The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 26, 1923, Page 12

ey PAGE 1 About Fights and Fighters BY LEO H. LASSEN THE SEATTLE STAR WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1928. INDIANS EXPECTED 10 DO SPRING TRAINING AT ELSINORE. TOLEDO SENDS GREAT SCOTT TEAM WEST? ~ Coach and Killifer Favors Former Angel Training Location Seattle Only Team That Hasn't Picked Training Stte; Elsinore Is Secluded Camp Just Outside of Los An- geles; Announcement Is Expected Soon EATTLE is the only Coast league city that hasn’t named its training camp site. It is understood that Manager “Red” Killifer favors Elsi- nore, a site just outside of Los Angeles where he used to Famous Prep Eleven to Play in Rose City Game Columbia University Will Furnish Opposition for New Year’s Post-Season Game at Portland; Third Three Navy Stars ENNY LEONARD is 4 very interesting young man because he’s intelligent. That's the chief reason why he is the lightweight cham- pion of the world. Other fighters are as fast as Leon- ard, many hit harder, but Leonard outsmarts them. He has that combination of box- ing skill, hitting ability, ver- satility and thinking so nec- essary in making a ring champion. ; Leonard will last~a long time in the fight game be- cause he’s a clean liver and smart, But how long will Jack Dempsey last as king of the} heavyweights once he loses his superhuman strength that makes his bulldog fight- ing possible? Leonard, himself a boxing master, gays Dempsey knows absolutely nothing about infighting, but by mairi strength whales away at his Opponent's body once he guts Inside. Te | npsey ever begins to slIp ‘will have a hard time,” says Leon- ‘Grd, “because he depends so much _ Upon strength. Ho's helpless in the clinches as far as boxing ability goes. Once he loses his great drive you | will have a new champion.” ‘Then take the case of Jack Brit- ton, the veteran welterweight, who id still fighting with good success and ‘who was.a champion after he wan 35 _ years of age. Britton got by not on strength, but on skill and brains. Dempsey, according to Leonard, is 0 good because ho,is one of the! greatest hitters the game has ever} known and his offensive. {s his best | defense. But once let him lose that) Wallop prepare to hail a new cham-} pion. Here’s a Laugh Leonard tells a story worth re. eating: “I was covering the Firpo and} Dempsey camps for a newspaper) syndicate in the East prior to their| big scrap and the day I hit Firpo's! training quarters he wasn’t to be found. “I asked for him and one of the} attendants told me that a messenger} boy had just delivered a telegram and that Firpo had gone out to change a dime to tip him. “And after hearing that one it was} easy to believe the other yarns I had heard about the Wild Bull's tight- ness.” Ketchell Model train his Angels. Vincentini Is Shooting Left WW YORK, Deo, 26,—Altho beaten by Johnny Shugrue, Luis Vincentini, the South Amer- fean, is still the best prospect among the young lightweights. Vincentini lost to Shugrue chiefly thru inexperience, On two occa- sions he had the knockout con- queror of Willle Jackson in a bad way but didn’t know enough to apply the finishing touch, Vin- centini showed marked imprové- ment with his left hand, indicat, ing that he is progressing in his instructions under American trainers, Vincentini's chief weak: ness when he first appeared in America was his tendency to use only his right hand, O. A. C. GRID TEAM LOSES TO HAWAIIANS ONOLUL! Dec. 26.—The Ha- waitan All-Stars upset the dope nm yesterday when they defeated the Oregon Agricultural College football team of the Pacific Coast conference by a score of 14 to 9, Tho Hawaiians outplayed the visitors tn nearly every department of the game. The heat affected the play of the visitors. Gin scored Yor the Aggtes, but the try-forpoint failed. Rodriguez scored for the Hawallans on a long |forward pass and the extra point Tho’ visitors went into the lead when Garber mado a 25-yard drop kick. The winning score was made by the homq team when a punt was blocked |in the fourth period on the goal fino, Clarke falling on the ball for § touchdown. ‘The Oregow team ts to play tho University of Honolulu here New Year's day, LIKES GRIDIRON SPORT Eddie Collins, star second sacker of the Chicago White Sox, who lives in the East, doesn’t miss a big foot- ball gamo after the close of tho base- ball sea > in a grad ate of © ja, and played q back on the varsity, admits that as & collegian he much preferred the gridiron sport to the diamond REVELATION Statistics are at hand to show that a tennis player wilt run five miles In playing five sets. . . . And whils We are not exactly dumbfounded at the revelation we must confess a Umited amount of mild surprise. for Middleweights Start buzzing about fighters, com.) Paring present day champions with old-timers and you'll have an argu- Ment on your hands with one excep- tion. And that {s Stanley Ketchell, the | Model middleweight. | Talk to whomever you will about fights and fighters and there is only ‘one middleweight and that's Ketchell. Mention Jack Dempsey and they'll bring up arguments for Sullivan, Jackson, Jeffries, Johnson and the Test of them. Say Leonard and you have Joo Gans to talk down. Walcott, Mysterious Billy Smith, Britton and a host of others among the welterweights have followers. Dixon, McGovern, Kilbane, Dundee and Young Corbett amorfg the feathers—and so they go. But Ketchell stands out as the un- @isputed class of his division, Judging from the opinions of fighting men. Those who knew him say that Ketch ell had that great fighting instinct and the ability to hit from any angle that no man betore him or since has ever possessed. Stanley Ketchell is one of the {m- iortals of the squared circle and has his name in gilded letters in the rec-| ord book. Fulton Coming to Northwest Falling Fred Fulton, the Minno- sota heavyweight, will f Lamson in Portland » Making his first start in the Ni West since the time he knocked out Young Hector at the Arena here sev. eral years ago. Since that time Ful- ton has been a much-knocked-out fighter. It behooves the big fellow to keep his hinge out of the way of Lamson's right hand as that husky Young man can smack. HOW ABOUT IT? We see by the papers that Gouv. erneur Morris, the have shot the Dej Monte (Calff,) course in 68. + It isn to add that Mr. Morris specializes in fiction. author, claims to dlexs XCITED WILLIE GETS It is said that Willie Hopp. excited at winning the ain that he re the name was billiard stopped 80 title a to ing s opponent 0 00000000000000 < COME AND BRING A FRIEND TO The ZERO 214 Jefferson Street © Just Back of L. C. ° 000 o S o —) Bldg. Card Tables, Pool, Cigars Candles, Soft Drinks Fountain Lunches ° © ——Pay Checks Cashed —— 00000000000000 S00000000C Finances Will Decide Trip HETHER England a team of amateur to this country to compete | Walker cup play depends e: on finances. At pres the uation ts rather dark, altho the Britishers are hopeful of .settl on ways and mears to raise money to cover expenses. the British team 1922 the money was raised by pop ular subscriptions, and a deficit resulted. In this country money for this sort of expedition is taken from a fund resulting from ad mission charges to the major tournaments. No admissions are charged abroad. came ov (OUR BOARDIN Elsinore is said to be an ideal training spot and exhibition games can be lined up for the team training there at Los Angeles, Killifer ts expected to make his announcement as to a training alte soon, Seattle didn’t have much success at San Jose last spring from a finan- olal standpoint as the large foreign population doesn't take strongly to baneball and the gute receipts were rather dizzy for exhibition games, ‘The weather thore waa perfect, but {t costs a lot of money, to run such a camp and exhibition gates are ex- pected to pay part of tho bills, BAUM IS RELEASED Spider Baum, pitching coach and scout for the San Francisco Seals, has been released, Tho Seals are evidently cutting down expenses, Baum for meny years was ono of the most effective pitchers in the league, doing most of service for the Seals. WELSH SHOULD BRE PLAYED IN OUTFIELD There ts talk that Jimmy Welsh Will cover first base for the Indians next year, but it's not a certainty yet. Killifer has stated that ho ts still In the market for an experienced first ancker. “Doc” Johnston, in spite of his fine year last season, was out of too many games, Welsh isn’t ex- erienced enough to handle that im- A Left to right: Above, Fullback A. Shapley, Coach Bob Folwell, Halfback C. E. Cullen; inset below, Guard Carney, captain. portant place. Welsh, with his speed, belongs tn the outfield and chances are that that io where Killifer will play him. InjunsWin; Promoters Are Losers LEONARD WILL BE BANQUETED J. In Greenstone, local merchant, has tasued invitations for a banquet earn as at the Chantecler ‘Thursday prea OE ARARERS, Pee. —7Ne which ho is giving In honor of Haskell Indians were today pre- Benny Leonant, world's lightweight | paring to travel back to thelr home champion. Greenstone and Leonard the aro old friends and the local mor chant wishes to take advantage of |Olymplo club eleven tho champ's visit here by present. | cisco, was scattered, many returning jing him to many local sports lovers. |north, while of the |Leonard is the featured performer jon the Orpheum vaudeville bill. | 3 ahi ng |FOUR TEAMS ARE ON PAR | According to the official averages, |four American league teams wero |Just about on an equal footing do- | fens The quintet comprised De | trott Chicago and Wash | ington, gers and White Sox! |each allowed 741 runs during the nea | while Cleveland permitted 746 and the Nationals 747, The Yanks | wero low with dormitories tn Lawrence, Kan; of San Fran. promoters deficit In to 6 victa the over the following up thelr dians’ 7 men before ne 900 spectators. An $8,000 Christmas gift the backers gamo recelyed, ft was said lors ts the It was a game which deserved a better chowd than attended. Those who did emerge from the douty somnolence influenced by turkey dinners, witnessed an interesting game, featured by a three-period battle without a score which evoked hearty cheers for both teams be- )RAY PELKEY IS COMING HERE} Ray Pelkey, the popular Oakland Nght-heavyweight, ts on his way t Seattle and other Northwent cities, looking for bouts pod boy, ribes, itw exeellencn l put over the first touch: the first quarter when GC in Lavi paved to his t for a gain which the ball on the Olymples’ four-yard line. John Levi carried tt aver in the last two plays, Norton kicked goal. Not to be down leas team made “gift” p the b line. Tho disinterested kick tain Johi er, George, City ac-| outdone, the In the touch. San Bay " biy get , Francisco ne, ut thru a in which Needles fell on 4 the Indians’ goal ed Man appeared too to capture it touchdown was score 7 to 6, ‘(WOMAN BOXER AFTER SCRAPS| Senorita Carmon Lucia do la Rosa, seven Inches tall and weighs 147 | nd. | | ot A King’s bloc the where remained. bouts. feet HE QUALIFT Clarke Griffith is eminently quali fied to manage his Washington ball + in Cuba and tn Lynn, | club. s said that Mr. Grif. nd I'll fig y woman in| fith delig in taking orders from himself G HOUSE BY AHERN] a — Y'know, Miss econ FA MY DEAR, I THINK I :| WILL TAKE THAT DOLL BOUDOIR LAMP MRS. GARNEY / ELECTRIC WARMING PADS/e IT WAS SWEET OF HER “To GIVE IT"To ME You KNOW ~ BLIT~ AH. Zh a ae YES THET WILL Bi At Gor MORE PRACTI CHURCH, MD 1 6 > FOR CHRISTMAS] WAS A SWIRT an! A COLD HASTH' RATE OF EXCHAN: GOES UP RIGHT APTER CHRISTMAS/. \F SOMEBODY GAVE 'EM ARE TLL EXCHANGE | AN\WITA ANYBODY DRA BOK A OF QUININE! Christmas day contest were figuring | of the} h-| iaid | Wh en Champ Hit Canvas MITCHELL FLOORED LEONARD BY BENNY LEONARD (World's Lightweight Champion) O I know what it foels like to be the under dog? Well, lnten to this: It wns back in 1921 at Madison Square Gardens that I wna defending my title against Ritchle Mitchell. In the first round Ritchie tore tn like 4 wild man. Ho was fighting mad and I could seo ho waa try- ing to land a lucky one with all his strength right I tried to box htm hit hard three times ha fella occasion he came back for more. I thought I had him, when all of a sudden ho cut loose with one of the hardest socks I ever took. It sent me to the floor—the only time I have hit the canvas since holding the crown. 1 was within an ace of staying down. I heard the seconds being tolled off one after another, When the “eight” came, my think tank was just clear enough to realize that I must get up or lose a title and @ fortune, I scrambled to my knees and at “nine” I was rising. I made it—just in time. Now, I guess I know how it feels to be down there. It’s an awful feeling when a fellow ro- alizes that the other fellow ts up there waiting to drive home the | him throat! one that will fight. Well, I weathered the gale aad found myself coming back after the xecond round started. I fought carefully after that and you all know the rest—I got him in the sixth. But, what a nar row squeak I had. t perhaps end the Stiff Practices ‘Rule in Husky Grid Cam BY JACK HOHENBERG | NLY three more days of practice | “MNF. From now on Coach Bag |O%na the University of Washing-| "8 Intends to start the tapering ton footballers, with their training and coaching stafts, will be on their | way to Pasadena for the big game with the Navy, to be played on New Dp dug tn on a conservative Christmas will be given the squad leas work business isn't making any- one mad. | Statement, the same, by the way, that he made preceding the California game on November 17 “We are going down to Pasadena to fight, and when we're thru, the As a result of the hard work the! Navy will know that they have inet squad has rounded into fine form at) q football club. If they win j tie cxpense of injuries to several! trom us, we'll have to admit they players Haaren peso " ay | At tho present time #4 Kuhn, Les| ht! blger Syr A Frente Sherman and Elmer Tesreau are} Tubby Graves, assistant feeling none too well. |makes the following splurge: However, Dr. Don Palmer an-| “The Navy team {s supposed to be es that all men will be ready| the fightinest fit in the when tho opening“whinstle blows | Well, I'll stake mine on th nd that js all Baggy | Husktes of ours, because they'll out- ants worry! fight that bunch of goat leaders Several trick formations and| down there at Pasadena, if nothing further perfection of the fev plays | else.” used thre the season ha | A tentative Navy Ineup announced the Husk offensive by Coach Bob Folwell of the Naval bint which it hasr academy was issued today: Ends, Taylor and Brown; tackles, Shewell 1 Walker; guards, Capt. Carney jand Levensky; center, Math warter, McKee; halves, Cullen and full, Barchet. |BATTLING SIKI |COMMISSION IS BEATEN AGAIN|AFTER GAMBLERS PHILADELPHIA, Dec, 26,—Bat New York state athletic com tling Siki, the Senegal warfare upon form when the ring new rule providing that persons caught bettir nized professional gamblers b barred from all boxing matches in the state | yen tho Stiff practices have been the rule in the Washington camp, and Coach! aw isn’t letting anyone out un. is ted to a bed with a rope. | coach, 01 q at and about are brought | to tho highest ched hitherto. ‘avy or no Navy, those plays should send the Huskies down the field for at least a fow y Tuesda re the purple and gold war home for a rest rior went " hapely © wild man, | took the small end of a Tuck rt negro heavywelght, outalu, outfought him |here last night Sikt forced tho fighting he was apparently out of condition It was Siki's conditioning which lost him the fight rather than exhibition of fistic talent ' de. cision when Omaha or reec and in a 10-round bout of these days the b perts will overreach themse! actually trade Re And then what will they One eball ex ves and Taylor's Hornsby do for copy? off process, so that less and lexs work | And this} A few days ago Baggy mado this| gambling | NCE again a great Scott Toledo, Ohio, will invade is to meet the Columbia univ: gon, in an intersectional battl different occasions. The Tol Scott dangerously near scor- ing as the final whistle blew. Scott came West again last year and defeated the strong Corvallis, Ore., team at Corvallis, The Toledo gridders have never lost an intersectional gridiron con- test, Most notable of Scott's victories this peason was the one over the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, eleven. Scott also defeated the Lewis & Clarke team of Spokane, Wash., at Toledo late in November, The Columbia University team of Portland ranks high among the prep aggregations of the Northwest. Everett high school is the only Washington school to have met Co- lumbla in recent years. In 1921 Everett met and defeated the Co- lumbia eleven at Portland. Everett's victory was largely due to the play- ing of Roy Krause, who scored the winning touchdown. Tho Scott team ts due to arrive in Portland Sunday. The game will be played on Multnomah field. A large crowd of Seattle fang will see the game. VANCOUVER WINS OVER VICTORIANS TEAM STANDINGS Won Lost Tied Pts. 3 reer tase o 10 r 1 Vancouver , | Vietoria Beattie +6 .4 VAnooo R, B. C. Dec. 26.— Vancouver's hockey team de- \f Victoria in its first game jsince the return from the Prairle |trip by a 3-to-1 score here yester- day afternoon. Halderson scored first for Vic- toria, but Mickey Mackay came back a few minutes Inter with a beautiful shot to the nets, evening up the count. Frank Boucher put Vancouver into the lead. In the final period, Bostrom made @ pen- alty shot for the third Vancouver score. LINEUPS AND SUMMARY Victoria ees, Fowler «+ Loughlin . Halderson Frederickson + Meeking Gibson Anderson Trihey - Hart 7 : + Goal «. Defense. . - Defense . Center Forward Forward. + Forward Forward Bostrom .......Forward Cotch ~sesForward.. Referee—Mickey lon. SCORING First pertod. Vancouver, Mackay, Bo: Bece Third red pi | : 08; Vancouver, d—None, peri Vancouver, Bostrom at ENABLES First period—None. Second period — Matta, | minutes; Meeking, Victori Third period. ity Vancouver, Vancouver, 2 minutes, Pe shot awarded | AGAIN VICTOR PHILADELPHIA, Dec, 26.—Ad Stone, the Philadelphia light heayy- weight, won from Dan O'Dowd of Boston in the elghth round here last night. O'Dowd's seconds tossed in the sponge when thelr boy was getting badly beaten. MURPHY AND CONLEY DRAW MARSHFIELD, Ore., Dec. 26.— Bill Conley, Idaho middleweight, and Frankle Murphy, Portland, went 19 fast rounds to a draw here ast night, EXPLAINING IT Wo still don’t know what a moral one that is given to a fighter by New York judges Hazel Hurled Record Pass Ji? Homer Hazel of Rutgers foes the distinction of mak- the longest forward pass of the a fling that exactly 69 yards, and a net 1 made the pass a Anderson, end, completing catch. yea traveled Yova the Wol BY MORRIS ACKERMAN Th t de balance the of in this wolves itse nature, 1 Killing the the family will parts of the me big There tod: nace of Amer mselves, rights be hunting game is the f! ‘ more reports of depre kill of than in many plundering try 5 “hs i Algonquin park—the pre If pack $40 mall game to the , know | that onally of several places afforded excellent big » hunting in other years where fall the out wolf. game had or totally ¥ is difficult | animal in the whole world This the ‘Thousands ean wolf is the most predatory to d stroy not excepting upon thousands hunters get in the fall and it fs in wolf, much of us wl of very How nari of | many t ‘or to the " Victoria, Halderson, 2:32; | ory is, but an immoral victory is} Trip West for Scott Eleven; Tied Everett Once BY TOM OLSEN high school football team of the West. The Scott eleven ersity team at Portland, Ore- le on New Year's day. The Scott team has played in the Northwest on two edo eleven met Everett high school at Everett. The game ended in a 7 to 7 tie, with RRANGEMENTS will be made this week for the intercity amateur hockey play-off. The games between the Victoria, Van- couver and Seattle aggregations resulted in an all-around tie, and a deciding series 1s now necessary, Tho Seattle All-Stars upset the dope and made the tle when they defeated Vancouver at Vancouver Monday night. Puck Game 1s Booked . for Arena ANCOUVER and Seattle are fury nishing the hockey opposition to- night at the Arena in the first game to be played here tn three weeks, the Beattle team having been on the Prairie. Both Vancouver and Seattle took plenty of beatings on their invasion of the Canadian circuit, but now that they are back on good ice again they should hit thelr true stride. The Maroons and Metropolitans will be at top strength tonight thelr regular Mneups, which are follows: Be Holme Fraser . Rowe Fisher Foyston Briden . Walker Harris Arbour HARRY GREB WINS BATTLE FROM RIVAL ITTSBURG, Dec. 26—Harry Greb took a judge's decision jfrom Tom Loughran of this city jhere last night by winning six |rounds out of the 10-round battle, |The middleweight champion of the world was never in danger, speed- jing up when Loughran seemed to |take the offensive, The old Greb butting tactics were |very much in evidence thruout bout, Referee Kennedy repeat cautioning Greb against hold! ™ Kennedy was seemingly blind to all the major instances of holding com- mitted by Greb. Loughran held the champion even in four rounds, by landing ponder ous blows to the head and body, BATTLING SIKI LOSES VERDICT PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 26.—Lack of condition cost Battling Siki, the Senegalese, a decision in a bout here last night with Jack Taylor, Omaha negro heavyweight. Siki took the first five rounds, but be- gan to weaken as the fight wore on and Taylor easily carried the re- maining five rounds. Smythe Made Longest Run EORGE SMYTHE of the Army made the longest run from scrimmage of the recently closed football season when he took the ball and dashed 95 yards for a touchdown against Lebanon Valley. THE FREAK PART They call Johnny Dundee a freak fighter and we suppose it’s on | count of his willingness to fight ong, he gets into a ring, | EXCHANGES It is said that Judge Landis and {Ban Johnson did not exchange holl- |day greetings, both of them prefer. ring to exchange rights and lefts, OAKLAND, Cal., Dee. 25.—"Brick” | Muller, the famous University of | California athlete, was married here yesterday to Miss Bernice Berwin, also a graduate of California. f Is Big Menace to Game Hunting bloody hair and the few remains of awed and ravished bones in the morrow’s snow. The tale is a pitiful one, indeed, In most states and all the Cana- dian provinces there is a heavy bounty on the despised hide of the wolf. A bounty that calls for all the craftiness and wiles of the hunter and trapper in the setting . the placing of ni nd sureness of his aim. of his ste strychnine The answer is told by the ever-in- creasing, killing, howling mob. Who will the problem of this vil. lainous creature that comes boldly from his lair destroy by night and slink back again at the break of morn to its hiding place in im. penetrable swamps? The werld awaits that man, ive