The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 13, 1920, Page 12

_ LONG BEACH PREP GRIDDERS ARE gests, BIG SCORERS : BY TOM OLSEN ' When the Everett high schoo! and Long Beach high school | | Bridders tangle Friday at Long Beach, Cal., two of the heav scoring machines in the history of prep football will be n in action. Both the Washington and California high school elevens national reputations because of their long string of vic- and grid fans are looking for a great struggle. | Besides settling the prep school | ship of the western United the outcome of this game will to a close a long dispute as to Feal power of the Everett eleven. _ A@vance ticket mies indicate a Of more than 20,000 persons be on hand to see the two prep battle. An official half holi has been declared by the mayor Long Beach, and the seaside city ie fairiy bustling with a football at ‘Little is known here of the style football that wil! be used by the Beach team. Beach has turned out some the best football players of the try. Among the most noticeable these is big Art Mueller, right end the University of California, and by many sport writers as ean end. ‘Washington fans have faith in the tt team, and feel confident that Ragshaw’'s eleven will redeem state’s name as far as the grid ig concerned. Bagshaw’s team may resort to the style of football from pres- indications. The success of this im the recent Salt Lake game tt Thanksgiving leads many that passing will play a’ part in Everett's offensive | cal fib | ! | E j 2 : i i g f j ' i ir it finds tee Eee “ 2 eke é ; } i ; I [ i I £ It looks mighty doubtful whether Dobie will return to Cornell uni. as grid coach next yenr. The | football coach did not do what expected of him at the Ithica in- : , Rewed, seems to be only short-tived. stitution, and is in bad with the | officials there for that reason. | ps | DOBTE IS IN DEMAND | Whether he ts offered the coach. ing job again at Corneil is the least of Dobie’s worries, The former | Washington mentor ts tn big demand | jim the Bast, and f ts rumored that several schools are launching nego | dations with him now. lo. SU. WILL PRACTICE ON WAY Obio State university gridders will [have a couple of special cars for | thelr trip to Pasadena for their bie |New Your's tilt with the Univernity | of California. The Ohioans will make stops at Denver, Colorado, and Palo | Alto, California, for short practice | | sessions. At Palo Alto they will use | the Stanford university field. GRID DINNER TUESDAY | The University of Washington | football banquet will be held at the New Washington hotel Tuesday eve |ning. Next year’s captain will be lelected by the letter winners, who will also elect the man who will be given the Flaherty medal Speeches by the football leaders will be an- other feature of the banquet. Be | ‘The joy over the fact that Wash ington State college and the Uni-| versity of Washington had “buried the hatchet” and grid relations be ween the two schools had been re ‘The suggestion of a “Big Three” in | Pacific coast football puts a damper | jon this, and it seems doubtful | whether these two Washington | schools will tangle next Thankegiv- ing, as has been announced, Who ¢, ANYWAY? ‘Who will Ejmer Henderson root for in the University of California Ohio State game New Year's day? pee gp ae age is a star halt } ie te while i to the West calls ba the California what's one voice FOUR CLUBS GIVEN “FRANCHISES IN P. I. LEAGUE; _ TACOMA, Dec. 13.— Franchises awarded to Tacoma, Yakima, and Victoria in the Pa- International league at a meet- of officials of that organization Sunday. Cliff Blankenship, SPOKANE QUITS organization. Louis H. Burnett of Tacoma was | reelected president of the league. Bob Brown of Vancouver was again tendered the position of vice presi- | man-| dent, and John 8. Barnes of Seattle | State next year? THE SEA TTLE STAR ‘Chess Stars to Play for the World’s Championship at Havamt NEW YORK, Dee. 18.—Dr. Lasker, of Leipzig, world’s champion chess player, will defend his title against Capablanca, the Cuban Jack Dempsey and Bill Brennan to Battle in Gotham Tuesday {The World’s Champion LEAVE PASS ALONE--- WILCE BY HENRY J. FARRELL NEW YORK, | Deo. 13.--Perey Houghton, founder of the “Harvard football system,” wants football re- Vinod. The forward pass must be curbed, he says, or football will become a combination of basketball and base ball. Houghton knows — football, course, but other experta do agree with bis fears for the future of the game. WILLE FAVOORS OPEN GAME Jack Wilee, founder of the system that brought Ohio State from a medi cere position in the Ohio conference of small colleges to the peak of the “Big Ten” of the went, is & disciple of the open game. “The forward pas mado football what it ix," he said here recently. “It has removed the weight handt cap suffered by small clevens, it has made a leas dangerous game and de creased Injuries, it has made it an fhrteresting gume to watch and it has introduced more intelligence into the game.” ‘To make radical changes tm the forward pasa rulea would be to send the game back Into its primitive stages and make weight rule again, be thinks Wiles, however, favers some alight changes in the rules to over come a few advantages that the for ot not He suggests, for instance, that In the case of interference with the re | colver of the pase instead of giving the ball to the offended team where the foul was committed, to bring the ball back to the point of play and inflict a penalty of 10 yards If any changes are made by the Tules committee this winter, Wilee favors a rule requiring all players “|to be numbered. “Objections made by some coaches not so email that we will put our system above the Interest of the pul lic that keeps the game going. Re gardiess of what other teams do and what the rules committee may de cide, sre going to make our games resting to the public if we can, ono TO BUILD STADIUM “Ohio State in going to bufld a million-dol! stadium, the largest and finest in the world. We will need a huge seating capacity be cause we are making football fans in Ohio, The baseball fan likes to wit in the grandstand and figure the “tnwide’ of the game--to study what is being done and why it in being done, The real football fan itkes to do the same thing He doesn't sit there and watch the ball go up and down the field. He likes to know what the quartertack is trying do and he is interested to see how ft is done. Without numbers his task is too hard. With numbers it ls easy and he becomes a confirmed football fan.” In the last four years, Ohio State under the guidance of Wiles has lost but one game, has won two western conference championships and finished second once. He de veloped Chie Harley, Pete Stinth- comb, Workman, Willaman, Pixley, Huffman and some of the greateat players in the Middle West. “Am I going to conch at Well, I presume Onto of the Spokane Indians last sea-| remains as secretary of the organiza-\%0. You know out west we don't represented the Inland Empire and announced that Spokane withdraw from the league. ne will retain her 1920 players. No disposition attle franchise. Seattle belongs to tthe league. A number of cities are applying for franchises in the league and there is talk of increasing {t to an eight-club PREP OUTLOOK . | No. 8, Franklin « | Hon. | The next league meeting win be | held early in January at Yakima. Work of lining up the circuit will be) was made of the Se-| started at that time. A circult com.|I[ aman mittee, consisting of Dr. J. W. Van | Valseah of T: Bob Brown of | Vancouver and Tealy Raymond of | Yakima was appointed by President Burnett. CAGE | go thru an ufdefented season and get a fouryear contract. Noelther do we lose one game and get canned. I haven't « contract at Ohio State, mber of the faculty, that's all,” Wiice said, . ENTRIES FOR STAR SPORTS OPEN SOON Entries for The Star ice races and The Star pocket billiard tourney will be open Wednesday. Blanks will be published in The Star for the en- tranta to fill out. The fee races will get under wa Franklin high school basketnall, Knowles plays a fast brand of bas.|®t the Arena January 5, while the Prospects are not so bright for qhis coming season. With only two men| from last year’s team back and a new coach, the outlook for the _ Quakers is not exceedingly brilliant Captain Johnny Cole, at center, will be the man that Coach Dvorak will build bis team around. Thin is} Cole's fourth year at prep basket ball, playing center every season The other letterman is Horace Knowles, a sub of last year’s team. " JACKLENDS | A HAND NEW YORK, Dec. 13—Jack Mc Auliffe, the undefeated retired ampion,, in vaudeville with a “Monologue. At the Broadway the ‘ter recently Jack Dempsey was in @ audience when McAuliffe ap- on the stage, Dempsey went Up and did a turn with the retired ehampion. Stove League's realy to warm things up but so far there's no fuel im the shape of buscball deals ketball but lacks experience The graduation of Rinaldo Caecin, | |Johnny Thorburn, Ralph Elliott, Morris Segel and Bob Wright leaves a big gap in the basketball stock at |the Mount Baker institution. Bert Maxwell, another star of last season's team, is not in school, Coach Dvorak, however, will have 4 number of second string and for- mer midget players to build a team around, and the new mentor is ex-| pected to turn out a fairly fast tiv: “RUCK” -HERJA® BUCK” ‘HERZOG O. K. AGAIN BALTIMORE, Md, Dec. 13— “Buck” Herzog, second baseman of the Cubs, who underwent a serious operation for intestinal trouble, is again on his feet and plans to re turn to his farm as soon as he is| strong enough to leave the pital. how | Mayor Hylan of New York accepts | Chicago challenge for 40 schoolboys from each city to meet in ice skating | pocket billiard tourney will start at Pope-Sibley’s about January 15 The ice races are open to amateurs only, while the “pool” meet is free- for-all. John J. Carney, coach at Phillips Exeter academy, sis chosen to au ceed John Henry aa Cornell's base. ball coach FUR SMOOTHED OVER I BY RY L. FARRELL NEW YORK, Deg, 13.—Fur on the major league backs has been smooth. ed by a new national agreement that hag been approved by a committee and most Ukely will be ratified this week, The direction of the bristles on the mnors’ backs will not be known until January 10, when a new « handed to them yesterday majors, is acted upon. After a two days powwow between the majors and minors, presided over by Judge Landis, two agreements were accepted yesterday—oue affect to} WPPRARADALR AA SAILOR ARE BACKING ETCELL ‘The mallors over at Bremerton are ything from ship's both et betting ever orm to their » col, Pacific Me Bud Ridley at the Bremerton Wednesday fang feel confident that Ridley will give the fleet cham | pion a tough battle, Hidley hag met nome of the best boys in the country and has fought them toe to tos, The rest of the bouts are Battling Zusu va Billy Vincent weltorn Kiddie bantame. Stan Mitchell va, Phil Jensen, ter Red Gallagher va Joo Daniels, Lghtwetebts, |~CARPENTIER MAY BOX MORAN | LONDON, Eng., Dee. 18- Georges Carpentier, European heavyweight champion, and Frank Moran, the American who finished Joe Beckett in two rounds, have practically been signed for a 20-round bout here in February, it be- came known today. GRID PRO TITLE UNSETTLED CHICAGO, Dee. 12.—The Staleys jand Akron profemional football elovens fought & scorelena te here | yesterday for Use pro championship lot the United States, Toth teame fought hard, and only once, during the third period, was there a threat ened scorn A place kick Was at tempted by the Staleys during that }pertod from the 22-yard line, but | went wide of the mark. mnoker in Seattle boxing Moore va, Young Carpenter, wel GIPP’S _ CONDITION CRITICAL SOUTH BEND, Ind. Dee 12-—A critical ‘change in the condition of George Gipp, Notre Dame star foot ball player, caused a hurried conmul tation of physicians here earty to |day. Later a statement was given out that he was “resting « little jeasier.” Gipp bas been I with pheumonia for three weeks | TRAINING | NEW ‘YORK, Dec. 12 — Junt enough work to keep on edge was to be done today by Jack Dempeecy, heavyweight champion, and Bill Brennan, who meet tomorrow night in @ Sround bout in Madison Square garden, Both finished training with a short period in the afternoon befor large crowds of spectators and bot! look to be In perfect condition. } ‘The reserved seat sale has already phased the $100,000 mark, Promoter BACK? BY HEKK YORK 13. ng experts at How much Leonard weight champ) ly used up the fir been called upon legitimate weight had little effect on Welling the other night It took the champion 14 rounds to finish his mar And the question aris How ofte ean Leonard do it nd still retain bis stamina? ‘ing that Leonard made against Welling has given other con tenders “nerve” to seek «a with the champion. They will camp on the champion’s tral apd believe that the general demand will force the champion into 4 decision bout for his Utle. They do not believe lthat the champion can afford to fali back Inte fighting nodecision affairs at catchweights and take on weight which will require arduous training to ke off again. | WELLING BOUT DISAPPOINTMENT if Leonard was trying to do his beet In hie bout with Welling, the champion has gone a long way back winoe the days when he won the title from Freddie Welsh | Johnny Dundes, the “Scotch Wop,” | tm all het up over his showing chance with Henny. He & pre | ulssing himeelf even pow as the beet lightweight champion. “I've fought Leonard about eight times, and never cared what he weighed.” said Dundes, “He never could hurt me, and can you imagine what I can do to bim when he & Dec The ques the present longer can continue an light Benny was bad time he bad defend his hon iis NEW tlen a tim Renny best punches ing compelled to get on the old scale? | te also another contender | | There jout Weet champion's | Mitehen. who wants to grab the tit, He tn Hitehie He has met the cham pigp before and was mved from a4 kn@ekout in the seventh round when | the referee stopped the fight jell was then hanging helpless on the ropes. | NEVER PLEASED RITCHIE The stopping of the fight never Pleawed Ritchie, After the battle he advanced & most unusual excuse. Mitchell contended that he suffered from too much friendship on the part of the referes, The third man fo the ring was a warm friend of the Milwaukee boxer. He @id not Uke the way things were | going and no stopped the fight to mave Mitchell from further punish ment. [that a neutral referoe would have allowed the match to continue and | that it would have gone the limit. It is quite evident that you just cannot please some men. ‘That fight took place some fittle while ago. Since then Mitchell has been moving along at a geod clip. | He hag defeated Johnny Dundee jon two occasions, Freddie Went an jequnl umber of times, Charlie | White and Joe Welling no less than ‘four ti That is why the West thinks he ought to have a cham- plonship match with Benny Leon rd wee | CADDOCK | GOTOMAT SAN FRANCISCO, Deo 13.-—Parl mateb Mitel. | Rutchie hag always claimed | FAMOUS TEAMS Aurtin & Sait. Bread and water. Second and Pike. blue, Lonnie Austin’s new shirt is of every hue. BRITONS THEIR MINDS LONDON, Dee. 13—British followers changed two big ideas to- day. ‘They decided that Joe Beckett, their former heavyweight idol, is a frost and they began to think that Georges Carpentier is not a super | man, worth thelr offers of 6 to 4 Rickard announced, while the re | Caddock, for a breathing space cham,| that he would whip Dempsey in their celpta are expected to go beyond $200,000. Dempaey is to get $100,000, while Brennan will get $35,000, JOE TINKER TO RETIRE COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 12—Joe Tinker, former shortstop of the champion Cubs, t» going to retire |from baseball. Ho has old his stock In the Columbus American sasoc! |tion team and says he is thra with , the game. BIG PURSE FOR DOG DERBY THE PAS, Manitoba, Dee, 13.—The 1921 Hudson Bay dog derby will be run on March 1 for a purse of $2,500, ‘The distance will be 200 miles, from here to Flin Flon and return. The race is open to all comers, all over the world, for any number of dogs to @ team and any type of sleigh. PRINCE PUTS UP PRIZE LONDON, Dec. 13—A challenge shield for a boxing competition among unite of the territorial cadet force has been presented by the | Prince of Wales, | WHERE'S JOE BECKETT? LONDON, Dec, 13.—Tom Cowler. the Australian fighter, has been matched to meet Jack Curphey, the heavyweight, on Dec. 20, pion wrestler of the world, and stil! rated as one of the best in the mat game, will meet Jimmy Londos to- | night in a mat tussle at the civic | anditorium here. The match will be a two-hour af. fair, with a gurantee deciaion. Cad- dock is rated favorite over the Greek, | altho underweighing him, | BIG EASTERN | CREWS TO MEET NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dee. 13.— Yale and Columbia witl row two races on the Housatonic river at Derby on April 30, according to tentative plana. Yale will also row Pennsylvania over the same course on April 16. On |May 21 Yale wil row Cornell and Princeton at Ithaca. SOMETHING TO SPEED UP FOR |. LONDON, Dec, 13 —Taking part in an Old Comrades seven-mile walk, George Dudley, 50, was bitten by a dog when about half way thru the journey. Urged by his pacer that he must hurry and have the bite attended to, Dudley kept to his task |and won the race by more than 100 yards. He then went to the doctor. WHERE’LL THEY PUT THEM? NEW HAVEN, Conn, Dec. 13.— Enlargement of Yale bow! to increase the seating capacity is under con sideration. Thousands of more per. fons could have been accommodated at the Yale-Harvard football game, hag there been seats, battle next year. ‘They changed thetr minds Friday fn Albert Hall when, in the second | round of a bout scheduled to go 20 rounds, Beckett lay on the floor in @ trance and Frank Moran, ranked in the second division of American pugilists, stood over him with a vie torious smile, BIG CUE MATCH TODAY | CHICAGO, Dec. 13.—Champion | Rob Cannefax will play John Layton, | of St Louis, for the three-cushion billiard championship of the United | States here today. | The match wilt be-for 75 potnts, with the winner getting $1,500 im cash and a yearly salary of $2,400, | and the loser getting $1,000 and a yearly salary of $1,200. LATONA WINS SOCCER TITLE In the hardest-fought game of the Grammar School Soccer league, the Latona school won the city title from Hawthorne by a 10 count, on the Woodland park field, Saturday, The winning score was made by Joo Brady, in the last minutes of play, after a hot contest, Latona won the championship of Class A, while Hawthorne won the Clase B honors, ing relations between major league clubs, and another between the major and minor leagues Tho major leagues’ agreement, ef. fective for 26 years, recognizes Judge Landis as the ‘supreme power of baseball, with jurisdiction to settle all dixputes and to mete out punishment | to leagues, clubs or individuals guiity of conduct detrimental to the game A fine of $5,000 and a withdrawal of its right to sit in on Mi 1 ane sions can be imposed on such a club. As an advisory committee to aot | with Landis, the agreement names the presidents of euch major league, N BIG LEAGUE MEETING When disputes arise between the two ues in a joint session, the agreement provides for a roll call by clubs. In case a four and four vote resulta, the president of the league will be allowed to vote for his Jeague, and in case of a disgree ment between the presidents, the commission can decide the iasue: The major league agreement does not touch on the draft, considered ment, The contents of the agreement drawn up for the minors wag not made known, the most vital part of the new agree: | Resumption of the draft at $5,000 is said to have been included. This clanse is expected to be the one over which the monors will battle most. The American .association and the International league of the Clase AA group are unalterably opposed to the draft, according to the statements of |their presidents. However, _ the }leagues are known to be divided, | Practically all of the smaller leagues are in favor of the draft, and it is understood the Class AA con- tingent could be brought in line for $1,500, ring | W! We thank the editor of the Daily Wireless for the correc- tion on the story printed in The Star that Sid Houseman was thrown out of the Arena by Clay Hite, and not out of the Crystal Pool, Nate Drixinman, “Doc” Hanley and Elmo Jones asked us at the boxing commission meeting the other night t put Jim Boldt, the restaurant man, on the anvil, so they could kid him aboat it BUT WE CANT DARN THING TO OUT FOR, BUT DRUXINMAN, JONES THINK OF ALONG THOSE LINES, WE GLADLY AID THEM IN HA’ THEIR LITTLE JOKE. WE AL- WAYS STRIVE TO PLEASE. It is reported that Joe Wopp is on a strict diet, ; age very little ‘ood, since boxing game has closed down here. FAMOUS MYSTERIES Sam Langford's age Clay Hite’s Christmas present for Nate Druxinman. Nate's present for Clay. The place where Lonnie Austin buys his shirts. we spo thas cou! hs Virgil Garvey’s story of Loa is one of the masterpieces of Seo- ond ave. literstrm, Joe Wopp ‘nny aie can’ "t be a very high class game, if they play it im the alley, GOOD NIGHT! ‘THINK OF A BAWL JAMES IF MESSRS. AND MILDMAN CIGARS MADE IN SEATTLE S50LD EVERYWHERE | wizard, in Havana, Cuba, in January, according to reports received here. The date for the match and the number of games have not )}been settled. The session will be fer the world’s title, with a $20,000 side bet at stake. HEAVY TITLE AT STAKE Jack Dempsey, world’s heavy! weight champion, is booked to de fend his crown for the second time wince winning it from Jess Witlard in 1919 when he meets Bill Brennan of Chicago in a 1S-round bout ia New York tomorrow night. Dempsey, whose beat bet ts Bis terrific punch, will enter the ring a big favorite to win. Not much money im being wagered on the com test here, most of the fans picking the round in which Brennan will take the big sleep. Most of ‘em my the fourth round. Brennan, altho no ranks as one of the best weights in the game and pretty good wallop hisnself for he has been dubbed K. 0. Brennan has fought Jack losing their last bout tn the round when he broke his ankle falling after taking one of Dempecy’s wallops on the chin. Tuesday's bout is scheduled fer j 3 a ili H 5 F f ! th | Ht i, Ht 4 H Z i " | i i ; h i i E i aT ‘ F H r8 | f i f H mn irilty THE rigt 3 be ul | How Would You Like to | Look Over 147,200 Civil Suits? This is not a clothing advertisement. The Givil Suits are law suits that have been filed in the King County Superior Courts up to date. 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