The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 15, 1923, Page 11

IP ote, nen Sar the the gas #2529 Peaed va ta ba bd Ee bd be by THURSDAY, IS STAGE SET FOR 1924 RETURN OF KENWORTHY AT PORTLAND? ((EMINISCE Cc D- FEBRUARY ES le ED As Told to Leo H. Lassen Ernie Schorr as an Outfielder ainly Pp CHAPTER XLIL ulling for Hunky Schorr to make good with "M cert the Indians as an outfielder this year Schorr is too ; good a hitter to waste. his time trying to pitch any more, as he’s thru as a hurler. But that southpaw is one of the most nat- ural hitters that I ever saw swing a bat. And nerve! One game last summer Jack Adams sent him in to pinch hit against a lefthanded pitcher, an almost impossible situation, and Hunky drove out a single and won the game. If Harry Wolverton can only teach Schorr THE SEATTLE STAR Derailed 100 Yards | From Span | Four Cars on Eskimo} Train Derailed at Ed- son; Play Mets Tonight} HE Edmonton Eskimos had the time of their re-| peetive young es in getting to the Coast for I really thir training that Dugéate good outfielde Schorr would perk up consic was rather discouraged over don’t care” attitude. a fellow at all. larly and get his base knocks, He'll hustle for Wolverton, for everybody under Wolf works like the devil for him. Schorr wouldn't be the first pite to be made over into a good out fielder because of his hitting Look at Babe Ruth, Joe Wood, Reb Rus | sell, George Van Haltren, and to go back further, Larry Twitchell, of the old Detroits, who was a great hitting pitcher turned into a star outfielder. “Dutch” Ru er, the Brooklyn star, is other pitcher who will have a long tenure in baseball when pitching days are over because “Dytch” can hit. He and Jim Poole are the only * to ever knock three homers in two days over that Ruether turned his trick years two years ago with Portland in the three homers in a doubleheader, Friday Dugdale will tell about the value of a good cateher to his | pitchers. ago the tricks of outfielding—but it’s no easy job, the ball, Schorr must learn how to start with judge flies and he must also learn how to throw, vk that if a smart fielder like Billy Lane would coach Schorr during spring the southpaw would make a r in time, lerably playing every day. He his pitching and had that “I But underneath he’s not a bad sort of And he likes to hit. If he would play regu- I think he would be a st the Gray r field wall at Spokane, while Seattle pe Poole di jason, hitting with closing weeks of the ‘Lincoln May for Prep 4 game at Broadway holding th Broadway is the last hard Railsplitters have won six out Cinch Tie Title Friday VO mighty important high school basketball tussles are on the boards for tomorrow with the Lincoln-Broadway | e chief center of interest. hurdle for Lincoln and as the of seven the worst they should get would be a tie for first place if they beat the Tigers, After Broadway the Lincoln Franklin and Garfield, both games being conceded to Lin- coln on the season’s showing so far. ‘While Lincoln and Broadway are clashing, Ballard and Roosevelt will get together’ in another important game at Roosevelt, Ballard still has @ slim chance of getting a tie for first place, altho their chances for winning the title are slim. Roosevelt, however, is still very Much in the running. The Rough team closes the season with Riders lost by a single point margin to the Ballard club at Ballard earlier im the season, the only black mark charged to their record. Since then they have been strengthened by the addition of Monty Snider and playing on thetr home floor today the Teddies will be | the favorites to win } Queen Anne should have no trouble Garfield and up an even Anne today while Franklin. should put {fight at Franklin, THIRD BASE MEN TO PLAY VITAL ROLES EW third basemen will play a big part in deciding where American league clubs are going in the next pennant race. Willie Kamm, the $100,000 Pacific} Coast star, might play the Ch White Sox into the world’s series if he lives up to his rep. Striking distance of the pennant. If Sammy Hale delivers, Connie Mack will not regret the expenditure Of the $50,000 that he put out for the youngster. The Athletics every year have looked promising, but they look better than ever this winter. Lee Fob! will have to get a third} baseman for the St, Louis Browns, as | he hasn't any. If he lands a good} one, he may win the pennant, as the last year by a weakness at the dizzy corner, If the Brooklyn Robins had a team to help out a good third baseman, if they had one, they would figure in the National tional league Shas CHANCE IS ON WAY TO PHILLY LOS ANGELES, Cal. Feb. 15— Frank Chance, the new Boaton man- ager, left here last night for Phils delphia to attend the American league meeting there. After the meeting he was to start preparations for spring training, PADDOCK MAY GO EAST ALONE LOS ANGELES, Feb. 15.—The University of Southern California may send only a one-man team to the Pennsylvania relay carnival. Charlie Paddock probably will be the man, AMERICAN OLYMPIC OUTLOOK IS POOR MERICA’S chances for another victory in the 1924 Olympics at Paris are none too bright. While several of the Huropean nations have improved since 1920, the United States not only has not kept abreast, but has fallen behind @ little in de- velopment. American officials came back from the Antwerp games three years ago convinced that something would have to be done to develop some distance runners, but nothing has been don At the present time it even looks like the American runners will make a poorer showing in the events above the quarter-mile than they did ja 1920, Sweden, developing most rapidly in three | The Sox do| Rot need a lot to get them within| Browns were kept out of the pennant | ,HERE’S WHERE Contention of long standing that figures and averages mean little in Judging the class of ball players ts | borne out In last season's averages, | which show that Dave Bancroft made more errors than any other player in the big leagues and that Rosa Young }led the outfielders in making boots. | Bancroft ix held by most critics as the | class of all the shortstops and they don't come much better tn the gar- dens than Young. BAT LEADERS MAY REPEAT | Some half million dollars worth of young ball players are coming up in the National league next season, but jit isn't likely that any of them will displace Rogers Hornsby as the bat- | ting champion, and there aren't any jeandidates for his office in the league now. George Sisler may be dethroned a: league, but if he does drop down it will be on account of that bad shoul- der which he hurt last fall. WELTERS BOX DRAW BATTLE OAKLAND, Cal. Feb, 15—Young Dudley, New Orleans, negro, and Jimmy Duffy boxed four-round draw here Jast night. It was the bout which had been reported as “framed” for 4 draw but moat fans thought the pair earned their money. PORTLAND MITT SHOW DELAYED The snow socked the ring show booked for Portland Tuesday night, and the bill will be staged Saturday night, Harry Anderson {s due to box Johnny Trambitas In one of the 10- round bouts, a every department of track and infield sports, probably will give America the most opposition, The Swedos will win a lot of points and they will be helped by some of the smaller na- tions who will cut further into the United States. It the Swedes develop some good sprinters and some welght men, they will have a great chance to win the championship, America’s team will be a veteran outfit as, with very few exceptions, {no athletes have been developed nince 1920 good enough to make the team. Gourdin, the world's champlon broad jumper sprinters; Brown, the Dartmouth high Jumper, and Hellfrich, the mid- winning from West Seattle at Queen | FIGURES LIE} | the hitting king of the American} LeConey and McAllister, the | their series of hockey eames! with the Coast teama They were held up at Ed won, Alberta, for seven hours be . tween Monday Willie Hoppe, the world’s champion days. In addition, ~ and Tues balk-line billiard player, has dia- Hoppe will give you the “ AY mornin, ’ eical face grammed his eight hardest shots Don that coaches derailed especially for The Star billiard players champion. Every billiard within 100 yards of @ big bridge. No and fans. And he tells you how to make want to follow this series. rere bt ee bo them, The first article by Hoppe will diagrams, an ne excitement a hocke 7" player’a. life. lon't po nd appear on Fridg sport page. There do well to master one aticks and pucks on aden will be one a day for the next seven The Eekimos, now | ng the Pral Irie leu ere originally scheduled Mets at the Areha| - e storma held them | that the game was called | off yeserday The two teams get together tonight at 8:30. The delay makes it tough on the Edmonton team, an the visitors leave here tomorrow morning, and play Vietorta that same night in the B.C. | city It was impossible to toria game to Saturday night, be-| cause the Cougars leave for the prai and are due | egina for u battle there Monday night rie after Friday's game. lat The Eskimos will complete their| | Const vinit with a tiff at Vancouver Me y Hoth teams are expected to start thelr regular lineups tonight with th exception of Roy Rickey who ts still | the game with an injured jeg. | WALKER BILL MAY DECIDE BOXING FATE. OXING all over the country In a large part, depends on what hap- pens to the sport in New York. If | the present period of unrest results jin repeal of the Walker law, as nas been threatened, {t will mean simply | that boxing can not and will not be anice game, Ifthe Walker law can-/ | not make a decent sport of it, it ts | not a sport and it should not be con- ducted as such. The Walker law represents the thought and deliberation of wise and experienced minds. It covers every | technical ground as no previous law | lever has done. It controls every. thing but the greed of boxers, mana gers and promoters and that is im- possible to control. After some sad experiences with | Battling Siki, the French boxing| federation said the sport needed closer supervision in Paris and that they were going to follow thf lead of | the New York boxing commiaston. New York 1s looked up to the same way In this country and if the game dies hore, a lot of boxers will have to look around for some other line of business, ax there will be little doing | }in the ring any place | | William Muldoon, chairman of the| York commission, has made some mistakes. Some of his rulings have been the caune of mirth and | ridicule, but he didn't make any min-| |take when he issued the edict that a boxer committing a foul would not be entitled to collect hin purse, Thera has been only one foul committed | since that edict, \NET PLAY IS | BOOKED TODAY The weather man delayed the in- door tennis tournament at the Ar- and Wed nesday’s schedule was to be run off today, as follown: 3:30 o'clock—Luclo Villexus va. Boris Jurin. 4 o’clock—H. Sanford vs. Jack Adams, 4:30 o'clock Lewis vs, Fred Nims, 5 Ken Kelso vs. George 5:30 o'clock—Frank Kol- Crevey vs, Otho Graver —Mij. Crabtree vs. Bill mory one day yesterday, n lock — | Mazna. owsk! vs. 7 o'clock Erkle. SNOW HOLDS BACK VESSEL seven youngsters who were due to leave for the Seattle baseball training camp, at San Jose, yester- day, were delayed when the boat coming from Frisco was held up by the storm, They are leaving tomor- row morning. They are; Fisch, Fer- guson, Davis, Bausano, Maloney, Be- sau and Lavera, dle distance runner, are about the only ones that may make the team who didn't go to Antwerp, Only six athletes on the 1920 team had had previous Olymple expertence —Dan Ahearn, Pat MeDonald, 1 Moredith, Fred Murray, Pat Ryan and Matt McGrath, With the exception of Meredith and Murray, they will also be on the next team probably and with them as vet erans will be ‘Tom Campbell, Jimmy Connolly, Sol Butler, Mike Devanney, Jake Driscoll, Marl Johnson, Hob Lo- Gendre, Jack Merchant, Brick Muller Loren Murehinon, Charley Paddock Tole Ray, Johnny Murphy, Wille Plant, Ailen Woodring, Ray Watwon and Vrank Zuna, | Lilian Cunningham, Bad Luck Is First Big Alibi D luck ts first alibt of 4 poor B’ ner. Winners as a rule make their own breaks, but the element of chance in really what makes all smmes & sport “breaks” are considered the big ting in baseball and they are a big- ger factor on the diamond perhaps than on any other field of athletics The “broaks" in baseball are not od to the field, however. Luck in jet players is moro of a tac in building winning ball vbe than in poling home runs and hing one-hit games. The New York Yankees have four of the finest scouts in the Their aystem of combing bush leagues is the most expensive in baseball, but if has never returned a dividend of a nickel, In eight -years, the American league club has not dincov- ered one real player. fault of the club and the scouts aren't to blame. They just didn’t have the luck. George W. Grant, owner of the on Braves, has given deep thought to the subject because his the jclub can't afford to pay big money for dmveloped stars and depends largely on what it can pick up tn the Tough. One real find in fair average in baseball, he figures Some clubs have luck in gobs. In the last four years, the Cin- cinnati Reds have had phenomenal luck tn getting great young players. In fact, the Reds have gotten all the} | | finds in the major leagues Pat Dunc sto Donahue, Har- per, Hohno, Fonseca and Pinel! are & huge assortment to pick up for | nothing and the Reds did that very| thing, for practically no outlay of cash was made. John McGraw has turned up more star players perhaps than any other manager in the game, but he did not profit by ft as he should have. Mc- Graw always plays ‘today's game to- |day and does not bother about to- morrow. He didn't have time to bother with Rommel, Roush, Groh and a flock of others and he turned | |them over to others to be polished | and brightened for the future. STAR HURLER BENEDICT NOW VANCOUVER, Wash, Fob. 15.— George E. (“Rube”) Walberg, of Rush City, Minn., who pit for the Portland Beavers last season, was married here Wednesday to Miss of Portland. Walberg was was purchased by the New York Giants for $40,000, and will pitch for the Bastern team next season, /TROEH BOOSTS HIS TRAP LEAD KANSAS CITY, Feb. 15.—Frank Troeh, of Vancouver, Wash., in- creased his lead in the interstate tar- get amateur shoot here yesterday by dropping 142 out of a possible 150 birds, four better than the runner-up in the day's shoot. Mark Arie, of Champlain, IL, annexed the individ ual amateur wing shot championship by knocking 28 file ORIENTALS OUT FOR GOLF TEAM BOSTON b. 15.—Two Japanese and one Chinese have reported to try out for the golf team at Boston unl versity, One of the Japanese, Ken. sok Morie, won the championship at the Poughkeepsie Country club, last summer, NEW LEAGUE PIPE DREAM NEW YORK, Feb. 15.—-Declaring that {t would bo a violation of be ball law to invade another league's territory, John A. Heydler, president of the National league, called talk of a third league backed by the majors, “a pipe dream,” LEWIS RISKS MAT HONORS KANSAS CITY, Feb, 16.—-d Strangler") Lewis will defend hin heavywelght wrestling title tonight against Joo (Toots) Monat, the Col orido cowboy, in a finish matoh, best two out of three falia, country. | | straight Varsity Hoop Men Due Today The University of Washington Hi team was due to ar rive from Px n this afternoon at 9:30, after being stuck since T at Cle Elum, in the Ca» ades. ‘They will arrive on the The due to storms, may Auee postponement of the Wash Ington-O, A. C. game, scheduled for Saturday night here, Buell Is Good Man for Foley ee EDDIE BUELL, the hard socking and methodical young New York! bantamweight who scraps Vic Foley | here Tuesday at the Pool in the six It is not the} round main event, should be a good ring test for the Vancouver, € crack. Buell B. has fought here three weeks, beating Frankie Green and Eddie Nell twice, but getting credit only for the Nell vio- tory Inst week, cock-eyed decisions robbing him of his just rewards in | hie first two starts, 200 chances is a/ | | of his departure that Buell is & husky baby with an effective right hand. He does most of his punching with his mitten and carries & real wallop in it, He leads well with his starboard glove, some thing exceptional in the best boxing circles, The fans having ween Green on hig ear & comer and he certainly plenty of clans. While Foley will be a favorite to | beat Buell, the satior will be far |from @ pushover for the Vancouver star and it wouldn't be surprising for Buell to force the favorite to the ait Austin & Salt, who are staging the | show, are preparing the rest of the card which will include the usual know Foley's class, him knock Frankie ‘They claim Foley's shows |sixround semi-final and three four- round battles, RUTH LOOKS FIT FOR A BIG SEASON ABE RUTH left New York last fall and went up into the farm country of New England full of reso- lutions and promises. tor “Jimmy” Walker, father of the Sunday baseball and the boxing laws, had told the Babe on the ove “the dirty faced kids in the street” expected him to be back on his stride next season and} the Babe left saying he would. No efforts have been made to learn {f the Babe was keeping hix promise to “stay on the wagon," or if he had been chopping wood and’ plowing the fields, but the swat king looks like he has been keeping all promises, Ho has lost much of his waist tne, his eyes are clear and he has the same spring in his walk that he had in 1921, when he was stepping up, hitting ‘om and running around the bases, Ruth says he ts going to make a New record next season and if he gets away good in the first woek and gets back some of that old confidence, Babe will haye a big year, and so will baxoball, WELSH TRIES TO COME BACK NEW YORK, Feb. 15,.—IFreddie Welsh, former lightweight cham. pion, sally Saturday for Wngland, try for a comeback in his native land, He will be accompanied by Jack Sharkey, New York bantam. welght, who also will meet the Brit ish bantams, BERCOT AND BLACK MEET Dode Bercot, the Monroe logeer, is facing Joe Black, the Denver light welmht, In a sixround serap at Ta. coma tonight, Crities think it Is the hardest test Rercot haw had yet be couse Black ix a tough baby and a pretty good ring general, But Ber cot is so much stronger that he te figured to win, Johnny Mack and Billy Young box in the slx-round semi-final, to} in Saturday's Star Dozen Billiard have helped to make him player will Cut out the d try out the shots! You'll an evening! Champ Ball Clubs Don’t | Last Long (uaurion ball clubs, in these days of “get rid of ‘em when they crack,” have a normal duration of only a few years. More recently the Giants and the |¥ankees seem to have broken the| pell that prevented clubs from re- peating a» pennant winners. Requirements of modern baseball necemsitate an ever changing policy [in personnel as ts evidenced by look- ing over the rosters of the major | league club: Not one of the great stars of the 1914 Athletics remain on Connie fuck’s payroll. Many of them are | still in the game, but they are scat- | tered all over the circuit. Hank Gowdy is the lone survivor of the champion Brave team of 1914 The champion Boston Red Sox of 1915 have been completely disbanded and of the Philadelphia Nationals, which opposed them in the series that fall, none remain, Olson, Wheat, Myers and Johnston are the only members of the Brook- lyn champlons of 1916 who are still drawing pay from Squire Ebbets. Faber still survive, but all the other 1917 have departed. Every one of jthe pennant winning Giants of the |same year has also gone his way. Killifer, Hollocher, Deal and O'Far- jrell still wear the Cub uniforms, but the Cubs of 1918 have scattered. championship tn 1919, broke up the Cincinnati Reds. With Daubert, Duncan, Roush, Wingo and | Luque as a foundation, he has built anew team that is another con- tender, The Cleveland champions of 1921 |are also under the process of reor- |mantzation. Coveleskie, Uhle, Mor- |ton, Wamby, Sewell, Jamieson are the only survivors that Tris Speaker has on his roll. The New York Yankees have what might be considered a veteran clup and the owners will have to keep} building it up with new material as they go along, The Giants, on the other hand, have virtually a young team and Me- aw ought to be able to get along A three or four years with the ma- terial he now has at his disposal. Disruption of a team usually re- sults In a wide scattering of the play- Jers, but in a few cases teammates have found themselves back in company eventually, The New York Yankees the most notable example, as they are made up almost entirely of groups of players from other clubs, Baker, Bush, Schang, Pennock and Shawkey of the 1914 Athletics are all banded together again under the banner of Miller Huggins, Along with the same group who reached New York via Boston are other former Red Sox players, in- cluding Scott, Ruth, Mays, Jones, Hoyt and MoNally, As the players come and go, so do the managers. John McGraw and Connte Mack hold the record among the majors for long distance tn office. Hoth have financial holdings in their clubs and both can have their jobs as long as they want them, HERE’S PROOF OF CONTENTION Baseball people maintain that baseball and boxing haye nothing in common, With the exception of the purpose of getting money out of the public, the two sports are not closely connected. Jens Willard at 40 Is barred from the ring and Babe Adams at 42 has the Pirates begging |him to stay with them next season. BROVOLD GOES TO MOLINE MEN George Broyold, the young short. stop, who showed so much in spring training last year, only to flop when the season started, is going to try a comeback, He was sold to Moline, in the ‘Three I league, yesterday, by Seattle, COMHAGNO IS MIX WINNER SAN FRANCISCO, Feb, 15.-Sam: my Combagno boat Angelo Silva in the main event of last night's fours round show here, PAGE 11 Beavers book as Weak | as in 1922 Right Now Portland Moguls May Be Making Things Easy for the Iron Duke to Take Over Managerial Reins in 1924; Beavers Headed for Cellar BY LEO H. ONSIDER the Portland baseball situation. Bill Kenworthy, part owner of the Beaver club, is banned for this year from the Coast league, He will play for Columbus, in the American association, Kenworthy will return to the Rose City in 1924, and it’s dollars to doughnuts that he will manage the club. The 1923 Portland Coast league team doesn’t shape up one whit better than the 1922 aggregation that finished in seventh Eddie Collins, Ray Schalk and Red | stars of the champion White Sox of | After winning the pennant and the} Pat Moran/ Gardner and| many old} place. make a go of it when he pilote The reason is that pitchers seldom take part in the of- fensive work of the club. Th recting attack, so necessary for managers. Consider, then, Kenworthy should trot home in first place—or even in the first division The Portland fans, a loyal lot to their club, would yell murdér if the 1923 manager were deposed if he made in 192% ja good showing this year. jgreet Kenworthy as the baset again this year. The Portland owners \infield and only fair pitching. As the thing now stands |doesn’t fill in the basement ag: If Portland does finish hig team as it now lines up, it wi E first meeting of The The delay will give ample | Friday's meeting was to have |added the changes as needed. But the complete new code agers at next week’s meeting. As there will be but two meetings of the managers before the be |ginning of the season it {s tmport- ant that every team Interested in the junior league have a represen- tative at both, SAME UMPIRE |PLAN THIS YEAR The same umpire plan will be used In The Star league this year that held good last season. Two umpires will work each game, each Jimmy Middleton, a pitcher, will manage the team this year, and in the history of baseball, mighty few pitchers have ever made gp Christy Mathewson, brainy hur the diamond wilderness in 1924 if the Beavers are a flop have made no strengthen their club. They have the only untried manager in the league, and they have no catching department, a weak jin the league have poorer teams, Star Ball Meeting Is Delayed Until Monday H T takes a sock on the chin from Kid Snow and the session scheduled for Friday will be held Monday. have the rules code for the season lined up. The plan for i od aS Managers. Even } r that he was, couldn't . ed Cincinnati. ep ney have no experience in di- s case in 1924, if the Beavers On the other hand they will vall Moses to lead them out of real efforts to The outfield looks good. Portland will be lucky if it ain this year. her than the cellar, with the ill only be because other clubs Star Junior Baseball league time for this department te gone over last year’s rules and will be submitted to the man- team to have an umpire ready for each of the preliminaries. The Star will appoint the official umpires for the finals, NOT TO USE UPPER WOODLAND PARK The Star league teams are asked not to use upper Woodland park grounds this season because of the demand of the older teams for this playing field. There is plenty of room on the lower grounds for Star league teams, | BAMBINO WILL SET FOR BY HENRY L, FARRELL EW YORK, Feb, 15.—On his way to become another buster, or a for good, Babe Ruth headed | jout of New York's zero breezes to- day and tok off for Hot Springs. He was the lone traveler of the boys who failed to register a victory in the last world’s series, but he will be Joined at the resort by Everett Scott, Carl Mays, Wally Schang, Bob Shawkey and Mike McNally, who will start today from their homes. Ruth took his first shots at the home run alleys of the New Yankee stadium yesterday and he failed to do anything more than send a couple of liners bouncing over the snow- drifts. Once he struck out. Accompanied by some scribes he went out to the stadium, got off a fur overcoat and swung a bat at the delivery of one of the scribes. The Babe explained his failure to connect as being the result of some timidity on his part. He didn't want to kill the scribe with an uncon- trolled drive thru the box, and he didn’t want to flirt with a strained MIDDLEWEIGHT TITLE IS OPEN Some ambitious boy around 155 pounds who wants to make a pile without putting in too many years at it, ought to start a drive for the middleweight championship. Johnny Wilson, the champion, is passe and Mike O'Dowd, the New York com- mission's champion, {s in such bad shape that the commission ts afraid to let him box for fear something will happen, MODESTY MEANS NOTHING, BOYS Two members of the American Olympic team for 1924 have already been announced, Jole Ray and Bob McAllister have announced them- selves as members of the track and field delegation that Uncle Sam will send to Paris, The boys are confi- dent, If nothing else, But the nice part about it fs that the committee to pick the team no doubt will agree with them, BEAR QUINTET DEFEATS CARDS SAN FRANCISCO, Feb, 15.—The University of California basketball team nosed ont its ancient rival Stanford, 26 to 25, in a hard-fought game last night. It was the first of the conference serios between the California colleges, | oust, +e SOON BE SEASON GRIND side by swinging too hard and—— missing. i The swat king registered approval - of the right field stands and he en thused over the possibility for inside homers in deep center field, % Ruth explained before leaving that he did not intend to do any” work with a baseball until he are rives at the real training camp in New Orleans. . At Hot Springs he intends to take ~ baths, drink water, play golf, hike ~ thru the hills and do a lot of hand-— ball playing. He wants to get off as much weight ax he can before hé starts tuning his swing and eye. — “T'll be reduced enough when 1 get to New Orleans to jump right into baseball without’ being forced ‘9 spend a lot of time getting in shape, I feel fine now as far an that is con- o. cerned," he said, “but I can still af ford to work off about 15 or 20 pounds.” Ruth looks fine. His eye is clear, his skin ruddy and he speaks as if he means it when he says, “I’m com: ing back this year, boys, maybe not for another record, but I'm coming ~ back." mi TWO SLEEP PUNCHES IN ONE NIGHT ANNY FRUSH, who helped John~ ny Kilbane demonstrate his new knee punch in Cleveland several” years ago, {s back in England and ts seeking a bout with the British Hght- weight champion. Danny wasn’t regatded as a won- der among the featherweights in this country and he probably didn’t re- gard anything as wonderful over here, Frush was knocked out by Johnny | Dundee in his last fight here and a few minutes after Johnny had tapped — him on the chin, his manager laid him flat with another tap adminis tered fn the dressing room, Fighting managers are not always 80 00d. WAKEFIELD'S) BILLIARDS HATTLE’S LEADING RECKBATION PARLORS 2 ROOMS