The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 19, 1923, Page 16

PAGE 16 About Fights and Fighters BY LEO H, LASSEN HE big houses that Dode Bercot and Ted Krache have heen drawing during the past year have been mag- nets to boxers of the whole division. Welterweights are dom- inating the fight game in the Northwest and the Bercot- “Krache combination _ has drawn Billy Wright back from retirement and has ‘been the lure to bring Bob ‘Harper back to his home ‘town. ‘ Wright, who was one of the mas- ter boxers of the Northwest a few ‘seasons ago, ts in training and will {make 148 pounds for any of the wel- “terweights hereabouts. Harper, al- ‘tao beaten by Krache, Is still a good “battler and is no broken-down vet- leran by any means, being but a “youngster yet In years, altho long ‘tm experience. . As for Wright, he can still beat a Jot of these so-called fighters, and the wily William will be no setup for Krache, Bercot, Travio Davis or any of the rest of them. Does r Lack Ambition? A year or so ago Bob Harper Jooked like the best bet for a world’s championship that was ever pro- duced in the Northwest. Today mention of Harper's name brings only casual comment. Some ring critics seem to think that the Seattle boy lacks ambition and that Charley Jost’s tutoring has done his style a lot of harm, as Har.) per is distinctly an infighter now bod has lost that baffling cleverness that brought him early fame. The whole thing is that Harper lost a lot of prestige when he was defeated by Krache in Tacoma, and it will take a lot of good fighting to wipe that defeat out of the record ook. Not that Krache is any bum, but that Harper was supposed to haye been so much better than the Hoquiam boom man. Harper is expected to meet Bercot here soon, and if he gets over Dode will be given a return shot with Krache. Chick Tabit Is Coming to Fore } Speaking of welterweights, there's @ preliminary boy in Seattle who bears witching. He's Chick Tabit, one of Dan Salt's boys, who has yet to lose a fight. Ho has developed a corking good left hand and with the experi- Yence of several battles under hia belt She has come to the front’ rapidly. His victory over the veteran Stanley “Willis was clean cut and Tabit may @oon be moving up on the program. -“Gunboat” Smith’s ‘Claim to Fame “Gunboat” Smith may never have reached the championship throne of pugitism, but the big fellow has one or two claims to fame, according to Joe Waterman. “Smith has the biggest hands and feet of any fighter I ever saw," says Waterman. “He could cover both of my mitts with one of his and he yore a No. 14 shoe, which had to be ‘made to order. () “Smith also has the distinction of being the baby who hit Jack Demp- igey the hardest punch Dempsey ever (took, Jack admitting it himself. “Smith was one of the most inter- ‘esting personalities in the ring. He yhad a great line of chatter, and it ‘was with Smith that I first heard of te New York street ‘the Carpentier-Dempsey fight, and ‘Smith bought a New York Journal \There was a screaming headline on the front page saying that Luis Firpo had knocked out ‘Gunboat’ Smith, and Smith was reading of it thousands of miles away. The ‘Gun. mer’ never got over that one.” Concerning ‘Morgan’s: Hitting “Don't think for a minute that Tod Morgan can’t hit.” Dode Bercot on the line. “4 “That young fellow hit me on the side of the head in train long ago and it was the punch I ever took. lL thought my head had been knocked off of my tneck.” And that coming from “has taken some severe ¥ shitters like Krach “means something Morgan isn’t a h sknocks his man dead, tpunishing hitter. He has efte leverage in his punching and hits “fast and accurately After Dand: {Dillon's last fight with Tod here Di ‘lon's face looked like a hamburger | eak, and it was punched that » not butted. ‘BE TTOR GETS MONEY BACK TORONTO, Ont, Dec, 19.—In the Mstrict court at New Liskeard, D. C (Burkholder, of that city, obtained yJudgment for $200 from A. 00 , on the STILL PRETTY GOOD It may be at Judge Ls slipping, disgruntled mag saates who faced him at C! i fell you he still has a hop to his fast ts th {Luis Firpo. We were walking down | with Marion | {Balazar, a Frisco acribe, just before | Jacobs I 8 Hard Man to Replace Gardner Also Leaves Gap in Hurling Department; Baldwin Needs Help (QED KILLIFER'S big job be tween now and spring train ing time ts finding new strength for jthe Seattle battery department. The catching ff* still needs a high class man, as "Red" Baldwin, at | his best, is not a high class receiver, altho Killifer thinks very well of him, A good catcher may be landed in a deal now pending, the name of the |man not being available for publica. |tion until the deal goes one way or | the other, | JAKE'S LOSS WILL HURT Elmer Jacobs will leave a big hole in the pitching staff when he goes. | | Any pitcher who can win 24 games} in a season in the Coast league Is hard to find. Jake won't be appreciated for the great work ho has done for Seattle }in the past three years until ho's | gone, | It remains to be seen whether | Suds Sutherland will do as well as/ | Harry Gardner did the past year. The Indians will probably make a | deal for Jim Bagby, placing him with some other club, as he looked terri. }ble here last full. VIC PIGG MAY BE READY Vic Pigg may be ready next spring for Coast league duty, as ho learned Ja lot in the Western league last | summer, Wheezer Dell, one of the land marks of the Coast ctreult, may fool @ lot of the boys by having a fat} year. The past season was the poor- est Dell ever had in this company. Vean Gregg, if used for relict | work mainly, will be one of the most effective men In the league. Percy Jones, if he can be taught control, will southpaw his way to a | | usual display of cuo mastery can win | THE ATTLE STAR GAPS MUST BE FILLED IN SEATTLE MACK AND MOR : ) ROW STAGE FINE He Still Leads Cue Rival i Willie Hoppe, world’s champion 18.2 balkline billiard champion, still leads Welker Coch- rane in the title play now going on in Chicago. The score, after last night’s match, gives Hoppe a count of 1,000, and Cochrane, 486. The final block is tonight. Bill Essick Wants Too Much for Southpaw Unless Bill Essick comes off his high horse, Jakie May will never get his chance in the big leagues, Essick tried to peddle May at the Chicago diamond meeting, but he wanted half of Manhattan, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb and a few more trinkets thrown in for the left- hander, If Essick isn't too greedy he can make his ball club by sending May up. If he keeps Jakie he will have a hard time getting enough men to put his broken-down Tigers back in the Coast race. Cue Champ Leads Over His Rival IHICAGO, Deo, 19.—~Willle Hoppe, | world's billiard champion, !n- creasod his lead in the match here | against Welker Cochrane last night. Hoppe now has 1,000 points and Cochrane 436, The final 600 block of the tourney will be played tonight. Only an un: | for Cochrane now, | The score by innings for the two! nights: Cochrane—6, 2, 88, 74, 89, 50, 2, 0, 2, 0, 0, 4, 69, 9, 20, 13, 80—436. High run 89; average 24 4-18. lot of victories. | George Steuland is an unknown quantity and must show his stuff | first. | That's the extent of the battery} problem. | | Clift Brady at second and Sammy | Crane at shortstop look like fixtures. | “Doc” Johnston {s a question at| | first as he may be back and he may} | not. The same goes for Ted Baldwin | Jat third. Baldwin {s a fair hitter and a whale of a fidlder, but rather slow on the bases. | The outfield, with Billy Lane, Brick Eldred, Jimmy Welsh and Ray Rohwer, is just abaut set. COACHES WON’T GET GATE CUT Yale, Harvard and Princeton au- | thorities, according to a Boston re- port, are going to put the following blunt question to colleges that ap- pear upon thelr football schedules | next fall: “Does the coach of your football team get a percentage of the re- celpta?” Upon the nature of the reply, It is | sald, will depend whether or not the |Big Three teams ¥ ncel games that have been arr: NAMED LE ANACORTES, Dec. 19. |non, quarterback, will cap the | Anacortes high schoo! football team in 1924, {t was announced here yes- terda; ADER bil PRACTICAL Babe Ruth does not like the Amert- | can league {dea of giving buttons to the stars {hr distinguished service. “I'd much rather have a palr of sus. | penders,” he says. ‘ OUR BOARDIN HEY MATOR, CLYDE AN! I HAVE “MouGHT uP A BIG CLIMAX FoR Your] SCENARIO!= Y'sEe, IN | “MH GWELL BANQUET SCENE WHERE’ DUKE ANNOUNCES “TH’ 8 Bi 'EDMUNDSON | as follows: [PAUL SHANNON | BOUILLON WITH Hoppe—160, 34, 46, 211, 64°, 2, 2,1.) 1, 1, 9, 0, 2, 62, 162, 3, 207, 63t—1,000. High run 211; average 65 10-18, *Unfinished run Monday night tUnfinished Tuesday night. Cage Gossip | Vancouver Ice Team Will Play MARINES EATEN POULSIO, Wash., - : HE Vancouver All-Stars, a | 4 team of the Vancouver, | Ama picked B.C. our Hockey league, will take on ttle All Stara at the Arena to. PLANS CUT FOR SQUAD ‘Qyeke HEC EDMUNDSON make a final eut of his varsity | * asketball squad some time in the near future, for he has some 20 men | on the floor every night, now, He expects to keep an even dozen|{iun, . around the gym, and that seems a) of whic |llkely number with which to work, | Piayed his | ‘Those now on the varsity squad are | night. The Vancouver club has plenty of power, and { expected to make things pretty tough for the local ice stars, Carl Chapman, leader of the Van- couver team, Is a puck star of much repute, and fans should be tn for a treat when he performs. Cari Jacobs, Bill Shaver, Bun Cay- anaugh, Ollie Hender and Billy Ran. kin will make up the forward line |for the local team. These men have Worked together considerably and have teamwork right down to perfec [Th Forwards: Capt. Dick Frayn, Bob | !4 Hesketh, Al Peters, Dick Welts, Chet} | Froude, Armand Marton, Berg andj | Mel Norquist. Ite American Legion b 24-to-23 victory | Centers: George Anderson, George | @ went | tion | ional team at sah 3 Clark, Clyde Ochs. Satta the ing, 11 THE LINEUrs Guards: Ralph Gundlach, Ob Gard-| to 19, at t Jensen | Seattle ner, Hodges, Dick Peters, Harold St. | starred iat aS bl Rept |Johna, Suemola, Hale, Campbell and Olson, BOSTON LEADS The Boston boxing folk are of the opinion that thelr home town has 1 ahead of New York In attond shows. Altho there are night xing performances in the metropolis, the receipts in all do not come up to the gate money made by the Boston moguls, it 1s claimed. THETA DELTS WIN CONTES The Theta Delta Chi fraternity bas- ketball team, university champions, scored a 21-to-5 victory over Franklin [high school at the Franklyn gym | Monday afternoon. 1 LUKE URBAN IS ONE BUSY PRO ATHLETE UFFALO, N. Y. 19—When it comes to busy athletes, con TRY AGAIN, LUIS Dec. y COLONEL INSISTS “Firpo denies Americans will train sider the case of Luke Urban. In the him”... “Firpp admits Americans! Colonel Ebbets inaists his bid of | summer ho plays professional base. nae ‘The senor miss. 900 for Hornsby was made in| ball; in the fall he plays ‘pro’ foot. Is calling, he should have been| good faith, whereas most of us sup.|all and coaches a college eleven, and In the winter he toaches and plays basketball. Urban ex nate, aseball ma. G HOUS BY AHERN) jerman marks. 1 league team Inst season ng tho close of the pennant ho donned moleskins to play end for the Buffalo All-Americans in sional Football wch tho Can Foil race, You WANT To REMEMBER MATOR- “TA! FIRST “THING “TH! f rm to ce i HERO BY BORING a NIE MAGNATES | | basketball uh and A HOLE WW HIS BEGONE WITH MO with the Knights of Columbus fi OUILLON SPOON «|| NOUR HORSEPLAY] | LOOK FoR IN A at Buffalo, and to hold down @ p TT) WAW =» WHEN | | SCENARIO, 17TH! | | tlon with the Howitts (tho old Ger UT-TH’ HERO FOILS “TW VILLIAN BY MN GCENARIO | [RETURN STAMPG!© | [Torte “champions. Ia Pebru SORKING UP’ (| 1S PRODUCED,| |NOULL FIND Your | | Uren witt quit basketball and so SCENARIO WILL BE DIRECTED AN! T WILL RECALL a him from Buffalo for SPONGE CAKE!) |tHisscorrIG | \ Oo oDicEp ev peas TR Ec BND REGARDYOU MAILMAN fe Urban first flashed across the hort ALL WITH UTTER . zon of the sporting world as a foot- DISDAIN, | ball player at ton college. Ho played end on Boston eleven and | perts for a wing position on the All | Cant jus colle signed him s ieee } ball coach and in t! D feasons he Jhas been in charge there, the team \h but two games, both to his Boston jalma mater, | [BOXERS BUSY WITH EXAMS No boxing tryouts are being held in the university gymnastum this week on account of the final exam inations for the quarter, Boxers will take the lower end of the gym, once more, when the intramural box ing camplonships are staged, starting Januar | Wrestitr nouts, too, are being curtailed, only two being held this | week. Coach Jim Arbuthnot expect | his ter the C men to be olida ft If COMES EASY Inasmuch as 1 Vin An lightweight South Ameri | be a marb! that he naturaily, BATTLE Mack Wins in Great Exhibition Knockdowns Come Thick and Fast, Mack Win- ning in Fifth by K. O. AND THB palm to Freddy Mack, | That boy can sock. Only welgh-| ing around 140 pounds, Mack has the kick of a heavyweight, He's the sensation of Seattle fandom today, | You can give Mack the trophy for the wallop, but you have to hand| over tho laurels for gameness to Billy Morrow. | Mack and Morrow put on the} greatest fight that has been seen) here in years in the semivindup at the Pool last night, Mack winning | in the fifth by a knockout, A ter-| rific right hand to the face that split open Morrow's cheek and left the| Spokane boy prostrate on the floor | decided it. Mack knocked Morrow down in the first round twice and had him dizzy on the canvas at the end of the sec: ) ond round, the bell stopping the| count, Twice in the third round Mack | floored Morrow again, only to have Morrow come back and floor Mack twice, once with a blow to the body. Instead of trying to hold Mack off, | Morrow, in his weakened condition, | kept carrying the fight, and backed Mack around the ring several times, ‘The fourth round went to Morrow, | who outboxed his opponent and out- hit him, using a right to the body offectively, In the fifth Morrow walked smack |into # right hand on the head that dropped him on the floor. Ho tried to get up, but the punch was too hard, and he couldn't make it. What a wonderful fight that waa! Travie Davis lost to Young Dudley in.the main event, which was the popular way to call it, ax the Everett welterwelght had fouled Dudley re- | peatedly, | Referee Schacht 4i4 award the fight to Dudley on a foul In the third jround, but Dudley refused to quit fighting. It was the dirtiest fight that has been #taged in Seattle in a decade, Dudley was just as guilty as Davis, jas the colored boy was hitting and holding, which 1s just as much a foul as hitting below the belt, the foul| | that Davis was called for, | | Dudley held Davis behind the head | and smeared his gloves over his eyes | time and time again, Both of them threw each other to the floor on dif ferent occasions, and early in the| | fight Davis deliberately tripped Dud- ley in the center of the ring when Dudley refused to stop hitting when he was holding. Davis’ foul was more evident, and the crowd gave him the razz, Neither one did much fighting, paying too BATTERY DEPARTMENT WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER! R19, 1928, MENT | HE Wiggest baseball meeting ever held, which was staged at Chicago, was a success and a failure, It was @ wuccess because the minor league board of arbitration decided in favor of the Big Vive and Harry Williams over tho LAttle Three and Willlam H. McCarthy in the Coast league fight. A decision the other way would have disrupt. ed baseball and would have put taxation without representation into power in the diamond game, It was a failure because majors and minors never got gether, the only joint feature ing that they met in the same hotel—the Congress—but assembled in different rooms. At no time did the major and minor delegates get together in an assembly, ‘The Chicago meeting marked the last time that the minor league association will ever meet in a major league city along with the major conventions as the Chicago press paid no attention to the minors at all after the Pacific Coast came was decided, Next year’s meeting of the minors will be held in Hartford, Conn. ‘T is my honest belief that the deals that “Red” Killifer has mado so far will strengthen the club. The addition of Clift Brady, who 1s said to be a real second baseman, will give Seattle one of the best keystone combinations in the minors, Beattlo will of course, but if Killifer puts thru the deals he has in mind Jake will not be missed so much. ‘As for the Gardner-Sutherland trade It’s pretty even. Gardner had a better record this past year, but Sutherland js a younger man, has South’s Bet To Win Title the 0 much attention to dirty tactics, Tiny Bott knocked John Budnick | down in the first round and then} Bott ran into a right on the chin in the second and got dizzy all over, | | falling on his ear, He got up so sick | that Schacht & gave it to Budnick. Mr. Bott has a lot of broken glass to repair in his chin this mo ing. Frankie Edwards wasn't In good enough condition to stand up under Frank Cheslock’s punches, and after taking @ jot on the chin he collapsed from exhaustfon in the second round. | Saflor Oswald, a southpaw feather. | weight, beat Billy Quilter in the opener. A capacit which w Lonnie Austin. house saw the show, ged by Dan Salt and | PENNSYLVANIA | | A GRID STATE) | Pennsylvania is considered the! | strongest football state in the Union, being represented by Penn Btate, | | University of Pennsylvania, Pitts-| jburg, Bucknell, Lafayette, Lehigh, ht for the Buffalo In.| Washington and Jefferson, Carnegie | well-timed, solid punche: h, varthmore and other smaller | colleges: pped the fight and} | FRANKIE GARCIA Fing enthusiasts in Memphis, | Tenn,, are nominating Frankie Gar- cla to go against Johnny Dundee jin the featherweight sweepstakes. Garcia, a product of the Pacific Coast amateur rings, bas been fighting in fine style here lately, and many experts think he is en- titled to a shot at the title, Altho beaten by a number of battlers Garcia has some worth- while victories to his credit, Only recently he came close to scoring a knockout against Sammy Man- dell, sensational Chicago scrapper. In a recent fight with Lefty Mur- ray he scored 19 knockdowns, with and final- ly knocked his rugged opponent into utter submission. Fought T With Bro BY JOE WILLIAMS F you had a sliver in your fin- ger you'd probably know about {t, wouldn't you? And if your nose were broken in two places tho possibility is you'd be conscious of at least a slight annoyance. t And yet Well, Carl Tremaine, until re. foremost challenger for the bantamweight championship, was fighting Frankie a fly. ight, in tho Square rden arena, emaine had a welght advan- Genara Madison tage of four full pounds—an im- ant consideration in a bout een little fellows—and the ex- perts expected him to win without trouble, Tremaine hyt Genaro with many shots to the jaw and midrift ots of rt that had ed F Mason, Johnny Curtin, Jack arke 1 other formidable t the nots had ho effect on the smaller Genaro, Tremaine began to puff audibly about the fourth round and his manager, Jimmy Dunn, plainly provoked, took him to task be- tween re Tho trouble with you, Tre maine I that you haven't been You're puffing led fat man, and tha WS you are not in shape Tremaine was puffing. The fact that his blows were having no TREMAINE DIDN'T KNOW IT wo Years ken Nose effect on Genaro seemed to be further evidence of his poor shape. Tremaine protested that he had trained faithfully, and the other members of his staff bore him out. Well, then, what was wrong? After the fight—one of the wo! hts Tremaine had ever mad > fighter was subjected to a physica¥ examination, and the mystery was revealed. Tremaine’s nose was broken in More astonishing still, tt had been broken for two years, And nelther Tremaine nor his man: r, Dunn, knew anything about it This naturally explained why he “puffed,” also why his blows lacked steam. Tremaine’s nose was broken two year ago by Joe Burman in a Philadelphia ring. The Chicago bantam cracked the Cleveland || Canuck on the smeller with hook and opped him for first time e sh c and bi on either tha the nasal air pa Tremaine w ty to br tributed the Supposed w to wha r two 3 he fought with broken in two p a foat that bespeaks great < if not vast mentality our —O— OBSERVATIONS or. BASEBALL DE Ly BY DE.DUGDALE miss Elmer Jacobs, | | | about as much stuff and run and field better, oe Nelther man was satisfied with surroundings last year and on should pitch good ball be peda all for thelr new SAW Fred Clarke, boss of the Pittsbur; at Chicago, and had a bee with him, Clarke told me that doubt in his mind but used today old one. pa my time tn Pi hit only one ball into th bleachers: there, Clarke alae Sea one day in practice last summer 1 hit three balls into the same stands” ao HUGGINS, Yankeo man. | ager, and Clarke Griffiths, | Washington, in a fanning pve! | with the writer, sa‘d that the world series this year was one of the fin, est played on record. “Errors were few," declared jsins, “and the games were an won and earned. It was a series thrills. and we finally proved = selves by beating frre great Glant Canton Has Strong Pro Grid Eleven PROFESSIONAL football, even as it was conducted in the Na- tional league—a wide-flung organ- ization too unwieldly for satisfac. tory sport—offers basts for many comparisons that aro diffietit in intercollegiate football, where jt is impossible for the leading teams to meet each other. Play the past season was high-class, much more finished than the college brand, and being inferior only in the enthus- fasm and fight displayed. Canton, Ohio, showed a well-bal anced, smooth-working machine, lack- ing the spectacular stars some other teams displayed. The Bull success was due to thelr superior coaching, alded by beautiful team work. They played consistent foot- ball thruout the season, which is worthy of notice, for It was incon. sistentcy that kept the ag Bears, Milwaukee, Green Bay and the Chicago Cards from a Closer race of it. S q The standing and pe: the end of the season lows: Canton, 1,000; Chicago Bears, 811; Milwaukee, .718; Green Bay, .760; Cleveland, ‘rin Oe Cards, .667; Columbus, .556; Racine, the former © Nationals, Jong fanning there was no what the bat {5 much livelier than thy § i 3 i ES i 2 *g i 3S a be i 24 as well in 192: foo The aitta -556; Duluth, .556; Buffalo, 300; | Rock Island, .400; Toledo, 40; Minneapolis, .286; St. Louisa 00; Hammond, .167; Dayton, 143; Ak- ron, .143; Oorangs, .100; .000; Rochester, .000, In throwing together an all-star |team the task 1s much easter than making up an All-American colleg- jate aggregation, for comparison— so odious in the college readily come to hand. There was. | Wealth of good ends, tackles {backs in tho league. The jand guards did not show so fa amy. A number of men like Millen and Annan—to namé off-hand—would have won consideration, but, in justice to men who played thri’ the |the part-timers are omitted. 7 Past reputations and college a filiations are not considered in choice. The actual work of fie men on the field was carefully tab bed and the first and second lens named are believed to be best in professional football, ¥! means the best in the coun Many college rooters will dispute the superfority of an all-star pm eleven over All-American coll | choices, but the former have lexperience, strength and maturity that give them a bie advantage over their younger brethren. HAVANA TO see GRIDIRON TIL HAVANA, Cuba, Dec, 18.—Rollins college of Winter Park, Fiat, and the Havana university eleven will meet on the gridiron here December #9 This fs an annual contest played ak ternately in Cuba and in the United States. Rollins won last year at Mb ami by a score of $1 to 0, and favored to repent this year, but BY much reduced margin. ; ABERDEEN CAGE MEN AT WORK ABERDEEN, Dec. 19.—Eddle kin and Ellis Johnson, lettermen last year’s Aberdeen high school ketball team, lead the delegation that turned out for the cage teant Monday. Prospects are good for ® fast team this season. Some ball pl that when they: mand to know fence is. is ° © COME AND BRING Ao FRIEND TO & °The ZERO: S a4 defferson Street © Just Back of 1. C. Smith side. & Card Tables, Pool, Cigars & = Candles, Soft Drinks Fountain Lunches ° ° ° 0 y Checks Cashed ==