The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 30, 1922, Page 10

EATTLE STAR SATURDA BER 30, 1922. ; WILLARD NEVER WILL BE MATCH FOR JACK DEMPSEY: EMINISCENCES ©) (The Fighting Pose of _ | Ex-Champ Too Old, Fat \ D-EDugdate A. “Bearcat” Dode Bercot|and Slow for Champion As Told to Leo H. Lassen Wiad jee Rematable Piriee. | Dae darry Decker Used Beefsteak and Shot While Inventing Big Glove Youth, Punch and Condition All in His Favor CHAPTER II. BY LEO H. LASSEN UT this in your bonnet: N the old days catchers used to take some aw ful punishment because of the Protection. The pitching box was 50 feet in those early days and the hurt Jess Willard will never beat Jack Demp- sey for the world’s heavyweight champion- as much speed as they have now. ; Of course, the catchers stood back and took the first pitches on the ship unless they let him come in with @ cou- ple of axes Willard is a wonderfully built fellow, big and powerful, with the power that weight alone gives But the former champion is too old, fat and too slow to ever be considered as formidable championship conte i Seattle fans will see Willard for themselves here Tui bounce except when men were on bases, and it was the third strike Pieesgteyt ea Pool when he will go thru the +i0ismnmn But they had no shin guards, masks or big gloves in those days, and a polinada Sfinard te simaply showing hisneet aa fellow had to be almost a martyr to go behind the plate with fellows like 5 § 3 John Clarkson, Amos Rusie and those old stars doing the pitching The big catcher’s pad now in use in baseball, is the same glove that Harry Decker,\a team mate of mine on the Peoria team in 1885, invented. Harry had been troubled with split fingers and he kept tinkering around with leather trying to figure out how to protect his left hand, which does the big work for all catchers He had a thin, fingerless glove to start with and one day he slipped a piece of raw beefsteak between the glove and his hand and that gave him no real boxing in the exhibition. But as Willard will undoubtedly be given a chance with his first idea. He used this protection for almost a season, using a fresh piece of meat each day. Dempsey again, it will be interesting for Seattle fans to see the Oklahoma cowboy for san themselves. , fewy . nin read Willard doen not claim to be tn | Then he tried shot in the pocket of the glove and put a piece of leather on top of the shot, leaving it between the two pieces of leather. ad This gave him the idea of building the mitt up bigger and lacing fin- on the back of the glove. he hit upon the idea of st felt and used that.¢-~ Houthern condition now, saying that he would | been in use ever since. ee ee ae ae Fanning With Farrell pending nd in} have the marks of those @ays on my hands, broken Never correctly mended, and Most champions kept titles. Football was exception. Baseball champs repeated. many of the old-time BY HENRY L. FARRELL | {+ desine of en joints removed from j close of the nd fingers, because they ITH the exception of golf and) Wor, ¢ Cal Ewing Outsmarts Coasters Fosters Rookie Rule and| Protects Himself With Veterans wing for smarting the ef the league fe wing stered the now the whe rookie rule effect in | ~ J : that two | did not wAA league of of lack ers had nm who ve in € or major in 1922 . ] ot ball be members veh Coast league club Then } Del Baker ad Chet nd they and ready to bit things up ia old time fashion. Thomas for an the rookie rule in Baker league RIVERS COMING \ALANG BETTER Jimmy Rivers, the Tacoma fellow | who showed such promise last year, only to lone several starts becau, «he in coming back again. a fellow named Bill Mor- acoma recently, and next k he tackles Ted Krache, the un cated « Harbor boy. Rivers has plenty of boxing «kill and if he ix have |in condition and fights he should get a long ways in the ring game yet ne the after majors | need intensive work for five o He ling a paunch that makes Daniel | Dug Willard ix like » big, good-natured kid, and the talk i# that Willard i keen on fighting, but that t being caged by his | friends A mateh with {but one result, and that’s a crushing defeat for Willard Willard took a terrible nix st mer in the several years months to get in shape port the Coast j Thomas played in the Independent! , | oll saath: teak ont le look tike a Morgan dancer. | wouldn't lead | He lick an seen long major | | | row league servi { | So Ewing 4 his cowork # ers by grat ookiens on so-called | 1 fortit It Ewing will up of the rookie rule ¢ and | atching tat corps whether Dempney can and finally got * uffing rags in the mitt for protection, « beating at |PORTLAND BOUT | Toledo in 1919, and then he LOOKS GOOD has grown no younger and has! Danny Kramer and Jae ined no skill, while Dempsey is at | meet in Portland Monday im @ lthe very peak of his championship‘ round scrap that will go a long wayn | reign toward deciding the Coast feather-* weight title, Both fellows have going well lately and a good bout in order, nince n A MAY GAME Reports from the East state that Shea, righthanded flinger with Francinoo Beals last season, may quit the national pastime, But that ho in stint} ood minor league ner, | | the job agair | a the Ha | FANS WILL LAKE HELMAN Seattlc fans will like the Chuck Heilman, the Por | ster who will take on F at the Crystal Pool Tuesday night. I the time fm baseball today, with protections of all kinds. Job compared to the dun by the knights of the those early days. « darn SCHUMAN COMING BACK TON. W. Eddie Marino says that of 4d young nkie Green ‘old guard.” The season found ampion-—Gene Barazen MAISEL, ENGINEERED OWN DEAL posuere! Dugdale will tell the changes in some of TA, Deo. 30.—Wi- Tuden, tennis champion, be able in Chi- | clubs on successive years established | the first of June, Sandy and @ six weeks’ trip to Cali! the “little world’s series” from St the Pacific Northwest, at Chicago, Indianapolis, Seattle, San Francisco, Lo» other points,” the tennis “Sandy” Weiner is bia ‘annual changes ore boxing, leaders in mont sport) remained tn porseasion of their hon-| ore thru 1922. } There was practically a new list of champions tn football, but that is such an unstable game that many forced by nat ural conditions Professional baseball retained most of its leading clubs and tennis had no important changes. In the college field, rowing agd track and field, two major sports, found the same powers in com- mand. eee NNING of the two major i league pennants by New York) @ new record for baseball. The} Giants, in winning their second suc: cessive world’s championship, also! accomplished a feat that hadn't! been equaled in several years. Baltimore ran away with the In- ternational league pennant and won Paul, the pennant winners of the American Association. H OTBALL had ita greatest year ' and the outstanding sectional | teams, if they are disputed as cham-/| East—Princeton. | heavyweight title British ©) Hagen American Sarazen P. G. A. Champion Amateur Champion ner Amateer Woman Champion Giena Collett C ALIPORNIA national and the Eastern intercollegiate track and field champtonship for the second time and the rowing eight of the United States Naval academf | won ite third title. eee SSAGH of Georges Carpentior, Johnny Buff and Gene Tunney} as ring champions were unusual de-| velopments of the year in pugiliem. | ‘arpentier dropped all his tithe when | he was knocked out by Hattling/ Siki; Johnny Buff lost his fyweight! title to Pancho Villa and Harry Greb beat Gene Tunney for the light Champlon—Walter Open Champion—Gene Gene Sarazen Jense Sweet Mire won the The preseas champion are } World's Hoavyweight-—Jack Demp- ney European Siket World's Light Heavyweight—Bat- | ting Sikt 1 American Light Heavyweight Heavyweight | George | con [when he had a chance ball wanted league to p arou You can't figure Maisel always back to the Coast players. to but with | Low Angeles he turns and | engineers a deal for himself whereby | with Toronto in the In e Hie he will play ternational gue next lL. A of Us event wa Mainet in a star or in Coast league company YELLOWHOKSE LIKES FIREWATER Sammy Bohne says that Moses Yellowhorse will be a big star with Sacramento in the Coast league this year if the big indian hurier can walk the straight and narrow. Ac cording to Bohne, Yellowhorse likes | to dabble with firewater too much, and tack of condition kept him from being « star last year, Bohne says) Yellowhorse showed him one of the | best fast balls in the National league | last year LESLIE 18 GOOD WORKEK Roy Lesile, new Salt Lake first Hattiing Acker le & pretty good firet base Monroe Logger Has 12 guardian rding to Louis Fon seca, Cincy infielder, wintering in| California, Fonseca is quoted as say-| jing that he i@ « good fi jer, altho [he won't make the pitchers in this! => * & * * *% Tremendous Physique Gives Bercot Wallop Y,-Inch Biceps and Strong Arms Give Him Punching Strength; How He Stacks Up; To Meet Nessman This little fellow boxes with real skill for a kid who haw had but a few fights under his belt. He also han a real kick and he may be heard of in| faster company one of these days WRIGHT W BE WATCHED A great of will also settle on Billy Wright, who | comeback Wrigh has won two starte In Walla Walla and will be meeting a rugged fellow in Oakland Billy Harms in the Pool show. Wright always was a clever fellow, | but he couldn't stand rugged going. Dan Salt says Billy ts In good condi- Rain Slows dea nterest the Tuesday showing of doing » heal BY M. D. TRACY TANFORD UNIVERSITY Dec. 30.—Cold, wet weather the prospect at daybreak today for this afternoon's East-West football game between Stanford and Pitts burg | Drizwing rain, which at times Schuman will be back in west soon, never be champion of ant the North- hying, but Schuman always gives the boys and «iris a good run for their money. There ix gossip that he will mix with sob Harper in Portland soon, JOE BENJAMIN COMING NORTH Joe Benjamin ROO! line for a bout in Tacoma is coming George Shanklin has him 4 and plar ,;to use bim with Morgan Jones, | jamin hasn't been in the Ni " for « long time. The last @ boxed here he stopped Harold Morgan's brother, at the Silent Andy Kerr, Many notabies world will see the game, Coaches Spears of West Bezdek of Penn State, of Qregon, Henderson of and Smith of California. ‘Up Field for Stanford-Pittsburg Gai Cardinal unburdened himself. He had m was |more to say : ot the Uv. This welterweight will ‘ pions, were: | Middle West—iowa and Michiga. South—Vanderbilt. | 1EN one considers the husky build of “Bearcat” Dode law Greb. arty Gre! | World's Middleweight Johnny | leasue weep and moan any |erew heavy and then shaded off!” George Yarnell, former has been advised by Pro- M. Stratton of the make him just as Professor Stratton says. CHINESE DOCTOR glee Herbs) jedicine 208 James t.. Cor. 2nd Seattic. Main 2195 on Savings Accounts Subject tu Check Are Cordially Invited pt, Sevings Bank | bot Bad Bad Bal bo be Po S.NAVY YARD Take Fast Steamers at Coiman Dock Missourt Valley—Nebraska | Pacific Coast—California oe | PPAMILIAR faces were all found H in familiar places after @ most successful year of tennis. The list lof champions below found only one ange and that was because Will jam T. Tilden did not defend his British title: Davie Cup Champions — United} | States. j World's Singles Champton—Wiil- jam T. Tilden. | World's Woman Champlon—Miie. | Suzanne Lengien. | American Woman's Champton— |Mrs, Molla Maflory | British Singles Champion—Gerald | L. Patterson. | ALL the golf crowns changed | hands during a spectacular and most interesting season which saw [the rapid rise of young players and Wilson. New York's W ~Mike O'Dowd World's Welterweight Mickey | Waker, j Worlds Junior Welterweight — Pinkey Mitchell World's Lightweight Leonard World's Junior Lightweight Johnny Dundes. { World's Featherweight — Johnny | Kilbane New York's World's weight—Jobnny Dundee World's Bantamweight Lynch. World's Flyweight—Jimmy Wilde American Flyweight Pancho Villa The titles bestowed O'Dowd and Johnny Dundee are trick gifts of the New York boxing commission and Mitchell was elected to his crown by a public vote. ‘orid’s sasadiowretent | | Renny Feather. Joe on Mike | Fare and One-half Tickets and Reservations at King Street Station Matin 6620 L. CAREY, General Agent Passenger Depart@ent 200 1. ©, Smith Building Elliott 6580 THE LINE OF RELIABLE SERVICE Dates of Sale December 29, 30, 31, January 1 Final Return Limit January 3 | Round Trip | Convenient | Schedules | Consolidated Ticket Office 1910 Second Avenue Elliott 5830 “lin 10 uninteresting rounds JOHNNY DUNDEE RING VICTOR. MILWAUKEE, Wis, Dec. 30 Johnny Dundee, New York, * junior lightweight champion, scored a clean-cut victory over Tommy O'Brien, Milwaukee, here last night! Dundee | ance in the seventh round and) dropped him with a right to the| jaw. O'Brien wan up on the re bound and was not hurt. | SCOTT ELEVEN IN PORTLAND) PORTLAND, Deo. 30.—The Scott high school eleven, from Toledo, Ohio, in the West to play the Cor vailis high school eleven Monday in the New Year's day intersectional scholastic football battle, were see. | ing the sights in Portland today.! They will move on to Corvallis Sunday CLUB PUTS UP FINE FOR RAY | shows “Geveiop "into, wood. oy. im ttn first annual CHICAGO, Dec, 30.—The Tlinots Athletic club has forwarded a check for $100 to the National Amateur Athletic union sayment of the fine imposed on Ray, a runner, for violation of the amateur rules, Ray was alleged to have turned in too large an expense account | ROBERTSON IS NOW FREE MAN Outfielder Dave Robertson ts now a free agent. He has been given his unconditional by the New York Giants release ITHIN the next few weeks, Kim, Pacific champion, George Von Northwest amateur will try back into the good graces of the national body, and every golfer who knows him is hoping he will be successful. Traveling « around competing in tournaments for a | period of six weeks on full pay of the counts that ree’s entry in the na tional amateur event to be re jected. He was not profession alized, He was put on proba- tion, as it were, by the govern: ing body, and as he hax quit his position in the — sporting goods store in Salt Lake City, his chances for reinstatement to get Bercott, the Monroe logger, who has jumped into the | again almost to a fog, fell during the Northwest ring spotlight so suddenly, there is no question as ‘to where this youngster gets his tremendous wallop. Working in the woods as a high rigger, one of the most strenuous jobs in a logging camp, Bercott has built himself | vast crowd expected, turning out to up wonderfully by pulling log- ging tackle up in the air. Rercott weighs only 135% pounds. but be measures 12% Inches around forearm He has @ reach of 72 Inches, |which is a long reach for a lght-| weight, ‘The Monroe youngster is stil) mighty green in ways of the ring and Lonnie Austin is acting winely in pushing him along slowly, meet ing boys of Ais own experience Bercott’s next ring appearance will be in Tacoma with Jack New man, the Vancouver, B. C weight. Nossman is a husky kid himself and carries a good punch He should be able to make things interesting for Lercott Austin, who t a good boxing, thinks that Bercott punch and his willingness to learn. judge. of with his Rereott has the natural advantace to start with in splendid that is in tip-top trim a body Jack Josephs Is Winner in Melee With Jimmy Duffy LOS ANGELES, Dec, 30.—Jack Josephs of Minneapolis, is the Coast welterweight champion to- day, defeating Oakland Jimmy Duffy in a four-round serap here last night appear 0. K, Here's hoping, George! Two of § ors. pattle’s best-known golf. namely, Bon Stein and Johnnie will be effected by the new amateur rule, regarding players working in sporting goods stores, which goes into effect next Monday, January 1 Bon Stein, who has been employed in the local Spalding's store during the past seven years, will undoubt- edly hold en to his amateur stand. ing by resigning from his position tonight, Johnnie Jones is not very keen on the subject and may main with the Piper & Taft store, where he has been for the past two years, Of course, he «till has a few hours Jones, re Neh: | caught O'rien off bal! tne biceps and 11 inches around the| Weight Height (barefoot) . Chest, normal Chest, expanded Waist Neck Bicepe Porearms Thighs Calves Ankles BR 135% pounds . 7% inches . 96% inches 39 inches 2 inches: inches: inches inches inches: Inches inches inches: | | A. A. F. Body Is Well Under Way YORK, Dec. 90.—The Na- Amateur Athletic federation of America got away to a flying start NEW tional nvention and tts place in the The meeting was y indication that tion was here to formally assumed world ‘conducted with & the new organi: stay The federation, it was explained lat some length by various speakers, is in no way a controlling bod | ite purpose is not to usurp the pow jers and duties of the various sepa- rate organizations of which it is com- posed. All of which appears to have! | been a roundabout way of informing jthe A. A. U. t the latter organ. ization need feel no apprehension athletic ‘night and was continuing during the/ jearly morning, The result was a wet turf, altho not a muddy one, @ promine of only a portion of the witness the game Pittsburg seemed a favorite in what betting was being done. Little money was up, it appeared, and the bets were laid at the odds which seemed to suit the fancy of the bet- tors Stanford's record for the season, composed chiefly of glorious defeats, | |was not such as to make her a) | favorite over any team, among the | ‘technical dopesters. Her chances to- jday, everyone agreed, were on the jsame basis as they have been in| every other game she has played, ‘namely, dependent principaliy on the {famous Stanford “fight.” If the [fighting spirit develops sufficiently | } | hero, will referee; Tom known to fame at Columbia, will as umpire, and Walter | Chicago will be head linesman, 4 VICTORIA IS. VICTOR © ICTORIA, B.C, Dee, ph | ie | toria halted the mad the Vancouver hock night, winning, 4 to The lineup and summary Victoria Fowler C, Loughlin Molderson Oatman Frederickson Maekin Dunder: w. a D D F Pittsburg, everyone knew, could ex pect trouble. j Both coaches reported their men | |generaily in fine condition, Sack, | Pittsburg tackle, who has been suf tering from a cold, was better, al tho not entirely recovered “My men are in better shape than lthey have been all season.” declared {Glenn Warner, the Pitt coach. "We expect a hard game, but we expect jto win it. Stanfor squad was hitting all cylin . With the exception of | Wilcox, star halfback, who has been | Jordered to watch the game from the | nach on account of an injury suf. | fered earlier in the season. His loss, | however, will not demoralize the Cardinals, as they have several dan in the backfield. Cleveland, substi Wileox's place. “Stanford doesn't games ex: | in joining the ration. Jleft in which to decide whether he wishes to be a professional golfer, Unusual will be shown in the California open cham: | plonship San next) week because of the fact that Al) Espinosa, the Inglewood pro, holder | of the state open title, will be a| competitor. This young star's play-| ing in the 1922 events was par ex cellence and many keen judges pre- dict that he has the ability to win national honors, Hig real test will] come in the California field, as he will be pitted against such world famed linkamen as Gene Sarazen, Walter Hagen, k" Huehinson, “Chick” Evans, Joe Kirkwood, |Black, McDonald Smith, local interest at Francisco pecting to lose th Wright and Dr. Paul Hunter, The! but the Northwest will quite a list, including Spokane; Dave Black, Vancouver and Willie Black and Phil Tayor, Victoria, } entry Joo Novak, Chairman T, F. Ryan and his membership committee have had a very successful campaign, rounding up new members for the Karlington Country and Golf | club, The list is about full, and Chairman Ryan expects it co | over the top by midnight tomor. | row. Any golfer wishing to join the happy family of the Black | River links can save $80 by sign: ing up now, because the fee will positively be raised from $20 to $50 on January 1, Better hurry! 4:3 rnira pert | utes First period Second period—-2, Halderson od Harris, #910: Frederickson, Penalties Firat pertod— jond period—Meeking, 2 minut Third pertod—Coak, 2 minutes Frederickson, PANCHO WINS V NEW 2 minutes, VILLA . YORK, Dec, 30.— | Villa, American flyweight holds a 15-round decision today The Filipino, weighing 1 lander la at night |gerous men who carry a real threat | Terry Martin of Providence, u tute fullback, will start the game in| to Martin's 115%, fought a | and tongs battle with the New: Madison Square The Rainier Golf and Country simon-pure or a| Inglewood pro will be the only local | will formally open its new have at its links on the Des Moines Weather Walter Wand will on New Yea ting, Capt ‘8 day. some sort of competition on the but, whether or not, ov | promised a good time, because dent Roy Ogden has a program. | Up that will keep the crowd |from 2 o'clock in the afternoon along about the midnight hour, M. J. Galbraith, captain of Jefferson Park Golf club, has Monday. The rest of the lexpected to put on holiday | nounced a bogey competition for | Beacon Hill golfers, tomorrow but Captain “Gal” is the only |te come to bat with any