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| difficulty making the weight. He his weight in the country and About Fights and Fighters| - BY LEO H. LASSEN the Seattle fight pro- moters are looking for a classy boy to bring in during the present season they might try to induce Phil Salvadore, the Los Angeles lightweight, _ to come North. Salvadore is, without doubt, one of the very best men of ith an opponent like Johnny Trambitas he would make a really high-class main event. Saivadore can box and Trambitis fan sock, which makes ths ideal combination. Pit two sockers together and you et action, but boxer vs. hitter is Usually productive of the best possi. Ble fight. Why Not Wills | First? | Jack Dempsey hns sald that he| Will engage in three more fights and | then quit—-Gibbons, Firpo and Wills. Dempsey figures to knock both Gibbons and Firpo out if they fight Again, so why not Wills first? The Black Panther may not be able to Feat Dempsey, but ho is the logical man for Dempsey to meet first. Dempsey didn't stop Gibbons be- Cause it was his first fight In two| Years and Gibbons is a smart de- fensive fighter. Also the conditions Weren't the best in the world at Shelby for a Dempsey knockout. The Majority of the fans who saw that Bhelby fight think that Dempsey tarried his opponent. Firpo will never land on Dempsey | Again like he did in their first meet- ing as Dempsey won't step out and slug with him. Firpo may get lucky end pop the champion and this poss!- bility will drag in a big gate, but un- HE SEATTLE STAR THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1923. FRACTURED ARM MAY FORCE BUD RIDLEY TO QUIT GAME Mets Leave Friday on Three-Week Puck Trip The Seattle Metropolitans aro leaving on thelr iP tour of the Prairie Friday and will be on the road three weeks before returning home, The Mets play six games in all, meeting each Prairie team at home and playing Regina at Winnipeg and Sas- katoon at Moose Jaw besides. Former Mets Help Send Seattle Down to Defeat Morris and Wilson Are Big Noise of Calgary’s 7-5 Victory Over Seattle Hockey Club; Visitors Score Six Goals in Second Period CORI six goals in the second period in an offensive that swept aside the Seattle defense, Calgary piled up enough goals to beat Seattle in their hot hockey game at the Arena last night. Cully Wilson and Bernie Morris, former Metropolitans, were the villains as far as Seattle was concerned. Morris scored two goals and Wilson three for the visitors. Morris, in particular, played a beauti- All-Star Puck ful game for the invaders, backchecking like a demon. Team to Play The all-star team of the local | The Mots got off to a $ to 1 lead in the first period, but wilted in the amateur hockey league will meet & picked team of the Victoria City second session. Neither team scored In the final league at the Arena here Wednes day evening. Seattle players period, the Tigers playing three men The following on the dofensive entirely, and tho way they hounded the puck was a were to report this afternoon at 2 o'clock for practice: caution. The Calgarians #eemed faster than 2 |the Mets and they took advantage of Jacobs, Shaver, Cavanaugh, Hamm and Campbell, Maple Leafs; McKenzle, U. of W.; Kerr, | thelr openings, Wilson scoring three goals tn quick guecession in the nec ond stanza by following the rubber, Hender, Allison and Patterson, Tho Meta did thelr share of goal- Butch’s. wetting, too, and made five counters, usually enough to win, Calgary looked much stronger than Saskatoon did last week, as | they have more experienced men and aro faster. The Tigers have three right-handed shots on the squad—Oatman, Morris and Wilson—something unusual for hockey. Oatman, the Victoria yet- eran of many seasons, wasnt’ in ROBERTSON GOOD BET FOR COACH MBINING a most thoro knowl- edge of his business, an ex- less the dope goes sadly haywire | Dempsey will knock Firpo stiff again. | Middleweight Division Weak | ‘The middleweight division is the! Weak sister of the fight kame at the | present time, Harry Greb, the cham- pion, is a light-heavyweight and has | can’t do better than 160 pounds at best. His real fighting weight is about 168. Your average fan can’t name a on g00d middleweights in the orl The same goes for the Northwest. ‘There isn'ta ranking 158-pounder In this part of the country now. ‘The welterweights, Ughtweights, featherweights and heavyweights | have the call for most of Northwest | bouts now. Davis and Krache May Meet Soon Now that Ted Krache has fought and licked Bob “Harper, a battle be- tween Krache and Travie Dav! fm the brewing- That would be a scrap worth going miles to see. Altho Harper beat Davis, the blonde Everett socker, is the type of | fighter who would make a great} fight with an aggressive boy like Krache. Krache’s victory over Harper proves that he’s ready for the best. CALLAHAN MAY QUIT HIS JOB DENVER, Dec. 6.—Because of the lack of materis!, Tim Callahan, for- mer Yale university grid star, and | present coach of the Colorado School Of Mines football team, is expected to resign. Callahan was selected All-American guard by Walter Camp in 1920. Hair Stays Combed, Glossy Millions Use It - Few Cents) | position of head coach of the Amer- | uniform because of a cold. When he| gets in the game the Tigers will be | Just that much atronge: LINBUPS AND SUMMARY Calga tremely Lkable personality and first- | class executive ability, Lawson Rob. | lertson was a happy cholce for the | Gardiner ton eon ortis ivet| ican Olymple team. Having competed as an athlete in the Olympic games and haying served several times as an assistant coach, Robertson is famiilar with all the phases of Olympic competition. As head coach of the University of Pennsylvania track team, he knows the material that he will have to handle and he Is further qualified by the experience of taking Penn | Becond period. teams several times to England for | Sratt!s. dual-meets with the Oxford-Cam- bridge athletes. ‘Wilson from Gard: He has served for several years | Oliver trom Crawt also as trainer of the Pennsylvania | "eyqr4"om Marr! football team, a position that most track coaches serve on the side in/ | the big colleges. ibe ceeghb ates car yon Keene Fitzpatrick, track coach at| sorris malened shot Princeton, is also the football trainer | at the university. So is Jack Moak- |GRADE SOCCER TO END SOON ley at Cornell, Steve Farrel at Michi- | kan, Thomas Keane at Syracuse and| Harry Hillman at Dartmouth. | - The Washington and Interlake | Srade school soccer teama will meot | for the city title Saturday morning.) | Washington won the right to play Refaree—Mickey Ton. SCORING First period—t, Morris, Calgary, 8:91; |. Foyston trom Praser, Seattle, 2:55; 2, Driden, Beattie, 2:41 Harris from Watker, Fitet pertod—Praser, WELLS IS TO * | Pa | FIGHT LOGAN Billy Wells, the English | weight, who has fityvered badly in| for the title hy a 1 to 0 victory over Latona yesterday afternoon. ‘The game will be playetl on either \ his last two starts, will try again,/the B. F. Day or Woodland park Friday night, in Winnipeg, when he | field. W. Neil Ellis, head of grade meets Bud Logan, the rugged Mid-| school athletics, will nelect the field die Westerner. It’s a 10-round a today or tomorrow fight. — rEg Ta DUNDEE WILL SNBOX. SULLIVAN) .,,DEFEND_TITLE Jofmny Dundee, world’s feather. Babe Herman, Coast bantam-| weight king, fights 15 rounds with welght, is still getting by well in|Jack Bernstein in New York, De the East, and they rate him as one|cember 17 of the best of the division there. He{ Bernstein is figured as a pretty fights Kid Sullivan, in New York |falr battler, but not good enough to clty, December 17. ligt the champlonship. } Troeh and McDonald Prospects Troch Was on U.S. Team in 1920; McDonald Ha Beaten Vancouver Man WO more Northweut prospect the United States Olymp! team loom in Jack MoDonald, of Yakima, and Frank M. Trooh, of Vancouver, the two ranking trap shots In the state of Washington, Troeh was a momber of the Amer fean team in 1920 and for years has ranked as one of the best amateur #un men fn the country, MeDenald defeated Trooh last eum: mér in the stato championships and make the American squad. Defoat- ing a national star like Troeh is no easy task, Hoaldos these star shots the Wash- ington crew, Robin Reed, 0. A, C, wrestler; Dodge, O. A, C, half-miler, and Ralph Spearow, star Oregon jYaulter, may be on the American team to compete tn Parts, Complete information regarding fectional and national tryouts for the Olymple team will be forthcom- ing soon, SAMMY CRANE IS SALESMAN THIS WINTER Sammy Crane is taking things easy this winter, The Seattle short- stop, who makes his home tn Harris. burg, Penn. is traveling around his home state for a pool and billiard equipment company. Crane wants to take on as much welght as ponsible this winter so as to be in good condition next spring. Crane was seriously tl! last winter jand had a bard time getting started | thia past season, When Crane did hit his stride he didn't have to take @ back sent for any shortstop in the league in all around play ites that Ted Baldwin, Se attle’s third sacker, who is also a Quaker, has been on a big hunting |trip for several weeks in New Eng: | Jand. : INDIAN TEAM TO PLAY IN HOLLYWOOD 15 hyp osohatrpene Cal, Dee. 6. Haskell Indians football eleven of Lawrence, an., Coast college football team jher on Christmas day, Jannouncement here A. E. Santweler, prominent Holly ;] Wood sportaman. ontent will be ataged under | aagemont of the Disabled Vet Jerans of the World War, with pro | ceeds to go into the local po: Either the 1 An jor the Pasadena bow! scene of the game, & the al will be the weler eald, team to meet uns will be announced soon. “They Never Come Back” “They never come back." The other night in Buffalo Jack n welterweight, wan dofeat. #4 tn 16 rounds by Frankie Scho. ell There were no big headlines te of Britton’s defeat as there would have been if he had lost tle. It doesn’t take long for hampion to tumble out of limelight in of the Ind ex EEE ? 4 JOVE MARTHA Vy DEAR ~ REALLY, 7 Mis aurte WLUke YOURSELF “To “TALK W Me GOUT IS VERY PAINFUL ~ ESPECIALLY WHEN “THE SuBsECT Noi at Buys Jar at Drugstore unruly or sham combed all day “Hair cream, Byen obstinate, pooed hair stays any style you like fx a dignified combing natural gKroome effect final business “Halr-Groon relps touch to g air. fi Advertisement. tation OF GOING“ WORK \S MENTIONED Je I LOOK FoR A MARKED IMPROVEMENT J) Your HEALTH, WHEN MR. WARNER SAYS“TERE ARE NO MORE JOBS OPEN !« “THAT WAN,- KY WoRD NEG! —~ \WDEED, rr \S CONSOLATION AND SOLACE I NEED WHILE ENDURING THE EXCRUCIATING PAINS OF GOUT le £310 GOING “To WORK, BAW! -- THAT HAS ABSOLUTELY No BEARING WITH WY AILMENT! WHY Dip You “TRUMP MY QUEEN wITTH AN! WOULDA WADA BIGGER RUN “THAN A BERLIN BANKI/Z ~ BY AHERN): ELL THEN, ALL RIGHT MR. HONLE = ini “TH! THIRD GAME 1 PASSED, An! NOU Gor DIZZY AN’ BID Nine WEARTS! Ail’ ALL You HAD IN YOUR WAND A WART UR KING? HAD-IH! ACE ra | RY) te MATOR 1S “CONVALESCING” AS WELL AS CAN BE EXPECTED ~ showed such good form that he may | ‘The | 4 Bi 's fund. | gelen coliseum | N. W. TRAPSHOTS FOR OLYMPIAD? Athletic Club to Full Bug N eed Famous Athlete Heads Drive © of the finest allaround ath- Jetes that the Northwent ever turned out Is behind the drive for the Seattle Athletid club. Ho's Dr, William ©, Bpeldel, former University of Washington football star, Besides being a great gridiron warrior, Speldel has been city hand ball champion for a good many yeurs and has also ranked well up with the tennis pinyerd of Beattie. Gf lute) Speldel has become a golf addict and |Jolned tho “Hole-th-One" club last winter, Dr, Bpeidel says there la a big need for an athletic club in Seattle jand if the club wasn't needed and wasn't feaniblo then the men who are behind it, some of the really suc: Conaful men of Seattle, wouldn't give their time to it, ‘The next meeting of the organiza- tion is set for Friday night at 6 o'clock at the L. ©, Smith building when the committees on by-laws and site report to the general assembly, When a alte is selected then defi. nite drives for membership will be made, “Beattlo has needed a club for a jong time that will embrace tho best in everything, a club that will in- clude all of the athletic features, in- doors and outdoors, and that will provide for the social life of the members an well a# the athletic,” rays Dr. Speldel, who i president of the organization at the present time, ROLAND TODD COMES AFTER HARRY GREB OLAND TODD, English middle- welght champlon, has come to the United States to display hin de. jfensive wizardry against the best | American scrappers of his weight. Ho how seen Tex Rickard regard ing a match with Harry Greb for the championship. Tod won the title from Ted ("Kid") Lewis. He outpointed Lewis in a 20. round fight {n Loon and ts de |acribed ax betng the perfection of |the English style of box ing. Polish Is Big Need |. of Tigers BY JACK HOHENBERG SOADWAY basketball prospects | are looking none too bright at the present time, according to} |Coach R. R. Lichtenberger. No} |new prospects except Johnny Moyes, St. Martin's center, have covered. It is expected that may take over tho center berth on the Tiger squad. Lichtenberger has men for every tion, but his material lacks the of the Roosevelt or Queen \ “clever’ DR. WILLIAM C, SPEIDEL Photo by Price & Carter, Btar Btaff Photographers Graves, Meisnest and Ayer Represent Husky Prof. Leslie J. Ayer, Coach Dorsett V. Graves and Gradu- ate Manager Darwin Meisnest will represent the Univer- sity of Washington at the Pacific Coast conference meet- ing to be held at Berkeley, Cal., Friday and Saturday of this week. Professor Ayer is a last-minute substitute for Dean John Condon, present head of the athletic board of con- trol. Dean Condon, after proceeding as far as Portland, en route to the session, was caiiéd back on account of the illness of his wife. Coach Enoch Bagshaw was replaced by Coach Graves when the illness in the former's family po | polish Anne aggregations tentative rat team was made it impossible for him to leave Seattle. Professor Ayer has been for years the faculty athletic | Ea mentor last night tipoff position, mett and Georg [the forwards an need and | Phinneas Johnson took the uate | Grummett and Norton are | strong pair at the forward post, bat they will have a fight to keep their| | poaltion If the work of Bob Dykes, Norman Hatch and Teddy Cragin em took tho ptain Stan Grum- ‘ handled delegate of the university and, along with Graves and Meisnest, W: ashington is sure to be ably represented in the coming sessions in the California town. JACK MCDONNELL WILL BOX _ RUBE FINN HERE NEXT WEEK improves. tice, elongated) TACK McDONNELL, who may|put up some good fights around brother of handled the|U not be the greatest heavyweight | here as a middleweight and was al- center post for the second team and/in the world, can at least lay claim | Ways reputed to pack a wallop. He the long man showed quite a little/to be one of the best and most | las been in California for almost a stuff. Forwards on the second! press-agented battlers now eeeking | Year. In his first fight since his team were Dykes and Hatch with) national or international recognition. | return against Fred Welsh in |Guy Meister and Herman Hill at) Jack will show tho Seattle boxing | Tacoma the other night, he gave |the guards, | followers just how much all the|the husky marine a nifty lacing. vow LaBrache, clever quarter-| stuff written and said about him is|And at that, Rube substituted for back, took a hand at one of the) bunk and how much is facts, in the | the occasion, taking the match on a guards on the first team, also. La-|six-round main event of Nate Drux.|f¢w hours’ notice. Finn {fs as tall Brache is a trifle érr ud needs) man's card at the Crystal pool next |@ McDonnell and almost as heavy. sieadying down rum-| Tuesday night Ail the Seattle fans have been mott is slow! Altho he is ie prod. | hearing the past few months when- and Georg uct, Jack has is stuff |¢ver a heavyweight has been men. pect, 1 eye] for the edification of fistic |tioned is McDonnell. Nate Drux- fo bugs. Many have been caroling his|man couldn't get Nig Yeager, the ability for more than a year, A. M,| highly touted Portland phenom, for Lougney, MeDonnell's nrentor, has | McDonnell, and when Finn stepped devoted three years towards coach. |out and beat Welsh, he was glad ing the Seattle heavyweight in he couldn't, as all Yeager could do manly art of self-defense. was hold Welsh to a draw over the about taking a prot 10-Yound route, in Portland recently, boxer along easily The remainder of the card will they have be billed for thrills, The last but with National Athletic club show was the leading best card staged here this season, ney’s and another program of its kind would be welcomed by the ring: rm a true § 8 yet to the More than 80 fres r 0 m last night will coach the first and econd and 19 then uu the m > the mores ansy prospects urner he ‘Talk | looking That's what | nothing else has been no slaughter In ugh. nanagement and care Me. He has looked after the like a son and has over 1 nothing that would tend to * oi aout | CHICK ROACH roush | SHADES CLINE Rube Finn, le scrapper, who has OAKLAND, Deo, 6. Shick” LANGFORD WILL oy Sioa, Bett oe wale | 5 ORHAN De a rato a 1 DEMPSEY IS ee . WINNER IN. JIMMY CARTER sith MAKING COIN BESTS NORFOLK ton his 40s, | SAN FR. SISCO, Dec. 6.—Jim- ARIN my Carter, Presidio welter, won the fa’ decision Kid Norfolk at the Dreamland rink here last night from be ver season been doing Jack. There An I Donnell battler siders. looke his Sam wn in ner He c fight night, Langford nd and fat, figures to rrow INTER-CLASS GAME TODAY : The University ter G pite a vit 10 out of the Gia nt play ure the world's series, and he did in the aerien wan a serv vot min: TED KRACHE TO itd Gil, who pitehed only one aoe| BOX JOE DUNN q {ord one com | plete js during the] PORTLAND, Dec. 6—Joe Dunn, Na full sharo|local welterweight, will meet ‘Ted i-place money b: | Krache, of Hoquiam, tn the 10. round and {t amount-| main event here on Tuesday, De il cember - PANCHO VILLA no WINS BY KAYO Pancho Villa champion, won Conn’ . local bantam weight, by a knockout in the fourth | round here last night, the smallest voted over of Washington tn lass football title wae to be de. f' mores the while the who pitched onl ng f whole season, was of the Reds’ sec Commissioner Land $1,076 Christy Matt when outs against the Athletics in the 1905 That may for baseball cided this afternoon on Denny when the seniors and tangle. The seniors juniors by a soph walloped 20 to 0 score. HERBERT RICH O. A. C. LEADER CORVALLI8, © Dec. 6 of the A. c. been named to captain | money ear's eleven. He lives in Long | the Cal. muct iree shut Herbert be high pay p b but for a good tip, comy $310,000 that Dempsey got for beating Firpo, er minut Ri cent it t r be ured to ot next Beach, minute Right Wing © Is Broken Third Time Ridley Fears That His Ca- reer in Squared Circle Is Ended by Break UD RIDLEY, Beattle feather. welght, once the king of the Coast 125-pounders, may be forced to lay walde the leather mittens for good, He has fractured his right arm for the third time in two months and it's doubtful if he will ever be able to fight agsin, Vildiey first broke his arm in a fight in Salt Lake City two months ago and then rebroke it a few days later when he caught his baby girl falling from a chair, After two months he figured the arm wos O. K. again and Monday night he broke it again in training, He was scheduled to fight Vie Foley here next week. Ridley is having the arm fixed up again and !s beginning to plan on some other vocation. While he was in the ring Ridley was always an audience-pleaser be- cause of his aggressive style. WASHINGTON STILL NEEDS GOOD CENTER F Coach Edmundson can develop a good center out of thé maze of material that fs turning out for the University of Washington basketball team he will be sitting pretty. Edmundson has two experienced forwards in Frayne and Hesketh, and two experienced guards in Gundlach atid Gardner But he hiisn't an experienced var- sity center on the squad with the ex- ception of Hesketh, who filled in last year. But Hesketh isn't tall enough for the jump. Johnny Cole, former Franklin star, who ts playing one of the wings on Washington's football eleven, is turn. ing out and may be the baby to fill the bill. Cole is a big fellow, ntrong enough to stand the gaff, and a pret- ty fair shot. He had plenty of ex- perience in high school basketball. AGGIES WILL VISIT HAWAII CORVALLIS, Ore., Dec. 6.—Coach Dick Rutherford gave his Oregon Agriculttural College football war- riors a rest here yesterday. The men will leave Seattle on December 12 for Honolulu, where they will play the University of Hawall elev. en on Christmas day. ELK MEET IN OHIO ‘The Elks’ national bowling tourney will occur at Lima, O,, starting Feb- He's jolly and mellow, This 44 fellow, Which nobody can deny, isa 44 Clear is made by | Consotidated Ci ar Corporation, New Yor Distributed by ALLEN & EWIS 1123 Pine St Seattle, Wash. Branch ALLEN & LEWIS Portland, Ore,

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