The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 24, 1919, Page 12

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ae rts paola, TRL fe) To MORROW’ rights Show Well; d Schacht Wins Verdict; | ing of Soldier Woods Uses Left Well, and Our Hunch Gets Wallop in Plexus; Mike Pete Crashes Soldier Woods and Is Over; Reynolds and Bonds in Hugging Match | BY LEO H. LASSEN . Northwestern lightweight king, shaded local 133-pounder, in the main event at the ol last night and our hunch that Baird would as round shouldered as old Santa Claus will be the affair was over. | a clever. exhibition that the boys put up, but d an edge when the going stopped. He used d and long reach with effect. And we thought an edge at infighting, which is Earl's long suit. fans who weren't so fortunate as to be close to ig, missed Harper's blocking, because nearly every Ear! started landed on Harper's arms and only) mr punches landed square during the battle. pys landed hard with their rights ‘during the landing in the fifth and Harper in the sixth © Otherwise the port side mitt played the big role.| @ very spectacular match, but was far from slow. WINS cht, the referee, earned the decision in the semi- which Joe Bonds and Steve Reynolds wrestled | six uninteresting rounds. The two big fellows w together than the kiddies’ socks on the well) inte] will tonight, and it was up to little Ad to pry fellows apart. Ad surely earned his verdict last) | isc 8 1 a aaa oie I edabeaitiage ose had THE SEATTLE HW Boy! L GOTTA PRESENT FoR yoo CAT ov ‘IS xras' Bill Savage - This is Bill Savage, the sturdy guard of the Lincoln high | school basketball squad, who will captain the North End s giyen the official verdict and he beat Steve Steve showed flashes and would have beat hadn't slowed up. Bonds looked like a terrible a fighter to us, and how he ever stayed 11 Martin in the East is a riddle to us. 3 "t have any place to go that night. n isn’t as good as he is advertised. . G OF “SOLDIER” WOODS w Porta’s predictions of great storms on the Pa-) ¢ were delayed a few days for one “Soldier” Woods. | person, who looked like’ a perpetual motion ma: week, suddenly stopped and took the big dive) a wallop on the chops from the trusty ey nt sees eo fof one Mike Pete. The machine started going ed that en he was a terrible knock in the engine and there ain’t no such animal as perpetual sunk him again. This time Woods was ed in the first couple of minutes of fight-| ded in the first round. “was robbed when Young Sam Langford, the! ee, but Houck Beat him on the nose, and had a big 4 “showed best in the third when he did some big league duck-| but that was his only claim to fame | and Lloyd Madden, welters, put up a bout on the card. Herb Taylor, d box Rogers, was taken ill and Mad-| Lloyd seemed stale last night. bounced. a left handed wallop off of just before the bell began to toll and! ee led nine when the bell sounded, but Duane didn’t want to quit, but it would have been . let him go on with the bout. |Bum Grounds Causes Can- i 4 jut jitea ip to meet! star, has returned HE iy Fa F | Maaden,. local . weiter Foley, of Tacoma, in Yakima next ih. The date for the bout has not | been set. welterweight, mat of Tacoma, at Beattie Charlie Dobie, Is breaking into the orini game in Seattle, He in ling the business of Jimmy Storey "; Ieving feather, and | Jimmy Cole, featherweight | _ Cale hax just returned trom cham where he won the featherweight pionship of the Canadien army. He eee for the service in 1917. Me haa! 4 here numerous times before he Los| left for the service. He wants to box rth. | George Eteell, the fleet boxer the hard-hitting | park Jimmy Btorey, who lost his first bout | Billy Wright, ie In training again 4 wants another chance with William the futy Jim spent the past k the flats where he has heen pting. Jimmy has been y steady | a reat would steady training to do him more good than | engage Irving Gleason, loeal 12 | fought » draw with Ollie Lewis, | ham boy, = pupil of Chet Neff, | ingtiam ine other night pounder | Relling- at Bell: =. Uittle fleet boxer, ee to show his| BI Post Sese week. in event with Hud Ridley, coming fast, on the name J amd ‘This bout on co er. traction for tie Milwaukie, on) the card will Doble i# figuring on taking a trip South with his stable, He expects t jand some bouts In the Houth for of batters. Morrie Lax, Kansas City welter, has returned from Idaho where he Knocked “Kid” Lawson for « goal in Lewiston last w in the third of m scheduled 10-round en: Lax wants « crack Sravie Davie ‘and will probably be given a bout with the champion soon. posed Willie Keeler, the Mo, meeta dim Flynn at fn }round bout New Year yard maul Kime inn Keeler boxen Oxcar | Intyre'# latest in Tacoma, Koen prodigy, on Chet Me January §, Plane are under way for a big benefit amoker for General Pershing at the LArmory, January 19, .according to re- ports in local fight circles, Jelded gt which time | modations nor the gr k training | ely and he figured that) of the | for team this year. Bill is one of the best defensive guards in the city league. Phoenix Cage Team Scares Kent; " Important Star League Meeting Insurance Squad Loses to Kent by 26 to 24 Count; Star Teams Will Adopt Constitution and Bylaws at Monday Meeting Kent came mighty close to tasting for firat Um son when the Phoenix Mutual Life ae nee equad of » Star Cage) °!*™ ay ng ne The first gamon are to be play The teams shot umber | 48¥ Dlgbt, January 1. Further an of field goals, two « fouls | MOUNCement will app The tetas Vieleey'te the val Star daily and team captains should The Kent aqued hy. 7 on mee p in touch with the progress of dates ne There will be g meeting Star league at tar Mo when tye prope ment by-laws for the league will be pre sented for adoption, The members ship of the Irague will alwo be de the committee appointed to decide whether the Soldiers’ and Sailorw club or the In dependents are to be dropped, will report Manager Allen, of the Co. B team. who promised to report on whether or not the Armory would be avail able for play in The Star league. has yet te © & report and until he does he is holding up the make Up Of the wchedule. Ax soon as Allen | te t to The Star sports etttor| the schedule committee can defeat the this sea In league f The lay tution and press we learn Christmas Called Off 2.2 the can he hagn't shown it his four bouts to four knockouts tob in date All Hob has in the way of « punch tem straight left, « cross, and an uppercut in either band.” cellation of England- Scotland Classic sai at a prived of their Christma |v oe the allstar Scotland En) teats Jack has been called off because ung condition of the park grounds This league directorate last night tn the Neither the dresst only half Dempaey's wer ring?” indignantly Kearr Ml mateh of the Liberty |. .Yeh and what they offer you and what you get will be two entirely different amounts, Mr, Kearns! the held nyable decision was made by Tex Rickard hasn't beer any half-million-dollar offers hag he? Mr. Rick lard a hundred th at Toledo » meeting attle ut throwing around Wil a bout Se hotel room, d conditions mn have b accom ard paid Je nd for at 14th and Jeffer sultable for soccer footballers f many weeks and the managers of the respective local teams have an nounced that all home games will henceforth be played at Woodland The Ban Johnson ‘row having died | down for the time being, the winter leaguers have revived the White Sox world series The most sen eational thing about the recent world series was the scandal which the Reds upset the ¢ majority of the This will be the ne: ner & Eddy-Black Diamond engage. ment next Sunday. Pete Shearer will set the teams off 218 Carbonado will be the Woodland ne af the Skin WH way in ve of the dopester #tination park m next where the perkers go to the league-leading coal dig gers in quest of point Billy Waller will officate eree | Sunday as ref. | CALA SPOKAD Baseanta Singh a match at OFF MAT GO Dev 24.—Pecause Hindu wrestler, ha Year here championship The boys prob ramento New day, his with Ted Thye the middleweight has been called off bo ably will meet later The French trench. bird learned who wrote the the lan Clay Hite t# looking after the affaire pbeads ¥ White, Chicago Hehtweight make the trip to Portland hiengo battler | - ‘The buying power of a dollar must | tting pretty le when they| 1” $500,000 for » pug to climb into | the ring and perform. ‘ay Cashed TORREY & SEARS’ |, Your Patronage Appreciated | And take 10 bucks for work « night! BILLIARD PARLOR inna? # tme when 9 peg would | 1490 Bed. ¢ ri ‘There was» time when five bucks would | buy \ A pair of shoes, new shirt and tie! STAR—WEDNESDAY, DEC. 24, 1919. 7 WHATCHA Got For \ ne HEy? sca Wy Gor Slee a Pi cca cculnectanaineigpriacieeeiecnionpipeineont AOA RRC BI. LR EG ohn BOM PE WHATCHA For 1 ale 15 alt Winn Pb A ae NEITHER WILL wot Poem TAR PORTS 'New Faces in Coast Ice Race |And Several Oldtimers Will Be .Missing When Sea- son Opens Friday There will be several new faces tn the coast hockey clubs this year. Up jin Vane Skinner, the new center toe man from Toront« in the coust the time. And wings, a the first play Sibbey A ter ice man | local squad. since being vice Jim Riley uver plays firet both for elreuit for the me Adam to the coust here hols, Seattle's new cen the play in a new face on Thin is his first releared from the not new to Beattie fans, but absent lant be a new man thir year being counted on to replace wi | eon | returns rearon, will Jim is Cully” Roberts to yott |toria goalie year’s layoff And then old mers missing Seattle's scrappy wing last |plays in the East. Bernie | Seattle center last Year jing detained by the Mickey MacKay, Vance |has joined the amateur haa Btaniey, Vancouve of Victoria, bad man, ha» quit hockey. Murray, Victoria year, is in the Bast doesn't seem if the slowed up any by the because their than filled Vane game Fowler again ouver wing after a Vie after a the tee Heek | year's will be “Cully” neveral Wilson, year Morris, is mtill be ernment rover ranks, a» wing. Dun derdale alec goa Hut league w be hese mer places are more with new talent The tora, B.C pens Friday in Vi with the Seattle squad opporing Victoria. And then Seattle mes south again to open the sea with the Vancouver mil reanon Honaires Sooner or | | Later All | | of EmF lop | arora Every heavyweight that has stepped into the calcium for the past year has looked the goods—for a time. They start fast-—that seems to be the proper procedure among | the giants these days. They «wing | a No. 5—Vick, | 10—Seharer, quarter. “Meese” Caetet, who was slated & mean left, or maybe a mean right, |, and flatten out all opposition. And then they meet another who is fot lowing the same system, and one of the two goes out. And when they #0 out they go for good. Our heavy weights of the last few months have displayed more punching than seen in the big division for many moons. Most of the fights have ended be. fore the fourth round. Dick O'Brien of Cincinnati going good until he met Martin Burke. He was kayoed. Burke! went fine until he met George Chip. ] and had to quit | Jack Burke had just been matched with Bob Martin when he stepped into a hard one from Tony Melchoir, | | _Al Roberts ran into old Al Reich.! He's out. Homer Smith, Michigan wildeat, looked good until Frank Mo- put him cuckoo. ob Martin has laid out « trio of K. 0, Brennan is ridding f excess baggage, too er in Europe look what okett did to the other Englishme look what Carpentier did re once counted out it the old fight out of Jens Willard is selling cord. His drawing pow n and fighting qualities went the route of his crown at Toledo, Carpentier More Popular i in an Than Dempsey Is Here exacting ter and pion must be he is going to be France France is still Georges Carpentier quite dippy over thelr champion. © popularity of Georges in his native land far surpasses the favor | in which Jack Dempsey is held by the American sporting public, but that is Dempsey’s fault. Had Jack availed himself of the opportunities that all other young Americans had during the time this country At war with Germany, he would be Jan idol, toa Dempsey is a great fighter and the type which maker a hit with fans, but the hit hel makes is discounted by his war record Jess Willard grew unpopular thru his ring idleness and his failure to come to the front promptly in offer: ing his services to the Red or raving The French are} over was the n, altho hiv color inst him from the start, wasn’t popular until his personal behavior me obnoxious to the public The public reciates the lative ability mplon |DARCY HOLDS ORTEGA was super: | but it} of a PORTLAND, Deo, 24 Ortega of Oakland lived up to his} reputation of in off fighter here last night whe 10 rounds with Jimmy | Was c¢ being | Darey n and Pete Mitchie {put on a 10-round semi-final and drew. It was a terrific mill. Nell Zimmerman won a six-round decision over Pat Williams of Seattle will sym the second week of (hi Broadway gym won't be r the Sewastikas, Y. during the coming week ~ EVERETT’S OPPONENT 1 is Captain Tommy Andrews, half. 2—NShelling, left end. 3—Shury, center. left half. 6—Kobb, right end. 3—Faber, right tackle, H-Prye, ral ear Par Pat susie 4—Coombs, right gua * & ey 'Scott High School to ut |} Spend $8,100 on T rip BY FRED TURBYVILLE Probably now under way when the Scott there in regulars a ett and be and will terminat high gridders of Toledo, nly mehoot ne this week soup the £ boards in the First enge team The or and bill o., nd 10 substitutes, coaches, pk conte $8,100. managers, squad hoo! gym high boys did this season. ristmas| The Scott boys left Toledo Friday |with the first stop scheduled at Grand Canyon ange and Wiack In the Lincoln high eady for eS uses SG eee to Washington, where the ceed up the coast n Ture Was | Gos etter ‘There will be @ referee and umpire to handle handling the whistle. Broadway's up after “Chuck good brand of ball for Franklin Inst year, ie now go! Howar July 4.4} That American promoters for talked-of match between Carpentier 1d Dempsey for the world's 4 Allen the igh scheel hoop During the past former Penn star and All-American selectior outstanding stars on the team—just a strongly together every minute of the game. The team is he \ average high school bunch. ) years on thr team, The backfield men are } weighing 173, Vick 170 and Skinner 170. Thi ) any college eleven. soccer holidays league will start at Everett, December 19, great 8—Kaighin, left guard. 9—Skinner, fullback. te aca | Manager Fred Seibert. to Everett, Washington the most expensive trip that a football team ever took is Wash., New Year's day, will clash with the team ete., battle for the prep championship of the country. Taking 11 from Toledo to Ever- Toledo gets $5,000 from the Everett game and win |the rest was made up in Toledo in appreciation of the wonderful work Scott by way of Chicago, The day before Christmas and Christmas day will be spent in bos Angeles. Then the trip will pro- athletes will have a liwle Weight and Team Play ; Scott high's football team is one of the finest prep school teams ever assembled. The lads are husky and play a fast game. Pat Dwyer, is coach. There are no aggregation, playing . experienced and a trifle older, perhaps, than tw For instance, there are five boys of 20 y, Captain Andrews rio is big enough for From end to end the line averages a little better than 163. With Zolla, who pitched # pretty Anne ) act! hill He witli for the 1 to Queen be the spring triumph over Somerville (Mass.) high, with the ether Toledo high—Waite, troit central was beate: j ua 20 to 0 and Col who Was counted on to an outfield job with the time to limber up On Christmas ¢ where the team s and a huge and hung on the Christmas tree and in the The presents are from relatives, friends and the tmas afternoon the boys will take a They had hoped to play the Long Bea that afternoon, but the will be a big ty Beach fornia champions. day stopover After the game at Everett there departing next day and will cross the and Vancouver before catching the Canadian Rockies. They will enter the ming thru Duluth, Minneapolis and St back at their desks in school January demands in A cham a man if also in its wersonality pry inch an idol is outbidding the much will bi Puget is why France heavy. | Will be weight title - ” JOE BENJAMIN BOXES WELLING ON XMAS DAY NEW jamin utpointed last night b. Philadelphia with Joe other ED LEWIS TOSSES SAN Stra | three fa | Olin with HEAVIES MATCHED NEW and Te been matched to box eight rounds in| Royal Athletic ‘Jersey City Monday night the h renish wreatler | TO DRAW DECISION |" r= tet nie prised fans when he took “Battling” | fan with a Ww. 8. OKA SPOKANE WANTS BERTH SPOKANE Ben. | w attempt who | Northwestern league Mickey | i ttle early in to be the fe Victoria, Gre ifternoon and He 4 oked for six Welling of Chicago bouts Dec. 24 to horn city ony YORK new Pa Dec fic coast dd vihas ar sanizvee’) Lincoln s Janua Var Butte will have Ong mas ture iver Seattle delegates a HARVARD DUE SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 24-—The Overland Limited will bring the Har vard football team into town late to FINNISH MAT STAR day quad will be quartered b Christmas and then wil FRANCI8CO, Dec proceed to Pasadena, where the men r Ed Lewis won two out ee will get into condition for the New and the match from Jobn | year day game with Oregon. at Dreamland The Finn sur the first | eard Tacoma are on the ecard wink wil oy for. WOLGAST LOSES a BAKERSFIELD, Cal, Dec. 24 nold in 17:24.| Ad Wolgast, former world's cham 1 fall with his| pion, lost ‘the to Billy | nd took the third | Alvares of Taft last night in a fast | sort of hold in| four-round fight here | HAYES WINS Fs SAN FRANC YORK, I 24.—Al Reich | Tommy Hayes gf n Cowler, heavyweights, have | Young Joe Gans Dor ber depar biche wear decision LS SGOOD ONILYOdS same last night in the} club's main event. | Hive knockouts featured the show, # light quarterback, Scharer, weighing 137, the backfick They won that game, 6 to 0. gam: a Canadian Pacific Unitea INN. W. BALL CIRCUIT) yo eins nae of W An) wideration goods the averages ex- ‘The team has piled up a good record, winding up its season by a 13 to 0, Its hardest game was De. eland 46 to 6, Marietta ne 3 » tackling the home guard in the Los Angeles hotel, trunkful of presents will be opened stockings of the athletes. city of Toleda, dip in the ch high school team, was called off. ul on the return, a sAYS N 24. ep annual W w C, NE football game, ged to play he = Mountaineers-- be given every in our “camp- section where they find articles of need Rainier con most lke n't overlook the r pacs. Our tment features st quality of iper « Taft Jac foot- Piper SECOND AVE, THE SPORTING GOODS STORE surf at Long Cali- After a and night in San Francisco they will go to Mount Shasta for a short a big banquet, the visitors Sound and visit in Victoria train eastward thru tes again in Minne- nd SCBRASKA Following s THE SPORTING GOODS STORE yar oe ¢ Jude as) ay Ap a on

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