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20 teams from Se MAY JOIN SEATTLE NAMED attle are expected Sam Russell and his Seattle chib team will engage the Victoris AND TO | |PORTL players on the North End links today in the return match for the The locals lost by 30 points In the “away” ¢ quite sneugh to have when facing the strong Karlington’s tournament season ended last Turaday when Thomas L, Clingan (15) wen the captain's cup by a “1 up* win over Harry E. ss " _—— —$——$—$A——-—— Br ud i ing up the Seat 3 tle Siwas for Biggerstaffe Wilson trophy ; the Coast) game several weeks ago, bot if Capt. Russell's boys display the form ¥ league race will today that was shown to Waverley two weeks ago, the visitors will * be the deal that! find ¢hat “30” is n Prexy Bill Kiep| Seattle club team on its own back yard, per of the local a club can swing with the Cincin nati F a for the ager Kenworthy Tess Seattle fans are to come to the tribe. the infield next season hole is third base, left Sammy Bohne, who Reds. Bohne not only | defensive gap in @ghe in going weakens the of tribe, because Sam wa Teague last season. HERE'S THE List apt to come to Seattle Uist, compiled by To ing editor of ‘te pick from: doe Meyer, first i ‘ on Jacobs, Sicking, ‘Swartz. KENWORTHY NEXT SEASON? PLAY cides to stay on the DECEMBER 16 franchise to Vancouver, the change features of the meeting. GEARY SHOULD HAVE BIG YEAR of the pitching averages, ingness to work. He's a ting down to work. five players are due the tribe whe go East after the! Coast league meeting but neverthe inte the names of the men who a Seattle has a big hole to fill in| ‘of the most effective players in the down the men who are} | lta ts a| Here's how they fared Inst Sunday at Beacon Hilt Tacoma player Swope, sport | j ’ the Cincinnati Post,) Which gives the Seattle fans an idea | @f the lineup of men, with their po- Bition and the team they played with | ) last year, that the locals will have! here Tom Casey, catcher, Terre Haute, Three Eye league. baseman, Terre Haute, Three Eye league. Whether waivers will be obtainable Crane and Seattle needs a third ancker shortstop, outfielders and pitchery More than anything else, and while the above list doesn't shine brightly with stars, Seattle fans will be look fing forward to the deal that means #0 much to the tribe next year with More than ordinary Interest. A lot of Seattle duamond fans are Beginning to wonder whether Kenworthy, the new manager of the ‘club, will play regularly next seasor or not. Bill is getting along years, but he put up a good brand of all in the field last year and hit @ver 200 for the season. Bil in If he de bench there Will be another infield hole to til and another 300 hitter to obtain. The annual Coast league meeting will be held at Sacramento July 16. Nothing much has been said recently about the transfer of the Salt Lake B. C. This ual session and it's very doubtful if will be made, judging, . from sentiment expressed around the ing boosted for the same berth| Circuit The schedule for the 1921/qa¢ Washington, if Leonard Tace and the election of officers for! mext year will be the other important Bob Geary, local righthander, who was pitching better ball than any ether Seattle pitcher at the fag end of the past season, should have a Dig year in the Coast league next He'll know the hitters bet-| ter and with his natural ability he should be right up close to the top Bob made & hit with local fans by his steady ‘work on the mound and his will-| speedy boy and hurries the games along by set- SHADE BEATS ROBSON AGAIN SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4.—George tn apt ° ‘Griffith (10) in the final round of 36 holes. In the morning round Tom played bis best game ahd finished 2 up without the aid of a single bisque, but he had to make good use of all five of them in the last half of the journey, for Harry was playing in his true “iggorate” form. This “bisque” game on the Eartington course, which has four one-shot Club Captain Ed Brown donated on the Brenton. Bohne transac tion, holes, is a tough one, believe Harry. Those five play- & handsome silver cup to the winner, @fs are due to be named soon, prob ably not before Klepper and Man Team Captains McColley and Stein of the respective Tacoma Meadow Park and the Jefferson Park clubs finally “got together” last Saturday and the result of the conference was the playing of the return match day of these clubs’ annual homeand-home fixture at Beacon Hill last Sun- Owing to these last-minute arrangements, the local lineup was far below its usual strength, but it proved too strong for the Meadow Parkers, whe returned home with the short end of a 364010 score In the mateh at Tacoma earty in the season the Jeffersonians lost by And that vacant by twe points, nen to the ves a big} id, but his, sent Jefferson park on Sunday, se of the! rated as one! get the guy's “number.” Leo Stell was the only member of the Big Four who failed to repre Lee's intentions were good, but some bedy's car bumped into his gas engine on the road to Beacon Hill and there he was stymied. The sad pari—for Leo—was that he didn't Of course, it's always the other follow's fault, but, nevertheless, with ene wheel headed in the general dirction of Mukilteo and the other one looking down the Puyallup valley, it looked too jazzy a ride Beacon Hillwards for this young anteist, Speirs 3, Dexter 0 vs. Stein 3, Lynch 0 vs. Haw 3, Johns 0 vs. 3, Vaughn © ws. Griffith 2, Benet 2 vs. Hewitt 0, Cavanaugh 2 vs. | Stevermon 1, McColley © vs. Crider 2, Buhro 3 va, Ash 0, Bachrach 0 | Hamiin 1. on Sundays. bs now working. Roy and Bon Stein, finalists In the president's tition at the Seattle club, will play off their match some In the sembfinals the former defeated Miller Freeman by and Lee Stell was 2 down to Bon Stein, Here’s | Everett high school .gridiron will undoubtedly come up at the an- coach, former University of Enoch Bagshaw, Washington star, who is be- Allison is not retatned next year. Bagshaw’'s teams have lost but two games since 1911 and they have scored over 2,000 points to about 300 for their opponets. HOLD RIOT PARTY CHICAGO, Dec. 4.—Two thousand |men attending a wrestling match at Haymarket theatre, started a riot when they tried to get their money jback, claiming the match was faked. | Lights were kicked out, curtains and |scenery torn, and other damage was jdone before police reserves arrived and quieted the crowd, The mob threatened the promoters and prin ais with violence. beat Young Henry. with Tommy Robson, which was the main event of last | Demetral and Jack Linow. night’s four-round show. Frankie Farren took the dectsion | cree from Lee Morrissey in a battle which | have to end because of the late hour. Grew almost as much attention as the main event. Leo Matlock beat|@o to a finish, the crowd claimed a Jimmy Barry, Terior Vargas won| frameup. from Mickey Drexel, and Ai Prouse PONIES TO BE SHIPPED NEW YORK, Dec. which will be tional competition in shipped to SOON| 4. — Pontes | fielder, will come to the Seals next the mounts Americafi polo team in the interna-| 1921 England soon in order that they'll he acclimated of the will be The match was between William Demetral |had provured one fall when the ref. announced the affair would As the match had been advertised to SEALS AFTER MAISEL ing to arrange a deal whereby George Malsel, crack Portland out- year thru the Detroit Tigers. It |seems as if the Tigers have some jtort of claim on the Portland club, and they owe San Francisco a num. | ber of playera, While playing on the Beacon Hill coutee holed his tee shot on No, 7, 225 yards. “Ain’t feeling, dim?” Briggs was right in Jim’ coupled “golf” with “war” he would have Dr. J. C. Moore, who had bis nose broken playing in the team match against Meadow Sunday. Jah, Bestar wen Sie Ser set, Se Device pene to play off the final round for the Times trophy, telephone message spoiled everything. Jack is now practicing; \ | va. Moore 3, Pease 0 ys. Boals 3, McQarry © va Atkins 3, Sidall © va Metzger 3, Pierson 0 vs. Haahons 3, Persing va, ws. Arenean 3, Yost 1 va. Grand total—Tacoma 10, Jefferson Park 36. Several bunker adifitions have béen “planted” on the beantiful nine hole Everett course, and they are so arranged that a player has to place his shots and place them well or he'd better dig out his niblick. | ‘The fairways and potting greens | defferson, the club professional, Until certain on visitors, this well-kept course was a favorite spot for well taken care of by Phil Seattle golfers % the other day Jhn Blake ita and glorious "s cane, bat if Sherman had been right, in the opinion of by a flying golf bail while Park on Beacon Hill last Haw and Jack Weber “comete- work” Gerdon cup compe day next week. 3 and 2, BOXING The Seattle boxing commission has clamped the lid Gown on the ‘ing game here again, Chairman fanley etating that boxing would © cloned down until “the boxing situation has been cleared up here.” Clay Hite has been promoting hows for the Elmer Noble Post of he American Legion since the rup- ‘ure between the Metropolitan build ng company and the regular ring promoters in Seattle. Hite said last night that he planned to go thru with Tuesday's umoker until notified by the post ommander to #top as Hite is stag- ing the shows for the post. Cal Delaney, Cleveland welter, t# m route for Seattle, He is matched with Joe Simonich. NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—Call for the annual National league meeting has been sent out by President John Heydler for December 14. The joint committees of the two major leagues and of the minors are to meet here December 11, with Judge Landis, to talk over the new agreement. It is thought the annual American league meeting will be held here De cember 15, after which the two leagues will go into a joint session, GIPP IMPROVES SOUTH BEND, Ind, Dec. 4-—The condition of George Gipp, star of No- |tre Dame's football team, who has been critiically i here for the last week, waa reported slightly improved today. Attending physicians report- ed Gipp rested easy during the last 24 hours, and altho the crisis is not passed, they believed his chances for recOvery are good. Gipp is suffering from pneumonia, GRIDDER 'NOW EVEN BY LORRY A. JACOBS NEW YORK, Nov, 4—1t's all over Army on tho Navy. tw Navy went and did it by crossing the | | Army line this year for a lone touch: down, thereby making the | 12-01, jin succession to do it, but they final ly got the score evened up, the Army eight yours mber of games won, The Army and Navy began play ing each other in 1890, In 1905 the Army had forged ahead three gumen. jin 1912 the Navy managed to be Jahead by two games and then the @| Army took the lead with a string of four etraight victories, And now | comes the Navy back and finally ties the thing tp again, both teams hav ing won 11 games and tied one they're now getting ready for the lute tumle that's to come off next year to see who's going to keep out in front, ‘This year’s contest between the ltwo service teams was one of the prettiest sights football fans have ever witnemed. The Polo grounds were jammed to the very limit, 60,000 getting in some way, altho there were but 45,000 tickets, And” three times that many applied for tickets Two teams could not have been much more evenly matched up until | the time French of the Army booted & miserable punt out of bounds and thereby started the Navy on the way to port | AND NEXT YEAR But just figure for yourself what it's going to be next year with both teams tied in the number of games won and the rubber as the prize for winning. Says Coach Fotwell: “Next year's chsh between the Army and Navy ts likely to be re | garded as 4 classic and it is probatite |that both teams will go thru the | most grueiling training ever known |to football, If I never see any oth football game I certainly want to see that one.” Said Coach Daly: “It's going to be a great game next your. The Army and Navy wil be fighting for supremacy after the score has been evened up and jas great as the rivalry has always been it should be even greater next ager.” . And certainty one tan thought so, for just before the game last Satur. day at the Polo grounds, Secretary O'Pirten of the New York Giants who handles the tickets for the jclamnicn recetved ® special delivery letter asking him for a reservation next year. MAY LENGTHEN GRID LIST CHICAGO, Dee. 4--Lengthening of the football season for the big ten was the main topic for discus sion among faculty representatives, coaches and athletic midwestern here today. ‘The proposed plan would a4d two additional games to the schedule, Rules were also to be discussed. Changes advocated, including all |owing the ball, on a forward pass, | blocked behind the line of serim- mage, to remain in play. NUNES BEATS CELLO SACRAMENTO, Dec. 4--Denny Nunes beat Tommy Ceflo of Oakland here last night, when he took the fourth round by ® big margin. Feltx Villamore and Portland Jimmy Dut: fy drew and Baby Blue and Sally Salvadore came out even. Bert Wil ams of Modesto stopped Kid Maasie, San Francisco, tn the third, KELLY SIGNS CONTRACT NEW YORK, Dec. 4-——Walter c. Kelty, infielder of st. Mary's college, | California, has signed a contract | with the Brooklyn National league | club, CUBS WOULD RELEASE DUET? CHICAGO, Dee. 4.—Reporta today were that the Cubs had asked waty- erson Claude Hendrix, pite her, and Buck Herzog, infielder. These two men were mentioned during the Cook county grand jury investigation into | gambling on baseball. -STECHER TO RETIRE NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—Joe Stetch er, world's wrestling champion, an- nonnces that he will retire from the mat game after his match with Strangler Lewis here, December 13. universities, meeting this year, But there's going to be a war next year, We're| about the annual muss be The count | ‘The sailors had to win three years | having been lording it over them for! the longest time either tearm has ever held the supremacy in Bo directors of | THE SEATTLE STAR | | } | 1/2 )—S lio Moh came in the last quarter. STAR ICE | RACES ON SPORT PROGRAM | The Star's second annual ice races jare looming on the sport horizon |and the speed skaters of the Queen |City are sharpening up their steel | blades to be ready fof the first ary 6. The raees, which are held between periods at the Compt hockey games at the Arena, were inaugurated by The Star for the first Lime lat year Paul Donahoe winning the chan» plonahip. r ‘ Present plans caf for the same arrangement that featured the games last year. There wili be a |sertes of preliminaries, the number [of heats to be decided by the num ber of entries, six men to face im each heat. Therg will be two chances for each racer to qualify for the finals, winning a heat being the necessary qualification. A silver trophy will be given to |the winner, | Entries for the races will be open December 15 and will close Janu ary 3 There will bp no charges for en. tering and all speed skaters who wish to practice will be given special time by the Arena on Tues days and Thursdays beginning De cember PRO GRID MIX IN GOTHAM NEW YORK, Dec. 4—-New York and its neighborhood will be intro duced to professional football today, when Jim Thorpe’s Canton bulldog team meets the Buffal allstars at the Polo grounda. From the advance sale of tickets, Mt Is expected between §£,000 and 10,- 000 spectators will pee the game, Both teams worked out yeatentay on the gridiron and were pronounced in good shape, RICKEY BOOKS 22 RECRUITS ST. LOUIS, Dec, 4.—Branch Rick- ey has booked 22 recruits who will make the trip south with the Cards in the spring, where they'll get their first big league baptiam. POST FORMS CAGE TEAM ‘The Klmer J. Noble post of the American Legion has organized a basketball team and will enter the squad in the city league, Al Horn has been elected captain and Clay Hite manager, The firet turnout will be held some time next week, the day not being set yet. DEMPSEY LOST NOT TWICE, BUT THRICE SAN FRANCISCO, Dee. 4—Be- cause a Seattle promoter had tehed Willie Meehan and Jim Flynn to box, billing them as the only men to hold decisions over Champion Jack Dempsey, a certain bald-headed gent in San Francisco has worked his dander up to such a stage that he feels almost tempted to drown his grief in a well-known hair tonic. Said gent is Jack Down ey, veteran lightheavy-weight, who has been boxing so long that all the hair has been knocked off the top of his head by ambitious fellow- sockers who aimed for his jaw, but could graze only the top of his dome, which accounts for his shiny poll, Downey comes from Dempsey’s old home town, Salt Lake, where between bouts, he engaged in the peaceful task of rolling colorado |claros, colorado maduros and just | Plain “ropes.” Downey, at that time, was reckoned some demon with the gloves and when Dempsey began to make a noise like a box fighter, | Downey was selected to give the young upstart a lesson, So they wot together in a regular bout and biffed away quite merrily until the foxy Downey, who kuew more in a minute then than Dempsey did in & year, hooked his left to the body and followed with his right to the chin. Down went Dompsey for the count of nine, “and it was a long nine,” avers Downey, Dempsey managed to stay the [imit, but Downey was given the decision. So that makes three men instead of two, as the Seattle promoter ad- vertived, holding decisions over the Present world's champion, PITTSBURG, Dec. 4—Tom Mn. vies, star halfback, hag been elected captain of the University of Pitts burg gridiron team*for next year, preliminaries that wil! be held Janu- | s at Arena | Members of the University of |] Washington Canadian club held || their first hockey turnout at the | Arena under the guifance of |] Bobby Rowe, Seattle regular, last |] night. About 15 men turned out. || J. H. MeKensie is the manager |] of the team and he hopes to establish hockey at the univer sity. The team will practice |] again next week, the day not || being set yet. If the team shows enough strength there will be an effort made to line up a game with the University of British Columbia team for the Christmas holidays here. Rowe reports that several of the “W" men looked good, expecially a fellow named Roland, who played tn the Vio- toria city league last year. Keven bowling are now ander way on the different alleys in Keattie, ‘The race in the City league te close, as & once over of the standing of the teams will show, The Hike 1 and KN. Brooks have @ good iead. while the rest of the toama are pretty well bunched Mere’s the standing : T Pet. 1 ane 485 488 a5 56 290 33 Lumbermen Orpheum . met are rolled every Ideal, Orpheum and The City league Thareday on the Biks alleya ‘The Seattle National has o walk- @wuy in the Bankers’ jeague, They are iemding the six-ciub circuit with M6 wine out of 18 games for an AD percentage, The National City bow!l- ore are having a terrible time gett started, as they are bringing up rear with bat one win in 18 attempts fer a .056 percentage, The Mankers Fell every Monday night. ‘The Ben Marche house league ewings inte action every Monday night with four teams playing. Team No 1 is leading the race at present. the leading team league, with 26 wins T cireult is in Lumbermen No. 2 in the Commer and eight det action every W On Tuesday night the N. W. Fish- ‘The Fidridgs Buick squad and the |Sunset Motor Company ageremation are staging a het fight for the lead of the |Gasoline league, made up of eight teams |from Automobile Row. They bowl every | Priday. FIND PERFECT CADDY AT LAST DETROIT, Dec. 4—At last a per- fect caddy has been found. He's Emmett Sullivan, 13. He was graded as perfect by the Detroit Golf club officials, where he served last sum- mer with 799 other caddies, BOXERS MUST SEND PHOTOS ALBANY, Dec. 4.—The New York |boxing commission requires all box ers who expect to box in the state |to send pictures of themselves, This will prevent fakers from posing un- der many names as a school center New York elt Julation, for every 49,655 persons of its ed | STAGE N. I. BOWLING CONGRESS IN APRIY The annual Northwest international bowling congress will be held in Portland during the week of April 13. This is considered the pin classic of the Northwest. About rney. Several California squads are also expected to compete. . “Big Boys” Who Saw Army-Navy Clas g |Service School Gridders in Action Sic % 'Twas a great day——when the Army met the Navy at the Polo grounds Nov. 27 and the Army mule took a back seat while the Navy goat butted his way to a 7 to 0 vic- tory. Pictures, reading left to right, shows Secretary of War Baker, General Nivelle of the French army, General Pershing and Maj. Gen. March eagerly watching the bat- tle. Inset shows Koehler, Navy back, crossing the Army line for the touchdown that “W” Hockey Men Hold Turnout N. W. CAGE LEAGUE FORMED Seven Northwestern cities have or- Northwest Baskethall ‘The teams entered in the etrenit are Tolt, Orillia, Bothell, Snoqualmie Falla, North Bend, Renton and Pres- | ton, Play win get under way December | 8, with Tolt entertaining the Preston club. The teams are pretty evenly bal- anced, and some good basketball ts |expected to be om tap in the new league, George M. Clark hag been elected prexy of the new league. The Seattle Basketball association plans to invite the winner of the | Northwestern jeague to play the win- | ners of the Seattle circiut in a post- | season playoff, The first high school hockey game ever played in Seattle was sched. uled to get under way at noon today with Broadway playing Queen Anne at the Arena. No regular league has been formed yet, today’s game ting but a practice tiff. Broadway was to take the ice with the following lineup: Scott, goal; Vincent and English, defense; Hubbard, rover; Lindgrin, center; Black, right wing; Dykes, left wing; Meister and Hanson, spares, Captain McFee, of Queen Anne, wasn't ready to announce his lineup this morning. NATIONAL G. A. SEEKS PEACE NEW YORK, Dec. 4—A constitu- tional amendment offering the West more representation in representa- tive convention has been adopted by the United States Golf association and will be submitted for approval at the annual meejing, January 7, This is planned to prevent a possible rupture between the national asso- clation and the Western Golf associ ation, VARSITY _MAY DROP} 0. A .C. rp rx ARWIN MEI manager of athletics at the { | versity of Washington, has retay from the Pacific Coast oo meeting, which was held at Cal, earlier in the week, and brings word that the football scheduled by the conference October 22 are pending. | The reason for this, 4 Melsnest, is that the Untveratty’ Oregon refused to accept the uling of four conference games next season, in compliance with | wishes of the rest of the memb the conference. They want te but three conference tiffs. The faculty athietio rep tives of the different colleges are to get together the coming week to settle this tion. If the games are cancelled means that Washington would the Oregon Aggie game, for Corvallis, Ore, on October 22, The other games set for that are Washington State va. Calif at Berkeley, Stanford va, Oregon Bugene. Outside of this controversy, | Meisnest, the meeting was a monious one, and the other adopted were very matin | NOTHING NEW ON SITUATION | COAC | Outside of wild rumors rounds in local sport circles t | no official announcement cone | the University of Washington jing situation ready yet. |says that no official offers been made to anybody and will be more than a month yet | fore he takes up the matter the board of contrel. Meisnest that the university will name own coach, irrespective of sen Leonard Allison, present tutor, has a contract for which expires some time after pick “Sones eft brea Washington should not fafl te the University of Montana on @ gridiron schedule for next The Grizzlies came to the coast their first game this year and { licked the varsity fair and They put up @ good brand ball and while no definite p been made to have the s on Washington's schedule again season the university O should think twice before the Grizzlies, Fmd MAY HAVE NEW YEAR'S GAME HEEB ‘With the Washington state scheduled to play here on @ay next season it means that University of Washington is to sty with: a are anxious to see the local tion line up a game with an team next year again. DEMPSEY TO | RETURN WEST NEW YORK, Dec. 4—Afteg. bout with Bill Brennan, here, D ber 14, Jack Dempsey ,wil leavd { Los Angeles, where he will winter. He probably will be in movie work until March 17, he is to meet Jess Willard in @ turn bout, probably in Havana, QUITE NATURAL Guest (viewing empty birg Is your canary bird dead? Little Mabel—Yes; it is, Guest—That’s too bad. Did & @ natural death? Little Mabel—Yes; the cat ate nS Can be eliminated by wearing Lundberg Rupture & rt. We gif free trial to Drove its superionidg A. LUNDBERG C0, 2261 Third Ave. for Port Maybe Answers NO, He’s NOT Bringing Another Candidate - Ask Louis Nash of King Knows— at HE Wh the Question.

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