The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 21, 1923, Page 17

Esa aaa 3 bby HOUUUUUUUUK VENOS AIRES, Nov, 21.—Luls Angel Firpo, South American | champion, In an interview with the| United Proas, denied statement: tributed to him that he was @ a short count in hia fight with Jack Dempsey, that he had been treated unfairly by the referee and that the Officials at the ringside had re. strained his seconds from making a protest of a foul, “These statements were made by Horace Lavelle, my adviser and chief second, and 1 am not reapon- sidle for them,” Firpo said. He added that he had no complaint to make against Dempsey, the ref. eree, the boxing commission or the fa “Under the same conditions, I would have acted just as Dempsey | did,” Pirpo said | The big Argentine said he thought St first that he had been given only +} the count of eight on the last knock: |down, but after he had seen the pio ture of the contest he knew that he Was down for the count of 10, Firpo asked the United Press to extend his salutations to William Muldoon, chairman of the boxing federation, Tex Rickard, the sport Writers and all his American friends. “Tell them," he said, "to beware of the distortion of statemants mado by me and the publication of unau. thorized statements not made by me." Firpo repeated that he was anxious for a return bout with Dempsey be. cause ho felt that he would do better the next time and would be a better fighter with more experience. ®Firpo Says a He Has to Register Against Jack Dempsey No ‘Peeve Lavelle, who acted as Pirpo's trainer and adviser, continued te complain about the treatment Firpo recelved before and during his tight with Dempsey, “Dempsey paid sick bother Firpo around camp," Lavelle said. Dempsey, he said, had a private dressing room to get ready for the bout while Firpo had to dress with the preliminary fighters. Dempsey had three yards of bandage on hin hands Qnd the referee sustained him until the rule book was shown to him. Dempsey, ho also complained, was given a count of eighteen when he was knocked out of the ring in the first round, hecklers to his training WILLIAM C. PROUT WILL HEAD AMATEUR ATHLETIC UNION ETROIT, Noy, 21.—William C, Prout of Boston was re-elected president of the National Amateur Athletic union by delegates as- sembled here yesterday. Atlantic City was selected for the scene of next year's convention, " Murray Hulbert, acting mayor of New York was elected first vice president. Other officers included | Fred L. Steers of Chicago, second vice president; L. DeBenedetto of New Orleans, third vice president; Wiliam E. Day of Salt Lake City, fourth vice president, and Freder- ick W. Rublen of New York city, reelected secretary and treasurer. Members of the board of trustees named were: John T. Taylor, Pitts- burg; Samuel Goodman, San Fran- eiseo, and Charles A. Dean, Chica- go. Trustees for the James E. Sul- livan memorial selected were Judge J.T. Mahoney, New York city; John MacCab, Boston, and F_ W. Rublen, New York city. Lawson Robertson of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, was chosen to be recommended to the American Olymple committee head track and field coach to accompany the American Olympic team. Other coaches recommended were Farrell, University of Michigan, John F. Moakiey, Cornell univer-| sity; Keqne Fitzpatrick, Princeton) university; Harry Hillman, mouth; Thomas F. Keane, cuse; Elmer Oliphant, T. McGee, Bowdoin; Harry Gill, Tiuinols; Farreil, Harvard; A. A ‘20; George Bresnahan, Iter Christie, California University of! Syra- Chic Ww Iowa: and Dean Cromwell, Southern California, Dart-} Army; John) @ National Amateur Athletic federation was eign! denounced by President W. Proutt, of the As: ke) Ch Mickie @ group in [the former organization waa “in- spired with the dual motive of an- tagoniém toward the A. A. U., deep jsedtéd and of long @tanding, and a [desire to build up an athletic organ that would supplant the The -A. A. U. proposals under which the two organizations would co-operate are still open for accept clared. His recommendation was adopted by the convention. Three world records made this | year were disapproved by the con- vention, One waa the time of 93.5 seconds, made by Francis Hussey, Stuyvesant high school, Brooklyn, in the 100-yard dash, on June 9. The Tecords committee held that Hussey was aided by the wind. The time of seven seconds in the -yard low hurdles, indoors, made |by Karl Anderson, Illinols A.C, at Loulsville, March 91, also was thrown out. The other record dis | approved the time of 64.5 sec. | steve | Onda for 65 yards, made by Harold |fectly willing to start his colt tn| |B. Lever, University of Pennaylva. |nia, at Philadelphia, June 16. Transferring control of the Olym pic games from the International | | federation to the International Olym Pic committes was oppored In a res. Jolution adopted by the convention The A. A. U. also voted to par | tHetpate in the British-American | eames in London, July 19, and gave ita approval to the proposed Irish ames'at Dublin TOUGH HOCKEY SLATE FOR “U”| University of Washington hockey team will play six games In the Seattle Amateur Hockey | league during December and four-game series with University of/ British Columbla late in February The tf the tentative schedule now ar-| ranged is adhered to. The Washington team will start the season on November 20, when they meet the team of the Mapio Leaf post of the American Legion at the Arena NAVY ENDS TO PLAY SATURDAY | ANNAPOLIS, Nov. 21.—Recovery of Brown and Taylor, Navy's regu lar ends, has cheered up the middy coaches. Without them the would have been almost hopelessly etippled for the Army game Satur day. Coachés still figure on starting Shapley instead of Barchet in the backfield. KANSAS WORKS FOR MISSOURI AWRENCE, Kan. Nov. 21.— Kansas foot team is taking I easy for a few days. Only light scrimmage was indulged in today Towards the end of the week and tarly next week the Jayhawkera will enter into serious practice, prepara to Thankagiving classic h M ARMY STAR IS STILL INJURED | calling the team dur tATEN Phi ghtweight, O'Donnel t night st the decision to Johnn Ola, here ha Our New Location 1403 3rd Ave. SAVE YOUR EYES Failing Eyesight Restored by Our System It in the something siden ginas in our Glassen Don’t Pay Exorbitant Prices DO NOT DESTROY YOUR EYESIGHT BY WHARING POOR GLASSES Ank to nee our Double Vision Ginssen. The Single Lens with Two Sights. OVER 25 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE 14 YEARS IN SEATTLE Cushing & Mohrbacher INCORPORATED Kuceensorn (0 U. 8, OPTICAL CO. Exclusively Optien! Specialiats 1403 Third Ave. Ginsses Mepnired and Broken Lenses Duplieated team | |MICHIGAN IS HARD AT WORK | ANN ARBOR, Nov. 21—~Passing, jfunning and kicking featured the activities of the Wolverines as | Coach Yost whipped his gridironers | | into shap to meet the Gophers Sat. urda, ance by thé federation, Proutt de-| McMillan Wins As Grid Coach BR McMILLIN, former star of Contre College, has made a Most enviable record in his two years a¥ & football coach. After leaving Contre, MeMIllin took up Kia coaching duties at Centenary college, Shreveport, La. Iu his first year he lost only ons game ——the Tennessee Medics, made up of many former college stars tak. ing a course In medicine, defeat- ing his team 14 to 0. The only Gefeat of this year was the re- cent 14 to 0 trimming handed Centenary by Boston Colley ZEV’S RIVAL ANXIOUS TO RACE AGAIN | (UENCINNATI, -Ohlo, Nov, 21.— Carl Wiedemann, owner of In Memoriam, which waa defeated by | Harry Sinclair's Zev in a memor. able match rice last Saturday at Churchill Downs, Loulayille, tx per J}a match race with Zey and My| |Own at the Bowie race track. | All Wiedemann wants to get into such a match is an invitation from | jthe Bowle track. 80 far he has not} received word theré will be such a race. In Memoriam ‘has not been throven lout of trainins and could be pre |pared hurriedly for another match| | Face. WILMOT LEADS | Max Wilmot, velt high school football team, was | Yesterday selected by his teammates to lead his team next year Wilmot is considered the leading center in high school circles this fall, and has played a stellar game for Roosevelt all season, SUCCESSFUL PREP SEASON TO ] BY JACK HOHENBERG ‘OW that the high school football season ts in ita final week of All those who feel qualified to ple all-star teams, and others, will {met together a list of names. Ail | star teame are all right in their | way, but when they are the cause of |rivalry and discontent, then they should best be discontinued | The high school season, this year. has been @ successful one, for when | the schedule opened, all eight teams |wére #0 everly matched that few |eould predict game results with an | degree of acy. At the start of | the season, ers were Coach Ira Pease’a Beav ¥ & mediocre football team, and Broadway and Gar field elevens were showing all sorts of class. Subsequent developments have shown that the Ballard eleven, well | balanced and powerful, will stand as one of the great machinelike units developed in the Seattle high school jeague, At the start of the season this writer pl Garfield to win }the championship, and if it had not been for the injury to Chuck Carroll the Bulldogs Might have come close to winning, 1 ¢ Broadway outfit, seeming! strong at the start of the season. was completely ottclaased by the toliow the ne hing cc stop the North. Only th um haw been able to hol them scoreless, and shou ern défeat Weat 1 day, the finish the season with a clean record Coach 1. T. Saalwaechter’a first year at Queen Anné has been a COME TO A CLOSE SATURDAY coach han the same difficulty, that lof fighting agauinat old peas |miatio spirit, Taking everything in the |to necount, the Indian coach put Up Rome good battles this year | Coaches Soukup, Litchtenberger jand Log@ had only an average yeat | holding down the second division |for most of the season. Soukup's | Franklin Quakers, last year's cham | pions, sprung a surprise when they defeated Lincoin last Saturday, and |the Rainier valley boys may give }the Quays a run when they meet at Denny field on. Friday Coaches Pease, Brigham and| | D'Vorack have all developed strong Jelevens. Right now, thers are no more than two touchdowns differ ence between tallard, the leaders and Lincoln, the tail énders, ‘That goes to show how tlglit that little old pentiant race bas been. Individual stars, this year, were many, but of all those developed Captain Fred Deckman of Ballard; Chuck Carroll of Garfield; ‘Tom Hyliengren of Roosevelt and Hay ward Dare of Franklin have been) the outstanding ones. The 1923 searon has been successful and | will come to a triumphant close, this week ty along there of good CUSTOM the value CLOTHES CLOTHES OF bearing and business dignity, of our talloring QUALITY EXTRA SPECIAL — This Guaranteed 16-07. Blue any style, with best of lining ORDER NOW FOR THANK IN OUR OW 1313 Fift — and give full are the men that give are the feature Week Borge + TAILORED IN SEATTLE SHOPS Raby Tailoring Co. [7 side honor lus for who know TAILORED ONLY — made in 4, $60.00, SGIVING h Avenue Jin the Harvard game. er regtilar erd, will not be able | face with a atinging rghtleft and | Hayes, TEDDY PLAYERS| center on the Roose. | success, for it Is seldom that a new coach in this city Is able to mould #0 powerful « scoring unit as the Quays have turned out to be. And Saalwaechter's first year! was no flash in the pan. He has material which will tide him thru the next three years at Queen Anne. Coach Harry Milhotin, of West Seattle, the other new mentor the league, has & had a fair! | year, Any West ##a football (A Family Affair | ‘Trop— CUMMINS. MIDDLE—LONAS PHILLIPS, GORDON PHILLIPS. HOTTOM—EDWARD LE MAR RALEIGH. CUYAHOGA FALLS, 0, Nov, 21. —Six brothers play on the Cuya- hoga Fella high school eleven, best in thin district, But they aren't all members of the same family. They come jn sets of twos. Namely, Curtis and John Cum- ming, Gordon and Lonas Phillips and LeMar and Edward Raleigh. All are regulars, and stars RALEIGH, YALE END TO BE IN GAME NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 21 | With the recovery of Dick Luman, } Yale's star end, the coaches are ju |bilant over the preapects of victory | Hullman, the to play, and Bingham will take p piace BELLINGHAM navy heavyweight, the decision to Mel Berg of Everett, here Inst night. In the semi-windup, Marty Foase of Everett boxed Billy Quilter of Denver a draw, Now Pinying Twlee D: HARRY STODDARD and HIS ORCHESTRA retis of New York” Baminin AND ARiCe LEAVITT | LOCKWOOD | Otter “Ouraetves" | sat GUIRAN and MARGUERITE 156, 266, Boe, The, Bi Matinees! Ibe te Se IT'S THE HABIT NOW PLAYING WILL KING AND COMPANY “TWIN BEDS” HEWMIB KING and His super-Symphonic Soloists TONIGHT AT 8:0 | AN “PHP NA KILDOURN dornvox Ime. Presse: ‘The Grestest Mystery Play of Them All SURTIS CUMMINS, JOHN) Siki M akes | Big Hit in First Bout BY HENRY L, FARRELL W YORK, Nov. 21,— After} Georges Carpentier had been knocked out by Battling Siki he | complained that the battler had for: | gotten his part in a previously re- hearsed Itue plot. Most of the 12,180 who saw the American debut of Siki in Madison Square Garden fast night were in. clined to believe that Carpentier might have been right in his com- plaint, In loaing a 15-round decision to Kid Norfolk, who votes as Willie Want, of Baltimore, Bik! showed no qualifications to beat even a second. fater on the up and up, Only three rounds went to sil, | and in the other 12 he was #o| woundly beaten that the crowd did | not have to wait for the official decision, Biki made such a hit with the; wallery, however, that, the “dollar tens” get up a demand for “draw, draw” at the end of the bout. only things that Siki showed Strength, a cértain cat-like wpeed and grace of movement and that stout heart under punishment that one would expect of a soldier who had been decorated four times for gallantry in the trenctres. As & first-class fighter, Siki has nothing, Ho gave the impression that he had never seen a left hand before. He snapped back as if he) had claws on his hands with which | he wanted to tear, He seemed to act on the theory that his face waa) the best blocker in punches. Like all other European fighters, Siki knows nothing absolutely about infighting, and he foolishly tried t stay tn close with Norfolk, a heavy fighter, who pounded such a drum: | ming on the body that Sik! com: plained to the referee in the Inst! rounds of the fight, altho the blows were Ianding no place near the} belt Norfolk is not a rénowned puncher and if he had any drive behind his} | served seats had President Can’t Be at Big Game WASHINGTON, Nov, 21 President Coolidge wil! be un able to attend the Army-Navy football game in New York on Saturday, it was stated on his behalf at the White House yes terday, ‘The preaident, it was stated, has no intention of leaving Washington for any purpose for the next two or three months, GREAT CROWD EXPECTED AT CAL. STADIUM S N FRANCI8CO, Noy, 21— Possibility of Western football attendance records belng broken Saturday at the California game day. Up annual Stanford- was seen here to- to last night 76,000 re- been fold, Scat- tered around there probably are 250 tlekets left unsold today—it they could be found, Plans were being considered for selling standing room in the run ways and on the rim of the ata- dium and if this plan {s carried out, it is ponsible a sufficient number will be admitted to surpass the record of $8,000 set at the Yale bowl a few weeks ago. Tho gamo will mark the dedic tion of the New California # dium—a memorial to California students who died in the war, It is a great, cement affair, costing $1,000,000, built between the hill sidew in Strawberry canyon, on the university grounds. capacity is 72,000. Extra seats have heen placed to make up the 76,000 enerved seats sold for Saturday's game. Indications are that the contest will be the closest of re- cent years between the two rival universities. California is an unbeaten team, while Btanford has been beaten but | once. | blows ha would have stopped Siki in| AGGIES HOPING | |the end of the bout, | cut and swollen METROPOLITAN AT HP? rue NARY John Willard Sieged by Ira Herds | The Senoatton of New York, Lowden and Chicago. Evenings: 50¢, 1, @1.60, 82 Saturday Mat: 50¢, $1, 81.50 “SIX-CYLINDER LOVE” Stays Until Thursday 6 | Night a . Friday |! comes: OTHE HUNCH. BACK OF S/ vovae pane’ leas than 10 rounds, He was con: | tent in cutting up the “battler’s’ a right hook to the body. Both Siki's eyes were closed at his lips were his body was sore, and he was tired all over, But with all thie his steps were always forward. TO WIN GAME} CORVALLIS, Ore., Nov. 21.—Foot ball enthusiasm, at a low ebb recent ly, Is slowly recovering here as Sat urday’s game with Oregon draws near, Only the championship of Ore gon will be at stake when the two elevens meet, but the Corvallis fans believe the Aggies can take It Norroal seating! Bagshaw to Seek Early Action on New Contract |‘Little Giant’ Must Know Soon After Football Sea- | son Is Completed About His Status as Washing- | ton’s Grid Coach; Other Football Gossip JEN Enoch Bagshaw came down from Everett to } take over the coaching of the University of Wash- ington football team he demanded a three-year contract be- fore he would give up his high school post, and justly too, as he claimed that it would take three years to build up @ team for Washington, Bagshaw is finishing his third year as head mentor of the Purple and Gold’s football team and even his crities, and |he hasn’t many after the fine showing of his Huskies this fall, must admit that he has brought Washington back to football power. The “Little Giant,” however, with his contracts not up | until April of next year, wants to know immediately after the present football season is over, just where he stands as coach of the Washington| joins practice work. Foremost is eleven in the future. | his development as a kicker. He's “I couldn't wait until next spring | constantly practicing for helghth, to settle things,” says Bagshaw. “I | distance and more speed in getting have the Interests of my family to|his kicks away and he's doing some consider and in case I shouldn't | remarkable kicking in practice. The come back to Washington I would | need time to look for another situ- ation.” It's largely thru Bagshaw's per- lother is his speed. He will be the |fastest backfield man wearing @ Washington jersey next fall Gut- tormson starts fast and he'll be one sonal efforts that the Purple and|of the best safety men the local in- Gold team is as good as it Is. | stitution ever had as he's a wonder- Many of his high schoo! stars|fully fast starter. whom he developed at Fiverett fol- lowed him to Washington and are among his regulars. He has made Washington a football power on the | Pacific Coast and is building for future Washington teams as well as considering the present aggregation. Bagshaw hasn't been a miracle man and doesn't claim to be, but he is a winner, a man doing his best for his alma mater and a fine fel- low to have in charge of the | Washington boys from a character | development. standpoint. What more do Washington foot- ball fans wants? In holding back Guttormson Bag- | shaw is building for the future, and in sticking with his practice Gut- |tormson is showing the kind of [spirit that makes great football playera, | HICKEY COMES THRU AS END Verne Hickey, Washington state captain, didn’t fit into Coach Bxen- dine’s backfield so the new State mentor has made him over into an jend and Hickey is one of the best | wings in the conference this year. He played a star game against 0. |A. 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