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SAN 11.—Bill Essick,| finished the 1920 season r of the league} with the Toledo club in the ing Vernon Tigers, is) American association. ding on dangerous) Under the rules of the ‘ground by playing Ham|National Board of the ON Tale ‘BY LEO #. LASSEN Tomorrow night in Jersey City Georges Carpentier, the ] ch lightheavyweight champion, will show American mitt whether he can really fight when he boxes 12 ds with “Battling” Levinsk the recognized light- wyweight champion of the wor! The first time Georges to America he went home without fighting, but he did er a lot of Yankee jack. This time he has come to fight. ether or not he will get a bout with Champion Dempsey ds largely upon the showing he makes with Levin- . If he should stop the American he will gain a lot prestige, but should he take a beating from the “Battler” the safest thing he can do is to hie himself right back to gay Paree before he becomes a candidate for the morgue. . Berean tae section are le aol when the American Davis cup team, made up of William Tilden, World's champion; William Johnsten, Watson Washburn and Capt. Sam x ly may play in Seattle at the Seattle Tennis club. The local club has Gefinitely decided to schedule the matches, but if the Yank tearm, will be en route to the Antipodes to play the Australians for the Bene cup, are willing to play here, the stars will undoubtedly be seen action on the local courts, ‘Tom Lukonivic, former Seattle hurler, who pitched for the Mobfle fn the Southern league during the present season, brings word | that Tom Seaton and Casey Smith, the two pitchers let out by San Francisco club “for the good of the game,” were simply dropped the Little Rock club in the Southern circuit after a long squabble. ovic says that Seaton pitched semi-pro ball during most of the there, while he doesn’t know what Smith is doing. ‘While the Seaton-Smith controversy was at its height tn the Southern Charles Seaton, of Seattle, the accused pitcher's brother, sald they would sue the San Francisco club for defamation of character, come of it at all, Willie Ritchie Would Manage Buddy Ridley Wille Ritchie, former world’s champion in the lightweight division, has made Bud Ridley an offer to manage him. The Seat- tle bantam {is under the manage- ment of Nate Druxinman at pres- ent and will undoubtedly stay un- HE prediction || ‘*F the local man’s wing for some that Cleveland's powerful attack was due to deliver ‘was evidently the right hunch, judg- ing from the way the American, league champions hammered the Brooklyn pitchers Saturday and Sun- day. Saturday the In- dians walked off with a 5 to 1 vic- tory, while the In- day's game by an 8 And they won both games because ‘they pounded the old onion right on ‘the smeller. LEVELAND PITCHING ‘HOLDS UP ‘The American league pitchers have held up, while the Dodgers’ haye ap tly cracked, ‘This is the dope the way it stands ‘Before the Monday game gets under way. ' The Dodgers took the lead tn the! Iseries in Brooklyn because they were | ‘wetting better pitching by a shade, | and now the Indians are getting the | @ame class of pitching which they did in Brooklyn and they are get ting 2 wagon load of base hits to ‘boot. Dartmosth, whe will be Wash- ington’s big opponents on the grid this year, lest ite first big gamp of the season Setarday when "the Green team fell before Fenn State by @ 16 to 7 count, Fenn state le being cosched by Huge Besdek, former Oregen mentor. Franklin Bigh school started off tts season with @ win Saturday by = 6 to 0 tally. counted the only touchdown when he ran |50 yards with the apple in the second quarter after intercepting @ forward pose. Everett high school eqnad ewamped the Bremerton Navy Yard team under an 84 to 0 count at Everett Saturday. Washington State got off to = fiy- fing start by © 35 te © win over Gon- Lafayette gave the Navy an awful close rub Saturday when they were just nosed out, 13 to 7, Oregon handed the Multnomah elud « beating by s 7 to © count, while the Bt 1 Yale defeated North Carotina 21 to 0, and Harvard conquered Vai; LJ the same tally. TODAY + Walter Mails was due to hurl to ‘Gay, while Smith will probably come back for the Dodgers. If the Cleve land team wins today they will be al | Most unbeatable, because Coveleskie Will come back Tuesday and he's de feated the Brooklyn club twice. | | The great showing of the Indians jover Saturday and Sunday have| Made the American league cham-| pions the favorites to win the big series. Princeton, nin, Pittsburg, among the Bast- y Saturday. Montana, Washington’ ente next Saturday, ran up @ count of 133 to @ on Mt. &. Charles. 3 MATURO AFTER | GEORGIAN WINS *» CUE HONORS GOLF TITLE Jimmy Maturo, former world’s) CLEVELAND, Oct. 11—Defeat champion, will enter the pocket|i!ng Mrs. Hurd of Pittsburg 4 and 3 Williard title tourney, which opens |in the finals, Alexia Sterling of At- dn Chicago, October 18%. Ralph | lanta won the women’s golf title here Greenleaf is the present champion.! Saturday for the second tima. ‘capped practice and that it wd squad lost to the Olympic club | cm National Association of; Section 8, of article 26, Minor Leagues, the Ver-| of those rules reads: |non club is open to pro-| “Players are prohibited | test with the penalty of|from joining any other forfeiting all. games in|club or clubs for the pur- which Hyatt plays. pose of participating in | i championship games after) tration may inflict. Clubs the close of the season of|/are also prohibited em- the league to which they|ploying such pisvers in are under reservation, un-| any champions. ip contest der such penalties as the| under penalty of forfeit- National Board of Arbi-'ure of games in which| OACH LEN ALLISON of the University of Washington f during the next few days. The big task is for the Sun Dodgers’ grid mentor to teach | the game. Denny field by a 33 to 14 count, but the game revealed glarin squad, It must be admitted that the poor weather has handi- waa the first game of the season and also that there are many new and inexperienced men on the squad, but | Just the same the big games of the | season are just in the offing and tite Purple and Gold gridders must set tle down to real work in praction WASHINGTON STARTS STRONG Washington started off strong and scored a field goal and a touchdown in the first period and then Whit man took the lead for the balf when they tallied two touchdowns on | Washington tn the second quarter. Washington scored a amafety and Whitman led at half time by a count of 14 to 12, Washington stepped cut and play- \ed real football in the second half and stowed away the game While the game itself is ancient history the weaknenses of the Wash ington team were very apparent. On the defense the majority of the Washington lMnesmen used the “standing” defense and some of the men stood up too high with the re. mult that they were easily bowled | over. |“W" TACKLING WAS POOR And the men showed the Inck of | | practice in tackling as they were tackling too low most of the after | | noon. Washington's veteran backfield looked silly trying to stop Whit jman's aerial attack, The visitors |had the Purple and Gold team run ning ragged trying to stop their Pasen The Washington backs fumbled by |far too much. This, of course, | should be improved upon with prac. | thee. Allison, himeelf, {s aware of the | weaknesses of the team, and only bard work in practice will im prove it. The outlook Saturday wasn't. all) gloomy by any means. The team shows great promise and should come fast with steady practicg, BACKS HIT | HARD | The backs hit the tine hart. This new boy Harper, who ts playing full back, looks lke @ find. He hits the line like a bullet and bow he jean kick! He booted the apple well thruout the game and gets bis punts off high as well as far.| | Harper's best effort of the day was a 60-yard boot. The Washington boys made sev. ELMER SMITH, CLEV \ yy 9 lh, Banging out a home run in the bases filled, Elmer Smith, | Brooklyn and practically cline He also edison g Wamby, with his unassisted hero, but Smith gets the edge. Coveleskie, Cleveland pitche' counter. most of the time Saturday and.it had the Washington forwards so fussed that they went offside time and time again. Garver signalled by @ serien of claps and the ball was snapped suddenly, catching the Washington men off guard, NEW WASHINGTON FORMATIONS Washington used a new formation on thegoffensive that proved effect ive. The center and the guards stay on the line of scrimmage and the tackles and ends Une up a pace be hind with the four backs bringing up eral good passes themselves and | ; got more distance out of them than | hr fg Ae as ol gee gp ts Lagoa deg nome the line of scrimmage when the bal Dailey and Eckmann played well a eg It proved effective Sat on the offense, both men reeling oft | ""*"- Another new stunt introduced Sat — fons Paige Bes 6 omgihty S| urday was on the kickoff. One of Na Geld’ Sree a Ravana Sas | the Washington forwards concealr pretty badly hurt during the’ first | (he oval until yeu Ss the ananee boxe pepe ura Off the field | sine just.in time to be onside. There bea 7 didn’t seem to be any particular | VET LINESMEN value to this stunt Saturday. SHOW POWER The line, with the exception of Captain Faulk, at end, and Zeke | Clarke, at guard, and Larry Smith, While we were pointing out Wash jat center, Is made up of green|ington’s weaknesses we did not I |men. The three vets looked good. tend to detract Washington faces another game | showing. | Saturday when Montana invades the | powerful tea local field, The Purple and Gold] gation. In team should look a lot better | ton at half; Comrada, at tackle, and against the Montanans if they play| purkea, at cent th Anitors the football that they are capable | ‘i tote real testes ane of and improve their defense during | troduced four real football players the coming week. * best passers we have ever seen in| phe seor action. He shoots the oval with dead: | Brooklyn . ly accuracy and it was his work in | Cleveland ~ handling the pigakin that made most | pretter and Milles of Whitman's efforta good. WHITMAN HAS STRONG TEAM for a Whitman aggre- GARVER I8 »SOME PASSER Captain Garver, the big fullback of the Whitman team, is one of the ‘ook Two Games lore, Mamaux, Marqnard, f; Coveleski and O'Neil SUNDAY'S GAME n 1 n_ mR aa ua WHITMAN USED “CLAP” SIGNALS atte i Whitman used the atterinn: Grim “clap" signal’ Krueger; Pagby and ¢ Triple Play Unassisted an BY DEAN SNYDER | five for Cleveland are there intoxi 3D, O.4 Oct. 11—The | cating bre 3 © Ig painted in bright | aUns breezes flouting in the Indian @olors today. The Indians are count. | “Umer atmosphere, dng thelr wampum in their tepees,| When a man by the plain olf alfhl Rot under their piliows. This year’s; Of Smith lurches his ghillalah in ‘world series has painted a futuristic | front of a fast one off of Grimes, the picture daub, It will go down in the| "tional league prima donna, for a @palding and Reach dictionarte: | €arden-wall drive, with Indians clog- along with Bambino's smack record.| ing every crossroads that leads The fifth conclave between the Dodg-| home, he attached a new barnacle to @fs and Indians kicked the bottom! the world series baseball schooner, out of all former statistics ag to| But, not satisfied with this spectacu d Homers Feature Fitth Go fox poked the ball away thru a knot- more double plays in this sertes than hole in Jim Dunn's new centerfield | they made all season. But at the bleaghers for another clean-up | Robbie is still fat. He has never smash. O'Neill's bat has proven to | boasted that he would win the series be the most feared bludgeon in the |@way from home, He's figuring on |weries. To date Steve has drawn all| that possible last stand in Flatbush, | the quiet little intended walks in the| Spoke 1s standing pat on his argu- |serten. Dodger pitchers are afraid | ment that he has the better ball club, of Steven. He's the most walked |4n@ that the best team will win. man that ever played in a world| Today has all the earmarks of be championship classic. ing a fork-handed battle between a Sunday was « typical Bagby day, |COUPI¢ of lefties, with Walter Mails WASHINGTON SHOWS GLARING WEAKNESSES AGAINST WHITMAN AND ALSO LOTS OF PROMISE The Washington men won their first game of the season from Whitman Saturday at | Yesterday’s Hero out a triple and a single, day's game, holding the Brooklyn team to five hits and one from Whitman's | The Missionaries haye a/| jarver, at fullback; Til} “who's who” and “what what.” Uncle Robble and his castotts came | to nville comfortably sitting in e ing chair, so far as the series Was concerned, but they are now| @éorning 4 hardwood bench with | tera in it. ‘The trolley town Pitching string, figured good enough to win a game every day in the week ‘without using the same man twice Bow begins to look like the flowers ’s wall paper. a Faven't snatched the “LAttle | * of the Speakerites, plus all ttle individualities which won hoopla ribbon in the American for Cleveland, at this point in| conversation. But not because | stands three in! | lar acclamation of adventure, anoth: He won 31 games this season. pe.|90d Sherry Smith dashing off south- er Indian, whose name is only car-|cause his teammates invariably ried in the dictionary of the illiterate,| Pounded the leather consistently doffs a triple pray, unassisted, as an.| When Jim is toeing the rubber. Sun- other new sensation to major league | 4y's gume was no exception, and big series parties. They called) Spoke's hunch was jake, There ts Wambaganss a hero Saturday for his|® theory floating around the Indian scintillation around the keystone |#Ummer blue haze in Cleveland that powder puff, but what Bill did on | American league diamonds are faster Sunday burned a hole in the blanket | than the Heydler green. of the yesterdays, Uncle Robbie scents a plot that ‘Wamby pulled a triple play tn a| League park is “fixed” to beat his world series game, and that's that. |Dodgers. The infield has been rolled The other annex to. the wigwam|“nd lawn-mowed until the grass is fans’ ecstacy came in the fourth |a% short as the hair on a Leaven- frame when Lefty Mitchell, who had| worth prisoner's dome, and the stub- succeeded Grimes to the Hillock,|ble bas turned a sickly, bruised walked O'Neill intentionally to get a| ereen. crack at Bagby. But that sly eld! Both teamsare piling up more paw shoots, The Coaster {s @ popular bird tn the Forest’ City since he struck out Eddie Collins and Company with the | bage loaded in the rast Cleveland-Chi- cago series, ‘They'd bet him to beat Bryan run- ning for managing director of a Kentucky still. The war tomtoms are throbbing and the Tribesmen have thelr war |naint and battle bonnets on. And the only ravel of scandal floating around here now ts that | Rube Marquard will say “Good morn ing, Judge” in Cleveland's police’ courts this morning on a charge of DAN SALT SAYS IF HE EVER GROWS UP HE HOPES HE DOESN’T HAVE A_ BUILD LIKE VIRGIL |GARVEY. PEOPLE MIGHT {START CALLING HIM, “WILLIE MEEHA \ By the way, Garvey nays that | he would take up golf, but it makes him dizzy to have to have to count more than six. ‘ootball squad, faces a real job his charges the rudiments of | cd ig weakness in the Washington | Bill Brown says he doesn’t | see how they can play a clean game of football on a muddy} field, Henry Clay, The Star's versatile | telegraph editor, thinks that our of-| fice boys ought to be pretty good bakers when they grow up. ELAND OUTFIELDER | Henry says they’re good | loafers right now. WE ALWAYS GET OF THE ORPHEL MOORE, KICK OUT i AT THE If ITS TRAGIC D TO THE OTHER. LEND AN EAR: CARL REITER, THE GENIAL LIT- TLE MANAGER OF THE DIVIDES | DOUBLE BILL Al | H the first inning Sunday with| | Cleveland outfielder, routed | PACIFIC COAST LEAG' Won, Lost, hed the game for the Indians. triple play, was almost the|“; Anacies Thomas and Lapan. fiacond Game— Beattie oe Los Angeles . Tatterion ali and Ne, r, was again the hero of Satur- Oakland 1-4, Portiand 1-8 Vernon-falt Lake—Rain, fqn Francisco 3-1, Bacramente 2-2 YANKS SCORE 115 HOMERS ‘The New York Yanks registered a| na new record during the past season | Cit |by slamming out 118 home runs in| 7” | 164 games. planning to use Travie with Harvey Thorpe, the Kansas mai better oppor: knows the four-round game This Delightful Bill Plays Twice Daily All Week 15c, 25c, 50c, 75c, $1.00 Mat. Every Day—15c to 50c (Saturdny and Sunday Nights—lIse to $ ROGER HUGH L. and MARCELLE presenting @ gleeful comedy Menlo Moore and Macklin Megley FLIRTATION A comedy of youth sprinkled with music |} young articipate.” | contests from the start o inished the|the season. The rule in such players = yat ‘. ; championship season of! the American association| the foregoing para; with the Toledo club, play-| therefore covers his ¢ ing in all of its scheduled) fully. HAVE TO “FIGHT” Prenk Parmer, the Tacoma weight, whi on fam Langford, MOORE, ALWAYS GREETS | °))2.0,7%0",,t0t cole ets Tommie gg, THE CUSTOMERS AS THEY | Yerking st Austin @ sait’s e7m, Varmee! PASS THRU THE TURN- |i» "when" the two pie tellows, laa STILE, AND WE ALWAY man'nnd te ets prone GET A GIGGLE OUT. OF |**e«% WONDERING HOW CARL jA0%%, Wi WOULD LOOK IN A BATH- ING SUIT. MAVE TO MIX This that ff Langford works Joe Wopp mys he would go tn the movies if he had nice pink | in the ring with Farmer as he been doing with Andre Anderson b cheeks like Bill McCurdy, the polite ticket vendor at the Metro. 1 m Johnao Farmer will b t 4, b of bis reput |will be a favorite to win, but the have been watching Purmer x r th politan. George Olson, the well) known attorney and former a fight judge, can find no alibi for those funny hats and caps he wears. Langford works ent again today at @ fistie with in on y look pretty good, Baird meeting Marcario Flores i of the eard, but the three preili harbor gix boys who will fight. The way they line up is: Lioyd Madden vs. Harry Casey, Nate Druxinman is said to have pulled a funny joke. TR goes something Ike thie: Q—When is « fight promoter not « promoter? ore. Boy McCasalin va Phil Jensen, Mickey Hannon va Stan Fi feathern, A.—When it’s Clay. GOOD NIGHT! Prankie Watermaa fan | I TEACHES TRADES: s a Spocwothd oci RE 2H 34 5 + beg co the plow handles for a year or so and learn to drive a tractor, Be an expert on dairy cattle—or sheep —or bees, Learn something about scientific farming and farm management. Ask a recruiting officer about if, He'll tell you facts about a farm school at Camp Funston, for instance, that you never imagined you could find in the Army. In the Army you can learn to be # better farmer than your dad. Instead of paying to learn at some agricultural “Ina Pest House” Lou Reed and Al Tucker “Full o° Pep” MULLIN & FRANCIS Herman and Shirley “The Myvtertoun Masqucendee” A surprising comedy novelty James and Etta Mitchell Fun in the Air MORGAN & KLOTER A Fow Songs and Sayings Kinograms | Topics of tho Day | Concert Orchestra scalping world series box office cou- pons college, you'll have a good, paying job while you learn—and a chance to see some other part of the country than tha familiar “four corners.” Earn a good living and learn how to make the old home farm pay bettex when you go back to it, EARN, AND TRAVEL LEARN Hy I 3

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