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RIDLEY FIGHTS TRUE TO FORM _ BREMERTON, Dec. 16.—Scoring three knockdowns in fhe second round, Bud Ridley, | AND BEATS ETCELL Seattle bantam, didn’t have much trouble in defeating Georgie Btcell, champion of the Pacific fleet in the main even’ t of last night's smoker here. Three times in the second session Ridley popped Etcell on the chin with righthand es, and the fleet miller his feet each time and stuck the four rounds. kissed the floor each time. But Etcell managed to scramble Etcell did a lot of hanging on thruout mill while Ridley did all of the forcing. kept Ridley from show | The fight was rather slow, as Etcell fought on the defensive most of the time and his ing at his best. ’ Ridley won an edge in every round, but his work in the second was, of course, his best bet. In the semi-windup, Sailor Bilty Vincent gave Young Zuzu, Seattle : welter, a beautiful trimming. . t dashed in and out and ‘Bround Yusu eo much that the Mili ie Smest keeled over from dixsi- Vincent won every round in a ‘Walk, outboxing and outslugging the tke the KATT LE STAR Everett and Long Beach Prep Gridders to Clash Everett's prep grid machine and Long Beach clash tomorrow afternoon at Long Beach, with the Coast hig championship at stake, Neither team has lost a game this year. Chances are that/the winner of this game wi of Cleveland, or Englewood high, of Chicago, for the prep title of the United States, at Pasadena, New Year’s day, nary game to the Ohio State-California fuss, Coast Trip Puts Spotlight on Ohio State Eleve | BUCKEYE SQUAD IS WELL BALANCED BY DEAN SNYDER Winning three Western conference football tides gave Ohio State Uni veruity @ little dab of publicity tn its own neck of the woods, But when Coach Jack Wilee drew IN THE LIMELIGHT | | gh school footbaly I] meet East Tech, in the prelimi- VARSITY HOOP SQUAD IS@ PRUNED © BY TOM OLSEN Only 22 men have survived the Iniversity of Washington basketball “pruning out” administered by Coach Teck” Edmundson. a The coach has selected a firsty” miller. The feet boxer — 4s he packs a mean punch he's very shifty on his feet. He J &® big hit with the large crowd doys and girls present. MOORE ES CARPENTER Eddie Moore, Seattle bantam, Young Carpenter, another boxer, in the best bout of the . Tt was called a draw, but Seattle boy's punches carried the steam. looks: © Moore took the first two rounds by ‘ small margin, out-clugging the fleet , Dut in the closing rounds Car. extra weight began to tell he finished a bit stronger, _ The draw veniict was well re Ceived. PETE HERMAN’S BANTAM CROWN IS FULL OF string bunch for the practice and th & the amignment to take his gridiron | thers are used for scrimmage wor | others craft to Pasadena as a representa tive of Eastern football to battle the Competition fe keen for. all mn California Beare on New Year | tions, and there is no one practical he mpread the fame of the Buck cinched of a regular job. t eye institution across the limitless TWO OUT t akion , FOR CENTER * ‘The Pactfic coast tour, which wit! y . / 6 | Mapes and SeiTk are the fire cover & period of three weeks, is the an | string men fighting it out for center biggest thing that ever happened to At present neither one has any edge the nohool . ¢ |on the other. RK ROUTE : P | “Windy” Crawford and Leo Nichol CARD " | ‘ son are the two first string candi] And when it t# over the Ohio dele. | |dates for the running guard job) | gation of athletes will have traveled fa ks | Nicholson is a letterman from Imst @ total of nearly 6,000 miles. The! D> » Ps - | year’s five, but is being given o0% route will take them over a half 1 : 4 | tough race for the position by Craw- dosen different roads, Most of them | ford. will bave eaten their fleet Christmas | ‘The stationary guard position tx bf | } and New Year dinners tn California. | ling fought out between big Jinwi? Young KetcheN and Phit Jensen, ile welters, put up a pretty good . With the decision gotng to the DENTS There are a lot of bantams who can lick Pete Herman, but after four rounds of slugging didn't come out of his shell the third round, and by that Ketchel! had piled up a big *° 7 ’ - | ing in on it ever since. Ketchel! scored a knockdown in| Probably no champion ever became first round with a right cross to| more unpopular than the lad from chin. Jensen's best round was the New Orleans because of his sticking He scored time and time to nodecision fights so long while in this seasion with left hooks| the public desires to see him take ‘wind. }an occasional risk with bis coveted Ketchell came tack in the fourth | crown. however, and clinched the gPTEN BEATEN by eutpunching Jensen.| ‘There's a strong fiek! of bantams H opened a bad cut over Jen-/ out just now. They box Herman right eye In this round and and siam him around the ring, but ybout was finished with plenty of | a there is never a referee's decision Attached he still wears his regal RAZZ robes and dented crown. ‘ cT | Joe Burman, of Chicago, clouted Bailor Gwin, of Bremerton, was the champion around a 8t. Louls the call over Red Gallagher |ring a few weeks ago but it didn’t he opening preliminary. Gwin| mean anything. Joe Lynch, of New ‘ well thruout the fight, but | York, has outpointed Herman sev- should have been a draw, as Gal. era) times but all he got out of beat- did all the forcing and landed {ng the champion was the satixfac as many clean puneses. The | tion of knowing he could do It. Paszed the verdict. ou TPOINT A special attraction was put on by | HIM “Bantams,” a pair of] Car} Tremaine. of Cleveland, i» youngsters who tip the keen form crack at the New Or at 75 pounds each. “Spider” | jeans boy and believes he can take was given. the decision after| away his crown by the knockout torrid rounds over Bob Hed-| route Kelly demonstrated a “meet Herman has been outpolnted altho Bob tried hard he was! dozens of times and laughed out of batuer, the ring for his poor exhibition. thd biseest crowds that| He fights at 122 pounds ringside, fm on a smoker at Bremer. | While most of the other boys in the fm last night's card. The! division shrink down to the standard ‘was staged by the Elks in their 118. ¢lub gymnasium and was voted PLENTY | OF BUSINESS oe But for all that Herman gets plenty Bremerton heavy. | Of business, Monday for Den-| Right now he te sinted for a match box Fred Fulton | !m London with Jimmy Wilde with a guaranteed purse of $40,000. It ta in real condition | t0 de a 20-round bout and the date is Ful. | **t for January 14. Jack| He and his manager, Sammy Golden, have booked passage on the steamship Imperator that sails De- cember 33. MIND- CHANGER He wee to have appeared Tex | Rickard’s New York Garden with the winner of the Lynch-Sharkey | fight but aince Lynch scored a kayo the match has been taken off the boards. | Herman was signed to box Wilde in London for a good guarantee sev. | eral months ago, At the last minute! since 1917 and has been cash- | they can’t take his title away from him. sf Pete isn’t thru playing around with it yet. He’s had it . 1 WATE To Rion or” PETE HERMAN CITY CAGE | OFFICIALS MEET TONIGHT Important legislation is on tap for the city basketball league at their session tonight to be held at the Northern Life Insurance Co. building at Fourth ave. and Seneaa ats o'clock. ‘The election of a president and vice president, the adoption of a schedule @epirants for his title. He couldn't goax a contender In the ring without} them half the Fourth Liberty Then he took on the rugged Joe it took him a long time ‘ he has signed for a percentage of the réceipts that probably will 00 Already Dempaey is finding things is the same way. A Pittsburg wants him to meet Harry Greb | Others of the second) heavies are peering out of| their shells and seeking out the pro moters, Bince he rose to fame in London) by giving Joe Beckett one of his iy or half-yearly knockouts, | Moran, the blond Pittsburger, | @an be expected to drop a cabled | challenge in Jack Kearns’ letter box most any minute, Bill Brennan wante a retarn match. Jack gave vent to an ejaculation of @urprise when given this informa “Why, didnt he get enough?” the Champion asked. The heavyweight mumbled some that the Chicago fighter hadn't had enough of his punches, “I'm not making matches, but you ean say that I have always been willing to meet them all, and I haven't changed my mind,” he said. Brennan pronounced himself in “pretty good shape” today. | “Dempraey beat me betaure he's the | best fighter in the world; seems to me I made a good showing against and I'd be willing to try again. want « return match. I learned a of things last night that would me in the next fight” } ‘and Wayne Parratz, another pair of he cabled C. B. Cochran, English the setting of the opening date and |}the settlement of the question promoter, that the fight was off and | whether the league shall be semi-pro left the British backer of the fight | or amateur are the big points to be with the sack to hold. Now Pete ts! Prougnt up to another chance un! “ Bn his route card cebheate, ™ Eleven teams have entered the league so far, and it looks like those GORMAN | Hach. will make up the BEATS GRUNAN Rach squad in the circuit is asked to have a representative at tonight's PORTLAND, Dee. 16-——Joe Gor-| man planted one in the region of Al | meeting Grunan’s solar plexus here last night, and ended a scheduled 10- round fight In the sixth round. It was a thrilling mill from the first gong to tts sudden termination. The Los Angeles boy claimed a foul, but it was disallowed. Ice Race Entry I wish to enter The Star's an- || nual foe races. I have never re- ceived money for ice racing. (Name The football lettermen at the Uni | versity of Washingtoy received their | letters at the A. &. U. W. amembly | at Meany hall Wednesday, Bob Abel, president of the A. &. U. men. The winners of the foothal “w" for the 1920 season are: ain Ted Faulk, Captain-elect nn, Neurnann Clark, Edwin | Hobi, Lawrence Smith, Harold Glen, | Augustus Pope, Robert Ingram, |James Bryan, George Rogge, | Porep, P ibert Harper, Ray Eckmann, Ervin Dailey and Rhea Butler, Prep Cage Outlook No. 6, West Seattle West Seattle has never figured) vets very strongly in the prep cage race| A better line on the Indians’ heretofore, but with a bunch of letter. | chances will be obtainable after they men ready to turn out, Coach Mur-|hold their first turnouts, Phy’s team will enter the season as | — the dark horse of the lot. The West Seattle tearm haa been held up by the delay in their prac- tice, due ta the fact that they haven't | been able to une the high school gym. | They expect to start practice for the first time today. The team will undoubtedly be bufit around Phil Fraser, the big center of last year's squad, who is captain of thé Indian hoop players this year. Fraser showed flashes of form last year, He should rank as one of the best centers in the league during the coming play. For forwards Murphy t counting on Al Olsen and Don Byers, both vets and for guards, Harold Kindred + eemneeemceeneennes. (Address) . eal (Telephone) .+s-ccecerseccocces. Entries close January 3, Entries may be mailed to The Star or will be accepted at the Arena office. 99 1 rd Ave COR UNIVERSITY |W. presented the letters to the grid} obert Abel, John Wilson, El. ‘The return trip will be made by way | of the Grand Canyon with a stopover | for sight-seeing. | That's @ great jaunt, but the trip is only a emall part of the glory that | will have been centered in the Ohio school SCHOOL’S v DN The untversity i af set to build a million-dollar athletic stadium. Prost dent W. 0. Thompson has just an- nounced that 90 acres of land have been secured by the school for ath- lotic purposes. The Oleantangy fiver is to be dredged and remodeled #0 as to permit Inland rowing races, Winning athletic teams have gtven |the school a bigwer vision than it j ever had before. CREDIT WILCE Much of the credit for Ohio's ath letio enterprise is due to Coach Wilce j-the man Who has built the super football machines Wilee ts a very quiet fellow. He is the thinking and not the talking kind dent “Ww or lowe.” ‘That in the only prediction he ts making as to the outcome of the in tersectional battle.” NO SUPPR PLAYERS His tearm is not made up of super stars, altho Stinchcomb and “Hoge” Workman stand out as luminaries on account of their dramatic effective scofes show that all his players are of high-class caliber, offensively and Aefenstvely While the Buckeyes are reputed an being a forward passing eleven al- most entirely, it is not the case. They play all kinds of football If the Californians are expecting to fee the Wilee eleven uncork dozens of forward passes on New Year Day they will be fooled. The Buckeyes don’t cut loose with the overhead style unless hard pressed. ‘The Obioans aren't what you call They are just a well balanced team who never give up until the last whis tle has blown—and they know foot. ball, from fundamentals to tricks. 1921 SEASON ON APRIL 13 NEW YORK, Deo. 16-—The Na Uonal league season for 1921 will open April 18, and will consist of 164 games, club owners decided here yesterday, in closing their annual meeting. league. | I wish to enter The Star's city pocket billiard tourney. Inclowed please find 60 cents for entry fee. (Name) (Addrens) Entries can be mailed to The |] Star or will be accepted at Pope Sibley’s. Stamps will be accepted for entry fee, ir } { it A 418 Pike He tn not going West over-contt.| lar 1 play our beet foothball—wtn ness with the forward pass Low! a wonder machine in any sense. fr Tobacco Pouches From the Locktite to the famous Humidor Pouch. From the real leather to the genuine Gum Pouch. prices, 35 cents to $3.50. Just the thing to keep your smoking tobacco right where you want you want it, the man who smokes Spring Cigar Co., Inc. 910 Second Ave. ‘The challenge of Webb Morrow and deobn Allen to bewl any two men on strong 3 Hams, and O'Donnell and Krong hare towed before them se far. “Pat” Mtewart te getting @ lot of kid ding these days The Lumbermen had mon isst night, se they had job they wi coe. Just in time rel * gti thinks he can come back. ‘Tom O'Donnell of the Ragies and Jim Allen of Ruts lafe are certainty knock ‘ing ‘em dead thie season. They are ted [for high imaividual scores with @ mark of 199 each. Di Willars is getting worse than Tem Blythe for changing belts. Tet- and be rolled the, How City Pin Teams Stand; Games Tonight Wen. Lent. vel “ Lambermen Ne. 3 rphewme ..... Pot 76 EMIS TONIGHTS SCHEDULES Alley eo Magies va, Lumbermen, Hike No. 3 ¥ Cheasty a vs Orpheum Alleys — Bike No. 3 vs Denby Treck. Hike’ Club Alleys — * ON. Brooke vs Rippe's Cs Kike No 1 va Kube's Cafe 4 Tailors, LAURIUM, Mich. Dee. 16—The| - Dame today may be made by the managers and) |from South Bend, Ind, accompanied | Presidents of the different clubs. — | body of George Gipp, Notre football etar, arrived here Sin f* * Sort ome ond ster with My i ny nix former teammates, open game get fo tough that Charles Davie cow! ana Wince Heoretary Wiseing got that pew new girl he hasn't been seen headquarters very moech arage hae been on the Rowling fane who attend the City gue Eames tonleht at the } aio witness & match » Hea 00d bowlers and a feel mateh should be in store for pin oe The Ton Mar team goes Ike a house afire in thelr longue, but when they roll in the Ce erack. Page Dr. Py Practicing every day now. When in condition they will challenge e's cate City league team. Haid nate’ have informed Ross Rippe r | the | dime: that they are going to sling the hooks inte Kis prise ott} bowlers and he haw | f the realm with If they do there w set of waiters at the Pike | at. chow house. Pete Mtandridgs, the manager of the Famenton W could talk the amet like he e'd win pen- | eante in & walk, ‘The Reattic National te keeping up tte | fast pa ha in the Bankers’ league, won 22 games out of 24. ball club picks Augusta, Ga., for spring training camp. ‘They In all and in the condition real necessity to pipe. St. 1406 Fourth Ave, 707 First Ave, GSP SS SESE PAIS PAIS PAIS PIG PS PO Ae AeA fe. ANNUAL | COAST ‘POW WOW “ON TODAY | The annual Coast league meeting will be held at Secramento today. | The drawing up of the schedule, the wetting of the opening date, the | discussion of changing the Salt Lake | ifranchise to Vancouver, B. C, the decision of whether or not the spit ball shall be allowed in the Coast cir- cult, the election of the league preni- dent and the settlement of whether or not the league shall restore the draft are the main business of this Incidentally several piayer deals! Bryan and Gardner. Bryan 4 guished himself on the Frosh b ball five last year and in the ‘ varsity football season. a FOUR FORWARDS ‘The first string forwards picked by Coach Edmundson are: Cap “Arch” ‘Talbot, Lewis, Fry Parry. All of the forward are accurate shots and it will be until later that the best two can be picked Charley Frankland and have been picked as second centers, Both men are playing games, but lack the polish of S and Mapes. The guard candidates retained Leo Klotz, Mikleson, Olson and son. These men have shown up and may oust a first string man fi his berth. ; SUB FORWARDS Bakke, Savage, Norquist and have been retained as sub Because he has less men to Edmundson expects to begin practice now, NEW YORK, Dee. 16.—Del “Muddy” Ruel, Herb Tho and Sammy Vick, of the New Yop Yankees, go to the Boston Re@ for Waite Hoyt, Harry harper, McNally and Wally Schang, Seattle is represented by Prexy | | Klepper and Manager Kenworthy. trade announced by Manager Huggins, of the Yankees. -— AeDowgllouthwick $9.95 ie e pecial Splendid values—an immense selection — rich colorings — well-made garments. This group of specially priced Bath Robes offers just the opportunity a man’s family wants. His Christmas present—an exceptionally good robe — at a special price.

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