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PAGE 18 SEATTLE TEAM Purple and Gold Grid Battles in Southland Fans Are Wondering Whether Washington Can} Come Back After California Setback; Stanford | Has Heavy, but Not Overly Clever Eleven BY LEO H. LASSEN HE Washington football machine was all keyed up to its highest tension for the Califor- nia game last week in the Stadium. | Then came the Bruin setback, the Purple and Gold being dazed under the wonderful football of the invaders. Tomorrow that same Purple and Gold ma chine faces the turning point of the season.) With only a few days’ rest from the strenu- ous California tussle, the Huskies departed) for the Southland, where they battle the Stan- a Caruinals tomorrow at Palo Alto. Can the Huskies come back after that California beating?! That's the question that only tmorrow’s game can tell. Not much is known regarding the Stanford team. Art crack backfield man, is the best known player on team. Otherwise the squad of Cards, for the most part, strangers to Seattle fans. The Cards have a heavy line and an experienced back- it ft et eee Their record for the season shows a 6-to-O win over O. A., €. and a 6-0 loss to U.S. C. Washington wil! probably start the same lineup that started | California with the exception of fullback, may get the first call. ~ Outside of Bill Grimm, who is suffering from an injured the aggregation was in pretty good shape for the Stan-/ tiff. ‘ans Watching Oregon Battle ty _) [LY Oregon stands between the) more than ordinary laterest In the ‘ University of Washington and| Oregen.O. A. C. melee, at Corvalite, Northwest football title. | tomorrow | ‘The Webfooters play Washington | The Webfooters have an_impree- | the last big game of the season | atve record for the season, with a 3.0 y ‘Thanksgiving day | win over Idaho and a 130 vihery » id ‘That's why Seattle fans are o taxtg over W. 8. C | Other Coast Games Tomorrow LIFORNIA should continue tts; sity of Idaho, and the L. winning streak without mueh | should win. Saturday, as the Bruins| Washington State ts idle tomorrow, with Nevada which gives the center of the Coast ‘The University of Southern Call. foothall stage to the Washington. ts playing host to the Univer. | Stanford battle ‘ale and Princeton Clash ALE and Princeton clash In thetr, Washington and Jefferson meets aumual classic at Princeton to- | Pittsburg, Wisconsin plays Micht The Tiger ts one of the sur. | gan, Penn State plays Pennsylvania, trimmed Harvard in a big up-|Ambherst plays Williams, Chicago last week. The Bulldog, how-/|batties [llincls, Iowa meets Ohio has been pointed all season to | State, Notre Dame clashes with But- . Prineston-Harvard games, and/ler, Centre takes the ficld against . “may, have a surprise er} Alabama Poly. and Syracuse plays in ‘for the Big games. Colgate, ‘Huge Crowd Will See Big A. team N OF F “Balance” Gives Ty Greatness |Cobb Is Adept at Any- thing in Line of Athlet- ics That He Tries y COBB always regretted the fact that he never played football, Te believed he could have become a good football player. We think that Cobb ¢ wuld have gene as far in football as he has gone tn Gascball, The same qualities that have made tim the greatest player of the diamond would have made bin the greatest of the gridiron, writes H. G, Salsinger in the De- trot Tribune Cobb He went one vintted out Vander sity and watehed the football squad in practice. After studying the tactics thru one afternoon Cobb re jturned next day and asked for a unt form. He was granted the privilege of participating. He did well in prac time to bit univer | thee and was asked to get into sorim: | mage. Cobb played with the scrubs and secon the scrubs were down tr where Ken | jthetr own ifyard sone, Beourine | the serubh; |possension of the ball quarterback gave ft to Cobb. All Cobb did was to go thru the entire Vanderbilt team and run 46 yards for « touchdown. In his run Cobb dodged, straight armed and finally reversed hin feld The same run, made tn «a “major” game of foothall, would be regarded everywhere as one of Ure features ot the season's accomplishmenta. Cobb could not have been a failure in any sport. took up bexing. Harry Tuthill comched him fer several monthe and Cobb became proficient tn the art. He took up golf and plays Onusually well, He is a crack shot, either in the field or before the traps. He ‘os tried the various events that campose track and field programs and his best performance in cach con pares well with the achievements of the collegians, However, there ts tut one Cobb. Ie him the physical and the mental co ordinate to a finer degree than in any man we have ever met. In Cobb you | find a perfect balance and ft may be| & Keneration or more before the hu Man race produces another like him. HOPPE AND SCHAEFER EW YORK, Nov. 17.--With two! Yale-Princeton Grid Go Applications for more than 200, 000 seats were received and only by providing 5,000 extra seats in the special wooden stand» at the end of the stadium wns impossible to take care of 56,744 applications. This wil be by 5,000 the iargest asa crowd that has ever seen a geme f Bet- in the Palmer stadium. ter hands before this The Yale squad will not work out season by Chieago and Harvard [in the stadium today. They are hhave been overcome by the reck- |to arrive in Trenton shortly after less abandon wild |noom and they will not leave there chance-taking little [until they board an auto caravan Gorman tomorrow for thelr trip to the having one of the | stadium. seasonafter-season class While no official announce- the battle between the Tiger| ments have been made, the the Bulldog tomorrow will be| Yale hackfleld ts expected to best allaround ‘event of the! consist of Neidfinger, Jordan, card and Princeton officials Neal and Scott. The Tigers, no doubt, will well, Crum and Cleaves behind the line. fome to the bettef that every fomee tn the Bast wants to see the good graces of local golfdom before they leave the city, and it is also al- Most certain that they will be seen in action at the Country elub on Monday. One thing is certain, however, and that f# that the Hagen-Kirkwood 1% hole exhibition on the Beacon Hill course next Sunday afternoon will be played according to schedule. KIRKWOOD TO DO TRICKS Immediately after the conciuston of the match, Kirkwood will enter. tain the gallery with hia tricks, Al Espinosa, the Inglewood pro fessional and state open champion, will partner Clark Speirs, the J ferson Park Golf club champton, Stars Are in Seattle “Walter Hagen and Joe _ Kirkwood Arrive; Play Sunday BY ALEX C. ROSE ‘ALTER HAGEN and Joe Kirk- wood, world-famous golf stars, are in our midst! Physically fit, but mentally bad, “they arrived here at 4:30 yesterday gered after being delayed 24 by bad weather, late trains st connections over the Ida- county en route from Salt Lake 4 Ga in this best-ball match againet the vis ftors. Tags are now on sale at all the leading sporting goods stores, and according to the number already sold the largest gallery that ever viewed a golf match tn this city ts going to be present when the piny- ers tee-off at 12:30 next Sunday aft- ernoon. KIRKWOOD HERE; HAGEN HUNTS Joe Kirkwood is out looking the town over today, but Hagen left early this morning for Mount Ver. Thelr “fitness” ig due to the fact they have been playing golf the States and England for past nine months; their mental ition was brought on by their to fulfill yesterday's sched. fein uled exhibition match at the Seattle} non on a duck-hu' ut inting trip with oa and Country club, which, inct-| “Cappy” Kellison, Johnnie Dreher Br ico tsinees firwt engagement {and a few other golfer-huntera thei; — ‘ago They say Walt is a crack shot at | GOLFERS this game. _ DISAPPOINTED That being the case, John and! ‘At their rooms in the New Wash-| #?” Will bring home some birds ‘ington hotel last night, they ex- eT emselves as being very sorry at having to disappoint the Be. attie Country club and local golf fans. HARRY FRAZEE IS AFTER COIN NEW YORK, Nov. 17, -— Because the tentative American league sched ule for 1923 deprives the Boston Red Sox of the first Saturday in the new Yankee stadium, Harry Frazee, own er of the club, announced he would recruit help and fight it out with Ban Johnson at the schedule meet ing. n every city we have played we were invited to ‘come again’ and we hope that Seattle will be no excep- tion. We want to make good here, and if arrangements can be made we will play at the North End links next Monday,” remarked Hagen, with a od of assention from his partner, “It is more than likely that these * AMkable chaps will get back into the ; a] 4 victories and no defeats, Jake Hehaefer, present champion, and| Willie Hoppe, former title holder, are} jeu leading the International field in ithe world’s billiard tournament. Hoppe kept hig slate clean last | night by defeating Welker Cochran. $00 to 163, for an average of 55 5-9. Hoppe’s high run was 192 Edouard Horemans, Belgian cham- pion, defeated Erick Hagentacher, German champion, 600 to 801 In today’s matches Roger Conti, | French champion, will play Hagen lacher, and Schaefer wil oppose | Horemans Here’s Wrinkle That’s New One; All-Ring Squad Johnny Coulon, writing tn an Kpstern paper, picka an allring team for all time, Here's the former bantamweight champion Lint Heavyweight Middleweight - mons Welterweight-—Jimmy Gardner Lightweight—Benny Leonard. Featherweight — Johnny KL bane. Bantamweight Jack Dempsey Bob Fitasim. Kid Willams. EVERY HORSE WAS DEFEATED Every trotter and pacer that raced thru the Grand Circuit events this summer was beaten at some track along the line. Lee Worthy @) 2:03%, the biggest money winner, lost at Cleveland in July |EASTERN CAGE Princeton, Pennsylvania, Colum- bia, Corneil, Yale and Dartmouth |make up the intercollegiate basket- |ball league in the Kast. They open their season January 9 and close March 17, Princeton won the title last year, ELEVEN VETS AT TIA JUANA Kleven veteran jockeys will race at Tia Juana, Mexico, in the 100.day meet, starting Thanksgiving day. Jimmy Butwell, Clarence Turner, W. W. Taylor, C. Taylor, H. Howard |Lawrence Lyke, Buddy Ensor, E. Smallwood, Andrew Sechuttinger, | Clifford Robinson and Albert Scliut- | tinger: VILLA WINS NEW YORK, Nov, 17.—Pancho Villa, American flyweight champion, }won a 15-round decision from Abe Goldstein, New York bantam, in a slow and uninteresting bout FRIKDMAN BEATS CASTLE | LOWELL, Mass, Nov. 17.—Abe | Friedman, Boston, won the ew Eng- land bantam championship by taking 4 10-round decision from Steve Ci te, Lawrence, Nashville. LEAD MEET “= TEAMS READY | THE KATTL TAR | ; Walter Mails Is Trying to Make a Deal fo; Clubs as He Has Reached the End of His String as a land Indians. Mails Has the Same Old Stuff, Perhaps Any Southpaw in the Game, But He Heard Too Muc Razzing of the Big League Coaches and He Is About to Pass Out of the Big League But Mails Had His Big Time in the Majors, He Practically Saved the American League Flag for Cleveland in 1920 and Pitched Some of the Greatest Base- ball Against Brooklyn That Was Ever Seen in the Big Classic. Picture. Hi} | \ONLY 9 TEAMS NOT DEFEATED | Only nine majer football teams in the country haven't been defented this year. They are: California Princeton, Michigan and Cornell, Of the Jot, only Michigan hasn't been scored upon. CAPABLANCA IS BACK FROM TRIP Jone Capablanca, Cuban chess whe ard, in now in New Vork, returning from London, where he sucessfully defended hin tithe of world's cha pion. He plans to play exhibitions in Gotham and Philadelphia before Boing back to Cubs \VET WELTERS WILL BATTLE Johnny Tiliman and = Harvey Thorpe, veteran Middle Weat welter- Posey ag will Bex 10 rounds Novem ber 27 ‘TOMMY GIBBONS | AFTER BECKETT With Battling Siki barred in Low Tommy Gibbons hae cabled = challenge to Joe Beckett for a beut there, December 7. | 287 RUNNERS ENTER EVENT} The entry late have closed for the | Fastern Intercollegiate run in. New | | York, Novernber 21, with 287 entries | Usted for the event. | } ii WALTER MAILS One of the Coast League Big Leaguer With the Cleve- More Natural Ability Than h. He Couldn't Stand the JASHINGTON FACES TURNING POINT OF SEASON IN STANFORD TO FLYING START IN COAST HOCKEY RACE, Duffy- Harper Bout Is on Ring Horizon! Back to His Old Stamping Grounds Himself With Portland Angling Crack Welters, Best on Coast, Would Settle P. C. Title Ta | | in ih, Yost “May Quit at (CARD COACH — BUILDS UP HIS ATTACK STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal, | Nov. 17.—"Putting pep and punch | into the Stanford attack” in the to whieh Andy Kerr, Glenn Warner's understudy, who is coaching the Cardinuls, has been devoting himeeclf {thts week “I think we have progressed quite bit,” Kerr declared today, after an nouncing that the Cards were about ‘thre with hard worle preliminary to tomorrow's game against the Univer. sity of Washington. Star Center Last night's practice lasted until after dark The Washington team will arrive at San Jowe today and go thru signal and light practice to limber up for tomorrow's battle Football followers look for a close |eame between the Cardinals and the Hunktos. YALE BULLDOG GETS SENDOFF NEW HAVEN, Nov. 17. — Two j thousand Yale students gathered at 70a: SOT | the station here today and guve Cap. IKE the catcher in baseball, the tain Jordan and hie football squad aj; center in football seldom colves the oredit due him. rousing send-off when they departed Bu) for ‘Trenton, &. J | player of greater worth to Iowa than I Yenter hanes oncacene of Lem, Towa, .BRUINS PLAY NEVADA TEAM AT BERKELEY ERKELBY, Cal, Nov. 17.—No one was able to get very exolt today over the prospects of to: ‘SUBSTITUTE | IS WINNER OF MIX! PORTLAND, Nov. 17.—Terro Mi yake, the terrible Japanese wrestler, failed to show at the Hellig Inst night for hix mateh with Jack Dod. Ted Thye, middleweight, substituted for Miyake and threw the light-heavy-| | weight in one hour four minutes and 118 seconds MULLER NAMED Coach Jones of lowa considers no! ‘Michigan Veteran Has Fine Record Yost Has Put Michigan on! Football Map; Wolver- | ines Strong This Year| NN ARBOR, Mich, Nov, 17! In Fielding Yost to retire as head football conch at the close of the present season? Gossip azound | the campus is in the affirmative, | Yost, who is now director of all} athletics at Michigan, has been in charge of football activities as head | coach for 22 years. It is hinted that If all goes well at Michigan this year, and at the pres ent time*things are flourishing, Yost will turn the football worries over to his assistant, George Littl. Of course, Yost will continue to act in an advisory capacity as director of athletics, Yost has an enviable record as} football coach at Michigan. He cer: | tainly put the Maize and Blue on the | map from & sporting standpoint Yost came to Michigan in 1901, He | | Probably won his greatest fame in his first four years at Michigan. His Foci from 1901 to 1905 were prac- tically invincible, Those were th days of the “pointa-minute” elevens. Michigan tn the first four years of Yost regime won 65 out of 67 games, tying one and josing the other. Min nesota in 1903 played the Wolverines to a 6 to 6 tie, while Chicago in 1906 | beat Michigan, 2 to 0, because of a! “bone” play on the part of Denny | Clarke, which permitted Chicago to | j score a safety. | During his first five |morrow's football game here be. | aéiehigns: Roses > 4 | ' a. ‘8 teams scored 2 CRIMSON COACH | tween Nevadu and the University | points to the opposition’s 42, a most CAMBRIDOM, Sane Sev. tt.1% Collteraia remarkable record, that probably will After a trial of six weeks Frank T.| The Nevadans are not expected | never be equaled in collegiate circles. Muller, Philadelphia, trainer of Jack|t? prove much of a match for the| Thus it is easy to seo that Yost has Kelly, the world’s champion «culler, | Bear machine. ine eer ‘vi his share i glory has been named rowing coach at} Chief interest centered in whether Sar adn wih on ees ce PRESIDENTS» ag lant "year when penn much an if he had that man. in Ge Little, ADOPT RULE |we o mighty beating In thal Meee et process sv ARR Wee eel 4 ipshipenin JACK NEVILLE & 1. college has adopted the rute| Garfield and Roosevelt were pas WINS HONORS prohibiting the use of freshmen inling ther final game in the hig’ ‘ - KH) Jack Neville, San Francisco golfer varsity athlettor and limiting an ath-| school mee at Denny field today, | wh > baa ws a promini i eute te lete to three years’ participation in| starting at plays Bal) Northwestern tournaments, recently sport, the faculty announced, It will} lard and Queen Anne plays Franklin| won the Frisco city title, defeating become effective in 1924 Saturday, Francis Murphy 6 and 6, : { AKLAND JiMMY DUFFY and Bob Harper are the claaniest — welter weights in the West They have never met in the hempen square and both ar Duffy as been having an ew ne outpointing the medivene flock f mitt slingers around Onkland Hifornia, for the last few months 1 the Oukland promoters have just bout run out of opponents for the hadow Harper showed his true jently when he beat Travie Davie in grueling 10-round serap in Port ans re and. akill near wore Davis down to the K. 0 tage The best that Duffy could do wa yutpoint Davis here in a six-round ywemnion and it was a battig all the way If Portland could land a Harper Duffy retto over the 10-round route it would be one of the clansics of the | reason. GORMAN TO BOX BURNS Joe Gorman and George Burns will mix in the next Tacoma smoker, to be held a week from Thursday. Gor. man recently beat Burns in Portiand, | Burns Jumped into the Tacoma spot- light last week by knocking out ‘Young O'Dowd KRAMER TO BOX MASCOTT Danny Kramer southpaw | featherweight max will show his | stuff soon in Portland when he boxes | Billy Mascott, the clever Portlander the | VETERAN LONG IN HIS SERVICE Keene Fitzpatrick, Princeton track coach, ts starting his Sind year in | point of athletic service. He started back In 1890 at Michigan, where with Yost, he helped put the Wolverines | ‘on the football map for Tiff 1922, NOVEMBER 17 New Game Suited to Met Squad |Speed, and Not Weight, Counts in the Six-Man Style; Locals Resting JILING up 12 goals to two for the opposition, the Seattle Mets, have copped their first two starts in the Pacific Coast hockey race in easy fashion and are off to their best start in years in the Western puck league. The Mets started off in high by trouncing the weakened Van couver seven by an 62 tally in the British Columbia rink, and then they topped it off by shmat- ting out Victoria here Wednes day, 4 to 0. | ‘The wixman style of game suite the Mets to perfection, a& in former years the superior weight of the Vie ltoria and Vancouver teams told on the fant but lighter, Seattle men in the ¢ games | it ts impossible to play the tight defensive game of former years up ider the new rules. | Frank ston and Jack Walker, l‘ewo of Seattle's greatest aces, shine under the new game in that their | great skating speed, experience and b: back-checking ability brings out the best n them. Foysion, in particular, ts off to a good start and it looks lke the Blonde Wizard has hit his true stride again. He was shooting neanny accuracy agains Victoria here Wednesday. The Vancouver team will be bol red considerably by the addition Art Duncan, the big defense star This wilt allow Mickey MacKay to ‘go back to center ice where he should be a demon at the six-man game. The Vancouver team will not be at top strength until Hugh Lehman ie back in the net«. Jack Adams, the power ful forward, is in the East, but the Vancouver club ts still dickering with | } | | him, and if he should come Wi again the champions can’t be count ed out of the running. The Mets are resting this week while Vancouver and Victoria get to gether. These clubs meet in Victoria tonight and then battle again in Van- couver Monday Vancouver will meke its first ap- pearance of the Seattle season at the Arena next Wednesday. With the Seattle team off to such a good start and with the coming of the four Prairie league pew for one game each and the St. Pats of Toronto for “1 exhibition game, it looks like the puck game is in for one of its baad seasons here. Bob Zuppke Has Fine Grid Record With Illinois Men BANA, I1l., Nov, 16.— Despite the fact that [linols had a bad season in football in 192 going none 10o well this year, no one is xhouting for the removal of Coach Bob Zuppke Football reverses come to every couch. Zuppke '# now having his share. Fortunately for the lilinois mentor he has a great record to fall back on, A good record ts a great thing when a football coach needs « friend Dexpite the failures of the past two years, Zuppke still has the edge tn points of games won and lost with every rival Institution in the confer. ence except Michigan When Yost's eleven defeate nols at Ann Arbor recently, it evened | | Up the count, each having beaten the other twice since Zuppke took charge at Hlinois. Th} record aguinat Chicago is five won, three lost and one tied | Howard Je coach of Iowa, despite victories over Lilinois Inst year and this, is still traiting Zuppke, three to two, The rivalry Niinois and Ohio is famous. In the last decade each te has won three champion. ships. Zuppke goes Wilce a little better, however, in having tied one The record of Minois against Wis consin under Zuppke's regime is four Zuppke ween won, three lost and one tied | Against Purdue, Zuppke’> team= have three wins and one defeat Northwestern bas been defeated in three out of four engagements. The only time Zuppke’s eleven has met Indiana, it turned in a victory. Zuppke's record is a fine one. It his the big why the Illinois | mentor still retains the confidence of levery [linois man. reason. Home Run Not So Easy in Philly Next Season MILADELPHIA, Nov. 11.—Home runs will not be plentiful at (he Philadelphia American league ball park next season. The low barrier at the left field bleachers has been raised until It is the ground, The intention is to have) a wire screen perhaps six feet higher placed on the top of the barrier longer will ground balls strike in front of the barrier and bound into the bleachers for a home run as has now eight feet from | No} | been customary in the past. No doubt the higher wall will play |havoe with the popularity of some jof the Athletics ‘Tilly Walker, Bing | Miler and a number of the other |players got the big hand last sum mer when many a fly ball that would have been an easy out dropped into jthe left field bieachers for a. home run. However, it will make for bet- ter baseball and will keep many @ jxme from being busted up by fuke home run Fair Battlers A BY JACK JUNGMEYER OS ANGELBS, Cal., Nov, 1 —Are we in for an era of fisticuffians trained by Cehting male relatives to carry on the gospel of the padded punch? And what is to become of the gentle and time-honored art of bair-pulling? These stirring speculations are justified by professional entry of the ring by two fair Los An- gelans, Mildred Soto and Mra, Emily Mathieson, who challenge all womanhood to sample their boxing wares, Both are daughters of fighting kinsmen. Both pack a mean wallop. Miss Soto, 19, is the ringside product of her father's training—Joe Soto, * old-time bare-knuckle batter, She is said to have four knockouts to her credit, She fights at 120 pounds, Mrs, Mathieson, 30, and weigh- Carry Mean Wallop ing 119 pounds, has as her trainers her husband, Walter Mathieson, former, ©xhinitien fighter with the Los Angeles Athletic club, her brother, John the “Battling Lion” of Tucson, Ariz, and her unele Chino Orosco, former heavy Weight champ of Arizona, She sports the proud sobriquet of “Battling Lioness.” The two are matched for an early go, the matron having a& cepted the defi of the miss. Miss Soto had set out to fight life’s battles as a steno: rapher and seenario writer, Sue cess didn't’ match her high hopes and so she’s fallen back on the fists her father has fash- joned into cunning chin wallop: ers. The ranks of girl gladiators are growing. Now who'll be the Tex Rickard of the first wom An's heavyweight world’s onal pionship match? Orosco, | |

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