The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 4, 1923, Page 13

(TR deed de eleesecsosses! THE SEATTLE STAR fIRPO THRIVES ON HARD BLOWS, SAYS EX- CHAMP JESS. WILLARD Don’t Underestimate Big Boy From Argentine That’s Warning of ec Willard, Who Has Fought) Wild Bull of Pampas; Likens Him to Jim Jeffries Before Fitzsimmons Fight EDITOR'S NOTE—This is the first of a series of articles by Joss Willard, former heavywelght champion, sizing up Champion Jack Dempsey and Challenger Luls Angel Firpo, It gives a good insight of the Argentine ting tactics. eee BY JESS WILLARD Former Heavyweight Champion i Luis Angel Firpo a second Jim Jeffries? I don’t propose to answer that question, worked up a tremendously intimate and comprehensive ac- intance with Firpo one evening in July. But I offer it ight fans as a fertile subject for speculation, Tt is true for a certainty that the talk about Firpo as he Faces his championship battle with Jack Dempsey is ex- (eo QP actly on a line with the dope on Jeffries when he tackled ° . Scribblings: 30g Fitzsimmons. ‘ experts objected th © green and lack What seribes are writing about in other sporting circles, ad to admit } » but th }hi Ider, : | happene EREMPTORY orders from Pres: | namryES ON dent Ban Johnson barring all/ TOUGH ONES forms of “freak” bats {s perbaps for| the best, brary and not justified by the rul ‘writes John E. Wray in the St. Lo But everybod Firpo is a great big toug even tho it appears arbi | who thrives on hard blows. Your fist |simply bounces off him. In the sev |I shot two hard ones in succession Post-Dispatch. [straight to his Jaw. I pressed the President Johnson's vision In the| button for him, all right, but it didn’ past has seldom been wrong when|turn out the light. matters pertaining to the good of |°ome on stronger and stronger every Daseball were being considered. In| “°U"4 r ° . In edall wert ne | And when Firpo hits, it's like a t t | fact, it was his foresight 1m th0/iiast from a siege gun. Ho puts a formative days of the American|hole in you. That {s just he Teague and in subseqiiast years when | does, he set tho pace in progress for both} An opponent may be ever so clever, leagues that brought the national) but Firpo takes a lot of the business or pastime of baseball to its}ness out of him when he #' present altitude. Jot his punches. He sapped mi However. if better {strength in our fight by a hail « Re tea be bi of | kidney: pun: Wh Shey it rocks you all over AWKWARD, YET CLEVER leagues rere isn't any fancy stuff about Protection cou! Firpo. He {s not a nice looking cifying “officia |boxer, But in an awkward sort day with baseballs. of way he Is clever, Don't forget Tradition is good, and has its value. | that. But even the reactionaries of the St | Firpo's greatest asset, I believe, Wndrew’s school of golf eventually |i, nis ruggedness. He is the kind Bi to the idea of abandoning the| cf tighter who can let his opponent fs true tha’ n can ita percha golf balls for those Of) wear himself out and break his mdard size and weight and of mod-| hands pounding on him. And then Brn construction. Firpo can finish him. Incidentally, he is handiest with his right hand, | NE of these days the realization | snq will come that Babe Ruth is not nly the greatest adjunct at the box bffice, but one of the great baseball players of all times, especially now that he has determined to take his ‘work with such intense seriousness, | writes W. O. McGeehan In the New| ‘York Herald. The Babe is such a colorful person that the tendency has| I don't say Firpo will win from been to regard him as a part of a| Dempsey, but he has more chance t ia a deadly weapon. The critics keep referring to his xperience. That is not to be de- | nied, altho he appears to be making quick improvement. But it is a mistake to underestimate him. Firpo isn't a popular personality, but if you want a fighter, that's what he ts. altho I Jenth roynd of our fight, for instance, | He seemed to}, Baseball Scandal Will Stay With “Kid” Gleason Chigags White Sox’ s Failure 3 Do Good This Siaioni Cala Reminiscing BY BILLY EVANS om GO, Sept. 4—The baseball scandal of 1919 will ever re main with |wether we would be wir |nants as easi we That was a great ball clu “Kid” Gleason, “In my time I have seen a lot of Tho failure of the White Sox of |famous teams, the old 23 no doubt has caused the “IKid"| |Ortoles, the pennant | » 40s rerun sl | York Gants, the | Unquestionably, the White | 1906 to 1910, Chicago Clubs 0 ox of Mach rent of and Connle 4 grec this year are the the Ameri appoin: | club of 10 ye the White Sox of 1919 in to any of them There than Felsh peaker or any o! an le ‘ @ & good ba preference am, yet durir campaign Gl never was a better r famous LOOKED GOOD EARLY IN YEAR of the middle pasture. guardians everything, hit, field, run Joe Jack one of a great hitter 0 big fellow wa: we natur ng and was always 4 threat at] plate eft-handed | ow to pitch 1 no lett hander ever uck” Weaver at was o Ime rte " r i i) won He could ake seemingly impossible plays look easy, a natural ball player o talking 2 nee « CICOTTE WAS to F Sollins as to the fallure of FS r : GREAT PITCHER of 0 up there, he re Eddie Cicotte was the arked : 4 pitcher who put some thought back ° of every ball pitched. At firet Gan pab hBsor oo dil could do everything well and Ris- Portier at short atic at times ld be just as it. “Add to these stars Eddie Collins} Gleasc troub! Only the other day, wht off on the wrong start and have} first pening r nee SS FOS kor); Ray alk & catcher, and ‘Red’ the nucleus for a fairly good 1 elub.” Id have made a| |year it has be jing wi nd having thus spoke, the "Kid" took out a black cig pocket, bit off the and started for the smoker. The expression that over his face made !t appar t the scandal of 9 had r che and ne , We} st finished Boston to New York. been roughly Louis Firpo Has All the Qualities / ancouver of Youth for Fight With Champion| Is Victor in BY BOB DORMAN |__His courage has met test to] Women mean nothing to him. He TLANTIC CITY, N, J., Sept. 3— | ¥PI 8 been put so far. Hin|is courteous to them with the ever D L What had Corbett when onal | fought and took the title from John| That he is to meet Dempsey, the |} makes no intimates among ther. AN FRANCISCO, Sept. world’s heavy wotght champio Vancouver, B. C., » Sullivan? “Women,” he mays, “I haveno time }mean. « in hin young lifo. T Youtt for them. They ambition. {him it in Just another fight. He doex | bis work f s is not worry. have sunk in the depths of a wom- And those qualities sum up the ray ahaa’ I?” tie save “Dem Luls Angel Firpo to take — we can be - a om its present hold- a man. an be beaten Dempsey © as anyone else. years ont, he is in the prime | are undeatable un- at the height of his physical t 1, Then the new t ion is unbeafapl Gleason k- Jin his v « failure to win, | he treated | wher tone of a hea “| erstwhile hinder a boxer fn} courage, confidence and chan ling the South End club of San Fran- sey is Jeisco, ye the san storday Oakland estauary 0 | End shell, broke his oar at the Frult- | | vale bridge and within a quarter of confidence and), mils of the finish. At that time | the South End club was ahead, No. 3, in the South and until I meet the right on one will.” | . courage, | of tife— powers. | Tho he has not fought men of ¥ po is ambitious. Tho heavy- Baltimore | back, but I will take| certain now, nd I am not excepting | “t | players, | limminary al batsmen who could hit} master | from hin vest | rowing ae Many a fighter’s hopes | today held the Coast four-oared crew | nship as a result of defeat- afternoon, on the No Likely Contenders Expected to U pset Dope |James Anderson of Australia Is Playing the Best Tennis Now That He Ever Has; Experts Think There Is Little Chance for America to Lose Out BY HENRY L, ‘ARRELL JW YORK, Sept. 4.—Winner of the Davis cup for the fourth year in succession, the United States, it seems will retain the championship of the world as long as William T. Tilden and William M. Johnston retain |their game. fielder | There is nothing to indicate that either of America’s » Bills” ched or are even near the end of their string and as long as foreign nations do not develop better filden and Johnston should be able to reign su- even after they have slipped.a little. enteen nations challenged and participated rounds leading up to the challenge round me- Australia and the United States, nished erday at "Forest Hills, w|New Blood y's ssnest‘ni gn to Compete i: in Amateur «=: ' | X7EW YORK, sept Anderson defeated Johnston iN : t the first match of this year’s chal- be a predominance of ' lenge round, but it is nota detraction from the fine game pla Australian to say that Johnston -was y off his game at that time. ‘The little Californian showed that lapse of form w have rea preme : in the pre- tween 4.—There will young blood” on hand when the national amateur championship lof the United States Gold association Flossmor tournament gets under way at the try club September 15 to 22, if ries thus far recelved are any riterton. One of names n was that of Bobby Jones, the who holds the na- Jones entered with Perry Adair, while 4 player will be Rob- few years ago at | reached the second out by ible beating to young ho was able to win three games in the match. Anderson is at the top of his game now and he is as old as Tilden and Johnston. His game will not im- prove and it follows that if the American stars are able to take him now he will be no great menace in the future. Johnston and Tilden are no youngsters but tennis players seem able to retain their form be- yond the age that usually benches an athlete in other strenuous sports jand it seems certain that both the Americans should be on thelr best | game for at least two more years. AUTO RACE IS POSTPONED DAY. ALTOONA, Pa., Sept. 4—The 200-mile automobile rate, to have been held here yesterday, has been Lioyd of Greenwich; Gardiner White, | postponed until today, because of former metropolitan champion; J. A.|the rain. Many of the country’s Kennedy of Tulsa; Ralph D, Rooks |jeading drivers are entered. of Providence; Chris Dunphy and Guy Standifer of Washington; J. J Mapes of Baltusrol; W. W. McPhail | |of Boston: F. C. Newton of Brook-| ABERDEEN, Sept. 4:—Desnite line; R. M. Brown, Boston; J. A.|the fact that Young Carmen, the Mudd, Jr, of Chicago: J. W. Hughes |San Jose, Cal, lightweight, had a of Omaha; John P. Ryerson of On. | decided edge over Ted Krachs of wentsia; Kenneth M. Burns of Gien| Hoquiam, the referee called the con- View, and Robert F. Kampmann of test a draw. The verdict did not, the first Harvard golfer, {onal open title. jx side partr another Atlan ert Hickey, w the Engine round before he was put | Francis Ouimet | Charles Evans, Jr, former nation- jal amateur and open champion, was the first to send in his name, ) Robert Gardner, also an titleholder. Captain Ernest Carter will be one of the favorites at Flossmoor, while Max Marston, pres- | ent Pennsylvania champion, is play- | ing better now than at any time in| his life, Then there will be +4 rice Risley of Atlantic City; LL. M. rice Risley of Atlante! City; L. M. ANOTHER GIFT? circts rather than ag about as useful | than most people think. Take it from | first class, such men are scarce in Daseball player as a team ever pos-| me that he is a real wild bull, he has | his division. And from some of those been fighting steadily without any |p» has fought, he has been compelled weight title {s his goal. All his ef- y can carry a man far on the road to his dreams. | William F. Wilson, of the South nally, the Babe's performance | soft living and he s ready to do his} year pleases me about as much|best with everything to gain and as anything that has happened tn the | nothing to lose. Jine of sports. There were so many | (Copyright, 1923, N. B. A. Service, skeptics as to the Babe’s announce- ment that he had turned over a new Teal. ‘Then, too, there were so many who! ‘were hoping in thelr hearts that the} Babe would fail and they could hard- ly keep that hope from their lips and| their typewriters. There are people} Hike that, people who seem to be) merely jaundiced by the sight of as radiant and joyous a being as the Babe. | LUIS FIRPO IS Cincinnati fell behind another half game tn the pennant rece by losing GREAT EARNER | hue" rittsvre "Pirates, 7 to Luis Angel Firpo bas carned| Malis stopped the second game. fplenty of money while fighting {n the United States. He is not making ‘public his financial standing or his ‘earnings, but one thing is certain fend that is he has nearly every-| waster Jonneon failed ass pinch hitter thing he earned. in the ninth Inning and ¢ ea Sox ‘Sai - t , § to 4, in the firet ngton won the second, 7 to 3. ROBINSON TO jig QUIT AGAIN | S so "ote at Uble won his 24th game tn the ‘Towards the end of every bass-| "% oe ‘pall season, rumors go around that) ye yanks t MVilbert Robinson 1s going to give | athletics, 2-1 and p the management of the Brook-| — Robins. The reports this year) @re no more authentic than | been In the past. WEISMULLER WINS AGAIN RYE, N. ¥., Sept. 4.—Johnny Weismuller, the great Chicago swim mer, won the national A. A. U. 440 yard freo style championship here yesterdny. His time was five min- utes, 372-5 seconds. in the 150-mile sweepstakes here —— yesterday, Chriscraft ITI. finished |second. The Teddy's victory will be |protested, as the boat traveled the final atx laps without her hatches. Ine.) In his next article, Willard will discuss Dempsey's merits and de merits, Major Talk With a fluke single tn the 10th inn: Jimmy Ring outpitched Dutch Reuther and the Phils beat the Robina, 4 to 2, in the firs but Brooklyn won the | | second WO games from the Hornsby’s homer gave the Cards « 1-to-@ win in the first game, bat the theY | Cubs copped the second, & to 4. ‘With much batting, the Tigers nabbed Dill from the White Box, 14 to | TEDDY TAKES DETROIT, Sept. 4.—The Teddy, Gar Wood's speedboat, finished first WATSON WINS LINKS MEET SPOKANE, Sept. 4.—Forrest. Wat. | son defeated Stuart Pattullo, nine up and seven to go, in the tinais| NEW SWIMMING for the Inland Empire golf cham- pionship here yesterday. LEADERS LOSE LONG BEACH, N. Y., Sept. 4,— Gertrude Ederle, of New York, clip. ped three seconds off the world's or the 600-yard shor 0 | BOTH CONTESTS |ieitniing nansieay hero. yenterday, SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4.—San|She made the distance in six min- Francisco lost both games to 108| utes and 62 seconds. Angeles in the double-header piayed here yesterday. The Angela took first game, 4 to 2, and tte OAKLAND AND «ella VERNON DRAW LOS ANGELES, Sept. 4 PORTLAND IN. and Oakland broke even in the doubleheader played here yeater DOUBLE WIN Jiisy. the Tigers took the PORTLAND, Sept. 4—Portiand|game, 5 to 4, after 10 took both holiday games from Salt|while the Oaks experienced little WATER CLASH | RECORD MADE | Vernon | firat | innings, | N « goal—| End, won the singles championship, ap of |With George Kinsley, of Vancouver, second. Time, 9:06. Ho per- | to interfere with his| Ty Firpo ame tho defictancles? to take hard wallops. From none has he flinched. | | not taken. BOB HARPER | DOESN'T BOX | JIM DUFFY KLAND, Sept. 4—Willlo Meo- han, fat San Franciscan, rv- ained the championship of some- thing or other at the ball park here eaterday, when he defeated Rocco |Stragmalia in four sleepy rounds, Bert Colima fought a fourround | draw with Jimmy O'Hagen. knockout over substituted when failed to sho MORROW AND MARTIN DRAW TENINO, Sept. 4—Billy Morrow of Spokane boxed a fast draw with Bud Martin of Centralia hem last night. A crowd of over 1,000 per- sons saw tho fight. In the other half of ths main event, Roy Small of Camp Lewis won a decision over Young Sam Langford of Se- attle, The decision was not popu lar. Young Dillon fought a draw with Kid McCarthy. Altho outweighed | by nearly 10 pounds, Dillon put up a remarkably good scrap, A riot nearly brewed os a It of Small winning the decision over Langford. Langford couldn't have won tho fight more decisively except by knocking bis opponent out. Better Golf Club Means Increase in Women Golfers FACT seemingly overlooked by) ply houses and department stores aro Bobby Harper Oh, look who's at the wheel! Luis Angel Firpo isn’t going to let Jack Dempsey put any- | thing over on him if he can help it. Jack is @ motorist, so Firpo has gone in for motoring, It’s his first machine. | too. ropolitan meeting held in the early a unit in declaring that the game has| part of the summer, Recently, how-|tent. He was particularly interested made wonderful strides of late. The} ever, word was received that the com-|in @ certain line and of course, with 1 shafted clubs have shown thelr] mittee had voted in favor of the} him the wish was father to tho eatost increase during the last 12] longer and more-testing west lzyout.! thought, But while refusing to say snths among the women, Who favor] A few years ago the shorter of the|a good word for steel, he inadver- ons of lighter weight, and with| two circuits would have Seen regard: | tently gave it a hoost with the remark steel it in possible to turn out a lght}ed as quite sufficient, but there are| that his concern lost many thousands Jarticle and at the same timo retain} more women now playing almost a|cf dollars this season thru inability often | balance, strength and durability. As| man's game, consequently they want/to secure proper hickory, There is than not they are correct; ound to|the wooden shafted club becomes | eradit for their performances. They|no such thing as having to wait for be so with the game riding forward | lighter, approaching wand-like lines, | qo not enjoy having it said, “Oh, yes, | good steel clubs. continuous upward |¢o increases its liability to break, The| sho led the field with an 85; easy While some professionals are pro: chance of such an occurrence With | course, tho; par 70." gressive, ready to adopt a new thing But if there had been anything ap-| steel ts practically nil. Well, they'll deserve all they may | whenever it possesses merit, there pronching a lagging phase it was| Apropos of women, an Idea of how] receive either in the form of praise|are others decidedly old-fashioned Armong the fair devotees, which for althey have moved forward may belor glory, especially if the weather) There are those willing to learn, period of years a few w back | had from the attitude of the commit! should turn’ rainy during the West-| while others not only fail to see the bavely held ite own. Fields in tour-|tee with regard to the selection of|choster-Biltmore event, A heavy|light, but deliberately refuse to be naments fot shrank in size, | the course for the national champlon-| course would mean a trying experi-|convinced. ‘To tse the exact words even the national championship re-|ahip tournament to be held over the|ence for a majority of the players.|of a prominent player: “I have had maining more or less stationary. | Westehester-Biltmore Country _ club] Now that the dio ts cast, It will be in-| no experience with steel-shafted clubs Fewer women were seon on the links. |the first week in October, It had all] teresting to watch tho results, and I hope I never shall.” ow all is changed. | along upposed that the event; Only the other day a professional, His case is not necessarily An almost unfailing barometer of | would 1 on the shorter, or| when asked what he thought of the] less, however, wooden-hafted weapons to any ex | golf's statisticians has to do with |the unusual increase in the number lof women players during the past | two years. Occasionally statements [relative to gains in this or that de-| | partment amount to little else than | |mere guosswork tho more jon one long, | wave. hope: At the outset there Time for the fouroared race was Jimmy Duffy won on a technica} | “Chich” Roach, who | Seattle’s Pine Valley make much of a hit. Leading F ETROPOLT = Sent 9 Beginning Next Sunday Night 2:80 P. M—Twice Dally Thereafter—8:30 P. M. MAIL ORDERS NOW—SEATS THURSDAY Hear the Covered Wagon Orchestra of 25 Play the Old-Time Tunes ALL THE THRILLS AND EXCITEMENT THAT CAN BE PUT UPON THE SCREEN Vesse L. Lasky D (Present? r\) cov ER v4 Paramount frctire A Photoplay for the American Family Adapted from Emerson Hough’s famous novel.of pioneer days on the Oregon trail. It brings the days of ’48 to you in pano- ramic form and with historical accuracy. It touches your heart when you vision the hard- ships, suffering, agony and homesickness of your sturdy forbears who faced with indomitable cour- age the long trail from the Missouri river to Puget Sound. The Picture Unfolds History as No Text Book Could And spins an incomparable love story as well. 1,000—Tremendous Scenes—1,000 500—Covered Wagons—500 3.000 Men, Women, Children 3,000 and Indians If You Miss This Epic of the Oregon Trail You Will Be the Loser | Spee ce, ' All Seats Reserved MATINEES NIGHTS Orchestra, 81.00 mn . Balcony, 3 1,00 Haloony . “50 Gal! 25 Orchen: Hale Rate Pus 10% Tax Lake here yesterday. Tho scores were 4 to 1 and 6 to 2, difficulty in second, 123 to #& taking tho the playing end Ia the trade, Manu what is Known as the south course, tacturers of golf goods, sporting sup: the samo used for the women's met steel clubs, said he couldn't see that | w they wore hurting tho sale of the way, who are now favorable, ‘® any number who talked that