The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 18, 1923, Page 13

13 SDNESDAY, JULY 18, 18 OF y T PAGE ies = ef Pe: “aed ex i >" A : OS: a4 > = Ex |W esi G2: >. ee =, es 1s 2 — oon 10. oe ie es “U: Za ina —L cor 2 “| Cas — wef QQ: —o be Acs for j SS. a... | He i¢! { Recent Tournament in Portland Is (Diving’s Lots of Fun and If You Do It Correctly Would Push Lightweight ich Criticized by Local Tennis Players You Won't Get Hurt When You Hit Water| Bout to the Background hat , BY LYBA M. SHEFFIELD he More Time Needed, as Many Clubs Are Represented; Johns Might Have Had to || Pitector of Swimming, University of California Summer Session, and Co-Author of “Swimming Simpiitied” |/Rickard Comes Forth With Another Promise of .* Play 20 Sets in One Day, According to Schedule; Seattle Needs More Munic- FOURTH ARTICLE—HOW 0 DIVE Something Today or Tomorrow on Dempsey-Firpo re ’ ipal Hard Surface Courts; Other Tennis Gossip Fight Prospects; Kearns Interested in Date vs ones at, BY HENRY L. FARRELL EW YORK, July 18.—Another promise of “something today or tomorrow” about the Dempsey-Firpo heavy- weight championship match was made today by Tex Rickard, “There are just a few little details to get straightened out before I can make a definite announcement of when and where the ch is to be held,” the promoter said. Rickard was willing to positively that the South | American would meet Dempsey for the title before the end” of the year and in the United Tree States or South Ameri ae 'Donahuels BY LEO H, LASSEN * DOUBTEDLY the most important tennis tournament of the year is the Intersec-| tional, or International Tournament of the Northwest, as it is sometimes termed. | } In this tournament the different clubs in the Northwest belonging to the tennis associa-| tion send their best men singles players, their best doubles team and their boy and junior boy players to settle the Northwest titles The winners of the junior boy and men’s doubles events are sent East for the national championships as representatives of this section. The tournament this year was s'aged at Portland by the Multnomah Athletic club, There Was a \ large field of entries | in all events and instead of scheduling the matches so that “s = : ee ~ . the players would have a fair Entering the water, Miss Sheffield demonstrating cor- ct position for arms, head, , : a SITIO amount of rest they raced the Sasa? 1} y 4 SS ee { WIFIE SECONDS EUGEN 7} tournament off in three days 5, | oi and ied Ae nen sey meet Demp 4 ear and if z : : ; a dive. You “ m > ir e matet % and Seattle players, ente ad scitae r nanas cul tne ean! Beisica cA geta Tough Luck in both singles and doubles, | manager of. tt ea came home al! played out, and} @a NCISCO, July 18.—Many th bt B ll Pi ; com- | they may be stale for the rest She re think that diving ts : Kio fs tececian a ayer umping { the water ut they usual that the y against Firp nad Will pez HUE, of the Cineine Per- |of the year. In playing the sectionals off tn adher arn from ex-| water can give three days the officials w of th ' tands ou arks- | . Tia caaltie aptabtiohes nocks when entered. improp- any is, atari’ Out q ng to an old custom And they are lucky if they ; most unusual players as ada, when only four clubs belonged to at k nto the major leagues, not also discover from expert that th ferent now, and the players should on. Conditions are dif Asaoc ear New York ar yahue came direct to the big from ‘exas college team and made good right off the reel. “Hi case is a decided exception to the7® improper dive may » a swimmer to strike his head {gat the bottom of the tank So it will pay you to learn diving time, . W au Heration be given some ¢ In the first day's play in Port |championship near as-— land, Harold Van Dyke Johna, one | slowly and roly before you at-| |baseball classlo may cause the rul of the best of the local players, |tempt dives or “Jump-ns” of your|— — | jor ‘magnates to froth at Orlando, Fia., while was scheduled for two singles and | own invention be down to carry you under prop-| sumed for the standing fallin, body|and they have been frothir atchin, e Reds in training, T had two doubles matches, and as each is| The hands play a very {mportant| erly: to regain tho surface, they|bent forward, arms extended and/all summer because so 2 good chance to ¢ Donahue the three out of five sets, there wan ajpart in diving, They are the! should be raised. knees flexed. boxing cards have been once over. One day, while he was a§ |possibility that he might haw: had | “break” which parts the water, | Practice the fallin described above SKY BODY IN competition with the pitching to the batters, I remarked | to play 20 sets that day. | RA ARMS until you enter the water ni ARTING POSITION national pastime.” |to Manager Moran, who was talking) ‘An it was the Seattle men had | STRAIGHT UF easily and without a last minute] Then quic rise on the toes,| Unless some action ts taken soon | to me to play 10 sets on the clowing day| To get the correct position, ralse| desire to hold back, then progress] straighten the knees and thus enter|to close the baseball parks to box-| REMINDED HIM of the doubles tournament and they |Your arms straight up, then cross|to the standing fall-n. tho water. ing the club owners are powerless | OF MATHEWSON Inaven't recovered from the ill ef-|the palm of the left hand over For this, you stand on the edge} As you did in fallin, keep|to stop -big matches t, that fellow Donahue remingacs lfects of strenuous play yet ck of the right hand, “locking”}of the pool, toos gripping the edge, body in the ting position heavy cony Jon is being | me Matthewson in so many Walia | He and wor fort.” as that free motion of Matty’) ks without the slightest ef your thumbs. knees flexed. F Now kneel on the edge of the pool| ing the same port and bend tho body forw and upper bo { forward, assum fon with the arms t you took for submerged; | con 4d in the heavyweight 4) the surface | yj to the exclusion of other pward and) sport the promoters of the Leonard it is compl ing your ig the fi } When Johns and Lec omplained about the is said that th Turenne neduling it were severely re | heettied bord officials with the |'2@ chin t9 as far forward as pos-| the kneeling f and enter the » head a ‘ a ile is ‘He's a wonderful pitcher and Justi | that y weren't ru Extend your arms in front} water t he toes and} After you. becc tlon 1s passed around |* fine © boy,” answered the cae nament | % ing” tho ears, and) falling for the entire | dive, you that kard, In promising “some-| "él Manager, “Donahue is omelgem 7 hands for div ly in t vending <n ¢ greatest pitchers I have ever te changes ny n and the strange part of it, hie | was a finished big leaguer when he | Joined my club | “When a pitcher comes to you dief) lrect from some college, no matter): feep breath and “fali"| it ia subm hands and head first.| hands and 1 and head in the Remember until the body in| straighten n come to the sur| forward, or you will f fini getting the arms and ff; you will as hile in the to crowd the lightwelg ship bout next’ Monday classified page. uling of tt ament match nao the bett players in the rthwest won't stand for this kind f treatment, and. they w the fir up and| water's surface—with painful conse the fancy diving you see is Leonatd-Tendler ‘fight 4 how much natural ability he may to enter, It's tn t t ad and shoulder at to ye In divi led on thin elementary dive;| "™* and tickets Boing ®5) have, you figure he will need at lease! of the game in this section to give| Always remember that the head| body shou the w eo you will want to master it|tho there were no suc as © la year's experience to polish him UDegy jthe players some consideration or| controls the position of the body,| 45degree angle. | thoroly be heavyweight,” Jimm more spec oN, PFO-\ 445 must learn to watch the TUNER. ps ald today. moter of the fight, Mrs. Eugene Criqui doesn’t confine her bossing to the|*ise the class of the Northwest | both in the alr and in the water,| After you are profictent in the) tacular efforts, it hen he must change his style . representation in Boston won't|and tha is the means of direct-| fall-ins, you are ready for the true} tae Leonard and Tendler |suit various situations. He muss family manse. Even in her husband’s training she’s got| neers much. | ing your course. Upon entering the! diving | TOMORROW: How to swim the| Working into the final learns his batters; also a score 6 plenty to say. And she seconds him in his battles. She'll be} at the ropes when the little French featherwi eight champion | CITY N meets Johnny Dundee at the Polo Grounds in New York, |HARD-St RFACED COURTS be | Seattle playfields and park cod 2, parks July 26. | nard-eurfaced tennis courts if the net | x ever to develop here as it should. So thinks Grant Laizure, veteran Odds and Ends of Sport _|)."rc.ru ni a0 water, the hands and head shout Take the sumo position you as- side underarm strok their training and {t seems certain | other things. f . " . _ um - _..|from the advance sales that | “Donahue seemed to know all fight will draw a half mi those things when he joined the lars, (Leonard has been e Reds. He the ability and poise 4 slight favorite in the ¢ of a big leaguer. He knew how fron ting. | the very start.” sede an] W)itEN tm nous an ura wai| BEECHER QUITS | |» tettiem aret| RING FOREVER jen! » them feel a bit pensiv: r, the pluck yes about his ee days as @& n club 1d be look AS Jacques Fournier, yete first sacker of the Brooklyn ¢ ally reached the goal he has been |as a * 4 upon | players, as me ever | must ma ks are poor izure, “and t ald out,” declares | boys and girls Sam Reynolds, of Omaha, has alternating with Tim Hendryx » of tomorrow, deserve | s for during , mhor -|to look r the eager youngster: peulctialown ith y a chat with © won the Nebraska state golf [right field for the Seals and than they are getting. | ue activity, asks ( pav have selected as fut greats arpa a am, feather and who was caatlae with title for the second time. He |Pounding tho ball hard. He's one tennis players | | riting in the Brooklyn Citl- | league, retired from the game fol- | and to remember the days when they, % i pi "as Aohaeyer ts ite Donahue as a collegian and he re recently defeated Johnnie Mor- jof the best young hi g stars ately aay, than ti lowing ¢ in the World's | too, w tarting on their big league nt sate es Be eae lated many unusual and amazing’ ris, of the same city, 7 and 5, |uncovered in years on the Coast. |erg, and yet the tennis game docan't always wanted to be a! series adve writes Willlam F. Kirk latte things about the Cincinnati star, 99 me) 5 for the champtonship. - | receive half of the con tion. 4 ring | : the Bal re News. fy bout with| Would you belleve it possible for g {3 Ras | ‘They are adding an attr the park department that th | j hicago Whi , U the caption of “What's| Nobody realizes the truth of the| oi" ‘Marto, * ich the latter won (college pitcher to work eight Node, George Grantham, former Port-| porch to thg clubhow mond game does.” | t. Louls Cardinals, Jacques with Oakla: Art is lon 1 time Is fleet His right ames during his career and los6)) ‘ he ee ten Don! with the’ Ghi | Tennis club at Firto | . |nover had this opportunity. Ho was] tho Los Angeles Record write more than does’a veteran ball ‘cut durmeg the {seven of them? Gago Cubs, is leading the National | Comp! ed the ney nes PREP COACHING outclassed ltd Cigee om eogcreed Columns of explanations, alibis and| Player or other retired athlete. . No! Well, that {s just what hape a th 22, }of the finest of its kin SOFTENS GAM equently, he had to share but a). ” a EEN. To most of them it always seem: | pened to Pete Donahue as @ 0 = peeing wry try ee ei h 2%) 8° | Pacific Cc Leon ds nce : a year ago, was {Dart of the applause that j3u in: bunk have been written | wut yesterday when th were bee a ate lei ie Seems aa tho that woul cai wn tas [oe rf Koren | Be bem athlta of te Dig sbow, Jabot the Oakland tal tubs | Ieinning to gun for story JOE POWELL Sch eno to mee mage Dona i iff Markle, former Salt Lake tennis Vhen tho Brooklyn club secured cling why the same team has re-| ‘Tho span of hletic useful- quit the game in disgust Instea si y Ther some talk that Mike] piteler, after drifting around in This seaaon the Seattle star.is hav- s during the winter from the/ mained in the second division for 10| noss, never m a fow years | WORKING OUT, parity vin to win fame as @ big” 4 (> Hanley, of Wash-| the Southern league and having a hard timo gotting started, Ho|CAfdinals he objected, But had he | consecutive years has been almost as | must pass defo a’awitt, |. Jou. Powell) tha wotkinig Toe cAR: laceue 2 a ington’ for next) 4 trial or so with Cincinnati, has th dust on tur then geta defeat. | *2OWR that ho would have reached . Mr, Voistead {n sport-| moving picture wh ‘© recom-|geles lightweight, who knocked the ttle S go season, not return to school) finally caught on with St, Paul His be = chur: t 4 aN the 1 he has been seeking for|ing circle: mendi. other y¢ ra to begin| veteran Eddie Shannon out in Port Boast =} this fall. Hanley can fill In at| in the American association. the Pacific Coast champlonshfpe, | ee" !t 1s probable that he we Cal Ewing 1s tho only club owner | Where as youngsters they first took |iand several weeks ago, is working ees either back or quarterback. | | when he finished in the semi-finals, ayo been one of the first athletes |i, the circuit who makes his athletes | up thelr baseball careers. jaily at Austin & Salt’s gym with rat ——- | Polo is getting a big play in To ur nks that coachirig the | (2 {all Into line. The first sucker did) Day their own fines. No wonder the} If the youngsters they recommend |Young ‘Dudley, the California col-| Pitching for the Texas Christiam fell * Bobby Michaels, southpaw | !edo, Ohio, where a crack team 18) proadway high school tennis team| ako kindly to his transfer to the | Gaytand team takes defeat so tame- | for big league service were willing to|ored welterweight star. Powell] Univeristy of Fort Worth, Texas, eq . : lightweight who boxed around | being developed. this spring softened up his gume, as | ©0bin8 and It was only after much /1y) Fowing and his associates vir-|listen patiently, theso youngsters |shapes up as a rugged, twofisted|on four bccasions pitched mobi and q here a year or so ago, is fight- caret lhe played so much with the young. |“fculty that he was finally per-|tuatty fine their men for fighting for | might learn much from the old scouts | performer, and will make his debut | games against the Southern Met its. a} ing in the Middle West at | Larry Williams, one of Dempsey's) mors that he neglected his own game, | ated to Join the Brooklyn team. | their own team, j that select them from the rank and|here at the Arena, July 26. Powell | dist University, and lost all of thi ere \ 3 present. He is booked for an | training partners, will fight Rocco!s:, qoasn't seem as sure of his shote | 9 At te mart of th mene. penrsiae Instead of asking the players to| file, but youth loves action too dear-|icnocked Shannon down three times | by the scores of 1 to 0, 2 tod ‘i Gmahs. card soon. | Stramgalia in Portland Friday night) 0. 19 aye wear Ags bhithe days for did not show nee! ri ee ete | pay their own fines, the Oakland club | I¥ to put a premium on advice. Jana finally out. Johnny Drexel, | twice by a 3 to 2 margin. Peculiarl for jin a 10-round bout. The latter) ths rest of the year he's going to| tram While he did not reach |#hould foot the biil if these youngsters could be gifted | Powell's stable mate, ts a likely. | enough in three of the eames BiG Paul er is still getting into | ‘ained wen eee | speed up his shota a lot in order to|any extra-ordinary heights, he euc.| Under tho present economical pol-|“'t2_ ‘Ne magic Power to go back |iooking featherweight. jerrors caused his downfall. 4 2 s 7 getting | fae al Mei banien ttn bla als ide any extra-ordinary heights, hi | a he hu aad jalong the trail with the old scouts, Bie Pitching a no-hit game ts out of} os the ncisco lineup. He George Marks and Joe Lynch |* Parte te ceeded fn adding considerable power | ley, Ewing makes his club a doormat | what might they not learn to thelr |the ordinary. When a twirler com ( —— Sa eeennter teens =| box 10 rounds In Vancouver, B. | we EIN: HAS lto the offensive of the Robins and| | for ae Abney aie poe er vetagty tad | permanent advantage? IMALODY WILL |thru with such « feat he is usually C., duly 27. lean ~ te |thus he was a valuable acquisition. | rea a Rey = Sete Pt ae i ome But thru the long years o'er and returned the winner. The fates, he 9 Aes |BoosT FOR STOW | i | But the first sacker was not en-| back and for seven other clubs whose ae BATTLE SNELL | ever, were unkind to Donahus a < leading the league in percentage of |cO tennis star who ts here this woe wo tha thie Marg create gris Pee SDs cparaatil gate Ak | young Ignore. sa Sei eee ani contender, | ames and lose seven of them seems games won, having turned in 14) (7% % rahe 0) His ambition wasn't realized and he | catic — ———_—~- wil attle Doc Snell, in Leaven-} like hard luck in its hardest forms ; 4 lost 4, while Harry Gardner,| Junior who Is also playing here, is| determinedly wet out to reach the} It must be galling for an Oakland | ae ‘ wm ene | Worth. Wash. July 25. Malody re-| Despite his hard luck in three years! $ : lalao of Seattle, is next with 14| Ne of the most likely your ers| goal he was after, During the past| player who does indulge in a fist bis eet! ‘OHAGAN BOUT SOON | centiy handed Jimmy Cole a terrific | of college pitching Donahue won 45} ae and 6 he has seen in a number of seasons. |/two weeks Jacques has been hitting | fight with an opposing player to real-| Jimmy O'Hagan, Wastern battler, | lacing there and is a big card. Mal-| games and lost only 10, and don’t) 6 | ! Buys pen 5 ex ah i ab vie the ball at such a vicious clip that! ize it will cost him a winter fultoos [Neaaline Wea = t Chine will} has been registering impressions | forget in seven of those defeats A | says Weinstein, “but he has © lot of] his homers are attracting many peo-| while his opponent gets a full pay|headline Wednesday's show at thejevery place he has boxed, and is| held the opposition hitless, ¢ j BOBBY JONES natural ability and tennis instinet| ple to the parks in which the Robins |check and probably a few clgars from |Oakland auditorium with Ray Pel-|about due for a good shot in Se-| No wonder Peta Donahue 4s one ° 1s WELCOMED and he has # sound game develop- | display their wares {the opposing club owner : hey are middlewoights. attle. the pitching stars of the majors. ° I ing | — - ee — = ————— - ae = ———- — cae i . b4 ATLANTA ja., July 18—Bobby| Stow’s biggest weakness, liko most ; } Sky-writing | Jones, who won the national open| Californians, ts his backhand. Hoe is 9 Z é } | golf championship last week, was |taking some pointers this week from $ , . liv a Arunderidous 7 elicatie upon | Armand Marion, tho Seattle young a c e or 00 1 im , 18 the n home here yesterday.|ater, who has developed one of tho backhands in the city. Stow fs t stroke In prac g00d results, ned the streets to cheer the | bes | Atlanta boy as he rode to his home|using Marion's f1 | from the depot. tice and iy getti | The house of the Georgia legisla advertising A ° ~ na ture, which is now in session, adopt-| HESKETH H. - sensation of Jed a resolution congratuiating Jones. | NATURAL ABILITY 4 { | It's too bad that Bob Hesketh, the Is Benny Leonard, king of light i 1923 d | lanky University of Washington welghts, to bo treated to a sur- ie an MOVIES AFTER _ |, osiverity ot Washineon Me Se Eee neal pre on tennis, as Bob has the best natu- | gate : the symbol || ,, TOM, GIBBONS | "emi, tsm nthe nt afer Ghigant sign te Evy a y | ST. PAUL, July 18—Five motion | seattle players. He has a wonderful on July 237 picture companies are bidding for | , stamina, reach, instinct an the services of Tommy Gibbons, who | that goes to make a g ayed 15 rounds with Jack Demp- | pj jwey on July 4 die | plays only in a few tournaments. Kane, declared yesterday he | He has slowed up his game a bit too would accept one of the offers. |much this season, as he would get | | |much bettter results if he had PERMIT DEC | stuck to his speed game and devel ' PAUL, July 18.—The war de. | Oped more steadiness in it. Ho still | partment announced yesterday that | has time to develop into a real top. it would permit decision boxing | Notcher as he is young yet | }bouts at Fort Snelling near here, | | SCOTT WILL BURN | {Hite OUT Will Wallace Scott, the Tacoma Aberdeen After star, burn himself out with his Ted-Dode Scrap | terrific game? | That's what a lot of the local | players seem to think after watching BERDEED |him in action in Portland Inst week Dode Rercot-Ted Krache || Scott puts every ounce of energy | match for the Gray Harbor | metropolis Labor day, Nick Ran | | 4) od tennis But he seldom practices and Wise ones are shaking their heads of a cigarette that has been a sensation since 1920 dubiously, They think Benny has slowed up considerably, His scrap with Pinkey Mitchell a few w ago proves it, they Others, claiming to be equally en- dowed with wisdom teeth, contend Leonard is at loast as good as when he met Tendler the last time, And Lew didn't take the title so anyone could notice it! = UssFler ae te STO Eastern fight fans aro all “het” up over the coming drama and expect a fast fight, Leonard often has ex- pressed himself as being particularly anxious to eliminate T ndler once and promoters want a for all, He regards Lew as his most |into his service and when he get |thru with a hard mateh he's just about exhausted, Local _ players think he doesn't conserve himuelf jenough and that like Maurice Me | Loughlin, the California comet of a few years ago, he won't last long at the terrific pace he sets on the courts now, dangerous challenger, and knows he cannot rest secure with his laurels ditch way in the elty yesterday to have @ talk with Lonnie Au tion about lining up the latt prote for the September date It would be staged at Hlectric park as long as the Philadelphian ta not decisively beaten, Lew Tendler fh ty, f