The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 1, 1924, Page 12

lt celica PAGE 12 About Fights and Fighters BY LEO H. LASSEN ‘HEY say I’m thru back East until I lick whom- ever they pick out for me and then: they forget about it for a while and then the old talk starts again about my being ready for the scrap heap.” Benny Leonard talking. “They said I was thru be- fore I beat the daylights out of Lew Tendler last summer,” declared Benny, “and just be-} cause I have been champion| for several years they think that I must be all in. “It Isn't the number of Fears that YANKEE Se THE SHATTLE STAR TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1924. Ex pect Wet Field tor Big Batile Prospects of Damp Day Please Coach Bagshaw and His Huskies (BULLETIN) PASADENA, Cal, Te at Pasadena’s New Year's lick, sunshine thruout the day, bring» ing with it greater hopes for Navy victory over Washington, appeared assured as the morn ing advanced and the sky was clear of clouds, The weather bureau was pos- itive there would be no more rain during the day, The rosd bowl gridiron, with a perfect drainage system, drief off rap idly, and odds which were quot ed at 10 to 7 on Washington when rained seemed assured, again moved toward a nearer even basis, BY HAROLD E, SWISHER ASADEN, Cal, Jan, 1—The skies held threat of clouds to- day, but there was sunshine In the S AND REDS LOOMING AS BIG | d Kuhn Is Leading Huskies Today Ed Kuhn, Washington’s star tackle, is leading the Washington Huskies in the game with the Navy | at Pasadena today. The new captain, succeeding Wayne Hall as leader of the Purple and Gold, is the first 1924 grid leader to rat his team in action. The Navy hasn’t elected a new captain yet. Kuhn is starting today’s game, his injuries sustained in the W. S. ©. having healed. . SPORTSMEN CODE CHANGES DUE Mitze Is Signed by Cardinals J8 MITZE, for years chiet catcher for tho Oakland Coast league club, and with the champion | Now Orleans team, in tho Southern lieague, this past year, has been; | signed to act as pitching coach and | |bull pen catcher by the st, Louls | Cantinals, | Mitze, a wise old head when !t} } comes to battery work, should be In: | valuable to the Cardinals, as. he New Laws | for Game and Fish BY EARL A. FRY UST what the sportsman of the state of Washington has in store | for himwelf during the your 1924 has) caused him litte special worry, Your | fisherman and hunter ts peeullar sort of a fellow in the fact that he| thinks very little ahead of the day or | week-end trip ahead of him. Not un- W his “privileges,” as be terms thes, are hit doos he commence to holler, | Boots and Bingles in Stove League Battles IDDIB FOSTER, one of the finest characters who has over graced the major leagues, has passed out of the big show. Tho St. Louls Browns recently announced his unconditional release. I regretted tho exit of Fouter. Umpiring would be an casy task if every club was composed of ning Eddie Fasters, Would there were more like him, the game would be} the Getter for it. see Real sport depends upon fair play, It Is the basle fundament Fair play was Eddie Foster's first name. Any success that he has attained in baseball was fairly won. LEAGUE FAVORITES Cham pions Should Be Repeaters This Year Cincinnati Threatens Supremacy of New York in National League; Yankees Are Still at Peak of Their Power and Should Prance in Winners BY HENRY L. FARRELL EW YORK, Jan, 1—Unless John MeGraw is. able to get a reliable pitcher and another experienced infielder, the Cincinnati Reds will get away next April as the favorite in the National league pennant race, The Reds turned out to be the strongest rival of the Giants in the face last year and on the form shown in the late season, they stood as the prospective runner-up or bet ter in, 1924, Since then the Reds undoubtedly have been strengthened by the deal which brought Carl Mays to Cincinnati from the New York Yankees. They also may find Tom Sheehan, American association pitcher, of great help to them. Carl Mays in a peculiar type. He {s unfortunate in having a disposition that made him few friends, and he always has been a very poor loser. He is young, an ball players go; is a very strong man, and with new surround ings he ought to win a lot of games for the Reds. If any manager is able to handl. Moran is the one. O far, the*Cubs and the Pirates have not been strengthened. The Cubs, being a young ball club, might expect a little general improvement, but there ls no ason why the Pir. ates should be more of a factor in at least one winning pitcher, HE Yankees, without any change, look like another runaway in the American league. If any deals are the fa fighter hag fought, but the abuse| hearts of Coach Enoch Baguhaw of that he has taken that determines his power. Many promising boys} are all thru before they are 25) years of age because they too much punishment, “Look at Jack Britton, still fight- ing at 38 years of age. “I am proud that I haven't a} took | the University of Washington and his squad of Huskies. Here for the champlonship East- West football gamo with the Annap- Jolis middies, to be played this aft. ernoon in the Rose bowl, the Se Attle stalwarts looked on the prow pect of wet weather with delight, The Huskies are demons in the mud. They are stellar players an: | knows just about all there Is to know about the art of pitching and catch- ing. Altho slowed up by years, Mitze had & great season with the Pelicans during 1922, and was rated as ono of the most effective catchers in that | league. | to the rescue of an official In dire distress. MPIRES {n tho American leaguo can recall scores of happenings. on the ball field in which the honesty and fairness of Foster has come Foster never jn his life made & strenuous protest. When he believed tho umpire had erred, be told hin 80 in a polite yet positive manner, His words always convinced the umpire that Foster-was certain a mistake had been made, “However, Foster wan equally fair when it seemed to the funs that the umplre had pulled one, whereas the fault lay with the player, eee . ‘Tho old alibi had no place in Foster's makeup. Any number of times and then he spends twice as much! money and capital in bringing back the conditions that he may have the sport to enjoy. ‘The average sportsman has kicked Very little during the past year, prin- cipally because he has had little or no oceasion to do 0. The report of the! slate game department shows that | tore fist have been planted this past | the next pennant race than they were this year. The Giants will have to be strengthened if they are to win an- other pennant, figuring that their competition will be just as strong in 1924. McGraw is nadly in need of pitchers, and no one figurgs that his | infield will be as strong ‘and as re. liable with young Travis Jackson tak- | § ing Bancroft's place at shortstop. completed during winter they |certainly will be made with the idea ib, and it does power as it of strengthening the cl not need much more stands, Cleveland 1s desperate for a first baseman, and Detroit is facing a ne- cessity just as critical for a second baseman, If it is at all possible, Tris ker will make some kind of a trade and so will Ty Cobb, but to put mark on me and I think I am| time, anywhere, but’ with the ad- good for a long spell as champion] Vantage they possess over oppo yet because I take care of myself.” | Renta on a slimy field, the odds are If Leonard wins from Mickey | Quoted a bit higher against Walker next year and holds tho} Middies today welterweight title it ts hardly Ike-} Nearly fifty thousand Western ly that he will try to make the! {0s of the gridiron will be on hand the Nunes Has Set Great he has gotten an umpire out of a tough hole by telling his teammates that he had missed the runner, when some player with a fallaway slide had gotten away, even tho Foster had the ball waiting for him, year than any year In the history of tho department, Tho bird propaga- tion has been equally a» important. | Having become so situated that the OWEVER, to my say of thinking, nothing that Foster did during his |department is working at its best, | long ahd honorable career in the game is more interesting than his | With conditions such that the coming | It im still believed that Rogers|over such deals they will have to re- Hornsby may be playing second base|move strength from some depart. for McGraw when the season starts | ment. and it wouldn’t knock anyone dead} Connie Mack, spending money if Eddfe Roush should be tn center-| right and left for the best players in field. |the minor leagues, ought to have a Nghtweight limit of 135 pounds again as tho division is pretty well | fought out and Leonard won't have to worry about making weight, altho he claims he can stil! make the| Mmit if necessary. | Leonard Advises Tod Morgan | When Leonard met Tod Morgan. | the young Coast featherweight champion ‘last week, he told Mor- gan not to worry about developing a K. 0. punch, as that would take care of Itself, “Learn how to punch property. where to hit your opponent, how to hit cleanly and how to protect yourself. For years I couldn't break an egg and then all of a sudden, I found myself knocking| everybody over. But first I had| learned a good defense and how to/ hit properly. “A young fellow like you hasn't} reached his full strength yet and| it Will Be a Couple of years before! you will stop growing. “earn how to take care of yourself in the! ring; the knockouts will comes soon enough.” Which 1s pretty sound advice. | Morgan Will Fight Winner Here | Morgan, by the way, fights Cheo| ©) Chee Britt in Tacoma six rounds Thursday night and figures to win, | altho Britt will give him, a tougher] fight than Georgid Sollis did. A week from and Danny Nunes fight six rounds here. Morgan will be given the winner of this fight if he wants| the match, according to the local) promoters. If Nunes shows aswell as ex-| pected, next week's fight. should be @ pretty fair struggle and a match| between Morgan and the winner| should be one of tho best of the} year. Fans Want Open Fighting | Infighting to the fight fan is what line plunging 1s. to football | and careful, short passes are to basketball. There aren‘t any thrills to this style of attack In short fights the fans wa lot of open-style boxing with swing. ing, head punching and plenty of quick action. Infighting 1s abso- lutely essential in a long fight, but Northwest fans aren't educated up don't take to it. 4 have jammed foot where mass plays 1¢ runs fill baseball parks with plenty yor ht arenas. | Budnick Improves; McDonnell Stands Still Last sp Jack McDe for the cit mate then McDonnell roved much, if 4 under tin, shows p m of veloping. Budnick has learned how to hit straight, McDonnell doesn’t seem to know anything about how to hit Budnick fight one hasn't im: while Budnick, ot Lonnie Au: and of the McDonnell may preli es hero They the most. EDISON SWAMPS FERNDALE HIGH schoo night and school, 17-9. hampered by the | nents tonight Dandy Dition| } to see the gumo.tf {t does not rain That many tickets have been sold with only a few thousand paste boards left to care for the lineup gates ‘The hardy ones will ern team that outw at pounds A and powerful o: zation ix the ¢ Wash- ington foothall te: It was on this nd power that Bagshaw was navy's seo a West. to overcom puted aerial speed, On muddy field, |task should be all the ea: 7 be little kicking. Hon- ia done will be about . who does the Mid dies’ pu , and Ziel, of Wast ington, are both good with the toe, the former rating the higher, In the Navy's backfield, McKee, Cullen, Barchet and Shapley, thero is a combination worthy of Coach Bob Folwell’s best training. Washington has sprang a sur prise with the announcement that Captain Hall, at end, wf! be re placed by Cole. Hall asked he be left on the sido lines. is the better man, Hall told Bag- sha cith the Huskies, while Tesreau, full back, ailing with boils, !s hardly ex- pected to get Into the game at the Washington 1 183. Dackfield~ ‘ Oftictat pire: Bart! jeld Judge. 1, um: SIKI DECLARES MASCART BEST Battling Siki says that young Mas. cart, the French featherweight, {8 a better battler than Criqui was at his best, and he says that if the Frenc boy comes to this country, Johnny Dundee will have to fight better than fought in the past few months that | Cole Sherman will be unable to start od slope tha Fist Mark NES, the hard-hitting | acramento featherweight, who meets Dandy Dillon in the sixround main event of next Tuesday night's card at the Crystal Pool, is about the only featherweight on the Coast, out- side of Tod Morgan, who hasn't dropped a real referee's verdict the one fight, that in y, In Sand Point welve month utpointed, out Nunes has neven or eight boys that the that time. He bantamweight a couple of beat Dandy Dick years, meet sant has Danny outgrew tho ban' mit a year ago and celeb entrance Into the featherweight di- vision by winning the Pacific coast | featherweight championship tn a big elimination to nent staged by the Portland be: s commission last De- cember and January. Dilton from Oakland, Cal. and start train. ing for his melee with Nu is in Portland and will be h six dayn before the fight to fi conditioning. It would be {hitting feath ard to find two h weights on the Pi # and Dition. rs have established for themael be 4 wallopers and are livin FLAG WINNER OUT OF LOOP ed and dropped that was the story the annual meeting tion at Waco on The national board de cided the pennant jesuo and {tn de- |cision wan made khown at the Waco |mectifig. There waa a dispute be. jtween Austin and Sherman in the play-off series and the deciding game was not played. Temple, Texan, {s likely tojtake Sherman's place in th Texas association circuit. Sherman oxhausted itself trying to produce a pennant w @ pennant league | December 16. jer the past season, went and dropped out broke arrive here tomorrow, keeping of the secret that for several years enabled Mussell Ford to be |» the pitching sensation of the American league. Ford was the first pitcher to uno the emery ball. He kept a plece of omery paper tied to a ntring and concealed in the sleeve of a red undershist that-he affected on the field, When pitching ne would fit the emery paper into the hole in the palm of hin glove. By roughening the ball on !the paper be could make it take all kinds of pecullar twists. Ford was credited with being a great spitball pitcher, ‘The secret of Ford's success’ wan known only to his catcher, Eddie Sweeney, and Font o.68 When Ford was at the top of his game Foster was released by New York to the Washington club, No doubt Ford and Sweeney believed the secret would soon become league gossip, If so, they didn't know Foster. HORTLY after Fonter joined ‘Wash three times. Foster trying to make good, ngton be faced Ford and struck out into the majors at the timo, against Ford didn’t help his caune. Those three w 1 have been enough for many a player to have told the truth to the heavens, However, Foster, in confidence, had been told how Ford was making the ball act up and ho was loyal to that confidence. For three years, while Ford was golng big guns, Eddie Foster, on another team, with a full knowledge of the secret of Ford's suc cons, kept his peace, wh Eddie Foster knows baseball, He has been a credit to the game, True, he has slowed up a bit for the big show, yet he should make a good manager for a club looking for a ball player and a gentleman. GAMES THIS WEEK Seattle at Vancouver, | | Blame Placed Mets Play on Promoters Maroonsin Ted Kid Lewis, the Engtiah mid. s ul dieweight, in an addrean to Lon don boxing fans, says that IT F reason English boxers are not de ce racas Veloping fa due to the attitude of TEAM STANVING the promoters in demanding or Won Tied Ms. fighters who have not been be: " . u very young fighter, anys ag Lewis, has to take hin beatings in order to learn the game, and the sooner the London promoters real. ize this the sooner will England produce some worth-while battiers The Si LONG PROGRAM STARTS SOON Twelvo stake events are on the Program for the race meeting which |jocal club ts holding @ scant lead begins at the fair grounds at New |over Victoria in the race and a yic- Orleans New Year's day, to continuo | afternoon will put the thru Mard! Gras day, March 4. The ons temporurily out of danger. stake events include three with $5,000 Tho t club has a busy added money. The other nine carry | Week. Immediately following to. 00 added money each fay’s game, the Mots journey to their hor where they meet Victoria Cougars on’ Wednesday. Theso two tea tangle In anoth game at Victoria on Friday, nd the Van. couver Maroons were to meet here this afternoon in a Hockey Pacific Const The association contest. Roman architects placed en n | the Jars In the theater walls to tner the resonance. WAR. HAR- HAPPY NEW YEAR HOOPLE! +f THIS IS MY FIRST NEW YEAR AT HOME I) ELEVEN YEARS J, FUNNIEST NEW YEAR T EVER CELEBRATED WAS IN A DRIFTING BALLOON ~ HAR. HAR- eh" BASKET CAUGHT ON A CLOCK “TOWER JUST ATTH' STROKE WMF~- RETHER ODD, YES, © A WAN = BUT SAY WARNER, SPEAKING OF CELEBRATING THE NEW YEAR IN A QUEBR WAY~- HAW ONE WeW YEAR EVE AT MIDNIGHT 1 WAS N A SHIPWRECK, “THIRTY MILES OFF—THE BAWDII ISLANDS /« “WREE DAYS LATER “THEY PICKED ME UP FLOATING ON A DEAD Wiisttine You . A HAPPY GENE, NEW YEAR =~~- AH? @ gs THING You WCLUDE IN Your WEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS, \S"To LAY OFF BY AHERN) Rose City YEH, ~ AN! 1 KNow “TEN REsoLUTIONS| | Card Today 1 = SEAN aces PoRteAND; RIGHT Now «) @ big card dished up today You PUT TH!) | with Fred Fulton, the champion GIOSY horizontal sht of the 1 world, George Lamson, MY SHAVING mote on Portland battler, ina 10-round CREAM AN! EN OF MY | scrap. LILAC A COLLARG!| | Danny Nunes, Yo, land commis Z boxea Weldon ‘ pounder, « in windup, ANOTHER MIGHT ring fans are hay- holder of the Port feathorwelght belt, Wing, Portland 128. the 10-round semi. Duffy and M are heading in Oakland today. Jimm: Iterw an ar card Frankie Genaro, American fly ght ki 10 rounds with Al Pettingill, of New Or in Phila delphia today we K, boxes With Tod Morgan. and Chee Cheo | Britt in the six-round windup, George Shanklin, Tacoma p has an a hi rd for hurs. ieht at follow Chee omoter, nounce complete ¢ Tacoma a Morgan ys. Chee therweight Sammy ¢ Britt »rdon Len Ma Frank Cheslock terweights. Jimmy Smith vs. Bit) tamwoights Swede Anderson ¥ middle STRIBLING IN SCRAP TODAY YORK, Jan, 1 M G Quilter, ban Charley Maets, | weight VAxcor VE , Lae | partments should produce almost double that of what was presented to the leportemen this past year little or no kick coming for this angle | IT’S UP TO j GOVERNOR | This ts a condition that, under the [present administration form of game | jdepartment, fx not very likely to last | |longer than the present state admin: | istration. It is with the pleasure of | | the governor, wt be, as] to whether we } r the} |head of the department who is a capable business man or ene who is placed in charge ¥ political abil. | ity "They head of the} department has made an enviable rec: | ord during his administration. It re- mains the sportsmen as to} wish the department | continued on the basis with which it has been run the past three years or | turned back again into a politjeal machine, ‘The election of new legislators fot the 1925 session of the Washington |legisiature should be an important | one In so far as the sportsmen aro| concerned for many important ques- tlons are to come up before the next session of the lawmakers that will| affect the sportsmen of only ent | ma this | One item that fs sure to be brought 7 he lawmaking body ts thnt | » In the price of the fish-| nting privileges, It has recommended that the county J and a stato fish. li o be issued 2.50, a certain pro rata to go to the state and a cer. ® to the county selling the nat form of this r be used rather than been be abol some n in county ular demand from } al around the | TAL LICENSE | SMANDED A demand is also being made for & special fishing license to be sold to the tourists coming the y each each be the p. ortsmen in into our st » t cost to them being for or $10 for the entire latter cost being for both and fishing. Piper & Taft's 11 to interest the com cations of the state as to the importance of the special short term fishing lcense and during the past season ple to enlist i of the y of commer. bs and chambers of commerce orking for tho establishment of | | | this license Fans Have complete change in will undoubted the | sion of the lature, Any ono coming in contact with the pr ent ccde realizes that we surely need a new one. Whether the new code Will be one that will prove satisfac tory and work to th of the fish and game only be proven by th the new code is made up. A logical Answer to this problem would be to call tn the experts of the U. s. logical s' the game be made next best interests f the 5 care in ¥ urvey, department of agricul ture, and allow them to make up a sét of laws that will best suit th state. This has been done by sev- eral of the states with the result that they have “fool-proof” laws that mean something for thelr game de Sportsmen of tho state should watch the development of the change in thelr game laws. ims tr To ' PORTSMEN Whether or not ange will be made f tho coming session of the legisiatare from the county adminis tration of the game laws a have in this state the ‘cl s we ‘how to @ more central ized or commission form of state ministration, is left with the men. The need for a n félt, the fact that tate |} of but only or threo in the States that allows the indi. C d fish and itself prove one ad. sport change has | ¢ long be United wo ¢ vidual county verning st should in the char Whe at the ame need for | } ther a change in the present time value to the the coun would prove of rtsmen than |j system remains n themse with the |t If the coun tion is portem game administr prov ‘ undoubte r of the state, would eal machine, as it in many part fr imisstor 1 if not | ¢ providing the | t t of another mind?! sportsmen would eal po were n ganized, the the South ts same w COMPTON SENT TO TEXAS LOOP), with game laws should t tem | by sportsmen of this state George Kelly 1s a good plece of trading material, and McGraw would not hurt the team seriously if he de- cided to part with his tall first base- | man. Pat Moran is sweet on Kelly,! and the Red leader may need a first yaserman, as it is understood that ake Daubert might not be available next year, It stands to reason that the pres-| ent champions would be no weaker! than they are now, if they are ablo| to get Hornsby and Roush, a: t McGraw would be worried continu ously by that weak pitching staff. Roush would cut off a lot of runs and Hornaby would contribute many scores, but McGraw will have to contender this year. The arirval of the Athletics has been expected for five years, and it is due this year, if at all. Frank Chance may have better luck with the White Sox, but it can hardly be figured that the disap- pointing showing of the Sox last year was the result of inefficient manage- ment, because Kid Gleason {s one of the best in the business. Many deals are expected in the nerican league before the next sea- on opens, but it ts hardly within reason that any club will be success- ful enough in a_ reorganization to seriously threaten the regime of the nkees. ‘PLANS IN MAKING FOR 1924 SEASON ON NATION'S LINKS HE, 1924 golf season fs siready in tho making, By a ionth's time all plans for the season's ma- jor fixtures will have been com: pleted, the courses selected, the dates fixed and the conditions named. During the week just passed the -rofessional Golfers’ association, in nnual meeting, completed plans for | jthe 1924 open championship, and In| }so doing made some radical and| sional useful changes. | No longer will the open: event drag ‘{tself. more or Jess listlessly over a week's time, costing the ma:| jority of contestants a pretty penny, | in most cases neddiessly wasted. | The P. G. A, which is the official organization of the professional golf- ers in America, has at last decided | that the open championship of re cent years was not a championship | at all, but something more akin} to the field maneuvers of an arm corps. | accommodate the host of golf: ers who flattered themselves: that | they had a chance to win fame in the open and who were eligible to| enter solely because of loose ree strictions, required a week's time. Further, the presence of the host detracted from the event's interest, There was a large outlay of money uselessly expended on railroad fares and hotels. “Worst of all, the chances of outstanding players were often injured by the size of the field. In order to eliminate these things in future tournaments, the Profes- Golfers’ association decided to bring into being thelr plan of a ygar ago for section qualifying ounds. The country will be divided into two sections for 1924, and golfers qualify according to the sec in which they reside, The limit in each section will be the best 40 scores and ties, so that the field in the championship proper will number not more than 100. This limitation will make it pos+ ible to run the event off in two days’ time, if necessary, and {t will give every man who is successful in getting past the qualifying round a fair chance in the championship proper. 2 Swims Big Bay | ERMA FELTMAN One of the coming swimmers of trma Feltman, of Tam: # Feltman, a high school swim pa, Fla. M girl, recently across the note tance of some 1 markably fast time. Mi vas undaunted by the that another Tampa maiden McClatchie, had lost her life year ag completed a Tampa bi miles, ¢ knowledge Dorothy in the aters A SAN FRANCISCO, ‘ompton, 1as been Jan, 1.—Pete veteran Seal outfielder sold outright to the Hous- on club of the Texas league. He served at o1 Seattle and Sacr time or other amento. ave little or no voice as to how their administered or othe whom, Banding as the now do: ng, the fishermen and hunte hose interested in notivities of the f their ¢ questing might with the r state can administer their game Truly the sportsme f Washington hav hemselves with ear, and tt i department action carly enough to bring result His MRS. HOPPE DROPS SUIT FOR DIVORCE EW YORK, Dec. 31.—Mrs. Wil- N liam Hoppe, wife of the world professonal billiard champion, last ‘riday began, and a few hours later a euit against her husband to gain custody of her 4-year-old son, William Hoppe, Jr. She abandoned the action after Hoppe returned the boy to Mrs, Hoppe, her attorneys said, Attorneys ‘for Mrs. Hoppe ob- tained a writ of habeas corpus in the supreme court, requiring Hoppe to bring his son into court, but he sent the boy back before the writ was served, it was said. ‘The attorneys said Mr. and Mrs. Hoppe became estranged in June, 1922, but had continued to live to- gether until a month ago, when Ho} left, taking with him their son and little daughter. He re turned the girl three days later. Mrs. Hoppe charged that because of his frequent billiard matches at night, her husband wag not in @ position to care for the boy prop erly. The Hoppes were married in 1910, at Baltimore. Sport Salad Moran and Joo Shugrue, tis rounds In New York Pat Weights, box 15 Frida | Pittsburg Pirntes will train at Paso ary 27 to March of exbibities Battling Siki ¢ vad flelit im Sammy Mendetl, mt, baltonging J Dundee's of Roekfard, famous ne in ek Bob and Howard Kins Dick Ferris has announced that he witl . anager of hed r ading the the want read