The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 5, 1923, Page 13

ip ce le: f and 6 to0 Seattle © form biffing ‘ee hits, ehy men on jt retired waa In Myers ing, get- r runs his great = three p tallied me, com: hn, both ineered fame for inning jortatop. Egiven to ty, ummed SMTA Hit Db, Tye @VILLARD DOESN T THINK 1 THAT DEMPSEY CAN STAND LONG GRIND Dempsey I: Best Early in Battle (Ex-Champ Thinks Jack Johnion Was Better Fighter Than Dempsey EDITORS NOTE Dempsey certainly is a “terrible tiger” in the ring, But he's by no means invincible, according to Jess Willard. Herewith is the second article Jess Willard has written for The Star on the forthcoming Dempsey - Firpo bout, — Jack BY JESS WILLARD ormer ‘Heavyweight Champion | K PE terrif Ls Comes | Comes Back. 5] 1 etired undefeated pocke | billiard champion, to the game Greenleaf, sent tn the Interstate Rilliard league which coming t meet Ralph champ, 0 pre compe- ' HighSchool Ying, even tho it favorite in popular Champion is worried ®f the stake he’ has Bind kept re Z had the ti Ber Jou JOBNSON WAS BETTER Then, being champion founded by a crowd, Bari for steady traini Mean training just before the But champions grow careless. ‘The gilmmer of the lig’ their power. Dempsey has only two fichts in his fot with the title. A man neels least two fights a year to condition, and e or four pot hurt him @ best man I ever fought was Johnson. I'd like for anyone to name & single quality he la mi him a judgment at the thought My saps had years at eep In Prime. He had everything. best was better than the best either Dempsey or Firpo. My advice to Firpo | ful with Dempsey Yhree rounds. Dempsey makes lightning start, but I don't he can go for a long grind. Be a stone wall Dempsey’s tharge. Then knock him out—if you can (Copyright, His 1923, Seattle Star.) In his next article, Willard will| his views on the outcome of the little party at the Polo| Grounds. JACK STARTS WORK AGAIN a FOR BATTLE ATOGA, N. ¥ of rest around his training camp y Jack Dempsey training today Luis Firpo. The heavyweight champion he feit satisfied with his Sept. 5 aterday, planned resume for his f with sald ed | for perfection wher he was tn his|are alight he first two or] a|the edge in the dope think | |as no one has been lost by gradua-| boxing | Grid Work Is Started Three Schodls’ Stage First Football Practice on Tuesday Afternoon BY TOM OLSEN rnoon. tutor Dave Logs. had 60 likely-looking eaters on hand, while Coach ee6e call at Ballard wae an- ered by 40 youngsters Coach Soukup of the champfonship 7 ven has called a football afterno Jament 1 tewue s ts not likely uctice will be held a’Vorak, the have his me rR nouts today will he West fieid and Queen / ool champlonahip aagin this year ion, and Coach ing up ‘These same dopesters give Garfiled Prospects at this school ar exceptionally tion. There ice that “Chuck” Carroll and Frank Cohen, two Garfield stars, is a c live ni the Broadway This will be taken up at the meet} in gof- high school coaches held Thursday afternoon to be ie u great game, the Wallingford Merchants defeated the Bremerton Merchants, 5 to 3. A big crowd wit | nessed the contest, which was played | at Bremerton Bremerton took the lead, one run in the first and another in | the ‘third. “oy, who went on the mound In the | F third for Wallingford, allowed but] ¢} will eee Tilden O. K. time this afternoon ILDEN ¢ schools to have the first aces Tho Green and Black in-| stitution has been hit hard by grad-| of|u | difficult task of bui to be care. | tically new oleven. mukup faces the| A prac-| bright, | may be declared | [ineligible because of the fact | they that | district. | scoring | and hitting and that he would turn | 0 bingle the remainder of the game. | his attention now of speed « eighs 193 js to enter pounds to the He said in- | 188 pou he ATLANTIC CITY, —Luis Angel Firpo started fecret training for his fight 5 Yack Dempsey. Behind closed doors the big South in the garage back of his living | quarters, for an hour and a Halt | Kringle, yesterday, and it is unde Jans to continue priv tl two days before the ¢ tik WENATCHEE NINE LOSES TO LOCALS IHE Seattle Eagles had an cusy time at Wenatchee, Sunday 4nd Monday, when they defeated the We- Qatches All-Stars in two games |by the scores of 8 to 3 and 14 to 1, The Seattle team put up a high flass exhibition. vty Pleasance pitched great bpll he winners in the tussi«, aliow- mt four hits. Bill Jolin: on and tay Rounds held the lovers to three weattered bingles In Monday’: Hickey, J. Cotter, B Sullivan did the heavy hitting for he Heattle club, while “Cy” Neigh- sors, former Coast leaguer, starred tor the Applo Pickers, game # and ‘Tdm ia cab develop- | American worked in | & gymnasium that has been set up | o academia Wallingford counted in the third then made four in the sixth as} a result of two walks and threo hits. I sewed The wonderful infield work of the| club was a feature of the turned in four spark lingtord plays Sh nd has teatit komish arranged on ata Wallingtfora— Netil, 1f ..«+ Rock > ] Suseucnune 0 | cided o| to Pb Biackart, 1b. Laraway, an D, Jardins, Reeves, ¢ Evans, cf . Howard, p ... tale ore by innings Wallingtord f next | jas he might B,| 1} formidable | had to beat, | | projected trip because jing 4.| slightly 4} inmo for [and |had to be put b: | Coffroth U.S. Tennis Board Has Selective List Made Up Men's Singles Field Is ‘Trinied? [Play Starts Septem- ber 10 at City of Brotherly Love; Bills Are Favored to Carry Off Honors BY HENRY L, EW YORK, Sept. 5.—Only 64 players will be permitted to compete for the American tennis title when the championships start at Philadelphia on September 10. Last year there were twice that many in the field that started in the first round. It took too much time to sort out the good from the 1 and only those known to be good will be jallowed to try this year. Severe eligibility tests have been imposed by the United States Lawn Tennis association, to decide the favored few jof the many who will be permitted to mingle with the jaristocracy of the court Players who have been ranked among the first 50 players of the country in the last five years will allowed to enter All entries will } tioned tournar ill have Players FARRELL be ve to have competed ents th approved who have not these promise skill and who are be allowed to play Under these conditions, pionship and certainly Comers’ Championship. in season and their at least three record therein to be who have ociation, but to the qualifications, acceptable of 4 a is not it is not a national cham- an “All- exactly as it is advertised, will will |t the champi on his race tated jast winter, afte ted scratch, Tilden and Johnston blood poisoning from 4 it was feared th would have to change his style of game and that it would throw off form, In his play been indic early rounds als for the cham: be more of a sur canes since then there has ations of a handicap and it is safo to that he will be rm to defend hin title ume in the same e decided to rest vo himself cup matches and the slight in afford to axing his however, 1s considered to have improved the 1 degree that marks tho n his game and that of {the champic Sach summer the legions of Johnston admirers hope that it is bis year and, this sum mer again, there are many who be- Heve that Bill in going to beat the great Tilden ‘The Cal |wreat form {ference | Williams and Richards ICK WILLIAMS has been show: | 47 ing flashes of fine form all sea has been in|son, but he always was an erratic all season. He atarted| player at his best—good one time jby winning British champlion-|and way off the next, ship at Wimbledon and he has re-| Vincent Richards was hurt earlier | jtained the same fine form ali sea-|in the season In an automobile ac jeoe he has shown the effec play The Fordham improved much years, altho be ex ed of him, ugh be the ing player of the country nnston can hardly be more fin ished this season than he ever was His game is almost perfept and his ances for winning the champlon- ) depend mostly on what slump, has come in Tilden's Lame ell omnia atar Jin the much could not is good too nfined most of his barn: Manuel 1 there thing evident in his game to e that he had lost any of tho that has made him the class lender for three years. | When Til en to wit to have have their ‘EXTERMINATOR WILL HAVE | EW YORK, Coffroth's decision to raise the of the Coffroth handicap, a ot r| Sept. 5.—James| $2,77215, lish respectively, filers Isinglas LIFE-SAVER | and Donovan. value | gallop one mile and a quarter of tho Tijuana winter racing pro- |gram, from $30,000 $40,000 in added money, and of the Tijuana jcup, a gallop of two miles, from | $6,000 to $19,000, also, in added money, offers to Willis Sharpe Kil |mer, the owner of Exterminator, an opportunity to put America’s greatest distance running gelding of all time in front of the thoro. bred money winners of all time, Mr ner will not to neglect. With horses competing, the of the last Coffroth renewed March and J. K. L, Ross’ 976. Rebuke's Tho owner of |the second horse got $4,000, of the third $2,260, of the fourth $1,250. | This total of $36,975 was indepen. [dent of @ gratulty to Henry Me Daniel, the trainer of the winner. The value of the Tijuana cup, re. April 8, with nine compet William Daniels’ Lighter Lighter's to value Rebuke, share was $ was ing, and If Exterminator for last handicap had gone West of the Coffroth} cup and won them, easily have done un- der 136 or 140 pounds, seeing that Rebuke and Lighter were the most horses he would havo he would now be the | leading money winner of American racing, with 0,206 to his credit. | When, in early autumn of Mr. Coffroth, the genius of ma racing, announced the handicap as a $30,000 money race, Mr. Kilmer do he would ship Exterminator the Pacific Coast under the management of. the late Eugene Wayland, immediately after Old Bones had filled engagements at Pimlico in renewals of the $10,000 Bowlo and the $10,000 Pimlico cups and at Bowie in the inaugural as @ $10,000 added money race of the Thanksgiving handicap. ¥xterminater did not renewals and th rig added make the while train: Pimlico races he tn. himself galloping over a] muddy track and becamo| the first time in his long| eminently useful career, Ho with a total in i to his credit, Amer Man of for the jured ie Due de Rapper prize lifesaving dog of Paris, shows earnings of ($244 his daring by a great leap as against tho ANOTHER CHANCE AT MONEY for the Eng Davis Cup Play | Bill Tilden (foreground) iy the Australian team. He ston had lost to Ander match for the Davi on, play again defeated Hawke Av cup at Forest Hills, N ‘TY COBB NOW CONVINCED THAT HE’S SLOWING UP time sp. Once upon i nigh to pull a yb as the batsman Basoball experts for the last half dozen years have been writing stories about me losing my speed However, I have crossed them up time, Thi ar I am Sam Jones Hero of Major Game PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 6 Sam Jones, the New York Amer fean’s twirler, pitched a no-hit, no-run game here yesterday against the Athletics, It was tho first no-hit, no-run game major league baseball this son, ¢ 29 men faced Jo He received excell from his teammates SEATTLE CAP | NINE VICTOR The Seattle Cap Co. aquad added another win to its string by def: j the Pearson nine, 6 to 3, at Pearson Vacca's hitting, and two fast double plays featured the contest The score— | Seattle Cap Pearson ; tories — Foster Saloman, Pes Kokesh; Jensen and P son. || Victoria Races Started Again VICTORIA, B. C, Sept Another week of horse will be at the Willows track, ne starting today Large crowds are expected to be in attendance races dally | | HUGHSON NINE WINS CONTEST The Wm. L. Hughson © easily defeated the Covey W tossers, 11 to 2, in a gamo |Woodland park. George Rossman |twirled a nice game for the winner striking out ten men. Mille Ginsberg starred at bat for the Hu | son nine, nine j}FARREN WILL BOX DELANEY LOS ANGELE Farren, the weight, is to box C Clevelard at the Hollywood stadium Eebeambey in . 6.—Franki light | VAIL LOSES MATCH RACE READVILLE, Ma | Vail, veteran dirt ok eek: ja match © here yesterday Ralph De ma of Los Angeles, Tos t The Last STEAMER s of this season SUNDAY, SEPT, 9 Among the beautiful San Joan jands to East ROUND 1 Children War's $249,465, and $291,275 and| into the Sein, -—.; ai it Hed ci Dundee-Leonard Bout Te Postponed by Promoter Reason Is Given That Dundee Is in Poor Physical Condition, to Which Scotch Wop Is Willing to Pro- duce Doctors to Show That He Is All Right HENRY L. FARRELL Another fine squabble probably 2 bent back of the New York box- poarnon een: by Promoter Jimmy ard-Dundee lightweight championship for in the Yankee BY EW YORK ept ill be loaded on t ing commission over t Johnston of the Leo bout hic scheduled stadium. Dundee, upon whose “poor physical condition” Johnston based the reason for postponement of the fight until Sep- tember aid he was going to gather a 4 squad of doctors and take them before the ee ion to prove that he 22 cor Kelly's homer in the seventh in~ ning with two on scored afl the runs, and the Giants beat the Braves, 4 too. lin knocked in two rune with # je and single, and stele home, | giving Washington a 3-to-1 victory ostpone-| over the Red Sox ounce ton | Cleveland Indians made a clean oftthe series with the Browns, Timely hitting gave the Tigers = 5-to-2 win over th : The; Cubs knocked Doak out of the 3- didn't ‘ould call it past pone off and| could do| night, I would claim fight on what 1 to fight. Broadway rather leaned toward Dundee in the the | controversy had the idea that the sveight thing bothered Leonard. 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