgiate rowing world.. Georgetown supports a crew, but WisconsinintercollengerHob Fisher. Yoijk Hbbvi.u ^ Spenal Despatch tv The New last and to Is expected to return to the Hudson In June. After a lapse of nearly a Jan. 12..Judge Land is which opened Monday night From these vantage points they were Chicago. being staged under the auspices of the decade the Badgers have gone back to rowing, again under the coaching of better able to diagnose the scheme of was formally installed as thetoday National Association of Amateur Billiard Harry Vail. opponents' play, especially in the line of Organized Baseball.Commlssioner As a we six of the crews and most authoritative ottice Players. Is developing Into a keen result, may expect which rowed there In 1907 than were the coaches on the ground, bggest to come back to in 1921. Iti addition there who saw it in the mass. The ever to exist in the game. The sixteen struggle. Poughkeepsle will be the winner largely contract In disposing of his opponent Eagle of the Pacific Coast regatta.Washinglton, Stanford or California. Princeton In most instances were field se'<telephones major league clubs signed their members the with him, which completes the business went out with an unfinished run of six, is a strong possibility, and there is som e chance of getting the entries of rigged up by of football of and the minor which Is the second best made thus far. ronto and With the Harvar regatta at New London squad before the contest. part it. leagues pledged Cambridge. comingTod-YaleIn the big game with Yale at the Bowl to his support, but before these things ^ Despite the fact that his margin of on the 24th, there will be a world of ro interest and action ^ crowded into wing was small a far Inst fall former Coach P. I"), Houghton happened what looked like intricate Eagle played victorythree days In June. and Crimson of recent were revealed game than his rival. Eagle got Jimmy Knox, strategists. hatching politics |j better dictated over tne tejepiione the the baseball and Judge Landls had told off to a good start In the opening inning, that Head Coach Fisher delegates they would have to do when he made a run of four. He Horetnans Evidently Not Here to Play Hoppe. observationsincorpo rated with his own in formulating tho him If a change slipped to thewithoutnew this lead steadily and in theIncreased As the billiard season progresses and there is no announcement of a tactics of agreement in the last tew days were the moment. twenty-fifth stanza led Turg by 18 to 6. matcri mween vyiuie Jiuppe aim rxuju ard Horemans, the Belgian sensation, Harvard football authorlths made accepted. At this stage Turk braced and after no Those for the change! the feeling grows that they will not rneet, and that it never was intended attempt to conceal the telephone ar responsible counting consistently for the next dozen was a but vital that they should meet this year. The Irnpresslon Is strong among followers of rangements in any case, it said, and verbiage.only single word, frames finally overtook Eagle In the as far as m. would have the balkline game that Horemans did n<>t come here to He made they knew the installation wa.i In its aning.which fiftv-flfth session. The loser at this play Hoppe. known to Landis of most of the the for the purpose of a contract with the representatives of opposing stripped Judge point led by one point, the score being trip primarily fulfilling teams. The of the power with which it was to wick-Bulke-Collender which for ten exhibition* and operation telephone purposed 25 to 24. It was in the next Inning, Company, Brunscallssays was not regarded as endow backed water In a hurry a Involving any him, that his run of nothing at all about match with Heippe for either the 18.2 or 18.1 title. of as the was a and full was restored to the however, Eagle made ethics, wire merelyquestion power him. six which brought him vietorv If Horemans returns to Belgium wlthc>ut meeting the world's the medium of observations power agreed on the champion communicating when major league C5us Gardner and disappointment among bllliardlsts will be intense. available to one. In the at agreement was approved in New York. Raymond any game known will oppose each other NaughwrightIn Horemans's work In his exhibitionis here has shown him to be a Pasadena, Cal., the Crimson coaches' The matter when it became to wire was set all game. liner well worthy of a match for the t; He Is an 18.1 up by the linemen of the of the assembled baseball men here tonight's essentially player.balkitle.telephone at He rarely drives to the cushion. At 18.2 we have no company that place, and re createtd a big stir, together with doubt that Hoppe ports have come Landls. to catch the In the last of his exhibition mtachee would beat but at 18.1 Horemans to be East that the quick ImporthowJudge him, would have conceded a strong of California used a of one changed w had throttled the at Thum's last John Rimilar Universitysystem ird, Academy night chance. One thing is certain. As a ma*ise expert Horemans stands without a In its post-season game with Ohio Sta»te move and wtth a which the professional three cushion Instantly vigor Layton.peer in the history of billiards. University two weeks ago. makes him a bigger man than ever in defeated both of his opponents.champion, baseball. In the afternoon the title holder downed Judge Landls a Man W110 Will Not 32 IN A For several days prior to to-day the K_ Joseph Letzer. 50 to 32. and In the night Temporise. ROW FOR PASSAIC. Ttialnr lcn2iip rir:iff hfirl hppn s \".*&ZZ. session won from Gean Kahn, 50 to 28. Major league baseball at last has run up against a man who will not preparing the new major league The made a run of seven at temporize and who will stand for no n onsense. Any doubt which have Tassaic, N. J.. Jan 12..Fr.ssa!c High champion may School for its final adoption.
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