The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 25, 1923, Page 13

Y, DECEMBER 25, 1928, pve League fhatterings: ball for college men? iast’s arguement, Hing about Haines? y BILLY EVANS onal baseball a good field the college graduate who has ‘on the diamond for his alma my Recently Fielding Yost, di: eof athletics at Michigan, came ty against such a move on ‘ot the star college ball Pe He dwelled on tho fact that only one Sister, I have the admiration for eYost as a) ‘anda similar feeling for his! ‘en all things pertaining to/ ties. Howe his statement very broad ond that possibly ve had some limitations, Sports Other Than Grid Game Have Large Season Washington's Fine Crew Victory Was One of Out- standing Feats of Year; California Wins Track and Field Honors Third Straight Time; 1923 Reviews BY HENRY L. FARRELL EW YORK, Dec. 25.—Keeping company with the pro- fessional sports, intercollegiate athletics had a most ‘profitable and successful year in 1923. | The rather amizing growth of football in public fancy iduring the year is of such fresh memory that it needs no the punch. What professional lrepetition, but it is important, because, as football grows it ts In the boxing fPyuld be a mistake, lin interest so will grow the public patronage, and other her sport, for that ; lcollegiate sports will be advanced, jokes football, teams, faye LOST Points out that a ‘om Foothall carries the freight for all other lines of colle- pd so on cown the at ‘college graduate who /giate athletes, and when more money is available the so- at the old punch, Mei the sumo time in the field for!called minor sports can be developed more fully. jomewhat aitterent Mya he had been fitted, would! This js particularly true in the case of baseball and row- Ea a ee at trea |ing. College baseball is not self-supporting, and there is net ait ‘True, the career of aja cent of revenue from rowing, so that both sports have ‘yer is usually sort, but then |/to depend upon the money obtained from football to carry fs Eddie Collins, who has been |them along. : Pr rcald be poastale to at | Increasing attention paid by owners of professional Pee: iscore of cases similar to Coltins. | ball clubs to college diamonds is convincing proof of the a advance being made in the class of the college game. Such a good authority ax L. F t. John, athletic director of Ohio State i star, capable of deliver. university, went on record last spring that the leading universities were as a regular in the big show, | playing a gamo of baseball on a par with class A leagues of the profes fd make no mistake if he de- | to spend a couple or more ars in the majors. heum circuit he. hext year, as iw Punch Thing Boxer g a college player was gto hold his own in the major \ Tagreo with Yost that baseball the young Seattle | meets Bob Wand tho main event at bi Friday night, i hat great qi : it in gobs, and dminister it. “Mory. the punch as 99 hundred more thay pf a Scrapper to get fe game, and event. chance to win the nship. Without a ishty hard propos. ® been clever cham. ‘of them could also occasion presented Attell and J featherweight cham ‘and, wonderfully d mighty punchers & to use their wal- ‘Hesirikes me that a college | | sional circle. John McGraw, manager of the New York Giants, and Connie Mack, muanager of the Philadelphia Athletics, two of the smartest men in base- | ball, said recently that they preferred college players to those who were being developed in the minor Ie: Development of the college game may be due In part to the favor Into cially at | Which former pears eslonal stars are belng looked upon by college baseball pacy bite: van. | officials as coaches Sad. very often this one advan-| “Vale won the intercollegiate bs stepping stone to} Dintigs 1h the ficht for which | Yale team was largely the product of Joo Wood, former Cle falegian was educated, The first | "M4 outfielder. by ire always he hardes' | mi * . rb fist ve years for tte Track and Field Sport Grows first four or five years for the ball championship last spring and the and pitcher pages of fistic his- struggling coliegian in any |rypack a Bias hap Ce Pea serene pow many world’s Mots coms just like an even 100 JFT'RACK and eld athletics have |aummer to represent he. Unite won via the ref- often. breaches| 7 srown so among the colleges | States are exp aseball” career this chasm’ and gets the “Rah, | that it is safe to hazard the predic athleté off to 4 flying start in| tion that in another eight years the tthe roost since the Me profession. - mn, several hundred raat } a il al comprised almost ent the atte ¢ Te cae of Hinkle’ Haines, | stars. At least also an adept box. gamer baseball and football star | team that will be sent to Paris next greater chance of 7a Penn State, is a striking ex- . the game and rise | mple of the truth that I am try fer, Freddle Mack |, @ (@ bring out relative to the athletes. California repeated as the intercol lesiate track and field champlor spring in Philadelphia The Californians won the title again with ej a team constituted almost entirely of field stars. te In any division, far between. The team will of colle; cent of t United States Olympi last 50 yy |Washington Wins Crew Fame fitting Seattle boy jaMesian taking a whirl at big ANOTHER Western university, Washington figure fexgue ball. came {nto a national champlon-} #so In pi vi ee arvare annual London veloped b; {ington coach Washington fine ship when crew won the Intercollegiate rowing as ES last year as a substitute felier for’ the New York hi ecelved a salary of about MME Tat ia a mere guess. It may hin more, surely no less, For of the;world series he re t $6,000. Thus for -his sea tr the New York Yankees, six | | Haines-received better than | Rastern football championship, Yale! Rather a-nice nest egg for| poet collegian with ambitions t Hoover Broke Even jas a lawyer, doctor or enginee id tide him over many loging, icra it did not come within the | Walter Ho bounds of tad as he waited fdr clients or} lis championship s. what championship at Poughkeepale |Big Year for Yale : ‘T was a big year for Yale in ath-| teams won the tntercollegia etball and baseball pampionships nd won the Big Three track and eld and rowing titles. © bask letics. In addition to Winning the Dututh star, broke Diamond nd and nding his collegiate sport, 3 ‘ollegiate spo in Eng’ le that didn’t know how to The big test will |belongs with the so-called lost chaps Mr. Yost is right in manly sports,” to mention the tontention that professional | F206 (e is not a good field tor the | attr. flowefers there» COllege Golfers Star e made his. mark. denying the fact that any | TNTERCOLLEGIATE golf came) summe pickings for the Mijhyer capable of delivering in | inte prominence by the activities Dexter Cummings, of Yale, brother punch on the chin big show could use a few | °f Jess Sweetster, of Yale, for-|of Miss Edith Cumm who won toward making all (yars’ salary to decided advan. |™er amateur champion. Bobby | the national woman's golf champton tack ever gets fa as a stepping stone to | Jones, the Harvard star, who won| ship, won the interec te chawi-| Ward, the latter is \the national open championship tast! pionship. ler things in other fields, 4 up to a walk. jof interest in the je and Nate Drux- ‘American Wins in England pacity house. Ghee of the American collexe Basen: wa the ; tain of the Y 6 A Eddie Niel, the athlete. was also shown when/| boxing team as 1 as a footbal 1|Dlayer before he matriculated at | Eddie Engen, former Yale footbal MEN TODAY 08 ANGELES, Cal., Dec. The Haskell Indians will line as-favorites to win over the pie club of San Francisco here | afternoon before nearly on the Washington bantams, will fight 1 event of four and Truman Da- ir differences in i-final. Both of 4 an excellent hg the limit. Oxford as a Khodes scholar. won the Oly light heavyweight championship at Antwerp in 1920. He also star, won the British intercollegiate heavy we 25.— boxing champlonship: ‘TEREST that Joe Beckett b croquet. * * © in the game that nt to assume & on the turf and OBSERVATIONS or & BASEBALL DE. BY DE DUGDALE iORNSBY will play in a A majority of the crowd witli be {9 see John Levi, variously foned many all-American R= New « selected’ this year, perform rk Giant uniform next athematics of Smashing field attack and mir-|year or I miss my guess. in forward passing. . The St. Louis Cardinal star has . heard the call of Broadway and the great evi will be the chief attract ig the colorful Indian playe nm amount deal doubtful if Horns! fied us t confident before the s declares his aggrega fe the best ever turn x best from eam, the best from the the mhusical and entertainment 1 the G York Yan | e hould be a fine market for big league players next year. Mack that the fine counter : and Co. the Chicazo baseball meeting 112% Particular, having bought Paul 1A’ he Chicago baseball meeting 1) 41004 Ege eee ee ee wag talki ut hitters with ted the Coast’ Jesse Burkett ran business in the Coast do manager of the Gia is making his home “There are only two real hitters rnia at present. the National leag Bur é Hornst other I MET Pat nherty, the third jis Heinle Groh, B { mean|~ Daseman Seattic team |smart stickers who ca k , ut Chicago, We talk |the pitcher and h 1 times and Pat told me present livel that Ed Delet > made, T eague had just uthers and some of tho: up because of uid he alme ble to| Went up in a ba ne down in a field “ACK WHEAT mself ch when | Young calt the Eddic Rousch, Zack Wheat yaa es ib is usuall s 5 fe) z fed amon, at ledge 1k i E Altho Wheat t 1 Pittsbu ' . * SHARP RETUR NS |SOLLY SEAMAN — THE SEATTLE STAR } | | ick throws a basket. OnceW as Nearly Broke Left to right—Al Schacht being strangled by Altrock as PAGE 13 INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS COME TO FRONT WITH BANG & hb he ANOTHER PROSPEROUS YEAR IN SPORTS IS EXPECTED Past Sport | Season Has | Been Great Eugene Criqui Places His Word Above Desire and Chance to Become Rich Altrock Is Compared to Plank BY BILLY EVANS pm it pay to be funny? Or is tt the best policy take everything seriously? They say left handers never are Morgan Boxes Champ Friday Tod Morgan, the Pacific Coast featherweight champion, will box with Benny Leonard, world's Ughtwelght champion, a» part of the regular Orpheum theater bill Friday afternoon. This will give the fistic fans in these parts a good idea of Leonard's style of boxing, and also will givé them a chance to see what Mor- to serious, Eddie Plank, famous} ) ga ie pitcher of tho Philadelphia Athletics, || Kit Keeet do against the light || BY HENRY L, FARRELL was @ decided exception’ to that|| Welsht king, agai ff . theory, Morgan boxes Georgie Sollis, || KJ@W YORK, Dec. 25.—For most o! Baseball wag a business with|] the Salt Lake featherweight, in the sport fraternity it will be Plank, Winning ball games was|| the main event of the smoker || What we sincerely wish—a Merry | Christmas to all. | or most of them a new year of oe ey i | prosperity and success will come, HORSESHOERS | The passing year has been good to all athletes and followers of sport, pouite of Plank, No matter how | ENTER A. A. and the coming year promises to be tense the situation, regardiess of! WILMINGTON, 0, Dec, 26.—The | Just 48 6004. * how thrilling tho battle, Nick was | National Horseshoe Pitchers’ Prosperity filled the stockings of always able to see a little humor | elation becomes a part of the anno: | Ama. | professional athletes with most every: in some phase of the setting, always } able to smile teur Athletic union, it was announced | thing they could possibly ask. For- here yesterday by R. B. Howard, of | tune smiled on all. EDDIE PLANK this city, secretary of the former; Good times made possible record- S THRIFTY body, | breaking attendance at all the big Eddic Plank was thrifty, ‘That sporting events, and resulted in tre- was a natural result of his view: | mendous “gates,” that worked to the point of the game, It was a busl-| profit of competitors and promoters. ness with Plank, a precarious busl-| news which might be cut short nt HAVANA OFFER | Bhnites of satisfaction and happi- any time. A alight injury to the TAN r Joubt spread today over HAVANA, Cuba, Dec. 25.—An of. | M°8% are no 4 = i ‘ ath eg | the entire sporting world, but in the Jarm and ‘overnight a pitcher drops |e will Yo pact seed aroge Pe of Joy and happiness there is \from a big league star to minor) pgs a material, Plans intended| almost a mathematical science with||!"2 Tacoma Thursday night. him. When he stepped on the rub- ber to start a ball game it was a mighty serious proposition, Nick Altrock was the decided op- DUNDEE GETS appear {n a bout here in the neae {ONG Perhaps, who feels at heart that 'he might have been treated more league |future. ‘The posit . | 5 a i ©. possible opponent for 5 to be fortified when tho inevitable undee has not yet been selected, |¥iNdly by the fates that rule the happened. Seeds daa ring. | Eddie Plank quit baseball with « Eugene Criqul, the valiant French Is Tall Scot ‘Navy Grid | Eleven Off | Cornell's football schedule for for Battle next year nnd Rutgers substl- tuted, at Old Trick? Colgate has been dropped from Cornell had a pretty good nice bank account to his credit. in JOHNNY KARR |soclat circles he would be consid: TO BOX GANS lered well to do, He invested his eae |plain, and perhaps his heart hax |savings in the automobile game and | CHICAGO, Dec. —Panama Joe | evicted all thoughts of the unkind bas a thriving business in his home|Gans, of New York, will mect John-| bumps that the passing year shower Detera hy Karr. the Cleveland welterweight, |! eq on him, Basy come, easy go, was the/in Madge bout In’ Hast Chicago!” criaus won the world’s feather- vs jon New Year’: ight. motto Altrock followed during send | si ‘s nigh weight championship, and held tt days as a big league star. Money | {only six weeks, because he insisted nt nothing in particular to} | upon being as good as his word. Be- | war hero, with the shattered Jaw and Aistorted’ smile, would never com- LON NNAPOLIS, Md., Dee. 26-—-The|| team this year and most of the ||Nick. other than the power it pos-| Chet Bowman, brilliant Syracuse|fore he won the championship he ‘ b sel] veterans Are back again. can it |/essed to provide fun and amuse-|star, caught the opening off in| had agreed to accept the challenge po United Staten nayal academy} | ie that Gil Doble is passing up ||ment. When Altrock retired, the|the William and Mary game on his|of Johnny Dund footwall team, coaches and officials,!! Gyigate because the New York 1 left arm finally losing its cun-}own goal line and hiked the full} He had to m: his word good left he t) lock this morning || team jooks Ike m tough team to Nick’s bank roll was very |length of the gridiron, 100 yards, for | quickly, he had promised to ap- }for Pasadena, Cai, where the Mid-|| deat next year? Instead of || Hight A touchdown, aided by his own | pear in a benefit in France for the la apa gas te 25% c\| Strengthening his already weak Well do I remember a compari-|zling speed and fine interference. | relief of disabled soldiers. He lost ew are to play the University of] schedule this year Doble ix mak ||80n A wellknown writer once drew | This was the longest run back of a/ his title to Dundee, returned to F senehicip by fay Hing it even weaker of the prosperous Plank and the | kickof¢ the year developed. France {immediately and’shattered bis ‘curnament of Rosen bow /|downand-out Altrock. The moral) ——— ————— | two hands in a benefit bout. ee te “i a { the story was that it was far part of major league ebill, No| Just two days ago he had to re ADB better to take ¢ nk serious! ld series would be complete with-| ounce two European titles and re at football; Hat} WRESTLER IS yather’ than’ lean to the humorous |out him. and is gartase AL Behacht. (tire: from. the. ritig” “He meds. He J and other oft) AETER DIVORCE “2 formor big league pitcher. As a| Money out of his championship. The party e in Chicago| BIDDEFORD, Me, Deo. 2% Wednemiay morning and go thrn a/Charging cruel and abusive treat pro-|ment, Wladek Zybaxko, the wrestler, local Zybazko {* a heavyweight, Tho party Will reath Pasa-|while his wifo is five feet tall aud brief then ceed to where another | made. dena Monday morning, |before the game. | ‘Those who are expected to start the game are: McKee, quarter; Cul-| mberingsup and Colorado Springs, short stop will be/ courts, Colo, |Is seeking 4 divoros in the the day|of a slight build POLO STAR DIES PHILADELPHL Dec. Jul member of the Washington club he| said writer is by far the best poilcy |yies with the great Walt Johnson to follow, but the irrepressible Alt-/ay a drawing card his word above his desire for money. rock has shot to pieces the theory! Now Altrock has broadened his| It would be fine if it were possible that his light-heartedness, his lack! ¢eld by taking up basketball. Nick | fr the sport fraternity to pass onto of seriousness proved his downfall.|doesn't play the strenuous game, | Criqul his just share of the season's TORNS THAT but simply puts over the panto.|J°¥Y and wish that the coming year | THEORY AROUND {mimo of the ball field ‘on the|%® More kind to him than the pass | Altrock, the baseball comedian, {s|basketball floor, Nick being origina} | 196 hay jtoday drawing a bigger salary for|has added some new stunts that| clowning than he ever did as a star|have a basketball fl:vor. | Perhaps the sermon preached by He passed up the chance to make million francs because he placed NEEDS ANOTHER LAW len and Bhapely or Devins, halves;|ian B. Bluff, star Bryn Mawr polo| pitcher. His salary as jester to| Aitrock has proved that a man| There should be a state law pro Barnhet, fullback; Taylor and! player, died in the Bryn Mawr hos. |the majesty, the baseball fan, is|/can be a success without ever hay- | hibiting able-bodied young men from ‘own, ends; Shewell and Walker,|pitai last night, aa a result of In-|far greater than any the starjing a serious moment. With Nick,| wasting their time trying to win tackles; Captain Carney and Leven-| juries received several months ago, ‘pitchers of his day received. life Js just one laugh after another, /the billiard championship. from sky, guards; Mathes, center Altrock has Hoppe. The Cine Concordance of Another Christmastide From the altar of heaven, this, another Christmas Day, ts given to this green little world, Sacred history attests the wonders of God's plan to save the man with the tidings of joy sung by angels in perpetual song thie Holy Day. For Christ waa born, still lives and watches on. Under the roof of heaven Christmas comes again in 1928 for well over the thousandth time. Onward, onward, onward, Christmas comes until the fall of man. Pleads again for itself thin Holy Day, 80 momentous to man things that are and. never die are for man's good to heed—this | day is for his guidan:e once again. Why ia Christmas? Ia it not God's means to stand for gen- erations all to know—ao it endures—while peoples come and go? | Sort and face the facte—Christmas is here punctually for vou to every child that wakee—a power that will not be repressed another year is soon to be, another year for you and me Sprung from the earth's first blood, Christ says: “Come and use me—truth out of My life is in the Bible that boye and girla may find this Christmas Day to make them superior children.” Excellent is thie same culture for the savage—let him once learn to read the Bible and he is no longer a cannibal; the magi Share the honora of thia Holy Day, my friends, and love will aaa Si) on the walla of hie mind and in his blood stream so that ta children to come will have filtered blood. ' Read my word today God says—beyin to grow for then alone shall you be great. The Lord becomes alive today—bear Christmas ye active souls and children now. go forward now from here. Loat for want of power do the races wander—mortal balance we refuao in the cold fever of the human death struggle of the children all misunderstanding. The world will liberalize itself tomorrow if we would love the truth. Read the book of ages now again today; this ia the presentation day of salvation, not a day of earthly gifts of gold. power of Christ changes the course of hie life and places purer ionquer all. witness to another Look backward and B ensier FROM PORTLAND) SEEKS ACTION SW POUNG JAKE TO oe to bosine back |ightweleht champion, and pICKING WIRY IT AGAIN Porvitot hin x00 thie a= ) it of a r Ba cae i i i 5 : 0 t Building on ruins at Frida e ¢ f Seattle Washi | 1923 Du Barri [while competing in a polo match. , come an integral] a round of GREAT NORTHERN EXTENDS SEASON'S ° GREETINGS While in volume of traffic the year 1923 has been the largest in the history of the Great Northern Rail- way, the net results of the year have been less profit- able to the owners than in some former years, owing to the fact that increases in the cost of things which comprise transportation, its sole product, have been greater than those in freight and passenger rates. The Great Northern thanks the people who so lib- erally patronized it in 1928, and at the same time extends its thanks to those faithful, loyal and effi- cient employes who made it possible to handle this large volume of business. The Great Northern has great faith in the men and women who serve it, in the fairness of those whom it serves, and in the ulti- mate prosperity of the territory it traverses. It has endeavored to render good service to its patrons and hopes to continually improve that service and to merit further patronage. To all—patron of the season, the joyous Christmas Year. and employe alike—in the spirit Great Northern Railway wishes a and a happy and successful New LOUIS W. HILL, Talk No. 11 Chairman of the Board,