The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 15, 1923, Page 13

te WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 19% 15.—When it comes to n the royal and ancient surel wreath must. by Western a eur ¢ game 4 handed to Charles ampion big titles to his credit game. And not on of various other re ks history seems to bobs up to ca © versa tck” perhaps h “Chick” other pastimer n the © possessor season. Including mprove w Re t fear in th Ament play is his spe bona ist of hearts alty, and teur tour unless the name of —_« ro nic ih e \ mae oat ries. * Farrell Talks Fight: BY HENRY L, FARRELL 15.—Just BB sti bats recently, Jimmy Jones, winning FOYANS the game t when he won Ww Helen Wills [ a golt is mentic rst broke into the the Western # recent+triumph Ix nath estern amateur—ha Starring in Big Tourney led x a “young welter- sstown, won 4 referee's decision in Boston from Dave be E} boxing commission, which had previously awarded te 3 ight championship to Shade because Mickey Walker, the offi! California Girl Is Excit- ® would not fight, was then put under the job of setting up! + . ing the Interest of East- ae ager of Shade, was called before the commission and ern Tennis Followers could produce any reasons to show why his fighter had not ie N=’ Play # as crafty a manager as there is in the business, and rather he . sed the commission when he, with little fuss, said champion * ade had an im to any kind of a title he certainly blew it when| Pected form and it peer lve that decis’ Jimmy Jones ts the champion % ow that Miss He a 4 ood ‘ that the main idea of practically every boxer « ae aga i i get a title and then hold it, the atti taken by Flynn in|, ; , of 4 championship without an argument was surprising Once ag ark : = t string of boxers in the country and his earnings are| and asking ttle over $200,000 a year, He has to have some ideas to have| year, and the large part of tennis i is business and some of his theories are unique, | hoping that tt | title mean to us?" he asked, in explaining his ideas. There are only two titles that have any great value, the heavyweight lightweight championships. The others are mainly a bother and heir Managers are in the game purely as a business proposition Consider how many great ft Take the case of Dave Shade. utside of Dempsey and Leonard. He has had 40 fights in the last two 1 fixed for the rest of his days s, if he wants to. of work because he draws better as the fighter who ion if he got a chance, than the champion who is al other managers as dodging their fighters. to worry about, we can send Shade in any place with any of a decision fight, as often and as for as much money loses a decision, In two more years he can ret “With a title we would have forfeits and a hundred ot was jobbed out of it, he w to argue and fight about referees, w er things and Just as soon as he lost the tit wld cease to be such a drawing card. Former ‘Since Shade is considered all over as the next man to the welterweight ship, we get more offers than we can handle and with our services in demand, we cari raise our bid to a championship’s price. Other with ‘hopes,’ figui if we can beat Shade wo can make out It all makes business for us." Fé made a fortune for himself and for Bill Brennan’ by Brennan as a trial horse for other heavywelghts. “Brennan has been thru for three years, but he made a lot of money while other better fighters were not getting work. The process was simple We heid Brennan up as the only man, up to that time, who had gone 12 rounds with Dempsey. Other managers with eyes on the heavyweight title figured that ters could stop Brennan in shorter time than Dem) 4 have a big fighter. We got the business,” Flynn said. weight championship fight. “This color thing doesn't go in the fight game,” Fiynn said all fust fighters under the skin. Wills is getting a raw deal. He could tak all the contenders in the division and lick them one after another tn one evening. If he tried to fight the bums that Firpo has been knocking over. he would have an injunction served on him. He has sparring partners that could stop Firpo before he got his right hand back. “Remember, a couple of years back when Bob Martin, a real soldier. fighter, whom the public should have backed to the limit, was working up for a championship fight. Martin was fighting a lot of stiffs and the public got so mean about it that Martin was practically run out of the busines “Then, take the case of Firpo, a foreigner here for nothing but He knocks over worse bums than Martin ever thought of, and tn na year he Is shoved into a bout with Dempsey. “You may be wondering why I have all this interest in Wills, you. “If Wills knocks over this color obstacle, they'll have to listen to Kid Norfolk's challenge for the light heavyweight championship and Panama Joe Gans’ challenge for the middleweight title. “They are both colored boys and—they are my fighters.” SACCO BOXES | SEAMAN DRAW EVERETT, Aug. 15.—Local ring | fans saw a clever exhibition here last the and I'll tell nt when Solly Seaman, New York, | and Jimmy Sacco, Boston, boxed six | rounds toa draw. Eddie Nell, of Ev: erett, won a decision over Eddie| Moore, of Seattle, in the semi-windup. Len Malody and Young Sam Lang- a draw in the special | | | | PHONE TOSSERS TAKE CONTEST. The Telephone Company ball club won the it is forgotten after he has his next| “They're | E f se a lot of trouble. played superb tennis s 9 may be some glory and fame in being a champion or the manager | ® 4 Wallis Myers, foremost Euro there is a lot of grief with it. Say what they may, box-| pean critic, to remark that her gu ters there have) ®#rly past and how many of them are remembered today. | severely He Is the greatest drawing card In the! h t because he fought often for good purses he finds himself at the} Det | ry | Karded weveral years ago ax the com ing champt Mallory has b uu er of ordinary ab’ enough © dence to forget that Mra t Me for Miss Wills Mra, in the and th nals, California girl tean The young Sritish-Ame matches her mn a par now with that of Mile while Mrs little opposition, In Wills had to who was ested, ras had very he first round Miss Martha Bayard, n and who is yet a most ant play ttle, Jer fornia mise he Mra. {liam Sch: While the start has b xacting, the rest of t he final round w er British star. Mallory Geraldine and M nd ranking A peat to get in the fi will have the British Leslie Eaneroft, the fcan player, to rou | The American champion, altho Wtf I not extended so far, has shown LONG with others, Flynn has raised his voice in protest over the slde-| self to be in good game, but she tracking of Harry Wills ax the next opponent for Dempsey in a heavy-|may have plenty of trouble with Beam) ach 3 y it has been foubted that she had petitive experience, but as shown heart and in her play so far she hat she hae a great bi¢ an come from behind. She should have acquired confi Mallory is meet in the he champion when they al round—if they do. GLOVERSVILLE, N. ¥., Aug. 15. The Cincinnati Reds defeated the rsville Elks, 10 to 4, in an ex tion game here yesterday developed for “Re to have troub sociation here Goldstein, round of night Kearns si Jack first game of for the championship of the CHARLIE DEAL | AIS SUSPENDED | LYLE BIGBEE | TO LOUISVILLE LOUISVILE, bee has been added to the pitching | staff of the Louisville American as. erda waukee by EDWARDS IS KNOCKED OUT) ¥ YOR Ix, Bon Francisco's colored ban-| tamwelght, 4 15-round sera GODFREY WILL | SPAR CHAMPION | Burke and Frenchman, to Dempsey os aparring partners in hig , Saratoga training camp, three-game | evening | orthwest | ne, 10 to 6.| e series will | vening on Broad- | defeated ¢ Insurance 1 5.—Char. toast league third | Es- | recently to Vernon # reported | Your safety and welfare is zealously guarded from the time you step on a Great Northern train until you step off at your destination, Travel via the because of ORIENTAL LIMITED SEATTLE—TACOMA— SPOKANE (PORTLAND via S. P. & S. Ry.) To CHICAGO WITHOUT CHANGE Visit GLACIER NATIONAL PARK—America’s Scenic Wonderland — enroute, on the main line of the Great Northern. The new steel trains on GREAT NORTHERN RY. are the Iast word in railroad equipment. Standard and tourist Pullman cars, compartment-obserVation cars, “daylight” diners, superb roadbed, was knocked out by Abe| wnexcelled service and perfect cuisine make this the ideal route East. w York, in the 4th | LOW ROUND TRIP EXCURSION FARES «ll summer long. here last} For information, rerervations, tickets, apply: Aug. 15.—Lyle Big: club, it 4 announced from Mil- | the waiver route K, Aug. 15-—-Danny Ed of 4. MOORE, City 1 YORK, Aug. 1 ed up George hoee Jules Rioux, work with Jack | ie y are they not /,mateurs? Smart boxers know that the fame they the greatest of them all. championships {s‘short-lived and that they are soon forgotten in her progress thru the | drop out of sight. Miss Wills has been Mallory | re] been 2 Kyle, well-known sport SE ORE 2 VILLA BOXED BILL DECKER ; by editor and publisher Beat hy meth An editor ¢ Augunt ismue, en- | ONLY 4 YEARS WINS TITLE. | Plugs | “1 again led = “Congratulatio Washing Pancho Villa, world's fywelght Bill Decker won the Seattle Golf |*+ & pl begin 4 tossers. he | ton!" laude the Univer of Wash-| champion, has been boxing profes-| club's caddy championship oon Seven rune scored in the eighth park Plugs won the contest in the| ington crew for winning the Pough. sionally for four y He etarted|in the 36-hole finals, when he de-| inning helped ¢ a weird — Lith inning, 4 to 3. keepsio race. saa =~ cl ands ary feated T. Cooper, 2 and 1 \ game from tho Pirates, 16 to 16. | 1910 when Mason Phelps took tho fina ‘HOPPE BEATS YOUNG BROWN 18 ANGELES Hoppe to T HE nd fin Western ae Aug hed rt mateur he } 8 one neldentally, he eastern ope of the SEATTLE STAR anner He likewise holds medal sc A of 286 effort. In 1914, he xed cight seasor That made in 1916, still just acing him one nd place once was in ran’ round mateh, mier missed vietory in the Western own, his 291 pl troke beh at the Be winner been nat and 1920—and th the nati same year, He also fir open affair, losing t the finals last year, 3 and 2 vateur champ! 4 the only golfer to su and al open amateu nth fon: twice amateurs to has one triumy in the Oh, Look Who’s Here! | Lee Fohl, Destiny Man of Game, May Take Over Reins at Boston eball, will undoubtedly step into the shoes of Frank EE FOHL, the destiny man of ba diamond campaign is opened. Fohl, who developed the Cleveland Indians title, has been given the gate at St. RUTH IS STAR IN EXHIBITION right hand. VET JOCKEY absence from the track of six years, | Tommy MeTaggart, in his time con sidered the greatest of American jockeys, has his first mount here | y aria day He was recently rein ts excepted in “Dutch” Leonard was a good pitcher back in the} palmy days when the Boston | Red Sox were copping off | world serics flags. Now he’s “ ” | a farmer. “Dutch” —beg par-| st. LovIs, Aug. 15—The § don, it's Hubert B. Leonard | Louis Cardinals have purchased Out- these days—owns a big vine-|fielder Russell Scarritt from the 1 vy F Ca. His (Johnson City club of the Appalachian | seen in yard near fresno, Ua 18 | teague, Manager Branch Rickey an production is surpassing his | nounced yesterday neighbors’ by “if x 3 per cent. “Science does Farmer Leona rd ‘CARDS OBTAIN | Mickey Walker, action 0 good. FOR WET WASH} OF W. CREW GIVEN PRAISE Western monthly As & feature event of the Wood. Brothers Dye Works ball club was| boxer in the defeated by the Covey Wet xine, 9 to 1. Lasley twirled fine ball | was knocked out tor the winners, allowing but three | boxing in 1915 and U. sports, a ius published in Low belng sold in Seat peices. a iRles SERE e | in the Philippine is Chance as manager of the Boston Red Sox Louis after Referee Says The reason for the big flop of NDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 15.—Babe Firpo Is Good the Browns this year is largely it three homers and did some but the Yanks dropped ar zB Dickerson, George Sisker’s illness, Take him exhibition game to the In sreed ‘the Firpo-fenith ‘n out of the Mound City lipeup and team be ,|| Omaha the other nigh es: || se Browne ere like an axito aaa r ‘ "I do not believe the ring has 3rowns are like an auto ever known a man who hits |/its spark plugs. || harder than Firpo does with his But Fohl, one of the smartest | Sand it ie not a loping swing, ||!eaders in the game today, is tog ' BACK AGAIN || peste A teemias mite ls a maansner 10. ot | SARATOGA, Aug. 15—After an travel more than 18 inches. || American league. It is understood t Neither John L. Sullivan, Bob Fitzsimmons nor Jack that \MICK WALKER COMING WEST NEW FIELDER | weient champion, is on his way to | Colorado Springs, Colo., for his bout | with Cowboy Padgett on August 20.| As It is to go 20 rounds here last against Travie Davis. : | a Major Talk men of the World picnic, the Three | McFarland is said to be the wealthiest | Altho he never held a title, Packey world. Wash | welght was 145 pounds. He » ness outsife of Chicago PAGE 13 s now feat, tion right ings con- wreck before another American league with which Tris Speaker won a world’s moulding a machine of the Browns that = - came within one game of win- ning the American loop flag last year. that Chance {s sick of the Boston layout and the refusal of the Sox owners to get new talent, Given some new blood if he takes the reins, Fohl will undoubtedly put the Sox back on the baseball map. But it’s not in the cards for him to finish out in front. Destiny seems to Mave made a marked man of him. Dempsey statement.” world’s welter rumor has it that he may come to the next year and take charge San Franciseo ,Seals. But that's nothing more than for Chance, Padgett was winter He didn't look strong Coast of the |no far talk His fighting | | He retired from} is now in busi. ver the Robins ve Bancroft, playing bh stole home With three successive doubles, Ty led Cobb the attack against two the Tigers beat the FREE SHOW TICKET FOR EVERYONE IN SEATTLE The Seattle Star has purchased 2,000 tickets for the Palace Hip Theatre and will give two to every boy or girl securing one new subscription to this paper! HOW TO GET THEM Just have anyone who is not having The Star delivered to their home agree to take the paper for three months. You do not have to collect any money or make delivery of The Star—simply take the order, Have subscribers sign the subscription blank and bring it, as soon as you get it, to the circulation department of The Star. 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