The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 25, 1919, Page 12

Locals Open Season With Aristocrats Tee Game to Crowd St. Nick | e Off Boards in North Friday BY LEO H. LASSEN While the visit of old St. Nick and | Bis wonder pack are hoiding the cen: | ‘fer of the stage today, Pete Muldoon | md his hockey warriors are an for the opening game of the) season on the Pacific coast, which for Victoria, B. C, tomorrow fight. he loca! squad will face off with ° Victoria Aristocrats in the open- Clash of the 1919- Practically the same lineup thas) the season last year, and in of the fact that the other teams the league have been strength-| Pilot Pete ix confident that his will romp in ahead of the} ck again this year, Jim Riley re “Cully” Wilson at forward, a BSibbey Nichols will play center.) ) Beattie fans won't see the local| in action until next Wedne night, when the Metropolitans the Vancouver Millionaires. | Beattie squad has hardiy had) to round into condition to put their best brand of hockey tomor- Right. What Victoria will be Sie to do on the opening night is as & riddle, as not much news has | ome out from the North. | Talent Strong With the array of puck talent lined em, e ® for the Victoria contingent, Fri-| | Right's work will be no pink tea |) If Seattle gets off to a wen the locals will have a fine = ‘Face, as they will tan early lead in the|) be favorites over Vancouver here Wednesday, be! they will have been in action before tackling the North Vancouver has several new men, Jack Adama | and “Doc” Roberts, wi: all new to the team this year, and they will have to play together a couple of ‘UL. en at least to perfect team play » Two young players that should be ‘watched this year are Jim Hiley, the hig Seattle wing, and Wilfred Lough. Jin, the young Victoria guard. Riley who played here as a sub in 1917, showed great possibilities. Ho than ever now, and stronger skating like a champion Loughlin is is showed a lot of class | ils first few games last year at the Ghose of the season. He is a big. Powerful kid, and he is no crippl _ Playing the puck for the nets, Powerful Defense ‘The Victoria squad should have a Powerful defense in “Moase” John- fon, at rover, the Loughlin boys at ‘Buards, and “Heck” Fowler in the Nets. Seattle's quartet, Walker, a _ fover, Rowe and Rickey at guards | and Holmes in the nets, have played “together #0 long that they work Hike ~ @ machine. Last year's race was one of the| feasons in the history of the | ip hockey being | tap all time, and with the teams} ling with clase again this year, @hances of a lop-sided season are | About as strong As the backbone of ® Jelly fish, "6 not going to be any cinch to score panies in this man’s league this | | Cook and} Duncan at guards, and Lehman in| the nets. winter’s came,” the hunter sald) $ chortied in his glee; | “What if it has?” the golfer wailed, | “It ain't no good to me.” ‘The war tax on a 1919 Chr’ "Present amounted to as much | Princifal in the “good old days. | nana ath lin salad ‘ FROM NICK’S PACK | Some gifts that St. Nick can bring today: book, “How to Play | some REAL GIFTS} ) i. | ? { Peekage of assorted alibis for Jimmy Wilde, Shot of pep for the Ath- | leties. ) An ounce of common sense for the ball magnates. SY rovers will handle Jack Walker of Seattle are three of the greatest rovers in the business, Mickey fon, handle the popular tow rete: e in the ¢ thought usiness he on . | contract on on the fr | Wonder If Pete Muldoon, the local pt lot, will do any this winter? Peto’ | World at this stunt. the champion of the Hundreds of skaters are using the Arona, which is open for tee skaters every day now ‘The Mets leave for Victoria Fri- = morning and return here Setur- 7. “Moat” Murray, the big Meattle apare, played ball 4 mer with the Michigan Btate ® piteher. With Mickey MacKay of Vancouver, Dunderdaie of Victoria, and Wilson of Beattl this year there should be « mi or brand of the hockey game hard chee} t they @ bc ed. and no one thinks led any one intention: aily, but they did do a lot of fouling, intentional or otherwine, and it slowed up the game with them @m the bench, Beason tickets for the ice season are ow on sale at the Arona. re tancy iit skating | All of this trio | OW Boy! Tor morrRor \s xnas* )— L GOTTA PRESENT FOR you CAT ot’ ' ort “W” to Have Strong Grid Team in 1 920 Crew of Vets Will Answer’ Call Next Year; Big | Game in Air | Washington will have “some” football team next year if all the men return for further education that are being counted on now. There will be nearly a whole | ~ team of veterans, as only Blake, guard; Smith, end; Thieson, fullback, and Tid-| ball, guard, will be lost to| the squad. ; | Coach Hunt will have a} strong nucleus to work with} when the men return in the, fall. “Ted” Faulk, the cap- tain-elect and the best end) on the Coast, will be back) for his old place on the left | extremity. Faulk is expect-| ed to fill out a fine grid ca-| reer next year and is being | counted on heavily to make} | good. i a | | Bill. Grimm, the leading} |tackle in the conference this} sason, Will also be back for) his job in the line. Grimm | was chosen by Walter Camp} }for his second All-American |team, the first time a Coast {man has been picked for as high a post. Little Ray Eckmann and “Bullet” | Butler, two of the best halfs on the | coast, with their experience of this year, should prove to be great grid. | ders next year and Hunt is count.) ling heavily on this pair, For full- | back Hunt will have Jerry Waechter jand Helnman second string men thin | year, back. Townsend, another back | returns, Rob Abel, at quarter, will again call the signals, Gus Pope will re. turn for a guard job, and “Zek” Clark, will be back for tackle, |"“Sandy” Wick, the fighting center, | will also be out again next year, And then there is the freshmen) | material with "Ham" Green, the col- ored half..and Harper, another smashing back, will be out. Pittleco, | tackle, should make things hot for | the other fitst string men. | What a team that will be if all the jen return} ‘Washington's game for next} seawon is atith the alr. Pull- man won't re, and the Pu ple and Gold squad will probably mast some Middie Western eleven about. An IVE GoT ONE for You Kip! WHATCHA Got for mE Hey? Top row from left to right—Alex C. Rose, golf and soccer expert; Pete Muldoon, manager Seattle hockey team; “Doc” Wells, physical director of the Y. M. C. A.; Earl A. Fry, secretary of Washington State Sportsmen’s association, and Jim Blake, prexy of the new Inglewood Golf and Country club. Bottom row from left to right—Bill Brown, billiard hall proprietor and one of Seattle’s leading hunters; Lloyd Chase, prexy of The Star basketball league, and Clay Hite, Seattle boxing promoter, of the Northwest Athletic club. Looks like Santa Claus put more than a gold brick in the stockings of this crew of sportsmen last night. big grin and well wishes for the coming year that the wreath-decked sporting crowd photoed above feel so cheery)! Seattle is completing a great year in sports—clean | ® sports—and we all look forward to the coming year with great expectations for one of the finest years in athletics that Seattle has ever known. Ike Caveney and Willie Kamm, San Francisco infielders, are being sought ‘y the Pittsburg Nationals, Washington Americans and the Detroit Americans, according to reports from the Golden Gate. Kamm looked mighty sweet at third base here, but didn't show much with the willow, Caveney is one of the best all around baliplayers in the league, playing ejther third, second or shartstop well. well, too, Clyde Wares, Seattle's manager, may pilot the local club from the bench during the coming year, if Bill Kenworthy, the veteran infielder, regains his form around second base. Wares will be ready to step into the lineup any day. After being billed as thru in the South, Wares came to Seattle and played bangup baseball. There may be another season or two of good ball left in the little fellow. dack Fournier, the Angel first sacker, just smiles when men- tion Is made of his quitting the di: md. Jack has a business in- terest here now and it will be hard for him to go back to the @amond, but it’s a cinch that when the season rolls around Jack will be back on the first pillow for somo club. He would look mighty sweet on first base for Seattle, and it Is understood that Prexy Bill Klepper, of the local club, will make a big effort to snare him in a deal with John ‘owers, the Southern magna: at the league meeting in San cinco, January 5. Jack would like to play here and so would Jim Scott, the veteran pitcher who worked for anclsco Seals last year, and is at present in business with ' It’s not going to be any easy job for Bill Eassick, pllot of the on Tigers, to replace the punch found in the bat of Bob usel, the big yor ster who goes to the New York Yankees min't heen for Meusel's big bat it’s a sure am Angeles would have copped the fing, because Bob's sticking won at least three games of that crucial series from the Angels at the end of the season, Joe Wilholt, who was let out by the Seattle team at the start of the season because he couldn't hit, finished the season with the Wichita team in the Western league with « batting average of 422 in over 100 games, When Joe was here he couldn't hit Puget Sound with a paddle, but he sure did improve when he went to the Western league. In fact, he buted the world’s record for consecutive hitting, pounding out hits on 67 days in succession, It's the Schedule Men | cording to players wh out on the floor WHATCHA Got For JOE BENJAMIN TO TRAIN WITH CHAMP NEW YORK, Dec. 25.— Benny Leonard and his stable of sparring partners were to leave late today for Lake wood, where he will train for his 20-round bout with John- ny Dundee, in New Haven, Conn, January 16. Accom. )} panying Leonard will be doe { Benjamin, Pacific const | lightweight, who made a | reat showing in his Eastern 5 until he was out- : pointed by Mickey Donley, this week, Will Meet Friday Manager Allen of the Co. “Doe” league which gets under way uary 3. ES R, 3rd) the Washington infantry cage team, and | th Powers of the Knights of Co-| }lumbus squad, will meet with The| | Star Sport Editor Friday to settle | the the schedule question for The Star| liminary boys Jan Hector to Meet F. Farmer-- | Maybe! Fans Are Crossing Their) Fingers Waiting,for De- layed Go Local fight fans are trossing their | fingers this week in hopes that the | Young Hector-Frank Farmer match billed for the Crystal Pool next week | | won't be called off again. The big! fellowe have been matched five times, Jand every time the bout fell thru, re- | sulting finally in Hector being bar. | red for 60 days by the boxing com- mission for getting his verbel and written contracts mixed up. The match is set Tuesday, December 30, at the Pool. | | Both big fellows have been training for the pa veek, in expectation of ] | | ‘er met. yet) bouts, is looking for new pre The familiar fellows laround town have been boxing so much |apart, and the fans crave new face: Allen hes yet to report whether or! not the league will be able to stage games at the Armory tlors ible for basketball play lippery ‘The Soldiers’ club gym is practically ac have worked because it is too | " Dances are staged there | OF YOU every few nights and the floor is like glass. | There will be a big meeting of The} Star league managers Monday night | at The Star office to pass on the con-| stitution and bylaws being drawn up. | 1d have a representa Bach team hc tive at this meeting There are now 18 teams entered this time for | surely mak (They aren't in the ring—together, | so, he mig! |& headliner, but h Lonnie Austin, who ts lining up| © ce his terrible showing in Sal | ately that it's hard to tell ‘em | try. Fred Winsor says his battler, Bad Ridley, ie willing to meet Facell, the Bremerton boy, here, if fs given a top place on the card ® big enough medal for his for his showing in the South when he boxed four times in « week, he is bout here, but he hasn't the dhowtng. power fer a need line role in these parte. Billy Wright, who hes bees hack with leaps and bounds in the Lerweight division, may get « match Travie Davie soon. We would like him tex Morrie Lux, who beat him Tacoma, first. ‘That Joe Gorman-Earl Baird billed for Muir ttle on paper, as both and fight the same kis a of @ battling bout. these days? Hulen, Wismolek anything to decid | forgotten we hi The “no-amoking” rules at ti fiatic tourneys impro: | be: the fans keeling over from abst from the weed during the bouts, and rea lot. We ha it caster for the boxers, Ole Anderson, the big Tacoma Who turned out to be a big lemon, was predicted, This is the first time|a fruit ranch. the South. lifornia, has bor rding to reports ranch would be m 4 listened to in the money ag) thru all along the” propria’ recently, Let's go buy Boldt’s French pas Uptown, 1414 town, 913 2d ave. TO YOU AND EACH A VERY Merry and one club must be dropped. This will be decided by the league man-| agers Monday night. Either the Sol. diers’ and Sailors’ club or the Inde pendents will be dropped, as neither have demonstrated any too much ex nt over the organization of the Greetings— To every sportsman we extend the season's wishes that a “limit bag’ may be the capacity of your en- Joyment of the great out- ofdoors for the many Christmas Thanking you most heartily for your liberal patronage which has made possible the great success of this store for men, and for women who shop for men. “*Values Tell’’ a & coming» wel- 7 day was offered 000,000,000 for a match with Carpe It tn be |OTRY Of Christmas buying the dear| fr Heved he 1s now too weak to fight “a ean Piper x Taft Inc. however, He's been broke for weeks! m107*1109 SECOND AVE, and has eaten only a few bits of /T4ly appreciate how little a dollar! ary bread with water. really \ THE SPORTING GOODS STORE on “Turkey Day, which ts just as) July 4, 1921—Jac Having just well; a change will do us good. ~ been another | HOLS SCOOD ONILYOdS 3HL THE SPORTING GOODS STORE 6 the boys will be nd puck up and Wonder if that lady with the soprano pipers will be on hand to cheer the iads this year? she has been & feature of the season hore for the past two yearr be long b. the little rr down the ico If time was money, i dack would be a millionaire; The dollars offered him to box Are freee than the a. heastys readers the sports page rN byes matters nowadays, & fi fan