The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 4, 1919, Page 16

Ox Boy! THERE'S NOTHIN’ LEFT IN PE FoR me! Thousands Thr I uge Crowd Will Be at _ Ringside When Battlers __ Answer Starting Gong v illard and Dempsey Ready for Start of! Biggest Ring Mix of Recent Years; Pecord| to Referee y H. C. HAMILTON (United Press Staff Correspondent) | TOLEDO, Ohio, July 4.—At 9 o’clock this morning the! of the massive arena built at Bayview park here by| sx Rickard and Frank Flournoy swung open for bleacher | ons and the first move of the day for the 12-round d’s championship boyt between Jess Willard, champion, Jack Dempsey, icalteticer, had been made. A long line of patrons of the ten-dollar section was| last night. Thru the long hours they stuck, some} on boxes, munching at sandwiches, others alternately | ding or lying down, | Rickard hoped to have the cheaper seats filled within! hour after the gates were opened. Shortly thereafter| other gates were to open and what was expected to be | le st crowd that ever saw a sporting event in the aited States was to start thru. arena, built in octagonal shape, | Willard, on the other hand, arrived ped with many entrances,/in camp fat and slow and worked labeled for the section to which | strenuously to take off weight. The . Holders of tickets were to| process, therefore, was one of build: | x: ly separated and directed| ing toward each other. The differ | re that particular sections. To make! ence in the weights was expected to no confusion existed, Rick-| be about 40 pounds, perhaps a little | Flournoy had engaged 600 | less. ie recently discharged from} witlard towers to a height of six! Bervice, to act as ushers and) feet six and a half inches. Dempsey | Policemen. These men, under) ix six feet one and a half inch. The| id of four lieutenants and | difference: is startling, but Demp-| were sworn im as special| sey's punching power was expected | with power to make ar|hy his followers to offset any ad-| ‘They were armed. They were! vantage superior size gave to the| d that the aisles must be] champion. | pt free. No standing patrons, ac Betting to announcement some time | ort earn the battle. Bete 10 be allowed. 3 to 1 on Willard were quoted freely | Seats 80,000 about the city a week ago, but this | structure, it was expected by| has receded. There is a great deal les J. McLoughlin, of San Fran-|0f Dempsey money. He has a host dts designer, would seat about| Of supporters and they have been! © persons. If all seats are taken | Willing to risk their pocketbooks on ‘eclipse by about 15,000 the|their judgment. ‘Therefore, there crowd ever at a sporting| has been little chance for Willard at fa the: United States, The| money to force the odds very high. cates ‘crowd, if memory Is correct,| Ticket speculators were strongly | Br the last football game be-/in evidence, with little effort to dis- | en Yale and Harvard universi-| courage them. The promoters re-| the Yale bow! at New Haven,| alized some time ago that this sort | _ Estimates then placed the|of gentry would have to be dealt} n present at about 82,000, but! with but there was no way of keep- ge figures were cut down consid-|ing a certain number of tickets out | by an official announcement, | of their hands. With such an enor. placed the attendance at|mous number of the tickets on sale | More than 60,000. to any one who cared to take them, it was a certainty that some would fall into the hands of speculators. Some Problem Transportation facilities to the) arena were taxed to their utmost | from an early hour. The double- tracked system for street cars was | crowded with nearly all available | rolling stock of the city lines. Huge | interurban cars were pressed into | service from outlying lines, many of which center here. Automobiles passed in a constant stream. Hun dreds made the trip afoot It was predicted last night that at least 80,000 persons would get into "The two heavyweights have heen| the arena, counting newspapermen | “training here for more than 30|and other necessary persons mixed | ‘The work has been hard and/in with the crowd which paid the Each was trained to the very | freight. of condition. favored the champion! first bout of the day was to pt at 10 a. m., according to Ad| » president of the Toledo tic club, under the auspices of the bout was being staged. | thing was to take place every | Of the time from then on. At the promoters planned to/ ¥e the championship contenders | pinto the ring. By 3:30, at the it was stated, the it would @ on. Many things can happen, ever, at such times, and many predicted it would be 4 or ler before the principal gladiators | Bf the afternoon would go into| ‘tay Sse ) } last, hut I don’t think I will be there all day. WHATS TH' USE OF fy - Corin’ To YouR PARTY: LEMONADE AN’ SODA WATER. -_ MAKE: ME THE CHALLENGER el By Jess and Jack } ‘ BY JESS WILLARD 5 My duties are plain today. 1 am to hit Jack Dempsey, stop him ) and keep-the heavyweight championship where it belongs. 1 believe I ; can do that thing. My condition is far better than I ever thought it \ would be, and I believed even at the start that 1 was going to be in ( ) shape. I'm all ready for Mr, Dempsey, and am set to travel any kind of } & journey he outlines in the ring. I can't tell how long the show will BY JACK DEMPSEY Right now I'm waiting for 3:30, for I have every confidence in the world that this is the beginning of the end of the Jess Willard cham- pionship reign. Tonight I hope to be champion, and I think I will be. ong to Toledo to W VE Eyes a V\ TER \ Yew WR RE \ Andkaantata dtl \\ T N SAVED A LOT Of WHISKEY CORKS; AN’ PLL’ LET you itness Huge R SMELL ‘ert! As 4 vet ly <\ ra \ tS \ _attwond RRR \ N N N N N \ \ \ ing Battle Pair of Ring | Men Added to Star’s Event Nick and Dan Sugar Offer Services; Jones May Meet Murphy Nick and Dan Sugar, two local fighters, are the latest members of the Seattle boxing corps who offered their services for The Star's smoker for the Mother Ryther fund, to be staged at the Arena, duly 11. This swells the list to eight battlers. Lioyd Madden, Joe Harrahan, Ely Caston, Billy Wright Bob Harper and Frankie Murphy are the other boxers to offer their services, Joe Harrahan says he would like to mix with Bob Harper on the card. last time they met. Harper is in Idaho today, where he meets Kid | Alexander over the 12-round route. When he returns, his opponent for The Star mix will be picked. Frankte Murphy says he would like to meet Morgan Jones, the Tacoma |bantamweight, who won a Tacoma decision over Frankiarecently. Jones |may be brought over from the City jof the Living Dead for the bout. i —* I realize I have no simple task in defeating my huge opponent, but you {| know they say “the bigger they are, the harder they fall!” Mr. Jess is going to give the floor a solid thump. early and keep hot-footing it to the finish, And I think I am ready to start Famous Drivers Will Race in Coast Auto Classic to Be Staged at Tacoma Today Cliff Durant, Dario Resta and Other Stars! Struck out ‘Seattle Drops Second Game to Seals | Seattle lost a tough game to the! |San Francisco Seals yesterday, the visitors tramping on the home club | 6 to 4, but not until the locals | had given the visitors a real battle. | The game went 11 innings. Tom Seaton, one of the best |hurlers in the etrouit, had a busy | jafternoon subduing the locals. The| | Seals got off to a one-run lead, but Bill Clymer's men came right back in their half of the frame and tacked up two rune when Jack «ht soared a double to left | Scoring three runs in the second inning, the Seals went into the! lead d the home club couldn't get a man around until the ninth inning, when they evened up the count, by bunching hits and errors. | | Make Comeback | couple of hits in the 11th By Close Score How Coast Clubs Stand Won, Laos Angeles . 63 Vernon “7 San Franeiaco . . 46 ba and 241 3 49 lake City - 16 ‘ and 35 “4 Sacramen 32 “a Seattle a4 40: n— spelt defeat for the home club, the is tallied twice. le a game comeback canto when and Pinch Hitter Sweeney couldn’ deliver and the visitors won mix Elmer Reiger, who Pet.| won easily, as tpey filled) pan and w 8 with one out, but French |i¢ ne had started the affair. the | a Setto * in 11-Inning |ACORNS RUN WILD AND BEAT SOLONS || OAKLAND, July 4.—Del How. ~|ard’s Oaks ran wild on the Sacra- mento club here yesterday and 10 to J. KR. Arlett, Oak hurler, was the big hitter 3 lof the day, stinging the ball for 4|three safe blows, 4 The score: *\ Sacramento .. z|Oaukland ..... -| The batteries—Prough | Cook; R lett and M The home| Brenton on the mound 2 in the second inning, pitched strong nid have won his gamé Cav~ leney, at shortstop for the Seals, 1 Derrick at third base for the shes had a poor day in the both making three errors. t ‘This would be a good battle, as Har- | rahan gave Harper a real fight the! | Where “Values Tell’ Correct Clothes Are Bases on balle—Off Brenton 1, | 4. ‘Two-base hbite—Sehiek. Caveney, Baldwin Double playe— | rrigk; Koerner ner to Jl, Saerifice hite—Fitager- jald, Baldwin. Stolen basee—Higbee, | French. Wild Brenton, Innings | pitehea— 3 4, at bat 7 |ton 3, Seaton 1, Reiger 2 |to Brenton c | Dires—Kaso ‘Major League Score! Entered in Big Meet; Rickenbacker Will /x.———__—_—_—_—_—_* Referee © dite “Cliff” TACOMA, July 4.—When Durant starts in|; bit of ill tuck some weeks ago When an eyelet on a glove used by of his sparring partners scraped eyebrow and cut a deep gash. ‘He refrained from boxing until it ‘was healed. Contrast The training period of each was in sharp contrast. Dempsey devoted a Great deal of time to bullding bis Weight to a point where it would more nearly equal that of Willard,| for he needed weight to offest the Great poundage of the champion. We All Went Fishin’ Today— but tomorrow we're back on the job again and will # have the “real dope” on “@ the places to go for your °® Sunday trip. J We can tell you where the fish are—tet can't catch them for you. Take some of our tackle along as the best bet, PACIFIC COAST LEAGUB Athletic Park BASEBALL SEATTLE VS. SAN FRANCISCO TODAY, 3 P. M, Sunday Game at 2:20 'P, M. Take Fourth Ave. Car. Dempsey suffered! tn the center of the arena, which |the race on the Tacoma Speedway, July 4, at the wheel of sagagehuaid Abe go Br segdiasy sere jhis Chevrolet Special, he will be in competition with four = Seabed Structure, was the of the greatest racing drivers ever seen in America. ring—a 20-foot square in order to| . _ ‘ provide additional space for news- | For the’ vice president and sales manager of the Pa- paper men, of whom there were sev-|cific coast’s greatest automobile factory to choose this form! | NATIONAL LVAGUE | "i Ww Lont. Bet New York .... Cincinnati {Pittsburg . AKO delphia | ee YORK, July 4 ork Fitagerald. | Cheastys The Store of Choice —a successful career The Famous Pe ess in life. | has as its first step a smart appearance. Cor- rect clothes are stepping stones toward suc- Realizing this, Cheasty’s has THE SPORTING GOODS STORE eral hundred. Hundreds of tele | graph instruments .clicked under the | edges of the ring and were scattered jback in the rows of the massive press stand—probably the largest press stand ever built for any pur- pose, Usually a 24-foot ring is used for championship bouts, but this is not the first time a smaller one has Nelson used a 20-foot enclosure when they staged their famous battle in California for the lightweight crown. If It Rains Promoters declared before the | test that rain would not halt the bout. The tickets have been sold and no rain checks have been |issued. The crowd, they believe, would pay small attention should |rain start. Many thousands have come here for the holiday, having only one day to spend away from home, and would be unable to re main should there be a postpone ment. The first bout of the day, sched uled for 10 a. m., was to be between Wop English, Toledo, and Whirl- wind Wendt, of the army. They are lightweights and were to go eight rounds, Bantams were to provide an eight-round scrap at 11 a. m., with Tommy O'Boyle of Cleveland, and Solly Bpstein of Indianapolis, the | principals. Johnny Lewis, Toledo lightweight, {and Tommy Long, Detroit, were carded for 10 rounds at noon Jock Malone, St. Paul, and Navy Ralston, Joiliet, Til, welterweights, were scheduled for 10 rounds at 1 p. |m., and the semi-windup was to be | between Frankie Mason, Ft. Wayne, Ind., bantam, and Carl Tremaine, of | Detroit. | Referees for the preliminaries | were Billy Rooks, Detroit; Danny | Dunn, Cleveland; ‘Tom Bodkin, Pitts burg; Tommy McGinty, Cleveland; Lon Bauman, Cincinnati, and Jimmy Devers, Jackson, Mich, , been used, Ad Wolgast and Battling | . | wet aut of debt » lof recreation on July 4, is what might be termed extraor-|_ Batteries: Mammanx and Mitter; Ben- | \dinary }ton, Ragan, Perritt and McCay ] |dinary. | | Strange as it may seem, driving a racing car is R, c.| CINCINNATI, nr Durant’s favorite form of recreation and he classes his| "1%! acne ee ee: death-defying dashes with the sport of yachting, golf or, Batterie: Ames, Meadows and Sny tennis. der; Reuther and Wingo. | July 4.— ". &. " 8 | CONTROLS BIG BUSINESS ie As a business man, young Durant is a keen field mar-|'"\is?u"® Hy Sel shal of the motor car industry. 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