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PAGE SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 FANNING |BILL ESSICK EXPECTS TO SELL JAKE MAY Ths YEAR | | SEYMOUR'S 80-YARD RUN FEATURES BALLARD’S VICTORY” Sear rare, (reat Southpaw Should (0uR BOARDING HOUSE BY AHERN) Beavers Rout Broadway WW YORK, Sept. 20.—with ¢ Y : Be, tens owe we | Bring Good Bit of Coin ———_-7- - —————s Ruth, no athlete in America has OOF | we SAY HAW -HAW ~ SIT on } HOLD 'kKT POSE BUS, f aie lt a Soa z ane ean t “H’ ¥ Become as proficient and as 1 May Could Have Been Sold Last Year, but New York : ~ OUT OF HDA, COWBON \ iM po ea: ie KN ‘ae } 1 MH his line as bas Bill Tien, (he) Yanks Couldn’t Deliver Players Wanted; Other HELP ME OUT OF | 2 DON'T LET'M MAIO Hs Wie | @nnis champion. & ‘B THIS~ IM STUCK “THROW Youle TH’ COMBINATION FoR 98 . ossip of Baseball t tl an ad conside 5 As one * th 7 c'Moil = Dor Matieiene GETNNG OUT OF THATS players o! all time, hd > oer U - a MET cacncd. the penitive siatel BAD BRITT een, He LASSEN E a: | tl STAND “THERE REMEMBER “To FiLL |~ CANAL GOAT? @ J is di py iAR BILL ESSICK, the leader of the Vernon Ti- ; Pi a \T GOES INTO DRY | eae, weezon. a speagee gers, is gene that Jakie May, his great southpaw,| % UKE A cou LA Your HIP POCKETS * DOCK WHEN You Beers year he did will be sold to some big league team before 1924. BARREL HEADS+ WITH CUP GREASE TEAM BACK fe } Showing exactly how Was over all other p fay didn’t start so well this spring, but he has been HELP ME So You CAN etd | pitching great ball most of the season,” declares Essick, \s TRAIGHTEN SLIDE OUT OF Raa, ‘world. | “and if you had had a stronger team behind him he would ] proud ag gaa oP have had another record-breaking season like he did in 1922, Diths and a st rssygenae fay is 25 years old and is ripe right now for big league Player in all s history of the} duty, If the majors and the Coast league have a working game. Perhaps his skill will never} agreement again we will hold out for players, and if they he equaled, and certainly it can| don’t we will sell him and use the money in buying men died ohypwey {this Eame/ from the lower circuits. : The eknas “We would have sold him last year, but the New York «| Americans couldn’t send us the men that we wanted y ‘ “He has everything, this fellow May, and there’s no r Rell cae 's so good) son why he should be sold. There are several clul Mctsty chocess to « him, but I can’t divulge their names at this time, That’s quite a speech for William Essick. Np fe Sauce | Co HET -TRAD ee the specialty of his oppo eat them at their own ¢ Up until this Van Buren Is Here mever had demonstrated how vastly | cg pee te Of & bas scout these, Van wh Re outclassed every star in the | hese ie 10 46) around the| field f t Meld. Hig skill never had been ex-| Wountry—it’s hard work « 28 Hiibited at its maximum because} Koccon Van B iors ' he preferred to up and sive} punter, sp t his opponents a c instead of nearly every minor ne f Acramy Pewarming over them and annihilat-| 19, pe for Tigers | Vean Gregg bad his great year at, them with the power of|this year an and | Portland. | sk wan a wonder In thone he best in the gam his game. | with scout Tn the recent national champion-| 4A teams ft Clas ‘om a flock om the majors Ships Tilden apparently got the no- some,” declares | Stion to show how wonderful a play ‘Gr a wonderful | @r he was. Ho made Manual Alonso in shape and always ball needs more | ethe first victim of his demonstra Ptfon by taking a straight set from im and allowing him only two (games. Alonso is one of the finest| Tplayers in the world and earlier in the Season, when he had been tour- | | Pig with Tilden, he had beaten the “champion once. | ‘The real demonstration of Ti Power, however, came in the Wound when he completely [Whelmed Billy Johnston, th fornia star, and won from bh Wetraight sets. Johnston, re cant Vernon la cying| Cig 2 Tuster Gers TRAPPED a7 rey “THE MAJORS: PET CHAIR = we're on the sub the Texas league, tell the Se derful get by during the & aprink! ams iv ca year for Dal thes of French Hurt Tigers | Thru Press Box Screen (@THERE aren't any excuses for) he w Ray Roby ifislder iw te the third Com . the old € f him tm th yut made a mistake In not ful hustler | moved out, and when Ma: King | leeeus “1 haven't talked to Charley Deal| was given the club he didn’t get} pace next year, but if the third-|along with Marty any too well | Terre fs no doubt now that Tu. |Sacker wants to play ball he'll take| For that matter, Krug isn’t ge den is the greatest player in the | re of d for us. I Ment that he had no more ¢ B & novice schoolboy. the five foninge be @ pretty good curve nee r chin, at the Rainier V day, when T Vean 6 1 atrikewat wet merks fanning seven Tigers in seven {onings chard yent |hirelings played r winning U about Warner, the Tiger third sacker, made the beat al can still} along with a tot of the boys, Nohwer certainly had = rotten day ow ball lY oungsters woe, Lake Daily pas being close to Tilden in a s this year," says Bill Essick, He suspends rye tly diem ileeple singting in the nint | because he had a came Sh gyre ke up our ball elub, French | his heart set on managtr » 108 | nai mes ' | zi bf : kept him trying when it was evi-| ¥®% ® ood shortstop and a wor Angeles team when Red Killefer | legitimate king of tong cleutir AOR ope ere OF _ BY yet K'S Vernon Yannig k or 4 Killefer's ss around them inee by a 10-3 score ns vious dope Tigers by 17 to6 Score Great Dash of Halfback Is Bright Light of Game; Broadway Defense Is Good, but Offensive Is Slow and Clumsy REAKING thru the Broadway defense in the second quarter on an off-tackle Russell Seymour, Bal- lard halfback, ran 80 yards for a touc hdov n that turned the game into a Ballard victory eymour’s run is one of the longest in the history of prep football from a scrimmage play. ‘ ; Broadw opened strong, king down the field in the first quarter to Ballard’s line, where the I ers held for downs. Kicking behind his own goal line, Capt. Deckman hit the goal posts and the ball bounced behind his line. Afte ‘a a wild esr a Broadway forward fell on the leather for the first touchdown of the high school season, Try for point was mi se when tee = bot missed a dropkick. That was all of the scoring in the [ Prep Chatter | SSC RY Boh EAE first period. : ’ ‘ Vroadway's offensive Friday was noth- ' ; t Guy Metster, right : 5 Prete ‘ Frane played most of the gama a sore Jigiment he big St, Martin's tackle, ys and girls b , Speaking of kicking, Deckman's work kicking off for Ballard was very weak, his team at @ great disade 1 the tries | showed plenty of Ballard's offensive looked better than the backs working bet- it has for yea: | Sullivan, the | ter rogether tried several split in the line, }t plays. ow in working | a few more games the work an did Gr was the only Broad yok well on the offensiv The Ballard team looke } more finished team with Deckman ys should show improvement, yer to 23 Bob Morris refereed the game in fine like a je. He's fast beco of the tala in the 3 as fullback being the shining WEN) joi grandstands at Denny fleld were | Wells directed his club well at Quar:| pretty weil & ‘ ad “Jambo” Greathouse, Broadway's stel- all wea | ty the Gar elt-West rd's 440-yard dash star, * and girle plenty of Beaver backfield. He's gets away. m san shown that | Ross Sermoar, who copped all of th a0 oon |*Potiight with hie great 40-yard run, is to. choc « hesween etting to jte the boy at Ballard. nd Roosevelt, a both | jre's a crack basketball guard and also wh quent It |m good baseball outfielder. West ma are unkn is known that Roosevelt has the| 2.14 tines were offside quite = bit and more powerful backfield, but a light |nolaing penalties. too, were frequent. Diny good be no wants to. He'll|ing to the tal eo rounds, | Friday with a walk, two hom 9 offsets this advantage, theor - = EraHA there is no reason to be-| DAY S00d ball It he wants to. He'll ling to the talk going the rounds | fiitey with a walk, two, Nomery A /he ft | During tho slaughter, which, inck | ine offsets this advantag | he ends on both teams covered pants Hist be will not continue hic | Rel. We certainly need a lot of |Several of his athletes are long in| ny in the slath. dentally, is the third straight win for |!oally. | : sine, an [Tat and nether Talbot nor Wells could Abulpess nS | ven.’* the game and they resent some o — " term againat the visttors,| The Indians have a heavy line, 5 | sec away much. for several years. He !s big. | Hitly Lane also did hie stuff with the] Writlis, ineldentally, didn't look se wert | {2% homesters again well as m heavy backfield, and look Regarding Deat's case, the former | Krug’s tactics, no they say. As KrUK | stick with four blows tn thy ‘while not overly rugged, he has | attempts, | at the plete, tanning jthe opposition during h Bmore ability to come back quick-| ¢¢7yORTLAND faces a nice situa-; “There's no question but w than any fighter in the ring. | P Jdieton | Kenworthy, with money in the club, Minute rest between rounds | a will manage his team next season 48 much for him as 10 minutes |doing so well and with Bill Ken-| sn it’ out of reason to think that] tion with Jimmy Lorenz, business manager of the TI. . After the hardest three} othing definite has been heard gers. Tilden can get a shower and hed and invigorated in 10 min-|ton is to give him his unconditional | prised to see him handle another club | ~ Liki release at the end of the year in ap-|in thin league next year. He showed ¢ all masters, Tilden has made | preciation for what he has done. (that he has the stuff.” Study of his game. In this re- SDANCE records for ear: will play every Saturday from today season practice games were ex-|untll December 1 pected to be shattered this afternoon] The Huskies tackle Willamette} | here next Saturday, Whitman the fol stop the hit-thirsty Reds! for his weakness and, once| Uan and Tiner, football teams were to tangle with| came, that with Elmer Henderson's red, he works entirely to} (\LD POP TIME, tho youngster] While ea fate Lia Phe gu «| See Fercaccke ces ion ‘ TOE: An ew weano ne en’t pa fe ele: sity Bou orn ome that weakness. Dempsey, that gets us all, ts playing few seam ie : aie ei noel levens from the 8, 5. Missis. | Un! ver ity ol uthern California) ey ye Ee Ge training for a fight, does not he of players in this [226 that dough for fe ho have | snot and the U. 8. 8. New York. | °r#ck eleven. der, cscs 4 1 ® %b 160K godd before the crowd. | "8c With Se le of players Sl been up ones. May, the youngest of | Neal Washiiteton Por, Mississippt . ef kere Itaturally, while he is doing | Ray Kremer, “Merlin Kopp, Paut|chance of bringing a big pric SCuARIAESAR See ‘tlavon and. the| ee der AG 18) he does not look s 4 Strand, Elmer Jacobs, Wally Hood,| Strand, too, may bring a wad of | WAshinste oe eg °| Hagerty Warner, ab ae beet : ae ljakie May and George Lyons, some | dough. Minsissippl aggregation. Tho second | rie "Ragsdale | lade. a 6 0 8 aa |Jakie Ma = om ms d ‘ x ffair, & iow immediate te Bhd Christin see (OHNSTON'S rout in the finallof the boya mentioned for trips to| Any one of these men could help |©' 0 at a egal se abel Be Frank | tiner, pes Pia Wound o£ the national cham. |the big show, have all been up there| big league clubs, but they won't) Wards, will see the Washington Var.) wWestrom béfoune| mt ce puships, when he was over.|before. And several of them are now | bring the price they would if they | sity and the New York tangle. | Beck . « Avmetrong | 8h H. [7 qwhelmed by Tilden, is taken to mean | around the 30-year-mark in age. were all five years younger. The New York team holds the| Hill Teachout eae. ie ; erated cites i i ah —— —J|championship of the Navy, and|Smith .. Bernharm ait os es ot the ts cs ie pass. ! ip should offer Varsity gridders plenty | Abel ... Sika aeiah g ul. : T cat pecans . | Cub Pilot of difficulty. It will be a hard test] Washington . . 2 Most breed mahal meen Diamond Dust | for Bagshaw's first string men DuBois ....+ Crawford Mee ag Ptanute. oa v | x feal qualifications to Raoias & cae | ° The opening game, between the) | Christie * +++ Finley ni 2d almost as great as Tilden. Frail| “Irish” Meuse knocked in two rune Has Praise second Varsity and the Mississipp! ho “WwW bacasieae a aan Ss PUREE | 2 with a single and stole home, supplyin was to be a trinlhorse for the! sided AWE | Witt, rf i a ey eeel, Johnson made the most | ii ine runs with which the Giants best Gera, “ee are eleernl men ce |e nilth | tasiey: Be sesceeer RE wS *® Kahn nd cinched the Na- c or ate er «: sity timber on that aggregation, | 111) and should they show up well a | Halt of his physical handicap, and | the Robins, 3 to 9. any other day but Tilden’s he | tional league penn: + Simeona | ~i Berrier |, Totals 39 10 mould have been the world’s out-| win 40 nite for 44 bases and 11 rune} 117100 + 2—BNt Kitlerer,|the sobs, thelr chances for moving| Ze! « «+ Struckus | vernon 100 ‘Standing player, as he was before |sq one inning, the Yanks made a record G CAGO, Sept. 2 * | apewill: be, good Wilson Chamberlain | 114 112 «Big Bill reached the top of his|in beating (oe Red Sox 24 to 4 Ruth|\Y clover manager of the Chicago peer , ‘é ou | Tesreau Norton | Seat t) ‘ n hom 0 on open the most stren Hite game, hit his asth homer, Cubs, and famous as the battery mend eese Biche porated $32 Durgin | tne pitohed —Chriat ae | tous football season that a Univer! Ofticiale—Hob Morrin and. Walter | cuit soy te Gren, Cha Johnston may have been over- ses this jecaon. He a La (Oy, tame it ie sth heme tad | partner of the great Grover Cleve-| sity of Washington team has ever| =) early by going to Wimbledon and | fore the Braves 11 to Winning the British championship Bell alternating as refi land Alexander, announces that as a|had to face. The Washington team| pire, Neil Ellis, head lineaman, bout thru. While able eo and um- | Christian, At bat—Christian | a. Runa responsible for— tian §, Tiner 2. Struck ¢ player he { | form was shown when he was de-| Detrolt Tigers closed in more on see | 1.6 backstopping to the youngsters Bill Johnston starts to tly off in al MMARTINSON IS match and get wild, there is some- | thing well, and better yet, his work] goods of all kinds this fall, hun-|% @n excellent sign, eS © thing wrong with him, because he] LOSER OF BOUT |improves with every game. He has|dredy of Washington hunters aro] Here are a few localities, ac PACIFIC COAST LEA always one of the steadiest| p, come along in such fino style that I ; > preparations| sible to Seattle gunners, where Won was y a PORTLAND, Sept. 29—Joe Mar- aloi y’ making last minute preparations ed Pee wen ‘Players in the world. tinson of Cle Elum, heavyweight, |am no longer worried over the catch: | for the opening of the annual shoot. Hustas Is conceded to be primo] fer tnento tae ae ae gave up after standing two rounds|ing on my club, In @ year or #0|ing season starting Monday morn.|'MS season mortiand 96 tter business conditions,|, UPland Birds — Hunting centered | seattle 88 F Johnston's slip is really perma-| before George Lampson of Omaha! O'Farrell will be the most talked] ing, By tcher in the National league} and generally unchanged pri equipment are given as the r 87 86 82 in King county, covering Enumelaw | Loe Angeles » » a for Us amela | Balt Lake City . Portland | #bout ¢ pubic uroutasiver Wauley: With | Oana sion from | circuit nent, the 1923 season will have} here Jast night. Chic Roc brought about the passage of twol featherweight, won the d ons D Gt America’x greatest players, be-|siily Young of Vancouver, B, C, in| Bobby Wallace, now scouting for] tor thin Increased interest, thruut|POtN east and west slopes; Snoqual- | vernon Ab ¢ause Mrs. Molla Mallory, for years | the semi-windup. the Cubs, In his day one of the|the Northwest, sald Karl Fry of|™@ valley district and Cherry vale] oo. 6 vernon 3 " the ranking star of woman's tennis ps ———__—— srpataat agg bt that le wore By Piper & Taft's sporting goods store. i ¥ hha King bri fare Skagit, | portiand 7, Oakland 0. Ba crtty, esams|to be started big league uniform, is Just as op’ Aa tae ‘iia Re h the vicinity of Mount Vernon;| Lox Angeles { peounte JACK RENAULT mistie about O'Farrell, renin s bat eaves ahha ie Snohomish around Lake Steyens,} Salt Lake 13, down Arlington and Stanwood; Pierce Monday, Oete Fi vild fr 3 ao ay ; i i on wild! county around Puyallup and Sumher NATIONAL LEAGU wi, and scores of acattergun en-| valleys; ‘Thurston county hear Won thusiasts are already motoring tol ¢ 4 Grande Mound their favorite rendezvous, For the 4 Beaten in the final round of the “He's a great catcher right now, Mila, just as decisively as John: AURORA, IIL, Sept. 29.—Jack Ren-| Wallace, ‘But then how could a fel- sion was downed by Tilden, {t|ault, French-Canadian heavyweight, | low with the namo O'Farrell fall to nd Lewis county, | Se™, Tore» ed obvious that Mrs. Mallory | knocked out Joo Downey of Colum- | deliver.” Mecca e altods ; Whatcomb county will not open un | pittsburgh |: a8 Do never would be able to win the|bus in the third round of a sched- Baatety nite tar ea btn a til November 1, Chicago. a) “championship again, but she has| Wed 10-round bout here last night. | GATT LAKE IS ove a ah Lap dpe ha bt Deor—Hor these trophies of the | He huis +a ] ¢ ry declares. Long be , t Bipped even beyond that hunt moat locul rifle shots will) moston on distance tolephone messages from} head for Hood'a ry, | Philadelphia. a i ite sae Sate omer [BEAVERS WIN 13-2 VICTOR Jorn strc, mame warden i Mason ernie the eantee Neg i 8 a SAN FRANCISCO, Salt| Skagit county, indicated Friday} yejts Stalin +1 Chicago 2, Pitted Brief to her admirers, for it seemed] PORTLAND, Sept. 20.—Rube Yar-|to the league-leading Son Franciscolon the flatw and will bo available counties are all reported good, There} Boston 11, Philadelphia | apparent that she had really slipped) rison shut out Oakland here yester-| club here yesterday. for “first day” gunning ui rh ler eer Mee Bi A aa ae . Juan this season during a elo for good. y, 74 ‘The score: H. B.! The 4, .) 3 i aie ee Fi. SRS ORT ¢ ri ta rh a a a e After Monday's bombardment, | replanting season, AMERICAN LEAGU ; BOSTON BRAVES [Portiana Re, ORAM Re | aa Psu phe rreecsGiT 20} | Wentern Washington duck hunting} Bear m Observers roport| New York ps4 jatterien —- Krause, Hobson and| Batterlen— McCabe and: Jonking;| Vit, CePend to a great extent, on) many Jarge black beara to bo found | Cleveland weather conditions, "If there {s|in Snohomivh and Skagit countion | Petrelt duck weather and a big blow of] this year and generally wherever | wants GET COLLEGIAN | :i: The Boston Braves have pur: : mitinhenertons| Sind’ the Aucke WAI ate RAMI Eeeee ne ban, 3 Washington Ganed Hunter Lane, vniversty o¢| ANGELS BEST |toray,s to the wore: m. 1, #,[uqnin” the. Minting nd tuhigg |e Tennessee star, from the Knoxville Sac to. a 19 mntor belloves, ARENT feam, of the Appalachian league SACRAMENTO Lon Anigelon ‘i a) 1? 0 at eae ducks have al- OPPORTUNITY Detroit 17, Clovetand a Lane played third base and in tho LOS. ANGELS, Sept. Los Batteries — Hughes, Penner and|ready been sighted in addition to New York 24, Boston 4 outfield for Knoxville, Angeles won from Sacramento yes: Cook; Douglass and Baldwin, tho mallards, and a few teal includ. Star W ant Ad BT ea te ec ates ily Kamen. sohedited, on and Daly. Shea, Buckley and Yelle. Philadelphin Boston 10. Hite batted--Oft Christian §, ecm 1, Ch t—Grerg Basos on his ether tea} Ray Rohwer, who pastimes in left; “place ta |fiett-for the Indiana, took a couple | Well on paper. ladder by | in and a few kins, PO. A Cor enun ws ouomnonosun seo Hit lmoscorcense>s! hillock toy . with | tay of |® hard one to pick, as the Bulldogs seven innings when he gave way to| have lost the services of their star BALL PARK S Iot Willard Lasiey have a try-out, stamina and the fortunate | 10" Anacies third-sacker refused to} has already signed for next year out adeusre ord & tripe being tnofuded, ties up ite took reds ph on ate | eport to Vernon when L. A. traded | can look for a lot of changes In the 3 right feild, ’ jot hops up the homerun ee rence auickly- hin for Red Smith. He claimed that | Angel roster for next season. Vean Greex also added three hits to zi de ee ee ore ter Gaae thie KE (filden, in this respect, is very |" 3 ig : his total, ene a doable | 8H Ore wna still wt third base, Ted eee ee eee ot bi or Geh ke Jack Dempsey, the world % F ~ | maidwin being out with a bad back. field wall. That's 35 of him. pion heavywelkht.. Dempsey} The Situation at Portland pet kid piteher, fin. | Long Vean Gregg took t watts Saevenen tat = ate for our side and he Just hat a grand and glorious time they ct he is also like Dempsey. He Pop Time Steps aS | when two University of Washington | jwwing week, and then the first big| M4 at the expense of Pitchers Chris. ofeat to] 18, Grege Gregg pri tian, Rader GU Lost 70 79 86 a8 7 100 108 Eg Lot 65 6 Lont 50 r 60 0 4 7 Ko 48 the Cub ‘ ahd hs trained hard for the Davie |, Gtmes bit © homer and gave the Cues still do a good job of catching, 7. . Chrlatian & einer b Lasley. 2 Peer ee pees ere Eee | balie—Chriatlan 1, Lasley 1 cup matches in which his slipping Killefer {s now content to pass up| or wes un ing l pitched balis-—Tobin by Chris |by Lasley. Home rune—Rohwer 2. Three ace when they beat the Cleveland base hit—Rohwer. Two-base hits—High, D) featea by James O. Anderson, the |on4 place when “ {on his club, confident they are able ° Lane, ‘Mearkle; Grane, Warner, rege | Australian captain. The Browns beat the White Sox, 8] to deliver pen on ay ON TALTAG | s2:sic0 vie aitenple, ‘Moaricio. nos | | The game of the little Californian |to 2. “T regard my first string catcher, | batted ogee rete, Crane. Oth t, ‘neems to have blown also, and when OFarrelt, ax the bent <ntcher ta tho] \VAJITH dealers reporting record) ed in the local birds, ‘This arrival | Hobwers ts Greet ta0h oe wean ta fonal league. He van do every- sales on guns and sporting|Of the Northern ducks {# heralded) Umpires—Byron and Ward. Y Pot 458 448 at a7 " Neither team completed = f Howover, the game | 20 naliard intercepting two” Ballard, will decide which hag the better !By tne way, didn't tre any open work. team, and little guesswork may — be done. Deckman tried » 40-yard dropkick that it) ell eho! b e 1; ih ‘The Garfield-Franklin — contest, | Sus snort by ® few feet suriy’tn tne | which was to be staged first, also is a. ker, Chuck Carroll. has just recovered from un oper d@ do for another fighter. ‘Til-| worthy coming back,” says Howard | stiadieton would go back to the ranks Wi hi te e M t The old ball game was placed In = has the same powers of recup-| ty on a Rose City club as ing on Gri en 0 the fcebox in the first inning when|tion ane Franklin team i Nght FOR FIGHTS ; doubles by Lane, Mearkle and Crane, | . ’ “ i ddletot « th any by Eldred, Orr and Gregg, a} " a The only thing they can do and|about Middleton dickering wi Op S H 7 f| d jonny White boys from Garfield may cop} s that, Fubdown and come back perfectly | sti) do the right thing for Middle-|other team, but I wouldn't be sur- en eason e e 0 a base on balls to Rohwer, ithe bacon, anyway. help himself, he will never agat wild pitches, accounted for five tal-| “roadway — 2 Bailar4— | stage a fight in a ball park. jen. After that there was nothing to | ney and | Peat nd green, tho, and the Purple and} Rickard states that, if he can + Brateet| The statement was made when FeneAn complaints were registered by those Wikersén [attending the Dempsey-Firpo fight + Nichols | that they couldn't see the men in the pibrame ring, because the reserved seats were Wells| not placed on an incline, and when Seymour |the fighters began knocking each + Indridson | other down everybody stood up and Ibstitations: ” BatiardBendele for {those in front shut off the view of gtmoler, Hinxman for Peterson those in the rear. raphe Fo agaghe es Ld oe tote Many of those in the reserved big louse, Henry | fo ead. | id not see more than the start of the sme for Pavers, Peters for Crum | tight and had to be told that Demp- Boyle. Head linesman, i won. Bankhead T know all about that,” says Rick« ard, “and I know that a ball park is ARGENTINES "Saft T could get assuranoes that na THROW ROCKS ([eeici Sonia butt an arene i New York proper. AT JOURNAL “T can’t do it now, tho, under pres wt | ent conditions, because the possibils WS has been received in New |ity of competition would not make York that the offices of La/the outlay of money a safe investe ‘acion, the most widely read paper | ment lin Argentine, was stoned a day or - ee so/after the Dempsey-Firpo fight. | When the news of Firpo's detat| DWYER LOSES was flashed, it seems, the crowds TO WILLING read | bulletins of the fight cane wae aa Mhaasied: NEW YORK, Sept, 20.—Hugh me : nea a {DWYer, Australian lightweight chams _praater La Nacion | published | pion, lost a 10-round decision to Joo aoe em sey cn in the ring, | Welling here last night, Babe Hers qualified for foul tactics tn the ri8g-|man ot Portland, Ore., and Mickey The people went wild with JOY travers of New Haven, bantam- and proceeded to celebrate, Large| tri nts. ¢ quantities of wine were imbibed. | 1° sh) aril ar Paes Then, in the midst of the celebra- gs RIE Le fon La Nacio flashed th vs that tie rumor of Dempsey's dis | LACOMA BOXER qualification was erroneous. WINS VERDICT The people, unable to control their emotions, stoned and almost wrecked | LOS ANGELES, Sept. 29.—Rddie La Naclonoftoes. Roberts, Tacoma welterweight, won Sa the decision from George Lavigne of Ralph Van Walters, varsity track, | 408 Angeles here last night. tennis and baseball man of the Uni- versity of Oregon, who plans to live in Los Angeles this year, will enter the southern branch of the Univer- jsity of California, Tex Rickard : Denies Rumor In Dempsey + Firpo fight films have not been tam. pered with, and those who. see them will Know exactly what happened at the Polo grounds, This statement was made by Tex Rickard, in contradiction of per: sistent talk that a part of the film was cut out, so that friend. ly hands could not be seen help. ing Dempsey back into the ring, “The idea is so silly that tt isn't worth talking about,” de. clares Rickard, “Why, even Jack Kearns himself would probably fight any attempt to tamper with the filma, “The fact that Dempsey was Knocked out of the ring, and that he might have been in trou. ble, is what makea people anx. lous to see them," SEATTLE Vs. VERNON First Game Called 1:30

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