The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 27, 1923, Page 17

its oR os re aSee r (@* THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1928. Wee Coyle, Quarterback De Lox © @\to Tell of Dobie at Washington EE COYLE, considered the greatest quarterback who ever wore the mole- skins for Washington, is going to tell the inside history of Gil Dobie’s fa- mous reign at the state university. Gil Dobie, one of the national figures in grid coaching, had a miraculous record at Washington, but he was an enigma to the public. got opinions from the master mentor, except that the outlook was rotten. Coyle, who called signals for Dobie for three seasons, is now lieutenant governor of Washington, but he still follows football as closely as ever. His first story about Dobie will appear in an early issue of The Star. Nobody ever Bagshaw ’s 1 923 Products Will Be Introduced to Public Saturday NOCH BAGSHAW’S hope first time teams from the U. S. S. The positions are by no m ‘the Good Old Day: TIME FIGHTERS Ay Duncan MacDonald. As Told to Tom Olsen Se 8 ee eee | CHAPTER XL Y next pugilistio experience came when I recetved a wire from| H. C. Gordon, of Omaha, Neb., tell-| ing me to come at once as I was| signed up to meet Jim McCormick, | the stockyards giant from Chicago. Mr. Gordon, who had arranged the match, is now fn the realty business on N. 85th st. bere. I went to Omaha at once and trained at Patsy Fallon’s roadhouse for two weeks. I worked hard dur tng that period. In telling of the fight I will quote the Omaha Daily World of October 25, 1886: “This closed the minor affairs ot} the evening and the big guns took their corners in the ring. “Bhortly after the fight had been arranged, McCormick had declared) that he would get that ‘dude’ and/| get him bad. “Ho got at him Saturday night, all right, but he got enough. “From the first It was evident that/ the Dude’ could play with McCor-/ mick. Each round up to the elghth/ and last was simply a repetition of | the first, varied by an occasional knéckdown for the ‘Dude.’ “MacDonald whipped the man all over the ring, showing himself a master of fancy ring tactics, and ‘hamboosling’ his opponent by side remarks. “The eighth round and Iast showed the ‘Dude’ in fine form, with McCor- mick covered with gore and puffing lke a porpoise. MacDonald could have finished the fight In the first round, but for the satisfaction of the audience refrained from doing it then. “At the close of the fight MacDon- al4 accepted the challenge of John Clow, of Colorado, who had shown a desire to meet the winner.” This match took place in two weeks and was declared a draw. At the close of this match I was signed fair, with the New York, w The New York team, which won the cha by the first varsity, while the second varsity meets the Mis BY TOM OL N ippi and the U.S. S, New y immediately pionship of th ill get under v eans a cinch on either elever Mfg perm to join the Sullivan combination, which was on its second tour of the United States. I jotned in Portland, Ore. on December 1. I boxed for the first time as a member of the combination George | LaBlanche, the Marine, who had won| the middleweight championship from | Jack Dempsey, the Nonpareil. John L. and Al Smith, the man- ager of the combination, congrat lated me on my showing against La- Blanche, and as a result arranged for me to meet any local man in each city that we stopped in who would not accept John L's offer of $1,000 to stand four rounds. I agreed to this. Needleas to say, I got many bouts, as opponents for Sulltvan were not numerous. I met} and defeated Jack Davia at Denver, | Jim Fell at Kanaae City, Mart Fahey at St. Paul and Jim McKeon at Win- nipes. I also met Sulltvan, and this bout | has been related tn a previous arti-| cle, But my fighting days were num- dered. Shortly after this I got mar-| ried and, in respect to the wishes of my wife and mother, I gave up tho ring and went into the hotel bust ness. But fate kept me, more or leas, in touch with athletics for many years; in the state of Montana, part of} which was promoting or refereeing. FIREMEN LOSE AT HORSESHOES ARNYARD golf is too strenuous for city firemen to become ex- perts and the firemen team went Gown to defeat at the horseshoe pitching tournament at roadway playfield Wednesday, The Green Leke team won eight out of ten games. Stewart & Holmes team defeated the league leaders, the Pastime team. Hair Stays Combed, Glossy “Hair-Groom” Keeps Hair Combed—Well-Groomed Millions Use It—Fine for Hair! —Not Sticky, Greasy or Smelly Millions Use It—Fine for Halr! —Not Sticky, Greasy or Smelly A few cents buys jar of “Hair Groom” at any drugstore, which makes even stubborn, unruly or shampooed hair stay combed eet They start a series with the }4ay im any atylo you like, Here’s One HurlerW ho Can Clout ILEVELAND, Sept. 21—George Uhle, star pitcher of the Cleve-| land club of the American league, is| also a great batsman. This is rather the exception, as pitchers seldom shine as hitters. | Thruout tho season Uhie has been | well above the .300 mark and has been instrumental tn winning many a game by his hitting coupled with fine| pitching. “There isn’t any reason why pitch- ers shouldn't be able to bat well just as any other player, It's baseball tradition that pitchers are not sup- posed to hit and most pitchers take it for granted. “Since they accept the tradition that pitchers are not supposed to hit, most Of them pay little or no atten- tion to their batting. If they paid no more attention to thelr pitching they would soon lose thelr effective- ness on the rubber. “I take as much pride in my bat- ting a» I do in my pitching. I have my batting practice regularly and I like to take a healthy cut at every | ball that looks good. As a result, 1} have been very successful as a bats- man. ‘My cane, however, Is not at all unusual, Every pitcher, If he gave as much time and attention to his batting as his pitching, would get correspondingly good results.” GIANTS HAVE IT EASY FOR FINAL DAYS Net YORK, Sept. 27.—After an exhibition game today in Bal- timore, the New York Giants will return home to resume the battle! for the two victories they need to/ cinch the National league pennant. Starting Friday, the Giants have} three games, but they will be Idle) Monday and Tuesday. Permission) has been granted by the Yankee owners to allow the Giants to prac tice in the new Yankeo stadium} while the American league cham- pions are doing three exhibition games in Baltimore. The Cinoinnati place four games Gianta, will be idle until Saturday, St Louly Cas” York. after the opener is finished.| Navy last year, will be met ssippi. n. the showing of the indi-| viduals Saturday. The probable Une-up for the first eleven is Capt. Wayne Fall, right end; Ed} Kuhn, right tackle n Bellman, right guard; Chalmer itera, o¢ | ter; Hans Jac lett guard; “Tubby” Britt, lett tackle; Ken Du Bola, end; Les Sherman, quarter back; George Wilson, r halt; Leonard Zell, left half; Elmer Tes reau, fullback The probable Itneup for the second eleven ts: Roy Sievers, left snd; Amos Chris- tle, left tackle; Abe W guard; Haggerty, center; Jac right guard; Bagwell, right Freddy Woestrom, right end; C Smith, quarterback; Ray Hil half; Bill Beck, right half; Abel, fullback, Others who undoubtedly will be! feen in action are Petrie and Cole,) Fred THE Jennings Deplores Lacking of Bunting 1 Dean Says That Willie Keeler| Would Hit Between’.400 and .500 With a Lively) Big League Basebal | Ball EW YORK, Sept, 26. assistant to John McGraw of “The lively ball and the style of pitching now in vogue {s| made to order for a good bunter,” continues Jennings, “but| alas and alack, good bunters are a rarity these days. Phe lively ball has caused all third basemen to play much deeper than they did 10 years ago. course, the great danger in playing in too close with the lively ball. “That is the first big advantage that a good bunter has gent : X | these days. The deep position of most third basemen makes for the 1928 gridiron season will be seen in action for the} it well nigh impossible for them to come in and handle a Saturday afternoon in the Stadium, when two varsity elevens tangle with} well-placed bunt. Miss The first game, with the Mississippi team, will start at 1:30 o'clock, while the second | ¢«77 Wn second big advantage ta tho) bunted never travels an far as the is now|fast ball bunted in the same man. style of pitching that boing affected by most major longue pitchers. The fast ball is now more or less a threat ly ball, makes for many home runs. fhe slow ball fs made to order for the good bunter because it en ables him to place the ball better Incidentally a slow ball would instead of swinging their heads off at every try bunting higher averages.” Bince discussing this phase of bat- tleulay attention to the used by the speed merchants of the American league. My observations have borne out wha Jennings has +} said on the subject. ‘There are few good bunters tn the | majors today compared with 1 years ago. At one time bunting came tn for as much attention tn batting practice as trying to bit the SEATTLE STAR esc dtneee | f Willie Keeler was living and playing ball these days in either the National or Amer-| | {ean league he wouldn't have any trouble piling up a batting average between .400 and .500,” remarks Hughey Jennings, | the Giants, the live: | playing today, It would be « tough |pires, they are seldom able to|— when he failed to beat day for hin out a cous cloned in on hi las easy a ma properly | the ball over their heads, | 467 F some of the fast men of today }danl hard, When players practice | bunting now, waste-the ime” © doubt th | ball pitched, they would boast much |fice ts no longer widely used, be- | unfit for play. caune manage’ getting of one run a good system ively ball, has had much ting with Jennings I have pald par ito do with the falling off In bunting | inethods | regardiess of the reason, bunting | ter seems to be the cause of more with the like base run background. It seams to nings han offe logic to the #p majors. resorting to t taking @ he. There is a reason, of “Wille Keeler Few | third packers in either major league according to Coach Bag-| pitchers use tt to any great extent |standing on their heads if he was |shaw, and a lot depends on/|becune the fast one, p) It peers it would be much | some defect which was responsible! oy years ago it was about one-sixth winer for them to mix ‘em up by |for his fallure to knock the ball out PAGE 17 Ray Eckmann, One of Washington’s Greatest, to Write for The Star AY ECKMANN, one of the greatest football warriors who ever took the field in a Washington uniform, will write a special series of football stories for The Star, beginning in Monday’s issue, Eckmann, altho weighing only 150 pounds, was one of the finest halfbacks who ever played for the Purple and Gold, and one of the brainiest. His review of the Coast football situation should be of interest to every lover of the great college game. In Monday’s Star! Watch for it! Baseballs Cost M ajors $40,000 Each for Run of One Year’s Play EW YOKK, Sept. 27—Expenses for baseballs have suddenly become a big worry for major league magnates. They will amount close to $80,000 merely to supply base- balls for the season of 1928 in both major leagues, The fact that in a recent game at St. Louis 68 balls were used in a game pitched by Dave Danforth against the New York club was a startling bit of news as to the number of balls often needed to complete a ball game. No doubt the fact that Danforth’s pitching was under suspicion was the cause of 80 many new balls being used in the game that he worked. Danforth is said to have requested that 12 balls be put out of play because of some defect, : ery major league game is started with three dozen new balls. According to the um- SERIES __ |DEMPSEY TO more new balls are used in PLANNED AGAIN} ARRIVE IN every big league contest. New Orleans and Fort Worth will L. A. TODAY Of this number, perhaps one third | meet next week in the annual Dixie) | J 08 ANGELES, Sept 27-—Jacke ee would have the| |finish a game with that num- | DIXIE And if the infielder’ ber, Which means that 86 or im, it would be almost tter for him to drop are confiscated by the fans, when 4) heries between the representatives of foul ball ia batted into the stands.lthe southern and Texas leagues. |\LU Dempsey dogine his period Of * manner, The concrete stands are also the} \hhibernation here. tSAkg: @hiiaaan @ fact that the eacri-| cause of many balla being endered| ’.. itor tongue games has reached|hops off transcontinental tral Contact with the acveciin Hehe Ks alat 240 p.m He intends to spend — re‘ 40 not regard the |etand otten ‘eo! soughens the ball|® Mssserins figure,” remarks &) eb S40 PF winter ot his Los Angeles see tinue ita| Prominent Eastern club owner of the | the that it Is dangereus con u aticmal' lemmas, or wenity penta aad (Ratan! une. | 4 _| my ball bill for the season ran from| Au the champion will have to do However, the ever-uspicious bate} 9750 4, 81 099, Last season tt wa | poe a: “While Is Getee romething ike $6,000 and this year ers who want to know when he is It looks as if it might reach $8,000. going to get married and he may “The baseball bill of expense for) possibly take @ fling at the 1923 will run close to $40,000 In each| No contracts with any producers — | major lengus. I venture to say tnat| have betd sigted eo tam un Jering with the studio bosses for # the National| jarge salary for Jack and a minor part in the picture for himself, tle they do it in a “why-| in the balla being thrown out than from) ary other source, If a batter misses me that Hughey Jen-|a swing, and particularly when he red some mighty ood | strikes out, he immediately requests peed merchants of the |tiet the umpire look at the ball for ning, i now of that amount tn league.” he bunt rather than | of hy out at every ball. | lot. ¢ comt of supplying baseballs ends; Crosser and = Etherin. a tackles; Bryan and Marsh, guards;| Burson, center, and Guttormsen, Orr and Beckett, backs. FATHER RYAN PLAYS FOLEY pm IN TOURNEY, MONTE, Cal, B6ept. C. BE. Foley and Father Ryan, | whose performances yesterday fur nished two of the surprises of the California amateur golf champion ships being played here, were paired today In a match on which atten. tion was centered. Foley eliminated Wiflte unter, favorite, 4 and 3, at the end of the day's play, whi! Father Ryan had defeated Sam Conlan, rated as a poesible winner, 4 and 2 Jack Neville, Harlow Hurtey, ¥. M. EXidy, Claude Edwards, G. 1. Mullin, J. J. McHugh, Rudy Wit helm, Clare Griswold, Fred Wright, Guy Standifer, F. D. Tatum, W. W. Campbell, George Ritchie and Dr.| J. H. Stineman were survivers of | yesterday's round. LUIS FIRPO APPEARS IN EXHIBITION ‘ONTREAL, Que., Sept. 27.—He- | fore a crowd of 4,000, Luis Angel Firpo, South American heavy: weight, opened an exhibition tour) here last night with a fourround| sparring match. The South Anrertcan giant showed such poor form that the spectators left wondering how he had been| able to stay one round with Jack Dempsey if he had fought the same | way against the champion. Firpo went two rounds with Nat- flo Parra, one of his sparring part. ners, but they produced very little action. The second number was two rounds with Elzar Rioux, Can- adian lumberman, who outmauled the Argentinian all thra the two rounds, EVERETT TO HAVE FIRST GRID GAME 'VERETT, the city famed for its high school football teams, will get first taste of Its favored sport Saturday afternoon, when Coach Earl Clark's 1923 leven tangles with an alumni organization. Tho alumni team will not be fully represented by the football gradu- ates at Everett, as most of the ex-| stars are now cavorting on the gridiron for thelr former coach, Enoch Bagshaw, at the university here. “Mickey” Michel is leading tho alumni. Coach Clark will pick his high school lineup from Shuh, Fields and Sievers, ends; Wilson and Mounger, tackles; Gove and Murphy, guards; Captain Lauzon and Johnson, cen- ters; Krause, Solle, Linden and Pol- lock, backs. Golf Body Bars Punched Clubs NEW YORK, Sept. 27-—Slot- ted and punched clubs will be officially barred in all Amert- can competitions after next January 1, according to a decl- sion reached by the United States Golf ansoclation. Stamped lines may be uned on clubs if they do not exceed one sixteenth of an inch In width and are not les sthan three thir ty-seconds of an inch apart. The decision of the associa tion is interesting in that it is a surrender to the British golf authorities, who barred such Olympiad 12 | 1 Support Is Very Poor BY HENRY L. FARRELL cW YORK, Sept. 27-—Response to the appeal for funds to f nance the American Otymplo team has been so poor that the commit too frankly admitted today they might be unable to go thru with all the plans made for the team Uniew more tnterest fe shown by the public in contributing to the fund needed to send a team to Parts next year, the number of Athletes will have to be and other retrenchments made The committee needa $200,000 to send @ representative team to Paris and maintain it there in first clase style as the committee feels the United States deserves, ‘The funds at hand are nowhere near that amount. Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen, for mer commanding officer of the American army of ocoupation and vice president of the American Olympic committes, has sent an ap- peal for help to the mayors of many cities in the United Btater. Contributions at the rate of $10 per thousand population or one cent per person are asked of every city in the country. If the larger cities will take an Interest In the drive for funds the committee has no doubt that it will not have to use the knife on the plans made for the team, While the big features of tho game, as far aa American part cl- pation ts concerned, are not to be contested for almost a year, tho first contingent of the team will lhuve to be sent early in January in the French Alps, | to Chamonix, where the winter sports are to be hel. From that tims on amall bands of American athletes will have to be sent regularly until the big squad leaves for the track and field games in mid-summer Arrangements have eben com: pleted for tho transportation of the teams on the U. and quarters have been secured for the team in suburbs of Paris, The committes went ahead with oll plans, assuming that the support of the public could be counted upon and it still feels that the funds will be contributed when ft ts re. alized that money is needed at once, With @ punch in the 10th inning, Mm ‘Tigers scored five rune mnd beat’ the Yanks, § to % tn thelr last game of tho season, Johnny Morrison dropped the Phils with one Ittle hit, and the Pirates won, 6 to 0, ‘The Cleveland Indians earned an even prank In the series with the Athletics by winning @ doubgle-heador at 6-3 and 4-2, Dasty Vance was knocked out of the box, and the Cards won from the Robina, Tb Dixie Davis tet the Red Sox down with four hits, and he walked five and hit ons, and the Browns lost, 8 to a, Ruel’s single In the atzth inning érove in fice with the run that «ave tho Sonators w 1-to-0 victory over the White Sox. Walter Johnson got tho shutout, CHANGES ARE EXPECTED IN BALL BOSSES 1B Southern league may have four new pilots next srason. It Is reported Bert Nethoff will go from Mobile to Memphis, that Carl Mitze will succeed Otto Miller at Atlanta, that Rollie Zelder will manage Mobile and Johnny Dobbs, now managing Memphis, will go to Chattanooga. Larry Gilbert, New Orlea: Jimmy Hamilton, Nash- ville; tufty” Stewart, Birming- clubs more than @ year ago. ham “Kid" Biberfeld, Little Rook, will stlok, reatrictod | 8. 8. America | | | Above, |Prince |Rajbar Avdalas, “Master | Mystic of the Orient,” Who Audiences This Week With His Display of Occult Power ry ha) arearaepesrcinemiene mR si muscRTER ss 4 pT cc A BIG FREE SHOW! 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