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

the will h up the fore und vith he Dung SATU RDAY, SEPTEMBE | ENOCH BA R 15, ESR tek eae a ea George Von Elm Is Lone Representative of N. W. Salt Lake Player, Former P. N. G. A. Champion, Is Reinstated, After Long Golf Suspension; Sweester and Jones in Limelight BY ALE ATHERED together on Chicago links, a field C. ROS “the Flos moor Country club, of about 200 of the foremost golfers in the country were to tee-off Saturday in the medal play to decide the qualifiers ship—the blue ribbon pri Vieing with Je: the open champion , Guilford and other Chick nation: “onors, is little George Von Elm, the Salt Lake City phe- | for national amateur champion- se of golfdom. se Sweetster, the titleholder; Bobbie Jones, Ouimet, Jesse for 1923 Evans, France ally-known linksmen, om, who is the Pacific Northwest's sole representative in| the big battle. George has been on placed by the U. S. G. Baseball: Pitching Problem eat Supreme Lively Horsehides the suspended list, where he was shortly after he had successfully defended his title in the Pacific Northwest amateur field last year, until the ban was lifted this month Whether the Jo y-otf from the herveracking test that tournament golf will show its effects in the Mormon city lad’s attempt to win at Flossmoor remains to be seen. omes with 2 ‘ but every golf devotee in the North: BY BILLY EVA)? . west will be glad to hear that during ITCHING has become a serious | practice rounds on the big battle problem in the’ major leagues.| grounds George Von Elm has been Not a team in either t American league 3 wi pat on its pitching staff. The vari-| iim kingpin in these parts in 1921 eus scouts now out in search for land 1983 promising material have been in-| Bon Stein, state amateur and city structed to pay particular attention |°®@mplon, was all packed up and to the pitchers and not pass up any pitcher who looks at all worth while For some years the advantage has been with the batters by a wide mar- gin. The supremacy the ance held was swept away when all trick deliver: plac under ban. This made for ane in pitching om the part of a great many big leaguers. Some of the / pitchers found it impossible to a hemselves to a new sty lout. Others met with v eas in adhering to the new rules e were With the passing of th itball and all forms of trick deliveries, also came the ban on soiling the ball or the use of resin to help dry the hands and help the pitcher get @ firmer grip on the ball. The rules called for the abolition of any and all for- eign substances and resin was placed in the list. For years a great many p-tchers have used resin. Without it they were unable to get thelr old time srip on the bail, and in throwing a curve, the hold secured on the ball means everything aa to the bréak. But even that wasn't enough. In order to give the fans more batting the so-called “lively ball” was adopt- ed. This ball is lively because it is @ far superior ball in every way from the cork center to the cover. *The re- sult of all these changes produced an orgy of slugging in which the su- premacy of the pitcher has passed | entirely. The batter now enfoys a wide margin of advantage in his gg with the pitcher. | The batters went even farther in| thelr effort to hold the advantage. Four-piece hats were manufactured, which made for greater driving pow- er.. Plugged bats also were used, altho it is hard to see the advantage of the plugged bat. It might offer a chance to cheat by loading the bat. However, President Johnson of the American league has called a halt on the bat question by ruling all such bats illegal. automatically suspend himself for five days when he uses one. The pitching problem sooner or later will have to receive serious con- sideration from the men behind base- ball. Each year it seems harder to - find pitchers worthy of the majors. Perhaps a slight toning down of the lively ball would tend to improve pitching more quickly than any other one thing. GILLENWATER AT MUSKEGON Claude Gillenwater is back in the Mint league. He has had a hectic career. in Francisco gave him a trial and shipped him back to that company. Then he had a fling in the Southern circuit, going back to Mint territory again. Then the Chi- cago White Sox gave him a trial and he shut out Detroit in his first start. However, Claude couldn't alee the grade and is now back ith Muskegon again. PIRATES GET COLLEGE STAR Pittsburg has bought a minor league first sacker sald to be a star in the making. He's Everett Barnes and he learned his baseball at Colgate university. He was pur. chased from Peoria of the Three-I league and for a price said to he 35,000. However, Charley Grimm, regular Pirate first sacker, «n't in much danger of losing his Job as long as he plays the kind oF base- ball that he’s dishing up now. RACE TODAY NEW YORK, Sept. 15—The rival for Papyrus, the great English horse to race here, will be selected this afternoon when the cream of Amer ica’s 3-year-olds race at Belmont Park. Oh, Our Tribe Isn’t So Bad One of the longest losing streaka in the history of baseball has been hung up by the Musko. gee team of the Southwestern Wague, 38 straight defeats being chalked up against the outfit be- fore it won, It Js a homeless outfit, playing all of its games on the road because of poor home attendance, National or se to stand Pitchers and making a player| shooting in the low 70s. All of wh goes to show that he still fs the same A-l maker of golf shots that made} | ready to board the rattler to take a crack at the national amateur title fight at Flossmoor, when he received | the powers-thatbe that | arrived too late to allow | his entry him to compete. Bobbie Jones, the Georgia the ruling favorite to anne ribbon this ye fidence the blue | use of the con y when he de feated yank in th play-off for the open championship, | which was the first national honors| he has won during his brilliant term | n the, fairways. urday’s play was to be a sort “weeding-out" process, in that the Id will engage tn a round of 18 holes of medal play, which will de termine the 64 players who will tee off on Monday morning in the quali fying round of 36 holes. The 32 low scorers in this play will comprise the championship group, witch will con. tinue dn match elimination play at 36 holes each round. | Punch Bowl Play Today | LAY for the Punch Bowl—great est of al, team links battles in | the Northwest—is on today at the [course of the Seattle Golf club, and |from all appenrances it looks as if| the North Enders would cop the | prize, which is decided for on 36 holes of grows match play against bogey, for elght-man teams. The best aggregate team score wins the | punch bowl for a year. It requires | three wins to obtain permanent pos- seasion. | Leo Stell, the Seattle Golf club | chi ampion, will be missing from to- day's line-up, but it fs a well-known | fact that other mombers of the team are playing several strokes better than they were last year when the North End aquad romped home an| easy winner over the strongest fleld that ever started In the Punch Bowl competition. The Inglewood eight is not as strong today as when they landed in second place last year, Clark Speirs jand Forest Watson, the lakeshore | very well balanced one and it would occasion no surprise if second hon. ors came its way at the final count. Waverly, with Dr. 0. F. Rudy Wilhelm and Russ Smith as |the leadoff men, will give the oppo- sition plenty to worry over, and so also will the Vancouver and Tacoma teams, whose line-up includes many well-known links figures Here's the clubs which are in the field to make a stab at getting the 1923 leg on the much-coveted punch bowl: Seattle Golf club, Inglewood Country club, Rainier Golf club, Ei lington Country club, Jefferson Park |Golf club, Vancouver Golf Shaughnessy Heights Country club, Tacoma Golf club, Waverley Country about, r-jor in saloon, club,jed in cleared away and seats arranged 80 as to give a fairly good seating ca- JACK DEMPSEY—“Guess the boys will know now that T wasn't talking for a gate when I said before the fight that Firpo would put up a great battle. He did. He is a strong, game fighter with a natural style that science is no good So that settled that.) against. | was forced to beat him with the same wild tactica ral times, but I'm glad that I also had the chance to prove that I am I don't remember hitting Firpo after the gong in the | first roun that he e game. Gig a a a ‘the Good Old Day AS TIME FIGHTERS DY As Told to Tom Oisen CHAPTER I. It's a funny thing, \ot living, and often change a man's whole carcer. Mistaken fight game, walking down Lake with a friend of mine one day, having where I was working at the time. | Three fellows approached us on the | and one of them saw me and| rushed at me with blood in his eyes, | and we started to fight. | street, 1 didn't ly made, | thought I was somebody else. introduced that his name was Jack Waite, one of the famous boxing managers of club’s best bets, having gone to | that time. other climes. The team that will] s¥mnasium jtake the field today, however, is a| asked me sym, I did, and started boxing lessons. I liked it so well that I kept at it/ Willing | for about seven weeks, Watte's ins quite a few pointers of the manly art. Tho fight good in that section then and Waite decided to troupe of b hibition bouts, Tho fights in oither staged in the rear of a saloon the the the but after several torrid min- utes of rough-and-tumble fighting, | my asnajiant to drop around fHE Still Packs Kick mployed against me. Yes, I was hurt sev nd,” TORY OF OLD i Duncan MacDonald. eo this business Ittle tricks of fate identity put me in the back in 1880, I waa the street in Salt layof¢ from the mines know what it was all said he had enough, Of course, and when explanations were final-|thing for the saloon-keepers an ev- | pacity it turned out that himself, and I learned | constructed on the stage. Ho had just opened a in Salt Lake City and} to the hibition bouts principally. one and, tructions, I picked up/ fitting kid glove, with game was golng very|causo of early certainty. would break take me along with a boxers to appear in ex- those days were| first hard blow, “opera house.” In the ring would he conatruct rear, partitions being ish, when Montana hard gloves. In my next article, SEATTLE ys it was a big he|erybody would buy drinks at He| bar before and after the fights, At the opera house, the ring would be Interest was created in theso ex- there was a standing offer for any- who could stay four rounds with any member of our troupe. Wo fought with what was known as Montana hard gloves. They con- under | sisted of merely an ordinary -|own game and he retained his title holea cut at the knuckles and finger tips and with heavy seams up the back. Be- these hard gloves, injury to a participant was a Either one of the men thelr hand or other would be knocked out by the The fights came to a sudden fin- they were fought with I will tell of my early bouts and the various ex- perience that I encountered, club and the Everett Country club. Seattle Club Wins N the second half of the homeand-home match for the Biggerstaffe Wilson trophy, played| on the fh End links, last Satur. | day, the Seattle Golf club team de-| feated the Victoria Golf club players by a 54to-7 score, The Canadians started off with a 23-point lead, gained in the first half of the match played at the Oak Bay course last spring. Saturday's win made it two in a row for the locals, and if they repeat again next year, the trophy will find a permanent resting place on the mantle-piece of the clubhouse, | hole Earlington Wins IXTEEN-MAN teams of the Karl. ington and Grays Harbor clubs hooked up in their annual links match at the Black river course, last Sunday, the locals winning by a 2 {0-16 ncore, The visitors were strong: ly represented with such well-known stars ax Mortre Dutra, Walter Fay. argue, Heinie Schmidt and Géorge Fowler as their leadoff men. Of course, “Billy Paterson and Homer | Brown were there to help matters) |alang, either one way or another. | They succee as usual, It was a great day for Earlington and their | guests, | Van Winkle Wins pas VAN WINKLE, an 18-han | I” dicap man, won the bogey com- petition at the Jefferson Park club, last week-end, with a card that showed an 11-up count, Jack Scott (9) took necond honors with 9-up, while R, A. Dawes (12), J. MeBain | 44) and A, Behumaker (18) tled for third prize, each having the old gent §.down, CHICAGO, Sopt. handicaps mean nothing to the en- thualastic golfer. Loss of an arm, [not mean that a player cannot be- come pgofictent in golf. Eddie Reilly, a Chicago pro, who has been playing the game for 10 years, poventies, invar golfing altho To even wy play on the professional, sent John F Funk, while not claiming the low scores that Reilly Js able to attain, Some years ago he |fered the loss of his right arm. his jarm, jot a right-hander, jhe played t course in 71, ONE-ARMED GOLFER PLAYS GOOD GAME; SHOOTS IN 80S| plays a highly creditable game. Tho par for the El Reno courko fs 72, and Funk always plays it be- tween 80 and 85, While Funk plays best shots 14.—Physical for instance, does well from the tee, his are the approach and putt. low suf. All 1s dono with the left he assumes the stance Four years ago he Marquette park his best score, p for this extraordinary part of a one-armed the amateur ranks pro- Funk of El Reno, Okla. fably plays in the RANK B. (OM and da; ‘The final score was: Yakima, 18. Well, =. Fight Facts WINNER—Jack Dempsey, LASER—Luis Angel Firpo. T seven round, i 0; seo the jaw, fo JUDGE! WINNING BLOW—Right to REFEREE—Jack Gallagher, George Patrich, from the apple orchards. golf and a good time. x” KNOCKOUT—Pitty. onds of the second ollowed by a left hook, ESTIMATED ATTENDANCE || finally shut out by Nelson —8h,000, Milwadkee hurler, on September 2 ESTIMATED RECEIPTS— $1,261 50,000, BENEF IT GAME DEMPSEY'S SHARE—$468,. The crack Willlam L, 760. n will tangle with the Asahi Jap. FIRPO'S PURSE—$156,250. aneso club ball team in a game Sun- day morning at 11 Const league park, ceeds of the game will Japanoge relief fund, § Kid MePartland and put A tog YAKIMA MEN DEFEATED AT INGLEWOOD his cronies of the Yakima Country club took another licking, Inst sun. in their match against the Ingle- wood team on the lake-shore course, Inglewood, 41; fa little thing like that doce not have any bad effect on these Inds ‘They want They get ‘om! ABLE TO SCORE IN 238 GAMES After playing 238 straight gamea in the American association, with a reo~ ord of having scored at Jeast one run per game the Kansas City club was o'clock at the All of tho pro: STAR Kremer Is Lacking a | Jfast Ball Oakland Star Needs Swift | One for Major League) Company AY KRAMER’S Inck of a fast) ball may keep him in the] minors, Jack Doyle, Russ Hall and| Hob Connery, the three big league scouts now looking over talent in the Coust league all say that Kremer has everything to make a big leaguer ex cept a good fast one Kremer is smart in fact the critics thruout the league claim he ts the amartest hurler in the circult And he has « good curve and ex cellent control, Fielding his position and in hitting he is far ‘rom a weak Ung. Kremer has won something tke | 22 games and won 13 starts for a weak second division club, which is remarkable pitcheing PORTLAND | BLOWS UP After making a grand fight for second place, the Portland Beavers have blown up completely. They lost an important series to Sacramento at Portland, five gamen out of nev and they lost thelr punch at San Francisco ond have been taking @ series of Dempsey punches on the hinge this week. You can just about count Jimmy Middleton's Beavers out of the running. BOTH YARRISON AND JONES LOOK GOOD Both Rube Yarrison, pitcher, and |Johnny Jones, shortstop, sold to the] Brooklyn Dodgers by Portland, by | company next year, Yarrison, « side arm decetver, has had a fine year Ff with the Beavers, being one of the] fight. ranking pitchers of the league, Jones is just about the clans of the league's shortstops. TY COBB UNPOPUL Rr | on the verge of a knockout. CSHAW STARTS THIRD YEAR AS FOOTBALL COACH AT U. W. | ‘National GOLF AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP PLAY GE ETS UNDER WAY LUIS ANGEL FIRPO—“Dempsey is a great fighter and |a great champion. I do not understand how he was able to the way, should make good in faster| stand up under the blows that I landed on him. I still be- lieve that I did not have enough experience to go into the My friends tell me that I had Dempsey three times I thought I was the champion when I knocked him out of the ring. I would like to have a return bout and in another year I am certain that I can | wis the championship.” AS MANAGER Great player that he in, the great est in fact that ever walked out on a ball field, Ty Cobb is proving a bust as @ manager. American league. | Cobb tries to drive his men too much | and doesn't get the results that he} should with the talent that he has| to work with, It Js doubtful if Cobb | will be manager of the Tigers much | longer, as his string ts running out | asa player, and when he's thru as a paatimer he's about all done. COMPTON'S PRIZE POSSESSION Pete Compton, San Francisco out fielder, has only one possession that he prizes aa a baseball trophy. That's & ball that Roger Hornsby hit in the Winter league in California in the fall of 1921. Compton caught the ball near the center field fence and it was a brand new pill, completely fiattened on the side where Horns. by's bat had busted it. No wonder this bird is hitting 400 in the Na- tonal league! DEMPSEY IS" FORCED TO CHANGE PLAN W YORK, Sept. 15—Jack Dempsey was thrown clear off the fight he had planned when he was cracked on the jaw and dropped to his knee by the very first punch of the fight. His boxing left him, his ideas of science were forgotten and he became a wild fighting man just like Firpo. The champion beat Firpo at ging. the ropes. ished him. heart, the crown his because he punched shorter, more frequently and with more accuracy than the South American. to do. Firpo’a dream of becoming the when BY JACK the worst breaks against him. clear out of the ring into the press box in the first round I am sure he would have been knocked out. Ho was helpless on the ropes with his guard down and his knees sag: He stepped forward and Firpo caught him coming tn with a lash- ing right to the jaw, The force of the blow carried him bodily between Had he remained in the ring, Firpo surely would have fin- Dempsey had a chance to revive while he was teing pushed back into the ring, and if he had been forced to do his reviving inside the ropes he would not have survived, It gave mo satisfaction to see my judgment of Firpo proven. great fighter with a great fighting and it was only his lack of experience that caused him to drop he had times right in his hands. It {s my opinion that Firpo would have won !f he had behind him any number of good American seconds who could have advised him what They didn’t know what to He laa it three Being Knocked Thru the ) nik @atinat sit iae fees) RODES God-Send to Champ McAULIFFE (Retired Undefeated Lightweight Champion) EW YORK, Sept. 15—Right off the bat I might admit that I turned out to be wrong in picking Luis Angel| Firpo to win the heavyweight title from Jack Dempsey. was wrong, however, by just one punch and I came so close to being right that I think my opinion expressed before the fight was vindicated. Dempsey was saved by what looked to have been one of If he had not been knocked tell him and he hasn't had enough experience to get it by instinct. been longing for. time. Ho came up fighting, instea modern cake-eaters do. ever seen. Once, I believe, to Firpo. The rules require a fightei his opponent. fighting position. Dempsey proved himself a grea’ fighting played a magnificent heart. Jaw, knocked him to one knee, fought thru the whole round on in, stinct, didn’t know heavyweight champion was only for the timo shattered. The huge South American showed that he was almost an even match for the champion and they are sure to meet again. Tex Rickard sald he would like to match them again next summer, It would be a great fight. Given one more year and some bet- tor inktructions and Firpo will take| the title from Dempscy Just as sure- ly as he failed last night. Firpo showed beyond all doubt that he was game. Ho has a great fighting heart and it was only tho| lack of experience that caused him | to lose, No doubt Dempsey chills a| ttle when he thinks of what might | havo happened if Firpo had listed thru the second round, Because he had never been called upon to show It before, Dempaey also manifested for the first time the ability to “take it" and he took it as no other champion ever did. No other fighter in the world could have stood up under the punishment de- livered by Firpo. Critics sald that Angel day. pion went rant, tle, Dempsey had should have. But there was no other way for Dempsey to fight. Boxing a fighter who was hitting like Firpo would have caused him to lose be- yond all doubt, ‘The attendance was estimated by Tex Rickard at about 90,000 and he said the receipts probably would ex- ceed a million and a quarter dollars, Dempsey is said to have received $468,760, while Firpo's end was un- derstood to have been $156,260, JACK SILVER BEATS DOYLE SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 15.—Jack Silver fought one of the best battles of his career In beating Mike Doyle in tho headliner lightweight attrac. tion at Dreamland Jast night, ‘The referee stopped the semi-final, be- tween Eddie White and Charlie Sul. livan in the second round, when the two refused to get savag will ence, Star Want Ads cost so littl that) Mra, go to the it encourages you to use them, Call CONFERENCE MEETING ON AT PORTLAND Sept. and graduate agers included in the Pacific const Intercollegiate conference continued their session here today, discussing rules of eligibility and other mat- tora pertaining to college athletics, The twoday session got under way yesterday, with no action taken at the opening meeting. Last night there was an informal discussion as | P* woll, but the real work of the gath- ering was expected to some today. Location of the Washington State- Me Oregon Aggie game November 17 be settled during the confer. Tt is possible ‘that Spokane will be given the contest, altho if the Aggies wish it played on their home ground, take place at Corvallis, gon back, that he fought crudely, ‘ and that he would have made a mon. | PORTLAND. key of Firpo if he had fought as he | members Firpo Shows No Marks of Scrap W YORK, Firpo Following t night at the Polo grounds, defeated South the the jean champion, at 7-5, MA In-0600 and phone your ad NOW, {in the final round fom tho title Sept. American cham- to Perona’s restau: danced joined a host of his countrymen in what had been planned as a celebration of victory, Firpo showed no marks of bat- Ho waa in good spirits and Joined in the singing and danc- ing which lasted until around 2 o'clock this morning. 15.—Luls slept late to- he fight last the tango and 15.—Faculty man- encounter will MRS. MALLORY LOSES PHILADELPHIA, oanor Goss, Boston tennis star, won the middle states singles champion: ship here today when she defeated Molla Mallory, Sopt, 15,—Bl former, Amer gong rang, LOCAL STAR IN FINALS here today with Mrs. Fred F. the defeated eight. AINSMITH GETS GATE Eddie Ainsmith, Cardinal catcher, was let out by St. Louls because he couldn't observe the Volstead act, ac- cording to reports from the East. Firpo acted just like one of the oldtimers that we veterans have He fought all the of covering up like a lot of the He fought savagely at the dictates of one of the greatest fighting hearts I have the referee al- lowed Dempsey to remain too close on a knockdown to go to his corner or at least five paces away from But once Dempsey cracked the South Anrerican before | toi he had a chance to get himself in a machine and he also dis- I don't believe that Dempsey knew what he was doing after the first punch of the fight, a right to the He and {t was proven that he hat he was doing when he hit Firpo twice after the OF TOURNEY POKANE, Wash., Sept. 15.—Finals of the Washington State Wom- en's Golf tourney, were to be played Jack- son, of Seattle, meeting Miss Cather: ine Hurley, of Tacoma, for the title. Mrs. O. C, Born, of Spokano will play Mrs. C. C. Carey, of Seattle, in PAGE 13 H uskies in First Work | on Gridiron |Coach Bagshaw Starts . Third Year Saturday as Washington’s Mentor BY TOM OLSEN NOCH BAGSHAW, the little giant from Everett, will start his third year as head coach of the University of Washington football team thiy afternoon, when 40 can- didates for the 1923 eleven were ex: pected to be out for the first prac- tice of the season on the stadiura field More men are expected Monday, and will continue to trail in until school opens October 1. Bagshaw will naturally be at @ disadvantage in not having all of his men on hand for the early prac: Uces. Washington faces a difficult schedule. Every conference game will be a hard one. The stocky mentor, despite the disadvantages, 1s planning to waste no time in whipping a formidable eleven into shape for the season. WILL PRACTICE AT STADIUM One of his first steps was to dis- band Denny field as a practice grounds and to stage all varsity 4 practices at the stadium, where the games will be played. Altho the - stadium is not so handy as Denny field, ample accommodations for the football men have been arranged by Bagshaw and Student Manager “Brick” Olwell at Lander Hall, near the stadium. Bagshaw expects to have his men scrimmaging by next Thursday. The coach admitted that he did not like to scrimmage the men 80 soon, but because of the hard games early in the season, could see no other alternative. Bagshaw will enter his third year, minus nine lettermen from his 1923 team. Only four of these men are graduates. Bill Grimm, Bob Ingra- ham, Johnny Wilson and “Hank” Haynes have received their sheep- skins, while Elbert Harper, Wallic Dailey, Mike Hanley, Ed Ferry and Parker will not be back in school. Among the men that were expected out this afternoon by Bagshaw were: Ray Hill, back; Les Sherman, back; Fred Abel, back; Vern Bellman, guard; Jack Lillis, guard; Roy Pet. ne, end; Hunter Mile: linesman; Johnny Cole, end; Cliff Langhorn, ]| center; Hugh Beckett, back; Welton Beckett, back; George Guttormsen, back; Hans Jacobson, linesman; Bob Wright, linesman; Elmer Tesreau, back; Ham Greene, back; R.C. Me 7 Pherson, linesman; Eldon Dayis, Iinesman. MANY MORE EXPECTED d ‘Those expected to foliow next week are: Leonard Ziel, Capt. Wayne Hall, Bill Beck, Ed Kuhn, Amos Christie, Chalmers Walters, Freddy Westrom, ‘| Roy Severs, Ken DuBois, Bill Marsh, Jim Bryan, Fred Olson, Robert Clark, George Wilson, Hi “Tub- by” Britt, John Bagwell, Otis Turner, Joe Knapp, Norris Bur- son, James Smith, Walden Erickson, Harold Cosser, Frank Haggerty, Ev- erett McRae and Gardner Gamwell. “Spud” Murphy, the crew man, will take a fling at football. Assisting Bagshaw with.the coach- ing duties this season, is Wayne Sut- former Varsity grid star, “Tub- r Sutton will take charge of the Frosh t|team October 1, and it is expected that Ray Eckmann and Bill Grim, re- — cent Washington stars, will be added. to the staff at that time. RENO RACING. | SEASON STARTS RENO, Nev., Sept. 15.—The au- tumn meeting of the Silver State Jockey club opened here today, with nine races on the first card. The feature today is the opening handie cap over five and one-half furlongs. — The club plans to stage races from ~ sprints to realization distance of one and one-half miles during the course — of the 19 days’ meet. SPENCE HARRIS WITH CHAMPS” Bay City, Michigan, won the cham- pionship of the Michigan-Ontario league. Spencer Harris, former Broadway high school star, played an outfield position for the Mint cham- pions. MARKLE LEADS ys : Clift Markle, former Salt Lake pitcher, is leading the American as- | sociation in the number of strikeouts — for the season with 147 to date, He’ pitching for St, Paul. In Dode Bercot getting any better? ‘That's what tho boys are asking after he took his wecond defeat at Tacoma the other night, losing a close decision to Young Carmen, the San Jose miller. It was thelr third meeting, tho first two being draws, Without a doubt, Carmen as he was Bercot's master Rercet scema to be tos Knocking the boys over ped Into faster cor y. When he was fighting bums , wae winning, because he was too strong for them. ndleapped with mature that he in the clinches Kade fighting jour y" ty Ago, Moore got Just so far couldn't stand success and best card of himself, He had posaibilities because he had a punch for a Mttle fellow. Morgan, on the other hand, stuck to the etratght and narrow and hired @ good ring tutor, Now he's in the big money, headed for a world's itle, perhaps, ‘There'd a good lesson for your young fellows in this, very once in a while when there's « lull in the butcher business Van 46 and 63 done the leather mittens for a fig! ix two and thy pork chops Boxing Gossip of Ring Men Here and td: sional fights in ‘Tacoma the othe: and looked terrible, He stuck the Il with Frankte Murphy, but took a boating dome it. Sontag can't Vineed thae he'w thru as a Lica Billy Wright, one of the clovervet who ever fought around here, ts the fight game, This timo WI tn the promoting end of the dling a small amateur fight Aberdeen. Wright is a likable and ought to get Jha a say that Danay tein oat | ie tipped the gales at. that Gay ot nle fient. with Fimo Jones, of the the Seattle conimiaaion, saya that No will take tl with the commission at tte next to prohibit the local promoters from) be tng seconds for boys on the Arona shows, yee eine out that [t tan't ae it wouldn't looked very woll York Jant night if Tox Rk elded to second either Dempacy bile Johnny Mack may throat thinks Chae he woud Wane nee