The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 5, 1923, Page 16

About Fights and Fighters) BY LEO H. LASSEN i} HE champion rough and} tumble fighter of them) Smith, welterweight} kingpin. } ~_ You'll have to take Jack | Fahie’s word for it. The ‘manager of Johnny Tram-| “bitas was Smith’s handler for something like 14 years} off and on. } > “Smith never knew what quit! Meant,” says Fahie, “I seconded ew him in two fights In which his MP iert arm was fractured early in Geach and he kept on fighting with his arm helpless, “The. great kick came in his Smany fights with Joe Walcott, the Feolored demon. They fought some- Thing like 13 or 14 times and Joo Biways said that Smith was a Perfect gentleman in the ring. ‘But MHif Ah ever sees Bill coming in the Pront doahh of a saloon, Ah go out the back doah!" declared Joe em- Phatically, time and time again, Walcott, with his short body, TP would come tearing in at Smith! PP and it looked like he was butting,| as he would charge with his head Py down, but Smith, who had excep: | P tionally strong teeth, would crack Joe in the back of the head with once ES ae /y them and he used to make Walcott | Wild doing it. Anything went with | > Smith. | “I remember when Smith fought | @ preliminary to the Co: Witz} Simmons fight with a fellow named; George Green. He beat Green with} ne hand, his left afm being broken arly. That night he got in a Fough and tumble fight in a saloon| find knocked somebody dead with iis bum arm in a sling at that.” | * How Smith Got is Nickname Smith's monicker, Accomiing to Fa was him because of his sudden Hpto ring fame and his P telling the res the first thing hat popped “into his head. They Rever did know just where Smith ame from his whole histe Was more by fabricatior F Somebc started “Mysterious” Bi ) stuck. ~ Smith’s Great _ Fight With Lavigne =) Smith's greatest fight >|) Kid Lavigne in San Fra 3899, says Fahte. = Smith was th: pion and Lavi Tightweights,’ had to be wei Just before the She had to make 142 poun | Worked the day of the f Tis regular road Toutine. He told m fight that he would have Tavigtie, which scemed Because of t > ski Vigne Might drop becau cendition. “Lavigne 1 on Bill, who evening of it, hard about the ing two ribs Mth round he smacked one of ears and gave Perfect cauliflower. “Lay e rolled al out on his feet, after him, Jumped ir Smith would dead in anothe no quarter and gave “My jump falling for him} it calling ith and was rweight cham of the and gym fi the his ~The Fight in Astoria “1 remember, torla mn * bis » his oppon % jumped in the nf 8 fight to be J out of hi turned him and flat, wing that he wasn + Posed thinking mou knoc rded. Smith Now in { Portland he ed most of t has been Huntington Quits at Oregon; Kerr Will Be Out of a | the latest name to be ‘TRACKS WILL IS AN WAVERLEY LANDS CRACK I THE SHATTLE STAR s tanford ManM entioned as H untington Successor Job When Glenn Warner Reports; Dick Ruther- ford Expected to Get Gate at O. A. C. HY HUNTINGTON has resigned as head football coach at the University of Oregon, and Dick Rutherford, O. A. C. mentor, expected to walk the gridiron plank soon for his failure to deliver at Corvallis. Andy Kerr, Stanford coach for the past two seasons, is} mentioned as a possible successor to Shy Huntington. Kerr had good success in his two years at Stanford and he is expected to go out after a head coach berth when} Glenn Warner comes to take over the Cardinal forces next | spring. Kerr can stay as assistant tutor if he desires to, | se = =< | but chances are that he will) | strike out for himself. a ee ee ee }O. AWC, but his> system bas been | 4 bust | Washington and); ate returning to grid: | tic changes are ex: | pected in Oregon football, | SITY OF OREGON, Eu-} 5 Dec, &.—The resigna- | tion of Shy Huntington, Or ns | foothall coach, is today in the hands | of President Campbell of the univer- sity. To Go to Giants? Fallure of the alumni to cooper ate with him is the reason advanced | | by Huntington for his action in re-| signing. Since the Stanford game} | there has been a noticeable and out-| | spoken feeling among alumni that | Huntington should > nd } after the closing game of the season this demand became In his letter of resignation, Hu: ington lays blame for the lack of co- | Joperation which led to his failure to put out a winning team, to what he | ousted, insistent ‘ould be produced at hor ated for a “high 7 ‘x peslgnation a Wrecked fo pach Is Lew 7 ahtweight, or BE TESTED NOW : on. to Herr Metropolitan President an Obertubbe EUGENE WILL STAGE MEET CLINE WINS tern 4 tes Olymr “(OUR BOARDING HOUSE WALTER REUTHER Is Walter Reuther, former Coaster, to join the New Giants? That is the latest baseball rumor. paw is now the property of the Brooklyn Dodge anxious for a change, it is said. He cinnati, too, in the National league. Changes Are Exvected in Sacramento Hurlers HEN Sacramento was making its final bid for th Coast league championship in a crucial series with |») San Francisco at Sacramento the supposedly powerful Solon pitching staff cracked wide open. York) that The big south-| x and is has served with Cin-|" Right then and there Manager Charley Pick decided to get a new flock of hurlers for next year and radical changes the are expected in S mento pitching dep Will Hughes, t looked ke on th Apple Pickers to Be Cougars righthander hi ducati ayed the who 7 ain I Harr enton, quarterback; Garner of boys nin ny nd Park nter W HERN | ————= BY A wo 5c oe eying plank CALGARY TO MEET METS M Net jeattle M FOLEY WINNER OVER EDMONTON wolght man he YALE CAGERS VS. ILLINOI NEWMAN HERE TODAY *"<" 1 S'8 cp eee a aici aed DY KERR TO BE OREGON'S NEW FOOTBALL MENT NSTRUC heen | TOR ‘Hoare Is Talented Portland Club Gets Good Man to Teach Link Game; His Record AVERLEY COUNTRY CLUE officials ten strike securing William sional, according to A, T. one of the best known writers in the astern purt of th country. Hoare was highly recom mended to the Way club of- ficlals by Guy Standifer, ber of the club, who Is w in the golfing ability of the profes sionals and amateurs in the The following is from the pen of |Harry Packard, who is a friend of the new W. riley professional: re seema absolute unanimity in Chi » in the belief that Waver- ley Country club was fortunate in securing the services of Willte Hoare ax professional and structor, If there is a professtonal in the game who has more real friends and well-wishers than Will his name de come to mind, STARTED WHEN 17 YEARS OLD “When the*news reached Chicago mado a profes Packard, golfing Hanley, | | | group of friends began him, and it turned out that man in the group, all but them a golf professional, was older than Willie, altho each had thought jhimself younger, Each of the pro fessional group had come to America Willie had cut decided figur n golf on this side, and took it for 4 that his standing was due to mych as experic non-professional mem) group happened to know th | was born ne c Westward Ho ¢ 188 He was on! a jhis first American Merion t club in 18! | time finer his winning fourth place jonship of 1898 and hampion y of note in universal Haskell. balbbe Aino it one grant lage secured t the At that demon: when he those wh mous with riving o-dr WAS IN UTAH My fted ling cham nd then all hampionship bh ing for five mmer of th in 1898, ought of immer years, when h into side of the game. But » strong, in 1904, was in the t reanization. H built the old course afterward went he ec and t hen that course of laid and 4 n an the which w ng what was knov ridge r the Tedesco in sum to Rico in the win’ ng the nd posse course on Since Willie always hay specialized al reputation a before he that ame for player if his so fully oc- probable vould have himself as a t instruction work cupied } fr » had vanished. now is an in ym tourna Teacher, inl Fast. if in. | that Willie was to go to the coast, a| t Willie | WEDNESDAY, DECK Portland Prep Champs Ask Post-Season Game * Post-season games are gettin football, The Washington high school team of Portland, inter- scholastic champions of the Rose City, is trying to line up a game for Portland Saturday with North Central | || high school of Spokane. But the game that the North Central team played with Lewis and Clark on Thanksgiving day is holding up the answer to the invitation. | Previously, Washington tried to get Stockton, Cal., to ||| send its prep team up, but state consent wasn’t forth- coming. | A game between Everett and Washington for the Northwest honors might also be attempted. H usky Cage \Trambitas Coach Blue and Bercot # | About Team Box Draw RANK HAGGERTY, substitute De” BERCOT, the Monroe Bear center on the Husky grid squad, and Mel Norquist, clty leagu cat, and Johnny Trambitas, clev« Portland - lightweight, ré the latest aspirants for t 1 berth on the Husky banketball team,| fast rounds to w! Jick Welts, star second b dnd a supervarsity man last y turning out for forward, {arion continues to look like the best 1hew prospect on the floor | And in spite of the material on| One of'the judges believed it » | Hee Edmundson, genial men-| GW, and the other thought Tram- tépr, conUnues to stretch his face into bitas won the fight. In case of such There is little foy | * Mifference, the referee is to settle Sec’s life at present, for his team | tbe argument, and Ad Schacht called Just beginning to take some sort | it an even break. shape. Oregon, with Hunk{ Trambitas was outweighed six atham and four. other lettermen | pounds at 3 o'clock yesterday after- ck for wervice, is looking like the | noon Bereot, which probably beget team on the Coast. meant eight or 10 pounds when they | “lyde Ochs, league | entered ring intramural star,| Tramb scored a clean-cut graduate from| knockdown in the second round— are other| the first time that Bercot has ever son seems to| been off his fect in any ring. But on all the rest of the|the Monroe boy was constantly the a sour, Trambitas waiting his to counter effectively. frambitas showed all kinds of stuff, and looked better than any of |the highly touted imported boxers | ¥ho have recently appeared here, | Bercot, too, is improving. | In the semi-windup Pete Bros | Montana middleweight, was given ol cision over Truman Davis of FE erett Bross won the verdict be- aan he hit the cleaner and the koned as blows, Davis danced around jquite a bit, but did not pack the punch. Th pected showing of the Everett y 0 was supposed to have been easy for Bross, made many of the fans think that he w jentitied to a draw In the special event Chick ‘abit, Seattle welter, won from Stanley Wil- lis of Portland. Bobby Pierce, Los | Angeles colored boxer, easily defeat ed Jerry Clark, but the best he got a draw, Clark staged a ninth. inning rally, which caused the of \ficials to overlook Pierce's tremen- & to be quite the thing in went nix at was called a | draw in the main event of the Arena card here last night. The Portland boy had an edge, probably enough to win and probably not. Army |i bd t | man me unfable to turn out until after Yer because of football, wilt mak thém all step for the center berth. Bult Beck is another basketball pros- pedt who {y not turning out at pres ent Harold St. Johns, on the frosh squid last year, is bidding for a gualrd berth, Ho is handicapped t wize) but has a fine eye for the a good floc with} when the anit 3 iforms are 4 Ob Gar is, with at forwa re playin be Hesklth and Al Peter Anderson taken ce pundson pn th in Jahuary sure of his men. “I dan nee nothing but clouds on the bhisketball : coach.\ “We h experidnced co: and things look ¢ But, when the opening whistle b we will] be ready to fight baskets| with the rest « HOW TIMERS CHECKED UP When Norman Taber established his world's for a mile 4:12 8-5 in the Harvard stadium, the} watches registered Al Lt 4:13 2 Keene F O. Von Sh y timer ter such! play fan Di field ast noi Th renot first opponents ight now he car Is not m at the prese dous early lead. Biljy Quilter beat Dick Carter in open GIRL SCHOOLS BUY COURTS It's worthy of note that the Lon: wood turf courts, near Boston, * i the Wimbledon equipment, whi by 1 shoot Hen record of was replaced by the new grounds Lond have been purchased girls’ schools in each country. Johnny patrick, kman, | An eX and veteran watch holder New Orleans Young Men's Gyni- nastic club has added rifle shooting to its activit A Tame Fight was elm-Will when t take Wil In spite of long om competit e on for u pr n prominent when to these rst came He is a quiet-spoken delights in di golf stroke, who ussing mechanics nd who would champlon than find gentleman the lop a 1 gold mi Oh, yes, Waverly will Wil “|CANTILLON TO STA SCHOO nte estat RT mplates budding Hi veteran pitcher they method: hi instructe and cate w deme for uld pe yuld necaptable mit m deve 2NN0DNNNDDNDNNDNNNDND: COME AND BRING A FRIEND TO ‘3The ZERO 214 Jefferson St, Just back of L. C. Smith Brag. Card Tables, Pool, Cigars, Candies, Soft Drinks, Fountain Lunches Pay Checks Cashed 2 q 100000000000 game, Frankie Ge of Cleveland anvas aft aro, American flyweight champ, won from Carl Tremaine er 12 tame rounds, This shows Tremaine sprawled on the he slippe end of the seventh frame. MALL OM ar THIs Is A WING SEASON AND THIS IS THE WING IT’S AN 20 ¥ ARROW COLLAR Cluett Co. Ine Peabody