The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 14, 1920, Page 14

DEMPSEY IS BIG FAVORITE TO KNOCK OUT BRENNAN ‘Centre Grid Eleven Los CHAMP SHOULD WIN EARLY BY LEO H. LASSEN Jack Dempsey, work's heavy weight champion, ts being made a Big favorite to knock Bill Brennan, Ghileago contenders, into dreamland in | "© about five rounds by Seattle fans tle for the second time when he Meets Brennan tonight. He knocked > Billy Miske out in three rounds | Kabor day tn his first bout as cham- pion. ‘The wast time Dempsey fought © Brennan he hit BM #0 hard on the )@hin that Brennan's ankle broke ‘That was in the sixth round. _ But Brennan ts a big fellow, who has been winning most of his fights By the sleep route lately and he has & World of confidence tn himself. ) here ia no doubt, however, but > what Dempsey has Improved at least 200 per cent since he fought Brennan i and with the $500,000 Carpe © Ger bout looming tn the distance he's Mot going to take any chances, Woe look for Dempsey to sap Bren | Ban for keeps real early and unlew | Miracle happens Dempsey should Be & winner inside of five rounds, Don't think for a minute, however, What Brennan hasn't got a chance he has Physically he's . y's equal and he carries a gute punch. Dempsey can be Knocked out—Jim Fiynn did it thr ago—but we can't see 2 but a Dempsey K. O. inside NG SESSION SSION promises to be an Interest- geasion at the next meeting of Seattle boxing commission when Worthy body takes up the mo- made by Chairman Hanicy, seo by Elmo Jones and laid on the Dempsey is booked to defend his Brennan and Dempsey Are Evenly Matched dack Dempsey and Bill Brean are two of the most evenly matched men to every battle for the heavywelght title, Here's how ure up when they go into the ring tonight: NNAN DEMI .Welghtss « Helght -Reach. 6 tt 1% In. TT Un cn new eeeenee eee 17 In. BUM. eee ce ne eee ee ene = 15 tn.. 30% 23 in 190 Ibe. | 18 IN... cereeeee 8% In 42 te 45 tn SEATTLE “CRITICS” PICK DEMPSEY TO WIN QUICKLY BY | SLEEP ROUTE Here's what some of Seattle’s fight “critics” think of the| outcome of the Bil Brennan-Jack Dempsey setto in New York tonight: CLAY HITE—1 think the bout will Inst about two rounds with Dempery being the winner by the K. O, route ‘The way I look at it ts that they are | trying to build Dempsey into a big card to draw a huge house when he fights Carpentier. Dempsey won't take any chances and he'll be In there | to win tn the first round if he can. I look for the bout to last maybe two. | | DANIEL L SALT—My guess ts that Brennan will last about three rounds with Dempsey. I saw Brennan box Willie Meehan in Philadelphia last year and he didn't show enough to warrant more than three rounds with the champion, Dempsey has improved at least 100 per cent since he fought Brennan last and Jack ought to knock him out in a hurry. | CHARLEY HULEN—I think that Brennan will stay about five rounds | | with Demy Brennan ts a big, tough fellow, and while he's no mateh for Dempsey, I look for him to stay longer than Miske did. | DR. WALTER KELTON—Because I am prejudiced againet Dempsey 1 am probably giving Brennan too much when I say I think that he will stay eight rounds the champion. But that's my guess, | ELMO JONES—Dempeery can sock Brennan to sleep any time he wants to, but I think Jack will give the fans a run for their money, For that ®, es But One Player DANVILLE, Ky., Dec. 14.—The wonder football team of little Centre college will lose only’ one player of this year’s team by graduation, James, right tackle, being the lone gridder to earn his sheepskin. the great fullback, will both be playing regularly next season. © Jim Thorpe Is Wonder Athlete of Present Era [How Thorpe, } GREAT INDIAN IS STILL STAR BY DEAN SNYDER ‘The halo with which athletes eur- round themselves is usually a short lived thing, Blut the case of Jim Thorpe, the Carlisle Indian, is an ex: ception, His greatness refuses to pass with the yearn Thorpe ts the great phys jeal machine still, True, he has lost frome of his Gash and sturdiness, but he is wiser and more mature. ‘Time has chineled lines tn his face and grayed bia hair, bat hin great ness remains a part of him, He had @ big year in baseball as an outfielder for the Akron club of the International lague. Tilw bat Ung average was well over the .300 mark and he ran wild on the bases, BRILLIANCY LIVES Changing bis apikes for his cleats was @ mere difference of setting for his athietic prowesa. For on the sridiron Thorpe ls ever more super lative, An captain of the Canton (Ohio)) Bulldogs, & profexstonal football team made up of the college stars | reason I say that Brennan will last about five rounda JOE DIZARD—Dempeey ts on edge for this bout. He has the Carpentier | ancy continued to ansert Iteelf bout in the offing and I look for the seconds to carry Brennan out tn about | jot a few years ago, mortly, his bril- When Thorpe exhibited his stuff Looks Today He Still Retains Prowess Bo MeMillan, the brilliant quarter, and Rodgers, Local Ball Chiefs After Wisterzil and Miller Prexy Klepper and Manager Kenworthy are tn Portland to. Jay en route to the Coast league meeting at Sacramento Thursday While in Portland the air will try to put over the deal that ts expected to bring Tex Wisterzil the locals. They will alec onfer with Harry Gardner, “ig righthander, 1921 eontract. Kenworthy stated yenterday before leaving that he was after Hack Miller, the Oakland slugger and that he was going to try to swap players for him. The Duke eays he would be willing to give an outfielder and @ pitche for the Oak star. the concerning | The end came at $23 a m. Remember Harry Meek, the old bey who used to siap out home rune for the Victoria elul in the North- league years ago? pin men in the cafeteria city. PIN “Kenworthy t# counting a tot on | Mob Geary and Joe Dailey tn the piteh- ing line mext season. Ile expecta Geary |to be one of the best pitchers in the ntre is down on Harvard’s schedule again. | GIPP | LOSES GAME | FIGHT | BEND, Ind. Dee. football stat of Notre lost a losing game pneumonia when he die@ here early today. Gipp was 24 yeary old and, in addition to being a stay halfback, was credited with being the cleverest baseball player in the b tory of Notre Dames Hoe was sought by major leagu@ managers and was expected to sign with the Chicago Cubs for an ous] field berth on next year’s team. | Gipp’s death ended a hard battle, # | “He won't die,” the doctors sail |“You would think he was on the | football field again.” n today, Bj | In addition to his mother, sister brother, who came here from r y |ium, Mich. two weeks ago, Coacl | Rockne and members of the Notgall Dame team were at the bedside wh | the star died. Gipp died from pneumonia. The | ictal cause given was declared | have been streptococic throat trouble | following an attack of tonsilitia, He | never played football until he cam to Notre Dame. He had been a b ball player. During football prac | one day Gipp appeared on the g1 | tron and when an oval rolled his ue gainst > ‘at their last session'to bar Clay at the Polo grounds recently against | | he picked it up and drop-kicked from staging shows in Seattle Hite has announced that he will on hand at Friday's meeting to Bfend himself and there should be interesting reading compiled at session. the commission and will undoubt- try to have him barred. Jones | ‘With Dempsey fighting Brennan | tonight, the winner meeting Willard, with Carpentier about to box ‘either Dempsey or Carpentier to get “Wwalloped by any of their playmates Before they get together in their because they would draw | gust as much tomorrow as they will} LONNIE AUSTE knockouts. miller. about five rounds. BILL BROWN—1 say four rounds to turn the trick. I give Brennan Morris to Be Shifted to Right Wing While at first !t seemed cer Keats, counted on by Vancouver as thetr center fee man, Will stay in Edmonton this season, Fredertchaem, a eon: ying the “Dig Four” league. Brennan has been up against him before and he’ Dempsey is much the better man, however, and should win in | ERRORLESS three rounds. | JIM PURSELEY—I gtvo Brennan etght rounds. To's a big, tough fellow. | & bie husky PETE MULDOON—1 give Brennan about five rounds. Brennan tent any champion, but he ranks high among the contenders. with Dempsey the winner, NATE DRUXINMAN-—-I think that Dempsey can win any time he wants three rounds and if he stays longer than that Dempsey ts letting him stay. METS HOLD FIRST HOCKEY | WORKOUT | With six regulars om the job the Beatle hockey squad held ita first workout at the Arena Monday aft ernoon, ‘The affair was very informal, but |the gang managed to work up 4 food sweat. | Bernie Morria, Frank Tod Rowe, Happy Holmes, Jim Riley and | Jack Walker were all out, Rey [Rickey is expected from Van- couver today and Charley Tobin is slated to arrive from Portland. Muzz Murray should be in from Michigan by Wednesday, * ‘The squad wil take things pretty eany for the next few days, but when the whole team is here they will get down to hard training as the first game of the season is set for Mon- day at Vancouver. Pilot Pete Muldoon ts sitting tight | now as he haa the same team that won the Coust title last year, plus Morria, who will hold downlone of the forward berths, Ao soon as the squad te intact a | captain will be elected by the play. jers. Rumor has it that Happy Holmes will be given the honor this | season, LAYTON WINS CUE TITLE CHICAGO, Dec. 14—Johnny Lay- the Buffalo All-American eleven he —Dempsey has boon more or leas lucky in some of his | WAS & good 35 per cent of the Bull Gogy’ attack. FOOTBALL Referce Tiny Maxwell called that gridiron exhibition the “errorless game in football” ‘The men made a few fumbles and mined fumble with thetr heads “It was played by 22 potential football coaches who worked out plays that fitted them individuatty,"| ways Maxwell, “It wasn’t lar football, either, because each team played by the book and neither could get away with anything.” Those who expected to see Thorpe get awny for long runs were dis appointed. mors The defense in the profes sional game is much harder to break thru. Players are af intvidual stare tn thelr own righta ‘Their pay de pends on what they ean do. ‘The men seem to sense the playa Thorpe is considered one of the hard- est men tn the game to tackian Ba. sides hia strength and power the big Indian appears to “feel” which way the tackler is coming and gtves ground with him so aa to keep out of reach. noosTs PRO GAME ‘Thorpe te championing the canre of pro football He aays he believes the time has come for it to take its place along with other big league sports, Next year he may put a team of professionals In New York. In fact, the Canton-Buffalo game was a sort of trial for this idea, But it didn't draw the crowd the promoters ex Notwithstand- ing the fact that both teams were made up mainly of former Alb- Ametican players but 6,000 people came out to watch them. Just « few weeks previous Rutgers and Nebraska had drawn 30,000. So Thorpe’s vision doesn't seem so rosy. Most of the spectators exw tn it only a mechanical game. There was no loud cheering, The e«pirit hich accompanies college football 8 lacking. All of which leads one to think that football ts perhaps after all pasees, but they didn't) year. A beating for either now knock the drawing power of ¥ bout for a row of well known _ home runs. LEWIS - WINS T CROWN | NEW YORK, Dec. 14. — Fd * @trangier) Lewis, master of the head lock, reigned king among the wrest- Jers today. The big Kentuckian took the title from Joe Stecher, who threw Cari Caddock for the championship last | winter, after a bout lasting 1 hour and 40 minutes, here, last night. Roy Rickey and Charley Tobin are ex- pected to report to the Mets today. Benson tickets are now on sale at the Arena. CALL OF PREP GRID GAME CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 14— |The proposed football game between ton was the new three-cunhion bil-imore of a epectacie than a game. ard champion today following his Without ite setting amid wild cheer. clone victory here last night over|ing and school honor the color is Bob Cannefax, of San Francisco, | gona, who held the title, The game went) Thorpe—the chief sponser of pres. 99 innings, Layton winning 1 tolent-day professional football—eeemn 64 to have a hard road ahead. SISLER WINS A. L. IN OFFICIAL LIST | Bast Tech High of Cleveland and CHICAGO, Dec, 14.-—Premier hit- the Haverhin, |team, for the right to play a Pa cific Coast team for the national |championshtp has been declared off, |aeccording to word here. Haverhill sent word that the team was thru playing for thé season. East Tech jis still negotiating for @ western | game. Prep Cage Outlook No. 4, Lincoln On the preseason dope, Lincoin Wooks like the winner of the city be a tower of strength to the North enders. There is some possibility Mass, high school | ting honors In the American leagne |go to George H. Sisler of St. Louis, who batted 407 in 1 games, accord ing to the official batting averages given out here today. Sister also hung up a record for the number of hits made—267. Just what Charlie Cominkey*s ac tion in suspending alleged crooked ball players on ‘his club did to his |pennant winning chances next year jean be seen in the fact that three of them batted 333 or better. This Speakgr of Cleveland was |next to Sisler with 28. | Babe Roth finished fifth, Joe | Jackson, of the White Sox, was |fourth. Ruth swatted .376 for a total of 172 hits and 158 runs, Ruth in addition to acquiring home run honors, was second in whiffing hon- ors, The home run king fanned 80 times, RR J. Niehaus, of Cleveland, ted the swatters. He batted 444 for 19 games. Tyrus Cobb averaged .324 ANNUAL “Ww” C SLM THORPE. Tho age is marking deep lines in Jim Thorpe’s face, he de- fies time to rob him of his athletic prowess. Hie doem’t do it any|on the baseball diamond and a ¢ is still a star yer on the gridiron. Thorpe is now championing the cause of professional foot- |, which he hopes to some day make a recognized big league VARSITY SURE OF TWO GRID GAMES BY TOM OLSEN The University of Washington 1921 football team is aswured of at least. two games for next season, ac cording to an announcement made by Graduate Manager Darwin Meis- nest. The customary first game with Whitman college has been scheduled for October § in the stadium. The University of Montana wit! the stinging defeat of the past season in their game tn the stadium sched uled for October 18. The regular canference schedule wil not be settled until after the Christmas holidays. Professor U. G. Duback of the Oregon Agricultural college, presi dent of the Pacific Coast conference, conferred with Washington's confer- ence faculty representative, Prot. L. J. Ayer, Saturday on the campus. ‘They reaffirmed the statement that there will be either the present ‘our game rchedule, or an entirely new achedule, or no schedule at all. This waa all that was decided. As the matter now stands, Wash ington, California, Stanford and 0. A. C, are in favor of the present fourgame schedule, while Washing: ton State college and the University get the three-game schedule. A new move was made verterday towards selecting a 1921 Washing: |ton football coach by selecting Dar |win Meisnest, Prof. Ayer and Bob Abel to work with the alumni com- mittee, ‘The atumnt commfttes consists of Nels Hartson, Louie Seagraves, Palmer and Dr, W. C. Speidel. ow sotithern baseball lenges ana, Texas and Missiasippl. give Washington a chance to avenge! fe till up in the air, and perhaps! | David L. Fultz. Georgia Tech Hangs Up New Coin Mark ATLANTA, Dec. 14.—The total receipts for football at Georgia Tech this year .were $90,000—a new record for the south. It has been the bet year the “Golden Tornado” ever had. HARVARD'S GRID LIST COMPLETE CAMERIDGR, Mass. Dec. 14.—~ Ten games appear on Harvard's 1921 football schedule, which was an-/ nounced here today. The list includes | Roston university and Middlebury college in a double header on Septem. ber 24; Holy Cross, October 1; Indi- ana, October 8; University of Geor-| gia, October 15; Penn State, October 22; Centre college, October 29; Prince- ton, November 6; mrown, November 12, and Yale, November 19. FULTZ GETS AIR NEW YORK, Dec. 14-——John Con- way Tools, New York attorney, was elected president of the National as-| sociation, a newly adopted namo, for the International league, to sucteed | Enger; right half, Francis jcenter half, Florence Nicolai; right While tm California Kenworthy win look over the toame tn the several win- ters leagoge there in hopes of picking up it was announced at the hockey ban- quet at the University Commons Friday night. ‘The tenm picked te represent the | university consists of: Center for. ward, Elsie Rosin; right insidg, Olive ‘athern; wing, Pauline Horner; left wing, Winifred Champlin; right fullback, Janet Dewhurst; left fullback, Eliza \ beth Grism; goal, Margaret Jenkins. CADDOCK BEATS LONDOS SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 14.—Ear! Caddock was awarded the victory in his wrestling bout with Jimmy Londos, bere, last night. Caddock secured the first faf in 11 minutes 5 seconds with @ head scis- sors hold. Londos took the second fal with an arm scissors in 1 hour 5 minutes 45 seconds, In the remaining $3 minutes 10 seconds of the scheduled two-hour bout neither could gain a fall NATIONAL LEAGUE MEET NEW YORK, Dec. 14.--With noth- ing In particular to fight about, the/ National league magnates were as- sembled here today for a peaceful annual meeting in the Waldorf-As- torla this afternoon. Ratification of the new “league of leagues,” with its articles, was the only item of interest on the schedule. | WOMEN’S STATE SWIM MEET SET FOR JANUARY 21 - The state women's swimming meet It is expected that Beth and Mol. of Oregon just won't play unless they | will be held January 21 at the local!ye Langley, Ann Mayhall, Hester |be offered. |baseball contest is scheduled. “Wee” Coyle, Walt Shiel, Dr. Don | fanned by cities in Arkansas, Loulal- | have Y. W. C. A. It is a regular sched-| uled Amatear Athletic Union affair. | Invitations have been extended to women swimmers in all parts of the state and a large entry list is ex pected. Aw it is a regular A. A. U. meet, all swimming and diving events will | In addition, a water) There are junior events for girls under 16 years of age. The Y. W. C. A. tank ts 53 feet long and 28 fect wide. Provisions been made for the diving events, Eastman, Madeliene Pleas and Frieda Hulen, stars of the Crystal Swim ming club, will enter m1 the meet. |the 60.yard line for a perfect go | and then had lUttle difficulty in m | ing the team. Arrangements for the fa which will probably be held |Gipp’s career ended just when | name and fame began. Almost simultaneously with the nouncement of his death came announcement of Walter Ci America’s football authority, that with total of 188, j BY HENRY L. FARRELL be more than a short workout for NEW vec. 14,—-Bv-n if a| Dempsey, at least 12,000 fans were iW TORK," T with {t, $35 000 | booked to pay $200,000 to see the beating 1s thrown In t, $85,000) Cnicago heavy flirt the second time is not so bad for about seven to ten | with a catastrophe. minutes’ work. In compliance with the state box- ‘Therefore, the glove ctnn gathered |ing law, both were to weigh in this here today was not questioning the jafternoon at 2 o'clock. Word from the training quarters sanity of Bill Brennan. said that the champton would step Brennan {s scheduled to go thru!in the ring around 185 pounds, while 15 rounds with Dempsey ‘at Madison | prennan would be around 196, Square Garden tonight, but the ex: |-————__ perts predicted that it would take just about three rounds for him to that Savage may graduate in mid- season. If he di he will leave a |big gap in the Lincoln defense. Gall Huhn, second string guard | last year, is making a strong bid for |the poultion left open by the gradu jation %y Chick Folk, Huhn has that four lettermen are turning out | plenty of fight and, if he improves for the squad, and the fifth member | his grade of play, he should make a of the present firet squad is a second | capable running mate for Savage. @tring man of last season. Coach Green has several other buthnét, Dr. D. C, Hall, Bill Nolian and “Bottles” Bastord,| promising recruits turning out. Car! Ranford Wick, Ten. ‘Tid two of the star forwards in the city, |Gabble and Floyd Snyder, forwarda,| nest will be among the speakers of | William J. Coyle, Coach Ha Leader, Dar- Will undoubtedly hold down those po-|and Irving Donaguard, a guard, are|the evening |Fisners “Viewtt Upton, wiciee, Walter sitions on the Red and Black five.|making the best showing to date| ‘The [Flaherty medal wi be| Dion, Virgil Anderson, Both ate good scorers and both cover | among the new men. awarded the man who did the great: | the floor well. Nollan was a mem-| Lincoln bad a powerful team tast| est service to the team in the eyen| (out ber of inst year’s AllCity second| year, finishing second. They lost two| of the players. The captain for next | Irving ‘Themas, larrett Herriok Ral team. He is captain of the North | carmes during the year, both in over-| year will also be chosen, GRID BANQUET ON TONI Now that foothaN days are over) Pete the university football warriors are | Mile going to celebrate their not overly | potter successful season with a banquet at| Roy Potter, Marota Crosby, wa MM, the Washington annex tonight at |J* Pre Vread Martiett, Helmer oe | Yerson, Lester Parker, F 330. ley Mucklontone, Prexy Henry Suzzallo, Coach Len |» » Martin Wiley, Allison, whose resignation has been | 1. B Aliison, accepted by the student board of | § ee tt, top eamundeon, control, and Graduate Darwin Mels-| De Ve Paskeiball championship this year.) Dame Dope is a fickle old lady, how-| ever, and the Ratlsplitters may not have much an easy time of it. The statement that Lincoln will win the title is based on the fact Conta, Munter iver Furaman, Francie Brown, Claude * Smith, - Don’t throw it awa Take it down to Joe— He can fix it . Arthur Younger, Walter Mhiel, Neil be, William Horsley, mt Most complete pipe repair department Hall, Gilbert 'Woater, Robert Gronter End quintet. time, Broadway taking one and| ‘Those invited to attend the ban-|orle, Tindeny, | James Grant, Bruce Hesketh, last year’s center, | Franklin the other. The Raileplitters fs back on the job again. If he| wound up the season by handing the gteadies down and plays consistent! Broadway Tigers their first defeat in hall, he should be one of the best|two years. eenters in the city, because he has) Coach Green has one strong thing plenty of natural ability. He was a|to fight, and that is over-confidence. Dit too erratic last year. The Northenders have a formidable Bill Savage, the best guard in the| array of talent, but they are not a| prep league last season, is back on) cinch to win the elty honors by any the job again this year. He should | means, quet are: ©, Woodburn, Samuel G. 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