The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 6, 1923, Page 12

PAGE 12 THE SE ATTLE STAR A Circa BY HE NRY L, FARRELI TEW YORK, Sey twee three-yearoht A Octoder but crowd because it is Thousands have flocked matches to when there team of for a victory gers had m to a ungestive of the Jur THURSDAY, SEPTEMP™. ( atest f a“ in ph net t powerful f 1 ' et ul « n the world i“. The resents the « 1 huge opponen " 1 with Dempeey. pe of th giant with fire ' wateh Wiry tand would be attracted to sheer force of its brute strength ful th Willard, Dempsey f ‘nother meeting b bbons and Dempse Carpentier was smaller and lighter than Dempse even times and did net stop him. W iq ae nexperienced, but he Hin threat was in hitting and getting aw He was ear tea aad + m hi fiat he ring can ' t in mech m was a f 1 bs and not brain ere the grentest aasets of oe qe 4 if ‘ id “ of getting up if he should make man 4 na 1 ‘ «ination p ne 00 specttors around the ring f ts nd n to Carpentier, alt actly the eppoi sey Cit that Carpentier would go ¢ Firpo doesn't know how to box and at as Carper was brightfaced, of the when Demp: over his first good punch, Ever can't take the ne { boxing against him. thingad type; trim, graceful and of ne knew that several of those socks would finish e & fight from gong to gong and perhaps It the most re meanor. Firpo ts huge, sullen-faced, awkward and him. the most spectacular fight ever staged None can be certain, however, that the ponderous That is what wilt Two Bagger Record May Be Broken Roy Leslie Needs Four Doubles to Break Coast League Mark LILE Paul Stranc smax mark a i's ber of base hits in a » } Salt Lake ur who threate ak a ba record t season Is ¢ *s Roy Leslie. The mark is & ~ doubles, and Les LESLIE has 64 to his credit at present. There are over six weeks Of play remaining, and so Leslie should get at least four doubles ir that time. Leslie isn't a flashy pertorme ‘There is nothing rt t work. In fact Gash is what weet the rest of the Salt Lake crew of course, by the Salt Lake ch box considerably. But Leslie, like Strand and Duff: nag hits on the road as well as = Connie Mack and Harry Da | vis were in Salt Lake recently to yt BOARDING HOUSE EF i; f { BUSTER, MLAD~t re ST YOU HOLD NO 7 ear TOWARD ME AS TO“THE OUTCOME OF OUR GOLF MATCH! PoSsiBLY Ne eT YEAR, | OUS OPPORTU T Now > GC LF CHAMPION House ! 1 OWNED “TH MINT (ee a e1S SEE 1 WoULDNYY Even \ ‘ UNE WIth You ! « " Nou “Two ONE INMALE, . WE'D “TAK HUG AN” || RUBBER MAKE UP!. llorE aut pur ‘EM TRY ONE OF YOUR CIGARS On WIM MATORE THOSE FAGOTS ARE MAGIC™ —_ UNDER A Voopes! DIAG? 1 | | f ; 4 | | < j tA 1 ANOTHER'S t at | | WRISTS fy é MI | | USTER IS STILL’ STEAMED AT THE MATOR eae Jook over Paul Strand the Athletic | ~~ scouts seemed to be more impressed Siarerenamen rs FT arry Gardner in Fine Fettle and He Sets Down Salt Lake Bees, 4-1: ARRY GARDNER was in fine form Wedne: immed the Salt Lake Bees. they were there. If Lestie could liven | up his game a bit he has the ability to work his way back into the ma jors “oysuia Wos. Lost. Pet | Pe ee 7 5 sae aie Fenederphia RESULTS Pittsburg 6, Cincinnat! = Only game scheduled. PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE Won. Lost. Pet. San Francisco - 643 Pedasd $f3|third.. He scored on Eldred's long | oe 474 | thy to lett. \¢ Tak takes. ‘ ‘The last Seattle run came over In| p a 39 8 {8 lene fourth on Baldwin's walk, To-| Vit, = |bin’s double to right and Gardner's] Pee | infield out Beatin 4, Salt Lake 1 Sacramento §, Portland Los Angeles 6, Oakland « Vernon 4, San Francisco v. Lost. Pet. 56 oi o pater 419 393 Only games scheduled. SOLONS WIN 33 bd a g,| Purple and PORTLAND, Sept. 6.—After suil 4 1 1 4 9% @) this f ing along in fine fashion, “Lefty” 3} 3 1 9 6 6) Howard Crumpler blew up and allowed Sac- 2 1 0 & © {Chuck Tamento six runs in the eighth in-| Grr. +s Se fat ® ning, and the Solons beat the Beav ab 3 ate ers, 8 to 2. It wes Middleton day ‘ Bee ee tur ee | public @t the ball park, and the popular to Manager was presented with a clowed ie J ‘ 7 ach ear by the admiring fans, sa take ic 608 110 6 e—1| 00 The score— RH. Be aie 1oOL120 Stanley Sacramento . +8 10 S| seattle | eC ae Portland . 2 4 1) Huse reaponsibio for — Singleton 4.| Harold Hughes and Koehler; Crumpler,| g tari oursurdner 6, singleton >. are on balle—-Singleton 2. ‘Stolen ba Pilette and Daly. | American Jewelry Co. || $21 SECOND AVE, Established 1869 BASEBAL|. SEATTLE V5 SALT LAKE | At 2:45 P. M. | short. Lane singied to open the third and|to tet Mearkle forced him, Johnston dow 594 | bled to left, but Mearkle was held at In tered in the fourth and was unearned | Baldwin made a nice stop of Vitt's grounder and then threw it over | yesterday Strand blasted a/double to left | tro! of that onion he ts pretty hard to first. He set six of the risito {2,3 |and Leslie skied to the same pasture, | ¢ ji Vitt scoring. % 465 | witholt, rf 4 Hugo i 1 ! 1 1 GARFIELD'S OUTLOOK IS BRIGHT FOR 1923 SEASON Sheehan, 7 India to win. Rohwer walked to start the second and Orr y and for the second str; This time it was 4 to 1. The Bee trouble getting their base knocks during the past few days. They have scored exactly one run and but nine hits in two days, which is something else again after their de bauches in Salt Lake with 16 runs per inning and such. John Singleton hurled a very nice game for the Be too, but it wasn't John's ed him along. Baldwin busted Bobby Boyce single thru the jbox that nearly separated Singleton from a leg. Bald- win stole second and came over on Gardner's shot thru he Salt Lake's lone tally was regis-| The detaiis follow Salt Lake Strand picked ap two bite in four that handied his few c beat out one hit Harry Gardner's control was marvelous When the big fellow has | beat riken. Ray Rohwer broke Into the game AB. R. H. PO. A. B.|several days on the bench and Thru Press Box Screen of the Mnevp. The | money,” their arrival, a big fellow named| stepped up into the ring,” Mac- Welsh was “ou youngster is carting around « wrist. Hohwer walked twiee, bu get any blows. a in yesterday. Looks like Letty Warger will choose the | Stran ight time the have had |} he'll get the players that the club| ‘They were making a week's! “I'll never forget how the boards x to the Bee beech to Jon the club are sure | [SACRAMENTO CLUB |IS HUSTLING tery Sheedy was forced to act,| Newspaper accounts of this memo- trand eatte, 1b Hala win, Two-base Strand, | and Tobin, Wilhott. #1-| anchor. jared, 1 bt ‘ At Baldwin, pip BP of eaine—isae,. Cinplter--Reardon and 8h Finne: i tlLelty LEGAL ACTION _ "", AGAINST GREB “* NEW YORK, Sept, G.—-Legiul ae) iq tion han been started against 1 Greb, the new middiewelght « Biot, by Pierro L, Provana, Atlan-| ta, Ga. fight promoter, who charges that Greb failed to keep his ap-| ray, pointment on July 13, when re) was to meet Jeff Smith in # round battle, Grob posted i $2,500 forfeit, but the check was returned for jack of funds, for ton Americ: 000, and to rename it “Griffith) will get his with an Bastern school. Stadium.” After eee achine again registering, | s|shost that ha Howard |} Joe MeGuern, the twisting, aquirm. | bebe jing captain, team from the quarterback position, at which he won alloity honors Inst Johnston, allet\y guard, with Art Duffy at Wark t# com the other extre }ing back Ralkowsk! Ditenle, ‘SOLONS PLAN ing 1 LARGER PARK#i/;,. "1; WASHINGTON, Sept. . t.—-Plane! with 18 1 are being made to inertune the} The noating capacity of the Waxhing-| trom n league ball park 60,| Von Carnop waiting for equip y mon who did not return will follow the of that y th number her men, tators, and incident OAKLAND, Sept, 6.—Le |defeated Oakland here yesterday, jto 4 The score R. H 8 Angeles . eon land 4 ‘ Lyons and Baldwin; Arleti, Wells, _| Bley and Read. “Doc” Brown get off. A representative of t Cham appeal for funds for Japanese relief when some of the ungen over Ne weaker finiahod hiv talk ma of the erowd vingaside cus ch re for the mayor in his sue Sperone caerinina mabacice al sirablow, LO eee ‘ * nate hatha |Kopp and Hem HIS IN POOR SHAPE pposing aakitig| players can distinguish them. * chance for the pennant |LOS ANGELES BEATS ACORNS Anxelen |flelders are up against it, The lo-|of Seattle, that can boast of a man! champlonghip battle.” leat ground keeper should be able to|that has fought two world’s heavy-| MacDonald held Corbett to a draw the best diamonds in the league if|tleman Jim" won the title from Sul} put 1 did my very best. Cort MORGAN IS TOO CLASSY FO Utah City DuncanM racDonald Tal ks Will Keep of His Career in the Ring 7 ° fk ranchise Local Hotel Proprietor, One of the Greatest Middle- weights in the World in His Time, Thinks Argen- Jack Cooke Says Stories} tinan Another Edition of the Great John L. About Sale of Bees Are! Seas Fe All Bunk MacDONALD, well known to boxing fans of Het Lt EN UNCA)D Da tne world 35 years ago as the leading contender for the middleweight title, and now proprietor of the New Ven dome hotel here, seme yesterday that Luis Angel Firpo a second John L. Sullivan. There's probably no one rth today fat qualified to make that statement. y Argentinan resembles John L. in many respects,” - _ in the rae | MacDonald said. “He has a build quite similar and possesses } well be back amin O° many of the fistic qualities that that great heavyweight haven't been making Champion had. He also has a mind of his own and no one aprin The |money this year, but they hops tolelse tells him what to do.” 'e of Paul) MacDonald knew Sullivan quite well. With two other cont ae nt? | boxers, MacDonald and Sullivan toured the United States Fredericks, « outfi sino go up, and if they sett the/in 1886 and 1887, in a series of exhibition bouts. In that| pair for 1 ¢, the Utahans}way, naturally, they came into intimate contact with each " ff for t er. other. + ct Strand! Despite the fact that he has never met Firpo, MacDonald | con at ter f siug- | has a very good idea of what the “Wild Bull” is like. ep Athietion The old-timer declared that if he was a betting man, however, he would place his money on Dempsey. But,| he admitted, he's not doing any betting on this fight. “Firpo is a man to be feared,” he said. “To hit him, |just ke hitting John L., is the same as waving a red flag) WEAK AT SHORTSTOP jin front of a bull. He'll come back all the harder, and The defense of the Salt Lake club | Mr, |has been wrecked thin year because | all of their walloping ability the/is quite likely to be a change in the world’s heavyweight) Heos have lost more umes than |title, t f th i “ binges yr Wile Pearce ci T admire that man for having a mind of his own, and Boe ¢ shortfielder, has been |USing it. He showed it when he let Jimmy De Forest go 1 use because of a sorejand took on another trainer. Whether he was right or & wing, Since he has been) wrong in doing that, I do not know, but the fact that he! “ep wih pts dona reyes there did it despite all of the advice to the contrary by so many per gee ing Leslie, their |friends, advisers and sport writers, is to his credit. regular first eacker, at shortstop. A| weak defense at second ta || Powoht Draw With Sullivan a acDONALD fought the great) Sheedy, JACOBS HAS FAITH John L. Sullivan to a stand. MacDonald went into the ring} a dozen a IN KILLEFER jstiit in Denver on December 28,| first. He was well known around cattle will be one-two-three next | 1956. Sullivan, then the world’s| Denver as he was the Northwest} | year,” says Elmer Jacobs, the crack | champion, was touring with sev-|and coast middleweight champion,| right-han of the Indians. jeral other boxers, one of whom|and received a big hand from the; “Killefer is a great manager,and| was MacDonald. jcrowd. Then in came Sullivan. ks now and he'll finish in the/stand in Denver. Shortly after/groaned and creaked when he} Coming from Jacobs conyersstion| Jerry Slattery, approached the; Donald sald, “He had a weight of this sort in to be listened to, be-| champion and asked for the privi-| advantage of over 40 pounds,” cause Jake dorsn't have to oll his}lege of fighting him. Sullivan] “Well, to make a long story short, way Into favor with his boss, and|had a standing offer of $1,000 to|I stayed the entire four rounds with ho can pitch well enough for any|any man that stayed four rounds Sullivan and the referee called it a club. f with him. Sullivan's manager,|draw. I hit him an awful crash in Incidentally, the rest of thé boys|Charley Sheedy, accepted Slattery|the first round that sure slowed him “Red” will be|and all arrangements were made|up. He tired fast and I kept after up there next year. They're sure|for the fight him with my left. But, believe me, trong for Killefer | The night of the scheduled scrap|I was careful, because when he hit, Jarrived, a big crowd was on hand|he hit. It woul jand everybody was there but Sint-/if he had layed a glove on me." “It's easy enough to see why Sac-|and act quick, as the fight crowds;rial scrap give MacDonald an edge ramento 15 winning,” says Oscar|in those days got quite rough if/over the champion. One Denver Vitt, the veteran third sacker of the| things didn’t come off as scheduled. | paper, in part, says: Salt Lake club, “The Sacs are run. | Sheedy begged the other two heavy-| “Cries of ‘new champion’ rent the ning those bases and are stealing a| weights to go on with Bullivan,{air as the fourth round neared a lot of tags, They are always going| but they flatly refused, As a last|close. Sullivan was tired and run- for that extra base on a hit and|resort, he avked MacDonald to meet} ning about blindly, in a rage, an they make you hurry your plays,|tho champion. easy victim of the clever MacDon- wey are two dan.| “I'll go on if you'll give molald’s left. gerous fellows on the paths and | $500, win, lose or dra MacDon-| “However, Sullivan's manager was | they make a good offensive pai ay “Accepted,” cried =the happy called it a draw.” SEATTLE INFIELD x ‘ . Almost to a man the snticiders | Held Gentleman Jim playing on the Seattle diamond this] Y7ERY few cities in the United some political trouble over boxing in year haw: squawked about the con- States can boast of a man who} Utah at that time, and after much dition of the ground, The ball! ia, fought a world’s champion, but | “liberation, it was finally decided doesn’t bounce true and once the oe Athen iit that Corbett and I were to fight six onion gets off off the grass the in.| there's not one, wil ne exception) rounds. This wasn't much for a get the {nner diamond in better | weight champions. The next day the Salt Lake pa- shape because he has ood soll to| MacDonald met James J, Corbett! pers roasted mo because T stalled, work with and it could be one of |a short time after the clever “Gen-/ but they were wrong. 1 didn’t stall, | tt it was worked on some. livan. ‘The fight was staged in Salt} never put up a prettior fight than{ Li City, and went six rounds to/he did that night against me, barring | YARYAN WOULD HIT a draw. none. He was going good, and I con IN SALT LAK! “L was quite popular in that sec-| sider myself the most fortunate man Brick Eldred says that Yam Yur-|tion at the time, and Corbett came|in the world to have been able to ie he played on the Salt Lake club, |said, “but unfortunately, there was been knocked out,"’ The long left field in Seattle works} as Shows Fight AYOR BROWN stepped into the ring at last night's smoker and quite forcefully told the noisy customers where to |in that the outfielders lay back for | VERNON WINS ber of Commerce was making an tlemanly persons began wetting noisy. At this interruption, his honor stepped up and told them there wouldn't be any main event until the ceremony was | Alten twirled nice ball t xuld a few words and ram mayor mud n tely Wo ty and BOBBY JONES “They don't counter enough, If ]Ithde, w fistle publication, Machon of} the ving by the veal aportamen tomers joined in giving: three Bobby Jones, the national open|the way, tT lee champion, hay been olected an] tke advantage of the opening left the New Vendome hotel here. In counful effort to quell the unde: yan would come pretty close tojback from San Francisco with the| hold him even that night. Twas cau. }lending the league in home runs] {idea of getting a scrap with me,” he| tious, If I hadn't been, I would have a hardship on Yaryan, says Brick, lLost to Pete McCoy i in 1 32nd ETERAN sport writers, in remin-| Newspaper accounts of the fight iscing of the old days, always| tell how MacDonald broke his hand in tlie third round and fought gamely for 29 more rounds, until he was championship fight between Duncan | helpless before the attack of his op: |MacDonald and Pete MeCoy, the} ponent, From the various opinions titleholder, The bout was staged in| published regarding that fight Mac. FROM LEADERS |peiver. Mecoy won by a knockout | Donald would have won adit mat LOS ANGELES, Sept. 6.—Vernon|in the $2nd round. been for the misfortune to his hand. dofeated the leaguo-leading San Fran. claco club, 4 to 0, Here yesterday, him and catch a lot of files that would casily clear the tert field fence at Salt Lake recall the world's ~ middleweight Modern Boxers Don’t Counter ithe: acore nm oH (¢T AM fairly well connected with {of a presentday fighter in this seo San Francisco rere em wee 1) the ring situation,” he stated, | tion who counters successfully, Any Vernon 4 10 1! "and feel that T am in a* position | of Davis’ rivars who fead at him are Geary and Yelio; Alten and Murphy. | to offer a little friendly cviticilvm of | taking quite # ehane |the modern ring Scrappers In © recent Issue of the Boxing thely opponents lead at them, they |uld is cited as one of the wealth GIVEN HONOR Jive content to try ana get out of [test of retired pusitisty. hey should naturally He owns und personally manages: Dempsey had better watch out then. If Firpo is suc-|) pq) lor glaring hole at shortstop. with |cessful in crashing that right in a very few times, there} sour dhave been all over! »lald said (the referee of the fight, and he! raw the crowd. R RIDLE® Champion Outboxes Local Boy Morgan’ Wins Every Round at Arena; Mack and Morrow Draw BY LEO H. LASSEN [7 "8 simply & repetition of thete first meeting, referring to the Tod Morgun-Bi Ridley batt at the Arena last night with Morgan administering another £ ney boxing lesson to Ridley and retaining the Coast featherweight crown that he won from the local boy in thelg |first encounter. Morgan can beat Ridiey every jnight in the week, he's that muci jbetter than the Seattle boy. Dancing jaround Ridley like the master boxer that he is he bit Ridley at w Give Bud credit, however, taking everything that Morgan #1 his way and for coming in for more, j1t was Ridley's aggressiveness and this hope of winning in one punch |that made a fight out of it. | RIDLEY COULDN'T LAND y hit Morgan only three op blows during the entire sty rounds, and Morgan was going away from them when they did land. Morgan was Very effective his left hand, using !t like a rapi jand popping Ridley in the nose jwhenever he got good dnd ready | At one time he hit Bud seven times, without a return. Morgan will box Dandy Dillon ig next week's headliner. Bobby Johnston, Seattle baseball trainer, was third man in the ring [and handled the bout with his usual |srwed and skill. | MORROW-MACK | DRAW | Lackey Morrow and Johnny put up one of the hardest se: |slx-round semi-windup. The verdict jwas a draw, but if a decision had to be given Mack had a slight edge. The Pittsburg boy won the first three rounds hand! In the fourth round, however, Morrow opened up, and with dynam mite in his left hand, he went after Mack, having the Pittsburg youth in a bad way on several occasions, It was Morrow’s round by a wide “ margin. The fifth and sixth rounds were |torrid with the rounds being pretty even. The draw verdict was well re ceived. BIG FELLOWS 30-50 Tiny Bott and Jimmy Welsh faite ed to produce the thrills of thett fight a week ago when the heavy- weights fought a draw last nights | Bott floored Welsh in the second |round, but Welsh's strong comeback in the last round carned him @ draw. Frank Chslock and Nick Sugar put on a good fight in the second prelim, with a draw verdict being dished up, Agly Apligay, a Filipino, took @ dive in the second round of his fight with Bud Oliver. Ted Whitman and Ad Schacht alternated as referees in the two battles, A record house saw ww the mills: FINALS IN: NET PLAY ON FRIDAY, HE finals in the mixed doubles of The Star-Woodland Park tennis tournament will be played Friday’ afternoon at 3 o'clock on the Woode land park courts, with Mrs, Bragdom and Bob Hesketh opposing Ireng Stephens and Richard Burr, In @ semi-finals match played yes terday, Irene Stephens and Richard Burr defeated Ruth Marcuse and “Windy” * Langile, 7-5, 6-3, JACK JOHNSON — CAN’T SCRAP, Jack Johnson, former world’ hoavywoight champion, will not. allowed to box Billy Miske in News ark, N. J, on September 10, The New Jersey boxing commission fore bids the bout, BALL SERIES q IS ON SUNDAY, The first game of the series for the Northwest league baseball champion« honorary member of the Inwood, N, {when the rival wads and slip tn ajaddition he ix interested in several Y, Country club, It was at Inwood] hard punch, mines in Colorado, Montana and that Jonos won the national title, "Trayie Davis is the best example! Utah, 4 ott ee sere gm a Roy eid adda anevada 3 ship will bo played at Bollingham. Sunday, when the Mount Vernon club tangles with the Bellingham Elka, ever seen in « local ring in the ® i