The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 10, 1923, Page 16

PAGE 16 ¥ ) RAY ROWHER CLOSES IN ON PAUL STRAND IN HOME RUN RACE —~ Seattle Slugger Only u OE / . | _OUR BOARDING -HOUSE—By Ahern Rohwer Is _{Commercialized Fights| — Three Clouts Behind grz _ Hero When TAKE IT Dow 1D Zn | TH’ \ROW Du: Not. WHaT ARE Dollar Sign Threatens Ring NOU HOPS "TRYING ‘To Rohwer Bangs Out Two Circuit Blows Wednesday in ASKING Locals Win Class Jumping Is Big Evil Double Bill and Reaches 25 Mark; Jacobs May Go Back to Majors; Other Gossip 3 BY LEO H, LASSEN re AY ROHWER, the greatest long distance slugger that ‘ ever wore a Seattle baseball uniform, is making a mighty bid for the Babe Ruth honors of the Coast league. He gave two onions the long ride out of the Seattle orchard esterday in the double bill with Los Angeles and brought is total up to 25 for the season. He is only three circuit swats behind Paul Strand of Salt Lake, who is leading the procession with 28. Rohwer is the real leade than half of his homers that Salt Lake cheese bo While “Ray has had to ki ‘em in legitimate parks. The blows he has pushed over the barricade in right field here Saye all been real home runs, & Souple of them being the lon, P slows hit here. Righthanders OK alike to t Ho bas thicked Tom Hughes for sow yesterday and then dhe over the garden wall with Lefty | | Thomas performing. His first blow tame with two men on bases and tinched the first encounter, while ais second put the Tribe ahead and E gave them a lead they never re. _ — - ae en Game Chatter ) | Jacobs May Go Up BI Orr played third base for the IR JACOBS today is the best] Fighthanded flinger in the Coast| Dill Ore played third base fer, the being benched because he hasn't Hague, bar none. He has as much stuff as any of them, knows how! been hitting. Orr played @ very nice Pte pitch, and altho he's the father) (third base and hy himself to oe oe ; ! ‘ie| some healthy hits during the day. Pat ithe well-known quintet of little) jie "turned in # prise play when he fakes he's no old man by Any] went behind third bace fer Art | | means. Griggs’ drive and threw the strong | When they send up pitchers like] SGeorge Boehler for $30,000 on the) strength of one season and when a} _ | 7 it corps of micor league pitch-| Sammy Ke ewrd kept = hie great play: | oo & |ing at shortstop and picked up two! pene Sr biot ‘halt, of sehr | doubles tn the second tiff ssould carry bats to Jako there's) ob Wallace finished up both ‘Something goofy. * He pulled Tacobs, himself, ts content to work] boner of the afternoon when he ha Rais Coast, as ho doesn’t like|ou"er,, Picked off of fret and Ray | ‘the heat and cold of the East. The! thre at aa Rohwer was # only thing that would lure him|!"« into the keystone station, East would be the big money for thé sake of those same five little Takes. in that Strand has made more | co me Baseball Is Halted Today In respect for the memory of ate President Harding, whose held today in professional base- ‘out the land will be post- attle will uthpa ws. his first swiped y in the of the season on the road again playing at Francisco and Salt Lake before returning home man out at first. Trae, he couldn't | have flagged a fast man, but never- | theless, Ib wae ao Mh play, } Besides hitting two home rns on Thursday, Kohwer rapped one of the longest doubles off of the right fleld fence In the last tne he went to the plate, the ball hitting far down the fence. If it had been nearer the right fleld line it would have cleared the wall enally. This ts Jacobs’ third year tn} ttle and he has always pitched ng ball, huriing far more vic- Ttoriés than defeats, and he has al- ‘Ways been effective. tor but he certainly has shown /and « single during the day. | league fans enough stuff to nt another trial. | Marty Krug, manager of ‘Angels, says that Jake could get) | by up there like a million now and| was thero himself last year! i he knows pitchers. Will Be Retained preanggle nothing to the talk) ¥ that Marty Krug won't be) pienty of triples were registered yes- | Manager of Los Angeles next year."|terday, Carroll, MeCabe, Orr, Mood aod > Oscar Reichow, business manager | Welsh collectin | “of the Celestials talking. “Krug will be at the helm of the Pelub in 1924," says Oscar, “the club Is satisfied with his showing and that’s all that counta’ Tt must be admitted that Krug is had a lot to contend with as (the market for new players is) d and he stepped into the oughest job in the league, repli: STRALI p ing Red Killefer. AU’ AN ‘Then there was n lot of Jealousy Gours SIDE TENNIS CLUB, | When he cot the job. Charley Deal, | Chicago, Aug. 10—Zenzo 5 his star third sacker, had his heart|mizu, Japaneso tennis star, yester Bet on the position and wouldn't/day defeqted J. B. Hawkes, Aus- ly ball for Krug. So the new|tralian, in the first match of the} Hot swung a deal with Vernon) Japan-Australia final tle in the for Red Smith, Deal is now hold-| american zone Davis cup tennis ding out for more coin from the|cnampionship matches. < the same as he did from) tne Australian took os Angeles when the Chicago} : z Cubs first sent him out here. {80d fourth; games. Hive is a good second sacker| TH? little Japanese fought with Fhimect? yet, and he is a pretty|*Perb generalship that has made Wsindrt baseball head. The Angels|him a star and took the fifth, sixth| iol do a lot worse than having|@nd seventh games. He faltered] ‘Krug for a pilot. in the eighth, however, Hawkes a winning by some flashy drives. The score was, 6-4, 3-6, 2-6, 6-4. “Doc” Johnston had # large time to the| the firet game yesterday, picking up » |triple and two singles in four attempts. | “Letty” Burger had » bed spell of wildness In the seventh frame of the first game when he walked three men with one away. Bat bey eut of @ bad hole when the Angels tcored only once on @ flelder’s choice. “Red” Smith touched up Wheezer Dell, | his former team mate, for three ating! singles in the second fra JAPANESE IS WINNER OVER | the third | me Grease for Killefer 6-1, ED” KILLEFER Is just about the smartest manager in the| In the second match of tho after Fieague, ana yet two times in the|H00n J. O. Anderson, Australia, Piast week he has thrown away runsjmet Mason Osuke Fukuda, Japan. Eby sending in men to. the plate Bc: ce suis. "oan tnes| FRED CHILE 1S SET ON GO the Tribe won without the use of} Bthose tallies, but such stuff is P bad baseball, smatr as Radiant Red H. | pay be. | WITH CHAMP SE Tang’ fy to. center and round-| every other day in tho after. Fed third. McAuley, the atrongeat | 200" at the Royal Athletic club's ‘throwing shortstop in the league,|#¥™mnasium, on Turk st. Went out for the relay and winged|, He's been at tt now for about POrane out by several fect, Yester-|four months, Hoe looks very good. Gay Orr was sent in and again} He !s determined to fight Benny P MeAuley took the throw and elim.|L¢onard again, “I beat him onco| nated him at the plate by yards,| and he beat me once,” he says; PF And both times thers wax nobody | even up, and there's no man left in Pout when the runners were sent {n.|the East to fight him. PWhy take such chances when any| He he weighs 141 kind of a break at all would score| Leonard, who can’t mak @ fin? As it followed, both Ci says pounds, | less than ano| 135 and be strong, probably welghs and Orr would have scored as|more than 141 now. Willie still Mobin followed Crane ¥ a long|has some fat around tho hips to /fiy and Yaryan doubled after Orr.| work on. : part, of course, is second U guessing. But nevertheless we think| “Killefer has been guilty of some bad coaching, SILVER WINS SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10.—Jack Silver, San Francisco lightweight, annihilated Jack McPartland, for- mer Olympic club champion, in four | rounds aat night. MeParttand IS PILOT |parety cscapea a knockout. Bobby é) ‘When George Whitted quit as man- Allen beat Pete Daley In the semi- gece of the Toledo Mudhens, In the| "dup. lean association, recently, Bill FIST ty, a 22-year-old outfielder, was “FRY TWO! in charge of the club, and they| Johnny Kilbane, former feather- seded to win three out of four|welght king, is planning to go into [games from the Kansas City Blues, |the restaurant business in Cleveland, t ue leaders, Terry, by the way, | Ohio. Mp lending the A. A. in hitting, too, SL EARL ~ va eae er teata ‘The world’s record for the mile S. F. FANS GIVE walk 1s held by G, H, Goulding of "BAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10.—More |Canada. Ho mado the distance in $600 was taken up here Thurs. |*!* minutes, 26 8-10 necond, on June night at a boxing exhibition to | 4 1919. ‘sed in the Harding memorial fd of this city, Margaret Mary organ, San Francisco's only n supervisor, made a speech NEW YORK, Aug stein, Junior Ightw and Pal Moran, New Orleans light weight, went 15. rounds to a draw, 10-—Jack Bern ht champion, YOUR PARDON SIR» BUT DID You CALL FoR ICE WATER 2 Do» SELL US “TH’ HUDSON BAY OW INSTALLMENTS @« CHAGE ALONG « WE GaoT A BOOK ON COMPLI! OUR OWN ICE ! (ue ICE WATER RACKET == Star MENTG !« “THAT “TEN CENT PITCHER CoST US “THREE ‘ Wow "To MAKE £—R) DOLLARS ALREADY, WE'VE TIPPED EVERY PALM IN “THIS MILL EXCEPT TH! ONES IN TH’ BRAGS POTS! « You BELLHOPS WOULD HANG AROUND A STKTUE FoR A WEEK \F HE HAD HIG HANDS W HIS POCKETS! Tennis Entries Pick Upin Past Few Days; Burr Is Entered: WHOLE flock of new tennis entries have been listed for The Star-Woodland park ten-| Me nis meet to be held on the North End courts week after next. Heading the new list of entries is Richard Burr, 1920 champion and winner of the first Star tournament. Burr will pair with Grant Laizure in the men’s doubles. TENNIS ENTRY BLANK I wish to enter the events marked park texnis tournament; Men's Gingtem..scccceeseerenenener ‘Women's Singles. . Mixed Doublea . (Name Partner) Junior Boy DOublem. +. s+ereeeeeeeee gpnseddar hans asctnsensy CONCERNING | NEXT HEAVY _ TITLE SCRAP ACK DEMPSEY has gone into traning at Saratoga Springs for Luis Firpo. Firpo couldn't stop4 Homer Smith in 10 rounds | The Dempsey-Firpo match does! not look so big now. Back in 1918} Dempsey knocked out Homer Smith | tn one round. Homer isn't as good | a fighter now as he was then—and| ho wasn't much then. | Firpo is matched with Charley Weinert, Welnert isn't much good, either, | Firpo hag to stop Welnert or his| match with Dempaey will become ordinary ' Diamond Dust Walter Johnson wingied in the eighth, | went around on two singles, and scored the run on erifice fly that mave| Washington o-1 victory over the Indians, Another “Johnson stunt” was pulled by Lou North, Card pitcher, who singled in the 15th inning, and drove in the rum that beat the Giants, 13 to 12. Using up a month's ly of runs, the | Athieticn mauled the ¥ x, 21 to 6, | and finally won a nert | O14 man Adama went to the mound with bis head and a glove and pitched the Pirates to m 6-2 victory over the Robins, Tho Reds increased thelr losing streak to six straight games when the lowly Braves plastered them, 1 to 0 Gerber's error back of a couple of hits kicked the props out from under Shocker, and tho Hed Box beat the Browns, 4 to 3. The Cubs leaned on Couch in the ninth inning an 2 tol Hoyt, Mays and Tigers put the br and the BRIEF STILL HITTING ’EM Bunny Brief, who holds the Const league record for homo runs was 33, fs up to his old tricks in tho Amer- {oan aguociation. Ho leads the league with 22 at this writing. He hit over 40 circult blows In 1922, LEONARD THRU AS A DECEIVER “Dutch” Leonard is thru as a pitcher. The Fresno Valley leaguo Pipp Graaw let the all over the field, ka didn’t win, 11 to 3, Frankie Jerome, New York bantam e for money, and then per. passed m hat thru the ‘Danny Edwards, weight, won @ 10-round decision uel ore as first string receiver for the club has signed “Red” Oldham to Raisin elty club, with @ cross in The Star. Woodland Men's Doublea....ssesvseersees Women's Doubles, ..sssesseeveeess Qiame Partner) Junior Boyn’ Singles... Junior Girls’ BINgles... sem eeeeees Gibbons to Box Sailor Tonight AS’ ® special attraction of to- night's performance of the Pantages theater, during the nec- ond shew Tommy Gibbons, pop: ular contender for the heavy welght title, who is the feature attraction at the local house this week, will have as a sparring partner, Walter Rallo, former light heavyweight champion of the Atlantic fleet, and now with the battleships fleet in the har. bor. Rallo fights at 170 Ibs. and is claimed to have a great reputa- tion. Hoe will take tho place of Tommy Gibbons’ sparring part- ner, William Hart, during tho second performance, and will permit Gibbons a chance to feel out the navy style of fighting Considerable interest ix being shown in the coming exhibition by the officers and mon of tho visiting battleships in the harbor and it is expected that a largo delegation will be on hand to offer cheers for their popular battler as well as showing their appreciation of Tommy Gibbons GETTING SET FOR BIG MIX Jim Coffroth, San Francisco pro- moter, has wired Montana for plans for the Arena at Shelby, There ts talk that he may try to promote the This is one of the strongest doubles teams in the North- city champion and ih has also fied dy Langlte, one of the famous ie fami: © tournament. ies are open for nearly @ week yet, but players planaing to jtake part 4 send in their blanks immediately. They will be accepted at the tennis department of Piper \@ Taft's or Spaldings. | The foliowing players have filed the past two days 1 entries f Ossinger, S WwW’ @W FOUNTAIN AN’ PouR IT ON 'EM WITH OUR will also compete in |x | Two Honors in Double Bill Help Tribe Win Two From Angels Gun ont, Pot tsb te bse ba ee 48 a 4n ow 46 jo 468 “aa VACINIC COAST w mESULTS Reattle 6, Los Angeles 9 (firet game); Be Los Angeles 2 (second game). Han Franchseo 11, Portiand 3. it Lake 6, Oakland 4 | nto 10, Vernon GAMES NEXT WHEK WO mighty home runs by Ray Rohwer over the right field wall two bity of pyrotechnics 4 twin win of the Be janes over the Los Angeles boys. first score was 6 jand tho second 3 to 2 Rohwer’s first homer came in the }Gifth frame, with Mearkle on the |encks and proved to account for |the winning runs, while his second was in the second game in the fourth frame, with a runner on. It gave the locals the lead and upset Lefty Thomas so that Crane and Orr followed with doubles that scor- led the winning tally. | Lefty Burger outpltched Tom Hughes in the first game and with ip of Rohwer’s mighty homer rought home the winner, Welser Dell pitched masterful ball for the Redsking in the second en | counter, lee one bad inning, also dished up of Thurad attle In good hurting The scores of yesterday's meleos yimstT GAMY AB, it. Pe x. P es i to 4} altho Thomas, outside of| || Criqui Missed Out on Money BY HENRY L. FARRELL EW YORK, Aug. 10--Assuming a rather dictatorial rule over boxing, the New York state ‘commission has done much to promote the in terest of the sports and the benefits derived have not been confined to the territory under its immediate jurisdiction While many rules have been made that seemed absurd and overstepping the bounds of the commission's authority when they were first passed, some |of them prove to have been based on far-sighted judgment If the commission did nothing else, its most radical step In declaring for- felted the titles of champions who refused to fight worthy challengers |brought the flyweight, featherweight and middleweight titles out of hock Jand put them back into competition The right of the commiasion to rule out Johnny Kilbane, Johnny Wilson, Mickey Walker and Joe Lynch as champions wan scoffed at when the com mission acted, but the fact remains that there a) new flyweight and featherweight champions, and Wilson, Walker and Lynch have been forced into the defense of their titles While their judgment was sometimes questioned, the sincerity and hon- enty of the comminsioners never have been doubted and they have been right a» many times as wrong. There remains much yet to be accomplished and the commission might well devote a little attention to the “class jumping” champions, It has become the popular custom for a new champion to seek compet!- tion in a heavier class no sooner than he has reached the top of the boxers at his own weight Pancho Villa won the world’s flywelght « campaigning among the |to fight Joe Lynch. 1 | works among the feath ew mplonship and then started bantamweights and announced himself as ready nch ignores the challenges of bantams and seeks weights. Benny Leonard, altho he may be excused margin by hich he outclassed all lightweights, wants key Walker for the weight championship. Walker, al- tho he would be in danger with several welterweights seeking matches with him, has expressed his willingness to fight Johnny Wilson, middleweight champion, and Harry Greb, former light-heavywelght champion, Greb ducks matches at his own weight and shouts his desire to fight Jack Dempsey. | because of wide to fight we HE way that the “money-first” champions have fallen into can be shown well by two utterances of Johnfy Dundee. Hardly had Dundee won the featherweight championship from Eugene Criqui, when he said; “I want to be a fighting champlon! they can come!" The next day Dundee announced that he would start a drive after a lightweight championship bout with Benny Leonard and a retyrn bout with Jack Bernstein, who took Dundee's trick junir lightwetght title away from him on a decision some time back Dundee wants to hold three tities at once, and every one but Jack Demp- ney, whose weight confines him to only one class, aspires to hold two titles. Dundee tn not to be picked out for criticism, but his is the most recent case of “class jumping.” Lynch said the same thing about “meet ‘em all,” when he won his title; so did Walker; no did Wilson, and all of them. There are only two big figures in the boxing game now who have been sports enough to take a chance. Gene Tunney, the American light-heavy- | weight champlon, gave Harry Greb a chance at his title within six months after he had won it, and Criqu!, the former featherweight champion of the world, defended his title less than two months after he had knocked Kil- bane out. Both Tunney and Criqui did not dodge the toughest man in their clans, and both lost. Tunney had a little better fortune than the French- man had, as Tunney won his title back, but Criqui has a slight chance to get back under the crown I will meet all challengers as fast as . OMMERCIALISM Is, of course, the greatest evil that any commission in =| 1 | strong enough to kill the evil supervision of boxing has to combat. There is no way to legislate It can only be curbed. In New York it was . | thought that the exorbitant demands of boxers could be regulated by prohib- o|iting the giving of guarantees by promoters and passing rules to force the ly | Bureer, p . | |. Totals | in seventh 6 ' | im Binth; «rounded out | Seore by Inning ¢| boxers to fight for a percentage not to exceed 50 per cent of the purse be- tween them. With the support of the promoters this would have become a practical as well as the best of theoretical solutions, but the promoters get away with it by reaching a private understanding on a guarantee. The rule in New York lMmiting the top price of seats to $25, and the law @/in New Jersoy making $15 the maximum that can be charged for admis- | sion, ought to back up the percentage purse rule. But it doesn't. Some pro- |moters get around the price limitation by turning over most of the choice | seats to scalpers and taking a cut of their profits. | From past experiences and from what is golng on now around New York, lisatsnohes et , |!t 1s apparent that boxing cannot be cured by laws. Regulations only serve feat to Hugh bite 10, run i scored | for Hughes &, ery Godfrey, John | Burger 3, son, Mel Dranga, . Arnold Fri r #. Dyer, &. n, David Cruikshank, Arnold &. Norman Whittet, Ra- 8 Dackiand, Jt, | Thelbers. MEN'S DOUBLES | Ramoo De Oca and Fred | Mack | Phillip Nyren and ad Mei Dranga, Kenneth Oseinger, and Joba Car! and Leo Lagers! Grant Latru | Marry c] Langite Wiehard Durr . George MeDonaid [and partner, Theiderg, Herbert Little and Jack Myers, rE. and O. T. Stephens, Frank Bhaw and partner | MIXED DOUBLES Herbert Little and Dorothy Windy Langlie and pi nd Margaret Hennig, Norn John Backtand, Ramon De ©: Little, | 8. Dyer in Whittet Jr, a 4 jor Btephens, Margaret Hen- nig, Ellen Hackiand. WOMEN’S DOUBLES ‘Thelma Wolff and Irene St Margaret Hennig partner, Stephene and Ferne Prov JUNIOR BOY SINGLE! Robert Briggs rt Eimalie, Alden 1) yA Thelbers, tano, Kenneth Dranga, ©. JUNIOR HOY DOUD Albert Clarke and Robert Brig Jackson and partner, Alden Byers and Robert Blmailo, Billy Newkirk and V non Sawyer, Norman Whittet and N |non Robinson, James Cartano and James |W. Anderron, Chet Duett and Mel Luke Thelberg and Bdward Bradiey, ‘Ted Clarke and George Clarke, Harry Godfrey and Kenneth Ossinger, gE. Anderson and HW. Benson, Kenneth Myers and Jnck Cla JUNIOR GILL SINGLES Thelma Wolff, Margaret Hennig, Blea- nor Btephei OAKLAND AGAIN TAKES BEATING Dranga, award Bradley, Luke/ batted tn—Kidred 2 «| sponatble for | Orr. Firpo-Dempsey fight at Tiajauna, Mexico, If anything goes haywire with the New York plans for the werap, DUFFY AND DAVIS DUE There is talk that Jimmy Duffy pend Travie Davis will bo rematched for a four-round bout at the Oakland ball park, Labor day. Duffy won a decision when they mot there ro- cently. GORDON COMING TO FAR WEST Harry Gordon, one of the cleverest youngsters to be developed in tho Bakt in years, 1s on his way West to do battle with 118-pounders on the Pacific coast, He recently beat Carl Tremain OAKLAND, Aug. 10—Salt Lake again defeated Onkland hero yer- torday, Tho score of the encounter was 8 to 4. The score: R. H. Salt Lake . Fy 12 0 Oakland v...ssee Bae et Myers and Jenkins; Krause and| Baker. | SOLONS AGAIN BEAT VERNON LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10.—-Tho Sacramento club is getting closer and closer to first place in tho Coast league race, The Solons took the third consecutive game from Vernon yestrday, 10 to 8, Tho score, Sacramento . 10 16 Vernon 8 18 Hughes and Schang; Gilder, Shel. lenback, Cruz and Hannah, R. oH. BE. WELL, WELL The California Elks are planning a big bowling tournament for tha Sop. tember session at Wureka noxt month, WHAT, AGAIN! Benny Leonard and Johnny Dun, doo will moet for the ninth time, when they clash at the Yankee ata- dium, Septomber 16, Burger 4, pitch—Burger, run — Rohwer, |Johnton, Welsh, Orr, Mec hite—Kidred, Baldwin, . Yaryan, Welsh, z Rune Mearkie, Caught Moa: Umpires Baldwin, ombley, McAuley Double play Time—1:3T. Rohwer 2, T ieee Casey and Carr SECOND GAME Angelee— AB. Hisces ; | Griges, iD Hood, ef . Bmith, 3b Krug, Byler, © Thomas, p | *Gotvin | Wallace, p | 1MeCabe oom Tobin, 0". Delk p. dupedwegier Totals ., a 93 8 oq Batted for Thomas in elghth; ground- a ou {Hatted for McAuley in ninth; fied out. Score by Innings: +1000100 +1110 1 ‘ o0o8 0 | O116 0 | ‘Thomas At bat—Oft TI hite batted & runs scored 3, Runs 1e- Dell 2, Thomas 2, Struck @it—Dell 1, Thomas & Baso on dalle. Thomas 1. Hit by pitched ball—Wolsh, by Thomas. Home run—Hohwer, Thr base hit—Hood. Two-base hite—Crane 2, Sacrifice hite—Twombley, Mearkie -|2, Runs batted in—Twombdley, Rohwer 2, Orr, Smith, Double playe—Thomas to MoAuley to Griggs; Bidred to Johnston; |Krug to McAuley to Griggs, Time of game—1:20, Umpires—Carrol] and Casey, NATIONAL LEAGUE Won. Lost. Pot. ¥ a7 eB 696 +681 +533 +605 +600 a7 801 few York .. ittabure Incinnatl ., Chicago Bt. Louls , Bro i Philadelphia Boston .., Pittedurg 6, Brooklyn 1, Cincinnati 0, 0 2, Philadelphia 1, St. Louis 18, Now York 12'(15 innings), AMERICAN LEAGUE Won, Lost. Pot, +600 643 York 444 Cleveland St Loute , rot, S| Chicago Sone to ts My 400 jadelphia Boston see seas 2 RESULTS Washington 2, Cleveland 1. Philadelphia 21, Chicago 6, Detroit 11, New York 3, Boston 4 6 Louis S. F. DEFEATS PORTLAND CLUB PORTLAND, Aug, 10—San Fran: Cisco easily defeated Portland hore yesterday, 11 to 3, Tho score: San Francisco .. Portland ssssssee Shea and Agnew; RH. ¥, cooshl 9 7d “8 8 Schroeder, Pil. [ett and Onslow, medicine to keep the patient alive and the game no doubt will end like it MMERCIALISM is not only considered the biggest factor of the game among the boxers and their managers, but it has become recognized as | legitimate right of the boxers by the fans. When Criqut lost his featherweight championship to Dundee !n his first fight, after winning the title, the fans mourned, not that he had been badly beaten and humiliated as a champton, but because: ‘ “Hoe didn't have a chance to pull in a pile of dough.” Lee Steil Leads City | Golf Title Qualifiers | BY ALEX C. ROSE Wt STEIL, the Seattle Golf club champion and runner- up in the Pacific Northwest amateur finals, led the field in the qualifying play in the annual links test for the city titular honors at the Inglewood Country club course yesterday, with a medal card of 72 strokes. Following close on the medalist’s heels came Gordon Haw, | the young lad who represented Seattle in the recent national |public links tournament at Washington, D. C., with a 74 jeard. Bon Stein, the state amateur titleholder, was the only other contestant to finish in the “70's,” and he just did manage to get there, his total being 79. That the links of the Inglewood Country club is one of the most difficult to score on was surely demonstrated in that qualifying round which attracted almost all of the leading golfers in and around Seattle, when Fred Ayer, a very steady golfer, just managed to nose under the wire with a 93 score. Yes, Fred qualified after a hard journey, but amongst the also-rans were such well known mashie artists as Jack Scott, a leading player at the Beacon Hill course; Arthur Gerbel, captain of the varsity golf team, and E. W. Greenway, the young man who has been burning up the municipal links fairways and plunking the pill into the cups at the aforementioned municipal greens in such easy fashion as to make one think that said cups were of wash- tub measurements. Jack and Art just missed getting into the draw by the scant mar- gin of one stroke, whiJe Eddie didn’t come anyway near get- ting there, his card totaling the large figures of 101 per- fectly good swats at the elu- sive pill. “Elusive” is right, sayeth E. W. Greenway. Woll, this all goes to show that Out: 553, 445, 344—37. In: 644, 842, 544—35—72. Haw, 74; Stein, 79; Niemeyer, 80; Hatton, 80; Green, 80; Westland, 80; Knudson, 82; McMicken, 83; Ronge- rud, 83; Stuart, 84; Wand, 85; Doran, 87; Canning, 89; Kellam, 89; Ayer, 93. The first round results wero as follows: Stell beat McMicken, 4 and this lakeshore links {s a he-man golf course, and the player who {4s crowned king of tho Seattle fair- ways in this annual event will cer- tainly earn his reward, Following the 18 holes of quality. ing play yesterday morning, the 16 low scorers engaged in their first round matches In the afternoon, which brought about the defeat of Walter Wand, the Rainier captain, who was expected to go a long way toward tho finals, Gordon Haw also suffered defeat in the initial round, Theron Rongerud eliminating him by a 2 and 1 mar gin. The rest of the matches re- sulted pretty much as expected, The tournament committeo has decided that play will cease today in honor of the lato President War. ren Harding, but tomorrow morhing the second round will be decided, to be followed by the semi-finals in the afternoon, Beginning at 10 o'clock Sunday the finalists will tee. off on their 36-hole journey, Medalist Leo Stell's score, together with the scores of those who quall- » fled, are as follows: ace tapcae 2; Hatton beat Doran, 2 and land beat Kellam, 4 and beat Stuart, 7 and 5; Niemeyer beat Wand, 3 and 2; Ayer beat Knudson, 2 and 1; Green beat Canning, 7 and 6; Rongerud beat Haw, 2 and 1, The feature match in tomorrow morning's play will be the meeting of Bon Stein and Jack Westland, The winner will oppose Lee Steil in the upper semi-finals in the after: noon as that young lad has already won his second round, Gene Hatton, his opponent, defaulting. Niemeyer vs, Ayer and: Green ys. Rongerud are the tilts in the lower half of the bracket. WILTSE WILL HOLD BERTH Thore has been a lot of talk in the East that George Wiltse, veteran manager, would be given the gate by Buffalo at the end of the Internation: al leaguo season, But Buffalo is riding in third plage and playinis such food ball that it looks like George will bo on the job for some time get ni Ln ano nes