The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 18, 1919, Page 11

n Mickey | Murphy and Pantley to | Meet Again 4 BY LEO H. LASSEN TET i tre Ff ; E ' { t Ponee e je two, but King ts one hardest men in the game to Mickey can deliver some hard Dimeelf, as was illustrated . and it is impossible to ‘ the final outcome of the altho the advance dope @ victory on points for the entry. There is no marked » between the battlers, @ semi-windup, Leon Bedou | stage a little mix with Chet Ett THA @ couple of weeks ago. the curtain-raiser, Ollie Lewis throw loves with Mickey NIFTY SON TAP PORTLAND Ore. March 18.—~ will be presented to the Portland boxing smoker here tonight. , of Seattle, and John- , of San Francisco, will one of’them. “Ctrief’ Ab- ‘was schedulea to meet Me- but telegraphed yesterday he couldn't come North be of an injured hand. Trambitas will. battle with Storey, of Seattle, and Valley Gimmy Darcy) will snix “Spud” Murphy,'from San town. Joe Gorman and Johnny Arrousey, t Contrado and Ted Hoke ) Freddy Anderson and Walter on will furnish the other half Ot the evening's entertainment. # REPLACES “SILK” 3 GO, March 18.—Oilie Chill, (i big league umpire, will re- place the Jate Silk O'Loughlin in the AS in league squad of umpires iarl wh: 3 yea Announcement to that was made last night by Presi- ¢ Ban Johnson. TO ORGANIZE , March 18.—Representa- Mives.of minor baseball leagues that ‘withd from the national agree- ™ will meet here March 29 to @ self-governing organization. dozen leagues are expected to be d at the meeting. \ \ AXA ))} AN NK Kime aml IF ran *FRENCHMAN TO SMACK NEFF_- WITH GLOVES »— *” LEON BEDOU From the land of Sweet Marie Leon Bedou will make his debut in local réng society tonight when he tackles Chet Neff, the “doughboy from Bellingham. Moore showed here a couple of times, but didn't make a wonderful hit with the local fans. He hangs on too much. That is the way Sehu- man won his Utle—by hanging on te Pete Mitchie—but the marine wasn't in the best of shape for that bout. He is figured to beat Moore, Bud Ridley will get » chance to step in real fast company when he tangles with Georgie the ike. tae crack, in the semi-w' This would have been « good card to “Harold Bird will meet Marty Foley| «ingle games will be sold at the | Meveral years. on the same card. Foley goes like a house afire when he is winning. but looks like a chump when the other fellow has an edge on him. Karl Conners and Eddie Quinn will | letes who have concinded there im | traded Les Canadiens | Arrive Here for Title Mix Les Canadions, thet Flying Frenchmen, champlons of East arrived in Seattle primed for their start against the Seattle Mets Wednenday night in the first game of the series to decile the pack championship of the world, ‘The Frenchmen stopped off at Vancouver last night and took the Millionaires down the line to the tune of » 4105 score, and the Canadiens showed lots of class, according to reports of the game received here, The Mets held their final work for the big mtx at the Arena he yeuterday afternoon and will rest up! until the #tarting whistle Wednes | day night The locals are at! in fine shape for | the title clashes and there will be no excuses if they are defeated. ‘There were 10 Easterners in the) party that arrived on the Canadian | steamer this morning, including | Manager Kennedy | Canadiens Heavy ‘The Basterners are a big squad and will outweigh the Mets almoat | 20 pounds to the man. The Ca| |nadiens will weigh around 17 | pounds as & man, while the Me | will tip the scalew at on average of | |about 155 or 160. Weight is going }to play a big part in the coming | | series because of the small size of | | the local rink. Weight counts for much more in a «mall rink than in| |e larger one where sperdy skaters jean break away from their heavier opponents | ‘The Mete wil! rely on speed to} | bring them the honors. They have some fast skaters in Walker, Fo ston and Wilson, The Canadiens lalxo have some men who can travel Daddy of ‘Em All “Bullet” Petre, the daddy of all [hockey players. leads the Bastern | flock, and ix known as one of the | hartet whots in hockey, He holds down the center position. “Newsy” Lalonde can swing «| mean stick himself and he is pever the national doubles title with William Tilden, second, and the other day | won the Middle States indoor doubles title with the same man as a partner lany too careful how he swings it either, as far as that goes. | Oddie Cleghorn is a member of | j the famous Cleghorn family, which | is famed thruout Canada for their | athletic prowess. Oddie is also « famed motorcycle racer in the Bast | Corbeau and Hall hold down the defense jobs and both are strapping | feliowa, who will make the going hot! }for the Mets ; Vezina, in goal, is going better | than ever before. according to Ken- nedy, and i* reputed to be one of the best net men in the game. Says Pete “The Canadiens are a much im proved team over the squad that played here two years ago,” declares Muidoon, local pilot, “but the boys are going after them from the first tle, and [ think we can repeat.” | Bernie Morris, who is in Camp | Lewis, heid on # draft evasion | charge, will be sadly missed from |the local lineup. It is doubtful whether he will be able to get away Murray ja filling Morris’ shoes as capably as can be expected, but he is not the shot that Morris is, nor jin he as fast. His weight, however, | will help. | Tickets for the three games are | now on sale and tickets for the HENDRIX MAY | “THIS SEASON starting Wednesday morning. CHICAGO, March 18.—Clande Hendrix of the Chicago Cubs, has | joined the band of industrious ath On skates in Berianquette and Cleg-|as the next national horn. Indoor Tennis Tournament, which, by the way the Wanamaker Building. in Philadelphia, stampa him as the mont spec: | coi. notice lacular performer since Maurice McLoughlin blossomed forth ten years ago. | Richards reached the finala by defeating, among others, Ichiya Kum-| Agae, the famour Jap, and Wallace Johnson of Philadelphia, runner-up to| McLoughlin for (he national championship in defeated both of these stars in straight etx YOUNGSTER Hy CAT Y We.» OEIN k Barrieau To IS NET WONDER | oo ANOTHER PELAUGALIN BY ROBERT L. RIPLEY Vincent Kichards, the 16-year hampion old bey tennis star, t being talked of His brilliant playing In the Middie States was held on the roof of 1912. The Yonkers boy Richards already holds two national titles, the national junior gitle and ‘Thia school bey is the most remarkable on the tennis courts today. ON SOLONS’ ROSTER NOW AUTO EVENT) WASHINGTON, March 15.—Clark |Griftith fhally has begun to shape up hie ball club after several years of close adherence to the standpat | policy.. Year after year Griffith pre sented what was practically the same team to Washington fans, and as he managed to stick in the race for & great part of the season he! | undoubtedly looked ahead with that [hope that spriny eternal, always |figuring that perhaps this team | would improve and come thru. Now [Griff in satisfied that a change of |neene will prove beneficial to some of his athletes and that @ change of faces will be relighed by the home fans. A year ago Griffith had on his | club no lese than ten players whore jterms of servicé in the capital ex | tended back to 191%, and some of them had antedated that season by Jolinson arrived in 1907, while Milan and McBride made | thelr bow to Washington fans in | 1908. Besides these players the 1912 |roster included Ayeps, Gallia, Mor- «an, Foster, Henry Ainsmith and | Shanks, all of whom were still with ithe club at the close of the 1917 | campaign, or until last winter, Few | managers, if any, will string along |so many years with the same | players Griffith began to tear the old ma- chine apart a year ago when he Bert Gallla to the Browns mix in one of the other bouts. Quinn | more real satixfaction in work than|and he followed up by selling John put up a hard fight with Lackey Morrow last week. Conners is one of the best ring men of his weight on| opines that he'd prefer staying on|of Bert Shotton and Johnny Lavan. | ing. the Coast. Fddie McKenna is bitled to mix with Charley Davidson in one of the other bouts. It is doubtful whether or not Eddie will be back from Balt Lake City by Thursday night. Jack Hartford will take on “Kid™ Peterson in the curtain-raiser. Wonder if Pete will wear his Scan dinavian blue tights OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., March 18%—The Willard- Dempsey cham-~- pionship fight will not be staged in Oklahoma. The house of representatives late yesterday defeated a bill permitting boxing. Leo Houck and Frankie Tucker will battle four rounds for’the Ellens- burg fight fans in the Eastern vil- lage tonight. Bob Harper, Northwest lightweight champion, is going to take a short rest from ring activities, says his manager, Nate Druximan. 108 ANGELES, Cal, March 18—| Fred Fulton has announced his re tirement from the ring. on a farm in Minnesota, Poor old Fred insisted on confess ing his retirement to the good people of the U. S. A lot of go00d people won't lone any sleep over Fred's lat est move. PITTSBURG, Mareh Greb, Pittsburg, Brennan, Chicago, here last night, in & 1-round bout. They gre middle- weights 18.—-Harry He will go| outpointed Bill! there is in playing the role of pro- feasional public entertainer. Claude the job with a shipyard in Superior, w | coming season. “L wan't say yet that I'm going |last week, “because I've just taken |some time off to think it over and Kansas, Mra. Hendrix and I found things fine up in Superior went there until the present time. “LT suppose I'll be playing ball | some place, because I like the game so well and maybe can make enough out of it to «tick a while longer. as a holdout. It's only a q tion of making up my mind what's the best thing to do. I had the posi tion of assistant foreman in the shipyard and was on the job from early morning until late at night If you remember, we had a yard up there that kept ahead of our sched ule in turning out ships, “When I left the boss said he was going to keep the job for me and lexpects me back, I expect to be In a talk with Manager Mitchell, and then go to wee the old folks in Kansas, |. “There's plenty of time yet for me |to think the job over, If I decide to play ball, of course [ want to |make the training trip and get into | condition, but I guess that will be easy after the work and life T have had all winter.” ARRIVE IN CAMP PITTSBURG, Cal, Maseh 18. | Krug, second sacker from Cleveland, and Sheely, first baseman, formerly in a Northwestern shipyard, are to- day on the Salt Lake City baseball club's roster, The men arrived here yosterday, Chicago a couple of days and have | Henry to the Boston Nationals, He added some new faces in the persons ‘ow he has turned Ray Morgan Ainsmith, at the same adding Hal |Janvrin to the cast. Apparently ‘his infield thru the retirement of |Lavan, who would have made a | Make a visit to my folks down in| great partner for Janvrin around, |second base. At any rate the old | not likely to do any damage to the club. | For the coming season he pins his hopes on a pitching staff built ‘around Johnson, Harper and Shaw; I don't want to be classed/on a catching staff headed by Val) Picinich; on a rebuilt infield, and an outfield which will be strength ened by the return from the war of | Sam Rice and Menosky. |GLOVE TITLE RESTORED TO IRISH RAC CANTON, Ohio, March 18.-—Re stored to the Irlsh race is the welter- weight boxing title of the world. Jack Britton, veteran glove man, ac | complished that feat by knocking out |Ted Lewis, English Hebrew, in the |ninth round of a scheduled 12-round |bout her From the sixth to the |final round Lewis fought practical ly benumbed, A right #wing to the jaw ended the sensational engage ment. Lewis took four counts from Referee Hinkel, of Cleveland, before finally capitulating. TOLEDO, O., March @ 18.—Harry Cavan, Pittsburg bowler, formerly of the Detroit Journal five, made an American bowling congress sing’ secord here last night by rolling 718, NEW NAMES ‘SEVEN CARS ENTERED IN INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March 18 | ~Seven cars and drivers have been | nominated thus far in the Liberty sweepstakes 500-mile race to be , Staged on the Indianapolis motor speedway on May 31. ‘This number of entrants at this date, according to General Manager T. B. Myers, of the Indianapolis speedway, indicates @ big field and a ‘spirited fight for the $50,000 in prizes which go to the first ten men acrons the tape. The men thus far entering the race are: Durant In a Chevrolet, Mulford in a Frontenac, Brown in a Hudson, Christiaens and Chassagne in Sunbeams, Goux in a Pengeot, | and Earl Cooper to drive a Stutz. International Hace The race will be international in |its scope and either in cars or driv | ers will be representatives of the Al ‘iies—United States, England, Bel- sium, Italy and France. The event | will be dedicated to the cause of Liberty and will mean the reopening | of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, | which was closed in 1917 and since given over to war work’ purposes. | ‘That the year fs to show a wonder | ful awakening in motor racing i« the | statement of General Manager Myers, who is already getting big reservations from all parts of the country for seats at the Indianapolis evant. ‘The races in California indicate | the returning interest in motor rac The recent purchase by Cliff Durant and Eddie Hearne, the Cali to playing with the Cubs the | over to the Phillies and traded Eddie! fornia sportamen, of the Stutz car | which was tooled to the champion- ship in 1915 by Gil Anderson, indi | to quit,” he sald while in Chicago! Griffith is to suffer a real lone in| cates beyond doubt that this car will be entered and prove a dangerous contender in the Indianapolis event. “The field in sure,” said Myers, “and the interest in the event is We | order is passing and while Griffith | broad, We expect the biggest crowd never put in @ better winter, and | retains several veterans he at least | this year ever, due to the re-birth of missed only one day of work since I/ ig making some changes which are | sporting enthusiasm following the dark months of the war.” VOLLEY BALL TOURNEY TO BE HELD HERE | The Y. M. C. A, Is to conduct a | volley ball tournament at the aasoci- ation during the first week in Aprfl, | Teams from all parts of the North. | west will compete with the local \aquad, Portland, Bellingham and | Everett have promised to enter | teams. Squads are also expected to |come from Walla Walla, Tacoma, | | Olympia, Aberdeen and other leading | | state cities, | ‘The tourney will be under the di- rection of “Doc” Wells, of the local |¥. M,C. A. The championship will be decided by the elimination proc: ous, 2 SHORTSTOPS ” SIGN WITH SOX CHICAGO, March 18.—The White Sox are fortified with a pair of short: stops for the 1919 season, | One hour after “Buck” Weaver was persuaded to sign his contract | yesterday, “Swede” Risbérg’s docu- rived by mail, Broadway Ball Turnout Is Set | Ahead One Week | Broadway's first baseball turn- || out, which was set for yesterday afternoon, has been set ahead one week The bad weather was ) reaponsible for the postpone ment. The Lincoln park field, where the Broadway men prac tice, wan a sea of mud Monday and it will take several days for It to dry Coach Christen son haw high hopes of copping the city honors on the diamond again thix year. He will have 10 |) letter men in uniform when the ; starting bell is sounded. Coach Powers sounded the { first call for the track men at the Pine «treet institution Mon- day and « la squad of men responded to the summons, Ont side work will hot be started for { nome time, but Powers intends to et hia men limbered up in the \ kymnasium during the next cou- ple of weeks. \ { { out CHICAGO, Ma | Charles A. Comiskey of the Cyicago | | White Sox has been a sick man for | the past week or more, due to a re currence of old stomach trouble. He} hus been unable to eat, has. lost | weight and strength, and his phy» | iclans are much concerned about his | condition | WACO, Texas, March 1f8.—The | Texas League, it appears, is not out | of the Class B woods as yet It will have to count all the noses in its ight cities before it can register | under the new ruling of the National Association regarding population | Southern League objectors please 18,—President | NEW YORK, March 18.—The tune | | to build a memorial to Eddie Grant backed by an association headed by |Jobn McGraw, grows steadily, One the contributors was President John Heydier of the National League, who wrote his name down for $100, Subscriptions are coming in from all parts of the country. COLUMBUS, ©., March 18.-—Pitch- er Elmer Knetaer has cast his lot | with the Allegheny Steel Company baseball team for the coming season and says he will not report to Co- lumbus, He will play with the steel team during the week and Saturdays and pitch for Casey Hagerman’s Youngstown independent team on Sundays. ‘The Cincinnati Reds, who had no left-handed pitchers last year, will |have three this year, in Ruether, | Bressier and Gerner. Pat Moran ex- pects all of these southpaws to make good also, for they not only can pitch but can hit, HILL MIDGET SQUAD GRABS CAGE HONORS Running up a count of 20 to 9 on the Franklin five, the Queen Anne midget basketball team copped the city midget title in the Mt. Baker gymnasium yesterday after. noon Both teams played good ball. Franklin was weakened by the loss of Capt. Greene, one of the shining lights in midget circles, who is on the casualty list with a broken arm. |HACKETT ADVANCES IN | IN BOWLING TOURNEY TOLEDO, Ohio, March 18D. | Hackett, Cleveland, cracked out a 652 score at the American Bowling congress tourney here today, tying) |Pote Neise, Toledo, for fifth place in the singles. R. Harley, Philadelphia, went into seventh place in the singles with 648 pins. , Crontand Vaught, Detroit, reached éighth piace in the doubles with 1,190, Tier and Novak, Philadelphia, rolled 1,188 in the two-man event. Alexander Is On Way Home, Wires General Pershing CHICAGO, March 18.—A_ cable- gram from Gen. Pershing today no- tifled the Chicago Cubs that Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander will be on the job shortly. The message, ad- dressed to President Fred Mitchell, rea ‘Alexander left station en route to United States. PERSHING,” ‘Thia will complete the Cub pitch- ing staff, regarded as its best in many years, | BABE RUTH HAS NOT SIGNED WITH RED SOX BOSTON, Maas, March 18.—The Boston Red Sox left last night for Tampa, Fia., to begin their spring training. In the party leaving here last [night were Jack Barry, Stuffy Me- Innis, George Dumont and Pat Shea. Babe Ruth had not aigned up with the Red Sox up to yesterday atter- noon and there was much conjec- ture as to what course he will pursue, Cop HONORS CHICAGO, March 18. — Great Lakes naval training station won the national A. A. U0. water polo 4|ment with his name appended ar-| championship last night by defeating: the Illinois Athlete club team, § to 1. 7 4, » Te NSD \ \ JUNIOR BILLIARD STAR WILL PLAY HERE SOON WELKER COCHRANE Welker Cochrane, the boy billiard star, will be in Seattle next week playing exhibition games with Jake Schaefer, J parlors on next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. are the two greatest junior stars of the green cloth since the advent of Wille Hoppe, the king of ‘em all. ‘Rowland Began Ball . Career as Bat Boy MINNEAPOLIS, March 18.—Base- ball’x many sided phases are well iustrate’ in the opening game of the season at Milwaukee this year. | About 26 years ago a callow youth more than a decade. Yes, it’ in knee pants brushed up to a man ager of the town ball club at Dubuque, Iowa, and a job. He didn't simply wanted the honor of carrying the bats and was willing to do it for almort nothing. The manager of the Dubyaue team wae Joe Cantillon. The youngster was Clarence Rowland. The boy's Manners attracted Pongo Joe. “You're hired,” said Joe, and the youngster bounded thru the gate. It was his first baseball job and he was about the happiest little fellow who crawled between the covers that night after his arduous duties on the ball field.’ After a lapse of more than two de- cades and a half these same persons will meet on the day in Milwaukee which marks the opening of the new baseball regime there, but they will meet under different circumstances. The setting will be different. Row- land is 4 magnate. Cantillon is still & Maneger, Rowland Has Gone Far Clarence Rowland, who toted bats for Pongo Joe that day away back in the ‘90s, is now part owner and manager of the Milwaukee Brewers. He has passed thru the fiery ordeal of apirited competition in the majors and minors since that eventful day. Rowland managed a ball club when in his teens, dater led clubs all the way from Jacksonville, Il., to Aber- and from Winnipeg, Ni. He was made |manager of the White Sox and had | the proud distinction of sho the white-leggined players of iskey to their first world flag, the jsame person whom Cantillon met |that day in Dubuque, but slightly changed. |_ “It takes me to start fellows off | tight,” said Cantilion recently in a jocular vein, “There's Rowland, for In said Joe. “Clarence was my bat lover years ago in won a world’s championship. pretty good for my bat boy, fit tn.” This draws attention to the markable baseball career of tlllon, one of the original , of the diamond. Joe has the storms of many seasons | player, manager and umpire, always doing that little thing. ‘s him young, keeps him |at top speed and makes him f that there is @ time limit to human activity. Joe has made the © whole baseball world laugh 3 times. His stories of the d are classics of their kind. In a ries of articles on the life of Cl A, Comiskey written several ago, Cantillon was a life-saver the writer compiling the script. Joe knows more good on Commy than any other and his supply of fresh ones inexhaustible. MINNEAPOLIS, March 18—John= ny Ertle won over Roy, Moore by wide margin in their 10-round tent here last night. NOW GET BUSY! You have been warned time and time agnin that great danger to your general health will be the result of letting your mouth remain in a state of decay and unwholesomeness, You ought to. realize this yourself without being told. It doesn’t make any difference whether it is one tooth or all your teeth thateare bad, THEY SHOULD BE TAKEN CARE OF, There is no one knows this better than you. The only thing T can do is to impress on your mind the fact that I do MODERN ABSOLUTELY PAINLESS—DENTISTRY. fs I use nothing but the all work tha! —I stand back of it yey, leaves this offi t best materials— jce is guaranteed all times. If you are not able to pay al! at one time | will arrange payments for the balance, asd DR. JEFF Rooms 205-6-7-8 Pioneer Bldg. HALFORD| Fiest Ave. and dumee St.