The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 22, 1922, Page 10

What William Tell was to archery, Joe Kirkwood F is to the game of golf. Kirkwood is the profes sional champion of Aus- tralia and heralded as the greatest trick-shot artist in the world today. Kirk- wood docked in San Fran- cisco from Australia last week for his second has every shot in the bag, but|this suave young chap from he calls them before he makes the Antipodes. them. Not very much chance His control of club and ball for error there. He plays ais wonderful that practi jhook or a slice with just as/cally he can make the ball do much ease as he plays a whatever he wants, or exe straight one, or vice versa, cute any shot that a member depending on whether you are of the gallery calls for. Spee- a golfer who favors a slice or tators watching one of Kirk- a pull. And all the old de- wood’s exhibitions sometimes pendable shots like pounding wonder why he has not swept world tour in quest of | the sand back of the ball, top- the board in international k further triumphs, jping it or socketing it, etc., competitions. Par excellence 4 The Australian not only|are just as easy as pie forjin trick shots and competitive 80 \ saa NEITHER ag | Reminisgouces JAMES J-ORBENT as told to Seaburn Brown 'APPENINGS leading up to and occurring during what I consider the most gruelling battle of my ring career, fought on a barge in the bay off Benicia, California with Joe Choyinski, are at the same time amusing and intensely dramatic. About the time that I was attaining some prominence in San Francisco amateur boxing circles thru winning the middle and heavyweight championships of the Olympic club, my older brother, Frank, who was an employe at the city hall in ‘Frisco, became involved in a series of heated arguments | — , on - - - eye ‘, . | like steel clubs, and my face and|ow in one spot in the ring, and we Herb vy Nomar epee y were battered to a pulp, Joe fought for the possession of this spot the later famous Joe, COM| was in a tke condition. His eyes| to gain ome relief from the sun. cerning which had the best | were nearly closed and his mouth cut END CAME fighting brother. | to ribbons. IN 28TH ROUND | The 14th round was my worst I ‘The end came in the 2fth round. TI Joe —. pee ct ine pomey hit Choyinski squarely on the chin! gradually grew better from the 15th Gate Athletic club, ich with my broken left hand. The agu- period on, altho toward the end I ‘The arguments of our respective Brothers naturally resulted in our meeting in one of the club smokers. ‘We fought a tough battle, in which I stopped Choyinski. NoT nizing stab of pain shooting up my arm made me feel suddenly sick and/my hands, I knocked Choyinaki out faint. Joe's seconds saw I was in| with a blow from my left forearm dintrens, and he, sensing that his My hand wan bo badly smashed I chance had come, tore into me like a couldn't hit with it, and I caught him | wild man. I have never understood | squarely with the wrist as he ducked SATISFIED | how I finished the round. Everything | into a punch. His brother wasn't satisfied with | had gone black before my eyes, and| 1 counted him out myself! I pray the result, and both he and Joe|I wag helpless against the terrific| ed he would stay down the full count ‘Wanted to settle the affair with bare | punishment Choyinaki dealt me. If he'd gotten up I believe | would fists. So, one Sunday afternoon.| However, herole effort on the part! have died on the spot! with only a few friends present, we of my seconds and my youth ana| (Tomorrow Corbett will recount met in a gully among the sand |condition brought me partly around | some of the important ring enmae hills that dotted the country beyond | before the 15th seanion opened, and| ments of his early professional the foot of California street in those fought on, wearily, round after | career, which brought him into fintic ays. round. | prominence and finally established 4 ‘Often since I've thought of a man| A tower on the barge cast a shad-'him as a champlonahip contender.) who happened by on his Sunday = - —— ‘walk, with a baby in his arms, and gat on the top of a nearby sand hilllock—the sole audience of a bare. fisted fight between a couple of Youngsters who were destined to become famous pugilists! Perhaps the man has forgotten the incident.) 4€ he still lives, and probably the baby, a girl, never realizes that she Was so weary I could hardly hold up Entry Blank for Star . Junior Baseball Loop Once constituted half of a very ex-/ elusive “ringside” at a Corbett Choyinski battle. I again stopped Uae BO OE AE. soc cs cecrcssceceredcowae ss tORtl Joe after a grilling combat But to get into the main story. MET MANY TIMES in The Star Junior Baseball league. (Manager) Choyinski and 1 fought many} times later, at both the Olympic and Golden Gate clubs, and in my father’s barn, where we, with erowds of our boy associates, often gathered for impromptu bouts. | Usually I nosed Joe out; but the bouts were always close. | Finally, Choyinski turned profes. | sional. Sporting editors and our| mutual friends tried to engineer a} bout between us then, but my father Objected to my fighting as a profes-| sional. Finally, with a couple of fel oceccccccccccoces s (Address) .-(Phone).... (Entries close March 22, +«++++++(Home Grounds) at 6 p. m.) Jews backing us each with a $1,000 Jacobs Win for Indians Pitter ang will play first again. | Irishman Has Too Much) coach satthews called off basobal side bet, the fight was arranged. | Carroll is a cinch for the outfield. | ‘ . altogether yesterday afternoon, to Neither Joe or I were to receive any TOCKTON, Cal..f The series with the colored AD Twombly must replace Statz and as Power in Clinches for ei the men a chance to hit the | money. The crack at ¢ach other was | sich $4.5Venn loins Gis cna eae cee thin youngster was one of the beet} Clever Portlander | books. Edmundson held light track 3 enough for us. | Gregg south| y's game. outfielders in the minors last year, | workouts for his men, taking advan Bs pLWitt the “ope” watching us tke | pawed his way| Ail Stare A et RO. dm ey OE MRO A wee ae) AST night's Pavil-|tage of the first clear afternoon for . Sie the bout was firat staged. in ght yard one Bn eo | clase, jon boxing show | several days. Coach Leader has had @ barn on May 30, 1899. on a farm one Wil em Me-}2 i ee ae e Sullivan muet do some tall hitting was full of unex-| the men out only half an hour this in a lonely spot some distance from || Créfie tn yest Pet ut §|to make up for Crawford's loss The pected climaxes.| Week, instead of the regular hour town. As the police guarded my Qnye pencth ton? Ga beet o|Angel outfield, right now, looks Joe Dunn, after and a half grind training quarters day and night, I tt tetween bo ee ie eee ¢| weaker than last year giving the hard-| ‘The baseball team will work on the a ‘was smuggled to the scene of battle nities Geant ie gp 8) ‘The Angels have a good bal club, socking Harry diamond all afternoon during vaca yi in the private carriage of one of the ieep. Miele Ne pe ¢ibut with Sacramento entering a Casey a boxing tion if weather permits, and in the : Most exclusive families in town and the colored| 9. : smooth machine, Portland being 100 lesson for the bet:/ gym during rainy days. Edmund i Hall McAllister, son of a prominent AILStars, which re $ 27 ¢ ©! per cent better, San Francisco, Seat ter part of three | son's men are in for hard training lawyer, swiping” his mother's the Indlahe won, tte 4 sr tle and Vernon all dangerous, the rounds in the and the crew will etart on the last ‘coach and four” for the purpose 10 to 0. | wis a» : }|Lon Angeles entry will face one main event, stop: stretch of its preparation for the Cal he fight began. In the first Elmer Jacobs) MY 1b. i © \grand fight before winning another ped a pile-driver! ifornia race. clinch, Joe Proposed that we break | warmed up his wing after Gregg fin ee 4 ©) Coast league flag in 1922. wallop with his emesis clean “like gentlemen. In a flash 1! ished his workout in the fifth, and pt, a. : ° mid-section and took the count. way to a win over Alvin Landon in : wecollected that he had once told me | tne steady St. Louisan held the dusky |‘ mnoiy, 3 1 6 NEW VARSITY | Casey simply had too much wal-|the third go; Soldier Woods was Be he beat a tough Setter named wil sluggers to one bingle during the re |Grees. p : ; | He couldn't hit the flashy Port-|awarded the call for his aggressive son by springing the same line and! mainder of the game ry é| jlander at long range, but got in his |» inst Otis Lockhart, Tacoma then knocking him cold when they! as the colored boys are a wweet) | CREW SHELL effective work in the clinches. Every welterweight, in the second tilt, and broke. 1 said, “All right,” at the| cane of sluggers, the exhibition im | we ws) time the boys got tangled up, Caseys’|BAll Buckmaster kayoed Walter q game time determining to beat him | dicates that at least two of McCre. | IN AC I ION heavy body blows would lift Dunn|Evans in the third round of the to it. We broke, and I waa fae his | dies chuckers are about red dy to 18 ‘ rar . ‘ clear off the floor, while at long | opener, chin with everything I had. je was! start for the summer. {EF TYEE, Washington's new! ics Dunn beat a tattoo of straight = pore - "3 Knocked silly, but stayed on his feet.| ‘the Indians clouted thelr way to é racing shell, was put into the |iets and right crosses on the tough | The tight only went four rounds. |win in the fourth stanea, Btartine by | water last night and manned by the |1ri,nman's face | e sheriff a and stopped , rat varsity fro er The A ; gga the sheriff arri nd stopped | with a single by Wisteraill, « hurri-|* nh cell etge Atigees ine Merrily, Th) Dunn's body couldn't stand the cane of solid base-clouts rang up nine 7 - “< hte Me z Bye = gk es ea and tear, and he reake a! 4 ARRANGED ——_——_____ FE WE ines son rAd -____,| lengths at the finish of the first |i: the kayo Game suddenly and un.| Other arrangements were soon ‘trial sprint eapenatiy. ‘the: Mertentie woul MES cs teres ancheved ta CAMPUS GO | he Tyee peebanty the .taatest | sane cold, but writhed in pain days later on a barge anchored in shell that was ever entered in a race|ana couldn't regain his feet, altho Benicia bay. | - jon Lake Washington, according to). made a fort . | 1 again experienced considerabie| BY HAROLD MARQUIS jerew authorities, It was built thit |” Rube Finn and the crowd were sort | eicuity - arising, te s Rattle Stanford and California have shown increased interest in swimming bee pe eet i ge agin of astonished at the sudden ending | ground without bringing a pack of! ‘this year. The season opened with » meet between th eee, ee ¢ Ballard middie's \ 3 he frosh water of the Ballard mid mix joust Biuecoats at my heels. On the way! teams of the two schools, in which the Stanford yearlings won from van f with Marty Foley of Tacoma in the to the barge, Jack Dempsey, the fa | the Bruin frosh. 10 Merrily crew will be the one isemiwindup. Finn whs leading by mous Nonpereil, who was ono of| ; to permane man the Tyee, with |19 mites on points when, in the third | Choyinski'x seconds, tied a rock to| thers at basketball gn ta possible ch « later by the Coach. T , shers at basketha ames at Columbia veretty a atte seawion, the Tacoman unleashed ¢ Joe's gloves and threw them over-|o¢ pennayl wear tieedon Ghile annie University and the University | miiiness retained hie seat in the an pwinur shad aime’ i ng he | gp bie Manabe 3 Apacaaot ar tuxedos while showing the spectators to their seats. Reagyatene ey i bee | ih ng that caug inn on th In order to introduce our new 4 pr. “f oe ‘ppl m seieee first varetty mating ushman, but | side of the jaw and broke up the {rhalebone) plate, which is th ight thumb in the barn fight, and| ‘The second track PY 0 7 “ Mason took his old position as No. | ha Khtest and strongest plate kn thought I'd soon cripple myself It | pene merond track call for additional men at Washington State waa) Mason took his Murphy, Spunn |e? does not cover the roof of the} m janswered by enough men to swell the squad enrollment to 178. About 100 q Spuhn, |" Finn eat down, got up at the count mouth; you can bite corn off the forced to fight with bare hands, lof the men are varsity aspirants and the balance frosh he Ingram, 1 ins and Tid: joe x took another flurry of right 0b: muAranteed 16 yearn. | But before the bout started 1 in- |marsh are the other men holding | swings and went down for the count| Whalebone set of Teeth. a sisted upon wearing the three-ounce Frank Regan has been appointed clerk of the relay carnival by Hee | Pllces: Grant is handling the Tyee !of 10 |? 22 Semen +. + gloves I'd brought with me, and| fdmundson and will have charge of all entries, To date os OOF Mickey Dempsey left-handed his| $8 Bridgework |. somebody dug up a pair of driving gloves for Choyinsk!. His gloves were skin tight, and had tnres seams running down the back, #o that ev éry time he hit me a glancing blow. the seams cut my face and body like 4 ga have signified their in ition of participating, w ette and California will not take part. Idaho baseball likely prospe won har opened s for his pitching staff « ring practice. The coach has five nd other good material, knives. “Chick” Clark, present football coach at Everett high school, may get a A GORY | chance to coach Mont university next sea Since “Bernie” Bierman BATTLE | resigned the call has been insistent for a Ma man to take his pl. The fight was the bloodiest, the k has a good record in South Dakota and Everett and is considere tors were wpattered with crimson. 1| again knocked my thumb out of joint and whattered two knuckles of my left hand. Choyinsk!’s fists, mailed 4m the rough driving gloves, to St. Mary's college last week. Work on the tennis courts at Washington has been started, but bad weather h prevented the opening of the practice season, Ma y of the were university net men have been taking part in the indoor meet in Seattle. GREB NOR GIBBONS hardest fought of my career. Long | strong candidate for the place be before the end we were slipping in our | as | own gore, and the ring and specta-| California lost the first Intercollegiate baseball game of the season | THE !golf, however, are different, | but neverthele: Kirkwood had the best average in medal of any professional American or British, in 1921, and there is no question that he will be well at the top in both the British open cham- pionship at Sandwich and the United States open at Skokie this year. Many of Kirkwood’s | trick shots must be seen | to be believed, He places scores ‘Champions | ‘Face Real Ball Race | The Los Angeles Pitching | Staff Weakened; So Is | Outfield; Look to Deal| } ME ecrities thruout | the Coast league are making Los Angeles the fa | vorite as the) | eight P. C. teams get set for the barrier ot the} 1932 race. | But will Los Angeles have an good a club thin year as they did & year ago? The Angels won out) last year because they had some real pitching in the final month of the season, coming up from the mcond division and winning the pen-| nant in the last week. Los Angeles had the best pitching staff in the league Inst year. Hughes, Aldridge, Reinart, Lyons, Dumo- vitch, Crandall and Thomas made up & great aggregation of mound men | ‘This year the champions will be without Aldridge and Reinart, the former going to the Cube and the latter to the Cards, Dumoviteh wasn't so much, He's also with the Cube. ALDRIDGE HAD GREAT CURVE Aldridge was one of the mweete: curve ball pitchers in the leagu the clrowit In earned runs who developed into a darn | thpeaw, lead the league in percentage of wing / To replace thin pair the Angels Ihave obtained Ponder from the Chi | leago Cubs. ‘They may get Yorke, a southpaw, too. Ponder and Yorke would never have been let out of the big show if they were as good an Reinbart and Aldridge. ‘That stands to reason, leading Reinba Rood ne Still the Angels have a smart cot lection of hurlers, Rut right now the pitching department doesn't look as strong an it did a year ago. CATCHING | SEATTLE STAR six balls in front of the hole in a straight line and pitches one after an- other into the cup, dem- onstrating that the sty- mie, any sort, is not so insuperable as so many American golfers believe. Then he will curve the last ball around the hole so that it enters by the “back door.” One of the shots ms most marvelous is when | cute jhe takes a full swing with a mashie niblick, pops the ball straight up into the air and leatches it without altering his stance. Or, if you ask for it, he will pitch a ball, walk under it and catch it in its flight. | The extraordinary lof the Kirkwood club over the |ball is exhibited when he places six balls in a row and that; with wood or iron will exe- | any shot called for control Will He or Won’t He? That's big question for Los Angeles baseball fans. The “he” is Charley Deal, former Chicago Cub third sacker, who is being figured upon to cover third base for the Coast champions. Deal claims he was railroaded out of the big show, and that he won't report to Los Angeles. He has joined a semi-pro team somewhere in Nebraska. IMPROVED } Daly behind the bat will be a fanter working catcher and andoubt edly is a better hitter than Stanage If Deal reports and plays third the Angels will have a dangerous club as Deal ought to be a bear in this league. Wi it Deal the Angels j will have Lindimore for third. He's just fair. McAuley looks like the | tet rtstop in the league now abo in just an average second be sacker, while Grigee in a dangerous ; : All work guaranteed for 15 yeu Cash Register B rgains mm 4 1 Cash Registers, slightly used, good Have impression taken in the morn W. at about half regular price. 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The ordinary stunt of driving off a watch he will perform blindfolded, He will drive left-handed, |using a right-handed club, are gtitatts IS REAL CONTENDER FOR TITLE: Farrell Says Dempsey’s Heavy Honors Are Saf Gotham Scribe Says Greb Is Too Light and That Gj bons Didn’t Show Enough Class in Their Bout for Chance With Dempsey BY HENRY L. FARRELL EW YORK, March 22.—Neither Tom Gibb nor Harry Greb are ready to be in the cage with Jack Dempsey. It was perfectly clear to all who saw recent Gibbons-Greb fight that if are the nearest contenders Dempsey not have to lose any sleep over his ti! The very serious doubt now exists either will ever be a worthy opponent the champion. Most of the aspiring heavyweights along on the theory—“We'll let Dempsey alone for a o jof years and he'll whip himself.” It may be all right to figure that Dempsey will lose class with increasing age, but both Greb and Gibbons be getting older at the same time and both have |three years on the champion. Greb is a great little fighter, but he is hardly more |a “heavy” middleweight. If he could ever lure Joh Wilson into the ring, the title would jhe could get Gene Tunney! \intp the ring there would be heavyweight champion, but if} he got Dempsey there could) |be nothing but another vic- jtim on the Utah mauler’s list. ONTO, March 22.—By the second game of the | Friends of the Pittsburg boy | hockey championship se: the jpoint out that he mussed up the! onto st. Patricks fiom: a jchampion considerably when count with the Vancouver Westerm |champions. The play was fast | close, the Easterners nosing out was sparring with him before the | Dempsey Brennan fight. He may have bothered him then and b 2 to 1 score. - | would annoy the champion for @| Vancouver was a heavy while if they went into the ring/ the betting odds, as last night's !now, but it would be only for «| was played under the Western seven while, Against’ Gibbons, Greb/ man rules. showed that he can't hit a lick) Jack Adams scored the only and no one is going to stand «| for the Millionaires. chance with Dempsey who cannot/ hurt the big fellow. | Gibbons ought St, Patrick's, Roach to make an op-| Cameron ponent for Dempsey, but he tacks | Stuart | Randai something. In the gym he looks) penceny like a million dollars, He has the | bye jwize, he is clever and can punch. | Noble slow, second rate heavies| pirst ho is a skilled, great fighter, but | 12:00. |against Greb recently he looked slug: jxish, slow thinking and wild. /enny. 1-45 | Usually he is a sharpshooter with time | . 9:88. jeither hand, but he hadn't an a | Referce—-Cooper Smeaton. jof range that night. on Jack Britton, welterweight cham pion, who had seen Gibbons work- Friends and Sup; jing in the ym, advanced the theory | of that he was stale from too much | indoor boxing and not enough| road work. It was strikingly ap-| .. |parent that Gibbons was off corm EdWin J Bro for some reason or other, bs While it is plain that Dempsey is out of his class, it may be that | WHll hold a meet- judgment on Gibbons ought to bel ing to form a withheld until he has another chance with a first class opponent.| “m™Palen _com- On his showing against Greb, it| mittee and select seems that Gibbons would be easy|a campaign man- for Carpentier and that he could) ager, at his of- |not whip Gene Tunney. Certainly’ rice, 106 Colum- bia st, at 8 and get around quicker than he did| °clock Thursday with Greb. | evening, March The writer is of the opinion that | 23. — Advertise. Gibbons was stale, that he left! ment, fimself in the gym and that the} period—(1) Vancouver, | Period —No score. Rees Third period—(2), St. Patrick's, period — to get a decision he would have to work harder, hit more accurately fighter. With a couple more hard fights under his belt, he ought to |be about No. 1/ among the light! nage |heavies. If he ever gets Greb| a again, and there is small chance | vicabiarese for it, he will be almost sure to Tg or TUES. EVE., APRIL {1 However, the more the “logical FRANK P. HOOD PRESENTS contenders" show themselves, the more supreme Dempsey looks in hi | class, | Swimming pool at Luna park opens Saturday, March Adver- tisement, 25. Groceries Duy Direet Middlemen We Can Save 10% to 25% 1. gal 28 at. We : Best Patent Flour, barrel $8.00 Phone Elliott 652 Vittucct Importing Co. 300 Occidental Ave. Ine. CREDIT -GLADLY | OTYLISH CLOTHES FOR MEN & WOMEN EASY PAYMENTS FRITZ KREISLER Most Beloved of Violiniats PRICcES— be addressed Curdy, care Sherman, « ressed stamped 10¢ extra fer if desired. and registered lette: