The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 27, 1923, Page 16

About F ights| K and Fighters BY LEO H, LASSEN \CRETION, they say, is the better part of valor. Take the example of Jack The Canadian heavyweight ~ is being built up as a possible championship contender, but he refuses to meet Harry Wills at this time, saying that ‘And in refusing to meet the col heavyweight. Renault ts doling } wise thing, as the Canadian can't hit hard enough to offset W! Texperience and in one fight he might ruin himself as a champion “ship prospect where by waiting he|, figures to have w good chance with | Wills with the experience he will! gain in the meantime. Lonnie Austin really did a wise Whink when he kept Dode Bercot) away from Johnny Trambitas until| he figured the logger had enough | ‘experience to cope with a dyna- "mite hitter like Trambitas. Big Field Entered in ‘W’ Classic Crack Washington Two- Miler Picked to Win Four-Mile Jaunt Today INCHESTER KING, crack Unt: versity of Washington distance runner, entered the annual varsity cross-country run, which was to be staged over a four-mile course this afternoon, a slight favorite to win, A field of 20 starters was expected for the classic by Coach Edmundson, who was to start the men on their long jaunt at 4 p. m, at the stadium. | “ Ramsey’ Bob Zener and Baker were the high finishers. Ramsey came in second to Bill McGinnis last year, ‘The 1922 champion isn’t In school at present. After a lap around the stadium track the runners swing over tho course to the south, doubling back to the university gym and thenere turn to the stadium for the finish. Today's race was to be the climax of a month or more of daily running, in which the fraternity and inde- |pendent teams have been racing against time. Today's race ts to count in the final standing of the am races and will also be for spe jcial prizes donated by | business men. In the team results tho first five } ure in the scoring. eu Chatter ] As it Is Trambitas is a danger-| ous man for an aggressive boy like Rercot as ery apt to walk into one that ay be fatal. Trambitas shows Well with some one who will carry the fight to him. ‘Their recent bout {n Tacoma was | @ whale of a fight until Bercot fwon on a foul in the fifth round Waterman Has First Call on MacDonnell Ray Ray Schatk ts gradually bowing to Pop | the Monroe battler is year for a decade Cantillon, veteran Minneapo! = As soon as Jack MacDonnell is; Teady to fight again, Joe Waterman ‘will have first call for his services, ‘and he probably will use the Seattle conceded to bo among | university | | men to count for each group will tig: | Billy Evans, " Jack Hohenberg, Ear! A, Fry, D. B. Dugdale, Ray Eckmann, Melvin Voorhees THE STAR SPORT STAFF Tom Olsen, Joe Williams, Leo H. Lassen, Henry L, Farrell, Alex C. Rose, M any Net ew | Faces for t Coasters Wholesale Changes Ex- pected in Rosters of P. C. Ball Teams for 1924 Te 1p wholesale 1 request for waivers coming from Seattle Los Angeles and Vernon means that the fans in the Pacific Coast league cities can expect a flock of new facoa for the 1924. season Oakiand, Salt Lake, and possibly Portland, are expected to have a lot of new men, too, The big shakeup in playing talent will be the best thing for the league | that could happen, as new blood | will create new interest. Unless a lot of strength ts obtained for the weaker clubs to combat Ban Fran- ln Sacramento and Portland next year the 1924 race will be but a repetition of this year’s one-sided affair. As soon as the minor league board of arbitration settles the Coast league muddle the magnates will know where they stand and can lay more definite plans. ‘PAIR OF GRID BANQUETS ON FOR TONIGHT WO big football banquets are being held tonight In Seattle, | the University of Washington grid- ders being the honor guests at Rogers’ confectionary store in the | University district and the high school players belng dined by the! | HLY at the Y. M. C. A Both dinners are annual affairs, | the Rogers banquet being one of the | big of the season for the | | varsity eleven. Mana yules will | | have his usual snappy program lined up for tonight | | At the HL-Y dinner the main thing] | be the balloting high school elevens themselves. Their | wi as the of- y teams for the season ‘CHANGES DUE. | “eprendn” | importance jon the All-City by the players After a long layoff Travie Davis, Everett welterweight, does a come- back tonight when he faces Young| Dudley, colored mitt slinger, in the| main event of the Crystal Pool show. DAVIS AND |derful offensive |a super-human defense DUDLEY IN HEADLINER | RAVIE DAVIS and Young Dud-} ley, welterweights, are headlining | the smoker at the Crystal Pool to- night in a slx-round the return of Davis to the ring after | a long iay-off. who is a clever miller, ox od to give | na middleweight, lly Harms, of hitting Hght- e Ryan, of | jal event of weight, tangles with F Philadelphia, in the spe four round: Chick Tabit and Sailor Thoude tan- gle in one four-round preliminary at} punds, and Danny Carlson and | | Powerful Defensive Succeeds U.S.C. Touchdown Lone Black Mark Against Coast Champions GREAT deal of noise has been made about Cornell leading the country in scoring on the gridiron this year, but little hag been said about California having the niftiest defense in the Jand. The Golden Bears completed their regular season with but seven points tallied by the opposition, a forward- passing attack in the dying minutes of the gan with the University Southern California netting the Tri Jans a touchdown, Washington swept down the field in the last period of their game with California for a march of nearly 80 yards, but in the pinch the Bears held. Again in the game with Stan- ford the Cardinals moved into Bear territory after a great surge down the field, but when the test came the Bears again proved their class, In former years it has been a won- that won for the but this season it has been upled with Witter anda hols that Bears, a great greater kicker in safety in N | brought the Bears another champion- ship on the Pacific Coast. SYRACUSE BETTER CARD THAN NAVY If Syracuse comes West to play either Washington or the University of Southern California at Los Angeles on Christmas day the New | York team will be much more of a card than the hasn't The ‘avy team, which ad a very wonderful season. is scheduled to play Cali- fornia dena New Year's day. The § use team, except for the | loss to Colgate, ranks as one of the very best teams in the East, having defeated Nebraska, Penn State and Pittsburg. MILSTEAD BEST TACKLE OF YEAR There may be a lot of doubt abot other politions, but when {t comes ti + | tackles it is generally conceded thru} country that Century Mil- ale’s great tackle, is the peer of them qJl this year. ery once in a while some one player comes along who shines out from all of the rest and this time it \is Milstead. He has played a great jrolé in the return of Yale to power on the chalked field. heavyweight with some good miller bef IN OREGON'S x: Richmond, a pair of lght- at his Kay st. athletic club, in Ta- | coma. t Dr. Loughney, MacDonnell’s mana- ger, has promised Waterman first “Bagement all right, then he will be PFotted out for inspection before Se- MacDonnell’s injured right hand “Me coming around slowly. Ho ts ‘Working every day in the gym, bu t he can't take any chances punch! ng | “hard with it yet. _ Three More Fights for Dempsey ie Tommy Gibbons, Harry Wills, Luis Firpo. Those are the big three for Jack Dempsey. The heavyweight king 1s talking Of retiring, but with a business man Mike Jack Kearns as his manager, St is doubtful if Dempsey will pass Up three big matches like those are Bound to be. Gibbons, by staying 26 rounds with the champion, mado | sh. himselt a card with Dempsey when | ity. PHILLIES SEEK they meet again; the Firpo-Dempsey Blam-bang battle in New York ts fresh in the memory of all sport} | fang for them to know what a gato ®uch a return fight would bring, and Harry Wills, who has charged} Dempsey with sidestepping him, would draw another million-dollar wate. | Those three fights would mean Mearly $3,000,000 to Dempsey, and chances are that he would win all three, Nig Yeager Is __ Bust Nig Yeager, the much Portland heavyweight, has Out to be another bust, A few weeks ago he lost to an. elent Frank Farmer, and the other Night, in Portiand, the best he could get with Army Walsh, tho lumber. ing Bremerton heavyweight, was a Graw in ten rounds, Yeager {a a good local card tn Portland, becaune of a large person Sl following,” but Seattle fans who have seen him ight say he ts just a big fellow who hits fairly well with his right hand ana thing eles to go with vertined turned hasn't an Where Colima and Duffy Are Wise Bert Colima, the Los. Angeles middleweight, and Jimmy Duffy, the Oakland welt ight, are wise birds for staying home, where they are big cards and where they get a lot "of easy money for meeting battlers Over the four-round rou Both follows took trips Kast inst Year and got knocked o boys back there, Beating from a fellow fey, who hails Connecticut going down five or six times before going out. Duffy by Lew Tendler rett. Fighting only fore home fans, beat on the € Duffy are sate game DOBIF. WORKING FOR PENN TILT ITHACA, N touches for the game with “ on by Coach Dot team leaves tor by crack ima took fa Named Dela from four rounds they and be The fin Joo Berger, former Texas leaguer, bas | | 'HARVARD MEN | The ARE HONORED Harvard foot. n award Henry qualities ip, scholarshiy WALLACE HOOD ... ga [said to b will be Wh the next FARR IS TO BOX McLEAN ‘ pe iM 4a 2); "HOCKEY el: Us SEATTLE Wh pdnesd: jay, Nov, 28 arp Ned Th ed Price The, $1.10, 81050 (Ta Special Added Attraction Skating Exhibits James Hourke Hard Times Carnival ay, Dee rd, d timer, Speetat sn Exhivition skating 7 skating from 9 p.m. to 11 pene Prizes tor Photo by Price & Carter Saskatoon | Beaten by V ancouver im STANDING OF feat the defeat, 13 RIC NE of ed Waldron Erickson, , has ¢ Jacobson and timber lar linesm end—must high-cla a good chance of making the regular var sity squad FOOTBALL | FACTS ||, mm sso BY BILLY EVANS mar QUESTION | y Bill Klepper, in end team “BY has «| <rlved In Beattie, too quickly. His ree re z ey | whether M on or Bi A iy would handle the ‘ shed The the Rose ¢ | team ” to take of the alips The motme via San Fi > the controversy an THE CLUBS The T C natantly ‘ center on club next year advan: | ock w short distance in or impreasion t ball forward, e for the Ma-| pans the by the offal What about it? TT ANSWER Such an act on the part center cannot be « Lalonde has a} ly m. team In posses Mer jot enough. Sn: ing it back from ound with one motion ball s : A ory put where you are of the ued ns actual s the opposed to and big pen = WON'T STARVE’ send a team tinuous hands, the handa on this r cited, the cen of the ball from the ground or mov rward a Onis ‘MIDDLETON WILL BE SENT AWAY |i." ger of the| othe t made | spatch re ancleco, | Kenworthy The Garrison fed post-season | wii) , 80 You needn golng| the GRID TUTORS. HP)RASTIC changes are expected tn D the athletic supervision at both Agricultural college and at iversity of Oregon before an- football season opens Rutherford, Aggie coach, has been a disappointment, altho Rutherford claims, that being forced | to be the athletic director at Cor. vallis as well ax football coach hurts to| his coaching. Shy Huntington at Oregon ts op- wed by the alumni, it is understood, not © offered another con Oregon | Dick in some talk that Glenn PORTLAND TEAM |xtee nner seen GAME may be sought to fil BEAR HOOPERS PLAN TRAINING Tho University of California bas ketball squad 1 train at Pomona | for the Coast conference season. Fourteen taken | along for t which extend tmas | holidays ors train{ thruout being seaso' the Chr | LUIS A COLL to} Down in South Ame n't] Firpo an art collector, first time we ever | black eye called art TOR ea they call| and that’s heard a t R BOARDING x HOUSE get together In the opener. Druxman is staging the weights, Nate show. WALTERS BETTER | THAN HORRELL < Curtain goes up at 8:30. Down South they are talking up “Babe” Horrell, California center, for All-American honors, but right WILSON MAKES j here at Washington we have the best GREAT RECORD hiidaed on the Pacific Coast in Chal- 3 sweat Nov. 27.-| mers Walters STATE COLLEGE, Pa. Nov. 27-— | Quiet and unassuming, this Ey- Harry Wilson, one of the greatest halfbecks of the season, has scored | “7°? D0Y bas come thru with as good 13 touchdowns this year, every Ei yr ord hy ering eee = touchdown scored by the Penn State | never has tl dis say, but lets ac- in the big games this year. He tal-|tiong rather than words speak for Med three nensational runs against | him. When it comes to backing up tho Navy, one of 60, one of 70 and/» jine on the defense he is the best one 5. The score sheet shows he/man the West has had in a long, scored twice nst West Virginia, |iong time ang compares favorabi ) once wia Tech and three | particularly in the past few games, Penn, | with the great work of “Dutch” Dun : W. S. C. center of a few years Another Sisler ag0. Dunlap, in his prime, was con- on Card Club? to be one of the best men at BRNcH RIC ne Bt alters hasn't made a bad pass Louls Car¢ year, times against the position the Northwest has ever » and he is a valuable man to his tes m becuse he’s a 60-minute player, one who is in there playing every minute of the game. he re gards Southpaw. ( er, of his club, as orge Sis- ler, Ricke isler di rect from of Mich- igan, wh Dyer from Rice ins . fexas, Sisler, Dyer a sec deve Lee fis ; ETTING READY FOR OREGON | Washington is down to the grind again, getting primed for the game with Oregon, the finale of the regu- lar season, which will be played at the stadium on Saturday. Oregon hasn't been going well of late, but Washington must not let }down now because a victory over | Oregon means the completion of the finest football season that a Wash- ington team has had since Gil Dobie. as well been used @ of his bat a real it PRINCETON GRID BOOKING TOUGH The Tig ahead of Ni KSON the st SA “STRONG MAN” rong men attending the University of Wash former Ballard high school next y year. r with the experience he gained thi Erickson’s one fault is a lack of aggressive ness and confidence in himself. Once he real- izes his own possibilities he will be hard to stop. Erickson was slated for a regular tackle berth this fall until Roy Petrie blossomed out and took over the position The big Ballard boy, however, i with it and has a good chance of ome regular out of a job next year Brick along with Abe Brix, give Washington some next season. Altho five of the en return, two holes—one at be filled, and there is a ubstitute sticking moving on, Wilson, Hans tellar varsity Washington regu- guard and constant demand one at for | T TOLD You “To A COUPLE BALCONY! “WERE MUST GE A WNPNoTIST ON TH’ BILL THIS Ger NTH F anioeee TONE IS ALWAYS “WH! LUCKIEST~- HAR- WAR ~~ I WON A GRAND PIANNY THAT WAN ONCE, BUT “TRADED IT WITH A FEtLA F ' ‘OR & \~ body but Ed Kuhn, the big will be ready for Oregon. hurt in the W. S. C. is a doubtful starter against Saturday. Abe Wilson is ex- ace him, [JAC K KNIGHT TO SHREVEPORT ck Knight, veteran Oakland in- ider, will be sent to the Shreveport in the Texas league, according to reports from the South. Knight, | who was a member of the Seattle | club in 1919, can still hit, but has slowed up too much in the field to n infield position regularly any er in this company. B TONIGHT CRYSTAL POOL Second and Lenora National Athletic Club, Inc, NATE DRUXMAN Matchmaker FRATURING Travie Davis of Everett 6 Rounds vs. 6 Rounds badly “Young” Dudley of California OTHER STAR BOU ba frat Hout Starts at 8:30 P.M, on sale ar 0 Reserved $1.65 Admission $1.10