The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 22, 1923, Page 12

PAGE 12 THE SEATTI JANUARY 22, Jack Dempsey Certain to Fight During the 1923 Season BY HENRY L, FARRELL upc < DEMPSEY beyond an de some place not be in need of coin stipend, but It Had he not been tied up with Dempsey wi year, He tried to was threatened he finixh tt Finding opponents for at difficult as finding mone Kearns has an ilea that Dempse is Worth at least $100,000. He m as het # a cinch he does uid have enga rm ow rt 8 form ay be 1 a place [TP DEMPSEY wants to fant thin year he probably of Marry W Lula I cl ably 1 off much will be drawn # @ built up America jouth reed rn that and Jim Trai ew th Amer big enough for that kind of an Ind Amer HSPITH the fact that wolghts Tommy in the class, the St, 1 or show I bout with Dempary na did not bother 1 dove > the point whe od, aa afraid of the co! mout of the promoters big veral nge Dompney rv inwue that would iokard for a toes sant on to show crack at the title and an improvement the a, where Firpo ta a nal idol for bout ut former Austratian Kat the infigt and he » Gibbons wants a fight with yxing they would pay hampton » got it around Gibbons is one of the beat heavy. aul boy has been unable to get a with ob t re he © the ho felt that hamplon « brought ones and several unar malle but It would be @ good card for any promot Another journey raid many times that he will go to Bucope for another get WY ha f the American promoters do not busy and get him that Di er and could mean ¢ und Carper other mide wet to the going there to nome work Dempne Beckett sounds like a ridicul on thin wide, but the B them wou. good mon in }IDAHO BASKETBALL FIVE FACING ELIMINATION FROM BIG RACE EMINISCENCES © Rio-2dugaate As Told to Leo m Hurst and a le, H. Lassen a Near Riot CHAPTER XXI | 7 WM HURST had the keenest tongue of any umpire ever cried “Play ball! He had a high, shrill voice, ; He wasn't a ready to fight that and a line of lingo that could | cut like a knife. very big fellow, but he was at the drop of the hat. Hurst was working one day in Milwaukee and the home on the pan. time, and the particularly stands. Hurst ed for the fans. thrown back yelling out: business and le “The hell I mean team fans started to put hin Hurst stood for it for some on somebody said something from the third base took off his mask and start He was met by a gang and on the field, one big fellow “Go back and stick to your pt the game go on will!” shouted Tim, and he ran back to the plate and yelled, “This game is forfeited to Minneapolis, 9 to 0!” The fans started for the field and Hurst for the club house. We all grabbed bats and kept the back. The Milwaukee bugs had blood in their eyes and a good thing for Tim that there were plenty of blue- on hand. Tuesday Dugdale will tell about Cy Young. RE’S NEW REDUCING METHOD: PETERSBURG, Fla, Jan. 22— ty matrons and debutantes have been tipping the scales their favorite mark have dis the best medium for reduc thetr discovery has to do with roiling over slopes, electric baths, physi and all that sort of stuff. } have learned that a game of shoes, pitched every day, Temove the enlarged waistline reducra. ago, very few women, attempted j with 204 points, with Lemoine Bat to Diay | members of the horse shoe pitching | golf, but today the Wil-|club In St. Petersburg. | “HORSESHOES” Mame Park lanes here are thronged with members of the alleged weaker sex who tramp the 40-foot distance Detween stakes, bending over to pick | up their own horse shoes, keeping ‘at it thru the daylight hours, ‘Twelve women have developed the art of tossing the tron footwear #0 that they can make ringers with every other pitch, and have entered in the national meet to be held here during the week of Feb. 19, when the United States barnyard golf championship will be at stake. There are close to 2300 woman HARRY LIEN SENSATION OF | SKI TOURNEY NHICAGO, Jan. 22—Harry Lien, rangy Norwegian farmer, arrived fro the old country than a month ago, was the sensation at the national ski championships at the Norge club here Lien outclassed the veterans and waa easily the star of the meet, but} V was placed in class B, as he had no | glin standing in this country. This classi- fication barred him from premier | honors. pe jone } the Cari Nilsen, Norge club, took first | pall, whose luck deserted him all of | Pillette was the outeta a sudden after being in Seattle in ®, is thru de & JUMD | came |son, Eau Claire, Wis. $ 2-3 pointe. Nilsen 138 feet. Lien kept his feet on a | 148-foot flight. ‘KNIGHTS FACE ond with | 4 last | TWO BIG GAMES MRS, JESSIE L. PATON NEW YORK, Jan 22—In ac ce with the new plan to let 3 m, as far as possible, control Women’s athletics, Mrs. Jensie L. has the distinction of being ‘the first woman handicapper to be _ @hosen for women’s track and ficld ‘events by the Amateur Athletic Mrs, Paton, formerly a star of the and field, is now president of Morningside Women's Athletic of New York. Vancouver will play Vic- toria at the Seattle Arena, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 24 * at 8:30 p. m. - Reduced Prices Admission, $1, $1.25, $1.50 (Tax Included) Reserved seats now on sale at the Arena office, 1210 Fifth Ave. Phone Main 2493 Next big home attraction: SASKATOON vs. SEATTLE Wednesday, January 91 The local Knights of basketball team, with 12 for the season chalked up, faces two hard games this week. Wednes day they play the strong Spaulding | team at the ¢ gym Satur | day they jump to Portland to tangle |with the Arietta semi-pro outfit. | | Saturday the Knights trimmes the K. of P. team in Hoquiam, 36 to 16. | TIGERS HAVE SPORT PROFIT PRINCETON, Jan. 22.—Princeton Jathletic teams drew $168,248 last| |year, of which $84,295 was a clear| Profit, according to the report of | |the athletic committee. ‘The foot ball revenue was $169,846. Basket jball and baseball operated at al profit of $8,902, Other sporta were | | dead lonses, Columbus victories “DOC” BAGLEY GIVEN DATE| j YORK, Jan Because }he had not been getting any of |the big matches, Gene Tunney, fa- | mous American light heavyweight |champion, “fired” his manager, | Frank (“Doe”) Bagley, and will han |dle his own affairs |290000000000000000' Zero Is Always Warm! Come in and enjoy the com panionship of good ‘ellows. The ZERO 214 defferson St. Just back of L. C. Smith Bidg, Card Tables, Pool, Cigars, Candies, Soft Drinks, Fountain Lunches Pay Cheeks Cashed | | | disa win has wor night, meeting the Baitimore league Columbia University, after |hopes to on the basketball courts, Bob lumbtia standing stars superiors as a Still Breaking Hammer Records Zealand mark recently feet. Merchant expects to compete in the A. A. U. events in summer if he returns to this country. Jack Merchant, the famous California weight thrower, who holds the intercol- legiate record in the event, is still breaking records. He smashed the New well over 160 Chicago this in an exhibition event there with a to: Edmonton and Mets to Clash IE Seattle Mets are making thotr second start on the prairie to- Edmonton team, of the toughest assignments on trip. The Mots got off to a good start tn | who| Canada, winning from Calgary in a| ‘hat leas | bitter form of Jock Walker, who potted two | team of goals, Wednestay the Mets go to Saska. joon and Friday vertime game. The return to helps a lot to Regina. Vie tonight tan the ancow: and ria sg in Victoria are and |same teams meet here Wednesday. 111] Clymer, the wanderer of base with the managerial Clymer flivvered in Newark year and is now coaching the Orioles in the Columbia Ace BOB PULLEYN a very gridiron, prestige on the k some strous win ba Pulleyn, captain of the Co- team, is one the out of the Kastern In He has few getter leginte League. point Pulleyn in confident his team will | the intercollegiate title, as he same }wtill T can rec Bullseyes of Baseball No. 17—Greatest first-year pitcher I ever saw. QIELDOM do recruit pitchers enjoy, As unexpected as was the showing & big season in their first year/of the Athietion, it was no more so in the majors. than the pitching of Harry Krause, Rarely dons a “rookie” break in|] umpired in a great many of the as a regular in his first year. Urual-|games pitched by Krause in the on the bench’ the greater | spring, and I w oastonally fill.) a* saying I never her in a game| Pitcher work better, He acted like |@ veteran from the very start and Pillette of the Detroit 7h o'ank = bag Segy td as 22 was ome of the few ex. | ental ee ee ceptions to the rule, Pillette came |e race |to Detroit in a deal with Portiand,| Krause made his debut |whereby the Tirers secured Pitchers | 190%, In @ game against W and Pillette. Johnson was |4nd shut out his oppone w jreckoned an the star—Pillette as the |} to 0. He won hin secon |raw recrult with promine the same score over Chica the Detroit team} The critics began to sit up and just the reverse. |take notice, and continued to do se ding young |for some time Krause hin pitcher of the major leagues. Hoe |firnt 10 games, the most remarkable won 19 games and lost 13. Late in| winning streak ever staged by a re the season be seemed to be suffering |cruit in his major league debut a bit overwork and wasn’t| Six of the victories were xhutouta. ive Only five runs were made by the 4 6 oar, no M4 |opposition tn 10 games. Three of joy Robertson of the Chicago |the victories were scored at the ex White Sox, who achieved undying pense of Detroft, pennant winner fame with hin no-run-no-hit gamm, In| the preceding year. St. Louls finally which not a player reached first. |beat him in 11 innings. In no one Pete Donahue, in his first complete (game did Krause allow than year at Cincinnat!, was the big noine | six hite. among the pitchers In the| Unquestion: National but of Southpaw Harry Krause While the work of trio of |rates as the most unusual I ever pitchers med was high class, |saw—tt fs unique in major league H no recruit pitcher | circles. such @ sensational debut | or enjoyed so big a season as did| TOMORROW—The freakiest ball Pitcher Harry Krause with the Ath-| «ame I ever saw, Ieticn in 1909 In 1908 the Athletics finished sixth | Lee Fohl, manager of the st with @ percentage of 444, Just three | Louls Browns, has blossomed into a points in advance of Washington, | Willie Hoppe this winter and is that finished seventh. In 1909 the| playing a mean game of billiards in Athletics surprised the baseball world | Bt. Louis. He is taking part in a by finishing mpletely up-| tournament there and had his plc setting th ‘ture In the paper and everything hiy he a | part of the season, We in an o reliet saw @ recruit peer | Herman May & ington | Johnson game by Conditions on last year were more young ly, the first year de thre who madi mcond, c expert dope. Jimmy Dunn Trying to Develop Champ Stable Cuan BY O'CONNELL Dunn's lightweight championship honors Dunn of © und, who good boys than manager is: tt to turn out a before he Jimmy | hope for has developed more any other boxing country, has a desir champion in oh gives up the fistic gam the man who made featherweight cham still holds: Dunn is Johnny Kilbane pion, a title he If ever a fighter knocked out an opponent, Bryan Downey did that very thing to Johnny Wilson, mid dloweight champion, Downey hon estly won title, but never was na tionally recognized ax the premier middleweight Dunn ts confident elther Cart ‘Tre- |maine or Al Corbett beat Joo | Lynch, bantamweight champion He also ha high hopes for O'Con. nell as a lightweight aspirant can an experienced varsity team to k with and plenty of high-class oubstitutes, Dunn's desire to turn out a cham pion for every class is not without the realms of possibility, CHARLWY O'CONNELL nt to gO on record | ning | Gibbons’ ? Forfeit Refused N. Y. Commission Returns Coin on Jack Dempsey Challenge BY HENRY L, FARRELL United Press Staff Correspondent EW YORK, Jan. Opposition of the New York boxing commin- sion to the prow poned because of disparity in weight and size resulted today in the with. drawal of the Gibbons forfeit Dempney- atch and challenge. Having fa | thin way, w w go after | champion nt | way and the best way,” Eddie Kane, manager of Gibbons, sald today “Wo will fight our way te match, and the commisxion wi be able to atop it,” h id. Kane took action of the com- | miaston without much He | seemed to think, like the rest of the | New York fight fans, that the com- mission's | « don't amount to much and that Gibbons beats Johnson the atch re commission } the not furs. he will ge Dempaey gardiess of what the thinks about it. William Muldoon, chairman of the communion, said that Ofbbons | could find plenty of work among the men of his own weight, without folng out of hie clags, He maid he Was opposed to any boxer leaving his class, He took the position that the commission could not put iteelf in the role of a matchmaker by sug gesting a light heavywelght oppo- nent for Gibbons, alno How much will Babe Adams last? The famous pitcher of the Pitts burg team will be 40 years of May 18, 1923, Few big league pitchers stand the strain at age. Cy Young was one of few exceptions longer the PREP CAGERS PLAY AGAIN ON TUESDAY HE third ser nes in the Seattle high basketball race will be dished up tomorrow. The Ballard-Roosevelt tft will hold the ter of the stage. Roth won their first two starts, me is scheduled for Ballard. ‘ranklin plays Garfield at Frank Lincoln me Broadway at Broadway, and West tle plays | Queen Anne at Wert Seattle |NAVY CREW TO QUIT HUDSON ] ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 22 cause training and actual participation in | the exacts too much time and requires an absence from the train ing cruise, the navy crew will not |be permitted to compete in the “in tercollegiates” this year, according to Admiral Wilson, superintendent lof the of school PIRATES CAN If the I n Legion team tonight 1 of the 19 title. ‘They me at the Wanderer the Washington teams first game at 7 p. m. tes can trim the Amer they will be assur city ama. hockey the second night. ‘The University of Play the | tow Arena to. and the | CINCH TITLE} clash in} | piel i | _ Playing | O. A. C. Idahoans Walloped by Or- egon; Washington Faces Crucial Trip BY LEO H. LASSEN AKING a 42 to 25 beating from Ore gon Saturday night at Eugene, | the Idaho basket ! ball five assimi lated their second trimming of their present road trip. Washington threw the hoo! into the 1 champions Thurs day, 37 to 36. Tovight the Vandals play the pow erful Oregon Aggies at Corvallis and, should Idaho get another beating, their chances for repeating in the Coast race will just about be knocked for a loop The Idaho team 1s facing tougher opposition this year than last. Their only big games last season were with Washington at Moscow. They didn't play either Oregon team ané turned in only seven games in the Coast race. This year they are facing some tough games away from home ané | WALTER HAGEN | Walter Hagen, British open golf |champion, is no respecter of sea- sons when it comes to breaking reo ords, Winter or summer, Hagen 18] tne edge is going against them. equally expert on the links. Wit wm coain of vomiuens eine Recently he set a new record of | might have started on this trip a bil 68 for the Lakeside Links at San | overconfident. The two defeats they Francisco tn a best ball, foursome.| have suffered on this journey wil Hagen was paired with Joe Kirk-| remedy this. wood, and they defeated Gene Sara-| Washington goes to Oregon Thurs wn and Jock Hutchison by thelaay, playing the strong Eugen: secant margin of one up in 6 holes. | team, and later jumping over to play the Oregon Aggies. SCHMIDT IS addition of Latham, the Oregon, in the basement last year, Charley Schmidt, who played first | len center, is a great help. | base for the Boston Braves when| art ~~ wire are — title in 1914, O/NEILL TO BE js hearing the call of the game WITH READING again. Schmidt is @ prosperous butcher, who would lke to get| Jimmy O'Neill, former Washing back In baseball. He weighs 240/ton shortstop, who was slated to pounds, but he worked out with the | come to Seattle on the Ray Francis Baltimore Orioles Jast fall and they | deal last year, has ‘been signed by said ho showed up well. He has| Reading of the International cir had an offer to act as coach by|cult for next season O'Neill didn’t Brooklyn, but is understood to want| come West because of illness. He to play regularly. was out of baseball last year. OSTON, Mass., Jan. 22.—Frank| up against it. Chance, during his recent visit} Peck was captain under Chance to Boston, intimated that he would) during his managerial reign in New like to put over a deal with Wash-| York. When Chance resigned, Peck ington for Roger Peckinpaugh finished out the season in charge of It was when Chance managed the| the Yankees, ew York club that Peck came into) Last year Peck got away to a his own as one of the greatest | poor start in Washington and really shortstops in the majors ance| never hit his stride for any great has always been very partial to|iength of time during the entire Peck--regards him ay a great player, ; season. and would like to have him in the| The fans there expected great Red Sox Ineup to build around. things from the former New York Chance realizes that Peck js noj|star, and when he failed to show longer @ youngster, yet he sees no|he was showered with many wreaths reason why Roger shouldn't be good | of wild razzberries, for four or five more years. A man-| Peck is no big favorite in Wash. ager can build an infield around a| ington and for that reason Chanes good shortstop, but with a weak|may be able to Interest Owner man at that position he is decidedly | Griffith in a deal {VET TO FACE COWBOY that | Billy Wright, veteran welterweight, who faces the tough- est fight of his comeback effort at the Crystal Pool tomor- row night, meeting Cowboy Padgett, the crack Denver | battler. BIG RING CARD IS ALL | SET FOR POOL TUESDAY |\A7iTH Cowboy Padgett and Billy The veteran will be facing his tough Wright both tn top condition }est assignment tomorrow night |for their six-round main event serap | a Zwickey, Seattle boy, who everything is all set for the first | Teached begs of the Log Angeles [long time. The game will get under (oayiand Billy Harms, a rugged ous ‘way again at the Crystal Pool tomor- tomer. ice with 24 rounds of Pening | _Jopnny Mack, the hard-hitting sburg youngster, tosses the | Padgett, one of the best drawing |leather mittens with Jack Lewis, a jeards in the country, is sald to be |newcomer from St, Paul s slam bang miller and is finishing | Frankte battles Kid Hoff. jup a long ring tour His last bout |man, a log from Woodinville. was with Joe Simonich in Butte | Soldier Woods will windmill four Green Wright is making a good come-|rounds with Jack Lockhart of Port back, winning three straight fights. | Townsend. Te SPI How hou: aus! wer! Gr was near “atti only him,” was round threat my hi to 4: insid ‘A shoritl Aor wou rend be pr bim o’cloc were ell ri A is a posit Pyo tion but p all i bleedi and stored dition, Spri