The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 3, 1920, Page 20

CACTUS CRAVATH FACES REAL JOB IN BUILDING UP SALTLAKE CLUB FOR 1921 SEASON A\CTUS CRAVATH, the veteran slugger who will manage the Salt Lake Bees next year, has a real job just ahead when it comes to patching up the Mormons for the 1921 Coast league race. Cravath, who is no longer a youngster at the game, has announced his and there are still a lot of base hits left | intention of in his big stick. He | should take} care of one} of the out-| field berths. | The Salt lake team at the start of the 1920 race looked | Bke @ pennant winner, bot the Coast league scandal that brought Bbout the release of Bill Rumler Bnd Hari Magrert, star outfielders, | Wrecked the club BALES WEAKEN BEES And now the mie of Ernie John. | Gon, Shortstop deluxe, and Kart Bheely, first sacker to, leaves | & couple more big holes to plu MP. And then, too, Wally Hood, Who played some mighty _ sweet Daseball in center field the Salt] ake team in the ng Ww Wf the season, reports to the Br tyn Dodgers next year. The Sat Lake team receives Ted| and took punch after punch on the chin. Pourdan, an average first baseman,|a pretty good store of brains, and it seems as if there ¢ just an average! other field in which he could make @ living instead of taking beatings Like | tne largest of the season. | and Byrd Lynn ®atcher, from the White Sox on the Bheely deal. Jourdan is said to Vhhave the makings of a food ball! as he im still young, but. time in several weeks, next Wednesday, when be boxes Ole Anderson, the | a)» is doubtful if Lynn will be much | Tacoma miller at Bremerton, is working like a horse for the bout. BY LEO H. LASSEN playing regularly, - ITH A LITTLE me tty by a we nd, defeating bt giving Stan Fitese times and winning a t & good stitt ch for @ little fellow. dig league the Inst te B Delan Pe y shou SEATTLE FANS have tolerated Jim Flynn, the veteran heavyweight, as fighter for the last time. ks | ring as he sure can take ‘em, but that let's him out Roy McCormick gave him an awful trou sol show, and though Flynn never backed up, he Just stood there a main event himself any more, t tect the la: he took last Tuesday. xing instruction, little Ray Scribner, the! t, whe has been winnfng all of hia bouts | the wallop route, wht on the Coast nuy, knockin n of Portland by a beating the same way by Mooring Stan four chnieal knockout in three rounds. Scribner packs nd he gets big league remulta Moe, veteran boxer and if Pete doesn't hurry him | * 1 move up in the Northwest ring game. | ore, the hard-hitting Seattle boy, in the semi-windup to the Cal monich bout at the Crystal Pool Tuesday, should make the going Ray won three out Filipino Kid Martin in a] hocking him down four times He throws his right band over in He is working under Scribner meets THE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1998. | New England Prep Gridders Would Play Everett EVERETT, Dec. 3.—Haverhill high school, of Haverhill, Mass., wants to send its team to Everett to play the local squad at Everett some time before January 2. ‘The Eastern school already has challenged East Tech, of Cleveland, but was turned down. Everett high school authorities are willing to accept the challenge, providing the game is played on a neutral field in California, each team paying its own expenses. This is to provide a trip for the Everett team, which already has played host to two Eastern teams, accepting all of the financial obligations. SEATTLE STAR ELMER J. NOBLE POST © TO DISCUSS CAGE PLANS AT MEETING TONIGHT os ered of the Elmer J. Noble post of the America Legion, who are interested in basketball, are asked | attend a meeting to be held at Clay Hite’s office at the Crysta Pool tonight to discuss plans|§ p. m. *."!for the formation of a team| Entries for the city league will B open until December 10, Any oth "| to enter the city hoop league.|(Pims wishing to enter the circu ‘The Noble post is anxioun to put! oan do so by filling out applicatiom! the face and if blanks obt Je at either Piper # *t ‘Taft's or Play in the city lengne will under way during the first week Tonight's session will be held at! ya nuary | | Marquis to Have | } } Trial With Seattle Siwashes dim Marquis, former Broad. way high school pitcher, who horted for the Albany team, in the Bastern league, last year, ix tovbe given a trial with the Seattle club next spring, acoording to a letter Mar is hes received from President Comiskey, of the Chicago White Sox, who con treks Marquik’ contract, Jim tn speaufing the winter in Se atthe, PREP HOOP PLAY STARTS Hudiey started right out im the JAN. 14 LOCAL BANTAM WORKS WELL nyY TOM OLSEN Ridley, Seattle's popular bantamweight, gave away a few pounds to tall, long Jack Davia, in their main event bout at the Bagler smoker in Tacoma last ni and gave his opponent @ terri eat ine. Nidley tried hard for a knockout. but Davis is @ tough man, and was able to stand the Seattle bantam's terrific blows. Davia hails from Onktand, Cal, where he has @ good reputation, but Ridley good for him, and had everything hia way. STARTS BARLY Buddy With Zach Wheat, Tommy Griffith, Wi Meyers and Nels back on the job tf) fn California, te 4 Hert the Reals for Co. Jlisen already being named. | the post's cage players show PAINT, GAY im, Detroit, thet “Babe” lin turning out, the squad will enter| paged with the Detroit | in the American league last an Flynn im still a tough bird in the! lie can't even pro | cing at ive fellow with | ht to be some | Fiynn is an « YOUNG HECTOR, the Bremerton heavyweight, who fights for the first He is than Byler or Jenkins in the/ doing his preliminary training at the Pool gymnasium and looks like he @atching lina Tf Jourdan kicks thm and can hang onto Marty Krug, if regular second sacker, the Lake team will have a pretty mucieus for a good infield. Ed the other infielder member the 1920 Bees, who will be held! » may fit in at either short or) This leaves it to Cravath to @ man to replace Johnsen. worry. So far they have th and a young fellow named fr as their best bets, Cravath uid hit pretty well in Salt Lake. pr looked pretty good when Played here with the Bers on ir last visit of the season last ‘The catching staff will be nicely care of with Lynn, Byler Jenkins on the job. ‘The pitching stoff, always a weak with the Bees until the past . looks like one of the best the league if Cravath can re all of them. Ralph Stroud, leading pitcher of the 1920 sea. should be good for a lot of} again next year. And then if young Pob Thurston, who hxe a big winner next year. | lon wes one of the meoet| ising youngsters in the league} Year and Coast leagué scribes} th see him graduate to the} show alter another yegr on Coust. or HERS GOOD ‘The rest of the pitchers are performers. There ts Jack| » the southpaw, who did c in pretty good condition. the | Food heavyweight, except the top piece. Hector bas everything that goes to make « Something's loose somewhere tn his roof and if he could ever settle down to real business he ought to lick @ lot of the heavyweights around this neck of the woods, BOY McCORMICK faces an tmportant bout tn Portland next week when he takes on “Battling” Levinaky, the New York light heavyweight, tn « Levinsky ten't what be used to be, but, at that, he should for McCormick, 10round bout. be @ pretty good trial b VANCOUVER IS | PUCK TEAM TO BEAT ITH a brilliant scoring combi nation and a strong defense, Vancouver looks like the team to beat In the Coast puck race thin year. | ‘The Milllonaires will have one of the strongest defenses in hockey | with Cook and Duncan on the de | fense and Lehman in the neta ‘The return of Mickey MacKay as) rover gives the Vancouver team add ed scoring ability and more speed. And then the Millionaires, have Skin ner, the two Adama boys and Smoky | 4 line and for spares. Keats, the Ed monton star, a center ice man, joins the Vancouver team, they will pre sent a powerful lineup. Bob Rowe, Seattle defense man picks Vancouver as the team to beat. Bob has been playing against Van couver for some time now and pre. dicts that the Millionaires will have one of the strongest lineups that| ever took the ice for the Northern city. ’ Seattle win open the season with the Vancouver team in the Northern city December 20. | With the opening of the season! about two weeks or so in the offing, | The Stars annual city ice racea The Tacoma’s home talent met in the ontrt be iret preliminaries will « Janwary & } | 1 | ‘There wit be no charges for entering on December 15 and the! or under ua on | Floyd Cook, defense ma: j Vancouver Milllonair Pdie Oatman, Victoria captain, wt! comeback, and then there is Nick | Seattle is still hunting for a defens#! noid down b who And | another southpaw, brilliantly at times. third southpaw, Walter Lev is one of Qhe hardest pitchers the league to beat when he is it." The veteran “Spider")| n ts just about thru. Al Gould| @ couple of outfielders with) speed and hitting power, and good righthanded pitcher are| ‘the big needs of the Bees. With Ball players of Class AA caliber as plentifyl as dance floors the Pacific ocean, Cravath faces Mice job during the coming few tha. | LANGFORD STOPS HERMAN | PORTLAND, Dec. 2.—Sam Lang. | “Tiny” Herman, the| , Blant, three times in| man to replace Rickey and a couple of substitutes, The rest of the Se attle team will be made up of veter- those berths for Seattle since the lo- cal club entered the Coast league. LYNCH ~ K. O'S SHARKE NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—Pete Her man, the broad-shouldered Italian dwart, has been hiding tn the bushes with the bantamweight title) for two years. He coming out} with it December 22 and he'll go right back without it. | So believe 10,000 fans who saw! the lean, gaunt Celtic Joe Lynch| knock out Jack Sharkey, the con-| queror of Jimmy Wilde, in Madison| Square garden last night DAVIES MAKES KIDS HAPPY Qaled 10-round fight here last night nan couldn't get up the third fe and took the count. Each Ter the punches which sent the As | Moran to the mat was a vicious| é delivered the Boston tar a fast tor fight PITTSBURG, Dec, ?.—Tom Davies, the star halfback, who has played such a wonderful game this season for the Panthers, has made two kids happy. He gave them his headgears and now they are going to learn how to play football for Pitt some day | th ans who have been holding down| — | from bei @ in| first round and weakened the Call-| ‘The annual prep basketball season fornian with hard lefts and rights | will get under way later than usual| in the stomach. Davis protected his | this neason with play starting Janu) ggg Bee Ba face, which saved him from a knock 4 | strictly to busines, so he will pas out as early as the first round, | . time for the Oskiand club in the Joe Waterman's young pensation | eg) nrvoderey Ge mntet Tats | Const cireult nest seamen. was given the big hand by the! ineoin, Ballard at Weat Sea ef crowd, which ie estimated as being | yranklin at Queen Anne | Bach team will play each team twice, one game being allotted on home and visiting floors with every Other team in the cireult Broadway won the city tithe last mm reat: losing one game, the last tiff to Lincotn, during the season. CLOTHING Tigers. “MITCHELL TO sy caret: oe BOX NEIL Mike Mitchell, Seattle ban: has been fighting in Calife |the elty race | | | | ing the past few months, wil to Anacortes next Wednesd |< tackle Eddie Nell, the farm Toes, the big Porttend southpaw, nite pretty well, has asked for as a first eacker with the Moave In the other main event of the odin rem, the hard-hit cortes miller. It's a four-re Reports from ine angeles ony that) “Ned” Killifer, Angel pilot, te in the | mean ket for « good outfielders. | eure outfield candidate on the Angel pay ataid ape Chances t the ve . line before the season starts, how, Marcario } had @ slight edge o Kansas City bout was called a draw. How Nel stood up under Flores’ terrific ach blows still remains @ mystery.! NELSON GOOD | ON DEFENSE | Nelson showed the customers that head was bullt for something ore than @ target by his clever Jofensive we which maved that young Atate w about the oniy MADE IN SEATTLE ' 60LD EVERYWHERE City boy let his opponent lead and usually caught Flores off his guard) at that time, Flores’ defensive work t e#til fanity, which accounts for the fact that be did not add another victory | to his list, { Tilly Vetro, one of Lonnte Austin’s lightweights, gaye away weight and |aize wo Jom Miller of Los Angeles, who waa given the decision. Vetro put up @ game fight, but Miller was & little too good for his opponent. Phil Jensen, another member of Joe Waterman's stable, staged a game conreback in his Might with Al Winters of Chicago and was given a draw. Winters is a good fighter, but showed lack of training. HOME BOYS BATTLE | The curtain raiser was one of the beat bouts of the evening. Two of persons of Jack White and Johnny Hogan Hogan knocked White down for | the count of nine in the fret round, and the bell saved Jack from being Kaoyed. But Hogan's first round blow bad a tell-tale effect on White. who put bis opponent out in the early part of thre second. The pair are heavyweights, GOOD FIGHT MILWAUKEE, Dee, 3.—Jack Brit ton, world's welter champ, will have a tough job on his hands when he tackles Pinkey Mitchell in the big local auditorium in their ten-round bout December 6 | | } | | Buy the Xmas Bike THIS Year Choose a snappy, shiny bicycle from this lot of 60 Columbias, Racycles, Flying Mer- kels, Hudsons, Ramb Each one fully guaranteed for one year. 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