The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 2, 1923, Page 25

ze Bed: nied Eied? 2982538 b, late Bob Maxwell, 1 hia sports writer, when asked once Aistingulsh between a professtonal @ reriounly inconvenienced FRIDAY, MARCH 2 INISC Ro. CHAPT HE gr what I thou whether they major league league clubs, major league Undoubted] bez game team, 10 years ago, He was also 3 the team played in § Behind the ha Petwa, atest colored team that ever visited the ENCES EDuodate As Told te Leo H. Lassen Rube Foster’s Great Team PER LY. North I have often been asked by basball bugs and with ght of them as a team would have a chance clubs. That's almost impossible to answer as you] can't judge any team by exhibition games. | The Giants looked mighty good in ther games in Seattle with the Northwestern but those teams here were not caliber. x y the Giants were great. They a lot of major league teams in practice but it takes the long grind of al season’s play to bring out the best in al Foster himself was a great pitcher about a darb of a hitter. But when eattle his playing days were over. aimed to be one of the greatest throwing cat me er knew, Only Petway and Jimmy Archer. the only Chicago Cub star, ever used the squat throw in heaving to the base, Petway's throwing here was a reve Poster had two great pitchers in Washington and Johnson, both right anders. They had a everything. Washington showed t Grant played first and he war a wonderful fielder and hitter. He uped te do backhand hos In praction that were hort of miracule On second base was Gatewood, e the keystone bag. Hut he got over t Dioyd, a giant of a man, 1 ever saw on a ball player. And he the cleanup hitter of the team. he was dead A midget, with a by the name of els played third could get ground In the outfield were Hill Ritting trio ad three tim ra, over Duncan T got the biggest kick out of their shadow pract They went thru all the motions of m Without using a ball. They were We always did big business when Milled the park for them. Saturday Dugdale will tell abou Who had all the nerve in the wor! I heard f the largest mon I ever saw play round in amasing fashion. rtstop, He had the biggest could smash the or hands Ho wan ago tha too a report not very long es the wine of the average person's, base. It was @ caution the way he and Barber—a fast fielding and good before the games aking wonderful catches and throws a riot they were here, as the fans usually t Billy MeLean, an oldtime umpire, td, Meet Agai ond time at The Star tonig! the first call and many more tonight's session. Each manager should see . |fellow to ai for official scorer. One man can handle both positions if ‘The entries are coming tn slowly this season and in order to help out the department handling this league and the cirouit Itself, the teams plan Ming to enter should not fall to be Tepresented at tonight's seasion. | } | ( { ct As press representative f _ Star League Managers n This P. M. TAR LEAGUE junior baseball managers meet for the sec- ht. Only seven teams answered teams are expected to attend to it that he brings along a peter imarteimametetatae nan natin The eight teams that have entered 0 tar follow: West & Wheeler, Best Shoe Shop, Edmonds, Velvet Ice Cream Co,, L. V. Westermans, Washington Park, |Loule’s French Dry Cleaners and |the Hillman Merchants | Tonight's meeting lpromptiy at § o'clock wil BY HENRY L. FARRELL EW YORK, March 2.—Olympic! games in Paris could naturglly be expected but to find the boys at it $0 soon is ra English auth are greatly agitated over the action of French authorities in reinstating Jean Ver mieulen, the “world’s champion pro- fessional distance runner.” The French Olympic officials re- Plied to British criticsm with state- ments that Vermeulen had not been Bamed as a competitor in the Paria game. | The British came right back with—| “And he'd better not be.” One of the London papers said if| Vermeulen should be allowed to com-| pete, that it would not be a surprise! to see Jack Dempsey and Georges | Carpentier in the final round for the} er a surprise. heavyweight’ championship of tho games. If the American officials do not stop complaining when Jole Ray and xomie of the other athletes stop at a first class hotel on their trips and charge for it, the British can protest a lot of our stars and back it up with —"You said so yourself.” | No one has been able to give exact- ly the modern definition of the word amateur as applied to sports, but the former Philadel- and an amateur sald: | “A professional will take a check.” When the pans of the world ara| being pounded in his ears and all the| raspberries in the berry patch ara| being crushed on his table, Johnny Kilbane, the champion holdout of the featherweight class, can rejoice that he will never suffer the lose of hia title Iike Willle Hoppe, a popular champion, Hoppe was bothered by a serloun Nervous affliction which settled in hia arms when he lost the billiard | title to Jake Schaeffer and which| “bothered him when he was winning the title back recently, | Specialists told him later that hin) trouble was caused by too much shaking hands, Hoppe should make his manager, Benny Benjamin do more of {t. That's what some of them are paid for, flome of the boya who would be if boxing had to be stopped and they would forced to go back to work, have heen yelping to know what “Czar’ Muldoon meant when he sald boxing was being put to death by commer- claliam, York Is the act of m $150 boxer get ting the Idea that he is worth $1,500 and holding the promoter up for It But the most deadly form of com mercialism has recently been discov- ered by the promoters, Here {s what they do They put on a real good show for a top price of $7. This makes a hit with the commission. They make the boxers work on a percentage, This pleases the commission, Then they turn over about half the house to the scalpers and make their big end out of the return from the acalpera. That pleases neither the boxers nor the fans, That is the commerctalism that Ig killing boxing. GORMAN BEATS JONES PORTLAND, Ore., March 2.—Joe Gorman, of Portland, won from Lar- ty Jones, of San Francisco, in 10 slashing rounds at the armory last night METROPOLITAN or his club, and another| start F red Fulton’s Brother Roy Fulton, 175-Pounder, Files for Star’s Heavy- weight Tournament; Five Now Entered; Interest Waxing Warm N ENTRY a day is the record of The Star West was Rube Foster's American Giants of Chicago. yy reine curnnyen’ brother They played here on aes, Deny here the last time Fred Fulton, the famous Minneapolis heavy- about 1914 or 1915. weight The big fellow’s home is in Minneapolis WZ being out this way on a trip, They say he —am shapes up pretty woll and looks like a good ring prospect, The other four entries to date are Ernie Rogers Dick Sawyer Willie Keel Ned D: All the follow ap, is and husky, willing to fight i ° | jand to learn something about |! #eP4 1» your name, address and | | welght to the sporting editor of The the game, tar ur t tnt tie idea t ament fe to the remular 1 Ted K Dode I t Experience ts two off t ht prospects entries who want the N ’ about the art of ' ht by Lonnie an't ‘ < boxing {nat ruoter, The definite plans for the running n ¥ off of the meet are be aid by Aus ¢ Oregon Giant tin and Salt A champlor © winner of the romoters I be given a heavy | BASEBALL Hoyt Says International World Series Possible KIDS ARE TAKING UP BASEBALL HE American team of selected big leaguers who have just returned from “baseballing in Japan" are firmly convinced that international world series—real world series, literally—are likely in the distant future. This conviction is voiced in the following, as told to Billy Evans— BY WAITE HOYT Pitcher for the New York Americans and World Series Hero. N international world series fe @|open space which permits of the Possibility of the distant future.| game even under the greatest diffi The Japs are good ball players, | culties, | we found; they are learning tho| These youngsters, from | Fame fast; but at present they are| years of age, aro folng to be the far removed from major leagus star players of the future in Japan The teams that we played in Japan| A great many of the Japs now piny 5 to 10 are about ov an equality with our|ing the game started it late in life good colloge teame. This I feel sure|® goodly number never having will be demonntrated this summoer,| played ball until they went to col when the Keio raity team | lege. kes ite tour of the United States It ts @ well-known fact to become Like our college teams, the weak: | in baseball the player play of Japs ts) must the game as a kid and The fielding and piteh-| keep Sty ball comes farther ad 4 natural to the y who plays re very fond of base.|the game Just as he can of 20 years they are tyle quired ble to Tn out teams) after the muse et | Some day, no doubt, the Jap wilt ing is due} debate the question of baseball su to is being| premaay. tak no youngsters, | — Zaxeball is pretty clo: Tomorrow: The Japs have the national pastime seen p ht ng baseball on first asset cournge of a baseball player— can be All Week, Mat. Tomorrow Charles Dillingham Presents FRED STONE —in— With a Distinguished Cast, In “Taming of the Bhrew,” Bunday Ive, Monday Evening ‘Hamlet, Tues. and “Romeo and Julies ‘Merchant of Venio ‘Thursday Krening ar," Friday Brening SEATS NOW SELLING PRICEB—Mights, 800 to $2.60; Wednesday Matines, 600 to $1.00; Gaturday Matinee, 600 to 91,60, WONDER DAYS Look on Page 2 Commercialiom as it exists in Now Matched with Pat Williams for the six-round semi-windup Tuesday, George Burns, the husky lightweight, i being groomed for a bout with Dode Bercot here in the near Enters Star Mitt Meet) of | | Fulton, who has had about four fights in| the hempen square, weighs 175 pounds and| filed his name today in The Star tournament. | necessary to do to enter the meet is to be big 5 5 ‘E2 Here's Reginald Denny, famous movie fighter, hero of the eather Pusher” series, and one of his opponents in the Denny is on the left. WHOLE ries, stable of champs and ex-champs have pounced onto the movies as a meal ticket and a haven of rest and recuperation after annexing the championship belt, and the public has suffered it to be so, The ordinary prize fighter being about as much at home in “drammer” as the Durham's little pet would be snorting around a tea garden, the pictures were endured, but even the versatile George Carpentier didn't develop into any Valentino. Then one day a large producing company bought H. C. vitwer’s mous fight-romance stories and began casting | around for a young chap to play the leading role—that of a young college athlete who turned professional prizefighter to recuperate his father’s lost fortune, As every “round” of ETS AND COUGARS IN ANOTHER ICE BATTLE IN B. C. RINK Seattle Must Win to Stay in Hockey Race Victoria Victory Would Win Means Vics and Play Again ICTORIA and Victoria, B. ¢ larly schedule The situatic Victoria an place in point ne, Seattle toria w mixing in a p out of the rec Then Victoria to figure, If snd 4 plays Vancouver for the title. The present goal record of | Seattle and 96 against. For /79 against. This gives Seatt attle will go into the lineup, with the exception of with his injured kne Rickey was hit by the I Af the wild game here another fighting game is expe 1 Foyston, no stitches being nec Eliminate Mets; Seattle Vancouver Maroons Must tle are clashtig again in , tonight in the last regu- d hockey game of the season. om is as follows: d Seattle are tied for second 4 before the teams go into the e must win to figure. If Seattle wins, then Vancouver and Vi¢- Il play again Monday in Victoria, rotested game that was thrown ords after Vancouver had won, a must win this game in order the Cougs do, then the team having the highest goal average for the year the two teams is 99 goals for Victoria it is 80 goals for and le a very slight edge. game tonight with its regular Roy Rickey, who is out again Jednesday. the clubs Wednesday ected tonight. Eddie Oatman wasn’t severely hurt in his clash with Frank essary his head. JUNIOR BOAT WINS CLASS CREW EVENT rue shell nosed boat by @ sixinch annual interclaas crew University of V juntor out the sophomore | margin tn t race of th shing The supervarsity dt ell freshmen were last The course was a mile and a half, the winners making the distance in 7 minutes and 35 seconds, The lineups of the crews follow | Seniors—Anderson, stroke; Dunn, | 1; Shaw, 6; Butler, 5; R. Walker, 4; | Cushman, 8; Parkins, 2; Tidmarsh, | bow, and Grant, cox. bow; Spuhn, was fourth Juntors—Franoe Villa Is | Robbed of | His Title | BY HENRY L. FARRELL TEW YORK, March 2.—Frankie age iy ane ee Saad enaro, a little swarthy Italian aging an outrigger on their row|from the East Side, rode into the Jout to Hunt's point, finished third.|American flywelgnt championship night on what New Yorkers cali lanclently but \those th | With expressively “one of a “Philadelphia finish” Genaro grandstanded thru the jast two rounds of a 15-round go with Pancho Villa, the slant-eyed Filipino, jand the judges gave him the decision, jthe title 1 the good sized wad of dough that goes with tt. the series of pictures featured nerve erm | Graham, 6; Murphy, 5; Luft, 4; Abel, BA Np rath oi <7 sxe a real, hard-hitting, honest-to- _preducina company, iamued an. | Menerve, 2; R. Walker, bow, and| whirlwind fr m two o th figh mr goodness fight, the “hero”’|;, , the bla theater! — sophomo Walling, stroke: Dut.| disappointment, and for those who must be a fighter, but as ro-| here ton, 7; E . 6; Condon, 5; Verd, 4;|Bet two to on on Pancho, It was a jmance was there aplenty in| tnto the _pistures the Teal atmos:| Keefe, 3; Thompson, 2; Haynes, bow, =Ntbeeeick more yelpe at ithe ictures as well, his)? Prize ring ha | and Marcon, cox. | r D wen, woven. The fights are real “mills,”| Freshmen — Ulbirckson, ‘stroke;|i8h than when the judges handed |physiognomy couldn't be tooland besides they star such well-| Sanford, 7; Kerns, 6; Brown, 6,|d0wn th decision last week that embellished with cauliflower|known ring celebrities as Jack | Matthews, 4; Hart, 9; Gill, 2; Curtis, |Gene Tunney beat Harry Greb, light jears and a disjointed noge,| Renault, Danny Hayes, Frankie| bow, and Flobr, cox, rywelght champion. Nnally.thew fou _| Ryan, Bob Armstrong, Sailor Ivans, Finally they found one Regin. \Jotmiy Sohteh,. Bree Swickas end ald Denny, champion of his|otners have equated off caninet brigade in the army, an actor'| Reginald Denny in one or another of primarily and a fighter in-|the ecries. | cidentally. E eds of Seattle fight fans see “Leather Pusher” release A eerine Of atx DikuneS WAN TAPS: 1A ‘witl tg datibiied to! knee Pace levery | They swept over the country lke | gmmedt, tely upon the completion of and millions became|the second series the third "Leather Pusher" fans, Bo great | Pusher’ series will be released with all the original old-time favorites. Three Fives |SIKI GETS | Eliminated | STEAMED Ur larity that Universal, 5 | in Tourney JARIS, March 2—Two private guards and every bartender in TREE teams have elim-| Paris are trying to get the idea over Ds i from the high | bas | on attling Siki, the hea vyweight Ketball tournament at ver-| champion of Europe, that he bus a sity of Washingt Granite Falla.) fight on in Dublin next “Patrick's | Burlington and Vancouver taking| ay," with Mike McTigue, the Brit ish ttle he the count, Bu or, ling lont to Endicott, 12 to s morning. results arrangements were made months ago, the purses decided upon and every little thing completed, but Siki has been training so diligently 8, and Friday's schedule follow: 9 A. M-—Auburn vs. Eatonville. | in the cafes that he doesn’t want to $45 A, M.—Walla Walla va, Al-| break the routine. mira | Siki, up to the ears in “vin,” 10:30 A, M.—Burlington vs, Endi |missed two trains for Dublin last night, and when he wag finally towed +| to the station In plenty of time to be cott 11:15 A. M.—Chehalis va. Prosser 2 P. M—Chelan vs, Yakima | poured on the last train, he flatly re- 246 P. M.—Bothell vs. Clarkston. |fused to go and offered battle to 3:30 P. M.—Lynden vs, Hoquiam. | those who remonstrated, 7:30 P. M.--Winner of Burlington-| MM, Harris, the promoter of the dicot game va. winner of Chelan-| bout, is In despair, He hired two of Yakima game. jthe bi, st men in Paris—former 8:16 P. M.—Loner of Chehalls-Pros-| bouncers at the American bar—-to ser game va. loser of Both ton fame, The scores for yesterday's gamos follow: Auburn 20, Granite Falls 14, Eatonville 23, Lynden 20, Clarks-| keep Siki sober, but the battler was such a good patient that he persuad- ed the guards to celebrate with him, and the three of them disappeared and were found only after an 18-hour search, Walla Wall Vancouver 15. 02:0; 0. Almira 17, Hoquiam 16 ARIS, March 2—Under a heavy Chehalis 16, Burlington 10. guard, with sem!-military orders not to let him out of thelr sight, attling Sil, the fighter of Vin and men, left today for Dublin, where he is to box Mike McTigue on St, Pat. rick's day, Siki maintaiped that the hazard of 4 negro fighting an Irishman on Erin's great day permitted him to ket steamed up, and the process of getting steamed up consumed three days, the fortitude of two or three | keopers and the entire patience of his manager. Last night Stkt threatened to tear down the station when attempts were made to pour him into the last train, but he was #0 thoroly passed out this morning that he was freight. Prosser 20, ¥F feott 14. Bothell , Chelan 7. Slarkaton 14, Yakima 11, Lynden 16, Granite Falls 13, Hoquiam 19, Vancouver 12, REGULARS» ARE STILL ARRIVING AN JOSE, Calif, March S) Sammy Crane, Harry Gardner and Billy Orr arrived Thursday, all looking in fine shape, Billy Orr has been playing winter ball, Gard ner fresh from hard work on the! ed on board without much dittioulty. farm, and Sammy Crane fully re- z covered from his tlnexs, is raring RORERTS WINS to go. h TACOMA, March erts, local welterwelght, scored four Continual action i on at the ball die Rob. park, Manager Wolverton having a squad working out In the me ring and the later arrivals in the after noon, Several of the now men are making a surprisingly good showing after their long trip across the con: tinent, noticenbly Baldwin and Moarkle, Ferguson will be sent to his home to recover from an injury to his leg incurred before reporting. ‘This has prevented him from show. ing to his best advantage, so Wol verton hns decided to have him re port to the club in Seattle Must Pay Taxes After Many Years knockdowns over Harry Schumann, of Denver, in the last four rounds with a broken right hand, and took the six-round decision tn the main event here last nigh pee RATNER sa eA La of this city must pay taxes on their property here, For the last few years this Uttle northern town, known ag the taxpayers’ Utopia, has had the distinction of being the only city in the country where restdents did not have to pay a property tax, Fall ure of @ large paper mill, the town's chief industry, to make any profits (his year and thereby pay suffictont money into the town treasury to pay all expenses incurred, has caused the FOR BOUT Super-varsity—Melder, stroke; Ma- lone, 7; Lonseth, 6; George, 5; Win- ters, 4; Chitty, 3; Tidridge, 2; Dunn, bow, and Gabrielson, cox, LAST CUBS EN ROUTE , March 2.—The Chicago guard, completing the club's roster for the year, was en route for Catalina island today, and will stage the formal opening of spring training there Monday. The last squad left Chicago yesterday, led by Secretary John Seys. rear WILLARD TOUR OFF NEW YORK, March 2.—Jess Wil: lard, former heavyweight champion, has been ordered to give up his ex hibition tour after an engagement next week in Kantas City, Tex Rick- }ard announced. that’s no way to |train,” Rickard said in explanation RASPBERRY MONTE CARLO, March 2—Just to show everyone that she {s not afraid, Mile. Suzanne Lenglen will enter the Nice tournament, starting March 12, and she hopes that Mra Molla Mattory will be a competitor, she sald today. CLINTON WINS LOWELL, Ma March |Johnny Clinton, Boston, won a 10. round decision from Johnny Darcy, New York. > As! = lcd 4 Hair Stays ven stubborn, unruly or sham pooed hair stays combed all day in any style you “Halr-Groom" is a dignified combing cream which future. Burns is a raring, tearing miller, and he’s out to prove that he can give the logger a good battle, PLOVER, Wis., Ma 2.—For the town board to make @ small levy on first time in several yoars taxpayers property, Gives that natural gloss and well: kroomod effect to your halr—that final touch to good dress both in & won every way from the Jack. He did all the leading and for a champion that should count 50 per cent. He did all the work. With the exception of a little dig he got in the last round, he was never touched. Villa went thru the fight with the supreme confidence that jhe was winning, and when the de- jcision was annohnced he was nearer a knockout than he had ever been in |the bout. Villa had one fault—he was too jeager to finish his former Olympic champion with a knockout, and miss- ¢d two dozen shots at the jaw. Genaro is a great boxer and he made the Filipino look bad when he jtried to connect and couldn't, | Had Villa started out like Genaro, who obviously was out to win on |points if he could, the title would never have changed ownership, inso- far as one can surmise in these days of terribie decisions. Genaro was there just to box and make a good’ |showing, the idea of a knockout jnever entering his head. He just stood there catching them as Villa pitched them over to him. The Judges apparently regarded him a mighty good catcher. LEE WINS WORCESTER, Mass, March 2.— George (Kid) Lee, Worcester, won a 10-round decision from Jimmy Cox, of Ireland. 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