The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 4, 1924, Page 16

FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1924, PAGE 16 THE SEATTLE STAR RAW IN SCRAP AT TACOMA a a aa About Fehts| MORGAN AND BRITT GO and Fighters Shas Lulaoskol alla slat of San Diego, Cal., may be brought North to fight the winner of the Tod Morgan-Danny Nunes fight, which headlines Tuesday's smoker at the Crystal Pool, providing the winner will con- sent to meet the California string bean, Pierce, altho over six feet in height, is a legitimate feather- weight. Dick ay local box- ing manager, claims that Pierce weighed only 128 pounds the night he fought a draw with Dode Bercot, the latter weighing around 140. Pierce's official weight that night was announced as 133 pounds. The San Diego boy was a great hit here because he can really fight, and he carries a load of dynamite in that vight hand. Mack Is Terrific | Puncher, Says Ward “When Freddie Mack hit me on the side of the head in the first round of our fight last week it was the hardest punch I had ever taken in my long experience in the ring,” says Bobby Ward. “But I hardly think that Mack will ever get very far because he can't take ‘em and he's easy to hit. He| led at me with a right-hand punch in that second round and his chin! was as big a target as you could have | asked for. I simply shot over my | right hand for the head after he had | led at me and missed and he fell like} a log. I knew when I landed that he could never get up.” } Bercot Will Change His Style Dode Bercot, who has done most of his fighting a la Lew Tendier,| with his right hand and foot ex- tended, is going to change around and fight in orthodox fashion in the future. This from Lonnie Austin, his man- ager. “Bercot hits better with his right| Tex Rickard Stands Alone When It Comes to This Promoting Business Tex Rickard stands out as the kingpin of all fistic promoters— He has staged more than 126 boxing shows since September 3, 1906, gross receipts amounting to $9,550,566.71. Dominick Tortorich has sta; possibly future, with taken in at the gate. The most se ale shows staged by Rickard and the money that was counted at the box office follows: Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier, $1,626,580; Dempsey and Luis Angel Firpo, $1,188,525.80; Dempsey and Jess Willard, $496,310 Willard and Firpo, $480,989.80; Ben- 033.15; Milk Fund bouts, $350,087; Jeffries and Bill Brennan, $162,760.20. ny Leonard and Lew Tendler, $863 Johnson, $270,715, and Dempsey and Mets Play { Sindh Chap Islanders in North .CING thelr third game in four days, the Seattle Metropolitans were trying to make it three straight victories In their game with the Vic- torians at the Island City tonight. After taking eight straight beat- ings the Mets scem to have found themselves again, beating Vancouver and Victoria on successive days, Jack Walker has proved to be the spark plug of the team these days, and his all-around performances have been the big features of the Mets’ playing. CARL MAYS IS RED’S PROPERTY CHICAGO, Jan, 4.—-Transfer of Carl Mays, veteran underhand twirler, from the New York Yanks to the Cincinnati Reds was ap- was announced today, goes to Cincinnat!, Point Makers Basketball BY ERNST A. BLOOD and Mays | Tom Coward Victorious in the recent national Proved by Commissioner Landis, it| handicap squash tournament held at New York, Tom jthe Yale club in |Coward demonstrated that he again at the top of his form, | winning the handicap event, Coward Earl Fink, present holder of the national ama Two years ago Coward Was the high ranking squash player the form he during the recent tournament j he ts again enftitied to that rating. scored a triumph over tour title. in shor this country. On FITTERY MAY GO IN TRADE SACRAMENTO, Jan. 4—Ther a deal pending in which Paul Wit |tery, Sacramento pitcher, would be Amerfoan a player from |traded to the St. Paul Association club for that organizattion, Lew a greater number of shows and more championship contests than Rickard, but he doesn’t approach Tex in the matter of purses and money » | A Moreing, | Killifer | Last of H lis Line |No Other Manager in P. | C, League Has Personal | Appeal of Seattle Pilot |TPAte was when the manager of « Coast league ball club really meant something, ‘Time is when moat of the teams in this man’s league are run from the jinner office with the managers being but a director of team play | “Red” Killiter, Beattl’'s red: thatohed pilot, is the last of the old] achool of managers in the Far Wes [ern minor | | Marry Wolverton, Walter McCre: | die, Happy Hogan, Pop Dillon and) |the rest of those dynamic leaders | | who were real forces in baseball, have passed out of the picture, | | Killifer has more personal appeal! § U than any other manager in the! onig t league. He runs his team and makes | up hie own roster, The nearent | GVERYTHING {s net for tonight’s|thing to Killifer in the league will be | 4 amateur card at Austin & Salt’s| Duke Kenworthy, at Portland, Ken: | kym. Bud Bercot will box Young|nio haa a lot of peraonal appeal | George Dixon in the main even of| But one simply can’t get excited! jfour rounds, Dixon, a promising over Bill Easick, Marty Krug, Ivan| | young colored battler, thinks that he) Howard, Duffy Lewis, Charley Pick | hits an excellent chance to beat Be nd Bert Ellison as personalities in| foot, He is a flashy youngater and | baseball, They simply lack that mag. | [has been working hard for, his tilt!/netiam that Killifer and Kenworthy | j with Bercot. Bud has been going | radiate, They're the last of the old} {lke @ young cyclone of late, scoring | school, | fix straight knockouts in @ row, Killifer doesn’t have to take a back | Dixon has had quite a bit of ex-/aeat for any manager in the minors) jPerlence, altho he has never com:|and there are a lot of leaders in the peted In a smoker at Austin & Sait's.!pig show who wouldn't make good | |Frankle Green has been coaching |yat boys for Radiant Red. | Dixon and looks for his protege to} E jive @ good account of himself to-| | night. Lonnie Austin has a tentative 10-| bout card arranged for tonight which will bring together the best of the amateurs who have appeared on re. cent bills, One of the best scraps on tho bill ts looked for in the tilt be tween Allen Day nd Louls Blanche, a pair of willing young 13T-pound. ern, “Both of these boys have won neraps in recent amateur cards and |are out to make Among the oth st, present and mateurs Fighting HUGHIE HIGH NO’ THRU YET | Hughie High has passed from the! Coast league, going to the Columbus | club of the American association. | The speedy little fellow is a veteran in the point of service, but he isn't thru yet by a long shot ' High bit around .340 for Vernon last year and played his usual bril nt ba But Bill Essick is rebuilding his} team com tely and he thought that & change would do both High and} the club good. It will in In Dod * who will com. pete tonight are Cane Carrie, Bill Kerr, George Is! Bob James, Alex Weglan, Willlam High, Bud Hedman, | Kid Wright, Charles Wenala, Charley Mathews and Clarence Francis. | ‘The cand will get under way $90 o'clock. The last show, two weeks ago, drew a capacity house and standing room was ata premium shortly after the doors opened. It is a cane first come, first served. be a long time before Se attle faa forget some of the clumsy fielding duels that High used to put on here with Billy Lane, the two de mon fly hounds staging some fine flelding ong left garden. at n that AVERAGES SHOW BRAZILL’S WORTH Whilo the averages ts don't mean | every: night. | This smiling young fellow is Danny Nunes, the Sacra-\* jmento featherweight, who bores Tod Morgan siz rounds) rounds and the verdict. ng they certainly show a jot|/0r the Coast championship at the Crystal Pool Tuesday) | |. For instance, it is no secret that | frank Brasil, Portland third-sacker, Local Boy Has Shade Over . Rival However, Tod Suffers y Bad Night and Was De. cidedly Off Old Colo BY LEO H. LASSEN bey ecug Jan, 4-—Altho he shade Chee Chee Britt, Tod Morgs Coast featherweight champion, wy decidedly oft color in thelr stx-rouy bout here last night, and Rete Hartnett called their mili @ draw, Britt started out well, winning thy second and third rounds by a but then he crawled into hig she and held on, laying all over Mi in the clinches during the rest ¢ the fight. Morgan was at his best tm thy fourth and fifth rounds, which hy won handily, punching well wit his right hand. The sizth rouy went to Morgan by a shade, the champion outpunching Britt tn thy clinches, Morgan 4i4 not show his sccw tomed speed and he didn't & enough punching. It looked as the he might be saving himself for ty tough battle with Danny Nune coming up in Seattle Tuesday, nélther man doing any damage Britt carried the fight in the se and and did what little fighting there was. The same went for the next round. For the first time Morgan openw up in the fourth round and sunk hk right hand nicely to the body ant the head several times, Morgan did most of the punching in the fifth round, his right agats bothering Britt, who was thru fo the evening. In tho sixth round Britt elinche| continuously, and most of the ses sion was confined to infighting, Mor. gan haying a decided edge. There were few or no thrills & the contest, Len Malody, the Wyoming feath erwelght, gave Sammy Gordon 4 nice pasting {n the six-round sem windup. Gordon made a couple ¢ wild rallies, but for most of th time was catching Malody's pun: Ray Tingley had Frank Chesloc out on his but mp Lewis welterweight |couldn't stow the rugged Bremerton boy away. Cheslock took an early! winning the first two rounds y came back, and by som punching won the last tw ringh stiff Jimmy Smith, Tacoma bantam knocked Billy Quilter, Seattle boy, down several times, and raising hi hand at the end of four rounds was The first round was tame, wit ie How scores , goes ft TA H R Bas F Middle Big-T! BY HED Nex. YO} that a to be organ far in the from source Nothing } is a very ‘been found that the fied for the leagues to Since it organized 0 fied, finanel to make it league to organized b league when the size of tion. If Boston} to support clubs, it wi figure that would be Daseball, a! ® good terri be interest vide affectia Baltimore! jor league (years, and on as a fer big major 1 uring on Another not go, bec of that the invest TEAM PLAYS & mere formality. Stanley Willis did the pitching and Swede Anderson did the catch. ing in the four-round welterweight opener. It was annuneed Johnny Jordan im and Dode Bercot will fight the atx. round windup here next Thursday and Joe Simonich and Ted Kre che will headline the card two weeks | hence. "4 George Shanklin staged last night's card for the Eagles and just a fair house attended. Morgan expects to be in Seatth | today, where he will do some light |work in preparation tor his bot with Nunes. COLONEL STAR HAS WEAK ARM Earl Coombs, the sensational Lotlt ville American association outfielée, who is said to be sought by the Net York Americans, ig said to bed |tricky man with the stick, but tht! his throwing arm isn’t anything | brag about. jthe president of the local club an. | Bounced yesterday ] STRIBLING IS KAYO WINNER | has one of the poorest throwing arms jin the minors, and yet do you know that this same scrappy ball player led the Coast league in the number “sal poten bs rege of chances handled by a third base okey teal Hn eiet man in 10237 bring to a halt the list of consecutive |"it's a fact. and that's what « victorie » by the Maple Leat ‘ 4 FORT ere EN Nncahemtichain dis Ang Meg Gaeay | vatear (veh Hf he didn't lead the circutt tn - puck ageregation in the Amatourliie tercentage of errors cide Hen | areas Georgia Mgnt | frockey league game at the Arena to. | t's fangs enthetal Perna BPs bd heavyweight, stopped Kid Numbers, ‘: g iade Fort Bragg soldier champion, in| The Maple Leats will enter the “i ® the fourth round. Stribling had/| game without two crack stars in the| Bercot Now Weighs agreed to do it in eight rounds. |lineup. Bun Cavanaugh and George | 143 Pounds | 1t was his ninth straight victory.|Hamm will be missing, both having Bercot’s weight is now 143 pounds, The Huskies have yet to b * IN ILLINOIS high sch of the which entirely eliminates him from | to the win column, but the cc a redit Hi, Jan. 4 the lightweight division in the future GRIDIRON STAR © a more powerful lineup than credi and he must stick to fighting welter- | NOW BENEDIC have presented on previoun oc ae ie tee sna Ales hielirseate good 0 mpers will compete | jg weights. } FAIRMONT, W. Va. Jan. 4.-|°asins, and it is considered likely : | , NT, W, 4 ¥ " “i im the tric here January 2 @ ann | If he gets over Jordan, as he| Gestass Wik backiicld "star on that they might turn the trick to bre? tact ad Boe Rens! ins! for th should, Bercot will be pitted against | | University of West Virginia foot. | MEM". game, which starts at 7:80|Norge Ski club will have charge o Bobby Harper in the near future ball team, was married here yee-|ociock sharp, ie expected to be wit-|the events. Workmen her jterday to Miss Margaret Barnes, a| neswed by a large crowd | menced hauling snc teacher in the Rivesville school. | jhave the incline in readiness next aie . BOXING» | week . F |S. F. | Four men will represent the club! pueiwt ( CoHibkeod Sea | Claes daha | EXPERT DIES | tn the oiympic tryouts at Minneapo : GO, Jan, a undee,| GAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 4.—-(!!8 Next Sunday. ‘They are Harry Reete bs ‘4 jRock Isiand flash, meets Stanley| Bains ‘i Leine, of Norway; Elnor Jensen, ( rr BY sie | McBride in 10 rounds to.| Marion Salazer, veteran boxing ; Independents... 2 Normand and Sig Stedt, all cor ag 1a My. MC. A ° oh {writer and sporting editor of the Sig Stedt, all con: . | : eee | night Bulletin, died here} {Fed first class jumpers, mn} ‘Bubstitu dents, Hales for Signal No. 31 cr ES ASR Ee | basing ha ‘it = : wel 14 SQUADS ELSE sang ay IN CHICAGO BIKE RACE ter Bell, Right forward to left forward,| mitted to compete in the Olympiad.|he was rogarded ono of the Center (5) tips ball to (2) to a spot in|. Not that his record may be|leading boxing experts, He was 42 jthe air A. From the alr (3) pasnes| perfectly clean, but because he is a years old and is survived by a Ca Jan. 4 / for the inte cle race, hand and he will get more power by| countering with this hand instead of leading with it. In his coming fight | with Johnny Jordan in Tacoma I am | planning to have him changé"his/ style. He knocked Ted Krache dead | | with his right hand and most of his/ heavy punching has been done with | that mitt.” | It will be interesting to see how the experiment works out. Green Lake and Varsity Fives Win Opening Tilts HE Green Lake Methodist Episco. pal chureh and Washington In endents basketball teams won the pening games of the Citl Bas. 1 league last night at the Uni- y sym. The Green Lake five had an easy time with the Fonda Glove Co. quin- grabbing the tilt by a 43 to 21 core. Duett, former Lincoln performer, was the star with 18 points to his Jensen also played a making 14 points. Mager was high-point man ringing up nino tal-| Both games were handled tn fine Greene made seven|styie by Bobby Morris and Walter while Jim Rice made five, Bell, who alternated as referee and) AND SUMMARY | umpire. In the second game, the Washing- ton Independents and the ¥. M. A. teams put up a stiff battle, the jcollegians winning by a 22 to 18 score Armand Marion was the big star of this game, Marion accounted for 14 of the Washington scores. Peters, Jat center, made three, while Mel Nor-| jquist and Arnold Cobley each made |two and Hales accounted for one tally | Smith was high man for the Y. |M. C, A. aggregation, with six points |to his credit en The} ea. points, have com:| LINEUPS rm Tire Failure Worried Miske Bobby Ward, who hails from 8st. | raul, Billy Miske’s home town, says| that Miske’s death was undoubtedly | hurried by the failure of a tire com-| pany in which Miske had a lot of| money invested. | “Miske had been suffering trom| Bright's disease for nearly seven| years and he never got over the bad | beating that Jack Dempsey handed/ him in 1920,” says Ward. “But how that big boy could fight when he was in his primet” declares suite serine" (OUR BOARDING HOUSE BY AHERN] ‘Weinert hit him on the chin in Gea aE, jj for the rest of the round. Then Billy | T BROUGHT You VY yet Rov ot ZA MRS. HOOPLE! «IT GHows & sea cine "Mw! Ye Hows tive Gueut 17) Geacious, «wave “7 FULTONG CLERMONT Livin | | ink that was Miske’s greatest | CALENDAR, ARG. HOOPLE! FIVE CALENDARS DOWN FIRST SHOKE SCREENT | || AY IWSURAMCE AGENT] | ALREADY !. mV GRocER,| “| ALEO NOTE TH’ DéTES on | = ’ 4 \T PRINTED A FLAGHY RED= | PROMISED ME A COUPLE MEAT MARKET COAL “THESE NUMBERS ARE | More, AN’ I'LL GET DEALER, DAIRY AND are iy a4 ONE FROM A“TAXI Second Game yo Mc. A. C18) Smith (6) DUNDEE VS. McBRIDE, /EARL FRANCE ON BIG TRIP Earl France, California lightweigtt is now on the Pacific ocean en row for Australia, where he has fight}® lined up, all for the 20-round rout i mee fc ere once, drawitt n Earl Baird four-round fist} BIG GAME GETS COACH NEW JOB Leo Novak, coach of the Cet Rapids high school football tesa which made such a sensational shof jost-season game with ti att high team of Told Ohio, has been offered the coachitt position with Hamline university & Bohar al fines, well} referee; MAX CAREY HAS SWIPED 583 BASES FTER 13 years on the paths, that grand old vet, Max Carey, of Bobby const, SASKATOON WINS GAME AT REGINA increased Canada | Pittsburg, still fiits on a lighter, fas. | the ball to (1) to B. | great box office attracti widow and one child Complete teams rnational six-day bi ning Saturday, were leak Ernest Kockler ¢ ci Y Kc Keio Me Pete Van Kemp Owcar Ege, fred Grenda Harry Lawrence and Lloyd Thom as, San Francisco Lawrence’ Gaffney Willie Hanley Joe Kopaky, Poland the race its Western here last night 1 to 0, Cook of the con: mara, Australia Holland, Switzerland Tasmania. Horan and Eddie and | Hockey by def made tost Madden,| league ter fobt than any youngster of them all down the track of time and base. ball glory, All Max did was to steal| 51 bases Inst year. This was the ma- jor league record, And, added to what Max has done before, gives him a total of 583 stolen bases for his 13 big league years of service. and | It te not alone by a fast foot that emt: and Al the lone spite the below ased the ther mometer zero, contest Mike Collins Has Classy Stable Mike Collins, the famous st Prohibition chief predicts 50 7 cent lees whisky will be const in America next year. . . Battlagy Siki must be going home. PRA Scrmceraae Word of Honor Means Nothing ERE'S a new golf stor passed along as present) for all “glofing men.” Bodty) Jones, says it really happened onee in Atlanta. As the story goes, two ancient and Southern foemen wert # square coming to the home holt A sizable wager was On match, Ol@ Man Smyth drve first, and straight down the fat way. Old Man Brown got mot distance, but found the roust Smith played the odd, and thet} the following dialogue ensued: Smith—Just a pute, Browe I think you move ur ball. Brown (indignantly)—T did ne I didn’t improve the lie in 4a way Smith—wWill wort of h Paul und Guseppe Farmer ght. thing in motor t Angel track ucks, will be opene * January 6. A 50-foot runs on the inside of the st motor speedway and insures in Lo. hors ie safety apron | fam charged by Fede W ia golfer, has Jud ago from | ¢ wed by him ¥ petition in which he at $262,000 and hi $ 1 bis) an W'S EVIDENT k te he will $75,000 to tr good sen r may need a t ny t is obvious he bilite doesn’t on you swear on your or as a gentiemal that you didn’t move that ballt Brown—Yes, Certainly Dik 1 nith (testily)—All right, baat : word of host tid not morta COULDN'T overt wife of Zby mpolled } wateh him WORSE charges him olor MILD WINTER This an open ather ts mild nt ¢ oxints aye tea is winter. To patie € 4 those w f $10.04 diagnos: young ca § Bay Brown—On BIG YOU-CAN ALMOST HEAR Yarey mad 23 rec: Q pentike Coline, the fartous st. Paud BAKER ALL GAVE FIRPO TO GET Carey made his 1923 record, but also fi i COMPANY, AN! I THINK NEW MOON DoES 116 STUFF.) | 7m Italy | pitchers. His head helped him as at the present time. Collins Is han-| EVEN BOUGHT ONE TIME SUN RIGES AN! wee ¢ Aithely Dae N. j, |, BUENOS AIRE Jan. 4.--Luis| Much as his feet, dling Jim Delaney, light-heavyweight; e \SES AN QUITS, ~/| [Anthony Beckman, N. J. langol Firpo, American BIG PRIITERS FROM THE NEWSBOV)) Harry Kaiser, New York, and Fred | / ! h, will get| Season, which would indicate that he Stewart McLean, bantamweight. The tH 00 ( 70,000) for} had boi no Tari oti thet have bes tle winners CALENDAR, “Too! Banna te ™ Aa David Lands, Irvingt J. and , ert} dy i Bet: asa cin og jtatdlaepvegan! yay re . odge, American years i ® a lege a sr |e ung foot and his old head| big league manager he may have 1, B . Mauritz Jenabled him to score 120 precious three world’s champions In the mak Doolerock, Chicago " | ting average. Mobeck, Chicago NEW SPEEDWAY His outfield record also looms high Maurice De Wolfe t |497 chances out there, the record fo! umbe orantonio — an¢ | ‘The new Ascot speedway, the latest u ‘a tor STILL ON TOP plane rato nton nd The 5 peedway, the. lat | fielders Carey has played 1,803 CHICAGO, Jan. 3—Bob Cannefaz, | | black flag 1s still nailed to the mast, Jushion leagus, improved his per EVANS FREED } —_—_— 2 centage by winnin; 4 ng @ BY U~. Ss. JUDGE McGraw says Europe ts now ripe | ighiae* ‘evan for baseball . We had no idea BATTLING SIKI al ee fei 1m ef. | nach James H. 7” SCRAP IS OFF ¥ tre Be nee, bt sche . | listed h Bedi pal $ announce Babe Ruth uled here for January 11, bet F nawets at $3 & big game hunt. .., But ‘ | nent hai led off. St j ‘ | ao case } PORTLANDERS | he ONE COAST TITLE tcher named Le « Coast eng fielding avera gen + for De Lon Angeles 'EMu. TELLS TH NIGHTS <TH’ by a quick mind and a close study of best boxing stables in the country | MB ONE~ AND L weit ca i . i ABOUT $70,000 le Coburn, Kearney, N. J., and] I CAN GET A Nice E F K Carey took part in 153 games last Johnny O'Donnell, lightweight, and AN’ ON TH’ BACK Gives “TH! mst 4 heavyweight champion, will ‘aylor, ewar 4 fighting Hoe batted only .308,| in California and as Collins is a real Carl Hambacher, Bloor N. J ; hére on February 10,| but his y ‘ |runs for his club from this mild bat- ing ‘ } é Frank Cozzolit BOB CANNEFAX | y, ‘3 peasy Btockelynch, Belgium. | IS READY SOON |: the stove league sky, for he had kames in a Pirate uniform and his Detroit leader in the National Three. trassstot f a wh WELL, WELL games from Augie Kleckhefer. been val the country had degenerated that} but in a bank | INFORM PEORIA, Jan, 2—A bout by eae Battling Siki and an unnamed o doesn't he know all the big games| ansints f tm shove th the outfield with 4 pret mean throwing from centerfield any man’s league, r ed the ARE YOU PREPARED? as a gentleman, I ¢ my t di Smith (te n's ragged meee ly Mr. Brow) move his ball J frequents wint © a palt nd a long South this winter id 905 T Ehousn CALENDARS “To PAPER “THE HOUSE = escape the cold as to get away the heat, ‘ from