The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 8, 1924, Page 12

‘About Fights and Fighters | BY LEO H. LASSEN EDITOR'S NOTE: Tho recent Feferences mado In this column to fake wrestling in Seattle in years gone by proved such an Ine teresting experiment along that line that Frank Vance, dean of Seattle wrestling men, was asked to tell Seattle fans more about it. WRESTLING match that is on the square very seldom pleases the customers because it lacks the sensa- tional thrills of the faked en- gagements, and a square wres- tler hasn't a chance to make any big money. This from Frank Vance, dean of Seattle's mat fra- ternity. ‘ : The mat game is very quiet in Seattle and has been ever since the Roller-Gotch fiasco 15 years or so ago, but with}; the university grapplers in action soon and with the lead- ing heavyweight wrestlers of the country constantiy in} print, what a man like Vance has to say of the game makes interesting reading. “It’s a shame that the wrestling| game, in its professional state, ia 50 srooked,"" says Vance, “but It's the| nature of the game. To the student | of wrestling it 1s very easy to de-| tect fake matches because the men Jeave themselves open much more} than they do in a serious match. To the uneducated the fakes are the only thrills. “There aren't the wild floundering falls and their attendant trimmings in the amateur game. Square wres- tling isn’t very. spectacular.” Wrestling Is Great Exercise It’s too bad that wrestling is In such il-repute thruout the country, declares Vance, because he claims it is one of the finest forms of exercise Pettinger | May Join | Utah Club Eastern Leaguer Said to Be Good Man; Lakers y Weak at Second | YOUNG fellow named Pettinger, who has been shortstopping in the Eastern league a season or #0, | is expected to join the Salt Lake Bees, via the Philadelphia Athletics. The Bees were woefully weak at} shortstop all season in 1923 and) they had a dozen or more youngsters rying out at that important posl- tion during the campaign, Walter Pearce, who started the| schedule with the Utahans, had to! * up the game in midweason use of a lame wing. He couldn't hit and it’s doubtful if he will be brought back again, Pettinger is said to be a fair hitter, but a whale of a fielder, | He will hit good enough in that Utah cheesedox, as Ezra Meeker would hit over .300 over there. | If Pettinger fails to join the Bees | the Salt Lake team may depend upon Lazarri, the — hardhitting/ youngster who finished the season, | He was the best youngster at the! position that the Bees tried last) summer, } Big Crowd Sees Vans | Win Game B. CG, Jan 8—| ST FEATHERWENGHT CaPAON Aa abe te 7. wre Aaa CE cmt THE SBATTLE STAR Point Makers in Basketball] and Wrestling at U.of W. BY JACK HOHENBERG ORB than 200 men last night annwered tho call ianued by Coaches Jimmy Arbuthnot and “Doc” Kelton for wrestling and boxing, respectively, at the Univer- sity of Washington, The big turn- outs swamped the inadequate train: ing quarters for both teams and| nearly crowded Coach He ad | mundson's varaity basketball squad |off the gym floor, It ta the larg- jent bunch of men that have turned out for the two man-to-man sports for « long while. | Jimmy Arbuthnot had his wrest-| lers sweating thru their paces fol-| lowing thelr long vacation over the |helidays, Exercises and Japanenc wrestling were packed Into a two |liour workout by the smiling men- jtor, Captain Paul Davis, Griffin, |Paup, Clithero and Berry headed} | large crowd of aspirants thru| | thelr* paces, | | Of the new men who turned out | last night, several were immediate- | varsity equad. Ray Mice, the big |freshman heavyweight ur ssc your, | | wilt probably give Captain Davia a run for his ponition during the wea- | son Ted Lange, also on the freah- man team last year, is another! give the patrons a treat when he| {¢ are a |tough boy. Lange in in tho 158 Zo Into. mation. Bahteuder feen|% very decided ruffle .about .the|fellows, in the sixround sem! — —_—_— |pound class. Mike England, wholthat he can make elther 125 or 185| ™dsection, It 4 obvious that he) windup ‘ aie a CODE | wrestled with the 1926 freshman] pounds this year, depending on which|"¢# done little aertoua training) Finn i no stranger, while Con-) BALL noel team, two years ago, is back for) class needa men the most | since returning to hia native land. Hey & new one, coming from| 4) ora 4) PLAY 1et variation seeHerenenteet [| varnity competition also. Vasnir,! Freshmen boxing prospects are| Férpo will start Ma come-back Spokane aa lon the freshman squad last year, 18] many, They will get Into action soon.| Campaign dy meeting Farmer) Roy Small, the hard-hitting Camp an excellent prospect for future] Freshmen wrestlers, too, are bound| Ledge, one of those plick-me-up-| Lewis lightweight, meets Young oY ea Ss yorrs. to noo a little wartare before the|and-knock-me-down type of fight-|Sam Langford, the colored 135-| | Boxing was the big surprise of| season in many weeks old \ers, before the home folka next| pounder, in the four-round special eae Seen = ———<————_—wwmmmens| homth. After that he will sail for) event ward A, who passes while In the air} | workout known. VV ANOU AR, “Wrestling takes speed, science Eight thousand fans wre pack- end it brings every muscle into play.) ed in the local arena last night to ‘There ts the body contact that you) see the Vancouver Maroons score a don’t get from boxing and your arms,/4 to 1 victory over the Edm on trunk and legs are equally developed. | Eskimos, “Wrestling makes a more serio’ demand upon the strength of the con-/| testants than boxing does.” | Reed Best of Recent Years, Says Vance i played a great! Mickey Mackay game for the locals, scoring three goals and assisting Skinner in making the other. Joe Simpson starred for the los ers. to right guard B, while in the ‘air to the left for ward C. who alto passes FROSH CAGE SQUAD HAS MUCH CLASS TUBBY VES has ; » COACH Brandow made ‘on’s lone C lane Reed, °. 4. ©. lightweight sre ead: een tanta before tis ed some 80 me | @ was hotly contested | Sum © practice starte year, ig the best wrestler in these| i) 2nee eng the great crowd was|month ago, Right now, his Tablets Teac ty ee bears for 2eaTe | rewarded with many thrills and ma a sizable outgit men to i, is spectacular plays. ¥ . Vv “a in do very’ | iy - rds, D! Gross ? si Edmonton Vancouver | Chuck And ik we \ the strength, the brains and the skill. | winkier . Lan a big fellow with a real I don’t think that there is a wrestler | Simpson a a j hands, joks ike an especially in the world at his welght who can| {wi ” <> pancan | prospect for the post at the beat him. ‘Arbor... mutaner |tima, At center, Russ McKe “Reed has learned a lot of tricks| Sparrow . « Mackayjand Cl from ‘Ted.Thye, the Portland pro- | {render Maite for supremacy, with nett fessional middleweight, picking up|civett ... ipeetrena more call to the p the double wrist lock and that treach- oe perio r- imenton, presdees oe ing erots leg hold which he used on Joo| 1866: 3. inner from) Jack Torney and Jim Crumb last winter. Lene nego aver, | 100k Ii “But those tricks are barred from amateur competition, and if the ref-| eres of those matches had known his | business Reed would have been dis-| qualified. | “In the amateur wrestling code no| holds can be used that endanger a limb and Reed tore a ligament loose} from one of Crumb’s legs.” | Athletic Club Would Revive Game Here If the Seattle Athletic club goes} thru as plerned the amateur mat game, a really fine sport, will be re vived here. Competition with Multnomah, the Olympic club of San Francisco and couver, Mackay, Mackay, T:54; 5, V COLLEGE PUGS TO START SOON Intramural boxing at the univer: | sity is scheduled to start January 21, according to an announcement made yesterday by Coach Wa Kelton. The boxers must all be training during the period from Janu ary 7 to 21 or they will not be eligi Ble to participate in the tourn Kelton looks for a big registration in the gnnual affair. r n STAR ATHLETE the Spokane Atbletic club cou to| FASSES IN EAST built up and some vepuld be in line. Vance says there is plenty of ma- terial hereabouts and that It wouldn't take any time for the Seattle organi- zation to build up a good team. fine matches} “Wrestling 1s a matter of condition | When John C, Me }ly in St. Louis at the age of jyears, a ploneer of soccer, football jand one of the greatest all.around gymnasts the country has kno passed awny led recent JUST A PUN and knowledge of leverage. All the strong men aren't good wrestlers be- cause they either lack the brains or the speed. "It's a great game for the clean young fellows who go in for it for the sport that’s in it and I hope the club goes over so Seattle can really foster some of these sports so long neglected.” Vance, a former heavyweight wres. tler himself, is now physical director for the College club here. He has quite @ rep as a coach, and the big fellow ought to know his oats where the arm-locks and scissors are con cerned, RAY WILL RUN IN MANHATTAN Joie Ray, famous Illinois 4) runner, will make his first # the season in the special 1,500-mete run at the Silk A. A. games in New York January 16. BOXING TONIGHT CRYSTAL POOL Second and Lenora A AUSTIN & 8 +Pacifie Const Featherweight Championship TOD MORGAN of Seattle, Champlo 6h Danny Nunes | MNolder ot Portinnéd Boxing i { | | | | | Commision Champlon- ship elt Other All-Star 4 Bouts 4 First Nout Starts 6:30 p. m Ticketa on sale at Joe Diz and Yesler Occidental Green's Cigor, Btore, 14 Third A Keiter & Bern n, Hotel Bavoy Didg.; Jim and Seneca; Fifth Ave.; , 1680 Ninth ard corner Olive Hingalde $2.20. Nenerved $1.65, General Admission $1.10. Ave We expect to hear any minu that the report that one of | brothers got a sh: | | OUR BOARDIN is a bare-face Ile © good guards and are in the S fc still in Barnett ris ar the ce: and H The freshme: league, as ¥ teams ag Bellin Ellensburg Noi BURMAN NEARS END OF CAREER end of his were conspicuous by ng heir absence. IT AFFECTS HIM, TOO On, New Year's day Connie made the prediction the letica would finish In se FOR MAJORS ASTIC changes are to be made schedules |D" or league ng to those on the the day, The ring game is a minor sport at the university and not much interest wan evinced at the start of festivities in tha fall, But Dr, Wal ter Kelton issued his after-vacation call and & hundred stout and hearty knights of the resounding sock were in the captain's cabin waiting for orders, The sandbag recetved plenty of punishment during the hour work ont, The chest weights also suffered from heavy strain, Different ambl- tious prospects put on the gloves and went « few rounds, much to the joy of bystandern. Of the new men turning out, Leo ("Caney") Reed, 145 pounds, looks like & sure fire comer, Reed is a fast and shifty boxer with a kick in each | mitt. ,He mado a few of the boys step to keep up with him during the Mead and Ralph Beymer Gre comers in the same clans, Gene Urbanek, champion division, is looked to bring the box: ing season. Gil Swart, good looking boys who seemed to stand the gaff well for the first night. Ludwig ("Dutch") Schreuder is box: | "°* Ing in shifty style and in bound to| Yale Course Is in Making will woon by 18-hole of ean iraged on will atart abe be enc the marr , . but wil Yale men have t lea, 10 days sooner than the 1923 schedule. Last year’s schedule was a night mar t was fil with lw lid not get under way } <r 10, It is hoped the 1924 will have been completed by BIG TOURNEY IN CALIFORNIA open go! Janu: ected to Los An of the Some INDOOR NET STARS PLAY t Re hard Francia and They hall aril G HOUSE BY AHERN) WMM~ LOOK &T OL’ BUS PUTTING on TINSEL—HES ALL WouND UP FOR A DANCE “ToniGHT! WA~ITLL BE A STAMPEDE WHEN HE PUTS THOSE CARPET S¥WIEEPERS OF WIS“TO MUSIC = SOUND SUST LIKE PUSHING A SOFA AROUND, MINUS A WHERE'S THiS SLID ‘ GONGTo BE PUT On Fk BUS,~—- SOME FREIGHT PLATFORM @ = Don't FAIL TO STICK YoUR HAND our WHEN “TAKING “TH TA PARTE WHE BE BALANCE RS vir LBASE —Y Za AW ShuDUP!- “GH \ JGUYS AIN'T SAYING ALL You'RE SENING THING ~ IS U S WEFTY BOYS ON OUR FE (you FOLDING LADDERS! Dos ood che % 2 ) derstood tat in ert to TIGERS NEED INFIELD HELP nager Ty Cobb of Det Toit stil CHAMPIONSHIP of his) }ers plenty of Jaurela during the com-} Drysdale, | jly eingled out as comers for the) Jack Nuckols and Lloyd: are also} ——J | attesting to the increasing plump-|'n Firpo’s Plump; [ To Fight Lodge LUIS FIRPO Photographto evidence ta at hand of Benor Lula Firpo, the well known bow fighter of Bouth Amer- STAKED TONIGHT — | Tod Morgan and Danny ? Nunes in Six-Round Go _ ‘ Best of Coast’s 128-Pounders Meeting in Classy Headliner at Crystal Pool, Which Figures to Be Best Fight of Season; Regular Prelims Carded F tonight's headliner at the Crystal Pool turns out to I be a fizzle then there's no use trying to pick ’em. From all pre-fight angles the Tod Morgan-Danny Nunes six-round scrap for the Coast featherweight title should be the best of the year. Both can box and both can fight and they have swell records to back them up. Morgan has fought in Seattle four times and hasn't disappointed once, while Nunes is mak- ing his debut here. But the) —_ S: mento boy has appeared * A rape in the Northwest and) Regarding Big Golfing Dates > a has always been a good at- the dates will be July 10 and 11. gan in the fastest thing In the fight || on. peitish open will be held at traction. |] The national open golf cham- It will be Morgan's superior || pionship will be decided over the 4 speod matched against Nunes’ ex-|| Oakland Hills course in Detroit Y perience and hitting power. Mor. next year, and it ix probable that Yy VW ing line that hag bit the North || soylake June 25 and 26, Sev- west in years, Nunes is smart,|] eral American top-notchers, in- fl Ihits well with his right hand and|| cluding Gene farazen, Jim knows what it's all about. Barnes and Walter Hagen, are Trying to pick a winner is im woing abroad for the event. |ponaible, as it looks 60-60 before|| Naturally they wish to be back they go into the ring. |] in time to participate in the | Poth boys are expected to weigh|| American open. That's why the around 128 pounds July dates seem probable, At The good senor has developed) America to sign for a return bout] with Jack Dempeey. Two Cage Tilts Are on Slateé| sore trounie | , n replete with thrills, no ZIVERY team in the City Baxket-| rep | T yerformance stands ow 4 ball league will have played a FOR RED S ; theta the Gee game after Aa $00 ASOD LBRO rmed with his educated The last four led t fives the p are schedu between the first it was suggested that the tournament dates be set for June 26 and 27. The regular run of preliminaries is on tap tonight, with Rube Finn 4 Billy Conley, a pair of b Danny Carlson and Babe Folmer, Toe Stars in the second four-round oa Field Phelps Kicks 22 : er, of Beattie, and] Field Goals for Prep Brem | School Grid Team d bert greatest football kicker of the a terwelgt The op 6:30. Dan in charge of the fe ning # Balt a are dvitles, t title belongs to Field Phelps, Iback of the Col 9.) high school footba the past season Phelps id goals via the drop- hen one considers that nine goals from the field was the best 4 roe performance by any college kicker. hic i ‘ ance that Cuba (it 18 ponsible to get some idea of asd on the United | What @ remarkable year Phelps had |fron: a kicking standpoint. of Yule scored six drop 4 to gettle be | kicks and was the subfect for much aise. Phelps scored almost four REMARKABLI tr Bell have } year broke om. bs nde He must Pi ‘0! productio: Ll get Sila secoad aaiiue Maid eo {nls for tonight’s| Pig iron producti imes as many goals from the field at ‘ eee Pratl hg iternate an referee all re ds. This is considered re-},, the Yale star. Fortunate enough n having Third }markabie in view of the However, Phelps does not confine vities to the kicking end of the game. As they y in football |lingo, he is a triple-threat man, He scored 204 of the 631 points made by Baseman Bobby # be able to play ‘The vy not one family in ten rai a at more. viens san ne ioneer DEAL OFF FOR : test mance | WALLY HOOD att in his ac ting a second sacker ls * a se Ge i ccas lun iG his team. re — | ‘The Philadeipt tionals and the Rixey Is Best wri Golotado ( Gartuge steven te Lon Angeles Coasters have called off claimant of the national scholastic “ee f South = & proposed deal by which o tu paws title. In a recent clash wi St. Wally Hood would have gone from Eddio Roush of the Cincinnati | | James school of Haverhill, Mass., the McGRAW SEEKS the Angels to the Phillies. The Coast|| Reds picks E; rs won a one-sided victory. Ips weighs 1 Ie 4, wanted at|| best southpaw pounds and gets QUAKER STARS '° y tenia in ox ue, Rixey ts a every ounce back of his kicks. Hig John McGraw in pal former National league umpire, || best feat of the year was a goal thi e) for two of who developed him when he was || traveled 59 yards, Many of his kicks players on t coaching the University of Vir- || were from beyond the 30-yard line, a. Pitcher ginia candidates In baseball, Rixey — ——-~ e at the time being the star of the PAUL CASTNER WILL COACH Paul Castner, Notre Dame athlete, who failed as a ball player in the big show and has been booked for the by the Ch igo White Sox, says he'll quit the game, He Cincinnati Grid Claims fee Lives of Two Centers) ' inti sic Pte sabuen anit the coming sprin nia, on ATI, Jan, 7:—Injured on} | wb saad Thanksgiving day, Jimmy Nip-| pert, club. turned him rrived McGraw w JONES REACHES COA ST FOR GOES the lig ked 0 han EB wel ‘FRED HANEY __ INHOSPITAL | Fred Haney, infielder of the De- | troit Tigers, who is wintering in Los jAngeles, has been suffering from tonsilitis and recently in a hospital in Los Angeles he had the offending matehes floored bbe He yakland poor Greb and ofa K said to bh °. He's | 28, University of Cincinnati} by a Canadian bia center, died recently of blood polacn- | was the first football fatal 1 Nippert was one of the 11 Cincl CHECKER MEET _|, Xe, wes,o1e of the 11 cin IS SCHEDULED ©" gatnat Miami in the history of the se — org ub: n being made, | removed. er champiunahip of the third period some | TT RE Dominion of Canada bo staged 1 on Nippert's left leg | MISSOURI BEATE n Tor ith play start cleat, Nippert didn’t re | LINCOL Neb, Jan. 7.—The 4. A valuable trophy ait thing more Nebraska basketball team won over regating nef c the Missouri's cage five here Saturday t, 24 to 18, \ Kiel " en every ul selence, ped and took ure known to but blood poisoning | his life 1 grandson of James YALE CLUB TO HAVE BANQUE e, wealthy ( " rk turer He had n | law } | | THIS SOLVE i eee pet | | a 4 th id doesn't Sasha vi rat “icp aye eee es i. Psierlpaee ata the head which caused See JOK McCORMACK, game and died the | here in October, Ho received! next day at noon, me a the American Olympic Star, in action EDMONTON ESKIMOS vs. 1 examined game Billy Evans’ Stove League Talk | Is the baseball of today faster than great teams over that span of years.) well as the hitand.run. ‘The ele the standard of play 20 or 30) Pitching dominated the play and|ment of take a chanee, in an effort e back? ‘That | tlon games were jow-score aftairs,|to get out i F " be O get out In front, called for brain’ often 1 me wie bs eannc be battles between the twirlers, Nearly | baseball. In those days base run-| Arena Office ely 0 back 80 yours and|every club nad four” firstatring [ning was one of the big features 1210 Fifth Ave last season ny 18th year ag an | of , A sta cher feel rie a : " Tatas ieante Winkie 2) at Sr eavieins th Ach eure i | ‘ax Included American League umpir 12 ¢ would | Trying to steal a base in the | I ie is w Yoterye os | modern game is almost fool- | Ey CE SKATING To be truthful in my dedue |, hardy, ethics & ban iueane inte avery afternoon and evening tions Tam forced to declare it | Play for a run was the sys or nothing. Nowndays a team Gorey vend. And Bi a draw. My answer would be | tom that most clubs ado doesn’t feel safe with « fourran akin tb | since the deciding margin in a) | margin, vias 6 | great many games was a single ewe [8 seat, many remects the game | marker Base RUTH, the iivety patt, ana has improved, » in others it th ho sys of ettl 8 has retrograd erably in my |] has a (to inte that laliedes Rae chaneen ome tee LOANED ON opinion, ‘The standard of baset playing brought out | play ¢ ti 1 "eft A it atrikes mo that the beat dall,| system al tke t ag American Jewelry Co. I en in the majors covered |in v h r afe h | 2 a 7 a YP od extending fre mm aset to say tr sae th ; oe | oh SOND AYE. period | got a°run | they were real I would hardi Established 188 1915, The majors boasted some!calls for it was. better d 9 ncrifice as |s