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TUESDAY, JULY 17, a~E, CRIFFEN'S TENNIS GAME **s @ VARIES FROM CALIFORNIANS’ STYLE KEARNS Is NOT KEEN ABOUT CHAMP FIGHTING IN BUENOS AIRES Fight Talk Titles Changing. Villa Real Champ. Wilde Is Game. BY BILLY EVANS jroet tithes are beginging to around with the same Tecklesy abandon as golf champion. ships, Within a few weeks during two ebaapiena Johnny Junmy Wid, have the Matie picturm o for ever 31 years berweight champion. tea, dont to Bume the Burepeas That of coure work!’s featherweight zh victory of ularly ha he de fea shadow of his ib “= the domen A tenders could as canily ax years igen soft me 6fort eppectunity. siipping Kilbane. ed Criqui stage a theeeeeund ex, hititien as an added attraction at & big bexing carnival pola, that featured Lew Tendier’ aod Pal Moma, abo Jeft Smith eed Tommy Leughran, While Ble @iffiewlt to get a Hoe oo @ fighter in an exhibition bout, Criqui showed nothing unusual AS style was the outstanding feature ef his work I am inclined to think that Criqul will find the going rather hard in the featherwelcht chs. I wouldn't be at al sur prised if be found it a weey dif- feu matter te get by Jobnay Dundee posed Kithane passed K and eat of ship Criqu makes Criqui the cRampion. | not par pince the Kit 4 Was merely & former self. riqui was the consensus of these ab megside that at least a toan featherweight have stopped Kilbane as ait Criqul, Five ack Criqul woukt have king for Kilbane, Crisui sate tn getting the bis the fret crack af the con or While Europe added = bexing| tithe when Criqat defeated Kilbane, ft lest coe when Panche Villa de- feated Jimmy Wilde That mukes & tese on @ exchanges, a fy weight tithe for the featherweight thampionship. KE it from me, Pancho Vile ts a real champien. I sam the Bout at the Pole greunds in which Be battered Wille from pitlar to pest, finally kmecking the game Bittle Weishoxsn owt. widtd battle from the outset. Villa wae always out Im front. He fought | & careful battle, having mech re) epect for Wilda and took m0) thancer in having Johasy sitp over} & Knockout punch. However, Vil bed no need to fear Wikis. Like Kiltene, the game Bittle Welkhman was just « shadow ot Wilde, ce considered the little giant of the ring. The cutetand Ing feature of the bout was Wilde's ganenes. He went down fishting to the very end. lke a real chum pion. It was regrettable to see so game a fighter so severely pun ished. The crowd appealed to the referee time and again to stop” it, bat resilzing a work’. tit sas at] Stake, be wae timid about doing ae. The humane thing to have done Was stop the bout as carly ag the fifth “round. re! Ltle-Dekder, | haf} Recently I wateh-| im Philadel Tt was @ one | Frisco Net | | Star Uses | Good Chop Griffen Dossn’t Depend Upon Driving Game That Californians U BY LEO H. LASSEN (CAtronnta, tennis, sick, hard courts, is — speed) me ee. thé tausl thing The berners develop powerful fore hand Grives and services and their! j Backhand strokes are usually weak | Some of the best of the Californiqm | even up aroung thelr Ddackhand shots to take them on the forehand. | But Elmer Griffen, tne sorret! topped Californian playing in the Washington sta here | this week, the rule, Griffen plays a chop st with deadly accuracy ‘44 @f stuff on the ball and makes It hard to handle Griffen ts! & wonderful velleyer, ene of the beet ever seen tn Beattie. His forehand Grive ls ot'a powerful stroke, but! | Mairty effective. He beings bis ree} gwet tm a three-quarters swing to/ drive the ball, an odd stroke, ae) most of the drives these days are fat. 3 After wateRing Griffen toy with Leo Lagerstrem Monday, “Dad™ Kelehner, the veteran Woodland yark ser, who te one of the beat teformed tennis nien in the city,/ picked Griffen to win the Wash ington state meet. Me mid Griffen showed him plenty of stuff end played en Bo tegnia meet ie the exeept ke game Me pw a ! figures that he could have traveled }8@ par cont faster if be had been JOHNS CAN \ANTICIPATE SHOTS } One of the mont valuable anéete that @ tennis player can have is anticipation. By that is meant ability to figure owt where jehet ie going to be played The best man in the Northwest fey figuring out shots of his oppon ents in advance is Harold Van Dyke dobnm the Seattle city Johns has « faculty the bell ix when very seldom see jon and you very run hard for « ball i eames from | nevertheless Recensary for champions and some have that gift be next MARION HAS NO WEAKNESS The boys were tn « tennis fan ning bee Monday and vafious play ors and their styles were being die) cased. The consensus of epinion seemed to be that of the younger players Armand Marion has the best hance of developing Into one of the | of the section with a few years nament experience Leon Turenne says that he has no fundamenta) weakness in his game fat the present time, hie Megest/ [drawback being a tendency to rack! jafter he has piled up a iad He doesn't seem to force the game) real stare sektorm see him * enough when he’ ects ahead. But i" The Seattle Indjas were apen: ing a series with Sacramento at the California capital Tuesday The firet time they played there this year, Sacramento wen Wh Seattle om Vern preference 2 took Welser od James, put og the market by th De acre, 4 of Dell and te Dit Kesiek mak general shakeup of hie Ben Liver Lebrevean, former Seat the player, hae been traded by Nashvill, of the Southern leager, te Litthe Rock, of the same league, for Third Sacker Graft. After a fair start, Eimer Por shoulder ja bothering him aga! | Len Angeton twirter, yw Ste lone year for a . in Ba al figame goed fn Beattie thle ope ° beat the jocals In one Of his starts the veteran Mitte certainly popular Bahe Adam tere hurler. S He was recenuiy » & hunting gun} ke on hie natal tim Miley, Seattle hockey star, le beading the Texas beageo in hitting, according te reports from the South, and be ts just about the only ball player on the Shreveper® team that's worth a hang. Miley goes up to the Washington Americans mext epring alter © Pitter ee right febd, r and romper agent fatter against the re seeeit “ * and Midtieto bas gives yenbte team im the agve and will be ative © the Nexy ment of the ¢ ant | wontertul bot has ot the pees: twe year Wiggs uM GENE CHRIQUI 4 French doughty who little mau few knocked ott er, weeks ago the veteran Johnny Kilbane the feather pedestal, always keeps hie he stepped into the ring June They it he Jobnny promises wer Won the title be w tender he would ret. his own coun meet moet jegica! Amer ican gor Then to meet = to France ry's bent ne againat 24, at enct: soldiers. 1 an bowery, Bie servions w aratis you see Bugene always keeps vont Johnny Predicts Close Olympic Games || NEW YORK, July 17-—Amer- fen will have to get bury as the foreign mations a going to take thelr greatest efforts to win the next Olytaplc games, Maj, Gen. Henry Alien, executive tfeer ef the American commit eaig on bis return from an viet Parts. ‘Swim Meet Here Will Have Class ITHONG competition will face the ng club Primm tie ‘PINCH BALL TOUGH, SAYS BIG HITTER St Lov, July pinch hitter tx indoor swter will be held hur iidty. which to Ratatortum evening, July 26 The mary, represented by aquatic stare trom the Naval Academy and creck gob gwimmers, is expected to rive t & tough rab for] * hocal eta Northwest hor esides the Navy, the Victoria and Island Athie asrociation, Portiand Bathe and the Multoomah wil formidable delews the attempt te ttt mm the local organisa "Playing | job the toughest here ows tr Bo says in besetell.” Regers Mornay, tema! league. % premier star of the } ‘The meet will be one of the fen torte ef Meet week and, from all Indirations, the largee frat has ever viewed an aquatic camival |; tn this hand te the water sharks clash. Salt from ip ia feet will be on hand to cheer thelr stars. Amateur Results MERCRAS WISNER + Athiette crowd ing tant one “T am! rath t pinch hit ree continues Hornahy content reguiarty to play every. than e axon éo h hitter when the oe rd enough ‘em safe are in . playing regu! tough job, believe mm, every some to get off the} to the breac The Me “There may be some soft jote fn | my salary by gcing tn on) Wil l F ight Three Times Before1924 Kearns May Arrange tial for His Champion in West for Labor Day BY HENRY L. FARRELL N= YORK, July 11—In need of 4N a couple of good shote Irom the firm's pocketbook, Jack Kesina, manager of Jack pecy, wal to jay that the ch was going to Oght three tim of the year Harry Wills, either Tommy Gred are the fillins that i trying @ get on his books. Tex Rickard’s proposition to put Dempeey and Firpo in the ring tm Buenos Aires in appeal Kearns ans f this country to wa Dempsey and & date for re going to get prom can't stir up something, £0 out to the Middle West and meet Gibbons or Greb,”* Kearns De Las Gibbons “bt éoeen't wan ret If New York . get York for manager admit a great purse but he maid what they After a ¢onference with Rickard yesterday, Kearns said if Dempeay worked In New York againat Wille jor Firpo the champion would ée mand 69 per cent of the guile.) He contends that a champion ie that Inuch and he pointed out @ & fight in New Jersey, where 4 |top price is $15, would be |the champion as much a ia fighting Carpentier, om Dundee ‘Bercot Will -BoxCarmen on July 26 [chamois sevice, bat Mis Dp BERCOT, the hantsocking dough. After his experience at | { ogee from Monroe, will go up! Shelby, Kearns no doubt will want | against a tough opponent in Young |to see most of the dough ‘Coming | Carmen, the facramento Mbt ito him before be puts his mame | weight, tn the st-round main event’on pxper. P 4 jot the Merchants’ convention, at the) Johnaton wants to put Dempeey | Arena Theredsy evtning. Joly 26. [and Wills In the Yaukes stadiam — | Carmen te a clever boxe? aswelles | ar0und world’s series time He s befty puncher, and Dode will have seems to haye been given some: jto aim hie crashing blows accurate kind of assurance that the boxing lly if be hopes for them to make Commission will sanction the bout.” connections Rickarnt axys be is reap to Connie Curry, the Mid-Weet ‘ban. /*t8se the Dempsey-Firpo Sight, i) tamweight champion, will make ti | South - America bow to local ring fans in the semi )D°*® Bawured that windup of the show, Curry will | f° over $800,000. tex either Billy Mascot, of Portland;| Xeerne says he would so to Baste Neil, of verett, or Vie Foley, }Ameriea. if the fight was lof Vantouver, B. C. Canaéian ban-/*itle in the United States 7 tam champ. ihe thought that the people The show ts being put on under there might be hostile to pars be |the auspices of the Northwest Mer-/ be replied: chants’ Association convention com | “Couldn't be more hostile, mittee. There will be 6000 mer- j they Were in Shelby.” chants from all parts of the North- weet in the city at that time and) the Arena is expected to be packed when the rival gladiators meet Ta | the gobs of the Pacific/ will be here, and arrangements hare to be made to find some place for them to sit, ds they are jardent ring fans. and Rickard are ali champlot'a services, bidding for the but as Kearns |SLOW. PICTURE SHOW COA ARBOR, Mich. July 97—! Foot oat courses at the Unf Michigan summer school af | coaching. physical education and ministration are supplemented, additio Bercot ix working out dally under siow and rapid motion pictores of the watehfal ere of Lonnie Aostin. Anybody strolling up Volunteer park way about 6:20 any morning! ends on yo 4 with a base actual contests which give the dents a chance to study the im actual practice. Fieldii HL Yost, will find Lonnie and Dode going i who is director of the coarka Sea thru some. road. work. | plainemll of the plays in the pictures Young Carmen is in Portiamd,/ and points out the stratery UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HAS _ HEAVY 1923 GRIDIRON SLATE : TRALBR worked we KN ARBOR, Mich, July ther twe honor positions. sores Inited |good pinch hitter Is | With the adoption of the cight-| The United States Marine game j 1 victory of ‘Vita pincgs the with more experience they expect little Piping In a peculiar powk| him to be winning dome of these tien. Villa is fiyweignt champte® [tournaments in « few stascua. f the world. yet not the Americal] ¢hampion. Figure that one aut. | BUSSELL WAS Villa won the American tithe from | TENNIS FIGHTER ct that the 36. led upon in the ertsis only. en [bet fewer waite: bhews GRockns wi Johnny Buft. He later lost it te Gerarc, athe they say the decision was aly w to Vilm. N he finds himeeif back on top sgain as the work's champ. A between Villa and Genaro is ab ready assured for the late summer. ‘Vita should hold both titles after i's over. meeting UMPIRE OUT BECAUSE OF FAST THROW HICAGO, July 17.—Umptre Orme by of the American iea staff | ix probably out of the runfiing for! the remainder of the season, as a re sult of & very unweval accident. In a game at Boston several weeks ago. Ormsby, while working | tt bases, turned to get a play at second, the runner on first attempti: to} steal that base. It so happbned that | be got in « direct line with the throw | of Catcher Al Walters of the Boston | tub. The bail struck Ormaby dt fectly under his left ear. He dropped as if comipletaty knocked cut. but quickly got to his feet and resumed play Ormatby finished the game and also worked the following day. He then began to be troubled with a severe headache that made it imponsible for him to work & week in Boston the journey Chicago. There « was able to his home im he to careful examination was | made, which showed a blood clot forming that was the catse of all Ormaby tx undergoing | for the injury under a spe- fealiat, but it is not believed that his condition will enable him to do any | More umpiring this year. It ia @ rather singular fact that Ormaty ia the second American! Jeague umpire to muffer serious in jury ot being struck by a thrown ball by Catcher Walters, Heveral years ago Umpire George Morlarity turned too quickly to «et! a play at second and was struck pn tke head and » injured, HARRY WILLS NOW TRAINING ADAMS, Masa, July 17—Harry Wills, colored challenger for the heavyweight title, has resumed | training for the prospective fight with Jack Dempney. “Don't need much training; am about teady now,” Willa nad. an the rem After resting for about | | Harry Blake, of dear olf Harvard has beer one of Seattle's best temnis fans for a number of years, Binke thinks that seme of the present<ay players of thie section don't fent es s enough for their points, | best fighter om a tennis court that Srattle ever saw was | Ham Riugeet.” saya Hiaks, “No m: | ter how fh hind he was he wou! lalways battle until) the last pot was Gecidert Only a very few of your present-day players that per form here come back when the tide! |turne against thegn for & while. would like to see such players a Turenne, Johna, Griffen and the! rest of the present stars stack up) in matches with Russell, Joe Tytler, McBurney and some of the other luminaries of other days, They | would have produced some gre tennis.” SCOTT HAS Guna SERVICE Leon Turenne has had « great! deal of experience in Eastern tennis md in Califortia as well as in the orthwest, He says that Wallace Seott, the Tacoma southpaw, has) the hardest serve to handle of any player In the game today, with the probable exerption of Bill Tiiden. | | “geott has a break on his serv- for that t@ practically imponalbie to handle,” says Turenne, “and this) year he ia more accurate than ever. net Last year the way. to boat Scott | lwas to walt for him to make the) errors, aa he was very erratic, but this year he jen’t making ma land with his terrific sefvice he's) hard to beat.” “way SCOTT STEADIED DOWN THIS YEAR fcott ia playing steadier this year because he spent the winter months | in California, where he played with! crack Californians for nearly eight | months, playing every day. Tt hea) lhad a great effect on his pinay. The lavernge class of the tennis in. the Mouth is much better than It in ere. gr tee ot Scott's nerve, Dick Vander Las and Howard Kinsey were playing doubles in an ohibt tion match in Tacoma against Soott and his opponent. The first few times that Kinsey |tried to drive Soott’s serve the ball init the court and took that cork: screw bounce, Kinsey Just manag. Ing to hit the ball with the end of| bia racquet. Am arent an Kinaey | fs on the courts he had plenty | trouble solving Scott's service. | cames, ‘And the ball fairly smokes over the) ; came foothall schedule by the West fence at ite last meeting. of Michigan foothall I play eight ¢ year of the usual the first time since 1905, ‘The Case school team of Cleveland. Ohio. which has helt the leadoff position on the Michigan echedule fer 13 youre and h can be » always furnish an ex th seven, for will again be to meet the We Ferry field on October Up until thie yeor Michigan has ne had but two «reserve-sent games ever, Includes twt other games that will be featured om the Michigan card end as the seat demand has become 1 to raise ° e so great, it was decide e number State and Minnesota, will be the feat schedule, while Vandertiit, thie year conquerors of the South, and the} United States Marines will hold the resery on. € conferenc ° os of the The schedule this year, how: | prom toes fee en will be Secretary be a guia day for pety I branchen The team ed to Ann Aror by Eavin Denby, mer Mithi¢an football e Marine band of 360 vat 1.500 Navy © men On As ie the urunl case, State draw a big « and the Ohio authori ve already w their f This is eecond rd-breaking crowd of * which to Ohio last Jo stadium, vumber ah support The M this fall is as fo October 6, Case Scie Ana Arbor university Obto State 7 A Ann ber 16, U, & ines at Ann ereity of Iowa at lowa City or 17, University let Wisconsin at Madison; r 24, University of Min: Ann lAror te Schoo! at Vanderbilt bor; October 20, Arbor; October Arbor; Ne November sem a at ANDY SMITH TEACHES CLASS Andy Smith, University of Califor nia football coach, is dishing his knowledge schor to high eur opened yester course that terkeley 16 TO SWIM A field of 16 entrants will start the annual England long in New ‘} distance swimmigg championship to) Boston, Aumust 12 the Nght be staged at ‘The course is from bridge to the Boston Seattle Boy Is Back From Penn ALPH LOB, former tread: way high achoot baseball ‘and | tennis star, and now a student at the medical school of the Unt versity of Pennsylvania, re: turned to Seattle a short time ago to spend the summer montha. Loo roomed with “Brodie” Stephens, the great Aniversity of California end two years ago, who \a also at Pennsylvania now Stephens will be eligible to play football at Penn thi year, and Andy Smith's former atar will undoubtedly be one of the main- stays of the Red and Blue eleven thin fait Stephens now in California. Charleston | |BUSH INJURES | HAND IN GAME CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 17 Joo Bush, one of the stata of the New York Yankees, will be ont of he game tr Bush broke third finger his Jeft hand Miding a bunt In the second # yesterday against the TAMPA SEEKING RETURN SCRAP Prospects that Tampa, Fla, will enter the bidding for a return bout between Jack Dempsey, heavy weight champion, and mmy Gib: bona, late next winter, ve devel oped when several business men bo came Interested. McTIGUE “WILL BOX THURSDAY Mike McTigue, light heavyweight champion, has signed to meet ‘Tom.| my Loughran in Harrison ball ps at Harrison, N. J, on July 19 ina return bow /YOUNG FITZ IS COMING WEST | Bob Fitzsimmons, won of the old time champion, expects to leave his North Carolina home soon for Call: \fornia, He plans to box in Oak land and Los Angeles, jefinitely the on me Indians. eon. Arbor; K keeping The specty Anros raved the Mig moment where joften a base hit rpeans the old ball & Kyer ball clad detented SMG by 0 core aE TMG REA Fray. om the Bi) for the sinners, greck on ikaece, paper nner wreck leame. ‘The the steers. tw . eet = |up in the eriaia ay yl Saal “fort | the toughest thing in the world Angee 13 make a base bit pres. ® Sieure. At spots the pitcher is Tome aed) -cving You everything in his assort tment, The pinch r is always looking at what the opposing pitcher just a wee bit more breaking on & Kyer a to und: ‘ reeneon such t Rhimada vay aod A RASY WINNER Bethel] watioped ete’ score foor the neTHELL tn reserve, a trifle faster curve. “Never until my resent Injury aid YT realize what a Job the pinch hitter When recovering from with or plays #. |fealy has to bat In @ pinch, and, believe me, the feeling ts much different than ne in there reguilariy.” Most ball players will say “ |to Hornety's expreedon {the pinch hitting job, are players who seem on it At Amen” relative to yet there to thrive present Elmer Smith of the New York Yankees by his timely ittin has Just about won the title ‘ot “King of the Pinch Hitters. pinch hicter ks always! my injured Jeg I several times went | with Bobby Evans, his manager. i characterizes the Michigan 3m of play. ‘TENNIS STARS — |CRUIKSHANK IS «LEADING MEET)" “RETURN HO Philadelphia, July 17—Bobby Cruik- | ¥ YORK, July 17— |enank, who Saturday was defeated | M. Johnston, winner of the Bobby Jones in the playoff for |tennis champtonship at Wimbledon, the American open golf champion.|Ffeturned today on the Olympic: ship, Monday made the course here! |Others in the party returning from Jin 69, five under par, in the Shaw-|Europe were Vincent Richards, nee country club invitatipn gelf}Francis T. Hunter, Mrs. Molla Mal tournament lory, Miss Leslie Bancroft, Miss Clarence Hackney, Atlantic City, | Eleanor Goss, Miss Martha Bayard also made a 69, and Miss Eteanora Sears. Gene Sarazen and Bob MacDonald were among the crack golfers in| the tourhamy Sarazen made a 1} } MUST BE CAREFUL /e |} LONDON, July 17-—Ofticers of} ve |prevent. the taking and. publication loft action pictures showing women players with their bare knees ex- | posed. —TLEARN TO SWIM ltion bawe asked affiliated clubs to Ms Groom” K Keeps Halt SWIMMING ON YOUR BACK IS EASY ONCE YOU’VE MASTERED CRAWL BY LYBA M. SHEFFIELD Director of Swimming, THIRD ARTICLE—SWIMMIN IQAN FRANCISCO, July 17—28wim [ming can be practiced elthers at Sine on’ the back is one of the [home lying on a bed, of at the tank, most restful strokes, and at the {I will explain it for practice at the name time easy to barn, The be- }tank, but you will Rave no trouble ginner wit do well to master it |*dapting Jt should you prefer to mo tice at home. aftor he has learned the elementary | Pre craw! before be tries any other face-| St Of the edue of. the tank, lege ¢ + straight and extended well out over down swimming strokes. the water, ankles and knees touch- To get the proper arm motion, |), ¢ stand ty. shallow water (three of) ren, always keeping the heels four feet) with y arn stralebt | ouching, slowly bring ‘the’ feet up down on each side of the body, jiy gigntly bending and separating jpalma touching the thighs. the knees—about three or four Next raise your hands upward, inches. fingers pointing down, elbows back. | yest wlowly separate the foot fingers constantly in € about 12 Inches, at the same time contact with the senma of YOUr) stroiehtening the knees. Fintah the bathing suit stroke by forcibly bringing the lems When your hi tach the arm: | together, legs straight and ankles pits, extend them slowly th touching. siden, hands about the level of the| qo complote the back swimming shoulders and palma down. stroke, this arm and leg motion muat Then pull the hands down forcibly | he combined with the correct push- to the starting position, oft, Whilo doing this exercise, breathe Fwce tho side of the tank, grasping naturalty. & support near the water's surface The leg stroke for with both hands, about shoulder the back swim University of California Summer Session, and Co-Author of ‘Swimming Simplified’* : ON THE BACK \ | G oo ~ width apart. Place the soles of both feet fiat | against the side of the tank between | the hands and close to the surface of the water, Lower your head backward until | the cars are submerged and slowly | push away, holding your breath, Don't push away forcibly or you are likely to give yourself a ducking, As you push away, your body straight: jens so that you finish with your | head lying back in the water, your body extended and your army along the aide seams of your bathing sult. ‘Try Ue pushoft several times, re | gaining standing position aa from floating, then combine it. with the arm stroke, and finally with the arm and leg stroke, If you ever get exhausted while swimming and do not want to stop forward progress by floating, use |this atroke, It ls so eany to execute] —Not Sticky, Greasy or & that it will give you the necessary} Get a jar of “Hair-G opportunity to reat while still going }any druggist for.a few forward in the water, . make even stubborn, —— poeed hair sthy Tomorrew—How to dive, any style you like,

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