The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 17, 1923, Page 12

THE SEATTLE STAR MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1928. About Fights and Fighters BY LEO H. LASSEN RS ERSATILITY is what makes ring champions. That’s why fighting men thruout the Northwest think that Vic Foley, the Vancow } ver bantamweight, has the best chance of any boy in this section of reaching the championship heights of* pu- gilism some day. Foley can box and he can hit. He jabs and hooks. He’s strong and can take ‘em, He likes to fight and is intelli- gent. Foley is young and ambitious and he takes good care of himself. There are many other fine pros- pects In the Northwest now, such as Tod Morgan, Dode Bercot, Ted Krache and Johnny Trambitas, but ‘they all lack some one thing, Mor- gah doesn’t punch stiff enough yet ‘to be considered championship tim- ber, altho he's a punishing hitter. Bercot lacks finesse in his boxing. Kracho is a one-punch fighter, Trambitas isn't aggressive and is handicapped somewhat by short arms, He's the best hitter for his| welght in the Northwest at present, however, The present world’s champions are all versatile men and two- handed punchers. That's, why Vic Foley must be considered the best allaround ring Prospect in the Northwest at pres- ent. All he lacks {s experience and he's gaining that fast enough. That Martin-Roller “Fight” The recalling of the Denver Ed Martin-“Doc" Roller fight in Seattle over a decade ago, when the col- ored heavyweight was brought here to box with Roller, who thought he was a fighter as well as “wrest- ler,” brings the following sidelight from Dan Salt: “Martin and Roller boxed every Gay together for six weeks previous to their ‘fight’ and the night that they finally were brought together in the ring Roller was so terrible that Martin couldn't help winning and that ended Roller as a fighter.” That's one for the book. The Mystery of Davis’ Punching Try and explain why Travie Dayis doesn’t win more fights by knockouts. The Everett welter- weight has knocked more men off of thelr pins than any other fighter ina ttle ring and yet there are very few K. O. victories in his record book. Davis hits like a ton of brick, but can't keep his man on the canvas. Frankie Rogers, Heinle Schumann, Tillie Kid Her. man, Young Dudley, Harry Casey —all knocked stiff by Davis, but all of whom came up for more. It's one of the mysteries of the coe fight game. Try and explain| it. Spider Roach Helps Johnny Mack Spider Roach, Tod Morgan’s| trainer, took Johnny Mack under his wing in Los Angeles when he was down South recently and corrected some bad faults in the| Pittsburg boy's footwork. “Mack hits well, but he had a bad habit of getting his feet all mixed up when he led,” says Roach, “and when he gets over this fault it will improve his defense a lot. With his punching power and abil, ity to take a wallop, he should soon be fighting main events, if he| corrects this fault. “Ho was also fighting with his hands too low and he left himself open to too many punches on the/ chin. | “Outside of these faults in his style Mack {s a natural fighter| and has a lot of possibilities.” Roach also says that Mack plans| to fight @ short time in California and then will return to the North- west. Tho Pittsburg featherweight always gave Seattle bugs a good Tun for their dough and was a welcome fighter on any bill here. Vincintini Is One-Punch Fighter | Luis Vincintini, the South Amert cah Ughtwelght, the latest sensa- tion in Eastern fistic circles, is a one-punch fighter and he makes the grave mistake of leading with his right hand. In this day and age a championship contender must have something besides ono stiff punch. Because he lacked ‘versu- tility the South American lost to Johnny Shugrue in New York Fri-| day. Eddie Pinkman was the North. west’s best example of a one-punch fighter. Anybody that got hit with Eddie's right hand usually dropped, but when Eddie Campi came al e Eddie's right hand was helpless Just like it was helpless against Oakland Jimmy Duffy, when Pink man attempted a comeback years ago. IT’S AN OLD TRICK, THIS. Manager Art Fletcher last week asked waivers on no less than 14 members of the Philly team, but {t was explained that he had no serious intentions—fust the habit clubs have of “putting players on the market” to feel out other clubs Fletcher wished to know, putting it in another way, what sort of opin fon other managers have of his stuff. two | University of W. VARSITY CAGE TEAM CAME BACK STRONG SATURDAY Pittsburg Pirates Have Landed Crack Shortstop College Five Looks Much Better in Second Start shington Quintet Hangs Up 96 to 16 Victory Over Fonda Glove Five Saturday, After Taking Beating Night Before; Hesketh High Man STINGING reverse and an overwhelming victory marked the week end in University of Washington basketball affairs. Coach Hee Edmundson’s team took a 21-15 defeat at the hands of the Hall Business college five on Friday and swamped the Fonda Glove Co. squad by a 96-16 count Saturday. This much is certain. Washington needs practice games and plenty of them before the team will strike the reai Husky stride. The Hall Business college contest was marked by a surprising lack of offensive contest was marked by a surprising lack of offensive strength and the Fonda Glove The Old Case; affair immediately wiped out ? Bambino Again the thought that the Varsity was weak on the scoring end Urban Shocker, star pitcher of the St. Lous Browns, says that of things. Bob Hesketh and Dick Frayne he pitches harder on Babe Ruth than any other player in tho Played the forward posta during tho Fonda Glove gamo with George American league, Shocker says||Clark, & promising @ophomore, at there are any number of reasona }|center. Clark is a little awkward, First, the desire he has to keep |/but he demonstrated a fine ability the big fellow from hitting, and|/to find the basket when the oo secondly, 1f you don't work care- |/casion demanded, Saturday night. fully on him each timo at the || C.ark scored 21 points for his team. bat you are lable to be asking |/Heaketh was high point man with the umpire for a new ball as||29, Frayno next with 27, Gardner the one in play soars over the |/had 12 and Gundiach 7, ‘The same fence, Shocker says a slow ball, || tive men played thruout the contest properly pitched, ts the most ¢f-|/and showed a fine combination fective against Ruth, but 1€ you || piay, It seemed aa If every varsity get it tn his “groove,” he will !| man who threw tho basketball in make a fast one out of your!/tne alr hooped the ball for two aipw. one, points, Saturday night was @ ban- er night in varsity scoring affatra, Army Marion and Dick Welts are going to put in a strong bid for a forward post and Ob Gardner, Al Peters, Ralph Gundlach and Mel Norquist are the guanis. Chet Froude ts a strong forward. ‘The vairety will eventually hit its NO TRIP FOR WHITE. HOSE The Chicago Americans will not take any European trip with the New York Giants after the holidays, Secretary Harry Grablner’ of the| stride. Hec Edmundson has some Chicago club has declared fn an-| good material on hand and should| Swer to rumors that John McGraw's|develop a team which will be on a} present trip to Europe has a bear. Par with those which have repre ing on such a tour. sented the Untversity of Washington in former years, COLLEGIAN TO PLAY FOR N. Y. NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—Paul Flor. ence, star football and baseball play- er at Georgetown, has signed a con- tract with the Giants and will report at the training camp. Hoe is a catcher, N. Y. MAGNATES ARE SLIGHTED| NEW YORK, Dec, 15.—Officials of the Giants and Yanks returned from the Chicago baseball meetings said today they belleved thelr rival magnates had reached an under. standing not to do any business with the New York clubs. “HONEST BOUTS" LOSE The socalled wrestling trust has been cleaned up and the big boys are| said to be shooting on the equare| these days. Whether the cash cus | * tomers resent the Introduction of re-| | form methods into their favorite! sport or whether they have become| ill of ft all is debatable. The fact ts, | however, that the bouts In New York | this year have all proved flops at the box office. Some of the football experts {n || the West arguo that Grange of || Illinois does not deserve All- || American honors because he !s |] not a triple threat man. That |] {= wrong. Grange {9 a fine |] punter, but Britton, the Tilinols |] fullback, is a better one, Grange can pans as well as receive, but his great speed caused Coach Zuppke to use him almost en- tirely in @ running game HOLDS OUT Ermino Spalla has been offered 50,- 000 pesos to meet Firpo in Buenos Aires, but is wuld to be holding out for a real honest-togosh ham sand. | wich. { HUMORIST GETSBESTOF COMEDIAN ON GOLF LINKS Whee fs a tale of the golf links fairway and noticed three or four Ring Lardner, the humorist,| prominent pro players. were follow. was playing Nick Altrock, thecome-|ing them. Calling them dian. | Lardner remarked Nick, who has quite an edge on| “Your reputation {9 rutned, Nick, Lardner as a golfer, was leading by | when I tell them how many strokes a comfortable margin when the two| you required to get out of the trap.” teed off at the 12th green. |Altrock was plainly Altrock drove Into a sand trap,| When a golfer is In trouble he Is much to the delight of Lardner.|always asking advice. Nick was| After Nick had wasted a couple of | anxious to get out of the trap, strokes trying to get out, spraying} “What shall I do?’ asked! sand over the green, but mo ball, | Altrock. Lardner was hoping he would re-| “Better quire at least seven or eight more, | they‘ll think you're working down | when Lardner, who has a thoro|there,” replied Lardner. Needless | knowledge of the part psychology |to say, the advice didn’t help Alt- Plays in golf, glanced down the|rock’s score. Ho took an elght. by nama, perturbed. | keep on digging and British Golf King and American Star to Meet HAVERS BARAZEN MERICA’S preeminent golf professional, Gene Sarazen, only native! the 1922 season. champion to repeat in a major event the past season Wright Is Hailed as Real Star Umpire Chill Says K. C. Graduate Will Make Grade With Pirates MPIRE OLLIE CHA, former American league arbitrator, who worked in the American association lant neason, is ponitive that in Shorts stop Wright of Kansas City, Pittsburg has picked up one of the greatest in- fielders that ever broke into the big show, Chill says there isn’t a ques- tion about his making good, “Wright is « remarkable fielder,” says Chill, “a big rangy fellow, who covers far more territory than you give him credit for, Hoe has that loose, easy stride that featured the work of Honus Wagner when he was in his prime, He can go equally to his right or left, and has a fine arm. “Wright ian't the greatest hitter in the world, but he will measure up to the major league standard in that re aspect. If Wright didn’t hit over .275 for Pittsburg he would havé to be reckoned as a star because of his ability in other directions. “In the series between Baltimore and Kannas City for the minor league honors, in which I was one of the umpires, sensational fielding by Wright saved neveral games. Ho is a fixture with Pittsburg right now.” Chill should know a ball player. | His views make it certain that Bar-| ney Dreyfus has picked up another) infielder. In “Pic” ‘Traynor he is re- puted to have the best third sacker in the National league. Traynor can also play short, Wright really became the property of the Pittsburg club at the close of However, he ex- and England's) pressed the belief that another year | new champion, Arthur Havers, will come to grips in a 72-hole match tn/in the minors would work greatly to California next month. ° Sarazen and Havers will play 36 holes in San Francisco January 18 and| burg club a 26 holes more in Los Angeles two days later. this country the middle of December, putting in some lusty practice strokes, Havers won tho English championship for the first time this x Sara. zen, winner of the professional match play title a year ago, repeated this Beason. Thru the Ropes | Leonard to Young Deaiey to working ont win| Show Here te bel managed by again, Wright welghe 161 AI place soon after the first of the y weight champion, makes a double Mabe Foote ts back from @ succestui debut in Seattl Invasion of Caltfornia, if 7 — ing out th Austin & Sait's eymaastum tn | Of mber 23, at the Orpheum “ ‘0 for hie coming fighte, Dabe | theater, where he opens a week's en- is & bantamweight | agement tn a riotous act. He tn |now showing before large crowds at Vancouver. may surprise local sportemen and the theater-going public in gen: | ral to learn that this is Leonard's first appearance as a boxer and actor o fight Batior Bott in | combined before and since he became has comine | bows of the 135-pound division. and Més talr'te make) tt is eaid that Leonard has « bird of an act Young Dofley ts preparing for his ~ The a teroy| It ‘whelking” moker held tn Ta Thursday was a big be 4 been pad Kansas City, Omaha, Min and Vancouver, where he has already shown, unite praising Benny for his | *kiil as @ dancer, straight man, boxer had $3, town that the wood" in the hou and Lonnie Austin had to Billy Williams, the former lghtwelght, who, the fans will remember, fou ‘& KTeat battle with Johnny O'Leary, hot reaiat the lure of the padded ‘ring Ho still comes around to» thete atuft, Leonard's ‘act contains that lasts all of 25 minutes. soma | Next Week 1, the conquering hero comes! | and, taken all in all, his wonderful | showmanship behind the footlights. | material | In that | 14nd Indians lost little time in deny. | 16 short space of time the brainy boxer | the boys do) pulls a lot of funny stuff, playing | Msht be traded to the Boston Red jstraight for the inimitable Timberg |8°X for George Burns, his advantage, and {t is said the Pitts. | eded to his wishes and Havers ts due to arrive in| permitted him to play another year Sarazen is now at Miami, Fia,| with Kansas City His work played & leading role In enabling Kansas City to win the American association }and then beat the Baltimore club in the minor league world series, ART FLETCHER LOOKING WELL Sitting on the bench and manag- ing a ball club—and spending the| winter {n the open—have done won. | ders in a way for Art Fletcher. Tho fans of Philadeiphia hardly will rec- |Omnize the manager of the Phils when they see him in the spring. Benny Leonard, world’s light-|Hoe's developed into a ruddy.taced | equipo, but he hasn't lost any of| beginning the week | !* Old disposition, and his jaw sets | an firmly as ever, 'NOT EXCITING, YET IT’S NEWS| The Chicago American league jclub, which has had its tncorpora. jtion charter tn Wisconsin, has in-| corporated under the laws of Illi. | |nols and the Wisconsin corporation, granted in 1900, diasolved. The new corporation takes over not only the | and newspaper clippings | ball club but also the title to the | ist it (2). jat hand from St. Louis, Milwaukee, |ball park, which had | polis | name of been in harles A. Comiskey. the DENIES TRADE) President Barnard of the Cleve- ing a report that Bill Wambsganss However, | PINKY MITCHELL wins |>rothers, Sammy and Herman, works| MT: Barnard did not deny that Tris | Pinky Mitchell, Milwaukee, junior welterweight champion, won on a foul from Nate Goldman, Philadel-|®* how they can reduce by his un- phia, in the fourth round of aj %"Oy skill with the rope, and body scheduled 10-round bout here Jast | “ercises. algnt | Seattle welcomes MILWAUKEE, Wis, Deo. 15.—| | the champion, OUR BOARDING HOUSE the new master of pugilism, &reatest exponent of the manly arti by Willlam H. MeCs BY AHERN since the days of Joe Gans. Ho will show the audience how ho annihi. lated his foremost rival, Lew Tend HAT WOT “FZ STUMP SANTA CLAUS, | ALVIN t+ N'SeE, He's f SO COLD COMING MR. BUSTER! How CAN GANDY CLAUS COME DOWN OUR CHIMBLY WHEN TT GOES WTO “WW FURNACE ANI THERE'S A FIRE iN IT 2, MN SCENARIO THATS WHY HE GOES Down CHIMNENS, To WARM UP J-YEH~ BESIDES He WEARS AN ASBESTOS BAH!~ How can 1 CONCENTRATE on FROM TW’ NORTH POLE] | “THiS IDLE PRATNE? I SEE Now WHERE ST WILL HAVE “To BE jler, and g: |hew ho fe ous blow GOOD ONE MATOR« jopponent. Benny believes in stage THEN AFTER SIR work for the good reason that it ART 1S “THROWN j helps to keep him in. condition in 4 jcase he should be told to stop, to FROM His HoR | ump in and defend his laurels. iE \S ARRESTED | | oR BY "TH! LONDON | | WHY WHITE SOX wr WRITTEN INTHE SECLUSION OF MY DEN! HMM- LETS SEE Now, POLICE, FOR IMPERSONATING “TH PRINCE Quiet bel HE MAJOR STARTS HIS SCENARIO= “GIR ARTHUR PIERCE \S THROWN FROM HiS MOUNT DURING THE FOX HUNT, “” OF WALES!. FAILED TO WIN Those on the Inside say that the failuro of the White Sox to finish better than seventh in the Ameri- can leaguo was due to cliques onthe ball club, Several of the players are | alleged to have suffered from aid | Amon | mentioned a clever outfielder and j® capable pitcher. Under Frank Chance, who rules with an fron | hand, this condition Is sure to dis appear, or else the peeved athletes not give their best | will be wearing different uniforms. | | | VILLA DENIES FIGHT GOSSIP} Pancho Villa's manager denies \that he has a pledge with the New | York boxing commission by which |the flyweight champion {s bound to |box Frankie Genaro, the American champion. Villa's pilot says Villa | will not defend his title against a flywelght until next March, Genaro has previously beaten Villa. DEMPSEY TO REMAIN EAS NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—J Dempsey, world's champion, pla establish head quarters at F idy Welsh's health farm at Summit, N J nd some hunting while he for work, waiting them into the boxing scene in which | 8Peaker would like to huve Burns} ho apars with Allie Nack, which in| >8ck again. & scream, and then shows the wom-| the | the Coast league ‘es them a closeup of! ing jobs of Mr. ances in and out of danger-| Brashear and Spike Shannon, , getting inside to maul his| | | PLAY TONIGHT) the} belief that they were being diy.|of the entrants for manager of the criminated against, and as a result|St- Paul Saints is Ollie Chm, um. | efforts, |Pire and all ‘round sport. s tho disgruntled athletes was| that | welght mit Js another thing, |are wonderful If filled several times | | 'UMPS APPLY ° , TO WILLIAMS Having heard that all umpires of been released | thy and that a | new set would be needed, the appli jcants to Harry Williams havo been quite numerous, | Among those ask. | Williams are Roy | |CUE WIZARDS CHICAGO, Dee, 17.—Welker Coch. | rane, Pacific coast cue wizard, and Champion Willie Hoppe, will clash | hero tonight In the first block of a 1,600-point match for the 18.2 balk. line billiard championship OLLIE CHILL AFTER BERTH It being a free-for-all affair, ono At least {s the report from St. Paul, tho Chill himself doesn't confirm it, LYNCH STRONG AT 122 When Joo Lynch, bantamweight champion, knocked out Eddie Cou. lon, of New Orleans, in the third round, recently, he welghed 422| pounds, the old featherweight Iimit, | At this weight Lynch looked great | and fought in old-time form. Wheth- er he will continue to look great| when he scales it at the bantam. NEW STADIUMS COSTL) While the new football stadivins during the season, they become quite 4 burden if the eleven has a bad year and fails to draw. ‘Tho new stadiums havo caused each college possessing | one to try to book at least three | worth-whilo games at home. Good attractions are necessary to fill the stadiums RECO TION FIRST Alexander Alekline, Russian chet master, has arrived in this country, demanding recognition and rubles, INDIAN CHIEF |’ | victory over the alumni, Edmunds, Bo =|. me.” | points, | winners with 16 A Letter From Leo fam Crane, Decembor 17, 1923. 1847 Park at., Harrisburg, Pa. Dear Sam It seems like mid-season again, with baseball headlines crowding football, hockey and boxing off of the sport pages. There has been plenty of dyna. mite exploded during the past few days. I would have answered your letter sooner, but things have been popping #0 fast that I haven't had time, ‘We'll have plenty of new fellowa to get acquainted with in spring train. ing, with Jacobs, Gardner, Blake, Yaryan and Burger missing. And there will probably be several more changes before we go South, T talked with Jake the other day about his sale to the Chicago Cubs and he wasn't exactly tickled, Jako likes it in Seattle and has the majority of the five little Jukes in school. He expects to make Seattle his home and will return again after the season ends, Seattle's going to miss him and they won't realize what a swell pitcher he is until they try to replace him, It won't seem the name without Harry Gardner and his moaning. But he'll be down In Portland and that’s not so very far away, His rubber arm still has a lot of good games left. With Yaryan's passing, the checker title of the club will undoubtedly revert to Billy Lane, Yam would have been a good catcher in this league if he could have taken as much time thinking out the plays as he do, at the checker board, But you can't play baseball out of a book. @ Do you ever hear from Hal Janvrin? Hal was one swell fellow and too bad that he couldn't make a go of it with the Indians. He did pretty well with Indianapolis, but just couldn't get started with Seattle. You'll have a new second packer to work with next year in Clift Brady, but I suppose you know all about him by this time, Clyde Mearkle did pretty well, but the kid made it too tough on double plays because he couldn't throw. If Brady has the stuff and {f you play like you did the last half of the season we won't have to worry about second base. Bill Kenworthy will be back at Portland and you can count on the Iron Duke having a good club. Seattle is strong for Kennle and always did regret that he got mixed up in that bum deal. But he’s such a hustler and such & good scout that everybody has just about forgotten his slip. Jako is the only Indian wintering here, Frank Tobin having left for California a week or so ago, It’s good to hear from the gang and the fans at tho old stand are always giad to listen in on news of the Indians, even with baseball in the discard for a few weeks yet. If you should seo Ted Baldwin or Mearkle, say hello. Try to write again. Sincerely, LEO, H. LASS! P. 8. Regards from-Stacey Shown. Weissmuller Is 'H eavies to som coing Better! Tangle in Pool Card Weissmuller was ordered to give || up swimming. It was feared || that he had a leaking heart, Now we learn the young Chi- pes is an interesting angle in cagoan is not only back in || 1 the heavyweight tlit between competition but ts swimming bet- || preq “Tiny” Bott and John Budnick, ter than ever—which is some |! who meet in the special event of to- morrow night's card at the Crystal |Pool. The aAgie is that Budnick is | working out with Rube Finn, while swimming, for Weissmuller 1s | Bott is going thru some give take sessions with Jack McDon: probably the greatest swimmer the country has ever developed, Lonnie Aystin 1s also devoting ‘a |half an hour a day with Budnick, In @ recent meet, Weisamuller beat his own record in the 100 meters by two-fifths of a second, thrashing the distance in 0:59 1.5 Swimming enthusiasts are no " longer asking who will take || coaching the promising looking big Welssmuller’s place at the Olym. |!fellow in the finer points of the |game. Budnick 1» a tall, rangy bat- |tler scaling 192 pounds, and in his one start here, which was against Sailor Hayes several weeks ago, ho looked pretty good. He showed moro piad next year, but how many : stuff than Jack McDonnell anyway. Cage Gossip |. records will he break, Budnick appears to be an {ntell!- gent sort of a fellow and Austin says : aTONVERLS Bonnie | at he is rapidly assimilating in ene of the fastest games Eatonville | vnowledge of the game. Budnick the Tuet Batonvitte Meh echeet aiumet (May make good without all the bally- by a F4-t0-20 score. “Rumpy" Bermour| hoo, where McDonnell failed. was high point man + As for Bott, he probably has more et 0 5 on- Vale's -All-eiate pecrbaanay: Fa “eg |chance to make good than any of Kettleman tied for second with 1 points! the heavy boys who have fought * Brateet starred at guard | around here in the past several The Eatonville players were real sports, |¥e2rs. Bott, who towers 6 feet 345 and after the game put on a big feed|inches in his stocking feet, and for the visttors, weighs 212 pounds, is the possessor firet thought seriously hurt, fs much im-|right hand a la Firpo,.and with a hap i | little calming down and control on sStawa oa | his dukes, will be mighty dangero) clark, RG). Fatenvjama (2)| Bott is one of the freaklest bax Brateet, J. (1) - Kettleman (7)/in the game. This is what he » Mexel (7) | marked yesterday in the gym: hs don't know a thing about the game, but am willing to learn. I have never had the opportunity of working in a |sym before, and have yet to havo |someone point out or correct a fault FAIRHAVEN WINS jin my style of boxing, and-I have BELLINGHAM, Dec. ‘The Fair-| plenty of faults, But I am healthy, haven high school basketball team scored like Ne mix it, and am going % Fe epg yet £-) Paedl gec “}my best to get somewhere. go! Urday, 1S the, pestiminery gene “the| paid off from the navy three weeks girls’ team ted the alumni girls, ago and am going to stick to the box- “ ing game until I am convinced that there isn't a chance for me. I at least am going to try to make good and will give the fans the best I have EATONVILLE VICTOR Seymour (9) «+. Brateet ... Substitutions for R. Clark; Eatonville, Duke for Hekel, for Duke. ree—Clif Harrison. fe Re The Ridge- and Tets starred while Littler wa In th t the prep team, umn luminary. prelimina: me the girls wamped the second ti Frewing and Royle ret team, That's about all any boxer could do, Bott has been boxing little more than a year, gaining the rudiments of the game in the navy. Altho he has |not been press-agented in the least, |he has defeated much better boys five | than either McDonnell, Finn or Bud- the | nick, Bott won the Pacific const It |amateur heavyweight championship of Fauntleroy each accounted for 20|feating Ralph Smith, the young Sanders at center starred for the | Kiant, whom Bob Edgren was touting tall Bobby Latta|so highly, Smith was injured so se- pinyed good ball for the loser | verely ina motor smashup three days after his bout with Bott that he was forced to give up boxing forever. Ed- gren pronounced Smith as the best looking prospect he had ever seen in |action. This was before Bott beat | him. YELLOW CABS WIN The Yellow Cab Co. basketball cored A 44-to-40 victory over Fauntleroy five Saturday evening, was a thrilling game from atart to finish ARCHDEACON. HITS WELL Maurice Archdeacon'’s average of | pateh 402 in tho American league is some- thing to inspire respect, even if the flyer from Rochester did hit in only 22 games, Hitting over .400 isn't a bad job for only one game. Yet 22 aren't 122 or 162. Pitchers know more about a batsman after he's| been in a hundred games, and by | that time he has been facing a lot of regulars as well as rookie LANDIS MUST PASS ON TALK Report from New York that a trade may be arranged for Roush, of the Reds, to go to the Giants won't pass Commissioner Landis’ chair without some decision. Action by tho commissioner in the cases of Roush and Groh are a matter of baseball history; that of Groh has becomo a closed chapter, but the caso of Mr, Roush and the Reds-- and the Glants— is still open. EBBETTS SEEKS FORMER OUTLAW Nowadays they solicit ineligibles whose suspensions have expired to mako applications for reinstatement | and come back and be good. A dls- from Kenosha, Wis., states | President Charles H. Ebbetts, of | the Brooklyn club, has written Nor- man Pitt, pitcher, who jumped to | the shop league, urging him to go} to before Judge Landis and square himself. Mr. Ebbetts promises to in the order named. the player's behalf, use his influence with the judge in| O | Travie Davis and Young Du: Jare all set for their stx-round se! |in the main event of tomorro night's card. There ia.a great deal of interest being displayed in the re- turn go between these two gamesters. If tomorrow night's bout is half as sensational as the last one the fans won't have any kick coming, An- other Interestinig meleo is the cix- round semi-final between Fred@w Mack, the dynamjte socker, and Billy Morrow, Lakey Morrow's slugging brother, Two more bouts round out the card. Frank Cheslock meets Frankie Edwards, while Billy Quilter will tangle with Sailor Oswald. 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