The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 23, 1922, Page 10

ee eS PAGE 10 BON ih WITH FARRELL| Runner-up to Von Elm an Johnson-Landis scrap. | Split in ranks. Landis wins verdict. BY HENRY L. FARRELL long ago Jud STEIN is the ranking 2 Ea when shoulders above all other local humped him verbally on the back | ( ‘Bnd shouted—"Long live the com /from Jefferson Park. Mlsstoner"* | | Several olitimers within hearing remarked that they were all q a ; then for Landis, but they cau-| Young Stein's performance | Wait tit baseball gets back on tts They'll be after him as strong as heavy as they are for him He's bound to step on some | toes.” | ‘The record of Landis on the bench im public life was held up, how How Golfers as indicating that he liked to Position Player Club it and if the magnates chose to/1 Bon Stein Seattle tle him, that he would fight a Clark Spiers. Inglewood Tt didn't take so long for the/3.. «. Forest Watson. . Inglewood Wy of the skeptics to be ful |4.... «++.Lee Ste oath Ban Johnson, president of the |5 H. A. “Dixie” Fleager attle ‘was the first to pick up arms |¢ Ted Knudson, . Inglewood | Jack Westland --Walter Wand Rainter Jack Ballinger Seattle - Gordon Haw.Jefferson Park the commissioner, and he Inglewood © = Who loses next will be tnteresting p watch. It's a cinch Landis won't, he’s too much of a fighter to ‘and he’s too big and capable for one living off baseball to make 9.. 10... Art Griggs May Go Out of League Veteran First Sacker Ha Slowed Up, Altho He Still Can Hit BY LEO H. LASSEN finally he Incurred the) Ny two clubs in the league of two of the biggest men |\ 7 couig possibly use Art Griggs, els Ruppert aod \rog Angele first sacker, and after the owners of the NeW! many years of service in the Coast ‘Yanks. circuit the veteran may pass out of American ague was then /the picture. into two factions, with De- . Philadelphia, The Angels have lined up Walter against Golvin, a faster man, for next s¢ason, and unless Red Killefer retains the Silent Slugger as a pinch hitter, Griggs may be thru as a Coast went about his campaign the commissioner In a petty by completely tx- to the point of re to mention his name. — ON has been a fighter tn I for a good many years, he the czar until Harry came into the possession of ° Red Sox. Johnson then it the friendship of the man who ae him in Com. ad -. Griggs can stil wallop the leather. He pounded out an average over 300 omen bane this season, but slowed up woofully in the field. and pushed by the national) gait Lake and Vernon may make to secure Judge Landis a8 the | ti4y for him, altho the Bees intend to give Jim Riley a thoro trial and Vernon has Ham Hyatt and Rod Murphy. Landis, and he start-| MITCHELL him this winter. MAY GO UP world's serles,” Com-| gan Francisco is trying to make a Landis told a group of | deal for Oliver Mitchell, the darning writers in Louisville, “the | needie southpaw, figuring that the Br leagues had a joint meeting In | players he would bring in return # York. When I. took office I|would strengthen the champions. fe that the joint meetings | Aitho Mitchell got by in good fash- be alternated between New| jon and won a flock of games this ‘and Chicago and I had planned | season, Coast league ball players tie December meeting for | called him a lucky pitcher and didn’t However, when the prest-| think much of his stuff. relieved of g 1 club owners to a meeting in| TWO INFIELDERS w York, I changed my plans and| Jim Boidt is still dickering for two out notices that the meeting | infielders, a third sacker and a short be held in New York. stop, but he isn’t ready to make any arrangement called for the | announcements as yet. league meeting on Decem- — ie 43, the America? ther jant mec |GEORGE DEWEY AT N. DAKOTA December 14—all in New George Dewey, former Oregon 0 then notified his club that they would meet In Chi- in December 13 and that they |head coach at the North not hold a joint meeting with | university. He was particularly ie National league, altho it was|adept at basketball. by the commissioner. “ANDI was wiket about 1, ant|SYRACUSE TEAM Ed in his characteristio fashion, D*)” BY ANNING TRIP have called that meeting for| The Syracuse lacrosse team will York and {t will be held there | Journey to England next spring for nyone comes or not.” @ series of matches there. NKO faithful five then went ——— oi et tin be wae ait| STAR INSURED FOR $100,000 Cleveland told him he was all NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Gene Sar- ig and he had to reverse himself and call the meeting in New " Next to Landis, Johnson boasted of |azen, we.ld'’s golf champion, has the biggest man in baseball,|been insured for $100,000 by Briar when he failed to “get” the| Cliff Lodge club, where he has been * 4 looks like the “Squire” | engaged to serve as a professional di stay a while longer. for two years at @ reported salary of $12,000 a year. OIE NOW U.S.G. A. TO ote FLAYER MEET JAN. 13 ‘Bolt devotee, but his average isn’t} The United States Golf association 00d as it was in his palmy base- will hold its annual meeting in days with Cleveland. Pittsburg January 18. took the great George Von Elm to the Aggie athlete, hag been signed as} Dakota | Second Time North End FANNING; Star Leads Links Men d W: shington State Ama teur Champion Easily Leads Seattle Field for Year; | Clark Speirs is No. 2 and Forrest Watson Next BY ALEX C. ROSE golfer of Seattle! The remarkably brilliant playing of this young North End linksman during the 1922 s s him head and ateur mashie weilders, and ar *iclearly entitles him to top this list of Seattle’s 10 best golf . which is composed of four players from the Seattle olf club, four from Inglewood, one from Rainier and one | These selections and ratings are based on the showing | made in scratch play tournaments during the 1922 season. at Victoria last June, when he 36th hole in the finals cific Northwest am- ateur championship, was proof enough that he was Seattle’s best golfer, but he made it doubly sure t ap- turing the State title at Yak- ima a few weeks later. File best bit of play, however, was Bow! ment at his home course. of the I made in the Punch tourna In that day's journey he shot two 70's, which t# easily th» best two | consecutive rounds of golf ever | played on the th End course. He finished 21 up on bogey on this memorable event TIED GREAT PRO STARS Paired with his team-mate, Stefl, In the recent exhibition match against Walter Hagen and Joe Kirk wood, the crack professional team, Stein's fine playing waa |atanding feature of the match, which ended all square Yes! Youre Bronson FE. Stein had @ great season. He holds the | course record—a “68"—at the North End links. He shot thie last year. Clark Speirs, of the Inglewood Country club, who ts placed second on the lat, besides winning the Inglewood and Jefferson 1922 titles, was a semt-finalint the Pacifie Northwest championship and runner-up for the state crown, City Champion Forrest Watson occupies No. 3 berth. This lad from Inglewood went thru a strong Meld to win the 1922 city honors, and he made a grand showing at the Victoria meet until he hooked up with Von Elm in the semi-finals. Leo Stell and “Dixie” Fleager, two well known North Enders, come next tn order, The former won the club champlonship this year, de feating the veteran “Dixie” in the final round. “Dixie” was also run nemup in the city championship. Both players showed well at Vic: tora, No. 6 is Ted Knudson. Somehow or other Ted was never figured on to “go far” in scratch play tour. neys, but he sure upset the w. k dope at hie home club, Inglewood at Victoria and at Yakima. | j club title fight. MADE GOOD SHOWING After losing his first round match in the championship flight at Vic itoria, he went on to th |the first flight. It took the best | playing that Johnnie Wall, the In jland Emptre champion, could pro- | duce to gust Ted in the semt-semi- final round in the state meet at Yakima. Washington champion golfer, created the biggest surprise regis tered tn Northwest goifdom for many « day, when he defeated Dr. ©. F. Willing, the Oregon champion in the first Northwest meet last June, is picked for position No. 7 ‘The Rainier Golf club’s sole rep. resentative, Walter Wand, receives the eighth place by virtue of his victory In the elub champlonshtp. BALLINGER AND HAW COMPLETE LIST Jack Ballinger, of the Senttle Golf club, comes next, with Gordon Haw, Jefferson Park golf star, getting the final choice. Altho these two fine golfers failed to win any laurels in the scratch play tournaments @uring the past season, their playing entities them to positions on this selection of “Seattle's Ten Best Golfers.” Eddie Tait, formerly of Tacoma, is in Los Angeles, trying to line up a trip for Danny Kramer, crack featherweight, to Manila, where Tait is one of the controlling promoters of the fight game, Kramer is now in Portland, but plans to return to Los Angeles soon. ar Hitters Once Hurlers 1S a rather interesting fact | that the two most-talked-about batters in the American league f summer began their careers pitchers. Babe Ruth, the former home run king, and George Sisier, the ‘ pion batsman of the John- ‘gonian organization, were very much in the limelight last season. ‘| Sisier, for what he was really do- ing at the bot, and Ruth for what | he. was failing to do. i came to the American league from Baltimore as a | . Sisler came direct from i Tne University of Michigan as a Both won high honors as its before they took to tirst and the outfield because of Early this year Coach Andy Smith of California remarked that “Hous. ton Stockton will make the greatest halfback in the Northwest this year.” Smith had watched Stockton's progress in a California preparatory schoo] and Smith knew the caliber of coach Stockton was to play under in the fall of 1922 Stockton has more than fulfilled the prophecies of Andy Smith—he ts one of the greatest halfbacks on the Pacific coast. ‘ Stockton, a halfback on the Gon vaga university team, which meets West Virginia at San Diego Christ mas day, has not only proved him- self to be a great offensive and de- sfensive back, but he has wound up West Virginia Must Stop Hous Stockdon in Christmas Day Melee’ the season record. Here are some of the feats Stock ton performed during the season: Passed successfully for a total of 786 yards in seven games, Kicked nine consecutive after touchdown in out of nine attempts. Only “Duke” Morrison, the great California fullback, excels Stockton on the Pacific coast in the matter of points scored, and no one even ap proaches him in passing. Stockton's with a remarkable goals a single game average per game in this latter de. partment of play is 112 yards, Johnny Mohardt of Notre Dame holds the record with an average of 4 trifle under 105 yards a game and @ total of 1,160 yards in 11 games, Lee | the out.) Park club) amateur } He won| The Star Eclectic trophy at Ingle | wood and went to the finals in the| HEN West Virginin meets Gon finals in| Jack Westland, the University of who | club's | 2nhk SKATTLE STAR amateur title and for | | | | Again King of Seattle Golfdom For the second consecutive time, Bon Stein has been selected by Alex C. Rose, Star golf expert, as king of Seattle’s golfdom. Joe Lynch Retains His Honors zagn university in the Christ } |mas day game at San Diego, the! | Mountaineers will be forced to solve | Jone of the finest aerial attacks in| 1922 football. | pnzaga, coached by Charles | is w") Dorais, 1913 All America | quarterback and one of the most fa-| | mous exponents of the forward pass, | | ie drilied in the Notre Damo myntem | lof attack and uses a variety of «hots | jthat never permit a line or second ary defense to “net.” Dorais became famous as the! | passing member of the famous Do- | | raisto-Rockne combination at Notre | | Dame in 1913. Rockne, now head Jconch at Notre Dame, played an| round of the Pacific) end and it was into Rockne’s arms} that Dorals shot most of his sharp, | accurate pansen. | Dorats’ passing brought him the All-America quarterback position in| 1913, the only time that an All} Amertca team was selected by the) sports writers of the Bast Dorais and Rockne played togeth- er three years at Notre Dame, roomed together and spent their |summer vacations together. After REPORTS ARE __ CONFLICTING Conflicting reports come from the | Kast regarding Otto Miller, former Brooklyn catcher. One has him managing Atlanta in league and the Southern | the other coaching the Kansas City team tn the American association. KINGMAN WILL LEAD RUTGERS William Kingman has been elected to captain the Rutgers foot ball team next season. } tan Unusual new try. any playe ton’s tempta, Stockton’s success performances point rul who he record of under the | fail to reveal | equaled Stock. | nine straight at- with the pass may be traced to three sour An ability to pass the ball like a base ball is hurled; a trick of leaping straight into the air when presse and passing in the opposite dire than that faced when he left his f and a steely calm under fire. In addition, he is a great open field runner, a powerful line plunger and a deadly He boots for an average clos 50 yards. Stockton pron to develop into one &f the greatest backs in the country, fon } to Gonzaga Men Coached by Notre Dame Star|| Not Much CHARLES DORAIS fraduation they coached the Notre Dame tear jointly and it is sald that the toss of a coin kept Knute at Notre Dame and sent Gus out to Gonzaga. Dorais was recently asked by De- trott university to name his terms, but declined the invitation. SCHLITZ WILL __ PILOT DETROIT DETROIT; Mich., Deo. 23.—"Ger- many” Schiitz, former take charge of footfall University of Detroit. at the Detroit has |Invited Gonzaga university to play |®d they served as good targets for in New York next fall KRAMER WILL MEET GORMAN PORTLAND, Ore, Dec. 23.—Dan- ny Kramer of Los Angeles and Joe Gorman of Portland, have been matched for a 10-round bout here New Year's day to decide the Pa- cific coast featherweight title. Good Umpires Hard to Sign 66(X00D umpires are far more difficult to get than star ball players,” President Heydler told the Jonal league owners at the recent meeting in New York, President Heydler’s statement was the result of criticism dt rected at his staff by some of the club owners. “If any of my club owners can tell me where to get umpires who will deliver, there will be con- tracts at a good salary awaiting them in my office,” said Heydler. “Nothing proves the difficulty of getting good umpires more than the fact that Connolly, Ems- lie, O'Day, Klem and Evans have all been umpiring 20 years or more and are still at it,” Winning the Washington g Von Elm to the 36th green in the Northwest cham- p, proved Stein’s real cl. Michigan | | star athlete, has accepted a contract | ‘Smith Is for King No Steam Behind Midget’s Punches; Lynch Didn’t Look Good BY HENRY L. FARRELL iN®%. YORK, Dec. 23.--The world’s bantamweight championship was all ready to move last night, whil Joe Lynch and Midget Smith were battling 15 rounds at the Gar- den. But the créwn of the 118- pounders looked at the op of the midget with disdain and decided to remain aboard the red-tinted dome sorrel | of Champ Joe, the noted son of West Side Paddy. Lynch was bad enough, but Smith | was worse. Lynch would have been In a very | bad way if some boy with a punch jin his right hand had been shoving them at him, The midget hit the champion at will, but there was nothing behind his heaves, and | Lynch was irritated and peeved, but not hurt by the attack. The midget wasn't rated to have much steam or power in his punches, }as he fought only four days ago and |was given a sound beating by Irish jJohnny Curtin, in Jersey City Marks still were visible on tho slats lof the midget, where Curtin had |pounded him with hard body blows, Lynch to continue the “downstairs” attack Shots around the heart hurt the midget, and he craftily tried to rub the sore spots with his left elbow, Lynch won the decision with his jleft hand, The first five rounds went jat a furious pace, with Smith doing ‘all his usual forcing. The champion kept stabbing him with a left jab, Which got the midget to bleeding freely from the nose and mouth, Smith rocked Lynch in nearly ev- }ery round with a right hook to the jaw he seems to have little difficul- ty in getting over, but they only |served to make the champion | krouchy, and he would tear back | In the semi-final, Kid Williams, former bantam champion, was fouled in the first round by Harry Leonard. |RECORD W. V. CAGE TURNOUT ehty-three men are turning out asketball at the University of j West Virginia, a record cage squad for that institution. CONCERNING ~ ICE RINKS | New York now hax an i |whone skating surtace mea SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1922. STEIN RANKED NO. 1 AMONG SEATTLE GOLFERS AGAIN DODE BERCOTT KNOCKS OUT YOUNG O’DOWD IN FOURTH ROUND Monroe Boy Socks Over Telling Blow to Body O’Dowd Gives Up Ghost in Fourth Session, After Be- ing Knocked Down Twice in Second and Third Rounds; Eddie Neil Beats Eddie Moore another big ¢ he socked Y frequently of stopped the In the firs eral husky yf up in the sec ped some vic When the gong ODE BERCOTT, the Monroe logger, felled one last night in Everett, when oung O'Dowd so hard and so n the chin that the referee massacre in the fourth round, O'Dowd put up the gamest fight of ht, career, but Bercott’s artillery was too heavy. t round the logger landed sev- sunches, but he really opened ond when both fighters swap- rious wallops. ang for the opening of the third, Bercot jshowed that he is the sweetest puncher this section has |seen for many moons. He ‘both punches had the K. O. written all over them. The bell saved O'Dowd, as he was virtually out. Early in the fourth O'Dowd kissed the canvas ercott’s terrific left hoisted him in the air and he landed like a Douglas fir. Despite the bom bardment, he manage get to bin feet at the count of nine and caught Bercott with a lous sock to the stomach, but bis ¢ were glazed, and when he was again knocked to * floor the referee stopped the bat | te | Rercott showed makings of a and it | Lonnie Austin takes him along slow- ly he will develop into one of the best boys this district has ever pro duced. He ts still # little green, but is fast and shifty and has a punch ike a heavyweight. In his bout last top-notcher |night he looked Ike a miniatur ck Dempney } j Eddie Neti had little trouble tn getting the decision over Eddie Moore in the semi-final. Marty Fosse defeated Ernie Daly. Soldier Mur ray and Kid Koebe, two 165-pound- ers, kidded each other for a draw, jand Frankie Marsha won the de Jetsion from Frankie White in the Results of boxing thruout United States last night. SYRACUSE, N. Y¥.—Floyd Johnson, New York heavy- weight, knocked out Italian dack Herman in the third round. BOSTON .—Kid Norfolk, New York heavy, won a 10-round decision from Lee Anderson, ERIF,. Pa-—Eddie Weygant, of Newcastle, and Sammy Sandow, of Cincinnati, fought a 12-round draw last night. CHICAGO.—Pal_ Moore out- boxed Bud Taylor in 10 rounds. LOS ANGELES.—Bud Ridley, Se attle feather, outpointed Frankie Mc Cann in the four-round main event here last night SINGLE SCULL RACE BILLED A single intercollegiate § sculling race will be added to the American association's rowing meet on the Schuylkill river, May 26. WELL, WELL, LISTEN IN Five colleges in the New Ene- land conference have sounded the knell of paid coaches and will use student-players in their places. that he has the| flattened O’Dowd twice, and Caps Win Victoria _ Game, 3-2 | Barney Stanley Scores Two Goals for Regina | Team, Winning Game | SRE | } Won Lost Tied Pts. Beattie he Van or Oe es. jetoria ee Sm | GAMES NEXT WEEK Monday—Seattle at Vancouver. Wednesday—Vancouver at Seattle, Friday—Vancouver at Victoria, | ICTORIA, B. C., Dec. 23.—Hold- ing the upper hand thruout, the | Regina Capitals took the Victoria | team down the line by a 3-to-2 count jhere last night. The victory con- cluded Regina's trip to the Coast jand two victories out of three starts |dangied at their belt. Barney Stanley, veteran Regina | forward, was the hero of the game, scoring two goals for the winners. | The back-checking of the visitors | featured their play. THE SUMMARY Victoria Regina, Fowler ican Laird [¢. Leughitn D .seoce Moran W. Loughiin D ‘Traub Oatman ¥. Hay Frederickson ¥. Btanley Mocking °% Sparrow Halderson ¥. Batteil Dunderdale Fr Dukowskt Fr + MeVeith -10 24 -@ 1 13 ‘Regina, 7:87 Second pertod—Victoria, Oatman |from Frederickson, 12 Regina, Stanley, 2:6 First period — Staniey, Second period—McVelgh, 2 mi Third period—Dukowski, 2 min- utes. }utes; Frederickson, 2 minutes; Dukowskt, minutes; minutes, iM’GRAW TALKS ABOUT BURNS NEW YORK, Dec, 23.—George Burns, Cincinnati! outfielder, said to j have been elected president of the | Baseball Players’ association, was made a candidate without his per- |mission and will not serve, accord. ing to John McGraw, manager of the Giants. ; SUTHERLAND AT PITTSBURG? Gossip in the East has it that Jock Sutherland, Lafayette coach, will succeed Glenn Warner at Pittsburg when Warner comes to Stanford. Victoria, free si » Meeking, Big Game SAN DIEGO, Dec. 23.—The East- West football game scheduled for Christmas day at the local stadium ts an important factor in all South- ern California today. Gonzaga university, of Spokane, and the husky Mountaineers, from West Virginia university, will pla The flashy Hasterners yesterday and engaged in a short workout at the polo field at Coro- nado, ‘They are reported to be one of the greatest passing teams in the West and expect to give the hardy Bast erners plenty of opposition. The Virginians were due today, and San Diego All Set for on Christmas | will hold a short workout, probably jon the stadium field. They are un- |der the watehful eye of Dr. Charies “Fat" Spears, their coach, He has | bad @ reputation tn the past for turn- jing out championship football teams jand this year's record that Virginia has piled up seems to indicate that y. | his present outfit is no exception. arrived bere | To complete the gala event Waltet | Eckersall, accredited with being “the greatest football player of all times,” will referee the contest. Perfect football weather pected. The Gonzagans outweigh ‘t Motintaineers by 10 pounds to the man, No more long-time contracts for Frank Chance. When he agreed of the Boston Red lated the contract one year only, Chance fears that his desire to st back into the game may prove to be a mere fancy, and bh wish to tie up to a longer contract than one year. That will enable him to pass up the national pastime if a whirl at the managerial game 4“ the sport has lost its lure, When Chance came back to man- the Yankees, he signed for three The contract was binding take he to charge stipu be for to Sox, was up that he found it a very difficult matter to break his contract with out getting Into a lot of unpleasant rink has been renovated and will be used | for boxing only in the future, ji 80 feet. ‘The Philadelphia difficulties, That is why his contract with Noston culls for omy one year, Own- Frank Chance Signs for Only One Season has no} in many ways. Before tee close of the final year of the contract he desired to resign, yet was so tied| | FRANK CHANCE er Frazee was desirous of tying Chance up for three years, ' . | 5