The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 9, 1920, Page 16

a ae oe AE alee a tg PLAYED TO PLEASE CROWDS | © BY KDWARD M THIERRY | SOUTH BEND, Ind, Deo. 9.—Be | Bhe @ star athiote has tts penalties Goorge Gipp, Notre Dame's bril: | Bant fullback and hailed as the @eason’s Kreatest college football Player, pushed himsel¢ into the hero hans, and when be was badly injured he had to lve up to his heroic role @F disappoint the crowds He beared to be allowed to go hack Bitto a game against Indiana, altho} Rls shoulder was dislocated The ‘erowd thought he was castiron A | Sweok tater he beeged again to get Ento the game aguinst Northwestern. | Chicago crowds wore yelling for the Notre Dame hera PLAYED ‘WHEN ILL Gipp felt he had@ to go tm and play Bo Matter how it tortured him. | ‘Three days after the Northwestern | fame, Gipp had a tickling in his Bhroat. It was tonailitia Then came ia. Gloom hung over Notre 2,000 students at bulletins | @rom the sickroom were anxiously wead. Some people thought Ctpp's life was) Br jeopardy because of bis bulldog | @etermination to play in #pite of hie) Gnjured shoukier. As a matter of} act, physictans said there wasn't any | onnection between his illness and/ football ‘CH SORRY Nevertheless, Knute K. Rockne. football coach, is sorry he weak under Gipp's pleadings and tet | Ahim play when he was not in first Ialase condition. _ “Our men have to be physicalty or they can't play,” mid Rockne, the primary aim of college ath im and always should be, to| fit the boys physically. Al the) iron fame in the world isn’t| ruining a single boy's ee ones called it “Gipp'® hard For they recall that in his ear in football he broke a lek ly that the following year hie te injury caused bis rejection from army camp. “Gipp was more than gama” Coach Frank Halan “He to play out the season be ft was his last appearance in es for Notre Dame. He hated father and mother and his adent# and foofhall | of every team Notre Dame imagine Gipp be! cent better. If he was| deficient, his opponents We been sorry to see him he was good! BASEBALL __Like five other members of “the | Dame varsity team, Gipp | Played football till he came) He just didnt bother about i when he went to high school | Calumet, Mich. He was crazy baseball and tho he war a bit/ te as a youngster, according to| brother, he atways carried around | Daseball glove in those days. | Now, on the heels of his foothall the Chicage Cubs next seasw@ | is tal, rangy and and 24 years old, is an all athlete. Besides football and | il he’s a star at hockey, a ter and a champton «t billiards. he recently won a gold watch | Besides that he’s a crack tm the : m. He's taking a law course. Coach Rockne discovered by acci-| ere, tat Gipp could play football y caught him doing some | Marvelous kicking one day. They in juced him to get into a football suit y in his freshman year he put one the goal posts from the 62 yard line. CAN -_ All over the comtry = they*re pick Gipp for the AllAmerican team is hailed a# Notre Dame's great since “Red” Salmon's days, 1% ago. fome my he's greater they are different types of men| ‘pd starred in different styles of They had to pot a guard on the at the hospital to keep anxious | ta out. That's what they Think of their hero athlete at Notre Dame. HECTOR GIVES ANDERSO NICE TRIMMING Battling Hector got a decision over | he Anderson in the heavyweight Main event of the Elks’ boxing smok-| er at the Bremerton navy yard last | Bight. The bout was fast and in teresting. Hector had Anderson on the verge of a knockout in the sec ond round. ™|VERNON TO | ume replacing him, FTER ALL THE GOOD that army boxing did the boxing game as @ sport the black eye handed the game by the attack of gangsters on voung girls in San Francisco recently, in which K, 0, Kruvosky Francisco heavyweights, are ai will be a mark that will (ake some time to erase It seems, how: | that it is not necessary to connect men of such a type with the s of clean, manly men who are boxing tn the United States today The world finds such type pot onty in boxing, but in every walk of life, and the sooner they are given thelr fust desserts, not only will the ring game be cleaned of their dirty amireh, but society will also be unilifted. | and Spad part, ever hune Murph San TACOMA RING FANS are tm line to see a pretty good show a week from te ht, rom the talent that Promoter Shanklin t# lining | un Two new hts will make thetr bow to Northwestern fans when J of Toledo, and Joe Egan, of Boston, get together in the aix-round main event. Arehie Stoy, the Aberdeen lghtie, will take | on Frank semiwindap, and Eddie Moore, Seattle bantam, wt! t with Young Casteel In the special event. Moore knocked t the first Ume they boxed, udging middlewe ny Celmars ein t THE SUSPENSION OF BOXING tn Seattle at the present time has) Probably cost Seattle fanw a& chance to see Bert Colimaa in action, The) Angeles middieweteht, who is due to start for the Bast soon, was | willing there via Seattle, Clay Hite had made arrangements to have him show here, but has called them off now. We have heard » oh about this bird Collmas Ghat, like @ lot of Seattle fauna, we would like wo see bim in action, Loa HAVING LICKED EVERYRODY of any promtmence tm his 4tvinton th Australia, Billy Shade, San Francisco middleweight, now the weiter and mid-| die Uitleholder of the Antipodes, will probably be wending his way homeward ». Shade writes from Australia Qhat he is going after a bout with Johnny | Wilson, the middleweight champion, when he geta back to the United States. | If William can foree Wilson into a title bout he will be doing @ “darn uned of taking | 1.6 the football }nia on Franklin field, site” more than any other real contender has been able to do since Wiison won the crown on a fluke from Mike O'Dowd recently, UNTIL BENNY LEONARD and Joe Welling hooked up at Madison) Square Garden, New York, the other night, the Gans-Nelson fight at Gold field, Nev. in 1906, held the record for money drawn by & lightweight championship bout. Nelson and Gans drew $69,715, of which the fight # received $33,500, But Leonard and Welling left that mark far behind. The 11,683 persons who paid to see them mingle contributed $91,006. Leonard received $35,000 and Welling $15,000, THE SEATTLE STAR DAME GRIDDER SUFFERS THE PENALTY OF STARDOM Buckeye Gridders Will Outweigh Golden Bears When Ohio State and California clash on the gridiron at Pasadena, Cal., New Year’s day the Buck- eyes will have an advantage of five and one-half pounds per man in weight over the Bears. The Ohio HAINES’ DASH WAS BEST 1920 GRID PLAY The greatest Individual effort dur feanon waa per formed by Halfback Haines of Penn State in the game with Pennkyiva- Philadetphia. He caught a kickoff on his own 16 yard line and ran &5 yards thru the entire Penn team for @ touchdown. As @ matter of fact, the work of | Haines al! thru this contest, in which State humbled Penn 28 to 7, stamped him an the best back in the Bast But, of course, his Si-yard run was the high light of his performance For 45 yards he dodged in and out, slipping away from a tackler! here and straightarming another thera. 1AURIE RUN RANKS SECOND Next to this run of Fatnes ranks | the feat of Don Lourie tn the Yale | Princeton game, when with lea th @ minute to play in the firet half, circled Yale's right end for over 40 yards and a touchdown. Lourie, as the Princeton quarter back, wae responsible for the run ning of the team. He elected to try play that had only @ alight chance of going thru and got away with it Several Yale players were close enough to him to have tackled him. He eluded them all, however, and touchdown broke the heart of the nd made the onesided victory Nassau pouslble, ] | ne | t | NoT so BRILILAAN? Lourie was not as consistently bri Nant a back as Haines, But he IS TEX RICKARDS GARDEN of gold in New York a detriment to dex-| proved himerlf a great player never) ing thruout the country? It seems so, because Tex can pay purses that no ether promoter in the couhtry can afford and boxers of the better calibre are all drifting to Manhattan to get in on the jaicy melon while it's being cut Boxing *t reaching the stage of frenzied finan there’s always danger of crooked work when #0 much dough is at stake. Raether Is Booster for Earl Sheely “Dutch” Ruether, Cincinnatt southpaw, and former Coast league borler, & a big booster for Bart Sheely, the Salt Lake first sacker, who will have his first trial in the big show next spring as & member of the Chicago White Sox Tewides giving Sheely credit for being a great hitter, “Dutch” sayn that Bheely in the dent fielding first baseman in base PRESENT field tn the! Coast race next! spring, they will present practi cally a new im the Coast league scandal, is out of tuseball for good. The veter: an “Ham* Hy att, slugger de hrxe, who took his place during the closing weelt of the season, ig elated for the first base job. Bob Fisher, the second encker, ts mid to want a change of scene. Rob ory in one of the premier second mck ert is one of the premier second mck- more, he's a 200 hitter, Good field ing second sackers who hit 200 are not very easy to find thene days, so Manager William Exsick may think twice, and maybe thrice, before let Ung him"go. Johnny Mitchel, the Tigeey bril- Nant shortstop, has graduated to the majors, and will have a trial with the | New York Yanks in the «pring. Miteliell has been the main cog in| the Tiger infield for the last two! years, and Essick will have a sweet { Hox hone, seems to be leading the the race for the managership of etroit Titers, succeeding Mugh who ls sow With the New York Reattes cobs, the “Hed” Smith may have hia Berth | Meds at third again, and then he may not. Smith didn’t knock the Coast league dead by any means with bie brand of! «Nane* Ruth managed te hit drt twee play last year, Uniess Emsick can homers in hie stay In Cuba. find some one better fitted to hold | *itiders played down the hot corner, Smith probably | Sf (ne clint 884 Setered Ale drives out will be found there, however. The rest of the Tiger team wif re main about intact. The infield will sive Manager Easick his biggest worry. 6 Pound of Flesh Causes Bout to Be Called Off Because Car! Tremaine, Cleve land bantam, weighed a pound over weight, due to eating a hearty meal at noon on the day of his bout with Pal Moore, in Cleveland recently, the bout be- tween the pair was called off by Moore. Ue Kear training Bud Ridley, Seattle bantam, has | Feonived an offer for three bouts In the Philippine islands, according to | hie Manager, Joe Waterman, The offer came from Eddie Tait, of | Tacoma, who is still interested in a boxing club in Manila, Chances are that if Waterman ac cepts the offer for Ridley that the contract will call for a bout with Denico, the champion lightle of the islands, ANN ARBOR, Mich, Dee. 9— Michigan students are getting ambi tious, They want Coach Yost to in. PICK ood | ! Centre game that wo | | | | | Harvard's 204nile ATLANTA ATLANTA, Ga, Dee, 9—~The To ledo Mud Hens have picked Atlanta for their spring training camp. Duke Breenahan has decided that aducah and Dawson Springs are too far North for March baseball prac tice. clude Yale on the 1921 football sched. j ule. Yout does not favor the idea. “In Every Respect” says the Good Judge ‘ theless, and this play mentioned here) was & gem. “Ro” McMIMin, the farfamed quar- terback of Centre college of Ken tucky, made a play in the Harvard onty altehtly lems astounding than those of Haines and Lourte, It was more unusual than either of the other two, if not) an rensational. Bob Maxwell, the famous foothan official, haa pronounced MoMIfin’y play as unsound. He says that any) back trying ft In a practice scrim mage would be put off a varaity| team. HARVARD IN LEAD Harvard was leading Centre 7 to 0 and the Kentuckians’ offense had just started to find itself. The South- erners marebed down the field to! line, where the Crimaon defense stiffened, | McMillin elected to try an end ran.! He started around Harvard's left wing, but found the way was blocked by crimson jerseyed players. | Turning in bin tracks MeMint)} doubled back, and to the astonist-| ment of the vast crowd and of the) Harvard team, suceeeded in circling the right end for 15 yards and first down. ‘This play paved the way for Crm tre's firet touchdown. Yet how Mo MMlin managed to get away with it, ho one will ever be able to explain. ‘Were he fleeter of foot. the Centre captain might have gone all the way | to the Harvard goal line. But he ts not a very fast man, despite his " Willie Still Wields a Wicked Cue NEW YORK, Dec. 9—Running out in 10 innings Willie Hoppe, cue master, retained his title ax 182 balkline king by defeating Young Jake Schaefer, 400 to 64 Hoppe made a high run of 229. It waa the final match of the na- tional 18.2 championships. CITY PIN TEAMS ROLL TONIGHT ‘The twelve pin teams in the City Bowling league will swing into action on three local alleys tonight. The feature match will be the tiff billed/ between Elks No, 1, present leag leaders, and Elks No. 2 on the Idea: alleys. ‘The other gumes for tonight fol lows IDEAL ALLEYS Rippe's Cafe vs, Rube's Cafe. ORPHEUM ALLEYS EN. Brooks vs. Eagles, ELKS’ ALLEYS Filks No. 3 vs. Elks No. 4, Orpheums vs. Union Tailors. All of those games are booked to get under way at § p. m. Navy's considering Ohio State, | Penn State and West Virginia for its one grid game permitted away from | home next fall. Scoring a knockdown tn the last round of the special event, Stanley Ketchel Young won an otherwise close contest from Boy McCaslin. Sailor Loomis drew Sailor Bozart. A large crowd was in attendance. You get more genuine chewe- ing satisfaction from the Real Tobacco Chew than you ever got from the ordinary kind. The good tobacco taste lasts so long—a small chew CITY CAG Entries for long whe ett at Taf ¥ jay wi 12 teas lant T The wh in mee the bul leven State regulars average 180 pounds while the ENTRIES © CLOSE FRIDAY the elty barkethall rue clone Friday, All managers » with to enter thelr teams in the jretit should file thelr teams cither Spalding'’s or Piper & t's before Friday night. teams are now tm the it be made to make the league a ub affair, the same number af na that played in The Star league reason. he teams entered go tar follow: MacDougall Southwichs New System Sten Oa, Knights of Coumpua, YMCA Wks’ elub. Chauncey Wrights, University Community five, Silent Prats, Queen Anne Community five Northern Life Insurance Ca. Eimer Noble past, final plans for the season. h will oF bout the firet week 1 be laid at the next ng of the league, to be held at Northern Life Insurance Co ding, Tuosday night, January, w $30 Suits and Overcoats at 33 uits and Overcoats at 3: $: fa likely that an effort} A “Tie Three” conference on the the Coast may be formed with Wash ington lifornia and Stanford as} the membe unlews Oregon and Washington State accept the footbal schedules made up and accepted by five out of the etx colleges tendance at the annual ence meet in Ban Francisco recently. | | This was intimated at ng of University of Washington McCORMICK WINS ON | FOUL PORTLAND, Dec, §—Boy MeCor-| | mick, English lightheavyweight, won | in the seventh round from Battling | Levinsky here last night when Le | vinsky fouled him. MeCormick had | la slight #hade up to that time Harlan Bunker, San Francisco beavyweight, knocked out Joe Bonds np the fifth round of a scheduled 10 round go. Frankie Morphy, of Denver, was given the verdict over Lioyd Mad-| den, of Seattle, in the special event. | the meet Dempaey Carpentier match ts voyag ing back and forth between New York, Cuba, London and Paris, the] | tans at Toledo are waiting for a last minute chance to snap it up. TOLEDO, Obie, Dec. 9—White the | hi verage California player scales at 174) Farin sil Bibi E | MAY FORM NEW CONFERENCE NEW GRID MENTOR FOR “W” board of contro! last night. Oregon doesn't want to play more than three confer * games, while four have b Washing ton State, it ham ratified the schedule, either. Should Oregon an4 Washington State refuse to go thru with their 1971 contracta, the whole Coast foot ball schedule would have to be made over. The board accepted the resignation of Coach Leonard Allison, warm debate, as Allison had several supporters on the board. The new grid mentor wif not be named until n rcheduled. nooms, COMMERCIAL LEAGUP Won Lot Pet Lambermen Mo # ...- Kleetrie No. Bkookum ..---- x. W. FISHERIES LEAGUE Chums . 19 after a THONSDAT, DECEMP MM 9, 1920. 7 pounds. HITE MAY¥@ STAGE MAT SHOW HERE With the boxing game at a stand “till bere, Clay Hite, of the Nort west Athletic club may give the, wrestlers a chance to climb into t glare of the local sport spotlight w | til the Seattle ring commission cai leet The boxing game straightene around. Hite Is dropping down to Porth tonight to get a line on the mat me A match jp billed for Portiand y night, altho the names of th aking part are still secre! there fane take kindly to 0 | Sport, Hite plans to furnish ther | with some of the headliners of t | came, In the meantime, Seattle’s mit fraternity still awaits the word to g¢ back to work. DIXIE DEMANDS | LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dee. 9.—M phis, Birmingham and Atlanta advocating a 16-player limit and } | salary arrangement of $5,000 a mont 375 for Southern league clubs. REMOVAL SALE “Y% $40 Suits and Overcoats at 33',% Off, now. .826.70 $45 $: uits and Overcoats at $50 Suits and Overcoats at ts and Overcoats at 3° "5% Off, now. . 830.00 | Off, now $20.00) $60 Suits and Overcoats at.33144% Off, 4% Off, now. . $23.35 | $6: uits and Overcoats at 33'4% Off, now. .843.35. $70 Suits and Overcoats at 334,% Off, $75 Suits and Overcoats at 334% Off, 1,% Off, now. .¥33.35 | $80 Suits and Overcoats at 33.4% Off, “44% Off, now. .$36.70 | $85 Suits and Overcoats at 334% Off, - $46.70 - $50.00 -$53.35 - $56.70 now. now. now. now. (HOUSE COATS, BATH ROBES, LOUNGING ROBES, FANCY VESTS INCLUDED) Hats and Furnishings 25% Off Hundreds of articles suitable for Christmas gifts are now offered here at a discount of 25%—hats, umbrel- las, cigarette cases, gloves, trunks, safety razors and many other useful offerings included. “VALUES TELL” 4 \ of this class of tobacco lasts much longer than a big chew of the old kind. That’s why it costs less to use. Any man who has used both kinds will tell you that. Put up in two styles Old fight fans declared Lieut. Cor. Army Welsh took a decision over | win, athletic officer of the battleship | Brea Kent in the semi-final clash. | Texas, the best referee they had a heavies. | seen ina ring for many a moon. ' “W” MEN ON “ANN MAYHALL | STAR TEAMS RETURNS 6 Renders of the sport page of the} “Ann Mayhall, Crystal swimming Ban Francisco Cail are sending in| 1, idle AllCoast teams to the sport-|%U? ash and swimming Ming editor of that paper, Altho most |*t#t, ls back in Seattle after spend f the contributors have not seen | ing several months with relatives in niversity ‘ashington eleven pany and Newport, Ore. Miss the University of Washington el Alb 4 N fm action thin season, the names of | yhall is training for the coming Eeckmann at half, and Ted Waulk, | season at the Y, W. C. A. and hopes ‘at end, are placed on many of the to lower some more of her records ait the coast meets this summer, distance NS & YOUNG MEN'S WEAR e -C.GRAVES. Pres. SECOND AVENUE AT SPRING STREET ME W-B CUT is a long fine-cut tobacco RIGHT CUT is a short-cut tobacco