The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 26, 1923, Page 22

* = ” *® mer rating PAGE 24 Scheduled Fur Will Fly When Penn State and West Virginia Meet; Centre vs. Penn BY HENRY L. FARRELL Sg YORK, Oct herald bh football attractic draws to its « ter than eve can be used each succeeding program. Again tomorrow, the card whi will bo offered for fans all over gountry will be best of th son. Last week's was just a the best before this week's Week's will be another t Three big intersectional games furnish the brighest spots on a very fine schedule that will be played off tomorrow. Little Centre o Years one of the fin the country, w’ vasion of the East by @gainst Pennsylvania in Pia. Earlier Dirds in t this is Centr East. The Col On the contrary, points now that Rot thru, but that Centre v Ty will beat Penn and retain | in the Fast Nothittg t for several t attractions tn appearin Phila¢ season, the wis remarked: “W: last big whirl in hru. the ho evidence ntre not only | GEORGIA TECH vs. * NOTRE DAM rs ° F @ standard bearer “4 Still one of the most illustrious rep the leadir South and Georgia Tech, once of the ‘Tesentatives, also journeys across the * ; @ border to meet the great Notre Dame % team on one of tha few * 3 © Righ in the football world in recent | ® Years, also inv occasions when the Notre Dame students have & chance to see their “M idols tn | Action in a big game. | This game should be one of the} est in the season and Tech has as-| sumed a big obligation. | Detroit university, which has risen | East with a and Jef. ams have be | game sagainst Wash *ferson. These two t © come established rivals, and as both *~ are high-class teams they should pro. ¥ Se Re tee |} getting ready for a tough game with D* having his booters pay particular > attention to drop kicking and goals a a Wide one of the real battles of the the most Import game because of its effect on ‘the Eastern championship fight, will Pe staged in New York between the powerful West Virginia cleven an¢ the always good Penn State team. WEST VIRGINIA TO _ MEET PENN STATE “West Virginia was one of the out- standing teams of 1922 and the Moun- faineers have another fine yen ‘} smart, capable team. eet wo gocd games will bring the! Bpotlight on a part of the “Big/ Pree.” Yale will not have much to} )@o with Brown, altho Brown has a/ habit of making things interesting | for the “Big Thre j Harvard will get the first real test @f the season against Dartmouth and | } Much more will be known about the | Fea] ability of the Crimson eleven after the game. So far, Harvard has lacked the ‘speed beileved nece: 'y to cope with the fleet, fast-moving and alert Yale Princeton teams, and Dartmouth will make Harvard put out every- thing it has to win. Princeton, after two hard games| ‘with Georgetown and Notre Dame, as a tough prospect against the Navy in one of the feature games of | the day to be played in Baltimore. ‘The Navy team has been brought | along slowly by Bob Folwell with the {dea of keeping the squad in shape} for the toughest schedule that the} midshipmen have ever faced, | Princeton also picked a very hard | } road to travel this year and the Ti-| gers probably will be approaching ir top form as well as the Navy. It should be a great game if the Wavy follows the warning sounded | everywhere: “Don't fumble! Don't fumble!” Pittsburg has Carnegie Tech as an | Opponent at Pittsburg, and Lafayette | \ plays Rutgers at Easton. Corneil, | ' Dartmouth, will lay off for the day. Cornell has a rather coy way of do-| ing that. The Army, getting ready for the Yale game, will take on an} easier opponent in Lebanon Valley and the Army will need the rest. In the Western Conference, Iowa and Ohio State and Minnesota and Wisconsin will do the big games. With the season just half-way along, nothing has been established fn a definite line to give a bearing on any of the mythical champlonsh!: Beginning with the first of the No- } yernber games, the leading candi- dates for the honors will start knock. ing each other off. CARDS PERFECT KICKING GAME STANFORD UNIVERSITY, C Oct. 26—The Cardinals are perfec! ing their kicking game for use against the Trojans in the “crucial” game tomorrow. Coach Kerr is from placement, PYTHIAN WILL BE IN CONTEST LOS ANGELES, Oct. 26.—Hayden _ Pythian, star end on the University + (of Bouthern California eleven, will be in the game against Stanford uni ‘versity Saturday. Pythian has re. | covered from injuries received in the Washington game, last Satur- SOMETHING TO WORRY ABOUT ‘There were 14,123 players listed in the tennis tournaments played in| France this year under the super. jon of the French Tennis Federa- |the questtions that came up. juntil after the national commission} Te I Do NoT MEAN “TO BE NQuU! Effort Will Be Made Tennis Men to. National Tourney ITH the Washington crew already a fixture in Eastern sport circles and with the | k squad having 1 D rsity tennis coach, says a big effort will be made to send one or two baseball team and t Arbuthnot, v: QUIET, RESTFUL CLUSION OF ¢ ke HOME /. AW-HMM = s_ APE MADOR GOES ALL THE WAN “To INDIA “TO THAT STARTED IN “THE “TAILOR GHOP = to Send “Ww le trips across the continent, Jimmy men from the Washington tennis squad to the national intercollegiates next spring. “Washington will have one here,” says Arbutnot. good, Fletcher Johnson, “Wallac Byron Scott, Chet Vincent a of the.greatest teams in the history of the net sport Seott, Bruce Hesketh, Armand Marion, Joe Liven- d a host of other racquet star are in school and we should have one of the best, if not the champion tennis team of the coast at Washington next spring. “Scott, the best of the lot and the ranking star in the section this year, would have | a fine chance of winning the national title.” Fred Clarke Talked of as Coast League Prexy Former Pittsburg Mon Now in California, Said} to Be Anxious to Break Into Game Again; May |snity eitingham Normal © Succeed William McCarthy HERE may be a change in the league before another season rolls around. | McCarthy, present head, has but little chance of remaining | named MeCrimmon they'll make the| jin office after Seattle gets a vote in league affairs again. BELLINGHAM NORMAL VS. FROSH HERE University if freshmen griddera play the ven } Saturday at the stadium. —_ Bonamy and § ja, frosh linesmen, presidency of the Coast) are tdlo for a few days with minor William H.| injuries, Atong with a big fellow |center-of the line pretty secure, Fred Clarke, former Pittsburg manager, now in California, | ¥"*" ‘*?'re 4m the lineup. is said to be anxious to break into the game and he may} be given a tumble as president of the Coast league. Clarke, a smart baseball man, might make a good presi- dent as he has had plenty of diamond experience, some-} thing that McCarthy is sadly} lacking. Judge McCredie, former Portland owner, {s also being mentioned as! a possible successor to McCarthy Unless the owners compromise in| the annual meeting next month at| Catalina {sland there isn’t much | chance of a successor to McCarthy | being chosen as he won't allow Se-| attle a vote until the national com mission passes on his charges that there has been syndicate baseball in Seattle. As the national doesn't mect until Chicago, the Coast leaguo meeting may be but a repetition of thé special meeting in San Francisco} last spring, when McCarthy out-/ foxed the Big Five by refusing Se- attle a vote and casting a ballot himself, creating a tie in all of commission December in He will hold office undoubtedly decides on the Seattle case. Which- ever way the decision goes, a spe- clal Coast league séssion looms im- mediately afterwards to settle the Coast problems, SEE SUSPENDED | BY NEWARK CLUB Charley See, former Seattle and didn't fin-} ish the season with the Newark In-| ternational league club, being on the| suspended list, See pitches som and when two of the Newark hurlers | e {ll See was pressed into service as a hurler, but refused to continue | to do mound duty unless he mld a double salary for double duty. Hence the suspension. KELLY HURLS WINTER BALL! Ren Kelly, brother of George Kel- ly, New York Giant first-sacker, is pitching for the Granat Brothers’ nine in the San Francisco Winter league, He has been given two trials by Seattle, but couldn't make the Coast league grado, | McGRAW PLANS WORLD TOUR John McGraw, manager of the New York Giants, is planning on a Huropean trip, and will pick out a route for a tour to be made by the Giants at the end of the 1924 season, COINCIDENCE Speaking of oll and troubled wa ters we note young Rockefeller is An oareman at Yale, (STEGER OF MICHIGAN IS Patten, Shidler and Pre. pod in the ba make a'pretty str Dela vost are going \; nd apparently L raeee fon ‘The Bellingham Normal outfit held tho College of Puget Sound even In a game this year and are said to have a remarkable set of passing | play’. KANSAS CITY WINS JUNIOR BALL TITLE MORE, Oct. 2 champions of the Amert. | tion, the | Junior | world's series yesterday afternoon, | when the team defeated the Balti. more Orioles, 5 to 2, in the final game of the series. It waa the ninth game of the series. PETRIE TO RUN FOR “W” TEAM “Fee Edmundson is figuring strongly on Roy Petrie, tackle on Washington's football team, to re place Vic Hutley as the leading} sprinter of the “W" track team. in| the spring. In spite of his 200 pounds of beef, Petrie can step some over those cinders, ‘They beat last year's frosh by sail ing the ball over their heads and Coach Wayne Sutton has been drill ing his men Intély in ways and |means of combating the aerial game, Incidentally, Sutton has béen teaching his babes how to do a little ball-tossing on their own account, —Kansas Be can won WOLFE BOUGHT BY PORTLAND Charley Wolfe, a pitcher, has been purchased from the Philadelphia |Athletics by the Portland Coast }league club, the Beavers no doubt |figuring that players will be accept- ed from the majors by the Coast cir. cult before next spring. They play golf on roof tops in At- lanta, All skylights must be re. placed by the caddy, ALL-AMERICA PROSPECT NN ARBOR, Mich, Oct. 25.—In Herbert Stoger, sensational University of Michigan halfback, fol- lowers of the Maize and Blue football eleven see another candidate for All-America honors. Stoger, today, ders Yost ha. ranks an one of the best. grid. had in seasons. Kipke not excepted, ward Captain Harry Fleet of foot, a good for- splendid punter, and an field goal Kicker, the former Oak Park triple threat artist de luxe. away from that passer, expert die a Thore is no getting Ho also ls as good a bet as the Wolverines boast on the regeiving end of a pass, having tho uncanny ability to grab ‘om out of the alr on almost impossible chances, “This {4 Steger's second year on the Yost ma- chino, In 1922 he was handicapped by ilnens, and only got Into the game in a substitutes role, But even so he lived up to the reputation he established in his High school days, In the games that Michigan had played this season, Steger has been ono of the outatanding stars, Thus far he has even outshono tho great Kipke, And that in itself ts something. Wor tho Wolverine leader Js generally conceded to be one of the best footballors in the country. Next season will be Stoger'a last for Michi. gan, Already ho ts being groomed to take Kipke's place. And with arother year's exper fence ho should come pretty close Harry's three-year record, Steger may not be able to win an All-Amorton berth this fall, tho 1¢ he keops up his early season performances he should come very near turning the trick. But with another campaign behind him he will loom as an almost certainty on the mythical aggregation, , to equaling nthington |’ ‘ootwork Plays Big Grid Role More on Speed * Demands Fancy Stepping Chalked Field BY BILLY EV of spor ANS ment athletic world havo that truth to the In baseball and football it Is most always fc the ball in eanential to ow Ya a diamond Any poor po | many, and KF are to d resu diron tr who has ball knows w jor that he may follow urately his hoped-for long he finds the ball rest or « few feet removed h his feet,” is beginning tc eye ball | on Zon the tee Wat the gridt 70 asset on oa DI nl ay THEIR | ot that many players intentie y some foot | to] the It in no nec of a play by nift the moment matfnertsm. Amherst held Co |lumbia | Haughton, surprine rather easy game. ched by to a the Columbia had looked Time w broke ton's | nt was Am-| It was a hu; time ayers thru and} ns. 8 formats pr FRIDAY OCTOBER 26, 192: iams has been notified t sold out to the present owr Williams, upon being que better himself. manager, Both Williams and Wolv best kind of Wolverton and himself. Must Land Solons Need More Kick at Plate to Improve Next Year MIE thing that cost the Sacra diamond characters stop to this story, which he brands as a lie and which he claims is an injustice to hat he won't be busine al owners to buy the club ne! »stioned by The Star, denies ying the reason that he took the position here was becs He was a scout for 1 Francisco Wolverton was never questioned regarding the yarn. rton are men of long experien and Williams has ask before Williams Denies Seals Sent Wolverton and Him Here 7 VER since Harry Wolverton was let out as manager, and more so since Nick Will- manager of Seattle club next year a story has been going the rounds in local baseball circles that the reason they were not retained was because they were sent here by the San Francis of making it possible for the S« 20 club with the intent from Jim Boldt before Boldt the story as a falsehood, use he figured he could coming here as business j ce in baseball, both with the ed this opportunity to put a ‘Sacramento Fred Deckman I 3s M ost _ Valuable Prep Player Bat Punch Batera Fullback Is Spark Plug of His Team; Other Leaders of Seattle High School Teams in Effec- tiveness Listed for Games Played So Far HEN it comes to picking the man most valuable to any athletic combination, it’s simply a matter of per- | sonal opinion. But it’s always an interesting business, just mento club the 1923 Coast league | the same as selecting an all-star team of any kind. The They had only one real hitter—Art | Koehler, the big catcher. j If Koehler to digest. ‘or a| flag was a driving attack at the) honor is an empty one, but nevertheless it’s interesting dope The Seattle high school football league this year is one J had sufficient help | of the closest in years and the task of naming the men most herat in this respect that the ery was|the Sacramento club, which finished) valuable to their respective clubs is a delicate one, ined that the Columbia signals in ome way had become known to the |Amherst pl The rumor spread so rapidly that the Amherst coach | felt called upon to make a statern SAYS THE | AMHERST COACH | “It's all piffle about Amherst being | famili olumbla signals y playern early dis that the jlumbia team was Upping off its plays by the way 4 would |nhift. ‘The forwards also kept giving direction of play it was an easy | ar with the ¢ vere the by the ebe facta, i my en to stop mont mba plays before they mentum footwork had played havoc Jumbla in Its early efforts to stage a football comeback Couch Haughton has since remedied the defect During the we No de id peries 1t was my an host to Maj. Kav of the Boston | asked him the prospects for 1 neason, he replied SPEED 1S THE WATCHWORD “Exo I have a fast team fie light, but I have In an a lot of dan, open field. Ket ponseasion | of the ball, the opposition has con- bie to worry about.” Speed ts now the cry of every foot-| ball coach, ‘The forward pass, open play, demands it, The sluggish eleven hasn't a chands in modern football. | In an effort to speed up their} teams, develop footwork that will dazzie the opposition, coaches often resort to unusual methods, Rockne of Notre Dame ts strong for dancing. Bill Roper,of Princetdén in a firm:believer in boxing. Other coaches lean to rope skipping, and so on down the I | | “Boxing pot only develops speed, | but sharpens the eye to fathom| speed,” is the concise way Coach Bili| ppers, on “Watch his fect’ promises to be-| come a 50:50 proposition with keep | your eye on the ball in modern foot. ball. YOUNG CARMEN BEATS KRACHE TACOMA, Oct, 26.—Young Carmen of San Jose won an unpopular six- round decision over Ted Krache of Hoquiam, here last night in a sensa- tional bout featured by hard fight-} ing. Tho worst Krache should have| |had was a draw. Frank F glia; lor Cox won by al |technica} knockout over Nick Sugar in the fourth round; Babe Connors de feated Ernie Dailey, and Johnny Hawkes won from Marshall Foss, | second as it was, might have given the champton San Francisco Seals a harder fight than they did Good pitching and speed on the bases are the only things that kept the Capital Ci nine in the race. But when they smart team like the Seals they did: have the punch to cope with th tack of the Bay City outfit More strength on tho left side of the diamond in needed Pick ts about thru as a regular and Hem. mingway w stick to util as can’t hit his weight and Hop 1s needed at short at second and Mollwitz at should be regulars ag Kopp is a fixture in left field and Brown looks like a comer in center. But right field is a glaring weakness and a good rousing hitter is needed in this garden The Secs are well fixed for catch: lors with Koehler and Schang on the Job. Hughes, Fittery, Prough, Yellow. horse and Thompson are good pitch. ers. tive the Sacs two powerful hitters and then watch out for them next year! PREP MELEE IS SET FOR DENNY FIELD ARFIELD and West Seattle were tangling in an tmportant high schoo) football game at Denny field this afternoon with tho loser | being practically eliminated from the championship race, as both clubs have lost one game. ‘The kickoff was set for 2:30 with the following lneups: Roper ef Princeton puts it. eae N MeGuern G, amit Hopper . Dutty HORSE SHOW OPENS NOV. 10 The National Horse Show will open in New York, November 10, and will continue for seven days. 8, Oct. 26.—Bert Colima, Coast middleweight cham. plon, knocked out Mike Downey, of Pittsburg, Pa., sm the first round here, last night. KAHANOMOKU PA JELES, Oct. 26—A grent the camera when this picture was t three met here recently in connectlo: geles hopes to get the games in 1992, pion swimmer with Olympic laurels; Cha dash runners, and Jack Dempsey, heavywelght boxing title holder, [ Champions All DDOCK. DEMPSEY rilaxy of champlonship talent faced kon. ley Paddock, greatest of all The n with an Olymple drive, Los Ans A stadium seating 78,000 {s planned, acked up against a Duke Kahanomokn, a cham-| But here goes: The most valuable player, so far, to his eleven in the cir- | cuit, in The Star’s judgment, | has been Fred Deckman, the | Ballard fullback and captain. Deckman is a power on the of- fense, is the bulwark of the second- ary defense, does all of the kicking \for his club and is the spark plug of the whole-outfit. Take Deckman out of the Ballard lineup and you would have a second division aggre- | that’s | gation, ead of @ fighting for the pi team nt. Deckman’s heels | hornton, the West jace. He's almost a football team in himself. He can do everything and it's largely his individual that has the Indians | football map, | SCHOETTLER 18 | LINCOLN’S BEST | Bob Schoettler, the jand captain, is easily the most valu- able player on the Ratlaplitter team. } iy Thu to on the Tho rost may be dimposed of | Ho's the only high class gridder on |~ jand more consistent men brought In |the North End team this year. | Bruce Johnson, the Queen Anne end, has done a world of effective |playing for the Quays and is the hive man on that club, | Joo McGuern, the life of the Gar- {field club, has been a potent factor jin the play of the Bulldogs. Chuck |Carroll, the big tackle and kicker, |dy his loss has proved his value to |his team as the Garfield squad en-} tered the race as the favorite and jfell off badly with Carroll out of the Jearly games, Take Hayward Dare out of the Franklin lineup and it would leave a big gap in the Quaker eleven. His playing in the line has been good jand Kis punting has been the saving grace of the season for the cham- pions, Capt. Wood has also been a mighty valuable man to the Green jand Blac! | HYLLE! EN GETS | TEDDY HONOR Tom Hyliengren, Roosevelt quar- prowess | Lincoln end | Just to Start An Argument ITH Fred Deckman, Ballard fullback, heading the lst, the “most valuable player to his team,” selections for the - local prep grid league follows: Ballard—Fred Deckman, full- back. West Seattle—Thurle Tho ton, halfback. Roosevelt — Tom Hyllengren, quarterback. Lincoln—Bob Schoettler, end. Garfield—Joe MocGuern, quar- terback. Queen Anne—Bruce Johnson, end. Broadway — Stan Grummett, center. Franklin — Hayward Dare, tackle. | terback, and one of the best triple | threat men in the city, is the win- |ner of this mythical honor at Roose- velt in the games played to dato, | His kicking, won one game and his speéd saved the Ballard game when he downed Indre Indreson, a few yards from the goal, in the closing jminutes of pla general and passer. | Stan Grummett, the fighting | Broadway center, 1s one of the most | valuable Iinesmen in the city, big fellow is a tower of |the Tiger team, and In spite of |reverses suffered by the Pine | school, Grummett has played stellar | football. The final games of the schedule may change these ratings, but in the meantime the selections should start some real arguments and if so, they serve their purpose. It prep fans have different opin- fons, The Star sport department would like to hear from them, ‘OHNNY RIESLER, Los Angeles featherweight battler, stepped off the rattler from Los Angeles last night, set for his six-round tilt with Joe Gorman at the Crystal Pool next Tuesday night. It is Riesler’a first trip tm the Northwest, and he no sooner stepped off of the train than ho sald that he thought ho was going to like {t. The former New York boy, who has been sojourning in the Southland for most a year, and who now makes his home in Los Angeles, says that he is in good shape, PUGET SOUND PLANS FIGHT TACOMA, Oct. 26.—Collego of Puget Sound gridders of this city are fit and ready for a great game against the U, of Washington team in the stadium here tomorrow. Tho loggers of C. P. 8S. will be outwelghed, will not have the ex- perience of the Huskies, but will have just as much grid fight. IDAHO ELEVEN HAS WORKOUT EUGENE, Ore. Oct, 26—-De- termined to break their record of 15 straight defeats at the hands of the Oregon Webfooters, the U. of Idaho gridiron squad went thru a final workout on the university field here today in anticipation of tomorrow's conference contest. CROSS-COUNTRY DATE IS LISTED ‘Tho national intercollegiate cross. country run will be staged over the Van Courtland course in New York, November 26, || Rickey Denies Hornsby Trade | |] Si. LOUIS, Mo, Oct, 26— || Branch Rickey, manager of the |] St. Louls Cards, yesterday em. phatically denied that Rogers Hornsby, leading batter of the National league, was to be traded to the Chicago Cuby for four other players. ) JOHNNY RIESLER ARRIVES IN CITY FOR GORMAN GO | Rlesler got a peek at Joe Gorman in action in Los Angeles a month or so ago when Gorman beat Speco Ramies at the Vernon arena. Gor- man beat Ramies plenty. Elven #0, Riesler says that Joe is just the sort of battler he can show to advantage agninst. “I Uke to meet the aggressive boys. T am always willing to do my share of the leading, But my best punch is a left hook, and when boxing a ally I have a better chance to place my wallop,” said Johnny in discuss. ing the scrap. Riesler ts inclined to be quite press agent for himself, a la Eddie Pinkman, Ritchie Mitchell, Bobby Michaels and others who are well known in fistlania. He is not a. backward in boosting his ring Lamping his record, he has reason for such a course, Altho but & youngster, 21 or so, he has met. some of tho best boys et his weight in the world. Riesler doesn't bar anyone from 128 to 140 pounds, He is a tall, rangy feather and packs a sock, After his first few bouts against featherweights in California he had to’begin taking on the light- weights in order to keep bu: A good looking, man- nish cutaway front model of unusually good lines. ARROW COLLARS CLUBTT, PEABODY CF CO., Inc Mahone fellow who keeps coming in natur ”