The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 10, 1923, Page 12

a PAGE 12 About Fights and Fighters BY LEO f GONZAGA ADMITTED TO N. W.C we 4 THE SBRATTLE STAR Against Ballard Boy at HE talk that a match be-| TF Jack McDonnell, winner tween Harry Wills and Luis Firpo will be held soon, the winner fighting Jack Dempsey, must be taken with a grain of salt. For the simple reason that} © round tangle at the C be plenty of work for him in Right now there seems to evival in progress. The big Off Year for Southern Grid ‘There seems to have been a decided slump in the standard of the football teams turned out in the South this year, Georgia Tech, usually a tough foe, has had no success in the North; Centre, always a hard team to beat, was easy for Pennsylvania, while other teams of lesser call- ber have proved soft picking, Probably just an off-year for Southerners, to take on both men. | There is a limited supply} of heavyweight contender for Dempsey’s title—Firpo,| Wills and Tommy Gibbons. | The loser of the proposed) Wills and Firpo fight would} be out of the question for a} Dempsey match and the champion doesn’t hate money so much that he would inten- tionally eliminate one of the prospective opponents. Dempsey. will probably fight ail three men, but ‘the: champion and| ————— MEAS ie tng sorteee peewee tn ss New fork, where a coxa can be| JAKIE, MAY obtained, And the pair of Jacks know perfectly well that even ed IS SOUGHT wi ardly. contribute three York would hardly. contri BY YANKS million-dollar gates in one short sum- oe SPITE the fact that in Pitcher, So hence the staiting about a me-| T) "stern Pennock the Yankees have Jee with Wills; and the talk of a} lage Jono of the best southpaws in the Wills-Firpo match must be regarded) 4 merican league, it is understood @s so much fuel to keep the heavy-| thot Manager Huggins has not given Weight division before the public. |.) hopes of securing Jakey May IfAWVilts and Firpo fight it will be] 00. Vernon, & big upset, as neither would get the | rng deal was practically closed last Money that they would in fighting] winter ‘To complete the deal Pitcher Dempsey, and both would be taking! Car Mays was one of the players to & chance of being knocked out of @116 gent to the Coast. Every major Dempsey match. No, it’s hbardly/tearue club waived on the big blond likely that Wills and Firpo will meet | nitcher but Cincinnat!, When New before Dempsey gets a crack at both | york couldn't deliver Mays, the deal | | | of them, | tell thru. oo | During the past season Mays } The Same Goes fallen short of the major league | standard in practically every start he - Gibbons | ade, and did only fairly well in fin he sane goes for Tommy Gibbons | joing, games. Ag) &. result! it ls be &nd the talk of his proposed setto| | i , = |lieved that no great difficulty will eta hacabers olvipe ephiagan | be expertenced in getting him out of a oe the majors if waivers are again "ane asked. Gibbons, on his showing with ea kane Dempsey at Shelby, In which the St. Bi ssa f ie tape shears Paul man stuck 15. ronnie yeh ine | strong fellow, would get plenty of ee ee ety aneaus tune | chance to work if he showed big Baut-again soon, Kee a chance of | ase stuff. Mays, on the other _ oree henatiep egy oaary: hand, with his pecular delivery, <page See iibbons-Car-| might be a sepsation.on. the Coast pee Seay ele ere ageacens Poca It would occakion no gréat surprise Seer eneeey cannons /Bettle.-wow ae: {f the New York Americans shortly Gefeat by Carpentier would end announced that the deal had gone bons’ career. thet. Gibbons would have little to gain and everything to lose by fighting Carpentier before Dempsey, while | CANTILLON HAS Carpentier would be situated vice REFUSED BIDS versa. However, there fs little chanco of Carpentier and Dempsey} A news dispatch sent out from ever fighting again after the defeat | Minneapolis last week stated that that the Frenchman suffered two| Roger Bresnahan has offered Mike years ago at Jersey. City. Cantillon, former owner of the Min ‘The thing to expect is for Demp-|Neapolis club, a one-half interest {r Bey to take on his three big chal-|the Toledo club for $150,000. Can lengers—Firpo, Gibbons and Wills|tillon’s refusal to accept the proposi. being the probable order. | tlon is noted. It also has been stated j that Bresnahan has been angling for Firpo Would | the services of Joe Cantillon as man ager for next season. Offer also de Draw Best clined. Of the three men, Firpo would draw best with Dempsey. Altho baily. beaten, tho soutn| JOHNSON NOT American bull actually knocked Dempsey out of the ring and came AFTER LANDIS within an ace of being the world’s! A lot of warlike scribes are going champion in that wild first round|to be disappointed at the Chicago last summer. | Joint meeting of ‘the majors. * Ban Those thousands of people “who| Johnson is not going to make any Baw it will be fighting with several | effort to. put the skids under Ke: thousand more to gain admittance to| Landis—he wilf let time’ do t any arena arouid Manhattan that|JOhnson is quoted in an interview will hold the return fight between | that there has been no such thoug them. Because the fans haven't for-| but that St is likely’ there will & gotten that thriller, which lasted less | 89M more definite understanding as For Gibbons than two rounds, th ‘ould to Just what the commissioner's pow the turnstiles for a return engage. | TS are. ment. And because Dempsey is reason ably sure he can beat Firpo 4 OUR BO Probably take him on first, get Firpo before the Pamp: ‘Star’s H eavyweight Find Has Several Challengers ‘Flock of Big- Fellows in Northwest Ready to Meet | McDonnell, Who Is Making His Local Debut weight tournament gets over Rube Finn in their six- tal Pool tomorrow night there will ‘an draw any kind of a house at all in Portland and the| Dempsey undoubtedly plans) S@me case prevails in other fistcuff centers. For some un- ¥ os | ee - a — | Pool Tomorrow of The Star amateur heavy- the Northwest. be a full-fledged heavyweight fellows are the only boys who known reason the big fellows always have outdrawn by far jany other possible attraction. | This rule not only holds good in |New York, but also in Cow Hollow. | |The fans flock to see the behemoths | Hin action passing up any other | |match of the season, regardless of} |how good the contestants may be. | | Getting back to McDonnell—it he | | . beats Finn, he can go right on and} |tackle Nig Yeager, Frank Farmer, | j Marty Foley, Rocco Stragmalia, | }Jack Horner, George Lamson, or| fany one of a half a-doxen other | t heavywelght maulers now pastiming | | in the Northwest. Lamzon is the | | best of the lot. Hoe battles « scrap: | jper from Chicago named Jrank| § Zeele in Portland tomorrow night. McDonnell iy not quite ready fo |Lamson’ yet, but will find: plenty jot action among the reat of the} ymentioned boys for a few months | jto come if he gets over Finn in} {tho right manner, } McDonnell has been world of stuff In the the past week. Tho biggest cr of fans that ever witnessed the} | boxers workout in Seattle were on hand yesterday to watch McDon | nell and Finn go thru their train ing paces. Hoth loomed up good! jand when the workout sessions! @ {were over the gathered rallbirds} ed in. thelr win the! were about evenly o who we Jack McDonnell hoto by Hartgook ap tomorrow night looks for a sell ow 1x: —— sis dom there been Kuch in n fed up to t ference the strene t arid should not exp team this year, tn Berkeley méet n step polish off hisjurday. ‘The move wae unexp A any minute or MecDon, nell has a lot to les and ts far| Offielal Come from a finished prod he | ¥ does bear the potential pomaibilities t contender. and has hed a Hie tn on tall $f) tawreace of Han Franciscs won the ap MeDonnel! and! naat six-day Madison Square Garden lengwe averages of a real heavywe weighs s much. He can|bdleyele race Saturday punch his right hand and! oe knows 1 use his left mitt te advantag will be @ real test for McDonnell an able to get some kind of a definite line on him. Roth boys are in great condition and will enter ring as fit as the pi nt The semi-final between Morgan | >y Eddie Evans Jones and Bi Kid’ Johnson, is of more than passing Interest. Af-| The Seattle Mets ure opening ‘ | n tonight in W 8 will bel {4 ter a year of medicore work in the) Pre! ring, Johnson has finally settled] " down to training again and in his last few starts he ma ings, He fought a draw w down in Aberdeen and beat Roy Sma qT defeated the AGG APTER € time has caused the ° | for the removal of the footba Tho claim is made that Sta In Aberdeen become a bit Roy Small, who has knocked his|j» not getting the best reat last three opponents out here, will! the material face Willie Sollis, in the spectal! tack cantos. Tho rems on 5 former coll . Sailor Cox McCanslin nd Tommy zen pairs of enem BY AHER —_ gets knocked off, as 's what r 1G might happen if the Argentine giant “bo BAD HOOPLE !~ should fight somebody else before ALL TH JOBS ARE Dempsey If ¥ fight before mec again it would their return match Gibbons ond opponent f TAKEN NoW WHERE I WoRK!« WedusT PUT ON “TWENTY New MEN THIS MORNING~ Dempse Pe diene e e 50 I GUESS THERE beating ons will be AIN'T A CHANCE oF fn match between Firpo and Wills. Ml be the climax of the ts, provided, of course, Dempsey beats both Firpo and Gib. GETTING You A Sr er Wills has never fought the . 18 conceded to be a good tho he’s no youngster because of the pub had. ‘e Firpo before he ¢ Is more cer ine, as he hi Dempsey will t does Willg beca of beating the Arg Hicked him once, while doesn't the Bi what k Panther. © expect from Renault Is Long. Ways Off When you talk of Jack Dempsey’s crow consider Jack Renault Canadian. hea markably @ver Floyd Jot fs no bum. However, Renault can’t punct hard enough to make 1 of experience, someth made it possible for. ¥ into such sudden prominence His victor uson proved that he for t that po to « Renault realizes his own short comings by refusing to fight which is a smart thing for him t fvoid for a time Renault needs a and he must get { ups. If he fig him Lefore he t of experic 16 may BV Jove WARNER MY. BEASTLY LUCK ci AGAIN, AS USUAL J 14 SITTING BULL FATE HAS ALWAYS | IS UP WALKING WHY, \F HE HAD NOAW'S JOR, HE'D PUT FF TH SAILING] FOR A WEEK, | AN! We'D ALL BE WW AN. AQUARIUM Now !. DEALT ME AN UNKINDLY | | AROUND Acan), HAND, AS IT WERE! = | | Now “HAT —H DUST AS 1 WAS EAGER | | JOB Hac BLEW To START WORK, THe A FUS GOUT HELD ME BACK~| | HES A RIDDLE AND NOW “THAT I AM NOU GaN) ENTIRELY CURED, THERE eee \S NO POSITION OPEN FOR ME Ie ALAS, ITSEEMS| J AM DESTINED -To DIGARPOINTMENTS 7 Bue Mason's Gour’ TAKES A DECIDED CHANGE “To THE BETTER = soything, 1 rer aetit dinvetn « toxine tout ar s\| Sport Salad | Earlington i Open House Is Success BY ALEX C. RO: Montana wee admitted in Const con-| and Country) the spring training camp of the Oi- | club, they do ‘em right? Niry @ hitch appeared to mar the) *T to gather at Martin about Magch Finest Keckler of Chicago and Perey | “open house” carnival st and/ball park to practice In and every tho result was that the show was a/ thing. eas and a good time was that is jut KERR SEEKING “P| White Sox to join a shop team in fitting event, in which! Wisconsin at a big salary, but who Vand won the high hon ‘ond and: third in the 11 tolwy @ he staggered pound turkey and] ;, alter Wand and Tom| ;, handicap class, field confined. to 5 d prizes N] t prize winners: As Dick! we Imagine | league last wee! g| chase of C. A Uff, | receiving w box of apples winning alern a ks were out/and the Tulsa management belie high honors. order named.' the same amour White Sox Seeking Two Washington Ball Stars ASHINGTON White Sox star to mM as manager Unquestionably Chance of the Sox makes a trade Collins elsewhere, will insist that in return he ¢ ing off badly in his hitting and who rate Harris second to + in point of ability, In new iding speed mer ONFERENCE Spokane College | in Loop Inland Empire Catholic » School Admitted at Portland Meeting BULLETIN ORTLAND, Dec. 10,—At the aanual meeting of the Pacific Northwest Inter- collegiate conference, which opened here today, Gonzaga university was admitted to membership in the confer- ence and will be included in the schedule of ‘athletic events next year, PROBLEM OF COAST LOOP IS UP TODAY HICAGO, Dec. 10,—Officialn of or- | ganized baseball today started) thelr job of trying to unacramble af- jfaira-in the Pacific Coast baseball league. With the major and minor league clubs meeting here, probably the | most important of all the matters to be dincussed, as far asthe sport on the Pacific coast, at least, is con- cerned, wan the content between Har- ry Williams of Lon Angeles and Wil. liam H. MeCarthy of Ban Francisco lover the Coast league presidency. |. The two sides were to be laid be-| fore the national board of arbitration | today, ELLIOTT MAY | BE A MANAGER| ‘Tho Columbus and Toledo clubs of | the American association last week engineered m deal by which the vet eran pitcher, Hugh) Bedient, goes jfrom Toledo to Columbus for the jno lees veteran catcher, Harold |(‘Rowdy”) Elliott. Hints are that if| | Roger Breanahan remains in control | of the Toledo club he will make Ei j Hott his manager—to start tile 19: | season /MARLIN CAMP | FOR TULSANS | The officials of the Tulsa Western ieague club last week announced definite arrangements made to pitch ers ot Martio, Texas. The players Business Manager Buck Friel has rances of hotel accommodations, REINSTATEMENT Dick Kerr, who quit the Chicago falled to make good even in that! company the past season, as a result of which his $7,000 contract was can ed, now turns to orjanized ball n and has asked for reinstate. nent. If he is put on active list the Chicago club, pri trade him to the bea SPEED BURNER| The Rochester Internationals in Comstock, obtained from Waco of the Texas association, believe they Archdeacon. Comstock is cred: ted with having circled the bases in seconds, only one jower than the record claimed for n. Comstock led the Texas Jation in base stealing the past season. He had a bri with St. Louis Cardinals, but was sent k to Waco | TULSA LANDS | Arch MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1923, i HE BEATS FINN. A Letter From Leol December 10, 1923, Ed Hughes, Ban Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, Cal, Dear fF ‘ With the football season over and with still a couple of months to before baseball tarts to warm up again I huppose you're taking a breathe Ing spell for a while, It won't be long, Ed, before the boys start hitting it for thone California training camps and we'll all be ready for baseball again by that time, Bill Cunningham stopped at Seattle afew days on hin way home from New York to California, but that before he was traded to Boston, Bi expected a lot of changes to be made inithe Giants when he was here, ‘There ought to be something popping in Chicago today when McCarthy and Willams stage thelr two-man Argonne before the minor league arbl tration board, I'll bet you $10 to a slrgged nickel that Bill McCarthy hag it all o Williams when it comes to naberuashery, There's not much local baseball news os things are. pretty quiet here, football till being in the alr with Washington playing the Navy ut Pasa. denn New Year's day. Washington has a good chance of beating the Annapolis boys and next year, when the Huskies get Andy Smith's Bears in a football country, where you have football weather, ft ought to be some game. I suppose you will try and make the trip North; you really should, because ) q going to be a pip. The fight game is golng along nicely in Seattle and every once jn While somebody asks what became of Ed Hughes and his aggressive cane, which used to be quite the feature at the local smokers, Things are going along about the same. Lonnie Austin has developed & pretty good boy In Dode Bercotf but he has something that Pete MaVey never had, and that ts @ real fighting heart. Remember the time McVey ran out on the Battling Nelson match Lonnie had lined up for him fn Edmonds? There's no danger of Bercot not showing up for any of hig matches, ‘The old guard still alt in their accustomed ringside seats at every show Riley McCoy, Sam Brown, Len Dizzard, Colonel Bostwick and the rest of the veteran ringsiders miss very few times I hear that Tod Morgan Is coming back to Seattle again after a short stay in the South. He's the best boy, Ed, that California ever sent up here, Most of the California ring men, with. the poxsible exception of Jimmy Duffy, have been busts in the Northwest, Oh, yes, before I forget it, I happened to see the yarn with your mon- icker over it In the Chronicle a few werks ago to the effect that. Washing. ton had the most powerful football team on the Coast, but the dumbest. That Native Son atmonphere acems to have got you, too, eh, Ed? Well, wherever the pay check {s, is home. Expect to see you in the training camps this spring. Sincerely, LEO H. LASSEN. P. 8. Enoch Bagshaw is expected to sign up for a three-year coaching contract at Washington right after the Navy game. HH oppe Has Challenger|| Real Fight Just Ahead HEN Willie Hoppe and Welker Cochran clash for the billiards |championship of the world, Dee }17, 18 and 19, the champion |find himself in a most unusus jtlon. He 4s likely to find that the challenger ts the ruling favorite. At least the dope slants that way now. Taking a squint. at the perform- ances of the pair at the November tournament in New York, it seems justifiable that Cochran should be [favored to dethrone the once “Boy | Wonder.” In that meeting, Hoppe |didn’t look anything like his old self. His playing was only fair; he was er- ratic'and time and again he missed easy shots. The fact that Willie lost only one game, wasn’t due so much to his stellar work as to the poor showing made by the opponents. As far as |great billiards was concerned, ‘there wasn't much of that brand displayed at New York. Cochran, on the other hand, sur- | prised his fondest admirers. He took 4 fall out of both Hoppe and Schaef- jer, the two favorites. Schaefer was jhanded one of the worst drubbings | ever administered in titular matches. | An unlooked for defeat at the hands Hoppe’s Cue | Welker from walking off with ti |championship, then and there. | It ts quite possible, tho, that Hoppe | will regain the same form that en- abled him to whip Schaefer after |Jake had copped his title. Willle is an old campaigner, and in crucial Welker Cochrane, young billiard| matches seems still possessed of the has the chance of his career) stuff which permits him to surmount week when he plays Willie |the toughest barrier just when the Hoppe, veteran champion, in a@|going is roughes' 1,500-point match in Chicago. He —- beat Hoppe in the regular tour-| rament ploy. bul tonto” Erich| DUFFY LEWIS Hagenlacher, ticing with the Peer- a man almost as fdst as Maur-| less Willi SIGNS AGAIN SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 10— George (“Duffy”) Lewis, has again been signed as manager of the Salt th second} GRID GAME | Lake Coast league baseball club, it has bee annnounced here by offi- cials of the club. The coming sea- IS_BILLED son will be Lewis’ third with Salt HERE SOON}: ad HE crack West Seattle Athletic DON'T BELIEVE IT lub football team will meet the} Woe refuse to believe the report Astoria American Legion eleven on| that Firpo, who has just been nicked for $29,000 by 1 collectors, | Denny Field here Saturday after i STAR HITTER | non, becemver tried to compromise by offering an ib of the Western nnounced the pur rmy”) Davis, from the Okmuigee club of the 1923 West jation. Da The Tulsa has been a ter and a popular favorite gr A ton of water, w tains 224 gallons, or sa ton of milk, | | Stanley Harris and Sam Rice are the two Chicago White Sox mana If the rumored deal t if Manager Frank play might bo till a mighty good 4 and dangerous at the bat e n bit on the bases 1 recko} v th son. ANYTHING full ‘tiu‘¢s PLAN TRIP TO ORIENT FOR ement Is said to be | {Abe the father of Jap es thru that ||9nd an athletic head: at W: versity, and Darwin, Me ith the Washingtonians on} © Just Bach c , 1 In the spring of 1926 with | m returning the compli Card Tables, Pool, Cigars tin the ta Candles, Soft Drinks A guarantee of 8,000 yen will be Fountain Lunches bent yapanese n they make ——Pay Checks Cashed —— © trip attle, Under arrangemen' It will be a return game between] eye tooth, his right arm and $0 cents ie “two teams, the elevens having|in actual money. t in Astoria earlier in the FOR CHARITY American] Messrs. Dundee and Bernstein are k from the University of|to receive $20,000 to appear in a pa. Le y h Solon, former Minnesota, is coaching the West|charity bout. With your modern it has made a good deal | Siders, and local fans are promised| prize hter no sacrifice ts too great at afternoon.! when the cause is right exhibition t WASHINGTON DIAMOND TEAM BY JACK HOHENBERG | March 15, 1925, ana arrive in Seattle is certain that the University of | about the first of April. A two-game Washington ba 1 team will | series with the Huskies will follow. make a tour of Japan in 1925, and] The University of Idaho will be taken |there is a possibility of the trip be-| on for a two-game series with a vinal ing made in 1924, serles of games with Washington Communteations between Prof. Iso | and other schools following. The Washington invasion of Japan | will last over a pertod of two months, nest, grad-|the team leaving in September. ite manager of the university, show | Waseda and other Japanese universi- that the trip is contemplated in 1926. | tles will be played as well as profes. If the Uni tble to make the trip in the spring| y of Chicago is un-| sional and amateur teams. This will mark the third invasion a of 1924, then the Huskies will sub-| of Japan by the Husky tossers. On baseman. Stanley stitute Universi Tiinois | their last two trips, the Purple and er, altho he baseball invasion was c ied by | Gold athletes have left an enviable m last year, Prof. Abe this year Use of the| record behind them. Besides win: Japanese ear quake ning the championship of the coast, up to his stand | In of the catastrophe, the | the 1920 team journeyed to Japan here are many Japanese are keeping’ up thelr inland took the. measure of nearly eball, writes the pro-| ey nes and amateur as nal ball clubs® still | heeds 1000000000000000 club on the islands. hquake conditions ack? Be! COME AND. BRING A ae toa ean eonawel® The ZERO ached by Prof. Abe, will 214 Jefferson Street 100000000000 0.0 0 00-0 OO present they will leave on1000000000000000 of a foreigner was all that reeset) |