The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 7, 1923, Page 24

About Fights and Fighters BY LEO H, LASSEN yi wn HEY say they’re thru, do these fighters, but as long as they can stand up and box or hit, like ball play- ers who can still bat, altho the arms and legs be slowed up by time, you find them coming back for more. A year or so ago Wright said he was thru with the ring game for good, but the other night the clever Billy, after a long layoff, stepped out in Aberdeen and beat some big fellow wht outweighed him 1& or 20 pounds, Not that Billy ts an old man or all in, but he fs a veteran as far as ringmen go, and he had sald that he was thru. But they still have a hankering for the feel of the boxing gloves and the crunch of resin that will not down. Its too bad that Wright, with all of his cleverness and ambition, Billy NINE-HOLE ADDITIO THE SEATTLE STAR (—————— - ~ = stepped on a springboard. There is gossip, too, that Wa’ will be in charge of the Olympic track squad. P. C. Coach to Tutor Olympic Divers Ernest Brandsten, the miracle man of diving, will coach a connected with the Olympic club of San Francisco, has been appointed by the A. A. U, to instruct this squad, The great coach has turned out Billy Williams, Clarence Pinkston and Al White, three of the niftiest divers that ever American Olympic team divers. Brandsten, who is Iter Christie, California university’s famous track coach, 135-Pound Champion Due Here Leonard Will Be Seattle Entertainer, Christmas Week, in Vaudeville NNY LEONARD, king of the lghtweights, will be a Seattle yaudeville entertainer during the Christmas week, coming here In an Orpheum act. Leonard, constdered one of the best 135-pounders that the gamo |has ever seen, if not the best, ty | making his first trip to the Pacific | Northwest. ‘The Ughtwelght king has been In A Broadway production until just recently, when he signed for a tour of the Orpheum circuit, They say! that Benny {x quite the boy behind} Champion Who Is Coming Here Benny Leonard Comes to Orpheum Soon Puck Teams Will Clash in Big Tilt TUR STANDINGS Pi Won Lost Pts. o 4 Dave Bancroft, the new manager of the Boston Braves, ts trying to land Jimmy Johnaton, Brooklyn {n-| Maple teate : eer; fielder, With Bancroft at short and | (; . pie Johnston at second the Beantown club would have ono of the best second-base combinations in the business, altho neither fellow is a youngster by any means, + GAME ‘TONIGWE Untversity of Washington vs, Buteh’s Pirates. iE University of Washington and 2 Butch'a hockey teams will battle Detrott scrthes are trying, 00) trade 15) cus ‘en , ine th Arena f Harry Hellman for a second sacker, | t Out this evening at the Arena for preferably Jimmy Dykes or Slim| Second place honors in the City Ama Harris, But nothing haa como of| tour league race. thelr effort, The Tigers fixure to! rne game is to start promptly at have enough offensive strength with | 730 o'clock. out Hellman and they are in sed) 3.011 ‘cams nave lost the one game ; i i oth v9 los iets Weed ares | that they have played and are anx |tous to break Into the win column A group of Newark business men he has obtained an option on the New. | {2 tonight's tussle, ark International league franchise N FOR MUNICIPAL GOLF LINKS SOON He’s the Best There pi iS Reed Bearcat Mat Man 36 Holes © Planned tor Hill Beacon Hill Links Will Be Improved; Ladd Estate Is Purchased BY ALEX C. ROSE EATTLE golfers who get thelr playing on the municipal course on Beacon Hill are going to have a 26-hole links to play over inthe very near future, This bit of news was announced yesterday at the park board head- quarters, and the fact in based on a. deal which witl be completed with- in the next few days involving th purchase of 20 acres of land belong. ing to the Ladd estate, situated due west of the new nino holes which were opened for play about a yegyy ago. This new purchase of 20 acres hardly large enough for a nine-hole links, but It is the plan of the board of park commissioners and Bob John- stone, the veteran professional of the Seattle Golf club, to offset that dit- ficulty by adding two more holes to the present playing area by cutting down the width of some of the fair- ways, ond building the other seven holes on the Ladd estate property. GOLFERS TO FOOT BILL And the most important part of the whole affair is that the work will FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1928. ‘ Don McKenzie is the matnstay of | defense. not cost the city a red cent. The ei and If they purchase It, It is sald that/ the University Frank | 7, folgers who golf on Seattle's public they will bulld a new'park and will; Wong, the only known Chinese puck | golf courses are the ones that will Wasn't a bit more rugged. Against | Rig, husky fellows, Weight looked | t¢ footlights as well as in the Nike a million dollars, but pitted against a Morrie Lux, who was Just as smart and could hit harder, | Wright didn't go so well. Wright's cleverness and Dode Ber cot's strength would make a/ ‘world's champion. It's too bad that Billy, who has always been a real credit to tho/| game, didn't haw that natural strength to go with his skill. | Morrie Lux Had | Great Possibilities | Morrie Lux, the pale Russian wel- terweight, had wonderful possibilities when ho was in the Northwest two ‘or three years ago. A master boxer who could smack with both hands was Lux, but he was good one night and a bum the next Decauss he wouldn't take that rigid ‘care of himse!f that the ditzy heights of championship form demand. Those who saw him cut Sid Mitchell to pieces one night will not | forget his hitting power, and those who saw him outsmart Billy Wright on two occasions won't forget his Doxlng skill. | Trained to the minute, Lux gave| Johnny McCarthy the finest pasting | 4m Tacoma you ever saw, Later that | same year he faced McCarthy, wasn’t | in condition, and took a terrific beat- | ing: | Lux !s now fn California, where | he has had just fair success. He !s quite a card around Kansas City, his home town, when he's going good. | He was a winner here as long as he! kept in shape. | Mcintyre at It Again | ‘The Spokane Press carried a notice | the'other day about a. string of ama-| teur Doxers being developed by Chet McIntyre, once the peer of North-| ‘west heavyweights, up in some smal! tank town in Idaho, where McIntyre has established an athletic club and has stuck {t out for several years. It sounds like old times to hear of Mcintyre developing amateur mitt Glingers, and altho the time seems long, it was only a few years ago that McIntyre, a man in his 40s, was the sensation of the ring hereabouts. McIntyre, a ‘great boxer who} could hit, too, got by mainly on his skill, licking a lot of younger and stronger. men. And then along came Mickey King and the old) tragedy of youth and age was acted when King knocked the vet- eran out, Brains can beat brawn, but brains. and age very seldom triumph over brains and youth. It's the stern rule that youth must be served and while the rule, like all of them, has its exceptions, in the Jong run it prevails. McIntyre retired again and held several athletic club jobs in the Northwest until he finally settled in Idaho, As for King, he was another of those gifted fighters didn know th of taking care of himself. stead of reaching the top, he toboggan and ‘was soon lost the glamor of newcomers in ° s of pugil- fam. * who Frankie Rogers Can Teach ’Em Gameness Frankle Rogers 1s helping Walter Kelton train the Univ of Washington boxers. Rogers maj not be the cleverest fello fn the world, but if he can impart to those young fellows working with him, some of the fighting heart that he has it will mean a lot more to them than all of the boxing skill they might Assimilate. The world loves a gamester and Rogers took a high place in the hearts of Seattle fans the night he fought thru three rounds with a broken jaw against T lo Davis, one of the hardest hitting welter- weights in the business. And no one knew of the fracture but Rog- ers, and he refused to quit That fight will memory of those saw it Dr. FREE—BLOOD ABRAMS » METHODS le who take 'SOPHS WIN jit will } ring. | Leonard's last big fight was with Lew Tender in New York. Ho dosn't plan to fight again until the summer outdeor season in Man- hattan. INTERCLASS _ GRID TITLE HE haughty seniors went down | to defeat last. night before the! sophomores in the championship in-| terclars football game at the univer: | sity. The sophs won by a %1 to'6 score. The seniors scored first on an tn-| pted pass, but failed to convert Just before the end of the first half a long pass to Shager from a place kick formation counted for the sophs’ first tally. The try for point was made. Benny Leonard, lightwetght king, The second year men cinched It| sho will appear in an Orpheum with two more touchdowns in the vaudeville act here during the last half. : Christmas week. 100 MORE HORSES ARRIVE FOR MEETINGS AT TIJUANA Hf Nahar fan RACETRACK, Mexico|turf critics readily agree that he Lee. T—To the 150 thorobreds| is emitted to be termed a stake which were on hand for the open-/ horse, one with @nough ability to ing of the Tijuana racetrack|run in the biggest events which Thanksgiving, there has just been/ Tijunna will have this winter. added another hundred, these ar-| Another Is Little Chief, owned by tiving here from the Tanforan)I. V. Humphries of Denver, who meeting which was ended Decem-| purchased him especially for the ber 1 | $40,000 Coffroth Handicap and other This probably was the heaviest big stakes to be decided here this shipment of thorobred horses Call-| winter. Little Chief was bought fornia ever had and it was handled from the famed Rancocas Stable in a special train of nine express) and cost the Denver sportsman $ cars. The short shipment of 74 000. Another purchased at the same hours from the Tanforan to the) figure and from the same famous Tijuana track could in no way, give| establishment is Knobble who will the rur a setback, and “as|carry the colors of John Coburn. hem were racing at Tan-| Right close to these In popt foran and accordingly up to form,| opinion of a horse's worth is Ske be only a few days until/ six, which has been racod with re- the ones from the North will make| markable succese for the past year thelr debut. | by George Drumheller. The “Marc Ten owners, including C. B. Ir-|bank string includes principally win, J. W. Marchbank, J. M. Crane,| young horses and while a few are C. B. Schaefer, Col. R. Baker,| of the age to engage In ¢he rac George Drumheller ahd tno Mea-|ing at this time, Marchbank’s col dowbr@k Stable were represented| will be seen more frequently and {t is not to be denied that] after junuary 1, when ell yearlings anality as well as quantity was ap-| automatically become two-year-olds. parent when some of the personnel] of runners was made public. i PULLMAN, Dec. © most highly thought! fel, of Snohomish, was last nig) in the lot 1s All Over| awarded the J. F. Bohler medal -for t Irwin purchastd from the/ being the greaetst inspiration on this Oakbridge Stable for $10,000. There! year’s Washington Stato college foot is a lot of class to this horse and ball team. ors Johnny Zaep try to obtain Casoy Stengel ax man.| performer, will be in the college ager. Hneup. ed | Interest tn the Varalty puck team The St, Louls Browns with George | ts increasing in college circles, and Sisler in the role of manager figure! a goodly crowd from the campus is to be the big drawing card in the| expected to be on hand for tonight's Mound city, as Sisler Is a very pop-| affair, ular fellow there, | Jack Kerr, the demon goalie, will _ watch the net for Butch’s aggrege The New York Giants, It is under-! ton, stood, are asking waivers on More! Panny McX Solomon, their $100,000 purchase of| referee's Job. Hutchinson, Kans, but the Brooklyn | | Dodgers won't pass him up and will] claim him before letting the Hebrew |slugger get out of the National }league without a fair trial n is slated for the The lineups follow; Witch's Washington | TITLE GREEK _ CAGE BATTLE ON TONIGHT HE Theta Delta Chi and Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity basket ball teams meet tonight at 7:30 o'clock at the University gym to |nottle ‘the Greek Letter cage cham. of the Eve: school board pion here last night, tt wan ruled the Phis is the second consecutive year |local high school football team that Delta Kappa Epsilon has) woul§ not be allowed to compete In reached the final round. Last year|a national championship game. the ‘‘Dekes" lost the title game to} The authorities declared that mich | Lambda Chi Alpha. |& game would not be in keeping with A big crowd ts expected to view/the rules of the atate assoctation, | the, title contest. loney . Forward EVERETT NOT TO PLAY IN BIG CONTEST VERETT, Dec, 7--At a meeting | which forbid gnmoem after the Sal jurday following Thanksgiving. | Until the echool board took action }inet night, Interest wan being TED, ROBINSON ROBIN REED When it comes to amateur wrestling, Robin Reed, the O. A. C. ace, doesn’t have to take a baek seat for anybody. He's the national A. A. U. lightweight champion and is con- sidered a cinch to make the American Olympic game wrest- ling team. He appeared here last winter with the Beaver | team and won two matches handily, winning the 185-pound | title and the 158-pound honors, Mickey Ion Is Greatest | Official in Puck World |Coast Official Is Kingpin of Them All; His System; | Mets Leave for Long Prairie Trip; Calgary Plays British Columbia Teams « HE greatest official the game of hockey has ever known.” That's the tribute paid Mickey Ion, Coast referee, by Hap Holmes, Seattle’s veteran goalie, who has seen them all for the past decade. | “Ion is a great referee because he handles his own game, | knows the rules, has a good eye, is absolutely fair and im- partial and his word is law,’’| stere, however, and {t's doubtful tf sums up Holmes. they will get much better. “Where a lot of other hockey ref-| Fisher hasn't had areal chance.of | proving his ability as yet. erees make a mistake is in letting!” arbor is far from o polished pay the bill. So says Robbie J. Fish- er, and as chairma nof the golf com- mittee of the park board, Robbie ought to know what he is talking about. How are tho golfers going to pay for it?’ Well, it is all very simple, but done in a way that these mashie wielders never suspect that they are footing the bill. Many of them did not realize that the nine hole course on the west side of the boulevard was built with thelr coin, but {t was. Here's how {t was all done and how it will be done in the new ven- ture: When municipal golf was intro- duced into this city some 10 years ago, & fee of 25 cents was char, ed for m round of play, but congested conditions of the faire ways on this course, which {s sit- uated just across the street from the new fairgreens, set the powers that be to thinking how to cope with the crowds, THAT EXTRA 15 CENTS The result was that the fees were rained from 26 cents to: 40 cents and these added 15 cents were laid aside and spent for the bulld- ing of the course that is going to have the other nine boles added to peg Yes, Seattle is going to have two 18-hole golf links within a fer yards of each other and the tax- | _ GIVEN HONOR CENTRALIA, Dee. 7.—Ted Robin- json, member of the Centralla high nool foothall team, has been worked up to « fever heat by bust ness men and fans, who hoped to see another Everett grid team win national fame. |the players talk back on decisions and the game gets away from them. “But not with Ion. He didn’t have any trouble on the prairie last year, hockey player, CALGARY PLAYS VICTORIA TONIGHT yh | famdum ~ BY AHERN] awarded the Warren O. Grimm me.! morial cup for being the greatest in. |SILVERNALE TO spiration to the players, | TED cOx WiLL | LEAD GRIZZLIES LEAD GOPHERS yernale, quarterbe has been elected to captain the University of EAPOLIS, Minn. Dec, 7—| Montana gride team next year. Mon: Ted Cox, St. Paul, tackle, has been|tana loses but two men by gradu elected captain of the 1924 Minneso-'tion and has {ts great undefeated freshmen team 40 draw from. ta Big Ten football team. FLOYD JOHNSON MAY TRAIN JACK McDONNELL FOR BOUT LOYD JOHNSON, with the beno-latter the dostinies o fit of experience from meeting | trying to locate Johnson by wire, and | Jens Willard, Jack MeAuliffo, Bill|tf he can find Floyd, who is ald to {Mirerinan, Jack Renault and other|be visiting friends at heavyweights, may train| send, he will try to persuade him to | Jack McDonnell for the latter’s six-| come to Seattle and box three or four jround battle with Rube Finn, at the| days with McDonnell | Crystal Pool Tuesday night I M. Loughney, who looks) ),; ff McDonnell, 1s When Johnson was here visiting folks several months ago he ant fcDonnell donned the gloves for a few minutes’ sparring. Johnson, ax gressive, and using both hands, makes an ideal heavyweight to work (OUR BOARDING HOUSE WELL MATOR, How DOES YOUR STUMBLE FEEL TODAY Wit “Ws Gout 7 1 IMAGINE ITSTARTS To THROB WHEN You LOOK AT TH’ PAPER AN SEE ALL TH’ HELP WANT ADs, EHO WA-HAs HEY f HOLD ON MATOR, DIPNTYOU GETYouUR \Z WIRES CROSSEDTODAY?] “ = SEEMS “To ME YOU HAD “ft RIGHT CLOG BANDAGED UP TH! Last COUPLA DAYS, AN' Now 11S TW LEFT ONE!- WA-HA» YOU MUST HAVE JUMPING GOUT !« ed BAH! ~ Have A cake M'LADS~ 1 AM IN 90 MOOD “TODAY FoR Arey SILLY BUFFOONERY/ ) ro than on one or two occa sions. As o result Jack has been reed to box with even bantams in t any work with ith the smaller proving speed, but #0 good to whip one fn shape for a grueling contest. There is not lkely to be much boxing to the McDonnell-Finn setto next week. Both can punch, and the bout 1s,no cinch to go the limit, being that that ts the caso. Finn ts , . while thru his with. Loughney ts having no end of trouble getting big fellows to work with Jack 4 couple of Gollaths in ell trented them so failed to show up MY WORD,~SUCH Sturipry-"1 Dip BANDAGE THE WRONG FOOT f =~ DRAT MY ABSENT MINDEDNESS/) working out d: McDonnell starts es an hour later 2 o'clock going Port Town: | the Calgary, with the Seattle victory |to itu credit, battles Victoria tonight. |The Tigers have a good club with plenty of experienced men and g00d jcombination play, They‘ro a dan- | serous outfit. The Tigers are unique jaltho the other prairie officials had ja hard timo all year, and they had | several warm sessions on the Coast.” | Before taking up refereeing Ion waa one of the greatest lacrosse jpitvers in Canada, |in that they have seven right-handed METS LEAVE shots on the roster, They play the payers will not be assessed even a dime for the building of them. In other words, golf is a self- paying proposition in Seattle and the board of park commissioners are out to give the royal and an- cient pastimers the best there is, The 27 holes now under play are @ fine sample of what we mean, be- cause no finer set of golf hol can be found anywhere on @ American continent than right w) there on Beacon Hill. ON LONG TRIP | | The Seattle Mets are leaving on a| jlong trip to the C dian prairie, | Where they will play six games in 11 | days. They will be playing on natural |lce in several of the rinks, cause of the long jumps they are playing jextra games with Saskatoon and Re- Al Neebling A Good Pair of y Shoes ebm Saves Doctors’ Bills | ROWE EXP ’ |TO BE READY | Bob Rowe, who has been out of the Seattle Uneup for several weeks | with a bad Charley horse, 1s expected to get back Into the game again on thia trip, altho he is still limping some Rowo has been missed, as it takes | Smokey Harris off of the forward line, where the veteran is needed. | Sabie | NEWCOMERS NOT | MUCH HELP | The three new youngsters added to the Seattle club this season have not been much help to the Mets. Mc. Farlane, Arbor and Fisher are the neweomers and the former, just a |green kid, looks like the best of the lot. 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