The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 15, 1922, Page 12

TAR Caseys Hang Up Basketball Record Knights of Columbus Team Is Leading Squad of Seat-| tle Season, Winning 24 Out of 25 Games; Club . Team Will Play Olympia for N. W. Title Saturday | BY LEO H. LASSEN é ! FEW years ago basketball was considered one of the) i minor sports. It was hard work for organized inter-| collegiate and interscholastic teams to get enough men to} make up the teams. | Today basketball is one of the most popular games in| the country and the teams are having a hard time to find} floor space for their games. | In Seattle this year intercollegiate basketball came to a} ¢limax in the Washington-California series when hundreds} of fans were turned away. Then there was the high school race, in which the six! local teams put up a thrilling race. _ Three other teams— scrubs, sophomore age! frosh| — Is Captain of Yankees Junior league, nearly 100 teams in| Miller Huggins Picks Slug-| the Church league and 15 teams competed in the playfield league. KNIGHTS LEAD FIELD Of all the teams that played tn/ ‘Peattlo and vicinity, perhaps the brilliant record was hung up Stan Riddie’s Knights of Colum Dus team, that won 24 out of 25 ger to Lead New York games, piling up 24 straight wins Before going down to defeat before on the Field Toppenish on the latter's floor. In M oy. ‘That game the Knights didn’t have| NEW YORK, Maren 15 Babe | Davidson or Chuck Moriarity | Ruth keeps on getting more fa | ace the .|mMous all the time. The swat king| lca Sweet) tale MONS: new the captain of the Yasikes ball club. The club perhaps figured (The Knights are taying claim to! that the bambino deserved the hon. | the Northwest championship. They | ors and privileges that go with the | @efeated Toppenish twice before this tithe. before losing that lone game.! It seems also that the club made | Caseys will play their finaljan error in announcing that Ruth} Melee of the season at the Casey! was to get $500 every time he rapped | — Saturday night with the Olym-/one over the fence. Instead of get pia Y. M. C. A. five, which also/ting a nice bonus for doing this act, ieanos ig W. ttle he is to work on straight salary. The name of Commissioner Landis | wasn't mentioned, but it is rather the | Ca4¥ to assume that the boas of the | game suggested to the Yankee own. ers that everything wasn't well with | for ef C. 44, Lincotn night scheot 12. of G@ 53, Hiawatha Playtieia &. | thelr arrafigement @f C. 51, Bremerton P.O. 15, Miller Huggins, manager of the get SS Usiveretty of Weshing | club, didn’t like all the publicity that Babe's contract was given, Huggins | hag a prima donna club and he would | a hard time telling Bob Meuse! | home run wasn't worth $500, ly If tt won a clone game. ‘There is no doubt that Ruth is still working under the contract that gives him $500 for each homer, but} the club has denied tt, and it will go on the record that way. THE SARRRARRRRRRR ERE RRReE RENE RASCAARARAAadseaseae CAMPS || | MODESTO, Cal—The today etaried u run on the liniment bettie fier 2 double workout yesterday that Manager Lewis says he will re- peat whenever the weather gives him the opportunity from now on. the club men were indepen- have trouble rounding Jack Davidson, University of | ‘iminating th grad, and Fred Bonney poss witl ta | Were the mainstays at the forward other hand. a berths. Both were good scorers and| {°° ievsonine wre we eay toon fine floor men. Spencer Harris, | year, Broadway high school star, and George McAteer were the under- Studies for this pair. | Stan Riddie, at center, another) former Washington player, who has| been playing independent basket- Baill for a number of seasons in the It is ead leave of camp. some promising this PASADENA.—Jim Thorpe and Em- mett MeCann, last of the men om the roster to report, went thru their first workouts with the Portiand Beavers. Manager Hill Kenworthy says his team is shaping up well. K lot here you ty clash again for ernoon, jana wilt Jeiston this Chuck Moriarity and Pat Myers) made up a fine pair of guards, both | McAteer, 69; Myers, 61; Moriarity, Dusky fellows and aggresive. | 50. THE INDIVIDUAL | Davidson and Riddle alternated RECORDS |at foul shooting, both hitting the ‘The individual scoring record for|rim about 70 per cent of the time. the year follows: Riddle, 245; Bon-| Davidson made 63 out of 90 and Mey, 234; Davidson, 204; Harris, 72;'Riddie 67 out of 97. Entry Blank for Star Junior Baseball Loop I wish to enter the... $4 ooh Mleevcece es in The Star Junior Baseball league. -team RMON). icin dh ok ob dob avbeice 60 coe coecece, (MANES?) (Address) occsseee (PRONG)... (Home Grounds) (Entries close March 18, at 6 p. m.) | Leader o which | Here are the Knights of Columbus cagers. From left to right: Stan Riddle, Pat Myers, George McAteer. |Crew Shift Doesn’t Work EVERAL changes in his firet|the varsity shell made by Coach Ed} Tidmarsh ter the intercians regatta last week-end. The changes proved to be unsatisfactory and the Wash. were Magnusson perience. Ti practically the mume boat that haa| manned the Merrily all season. | ie holding @ Five juniors are now in the first| shell. The third-year crew had little having both weight and strength in the boat. Cushman ts the only senior | Merrily. his hands to stay as No. 3. “Red” place ax bow Coach Leader mi lthe juniors tn his lineup after the| | attnoutty in winning the clags match, | race, putting Murphy, Shaw, Ingram, Parkins and Tidmarah back into the) Murphy and iG | representative and has a big job on! given a tryout at 5 and 6, BY HAROLD MARQUIS shell. is hanging on to his in mpite of the fact that has three years of ex idmarah looks good to the Grant steady poaltion as cox. Je no changes in Dunn but were Campus Gossip (preme lington crew again is lining up with|coach now, but may lone out to the| veteran bow before the race. were | « replaced again by Mason and Cush. | Mason is again rowing 4, as tn the| man. The present arrangement gives | sophomore boat, but may be dis /the crew mm lodged at any time. Spuhn ts the/| combination only sophomore sure of a place in | together. Washington Mat Men vs. W. ore weight as well as a that has been working S. C. | ASHINGTON and Washineton tain Boge of the W. 8 C. team tate wrestlers will meet in the| Was injur in the P. N. A. meet and may not oe able to wrestle this local gymnasium Saturday night. ee ie hogs or Allen will The tournament will be the third in-| meet Captain Noble McCredy of tercoliegiate match for the Purple! Washington. Davis will wrestle and Gold this season. White. The Cougars will bring a strong| Jahistrom of W. 8. C. won his bunch of grapplers to meet Wash-| bout from Oregon and also from 0. | ington. At Oregon the Washington} A. C. this season. He will meet Ber State five won three of their five|ry of Washington. Ewing of W matches, while Washington dropped |S. C. will grapple with Ray Clithero four of their five to Oregon at Eu-|for Washin gene. |Cougar 158 White, W. S. C,, 175-pound entry, | Joe Crumb. won the P. N. A |month in the meet at Spokane. Bears Turn Down Track Bid down Washington's invitation to | the annual relay carnival at Seattle April The Bears have flicting meet in Southern Californias prevents them from Orgy reece A has definitely turned | the trip north. Willamett vitation of t and the making |a team to t Varsity Ball Squad Is Cut BOUT 25 men have been dropped | players. Lack of opportunity ton. Gulgjord is the pounder who will meet Crumb won his mateh championship last | at Oregon when Washington met the Cap- | Lemon. Yeliow. ¢ has also declined the in he Purple and Gold. The Salem gymnasium burned last spring school feels unable to send he carnival to wee from Coach R. L. Matthew’s|the men work on account of weather conditions has forced him to keep baseball squad in his first of the sea. |" ane ; has forced him ep | cut. Matthews has 25 men left| Practice games will be under way la string, sive of pitchers, n two weeks wheh the nine will who were all ret clash with the the Army team at The coach expects to trim the club | Camp Lewis. A vacation series will | again to its final size of 20 or 25 JOHNSON’S ARM HAS RECOVERED be played on the Army diamond “SNOWY” BAKER | IN NEW LINE Walter Johnson, veteran pitehing| “Snowy” Baker, Australia’s pre ace of Washington, D. C., American | mier fight promoter, is interested in league club, is in the best shape of | swimming of late, and is planning his career, gleefully announces |to manage a tour of Australian water | Frank Griffith. Last season trouble | stars in an invasion of the United with his arm forced Johnson to use States thix summer, is the latest | word from the Antipodes. a delivery unnatural to him in order Australia to lessen the strain on his hurling|has been making rapid strides in wing. ‘This spring the trouble has| aquatic sports in the past few sea sappeared, Griffith says, and the sons, and plans to annex a few of the| rold star is ready to win his | world's titles, nearly all of which are ¢ of a Senator pennant now held by Americans. BY SEABURN BROWN § | Altho the two light heavies put up|rated. The man who will some day | logical thing for him to do Is to beat | iS id Sebi Macrieod Denpecy! . Br faible n from the view sels the chan ve to Gene "run md take the Asbaus 4 Xe : 01D ol W jon an ng 7 a rib-crushing Gibbons’ | light heavy hatband He'd better give his heavy-| science of the highest degree, the re- experience with his string of setups|from the A K. F. warrior, and then weight crown away, #0 he can get an-| sult proved one thing to the promot: | convinced everybody that he had at|take on a real man in Geormen Cae other fight by challenging somebody. |, to “Jacks” Kearns and Dempsey, | least a fair kick in his punches, but! pentier. Greb weighed 1634 pounds ide dine stme promoiting to the fight paie, A xD to the ¢ oh ae y could put h ands i hind | for Gibbons. Too light—altogether { ers th ern boxing in the various | him, let Gibbons wear himself out| too light—for him to stand a chance eee With # crafty sitter of gol | comme uiths that neither Greb| trying to hurt him, and then hit him|with Jack Dempsey suai isi fm his eyes, smokes up an opponent! nor Gibbons would be able to give so hard he and in Eddie Kane’s| Nothing remains for Dempsey but for the chafing champion, something | Dempsey a decent workout lap ht either Harry Willa, the best Rikahe the aot. |__Greb hit Gibbons with everything| ‘That ts, #0 far as the Tommy Gib-| bet of Africa, or Bill Brennan, if he ; Jexcept Tex Rickard’s gold-t bons of today is concerned. Gibbons | doesn’t want to settle down t . Sack was all ready to take on Tom-! Cine, and ‘Tommy just tovk "er has always realized } limita: | ville act se eas i : j ok fem as always realized his own limita-| ville acting for a living. + hasn eush—after waiting for Tommy to| Harry Greb with one hand tied be-|Creb, he said he didnt’ want to fight| big and strong enough to look it. aaa” timeslf by 0 long string of ne his back (a ahh . nm, whether he beat Greb| In all probabilit nnan can't ile he was without a doubt o' amy thinks he’l| be bet: | eithe , : Ikayos over setups, when the unex-| Wille he was withe at be abt ou my thinks 3 " t bet eith r. But Brennan ts the best ‘ iibbons landed quite an as 1 now than he is to-| heavyweight in the world today, o Pected termination of Monday's en-| sortment of nolid socks on Greb's an-|day. Perhaps he will be, You never|side of Dempray h slap Migs wd a tertainment at Madison Square Gar-|atomy, particularly in the body. He can tell ot De + Hie gain #0 k hi enough to knock out the champio den threw the switch again. did stagger the light Pittsburger a| If Greb is given a chance at Demp-| or anybody elve } % ha te oe Attar the miserable spectacle Gib-| few times, but failed to hurt him|sey as a reward for beating Gibbons, | just right, he's ee neue te tL Bons made of himself against littie| enough to slow him up. That lets|the affair will be the biggest joke of | come, and he hnows ana eney ever | Harcy Greb, Dempyey-Gibbons | Tommy out, so far as the title is con-| Ameri ring history. Greb ia a|has been beaten twice tout cost say : \7 ireb in a) hay been beaten twice—but certainly ight wouldn't pack the Pavilion, |cerned. Me has been greatly over-|wonderful fighting machine. The|not disgraced—by Dempsey. KANSAS CITY.Stanisinws Zhys- the defenied Yusif Mahmout in = | wrestling bout here Inet might, taking | two out of three falls, curcaco ay 10 peiect off aches of Western con teacam will meet here fat tals for fall games. AVALON, Cal—Alonan@er and Kilteter will be (he Cob batlery in the game Hat jurday with Low Angeles, KPGUIN, Tex—The Giants and White Sox’ play thetr third exhibition Geme bere today, FORt | WAYNE Indo Lows, ehampton, India, in two srninoe, ROT | un 7 to Get Your Without Cost Get twenty people who are not now having The Star de livered to their homes to agree to take the paper for a period of three months or Have subscribers sign t scription blanks printed below, then bring office so that delivery started at once. have name, address and phone number written plainty. AS soon as you twenty subscriptions be awarded phones not included in Collect no money on subscriptions. Out - of - town rate of 50c per month, IF YOU WANT ANY RADIO INFORMATION COME DOWN ANY DAY BETW . 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Knights of Columbus Hoopers Claim Title M Spencer Harris, Jack Davidson, Fred Bonney, Charles Moriarity, | TUESDAY FIGHT RESULTS |, PHTLADEL errs : xed COLUMR ST. LOUIR-Carl Tremaine eutpstnted tn 12 row SAN FRANCISCO, March 15.—Ad) Santel won over Pete Sauer, of Phoe- | nix, Ariz, in straight falls here last ucht. ‘The first fall came after one hour, | leave | | three minutes and 30 seconds, with a England on June 28 for another tour | leg lock and scissors, and the second | them; that will bring about # proper hold and arm lock, with a Morr cradle Eddie out Jim Holland, Baltimore, t= Joe Dundes, Ralttmore, | |dict over Harry Davis of Ballard in 4 Freddie Jacks in = 12 speedily therentfter. O'Dow4, bantam, | WON T SCULL' eutpointed Willie Spencer in 13 rounds. GRAND FORKS, N. D.—Mike Gibbons outpoinied Leo Stokes In 16 rounds, iddles _ Forget to Fight {Bout Is Bloomer; Kid | Sharpe Takes Bad Beat- ing From Joe Dunn | BY SEABURN BROWN ORDON i Coast weight and Boston Vegan boxed fours slow rounds to a draw in the head liner at lmat night's Cascade Athletic club show at the Pa vilion, McKay took no chances with his crown, standing off and outpointing Egan. The Kasterner evidently was anz- }ious to mix it, He forced the going thruout the mill, and w given a @raw because of his aggressiveness, altho McKay hit him three to one. The fourth round was McKay's best, and also the only period im which any action to speak of wag noticeable, Kid Sharpe, Canada’s 150-pound |lightweight, was substituted for Harry Eagies against Joe Dunn of Portland in the remi-windup. Sharpe took the offensive from the start but the experienced Dunn beat him |to the punch every time and cut bien to ribbons. Sharpe can certainty take ‘em. Te absorbed a wicked beating, but jstill in the fight when the final jrang. | The referee had no trouble tn ing the verdict. Young Sam Langford gave }Hannon a boxing lesson in the {clal. Hannon got by the first round with everything intact, but from |then on the fight was Langford's. |In the fourth canto Mickey went to pieces under the pounding of the) |dusky lightweight, but lasted out the? |period. Referee George Wagner |mw it at a draw. bY |, Joe Hartello, black as ebony, lost | |to Kid Colina, Filipino battler, in the third round of the second go. The bout was real comedy, as Hartekell |knew nothing of the game, and Co. lina ttle more. Frankie Green, Seattle's chocolate- |colored 116-pounder, won a clear ver- round | the opener. 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