The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 21, 1922, Page 14

PAGE 14 ii {FANNING Rivalry in Gotham. McGraw and Dunn. Hard for newcomers. : BY HENRY L. FARRELL H both New York ball clubs im their own parks next season ‘will be tremendous rivairy for patronage of the Manhattan While nothing ts yet know about conclusion that both the Yanks the Giants will have some con- dates at home. @esire for more Sunday dates the Giants to terminate the ment which gave the Yan- the use of the Polo grounds for the season and when the Gi- Want more Sunday games, the makers most likely will them, as one other club will also, same ts true of the Yankees. York, of course, is big to support two Sunda’ but one is bound Detter than the other, if they in developing a partisan fol- rs “Im Babe Ruth, the Yanks have the drawing card in baseball, if the big fellow does what he to do this winter, he ought t them again next year. Addition, it would be no sur to see Eddie Collins working und second base. The greatest of basemen would be a great attraction, as he is very popu- New York and it would giv @ “million-dollar” infield with the Giants. Erin a has time to come along Collins is about thru, the deal Rot seem logical, were It not that Miller Huggins ‘Ward and Ward doesn't ape possibility have little razz George Kelly WN, N. Y., Dec. 19.-—The th. Only in rare cases is the etar that he may have been, as an asset when he ap- the ragged edge of the 35- ar mark. Of course, there are Cyrus Young, ‘Wagner and others, but they the rare examples. Davis Wheat is about to out from the Brooklyn Super- ‘Wheat, in his palmy days, was ti & superior, all parts of the considered. When he was in is middle 20's he could do every- field, run and throw. mn 1918 he was the leading batter an average of 336 and in other he always was pressing the and included in the list of .200 it will be 36 years of age next The Brooklyn Superbas are of old age in the opinion of Ebbets and Manager Robin. therefore youth must be served ‘Wheat is to move along to make for the spry, active youngsters. "Ebbets has announced that he ts @ receptive mood where Wheat is ned and trade negotiations dy have been opened by several league clubs. EFIELD’S LIARDS FS LEADING ON PARLORS JESS WIL ® Sohedules, it is taken as a fore! to draw} !speculating, able to stand punishme Pd isn't the worst second base-| j in the league, and considering | Former Champion Thru, Says Portland Scribe Willard Can’t Get Into Prime Condition Again, Says Billy Stepp, Following Exhibition of ex-Heavy- weight King in Portland Editor’s Note: Conflicting reports have come out of Portland regard ing the showing of Jess Willard, exchampion heavyweight, there Thursday night. Yere's the real lowdown as written by Billy Stepp, sporting editor of the Portland News: BY BILLY STEPP | (Sport Editor Portland News.) I1G-HEARTED” JESS WILLARD can’t cut the mustard. The ex-world’s champion proved to a handful of curious fistic followers at Mil waukie arena Tuesday night that the “X” is correct before his moniker, Jess worked four 2-minute rounds with a pair of “saps” and the fans all cheered with cat calls for the blood-sweating Behemoth of Fistiania. Willard is fat. His chest has slipped and hangs down like a Masonic apron whenever he stoops over. He moves like the forgotten horses that once pulled the street cars. Jess isn’t in fighting trim. They say it'll take months jot hard training to put him in tip-top shape. The big “heap” could train for years and he'd never be able to regain his crown from Jack Dempsey. The leading man of the Toledo slaughter might be big, have a punch, lived a clean life, be a family man, smart at nt, but he’d never last | long enough to get up a ge sweat against Dempsey, Wills, or Tommy Gibbons. If they jever fight J. W. with the |Manassa mauler it'll not be “ ” the “battle of a century” but ing up. Portiand Heights _ TY. | Witlard’s trainers rapped the bie Scotty Musser, dug up around)ioy uy tight ao that his pauneh the cheese belt of Oregon, boxel) would look smail, hut It showed the first two rounds of the ex |up like a Christmas window. hibition. Scotty weighed 188) To tell the honest to goodness }pounds to the Leviathan Willard’s/truth, if Willard ever meets Demp- | 265. ney, just put up the family jewels that the present champion sinks the cowpuncher tn quicker time over the Benson hotel. It wae/than It takes to take a drink with terrible. the prohibition squad knocking at A ham and egg wrestler took on! the door, Pittsburg Comeback Was Big Gridiron Feature And much to the surprise of the ma- jority of the critics, the Meehan eleven was tripped 21 to 14. Then came Bucknell, and Geneva, the gloves next He was still smaller and a trifle wore with the cased mitte. Jens knocked him down several times, When it was all over the big “heap” was sweat ing and breathing like a Ford pull Smith butiding would THE SEATTLE STAR of Real “LENN WARNER, famous coach ‘Ay eleven, of the University of Pitter ot figures in the foothall world For « score of years Warner has bean one of the greatest coaches in the game Fe has been dulibed tly “beat one-man conch” in the gu jas Warner's methods are always finat Warner first gained fame with the Carlisle Indians, For years he turn e4 out wonderful teams at the In| dian school that made the country | ait up and take notice | Jim Thorpe one ef the most brit | Mant players the me has ever pro duced, Ix & protege of Warner in one the outstanding Work; Benny Leonard | a youngster, but he still on the stage. “Don't think for a minute | /Glenn Warner Is One have to train for his work,” says Leonard. Grid Greats When Warner took, charge at Pittsburg, that school held # very minor place in the college football world, Today tts teams are respect ed the country over Next year will be Warner's fare well season at Pitt. He has signed & contract to take charge of football at Leland Stanford for years California has domtn- ated fogtball on the t. Stanford, ® bitter rival, rather resents the way California is hogging the spot light. In looking over the football field for # coach who would make things interesting for Andy Smith at Call fornia, Warner was the unanimous choice. Eddie Leonard Trains for Stage Dance Work Famous Minstrel Must Keep in Condition to Do Stage | and John McGraw Well Known by Minstrel; Brings Word of Cunningham tee |TDDIE LEONARD, the famous minstrel, is far from being | tosses a wicked pair of heels that a stage dancer doesn’t “There are few |more strenuous things than eccentric dancing, and one has to be in good condition to keep up the pace. “When I'm home in New York 1) 4o Nght boxing at one of the ath | letio clubs and quite @ bit of bieyele | riding. The people in the West seem to take the wtxday bike races in Gotham as « sort of a joke, but they get @ big play from the People | there and it's © real thrill to see) the bike stare sweep around the Velodrome.” Leonard is @ close friend of Benny | Leonard, the lghtweight king. The champion takes his ring name from | the famous minstrel. Eddie was the first man to call the attention of Billy Gibson, present manager of | the champion, to Benny when the! latter waa @ preliminary boy around ASKET PLAY How te the ball put In play efter a 4ouble foul? Tt t* put im play at the center by the referee in the usual manner, ‘Seattle Fans to Monroe Boy Has ’E Talking About His K. O. Ring Victories BY LEO H. LASSEN | ILE boxing is taking a | porary rest in Seattle local jring fanw are turning to Everett and Tacoma for their entertainment | Quite & crowd of local ring t [are expected to visit Tacoma to night, where Travie Davis and Ed die Roberts tows the leather Levin | sons Tomorrow night Fverett ts hold Ing the fiatio stage, Dode Bercott the young Mon logger who jumped from a preliminary boy to main eventer in 11 fights, is facing his first long bout with Young O'Dowd, the rugged Aberdeen light. | weight The Pverett tunsle is to go eight rounds. Bercott has yet to taste defeat in the ring, five of hin 11 sulting In K. O. victories, He is awkwardly clever, using both hands |for bedy punching with deadly ef- Hereott Jumped into the imelight tem. | fighia re THURSDAY Players Figure Change Will Do Ehmke Real Good EW YORK, Dec, 21.--Who will win the most games in |] the American league next sum || mer, Howard Ehmke or Rip Collins These two players figured tn |] the trades between Detroit and |] Boston. Ehmke seemed to have |] outlived his usefulness with De troit. Collins, on the other hand was just striking bie #tride at Boston, He won his last six starr Despite the fact that Ehmke will be with the cellar cham pious and Colling with a first divisios club, American league players who dropped in to the league meeting here, seem to think Ehmke will make the beet showing “Toughest pitcher in the world to hit against,” ts the way they all * comment on Ehmke ltwo weeks ago when he stopped Frankie Britt, the rugged Tacoma | fellow, In four rounds. | Bddie Moore and Eddie Neti, fa- miliar rivals in the bantamweight class, step in the semi-windup to the Bercott-O’Dowd headliner. Both the Tacoma and Everett shows are being staged by the Eagle llodges of thone respective cities. How Nick Altrock Gets Material for His Skit BY BILLY EVANS | N= ALTROCK, being clown of baseball, gets his stuff at various places and Nick's stuff happens to | be his daily diamond act. Not so many years ago it was what he put on the ball, for Altrock was one of | the game’e greatest pitchers. | Altrock had little to work on when he started clowning. He had to seek | matertal, and he found some of it in | strange places, Nick's Ughtwire act, one of the best things he does, was picked off a slack wire in @ back yard. Nick's next-door neighbor wag a man who made hia livelihood dotng slack wire | stuff at county fairs in the summer and autumn months. At the close of the season the porformer returned home and practiced new stuff on « slack wire stretched across the yard saw Johnny shadow box. He came again and again and worked up his adow-boxing act from what he saw Kubane pull. Then, one day Nick saw Zbyszko | wrestle and there he got the idea for his wrestling act. "One day I was pulling the wrest- ling stunt in Washington,” says Nick. “I had been pitching to bat ters in practice and I was wringing ‘wet. I put my hand on my neck, pretending to have a strangle hold and started going down, but the per- aspiration on my neck made it #0 silppery that my hand shot off, and wince I waa off balance at the time I went down, all my poundage on the shoulder, “Talk about « sickening pain—I never felt anything like !t before. I thought I'd never get up, but I pre | tended to be laughing and made my , DECEMBER 21, 1922. Caps Win 6 to 5 in GINA SPRINGS BIG HOCKEY UPSET BY BEATING SEATTLE METS: LARD IS IN NO CONDITION FOR JACK DEMPSEY BOUT BERCOTT, O’DOWD MEET IN EVERETT Overtime Visitors Come From Be- hind and Take Game From Mets BY LEO H. LASSEN Mets had held the upper hand most of the dis- tance, the Re gina Capitals came back and fought the local hockey players ott of their feet at the Arena last night and beat out the men of Muldoon by @ 6 10 overtime play. ! The Mets have |more claas tau the prairie team jand bal jany ti {tors simply outfought and refused to quit until the game was won, With Seattle leading 6 to 4 and with only a minute er so to go, “Spunk” Sparrow, Regina defense FTER the Seattle py to 6 tally after minutes ef man, let érive a shot from midice that bounced eff of Hap Holmes’ stick an@ Goal Umpire Bill Keefe couldn't make up his mind fast enough to euit Sparrow es to whether !t counted or not, fin saying {t didn’t hit the twine. Spar- row pulled a “Strangler Lewis” on Keefe, taking a necktie hold on the umptre’s tonsils. A couple of bluse coats came out on the fee and didn't 40 much good. Dia you ever try walking across the ice and start wrestling with anybody? Well, After 10 time play Barney Btanley shoved the puck past Holmes after a mix up in front of the Seattle net, —_— METS START OUT STRONG The Mets played the visttors off of thetr feet in the first period, rushing in two goals fn fine style. Jim Riley — ‘ and the manager look | The minstrel king ts also a friend Bin Cunningham, former Seattle lar players on the Giant team. BOUNCING BALL Tf « player i standing still and bounces the ball on the floor is it re garded as « dribb Tt Is so regarded by the officials. in the rear of his home. Altrock used to sit at his window watching the practice for hours and Nick's act fe not a burlesque but a perfect imi- jtation of his next-door neighbor practicing his program for the next opened the scoring after 10 minutes of play with a terrific shot from wing on a beautiful pass from Rickey. Frank Foysten chalked the second counter after Jack had piloted the rubber thru exit. I took a taxi to a hospital and there they found that part of the bone had been chipped from the shoulder. “After that I was eure my neck wan dry before I started the wrest 4 3ige5 fa ewinging around the Orpheum circuit tn his final raude- ville tour, appearing at the Moore after a poor start, came|the former going down 7.0, and the back in sensational style, whipping latter 62-0. These two platoons| New York. some of the best units in the country. | weren't so strong, of course, but on Pittsburg Is to meet Leland Stan-| the next two week ends Pennayivania|of John MoGraw, the Giants’ man: ford at Palo Alto December 30. and Washington and Jefferson were| ager, and Leonard brings word that the opposition. And both fell before Prospects for @ successful Cam| in. pitt attack, the Quakers being| outfielder, fe one of the most popu- paign for the Panthers appeared any- tonned anide, 7 to 6, and Neale’s outfit thing but rosy early in the fall, when 19-0. Incidentally {t wan the first Leonard the Warner clan dropped two of its firat three games, being beaten by, thack that hed been banded the Lafayette 7 to 0, and edged by the| Pre cae Pr een oF ow However, following that pair of de- feats, Pitt knuckied down, and with Following the West Virginia re one of the best teams in the East. a two-meason span. Pittsburg then finished the cam- paign in a blaze of glory by over. throwing Penn State Thanksgiving day, 14 to 0. Thus Warner's eleven, after a most inauspicious opening, did a complete Nip-flop, winning ite last six games, among which were Syracuse, Penn syivania, W. and J. and Penn State. jaay the least Prexy Jim Boldt Returns From Big Baseball Journey Prexy Jim Boldt is home from the East, arriving from his big trip to Louisville and New York last night. Boldt brings word that the tribe is dickering for a third sacker and some other players, but announce- ments aren't in order yet. He expresses himacif as well pleased with Manager Harry Wol- verton, and thinks that the “Gray Wolf” Will complete enough deals in the East to put the Indians in the race. He has opened the pocketbook and Wolverton is try- ing to land the men he ts after. INGLEWOOD TO OPEN SATURDAY The Inglewood golf course will be ready for play again Saturday, ac- cording to an announcement made by Dr. C. B. Ford, chairman of the greens’ committee. All of the courses in the city are expected to be ready for play by that time, too. V’ For Her Christmas Strengthened for Seattle Ice Game Vancouver will be greatly strengthened for the game with Seattle at Vancouver Christmas afternoon. Corbet Denneny, crack Toronto forward, arrives today in B, C. to finish the sea. son with the Maroons, while Art Duncan, disabled defense star, will also return to the game Mon day. \Harry Lauded Is at Work on Book LONDON, Dec. 21.—Sir Harry Lauder has at Inst admitted that he 1a writing a book. He says It's going to be “verra” funny. Air and Price NEW YORK, Dec, 21.-~A keen re- vival of interest in kite-flying has caused thelr manufacturers to in- arease prices. The German landlord of the Ru- manian embassy in Berlin bricked up the door and stood outside to tell the tenants they could not enter until six months’ rental in arrears had been paid. || Spitter May Come Back; Lively Ball Starting Gossip HW YORK, Dec, 21—The lively ball has made tt im. possible for the pitchers to keep the batamen tn check. The lively ball has caused the batsman to dominate the pitcher. No pitchers in the American league were much more success. ful last year than Red Faber and Urban Shocker. These two vet erans still include the spitball in thelr repertoire, It Is a noticeable fact that in the two major leagues, pitchers still permitted to use the spitball were uniformly successful. All of which gives rise to the rumor that the spitball may be declared legal, despite the drastic action taken by the rulemakers a few years ago in eliminating it entirely from the game, this week SAN DIEGO IS ALL SET | FOR BIG GO SAN DIEGO, Cal., Dec, 22. Gonzaga eleven thru its first workout here yesterday. The) team will go thru light work jtoday and tomorrow, resting |Sunday. West Virginia won't! jarrive until Saturday night) jand will work the kinks out ‘of the long train ride Sun- \day. | vale 'QIAN DIEGO, Cal, Dec, 21-—The} football committes of the Cham: | ber of Commerce announced today! that arrangements are complete for handling @ capacity crowd at the stadium on Monday, when West Vir- |ginta meets Gonzaga college of Spo- kane. There will be seats for late comers, however, 6,000 being put on jsale just before the game starts. Gonzaga works out at Bovard! field today and will arrive here to-! night Went Virginin minsed thetr train | at Chicago yesterday and will not) arrive in time for a workout Sat-| urday. Rain insurance, $15,000 worth, has} been taken out for the game. WAIVERS HOLD UP BIG TRADE NEW YORK, Dec. 20 Jakey May, star southpaw pitcher of the Pacific Coast league, will become! the property of the New York Yan keen as foon as the American league champions get waivers on| one more player to send to the Vernon club as a part of the deal, | |Ed Harrow, business manager of| |the Yanks, said Tuesday The |termy of the transfer have not been | {made known, but cash and three! players are sald to be involved. 'WEST VIRGINIA LEAVES EAST MORGANTOWN, W. Va., Dec, 20, —Twenty-five players, coaches cer} trainers of the West Virginia unt- | versity football squad left here Tues |day for San Diego, where they are} |to play Gonzaga university on | Christmas day. Before leaving, Dr. C, W. Spears, head coach, said the | condition and they expected to win, _NIEHAUS MOVES TO SOUTHLAND Dick Niehaus, southpaw pitcher with Sacramento last year, has been | sold to the Atlanta club, in the South. ern league, by the Reading Interna. tional league outfit, lrarrar and Clement FIVE VETS ON BEARS’ CAGE FIVE AN FRANCISCO, Deo. 4?—-Call- fornia te already warming up with enthusiasm over the prospects of the Blue and Gold basketball quinte The Berkeley team looks mighty verse, the Panthers took on Byracuse,| A most worthy accomplishment, to|Coach Gus Dorias put his| ood on paper and provided that It works together well and doesn't go into @ slump, as basketball teams have a habit of doing, should” give all other conference teams a great deal to worry about these winter nights Practice wae begun November 1, and until November 29, when the inter-class contests began, the var sity candidates took the floor three times a week and handled squads of neophytes. Regular practice will be suspended during the examina tion period but will be resumed |January 3 on an every day basis, according te Coach Earl Wright Veterans from last year’s squad tnelude Captain LeHand, Thompson, Kincaid, guards; Johnny Tait, for ward, and O'Neil, center, Houvenin, one of the best on the second string Inat year, will give the regu jars a hard run for a first team position. Last year’s frosh five in contributing three good men, Kyte, as extra var sity material, They are all forwards, and all are practically certain of playing part of the time tn a num ber of games. Two of the three outaiders are also conceded a run ning chance to be seen in varsity outfit on the floor in some of the games. MILLIONAIRES PLANNING CLUB NEW YORK, Dec, 21.--Vincent Astor, George F. Baker, Marshall Field, John D, Ryan, Harry Payne Whitney, J. P. Morgan and other leaders of the New York financial set, have formed a syndicate and will butld a milliondellar golf elub near Locust Valley, L. I The it was said LANDIS LOOKS OVER GAMBLING CHICAGO, Dec. 21.—-Commissioner Landis waa considering today the elaborate ‘report on gambling in baseball parks which the American regular players were all in good | league gathered in two years’ inves | tigation with private detectives. BURKE COACHES RED SOX AGAIN CHICAGO, Dec 21.--Jimmy {Burke, coach of the Boston Red! Sox last season, will be retained in the same capacity, Frank Chance new manager, announced. irse will be built for their game, | CASEYS PILE UP 54 to 23 CAGE VICTORY 1 powerful Knights of Colum. / bus basketball team added an- other vietim to tts long string Inst | ote night at the Casey gym, when it an- Ss nexed the scalp of the Canco Athlet- | aa |ie club, When the smoked of battle had cleared away the Knights had won, 54 to 23 Stan Riddle, the center of the} Knights, accounted for 19 points for} “Spunk” Sparrow will be heavily fined by the Western Canada hockey league, ac- cording to Referee Poulin, for i \his attack on Goal Umpire bh " 4 a high ft rakoncigg and was high scorer for fo lant ight. ali | The Knights will play the strong/ will confer with President Orting, Wash. five at the K. of C. gym next Wednenday ‘The summary of last night's game Richardson of the Prairie league upon his rethrn to Canada next week regarding | follow | Knights Position Cane AG the offense. Sparrow will be Bonney (8). F sess «Tarbox (4) 7 - MoAtetr (0)..2...cF...., Attleson (1) |alowed to play tomorrow’ | Riddle (1% c Van Teit @/ Might in Victoria, says Pou- Myers (2) ue . Douglas ()| lin, | Clemenson 19). ..G, .. Toner (2) | Substitutions: Harris for Mo Bobby Rowe played a sterling defense for Senttle, the best Met om the Ateer (4), Nicholson for Bonney (4), | Moriarity for Riddle, Halverson for Dougias (2). 'WHY YANKEES LOST BENTON | NEW YORK, Dec, 21.—The New | York Yankees did not go after Rube Bernie Morris 414 some tall shooting for Seattle, It looks Ike this veteran has found his eye again. Young MeVeagh, Regina forward, te speed merchant. Hy showed the |Benton, former Giant pitcher, who] 4,2, some tall skating, He te btill starred with St. Paul last season.) young at the game, and has » lot to [because Ban Johnson said he did! jeeen, put he shows promise, }not want him in the American jleague and a National league man-| nay sferan and Bernte Morrie hed ager said he wouldn't “do us any|tttie fist a-tete that put bot good,” Colone] Huston of the Yanks them on the bench for five minutes | maid | Latrad made one particularly briittant during the game when he stopped a Seattle shot by sticking one leg MORE TALK OF _ is silt 0 ticking one. toe UR P T lon one foot, It w & swell pleee of EUROPE TRIP ©: NEW YORK, Dec, 21—If Jack nee | De es eatin ain: ri 4 Harney Stanley, the Regina vet~ mpsey doesn't receive some kind! tn "ila Some great, beckohecking of an attractive offer fr Ameri for the visitors, played good lean pr ers, he will sail for) hockey thruout, {Europe late in January, according ce rhe Captiale resort to three-man de nse style almost entirely thruogt the to Dan MoeKettrick, his Eastern | ¢4, representative summer. ling stunt. Also there are often sina defense, One day Altrock visited the train-| some serious moments for the per _— ing camp of Johnny Kilbane and hel former while he is trying to amuse.” | REGINA on fides GOES WILD Regina went wha tm fhe second period, scoring on Holmes four times. Holmes had an off-period and let Traub opened the with a long shot that slipped off of Holmes’ pads for a counter, Foyston scored for Seattle again het & pretty shot about 15 out, Barney Stanley then put back in the game with a nice rush that beat Holmes easily, | Hay sent a shot into the twine that hit Holmes’ skates and Morris skated around the net and put Seattle ahead Just before the bell Hay Traub did a duet rush down the and Hay beat Holmes with a shot. It was a fast period — THAT THIRD PERIOD Bernie Morris opened the again 25 seconds after the the third period on a shot wing. The teams battled along for nearly 19 minutes when Sparrow scored his questionable goal that started the big rumpus. It sent the teams into overtime REGINA WINS MELEE i ecoring start Ee making some beautiful saves of ter rific shots sent in by Morris in the overtime session until the five-min. ute suspenston was up, Then they took the offensive and Hay, Stanley and Irvin swept down the foe, Stan- ley shoving in the puck after @ mix. up in front of the goal. REGINA MEETS VICTORIA FRIDAY i The Regina team will complete tte Coast tour tomorrow night, meeting Victorla at the Island city rink, They lost their first start on the Coast te ) Vancouver Monday and won hera Mriday's struggle to decide their bat: tles with the Coast teams, TRE LINKUPS ..Qoal seer Right Defense,. Left Defense Holmes Rickey Rowe Foyston Want a Mild Smoke? 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