Variety (July 1923)

■I'.'" ■ '«^ t ' 7. 1 . ■'•-,.;■ ■■ *i - '. . * Thursday. July 12, IWS NliW bHUWS THB WfcfcK ■•■srr'' '7i\.-i-i .••(KfH-j ^ *~ nts of any typo WH. Supporting th« featured BKjnibev are NeUie Mae " ISTd Bo»jt>l« ^lulan. both fitting nicely into the routine tn^^ik'. vdcal mild dance Work furala^ilng cdrklri^ . hacking ielc. 1^>rnA', com^dV. Th6 f turn wSs'lOWtt en tt(e Rqof ><ut lost f" its flash thr-'ivh .the ItiabilTty (o : bare the ei^ft^l iet, aied ip the '•« theatre dow««ta:;'>i, iipelairs. . ^w LucKie and .* Harria opened Altet V intermiasioji. '^1*« two-no'ah' ooro- ", bfrii<tlon ibt alorigr niceW with a Sedlty of POI^ aelertlofih later going In f<^ talk wlilbh ftirHf rUther i^oorly with the Eighth avenue audience. The comedy double number braced them up with the returns coming > up to expectations at the flnlsh. ^ Primrose Seamon assisted by Arthur Conrad supplied the neces- sary pep second after intermission. .J Miss Seamon Is for burlesque and : an energetic worlter. Her undraped ''■:, liiiibs and costumo changea brought i k few remarks from the boys In the balcony but the entire house okayed her work Ift «enpral. Cpnrad. flta in pow and then, M'ith the bulk, of the work handled by the y6ung woman which is ae ft lihould be. The turn built up consistently. ..": ■ . • , Harry Anger and' Co. held- the Beat to closing' spot. The Anfter comedy missed early but took root following a bit of coon shouting by the young woman assistant. This miss helps* the turn materially and was alB»; of .the bare leg division. Knight and Knave (New Act^) closed, the ahow, i;«*^ . 23D STREET A lightweight attendance/Monday night but a bit better than has been ;the rule the pant few weeks. The reduced vaudeville section of five actB, Voujided out by n feature film, played ratb«r smartly. Alfred Dar- rell & Co. opentd with i-ag pictures, ,; the ''co.:'.being a female assistant • of nice appearance. Her vocal at- * tempt was marred by poor lyric dic- 7 tion tut servpe aptly for variation. The rag artistry is somewhat re-- . Jieved. by attempts at i)0velty with' ■<?- silhouette subj^ts. Hector aud Pals, dog act,: made JS'o. 2 interostingr. Th^r master's showmanly direction with the In- cidental small talk does much to , elevate the tum^ from the ordinary run of cimllar pnimal offerings. .Klown Revue (Xew Acts).. Shone and Squires made No. 4 the -.-^ Vace" position. Billy Shone has. fm - proved^ conaiUerabb' in the, past few , months •a.^id indicates proRressIve- . ness in his' delivery. \VTiIIe still somewhat, rcrpinlscent $hone pos- se.S8ea ihotrequi^ite action for three- a-day £a.voviti8m. In faster com- pany, his. smart sidejy and witticisms \-^ mighp . riot fare so well. For ,a ■': fiMnily audiejice pf the 234 *t« ^. P^ >': they a^^^e fu|sor)ncly. Miss Squires % .is acute tfick of blende beauty and i Atunni^g shapeliness who can't miss* in anybody s theatre. '"' The Yip Vip l>phankera, tbpUn- ing:,. closed. ^ The ten khaki clad tt* service men embrace about fevery- thing in the form of entertalnrtjent in their, routine. The swarthy f^medi^n'a antica amply sufQced for the comedy relief and every gesture told. The fast Arabian acrobatic tumbUpST for the closer was a zippy conclusion. Patlie oewjj and "The Scarlet I^lly" (^katherlne MacDonald) closed jn the order named; featured re- viewed in detail elsewhere In the picture section. A\el. I I T.ess than half an audience Tues- day night greeted a bill which as a whole was. decidedly small time, with here And there a* promiee of better things. Diaz and Ppwcrs, man and woman tight-wire act, opened with anima- tion in'sin/^ye and double tricks and dances on tbjC wire. While there Is nothing eapetialiy nOv^l in the act, the yo\ith apd good looks of the couple, with Xjn^'iT snappy work and nice looking apparatus, make them worthy car^didates for the opening petition on the big time programs. Capman and Capman. two men who sing and dance, were No. 2 and did fairly well. "• Julia ilifford, with a voice still "Well worth listening to, singfl her full routine on an elevation back, of a medallion cut out In the centcfr of her special drop, with a plain backing, on which a stereoptlcon throws scenes In keeping with the theme of her son^ts. or so it appears. The effect Is good and Miss Gifford Alls the picture satisfactorily. She carries her own leader. Lew Haw- kins sang a couple of songs and did excerpts from several of his old monologs which tickled the ri.slbles of thi« audience. Campbell and Carp (New Acts) were followed by tho "(Jrabler Revue" (New Acts), after which Salle and Robles took tho stage and the two men with fheir boisterous comedy methods just suited the 14th street crowd. The vaudeville program was con- -^♦d^V by th<* F»>«.m. an exception- •Tlly limber male contortionist and his woman partner, who sings and '>uma in a very pleasant voice all through the aot. A nice conserva- tory special set is of practical value in several of the «ontortionlsfio feats. The man might get into a comedy makeup and discard the dlRnifled evening dress. The pipturo "l)<»srr( Driven." with ^ «tereotyp<d old-lime .''Cenarlo. closed the show-. ■, a=XB asc rJ.:''!i^.%. »C''\ *''"t- '.M^li 7 <«.,«j| SPORTS ■ .IV ' I rt ^=;y: -*:^M L 33 «'i\ n '*}H .'■.■ ■ t ■•< :• t ',-' ...:•• If.'." .jT' ' Variety .was the only newffpapef Uv the UnljLed States.,to pick Tom Gibbons tOk go ths full disUnce with Jack Dempsey at Shelby, July 4. CJoh, of Variety's stair, two weeks before the ilirm; selected Gibbons to Vin the d^lsloh In 15 rbun^, de ♦Glaring the difference Ih slx,e ai)d punching ability ot the champion would be discounted by Gibbons" sp^ed, courage and supenlor ability. Dempsey retained his title be- cause his manager. Jack Kearns, had a better line on Gibbons than any of the so-oalled "experts,'' and Insisted on straight Marquis of Queenaberry rules, which allowed Dempsey to hit in the clinches as long as on^* han,^ was free. Had the men been breaking at th« order, of the referee, Gibbons would have received the decision,, f^.* .he out- classe<1 Dempsey at long range In every round. Dempsey went In'te the ring With everything in his favor, includiag a hand-picked referee (Jimmy Dough- erty), a close Personal friend of Dempsey and his noanager. Reports from Shelby indicate that several of Dempsey's smashes were dan- gerously dose to 'the foul rsgiona below the belt line. That Gibbons^ made no protest proves nothing, for it would have been futile for the St. Paul man to expect any of the best of it from Daugherty. Dempsey lost most of his prestige after his showing with Glbbonn, and win probably enter the ring fin hi* next battle with either Harry Wills, Jess Wlllard or Luis Firpo at pot better than 6 to 5. Talk of a return 15-round engage, ment in th^ east between Gibbons and Dempsey la already hoard-atong "Cauliflower Alley." If the match is consummated and they box straight rules. Gibbons is conceded a great chance to cop the title. Gibbons is one of the smartest fighters in the ring and a great student of style^ ICs a cinch he would discount the knowledge of Dempsey*. style in another battle. . , A consensus of the round by round reports by, the "experts" gave Gibbons t rounds 2 even and 10 to DempKcy. Dispassionate later re- ports may change the figures, for the. "experts" will be busy with th<j alibis for the next few weeks. Dempsey retiiinod his title and got all .the ^oney, . ;but his loss of prestige will eveptually cost him more than the. $S10,000, less about |<5,000 he really received. One more .shot at the big money and he's about washed up. The wrlWr hai lorfg contended that if Jess Willard eve* succeeds in getting De^lpsey in a ring with him, the.Toledo afTair will be re'^ versed. Willard sbouti «tep FIrpo. and then be In line to demand tha^ Dempsey fight or retire. •i.lfjtil <. ! TT .o. Jh*., A mtlllbn dollars Is the expected total gross of the three boxing con- tests to be staged in New York this month. There is more interest dis- played by the ilght fans In the Willard-Firpo scrap scheduled ' for tonight (Thursday) at Boyle's Thirty Acres, Jersey City, than in the Dempsey-Glbbons match at Shelby on the Fourth. So strong tmn the demand for tickets been that the gate at the arena, across the river, is estimated to reach |400,000i The admission scale Is $15 top. For the Benny Leonard-Lew Tendler engagement at the Yankee stadium, July 23, ringside is |20. The capacity is not as large as at the Jersey plant, but a groM of $300,000 and even more is conceded The third major fistic date Is card- ed for the Polo Grounds, July 28. the same week as the Leonard-Tendler affair, and the principals will be Eugene Criqui and Johnny Dundee. Tho top price will be $10, which is wise. In light of tho strength of the other two contests, and the fact that the featherweight argument come.s after the other two big shows. . The Willard-Firpo match may re- sult in an.opponet for Jack Demp- Bef. Willard impressed ring follow- ers by his come-baclc against Floyd Johnson early in the summer, and declares he is willing to go against Dempsey to regain the heavyweight championship. Firpo, the "wild bull of the Pampas," is rated bne of the hardest "sockers" in the ring, which may explain why he Is being made the favorite at 8 to 5. It was feared that even New York would not be able to support thre^ su<h boxing show.s witlijn 1$ daj'.«. But the Willard-Firpo match is in. so far as attendance goes. The propensity for champions to lose titles this year Is one magnet for the Leonard-Tendler mill, and those who saw the champ ;ind leading contender laPt summer will fall f«»r a Ph»n<5e ^« nee the «Mr«A»l«eujt .b^T tween the lifhtweighU settled de^* lnite)y. Tendlsr was a dangerous Iwxer a year ago. but not so much Is heard of bis prowess right now. Nor U Benny bragging about his abllit/ to dispose of a southpaw either. Thou«fh the. match for thi^ featherweight title, which Cri<^ul re- cently cams from France to grab from Kilbane, runs third In interest, tho comparatively moderate admis- sion should mean big attendance, and many who doubted the power of the foreigner think Dundee will furnish a good test. Tickets for all three cards are en sale In the Broadway ticket agencies. .The Polo ,Qtt>unds fnlinagement at first took the stand that the brok^birsi wui^d have to buy tickets outright.' but tliere was a change, of heart* fui' the show didnt get the advertising| nor the support atteadant wiite (Uar tributlon^ ' »■.••. r.i\'t<*'"'ijt''i -<n-.! ' Whether the Dettipsey-Glbbohs fight piotures will be shown in the various centres outside of ICV^htana! is a mooted subje<?t, but afi attempt to i.xhibit Is certain. The law which prohibits Interstate qhipmept pf- fight pictures was evaded by tlie: owners of the Dempsey-Carpentier battle pictures by the simple eixpe-' dient of pleading guilty in each State and paying a $1,000 fine. The law which ^]provides the fine also permits a year in prison for ah of- fender at th^ option of the cpurt. An offer for world rights was made to Jack Keari^iv Dempsey's manager; the offer coming, f|?om a New Yuirk coterie which had retained the «ame counsel who advised on the Demp- sey-Carpentier ttimk. Kearns, how- ever, was in on th* latter property, and probably knows as much about the way the law was evaded as any one else. One thing Is pertinent about the Dcmpsey-Carpentier pictures, and that is th« lack of showmanship In their presentation. There was lit- tle Interest to the meeting 'of the champ and Tdm Gibbons at Shelby until the fight "was-ovsr. But Gib- bons stood the man-killer, Demp- sey. off for 15 rounds with no danj- age, which jumped the value of^ th^ pictures enormously. It is believe^ tl\at they would, net a fortyne in Nefv.York alone. ,;.;..,-,.;-.. ■'.-••. ' ■ ''" f-tr" '".'M'f [ Since the reorganization of the N. V. A. baseball team their wor'U has ^hown great improvement, ^id with a few more games under their belts, making for more thorough co-ordination in team work, it it probable that the team will retrieve its reputation. June 24 it played the .•5t. Louis team of Woon.iocket, R.-I.. the latter winning 10 to 5; Jure 27 the Providence Indians and again lost., 6 to 5. At Red Bank, N. J.. July 3, they took on the Orioles, ^ and after a crackerjack game the N. V.' A. team won. 2 to 1. The new lineup Is as follows: Harvtj', c. (GilfUlan and Harvey). Biown, 2d b. (Joe E. Brown.) : Armstrong, 3d b. (Arhi8tr.png and Bciider.) Gorman, i. i. (dorman Bros.) VilHanl. c. f. (Phil Villianl.) Rhepard. 1. f. (Shei>ard and Ott.) Stanton, r. . f. . (Val. and Ernie Stanton.) -v Kaye, 1st p. (Kaye and p'arns- worth.) Giinilan, p. (Oilnilan and Haz^ vey ) 7 j Willard to do a championship come- back thaj) It possibly could for FitW* nslnce'^He latter' at' beae^ ean depend upon' KMTy one more grand bbt'Qfn<fe killing Ih h« .native I*nd by meeting,D«^ps*3f. " ' ,' ' ,'^ : ,, Willard i^ hp bcate F^rpO C«li .dO- marid a v<^tMf» bout .witU PecnPsey. Staged In the East, it WAuJd draw the biggest gate sver handled at a prise fight. Beside*^ it would briog Willard, a world of'^bther moneo\ That' reason 'alone 'is-imfl^clsnt lb' make Willard mittf hki' best (tgaim^'the soufh cbuhtry niAh,ahd convinced hiB follolcers FIrpo hMsiS't a,shade of any kind. • ' ,^^' .^ < moro years, is. In the opinion of the writer, the toughest heavyweight that ever claaibered under the ropes. Muehlebach Field. Kahsas City's new American Associatiotl baseball park, was formally dedlcatie'dTujM- j|ay. , The new park .la located at Twenty-second street and Brooklyn avenue,and is the largest ball tlcid y In the minor leagues and larger than several of the major league parksi Thtt grated stAnd is of concrete and steel and will seat 16,000. The ne# place, which was -namcil in honor of Oeorgs Muehlebach. owner of the Kansas City team, cost slightly over 1400,000. The local team last year broke all minor league records. Marathon golf events are now al- mo.vt as popular as long distance dances were a few weeks ago. The record to date is held by Rudolph Supnn, 21-yeiar-old war veteran of Cleveland. July $ ho played 257 continuous holes on the Highland Park course there, breaking the former record by 10 holes. Supan started at 4:80 a. m. and continued playing through severe rainstorm? until darkness eet in. He stopped six minutes at noon for lunch. KiKlu raddles and two pairs of shoes v»»re worn out and approximately 60 miles were covered by the young golfer. The most surprising thing WHS that he played consistently good golf, averaging well under 80 foi- his various rounds of 18 holen. Tlip wise money seems to he ko- In;; op WJllard against Firpo July i*. iKTitViign the oddj? are ? ♦♦♦ i «»•» Firpo. It is expected the Willard money toward the finish will flood in and hammer down tho^e odds. While it looks as though Firpo (Jyurcd on meeting Dempf»oy in Unrnos Aires for a Mg purso witli r>rmi>sey getting a large guaranreo ;iH fivr custom, Willard must ,h»» • oiifni upon. It will mf-nn morf to The absence of Captain Dave Bancroft from the line-up of the | playing to some 800,000 admissions. Giants will seriously handicap the team, but prolmbly will not 'jeopar- dise its chances for the pennant. Manager John McOraw told Larry Doyle, pilpt 9< the Glens Falls olvib. over> the. phohf.., ^npi^ft, |e ln,a heapital in Boston suffering from hn attack of ptteutnonla. Ho'wlli be out ^f tho gam^ for ■■ at least two of thr^^ ' Weeks. McCtraW thinks. '*14a«i'V ha,* Tfravis JackiOh at short- irtop ah4, loPl^if for th^ yodngsler to come through With flying colors. . Doyle is In close touch with the !New York manager, wl^o '.B Crying' to help him with recrultfL Larry was Mlweys a favorttewith licOraw. He has signed Joe Oed, Yale's lead-, off man the past season, to .play With Olens Falls. Oed joins the tieam* through the good bfBces of O'Coraior. star Shortstop on Colgate, who quit becavJM hfs parents, did not wish him to continue profes- sional . bal. Kifiney e.nd Barnes, Colgate's star battery, the past sea- son, are in the li^e-up of the Olenq Fk^ls club. Doyle js playlhg seoond base hitn.self. ' ••'*£; , '.:- • Christy • iviiit'hew^bt^s ' Bbiiton Bra yes will play (he Ch(c^^o Cubs 15, the proceeds of whl^h will b^ divided ?tWeen the American Jjogion Po t at Saranac I^ke. of which "Bix 8ix'Vi8 a charter mem- ber, and the M.issachuaett^ State l>ei>artment of the. Legion. Gov- ernor. Channing U^ Cox of Massa- chusetts. State Treosuret* James Jiickson, Major General Clarence A. l^WaWls. the Army and Mavy Chib; the Red Cross. M^n's City Club, Women'? Oversea^ League and th4 W.. Y. Ch-h. «re. cQ-/aiperatlng t<i make the.ganiie a big succeso finan- cially. A record crowd is expected, aa'it #111 be the first home game< for Boston in n< month. Mathewson's generosity has been warmly ap- plauded by d<ea bled men at Saranac Lake. The money turned over w.lli be used 'ly the American Legion for welfare work among tu Jt^f.f i^l^r vstcr^ns of the World W:\r. :/< .o Sam (Kid) Lewis has been netU fled that at a meeting .of the New Jersey Boxing Commissioners, bis nomination as reCorse of the Wil- lard-Firpo light at Boyles* Thirty Acres, Jtily It, is receiving consld- eratloh wjjh tl^p others. Te* Bl6k- aM has sent a hl^ staff of oarpei^- ters and mechanics over to this arena with instructions to make the place meet all the requirements of tbs Boxing Commission and Public Service offlcials. so that there can be no possible hitch In the proceed- ings frOm that angle. ..•;? Racing at HawtliajLAe, Chicago, has sprung Into greal^vor and the attendance daily runs from 10.000 to 15.000; Saturdays and Sundilys. up as high as 8S,000. Thers had been no. racing there for 18 years until Tom Bourke. formerly In charge of the vaudeville department of the Chioagvt '^Ametfioan." and later edl>- tor of the Chicago * Telegraph." took up the proposition. He obtained the backing of some blgmeti imd has rf^Cing going with all ads reading 'Thomas B. Buurk^ Jiecretiyr|!;#«f^ in a benefit «rame In Boston, Aug. |'««"«™* manager." ;>«^ *:,..-. The l»lttsAeM lQaat4rt*n lea^^Ue club suffered snother misfortune Summier resorts are psylng ball flayers big salaries again this sea- aon.' Joe Murphy, second string catcher of the Albany Eastern l<m^ue' club, left the tcahi last week to accept H )>ositlon with an in- dependent nine in Maine at a sal- y said to be $600 a month, for three games a week. A half a ''grand" is mors tl.an a majority of Eastern league athletes receive for playing every day. Murphy Is only ia ordinary calohef. W^^" .* Holy Cross man, ".',', ' Ai* Variety goes to press the sport scriben are filling their columns with a load of sickening drivel In- tended to alibi Jack Dempsey's showing and their own poor guesses. One of tho silliest squawks ever heard Is JCeartis* statement that Dempsey was afraid of the hostile crowd and pulled his punches, All of the scribes admit In their stories that Dempsey hit Gibbons low on several occasions, which seems strange behavior before a hostile crowd by a man who U pull- ing. ' ■ .'••"•v •*:-^ ;*'^-^^i The truth seems to be tfiat Demp- sey met his master in the clever St. Paul man. Had lumberjack and rough house rules been jDarred Dempsey ^ould now he an ex| champion. Gibbons made him look foolish at long range. If they were matched In the East to-morrow In a regulation size ring ilndcr straight rules (jibbonn would prob- ably be an even money shot to cop. last week when Howie Baker, slug- y ring outfielder, broke his leg sliding Into home plate. Baker will be out i M tho gamo for the rest of tha^i season and perhaps for all \time as '^ tar as the Eastern clrou*t Is con- ^ Oemed. His weight and age will :\ make it -very difllcult for him to regain fuU use of the Injured limb. \ . Davey .Jones. Johniw Collins. ' featherweight, and Charley Ulaxer, Frank CUirke's Chl'*ago entry, are to battle in one of the prelims on the Dundee-CrIqui card at the. Polo Grounds. Considerable Interest has been aroused between the Western and EZastem theatrical fight fans. Clarke will have "Tte Pan Alley" ^ out en masse to root for his boy. Collins expecte a lar^e representa- tion trom tho Ketth office to attend. Wilbur Mack and Don Barclay, survivors of the" National Vaude- vITTe Artists Golf Tournament failed to play their final match. The tournament which was held on the Salisbury Course. Garden City. L. I., proved an upset for Jack Kennedy and Hal Forde, winners in 1021 and 1922. The pair were beaten by Don Barclay and Wilbur Mack. The Mack-Barclay final has b«en postpone<l three times. Barclay had to keep a matinee engagement in "Oo-Go' which called off the first final for the ^^arcus Loew Trophy. Tuesday the pair were to 'lave played at the Mount Vernon Coun* try Club, but Mack couldn't appear. The runner up will receivj ,tho Alexander Pantagcs Trophy. ■ '" H, Turpln won the B. 8. Moss Trophy. FranclO X. l!>'onegan the F. F. Proctor Cup, Jack lulton the E. F. Albee Trophy. Percy Oakes the Wllmer A Vincent Trophy. J. ANx- • ander (Alexander and l^elds) won the Marcus Heiman (Orpheum Ckr*^ . cult) prise, and E. F. Ford ihe Canadian Circuit Trophy. J ',-1 ■ i '■A Jess Willard and Luis Firpo will go to it to-day (Thursday) at Boyh's Thirty Acres, The "guess- ers" like Fir|»o. but they are very cagey about "picking" after the Shelhv llasco. However, this writer icon) feels strongly on the sub>x't and thinks WIHard will kayo the South American, who. by th*; way. was born in Itiily. Willards supe- rior boxing ril»|llty. courage, expe- riencjp and strength will off.srt Fiipo'9 wild right band. It will b< the 'Bust ^mc Luis has *>v*>r mef a nSnn hfs Own si^*, one who ran take if, fltifl one vho, deFpil*" HIn 40 or i*t>otbail at midnight undei the brilliant rays of the aurora boi ealls at Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, is the experience planned by Charley ^luell, quarterback an<l captain of last year's liarvard foot- bs41 eleven, find Vinton Chapin,' , Harvard back Held star. Both men ^ sailed for Iceland Saturday. Op» v^ posing teams will be chosen front ^^ noted football men for the tourist &3 season. From it^^j kjavlk the two y| Harvard men will round the .S«an- '"' dinavian cipes, going through Nor- way, S\\<;»h n iiod IVnmark to Kng- land for t)i^ llnrvai d-Tale-Citm'» ..^ urKig'- <>xf«>i<i .. ni?''*t.' ". '■ 'f •Min I./Con;nd O'Hrlen, of North Ada^ns, J Mass.. a m»/mher of the Junior cla>»Si^ &; was elected captain of the Willismaji-^ basebail team for next year, at It me* ting of the 'vHrstiy men. Ho^i-- has played an infield position for iho'^ purplo fhrre \fnrn. ^ ^