The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 30, 1920, Page 12

ee ee eer ‘OUTPOINTS JOHN TILLMAN Uncorking a shift which enabled * time | ‘after time, Travie Davis jabbed his | way to a well earned decision over! Johnny Tillman in Clay Hite’s main) jhim to shove home his left event the Arena Wednesday night. That the St. Paul battler tn a greatly improved boxer since he last showed his wares In this city there ia flo doubt. He carries a terrible wallop, which landed a couple of times on Travie's molars, sending the Coast champ into the ropes, In 10 rounds Tillman would show to 4 better advantage. NEEDED HAMMER Billy Wright needed a hammer in his bout with Phil Jensen, Cali furnian. Wright,was up against o doy many pounds lighter than bim self, and won the fight earty in the second round. He spent the re mander of the evening trying to stow the light one away. All the credit went to Jensen for the game he assimilates Wright took exception Thuraday to the statements that he outweighed Jensen, The scales, previous to the bout, Wright declared, showed hy wie 148 and Jensen 146%. Romeo showed true to form fn hi. meat-cutting contest with Val Son tag. HoweveP Sontag neglected along his meat cleaver an at ify about with fri today, Sontag won by eight kilometers. EDDIE RAN according to Referee ‘The fans thought Billy time he kissed the carpet and acted | accordingly. In the opener Fitipino Kid Martin | " christened Jim Brogan in the first frame. Martin did everything but) Brogan. % Wins Pennant is responsible, next one. | circuit this summer. principles of the humble Nazarene. PATS "EM ON BACK x Once again the citizens of Brooklyn have something to be! ry\« thankful for, and Wilbert Robinson, the Squire of Flatbush, Robinson, Wise Old Oul ye F ‘latbush * | BY DEAN SNYDER Tt ten’t Mkely they'll ever call Wilbert Robinson a miracle man. For who ever heard of a fat miracle? | folly old leader of the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers like frosting fits cake. | Unele Robbie has come about as near turning “water into wine” as the With a ball club made up mainly of castoffs from other bic league teams he has put on the main sketch in John Heydier’s vaudeville But those two adjectives fit the And the particula® brand of hokum which he uses ls no newer than the His working principle ts that kind words and encouragement will shell Chadbourne appeared o2 the field | out results from players where the whip will only drive them back to the in a uniform. Chadbourne played with the _ Yearlings last year at tackle and one of the towers of strength| the line. He did pot attond \ school the full three quarters lust OO amg made him torn out for the Varsity. will be about a week or so the fat boy rounds into! He is softenow, but a few Tidball will harden him up. anit ery number of those turning out has reached with a big appitcation list in for uniforms yet to be accommodated. A iittle tackling was participated fn last night. will be some time rext week. THORPE DRAWS TRAMBITAS PORTLAND, Sept. © 30.—Harvey Thorpe, the Kansas City weiter. weight, and Alex Trambitas, of Port- lgnd, traveled over the 10-round route here last night to a draw verdict. The first five rounds were tame, but the welters were active enowgh to suit the fans in the last haif of the battle. Willis St. Clair, Sacramento light- weight, nearly put Harry Casey, of Beattie, away in the final canto of an eight-round affair, and was given the decision. Many of the fans thought Gasey was entitled to a draw. Young Sam Langford, of San Fran tisco, won an easy decision, giving Johnny Fiske a walloping. He had everything his own way after the| Airet round. HARPER TO BOX SOUTHERNER Nate Druxinman is searching Call- fornia for a likely boy to do battle with Bobbie Harper, who will share headline honors with Bud Ridley and Joe Gorman in the first Nationa! Athletic club show in the Arena next Wednesday. Al Grunan of Los Angeles will probably be the South erner selected. Yesterday's Hero — Rabe Ruth Poled out his 54th homer and helped the Yankees beat the Athletics in a double bill, 7 to 3 and 9 to 4. Tilly Walker made a pair and Pipp, Lewis and Dykes got one each, Stan Coveleskle ran Cleveland’ lead up to a game and a halt by trim. ming the Browns, 10 to 2, and giving the Indians a clean sweep of the deries, ‘The Braves and Phils split a dou Wie-header, the Braves winning the first, 1 to 0, and dropping the second, | Stl. CHICAGO, Sept. 30—The Cubs’ park will be the home gridiron of the Tigers, professional eleven of t Windy City. Former college stars make up the team, this year the United Slates 42 cent more coffee | minors or out of baseball entirely. | shoulder pads. his eyes and a double chin above his Every day, all season long, he has | has @ Robbie sitting at the head of He pats his athletes on fhe, tak ge OG Bet et en weer Good nature hangs on hie face so thick that he's got emflelines around collar. poured out his otntment of kindness. ineligible | Infectious stuff, it is, too, The outfit is not a machine but a family with the table, The percentages show he has done a neat job of carving the pennant turkey, HOLDS PEP SESSIONS Before each game he disappears into the clubhouse, followed by his boys. ous under “Sandy” Wick end ‘The same subject pops up at every secret conclave, He tells them that | they can outfight the battling Giants and outplay the cocky Reds, and land there about how they can clog Frosh are practicing daity| that they've got the stuff in thelr tata to make any pitcher living eurl up he field south of Denny ficld.| and retreat to the sholwers, He rattles off a little baseball strategy here up the scoreboard with runs, They} the: hundred mark. | take every word he tells them for gowpel truth. As a result the Dodgers | go out on the field and outdo themselves im their desire to win. ‘They don't always come out in front, but a mistake doosn’t rile Uncie| Robbie any more than to the extent of a ieinerly pat on the back and the The first scrimmage | cheering words of “Better luck tomorrow.” ‘There are 27 players on the Brooklyn roster play at a time. The other 18 sit in the dugout and play the role of bench | managers. They yell for Robbie to yank a pitcher or player. him all kinds of advice. WISE OLD FELLOW But Robbie is a wise old fellow. Back of jis smile is a rich lore of| baseball experience, both as a player and manager. right so often that the boyselook upon him as be! juggling his pitchers and players in the pinches, + ‘That's Uncle Robbie and his baseball creed. If good nature was gold he'd own a than Popai's bubble. ball and cashed in on it AMERICAN Lost Sleveland . us Chicago 6 New York , St. Louts 76 Boston 1 " Washingtom . "a Detroit on Pr 103 adel ‘The and COLUMBUS, Objo, Sept. 36. Ohio Stadium, te cost $1,000,000, seat 63,000 persons, will be ready in believed today. Actual excavation for the giant home of Ohio State University’s athletic teams will begin October 11, during semi-centennial week. ‘The structure will amphitheatre in America, I nounced recently by the djum committee disclosed details of the big buitiing that will be located in the center of the unlversity’s new athletic field of 92 acres. Among the salient facts set forth are The distance around the U-shaped structure will be more than a third of # milt Height will be: 107 feet and con tain 8? arches 13 feet high and 56 feet wide, with a main arch 72 feet wide and 86 feet high. WILL, SEAT 63,000 Will consist of two tlers of seats, accommodating 42,000 spectators in lower tiers and 21,900 in upper. There will be room for 2,000 more | persons than the Yale Bow! seats, | It will contain 56 stairways ard 112 alsies, permitting the stadium to be emptied in seven minutes. Tickets of admission will be ac- cepted at 86 entrances, Will require 40,000 cuble yards of concrete and 4,000 tons of steel Arena will, cover 150,000 square feet. + Under senting space there will be large gymnasium for indoor meets, idriia. commencement exercises and be the largest ans a [time for 1922 football games, it was | the university's | Only nine of them can) His decisions are almost uncanny in palace on New York's exclusive Fifth ave., a summer home on Long Island, and have a bank account bigger The great democratic jockey of the Dodgers has put a smile into base ‘The players all love him, Flatbush fans adore him And, is it any wonder, for Uncle Robbie is just one of the boys. LEAGUE Lowe NATIONAL Pet. Brooklyn . New York nnath STADIUM AT OHIO “U” TO SEAT 63,000 PEOPLE—READY IN 1922 expositions, as well as locker and dressing rooms and batha | Solicitation of funds to build the stadium will be begun a week after |the first spadeful of dirt has been turned, All contributors will see thelr names inscribed on bronze tab: lets in various parts of the struc ture, HARRY WILLS HUNTING DEMPSEY Harry Wills thinks that the per. son called Jack Dempsey and who match, says: “Kearns knows that I can beat his meal ticket, so he is not going to take a chance, He pretends he is willing for Dempsey to meet me, but he doesn't mean what he says, He talks of making the match as soon as the public demands that Dempsey fight me. That's all bunk He doesn't care anything about what the public thinks, I'm not going around challenging Dempsey when I know he doesn't want to fight, I'm Just waiting until people get tired of seeing him knock over the setups. Then they are going to ask why he doesn't fight Harry Wills, It's #0 bard for me to get fights that I have to wark at the docks sometimes, altho I can beat jany man in the world’ is his duck soup. They give) fights nowadays when he can get a! Harry | bY Soldier Rartfield, who suffered a broken arm in hi« bout with Bryan Downey at Detroit, will soon start training, as the arm has mended | nicely, and the Soldier expects a busy Jeampaign during the fall and win | ter * dimmy Burns, of Bridgeport, Conn, is one of Champion Henny Leonard's boxing part nem, and his manager, Manny Seamon, who tains the cham- plon, is trying toanatch his pro- toge with Jack Sharkey or Char- ley Ledoux. Frank Bagley will have the beet stable of boxers around the Hast | when things get going. With Willie Jackson, Gene Tunney, Johnny Mur- | ray and Augie Ratner, he has a man in every class, Jimmy Sullivan, who will be boxing the welterweights, is a likely looking youngster, Harry Schuman will be a busy bower this season, according to his) manager, Jack Kanne. Schuman will box Peal Hartley, Jimmy Hanlon, Johnny Noye and Otto Wallace, all in the next three weeks. er adh the oo Pacer former Kid wetuiee nana. His Sa. "tile ougkam Kid marrying again, 4Hls eighth wife has applied for a divorce, and friends of the Kid may eight wives are enough for one man, ee rr VARSITY BACKFIELD IS | DOUBTFUL “Who'll start in the backfield in Whitman? queation, outsiqe of the, many asked about registration, was! the most commonly asked question on the University of Washington campus during the past week This question stil! remains unan swered. In fact, It will probably the game against jurday, when the Varsity trots out on the field against Whitman for Lettermen, former Frosh stars land men from the service are bat | ding ut out for the backfield berth. | Ray Eckmann, the diminutive | half back, who played as @ regular last year and on the 8. A. T. © team the year before, is a backfield candidate who will bear watching |iek” ism great open field runner, | with plenty of fight. The only dis- la@vantage he has is his lack of | weight, as he only Ups the scales around 140. DAILEY FAST Ervin Dalley, lant year’s captain, and winner of the “W" many \times, ix the fastest man turning out for the team. Dalley ts a good open field runner, a consis tent ground gainer and a deadly tackler. Dalley played at left half |last year. Guy Norris, recently an ensign tn the navy, is out for a backfield berth. Norrin played on the Unt versity Frosh team when it was coached by “Hap” Miller. He played on the navy training camp team during the war. He was also mentioned to Walter Camp for an All-American back Red Hyndmann ts a sub of inst year's team, who is trying out for | fullback. | Bob Abel, last year’s quarterback, is trying out for his old position would be no surprise to the grid fol lowers if he trotted out on the fie! among the eleven men next Satur day. Johnny Wilson, last year’s Frosh star, is a good punter, 1 a bang. hang type of halfback Wilson wan one of the Froshs’ best men last seas son, Bob Harper, another Frosh of last ar’s team, is also a good punter |and backfield man. Harper is show ing up well in scrimmage. Greene, probably of the greatest stars ever turned out In high school football |his usual good game at college, but is expected to be going good before long. one | Johnny Prim, former Franklin high school star, is there with the fipeed, and is one of the hardest hit ting halfbacks turning out Besides these few named, there are plenty more who will bear watching, and stand a w rful chance of starting the big Whitman game. COAST 1 Un BASEBALL i Rainier Park PORTLAND vs, SEATTLE TODAY—8:00 FP. ‘Take Fourth Ave. 99 1 Third Ave “COR UNINERSITY i y ws Seattle atepped back Into division Wednesday by @ 6 over the Beavers, During the extreme early stages of the gaine it appeared as If the Be) attle players were going to the Portland babies Demaree for a couple and wwatters failed to hit the anything worth while. However, jwas muffed at short Rod j doubled SIWASHES HOP OUT OF RUT the game on the day before when! nipped Al Demaree settled down and the Jocals found the pellet them by Pillette, Beattle seor jim the fourth, when Bobne's ingi« and Sammy came From then on it was simple Bar advanced Murphy, Kenworby flied Clyde War + |kale, He marion t ught players right the first to 4 win oth. So there y'are. FLAG FIELDERS ABOUT EVEN BY HENRY L. FARR”! duplicate | the local ball for ay Mepby n Coast league players It took time for Wares’ efforts to show schedule the team was a trailer ignominy of having @ tail-end team. So There Y'are!, ‘That a winning ball club will pack them in the stands ts no better ius Wation than the caso of the Seattle team in the Coast leagu took hold of the Siwashes this spring Seattle fans were ready to accept the! Their opinion of Wares’ few games, The crowds began coming back. That encouraged Wares and Bt}running @ ball club that he was a failure. ditlempty and dreary pb Ais) |All at once the Benttle team got tts cogs clicking together. a at his athletes. ‘The Siwashes are playing clean-up ball now Wasn't nearly over they'd most likely drive a nail in the little old cheese- ‘There's no fun at a ball game without the crowds 4 ball club travel and a traveling ball club will pack the stands. NaBH er dreamed of knocking down, QW e. spent a lot of higher He aid his henchmen BOARD NEW YORK, Sept. 10—Inveatign tion of rumors that gamblers would |make an attempt to “fix” players of the Brooklyn National league elub no the world series would be won by the Cleveland American league team continued here today under the direo- tion of District Attorney Harry EB Lewis, of Kings county. The entire Brooklyn club wns scheduled to appear before Lewis tomorrow morning for questioning. Lewis planned to interrogate persons who might have knowledge of the Jleged plot. Lewis asked regarding the reported opposition of Wilbert Robinson to having ora questioned before the world hecaune of the effect it might on their morale, said: “I belleve it is @ public duty to clean up the im Nentigutio® of these rumors before the series start, in order to remove any suspicion of crookedness.” ; Robinson told the United Press be had no fear of an investigation, and as far as he knew, the. players had. 7 not been ordered to appear before left. He During the early part of the judgment in The ball park was an They won a If the season Packed stands make TWO CHAMPS BATTLE ‘IN CLEVELAND CLEVELAND, Sept. 20.—A_ ree- ord-breaking attendance is expected | at the Jack Britton Benny Leonard) battle here tonight Britton has $10,000 to bet that he beats the} champ in their 10 lightweight remain unanswered until next Sat) their first game of the 1920 season. | Ernie Murphy, letterman of! involving @ minge league, of plenty seasonn, can be considered bourse, it will be dane in a lem! a likely candidate for the fullback | yoighed etyle—that is, the Const job. Murphy is not out in uniform |ieague directors, igstead af the! jas yet, but is expected out soon. erand jury, will do the investigat: | RED FOR ing. And suspersiog and not court | FULLBACK prosecution will be fhe penalty | | Abel is a heady field @eneral, and it} is not playing | | out, but Murphy made home. Biiiett, the Yakima recruit, was respanaible |for the run which put the Biwaghes abead and from then on they were never in trouble, ‘The umpires both appeared to be in good fettle, Portland ADR HPO BR) : : Behatier, if Koehler, ¢ Kingdon. Apranger, Pillette, p wl ennccce Totals . MA ott out for us | Hott. a} i | Murpny | Biarea. : | ra _ Totals m6 ore by inninee: Portian® .2eee Hite 1eeoen | eattte 000288 Hie eee |) } Summary: Struck out—By Demaree ¢. | by Villette 1, Bases on Ballet Demares 4. off Pittette 3. ‘Tiggrbase bite Murphy, Be Keow orth :| e Marion forsee Murphy. eaccinted. Kenworthy, tmmaree, Fl . Stoles bare Rithett Ly | balli-Koehier Kane responsible Dematee 2, Patios s, Time game | 1:40 Umpires—Anderson and MeGrow Balt Lake City .... Macramento Batteries: Levers | haus and Cady. The) SAN FRANCTSCO, Bept. 30.- Pacific coast’s own life baseball in vestigation begine today. The particular cde to be under | consideration today will be that of Bul Rumler, Sal) Lake player, sus pended several Weeks ago -by Presi: dent W. H. MeQarthiy of the Coast league, for alle@d improper gam: bling on the 1918 pennant race. The rectors will caskler Ramler's re- | instatement. Much hinges @ thelr decision, if the various magnates live up to their announced intentioff. If the meeting should sustain Mc Carthy and aprrove Rumler’s sus pen: and mat observers predict it will—Salt Lake has declared it would’ withdraw from the league. | If McCarthy \¢ overruled, he says) he'll resign. And, again, if McCarthy ts over ruled, President Charles Strub, of | the San Frandyco club, declares that “you can kke the Coast league " and adds words which are to madn that the Seals won't playsany more. Freano, at least, has taken serious: ly the Salt Lake threat. The valley town has applied for Salt Lake's franchise, in case it gets onto the market. jan advantage over the Brooklyn out | Both teams are rather weak in right | Tommy Griffith and Bernie Nels, the |Dentist | diagnose each case, as NEW YORK, Sept. 40 field. Outside of center field, the Robin gardeners look better, man for man. | volley ball and swimming. jhikes to the Y. bridge island will be started early in October. START SPORTS Weekly W. camp on Bain Hollanders have devised electrical. ly-equipped auction rooms, which are| had won, Chesbrough bet om | the district attorney. Speaker ts one of the greatent field: | Opening of the winter athletic — ers that ever romped the garde |season has been announced by the m that ever romped the gardens || vat Ga. the announcement in| WISCONSIN HAS), in conter field will give the Indians |cludes the starting of tmseketball, HONEST MAN | BELOIT, Wis. Sept. lof confessions! of White Bor bal | world series, W. W. Chesbrough funded John Kpenan $10 which absolutely noiseless, Reds. field, having to aijternate a pair against right and left-hand hitting. NEIS FAST In right field, for the Dodgers, Canadian leagde young#ter, alter nate, New being the righthanded batter. Griffith la the more consiat [F ent batter, tho bie stick work has been counUng for only 265. Nels t« the fastest man on the team, but as Speaker's southpaw tring is rather amall, Griffith probably will get we most work. Joe Wood and Smith, in right field for the Indians, atso alternate, but |]! Smith does the bulk of the work. He || 3» 8 & fair batter and good fielder, in asmuch as his territory is cut al- must in half by the far-roving Speaker, a In center field there ts no com | pariwon between Speaker and Hy My. | ers. The Brooklyn fielder is one of |) the best players on the club, good in andling fly balls and running badk, nd an exceedingly dangerous man tat the bat. Speaker is in a class by | himnaeit. iW Mae Zach Wheat, left fielder of the Robins, is the idol of all fans. He bats around 325 with a clout immi- nent every time he steps up. He isa valuable fielder, being especially good in running over to the sides, ! and fair in getting back under high | ones. Netther Evans, Jamieson nor Gra-| ney, Who have been working in the || left corner of the Indian gardens, can come up to Wheat in hitting They do their fielding well for the same reason as their right fielder Speaker gives them only about half the usual ground to cover, With the advantage in right and left field, it would look like the Rob ins have the better outfield, but Speaker directing the play and ° justing” his partners around, Cleve land seems to have the smoother working combination on the defense On the offense the Robins have the advantage, | SQUAD NEW HAVEN, Sept. 20.—Eddie Fagan, the boxer who still maintains his amateur standing, ts playing in the back field for Yale eleven this fall, | ‘There are many sick voyagers on the sea of matrimony. 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