The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 17, 1923, Page 13

to to PEBRUARY SATURDAY, THE SEATT LE STAR PAGE 13 | BERCOT-KRACHE SCRAP IS NEXT BIG BATTLE FOR NORTHWEST EMINISCENCES CES 0 As Told to Leo H. Lassen The Klondyke and War With Spain CHAPTER XLIV. PLAYED my last minor league baseball in the Midile | West in 1897 with Kansas City, tp the American asso-| ciation, . That fall I read so much about the gold rush in the Klondyke that I decided to come West to try to make my stake in the North The entire country, even the entire world, was almost daffy over the Klondyke rush, and it attracted as much attention as the s world war, With two fellows, one Tom Buchar the other Tom Murphy, former owner of the Minneapolis club, I came to Seattle in 1898. But when we reached the Coast we heard the other side of the “golden” North, and | decided to stick in Seattle. The stories of an and the slides in Chilcott pass cured my gold ambitions. I saw a boat come in from the the North with coffins from there, and ares that was enough for Daniel Edward Murphy and I decided to start up baseball in Seattle, if it possible. We ran into Chief Borchers, an old major leaguer, who was located in Portland. up in 1892 a npted $96, but soon biew u It rine straight days wonder it exp T got Jack Do: b, and he bought Mur ‘estaura days And t r jorchers took ged the p outfit an played on t It was a half a f enti! they started e grounds were nd the outfield s and tall grass < ne outth But we idn’t have the dough to have the fle fixed up any 4 h may And as a final wallop on the chin, the United States declared war with | He f r ¥ just adout our opening day cen Bryan Crawford : m a cheerful outlook when we opened the season kuurd k ne Monday Dugdale will tell about the first season's play Firpo Is Coming Back to Move In on Money BY HENRY L. FARRELL LMOST like “Tattered Tom,” the poor little} hero of the paper-back novel, who rose from an ash barrel to a palace, Luis Angel Firpo, South American giant, is con back to New York as somebody. Just a year ago Firpo slipped into New York from the Argentine looking for a meal. He thought he could fight and he} wanted some of the big money he heard} was being passed out to fighters in this| country. Firpo wasn’t known then. He couldn’t get matches, and his money was low, so he had to train in a cellar. Finally he got on a card in Jersey with Sailor Maixted and he got $150 for knocking out the sailor. | That helped him a little and he got a $1,000 match with Joe McCann. He knocked out McCann and he got a $3,000 match in Brooklyn against Jack Herman. He knocked out Herman and went home to South America with his earnings. Now Firpo is coming back and he'll be talking in large} thousands. He's a “card” at the most opportune time when the heavyweight class is coming into its greatest period of activity in years Firpo is signed to meet Bill Brennan in Madison Garden in March and he end, if he is getting a cent A fortunate young man is Luis Firpo. He knocked out Sailor Maixted. Joe McCann, man and then polished off|— oe cee te Me otoria Wins Ice juare be getting $25,000 as his} must Jack Her-| this country that he couldn't get a match. Now, after this great is being groomed for a Dempsey, Firpo ts a “cafd.” He's a new fig. ure in a class where the fac tart Firpo crack at es are Argument : Farmers in 'Clash With The beautiful oak and bron e baseball The Star League Baseball Shield hield pictured here is the perpetual trophy given to The Star Junior Baseball league in the interests of baseball by the Seattle Baseball club. It will be night at The Star Husky Five | Cr ucial Basketball Tiff Is. on Boards for Varsity Gym Tonight me stretch in eo of the tight t races in y tonight's between hing and Aggies at} a gym | 1 have food ba | yund butlt up ar Hielt ard * Farm. on exhibition at the first meeting of the league to be held Monday May will tont Sportsmen Week Here well as a hitherto unc 4 || tions for this year will be made tourist lure,” Mayor B. Entries will be open Monday night paring ® proclama Satur. ||and will continue open until April 1 declaring the week of Febru. ||but managers should send in the TY the starting as entries as soon as por length of the season and Sportamen's this country and they spend ars annually In se tive MAY KEEP Washington || AVERAGES Another attempt will be made this keep the batting, pitching jand fielding averages of the league, But this is impossible unleas ¢ ber of teams entere port year to KAPPA SIGS ANNEX FRAT RING TITLE team shown some cooperation by ap pointing an Intelligent fellow scorer for its outfit. & methods will be explained at a meeting to be held of the scorers It will however, to keep the averages unless each team has a scorer capable of performing his duties. The scor i be imponstble, > Phi Kappa Sigma nexed fraternity university frat title ld at the university |OUTOF-TOWN POSSIBLE dule for The Star leagu will be arranged am can have a free date every third or fourth Sunday. This fol i Sigma Phi Ep Pal Delta, T. der, Alpha Pi Kappa Alp! so that ma, beat alt old and too familiar. He's a giant AVE REE B.C, Feb. 17—The me give each club a chance to line up and a caveman in looks and actions monton Ice squad met thelr |" Atpna Tan |OUtof-town games, Spalding’s book He can hit like a locomotive and he/|first defeat in the, Coast loop here |© a Alpha, |ing agency has promised co-opera can t. e a tremendous wallop. Per- i tion with The Star tn lining up trips ast night th p! eo Vie-~ haps he has the makings of a great | “#t Msht at the hands of the Vic bi Kappa Sigma, for Star league teams, fighter, but right now it is the cir-| tF!a men in a fairly fast game. The | De" . Alpha Tau Omege, de-| teamns cus appeal that ig pushing him to| Edmonton team was sald to be still a ‘ aft, Phi Kappa Sixma, | PRE RE SENTATIVES the top. little tired from thelr game the night |) PL Kappe Alpha, decision, | on BACH CLUB - before, bilit they put on/a good fight. | Dalley, Beta Theta P| Each team this reason ts to ap. veturnied from South; wr, : en the Es! ed o igh taal hy Malini he Eskimos got started on a sald he thought Firpo| Tally in the third period the Cougars would make a good match with| were forced to play hard in their own Dempsey. Of course, any mavtager| side, but managed to hold Edmonton who has one of his boys knocked | thru the period. manager, The final score was over, likes to magnify the ability of | the knocker-over. Lawrence, how-|* '© 9 ever, said that Firpo had {improved | pee i Edmonton greatly since he went back home. | Toughiin.... Detme 007 oe He took two or three sparring part- | Halderson + «Defense ‘Trapp ners down with him and he has been |Oatman ........Porward.. 2 Arbour | Frederickson ...Forward.. Keats memming bard. | Meeking wav Gag He suggested that two or three | Anderson ward Murieon build-up matches with Gibbons, John- | Dieidant Forward Bhepherd son, Brennan or Willard would put |"uehiin pemorwant 520 Campbell him right in line for a title bout 5:47. Secand perlod—Victoria with Dempsey. tovla, Gc Lowehila, tod—Victoria, Halderson Firpo had the business qualiffca- | tions for a champion. In these d: it must be remembered, too, champion is primarily a man. When Firpo returned to South America he proceeded quietly to get a license from the government offi cials for the Firpo-Tracey fight, and when the time came to talk business, he sold the permit to the promoter for $28,000. Jack Kearns couldn't faster than that, and move. CHANGE NET HONOR LONDON, Feb. 17-—In deference to the strenuous objection of the United States, the British Lawn Tennis association has 4 tit the Wimbledon tournament] gyppouen be regarded as being for the Eng-|ightwetght c fish national championship and not | decision trom for the world’s title ay in the past. Penalties: Pirat perlod—None, perlod—Frederickson tripped, and dahl missed. free shot. Third period | Keats, Frederickson and Arbour, 2 min tues each. Referee: the busines Mick work any Kearns can recommend. 12-round NEW YORK. bantam, defeated York, in 10 rounds, Danny Lee, New York Amith, New Bonny WILLARD ON NEW YORK, Feb. TAC 17—Jens Wil- FALL RIVER —Billy Defoe, st va dante r Detroit, 1 featherweight, won a 10-ro Pee enves. Lorient ior ed decision from Joe Curry, New Haven where he will open a_ theatrical tour. His. itinerary includes, De ete ried trolt, Grand Rapids, Cleveland, St Hichmond Paul, Omaha, Kansas City, Wichita, | re Vincent Pokarnl of Cleve: Pitts: |, newspaper decision over Phil Bloom, New York, in 12 rounds, 1 ‘Tulsa, Memphis, Cincinnati, burg and Baltimore, beat Cr out, Phi Kappa Sigma, knock three rounds. point a press reprewentative who will be responsible for the scores being turned in and the fyame reaching The Star imrnediately after the game ig over. Also these representatives will be asked to send in weekly notes of their clubs. With Delayed Games Will Be Played more than 30 teams expected this Decision will be mado Monday || year, it will be impossible for this as to when the high school bos ||department to keep in touch with ketball games postpowed Friday ||eyery team otherwise. will be played, according to Dt- ees nents ector A, C. Pelton. Tho next ‘ & i egular games are scheduled for TARS COMPETE b, 17—Lars Haugen this coming Friday. The post: || I poned games may be played Tues, |{and Hans Hansen, the former four lay or they may be staged at ||times national champion, wil com. Jpete in the annual interstate ski |tournament to be held on Geneseo | mountain near here tomorrow. the end of the we ertain to be pl son, They_are d, saya Pelton, For the purpose of. “awaken: || ing greater interest among citl zens in our matchiens fish and |, OVer with the pilots, it’s import game resources, both from an ‘The league rules will be gone over individual health standpoint aa ||4nd explained and necesnary adil: | date depend entirely upon the num: | will | stories of each | Star League Managers to Meet on Monday for First Time This Year OM frst» ALLY scheduled for Friday, but postponed a few days because of the snow, the first meeting of the season of The Star Junior Baseball league will be held at The S$ Mondz | The session will get under way promptly at 8 p. m., and, as many things must be gone nt that | every body be on time. Star } BY WILLIE HOPPE World's Champion Balk-Line ’ Billiardist. | ‘ | Don’t be careless about your po. | sition at the ble. Form is very | exnential in billiards as in every other rt, Face your shot squarely, then urn one-half to the right Don't nelect your cue in a hap. hazard manner, Proper of a cue in largely a matter of indi vidual choice. In baseball no two |mreat batters use the namo style or weight bat. The same holds good in billiards. I une a 19% ounce cum. ection Don’t allow the cue to sway. You must make a firm bridge. ‘Thi | most exsential to success in billiards, |one of the basic fundamentals of the game. 4 Don't overlook the draw perfecting your billiard game. and practice the draw shot at every opportunity; it is the most im- | portant in the sume. fr Don't* make a fancy shot when an easy one, tho not sensational, will answer the same purpose. It is possible extent, 6 Don't fail to follow thru. In base: ball, golf, tennis and billiards the |foliowing thru is the big thought. Finish your stroke at least one inch beyond your cue ball. shot tn} well to avoid English to the greatest | Dozen Billiard Dont’s Don’t let the breaks of the game throw you off your stroke. You must concentrate on every shot. Per feétion in billiards can only be ac quired when you take the game sert- ously. Don't lose your temper. Few, if any, sports place a greater strain jon the individual player than bil- lards. No sport offers more oppor- tunities for pet peeves, but they must be avoided. Make up your mind at the start of every game that you jare going to maintain your mental balance at all odds. Don't fall to properly cue the ball. You must always cue the ball in the center, never beyond one-half to right, left, top or bottom of center. 10 Don't overlook the tmportance of properly holding the cue to get the desired results. It is always well to hold the cue lightly at the balance; never at the butt end. 1 Don't fail to have sublime con- fidence in your ability, but never let it be stretched into over- confidence. Never underestimate your opponent. It is the little slip here and there that proves costly in tho Pinal count. 12 Don’t get the impression that ‘t is impossible to improve your game by practice. I am constantly discovering some new wrinkle that helps my play. Feb. welter NEW Walker, YORK, world's has received an offer from a British 17.—Mickey champion, promoter of $85,700 to meet Ted Lewis In a 20-round bout in London for the championship. CHICAGO, Feb, 17.—Manager Bill Killefer left with the advance guard of Cubs for training quarters at Catalina island, Cal, today. Nine athletes, one coath and one trainer were in the squad. A Northwes ON, Feb. 17.—Faculty of ern university suppressed editorials by Ernest Sweishelm, a student, denouncing the Alumni as- sociation for bringing in undesirable students merely because they could play football. NEW YORK, Jonnard and young pitcher outfielder, tracts Feb. George and Ralph Shinners, have returned their con- signed, to the Giants’ office. 17.—Claude Walberg, AROUND THE LINKS snow: Driven from the fairways on account of this week's heav fall, the knights of the hook and slice have had quite a session talk- ing golf in the downtown hangouts during the past few days. The Jing topic of conversation, of course, was t Pacific Northwest Golf association's 23rd annual championship meet, to be held under the auspices of the Seattle Golf and Country Club, duly 9 to 14, inclusive. iverybody seems to be of the same opinion—that that week of golf will be by long odds the biggest and best tournament meet in Pacifle Coust golf history. But there is such a thing as the number of entrants being too large to handle, and from talk around town, this year's field in the n’s handicap championship is going to come close to the “standing room only" mark, The amateur and women's fields will be about the sam sual in point of nbers, and little trouble is expected thru c The handicap event, | guess. Our opinion t, or we will miss our based on what we have seen at the Portland 1920 show, when the cifie Northwest Handicap first appeared, and again at Victoria last year, coupled with the fact thet Seattle, the « for golfers next July, has five clubs, namely:, Seattle, Ingle- wood, Karlington, Rainier and Jefferson Park, on the membership list of the . A. The number of entries from this city alone will umount to at Teast 150, when the handicap play starta, z Judging from past records, the writer was surprised to find in the 1923 program, whieh was made up at a meeting of the tournament committee, held here last Saturday, that the handicap championship (open to players with # 10 and over rating), will have a qualifying round of 36 holes followed by 86 holes of elimination match play, the Oak Bay course, difficult course ki held up, the Inglewood course, the first three days of Washington links ma edly longer and Bay courses, and the 36-hole-day munyy hills, with insomnia, Just why 1928 handicap field is not know the Jour play th years to cone, ey chasing the elusive pellet will prove to be a sure cure WITH ALEX C. ROSE except the first round, which will be at 18 holes, grind was tried at Portland and found to be too strenuous for the older fellows, some of whom were forced to default their matches, At Victoria Inst year the qualifying round was at 36 holes of play, but the match play was cut to 18 holes—a seemingly very satisfac tory arrangement. In fact the only averse comments (and they were very few), were about the congested conditions on the course on the opening day, when 210 starters teed off on their 86-hole journey on Any golfer who has played this short but very pws what these higher handicap players were up against, and the fact that cross-farways appear at several points, it is small wonder some of this army wasn’t killed instead of just being That 36-holes-a-day There will be a larger field to start when the curtain goes up at which will handle the ha 1928 tournament, and not be any harder to score on, it is undoubt- arder to travel than You! brothers, this Ingh licap play during while the Lake either the Portland or Oak wood club has a he-man course, over the for anyone who is afflicted there was no chenge made to better conditions in the but in the writer's opinion, a qual. ifying round of 18 holes on Monday, followed by 18 holes of match out the remainder of the tournam congestion and fatigue but be the moans of keeping the ni cap championship as part of the P, nt, would not only avoid n's handi: N. G.A’s programs for many Crack Battlers Will Be Forced Into Bout | Best Men of Their Weight i in Northwest, Both in the Ring Spotlight, Are Almost Sure to Meet; Krache May Be Too Heavy | BY LEO H, LAS ODE BERCOT, the Monroe logger, and Ted Krache, the Hoquiam battler, are facing an> inevitable battle in the squared circle. 3oth are sensational youngsters who have jumped into the sporting spotlight almost over night. Bercot, with his awkwardly clever and rugged style, has had tremendous success’ in his few fights, while Krache, a more, finished boxer and a straighter hitter, has: also reached the heights of popularity. 7 Krache has had maybe a half dozen more fights than Ber |cot, so it can’t be said that he’s so very much more exe | perienced. One thing may hold up the bout, and that’s Krache’s reputed weight. Talk varies as to his poundage, some say= ing he tips the beams around 145. Bercot weighs only 8714 pounds, the writer having seen him weighed within the past two weeks. The battle, if they do meet, will be one of the biggest cards that the Northwest has staged in years, as both men have been winning their scraps quite easily, and rank as the best men of their division in this section. i It's not likely that the bout will be staged right away, as both men have several future melees lined up and Bercot plans to take a three-week rest after his fight with Harry, Anderson, in Everett, next Friday. But if Krache can make the weight the Krache Beret fight is inevitable and it will be the battle of the year when they do tangle. Buell Will Force Foley Z V HILE Vic Foley !s picked to win) unless he has a chance of landine when he goes thru the motions | He doesn’t waste many. with Sallor die Buell at the Cry In Foley he will be meeting aw |tal Pool Tuesday in their six-round| pip of a bantamweight, one of the |scrap for the bantamweight cham-|best prospects the Northwest bal pionship of the Northwest, don't|had in years. Foley looks better |think for a minute that this baby|right now than elther Dode Bercot Buell hasn't got a chance. or Ted Krache, as he has better Buell has fought three times be-| style. He's husky, too, for a bast |fore Seattle fans, twice with Eddie | tamweight. Neil and once with Frankie Green.|. Foley will work out Monday at | He wed plenty under fire, work-| Austin & Salt’s, while Buell fs doing *& hard and being a methodical | his work for the fight on board fighter who never etarts a punch|U. 8. 8. Connecticut. |Neil to Meet Foley Again |e NEILL, the Everett bantam-| nents in the Northwest. welght, will take on Foley again| Chances are that if the Vancouver in a four-round battle in Bellingham | ‘ck #ets over both of these bouts és as he should, the promoters will The date for the fight hasn't| start bringing in some good Inell been set yet. from the outside to mest him, as he soon. After the Buell and Nell fights| would be a big card with a boy of — Foley will just about be out of oppo-' real class. va 7 9 Buff Returns to East bs: OHNNY BUFF, the former Amer- the toboggan. He was champion of {ean flyweight and former world’s | Wo divisions about a year ago. ae ss | He was no spring chicken whem bant h D pantamwelght champlon,: {gon hla) ) "a0 “as amplon, bala aan ome way back East again, the 30-year age limit. Buff fought a couple of times in| Buff jumped up to Portland, but California, losing a decision to Call-|the Portland commission 4 fornia Joe Lynch and getting a| give him a tumble and so he and his lucky draw with Teddy Silva. manager, Lew Diamond, started Buff went back fast when he hit| heading East. ue Johnny Mack Can Fight 118 kid Johnny Mack can fight., only to be robbed. whan the He hag put up two of his best | Called it even. fights in the Northwest in other} 1? Saree bey ea § cities. It's too bad that Seattle fans] boy, and McCarthy hade an J couldn't have seen him in his bout| fight of it by clinching continuously, with Billy Nash in Everett and in} A corking good semi-windup ome his scrap with Billy Young in/of these days for Seattle would be Tacoma. for the local promoters to stage him He stopped Nash in two rounds and with Young again for a return j beat Young forty ways from Bagdad, | here. Anderson Faces Tough Fight ARRY ANDERSON has a tough should give Bercot plenty of evening ahead of him next Fri-| but whether the veteran can | day when he takes on Dode Bercot | ¢ Pounding he’s bound to get the logger remains to be seen, in an eightround fight in Everett.|" ‘The scheduled bout that ADGadea Anderson made a good showing in} had in Portiand tonight with Johnny his bout with Young O'Dowd here a| Trambitas had to be canceled and couple of. weeks ago, but he will be} Young O'Dowd substituted, becai going up against a socker In Bercot.|of a bad cold that Anderson con i Anderson, with his cleverness, | tracted early in the week. Bercot’s Eye Cut BE SRCOT received his first bad cut in Taconta the other night when he bumped heads with Joe Black, Bercot receiving a bad gash over his right eye, just between the eye and the eyebrow. It was impossible to get a doctor to care for it, and Bercot didn't get fixed up until Friday morning. It Roberts to Fight Burns WEN ROBERTS and Georgie | this match, ag the winner will prob Burns fight the six-round semi-|ably tangle with Bercot on a future” tinal at the Pool here Tuesday, Rob-| card either here or in Everett. erts has been going exceptionally Roberts beat Joe Nestman easily well In his few fights and Burns is|in Everett recently and the scribes a rough, tough miller who can sock, | in the Smokestack city are trying to particularly to the belly, cook up a fight between the logger Much importance attaches itself to|and Roberts, Davis May Meet Wright : AFTER his sensational tight with) round and was knocked down, Ret Heine Schuman here last week | @ree Hartnett gave the fight to Rob y ae . erts, a home-town boy, on the Travio Davis 1s due to fight again] teeth of that. one knockdown here soon, Davis showed the old after Davis had won nearly every sock, knocing Schuman down six] other round. umes. Davis, with his sock, When asked why he didn’t step in and finish Schuman in the third round Davis said he wasn’t taking any chances. A few weeks ago in Tacoma he had Eddie Roberts beaten in every round and then he ran into a righthand punch tn the sixth CARL TREMAINE MAKES x8 JOHNNY CURTIN QUIT. BY HENRY L, FARRELL EW YORK, Feb, 17,.—Carl Tre: maino, sober-faced, good-looking little bantam from Cleveland, put a defiant foot across the line into Joo Lynch's yard last night, when he knocked out Irish Johnny Curtin in {tho sixth round of a battle that*was achdduled to go twice that distance in Madison Square Garden, Rather spectacularly, the bout end ed with Curtin hanging on the shoul: dors of Referee Patsy Haley, fran: tloally moaning that he had been may bother him considerably unles# the eye ts dangerous to a fighter, ag the blood bothers the vision when the cut ts reopened. Bercot's skin is remarkably tough, cut in the Black fight being a bit A a Wright with his cleverness, wo! going better than ever. Wright | one of the few fighters to have Davis’ number, and if they get gether soon it ought to a whale ® battle, Tremaine the winner, ‘ All experts from Jersey, who been whispering around that. Cleveland boy “stepped back" “wouldn't take it,” were crossed, cause it was Curtin who quit, and) he auit cold, however, because he beaten and headed for a knockout He couldn't lay a glove on Tremalt and he was stopping with hig and stomach every wicked, sharp boy was sending over, and » of tough luck, Reet make a pip of a fight, as Wright fe he gives It a good rest. A cut over and he doesn't bleed very easily, he — fouled. When the commission ety Hn no evidence of a foul, Haley It was just as well that he did, BY was surely, ag shooting right and left that in Oa i ca