The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 14, 1923, Page 21

FRIDAY, DECEMBER ‘About Fights | and Fighters | Me BY LEO 8 N || LASS ‘OBY IRWIN, the San Francisco official, is| John Flammer’s idea of per-| fection when it comes to} referees. The former Cali-| fornia fight manager, who is Ww located permanently in attle, has had a lot of ex- perience in the ring game and knows what it’s all| about. “You have a good right here in Seattle in Ad} Schacht,” says Flammer, “tha best I have seen on the Pa- cific Coast outside of Irwin,| when it comes to handling] the fighters in the ring. They tell me that some of Schacht's jhe knocked Jimmy Rivers out In the | decisions haven’t been 50} good, but he knows how to | Soltis sunk Rivers with a bear of a} jleft hook in the second round and | knocked him dead tn the third ea keep the fighters busy and how to break them. “And say, do you know that a smart boxing instructor like Bobby Johnston, the Seattle trainer who refereed here some this summer, Would make a good fighter out of this Jack McDonnell? I really think | he would. McDonnell is big and strong and willing to learn, but he doesn't know the swer to the riddle yet. If he had piled into Rube Finn with both hands I think he would have stopped him.” Harking | Back It was just one of those fanning ss that are held every once in while and som ne appened mention “Dx F the “who was the bi Seattle a decade or so ago, | and Lonnie Aust hé following | oft his chest. Roller, who was a very he was a qnd I used to box with and time again down 8. A. C. Then Joe Carroll him over and tr im downtown hotel for awhile. it on Denver col d star, i De area Roller loc ol took at a ‘They Martin, the aver Ed almost ¢ from his ears, of fighting am- in the “The wrest! in a flock of let Roller sti came the secon¢ time the champ he had Gotch was gu he second mate ved and § promoters brought ‘s and th m had been here} an hour. $1,000 for n he ar- advance at sale is over $3,000 he held for more dough. to Carroll, who was and asked for a thousand dollars more, and Carroll was willing give it to him, but Roller, who was Carroll's » wouldn't Roller cham what arms and Gattney: to put want me Overmatching Ruins Many Prospects ‘Fine Card | Want Husky Dog man Georgie Sollis Is Big Hit) th sn thi a wi in Tacoma Janu make bt fa jmer having an Ir th once in his life, | four-rou Chee M r | rately time and time again. k | weight, lof «A fa « th tams, bs on the show fi sta a a promoters, else over to the Santa Claus fund, FROSH HOOP CoM Ht he OUR BOARDING HOUSE ) it \Tickets Go on Sale Today for Big| Washington-Navy Pasadena Game SADENA, Cal., Dec, 14.—Ticket sale for the University of Washington-Navy gridiron classic at the Tournament of Roses New Year's day will open tomorrow, ac- cording to an announcement by J. EB, Huerge, Washington alumnus, who is helping manage the big sporting event. After considerable difficulty over the price, the seats will be sold to the public, sailors and students at $3, it was announced. Over 20,000 can be accommodated and the largest delegation which has ever attended the game is expected. Commander McCandless is sending the Navy's quota of tickets to San Diego, Mare Island and Puget Sound by airplane. The Navy band of 30 pieces will be on hand, ct as ushers, besides 500 sailors who will! Simon Pure for Navy Game}! Battles to “A pup, a pup, my kingdom for |] a pup! That's tho yodel which sounding over the Univ Washington campu Why? Oh, the W dents would like to meet, the Navy Is Staged at Tacoma In hington stu » a Husky t at the mo to be on New Bud Bercot and Don Han- cock Headline Amateur Show Tonight FP ONIGHT:8 the night mateur mitt stingers ome twenty youthful boxers will |perform in the semimonthly show at Austin & Salt's gym. Soveral out-oftown boys are card M8 Caosded |} ed to box tonight, Yakima, Raven who has had a great deal of ox: 1) 1016 Godar Valley and Bremerton perience with canines of a 1 per h canines of all var Hattie senrenented bisa reddy Burnett, 187-pound clty [FIRST WORK [stuns FOR HUSKY GRID TEAM Alex Bernard ds Bre | trant an | hold the hy M ern b XACH ENOCH BAGSHAW and University of Washington stago their first © for tho big Navy game on main Bud Be and Don Han 330 p. m. Friday. are all in a pair of flywelghts, Bercot ts big attraction in that he has Ed Kubn havi injur whk With Three-Round K. O. of Jimmy Rivers SORGIE SOLLIS, the young Salt Lake lightweight, stole all the} hunder at the big Etks' Christmas| moker at Tacoma gast night when a + ‘car's day. If anyone has a Husky dog which they would like to dona for a few days, and aak for 1 y ‘Torrani hound will be cared for by Graves, assistant football for rd round of tho semi-windup, volley of punches, Soltis. was immediately matched tth Tod Morgan for the Coast ttle} ry 27. Sollis will! 129 pounds for the match | In the main event Johnny Tram-| tas and Johnny Jordan fought six| ast rounds to a draw, with the for-| edge over Jordan Portlander dropped Jordan in last round and Tramb| for| Stiddera were was the ag rrying the fight to his h nent. ‘The big upset of the card was the| sl a vie ored by Chea cc itt, Tacoma feather, over! p Pinto, the flash of t victory was be wing over his ri nertons’ en nor of Ravendalo, Don ils from Cedar Valley tonight is slated he to ne an, ‘eral boys in the lant Hancock is a colored xpected to give Bercot | n for the decision. mo of the other good even boys who will 4 from him during © gridiron sea, e re ham: tion in| a 8 ver * the On. for hould cause I last p Kuhn w ike ¢ a Owen De Flon, Bill Bud Hed ub, Clar thought on the line ker, dropped erdeen, beautiful rig hiskers, but E he wild battle ¢ for a that of emphasized. 28 main event the d up until just be tarts, admission of 65 cents ts and the first bout YARYAN IS PURCHASED , flush on th yd evened it up and ded In a draw. ed with action In Joe Waterman it of the En ke" The ma: aged wh 60 STUDENTS ARE WANTED students for the time in h we birds ever p smoker, It was t lot of the spect fig 3 made the turnstile click All of the dough was tt which jains the ready donation of funds, 66N7AM" YARYAN, At ke are nee 4 to get into|to ts o on the Pi t time for | can be made a ma’ to Torchy Tor aduate manng idea of a specia rding to Harr r agent for t $ for a This ts fare and ast 60 needed with Memphis next year. who came hi with a big a last spring, showed well at throw, and he He hit some ter ut as a whole his ting. former the India asadena in the Yarya' reputat ore nt & acee ong it be pin, th her, who ie fa a couple of train w to Torrance. ¥ leave possiblo that tho ed, special accord! if forme TUTER WILL | > Angeles on Return HEC DSON'S ax} tickets will be good until January tined to #¥ his} 7, 1933 80 freshmen in not the his floor clutt has-beens or never-was nundson has genuinely material w which to work I also be for The Seattle men | gotting the best c has Fr f his pitche s December nk Tobin in K short or policy of the lean over ne Co. basketball ail-Routh by TORRANCE TO SPEAK wate 1 udents, 2 Rotar, ata MacD.-8 Olymr ) felt to be Bridgeman (4) Chapin Laws (0). tor 7 Mar BY AHERN). titre see!- war ¢ DID TELL You? 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FARRELL N SW YORK, Dec. 14.—Babe Ruth received every vote the 192: cast by the official jury of sport writers at the end of 3 season as the most valuable baseball player in the | American league, Ruth, no doubt, would have received just as many votes lif he had been put up as a candidate for the honor of all | base all's greatest and most valuable player. Official batting averages of the American league remove | all doubt that might have been entertained as to the Babe's | right to the title. He certainly was the most valuable bat- | ter in the league. With an average of only 10 393 he finished second, | points behind Harry Heilman, the Detroit star, who played | { Vernon Habenecht will up: | Breezy News of Field and Stream Sportsmen BY EARL The big for A. PRY the fowl has come at last | Piper & Taft's, change in | all been waiting the duck r jit might be plen flight, poualbly weather Frosh-water fishing is practically | ta stan I, altho « ia being f which water ome good sport |} Sammamish | » Washingon, are open the run of Imost within game fish | interest in the of local an As it is now, await the open-| ¢ early-spring steelhead s S| Ich starts uary 15 o March 1 have and fair some nimrods are finding som ‘ For| rodies of water the sport|Year around. A heavy ‘an ood an|heads, which started fow] seem the last little or no| season season shooting the anon, so days, however, neem to t be for the ful but with The late wi the cause. * to no 1s created a ree numbe it up, shermen will f th A fine display of geese from the Columia river country t | Piper @ Taft's this Porter of this city bag mit of the big Horse Heaven district, between Roosevelt and Plymouth. Hoe reports the shooting as fair in that part of the country. He was shooting with Smith, of Kennewick, and one other Eastern Washington sport man. sana inde Porter shot a birds tn the . G. ¢ | salmon and salmon trout | p to be taken out in Bill cording to the report sent to Piper & Taft from C. G. Me. Millan, of the West ttle boat house, Most of the trolling is being near the surface, the heavy ng of the season not be- < quite Bo necessary In the game cellent sport Is being no use of rod and lino, the hand troll closed season for the fisherm: statements glven out supervisor of s the King county game hing for salmon and sal mon trout 1s at present allowed in the Duwam: er as far up us Riverton. 1 that the erles ablish tide. stream at its mouth | next month or #0. A dog protective ‘association has | been formed in th to further of those who own and man's best friend, The pur. lation will be along protection against | ning and the variou which come up the anima portsmen ticularly rented. ised to t public made with er downtown Silve t| © ac Geo: Of special Interest to the water. fowl shooters of the Northwe should be the proposed public shoot { # and game refu before congr jon. A si 1 at the last s @ very small ma jot in any way tablished duck uld help the # as the feat h part of the bill will tract birds to all pa pt if the wherein. the grounds and sanctuaries old-time is no and-line ne BOR il was and was| From by bill doew present fisherie warden, f afte | | in shooting on ure h It board water on thi. the hich are more country within A special federal license will be sold to all waterfowl hunters for the sum of $1, the fund created thereb: to be used in Ie or purchasing suitable lands for establishing shoot ing grounds and feeding places Still further patroling will also be available adoption of th feature lone betn element for thi waterfowl. §& urged to communicate at nee with their congressmen, urging m to favor the passage of thi up for be found interest se with the , this one very neces at men ary of the th me | may HANDICAPS CONFRONT COACH | OF GARFIELD’S CAGE TEAM JACK HOHENBERG | pears on the TENCE lack of| Will have to take the center berth Four tall men aspiring to the center be nt the 7 of the tores, see then Ralkowski sent @, and tho r to had much rfield high ¢ , one of , but they who I ptain ragar, star Join the squad semester Until rd will have to That's the situation a it promising, {t but that’s what they sald| ard this fall. : are the quads nd checking tals places on n Anne which drilled into the Il aspirants by w men, John jored flash by the most being baskett Of the and is true about Ba look | played be | bases jand a fine in eight games less than the Babe. Ruth played in every game with the Yankees and he eball with.everything he had in every game. He finished in a tie for the home-run honors with 41, and it must be remembered Skee that he seldom got a me ball to cut at. e scored more runs than aoy | 1 and more than 5 hits were for extra| Jacobs and Blake Sold HE first really big deal has been made for the rebuild- ing of the tie Indians for next yéar, Elmer Jacobs and Fred Blake, Seattle pitchers, have been gold to the Chicago Cubs for cash and the following men: George Steuland, right-handed pitcher, Percy Jones, southpaw, Los Angeles last year. rank Emmer, shortstop. Clift Brady, second sacker. And a catcher yet to be named. nalf of his His work on the bases was fine} and his fielding splendid. mpared to What he did in 1922, Ruth's record last season made his efforts of the previous year look like It was not that he couldn't play baseball in 1922, but it was more that hé didn't have his mind on baseball. a’ with SETTLED DOWN Last winter sald 4 more t of hours on the ball fi Ruth championships. He ald the thing that pleased him most '|in the last world’s series was the jrefutation of the statements made |before the series started that the Yankees didn’t have a heart. his foolishness, ad of the team and rd in the training camp ny He was more than| rewarded for his sacrifices. | The Babe is of such position that it was feared he might be tempted to get happy over his rookie. Ruth, according to his intimate friends, is saving his money. When he was hitting the high spots he went thru a quarter of a million dol record and enjoy himself this | jars and it took some of his 1923 pay , but so far he has shown 20/to get out of debt. gain. __| Figuring that he has at least four He 1s back on his farm in New) 01) 5 go and that with attention gland, and has gone into the!) 1:4 business his value should not business on a large scale. | decrease, the Babe has it doped out off his overalls andwent) t.3¢ he can put enough money away to Cambridge for the to make his future safe and to re game, where his Beane move from him the threat of the journalist made it » for hiM) tush leagues and bush league pay to get m cholce wet seat in the press| rer Hi time has passed’ in tone | box. | company. | HIS | Ruth is a great admirer of Jack Hecrkeieres | Dempsey, and he has taken a lesson from the heavyweight champion that ing to New York around), wie fellow in sport does not have mastime to do a little shop-/1, be a sucker with his money to be vith the wife, but we are going ok to the farm to th big | PES Christmas for the baby. 1’ y on| the farm until the middle of Feb-| GO0ZEMAN TO BOX uary and then I'l) pull out for Hot} CHICAGO—Ernie Goozeman, Pa- Springs,” Ruth said. |cttic coast flyweight, meets George The Babe looked well. His eyes| Butch of Chicago, here Monday night. were clear and, altho he was a little| neavy, he was obviously in shape. Ruth still has hope that he will be| able to add the batting championship of the league to his record, and he| is golng out for it next year. Harry Hellman is a great batter | >w, but I think that I that. championship away efree dis: winti tendencies to cut loose # poultry He ah poss “I'm ge Chris can take |from him next year,” the Babe said. | Ruth and Heilman are very close | personal friends, Qhe Babe, incidentally, thinks that | the Yankees ought to be good for at least three more pennants and as| Becaaay Gets Veteran Coach Reginald Christenson, veteran Broadway baxeball coach, an- nounced today that he would pilot the Tiger nine, once more for the 1924 Season. The Connie Mack of the Seattle high school league did coach last year Ause of the pressure of outside work His return is being hailed by supporters, for he has won umpionships for 1 during his long He is the only survivor © famous Henderson, Turner, and Christenson quartet ached Broadway to victory ort in which it took Don’t let this opportunity go by to get a to get a tailored ‘OREGON COACH YET UNSETTLED Dick Smith, former All-American fullback and an Oregon alumnus, and Andy Stanford coach puted to have the inside trac coaching honors at the University of Orege Becauso Smith is a gradu. ute of the Eugene school, he is given the edge over little Andy Kerr, who has performed creditably as a foot ball mentor at Stanford, Blue Serges Gray Serges Tweeds Worsteds and Unfinished Worsteds Kerr dies himself fair qualification for ward, ts with accur Art Duffy, forward on last year’s quad, leaves an opening and it that Fiett apr at Duffy's r ends at the inderclasaman expe » and shot and a good floor man promise, 1 a demon TUXARA but shows a little m lency If he will have wants t he ABLE DIS’ WEAR W PREFERABLY LAME Et Ce 1 him in t him COLLAR CLUETT, PEABODY & CO., INC., 1 Weiss may land post 1, is p Maker uard Job, Pancececcee ence ¢ yor [creases tases haces Lactinieesiaomsiorehiaeestaeeeiarmiaetaeencetee eet MEN WHO SEEK FASHION- [INCTION IN DRE: ING COLLARS ARROW S Until Next Wedne: day only i This special offer will hold good, so you had better come in tomor- row and look over this wonderful selection of new winter materials. 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