The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 20, 1920, Page 10

Seattle Mets THE SEATTLE STAR SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1928. Will Open Puck Season at Vancouver, B. C., December 20{f ARAARAARARR AY VANCOUVER, B. C., Nov. 20.—Seattle will open the Pacific Coast hockey race with the Vancouver club here one month from today. This date was set at the annual f meeting of the league directors here last night. ‘NEW BALL | PILOT LOVES GAME BY DEAN SNYDER LICAGO, Nov, 20, Why did they | pick on Kenesaw | Mountain Landis, | he Chicago judge, to be the Moses of our baseba } That's a whal sized question. | But the answer sums itself up like a lump of sugar THE a WHOL! IN JUTE m : | Those are big words, No higher| tribute was ever pald to any one in @ividual. Even a president or a king might well envy the Chicago jurtet @uch a bouquet expressed in our Engtish vocabulary. APPLIES HORSE SENSE | His program since 1905 has been to apply horse sens. to human) troubles. And that’s all under the sun that Baseball needs right now. Spending a noon hour with the Judge would convince anyone of his Bigness of vision, his interest in humans, and his LOVE FOR BASE BALL—the game which has focused the limelight upon him by giving him a $50,000a-year job in place of the dinky $7,500 be now recelves. ‘AS soon as taschal? is mentioned | Judge Landis immediately becomes your friend. LIKES ‘TO FAN “You baseball men have been very kind to me,” he said. “Want to talk) it, do you? Let's ke a walk, | then.” The Fan |Ballard Clinches Prep Gridiron Championship JUDGE W.M.LANDIS Judge K. M. Landis isn’t essentially different at a baseball game from what he is when presiding over his court. The | sparkle of interest is in his eyes just the same. This picture was taken while the judge was watching a game in Chicago. |*#nding on the nidelines as substi. | Note that he's puffing a cigaret just like any other fan is japt to do during tense moments. His necktie has slipped ‘The wind was whipping up Mich! around to the northeast corner or somewhere thereabouts. But what's the difference? Nobody thinks about trifles when the bases are loaded and Babe Ruth is up there waving his Gan ave. at about the same rate of which Walter Johnson used When he was feeling good. The raw Of winter was in it, too. The judge pulled his hat eae bludgeon. So meet Judge Kenesaw FAN. We're told that the judge like ‘over his eyes, turned up his coat beet of any ever taken of him, Collar, snatched up his knotted cane} Tris Speaker, Well, that) with him during! *Stunny how a fan| haven't missed but one in the last eleven years. I can think of no tragedy than the crippling of baseball. It means just that! much to the American people, USED TO PLAY “Did I ever play baseball? IT] my I @id. Right here along Michigan ave. We follows used to get out here @t the noon hour along the water I guess that was about 30 During the hot-foot walk up and down Michigan ave. the judge spoke to scores of friends. He poked shiv- ering traffic cops in the back with lhls heavy cane and “hellowed” them. He stopped tn an art shop to admire etchings of Lincoln and Roosevelt. He particularly liked the drawings) of Lincoln. ADMIRES LINCOLN | “The artist didn’t make the mis-| take of rubbing out a lot of lines| Ss most of them do. See that wart! _ on honest old Alvs’s face. It couldn't be more natural.” . Back at the court chamber tn the! Postoffice building Judge Landis was} brimming over with pep and fire. He ate a box lunch between telephon> ' calls. “I walk five mfles every day,” he) gald. “You'd be surprised what a brisk walk will do for a fellow. Fills your lungs full of fresh air and Gears the fog out of your mind.” GAME NEEDS HIM | At 4 o'clock the judge was back) in thejcourtroom at his business of | applying some more horse sense to! Chicago's troubles, That's what they want him to do tor baseball. ) And the horsehide sport enn stand @ lot of horse sense. The game has| outgrown the busjness instincts of the Ban Johnsons and the John Heydiers. | And these men are wise enough to see it. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis 4s the doctor and on top of that he’s @ regular fellow. ~ WARNS SOONERS NORMAN, Okla., Nov. 20 oh Benny Owen is certain that his! Sooner eleven is the strongest team | fm the valicy conference, but he is|in New York under the Watker box-| weight requirement for champion: | tenders—Lew Tendler, Fuchie Mitch. | over-}ing law on November 26, when he| ship bouts is 135 pounds at 2 o'clock. | ell and Willle Jackson—dropped out | ‘warn! his men agatnet [be tn «i j@rid teams to clash Ty Cobb Bigger Card on Coast Than Ruth Was ».Coaat fans have shown greater financial enthusiasm tn Ty Cobb's tricks than they did a year ago In Babe Ruth's home runa The Georgia Peach drew $16, 000 In a single exhibition game on the Pacific slopes the other day. Babe never was able to shy that many dollars Into the box office to see him on his tour here, But, of course, Bambino wasn't as much of a celebrity then as he great Ty a big honor. It is gratt tying to the inany thousand Cé@bb enthusiasts that hia show went ov@r big. Stare may come and go, bat the baseball «martness which Cobb put Into the game will always be monumental. The Detroit prima donna re ‘celves $1,000 per game for his ex hibition services, and he manages to display all his cunning tn every matines, s So Tie "em Ty—everyboty’s for you. i if belt site 3 ? as H " i in i é i i Hy fg 3 is i z il i i i t i Pt Ee int 3 2 Hi bt Ts i t Hi 53 5 fs : rt = f i i I At the same seeion Frank Patrick of ‘Vancouver was again elected to lead the Coast cireuit. Benttio’s first game wilt be played here December 22 if the former schedules are adhered to, anded indefinitely two yi ed rough playing, will Const circuit this year. F | } | ; ] | | } Mountain Landis—THE this picture about the RING CARD FOR TUESDAY COMPLETE Clay Hite has Uned up a strong supporting card for the Travie DavieJoe Simonich welterweight title go at the second American Legion smoker to be staged at the Crystal Pool Tuesday night. Here it is, Look it over for your pelt: Travie Davis va Joe Simonich, weltors. : Ray Serfbner va. Mike De Pinto, bantama Jack Searoy va. Grant Randalls, middieweighta, Young Zuzu va Boy McCassiin, welters. Kid Martin va Stan Fitagerald, bantama Scribner fe the same bird that hung a K, O. wallop on Kid Martin at the last show, He will be meet jing @ clever mitt, tomser in young | tne De Pinto, who hails from Tacoma. Searcy is a rough and tumble miller from Wenatchee who will be making hia first bow before Seattle fans, while Randalls is another Tacoma boy. Young Zuzu and McCasatin wilt be staging a return go. TER. WES Sake she closing minute or #0 of the bout, and Zuzu in out for revenge. Martin and Fitagerald, two willing bantamas, open the show. Travie Davis and J imonich will wind up their hea¢y training for the title go today. good shape right now. This will be the first time that Simonich has fought in Seattle, altho he fs no stranger here, as Seattle fans have heard of his prowess in the ring in his bouts at Butte, Mont, ATTENTION, CAGE PILOTS! Basketball ‘managers who plan to have thelr teams play league ball this year, should not forget that The Star City league will operate again as usual this season. If you want your team in Tha Star league, all that fs necessary to join is to peti- fought petition for reinstatement was rejecteg | HON the sporting editor of The Star by the directors. Filet Pete, of the local forces signed Jim lilley in Vancouver bast night. Players may be brought ft! from the outside until March | after thie, f of Vebruary 1, us formerly. This wan one of the minor rule changes made last Bight in the North in that the pack to anyor of distance to Bis own tee, fide, trreepective it was formerly restricted PASADENA, Nov, 20.—The com. mittee of the Pasadena Tournament of rones is getting ready here on Year's day for the supremacy of the East and West. [last night for @ franchise. The Star arranges for floora, ref. erees, schedule and publicity. Other. wise the teama run thelr own league. The next meeting of The Star circuit is net for December 1/° The season will get under way about the second week in December. HERMAN WINS SACRAMENTO, Cal. Baby Herman, weight “By Nov. 20.— Sacramento feather won a clone decision over Ed Ramies of San Francisco here Sammy Gordon of Port land, altho outweighed, got a draw with Joe (King) Leopold, Oakland. MoCaaslin | knocked Zuzu out the last time they | Both are in| CARDINALS AND BEARS IN GRID TITLE MIX BERKELEY, Nov.’ 30. Some 30 athictes—mnked as the best players of football on the Pa. slept late this morning. of fresh air, most anything excepting ball and waited patiently for the of the whistle which will send them headlong into the fray that is to decide the Pacific coast conference foothall championship, They were the red shirted war riors of Stanford and the powerful “wonder team” of California, The weather gave promise of « fairly fast teld. The rain, which stopped Inte yes. terday dried away from the thick turf of California field to a consider able extent, and daylight naw @ gang of men at work drying out the-wet spota, As to the dope, it was no secret |that California should win. If the Hruins happen to lone it will be gon dered the greatest reversal in the history of Coast football, Experts today were predicting that the gume will develop a his toryanaking punting duel, with the educated toe of Templeton of Stan ford mMtched against the equally acholarty boot of Morrison of Call- fornia. Comparison of the teams show that each has just four men who played in last year’s big game and each will have veternna of last year Cal. jeifie const took an talked for shriek extra dose tutes. The Californians qutweigh ithe Cantinals both as to line and backa, ! As to the crowd, RM wil be a | Wild, ranting, rooting, reartng ag | Sremation of 27,000 foothell enthuse tanta. Indications were that the game, aside from the playing, will be one of the greatest rpectactes ever wit- |nessed on this Coast, O. A. C. MEETS OREGON. - CORVALLIS, Ore, Nov. —The football warriors of the University of Oregon and Oregon Agricultural college are ready for the whistle which will start the annual Oregon gridiron claasic here this afternoon. The university, on paper, appears to be the better team, but the wet | Geld in expected to slow up the lemon-yellow attack, and the Aggies aren't considered out of the runsiog by any meana. Shout O. A. C. win, the victory | Would leave Washington State cob |leme the only undefeatgd cleven in |the Northwontern apllere conference jand the championship would go to [the Cougars. But should the state untversity Prove the victor, Oregon and Wash ington State would be tied for first |honors in the northwest. The Montana and Idaho teams, which wil meet thin afternoon at | Missoula, are out of the race for the northwestern championship, as is | University of Washington | eleven. Fiyen of the University of Wash. fugton football followers are om the Dartmouth-Drown game today at Boston, The Green team expect their hardest game in the Faet to day, a0 Hrown has = fairly good record so far, The Dartmowth squad will leve af @ o'clock thie evening for Beattie, Harvard te a big favorite te win from O14 Bil tn their annoal classic today, Tickets for pores, been oid, whieh i the seating ity of the gigantic Yale bow! Imated that more than 10% could have been sold had there been the ca- pacity. over in 0 orn State won the title The University of Oregon and Oregon Agricultural college tangle today at Kogene in annual clamie event, .A large advance ticket game has no bearing count conference tithe, but the cham pionship of Oregon is at stake. +The Universtty of Alabama and Unt- versity of Georgia tangle at Atlanta to- day in the biggest game in the South, The Georgia lantituts the slight favorite to win the tilt, Wisconsin and Chicago — untversity pattie today in another big game in the Should Wisconsin win, qnd deat Illinois, the Wisconkin 4 land insecond place in the * LONDON, Nov, 20. tid" Lewis retained the British welterweight | title when he knocked out Jobnny | Basham, former welterweight cham pion of England, in the 19th round of their 20 round go here, last night. Big Ten ri | YALE AND | Conn, emaciated are BY HENKY L. FARRELL NEW HAVEN, Nov, 20. |Thin and from a two ly fast from Big Three meat, | | Yale's bulldog lay in wait for Mar | vard here today, living only on hope Sidewalks and hots lobbies jar | with people, streets and avenu ing into the city choked with auto mobile traffie loaded this collegs! }town down with a mob of close 000 football fans gathered for 29th annual battle between Yu |and Harvard. The town was « sea of blue, splashed only bere and there by # jor Harvard crimson, It was @ Yale| day in Yale's home town | Harvard was quoted a 10-103 favor. | ite, but wagering wae slight, more betting being done on the size of| the score. ‘The opinion seemed gn Jeral that Harvard would win by at) | leant three touchdown. | ‘The last 24 hours here has been a ntinual battio—a battle for tickets, & battle for hotel accommodations, a | battle for eating places and some bat | es just for battle’s make, | Overhanging clouds arty this |morning indicated a possibility of rain with a rising temperature, The | weatherman predicted fair and warm conditions. Roth coactrs expressed confidence [and hope Tad Jones, boas of the! | Yale squad, who might be expected |to show a little pesnimiam, was Just the opposite. “For the first time this season 1/ have a equad at full strength,” he anid. “Despite the dope, we feure that a game ls never lost until the game ts over, It's about time for| us to get some breake in a game, and if we get them we'll show you something.” Harvard wif etart her regular Mreup, with the backfield consisting of Fitarerald, Owen, Humphrey and Capt. Horween. The lineup an nounced this morning waa: Havemeyer Woods Redewick x Aldrich . stare OHIO STATE AND ILLINOIS IN TITLE GO BY J. L. O'SULLIVAN URBANA, Til, Nov. 20.—The western conference football cham- plonship waa at stake today In the kame between Ohio Btate and Ilb nots on the Iilinots field. ‘The Buckeyes Mad the edge tn what little betting was going on. If the Buckeyes win the ‘game they will have a clear claim to the conference tithe without a defeat. If Iilinola wins the championship will be undecided, Tilinois, Ohio and/ Wisconsin will be in a triple tie, ac cording to some authorities, each having lost one game. Others claim lilinols will be entitled to the honor on account of having played six gamen and lost one, while Ohio Wisconsin will bave played only | five games each, thus giving Lili- nols the higher percentage About 20,000 tickets were sold for the game. All were disposed of a week ago and scores who came here today were unable to obtain tickets at the tast minute. CROWD AT PREP GAME BY ABE GLASSBERG. EVERETT, Nov. 20-—+Grandstand seats for the Intersectional gridiron contest to be held here Thankrgiv- ing day between the Host High chool of Salt Lake City, Utah, and) jthe Everett High school for the prep championship of the West, are practically sold out. Indications are that the largest crowd ever witnessing a grid game here will see the contest, which starts at noon Turkey day. Members of the University of Washington and Dartmouth football squads have been invited by the Rotary clubs to see the game and to take part in the entertainment following. The Everett eleven ts indulging tn scrimmage each night and ts in ex- cellent shape to meet the fast Bast ern prep school crew. Glen Carlson, regular quarterback, star in former Everett grid battles, who was out of the recent Dalles | game, is back in the lineup. return of Carlson increases offensive and defensive power of the local team, 1O8 ANGELES, Nov. Meusel, the lanky fellow who made Babe Ruth a good running mate with the Yankees last summer, is playipg| the |{ 20.—Bob| «; first base with @ team of all-stars here. Golfers as well as gunmen will the ne few days. Each team was granted 12 home games for the season. The schedule will be drawn up within the coming week. | | engage in turkey “shoots” during Out at the courses of the Jefferson park and Rainier clubs followers of the royal and ancient game will have » chance, or as many chances as they want (at 50 cents per chance), on Saturday and Sunday to win one of these “worth-their-weightin- gold” birds. of these two “turkey shoots.” Medal play with full handicap allowance is the conditions Finishing eight up on bogey, P. competition at the Seattle club last Sat ¥.’s closest rival with six holes on the “colonel.” K. Piank (18) came next, each having the G. Shannon (12) was P. 1. A. Strout (18) and 1 FE. Sands won the captain's cup y from a field of 61 players. “old gent” five down. The large turnout was a worthy tribute to Sam 1, Russell for his untiring worl as club captain during the 1920 sea- son. Two days prior to his latest mu medal, so now the handicap commit bath, Pay & the Thnes’ Trophy tournament at the Beacon Hill links speeded up in the last few days with the result that the finalist in the lower half of the draw is known, he will meet the winner of the Ja upper semifinal mateh, in a 36-hole battle for the Times prize. Haw, who shoots on an “#” handicap, defeated Charlie McCown (16) in the lower semifinal round. In their daily forenoon nine-hole match on the Beacon Hill course, Carl Reiter and Herb Schoenfeld have “some” battle which is usually Cari wins the first two, then they split played something like this: threes, Herbie drives over the gully two are halved and Carl's nice “7” if and you'll find it's a very close match, so close that Herb * to pay his way in to the Moore and Carl has to do likewise for anything he takes out of the Staylard Furhiture store, in the return half of the annual battle for the Burns’ trophy. with the “home course” advantage ocens, PK. Sands won the monthly tee had taken his “18” to the alum Gordon Haw ix the player and ch Weber (14) Muasell Seartett (12) and this gives him No. 6, the next loses him the last hole. Figure it and the inclusion of several good Be LONE “W” GRID CHIEFS BY TOM OLESON | up the opportunity of secing this! jball down the field | sume | blocked punt behind the goal BEAVERS | DOWN WEST SIDE | MEN 12-0 } Ballard Was Not Scored On During Season Ballard high school’s plonship football team #! wonderful defense during the past season, They went, thru their entire schedule without being scored upon. Here is thelr record for season: ard 7, Queen Anne @ rd 3, Lincoin 0. allard 3, Franklin 6, Ballard 0, Broadway 0. Ballard 12, West Seattle @, Ballard high school's cham 4 Ballard High school ts the winnes | of the 1920 Seattle high school grif- iron championship. This is the first) time in the history of local high schoo! football that Ballard has wom | the title, F Ballard cinched thelr claims by beating their traditional rivals, West Seattle, yesterday by a 12 t© 6 count on the Rainier Valley ball lot, Ballard scored their first touch © down in the first four minutes of play when Ballard backs farced Harrison, of Ballard, failed to pride goal. Another touchdown was made the Shingleweavers later in half when Nardin fell on but again Harrison failed to |the pigskin between the goal Coach Murphy of West must bave told his pupils a few things during the intermission tween the first and second as they showed a decided tmp ment in thelr game in the period. Phil Fraser, who played most of the game at tackle for the loser was the ehining light in the game Fraser broke thru the Ballard Tine time and time again nailing the runner behind the line. Young West was the star of the West Seattle backfield. The linesp and eummary Ballard (33) . Ranera University of Washington | great tilt, and Uckets are selling OUt| West seatce squad is in the hands of Head Goach | Leonard Allison and Assistant Coowch | Lorin Solon, No additions will be rapjaly. ere are, however, a few “dope stern” or pessimists who are predict- . Keoring Ballard—None, — West Fraser made in the coaching staff for the| tng woeful things for the Purple and|rence for Fraser: coming big game with college of Hanover, N. H., next Sat urday | The Purple and Gold squad ts still) hampered by the lack of scrimmage, ca by minor Injuries to most of tm first string of men. Scrimmage is what Allison's men need most now, and the fact that ft can’t be| had is a decided set-back in condi tioning the men for the coming game | Seattle grid fans are not passing! ‘K. OF C. HOLDS | SMOKER BM Bethel and Army Welch wilt headline a emoker to be staged at the Knights of Columbus hall to night by Jimmy Malone for Knights ‘The show will get under way Pm. Eddie Hammond and John Malone will meet in the semiqwindup. They're middleweights, Frank Pete and Irving Gleason, lightweights, will give an exhibition, and a couple of Filipino lightweight» will open the show. i e aS maser Dat HY FARL A. PRY Red weather for the gmernl pob- Re—good weather for the duck bunt or and thereby hangs the tale that what satisfies one will mot amether. ‘The rainy seesion that we have opportunity for ® good bag will doubtiows have bis fling over this week ond. Reports to Piper & Taft as te cond na on t ing prevaiis, tal sium bi have been | 4 that shows up better than | ore are still finding some ows} ile up having ever betc fine tr the sport being fou Sulph of from this district find the closing of th . Shrinking to make ring weight ts bad medicine for boxers. The whittling off of a few pounds | 133-pounders for #o long that the| has, in many cases, tinue to do it. Champion will risk his title honors by reduc- ing in his first championship fight mncets Joe Welling of Chicaga, BENNY LEON ARD MUST “SHRINK” The weight ifference has kept posted $10,000 as forfett money to were made known. | him from meeting the best of the| carry out the law to the letter, Benny Leonard, who) matob, | has grown to be a heavy lightweight, |also a heavy lightweight and can do| makes champions. to do the challenging. That's how he got the Welling The Chicagoan 135 pounds much Under the Walk sier than 183 lew the light however, in| Leonard's crown will be dt stake proven disas- | champ has come to the point where! during the 15-round menu. trous, but nevertheless the boys con-| he hi It ian’t much of a risk for the title | holder at that, since Welling has al ways lacked the something that | Efforts on the’ part of Promoter ‘Tex Wickard to qecure the real con- FOR WELLING MATCH Tendier awked a $59,000 guarantee. Mitchell was more conservative and wanted but $25,000, Jackson in- sisted that Leonard make 135 pounds |at 9 o'clock instead of 2 bells. Well- |ing is to get $15,000 for giving the | chai Dp exercise. | Bight shows at Rickard’s Madison Square garden have netted $297,906. The biggest gate for any one fight was $62,000, which Willie Jackson (Both Leonard and Welling bavelof the program when their demands|drew with Eddie Fiusimmons on most | October 29. Tho Leonard-Welling go should top them all, since Bennah is a big-| town favorite, and would draw with | anyone, Just what Gipson's prima donna} weighs has been kept secret for a| long time. But his money is down | that he'll be a 135-pounder at 2 o'clock on November 26, The shrinking process won't do Rim any | good, however, unless he proves an | exception to the “violet” act, |Coach Spears. B= ton spirit predominate over sucl a minority. The Washington squad wil have no advantage over Dartmouth as to playing on the home field. The sta-| dium field will not be ready for any practice until~Thursday. ' ach Allison intends to run the men thra signals on the new field) both Thursday and Friday, as does | the Dartmouth men- tor, with his men. WASHINGTON STAGES CROSS | COUNTRY RACE A cup will be awarded the winner | of the anuual cross-country race to| be 1 Tuesday, November 23, at the University of Washington. Winners of the “W" will be barred | from running in the preliminary races, but they make participate | with the others in the finals, | The race will begin and end at the new stadium, and will be over a course nearly four miles in length. | Jackenipe are to be found tn large Dumbers arpund the farming valleys of | this community, espectally the | recent rains have formed pools, Cultt- | both to the north and | Will be found produe- r who enjoys going o bird. kame honting for! min the state of Washington im Kittitas county, where. the | 0 for deer remains open until D. Western Washington ed over hump’ the big bucks ef that Dartmouth | Gold, but the Seattle and Washing: | ®rke for Kinar rence, : SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. $0— George Shade won a decision from Tommy Robson in their bout at Dreamland rink last Kayo Kruvosky and Jim fought a draw. Fast and easy running, there first— THE DAYTON leads them all. Easy terms, get yours by joining our ¢ mas Club now, i 1116-1118 Pike Streee Each year Americans use $320,- 000,000 worth of buttona, OPPORTUNITY 3 STARWANTAD LET’S GO TO CHURCH: Suppose There Were No Churches in Seattle! No instruction of young an No weekly reminder of duti nscientiously cultivate d old in righteousness: es to God@nd neighbors d moral restraint of evil; proclamation of eternal life through Jesus Christ; No faithful ministers of the “God of all comfort"— Would you want to live here? Would your wife and children? Of course not! Then ask yourself: “If all Seattle were just tke ma 1 wonder where our churches would be? For the good of your own soul-life; for the worship of GOD; the ske of the children, and for the good of this city in which you live, The Seattle Federation of Churches asks you to attend public wors! hip in some chureh tomorrow,