The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 21, 1922, Page 12

4 17 PAGE 12 Mike Gibbons Would Battle Greb for Family Honor, AYBE my brother Tommy can’t lick Harry Greb, but I can. That's the way Mike Gib- bons, who is billed to show the class that has made him the most talked of middleweight in the world at the Pavilion here a week from to- night, speaks of the re- cent blow to the Gibbons family honor that Harry Greb doled out in beating Tommy Gibbons in their recent l5-round go at Madison Square garden, jer’s big chance to win jerack at Jack | | it is his own fault, | hittle clever boxing Tom dic in days gone by he seems to When asked to unburden| have his mind after the unexpect-| fallen into the same rut that led termination of his broth-|has been the downfall of) forgotten. Tom CREB TELLS HOW HE DEF and boxing were my As a boxer, about I could show was a willing the boys who met respecitvely, in rough and : friendly (7) bouts. “As T was rangy and fast and had Uttle more natural aptitude for than the average of the us gang of fellows who » I got by in in gratifying i : EI the Olympic club & second-sacker team. An iron- Umited the membership mot younger than 21 16, as I said, but “wires,” i i i ? z | ( et il & » i ii i§ squared off he sprung the same line. “Let yourself go, kid.” he said. “You mean you want me to sock @s hard as I can?” ; _ T cut loose and tore into him. He Was altogether too clever for me, nd I nearly went crazy trying to Jand on him, while he stepped Sround, jabbing my head back with Straight lefts. The going finally got too rough and the boys stopped us I fett pretty sore and ached for| @potted a bird in the gym wearing & pair of boxing gloves and a set of Diack whiskers. His name was Barney. He weighed 200 pounds and held the heavyweight champion- Ship of the club; but I didn’t even | Notice his fine physique. I saw only the beard, and figured that any stitt With such a set of soup-strainers would be altogether out of his ele- ment at fighting. HE ASKED FOR IT I told the instructor I'd take on the bearded bird. The instructor, glad to see me make a fool of my. self, gladly arranged things. I could ee nothing but whiskers and start @@ swinging for them from the bell. When I woke up I was lying flat on my back and the boys were just finishing the job of bringing me to. Td never been kayoed before and didn’t know what it all meant. They couldn't convince me. I started to show them how clear my head was by running around the indoor track I went fine for a few steps, got off the course, hit a bunch of apparatus hanging on the wall, and finally fell in heap among a pile of other dumbbells. Cheap? I felt so humiliated that > smeaked out of the building and didn't come back for at least a year This happened in the old German Turnverien, which gym the club men were using following the fire which destroyed the old building on O'Farrell street. GOES BACK AGAIN A long time ofterward, when tre club was house! in their new quar ters, I heard that a new man had taken the old instructor's place nd ventured back. All of this time I had been steadily boxing, under the Persuasion of Warding, and was neither #0 green nor such a dub at the game as formerly. During my absence from the club something had happened which had quite an influence in my career, but which I knew nothing about at the |is a popular card in New Jersey. time. The new instructor had boxed one day with Dave Kisemann, a Jewish boy and middleweight cham. pion of the club, Lisemann had _ Lou Harding, © youthful member | wach other quite cordially the Olympic club, palled around | me and took a great delight in| first, Like his predecessor, he told Me up to put the gloves On| me to tear loove. | pin. | RB. Chandier, of Chand | terented. about 150 pounds, tried to take advantage of the lack of condition of the teacher, an old fighter, and had tried to knock him out. The two had a terrific fight, with honors about even, before the boys dragged them apart, and at the time I came back they hated 1 boxed with the instructor at |me by the arms after we had ad Friday evenings at the fire de | Knocked each other around a bit, it and an old blacksmith ang nearly floored me with the pre diction that within three months TI could lek anybody in the club. HE LEARNED SOMETHING T was so swelled with pride that I could hardly sleep that night. For three months he patiently trained me, teaching me more about fight ing than [ had suspected was in the then he matched me first public appearance at a for my I wish to enter the..... in The Star Junior Baseball ... (Phone) . (Entries ci U | of The Star Junior Any of the 16 clubs now | Entries for the o'clock. I did. He grabbed | Entry Blank for Star Junior Baseball Loop lose March 22, at 6 p. m.) thru with the schedule should AQCMINISGCUCES JAMES Je as fold to Seaburn Brown, JW did I break into the fight game as a youngster? Well, I guess I started about as young—and green—and took as many hard back in the old days when the Olympic Athletic club of San Francisco had its on O'Farrell street, as any ringster who ever wore a championship belt. _I was a big, slim kid of 16, weighing (ORBEIT and worked as a bank clerk. Jelub smoker with Eisemann. “You can liek him if you'll what I tell you,” he told me. net only lick him head oft! In short, that’s Just what I did I loped acroas the ring, awung from | my shoetops, and knocked the mid dieweight champion of the club over the ropes into somebody's lap. First thing I knew, the instructor [fmced to my corner dnd kissed me! He had promised Eisemann at the [time of their quarrel that within } three months he would develop a | man to lick him. And I'd done itt | The boys carried me out of the ring on their shoulders; and from then on 1 was quite a figure at the club: (In tomorrow's interview, Mr. Corbett will tell in detail of the toughest fight of his carrer, | when he met the great Jeo | Choynski.) soweeese.. team league. «+++ (Address) +++eeee++..(Home Grounds) Georgetown Cubs Drop Out Of Star Junior Ball Loop ‘ABLE to obtain financial backing for their team this year, the Georgetown Cubs have dropped out Baseball circuit. This reduces the entry list to 16 teams. listed that do not plan to go inform The Star at once. league will close tomorrow night at 6 The Loule's French Dry Cleaners will | be known an the Tigers this year, and | tney y their home grounds at Walla Walla. Other managers want to send in this information immediately. Fach manager must see to it that his official scorer attends the meet- ing at The Star Friday. M. ors need not send anybody except the men who will do the scoring, as Friday's meeting is for the purpose of explaining « uniform system of for the lengue. rs Rootery has nine for anie joball goods, for about $6 and some Star league team may be in Managers can get touc th him by calling Beacon 1 Chand managed a team m The Star league inst season. ‘GEORGES WILL HAVE TO HURRY Georges Carpentier, world’s light heavyweight champion, will have to get into training soon if he is to be in shape for his bout with Ted Lewis, English light-heavy king. Carpentier is reported to be in | poor condition and out of training, but is said to be determined to go thru with the match, which is billed | for April 7 at London, JERSEY THINKS WALKER’S OKEY Mickey Walker, who is standing high in weltetweight circles just now, fact, Eastern reports say that a box ing show at Newark won't draw a active paying crowd unless Walker is billed | as one of the headliners Veteran “Babe” Adams Is Still on Baseball Job “BABE” ADAMB Reporting in good condition, as |usual, “Babe” Adama, the veteran Pittaburg flinger, 4s being counted upon as one |heavers again. If not worked too joften the veteran hurler is one of | the most effective mound men in the game. | |DUFFY H EARS THE BIRDIES PHILADELPHIA, March 21 Bobby Barrett, local lightweight, |stopped Ryman Gold (Oakland Jim |my Duffy) in three rounds here last |night. Barrett outfought Gold from |the first bell, winning by a clean |kayo. The bout was slated to go eight rounds. [ANDY CHANEY | IS IN SHAPE | Andy Chaney, featherweight con: | tender, is again in shape for action, and will & ter bouts with some of the best Eastern boys at the weight, according to an announcement by his manager, Eddie Meade, Dempsey’s crown, Mike spoke as follows:| knocked out a couple of dozen! “I feel sorry for Tom, but Whatever has do ou'll | you'll knock hie of the regular Pirate! THE a} many other great boxers. He} He | thought he could hit. big, slow fellows. 1 him as a boxer. “He now neglects to apply himself properly | May Play Shortstop Bag od Looks Like Frisco Vacancy BY LEO H, LASSEN Ne San Fran may have to de | Ellison, the big that station at the start of the year, the Seal training camp at Hoyes Springs say that | Veto Kilduffs arm isn't strong enough for shortstop and that Al Lefevre, the kid tomer obtained from the New York Giants, simply won't do. Neither the Fordham boy's hitting or fielding are up to | Coast league standards, The only other shortstop candi date on the San Francisco rosters at the preemnt time ix Hal Hhyne. the Miasion boy. Rhyne was farmed out to the Weetern league last year and made a pretty good abowing It wae Caveney's great work that did more than anything else last year in keeping the San Francisco front of the race most neason, and with several clube stronger than last season, the | Seals will have to step lively to be catcher on the Chicago Cub squad, looks Uke the best bet in the Lon Angeles camp, according to baseball goenip in the Cafeteria city. Daly is @ good hitter and @ amooth work- er behind the plate, Kither Red Baldwin or Mack Wheat will work with him this summer, with the pom | sibility of the Angels carrying both mea. | peat. SAYS HE WON'T COME Charley Deal says ho won't report to the team this season. He is figured as Playing third base for the cham pions. Deal claims that the Cubs positively Low Angeles | railroaded him out of the big leagus. | He has just a semi-pro team in | Sioux City and says he is thru with Organized baseball. | SMITH TO QuIT AFTER 1922 SEASON “led” Smith, Vernon third base- man, says this & his last year in Professional baseball as he plans to retire after this season. Smith played fine ball test year for the Tigers and he is figured to be one of the best infielders in the league again. | “Red is taking up mechanical | drawing work. “Pep” Young is anid to have re covered entirely from trouble that made him lone control of his threw- ing arm inet summer, and thet he will be at the keystone mack for the Detroit Tigers again. His arm wae upon inst winter, Emory Rigney ts one promising In the ]eamps. He is due to play shor the Detroit club, He comes from Fort Worth, | oman Walter Reinhart, Lom Angeles south. | Paw star of inst wensom, in making « strong bid for « regular hurling job with the Bt. Louis Cards Mordecal Rrown, the “three-fingered wizard” of the olf Chicago Cubs. team at Lawrencevitie, TL, th seml-pro ia summer, ert Niehoff will be the on! | manager in the Bonthern te: year. ‘The former Low Angeles Will pilot the Mobile team, playing * this aflelder | Jimmy Eamond, veteran minor league infielder, has decided not to repert to Salt Lake, Tiness in his family keeps him in Enat, Joe Dunn, the veteran catcher, will | manage the Denver t | league, | in the Weatern Goorke Lafayette ts being figured as the regular first sacker of the Oakiand providing, of course, that Loule > ian't ah k by the Cleve. Indians, John Milj = second string pitcher with Direoklyn for several years, has been turned over to New Urteann. the season opens, a Manager Wade Killefer, Glem Killinger, the famous Penn State | athlete, now with the New York Yanks, fan't “doing so well at the plate.” it's SEATTLE Same got) him a lot of publicity and quite a standing in the pugil-| istic world, but it has ruined | EATED t Bet to Plug Big cinco Beals, who| ( face the biggest shortstop task in game. Three or four runs were usually enough to win, however, | great defense, backed up by a fine pitch- the league try: ing to fill Jimmy Caveney’s pend upon Hert |seven-man hockey. STAR when training and box- ing. For a fellow of the Greb type he should have trained for speed and should have done a lot of boxing with fast boxers. Instead of that he worked out with a lot of big, slow fellows and also always practiced knock- out punches. Result, he was slow and forgot how to box. “Tommy also placed a lo! of confidence in his so-called secret punch. It is a lef | hook to the liver. This punch }is no secret, it is older than |Tommy is himself. Dal Haw. Tt jliver 20 years ago. | Battling Nelson used punch as his main attack. The the chance any time in t| trouble with Tom's secret the near future to regain punch was that it was no| the lost honor of the secret. Harry Greb was Gibbons family in a bout t\ trained properly. He knew! with Harry Greb. 1 have Tom's secret, Tom forgot) already defeated Harry BIG RI Giants and Have Best Infields New York and Washington Have Wonderful tets; Strong Defense Means Much in Baseball; How Senators Two Great Combinations Compare BY BILLY EVANS STRONG defense means Cc icago White Sox of 1906. since the club had a shoes. ing staff. The defense of a ball club centers around the infield. It is A good outfield is very necessary, but the! Heal handy man, percentage of ground balls is much greater than balls hit in’ to take care of | the air, |_ That is why a good infield means so much to a ball club.! | Perfect execution of plays on the part of the i Reports trom much to break down the offensive of an opponent. ' There is nothing more discouraging than to see the infield- ut off base hits by sensational plays afield. breaks down the morale of the opponent, but bolsters up the | the inner wall. ers ¢ confidence of the pitcher, If you are strong for the | no doubt pick the Washington The addition of Heine Grob has! Unquestionably made the New York |tatield @ formidable aggregation, one | jot the best in the histery of the cane. The coming of Peckinpaugh Washington gives that club a cork: | ing infeld. It was weak at short. Judge at first, Harris at second, Peckinpaugh at short and Shank» at | third ts about the cream of the) American league talent. | I think a draw would be an excel- lent decision in making a comparison | of Um two clubs, . Jat un my that Frisch and Harris jam! Bancroft and Peckinpaugh are even-stephen. Judge has the edge on Kelly and Grob has it on Shanks ‘That makes {t all even. Our decision in a draw ‘The Cardinal infield of Hornsby, |Tavan, Stock and Fournier rates clone up to the Giants in the National | Tease | Im the American, Cleveland and New York are the runcers up. The addition of McInnia rounds out the No team was a better exam |about the same tome. Shanks is Draw Decision Is Best | shortatopa I have ever seen much in baseball. It not only Which major league club boasts the best infield? If you happen to be a National league partisan without any hesitation you would say the New York Giants. Johnsonian circuit you would club, Groh Strengthens Giants’ Infield The coming of Groh means Frankie Frisch will necond, An infield Kelly at first, Frisch at second, Bancroft at short and Grob at third | is some aggregation. that be shifted Peckinpaugh Bolsters Senators toy Judge is a more valuable first base- man than Kelly. Frisch is a remark- able ball player. That goes for Stanley Harris. Frisch will be play- ing @ new position. If there is a shade I would give it to Harris. Bancroft and Peckinpaugh rate fine player, but Groh must be given the edge at third Gardner, Sewell, Wambsganss com-| The New York club in no| bination. way suffers by the passing of Peck- inpaugh sinee it brings to the team Everett Scott, one of the greatest In both leagues every clut one or more stars on its infield, but have a certain weakness at one posi- tion. For example, the St. Louis Drowns have two stars in Gerber and Sisler, while Pittsburg has Maran- ville and Grimm. ‘Second Big Puck Game on Tonight Vancouver and Toronto Renew Fight for Stan- ley Hockey Cup in East i} | ANCOUVER and Toronto will re for the world’s hockey title in Toronto tonight in the second | game of the so ries. Having won the first game, | the Coast cham. | pions enter to | night's melee favored to win, ! The game wil! be played under | Coast rules of eS The first game went to the Coast. | ers by a onegoal margin after an} overtime period, but having become acclimated and playing under their | own rules, the Coast champions have an edg The series is the best three out | of five games. The third game is scheduled for Friday, and if the other two games are necessary, they will be dated later, Rainy Weather Holding Up Varsity Ball Team HAROLD MARQUIS might just as well hibernate x” a month as try to play baseball in this weather,” is Coach | R. L. Matthews’ comment on base BY “ ball conditions at the University of |ence season, Oregon will open Washington. The mentor is thoroly| against the Purple and fiold on disgusted with the climatic condi | Denny field, Campus day, April 21. tions which are making outdoor One game was dropped off the} practice impossible for his squad long schedule by Willamette, who| The trip to Camp Lew which | cancelled the scheduled game with | was proposed for this w has | Washington. Matthews’ men still been called off, as neither team has| have 20 games on their regular had an of veually @ weakness with college stars Dreaking into (he pro-cama dition, The varsity men will work ou Denny field during vacation if new their serap |! ortunity to get into con- | schedule. teams will be arranged as soon the nines are ormanized TEP. IOWA CITY.—Aubrey Devine, back of the champion eleve: elehth varsity quarter. has been in his ninth White for the weeks entry 295 SAN ANTONIO.—Pitching worries of the Giants decreased with the news ' las is om his way to camp. Art Nehf is the only barler of MeGraw’s staff whe has been showing any form. NEW ORLEANS outfielder, Desperate for Manager Huggins « has fispatohed his Yankee scouts with orders to bring something back that can bolster up his outer defense, None of the rookies has nhown the necessary stuff, an ene William Marvhall, one of the fi cotch profes golfers to come to this country, is dead. He was associated with the Onwen| years club, Lake SEGUIN, Tex—The White Sox were scheduled to meet the local American Legion team today, John- ny Mostil, who has injured his right arm, will be unable to play, AVALON, their stride. 4 their CalL—The Cubs have hit and a different spirit dom work te Second base is rrying Killefer, altho he ts certain that he will have a man who will make the grade. rain holds off enough of the time. Washington's first game is little} more than a month away and the team has had little chance to prao | tice for the opening of the confer r- ple of this theory than the | P ' The White Sox were known as the “Hitless Wonders.” The | “hicago team seldom made more than three or four runs in a nfield does! to composed of has) Joe Dunn Boxes Harry Casey at Pavilion Tonight | | Joe Dunn Joe Dunn, the Portland lightweight, heads tonight's smoker at the Pa- vilion in @ four-round tiff with | Harry Casey. Dunn has made two | pleasing showings here, first with | George Ingle and then with Kid Bharpe the other night, The regular |four preliminaries will precede the | main event. ing and field 1 good bit ef road [ot the dally menu. STOCKTON, Cal —Marty Kraj fs sought by the Chica: it that the Seattle clul to pame @ price for him, has been asked with @ trophy. bags believe him to be chiefly responsible jfor the pennant win last year. Angel baseball BANTAM CHAMP IN HARD LUCK Phrenic werpony 7 Pore worth of fights thru an infection of blood poisoning in one of his hands. Later; Greb won. that that Harry was going to be in the ring at all. Greb was |kins used a left hook to the|coached properly. Result, _GIBBONS IN ‘be | Hot Springs. to & report here. Gossip has JESDAY, MARCH 21, 1922, | “1 would like to have Greb and will guarantee any promoter to beat him ‘Wouldn’t - Let Tom Get Set |) 'Pittsburger Had Studied Paul Man’s Style; His “Dope” Worked Right BY HARRY GREB Conqueror of Tommy Gibbons DEFEAT Tommy Gil by refusing to him get set, — Gibbons is a flat footed pu He must be to have any er back of blows. In addition, telegraphs his tentions. I every ume he ia. tended to start « right-hander. 5 I bad met Gibbons three ; previous to our New York bout. Ip two of the bouts I decisively out pointed him. In the other bout any edge that Gibbons might have Bad was due to my lack of condition, In my three bouts with Gibbous I had carefully studied his style. lexperience had proved to me | Gibbons was a flat-footed puncker, jextremely dangerous if allowed to wet wet. Since the New York meeting was the most important of my career, likewise Gibbons’, I had carefully planned the details of my battle in jadvance, That I had the right dope was shown by the outcome of the bout. $ I know that most of the ring ex perts were surprised at my carrying the fight to Gibbons. . f | | I had decided on that program [P4, weeks in advance of the bout. That § S is the only way to beat Gibbons. I Don't let him get set, and beat him q to the punch by stepping inside as he telegraphs his intentions with his i right. My constantly style of changing attack had Gibbons bewildered, figured it would. Some will say Gibbons bad an off night. I don't believe that is fair to I think that my style, which Gibbons was unable to solve, was entirely responsible for my opponents’ poor showing. 1 am a bug on baseball. I int to take a vacation in a few days. plan to join the Pittsburg team at 32a4 8 82 s4995 In, baseball they consider the pitcher who has a change of pace & wise guy, @ tough fellow to beat into the fight game. mixing them up, using a change of pace. A flat-footed boxer like Gibbons is helpless against that style. That is why I beat him so decisively. (Copyright, 1922, Seattle Star) t Bouts billed with Joe Lynch and Roy Moore have been called off. CANADIAN KING WANTS A FIGHT Bill Steel, who admits that he is heavyweight champion of Canada, is at present in Minneapolis in search of matches with some of the out- standing figures in the American | heavyweight ranks. LEONARD WILL BOX FRIEDMAN As a result of a confab between Managers Nate Lewis and Billy Gib- son, Benny Leonard and Sailor Fried- man are tnetatively matched to do battle for the lightweight crown in April, but the exact date and the | place to hold the tilt are still in the alr. TATE WANTS TO BATTLE WILLS Howard Carr, manager of Bill Tate, who is generally considered as the champion of the black heavy- weights, is yowling for Harry Wills to try to lick his fighter before get. ting the plum of a bout with Demp- sey From the unpleasant odor sur- rounding the recent bouts in which Tate and Wills have figured, it isn't | likely that the fans in any of the big | centers will stand for another Tate. Wills fiasco, | Now That White Is Out, Benny’s Hand Recovers Benny Leonard is billed to swap wallops with Johnny Dundee, junior lightweight champion, at Milwaukee on March 27. Leon. hampion, didn't muss hin Rair winning $15,000 and a 10-round decision bout from Johnny Clinton ‘4 the Elks’ benefit. NEW YORK.—Joe Burman, Chicago dantamweight, won a 1?-round decisiog from Midget Smith, New York, PHILADELPHIA. — Bobby Rarre Philadelphia, knocked out Oakla' Jimmy Duffy in the third round. MONTREAL. — Oscar Deschamps, Montreal lightweight, knocked out Frankie Brown, New York, in the firet round. SANDUSKY, 0.—Jack Wolfe, eve land, knocked out Eddie Smith, Phila. delpbia featherweight, in two rounds. ‘aul Burns outpomes®) ght rounds, : MILWAUKER. Barney Griffin in PASADENA. — “I wouldn't trade the Portland outfield for that of the Chicage Cubs,” Tom Turner, asnist- ant Beaver manager and former scout _ for Connie Mack, told the United Press today. HUTESON-DONAHEY OPTICAL CO. Dr. R. Donahey ard’s injured hand, which he an- nounced would prevent his fight ing Charley White after White earned a crack at Benny's crown by licking Willie Jackson recently, recovered in a surprising hurry after White was removed from consideration by a setback at the hands of Dundee, Leonard has Practice games with cit sidestepped White for years, but thinks he has little to fear from Dundee apparently. What is the Price of Your Eyesight? A price couldn't be put on @ man's eyesight. . To keep it is worth whatever the most preg tical experience asks. And yet, the price of experi- enced, expert fitting is very little when you find out about it, 1608 Westlake Ave. (Just North of Pine St) a