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Oaks Hammer Indians; Teams Tied for Third Seattle's First Division Berth Is Threatened by Oak- land Rout; San Francisco Should Increase Lead) This Week; Seattle Hops to Los Angeles for Series BY LEO H, LASSEN “akland’s heavy artillery kicked the Seattle Coast league} utfit into line for another drop down the standing ladder tt week when the Acorns managed to wallop the Indians in} six out of seven starts, duplicating the rout the Indians reg-| istered over the Oaks in their meeting here a few weeks ago. Instead of being contenders for first place, the tribe is) now facing a hard fight to hold its first division berth. The! locals are tied with the Oakland sluggers for third place and] Los Angeles and Vernon are press og week Seattle F. H. Yost to Lead Athletics! at Los Angeles another ha In their first start of the season they played | Famous “Hurry Up” Is) Named Athletic Direc- tor at Michigan fa os Las An 1 the gang : series. ee Angeles at the Cafeteria city] ‘and the Angels walked off with six ‘Out of seven gam Most of the Oakland wins last Week were registered by heavy slug Bing and their victories were clean Gut. While Oakland was hitting the Ball hard, the heavy hitters on the ttle roster were held pretty well check. Seatt! lone win of Was turned in by Harry it took the slugsing Roc to turn the trick P) he worst defeat of the series | ame on Saturday, when Oakland home with the melee by a ia i | the series Gardner, hitter 16 Exit “Hurry Up” Yost. Enter Ath- jletic Director Fielding H. Yost Michigan has rewarded Yort’s 20 years of ‘service as football mentor by making him dean of al! athletics. | Instead of stamping his “Hurry Up" on just the future elevens of | Michigun he'll speed up all Ann Arbor athletes. ml was at Ann Arbor name of “Hurry Up tacked on to Yost His efforts to gain speed was the cause of the coined name, And Yost has brought something like*real genius to the men of Michi gan's gridiron. | He came to Ann Arbor in 1901 andl immediately turned out the most ré-! nish, losing two games by lOP-| markable eleven ever to wear mole scores. skins, His 1901 team played 11 games| SHOU LEAD ) Playing the Portland cellar kings home while Sacramento and Ver are playing at Sacramento and tle and Los Angeles are meeting ‘Bt Los Angeles puts San Francisco $m 4 fine position to increase its lead An the Coast league race. Sacramento gave the leaders a Bard fight until Sunday, when they Closed the serigs in a rather inglort against the best schools of the West, ae jinctuding Leland Stanford, Pacific © Lefty Alten ‘is pitching good ball) coast champions, and not only did! P fer Oakland again. He turned in| not lose a game, but wasn't scored | two swell pitched gumes for the ‘Acorns aguinst Seattle last week 7The big fellow has .a/ world of ff and when he's going right he's to beat. Besides being a good he ranks as one of the lead hitters among the burlers in the a ~ Pacific loop. LEAGUE RACES ‘TWO-TEAM FIGHTS ‘The big: league races bave each _ Barrowed down to two teams, with Pittsburg and New York fighting it for the National league honors with Cleveland and New York for first place in the Ameri. circuit. The rest of the teams like they are out of it. It be a great fight in beth loopr ‘before the flags are “in.” NEBRASKA | RING LAW POPULAR Boxing bouts of 10 rounds dura- tion with “a decision required of the Referee will be allowed, inf Nebraska after July 25, whet thé boxing bill by the last degisiature goes effect. Sixounce gloves may Biso be used. CRI the first that was This team scored 550 | against opponents and was known as/ the famous “point.a-minute” eleven. | it relied up Buffalo by the unheard. of score of 125 to 0. From 1901 to 1918 inclusive Yost's elevens scored 4,704 points to their opponents 590, ‘The far ery went out that Yost was a man of mystery. Legends soon surrounded his name. His ever-present unlighted cigar was the theme of romantic stories, When he rushed madly up and down the sidelines waving his arms he was accused of signaling every play. HIS SLOGANS ‘One of his famous slogans will go down in football history—-“Give me 10 men that can run interference and I'll let a puppy dog carry the ball.”” Another ~-“Yotr game is never won by playing on your own side of the line of scrimmage.” Yost has never given his full time to coaching before. it has been only in the fall that he hat talked, read, dreamed and slept football ‘The rest of the year he has fol i points fight Johnson jeause it would not be right to make ‘net-ups, so now why should Demp-| THE | Big Crowd it Out of the wreck of the Chicago White Sox the brilliant pitching of “Red” Faber, veteran righthander, stands out like a lighthouse on a stormy night. The big spitballer tossed his 19th victory of the season for the struggling Sor yesterday, when he turned back the Boston Red Soz 1 to 0. Faber ts just about the ranking pitcher in the American league by | his great work this year, hould Johnson Fight? Dear Editor: Dempsey should not | for on reason only first rater—Johnaon is @ third rater. The color question does not enter in it at all, As to Johnson's prison record and Demp-| y's war record, they should not be considered. Respectfully, | T. BE. DELAHANTY, | Aberdeen, Wash. | the color line, and especially when two or three colored boxers have « chance to beat him? 1 can't see why Dempsey should be allowed to dictate whom be should fight. Benny Leon. ard, a real champion, boxes anybody as he knows he ls a real champion 1 think Harry Wills will stop Dempsey inside of ten rounds if Dempeey ever gets nerve enough to — oght him, Should Dempsey and Johnson GFORGIE DREW, fight Tt is our opinion that John-/ Colored Welterweight, son should have a chance, but be-| 214 12th Ave, &, Seattle forehand he should fight either | - Miske, Brennan or Wills. | This should take place first in order to see if Johnson is fit to battle with Dempsey and second be Dempsey is Sporting Editor, Star: want another James Jeffries and Jack Johnson affair, Enough said S. W. SHARP, 2697 Klickitat. the public ore Dear Editor: Taking for an ex |ample the fight that your paper has | shown to its readers in the cases, « a where one has erred, and after pay- Yes, Jack Dempsey should fight! ing the penalty of breaking the law, | Jack Johnson on these grounds: Jim| was not given an opportunity to fol Jeffrieg was a better fighter than| low in the “straight road” without Jack Dempsey ever thought of be. | being knocked by some one, thus | ing, he beat real fighters and not | causing & lows of employment. In such a case the one that has| erred is dexpondent at the effort to be straight. The result is, then, no help | for those that have erred when they pay for & poor fight. A. BERGER. R. NELSc 1205 Lakeview Bivd. sey be allowed to continue getting set-ups when the public which pays champion wishes to see a SEATTLE We don't) Under this new law the contests lowed his,power exploitation busi néss, near Nashville, Tenn. real champion, not one whois cham pion of the ones he picks, Dat cham. try to go straight, Many have erred, but few have been made to pay the May be promoted by any licensed) srany flattering offers have come| lub, and a fee of $25 must be paid /ig nim to "go elsewhere and coach. by the club in a gity of less than) put he turned all of them down. He 10,000 population or $50 for cities | has made Michigan a gridiron power. ‘ever 10.000. In addition a tax of 5/1 iy his whole ambition to make it Per cent will be levied upon the gate) greater from year to year. Teceipts. Hach club may only hold While be is a driver he does not Matches in one place, according tO/ eo xo far as to make his men dis ee - pe pages j ike him. j@ act provides tha’ ene com | His men swear by him beeause he fests be held under the supervision |i. honest and fair-minded @m all he @f the department of public welfare, | uy them to do. ‘which has charge of the licensing of | His face is always bronzed from Clube and referees. Referees must! the outdoors. An ever present amile Quality before the board and will be | quickiy wins men to him as friends Ucensed. | Michigan needed a man to take/ Within three hours before a match | fyi) charge of athletics. There was | @ physician must certify in writing but one man in the w , that the participants are plWsically world for th: | job. able to take part In the contest ae Up that's how and why “Hurry | Yost became Coach Fielding H The Fri endaly Cig ,All the soot hing, comfort’ of sca a leaf combined ina lon ‘The first of the big annual foot- bell classics, the game between Har- yard and Princeton, is schednied for November 5. The football association. tng body of soccer in has a} balance of $150,000 on It was never, in a more flourishing condition. Kovern- Boston college football teams will play Baylor university of Waco at the state fair grounds, Dallas, Oeto- iw 1s. University of Pittsburg football squad will begin practice September 6. PORTLAND RING BODY TO MEET} PORTLAND, July 18.—The Port jland boxing commission will hold ting» this w to determine ether any cards will d during the summer months. Some of the commissioners hold the opinion that it would be best not to stage any further contests until | Labor Charley White, lightwéight, is being considered opponent for Bobby Harper on in| | more be Chics age 44 owe | t to- yourself Labor day card, |CANADIAN TITLE | WON BY BATES NTO, Jul ue Wallace main of the University of tennis team, the men's def in the finals here Sat was 46, 6-4, 6-2, California | Canadian jehip when he his team-mate Juraay The 63. won si score | the |fend his title pion of all price business. Let Dempery and Johnson fight, regardless of conduct in the past or cole D. Le ALLICK. How can a man claim the cham pionship of the world when he draws LETTER “J” STAYS WITH THE CHAMPS It’s rather strange how the letter J seems to hing about the men who have worn the crown in the heavy weight division. Hundreds of men interested in the billiard game in this country are to to perfect a [national billiard association to con Of | trol the game, both professional and of} amateur. It in planned at this meeting, which is an outgrowth of a meeting held in New York 14-15, vame a national commission will act in billiards muot in the eame manner ag the national commission does in baseball. It is hoped to name a chief commissioner who would have an authority as wide as does Judge Landis, the new chief baseball com missioner meet in Detroit July Every heavyweight champion world under the Marquis Queensberry rules has had the initial J except Bob Fitzsimmons. John L. Sulltvan was the champion of the 14 under London prize | ring rules and later the first to ¢ under the new ri From John L. down, the Christian names of the title holders have in variably started with the letter J Pipe the lst John 1. Sullivan, Jim Corbett, ert Fitzsimmons (the only e Jim Jeffries, Jack Johnson, lard, Jack Dempsey STAR CHAMPS EASY WINNERS the Three Brothers Dye Works team, champions of Class A of The Star league, walloped the Woodmen Id yesterday by the score rge Setzer, pitching for the winn allowed only three hits. | Harry Speidel and Poynter starred at the bat for the winner between the ferry landing GEORGETOWN lana Luna park, at 10:30 a, m., “and WINS GAME)!" 7 i Siri on at, manned by Gus Peter The Georgetown Cubs, of The Star | son Crystal Pool, will accom league, defeated the fast Kennydale| pany Banfi Keynote BA CIFIC INDIANS START SHOOT eighth inning the Cubs won the The Pacific Indians open their big RICHARDS WINS _[eun shoot at the Fort Lawton TENNIS TITLE |2222" °% ( Seatue Gun club to | day INDIANAPOLIS, July 18. — Vin N cent Ricnaede, of Yonkers ®. ¥-| PORTLAND CLUB wis! 1§ PURCHASED championship here yesterd fouting Walter 4 of Chicago.| 5, the former title holder, by the PORTLAND, July 18. — John of 6-1, 64, 62 | Kelly, of San Frincisco, annou ' here yesterday that he had acted as agent in the purchase of the land Coast league ball club. TH was $125,000, according June wor Rob- »tion), 6 Wil | Judge Landis, John K. Tener, former pr of the National | league sated for this position and it is probable a man of {high caliber will be chosen in De troit to fill the post of high com missioner BANFIELD WILL TRY BAY SWIM H. A. Banfield, rm, crack long-distance swimmer, will attempt his cross-ba tomorrow morning. Banfield “hop off" k in West swim lig due attle, score Wranktin the Benjamin turkey as bird. favored the American nationat | price Kelly $ Fighting is Johnson's line of | to| which | The names of Feed Landis, son of | ; blew championship, STAR Indians May Play Vancouver Team in Canadian City || The fi league ball team may play the Vancouver Beavers at Vancouver, Aurust 1 in plan of President Bob Brown Jub workout in an open date for und whould they play one of the biggest that have ever turned out tlt there would be on Beattie Coast ‘Expected _at Smoker Elks From All Over State Will Be Among Crowd Thursday Night A crowd that in expected to break local smoker records, consisting, in addition to local fight fans, Elks from every purt of thin state, will be on hand at the Arena Thursday night. The main event, Oretea, crack Jimmy Da foul the of the Pi Moth Ortega and Darcy are train jing hard for thelr bout and fans are Promined a fast setto by Match er Jimmy Malone. n the semi-windup, Frankie Rod gers and Clare Bromeo weights, are billed to fight needs no introduction to local ring |} followers, while Hromeo's chief claith is that he fought a aizround iraw with Travie Davis, welter- weight champion of the Pacific coast Bin two of the Vancouver ¢ August 1 the Indians in Vancouver crow for a hand. Baseball Next for George? : Cohan Thru With Theatri- | cal Game as Long There’s Closed Shop BY EK M. THIERRY NEW YORK, July 16.—George M Cohan has turned his back the | theatrical. profession because of his quarrel over the actors’ owed shop.” And that's why he's going to soothe his wounded heart with ba ball Broadwa “little gia scowled at my questions and barked: | between Battling middleweight, and cy of Portland, has as its ddleweight championship ifle coast welter Rodgers | on Bethel and well-known fight in the bout cla! attraction Frank Pa . who was national amateur bantamwelght champion, fighting for the Seattle Athletic jelub, will be seen in action against | Dick MeGafferty in the second bout. Owen Roberts, the hard-hitting lightweight, and Young Browne are slated to open the show with their Johnny Hogan, heavyweights, will billed as the spe bought a base ball club. There's only one I want When it's for sale I'll buy it this year, next GEO, M. COHAN after. “No, 1 won't tell you whieh club it Certainly it's major league! eorge went on, “I ht the Giants four years ago, but Charles Stoneham snatched em right out of my pocketbook |GEORGE SAYS > HE'S THRU | He flared up when I mentioned jhis retirement from the theatre. | “I've quit?’ he exclaimed, “I won't produce, won't write, won't act, won't jthere's a closed shop! “As a theatrical magnate I ran my own business because I know it just as well as the next fellow. “When I'm a baseball magnate IT) just be a magnate and let it go at that. I'll own the club—and I'l) let rome wise guy baseball man run it. I won't butt in, either.” Han Franctece AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland New York Warhington Detroit | Moston | ae nd ‘phiteaeiphia” “he NATIONAL LRAGUR Laat Ty ” SL Lovie 6-6, Cohan, ultra peppy in spite of the fact that he isn't as young as he! used to be, kept sitting down and +l cetting up and walking nervou: jaround the room. “Say. put i down that Georgie) Cohan's thru—thru! I'm going to take @ vacation, First one in 26 years. It's about time! j ford it—I've got the cash. | “I'm going abroad in September. see You won't see my name on Broad 400 way next season, | “Quitting because business is rot ten? Certainly NOT! Business bum, of course—-but it may be pret- ty good next fall, Did you see that mob of 90,000 over at the fight in Jersey City? Gosh! And every body's supposed to be broke!” |DON'T KE man of CLOSED SHOP | It ig Cohan’s idea that unionism is being carried too far in the the- atrical business, He objecta to the Actors’ Equity association |which he has had difficulti at Prookly Chicago | Cinctanat) Philadeiphia Vittebure « Brookiyn 1, New York i | Chieage & LEAGUE PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL wi Lom. Pot 1 q Yakima } semen Brook Sele | tating terme, He says clause 18 in |the new contracts is “pernicious.” This is clause 18 “The manager agrees that all ac |ters in the company in which the actor is hergin empldyed shall Jand shall continue thruout euch employment to be members in good standing of the Actors’ Equity as sociation. This contract is s@bordi nate to the obligations of the actor pans ae herein to the A. E, A., of which The New York Giants have purchased | Obligations the manager admits no Pitcher Proctor from the Columbia club | tice.’ 6 ON eee | “That's a closed shop clause and |a. strike clauge in one paragraph,” said Cohan. “]magine professional ling called out on a sympathy strike es bt te have been |Decause the rag pickers ey or trying out @ ne med feau.| the street cleaners are on strike. ben Cohen, who halls from somewhere SSA¥S ACTORS in the East, where he was just let of college. He had been with the Car- | WE AWAKEN dinals onty a few daye-—and had tin) “The actors will wake up soon en gg Cerna yg OB yg toland destroy’ this insidious thing change his name to Ewing. Whatever Rawr ay" and whoever he le, he bas the marks of |from the inside, Meanwhile th y're being = ball player. {having a rotten time of It, And as |far as I am concerned its ‘cur- |tains,’ It’s baseball for me!" [BEAVERS SPRING corgie has his fighting blood up. BIG SURPRISE ties sti the. nattiest dresser on LOS ANGE! July 18. — The | Broadway Beavers and Vernon Tigers split the Eright-bin jdouble-header yesterday. Some sweet | & baseball was played in the first| game, Portland coming out on the long end, 4 to 1, with Vernon tak ing the » nd, 9 to 6 | First Game Portland Vernon Infielder Jimmy Smith, whe was Outfielder TiN Holden, of the more club, has quit the Ortolen Rati Me had nt with Manager Dunn about ry and refused to don bis unt Jack Perrin, Michigan outfielder, has been signed by the Boston ed | Sex for » tryout, Rel! and Catcher Cock- lin, of the Cotumbia (Pa.) Moone team, have been signed by the De- treit Americans, people be .E8, | } corner of his mouth | : pth no rtie! WE BOTH wal WIN 1 am now devoting my entire time to Iny dental practice fiaving now. served ry the people here for ose twenty yea and Iaado good by’ doin dental work that INGRAHAM WINS 2 )thncc OREGON TITLE "=." mn RB! Portland : Vernon atterien Johnson and 9 16 Coleman, |” Quissenberry Beker; Mitchell, Dell and and making my do not compete with Che PORTLAND, July 18.—Will Ingra-| Dentists, io 1 operate on your | pl book r = ham, of Oakland, Rhode Island, won | Raketpook, OF well, vou, conversa the Oregon state singles champion: | Dental work for every dollar I ship e 7 eo io de nag 80 pu save a dolla 1 |ship here Saturday when he defeat in, and, Our’ interests a \ed Phil Bettens, of San Francisco, in fygi—we both wie the finals, Mrs. Bragdon and Miss) Open evenings till 7 and Sundays MacDonald won the womep's dow ‘ul 12°20 for People who work, bles title while Mrs, Bragdon and BDWIN J. Wall Scott took the mixed dou Dentiat 206 Columuia du “No, Lhaven’t | year or the year! IT can af) —— with | |aince the actors’ strike In 1919—dic- | be | nd still talks out of the} MONDAY, JULY 18, 1921. Oak Take Pair From | Park in the Tribe Play-Off Seattle Drops a Double- | Pirates Fail to Put in Ap- Header to Oakland;| pearance for Tilt Yes- Wins One in Series terday; Managers Meet 18.-—Beat fighting day, the morn Highland | | | | | The Pirates failed to put in an ap tor their game yesterday with the Highland Park White Star Athletic club team, and as @ result ve up their chance to play in the und robin for the elty junior base and The Star cup. The Eckart Cigar Co,, Three Bré Dye Works Cubs, Georgetotm Cubs and the White Stars are the $|four teams that will play in the ¢| round robin ®\ ‘The managers of the four team $| will meet at The Star office tonight 6| to discuss plans for the playoff. ‘The ting is me heduled for 7p. m, YALE SWIMMERS _ WIN IN SOU OAKLAND, July 18.—The ¥ university swimming team defeated | the Olympic club team here today at Idora park. The final score was 23 SAN FRANCISCO, tle dropped two gan Oaklandery here y ing Ult-by @ 20 score and the after noon affair by @ 4% count, ended in the tenth Inning by @ home run by Art Koehler. Both games were hard fought, |,the Acorns had the slight edge. Morning Game AB hit © July 8 to th pearance r ball title but | ore te it ! M Adieton, Kenworth kpencer is teri Dailey, } » Totale Oakland. Pine b euHweweren>S Brubaker Koehler Alten, p 6 ° | ° :| RIDLEY OFF FOR CANADA Bud Ridley, Pacific coast feathers weight champion, leaves tonight for | Vancouver, where he will meet Dam ny Edwards, of Oakland, in the main — o at jevent of the smoker there Wednes — 2, by Francie, 1 |day night Wille, by Dailey. Double | Brubaker, Stumpf Murphy; Brubaker Rune reaponsible for Cooper, Pinelll. | Finney end To) Knight —Miller. Struck out Hit by piteher: | piayes— Wille to Kenworthy te | Knight to Guisto. | Francis 2. Stolen bases | Time—1 Umpires. man. Afternoon Game Beattie AB. Lane, if ’ Middleton, Murphy Bidred, Kenw Bpencer PO. rf ib ef | ng, won't dance+as long as, Guiato, Brubaker, Koebler. | Ariect, P Krause, p Totals *None out when © Score by innings |Ssae ae Casbier. miadicvon, Home | Koehler,” Two-base hits—Cooper, worthy, Miller, Patterson, Murphy. ir Miller, Bases on bail | De Struck out—By Ariett 2, by Krause 2. Hit b | Middicton, by Krause Stumpf to Kenworthy Murphy Demaree to Kenworthy to Murph: * worthy to Murphy. Rune responsible fon- Demaree 4. Ariett’ 2 it victory Kraw Time—1:45. Umpires—Tomas and Finney. 1 FRISCO TAKES PAIR OF GAMES ff SACRAMENTO, July 18. — San! Francisco increased her lead in the | |Coast league pennant race here yes- | |terday when she annexed both games lof the double-header by the scores of |6 to 0 and 14 to 6. First Game— San Francince Sacramento Batteries and Cook = REAL PAINIE DENTISTS tasgrer Ie order to «ge joe our (whalebone —) ¥ lightest and stronges Goes not ‘cover the nr € " 13 B.| 2 1 Shea | gr 3 6 8 3 Pittery, h is eat "plate 3 seston o 6 roof of Crumpler and Yelle; n | Kung, Penne ANGELS TAKE PAIR FROM BEES) SALT LAKE CITY, July 18.—The Angels took both tilts with Salt Lake yesterday, 3 to 2 and 15 to 6. The |first game was a fight to the finish, |Los Angeles getting an early tead | jand helding it. | All work guaranteed for 15 Have impressions taken in the tng and ES teeth same day. advice free. Call and See Sampies of Our and Bridge Werk. We Sti the Test of Time. Most of our present pat recommended by our earl ers, whose work is still food satisfaction. Ask our omers, who have tested our wi |When coming to our office, be you are cx the right place. is ad with you. 207 UNIVERSITY ST. RF ae Batteries: Aldridge and Leverens, Polson and Byler. Second Game Los Angeles Salt Luke Batteries ley, Thurston, 82 Baldwin; | ct is “4 Brom- BR +16 6 Thomas and Casey; Polson and Ryler MILLIONS of regular 2 for 25c. cigar smokers are now buying John Ruskin cigars because the taste, aroma and size are the equal of their old 2 for 25c. favorite. They are mild and delight. fully fragrant. The Havana Tobacco used és the choicest grown, Buy two John Ruski today-the bs haa and biggest cigar, at 2 for 15¢, row you'll buy oe ig 8 cents each SOLD BY LIVE DEALERS EVERYWHERE. I. Lewis Cigar eee mm Co NEWARK, Largest Tndfenendent Ses Factory Wort BOURG & NEW, Inc. 707 Third Ave, Seattle, Wash, 4

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