The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 23, 1922, Page 14

PAGE 14 JAMES J-(ORBENT as told to Seaburn Brown. | Y FIGHT with Joe Choyinski marked my entry into professional boxing ranks and ni sta the first of the series of victories that finally carried me to the world’s cham-| inship. Quite naturally, however, our battle on the barge was of little interest to sporting| Writers and fans, except on the Pacific Coast, and my first chance to gain national prom-| inence in the ring game came with an offer of $2,500 to fight Jake Kilrain six rounds at | New Orleans. Kilrain was at that time considered the leading contender for John L. Sulli-| Van's title, having shortly before fought the champion for over two hours without taking the count, so I immediately | — - aaa %a wecepted the offer, altho I) Galitorna before in my ise | Billy Evans Thinks Swat Era Is Over in Baseball 1890, and almost over na jumped into the pugilistic it. } . Mertiy afterward I made my first BY BILLY EVANS Pe wewt City. where. F ATTING ruled baseball in 1921 r erick McCaffery, , wer ‘of yell roe ss eran But curve ball pitching stopped the sluggers in the 4 conntry, in three rounds, He | world’s series, had igi ~— se on hr Last year the hitters were swinging freely, trying to ru an clightround 6 With)! emulate Babe Ruth, and the pitchers continued to use “AS & result of this victory 1 was || fast balls. “Matched to fight the great Peter Curve ball pitching is dynamite to the free swinger. I Seon, the man who had besten || expect pitchers to fall back on the curve ball this year, iiesa and” * Ohy || and that the era of swat in baseball is over. America, with Single exception of Sullivan, and) whom Sullivan persistently | Pee thé color line. on May 21, 1890, at ol 3 i E = oo ie e a aimee cs sts" 18 Teams Entered in | 204 pounds, I sealed 168.) @ betting odds were 100 to 20 on “heim enc! Star Baseball League fastest ever fought between! ights in the history of the! Hae he For 35 rounds we toxed with | Entries Have Closed for Season, Which Starts April 2; | speed of of lightweights. Human Slices feay vere | Scorers Will Meet at Star Friday; Other News of | however, and we set + slower) . B L I . . the ah of the bout—fighting | Junior I Circuit Jn the 28th round I had Jackson| [YNTRIES closed last night for The Star Junior Baseball ‘Broggy and hanging on the ropes. | ¥ : . z ET at experience ‘on my part|\ « league and 18 teams will compete in the circuit this him from a knockout. Instead | summer. Aaking my time and putting him) The Fremont Juniors and the Giants were the two latest iy with one or two a punches, grew excited and missed. The bell squads to enter the league. The Giants are the Eggerman| i Grocery team of last season. | BIST ROUND |. The complete roster of the season follows: Fremont ‘At the end of the Gist round with | Juniors, Giants, West & Wheeler, Liberty Park, Washington | on the verge of a knockout.) Park, Fakeon A. C., Wilson-Krietle Co., Ballard Juniors, Ross OMiNISECNCES | and declared it “no contest,” | the longest heavyweight tight|Cubs, West Seattle Dye Works, Three Brothers Dye Works, who ever drew on a glove. have said, the odds were basis of how many rounds I) ‘The 18 teams will be divided into two leagues by draw, feet. After the! - a ues Roce. Thad. of course, won anand these drawings will be announced in Friday’s Star. The | ; bets for my backers 1nd the Schedule will be made up and will be ready for publication | gamblers and promoters sot to not later than Monday of next week. According to present | ether end saved themselves by d* | plans the season will start April 2. ope the fight no contest and call- | all bets off. — Jackson was so nearty out that he Scorers Will Meet Friday ‘fell on his face after the unexpected | ending of the fight and was carried AE official scorers of the league, scorers sent to this meeting should | fo his dressing room. Ever since wii meet at The Star Friday.| be the men who will do this work for | that day a number of men, amonz ery team should be represented. their respec ave teams thruout the! them prominent «porting writers. iy x a eee season, An ey cannot t have feed to rob me of the credit| Unless at least 15 of the 18 teams| on the team which they are repre fag that victory by the statement that |4f@ represented at this meeting, the senting for the season will be abandoned them the location of the home tecaure of a sprained ankle Each scorer should bring a score | grounds and the nicknames f NOT itt {book with him Friday night, The | squads. That is not true. Tite story, which # {a still circulated, is a pure fabrica-| Suits Not Necessary =) then, invented by men who know that © ie that fight had gone another round 0f two I would have knocked Peter Jackson out just as surely as the sun Tises and sets. Altho I war nearly Wxhausted at the end of the long teams in The Star league this | regulati season, Most of the nines will be | better outfitted with suits, but it wouldn't | that wa lbe fair to keep any of the clubs ¢ outfits will be le to play or team J to enter the league was given a cha and none was bar Wight, I was at no time groggy, and | Of the league just because they red because it could: out-| Heould have continued for many |*fford suits. Nite. | rounds. | I was promised bait of the $19.0°° Contracts Due Wednesday purse put up for the go, but received é - AMAGEIG Gf All teamne aud dee | Thages ‘contracts ens he bblaine 92.500, just half my share. ” . ig - obtained b: Reaetiy afterward, John 1. Sul |>~ ‘© !t that their contracts are | calling at The star. Wan visited San Francisco on 4 thee! * oe The Star r r th a bs DP. Th atrical tour. Some of my friends, ; ‘ Wishing to reimburse me for the | Part ip r league game this sum tion, aa they must befiled the California Athletic club |™er that bas not signed a contract. | by The Star Promoters heid-out on me, arranged J Z tee“ ‘Tom Gibbons Landed Only — Of course, under such conditions | we merely sparred, but I then | Searned that J was fast and shifty | ee ‘ Goo Blo enough to hit the champion and get| — away before he could bit me, and aft-| hould be filled on in ink er the fight I told my trainer, Jim , BY HARRY GREB ng that I must keep clear of his Delaney, that I could beat Sullivan if, Conqueror of Tommy Gibbons ght hand if 1 was to win, 1 wa I could obtain a match N my bout with “Tommy Gibbons | much disturbed when Gibbon — I entered the ri th two def.|Creesed a right-hander to my jaw in the second round My kuve In tomorrow's interview, Cor- inite ideas, one was to throw 4 hett will tell of his championship | many gloves as I could in the gen. |“ fight with Jobn L. Sullivan, in era! direction of Gibbons, other his is terrible, lasting only two whieh he became the first world’s | wax to keep out of the way of his | ToUnd heavyweight title holder under right hand | 1 went into a elinch and held on 1a ageed a bit and I said to myself:| the Marquis of Queensberry Gibbons is a hard puncher, 1 kly m Pp my mind that und knows how to work pitch rules. will co that he hit harde war ub enone Y than. I How he must be | rouble | are, Nig ibe cleienes, U4 WEW YORK, March 23.—William | hand I never set when I tho it wdy" Elliott. Be world, is considering « trip to the|it lands attack The rest in be ? San Francisco } Pacific coast to enter the Cc That, of courne, is the real rea-| tween s brought m : Bacall ‘aa tan ae. championship tourney, accordir son why Gibbons has greater punch: | fre pata ada ve: what this pair can do an announcement in local net cir-|ing power Late in the fight a right-hander quit fighting and Vernon hen “Pruck cles. |_ If 1 adopted flat-footed taction| had me wobbly for econd : hands to bi ct ag we Jimmy Murphy. Hannah is —_—_ _ I probably could put twice as much| MY lems for a mome@ seemed to| second round of a battle with Jack | the hest receivers in the @HARA AND COFFEY DRAW team back of »ny biows. joe their «trength. I knew my show sigh ighter, here last et a dangerous hitter wever, such a xyatem would! in had been such that Gibbon m not going to quit; I'm os Angeles has @AKLAND, March 23.—Teday}, Howev an pees et ee | only: thas te waathy a kane eg smn Daly ontaibed immediately rob me of one o' m: mly chance to win wa ya noc ‘ol ral obtainec ieemare and Joe Coffeyy fought four | mi dineny Tov hie pair of lees |out. 1 wondered if it was comir walked to his corner and sat! cago Cube. And then fast rounds to a draw here last nig te Meaale dacs aauboation At no other time did Gibbon: 5 weveral minutes} Mack Wheat and r power t k ' hter land a ' le nch that bothered muinued Peg iy risa fight. | round out the staft his txJence thea I good|me in the least called hing a Sacramento has taken | footw te (Copyright 19. Tearent that thing was ponsible by my iaeainacasctcagaduipiaacataaoeee against. Cibboni || Final Star League During the 15 rounds Gibbons hit Ldaty: tharee' punches, tao of | Cage Game Is Set veond round! for Collins Monday | 1 beieve 1 made | euch | showin \them came in e he bod other to th jjaw. The other came in the 11th re and the Pirates round will play the final game of The Kach one of those three blow Oy eague basketball season |those two round: ne in perious|| 2% With the Class 15 champior danger, altho I many of sa Bg oes ep er COR UNIVER SITY feeling. Going into the fight, know-| \"* '" U8 a | THE ATTLE STAR The New York Yankees will have the greatest pitching staff in the majors this season, Waite Hoyt, Carl Mays and Bob Shawkey are the three star hold- overs. The newcomers expected to shine are pictured here as they were snap- ped in the Yankee Training Quarters at New Orleans. Frank O’Doul, Sam Jones, Joe Bush. when they boxed here, bot wen Promoters of the club stopped the | Juniors, South Seattle Indians, Louie’s French Dry Cléaners, |!" = me of official credit for win-| Lakewood, Hilman Merchants, Mt. Baker Juniors, Asahi |"? m reeerd. from one of the greatest| Frown Brothers Billiards, Zerolene Juniors. |rure = Any of these teams that do not intend to start the season |* ly on Jackson, and whatever|and go thru with the schedule should inform The Star at |*)'\"' I had was made merely on once. | wae th ‘inal Washington Crew pert Shakeup Due This Week =: BY HAROLD MARQUIS =| Washin ve bouts ts quite seme + the slugeers, Asp “at w. the ty crew in expect ; final varsity eis Saskeon was carried to his quarters |Plans to keep the official averages! The scorers should bring with | YUITS will not be necessary for the |. Of course, those teams playing in|" 4 forth, in an effor No, 3 and No. 4 BY L ST ye : L’ r 4a fine rp of « I wo oe EES HOW FRANCISCO, .March 22 SEABURN HROWN [| That Jor Dunn-tHarry Casey main Gorden McKay and Heinle Sehge ovens of Tuesday ov mann bead the glove show st Te tof ring selemen, Schumann wae a bit Brann be better than Casey ev pursled by MeKay's shifty defense be. He wee lending ae about four lage when Casey Stank boxing promoter of 2 and dragged ow my Dr wen re Coach Le 4 coach ts expected the Br shell wi and send the m two vet out in the new w ee men and will 1 the crew has been dineatinfic at for the last few ao 2s Star Mask ter shell than the var =" Men Lined | ever more weight Lead wo or theve of the Crack Catchers Will Work °| in Coast League This 1! Season; New Stars, Too ‘ eague crit va tak he The only catchers t is expected that are Gus Fisher ns new racer | other league rould blossorn out ear. Jack Adam: aking things still the Saas hav Schang to complete RIVERS BEATS GREEK | Buteh Byler, one ssive play ivers was awarded the decl|be Salt Lake's mainstay of a four-round| porte, Fyrd Lynn Angelo Angeloupoios, | Joe Edwards complete laat night partment I di | for relief or emergency duty pave ib ye non 5 | n lans [2m most impressive of these, on a ud | heat boxer slugger battle, he sirap wallop. - iin amr wight in the week if be dide't bare | sec = week area about the waist Jon Black are dow Hing. windup. Kivers is am imprensive per former, and the bout rivals the Interest. Mike Milehetl, Aeattic lamiam, has = place ow the ard with Mike Ballerias, ef Camp Qracktox Cal, March 23.—Con-| white Wileor verting four runs out of ei P hits, the Beattie Indians won the fina raining (iit from the colored A stufferemeky lare Frank O’Doul, a southpaw from lan. ar he rancise club of the Pa- | *or™ J 4 on 8 gle made an offer of several million rubles for « Deryary. Wille bout, but has given up the ides of in Huesta, Pet “he Hassian heat | Brovold, Se his offers, and managers fighters arca't paying much attem- Outfielder Ed Barney were given full | workouts unter the hawk eye of| eutrerea | Walt. McCredie Work of ali the recruits was mt Mnorkont | Donnetly, tf his work at the bat and in the infield in yesterday's game can be tak | average gton crew rting regular in his fina get the crew in shape Reports from Oakland vss: Up Again sey 20 H. LASSEN back with Frank Pruge Seattle hag aw good a s club in the league 1 a real star this ——lany of them and has a good whip | 1, amart old he Loater Cook in the league FOUNTAIN LUNCH NOW OPEN—NEW HOME OF WAKEFIELDS—BILLIARDS BUILDING—FOURTH AND BARBER SHOr THURSDAY, MARCH NEW YORK YANKS DEPEND UPON HURLERS TO WIN PENNANT: New Yanks in Spotlight AmericanChamps Have | e On Six Great Mound Men | , “Lefty” O’Doul Is Showing Up Well in Camp; “Mur- r From left to right: || ] | son; How American League Winners Shape Up fs | » EW ORLEANS, March 23.—With the New York Yankees’ Murderers’ Row broken up for the first month of the season, the American league champions will have to de- pend largely upon the skill of their great pitching staff to pull them thru until “Babe” Ruth and Bob Meusel can rejoin the ranks on May 20. With Ruth, Meusel and Peckinpaugh miss- ing from the Yankee attack the famou punch of the Gotham club will be sadly shot until the former pair get back on the job. No other club in either major league has iT, so many ranking hurlers Where other clubs would be happy in the |possession of as many as three star pitchers they have no jless than five. They won a pennant last year with a pitching staff which consisted during the greater part of the season of only two | dependable flinge This year they have Sam Jones and Joe Bush, former Red ' Sox stars, to supplement the efforts of Carl Mays and Waite |Hoyt, and every indication ee |sational comeback by Bob : / derers’ Row” Is Broken Up for First Month of Sea- | points to a more or less sen-| | | Shawkey, the e | their hurling es And in addition to these five twhile ace of ablishment. eran stars they have a number of nally promising rookies, two EE ‘ : : Jon Harris, Red Kor first sacker, te or more of whom will be retained; gitueg the ball herder than any other Boston player in the Het work they have done to dat Tom Swope, Cincinnatt eeribe anys thy mmy Caveney is another Mickey Deo) one of creates’ ific Coast league; George Murray, | years ago 4 get nid, aangere ras: areal pcre her Sylvester Johnson or Bert Cole the International league last year, | ‘elt 7 and Gormer Wilson, a Texas semi ic pices teh ted the most valuable te his team, | With Recruits on the Din-| 2°," "created with winning | sind che met raiante ts tea mond, Seattle Wins the MURRAY Is | Final All-Star Tilt, 4-1 8 eM) cosone espns a hander | with no little the box afternoon. The © drops scored a single ta nufte & piteher O'Dou pearance in fast cc Dalley and the new piteher, | Clift Markle, the righthander, whe a with Ghee. was with Salt Lake two yemrs age. is 4 a . - being counted upen ss a regular Cin two seasons and was sent to cinnati box man. He was with At~ Coast for further seasoning | inete for a couple ef seaseas before | Last year O'Doul won 25 games| Swiss to the Rede. and lost nine in the Coast Figuring on that performance a basis he should be of much va. to Huggins this year In addition O'Doul can hit the ball were on the mou for the mm and horts i Sacker Connolly and m= fan Francisco will carry three south- w pitchers this r—Coumbe, Alten 1 Mitchell, all having wou regular pe- nas a cfiterion of his) ss) everage wan 338 last ~~ ty, i» in line for the| papp AT : [second bane job for the season, since | pineT AGAIN : Marty Krug has failed to answer the - jean league in years. The | Wally Pipp is almost a cinch for) used him at secomd some Inst your, whe 5 | firet base. He's getting along in| bat he couldn't make snap throws An Th. OW x. | years, but he's still @ good perform: | Sed.se they ere shitting bis te the a br : ‘ gardens Me came frem the Univer- oa ie Fae | OF And 6 good hitter sity of Alabama, the same institution . ey a $| | Aaron Ward, a coming star, will] thet turned eat Jee Sewell. ae ae ¢| be back at second a Pies Cus ¢] Either Mike McNally or Frank |,,Stufty Melnnis te patting cleanup for , 3 pees fg regs the Indians In practice succeeding + 8 8S 8 j | Baker will be at third Somer Auttth, wae to Dew wih the eo ae $ 6] Everett Scott, one of the greatest |ton Sox. © © (fielding shortstops in the game, will : : tart the season An TK. HW. PO, A By The outfield is the big question es ® ¢| but from present indications Elmer ee $| Miller will be in center np eS ae he | e|ner in right and Chick Fewster tn ‘ ® @lieft when the gong rings tt ot SE Bl the catching start ts welt t . toe a | Sl cure 6¢ Wik Waly Seeas ffoRonro March 23.—With six r ee er and Al Hoffman on the man Eastern rules prevailing. j Ze big batch of recruits that the {the third game of the Stanley Cup | tals ee we ¢| Yanks have on hand are given but! World's championship hockey series little chance of breaking in on this |S¢tween Vancouver, Western cham pions, and Toronto, leaders of the National league, will be played to- night. DE TURENNE TO - "Ih seren, which io to x0 to the COACH TIGERS) new stants crea. combination Leon de Turenne, former Harvard} The probable lineups follow: tennis letterman and captain, win|, Vancouver xy sae oe f coach the Broadway high school net |¢ ER PRR ER rt team this spring, according to an | Dunean D ++++, Cameron } dams j Deneany Turer est racquet | Suimner } Noble | men intercolles tennis has pro duce ce returning to Seattle he| World's oldest fairy tale is said to won the city championship in the re-| be t of Two Brothers,” writ Taste is a matter of tobacco quality ~ We state it as our honest f belief th he tobaccos used in Chesterfield are of finer quality (and hence of better taste) than in any other cigarette at the price. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. CIGARETTES of Turkish and Domestic tobaccos—blended Lower Prices cu 20 now 18c (hol 10 now 9c " They {Two 10's—18c)