' DOUGLAS DAILY DISPATCH. SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 23, 1927, CONTROVERSY AS TO WHETHER SHARKEY WAS FOULED BY DEMPSEY PEVEEOPS DIEfERENT VIEWPOINTS | How They Stand o c NATIONAL Lfc-iUJiS Team— Won lost Pet Pittsburgh 52 S 3 .012' Chicago 54 35 .607 j St. Louis 52 •36 .591 New York 40 44 .527 Brooklyn 41 51 .440 Philadelphia 37 51 .420 Cincinnati 37 ,52 .416 Boston 33 52 .388 AMERICAN LEAGUE Team— Won Lost Pet. New York 65 26 .714 Washington 51 38 .573 Detroit ~A 48 38 .553 Philadelphia v. 48 41 .539 Chicago 48 44 .522 Cleveland 40 54 .420 St. Louis 38 50 .432 Boston 24 65 .270 YESTERDAY S RESULTS NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis, 7; New York, 4. Cincinnati, 3; Brooklyn, 0. Chicago, 5; Philadelphia, 6. Pittsburgh, 5; Boston, 2. AMERICAN LEAGUE Washington, 6-2; St. Louis, 7-3. New York, 4; Chicago, 7. Philadelphia, 1; Cleveland, 1. (Called end second account rain). SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION New Orleans, 6-3; Little Rock, 9-1. Chattanooga, 13; Atlanta, 16. Nashville. 5; Birmingham, 4. Mobile, 0; Memphis, 9. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION St. Paul, 6; Minneapolis, 4. Kansas City, 1; Milwaukee, 10. No others scheduled^ i. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Readirfg, 3; Newark, 2. Jersey City, 4; Baltimore, 7. Tcronto-Syracuse, rain. Buffalo-Rocliester, rain. TEXAS LEAGUE Houston, 9; Dallas, 8. San Antonio; 4; Shreveport, 6. Fort Worth, li; Waco, 8. Beaumont, 0; Wichita Falls, 6. COAST LEAGUE At Los Angeles— R. H. E. Oakland 14 16 0 Los Angeles 10 13 2 Gould, Dickerman and Bool; j Wright, Cunningham, McClelland and | Hannah. | At Portland— R. H. E i Hollywood 6 6 0 ; Portland 4 8 2 Shellenbach and D. Murphy; Hughes, Kinney and Fischer, Yclle. At San Francisco— R. H. E. Sacramento 7 11 0 San Francisco 610 .1 Rachac ana Koehler; Mitchell and Rego. At Seattle— R. H. E. Missions 10 13 2 Seattle 15 0 Lasley, Eckert and Walters; House Nance and Jenkins. ¦ o By ALAN J. GOULD <Associated Press Sports Editor) NEW YORK, July 22, M— Jack Dempsey’s come-back today developed one of the mast hectic controversies In heavyweight ring history, with a bitter debate swirling around the question of whether the former champion fouled Jack Sharkey before knocking out the Boston sailor in the seventh round of their battle last night. v The dispute raged among newspaper- men, officials and fighters with as fierce intensity as the battle raged within the ring last night. Instead of being finished, the fight, -it seemed, had just begun. After a day of heated post-mortems, in which slow-motion pictures and a broadside of official opinions were brought to bear, the is- sue was no nearer Settlement than when yells of protest came from Sharkey’s corner at the finish of the bout in the Yankee stadium. The motion pictures, it had been felt would be a final arbiter, but three showings before a group of experts left opinion as widely divided as it was at the ringside. To a majority, per- haps, it seemed that Dempsey landed two or three dangerously low rights to the body just before connecting with the left hook to the jaw that toppled the ex-sailor. These wallops appeared to be low, but not foul, in the opin- ion of Tex Rickard, as well as oi many other observers. Nearly as many more, however, chief among them Johnny Buckley, Shark- ey’s manager, insisted that the pictures proved Sharkey had been fouled at least twice and that Dempsey should have been disqualified. One of the two official judges, Charles P. Mathison, sided with those claiming a foul, but Jack O’Sullivan, the tall, veteran referee whose decis- ion settled the matter in the ring, de- clared unqualifiedly that Dempsey’s blows were fair, although low and close enough to the border-line to prompt a warning. Both fighters, however, O’Sullivan added, landed low punches* at various, times—Dempsey on three or four occasions and Sharkey twice—- but none of them was regarded as damaging by the official. “There goes the right. It lands in the pit of the stomach. The blow as I see it is fair. Now theTeft goes to the jaw. That’s the knockout. All very plain.” A, few feet away, Buckley, sur- rounded by Sharkey adherents de- clared: “There it goes. Foul! Dempsey fouls Sharkey twice as plain as day” Then here’s what O’Sullivan, the third man in the ring, says: “I was right on top of the boxers preceding the knockout. Dempsey brought up a sweeping right foi the body. It was a low punch but it was not a damaging blow. It landed on Sharkey’s left thigh and swept on up. I warned Dempsey to watch his punch- es. Sharkey grunted in pain and bent forward. If Shrakey was fouled, how- ever there appeared no official evi- dence of injury to support his claims. Examination by the commission’s offi- cial physician, Dr. William WaiKer, af- ter the bout disclosed no injury or appearance of foul. Sharkey’s uandlers on the other hand, declared the. light- er was in pain most of the night and ministered to with ice packs on his groin. Sharkey himself said he was suffering some pain and a slight swell- ing in the groin,, but he left at 12:35 p. m. for Boston appearing outward- ly at least, to be in good shape. Whatever the merits of the contro- versy, the decision stands, James A. Farley .chairman of the state athletic commision, indicated, also pointing out that the boxing solons had never re- versed a ruling of any official in the ring. Farly, while avoiding any per- sonal expression of opinion, asserted O’Sullivan made the decision -'as he saw it” and referred to the referee as one of the “most competent and effi- cient” on the commission’s list. Farley declined to say whether the commission would consider any phase of the fight dispute when it meets next Tuesday. Meanwhile Rickard went ahead with plans for a return title match the mid- dle of September between Dempsey and, Gene Tunney. The general under- standing is that the promoter Iras de- cided to stage the battle in Chicago around September 15 to 20 and will make a definite announcement to this effect next Monday. He declined to- day, however, to say where it would take place and hinted that Philadel- phia also was a possible battleground. With Soldiers’ Field in Chicago of- fering a site capable of housing about 140,000 spectators, and top prices of probably SSO the “gate” for a return Dempsey-Tunney match, observers pre- dict will Smash all records and go be- yond the two-million dollar mark. A report popped up late today that Dempsey, not yet satisfied he had come back fast enough to be ready for Tun- ney in September, was anxious to put off a return title fight until July 1928, engaging in two or three more test fights in the meantime. This ru- mor came from those close to the for- /Snow -land r .vacation Ycnrsions r summet Cool Colorado Rockies Snow streams - Snow peaks fifteen National forests (and National Parks ®**AU your playground «*¦> “•The Santa Fe your way to it -Qyichrjast THROUGH SLEEPING CAR EL PASO TO DENVER /‘* 163 Nay we send “Catorado Summer” Solder? / r V W. R. BROWN 'J\ &: £ Division Passenger Agent 1L Mills Building % * 1 El Paso, Texas 1 American League ST. LOUIS, July 21 ( (/P)—Although outhit, the St. Louis Browns won both games of a double-header from the Washington Senators today, 7 to 6 and 3 to 2 } Washington got 13 hits and St. Louis 3 in each game. The Browns pounded the veteran Walter Johnson lor seven hits in the first three innings of the first game ‘ and drove him from, the mound Ballou and Crowder, formerly with Washington, pitched for St. Louis. mer champion, after he had conferred - with Rickard, but the promoter spiked it with this. “That’s- what he came back for. He’s under contract to me i and will fight in September. He wants the date put back as far as possible so that he can have all the time he needs for conditioning but he will be ready to fight the middle of September.” Rickard, it was understood, settled all financial terms for the coming fight with Dempsey. The promoter has a conference scheduled with Tunney to- morrow morning. At the same time, Buckley, Sr.arkey’s manager declared he had an under- standing with Rickard under which the Boston sailor would substitute for | Dempsey or Tunney in the Septem- ber battle, should either of the latter be unable to go through with the bout for any reason. “Sharkey isn’t discouraged,” Buckley said. “Jie feels and so do I, that he lost on a foul, a chance shot. Jack did- n’t fight as he should have. He didn’t follow instructions properly but never- theless I am convinced he is a better man than Dempsey. We would accept a return match with Dempsey for no- thing to provo-yiL” There were other angles to today’s aftermath of the battle besides the lowbrow controversy. The somewhat mysterious process by which tne bet- ting odds, at the last minute, shifted from Sharkey’s favor to Dempsey’s 1 was viewed significantly by some news- paper commentators. Others professed to see a business advantage to all concerned, with Sharkey still young and ripe for a lucrative comeback; Dempsey certain of reaping another rich financial harvest for a $2 000,000 return bout with Tunney; and Pro- moter Rickard facing an attractive | slate of “big money” bouts lasting through next winter and summer. Financial details of the bout came in for their share of dispute. Treasury officials ’in Washington disclosed re- ports placing the “gate” at $985,027 with an attendance of 77,283, but Tex Rickard’s figures were $1,083,520.70 for a paid attendance of 81,000. The fighters’ purses also were var- I iously figured but it was understood ! Dempsey received considerably more than his advertised percent “cut” of $210,000, This boosted the total purse to the principals above $550,000. With taxes arj.d expenses deducted, (he pro- fit to Rtpkard and his “GOO Millionaire” stockholders in the Madison ~Square , Garden corporation Was' figiifed- at around $250,000. Bunched hitting also won the second game for the Browns, While double plays cut off possible visitor runs. Scores: First game— R. H. E Washington 20 001 201—6 13 1 ct. Louis 304 000 00v 7 8 3 Johnson, Burke and Marberry, Ruci and Tate; Ballou and Crowder O’Neill. Second game— R. H. E. Washington 000 010 100 2 13 0 St. Louis .010 000 02x—3 8 1 CHICAGO, July 22 0V) —Ted Lyons registered his 15th victory of the season today when Chicago trounced the Yankees, 7 to 5. Barrett led the White Sox. attack' with three singles and a triple. Bulk cracked out his eighth homer of the year in the seventh with one on. t New York staged a belated rally in the ninth during which Ruth tripled with two on the sacks. Out- fielder Combs of the Yanks was in-, jured during practice before the game, a thrown ball striking him on the head. Manager Sclialk of Chi- cago was obliged to retire in the second inning after blocking Wcra in a close play at the plate which shook up both players Score— R. h. y. New York 100 000 013—5 12 3 Chicago 200 030 20x-7 13 2 Pennock and Thomas, Collins; Lyons, Schalk and McCurdy. CLEVELAND, July 22 OP) Rain caused the cancellation of today’s game between Philadelphia and Cleveland after the second inning, with the score 1 to 1. A double- header will be played tomorrow. Philadelphia io Cleveland ... oi Grove and Cochrane; Uhle and L Sewell. (Called; rain.) —o National League BOSTON. July 22 (/P) —The Na- tional league leadership today changed hands for the fifth time in as many days when the Pittsburgh Pirates de- feated the Boston Braves, 5 to 2, while Philadelphia downed Chicago. Triples by the Waner Brothers in the seventh inning were big factors in a four-run rally that brought vic- tory to the Pirates. Foster Edwards, i lormer Dartmouth college star, was 'driven from the box in that inning. 1 Paul Waner played a brilliant game at bat and in the field. Earl Smith caught his first game since his 30- day suspension last month for at- Dave Bancroft, Boston man- ager. PITTSBURGH— AB. R. H. PO.A. E. L. Waner, of 5 113 0 0 Grantham, 2b, 3 11 1 3 0 P. Waner, rs 4 13 2 10 Traynor, 3b 5 12 3 10 Barnhart, if 5 1 3 3 0 0 Harris, lb 4 0 0 14 0 0 Wright, ss 5 0 0 1 4 0 Smith, c 4 0 2 0 0 0 Meadows, p , 4 0 1 0 4 0 Totals 39 5 13 27 13 0 BOSTON— AB. R. H. PO.A. E. Moore, 3b 4 0 10 10 J. Smith, zzzzr 1 0 0 0 0 0 Richbourg, rs 3 0 2 2 0 0 Welsh, cf 3 0.1 3 0 0 Farrell, 2b 4 0 1 2 5 1 Brown, If 3 0 0 2 0 0 Burrus, lb 4 0 012 0 0 Bancroft, ss 4 114 4 0 Urban, c 4 12210 Edwards, p 1 0 0 0 2 0 Goldsmith, p 0 0 0 0 0 0 High, z 10 10 5 0 Fournier, zz 10 10 0 0 Wertz, p 0 0 0 0 0 0 McNamara, zzz 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals , 33 2 10 27 13 1 z—Batted for Goldsmith in 7th. zz—Batted for Wertz in 9th. s>zz—Ran lor Fournier in 9th. zzzz—Batted for Moore in 9th. Pittsburgh 000 001 400—5 Boston 001 000 001—2 Two base hits: Richbourg, Ban-, croft. Urban. Three base hits; L, Waner, P. Waner. Stolen base; Barnhart. Sacrifices: P. Waner, Richbourg, Welsh, Edwards. Left on base: Pittsburgh 11, Boston 8. PHILADELPHIA, July 22 m—Phil- adelphia made it two straight over the Chicago Cubs today, winning by a score of 6-5. T two-base muff by Hack Wilson and a bad throw by Eddie Pick accounted lor two Phil- adelphia runs in the eighth that won the game. Fred Leach hit a home run in the sixth inning with the bases filled. Score— , R. H. E. Chicago 100 002 200—5 12 3 Philadelphia 000 004 02x—6 6 0 NEW YORK, July 22 (H') Thb Cardinals gained in the National league race today by launching a home run attack to defeat the Giants by 7 to 4. In the seventh, Douthit DEMPSEY DODGES PROCESS SERVERS BY QUICK TRIP NEW YORK. July 22, After a day in which every movement was kept in strictest secrecy. Jack Dempsey slipped out of New York by automobile hit a home run after which Schulte walked and Schuble, the 19 year old shortstop, followed with another four bagger to put the game away Prityh stole second for his 30th steal of the season in the third inning. Catcher Taylor of the Giants was injured in an odd accident in the second inning when a foul ball glanced off his bat striking him on the forehead. He was taken to a hospital. His condition was not con- sidered serious. Score— R.H. E. St. Louis 010 000 303—7 ~J 2 New York 101 001 001—4 9 2 BROOKLYN, July 22 (IP) Red Lucas came within a straw of pitch- ing a no-hit game today when he blanked Brooklyn while his Cincin- nati teammates made off with a 3 to 0 victory. Lucas allowed only one hit, a grounder in the sixth which went through Critz’s legs for a possible error, but as it turned out the official scorer credited Deberry with a single thereby preventing Lucas from joining the rangs of famous no-hit pitchers. Outside of Deberry, the only other Robin to reach first base was Max Carey, whose grounder -was iumbled by Critz in the seventh. Lucas had perfect control and did not’ walk a man. He fanned two. Only 28 men faced him in the nine innings. Vance allowed 11 hits, but the Reds failed to make the most of their opportunities and left 14 runners stranded on the bases. Bressler led the attack with four hits in five times at bat. He drove in two of the Cincinnati runs. Score R. H. E. Cincinnati 101) 200 000—3 11 1 Brooklyn 000 000 000—0 1 2 ofbr the year Buick has again \ , say rati \ * See the \ 1928 BUICK Southern Arizona Auto Co. Douglas , GEO. E. JACKSON, Proprietor Lowell on display TODAY for Wilmington, Del., at 4:15 this af- ternoon on the first leg of a hurried trip to Los Angeles. He was accom- panied by Leo P. Flynn, his manager and several friendsr Process servers, camped close on the former champion’s trail, are believed to have prompted the surprise departure. The sheriffs failed to serve papers up- on Dempsey for a suit brought against him by Teddy Hayes, former member • of Jack’s camp, for alleged back pay. The former heavyweight champion, who scored a spectacular knockout over Jack Sharkey last night in the first step of his comeback campaign plan- ned to board a train at Wilmington, for New Orleans shortly before mid- night. Flynn and the party will return here by automobile after seeing Demp- sey aboard. Even members of Dempsey’s own en- tourage here knew nothing of Jack’s departure until he was due in Wil- mington. Then a hurried message or- dered his secretary and other members of the staff to leave New York at 9:15 on the train Dempsey will meet at Wilmington. Dempsey decided on the hurried trip to California after a conference with Tex Rickard today during which all details for the championship battle with Gene Tunney in September were completed. Dempsey refused to see newspaper- men before leaving and through his manager would merely say that after three weeks’ vacation he expec ts to return to the site of the Tunney con- test in September to resume training. Jack expressed the belief that the fight will take place in Chicago, Sep- tember 15. As Dempsey hustled into the auto- mobile from Flynn’s home in the out- skirts of the city, where he has been living since arrival here from the training camp at Saratoga Lake. No signs of the battle with Sharkey last night appeared on his face. There were no dressings on the two tiny cuts he received under the eyes. Because of warrants held by Penn- sylvania officials and calling for Dempsey’s arrest on charges preferred by a Philadelphia woman, who al- leges she was struck by Dempsey dur- ing a melee at the Ringside of the Tunney fight last fall, the former champion on two trips through Pennsylvania within (the past month had shrouded his movements in se- crecy. Coming here from California four weeks ago to sign with Rickard for the Sharkey and Tunney matches, Dempsey dropped off the train at Wil- mington and motored to New York tq evade officers. SIX