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HE ATTLE STAR FERI BERCOT AND FOLEY ARE LISTED FOR NEXT RING CARD HERG e+ % & + % SE UARY J SAN FRANCISCO SEALS LOOMING AS TEAM TO BEAT ON COAST EMINISCENCES 0 Bercot vs. Nessman FACING A BIG JOB oid of Willie Kamm D-EDugdate Foley to Box Green Is Bound to Hurt Ene Ed Mulligen, former Salt Lake and Chicago third sacker, As Told to Leo H. Lassen im O'C, : ts facing a sweet task in San Francisco this year. He has been signed to fill in Willie Kamm's wonder shoes, Vancouver Trial TE te See How Long He Can Stay With Bercot, and Colored Battler to Tangle With Great By, Baseball Needs the Draft CHAPTER XXX and that’s some assignment, Crack British Columbia Bantam in Pool Show R the good of baseball the draft should be in effect 0E NESSMAN, the tough little Vancouver between the big leagues and the minors and between} (B. C.) lightweight, will be the next punch- ing bag for Dode Bercot, the Monroe logger. the larger minors and the ones of lower classification, _ man, who stayed six rounds with Bercot The draft, I learned from experience, is the best thing in the world for advancing in Tacoma, taking an awful lacing doing it, the players in their profession, and there will try to keep from getting killed in the main event of the Crystal Pool show Tuesday, are mighty few players in the minors who} don’t look forward to going to the big show} Nessman is a fairly clever kid and a glutton} some day, for punishment, He assimilated a lot of| The exception, of course, is the broken- punches in the Tacoma fight and made it| ™. fairly interesting for Bercot, making him) down veteran who has had his fling at the big time. jmiss considerably. But Nessman doesn’t pack a wallop hefty | Players can be sold in mid-season, too, | Ne enough to force Bercot, and unless the dope is sadly upset, sman is in for a tough evening but those that aren’t shouldn't be kept| Vie Foley, the star Vancouver (B. C.) bantamweight, the down. class of his division in these parts at present, will tangle That’s just what the present non-draft With Frankie Green, the local colored boy, in the other six-| “ n + saps . 1 scrap. Foley has plenty ttitude of the Coast league is doing. roun¢ . : “s he the case of Willie Kamm. 4 of class, packing a punch, and | cision over Travie Davis recently The San Francisco star was ready for ad-jhe has a goodly amount of| Dugests Vancement a vear, maybe two years ago. | boxing alc. ; 5 ; P jreen has But the Frisco club held him back until! they could cash in a big sale. 7 The moguls aren’t in the game for their healths entirely. by any means, but too much commercialism may some day | sound the death knell of professional baseball, While at the head of the old Northwestern league club here I sold/ many players before the draft would have nailed them, but I lost money on the draft—Lesiie Mann, for example, going up for $760 when I could have got thousands for him in the open market With the Coast league cities growing continuously in size and wealth I look for the loop on this side of the country to be the third big league soon, But the league isn’t ripe for it yet with smaller cities like Bac ramento and Salt Lake still in. Until that time the Coast league should work in harmony with the big leagues and with the smaller minors, The big leagues are a market for the minors and a source of players, while the smaller minors serve @5 producers of young talent, and the developers of player farmed out by the big circuits. As I stated In my Tuesday story, baseball wars between leagues have never paid, and the draft question may yet cause a break between the Ed Mulligan Has Sob Cut Out for Him; Won't Be Missed So Much; Seals Have tery Department AN FRANCISCO is looming as the team ty beat in the Coast league race again this ear, Winning the pennant last year they any fp scent naturally favorites to repeat, They lose Willie Kamm, their third sacker, and Jim O'C: ‘onnell, a big in the outfield and a good run-getter, But the Seals have Eddie Mullig, minor league infielder, for third 4 they have a world of outfield mai The Seals present a grand pair at base with the veteran Pete Kilduff jstuff alongside of Hal Rhyne, who should have a big Bert Ellison, the strong man, is back for first base, jhits in form he’s worth his |= ‘weight in gold. He led the league in driving in runs oad year. The Seals have wonderful aieadl |material. Joe Kelly had @ fine nea-| son last year and will hold down left field Tim Hendryx, one of the hardest hitters in the minors, will cover one of the other positions, and then there's Tom Connolly, a newcomer from the International league, and Gene Valia, the flashy youngster. Pete Compton is expected to be traded before the season starts, probably to Balt Lake. Jim Agnew and Archie Yeile will do the recelying for the third straight season. They're a fine pair, The Seals have quantity and qual- ity for thelr pitching staff. Jim Scott, Al Courtney, Shovel Hodge, Oliver Mitchell, Bob Geary, Lefty Alten, Pat Shea and Doug McWheeney make up a sterling |BLACK MAY |HOX BERCOT right) Joo Black, the Devvor lehtweight along, and he will be meeting a man may be boxing Dode Hercot soon. in his own weight class Tuesday, | Black has plenty of boxing skill, and Sailor Eddie Buell, who shaded |? cA” take ‘em. Black would have been a better opp t for Bercot Green the other night, outwelghed than Juck Nessman, but Black in| him considerably fighting Kid Johnson in Olympia} Tho usual three fourround pre | Tuesday liminaries will make up the rest of| the card been coming |MACK ovUT ) WITH INJURY Johnny Mack, the Pittsburg has been going pretty hard-socking | well lately, will be out of the gamo| Tacoma middleweight, will tangle | for awhile with an injured thumb on with Eddie Richards, whoevor he ta, |hiw right hand, As his right mitt in| in the main event of the Tacoma|his best one, Mack will have to stop card tonight. Roberts won a de-ifighting until it heals, ‘Roosevelt TACOMA CARD ON TONIGHT Eddie Rot the three big minors and the majors. I hope not, for the gamo Itself will be at stake and harmony, not war, is what baseball needs today. Friday Dugdale will tell about some unusual players of the eurly days. eee OHIO STATE LEADS BIG TEN INTRAMURAL WORK. UMBUS, Feb, 1-—“More stu- dents are participating In tra- mural athletics dt Ohio State than of any other school of the Western con- ference,” says Grant P. Ward, mati- ager of intramura) athletics at the Buckeye university and chairman of the Big Ten Intramural association. “A total of 10,595 students were enrolled in the 18 branches o” sport during the school year of 1921-22,” says Ward. “A greater number ts the increase of participants amount- ing to 4,480 in 1921-22 over the fig- ures of the preceding year representa more than the total number of stu- dents In the intramural departments of either the University of Iilinois or the University of Michigan in 1920-21. Michigan, with its 19 branches of intramural sport, ranks Rext to Obio in the size of its de- partment. Milinols ranks third. “One of the secrets for the success | of intramurals at Ohio State is that the system {s based on groups in- stead of individuals,” asserts Ward. “More interest can be stimulated among groups than individuals or even twos or threes. When once the enthusiasm for competition {s creat- ed, the department flourishes.” Intramurals at Ohio State were officiany taken over by the athletic department in 1913-14. Previously, such contests were carried on under the optional challenges of various student groups, In 1913 the school officials established leagues in six major sports and presented trophies to the winning organizations. Eight hundred and forty students partict- Dated that year. WAKEFIELD’S BILLIARDS SEATTLE’S LEADING RECREATION PARLORS 2 ROOMS 2ND_& SENEC, 4th and Pike wessear A Boat Schedules: SAVE MONEY: TACOMA SAFTY ~ SPEED--COMFORT DAILY 7, ® 11 A. My 1, 3, & 7, 9 P, Me “ise PON sInGLE MrRIe 8c FOR ROUND TRIP VICTORIA, B.C PORT ANGELES ~STRAIT POINTS DAILY, 12:00 Midnight (Dees Not Go Through to Victoria Saturday Night SAN JU/EN ISLAND BOINTS Con'et stra. from Anacortes or Belling- am, Ly. ‘Beattio daily ex. Bat. 10 p.m, BELLINGHAM-~- ANACORTES DAILY, 1000 P, M, PORT TOWNSEND, RAIL CONNECTIONS AND MILL PORTS HOOD CANAL POINTS SDAY, FRIDAY, 400 Freight Only NEAH BAY & Way Ports TUKSDAY; 10:20 ». M, PUGET SounD BNAViGON I | BT LOLMAR DO BUN IECH In 1914-15, et other sports were added and 1,363 students were enrolled. Since then the growth has been steady with unusual progress during the years following the world war. In 1919- 20 the number of sports was in- creased to nine and 8,613 students took part. Three extra sports were added the next year and the enroll- ment Jumped to 6,115. At the present time 18 branches of athletics are on the schedule and one more will be added in the spring, according to offictals. The sports are: Soccer, country, football, indoor basketball, foul shooting, boxing, wrestling, fencing, festival (track), }aseball, outdoor track, Playgroun? ball, tennis, swimming, golf and horseshoe pitching. Fletcher Is Laying Plans|| cross baseball, bowling, Gave on Arthur Fletcher, new {manager of the Philadelphia Nation- jals, in winter attire. Fletcher has just arrived in Phila- delphia ofr a conference wi! Presi- dent Baker relative to plans for the coming season, Fletcher has several deals in mind that he hopes to put thru, which he feels sure will land the Phillies no worse than sixth, While fletcher will don a uniform, in all probability he will manage from the bench and play utility roles, KNIGHTS WIN FROM SAILORS The strong Knights of Columbus {basketball team won another game {last night at the Casey gym, swamp. ling the U, 8. 8, Texas team, 64 to |16. Stan Riddle was the star for the winners with 30 points to his credit, SHORTSTOPS Sa at certain positions In base ball run in cycles. Ten years ago the American Jeague was rich in shortstops, Today it is a much different story when you start giving the shortstops the once-over, | Ten years ago Jack Barry, at the | very height of his career, was doing ‘big things around short for the Ath+ |letics. Barry has been thru for sev« \eral years, | The great Terry Turner was near. ing the end of hig career at Cleve. | land, but Ray Chapman was just coming into his own, ‘Terry has been out of the majors for a num ber of years, Ray Chapman was killed by @ pitched ball thrown by Carl Mays, to Battle Quay Five Mf baa! big prep basketball games are to be dished up for high schoo! | hoop fans Friday with the Roosevelt: | Queen Anno battle at Roosevelt hold | ine the spotlight. Queen Anne Is sailing along with four straight wina, leading the leagtie, but the Quays are tangling with one of the best clubs in the city on their opponents’ floor Friday. Roonevelt has a scrappy team, and 1g much stronger with Monty Snider in the game. Snider and Jim Hytlen- grin are two splendid scorers, and Don Day at center, young Hagist at forward and Ed Nowell at guard complete a great team. Gueon Anne may start Jimmy Aus- tin at center, altho Chets Schionker has been working well. stad and Eddie Butler will hold down the forward berths, and Brown ahd Cary are figured to start at guards. Ballard lost to Queen Anne Tues |day, but f# still very much in the race. Broadway should give Ballard team a terrific struggle, a the Tigers have plenty of power, in| spite of the fact that they have lost three games, All of the losses were overtime meleen Garfield plays Lincoln, and Frank- lin goes to West Seattle in the other games Friday. MINOR PREXIES GET TOGETHER | SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. Thomas Hickey, president of American Aasociation, guest President McCarthy of the Const league here, has assured the latter| that his league will oppose to the limit the selective draft demands made by the major leagues on the| minors,and which precipitated the | recent controversy between Me- Carthy and Baseball Commissioner Landis, THYE VS. YOKEL PORTLAND, Feb. 1.—The world's lightheayyweight wrestling cham- Plonship will be at stake here to- Percy Bol-| the! Washington Cagers to Show Again 16 University of basketball five will swing Inte action again Friday night before the home fans when the Purple and Gbid five clashes with Washington State. Washington ts leading both the Northwest conference and ths north. ern division of the Coast conference, holding slim leads in both leagues, The Washington record was dent- e4 for the lone time by ©. A. C. last week. Washington State im maid to have & pretty good team, but Coach Boh- ler hasn't been able to settle upon & definite Uneup, affecting the team- work of his quintet. Friel and Roberta are expected to start at forwards for the invad ers, with Sorrenson at center and Schroeder and Loomis at guards. W. 8. C. also has Chandler, Kelso and Sayers for forwards and Har. ington for spare guard. The only change in the Washing: | ton lineup may be at center, Bruce| Hesketh played most of the Oregon} |trip, replacing Chuck Frankland. Otherwine, Frayne and Lewis will | stack up at forwards and Crawford and Bryan at guards. YOUNG STARS WERE DRAFTED Roth George W. Pipgrass and Har. very Hendrick, recently traded to the ‘ankees by the Red Sox for Al De- vormer, are drafted players. The Red Sox acquired both in the fall of 1921, getting Pipgrans, a pitcher, from the Madison club of the Dakota league, and Hendrick, an outfielder, from Nashville, of the Southern associa- tion. Neither was kept last season by the Red Sox, Pipgrass being farmed out to Charleston of the Sally league and Hendrick to Galveston, of the Texas league. Pipgrass was one of the stars of the Sally cireult. He won 19 games and lost nine, pitched! the most innings, 260, and fanned the most batters, 175, and passed the most, 113. Hendrick ranked among the 25 best batterr of the Texas Washington night when Ted Thye, of Portland, the champion, meets Mike Yokel, challenger, of Salt Lake City. AN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1.—Bring- ing with them two Japaness base- ball stars, sald to be the leading ball players of Japan, the purty of major league ball players which spent the winter playing In the Ori. ent arrived in San Francisco Wednesday from Japan, via Hono- lulu, Herb Pennock, Boston Red Sox pitcher, reecived his firet word of his trade to the New York Yankeos on arrival. He made no comment. | Mrs. Waite Hoyt, wife of the New York American piteher, who accom. panied the party, was seriously it and wan taken from her stateroom to a hospital. The two Japanese players are AMERICAN STARS ARRIVE FROM LONG ORIENT TRIP league, batting .311, and in the out- field mado more assists than any other gardener, 24, coming to study American baseball And to let American tans know (unt baseball is a rising sport in Japan, They are “Shorty” Kerehara, shortstop, and “Tris” Yanahaki, out- fielder, both of Kelo university.| Thelr American nicknames were gly. | en them in line with the Oriental custom of adopting American base- ball slang. “Tris” obviously is named after “Tris” Speaker, whose playing meth: ods he im said to imitate, The Americans played 26 games in the Orient, winning 25 and losing one to the Mito team, on which Yanahaki and Kerahara played, an- cording to the accounts given out on arrival, STARRED IN Heine Wagner at Pittsburg, and George McBride at Washington were recognized stars, while the great and only Bobby Wallace at St, Louis was beginning to hear the call of Father Time, Donie Bush, now manager of tho Washington club, and who Intends to merely play utility roles this year, was the big noise at Detroit. Buck Weaver, Jater shifted to third, was starring at short for Chi- cago and Roger Peckinpaugh was going great guns for New York, Johnny Lavan, who later devel oped into a erack fielder, was Just breaking into the majors, What an array of talent! Peckin: paugh alone remains, and Roger is beginning to slow up a bit. YESTERDAYS Last year the arrival of Galloway at Philadelphia, and Rigney at De- trolt, as stars, helped the shortstop situation considerably in the Ameri can league, Walter Gerber has developed into @ star for the St, Louls Browns, Joo Sewell, who gave groat promise at) Cleveland, had a rather rough voy: age last season. Like Peck, Scott of New York is no longer a young. ster, Ernie Johnson iy playing fino ball for Chicago, and, unlike most veterans, his game seems to improve with age, It will be many years, however, before the American league can boast of ® Unoup of shortstops sim. ilar to those in the service 10 years| tract with tho Pittsburg Pirates for the coming season, Ago, * showed tho boys and girls that he ix his [old self again, one annint, in now crowding the leaders, for honors in the goal-scoring race, Seattle Mets Hand Out Beating to Saskatoon BY ALEX C. ROSE ACK home from a very successful trip around the Prairie circuit, the Mets made a welcome reappearance in the local arena last night and waltzed off with a 7 to 1 victory over the Crescents from Saskatoon. The visitors put up a game fight, work, back-checking and but the combination olid defense play of the Mets ‘jwas much too much for Newsy Lalonde and his hire- lings. Neither Captain Frank Foyston nor Roy Rickey were able to take the foe, both being on the Injured Ust. Bernie Morrts sent the Mets into the lead when he hooked a rebound from Herbert's pads tnto the twine, one minute and seven seconds after the face-off. The same player reg- istered the second goal five minutes later, when his easy shot glanced off of Goalie Herbert's stick into the net Led by the great Lalonde, the “Ty Cobb of hockey,” the Prairie |lads made several attempts to break | thru, but their efforts were | blocked by the stonewall trio, name- ly, Rowe, Fraser and Holmes, Bobble Rowe never played a bet- ter or harder game during his long career than he had on tap last night and his end-to-end solo run, which finished when he banged the disc past Herbert for goal No. 3, was easily the star play of the | match. The second perio was but a few minutes started wf en Rowe scored from a rebound, Lalonde, from a pass by Matez, oeat Holmes from close-in for the lone Saskatoon tally. The Mets added three goals in the final session, Morris wetting one and Riley two. THE Linwur Saskatoon + Herbert Smith Matte + Lalonde BY ALEX ©. ROSE Jndging from Inst night's display, the Saskatoon team is properly plaeed-—in the eellar—of the Prairie league, The Regina and Calgary squads are far superior to the Crescenta, How the couver team was held to that 6-6 tle last Monday is @ mystery. Noway Lal player. “Was for “Rusty” , i | rusty, Jou Matto was easily the star of the visitors. How that big bey can ramble down the ice! Lawrence Scott, a promiaing sub on the Barkatoon team, {» quite @ catcher in temi-pro baseball In the prairie towns, Villlams, whe would aitle contract Young Gordon of a game, cheokin, like a vet. ip! played a whale All kinds of shots eluded the Sas- katoon goalie, and Just to add more assortment, big Jim Kiley tried one while sprawling on all fours, Yes, Mt found the net! Jack Walker Giant get any aco hon but the hook-check —w Bernie Morris, with three goals and” |LYNCH HANDS ‘ BUFF BEATING | OAKLAND, 1 fornia Joe” Lynch administe fing beating to Johnny Buff, former bantam and flyweight champlon, in! four rounds, as the main event of last night's boxing show here, Second ' period + Lalonde from Mats, ‘Third period—Morria trom or, Seattle, 8:06; Wiley from Mori Seattle, 1:30; Riley trom McCarthy, attlo, 7:01, enaltion: First period—Lalonde, 4 utes; Morris, minutes, Second Nono, Third pertod—None, }e—Miekey Ton. COAST LEAGUE Won Lot Mod Pts, 2100 1 2 91 0 8 Ml 5 oto LAST NIGHT'S RESULTS Soattle 7, Saskatoon 1. Edmonton 13, Regina 4, KASHIO HERE FOR NET PLAY SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1,—-8 Kashio, new Japanese tennia atar, ho hopes to help Shimidau and 34 OAKS FOR SPRING CAMP OAKLAND, Cal, Feb, 1.—Thirty- four men will comprise the squad the Oakland Coast league team will take to its spring training camp this jyear, Fourteen of the 34 are vet- orang of 1922 ADAMS SIGNS WITH PIRATES PITTSBURG, Feb, 1.—Following a trip by Manager MoKechnie to Beth. Vancouver Beattle . Victoria staff, With a good head ike Jack Miller at the helm, and with their great team «imost intact. the Seals will be in the race all the way. Much depends upon Muligen's ability to cover third base, because Kamm's going leaves a big hole in the infield. O'Connell's hitting won't be minsed ao much. right fleléer of the SEEMS THAT __ {istrict isces WE HEARD OF sic aissias st sow THIS BEFORE in earnest, too, One of the old-time ANNES, Feb. 1—Mile. Suzanne| cently paid Hellmann « Lengten, world’s woman tennis | ment after watching champion. challenged herself tnto a|tion. “Keep your hole on the courte here yesterday | fellow and walked out of tt ture,” he said. The famous young French player|derful game, Harry Heilmann |male player at the resort and her|try.” And coming challenge waa taken up by Col.|the sport, that's praise Mayes, a Canadian. The colonel won the first set at MARINE 6-1 and was lending, 5-0 In the second FOUR set, when Mile, Suzanne abandoned the cause and retired gracefully from the courts, NO GIANT OF 1917 ON TEAM A year ago the last members of the 1917 Giants, National league champions, paseed from New York. First Stim Sallee, the string bean southpaw, received his unconditional release, and George Burns went to Cincinnati in that trade that made Heinle Groh a Giant. Slim Salles had been away from the Giants long enough to get in a world’s series with Cincinnati tn 1919, but returned to the Giants in 1921, when they won again. Of McGraw’s 1917 outfit onty two. of the 24 players who received a world’s series split will be active in the big show the coming season. George Burns will be with Cincin- nat! and Walter Holke recently was traded to Philadelphin by the Braves to play first base. Art Fletcher will manage the team Holke ts to play for, Rube Benton may or may not pitch for Cincin- nati, Ferd Schupp and Lew McCar ty will form a battery for Kansas City. Dave Robertsex will manage Richmond and Joe Wiiheit will hit them far and wide for Salt Lake, Jimmy Smith goes to a_ Pacific coast club as part payment of some of the Phillies’ new talent, WILLS AND WILLARD __ CAN'T FIGHT IN JER BY HENRY L. FARRELL [fying in the direction of night during the annual the Millrosé Athletic Jole Ray, Illinois Athletic America’s champion middle versity, the Intercollegiats mit fits champion, established a pei pit for two-thirds of a mile by resale Ve jthe distance In 243 #5, The af record of 246 2-5 was bell, Mike Devanney. Loren Murchison broke the made In 1882 by Lon Meyers doing it in 6 1.5, Murchison 16 other sprinters had equals & Dick Landon, former Yale ® Olympic games, shared in & record for the niet Joa Aye both cleared the tte? inches, In the jumpoff fe medal, Brown won. The former mark was 6 f inches, made by Johnny Notre Dame. ont any, Mo., Babe Adams has recoratd- ered his intention to play independ ent baseball and has signed a con Kumagoe win tennis honors for Japan thie year, arrived in San Fras cisco from Japan yesterday, He will play a few matches here and then proceed Hast Tom EW YORK, Feb. 1.—Announce- scored ae Hawi be aos ment that the New Jersey box- with a sealed bid and that De Ing commission would not permit ta Stion to go, one bel Jack Dempsey to meet Harry Wills] (oot ee Se he finds out or Jess Willard within Its domain] pit 1a is doing. has put Tex Rickard in the vicinity of the deep blue sea. ‘The Jersey board didn't waste 5 words in expressing just where It|! “The Foure att stood. “No application hag been made to} B ILDEK stage a Dempsey-Willard or al Dompsey-Wills. bout in New Jersey and if an application is made, it|] Hoar thie powerful Will be denied," Louis J. Massano, || addross by the chairman of the commission, said, | Willard can't fight In New York | 1: DINSMORE because he hasn't got a license, and) he can't get one because the com: | UPTON mission said he was too old. wit ous fight In New York for the ba beoatiwe Albany does tot think || “Ile Brother to 100/000 HIS Mt would be a good thing for the || Win gneak on the he problem sport or the state. ey Sena ey a: With Wills and Willard removed || Nvery faunee and mi ant t te from tho list, Tom Gibbons is the | jover of siti SY) Ukely choloe and Rickard has al-|] star Lyceum Course: ready discussed with the managers|| everybody. of the two boxers. ¢! The New York commission said Y M CA Audi , recently that Gibbons couldn't wet in|] De MWbeUe the the ring with Dempsey because ho b 5 was too small but Chatman Mul} Monday, Fe doon is now ready to approve the bout if Gibbons wins decisively} 8:15 P. M. from Floyd Johnson when they meet Tema ved sont tickets ai Rickart's option on Dempsey ex Snecakbertyr ee Mies Pires today and the bids will begin fd

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