The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 30, 1923, Page 17

SDAY, OCTOBER 80, 18 te ee ee THE SEATTL E STAR ae . “" Kaltor’s Note: With the return of Washington Start Wee Coyle’s Story of Gil Dobie at ‘ tal in bring 1 a meeting Ho began , Reing one of t Ho ne to 1 I 1 fie ' Did you ever & +5: : pyes the back, no : ft no “Glad ogame turthe ' niversity of Washington nging t eu, I ¢ k ools came into our m t, Jobs were promised. prot tr t | ‘ ‘ en, € eothe nd our friend | \ c might be called “The 1 of Gil { 1 Ht n a will tell a few inside | h of ¢ Freshman Team re members i to terval power on the Pacific coast, the gridiron a s A ¢ is grabbing all of the spotlight in Seattle me Ww ' WwW t t sports, The Star has asked Wee ¢ wok of t Tuskies time ¥ 1 Washington quarterback, to tell of the old days of Wer rn t i t Washington supremacy under Gilmour Dobie, the . tight be ‘eternal enigma,” stories which will tell Seattle w t football fans the answer to the Dobie riddle, For es ay nine yeara he kept Washington at the football alate : peak, Coyle spent three years under him when he wative : was at his greatest. Coyle’s stories will take you e back to the days of the Grimms, Muckles oa r t Eakins and the rest of the old g@rd, His first uch a D ' . story follows: « f ; tp t w ne bh 1 him and } The Coming of the Tall Scot cit Brouaway hie Regret May BY WEE COYLE a O6F EAWeRee. Ok fHCIUll: wen. cOndeTned, ‘ash. CHAPTER I On < : eae Gay ot eres ‘ to — @ Cor. we | ThorpeIs (Cari Morri > = arl Morris, Once a mz | Greatest | White Hope, Is H bs : ope, Is Here = d St 3 Gri ar wit, So Says Exendine, W. S. Du Bois, C. Coach, Who Played | art the With Great Indian ton in. | “rp greatest football player} that ever walked on a gridiron eg was Jim Thorpe, the famous star the tin ot Cartisis.” is Was Coach Exendine, the Indian men- wr tor of the Washington State col-| lege foothall team, is responsible Agi | for this statement. weight Before the game with Califor nia | nds will at Portland Iast week the new! tot tae Washington State coach was talk-| ing football and he said that there k never has been a football player Mis inst that reached the heights that ha iota Thorpe did under Glenn Warner at > ae Carlisle, ‘Thorpe could do everything,” a sank taid Exindine,” he weighed about aye | 1M pounds, was as fast as a streak A den and talk about triple threat men! Pale How he could kick, run and pass! thru He played at Carlisle 10 years ago ty. Hi and he’s still a wonder at the pro/ Sod game, altho he's nearly 40 years! ec of age. There never will be an- In pretty othe: Theres f fog bet EXINDINE DEFEATED haifbac Leds pbc After his nine years of supremacy ‘tonte at Waahintgon, Gil Doble took charg at the Annapolis naval academy. He | lost his first game to an all-navy eleven, but the first college coach to Rar ever humble Dobie was no other than phere Exindine. The Indian coach was at Sat Af Georgetown then, and he won by a ge § to 0 score. ’ ei “Dobie is a great coach,” says Ex.| paure te indine, “because he is so thoro. His | tremen- men do everything well, particularly fundamental football. He will always have men playing good football.” STATE COACH LIKES SLATER'S WORK Y ‘Washington State has a great full- back in the making in Slater, a big ny: fellow, who played a whale of a same against California. As “Slater is green yet,” declares Ex: | to Mr. indines, “but with his 185 pounds of of fight. beef and speed he has great possi- 2) bilities, Hales, our young halfback, rh also has @ fine future on the grid. tron.” WARNER STARTED 389 os OPEN GAME It was Glenn Warn the present Pittsburg coach who began the open | game, with spread formations and a! feat deal of forward passing and trek plays, back in the days when he| was at Carlisle. Exindine played under Warner there as an end and tackle. Warner's great success with | the Indians spread his system to| other schools. Exindine thinks that | ‘otre Dame, with its running attack and open play, is perhaps the height of perfection in that style of play. BY ROBERT C, ZUPPKE Football Coach, Univ of Mie nois, Author of Technique and Tactics” {FE drawing shows the forward pass after a triple pass, but it may also be made after a double pass. Either end or a back may be the receiver. The right guard comes out an a FORWARD PASS AFTER TRIPLE PASS OFTEN UPSETS OPPOSITION | del ed safe ‘After each backward pass in made the back must block This may be « very long pass, and could be used where the defense ara driven mentally back and not | charging a they should, probably late in the game. he play reries will close with| Play No, use 10, of two throwers, RUTH GOES ON STAGE AGAIN BOSTON, Oct. 30.—Babe Ruth, home run star of the major, is go. ing on the stage again. The Yankee star signed a contract this week to appear in vaudeville. Ruth's last adventure in theatrics was not high- ly successful. As a singer he was a fierce flop. The Babe promises not to sing this time, One-Time Pug Stone Blind SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. Monte Attell, once a star ban tamweight, whose fame almout equaled that of his more gifted brother, Abe, former holder of the featherweight championship, is stone blind. Monte is now conducting newsstand here, haying been backed financially by old friends Attell was in the ring 15 years. One of his greatest fights 42-rounder against Frank ley at Vernon, Calif. Attell injured his eyes in thin fight, and gradually lost his sight entirely. SPECIAL NIGHT BEYRVICE [‘] From Beattie to Bremerton Bat- urday and sunday, 4 dally 11 AUTOMOBILE FERRY attie to Bremerton Dally, 11:30 Con. LUQUE PICKED YANKS TO WIN) HAVANA, Cuba, Oct. 30.—Pitcher | Luque of the Cincinnati Reds was the only National league player to pick the Yanks to beat the Ciants, In a signed article, Luqui pitching would stop the Giants, the Yankees had such pitching. RED STARS ON STAGE CALCIUM and CINCINNATI, Oct, 30—Infielder Fonseca of the Cincinnat! Reds ix s “Caruso” of baseball. He plays big time in vaudeville during the |winter months, Sammy Bohne of the samé club alyo has a leaning for the stage and does a magician act that 19 said to be very clever COLIMA WILL MEET FOLEY Bert Colima, the Mexican should have an envy time with Marty Foley, the ‘Tacoma veteran, when the pair meets at Hollywood Friday night WATCH OUT, AMERICA Holland is rapidly coming to the front a8 a nation of pugilists, which will suggest the | ald good | | flash,| ’Lil Artie Laid Down | Says Morris, Once a White Hope, Tells Story of |: Willard-Johnson Fight WAS sess Willard, who hela the world’s heavyweight boxing championship from July 4, 1915, until Jack Dempsey pounded him into submission in three rounds on the sume date in 1919, a real champlon, or Just a huge fraud whore title purchased from the great color ed fighter, Jack Johnson? Shortly after re-entered th United States a couple « to serve out his sentence for viola tion of the Mann act, Johnson told |the public that he was paid to “lay down" to Willard, His unaup- | | ported story, stoutly denied by Wil ard, Promotor Jack Curley and everyone wlse connected with the battio that returned the fistic crown | By Seaburn Brown was ne to the white race, was little prom hope" of days proce Johnson wi his family ard tight, in Beattle, who has settled with with the statement that the titular battle of in 1915 was an arranged matter detail, and that Johnson, di shell that he waa, would hay murdered” Willard had he not been bribed to lose. MORRIS TALKS | “I've heard Jack Curley, moted that fight the eral times," Morris said Tuesday. | “Johnson was to lose to Willard, in return for a stipulated sum of| money and promised immunity trom | |the prison sentence that awaited his return to the States, Details of the | |match were arranged in Europe, | more than @ year before the two} men met. | “But Johngon was chonted out of his end by the clever Curley, after who pro- te story nev. all. He was given $32,000 before he entered the ring that day. Tho rest of the money was to be given {to his wife, Johnaon, fearing treach- ery, told her not to leave the ring Je until the money was placed in her hands. He told her he would |take the “dive as soon as she | aid #0. Surley tried in every way to in- duce her to leave the ring without | jthe money—even sending in mes-| |songers to tell her friends wished to fee her for a moment. Johnson | |képt his eye on her and kept on \boxing rings around the clumsy | | Willard, | | “At last Curley bimyelf damo to jher ringside seat with a huge roll. / | Sho left the ring, and as soon as she wag alone discovered that |had a roll of orange tissue wrap | pers, covered with a few $50 and| |$100 bills, She imme rushed | ringside—but {t was | ahe | te! |back to the too Inte, Johnson waa lying on his| jback, holding his hands to shut out | }the rays of the burning sun, with |the referes counting over him.” | WHY FIGHT | LASTED SO LONG | “Johnson had been primed to lose | Whito | new F risch Is Car] GIANT. INFIELDER BY BILLY, EVANS Wea a Cobb having p game a A star i a bb has supreme a Experta gard him as greatest player T ata > wet in his T great began a trite, 7 wan to be despite his great human 1 #Q on forev Enter ( successor great first Browns } Uve of the game's groatest when an affliction of the eye cut short his career, Sisler did not play }m single game last neason. His ca- reer as a pisyer is still shrouded in| h the running, @ in® doubt, the honor of being rated the game's greatest all 4 player munt be passed to Frisch The work of Frankie Frisch in the 1923 series between the Yankees and the Giants was nothing short of re markable, Ho starred in the field and at the bat. He made a dozen seemingly imponsible plays In the field, and at the bat was a constant | source of annoyance to the Yankee pitchers. Frisch {s a natural batsman. He | fam shift hitter. In terms of bas that means he bats either from the right or left side o Frisch prefers to ba does so when a right-handed pitcher lopposes the Giants. Against south. paws he ehifts to the right side of the plate. It is imponsible for the opposition to play for Frisch. Ho ts a place tho plate | Ritter, driving the balls to afl fields | |nocording to the style of the pitch and the ponition of the opposing out- field. Hin style ts far more graceful a @ left-hander than right. right-handed he a ou r crouch pos Unquestionah)y umes a rather pe- Frisch ts the fast est man in the National league, tf t both leagues. His only rival in pect In Archdeacon of the Chi veteran Cobb out of the | t left-handed and always | Batting | » White cago Sox. |} He goes to his r There ts little to) territory. choose between the two. In the field his work Is uncanny. | or left with | equal ease and his great speed en-! ables him to cover 9 wide range of | ight SUCCE EDS C OBB AND SISL ER Mr. Frisch, himself, batting, fielding and “looking “pretty.” IN BASEBALL aan brn world series, I am convinced that he | is the greatest ell-round performer in time I saw) the game, He doesn’t seem to have his|a single weakness. Players of the Cobb, Sisler and Frisch type are a decided rarity, It takes a mighty fast hit ball to elude his grasp. Since the very first Frisch In action I marveled at allaround ability, After watching | him for six games in the recent \GIANTS WON’T TRAIN IN CAL. | W YORK, Oct. 30.—Plans to we the Giants to California for tr ie next spring ha’ been ab oned, according to Manager McGra' The team mm train n San Antonio, it is under stood. The Ginnts and the Chicago Sox will tour North again, |WILL ENLARGE YANK STADIUM It is likely that Col. Incob Ruppert will heed the advice of his old part ner, Co, 'T. L. Huston, who remarked that what New York needs is a lar ball park. Colonel Ruppert pays that the seating capacity of the Yankee stadium easily could be increased to $5,000. |within ten rounds, but the knock: | Ses out came in the 26th For onejcar from the Wm. 0. McKay | thing, Willard was so poor that the jagency while in the city Monday | crowd would have smelled the fake had the biack man quit #o early, | land for another, Johnson wouldn't | quit until: his wife gave him the| |signal.”* And that's that. Morris, who fought time in November, kayoed Tut Jackson, negro heavy ‘elght, in nine rounds, is thru with o nquared circle, he said. At pres ent he ix plying hia vocation as for the Inst when he Ft locomotive engineer for the Tacoma Lumber Co, at its camp near Mount inier, His wife and 9%. jyear-old daughter 4 | Fourth stood who and six 235 looks hale and | The big fellow, | geet, four: inches, pounds in his prime, |hearty, and attributes n measure of | his excellent health to the fact that he has ved in and around Seattle | since ie sealed Mahle Northwest js a great coun. |try. I Mke It so well that I plan to remain indefinitely, prob- Jably in Seattle,” he said Morris Is ono of the few men | prominent in the ring in past times |who gives the modern xchool of boxers much credit for their style | of work. ‘Anybody who says Jack Demp> sey Js not a great champion knows little about the game," he suid, reflectively, ¢ his chin an tho the effects of the punch with which Dempsey scored a one-round knockout over him in 1918 were] not entirely gone, “He has every-| thing—speed, punching power, en-| durance and a fighting heart.” | Morria never hesitated & moment | when asked whom he con | greatest man of all | JOHNSON YS MORRI Johnson,” he sald phatically, “In his prime, the ro was the kingpin of them “He'd Ucked Demp laimmons, Corbett, Jeffries, ull of them-—-within «lx month |had all of them been contempor aries.” ay purchased # Ford touring om: | big| all. ck ne have “T need it to carry me between my work and my family," he told the salesman. 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Harvard A cheer leader looking gent, of his wishbone, the fr sold two weeks befor MORRELL college |oain in a pinch the ball is handed Morrell, captain of the team, ¢ Bowdoin |SACCO CAN’ Ve GET SCRAPS Boston who will leave for the East Tos Angeles his weight do his gume and it is likely will depart before antlelpated. Benjamin, numerous om. Joe and 46-pounders have been offe nd ative, game the ayailabl took may be have game needs light. not nl an GREAT CROWD IS EXPECTED, J, Oct 1 seats 30. for the nd for pub a foolish hut he never has to sit up nights pleking leather cleats out a leader beon | j and phonographs and furniture MOLLA WON’T CUNNINGHAM PLAY FOR U. S. IS_ VISITOR NEW YORK, Oct. 30—Word IN SEATTI E from the International Olympic }committee that the time was too TLLY representat CUNNINGHAM, in Seattle's | short to call a meeting to amend the rules has cause@ the American officials to bandon fle hope of hav- ing Mrs, Molla Mallory on the American team. BILLY McCABE | BOSSES TEAM } Bihty McCabe, outfielder on the Los { Angeles Coast league ball club, his i organized a team to play during the winter months in the South. ‘The pitchers on the club are ‘Doc’? Cran- dall, *‘Lefty’’ Thomas and Percy Lee i Jones. LUNDY LOOKS FOR BUSINESS Johnny Lundy, New York light- weight, js now in San Francisco, looking for bouts. Lundy packs | around a classy scrap book, but it's Cunningham also sald that he ex-|@ doubtful ‘question whether this pected that several changes would be | will land bouts for him, made in the Giant lineup before next | = essa year. Jimmy O'Connell, the Frise boy, didn’t get over very well because of his apparent lack of paprik: After spending a few days in Frisco with his folks, Cunningham will go to Zos Angeles to play a few | games with the Meusel brothers in| winter exhibitions. Shonge owt Cherry’s «. 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