Miller Ijuggins Induces Aaron Ward to Lay His Cards
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SECTION FOURTHF \fFW VHD¥ lirD AT n SPORTING NEWS EIGHT PAGES X li ill 1^1 JLj W I VJ l\/-t\_ 11 l_i IV^VJLjJL^ ^ SHIPPING NEWS. ICOPVRIGHT, IS". BV THE SUN -HERALD C O II P O II A T I O N-] »¦»?» NEW YORK, SUNDAY, MARCH 57~1922. MILLER IJUGGINS INDUCES AARON WARD TO LAY HIS CARDS ON TABLE; OFFER OF $350,000 IS MADE TO DE11PSEY FOR BOUT WITH HARRY WILLS Yankee Manager Nabs Lone Holdout as He Is Local Player# Boiling Out for Season Harry H. Frazee, Owner of Boston Red Sox, Sipping His Morning Coffee and Announces Makes First Real Bid for World's Heavy¬ at Conclusion of Protracted Interview That weight Championship Fight. Naming Second Sacker Has Made Statement. Saturday Before Labor Day as Date. CLUB OWNERS TO BE NOTIFIED BY WIRE FIGURE COVERS ONLY TITLE HOLDER'S SHARE i 'Perm State Twins' Hinkey Haines and Glenn Killinger Boston Is Favored as Scene of Contest, but if Color Are Given Some Pertinent Batting Pointers Line Is Drawn There New York or New Jersey vvhich Make Them Show Improvement. Will Stage the Affair. Ilv CHARI.K!* *. TAYLOn. By W. O. McGEEHAV. Special Dispatch to The New York He«ai.u. The first real Lid for the heavyweight champiouship was tossed into March 4. - Miller Huggins put in a busy New Orika.xs, La., Onager the market yesterday by none other than Harry H. Frazee, owner of th« don a uniform *'< ir true, but ho did an awful lot day to-day. lie didn't Boston Red Sox or what's left of them. Harry offers the conservative of tall nabbed Aaron Ward, ttr lone holdout, as Aaron was j talking. He sum of $350,000 to Dempsey for his end alone. He intends to deal with coffee and demanded a ..lear and concise statement sippiug his morning Wills at a later date. from the ball tosser as to wbat was on his mind. Ward loosened just Harry H. Frazee was the man behind the Johnson-Willard match at and then loosened up and Aaron did the listening. up and Ilug listened, Hug Han-ana. While that match in itself did not show a heavy return, Harry and at its close the Yankee manager announced The confab was protracted gogt all of his money back and then some, for he had taken the precau¬ ihat all the cards had been laid on the table and that he intended to tion of signing Willard for life before the bout. Willard finally bought and Huston the terms Ward said would be satis- wire Colonels Ruppert himself free at a trifle over a king's ransom. lactory. The plan of 'Andsome 'Arry Frazee is to bring Wills and Dempsef then hustled to the ball where he started tallduc again Huggins park, together on September 2, the Saturday before Labor Day. The matter of with "Penn State Haines and Glenn as his the twins," Hinkey Killinger. a site for the battle has not been gone into, but Frazee thinks that it audience, individually and collectively. might be held in Boston. If Boston should draw the color line he would he The manager told Haines that it in New York, New Jersey or in the West. the stage didn't quite like college boy's style While making his offer i^razee ha* ' jti the bat while hitting from the right decided to stake more than the side of the plate and instructed him to RUTH DONS UNIFORM even the on but left handed until further notice. YALE DOWNS price for heavyweight bout the TIGERS He cai thing. a Haines shifted as directed and a dis¬ plans championship BUT MAKES NO DEAL Heinie nival, which if it goes through vouM tinct in the manner in improvement outshine the fistic saturnalia in New which he met the ball after that was IN SWIMMING MEET noticeable. As for the youngster's G roh. Orleans when Sullivan was beaten by j| v James' J. work in the outfield 1luggins had no Trudges to Playing Field, * Corbett. The preliminai bouts for Frazecs carnival would in¬ . omplaint. Haines covers much ground He Works With ^ Eli and shows lots of speed. His arm, too, Where y Giants Guernsey, Plunger, Equals, clude goes between Benny Leonard seems to be all right. Schang; at First Base. Intercollegiate Record of and Lew Tendler and Jimmy Wilde of As for Killinger, Manager Uug ad¬ 38 2-o Seconds. England all in the same ring. In fact, vised him to forget tiic college batting the carnival would leave lew cham¬ coaching he had imbibed and try a Spec'dl Dispatch In The New York Ilr:*u.i pionships undecided. Hot Springs, Ark.. March 4..Col. Til- Frazec left for Hot Springs snortlv more approved method of slamming i/ifc al Dispatch to The New York 1ie«au> the old ball. Here again it would linghast Huston made two unsuccessful Princeton-, March 4..Princeton and after making the offer to Jack Kearn-. to Babe Ruth further inter¬ rppcar that Hug knew his business, attempts get Vale broke even in the Brokaw pool manager for Dcmpscy. He dkl nor Kill to time the ested in a li22 contract to-day. He began elaborate on the offer to de¬ for began pitcher's ? here this afternoon, the Tigers submerg¬ excepting on Ruth at his hotel this . tosses much better and meet the ball by calling: early I ing the Blue In water polo by the score clare that he was decidedly in earne- In the of Ruth's with more power. When the infield morning hope knocking of 69 to 11. anrl tasting a 38 to 15 de- in making it. Frazee got his flrs* on head. Ruth was organized for the day Killinger pcnchant for golf the 5 am feat in .swimming. taste of the big money in big fights Two records were broken in the was transferred frora third base to rather took the Colonel's breath away by * out of the WUlard-Johnson bout and as It was a beau¬ plunge. On his first try Wood of Yale shortstop. He is prone to fight the saying that inasmuch floated 76 feet in 39 4-5 seconds, there¬ is eager to learn more about it. be due to tiful day he had decided on spending the ! Jones his own record of The profits which Tex Rickard reaped ball, but this may partly <? by bettering previous nervousness, something the youngster morning in playing uniform. The Colonel 40 seconds flat. His supremacy was from the Dempsey-Carpentler bout at for a conference at 8 o'clock to¬ short lived, however, for five minutes <»>1 never suffered from on the gridiron. asked kees Boyle's Thirty Acres in Jersey convin- night. Rutii called on the Colonel, but $/an later Guernsey, his team mate, covered He made the other fellows nervous the distance in 38 2-5 seconds, which Frazee that the big money tos still came away without having struck n .loe there. there. .... (loss pose or jerking his gold fountain equals the Intercollegiate record. Four ? ^ watches were used in timing the per- pen. ¦o Uem!>»«¦.> 1» Interested. 1'ructlcr I* I'rofltn The Colonel had a drummer's sample forma noes. case of The Eli swimmers met with stiffcr op- i:p at the Hippodrome, where Ja The practice as a. whole vis profit- gaudy fountain jiens, hinting that a sapphire studded one would make position than was looked for. but easily Dempsey and his manager. Jack Kearn able, its the sun came out s:ronR ani carried off the honors, capturing first a historic relic to go on down in the Babe are elevating the drama, there is no dl-- warm and all the players we:.! terspir- Ruth family, but old Bustcm-on-the-head placo in all except the fancy dive, which of with a wide positlon to doubt the freely when the two hoJ:- cession did not fall from his position on the went to Moaer Princeton, sincerity Ing margin. Several of the events were Frazee's offer. Kearns is hov ended. Tuckcr, the slugging oatfleldcr fence. If Babe is signed now it won't cautious, come until r.ext week. closely contested, however. Captain ever. He does not like flat Hi-> State le, once was the Individual prices. from the Georgia Le.ig When r.uth came down from his rooms "Dud" Pratt of Yale scorer, with first place in both the favorite mode of doing business is thr more had a merry time poun ting the this morninv in a gray Yankee traveling RAIN DAMPENS THE PRINCETON FIVE high 100 swims. cash with the of field ten.o on a uniform he carried with him a cue as to 220 and yard guarantee percentage ball. Ho hit the right was a walk- be this He had a The water polo contest the house. There will be a lot of ne¬ line, and this particular fenca" happens what his job tna.v year. and Black stars new first baseman's mitt under his arm. away for the Orange gotiating done before any papers arc ac¬ to be some 330 feet from the home ARDOR OF DODGERS BEATS COLUMBIA who piled up points at will throughout. and after he had put on a pair of spike tually signed. field Tuck !'?.J a poor The score at the half was 34 to 8. The plate. But in the shoes he began to beat the first base¬ i Frazee's to man's into for serious work.