The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 7, 1924, Page 12

PAGE 12 About Fights and Fighters BY LEO H, LASSEN world's — most famous fighters, Ned Moe, the vet-| eran boxing instructor of the lure of the ring and he is in his glory handling the des- tiny of some young battler, even tho he be but a green preliminary boy. Few Seattle fans who have Seen Moe in the role of sec- ond at the Seattle smokers know that the little fellow Who peers so anxiously over the tops of his gold-rimmed Spectacles and yells his in- structions at his charge in a high-pitched, nervous voice, was once the chief trainer for Bob Fitzsimmons, Stanley Ketchell and Battling Nelson, training Nelson for his cham- pionship fight with Joe Gans when Nelson won the title from the Old Master. Twenty years have brought about many changes in Moe's career and he has been engaged as boxing in- structor at the local “¥" for some time and also does massage work there. But Moe, altho 68 years of age, can still box with the best of his husky young students and he's as straight as a string and in the best of physical condition right now. “Condition is a mighty important factor that your present day fighter overlooks a lot," says Moo, “par. Ucularly the right kind of condition- ing. While training is much more scientific now that It was in the old days, many of the young fellows hurt themselves by the wrong kind of work. “Take Tod Morgan, for example. ‘That young fellow should be doing things to build himself up instead | of the strenuous kind of training} that he goes thru, the same kind of training that fellows trying to take off weight participate in. I think that Dode Bercot is the best trained fighter in the Northwest and condi-| tion has played a big part in his success “But condition isn’t the most im- portant thing in a fighter’s makeup by a long shot. First comes ‘heart;’ if a fighter isn't game. condition Means nothing. And second comes brains. Fighting heart and cond!- tion can do little without brains in building up a champion. “It takes a combination of the three to put a man on top. You'll! find that your average preliminary fighter lacks one of these essen- Correct Hitting Is Important Moe, who is a university graduate NCE the trainer of the| Y. M. ©, A, still feels the} {fer of players a few minor details Seals Have Right System Nursing Along Young Prospects Carefully It isn’t all luck that the San Francisco Seals have in building up young diamond stars—it’s mostly brains and patience, They brought Willie Kamm and Jimmy O’Con- nell along carefully without rushing and made both of them stars in this league. Last spring they took Paul Waner on and by carefully handling gave him confi- dence and developed his hitting ability. He'll be ready for a regular berth this spring. The latest Seal “find” is “Dud” Smith a young California collegian, who will be brought along the same way Waner was carried this year. Smith is also an out- fielder and a promising youth. Bud Ridley Predicts When Morgan and Nunes Do Battle UD RIDLEY, the “Little Dempsey” of the featherweights, who has fought both Danny Nunes and Tod Morgan, predicts a great fight when these classy little fellows Even Fight get together in their six-round fight at the Crystal Pool Tuesday night, Tough Season for Champions Last year waa a tough one for champions. One tumbled. In boxinus, Herman, Britton, sions to Morgan here. Meet Mets Here Next and has tho bost left hand I have ways Ridley fast another * Kilbane, Wilson, Siki ealize ho jhim worktn) tonight. The Eskimos down to Seattle, then hop where they play he w © m mond, but the first named went water. stake, Ballard Is lead by Duke Keats, center, one of the best known figures in the West- ern Canadian loop, He has a repu- tation of being a scrapper from the old schoo} and has that ability to instill the old fight in his men. The game here is expected to draw a big house Wednesday. | jand three four-round | will complete the card as follows Rube Finn vs, Billy Conley, heavy weights Roy Small vs. ¥ htwelghts Leader in R ca BIGDEALIS | HANGING FIRE IN AMERICAN 1 Dade BASEMAN GEOR BURNS of Boston for $ Baseman Bill Wambsganss of ¢ fonth GEO. WILSON BOOSTED BY n oller Loop . Who took the in the J whore they has been much talk of such a trans tay has caused the deal to hang fire, It} is understood that these difficulties | have finally been troned out. Manager Speaker of Cleveland) g feels that he must get a first-sacker | if his club Is to be up in the rs The Cleveland leader dopes it, that at goal record. in in the school of physical training, knows @ lot about proper hitting | and what straight punching means. | “The knuckles of the punching | hand must be in a straight line} with the elbow,” declares Moe, “and the blow must fall flat on the closed fist or the delicate system of carti- | Jages in the wrist are endangered So many of your fighters break their hands unnecessarily by curv ing thelr hands at the wrist and putting too much of a strain on that Mechanism. In hook punching the blow must be landed by the knuckle of the first finger or else the hand fs In danger of being broken becaus angle of the punch. boys take thelr g: “Too many Masium boxing too lig! ig they punch a bag or a dummy ‘3 should take pains to { are punching correc’ ' expect to b i sium work the’ ring. Ff and it takes Perfect punching.” Gans Greatest le CAN'T LEAVE HIM OUT cae thes Gaie oe of Them All 80 of the officials| pitcher, n ia The greatest all tour to d m 4 fn any class that makes each man re baset F : the ropes was Joo Gans, and {t asks F t Abe At ¢ a Master, when he was tn his P t heart b ded You'll have to take Moe's for that. “Gans had everythin, Moe. “He had the bra perfect fighting bod: lop, the i thing but et game had Istened to hi been trained have n he g his opponents ted to brea them Sullivan Couldn’t Hold Candle to Dempsey ’ Moe, who worked with when tho famous John 1, one of his tours*6f the count fering money to four rounds with Sullfvan ¢ t h Jack Dempsey as fighter. “Sullivan was the bu him, say ia an alt dog t "sa wonder Bul as he did; coris bused himself v been f and had w Would have lasted eve he did.” Seer ene aeeenenenrer gar aCe Game Is Business Now loxing is a great bu: C says Mos, compared to w in the dark “In th fought seldom at it ages of the ring the champton» 1 made t old day and when least a dozen games were lost around the initial sack by the Indians last ar. Ho doesn't want a repetition y Won Lost Tied Pts of such a performance. ate ‘ Having two good second basemen | : 3ff and no satisfactory first-sacker, Agen 4 t Speaker feels that he can sacrifice Won Lest Tied Pte. I one of these players to the @ 4 : benefit of his ball club. The fa if Stephenson is younger than Wambs. ¢|T inss, and a much more ds fhe ate en Was r man, ts no doubt being willing to swap : REAL SERIES FOR he triple-play 1 ite ND CLASS— Won Lost Tied Pts much stress ts being la the superior batting ability of # +f angering HES 4 : © At sand PHILLY er Wambsganss, the averages fail ree Sane an fie ‘ real “city champtonehiy bear out such a . ° next A “ ‘ BADGERS WIN Four wi OVER INDIANA ° JACK COOMBS SIGNED AGAIN aw the game. |OUR BOARDING HOUSE RTE Bia ZZ 7, ' GB tii, t Z I frou S GOT ME W RED ik, Sere: XH ON2- Ws WELL, 1 TO REMIND You | wait CLYDE, BUT You rar EP YOUR Aim ou , MRS. HooPLe<(] RAIN SPouT |; GET BACK IW TUNE WITH NN N NET PAY ~* eS t wee ARE THREE WEEKS 5 nts ea sol MH clahue europa iad | | OVERDUE cA Your Lela a Coed sega tessa eda RD AND ROOMS. iol ie eco leash 1 ; ( 5 rT Tuy 6 | THINK You WILL DVANCE FoR MY PIL OM. YF THESE NiGitTs, | pal! \ ES, AN’ You A AA GAID MY CREDIT WAS Feed FROM (~~ | STROW ” RICA! =) BAS f | l } if | y AY WASHINGTON’S BASKETBA penne ne ree ei : Ridley beat Nunes on AR eee in, pesltien to score | oul in 11 rounds in Idaho! yey HAV Edmontonto jlast summer and dropped two|SPEED AGAI n i» the faster of the ¢wo/Sreat running team this "LT didn't | Kopp anc he is until I saw the other day in tho Wednesday night, and then to Vic-)] down in the world series games. Nunes and Morgan taper down | toria for Friday's game with the || Tilden, In tennis; Dempsey and tr Srataingiat Austin: @. Balla Couiere. Leonard, in the ring, were a few n today for their bout in which The visiting aggregation wif be|| of the Individuals to atay above || Morgan's Coast title will be the The usual six-round semt-windup preliminaries Bam Lang: NAVY STARS : land a A NNAPOLIB Md, Jan. 7.—The It’s dollars to doughnuts such a " Naval academy football team trade will feature 1924. While there Me r 1 here from Pasadena, ( BY AHERN] =f Base § peed : Made Sacs | Be Dangerous With Hit- ting and Pitching AREAT speed on the bases and a | tient defense put Sacramento in | second place in the Coast league race last y Tho Solons stole 296 bases, more than 100 more than the champion San Francisco 8, Not only did |they steal a lot of bases, but they Jran out thelr hits well, particularly |Ed Hemmingway, who was one of jthe myost effective runners in the | Joague. Merlin Kopp, with his 80 stolen sacks, was far and away the beat jbase thief In the P. C, clroult, His Pick will another anon with Hommingwe Rohwer Colonel have Mollwitz Contenders Great Running Team Will | | Brown on tho club, Hi |now outfielder, Art Smith, will be] |much faster than Buddy Ryan and will give the Solons even more speed HE Edmonton Eskimos, last|] and Criqui have dropped t eDh O TA ®: Etpak: pale of: £ mith, who played with Rochester year’s champions of the West-|| laurels, Sweetser, Sarazen, Glen ni net Ly 8 the Move and 5 yeara ago, Is sald to UO a pretty ern Canada Hockey league, will Collett and others did the 1 eink ua pitakhack falr cour hitter and fielder, and “hips me in golf, tho Sarazen did auc satire sae agrinad einer | ° the dish up the opposition for the Seat: | tiadiapmcwitne Re waht (Ne may have the punch t , tle Mots in the hockey game at the || Sed in clinging to one of hin |). Overy nenreaatve. but he {80l0ns were no sadly lacking last Arena here Wednesday night, }} crowns. In football Princeton, DVerK ‘ng pt pt taal . year they finished third in The prairie team Is in Vancou-|} Twa : pri pipet mr Mh en teicin Fiche tacptents enact, vot | ea bite! a ; HM pla einia all did a dipsy-dew, Giants os is plenty smart, bu i Se aril Yer now, and wil play the Marcons || cud Yankees repeated on the dia. || Het easier to hit than Morgan, at| Art } , the big | tho only real punch, howev whole er, 0 Sacramento club, SECOND B. MAY BE RE Pick aid new second base n't overly satif innis id h for first ¢ third permane for angling a nation, was | Mec is a han: rouR HOLDOVERS Bill Proust RED SOX SIGN _COLLE GE ST 4 8 AR Aquin t DUNN CAN’T SEE, SYRACUSE EW BOOKINGS _ | FOR EASTERN WALSH’S WIFE _ PASSES AWAY r Au ‘a m DON'T NEED HIM A t ral } e wit HIS ERROR arrested D if y I T 1 more " , Bentley Lacks _Good Fast Ball 1 H to star in the international contests at Chamouniz, France,|man to w the latter part of January. VALENTINE BIALAS America pins much of its hopes to the steel-shod strides of Valentine Bialas in the coming Olympic tests. Bialas is the speed king of the Lake Placid regions and is expected | running BALL PLAY ORIBBLE All mo. Cc Point Makers in Basketball LOL variation. -HeHHtrereeternttehe PLAY @nd variation PLAVER. recewing tall-----=- PLAYER. changing position. «+ CODE -_— PLAY Signal No. 1, Variation 13 elections when playing for ARDS CAN’T LOCATE VAN LA MINNESOTA IS HOOP W INNER MINNEAPOLIS, Jar The t f Minr m1 r c on, ] tarred | ot McI veteran outfielder, | ho mana man to a pennant} he Tex tion last sum. | ill lead Waco in the samo| u xt 1. Melvor was| ns| MeIVOR LEADS "|. WACO TOSSERS| lwell play: | en Sherman NAMES __| ITS UMPIRES I of the Westerr n, has picked hi Ed ¢ Vv. H. 2 Fran J Hawthorne, Geo Tom McQ n, Ira Dy CARDS SIGNUP __ | YOU I NG CATCHER I ‘Cc y Rigler LL COMBINATION WORKING FINE Edmundson‘ Has Right Five Now Frayne Will Be Hard Man to Stop This Year; An- derson Delivers HEN “Hec'’ Edmundson lost three of his regulars from hin great Washington basketball five of taut seanonethe skeptical boys and girls thought that he would ha bloomer this year. Edmundson lost Lewis, a good forward, and Craw ford and Bryan, veteran guards, the best defense combination the Purple and Gold has ever had | But Edmundson has a working |five now that is going even smooth er at thin stage of its training than the 192 Dick Frayne st quintet did. id be one of the ul | big stars of Western basketball this |year, With a neqson of varsity ey rience the big fellow should I; ard to stop, He has an uncanny jeye for the basket and {s a pip when it comes to taking the ball at the tipoff. Frayne is big, fast and |tirelees and can cover the floor well He knows instinctively when to pass and when to cut in for the basket himself and has been highly effec HESKETH IS ALSO EXPERIENCED In Bruce Hesketh bh mate and a has » experienced is Hesketh shot and Js covering the __S better than | Edmundson has been very fortu- jnate in finding a center of George | Anderson's Anderson _ ix | green and must prove his metal in fine varsity competition. He's big and Ts oug t jtall and a good shot under the |basket and has the fight. Anderson © |seems to fit in with Edmundson sity offens' I an effort to strengthen the Na arted because 40 staff of umpires, and Gardner Ed- two husky guards, y way, who g experience. t to show themselves J rivets The Washing- been so strong r it has met t the ha/ GUNDLACH 18 GOOD SCOR! h a good scorer and 4 probably we lly t er shot than Crawford i to go the Limit tn will offset the ioss Gf an eff: to get him to return to the |Crawford's speed. | In Dick Welts Washington has a ler makes his home in Cleve-|very ¢ extra forward. in prospe and it 1s possible} The Purple and Gold offensive 1 in business | moves down the floor much smooth- don the suit of jer than it did at this time last year jand its tactics seem surer. Rahat Mee SPST ERE | The opening of the season ts set anuary 16 with Whitman fur EDISON WINS ning the opposition. On paper CAGE CONTEST |‘, %2 220% f00d and it is just bout set for the opening gong SEDRO WOOLLEY 7.—The RECOM TG 2 =e high schoo! all team, i & Wait and c E| We TERAN MAY \ good account ot iteit) GET NEW TRIAL ng the locals, 8. This! pitcher Jack Kotzelnick, southpaw a ho had a good season with p & aplen the Three-I league, is : » Which | coming up again, so reports have ‘ pase am before |e story is that the Chicago Wh! reir shits Sox w im a trial next spring Brui ME ruises 7 h squad at Edison, which| that delicate © kame from all ac-| fibeeg have Edison won from| gioco 0:Woolley, Mt. Vernon won by siti! Julius Re The throb- bing ache of a bad bruise k Edison plays the fast! is a warning margin from La Con Sloan's Liniment sends straight to lington overwhe eam, which is still] them the increased blood supply as the “dark| they need to repair them, reliev- Skagit Coun league ing the pain, clearing up the con- gestion. Get a bottle from your druggist today—35 cents. 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