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About Fights 0. A. C. QUINTET WILL GIVE HUSKIES’ CAGERS R and Fighters IZE isn't the ring. It takes something more than mere bulk to get by in| the squared circle. Jack Horner, the Giant, is thru. : A moose of a man, weigh- ing around 2 pound Standing nearly six feet s inches and so proportioned} that he had to have his ring togs made to order, has de- cided to quit the game of swat. He had just two fights. He Knocked out the Hepner Giant tn atx Founds because the latter was too tired to continue And he was knocked out himaelf | by Moose Norbeck after taking four knockdowns. That cured Horner of fistic amb tions. Anybody punching bag, one extra Jarge sparring 8} sym quits, extra large, two pairs of box ing shoes, made to order in the East, fin one pair of punching bag extra large, might apply to Horner, general delivery, Portia Ore. everything in Oregon buy of two to pair wishing one | Horner Not Only Big Fellow to Fail Jack Horner isn’t the only beefy fellow to be trotted out only to prove @ bust. Jack Munn, a famous foot hall star in the Mid-West weighed ‘@round 300 pounds and was knocked | stiff a couple of times by medicore heavyweights weighing around 190. ‘And right here we have had Tiny |! Bott, a giant, who didn't know what | » it was al! about, particularly after) taking one on the chin. Yep, it takes something more than qMere poundige to get by in this fighting business. ‘They Won't Let Willie Meehan Retire No less than six times in the last six months has Willie Meehan an- Miowriced his retirement from the} But they simply won't let him ‘glone—meaning the promoters. Aftho Meehan can't punch his Way out of a paper bag and couldn't Heat a rug, he is in line for a bout With Jack Renault in Omaha soon. Every time Meehan's name comes up it is a reminder of the fight be had with Floyd Johnson @t the Pavilion here two or three yeors ago, Ad Schacht gave the de “ ¢ision to Johnson and Meehan start- ‘ed one of his bass drum punches at Adolph. The latter showed more “speed than Charley Paddock ever of and in two jumps he was ier the ropes and out of the ring. "A couple of John Laws took Mee- ‘han in tow, trotted him down to th x station where Meehan was giv- ‘24 hours in which to leave Seattle. tears streaming down his face, mn promixed to depart immedi- for that dear San Francisco, did and he hasn't been back | |main event, | Austin have completed GAME HUNTING GREAT _. -FOR CONNDITIONING BODY BY MORRIS ACKERMAN TTUNTING, big game especially, is the greatest physical condl- in the world—and to the THE SE tATTLE STAR Beavers W ill Play Here Fears Trick Pitching on Friday; Gill Is Star — Veteran Team to Face Washington; Montanans Give Huskies Thrill in Closing Game of Their Series Saturday Night, Locals Winning 33 to 31 ITH four straight victor in the record book, the Washington basketball five is preparing for the big game with the crack O, A, C, team at the local gymrasium Friday. Washington will be at full strength for the Beavers. In | the four games with Whitman and Montana, both Gundlach and Hesketh have been out most of the time and their loss has been felt. The Oregor Aggie team is a powerful aggregation. “S)ats” Gill, one of the best forwards the Northwest has ES & —|had in years, is playing his {third and last season and is Diamond Dust the big star of the team. Waldo Stoddard, another letter |man, Loris Baker and Join Kolkana, The New York Yanks now have both new men, are the other for outti their roster, They ai Ruth Combs, Hearick and | Wards, Haines Mose Lyman {s playing center and is a mooge of a fellow, While he's of rbe|not in Mush Hjelte's class, he te tor the |Dlenty good Harold Ridings and Carica Ste | veteran guards, take care of the do Fred Mitchell, former manager ef the | fone Boston Braves, bas George Brown fs the sub center [ioe Ores Bene ee and John Eilertson is the extra] | may Jotatmed by the Bo | Brooklyn by th * TILLMAN PLAYS Stroud Is Trying to Get Bac Former Salt Lake Pitcher | Would Return to Or- ganized Baseball Again | ALPH STROUD, once the leading I pitcher of the Coast league, is! trying to get back into organized) baseball | The star righthander of the Balt Lake Been of a few years ago, has! tired of the once-a-week Giamond life in the San Joaquin valley league and o would rejoin the Bees if Commis. | ioner Landis would rel ate him. President Bill Lane of the Salt) Lake club ts willing to take Stroud back into the fold tf Landis passes on him, The Bees are very short of pitch ers and altho Stroud hi ‘t been tn the league for several years he ts MONDAY, J ANUARY 21, 1924. ee EAL TEST Practice Da Spring football practice a ington will begin April 1 a weeks. First baseball practice will March 1, These announcements havi Graves of the Washington co Track Coach Edmundson, ) tes Named k|for “W” Spring Sports t the University of Wash- nd will run for about six begin for the “W” tossers e been made by aching staff, now busy with the basket- “Tubby” ball team, 1s expected to issue his first outdoor track call within a few weeks. Crew training has already low. Ex-Mat King Joins Phils ‘| | | | | | said to have retained all of his ef-| fectiveness and if he ts a» good ag he was a fow years back, he would be ® great help to the Bees VERNON GETS WICHITA STARS Four of Wichita's best ball play- | | ! started under Coach Cal- Shade to Northwest AVE SHADE, one of the leading welterweights tn the game, raid to be heading this way from New York. * Shade, who has fought in Se- o many times, is rated next to Mickey Walker, world's champion, in his division, Shade ts planning a trip to his is SPECTACULAR GAME | ‘Throwing baskets from all over the jfloor and making some sensational shots, Captain Ilman, the t Mon ers last season have been traded to the Vernon Tigers and of this quar) | | ; | tet, Bill Eensick figures to have some home in California and with chances to fight in Seattle, Tacoma and Port- land he will probably stop over in the Northwest, nN s who saw best prospects coming up to rT, gave the fi t circuit this year, |card for the Crystal Pool tomorrow Complete for Pool’ ITH Tod Morgan and Frankie! | Britt fighting for the Const fea- therweight title in the six-round| Dan Salt and Lonnie their ring | night. | Billy Morrow and Roy Small, light. | the final game with V LEE FOHL Saturday night, some real tt % Timan shot 10 field goals, most of | 4 * * * * * * Men Will Try Cheating * * but the last-minute rally of the Gris aiies almost gave Coach Edmundson the St, Vitus dance. Ho had taken | out Frayne and Anderson for Poters and Clarke and he had to shoot his regulars back into the game to hold the slim lead, Unti} the last few minutes of the/including the spit ball, Washi. 0. Pf ‘ . * ee ae een had things Is)" In order to make it a difficult matter for the pitchers to Diman game, but he has the bulld, speed, | tice to put a new ball into play on the slightest pretext. fight and strength and once he pol:} The almost constant use of a practically new ball kille ishes up his floor game b ih be iti ‘ j Httle sort of a wont "® “il P| off all possibilities for a pitcher to cheat. Incidentally it FROUDE 1S BOUT five years ago the major leagues started a war) on trick or freak pitching. Such deliveries were banned, | with the Brooklyn {men deserve a chance weights, are boxing a return go 8) DELIVERING the sixround semi-windup. | Chet Froude Pat ‘villlama and Dabe Folmer,| sme at is playing a nifty forward for Washington both purposes desired, the elimination of trickery in pitch- | ing and a decided increase in batting. > Naturally the pitchers as a whole complained. Those who} McDowell, first sacker, Griffen, ' second baseman, Blakesley, outfield. er, and Sellars, pitcher, are the new- comers, The three regulars all hit over .200 and Sellars ts said to be a& eftective hurler, PORTLAND HAS | DEAL PENDING Portland has another deal pending Dodgers, The | Beavers have already sold them Pit cher Yarrison and Shortstop Jones.| |The National league team is (licker. (1 green at the court; tamper with the ball major league umpires made it a prac-|ing for Second Baseman McCann and | Outfielder Cox. Both of these,young and they jmbould be good men for the Super- bas, made for increased hitting. The scheme therefore served | If Cox tn wold, {t means that Bill Kenworthy must rebuild his out- field as Lee King has already been sold to the Texas league. He still bas High and Greesett on | | | } JOB 8TETCHER Formerly the holder of the sorest- ling championship of the world, Joe Stecher, the Nebraska farmer bo: has invaded a new field, Btetcher has Just sgned with the Philadel- phia Nationals and will po to the southern training camp with that team in the apring, Btetcher is a first baseman and a hard hitter, Ballard and West Siders Will Tangle | s Ted Krache may be fight him in Tacoma while plenty of other opponents in sight for him if Seattle and Portland de- cide to use him. Bhade’s last big fight was with Billy Wells, the highly-touted Eng- shman whom Shade handed a bad beating. BALLARD IS WINNER_ IN HOCKEY GO The fast-stepping Ballard Cubs won its seventh consecutive contest by taking o roller hockey match from the University All Stars on the Crystal Pool floor by a 2 to count. the outstanding star of the melee. This week three more practice encounters are being marked in the Irvin Hoff of the Cubs wa, lghtweights, box the four-round spe For two seasons he missed his tet were tampering with the ball in order to increase their | nana celal event. ter by a few minutes, but this Jerry Clark and Jimmy O'Brien. |. promises to be in the games lightweights, and Sailor Eddie Nell |). 00, : o eh to earn his embiem. Hoe ts and Sewell Dean, welterweights, | fast and has an eye for the hoop tangle in the two preliminaries. | SKATER SHOWS | GREAT SPEED CALGARY TO THAT FRISCO | BOOZE CAGE For years the San Francisco club ver Dreax has ecld sents in its lower grand. he is pitching an old one. stand, known as the “booze cage,” Every reform has tta reaction,|for 76 cents, giving their customers that often as bad as the evil that | 15 cents in trade and paying visiting has been eliminated. The almost | clubs 40 per cent of 60 cents for those effectiveness, yelled to the heavens, Also the pitcher who was working legally entered a strenuous kick, for it is a well-known fact that a curve-ball pitcher can get a much SR better break on the ball when Ebright Is ALLARD and West Seattle, two! books by Gene Walby, president of of the leaders in the prep school the league. Tonight the Cubs will basketball race, will moet in an {m-|imeet the All Stars {n a return portant gamo Tuesday afternoon at/eame, while on Wednesday and Fri the West Side gym. The winner Of/ aay the Mercer Athletic club plays that game will stand a good chance|the Lenchi Tigers, and the Beacon of winning the high school cage title. 571 Juniors are matched with the Three other good games are on th®| Franklin Huskies. cards for Tuesday afternoon. Queen Anne, altho unexpectedly Selected as Bear Coac COAST TRIP Everett | McGowan, St. Paul skating star, | covered 100 yards in 41-5 seconds, st of the car, which se one thee aa pg ey HE Calgary hockey team ts com KELEY, Cal, Jan. 21--Car- pleting its last trip to the Pa roll Ebright, coxmwnin for the cific coast for the year at Vancouver | University of Washington crews of tonight, the Tigers taking on the | 1910 and 1917, named coach of the Maroons. University of California crew for the ‘The Seattle team is making Ita nec: | REXt two years, will introduce tho fa ond bow on the prairte tonight, bat-| mous Connibear aystem here and put tling the strong Regina club, | California into the water at Pough- While Seattio ts on the road this| Keepele this spring, he says. week, Vancouver and Victoria wilt] E>right's appointment was an- play here Wednesday night. nounced yesterday: t | eat very little until you reach your camp at night, A five or six weeks’ trip will put lany well man under 60 In a condl- | constartt use of news balls proved | seats. very costly, In addition it eo in- joreaned batting that it |premlum off tho .300 hitter. This has been changed as other clubs in the league have ob- took the | jected and tn the future the Frisco leclub will charge 75 cents and visit- During the final stage of the 1923! ing clubs will receive 40 per cent of race both major league staffs of um-|75 cents, |putting old balls out of play. The |result was an immediate Increase in jthe effectiveness of the pitchers and |* slump in the base-hit market. | Leo Fohl, resourceful leader of the {Boston Red Sox, fears that the drastic change in the policy of Pires exercised much more care in| With him-as as. |5andling the balle will make for ajon the road, In the old days, prior to prohibl- tion, liquor was sold there. UMPIRES GET EXPENSE MONEY One good thing that the Coast league did was to give its umpires $3 per day for thelr expenses while This doesn’t cover swamped by Broadway last Friday, meets the undefeated Roosevelt five on the Queen Anne floor. A het bat-| tle ehould develop there. Lincoln and Garfield tangle at Lincoln, while the deadly rivals, Franklin and’Broadway, will have it out in the Mount Baker gymnasium, ENGLISH BOXER WINS VERDICT NEW YORK, Jan. 21.—Ted Moore, the English middleweight, } | COACH DORAIS SIGNED AGAIN SPOKANE, Jan. 21.—Charles E. “Gus” Doras, the man who is re- sponsible for Gonzaga university's brilliant success on the gridiron in past years, has been signed for the coming year, it was announced, at a football banquet here Saturday night. AFTER MINOR STARS The securing of Pitcher Dean from “majority of us the most pleasant.|tion of physical fitness he never sistant coach, comes Russell Naylor, |Peturo of trick pitching. Says Fohl: everything, but it helps. For the/won the judges’ decision over Larry | Pick up a newspaper most @DY |i new before. The greatest devotees |coxswain for Washington in 1922. “I am in favor of keeping old | efficiency expected, the Coast league Estridge, the clever negro, in a 12 Louisville is only one of the deals the New York Glants nore ¢) maki minor league star pitche: TROJANS LOSE Ebright succeeds Ben Wallis, for |balls tn play that formerly would | umpires are far from being over- round bout here last night. It was mer Yale stroke, who was unable to jhay been thrown out If the scheme | paid. @ay and you read that Jack Demp-|o¢ pig game hunting, as a class, Estridge’s firet defeat in 54 con- fey is either on a big game hunt, |areq medical men. Why? My ex- Tas just returned from one oF {8/ perience has taught me that the| TO CALIFORNIA | BERKELEY, Cal, Jan, 21-~The| give his entire time to whipping the |!Mcreases the effectiveness of tho | Bears into rowing shape, Wallix| pitchers thru natural methods, | tests, BOEHLER 18 tgain on his way. You might Enz | ratio of physicians who hunt big | that of all persons who need game, against the entire field, 13) University of Californian took the | will associate with Ebright in an ad-j “However, 1 fear that many | SIDE-ARM PITCHER NATIONAL SETS “ of exercise Dempsey has the | spout one in six. Try this calculation some time and | ‘ California here Saturday, ee for yourself. Your doctor Je anlar. ‘southern Cuiifurnig use for it. “Dempsey's greatest asset is his second game of the two-kame series | viosry capacity. from the University of Southern | os ENTRIES WILL 28 to 22, | dive won| Pitchers who are inalined to Feaort | ‘They say that George Boehler will |to trick pitching will find the old | jin greatly to their iking. | “Fo prove a winner in this league. The veteran righthander who has OPENING DATES. | NEW YORK, Jan. 21—The Na- Tove of the outdoors. Climbing over | saucated man. He hag spent about | r five years the umpires have | joined the Oakland club is a side- New Mexico's parched rocks, the} 29 years in mental training. After the first gamo Friday. Alvin Kyte | CLOSE TONIGHT | workea overtime fo cut out trick |arm pitcher with a wicked ds.'very. ea " mMiaw-clad peaks of Callfornin an: plowing thru New Brunswick’ imps in search of moose, deer, and other big game stamps Jack Dempsey as a smart man. If you like that sort of sport kind of trips are not work, are play, and while you play " the grind is taking everything bad ‘out of you and replacing it with strength and the power of re- ‘sistance of a grizzly. I sat at the speaker's table the other day when Walter Camp was Biving a talk and demonstration of tijs famous “daily dozen." Along ‘with a number of other devotees of Various lines of sport I was thus honored. Camp turned to me and “said: “You need never worry about fisherman and hunter. His sport for the outdoors and all the “fidvantages it holds. He can eat anything and everything put before him. Unfortunately we can’t all be ‘fishermen and hunters—some of us ing. He is right about the advan- tages to be derived. He is more less wrong when he says, “we ean’t all be fishermen and hunters, ecause we all chun fish and hunt More or less. The more we do the better off we are. A. hunting trip in the Rocky | Mountains will take more out of a ‘man than any job on earth. By the same token it will put more in him. That kind of hunting ca’ls for climbing up, up, up from day- “Yight until the setting sun. Onc day will tell your physical con- dition. You'll cut your smoking down the first day, cut it out the _ second, eat a heavy breakfast the - first day, a light breakfast the fecond and in three days you'll — AGGIES WIN TORRID TILT |that he learns a lot more about/| tman, his physical weaknesses, ad-| | vantages of fresh alr, sunlight, change of food, change of scenery, | land, above all, the value of an ab- lrupt change of living conditions, |Are the examples set by Dempaey jand your doctor, and the words of | wisdom of Walter Camp, worth any. jthing to you? was the star for the winners in Saturday's game. SCHAEFER AND HOPPE START) CHICAGO, Jan. 21.—Wilile Hoppe, 18.2 balkline billiard champion, and Jako Schaefer, challenger, play the|{s to hold a golf tournament. CHICAGO, Jan, 21.—Entries for |Pitching. Now that the annual tournament of the Amer- jean Bowling congress here close to- night. More than 2,000 have, been |{*"8¢r by golng back to the old received and $80,000 in prizes haye |*7#te™- beast poets, There aro somo pitchers who |neek to win regardless of the moth. Tho National Butchers’ association (03% Used. When a certain few use a .|tickery, and get away with it, other pitch who have been work. first block of a 1,600-point champion. ' Watch your silce, fellows, HOUSE BY mp | {OUR BOARDING UP" rove, WARNER,“ SPEAKING OF FEATS OF STRENGTH, ~ HAW =~ WHY, wi MY YOUTH 1 WAS REFERRED To AS WERCULEG!« You MAY BELIEVE “THis OR NOT — BUT ONE “Time IN AN EXHIBITION OF BRAWN, WITH MY BARE HANDS, MIND You,~ I PULLED UP A SECTION OF RAILROAD “TRACK, TIES AND ALL, OUT OF A ROCK BALLAST ROAD BED! = FANCY THAT fy AHERN HA-HA AN’ “THERE'S A GUY Dow) “Town WHO CAN MOVE FIFTY AUTOS WITH WIS LEFT HAR - HAR ~- “THEY USED TO | CALL ME SAMSON J. ONE TIME WHEN COAL WAS SHORT, I Pusiep A STEAM ROLLER WHISTLES © WHY MY UNCLE LiFTep A \ — FROM IDAHO: COW, Idaho, Jan. 21.—The Oregon . Agricaltural college hasketball quinte. took a fierce game from the 1 niversity of Idaho five here SaturCay night, 2% to 22. | “The game war decided by a free) throw in an overtime period. In the last 12 minutes of play the lead switched from Idaho to the Aggies seven times. At the end of tho first half the score stood 14 to 13, with Idaho in te lead. Sie staRTOF A | DEBATE ON STRENGTH BETWEEN THE MAJOR sy ASD WARNER = To BE CONTINUED “enn Resa i | tn, jing honestly, decide they might as well cheat. And then there is trou- ble gniore.” OCKFNDEN AND HAVERS BEST YANKEE STARS AN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21.—With thrilling jong putts, Arthur British and French open champions, won a great match at the Merced Golf and Country club yesterday by defeating Gene Sarazen and John Biack, the two heroes of Skokie, by a single hole. Tho British starts had o hard, stern chase all day for, after Ueing three of the first five holes they never caught their opponents until the 30th hole of the match. Heavers more than Justified his world-wide reputation as probably | the longest driver on earth. On the 10th he was out in front with a 800-yard drive ana in the after noon he was at Jeast 20 yards fur. ther on his 460-yard hole with only ® halftron, Orr Sent to Shreveport TILLY ORR, veteran Seattle infielder, has been sold to the Shreveport club, of the Texas league, Orr has spent something lke 10 years in this company, and had slipped considerably the last season, He was with Sacramen- to and Salt Lake before coming to Seattle. Gene Kunz, former LAncoln high school player, who was un- der contract to the Indians, has been given his outright release, Kuna {s a second sacker, and, with Cliff Brady and Clyde Metirkle on the job It was fig. ured that he wouldn't have much chance of making the grade, | | {t has been | While he failed to make the grade |Practically eliminated by thelr zeal-| with Pittsburg, they say be can pitch jous efforta I fear they are courting | and should be a winner out this way. Boehler came {nto national fame |by winning 3§ games for Tulsa in | 1922, winning the pennant for that 'ST. LOUIS ASKS MUCH FOR RAJAH HW YORK, Jan. 21.—Exercising righta of citizens in a free country, the Boston Braves pt it lbe known they would like to have Rajah Hornsby. It develoyed today, however, that hope of getting the St. Louis star 4s and James Ockenden, the} lasted oniy until Branch Rickoy, the Cardinal manager, answered tho ‘How much do you want Rickey, it {is understood, said: “We'll take Joe Genewich, Cotton Tierney, Mickey O'Neil, Jocko Con- lon—and $100,000 In coin.”* Tho deal was then dropped, the Braves protesting, such a trade would leave them with Hornsby and a ball park in hock. Judge Emil Fuchs caused another Muttering of the public pulse when he announced that the Braves had offered $250,000 for Hornsby last summer. He figures, from the val- uation placed upon the players de- manded by the Cards for Hornsby that the St. Louis owners looked upon thelr second sacker as a $400,000 asset, * Tt was suggested here that the Braves {n asking Hornsby’s prico weie prompted by the American curlesity that prompts a shop girl to sit in @ Rolls Royce at the auto- Hag show and ask how much t ts, COLORED BOY HARVARD STAR Earl Brown, colored bo; 0 5 y, fo Har vard's best pitching bet for the baso- ball season this spring. H from New York, . ye 8,000,000 ARE PLAYING GOLF It is estimated that 2,000,000 people are playing golf in the United Stat Thero are 3,000 clubs & m arin 8 in operation in |tfonal league season, according to an announcement by President | | Hoydler, will open on April 15, with the following games: Brooklyn at |New York; Bostén at Philadelphia; Pittsburg at Cincinnati, and Chi- cago at St. Louis. ILLINOIS WILL SEND MEN WEST The University of Iilinois . track will come west to meet California in & dual meet again this spring. It will be the third trip west for Ur. bana squad, losing both times to Cali- fornia in thelr previous trips. Their last meeting, however, wasn't de- cided until the Bears won tho relay. | KIMMICK WILL JOIN TIGERS Walter Kimmick will join the Ver- non Tigers after all. The young infielder who was claim. ed by the waiver route from Cincin- nati by Philadelphia will come to the Tigers now that the Quakers have waived on him, This completes the deal for Jakie May. BEAR NET TEAM TO BE STRONG All of the University of California | tennis players are eligible for compe- tition this spring. The team will be! made up from the following: Captain Phil Bettens, Irving Weinstein, Ger- ald Stratford, Edward Chandler, Ger- vals Hillis and Alec Wilson. SCOTT IS TO PLAY IN EAST Wallace Scott, Northwest's rauk- ing tennis player, will play for the University of Washington this year. At tho completion of the varsity sea- son he plans to go East, where he | will enter the nations! tournaments. SCHMIDT HAS PILOT BERTH Charles Schmidt, former Boston Brave first sacker, and more recent. ly with Brooklyn as a coach, will manage tho Springfield, Mo,, club in tho Western Association this season, a WRESTLERS MEET CHICAGO, Jan. 21.—Car! Pojetto, European Nght heavyweight, meets George Walker, Canadian mat star, Nore tomorrow night. i Rid yourself of those twinges. Ap- ~ ply Sloan's gently without rubbing. It sends straight to the pain-ridden tissues the fresh new blood that they need to heal them. Relief is quick and lasting. Get a bottle from your druggist today and have it on hand—35 cents. Sloan’s Liniment—Aills pain! 0000000000000 There Is Pleasure in Companionship THE ZERO 214 Jefferson Street Just Back of L.C. Smith Bldg. 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