The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 2, 1920, Page 16

THE SEATTLE STAR THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1928, - BUZZY MUST HAVE : ig “Rag : SOMETHING UP HIS SLEEVE; TO MAKE STATEMENT SOON BY LEO H. LASSEN WARES must still have his eye set on that Portland Franchise. That's the only reason we can see for Wares refusing to accept Prexy Klepper’s terms to manage the Siwashes during the 1921 race. According to stories coming from San Francisco Wares couldn't see A Letter From Everett his way clear to ac- cept those terms be- cause of pressing business at H anford, Cal, And yet addressed to us from him communivation questing « statement Be to why he didn't sign, Wares gays he couldn't come to terms. that he had recommended Bill jworthy for the job. And Bill ty since obtained the same Y AND BILL a BUSINESS by Kenworthy was-or maybe Ye—Wares’ partner in Hanford, the ) Pair of them operating a billiard foom. There must be a lot of players at Hanford to make ‘ Buzzy’s while to give up 4 Beattie berth after he had : talked himself to death get ting the position a year or so ago. Wares has bad his eye on that a franchise for some tigne ‘and he may be able to swing the If talking will do it, Wares to succeed because that's landed him the position as chieftain a year ago. At any rate, Kenworthy is on way north from Hanfort and haa been announced that he and wr plan to attend the major meeting in the East, which Billed for December 9 ‘TF CINCY If he and Klepper can squeeze right kind of players out of Cincy Reds that are due Se- on the Brenton-Bohne deal, ht Just a Few Raltor’s Note Three Northwest couors te Leenard Allison, present Was Leo HH. Lassen Sporting Editor, Seattle Star, Seattle, Wash | Dear Sir the coaching oe of Borleski, some amusement because of the fac! the above mentioned gentiemen on coaches are be An article in another Seattle paper of No Comparisons minentiy mentioned as ene Henderron and Bagehaw affords me t that Bagshaw has thrashed both of the gridiron. In 1911—Broadway under Borleski, 0; Everett under Bagshaw, 19. In 1912—Rreadway ander Henderson, 7; Everett under Bagshaw, 14. Everett's enrollment, 600 students, Broadway's enrollment, 2,000 students, Look up the records and draw you Ice Race ™ Entries to Open Dec. 15 tries for The Star's annual aces will open December 15, and the first preliminaries will be held at the Arena January 6. All speed skaters in Seattle planning to enter the races will be given practice time at the Arena on ‘Tuesdays and Thursdays begin ning next Tuesday, There will be & number of preliminaries to be decided by the number of entries and the winners will meet in the finals for a silver trophy. Paul Donahoe won the title last year. ‘will ease up Kenworthy’s work | ably. | Beattie fans are wondering what of a manager Kenworthy will But only time can tell, the “Duke” will be given chance in the world to make! In " doin, effort to “i the Rose hise. With Ris hustie he ought make a go of it. Of course may be interested in some the meantime Wares is un an Ole Hanson in| city} venture, whatever it is being| own business. WAS Wares made a success of his! bring: | as Seattle's manager, the locals tp from the base- to second place in a year, it mmst be big business to him away from the helm of Seattle club, Wares has promised to issue a ment soon as to just why he ‘t sign with the locals and it make interesting reading, and it may not )But this marks the passing of Wares os Seattle's manager, the time being at least, and ¢ “Duke* Kenworthy wll d.the center of the local base- stage for some time to come. DELANEY TO BOX IN CALGARY Cal Delaney, the Cleveland welter- ht, who boxes Joe Simonich here day at the Crystal Pool, will over in Calgary, Canada, Friday he is billed to mill 15 rounds a@ Calgary boy, name unknown. will arrive here about Monday. In the meantime Simonich is get- in shape and is ready right now step four rounds with anybody Ray Scribner, the hard-hitting boy who is coming to the fast by the swat route, meets Moore, the Seattle mitt tonser | the semi-windup. | Three other bouts will card. COIN HITCH DELAYS BOUTS NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—Only a little over the amount of the purse holding up a prospective bout be- Benny Leonard, lightweight apion, and Richie Mitchell, Pro- © Tex Richard said today. complete hell and several others of the! fhtweight flock are changing their nds about meeting the champion the report guined circulation Benny was not strong when he 4 135 pounds this week for Joe felling. PLAN PLAYERS FRATERNITY | NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—~Major je ball players are organizing ig the lines of the Old Players’ ternity to seek an equitable ar. ement with the club owners, it ame known here today. >. Practically all of the National and "American league stars will ¢ “the new organization, it is said. 1 ai | Amateur Athletic union has refused to rant the “Big Four” amateur leag |their amateur card because of produced by Prexy Patrick, of t iengue, professional circu: son in Vietoria Christmas afternoon will be the first matinee game ever at- tempted on the Const eet under way a on will be an electric at the local rink before the , has signed Robert Walberg, formerty = mem- ber of the Royal Goth Guards, of Mockholm, Swedem, is the mame of Bob Rowe's hockey prodigy, Me's green at the hockey game, but @ good skater, and Kowe has hopes of mak- ing a good puck chaser out of him ome of these days | Herb Wraight will be the Seattle time. keeper this year, and J, McKittrick and Chester Hamilton will act as goal um pires. Pete Muldoon hasn't decided whether there will be a band to entertain fans between halves here this year or Bot. Hockey players the University of Washington, who are planning to organize hockey at the local instita- tion, will hold their first turnout at the Arena Friday night between 5 and 6. Bobby Kewe will coach ‘em, | Reservations for season tickets will be opened December 1%. Ticket wale for the | first game will be held 21 and 22. ° s Teams from Queen Anne and Broad- | way will play a practice game at the Arena Saturday afternoon. December 20, | MORE PENNANTS | FOR ST. PAUL | 8T. PAUL, Dec, 2-—They win other championships at St. Paul be- side baseball rags. The St. Paul list in | soccer team has cinched the Minne-| started training again after sota title again. Pilot Muldoon, of the Mets, the Canadian | proving that the league waa «| scoreboard | Fr own conclusions, Thank you J. B. CORBALLY. Joo METS TO BANK ON TEAM PLAY HILE Vancouver has a brilliant hockey squad lined up for the jcoming year with plenty of speed and beef, if the Seattle club can line {up a husky defense man to replace Roy Hickey, who jumped to the Eastern outlaw league, the Mets will | be pretty well fixed for the season Victoria will have about the mune f€eam that played Inst year, and while | the Aristocrats are always dangerous, | it's generally Vancouver that Seattle Must beat out for the tile. ‘The Mets will be banking on their! |cémbination play to tying home the }Coast honers. With’ Foyston and Morris on the forward line and Walker at rover, they have one of jthe best scoring combinations in hockey, Riley the for | ward line nicely | With little Bobby Rows on the de | fense and Harry Holmes in the nets, ome more good defense man will round out the team | Muze Murray and Charley Tobin are being counted upon as utility men, altho neither have signed yet Seattle's first practice will be held at the Arena, December 12. The sea [non opens December 20, with Seat- | te playing In Vancouver, The local rounds out | tater RENNIE LINES UP FAST ~ CAGE TEAM Wea Rennie, pilot of the University Community five, is lining up a good squad for the coming city basketball race. The Commuters made a good | record last season, losing out to the | MacDougall-Southwick champions in | the egmi-finals in The Star league Rennio himself will play center At the present he has Ward Bell and Henry Woodcock, star forwards of | last year's team, lined up for the |wame berths this season, This trio | makes a good scoring combination. ‘The “U" pilot is on the hunt for a good guard to act as a running mate for Bill Savage, Lincoln high scheol | star, who is being counted on as one of the Commuter defense men. The Community team is doing its preliminary training at Lincoin high school. WE WONDER DANVILLE, Marquette Centre Ky, Dee yotball team has copied college in the matter of ob jserving prayer before football |games. Sincerity in athletics in a | sign of better sports WHERE’S JIM FLYNN? LONDON, Dec, 2.—~Tommy Burns, |onetime heavyweight champ, is not | satisfied with his recent defeat at |the hands of Joe Beckett here, but | wants another chance to display his wares here. Tommy just arrived at 40 SWINGS INTO ACTION AGAIN NEW .YORK, Dec. 2,—Soldier Bartfield, well known boxer, has a long for. bouts in several local clubs The rest, BY HEK NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—Whether the spitball will be barred in the “Major legcues next season is causing considerable agitation these days. Many persons believe that the moist &rtists will be allowed to go on ax they have in the past. They point out that if the freak delivery was “barred tne fans would raise a hue and cry over the passing out of the game of some of the best hurlers on the firing line today. Bill Klern, one of the best umpires In the National League, is one of those who does not think the deliv ery will be barred next year, Klem ways thot it would be unjust to pre | Dodgers, Douglas of the Giants, Doak of the Cardinals, Coveleski of the Indians, and others from using the moist delivery, upon which they depend for most of their effective. ness “If the pitchers who were allowed to use the spitball delivery last neason were forced to resort to an | other style of offeringn next spring for effectiveness I think the fans in| major league cities would raise a protest,” said Kiem. “Among the | players there has never been any ob- Jection to the use of the spitball. It iy not @ dangerous delivery. emery ball and other freak deliveries | which have been done away with were really dangerous to bat against, aber 30, comparing | reamon opens at the Arena two days) WHAT THEY SAY | Bert Colimas Is Due to Box im Seattle Soon { Legion Colimas is pl: him h ( best term: NOTED HUNTER TELLS OF THRILLS BY MORRIS ACKERMAN Noted Hunting and Misbing Hxpert | Grtvationt | There's a word that commands the attention of all, whether they are hunters or not It is the ambition of every big game hunter to some day run armuck of a big grisly bear and walk home with the hide. Last month, on my trip in the Gan. | adian Rockies, elght of these huge tilvertips were sighted, and our party was fortunate enough to bring five joe them back 1 | I had an experience on this trip | With griasly bears that I will not for-| | met noon. Dr. Romig, myself, Curlie Phillips, ehiet guide, and Charley Berry an. jother guide, started on a five-day overmountain trip afoot On the laxt morning, while head ing for camp, we saw three bears go over the skyline—« big she bear and her two yearling cube, We stalked the yearlings down a) kraney slope, where they were indus» triously digging for gophers. | MAMMA KNOWS | When we were within 200 yards of | them, Curie, the guide, suggested that I pick off one of the cubs, and that the “mamma bear would show up.” We were in the scrub at the time. | and just aa I eat down to rest my/| cibows on my knees, I looked around and there wae mamma within ten) | feet of me It seemed that she understood her babiew in danger, and had been | | stalking um, too. CLOSE STALKING Now, that's my idea of stalking o lady grizzly entirely too close. } I did the unwise thing and cut loone, She wheeftd and turned into the serub in front of me. I fired an other shot after her for good luck, | and fortunately one of my shots took effect. pwever, J hate to thik what) might have happened had I perforat- | ed baby stlvertip and mamma had as certained who was responsible, as| ahe most certainly would haye done, looking over my shoulder, ipupR" HUNTERS | The grieaty in mecond in size only | [to the Alaskan brown bear, It weighs when full grown, about §00/ pounds i This tear has a bad reputation. | | Falling into the crushing, hugging | arms of a grizzly is the dread of all “dude” hunters. But notwithstanding this general | | idea of danger, I have not found | them to be “bad actors.” He or whe | | will get out of your way if given a jehance, It ie only when you wound) | them that they attack 1 . IT am convinced that if you are hunting them, the old adage “Shoot until they are dead, and then fire a few more shots for luck” isn't a bad thing to remembér The vitality of a bear is something unbelievable. They fight to the last, | and even in their last struggles show | remarkable strength ' i Tt is real sport hunting grizzlies, but take my advice and don't stalk ‘em too close, It's pleasanter—-and | much safer. 1 j | George Overton; star guard of the MacDougall Southwick team inet sea- son, will piny with the Northern | Life Insurance team in the City lenge | The city ctroult's entries ber 10. There ii of fast teama the bla Taft there close Decem- | still room for a couple | Managers wishing to enter | ean de eo by filling owt/ obtainable at vither Piper @| or Mpaidings, and filme them | The Crystal Poot will be available for basketball games thi \ the Poot, K. of ©., ¥ A. and Elks’ floors open the league will be pretty well fixed for the season, The ruling adopted at the league meet- bt closing do: pi tien may lumbua team The Kalghts are pretty short [this year, and Athletic Directo Huddle ia planning to play to roufid out his team, ‘There In an important meeting of the ttle Church league billed for tonight | ey Strong's rooms at the ¥. M 4 UMPIRE KLEM URGES NATURAL DEATH FOR SPITBALL big league were glad that they were placed under the ban, “If it is decided to put the spitter in the class with the barred de liveries the pitchers who will suffer by the rule will be robbed of their effectiveness, and a8 a result they will probably be easy marks for the batters, and the career of each will be shortened.” Kiem believes that It should only be fair to allow the spitball pitchers now in the league to continue until thelr days of usefulness are over, but he would bar any more moist | ball hurlers from sue ranks. “Lat the delivery pass out of exist ence as those who use it drop out of tering the major Yent such slabsters as Grimes of the|and the majority of batsmen in the| the leagues,” he said. | Klem praised the work of the Chi. cago grand jury in unearthing the gambling scandal. He declared, how. ever, that a majority of the players were honest, and it would not be fair to judge them as a class by the actions of a handful of their set. ‘He does not think that the game will be infested with crooked ball players for another generation. He sald the j Teoent scandal was a good thing for the pastime and tangtit a lesson to every player in the business, “I do not think an attempt to throw another game will*be made juntil there is a new generation of |players and fans,” said Kiem. | "Those who are now playing know jit is practically impossible to get | away with any crookedness,” ame bi TRAILS CUE KING Here's Edward Horemans, the Belgian cue crack, who has come to America for the express purpose of meeting Willie Hoppe, world’s balkltne champion. Hoppe has already chal- lenged the Belgian, but Horemans says he wants until the first of the year to become accustomed to billiard playing con- JACK AND BILL ARE TRAINING NEW YORK, Dee, 2.—Bioth Jack Dempery, world's heavy champ, and/ BU Brennan, his challenger, are| training bard for their coming bout at the Madison Square Garden, De} comber 1. | Dempsey is doing his training on bourd the U. 8. Granite, and Bren. | nan is working out om Joe Thomas | farm near Providence, Rhode Leland. Call by Homer McSapp) ‘The roses are red “And violets blue, It’s nothing to me KELSCH IS IMPROVING CLEVELAND, Dec. 2—Jobnny Kelech, the young middleweight whom Jerry Sachs is grooming for a scrap with Johnny Wilson, is com He ts» mixing KELLEY CAN’T SEE PHILLIES PHILADELPHIA, Deo. 2-—Mike Kelley surprised «@ lot of folks by not accepting the job of trying to Put some life In the Phillies Mikeling right along. kets practically as much salary man 2 (Contributed to the Ban Francisco | Bert Colimas, the Los Angeles middleweight who has been knocking the boys dizzy in the cafeteria city, is due to fight ; in Seattle within the next few weeks if he accepts terms which have been sent to him by Promoter Clay Hite, of the American inning a trip East and will stop over in Seattle en route. He asked for a bout here and Hite has wired i who knocked Jimmy Storey out in 0 seconds recent] Plenty of Kick Hunting Rocky Mountain Grizzlies MEY TELA, @ pretty good one on Prexy Bill Kiepper down tn San Francisco. Bill was @ recent visitor to the Bay City, and while in the company 6f several baseball writers, he received a telegram from Cc. C. Cravath, ih which mid Cravath applied for the job as Seattle base ball manager “Who is this fellow Cravath?” Klepper ts mid to have asked the writers who finally told him that Cravath managed the Philadelphia club in the National league last year and has been playing baseball lo, these many yours. THE COAST LEAGUE'S annual meeting wil be hela tn Sacramento December 16. There is important business to be taken up at the annual Coast league pow wow, the main being whether or not the Galt Lake franchine is to be shifted to Vancouver, B. C, and the formation ef the | schedule for the coming season. | SAN FRANCISCO should have a pretty good Infield next season with | Hasbrook for first base, Ellison for second, Caveney for shortstop and — | Kamm for third with Walsh to be used as utility. Whether er not Corhan will be with the Seals remains to be seen. The veteran shortstop has been } among thone most prominently mentioned as candidates for the Salt Lake | pilot position | IT LOOKS like the Cincinnati Reds plan to use Sammy Bohne at second hase next season to sucesed Morry Rath, who is slowing up. Bohne has — made a trial at both second and short, but he played the best ball of his, career for Seattle last year at third base. The reason Sam doesn't | #0 good at the keystone berths is because he is a poor judge of @ “hop.” At third the ball in on top of the third sacker almostas soon az it's hit | and for some reason or other Sam just naturally catches ‘em better that way. It may be that Heinie Grob, present Red third sacker, may be | shifted to second, where's he no stranger, and Bohne be used at third. Pinky Mitchell, Milwaukee miller, ters the welterweight division for the first time tonight. He's billed to mest “hampion Jack Britton at Milwaukee im & 10-round ge. i fF Bud Ridley swings into action for the second time in Tacoma tonight when be bones six rounds with Jack Davis, ti Oakland featherweight Marcario Flores and Al Nelson meet in the semi-windup. HI fe i i Joe Mimonich, the Rutte mitier, w! Imeets Cal Delaney b hae evidentiy worked Fa z Baby, 1@ reunds in Portland i Bight at the Pool. He put up « fast draw Davis here recently and the | fame liked bis work. « K. O. wallop at last. He put Archie Boy, pride of Aberdeen, to sleep in Ab- | erdeen t her night | “Just Between staged at Benton Harbor, Michigan. You and Me” it with the better class of middleweight aging the Saints and he doesn't have| gentry and is no setup for any of them, to fight much to win the pennant Oh, No! He's Not Bringing More WOODEN SHIPS Into Lake Union Ask the Shipping Board; Maybe THEY Know —What Answers the Question. Never Was It So Easy for the Small Investor A few years ago it would have been diffi- cult for the man or woman of small means to find profitable investment for his sav- ings; today he can obtain splendid securities, earning attractive interest, for sums of modest size. Seattle local improvement bonds, for example. Come in and talk it over, NATIONAL CITY BANK OF SEATTLE Second at Marion ed up with real economy. A small chew of this class of tobacco lasts much long- er than a big chew of the long fine-cut tobacco W-B CUT isa : RIGHT CUT is a short-cut tob cOOs Effective Sunday, November 28 Train 457 (Formerly Leaving 12:30 P. M.) WILL LEAVE SEATTLE 10 A. M. Arriving Portland 4:40 P. M. Carrying Thru California Standard Sleeper Effective Wednesday, December 1 Train 459 (Formerly Leaving 3:30 P. M.) WILL LEAVE SEATTLE 1:30 P. M. * Arriving Portland 8:10 P. M. id Trains Arrive and Depart King Street Station, Seattle, Union Station, Portland ’ 7