The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 30, 1923, Page 17

fy Ras. EGE gegekre it E R : Liat Heald > =e ak Christi, tennis THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, THE é AR FIRPO, POSITIVE THAT HE WILL WIN TITLE, MAKES HIS PLANS AMERICAN LEAGUE RACE CONTRAST TO THRILLING DASH IN 1908 Greb Figured to Beat Wilson in Title Bout Poor Place Of Victory |i Pittsburg Challenger Is in Shape, He Should Tale to Do Stuff Middleweight Title on Friday From Johnny Race Lacks Color That Was Shown Old-Time Thrill Is Lack-| ing When New York! Club Cinches Titie YORK, Aug. 30. t runaway York Yankees are American league rast the same 1908. For the dash for the that year was without a the most sensational ever witnessed in elther of the two major loops In the heect! paign no leas than fe the leade of September battle all arou: Pcieveland and st testing teams, each chance to cop. The situation was of further In terest in that it was a pu “Wes affair,’ the four Atlantic seaboard clubs all being left the cold. Down the home stretch came th quartet like so many race horses. It looked like a blanket finish, But with about two weeks to piay the St. Louls fatteret, and was outdistanced, leaving the other three to wage it out merry old battle it But with the final wire almost in Sight, Cleveland, likewise, found the pace too hot, and fell back, tho stil! remained in the running, @ither or voth of the ot Slack up momentarily. Th in other words, retained chance. On to the last series of the sea. son went the tri Chicago aimost Thus with only play, the Tigers were due in Windy City to wind up the chase} and incidentally decide the pennant winner. Detroit contes cago had to «weep the seri yiding that ¢ nd didn't win all four of its games from the Browns, in which case the Indians stil had & show. But Cleveland was out by St. Louis in the opening tit, thus giving Detroit and Chi- cago a clear field. Seemingly to make a sensational finish to an otherwise sensational! fice, the White Sox captured the first two games, leaving the cham- plonship to hinge on the final en- counter of the season. Victory for either club meant the pennant, and @ chance to get into the world series. Neediess to say, was watched with thruout the try. were all “het up.” For a chai plonship was at stake. And cham- pionships aren't won in a day the Tigers, with their backs proverbial wall, tile soll, aided by the great pitching ot iid Bill Donovan, turned back the chesty Chicago gang, and Won their second pennant in as many seasons. Not a single run did the White Sox get off the of- ferings of Dec that Cane. 20 well w: ter o! cereme nies, while the Tigers almost annihi Chicago hurlers, leaving no and ands” as to the rightful victor, And thus ended the 1908 pennant face in the campaign that no doubt ranks with- out paraliel in the history of base- ball. INTERBAY IS _ race making tn this season, Teealls the great ish in clreuit foubt the an Louls, had an outside yeck and needed but ona of the that lase game intense intere: Baseball fu jovan VICTOR, 4 TO 1} The Interbay ball club defeated the Beaver Athletic club tossers by a 4 to 1 score. Burnett twirled nice ball for the winners, whiffing 16 rival batsmen. ‘The score: R. H. E. 4 10 8 1 5 4 Burnett, Suess and Anderson; Rosia and Westmoreland. u Rates —to Glacier National Park ° 65 —only ¥nOoM 2 Seattle - for the round trip Tickets on sale daily August 31 to Sept. 8 (INCLUSIVE) Final return limit Sept. 17 Park Closen Sept. 15 An unusual oppor- tunity for vacation- ists and tourists to visit America’s great- est scenic wonderlnd. For detailed information and Mter- ature oall on or address Clty ‘Theket King Street Station, MA in-8601 W. Young, nl Agent, if, di, Moore, Olty Th back in| with Detroit and| neck. | three games to| the} grab the go Cht-} put | and on hos-/t American league. A} De | flag | con: | equal) | out in} And what a} Here are five of the men | league pennant. upper right, Eddie Roush; |George Burn _and lower | HITE SULPHUR SPRI ing a far-away look while he i Pancho Villa is his name. of a little over a year, came to Jimmy Wilde. Pancho's mind {= often back In | Manila, where his 16-yearold bride jaw mits the day when she wi Jable to rejoin the husband wh: her after but one rm ‘And I can't go back, can’t make the money th |this coun | “We F are not rich he Americans, and tho fighter t gets very small purses. “I don’t believe that I ever will return to Manila. When I'um thru fighting I will open a store and sell the produ com: try, | “ET wi jer parents | will be | The went on. The girls, young and flock about tho little fighter, try to flirt with him, and dance with him, who try to entice him into their big cars for a ride, gs! only a slow smile and a soft spoken refusal for their pains. Pancho’ rt 1s far away across the Pacific, for there I I get in nos ike bring my , after wo ukulele who who ‘SALT LAKE GIRL WINS IN TOURNEY XMOOR COUNTRY CLUB, Highland Park, Ili, Aug. 30.— The play for the women's Western golf title narrowed today to three Jout-oftown players and one Chi cagoan. The, defeat of Mrs. F. C. Letts, Onwentsia, a former three-time win- ner, by Milas Florence Halloran, Salt Lake City, 2 and 1, was the surprise of the day. Most of Cht cago’s hopes to keep the champion- ship here were pinned on Mrs, Letts. Miss Miriam }iand, formerly umphed over Grand Rapids, 4 | Loulse Fordyce, Ohio state ch the 19th green before from Miss Dorothy Hig’ one up. Mrs. mer Mra, Burns, Westmore- of Kansas City, tri Miss Elsio Hilding, | and | oxmoor, rat, apion, Harley Higbee BENJAMIN TO MEET ROACH ON SEPT. 8 OB BENJAMIN, tho J lightweight, will meet Roach of ancisco at Alan arena, 1 Spokune, night of September 8. The bout should develop plenty of class, and the boxing fana of the Iniand Empire are warming up to it, as indicated from the publicity given in Spokane papers. Benjamin originally hails from| Hpokane. | Roach tn Dallas, for won from Detroit, 1 up. Stockton on the working out daily at} |the Austin & Salt gymnasium here Ho is helping train Tod Morgan,| the Seattle fentherwe! for his return bout with Ridley, will be staged locul next Wednesday night, un der the auspices of Nato Drux- man, upper ri ght, today holds the world’s title of flyweight champion, by | | Herbert |supplying | Labor da who are fighting left, Babe’ the veteran Pinelii. BY BOB DORMAN Saratoga Lake, sunshine on the steps of 'Luther’s hotel is a brown- faced midget, ‘his slant e dly strums a ukulele. Cincinnati's In the center is the sensational Cuban pitcher, Adolfo Luque. Manager Pat They’re Putting: Up Reds’ Last Stand ) —_——— battle the National On the} left, for Moran; lower Pancho Villa Longs for ‘Hi ig Young Bride, Who Is in Far-Away Manila” king Aug. es hold- He's the sensational little Filipino, who in the short space thi country and won and lost the bantamweight title, and virtue of his defeat of the veteran Wishes She Was Here Pancho Villa EVERETT’S BALL NINE WILL PLAY HE reorganized Everett baseball club, J. ("Scoop") ill make s bow before the fans Sun- day afternoon, at Eliott park, when it will play the Seattle Asahi nine Walter Plouta is field captain of the club, which is composed of’ the best tossers in the the Clty of Smoke- stacks. On Monday, Labor day, the Bverett club will meet the Wm. L, Hughson & Co. nine, of Seattle, in another big tangle. Tillott park ts expected to be crowded with fans for both conte: a long-felt desire and need Toole, home in Everett || TENINO TO HAVE SHOW LABOR DAY ITH n double main event sched: uled, interest is keen in tho smoker to be held at ‘To nino, ‘The committee in charge, L, nN , Kami Krupp, Al Land: strom ani se Simmons, hin billed Martin, Centralia light welght, and Billy Morrow, of Spo: ka in one attraction, and Roy Small, Camp Lewia 120-pounder, and Young Sum Langford, of Seuttle, in the other, Hddie’ McCarthy and under the management of | a9 a town team In| MINTYRE HAS GOOD PROSPECT) YH McINTYRE, well J to’ nnyone who has followed boxing on the Pacific the Jlast few y , has uncovered a | heavywel at Mullan, Idaho, and thinks that he has a coming} champ. The known} coast heavyweight is Clyde Fos. ter, an 18-year-old high school stu- dent. Ho is the son of a miner, and shows all kinds of class, Fos. ter welghs 165 pounds now, but be built MASCOTT TO MEET FOLEY Mascott, the Portland ban tamwelght, will meet Vic Foley, Canadian champion, at Vancouver, B. up to 180 pounds, Billy George Uhle, the great Cleveland pitcher, was ploked up by scouts while playing on the sand lots in Cleveland. Frankie Green, bantamwe in the special events, Othe on the curd are: Ray Camp Lewis, ve. Gib Weav tralia; Grant Inman, ‘Tenino, and Joo Dunn, Onalaska, Larry Duffy and Jack Newman will alternate as referees, hts, are houts ' ‘ McIntyre claims that he can easily] at the Arena} , September 4. | Argentine Quite Sure Does Not Plan to Return) to His Native Land Aft- er Big New York Scrap A ANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug. 00 4 ‘or the 16 days that are to meeta Jack Demp. Firpo, the affable Argentine financier, will be t he wer of elapse before he jney, Luts 1 young within his rights i tha in to be the next he pion and the big money pugilism Luis Ar | Heh sn » return to he meets nd to before I can go home,” American is always a bus: rpo has into his future pl not need a mar |gets the title, As far as outwi | manifestations of nervousness are concerned, Firpo shows no more about the coming fight than which beats out | music without | ducemen a nickel. It plays all the pop tunes and upon its latest hits most | will er when he | | anxiet | his ph 1 ri k are He 1 the Argentin 7 of which Firpo, You're Going to Get It; Dempsey is adding lary, He “How Glad to several are nee and however, accord taff, 8 in the} business men gets wo used to saying it that occasionally bursts out with 4 tomorrow” when somo guished person is telling him that he is proud of tho privilege of meet- him. When the sheriff tn_In- polis told him he would bo ar- rented if he knocked Joo Downey down, Firpo said “See you tomor row,” and tho sheriff thought it was interpreters sald «i attention to the fact had $2,300 coming to him from Ind otis part of the conversation th marked that Firpo son he had ever venturesom inter 4s the of the covered up the break with “before the Willard fight he was the only the house who slept. Ho worrted a bit, and the ked up. Firpo has them ome in | was not others wero all we }reads all the pa . OF | read to him, at re markable faculty of rememberin, j the r a 4“ of the writer: and | bby of checking up jto seo ¥ y e Ho has a fine memory on all ring topics. He ell the round and the kind of @ punch that won every big fight |for yeara back.” |} ‘The South American thinks it is pecullar that he is criticized for his fights against Homer Smith and | Jos Downey, “Johnny Dundee ts go- ing to fight for a charspionship next week and he was beaten the other night in Philadelphia, I have not been beaten,” he said. Firpo has picked up several American games, Including the grand old game of craps Hoe has one black bone and one white one. He has all the form of a first-class shot, but he haa not mastered the intricacies of snapping his huge fingers. Wen attention was called to a previous statement that Firpo did not gamble, his friends explained “that js not gambling—he always wins.” A. A. U. MEET TO BE HELD AT CHICAGO HICAGO, Aug. 30.—Team com- petition between tho New York A. C, and the Illinois A. C., probably will feature the national A, A. U. |sonlor championships which open | here tomorrow, followers of track and | field athletics said today | The Chicago team ruled favorite in the junior division, but it was pointed | out that little known of the visi |ing teams and an “outside” squad might capture the honors, In the individual contests Loren | Murchison, Newark A. C., sprinter, continued to attract the bulk of at- tention, Three hundred athletes will participate. Tho schedule of contests follows: Junior champlonships, 1 p. m., Fri- day. Sentor championships, 1 p. m., Sat- urday Decathlon, 9 A. m Relay championships, day. | Women events, 1 p.m Eli Track Coach Dies Suddenly REVERE, Mass, Aug. 20- John J. ('Johnny") Mack, head conch of Yale's track teams and a track coach at New Haven for the past 30 years, died at his home here last night, following an attack of pneumonia Monday, | 1p. m. Mon. Monday. If your room Is too hot or too cold, let the Want Ads find another ono for you. Turn to them now, the in-| distin- | During this } son, the Present Holder BY HENRY L, FARRELL EW YORK, Aug. of fights and fights has much tomorrow night between Joh and Harry Greb, that great, | ing machinery. As a rule, in doping and a fight, the champion poss¢ what experting is to be done of the challenge In this unusual ca knows the capabilities of Wilson will turn out to be real test that Wilson sort of has Mike O'Dowd in Boston on a to the world that he had beer Wilson gave him a return b sneaked in he failed to show any kind of championship abilit beat O'Dowd, and in the pov-| erty-stricken condition of the class it meant that he was i the champion sure enough. Wilson foug the rugged Br; yan | Downey in Cleveland and he was| | floored and saved by what the rir was & most gen 4 con: f count on the The ¢ pion | back on for Jersey ( siders maintained Jerous « | no-dect: h in the exhibition was so Tex Rickard refused to pay V |his purge, More troubles followed for champion. When he to hia money him the | get to} sign Greb. got his money ard to jump himself into the well- at Greb had fon thru a sort of def: Matters were further complicated when Greb proceeded to win the| American ight-heavyy nt cham- | | pi nahip and decided that he didn't | Jeare to monkey around and defend |what claim he had on the middlo- | weight t | Finally, jling, the mado, | box m1 ion Pe out. In winning the champlonship and In the few times that he stepped out of the up class to defend | the himself dubbed fter months of wrang- | Wilson-Greb’ match was | was reinstated by the| and they are! showed was Ho follows th | fighti his a rather w style of | hand and foot and it is nnoying yle to beat..He is of rugged build and has enough power in his back and shoulders and | jarms to a good hitter, if he nows how to et the most of his with Some supporters of Wilson have maintained that he good fighter and a worthy champion and that he would prove it the first time he| jfaced a real, capable opponent. Ho | {will have that opportunity in his | fight with Greb, but bettors Jasking more than assurance Sy his friends that he {s a real fighter. REB has fought so much done so well that every f of the ring knows that he JOHNSTON. ANDERSON WILL PLAY NEW YORK, Aug. 30.—Willlam Johnston will mect James O, An- derson and Willlam T. Tilden will meet John B, Hawkes tomorrow} afternoon in the singles matches in open play between the} United States and Australia tho Davis cup. On Monday John ston will meet Hawkes, while Til den will play Anderson. Drawings for the doubles play Saturday will not be announced until tomorrow it was announced today at headquarters of the Unit- ed States Lawn Tennis association, where the drawings were made, Play starts at 2:30 Eastern daylight saving time on each afternoon, PROMOTER IS and ower is one CHICAGO, Aug, 30.—Harry D Koffman, promoter of-a boxing show to have been held ‘Tuesday night, will be made defendant in a $50,000 damago suit. The show failed to come off ag scheduled, and Koffman is sald to have departed with tho gate proceeds, leaving numerous bills unpafd, ‘The show was to hove been staged by the Sol-SalMar post of the American Legion, and Koffman was | under contract to finance and man- age the affair, 30.—No fight of the ireb, neaked more as the champion. tennis|f for} BEING SUED) hectic summer had the experts guessing as as the world’s middleweight championship bout here nny Wilson, the ittle piece of Pittsburg title holder, fight- the outcome of n quantities and yund the prospects betting on as the revolves kno the opposite. Ex nd no one is sure of when he is subje just he is bound to face. to the dec 1 made the victim of larceny out in New York, and altho} of the ess to knows hardest fighters in the busl- beat—that ia, everyone that he once was such mains to be ween if he is as he was more than a year j 6 doubts exist that he is. he will not be hurt by the but it stands also that he will not be benefited | by ft. After seeing the exhibition | hat J ny Dundee e when he| ak- gene will be very slov h on the weight | making weight, Criqul, good judg in banking too mu factor as a hi The Pittsburg. be y not be in shape h e is rather a ose liv s been hitting pace duri are too m: exa to that Gret million who ¢ one in we rules | reb would have favorite to} ming hé will carry a of smart money with him to- morrow night, but the sentiment is not so much that Greb is so much superior to Wilson, as it is that | Wilson is: much inferior to Greb. F the title passes, it probably will go the way of a decision. Greb {3 not a great puncher, and Wilson ged enough to stay up under ome stiff pasting if he has a heart | and he has not been ac-| in him, cused of being timid under fire. To retain the championship, Wil- son most certainly will have to win by a knockout. He is too awkward to win a decision from the more | clever Greli, and his chances oi getting over a knockout on ponent that is swarming around the ring like a big bee cloud all If Greb fights cleanly not res and does oll his work, he ought to decision by a wide margin. 2 18 IN SHAPE! championship and he] He won the title from} on and O'Dowd shouted} he did | ar. There | show | an op-| the | time are also very thin. | rt to the foul tactics that | Jack’s Camp | Champion Must Do Many Things That Have Noth- ing to Do With Training \ HITE SULPHI atoga I Sure it's the Jack I As the crou of America,” » famed Bara ng up to its rep ning camp for it's not so good. 5 time is taken up by the kodak sat home nds how they ha’ “mitted mm pion. dinner and dance enguge- men a him. finds time to ac Golf! e of them he good nature for which he is fay este is leading | much of his time to be taken up by ithe curiosity seekers who always” flock around a celebrity. : Of course, from a financial stand |potnt it 1s good business. 4 The crowds of idlers passing away | their play time in the vicinity of Bare |atoga flock, at 65 cents a head, into = |his camp to see the champion maul |his sparring mates around. 3 Jack does not believe that he will | have to train as strenuously for Firpo ” as he did for Gibbons. | He says: “Training for Firpo will not be so hard as for Gibbons, “Then I had to overcome the effects of two years’ lay-off. I got into first class shape for that fight, and one |month has not taken away anything from my phy: “Right now I omorrow. I am going asy until just before the fight, bee use I do not want to take off any | po is a big man, and I don’t want to have to give away any more weight than necessary. | “The few social engagements that |1 fill are really good for me, as they” |help to relieve the deadly monotony |of training. It keeps my mind off the and, in fact, acts as a mental) Floyd Johnson Local Visitor | Floyd Johnson, the Seattle |] heavyweight, who is considered a r for the crown of Jack is visiting his folks on m he bought them at Auburn, Johnson was introduced from the ring at Austin & Salts smoker last night, and received a: big hand. He will remain at Auburn for a few weeks, and will then return , where he has many attrac: lined up. 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