The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 17, 1921, Page 11

Least | Squads Needed; Entries to Close November 26 BY LEO H. LASSEN * The Star Junior cage league is going to fo over like a big je organization, the junior ketball players of the city wilt ve to show a lot more pépper th the organization work than they ave dohe so far. Only seven teams were repre- 2 at the second meeting of the league last night, the same! "85 at the first seasion, Two new teams were added, but show up that were on Week before. ‘The following squads were on hand last night: Wilson's Modern Business lege, Yesier Way Athletic club, | | Comets, Collins Cute, Ballard Cubs, | Washington Park and the Dandy Baking Co. __ Entries will.ciose one week trom ‘Baturiay might. All that ts neces ) sary for a team td enter is to isk! band the of The Star, No Bre necewmary to enter. Arrangements ate being com: E pleted for the use of floors for | the league, and prospects aro bright | tor Moors for the league teams to P Bravtice on. As soon as sdmething @efinite is lined up, announceménts will be made thru The Star. ‘The general rules of ti leagye gone over last night They follow, ‘The opening date of the season wil) be BAnounced as soon as floors are available. Ten players, which must include play- Managers can de Teginiered by each e harges The age rule for the league will he de- termined within tae Playere must be rertatered by thelr pesca, five days before the first game. istration must fnelude ey and the dates ef birth Manager must sien his Dome snd busines phone jee tn registration can made any one game three days betére ¢ me it played. These changes must be ‘Pade in writing, and.atust Inchude da‘e of birth and address of the Bames of the replace Ne trimefer of players will be whe thowt be cepgent of both manage: Players of each team most Wear iden- 1 jerwrs, dereeys of encb team on a - back oan ot fese than sia ineues in height There shall be no intentional roughing sama depal, 6S funds te bles, within cama yet be Fendy to, htm UE pemetand time. num. tive * two games lose their franchise o4 Piaying unregistered men for- BM memes in which they play, Teams (Bene men “Bately ise thetr right to play ZEack one must furaish an officiel tha PE No ear must be paid, for playing | thin set mittce of thre Basketball, men. not ied im the actos) work of the will be called upon to decide any tone i at may aries, Their word R be final. OMMY GIBBONS K. O.’S ANOTHER WINDSOR, Ont., Nov. 17.--Tom- _ My Gibbons, of St. Paul, last night cked out “Soldier” Jones, claim- of the heavyweight champion- p of Canada, in the first round of OLDT SIGNING "EM UP EARLY _ The Seattle club of the Coast has signed Wisterail, third baseman, Catcher Adams and Pitch. Mack to 1922 contracts. teur Boxers Show Tonight Eight or nine bouts will be on Hi amateur boxing card at Pavilion tonight. Any boy can have one of onrshigh- wrade 4 Dad knows about the Columbia, and see the dandy are offering at the A 6-Year Written Guaraates with tach BXCEISION MOTORCYCLE & BICYCLE CO, Seattle Retailers a1 KB. Vike 6 Kiltott 0997. Piper & Taft, 1107-9 tnd Ava Distributors tor Washington, Idaho, Montana I A ird Ave PRSEEYN Five More! two didn't) ’ Col-| ‘an. (Completely out of the game by rac- ad | Spor Chatter Washington frosh show class. POKANRE, Nov, 16--The Univur. sity of Washington frosh gave [the greatest demonstrations of the use of the forward pass a Washington State frosh at Pullman | last Priday tn the history of football ‘on the Pacific coast and undoubtedly | in the history of the game anywhere. There are no records available, if any have ever been kept, which | Would give a basis for any sort of | jcomparigon, but it ts reasonably cer. | tain that had any other team any where duplicated the feat of the | Washington frosh, an account of it would have found ite way into the spert# columas of dozens of news. papers Here's what the frosh accom plished in the way of forward pass ing: Out of 30 attempts at the aerial | game (something of a record in | itself, Coach Mathews’ men com lpleted 25 passes—three of thone | which failed being passes of 40 and 50 yarts——-long shota in tight places, }On one occasion the Washington |yearlings successfully completed | ning consecutive passes, the last put: | | ting the ball over the Cougar goal) |line, ‘The total yardage on the nine | * | paases was ouly 60 yards, an aver-| | confident of thelr ability to success | fully negotiate passes were Mathews’ | men that they continued to pans over | the Iine, content with the short gains. loo despite a proven ability to puno- {ture the Cougur frosh line. Datley, & sweet little quarterback in these days of dearth in this de- partemnt, was on the passing end | Of this aerial game, and every el igtble man of the team was on the receiving end at least once. Dalley, ool and confident, shot his passes with unerring aceuracy across the jenda of the line into the waiting jarmes of his mates, who, in ur prising majority of the oases, were |absetutely uncovered. Preliminary tq Daley's heaves, Mathews’ two ends ch took an opposing player jing for the side lines, Other than | | to reduce the number of the opposi- | tion players, shese ends took no part in the plays. ¥ THE time the ends had their men out of the play, Dalley was in possession of the ball and his el- | idle men were charging thru the line at three angles to pivot, and before the opposing linemen were upon the littie quarterback, he had picked his man and the ball was bor. | ing its way in a short, sharp colirse toward that man. AMathowd in deserving of a world of credit for the shape he has whipped his team into. Mathews has had seasoned material to work with, it is true, but his men show the re. sults of ‘expert tutoring—tutoring that could have been given only by @ man who thoroly understood what he was teaching. In requisitioning the services of Mathews to help in shaping up the varsity for the Washington State ever the age jimit-imme-} mame, Bagshaw in doing « wine thing | Referce, im the opinions of those who wit | seaned the demonstration of the frosh. . TE report that Jack Kearns | suffering from an overdevelope cane of ego would appear to be |canard, if Kearns’ reception of ¢ jwriter may be taken as indicat of his general attitude toward tho whom he knew in the old days. Sp Kane was for a long time Jack’ stamping ground and the presen Manager of the world champion ai — stamping during his residence The first question Kearns popped was, “Where's Billi?” Bill, be it known, was a’ builder of artistic cocktails in those dear pobre days| when Mr. Volst plumber, | a Must Pay BY L. De B. HANDLEY IRTLAND swim clubs are up in arms over a new swimming rule | passed by the A. A. U. that in future | a#li organizations, including those af. | fillated with the A. A. U., must pay a sanction fee for swimming meets, | open or clowed. Hitherto only organ- feations not holding membership | have been subject to the sanction tax, and the recent innovation is ex- pected by leading promoters of aquat- | tem in the district to prove a great | biow to water sports, As one of the | |prominent Saf Francisco critics | | writes on the subject: | “Under the new ruling a club may | Rot even conduet @ race for three or | four of ita own members without be- | ing forced to pay $6 for the privilege, | and it will be seen readily what this | fa going to do in the way of dixcour- aging competition, The trouble is that swimming within the A. A. U. js not governed by swimmers, but by track and field officials, who have no interest in water sports. They don't | his life hung in the ‘balance, [has been slow to recuperate, but ap- From Spokane. BY BUD JONES Jones gossips with Jack Kearns, Lakey Morrow tries comeback. in addition to which be (Bill) was a Professional conversationalist and an impromptu mauler of no «mall repu- tation, Informed that the gifted Bill had taken himself to the plains of Mon tana for the purposé of ending his days in bucolic settings, Kearna in. oredulously éjaculated, “It can't be true, Why, Bil thing like that.’ He inquired for a donen of his whilom friends and appeared disap. pointed when it developed that these gents had drifted to Canada, Cuba and Mexico, occupations and exact whereabouts unknown, “I figured on a regular gabfest when I got here,” he complained, Incidentally Kear: tipped the news that Joe Beckett has been def. inttely booked for a bout at Madison Square garden Christmas, with Bill Brennan as an opponent, “While there isn't the remotest chance that Dempsey and Beckett will ever get together. man ts a lot better than he is cored. | ited with being,” Kearns remarked "And don't figure this Frenchman fen't a good man. He'll certainly }age of 62-3 yards to a pass, Yet so| come back to the United States for| the bout with Gibbons. Why! shouldn't he? He can make more} money over here in a month than he can in a ye? around Paree “Yes, Carpentier wilt be on hand! for the Gibbone mill, unless some thing happens between now and next February.” Kearns is here with Jack Demp. sey, who Ix doing a vaudeville wkit at the Pantages. AKEY MORROW, 4 year ago one of the Beat featherweights on the Coast, will get busy again the tag end of the month, after a layott | of nearly a year, Lakey, present boxing instructor at the 8. A. A. C., is booked to meet either Jimmy Cole or Puggy Morton on the opening card at the Lewiston, Ida., club, November 28. Cole | whom Lakey will have ‘to work down, and Morton is a lightweight to whom Lakey will have to give| & number of pounds, A bad case of blood-potsoning, the | result of a glove scratch, put Mor. row in the hospital last December, and for the better part of a month He pears to be in good condition now OFFICIALS _ FOR SOCCER ARE NAM referees for Sunday's gumes tn The Star Soccer league have been assigned as follows: SENIOR GAMES Went Seattle va, Boeing Alreraft ctub at Bouth Park at 2:30 p. m, Billy Bidomen. Postoffice vs. Woodland Park at Upper Woodmnd park at 1 p. m. Referee, Johnnie Reeks. Maple Leafs ve. Haas-Eckart ‘war Co. at Woodland park, at 2:45 m. Referee, Fred Douglas. JUNIOR GAMES tough Park ve, Ballard Juniors Sodth Park at 1 p. m. Referee, ly Bloomén. Cowan Cigar Co. va. Faleon A. C. Lower Woodland park at 1 p. m. teteree, Bob Lemon. Allen Athletic association %s. Hawthorne Juniors at Columbia playfield at 1 p. m, Referee, George Hoefling. Loule’s French Dry Cleaners va. mee Paris Billiards at Walla Walla m. Refeere, Billy Waller. Coast Swimming Clubs A. A. U. Fee care & rap what happens in aquatics, On the whole list of officials and committees there is not a man close- ly identified with swimming. The game is bound to suffer until those who know something about it and are ready to further tts best inter. ests can take a hand officially in ite | | development.” These remarks are more to the point in that this same critic de- clared himself opposed to the eatabd- lahment of a national A. A. U. ewim- ming committee, made up altogether of swimmers, to assume full control of aquatic activities, when the matter was discussed in the papers last sum- mer. He thought at the time that the A. A. U. wae handling the water sports acceptably, Now that events have struck home, however, he real- izes the wisdom of the outlined plan. And, in the final analysis, it must be quite obvious that swimmers are the | only ones who should have the say in what concerns swimming, SKATING REGULAR SEASON OPENS FRIDAY, NOV. 18 ?'w. With interesting program of special music and extra attractions Regular Prices for Skaters. SKATING SCHEDULE Skating Every Afternoon and Evening AFTERNOON, 3 to 5—NIGHTS, 8:15 to 10:30 EVERY MONDAY NIGHT—“Beginnets’” Night REDUCED PRICES EVERY SATURDAY MORNING, 10 to 12 M. CHILDREN’S SPECIAL Spectators 10¢ ADMISSION, INCLUDING SKATING, 10¢ wouldn't do any-| some time before | the English. | is & bantam | )/Martin « on _ Threshold of Fortune | Victory Over Harry Wills | Will, Mean $100,000 to Vonaen Denver Ed | Martin, | a Marry of the battie at night, Dick of the Portland Ing aide~ following | Oregonian, Nene on the big bout In story eee La DICK SHARP “\ ENVER ED MAR- TIN stands on the thréwhold of a fortune that} was denied him in his prime 31 years ago, Or,| on the threshold of a S0ntory \ drop, The great- ext negro heavy- weight in the! | world in 1900,! Martin found it impossible to obtain matches with the great white heavyweights of that | day. Champions have come and cham pions have gone, Yet old Denver Ed is still a formidable battler, perhaps | }among thé five best in the heavy- | Weleht division today. | Jim Jeffries, Jim Corbett, Jack Munfo and other juggernauts of fistic history declined point blank to battle him, Martin was offered more than $100,000 in purses for matches with these men, but because they would not meet him had to barn. storm it around the country. Mar. tin's only way of earning a decent Pursp was by betting on his fights with other top-notch negro boxers. Gus Ruhlin and Denver Ed were tn | jthe same stables. Rubtin got the figtite with Jeffries and the rest ‘when they refused to meet Martin. And Denver could lick Gus every | day in the week without half try ing. Times have changed. Where Mar. } tin got dollarn for a fight 20 years | ogo he can now get thousands. But | to break into this money he first must hurdle the form of Harry Willa, the presentday champion of the |negro race, Can he do it, or will he j fall? A vietory for Martin over Willis | could get almost that much for a} return match with Wills in the East if he wins this one. The hattle could | be wtaged in Now Jersey, a atone’s throw from New York, or even in New York itself. Wills is a great jeard all thru the East. Then there are Many other attractive matches that could be made for the con- queror of Wills, But he must be conquered first, and that's a tough job for a man 42 years old, praia has a fighting ¢hance to victory. Willa In-mot Invine- Tie He has been beaten and knows what it is to be crashed to the can yas by a punch on the chin. Not lately, but within the past five years. Wills also in at the age where he is thru fmproving. Martin has had plenty of hard tuck in hia life and figures that Dame Fortune is about due to amile on him, homers tangle ern week. men are nd clase Freeh varnity varsity Ineligible for games. Led away from all other Sigma Alpha Epetion and Phi Delta Theta have reached the semi-finals in ton by ing the They will winner of | me will FRENCH TENNIS CHAMP BEATEN PARIS, Nov. 17--Andre H. Go- bert was defeated for the first time in five yearn when he lost the French covered court tennis cham- pionship to M. Borotra in the fini , 6, 6-3, 64. Borotra is a recently developed «tar. Men’s Two-Pant Suits $35 HATS, SHOES, FURNISHINGS One Price—Cash or Credit 1427 Fifth Ave.' The Coal of No Regrets! BRIER HILL COKING COAL: You'll find it the best coal on the market for furnace; $10.50 per ton delivered, in two-ton lots, Large Lump $10.50 Per Ton Just the coal for furnace, stove and fireplace. Lowest |tem to games won by a pitcher, also | |& great tear againat Ohio State. | heasion would mean a cool $100,000. Martin | jars |LUMBERMEN W MORE SIGNS 0 What Eras thinks The Bonus System in Baseball 6 THE bonus sys tem a good thing in baseball? For years oor tain managers have clung to} the system of re. warding certain players on the basis of their ac: complishments: On the surface that seems like a | perfectly logical | way to determine a player's worth Likewine it would seem that it would spur the laggard on to greater ef: fort, bectuse of the extra compen. sation promised, It wounds well in theory but does not work out in practice. It has been customary to apply the bonus sys. the ability of a batter to hit .300,) or improve upon his averagé of the previoun year, In the early season 1 believe the bonus system may have some worth. while features, It unquestionably | makes the pitcher or batter hustie) because of his objective, Late in the) season, with the result hanging in| the balance. it eeems to work just | the other way. HAT is the matter with Michi- gan? That in the collere yell of the) Michigan alumni all over the coun- try, and thruout the West in par- ticular, The décinive defeat of Michigan At the hands of Ohio State univer-| sity supplied the reason for the new Ann Arbor yell The team looked better, however, | when it tied Wisconsin. It ia an admitted fact that Michi- gan has a wealth of football mate riel.. For that reason it was be lieved that Yort'’s pupils had «| great chance to annex the Western) conference title, The game with! Obie State was to be the stepping stone. Michigan looked like anything but| There was an absolute lack of co- ‘There was no drive to the| team, As a matter of fact, Michi- | Cgure with two games still PAGin Li _REAL Walter Johnson Far From Thru as Major Star Walter Johnson far from being thru pitcher His several of form last season eaused the rumor to go the rounds that Johnson's arm waa in bad shape. Walter has always been a big favorite with the fans, which explais the great interest that has been taken in his case. If you wil! take the word of American league players and umpires, Johnson is far from being a back number Hiness and = injury slowed up several oc casions inet season. However, Johnson finished the campaign in good health and never looked better as @ pitcher, It is a cer- tainty that he will be good for three or four years more. in @ great reverwals ae } In this gonnection I recall the case of @ certain pitcher who was prom ined $1,000 extra if he won 20 games, | With only three weeks to go, the piteher had to win three games to receive the bonus, He had been xoing badly, and added to this was the fear that he wouldn't come thru The club was in the fight for the pennant, Its pitching strength was crippled, and much depended on the work of the pitcher with the bonus contract, Ordinarily a pleasant chap. who accepted the breaks of the game without a murmur, he suddenly be came @ crab with the umpires and, his fellow players. I couldn't un derstand it, until one of the play | ers told me of the bonus promise, | Fear that be would lowe the extra money made a bad piteher out of him, at a time when his services were most needed by his club, Knock number one for the bonus system. A certain infielder, promined $600 extra if he hit 300, reached that to be played, He reported sick the next | day and iinsed the laxt two games.) my ALEX The bonus caused him to place | Young Kennet, money above tpam spirit. Knock) the Maple leat number two for the bonus system. | —B. E him on four im the game Park, at Walle Walla, What q dif- ference » pivot like Bennet would make in the Boeing Aircraft club’ standing! The Bovitige have every- tm scoring offensive, The foeing club not be strong in offensive work, but their record shows that their defense in O. K. In this de-| partment they have ong of the best fullbacks ever seen in the Northwest Kuri Martinsen, and he er in Denmark. Unlike | most players, Kert kicks equally well and sure with either foot. fan's style of play took one back to the old high school days, when «|; conference wan nectssary on most every lineup, to decide who would carry the ball. Michigan lacked initiative and ag. greasiveness, The old “hurry up system” wag but a memory. Like the Podunk high schoo! eleven, there was a conference prior to almost every play. Michigan certainly didn’t look like a team well versed in fobt- ball, A lot of the athletes acted as! og Petner Time is having @ tough if they didn’t know their lesson. time keeping several of the veterans on Fielding Yost put Michigan on the | the side lines Archie © map as far us football 1s concerned n'Gunday "and, donned the Yost has been, and still is, a great | a Park colors. Jocidentally, hey | coach. Yout, however, is getting up both played well Jim “Joo in years. It ts pomible, that tna Scatter [measure he has outlived his useful- = é Nees as & football coach at Michigan, Calling loge Eh, i on ee It is to be regretted that a coach ree Bob Lemon's st: | who has won #0 many honors should in his late years suffer ao many re- verses to mar his great record. to but » bantamweight, one of BREAK TIE: AND RECORD aE Lumbermen cracked the league bowling record for total | pins last night, with 2,793, and broke up the first-place tle by taking all| three games from the Postoffior, The Union Oil squad took tw out of) three at the expense of the Timen, High man for the evening was Haiver- | son, of the Times Yam, who rolled up 621 markers, ‘The totain’ Union Oli Co.-. Seattle Times 830 «809 13 736 846 945 £962,686 974-—-2,793 Postoffice Lumbermen . 928—2.552 7106—2,223 $15—2.535 145—2,302 Skookum .. Bunset Elec, Co.698 8: Zerolenea .. 45 875 909-—-2,543 156—2,469 Amer. 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Cooper, Northwest balk- MANAGING GAME! iline billiard star, in Seattle again Bert Niehoff, Los Angeles second | after a 10-months’ stay in California baseman in the 1921 season, will|on business, Cooper took part in manage an Eastern minor Jeague| several tournaments against San team in 1922, according to word| Francisco and Los Angeles cue ex- from the Ange! City. perts, “VAN JACK" Thustreted PEPPER ‘Students | Backing | Varsity Campus Is | Behind Dodg- ers in Game With Cou- gars; Play Turkey Day BY HAROLD MARQUIS ET's beat the W, 8. ©. buttons have apy on every Wi intonian; ‘ban. ners with the | mame slogan have been raised on the cam and the entire student body. Ia uniting behinld the effort te wars on Turkey day, Instead of being discouraged tp the overwhelming defeat at ‘the hands of the Bruins, Washin team, coach mined to be revenged against Washes | ington State on Turkey day, The Sun Dodgers were comy outguensed at Berkley, as well ag played and outweighed, but the ade vantage will not be so apparentwhem they meet W. &. ©. Bagshaw held Clarke out of | same last week and saved him | Pullman, Clarke will do much to up the gap on his side of the ‘ With ten days of rest and practiée before the Staters arrive, Bagshaw | will put his men thru another vigor- — |ous training period, VARSITY HAS FIELD ADVANTAGE The advantage of playing on home grid, with the support of }home crowd, will be with yun ton in the Cougar game. The W. 8. C. game will close conference season in the North, will determine whether Washin, | State stands tn second place tn | Coast race. The Cougars expect | win, and all the indications are | they will have a stronger team, Washington, however, has been ¢ | feated only once by W. 8. C, in eral years, In 1919 the Cougars rated far ahead of the Sun |and Washington downed them. their own field. Bagshaw’s men ¥ put up the best game of the against W. 8. C. oe ie PROFIT ON TRIP The Sun Dodgers profited a their Southern trip, Meeting as cles (er and strong an aggregation as Cal 2 | fornia sent out onto the field thé Washingtonians what real | ball was, Altho the clever plays @ | the Bears made the Northerners =i like a string of dummies at ti the Dodgers absorbed a lot of foat ball that will be of advantage in next two games, California clearly that Washington's defense passes is weak. 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