The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 19, 1921, Page 9

=f . 2 Other News of the Ring BY LEO H. LASSEN change their reg matches of yesterday are played. Aili the best men in his division, ITTLE DANNY EDWARDS, the Oakland unas bantamweight, has proved his real class. This sterling little mitt slinger, who bat- tles every minute that he is in the ring, stepped out and smeared Babe Herman, the Sacramento artist, in Portland the other night. The victory was a notable one because Herman has just returned to the Coast after a successful trip East, where he won something like eight straight starts from He is being touted by Jack liver. The Big Test Gordon Fraser, the young defense man of the Seattle Mets, faces the big test in Vancouver to- night, when he fills in on the defense in Bobby Rowe's place. Rowe is out of the game with a pair of fractured ribs. Fraser is just a youngster at the puck game, but he has demonstrated that he has the stuff. It’s his big chance to make good tonight, and Seattle fans are pulling hard for the youngster to de- Kerns for a bout with Johnny Herman came back to the Coast because of the cold weather in the East. Edwards has been boxing around Los Angeles recently and he may be seen in action se,again if the local pro- ~~ time and place have not been f cot. can find an opponent |” tree nis bouts with Bryan Down: for him. ‘The little Oakland chocolate drop | a wrestier than a boxer, Wilson was fs a credit to the boxing game as/ he battles every minute of the time, | he boxes well, hits with the best of | ‘em and bell win most of the time. ‘The boxing game can surely make Teom for a jot more men of Danny Edwards’ caliber, McKAY'S FAME / SPREADING } fame of Gordon McKay fs! The spreading ‘This leisurely battler from téano| has stepped out and won four; straight starts here, including a/ win over Marty Farrell. | And now he has an offer to bor Bert Colimas in Los Angeles and another to box Kid Palmer in ‘Tulsa, Oklahoma, McKay ts expected to accept both offers, but may stick around these parts if the glove promoters can find work for him to do. | CONCERNING FRANK FARMER Frightened Frank Farmer may be brought out of obscurity to box Me here soon. y Majone, the Caseade A. C er, is trying to arrange a! Pimatch with him and McKay. { Whether or not Seattle mitt fans! are to pay their coin to see Far | Mer fight is (7) ts a question. { ‘The big fellow, who usually put up| © pretty good line of work in his starts here, quit cold against Sam Langford. He was so scared that he couldn't see straight, Of course, as Farmer says himsetf, “Get in the ring with that dark- | skinned moutain and see how you would act." But he is supponed to, be a fighter, and he was getting) paid for fighting. If he had at least | tried and lost, he would not have lost | the respect of the fistiana fans. But he quit under fire and was suspend-| ed for a year. \ Tt must be admitted that every-| | body is apt to fat} once in @ while,! and everybody deserves a chance, Dut ft remains to be seen whether @r not the fans have forgotten that “death” struggle with sthe Boston | ‘Tar Baby. | WILSON MAY GET HIS'N t Johnny Wilson, the cheese middie Weight champion, may take the lac-| tng yet that most of the fans in the} East have been hoping that he would | de has been matched to box | Greb, the Pittsburg light heavyweight, who will train down to} the middleweight limit for the bout. | dimmed in the Bast, Billy, after his Buff for the world’s crown. ¢y, in which he performed more like in for an unmerciful panning in the Bast. For a while he seemed to wet along all right, and then be ran into Downey. Greb ia one of the best men in the world at his weight, as his vic tory over Billy Shade proved. He has been prominently mentioned as ® candidate for Tommy Gibbons, Georges Carpentier, and even Jack Dempaney. Wilson is without a doubt the most unpopular champion the game has/ ever known, SHADE STAR DIMS Speaking ef Billy Shade, the star of the Shade family has been rather wordlefful success in Australia, lost to Greb, and nothing much has been heard of him since, Dave, the welterweight of the fam. y, won a couple of starts, and then injured one of hin brittle hands In his bout with Mickey Walker and Jost the decision. Georte, the middleweight, got ever well and then lost a start or two in| New York, and he slipped out of the Umetight With the flock of boxers tn the! East, only the topnotchers survive, because those Eastern bugs nt winners, and the going is mighty rugged for the losers, Despite the toughest weather a local trap shoot has ever been| staged in, 30 men turned out to the Fort Lawton range for the Se- Sttle Gun Club's Christmas turkey shoot yesterday. The men to win Birds were: A)- vin Schwager (2), George B. Baker, | C. Lh Templeton, J. H. Taylor, Har. | ry Williams, Douglas Hatfield, D. EB. Marriott, DesXin Reid and B. W. Lockwood. TO FIGHT CHARGES NEW, YORK, Dec. 19—Of the four amateur athletes, Joie Ray, Loren Murchison, Joe and Frank Loomia, charged with professional- ism, and the objects of investigation by the Central A. A. U., Murchison is the only man expected to fight the charges, Ray has quit athletics, Joe! Loomis has ceased competition, and) Frank Loomis is in the coaching! game. The specific charge is ac cepting exorbitant expense money on their trips to meets Inst year. Vitt Due to Return | to Coast Cincy Claims Red Sox In-| fielder by Waiver Route; | Reds Owe Three Clubs |, SCAR VITT, American leagu third sacker vet-| eran, is almost a sinch to perform | in the Coast loop | next year. j Vitt, who was with the Boston ted Sox last year after yearn of service with) the Detroit Americans, has! been padned) along to the na cinnati Nation als by the wailv- Cincinnati has completed big deals With Seattle, Oakland and San Fran-| cise, obtaining Sammy Bohne from | the locals, abe Pinelli from Oak- Janda and Jimmy Caveney from the Beals. | Both Seattle ana third basemen, while San Francisco | Althe Jawa McGrew sanonnced himsetf this fall as satiafied with his championship ball elub, he mug have been just fooling the other big show magnates, so be could slip over = few deals like the Groh and O'Counell aftairs. All the cings that McQraw ean gather i be needed to beat the #t” Louis Cards under the wire next October. Branch Rickey is g¢iting cagey since he realizes that he has a club onpable of | battling with the best In the circuit for | the pennant, and all differences with | Milton tock have been cleared up Ii Hell be back for third They did Clark Griffin of the Washington Sen- ators, was one of those who spoke his mind freely on Gommissioner Landis’ de- | ¢ision on the Babe Ruth | opinion te concurred in by m goodly num- ber of American league big guns. ie thinks that the decision i ever ince. mel) (tem * land we Kitty Breneficid, for youre the first base xuardinn of the Rhilly Nationals, | be back under the big top, after an | gama, absence of 10 years as @ scout for the Chicago Cubs, ter ice area, Is |the rover, Jarinto Calves, the Cubam ontfieiter ho starred for Victoria, and €‘ Ban Francisco, will be with For next year. ie haa baen sold Little Rock elub game. alternated. Jon Dunn, manager of the Poomington team last ¥ on signed by the {he amateur big money to bring the stars of the East out this and the Eastern teams, shy of good players, were forced te retrench. An@ #0 the Eastern clubs changed | their rules a bit and cut their squada down to eight men. two subs, eliminating the they have played under those rules ‘The big difference between Eastern ern #tyle is that the Weat- ern game, because of the longer con. more with passing being the chief feature. The Eastern game, minus nd w jee area, is snore of an | In the world series the styles are ‘The six-man game is being played by the Prairie league, and also by | teams RRR A mame ne THE ‘ Why Different Styles of Hockey Are Played Pete Muldoon Explains Reasons, for N. H. A. Playing « Six-Man Hockey and Coast Loop Using Seven Men; *" Other Gossip of Ice Sport “ BY LEO H. LASSEN HY is 6-man hock Hockey association and 7-man hockey in vogue on the coast? That's a question that popped up at a hockey fanning bee with Wally Reid Peter Muldoon, the skipper of the Metropolitane, the other day. And Peter spoke, to-wit: When the Coast league was started dozen good hockey players in this neck of the woods. The 7-man game was then the thing in all of Canada. The Patricks, who pioneered the game and still control it on the Coast, had to pay | Wasennven, playing Tommy | Murray in the nets, while Hugh | Lehman, their erack goal tender, | is on the shelf. | With their full strength on the | ler, Seattle and Vancouver haven't been able to stop the Victorians. What will the with the teams in weak: dition? way. aix regulary and| rover, And GREAT s The Coast league has three great hockey players holding down the | rover postion. ‘ <" Johnson, the 37-year- h a shorter center | Young Victorian, is playing the game individual | of his life. Jock Walker, the Seattle standby, gave one of the sweetest exhthitions of hia carear here lant week. Walker is the best passer in the ic nd he’s equally good on the defense as on the offense. of a team in Vancouver, | SEATTL BEAUTIFUL SNOW KNOCKS GOLF MATCH FOR HOME-RUN GOAL Danny Edwards | Proves Class Little Colored Battler Breaks Winning Streak of Babe Herman, Who Cleaned Up New York Mitt Tossers; | Moneer | Koortne STA Weather Halts Soccer for Second Straight Week For the second straight week, The Star Soccer league games were will be in effect next week. The season has been extended three wee ! tration lists again this week if they care to as the second half of the season does not start until the postponed Hoopers Complete Round Stacy Showns Run Up 91 Points; Dandy Baking Co. Forfeits Game LEAGUB NO. Won, Lost. Pet. 1 6 1,000 2 © 1900 1.000 1.000 eee Dandy Baking ¢ Asahi Jun Pirates ° Year AG. LEAGUK NO, 2 Won. Lost Collins Cubs spite of floor difficulties The Star Junior Basketball league ts finally well under way. All the teams were seen in action last week with the exception of the Dandy Taking Co. This team fatled to show up for its game with the Bal lard Cubs at the Knights of Colum bue Saturday night and lost by for- foit Three other games were on tap Saturday night, the Stacy Shown tearn making the best sbowing. The Jewelers made what ought to be a record for the season when th totaled 91 points against the Im- pertain ag the Elks’ club, while their opponents were making but one. The Shown team showed a lot of clans, and while they didn't have any opporition they showed a world of team work. The Mikadoes trimmed the Coflins Cubs at the Knights of Columbus in the closest game of the first week's schedule, winning 14 to 11 The tiff was close all the way, the close checking of the winners fra turing the game. In the other game Saturday night the Washington park boys were too strong for the Seattle Boys’ club jin their game at the Bike’ club, the former winning 28 to 4 Th* scores of Saturday's games foil Washington Park as Beattie ore Club (4) Kane Macleod rit. fitha O'lthea for Konser, Gavineky for Maclewd. Field goals, Hughes & Ww }Ori(tithe % M. Grittthe 2, Mitehet 2, Kane 1 Free throws: I. Griffiths 2, Kane 2 Keteree; Smith played in the National |¢ back in 1911 there were only a half a},, { | |; | | has Willie Kamm for the job, The | Joplin clit, of the wert ta Northwestern |B, C., and the amateur league here.| And Mickey MacKay, the Van: Fg Owe Seattle five players, while | fans ae Dune ¢ oght for the North Pas; ——s eouver speeder, has it on both of *Y Owe the Oaks one, and are just cific whipyard team seve INSURE them when it comes to #peed and fagut settled up with the Beals, hav-/ 100, N* Wer ever pilot, ae the Jopis |STRENGTHEN VICTORIA naive ability, | ph 96 eee Pitchers Coumbe, uries are strengthening Vie- onna be a darn tough fob n Mitehell and omised ( - — v rl ti oki the ne 0 Sta ane 4 promi Dut | ous Kaw Sack teens‘ wit ale toria’s chances for winning the | pick he man for the All-Star Vitt started in baseban with the] Seals and was ranked as one of the! best third sackers that ever gradu S296 from the Coast loop when he aned by the Detroit Tigers ANS a0. at New Orieuns next spring. Wrivers Wave heen auked on Grorge Maisel by the Chicago Cube, Thin is af taken to mean that Ma who used to Here's why: pastime fer Portiand, be went to Lon len to replace Arnold Mtatz, sold to th as one of | 900 for the | | Coast bockey Mag. Sounds like Walter Malls talk- ing, but it’s the truth. Victoria has the strongest for- ward line in the league this year with Frederickson, berth this year. SEATTLE VS. VANCOUVER Senttle will play Vancouver in the Northern metropolis tonight Both Oatman, | teams will have their regular lineups agmemeen.d best men when he plays In his loop. Halderson, Dunderdale and Meek- | on the ice with the exception of Mur- TELEGRAPHIC BOWLING ing all available for duty. y, who will be in the goal for the - aia Gatste, a na Te employes st a thres-| oe omete Onklend Citys cotess| The Geaitle defense has been ampions, and Fraser, who will play teh between Benttle, Spo- | team he opr | weakened by the loss of Bobby le kane a a Walla. Spokane fin-| Lg 4 lewis Kowe temporarily as Robert has The Mets n to have hit their ished first, with Seattle second. The| “*"* *84 iniere had two ribs dented, and Gordon |stride as they played much better total» | omising, but ine combination hockey inst Vanco > " their] Fraser, a promising, but ir mi y 1 ancou. = Me Rinding the feet to retard nse eng bile Spon te bas es iz) srowth has been discontinued in en-} perienced man, will take his j|ver here inst woek than they have Walla Walla ....., 693 100 993— Ngbtened China, | shows before this year | | } } Mikadoes (14) Kaw tine Cube (11) be Forward « Forward... Center Quard Reteree: Duffy, Biaey Bhowns (91) Porwar tmpertale (1) ¥ Field goals Kune t Bend |, Rapp i ” Anderson for J. Grant, ¢ Hubner fmntth The schedule for lows: ine Rapp 18, Preamntine 4 oe throws Substit this week fol 4 Cubs at Miawatha, Linperials ya Coffins Cubs, at Collins at tp m. stponed yesterday because of the snow. The same schedule i by inclement weather. i. Mail tor Kane, | ‘CENTRE SQUAD “|All the men are in good condition, Senior teams will be allowed to Ss Teame tn The Star eireutt | out-of-town games, oF aling | other games in the elty, should let | The Star know immediately, a» the league schedule is constantly subject to change, and the teams will avoid | conflicting dates by informing The | Mar soon enough. ‘The Battery C team will be hard hit when the bie ol season tarts, an . star for her for 4, They ward. and Burke Gibson, captain of Battery © * one of the strongest guards in the loop. on The Washington Park team ts Mech team in the leaeve can be pre | making its first bow in basketball. pared to make at least one trip to South | They have alrendy entered teams in og the apason, ©. Star baseball and sovcer leagues, m. Teams will At isast one, and per-| Any outaife team or teams in the efty ent Beatin. thet can make arrangements for floors are asked to inform The Star ff they want praction games Every team in CHieten Hanry, for prmetice. DRAFT IS NECESSARY, SAYS CZAR N'w YORK, Dec. 19.—Most of) YORK, Dec, 19.—With the the big deals expected at the big minor baseball leagues tooth winter baseball conclaves did not get|and toenail against the draft, Com further than talk missioner Landis has declared him- Unlews the magnates get bury be self in favor of the draft ax “com- tween now and March, it looks as if plete restoration of the draft in or- most of the major league clubs will ®4nized baseball ts inevitable. start the 1922 pennant season with| A sweet task is before the judge | the same outfita, in persuading the recalcitrant minors Only the New York Glants and the |to come around to his way of think St. Loula Browns have really done ing, altho the new proposal is to set | anything to bolster up for the coming | raft price for AA leagues at | drive, | $5,000, limiting the draft to one play- | Whee baseball men differ as to or per team, and giving the team an whether McGraw etrengthened or option on the players at half price weakened his club when he sacrificed if he i# released by the purchasing George Burns to get Heinle Groh. | big league team within a year, However, it is agreed that the! Trowns gained strength with the ad dition of Dave Danforth, the star! pitcher of Columbus, considering, of | course, that Danforth lives up to} promine. | UNIVERSITY | ICESQUAD- ‘oe wea arent Reaemser ®t) ~— LOOKS GOOD | Groh as much as it might seem. Pat ‘TUDENTS at the University are | Moran has been picking them out of \) warming up to the prospect of the Pacifiq.Coant league, and he may seeing the “studes” in action in the have @ better segregation than he /local amateur hockey learuc. had last season. Coach Bobby Rowe reports good turnouts and gratifying enthusiasm at the initial turnouts, and thinks the collegiana will have a better \sentet than that of last year, when amateur hockey made its bow | locatly. Nineteen men are candidates for EASTERNERS TO | WORK IN GAME WASHINGTON, Penn. Dec. 19.— {Thiru the courtesy of California au thorities, two Eastern officials will |be allowed to work In the Califor | Positions om the first team, and, nia-Washington and Jefferson game with a year’s experience behind in Pasadena on New Year's day,! them, a fair ice aggregation will be it was announced here today, Gradu-, culled from the squad, ¢ Manager Murphy, after a con: The intercolegiate schedale will jeultation with Coach Neale, will! submit a lat of officials from which | jthe coast management can select two. Twenty players will com | Prise the squad, which is to leave| |Saturday for the coaxt. |LATONA WINS ee ee GRADE TITLE Ry winning a torrid battle from the Hawthorne Class B grade school soceer champs, the Latona gram British Columbia, Montana and pos sibly Idaho, | IS IN SHAPE) DENVER, Dee. 19.—"Bo" McMi}-| mar school, Class A kings, annexed y and 27 other members of the|the city grade title Saturday on the iCentre college eleven, headed oy|lower Woodland Field. Coach Charles Moran, left here to- day on the last leg of their journe’ |to Ban Diego, Cal, grhere they wil play Arizona university December 26. Centre college alumai in Den ver entertained the squad yesterday Two overtime periods were re quired before the Class A boys landed the championship by a 2 to 1 score. BOLDT IS ON HIS WAY HOME Prexy Boldt will return to the lair of the Seattle Indians this according to Moran. CUEISTS THRU the Dandy Raking Co, team, ie @ |The #tar league is anxious for these extra former Wroadway player. ile alee |kames, because the nearcity of floors | jaye with the Lake tram, ia the makes it hard fer managers to flad them | Bil Dalgteish and Net] Christian, two include games with the university, Course of that city, Tomorrow and as} » << om » onl ro) = |Hutchinson and Barnes j May Show Wares at the 4 North End on Thursday BY ALEX C. KOSE 4 EATTLE'S golfers number tn the thousands but George Salix bury’s name does not appear om the nor is he Ikely to be it. vited to become a member of the golfing fraternity, unless he dishoa+ el up an entirely different brand of pa “weather” within the next few houm than has been on his bill-of-fare for the past few weeks. | Just when local pill chasers had their mouths set for a real treat, along comes George and throws |snow all over the place in such reckiens fashion that the Barnes Hutchison exhibition golf match scheduled to be played here tomom |row will have to be postponed. Tho heavy rains were bad enough but—the fans didn’t let out one equawk. Nor did they holler at the frost, but the snow storm of Sat urday night was too much even for the miid-tempered golfers, and now —welk George, change your recipe now if you ever hope to enter golfdom, Out on the course of the Seattle | Golf and Country Club, where the | world's two greatest golfers are to |pit their skill against Seattle's lead- jing players—Johnstone, Fleager, Stein and Stet— w. k. weather mao must have worked overtime as there is about «ix inches of beautiful (7) snow covering the en- tire grounds and it is almost cer- tain that the big matches will sot be played tomorrow, Don't be disappointed, ye golt |bugs, because arrangements have |been made to have Jim and Jock i | play here on Thursday, if tomorrow's Program has to be canceled. They [want to exhibit their prowess im Seatte and Hay McCarthy, their handsome young manager, and the directors of the Seattle Golf club are | doing everything in their power te pull the strings. Everything is all — | set pow and if G. 8. only lets loose of one of his nice warm Chinook winds, Seattle will have the pleasure |of seeing Jock Hutchison, British | champion, and “Long” Jim Barnes, £ American titeholder, in action this week. : Ray McCarthy hafis from "Noe York, but during his short stay (he arrived here last Thursday) he has really learned to like Seattle. This may seem strange, bot nevertheless it is true. He has had a swell time, seen all the sights, heard all about this Queen City and been shown. There ts only one thing “Mac® | wants to see now—“a Chinook wind. | People have been telling him about this magic breeze, and if our fair’ city Is expecting any Deosting from Ray McCarthy on his sojourn tha | the Southern states, George Salis. bury must get out his wand right quick. Are you with us or George? A match has been booked for the two stars to play in Bellingham te | day. They are scheduled for Tacoma lon Wednesday, where they will meet lint, Tacoma pros, on the Country Cieb ‘Thursday have been set aside for Seattle, but if play is impossible either of these days, Ray, Jock Jim will hie for the South, stopping off at Portland for an exhibition next Friday. Great atins moth of India ts said to be the largest moth or butterfly in the. world. 3-Step Tonite FIRST ROUND | Tonight the second round of the handicap elimination three-cushion | billiard tourney opens at Brown &| Business Coller at Knigh Ae week, after his visit with the gods of baseball in the East. First hand knowledge of deals and rumors of deals will be under Boldt’s cap, and be probably will wind up a few} the popu Te- CHAS. SCHWARTZ Optician The Best Christmas Gift Isa Savings Account ~in— THE BANK FOR SAVINGS $1 Opens an Account Pine Street at Fourth Ave. OPEN SATURDAY EVENINGS 6to8 Hulen's, The resuits of the first round are as follows: | Tyson (19) won from Phingston (15) stern (21) won fe (10), 2) to 8; Cashman (16) won 1b to 11; Abe Aron: tentative deals engineered to boost the 1922 Indians pennantward, LEHMAN’S EYE won from George Retd (13), 15 a ig RAY Aronson (10) wee) VANCOUVER, B.C. Deo. 18 arms (9), 19 to The eye injury suffered by Highie |Lehman, Millionaire goalkeeper, |when he was accidentally struck in the eye with a hockey stick Inst week, is not as serious as at first supposed. Lehman is recovering and it is possible that he may be back in the game by Christmas, THOUSANDS OF BLANKETS Come to the warehouse and see the largest stock of Blankets on the Pacific Coast—single and double, all wool— PRICE $2.50 to $7.00 “Blankets for Cold Nights” Fine for Christmas Presents CAMP LEWIS WIRELESS 76 University Street, on Bridge betwee nues across street from Government's F Victims of the Russian famine are eating bread made of clay, grass and mors. ene. might, after brushing up om the ent {0x trot and waits, Get ready Yo: ce Xmas Eve—alce presents for all. Wed., Dec, 21, 8:30 P, M. Sharp Adm. $1.00, Tax 10, Totat $1.10 $1.27, Tax 18¢, Total $1.40 $1.59, Tax 16c, Total $1.75 Reserved seats on sale at the Arena offic 1210 Fifth Ave, Phone Main 2493, Reservations not called for by 4 P. M. Wed- nesday will be canceled and resold, Ice Skating During the Xmas Holidays the Arena will be open for Ios Skating every morning except Wednesday and Sunday. Corner Pike and Minor Ave,