The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 26, 1923, Page 12

eee = ey THE SEATTLE STAR About Fights and Fighters BY LEO H. LASSEN ST before Jack Dempsey and Luis Angel Firpo put ‘on their cave man knock-'em- down-and-drag-em-out —_spe- cialty at the Polo Grounds in New York a few weeks ago Duncan MacDonald, the dean of Seattle fight fans, made the remark that Fi was the nearest approach to John L, Sullivan that the ring has imown, and that anybody who can swing and hit as hard as Firpo was reputed to be able to, was dangerous. The fight itself proved those contentions and it also proved something else, and that is that Dempsey is un- doubtedly the greatest all- around champion the game has known. Pgs Liahh oe perts agree that what hap- pened A Firpo would be identically the same thing that would have happened to Sullivan, with his bull-like rushes and his swinging right crusher. Your average oldtimer thinks of Sullivan in the terms of pusilistlc perfection, but even MacDonald, Wwho knew Sullivan better, perhaps, than any other man now ifn Seat- the, will admit that Dempsey would have beaten him. MacDonald, himself a great mid- dleweight, fought six rounds with Sulltvan and knows what he's talk- ing about. Foul Fighting Must Be Stopped When George Lampson, the Port- Jand heavyweight, fouled Racehorse Roverts in the second round of their fight at Tacoma the other night it was the second consect- tive battle in the City of Destiny that bis been decided by a foul blow. This is an evil that must be stamped out of Northwest rings !m- mediately, and the quickest way to do it is to enforce the ruling of the New York boxing commission that forfeits the foul fighter’s purse. Sting "em in the ‘pocketbook, and you'll’ soon cure the fighters of the foul habit. Fighters Need Versatility Inck Dempsey is. the world's heavyweight champion because he can box or fight, as the occasion de- mands; he can hit, take a crack on the chin and {s aggressive. These are the necessary elements for any champion. The fighter who depends upon one thing doesn't get to the top any more. Floyd Johnson had a good left hand, but couldn't hit with h!y right. Luis Firpo had a crushin;: right hand, but couldn't lead with his left. They both lost to men who can use both dukes. You'll hear people say about the boys in this neck of the woods: “s and-So ts clever, but he can’t hit, and vice versa. And if they could do the thing they can't do, they would be cham- pions. ‘There's many a clever lad who would be a kingpin if he had Dode Bercot’s strength, and there’s many & husky bird who would also be a champ if he had Tod Morgan's clev- erness. Tt takes versatility to make 2 champion. Experience Is Ring Essential Gome fighters are endowed with that magic something called fighting fustinct. They can sense what to ex. fect and what to doin aflash. They are exceptional ring men, the gen @ral thing being that your better class of fighters must take a lot of punishment yin the school of ex perience before becoming proficient It took a lot of fights among dubs for Jack Dempsey to learn how to hit correctly, how to put that tre Mendous strength into hitting power Tt took a lot of fights to teach Benny Leonard the boxing skill that has made him one of the greatest lightweight champions of all time. ring Gymnasium boxing, with its tap-| ping and big gloves, is one thing, and ting fighting, with the other fellow | ready to knock you loose from your ears, is something else again. A lot of boys are champs in the| gym and chumps in the ring. Ex- Perience that comes from one actual fight inside of the Hemp does a bat tler more good than 10 boxing exhi. tions in a gym. It’s only thru taki the hard knocks that your avera: fighter learns to avoid them. ‘W” GRIDDERS TO BE GUESTS The annual football dinner ¢ {n honor of the Washington en by Rogers’ confectioneary store, in the University district, t@ to be held ‘Tuesday night, at 6:15, with the Pur ple and Gold squad the guests of honor. HI-Y BANQUET FOR TUESDAY ‘The annual Hi-Y dinner, at whict: the official Ali-City high school ele en fs named by the players them selves by ballot, will be held Tuc day night, at 6 o'clock, at the y C. A. banquet hall M Prize fighters use en their hand: How p heads get that way is ine to 1 Five More for Walter Johnson Walter Johnson says that he hopes to pitch big r five more years moment fa quite a men in his son ag slap by final game of the Boston, net MAX EAKINS W e 8 & * * * 4 a *» & Famous Kicker to Teach Art to Washington Men Eakins Expected to Make Great Kicker Out of Young George Guttormson; Eakins, Former Washington Star, One of Greatest Kickers Game Ever Knew “AX EAKINS, one of the greatest punters that ever soared a spiral down a gridiron field, is getting the football bee again. More than 10 years ago Eakins played his last game for Washington, and since that time he has dropped out of the football limelight. But Eakins is coming back, this time to coach Washing- ton’s kickers for 1924, Eakins, when he was in his prime, was the king of all punters, getting distance and height so necessary to effective kicking. Eakins has consented to show Coach Bagshaw’s booters for next season all of the fine points of the game he knows so well. As soon as the season is over with the Oregon game next Saturday the varsity kickers will report to Eakins some two or three times a week all winter and spring for practice. Washington has some likely kickers coming up for next season, George Guttormson, the Everett boy, being by far the bes$ prospect. By constant practice this fall Guttorm- son has developed wonderfully and is kicking around §5 yards consistently in practice, getting good heighth along with his distance. Under Eakins’ expert tutorship Guttormson should de- velop even faster, and when the 1924 season rolls around Bagshaw should have a great kicker in this hard-working youngster, Besides Guttormson, Bagshaw will probably have Hugh Beckett, George Wilson, Elmer Tesreau and Bill Wright re- port to Eakins for instruction. | Crescents — Will Play | Mets Here eric 0 cor E invasion of the Prairie league | scona quarter “Babe Ic teams of the Pacific Coast opens | <., this week with Saskatoon playing the | ¢, three Coast teams. The. Crescen Gridiron Gossip Californta, for the fourth straight year, fa champion of Pacific coast football, The Bi Gefeated the Stanford Card: 1s Saturday, 9 to 0, before 12,000 people In t locked @ punt behind Stanford's 9 and dropped on t down of the game. in the came headed by the great Newsy Lalon¢ will battle the Seattle Mets here ned Inst but Washington & a atord by the same score thia year in the Prairie league last y Lalonde has strengthened considerably and should ‘The Unlversity of Southern California | Coast leaguers quite a figh [trimmed Idaho, 9-0, at Los Angeles tn | Lalonde has a new goalie in Hains-|the last game of worth, an amateur from Ontario, | ©'4>* be report great k king nly’ thing that Kept down the score for Idaho, who Is said to be the goots. Cameron, the veteran Eastern de. fense star, has joined the Crescenta and will play beside Smith, a young. ster who got his start last year. Lalonde, himself, will alternate at center with Dunderdale, the voteran obtained from the Coast. At one of the wings will’be Berlan- quette, the Eastern vet, who is a new addition, and at. the other will be Cook, a youngster, Several rookies, Just breaking tn,| are holding down the utility post tions. LAST GAMES the Yale, beating Harvard, 13 to 0, tn @ see of mud at Cambridgy, completed the first mccesaful season the Bulldogs have bad tn years, Halfback Pond ran 67 y | tor m touchdown after @ Harvard fu lin the necond quarter, Bill Mallory | Kicked two field goals for the other eix t points, Byracase won from Nebraska af coln in the closing minutes of p' MoRlae, Syracuae’s great Lin- Tilinois wae given am terrific scare by Ohio State Saturday, being outplayed by 0 Buckeyes for t t final- winning im the f 9 ty 0, & field goal w FOR GRIDDERS | Latham, Sax and Chapman, back- field men, and Vonder Aha, tackle, ine in the third quarter, b jare playing thetr last gamo for Ore. |#0re. Ohio successfully « | gon in the grid tussle with Washing: | this te ao it thie yuan ton here Saturday. | Bryan, guard, Hall, end and Ziel, | halfback, will lay away the mole skins for good as Washington men | when the game ts over. 2 ichigan’s 10-0 vietory ever Minne tied the W ines With Iltnols for © Big Ten title. Notre Dame defeated Carnegie ‘Tech It’s Not Good, he mont “strenuous srason an} team has tackled In years, But Not Bad Chet Wynne, All-American full- bdck at Notre Dame a few sea- sons ago, now coach of Creig ton university, has won but two games this season. His team, however, held both Kansas unt- |] versity and the Kansas aggies to 6 to 0 scores. Indiana beat Purdue, 8 to 0, Iown trimmed Northwent, 17 to 14 ago beat Wisconsin, 13 to 6, Big Ten games Saturday, The Army and Navy, playing on = muddy field in New York, battled to a scoreless tie in th class! | if annua Lafayette beat Lehigh, 13 to 3, In thelr | annual classic at Bethlehem. A Yale Star gamo for Yale against Harvard Sat had in many seasons, ‘MAPLE LEAF AND BOEING the feature ga me of the North- I ted toa l to 1 tle ina teat yenterday afternoon on the Upper Woodland Park field. The ex-oldiers had the edge thru ‘Tackle Blair, who played a atellar urday, The Bulldogs completing the finest football year that Old Eli has TEAMS TIE) west Soccer league, Boeing's and | tho Maple Leaf Post eleveng bat-| ing e * & * * & » & ILL COACH HUSKY PUNTERS FOR NEXT Y e+ & & BERCOT-TRAMBITAS RETURN GO SET FOR POOL NEXT WEE *» » \Wilson Is Best Back On Coast Washington Star Plays Brilliantly When Hus- kies Beat Cougars FORGE WILSON fs tho best all- around halfback in the Pacifico Const conference. Tho powerful University of Wash- ington star ts without a peer when it comes cracking holes in the enemy line, and he's the best de fensive back of tho season, Wilson hasn't the elusive speed of Don Nichols, the Callfornia star in the open field, but tn all.around abil. ity he rates as the premier halfback of the season, It was Wilson who wag tho out- standing star of Washington's 24-7 victory over Washington State at the Stadium Saturday. Tho Everett boy played a wonderful gamo of football for the Huskies, GAME 18 HARD-PLAYED Tho game, played on a fairly good field, considering tho rain of the fow days previous, was a hard-played strugele, with Washington showing dominant superiority thruout. The lone Pullman touchdown came in the closing minutes of the game when Washington's second string men were in the game, A long pass from Zaspfel to Waldorf, in which the) latter completely outfoxed Ham) to acore, Washington scored a lone touch- down in the second quarter when big Ed Kuhn speared a Pullman forward pass and ran nearly 60 yards, Marker | bringing him down from behind on Pullman's threoyard line, Elmer| Tesreau bucked It over. Leonard place-kicked 20 yards at the end of the half, but the gun beat the play, and {t wasn’t allowed. Les Sherman placed-kicked 20 If Cornell wins over Pennsylvania three, While some of the experts picked schedule, it is stretching the mouth and Penn cannot be consid played a Jeading role in the succe: Greene, netted a 60-yard gain and a| Guard Berean in holding the opposition 1s worthy of more He looms up a8 one of the best forwards in east mention. J. H. BEREAN on Thanksgiving Day, and St looks like a certainty, Doble's great team will be ranked among the first | insist Cornell has played a hand- point, as games with Colgate, Dart- ered as soft. of the Ithacans. The work of Jrte passing egn football. yards in the third quarter, Sherman picked up a Pullman |fumble in mid-field and ran within scoring distance Inte In the same | quarter, being forced off-nide on the out, and only a strong defenso| siz.yard line. | staved off defeat fc ; | TESKEAU SCORES deciaiv: defeated Car| AGAIN | bor to 0, in another league} Tosreau again bucked over a touch war the start of the las Wost Seattle and Tacoma played| 6 intercepted a Pullman a 2 to 2 tle In the other league| forward pass near the end of th contest. |game and Fred Abel, subbing for| |BEAVER FIVE PLANS TOUR | The Oregon Agricultural college | basketball quintet, will take a barn | storming trip-thru California during |the Christmas holiday Ce Ha ger is arranging for elg mes, and will take eight men with |\CARPENTIER TO |; FIGHT SPALLA | Georges Carpentier, t champion, and Ermi ian champion, will fight Italy, in Jan. uary, according to cablo dispatches. \O. A. C. WINS | OREGON TITLE | The Oregon Aggies are champions |of Oregon, beating the Webfoote: |5-0, at urday. P; quarterback, yards thru a |broken field for the only touchdown of the game. DUGAN IS A WONDER Joo Dugan, by his |the Yankees Jast season and his} No changes are expected in t |marvelous showing In tho worlM|regular New York Yankee lincup| series, Just about earned the right|next spring. For a time it waa |to be classed as the greatest third] thought that George Boley would be micker in the game. Jonal| purchased from the Baltimore club; Heaguern say that “Pie” Traynor of/to replace Everett. Scott at short Pittsburg is his only rival. | BY JOVE BOYS T WAVE AN ATTRACTIVE PROPOSITION HERE! « DUST THREE CHANCES | LEFT ON A RAFFLE FoR A TWENTY POUND “URKEN ! = T HELD THESE Ticker ASTI KNEW You LADS NOULD BE EAGER “TO BUY “THEM ~~ ONLY FIFTY CENTS A SIN MATOR ~~ “< MRS. HOOPLE IS LOOKIN' FoR You !+ SMD SOMETHING ABOUT SOME SMALL CHANGS THATS MISSING OUT OF AN OL! “HEN ~~ HUNG A MEMORY E! Yer, MAYBE MY MEMORY DOES BLOW A FUSE, NOW Ai’ KilowW A CERTAIN BOSCO Wilo ASKED MEO PAY For iiss LAUNDRY “Wo & SIGN ON HA--You AIT SAYING ATTHING J+ ALL You'RE DOING 1S MAKING FUNKY FACES! A =| Bor 1 Di His VER Si reat work for ‘BY AHERN] Leonard Ziel, on the very first play he tried, wriggied thru tho left side of the Pullman Ine 18 yards for a| touchdown. All of the tries for points were converted A falr crowd of about 20,000 saw| | the game | Washington {s back to the grind today, preparing for the game with Oregon at tho stadium Saturday that | closes tho season for the Huskies Ed Kuhn was the only casualty | Saturday, the big tacklo having to | | leave the game with Injuries. | Do Not Praise Bill for This New York Bill Brennan, fighter, is the largest contributor to Omaha's Community Chest drive, His share of his recent fiasco with Billie Miske, St. Paul, was turned over to charity. Don't praiso Bill. The State Boxing commission did It. |YANKS WILL NOT CHANGE) |atan. but the Iron Man went so| well durnig the world’s series that | the deal {4 said to be off. | TEAMS FIGHT FOR YOUNGSTER) Portland and Vernon are still | fighting over George Slade, a yo shor He was awarded to Ve non by President McCarthy Inst fall, | but Portland will carry the fight to the minor league board of arbitra-| tion meeting in Chicago next} BIG GAME FOR OREGON TEAM Paci univer of Oregon, will tackle its hardest game of tt a | on against Montana, at Portland Saturday For a small institution, the Forest City aggregation has made a fine record this year. | DEMPSEY MAY jfor the position, |signed on with th D BE. DUGDALE, whote interest + ing baseball reviews have be come a regular feature of The Star's sport department, has left with hin! wife for the at, where ho will vi: with friends at Minneapolis and Pe: oria attending the national} baseball meetings tn Chicago week | after next. Dugdale will send some befa home which should make fine read ing for Seattle baseball fans. py dete Clyde Mearkle showed fine form at the plate and got good results an a hitter, the young infield. er simply can't throw well enough to hold down a second base job for a Coast league club, The announce- ment that walvers had been asked on him didn’t come as much of a sur- prise, iV nounced that he intends to use is Jackson, the Alabama boy, at | shortstop next year, big loague c fey seem to doubt itand arealread |trading Charley Hollocher or Rabbit | Maranyille to the Gian 4 fosas f H HILB JOHN McGraw has an-| TERY, for the past| paseball at| ch: | Stufty | firat | coach cently quit the Ch are the men rumored a AINSMITH, drifters In bas {}DDID | Tu the ball, has finally one Yew York ¢ ants, Boots and Bingles in Stove League Battles Ho has seen service with Washing- ton and Detroit, in the American league, and with st. Louis and Brooklyn, in the Natio Ae tlon E ection of John Barrell, sec retary of the National Associa of Minor Leagues, ip taking od. | stories of the big diamond sessions |OVer the presidency of the Coast league until the board has had a chance to settle the Coast league strife is a good move, The two fac- tions in the Coast circult are making a grievous mistake in not getting to- getber and pulling for each other in- stead of against each other as they are doing. There are thousands of dollars invested in Coast league ball that these same moguls are endan- gering, as the public ts getting sick and tired of this squabbling and the Pacific coast is getting a black eyo thruout the country for its bush league politics. R*= CALDWELL, tho silm pitch- er, who would still be in the show if he could have ever jlearned to etick to the straight and narrow, still has all of the old abil- ity that made him one of the best pitchers in the majors when he was rig Caldwell was one of the big coms in the winning of the American as- ation pennant for Kansas City the past son, and he to have all of his old cun- ms ning. A pitcher who should be a star in ho big time {s drawing minor league pay because he couldn't attend to his knitting when he had his chance, So COX, the Iatest fistic phe. nom and sensation of the North west as it were, will make his Seattle debut in the special event of Tues. day night's card at tho Crystal Pool, which will be headlined by tho six round Northwest welterweight cham Travie Davis | pionship tilt between and Young Dudley. Cox broke in the headline brigade ks a bang In Aberdeen a few w ago when ho knocked out Lak Morrow. Ho crashed into the c cium in Tacoma a week or #0 later | by knocking the rugged Nick Sugar} for a goal in the fourth round of a highly sensatoinal fight. Cox will make his bow fans against Ernie Ryan, a re rival from Philadelphia. with ent ar- Ryan ked out for the edification of the promoters and tho fans yesterday and appears to be a mean dispenser of padded leather, } Cox is a phenom in the truest | sense of the word, He first donned} & boxing glove in Tacoma a year or 80 ago, boxing around the gyms with Young Sam Langford and other boys. Up until he faced Lakey Morrow in! LATEST FISTIC SENSATION HERE TUESDAY dnd Eddie Pinkman and aren't barred, Travie Davis and Young Dudley re getting plenty of sparring mates these days, and the gymnasium hounds are being treated to eome real workouts, Pete Brss, the Great Fulls, Mont., warrior, the rest created quite a stir when he donned the gloves with Chick Tabit, the local welterweight. Bross ses the famous Dempsey style of milling. That {s, weaving in and| out, crouching, shifting continually, and pile driving in both hands. The Montana battler didn't give | Tabit a chance to set once in two} three-mint essions. And Tabit| ig no slouch. Ci k is coming along| rapidly and figures to give any of} the lesser lights around here at{ his weight plenty of action. | The complete card follows: Travie Davis vs. Young Dudley, welterweights. | Pete Bross ys, Billy Harms, mid. | dlewelght. ‘ ‘ | Sailor Cox es. Ernie Ryan, junior | Aberdeen ho had participated in but | Vélters. | threo fig Ho already shapes up| Chick Tabit vs, Sailor Thoude, BATTLE WILLS |! # polished veteran in tho gym. | Welterwelghts. | |He has @ tendency to get wild and|_ Danny Carlson vs. Jack Richmond, __ Jack Dempsey will be back In New | woolly in actual combat, but his train. | !htweights | York about December It ig un-lers aré working that habit out of es | od that negotiations will be/ him. According to those who have| | ed for a match between tho| seen him in action he ia tho hardest | HERDER MAKES | champion and Harry Wills, colored | hitting lightweight that had loomed | | -| Killing four bears and wounding ‘ two others before breakfast, the oth. | er moi George McDonald, Syracuse-W ashin gton sew ‘herder m1 ine aiatcie Teen y : 9 Republic and the Columbia river, is eo > thought to have ma a record for Game for Christmas? | 32 c¢ 8 Sere SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 26.—California having won the || 4 been making raids on his sheep. coast football championship Saturday by defeating Stanford 9 to 0, in the annual “big game,” football talk |} ALWAYS A CHANCE turned to the post-season games with Eastern teams. vis ot oh Lee deicesree we pcs : : ) comes increasingly intricate. . . . 1 wo such games are in pro: pect. The Zev-In Memoriam incident in-| " The navy will play for the East in the annual New || dicates the impossibility of picking Year ame at Pasadena, and negotiations were opened |/* winner, even the race is today to secure California's consent to represent the ||'™™ West. The Bears are not seeking post-season games but it was considered probable they would accept. HOPE FOR EUROPE The second game is heing arranged by Los Angeles || ,,1°, Uureve can manage to stick portsme hope to sign up Syracuse and Washington || pings get ov a to play in the Los Angeles coliseum Christmas day the German uation may yet be Rola | = A good defense has) K Star Ring Attraction Is Landed Logger and _ Portland Socker Had Great Fight in Tacoma Recently ODB BERCOT yersus Johnny ‘Trambitas! That's the fistic tid-bit that will be ished up to Seattle fight fans Le cember 4 at the Crystal Pool, The Monroe logger and tho Port- land socker are down to fight six. rounds in a return match on “@ date. Two weeks ago in Taco: they were hitting up a terrific pace when Trambitas fouled the Monroe boy and lost the fight. Up to that time it was a ding-dong battle. Trambitas, with his ability to sock, makes a great match with the aggressive Bercot. If they fight anything Ike they did in Tacoma, next week's Crystal Pool show ought to be a bear, TACOMA HEADLINER IS ATTRACTIVE Joe Waterman and John Pete, Ta- coma promoters, have lined up a very nifty main event for the City of Destiny fpns for Wednesday night when they present Bob Harper, Se- attle welterweight, and Ted Krache, the Hoquiam boom man, in a six- round joust. It's the toughest as signment that Krache hag had yet, as Harper is an experienced man, and can fight. SEALS SING UP THIRD SACKER Gussje Subr, young third sacker in the San Francisco Winter league, will be given a trial by the Seals next spring. He has been going great guns for the past few weeks, PENN TO PLAY YALE ELEVEN® Pennsylvania may replace the Army on Yale's football schedule this year. The Army still persists in | playing first-year men on its eleven, | while the Navy has adopted a frosh rule. It may cause a break between | Yale and the Army. Penn and Yale haven't met on the gridiron since 1894. FOOTBALL FACTS BY BILLY EVANS THE QUESTION Sign is given for a forward pass. On a direct pass from cen- ter, the man delegated to pass the ball runs with it a short dis- tance in order to allow the field to become properly set for the pass. Observing that all the players eligible to receive t pass are covered, and noticinaffl that several of the opposing team are fast charging on him, the passer deliberately throws the ball to the ground only a few feet av from where he was standing. It was apparent that he had made no effort to go thru with the original play. The play ‘was made on the second down. Is such a play permissible? If not, what is the penalty? THE ANSWER Such an act on the part of the player delegated to make the pass is pure evasion. No player has the right to intentionally throw the ball in front of him, in order to make an incompleted forward pass, rather than gothru with the play and take a chance of having it intercepted. If the referee so rules, the offending side shall put the ball in play ata spot 10 ya back of the preceding down and the play shall count as a down. In_potnt of consistency, at least, the Harvard system of losing suf- rT in comparison to the item of winning. ? ‘DP HOCKEY SASKATOON vs SEATTLE Wednesday, Noy, 28 8:30 P.M. Sharp Reduced Prices, 75e, 81.10, $1.50 (Tax Included) Special Added Attraction Skating Exhibition by Mr. James Bourke, formerly of Healy's Golden Glade: York City, Reserved seats now on at the Arena Office, MA in-2493, Hard Times Carnival Monday, Dee. 3rd. Prizes for hard timers. Special musto— Exhibition skating. Public skating from ® p.m, to 11 p,m. 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