The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 19, 1924, Page 12

PAGI About Fights and Fighters ae LASSEN MON TORTORICH, the veteran New Orleans pro- moter, is the big noise of the boxing game in Dixieland. He has been in the game for many years, staging the Jim Corbett-John Sullivan fight there in the 90's and he has worked up a wonderful following in Louisiana. Abe Matin, Northwest fight manager, has just returned from the South, where Jimmy Saeco fought Basil Galiano for Tortorich, and N brings back word that he’s a real big leaguer and that he certainly knows how to treat the boys right Tortorich told ight he ever staged me of the says Matin, and it must have been a pip held the fight on a b Orleans, and it went 79 ro tight was finally stopped a and Orleans, the last t car for town did for a day or two, 1 to call it off.” Tortorich is a we: 4 draw New everybo : restaurant He ranks next to Sa promoter for t of money that the gate. He has a eted, with a verything is run otal amount deen take: on big-time basis “New Orleans town,” says Matin, be surprised to see Tortorich Dempsey fight. there real ff ‘and I would reb Can't “See” Firpo Harry Greb, champion, tells 3: c ers that Luis Firpo a bust as a fighter, and that he thinks can lick Firpo himself. ‘There's no excuse for a high s boxer ever being hit by that big clown,” says Greb; “all he has 4a swinging right hand, and trad- ng rights with him is little short € suicide, as he can hit. But any- yody who can box should kick his ead off.” Greb is scheduled box Jack teeves for Tommy Simpson, at Oak and, soon. Harper Does Nice Comeback Bob Harper lost a decision to Ted Krache in Tacoma recently, and they say that Robert looked terrible, But then he settled down to hard work and got in condition, and in his two fights with Young Dudley and Gene Cline Harper looked like | the high-class ring man that he ts. Harper would like a return match with Krache. Harper is undoubtedly the classi- est infighter that the Northwest has ever turned out, The introduction to to the 10-round game made a real | battler out of him, as the short fights usually are confined to head punching, There's nothing spectacular about | infighting, but Harper beats his men | badly and jolts their heads off with his clever inside stuff. He will give Pinkey Mitchell plen ty to worry about when they tangle in Portland, March 5. TEDDIES MEET KUAYS TODAY Roosevelt and Queen Anne were} playing in the featured game of the Seattle high school basketball race | this afternoon on the Roosevelt floor. Altho the Teddies were a slight fa- vorite to win, a hard game wns ex- pected. Ballard was playing West Seattl at Ballard, Broadway meeting Franklin at Broadway and Lincoln engaging Garfield at Garfield in the other games of the day. “DOUBLE eat Ronen vs. SEATTLE Greatest Skating Act in America Norval Baptie and Miss Lamb of Hippodrome, New York. Everett McGowan, champion of America. Gladys Robinson of Toronto, amateur lady speed champion of the world, Wednesday, February 20th 8:30 P, M. Sharp Admission, 75¢, $1.10, $1.50 (Tax Included) Skating act will take place between hockey periods. Make your reservation early. Phone MA in-2493 MONEY] DIAMONDS senmng = get | Co. speed ve terrible | ere msctcuo we 2:9 eh e SEATTLE STAR ERNIE NEVERS MAY BECOME COME COAST'S GREATEST ATHLETE | Stanford Ace Competes in Four Major Sport Giant Cardinal Star Is Luminary in Football, Basket- ball, Track and Baseball; He Is Up in His Studies in Spite of Athletic Activity; Is Sophomore Now BY L. T, DAVID UNIVERSITY, Feb, 19,—Ernest Nevers, son of the Golden State by adoption, st all-round athlete the Pacific ANFORD athlete, a s.to become the greate: 8 ever seen. Stanford from the Superior nta Rosa, Cal., he reshman year, in baseball, Stanford prom Coast h Entering y way nh et In his first year of (Wis.) high school, i track, football and bas- ketbali varsity football at Stanford he*made a reputation for himself which placed him as fullback on the third All-American team named by Walter Camp. When Glen Warner of Pittsburg comes West to take hold of Stanford's football Ratinien: Nevers will be the man around whom he will build a team, and in the remaining two years of varsity | football he is a likely con- tender for the first All- nerican. Diamond Dust over 200 por and he is forward berth on t at Stanford, bask xtremely fast Gets KONEY NEW Jon ro HOOPER s freshman nine, the mound « out on after the baskett Nev athletics, at too in ally requirements Fears th uid disqualified sch where have not much athletics w rewult his otas at high been orry to the coac worry that the © in regard to Nev disposition of ¢ & source TWO SPEEDY PREP FIVES ‘TO COMPETE Ho. ous sports him on the Kerr has squad ni Cow ¥ winning thelr last games, bas Ve pr quiam and Mt state establi danke basebal thelr to be two of ‘ to battle for the state championship during | the tourney to be held at the U ity of Washington firs | week in March With 14 teams to \tore the end. of two versity authorities are keeping ajin the lower d close check on all game results Spended co-eperation Ie revorie’| SEXTON WILL COME TO WEST President M \METS FORFEIT ss | ROLLER TITLE (tro the Pacino Coat leu nt | Refusing to play in the second n for himaelf just how affairs are game because their protest of their] being conducted. defeat in the opener had not been | invitation of Harry Williams, presi allowed, the Washington Mets for-! gen felted the city roller hockey title to| prove to Sexton that there le no the Ballard Cubs Saturday. The | syndicate baseball and no discrimin- Cubs will play in the international! ation among clubs of the league, as series against the Victoria, B. C. 129-/nas been charged. pounders next Saturday, while the Franklin Huskies will oppose the! EXTERMINATOR ANNEXES COIN} Canadian 90-pounders. The games |witl be played at the Crystal Pool, Mighty Exterminator is within $519 of the earning re starting at 1:30 p. m o’-War. The Willys Sharpe Kilmer thal right | Coact Harr his and ¢ ¢ these sports, want cap it 1 be ipokiia afte ner wi! the to his ed be. weeks, unl- ¢ the Kappa ered PRUETT WILL | ACT AS COACH |:tsee, terete hie Hubert Pruett, clever southpaw of | mile and 70-yard gallop, with the St. Louis Browns, and former! Aibert Johnson In the saddle, | University of Missouri star, will this | Juana terminator now ranks spring act as coach of the baseball | third in the lst of American money squad of his alma mater, meanwhilb | winners, and, with a good chance to laiso getting into condition himself. | winning the $60,000 Coffroth handi- He will join the Browns in camp at|cap, he stands to top even Zev this Mobile later. | season won a Jockey at Tia CARDS REPORT EARLY | The St. Louis Cardinals’ first squad | will be acwng the early birds, it be jing announced that a batch of bat. tery men and rookies will report at| cently he led a Miss Rachel Nauss to Bradentown on February 18, with |the altar. She will not accompany Assistant Manager Bert Shotten in| him on the training trip to Mont- charge. * gomery PERKINS 18 BENEDICT Catcher Ralph (Cy) Perkins of the Philadelphia Athletics ts a married man now, At Gloucester, Mass., re- The visit is at the} of the league, who expects to} rd of Man-| champton thorobred, in his first rac-| The Camera Shows Ernie Nevers, became a four numeral man | H, Sexton of the Na-| ‘Mets Face Hard Game | Wednesday HE Vancouver Maroons will make their final appearance of the sea- {mon on the local ice on Wednesday, |when they engage the Mets in an | important tilt in the Pacific Coast | Hockey ansociation race A victory means much to the Se- jattle men, as it will practically cinch place In the play-off to decide the Coast champions. | Beattie may take the joe Wednes. day without the services of “Smokey” Harris, the star defense man |ris in at present engaged in a duel with “Old Man Grippe” | he wins it by game time Wednesday the Mets will face a stiff up-hill! | battle. | Unusual interest is being shown in | Wednesday's contest, and one of the largest crowds of the season is ex pected out to seo tho rival puck chasers fn action. | NEW YORK, 19.—E fartin, New York six-round decision |nephs, New York Feb. die from Buck Jo. | on BOARDING HOUSE Zs Was | A WHY SAWN HOOPLE, -~ Z “THAT GUY WARNER, wih HAW BN JOVE “TW EASIEST SALMON T LAREN, “THAT 1S a IMMENSE ! ether. Il NEARS/ = You PLSD Vow LET HIM KiD HIMSELF ALONG AN’ WIM) “TWEKITY PART SUPERBLY f+ DOLLARS, «THEN AFTER Vou | | YOU SUGGESTED A OP, MI’ KT FOUR OcLocK RIGHT MrT YOUR “THIS MORUING I HAD Him : ' HAND BY OFFERING RoPeD For $136 !. “To TEACH You POKER, AND Nou A POKER \ EXPERT FORTHIRTY \ YEARS! HAW += BY AHERN FOR PITY SAKES, OF ALL THINGS!. AND IL “THOUGHT “THAT HAW TRY PERSON WAS A “TITLED MAN © I FEEL IT MY DUTY “To “TELL MRS. HOOPLE OF THESE AWFUL GOINGS-ON ww GAMING! ~ How TERRIBLE + N] Har. | and unless | bantam, won a} | gary | | | | CHRISTY” Base Thieves The three beat base stealers the American league has seen are Ty Cobb, Clyde Milan and Eddie Collins, Each of them topped the $0 mark in pllfers over a season's stretch. Cobb, in 1915, hung up the high-water effort, snagging 96 sacks. Cobb, by all odds, stands supremo in this de- partment of play. The other two, however, aren't far behind the brilliant Georgian |TWO TILTS IN Two played more in the canes City league at night. At, 7:30 o'clock the Hall’ | School of Commerce five plays the/®4 if they are successful, have 4/ Gui indoor tennis championship in| team and an hour| fod chance of cinching the lrad {1/4 match to be played late this after. | aggre-|the northern division of the Coast! noon at the Armory. The veteran Mail Adver.| conference. | Fonda Glove Ce later the Green Lake M. E, gation takes on the Users’ quintet, \FIRPO WANTS BUENOS AIRES, this week from the moters who want him to fight Har. ty Wills, that they have failed in thelr part of the negotiations and will try to interests, do business with other Firpo has wired Billy McCarney, his New York representative, He wants the money posted with Aires bank ‘VICTORIA ICE TEAM BEATEN CALGARY, Alta., Feb. 19.—Cal- defeated Victoria here in an hockey game The two teams set a thruout, and inter-league night, 4 to 3. furious pace were plentiful. LIGHTIES IN DRAW BUFFAIA, Feb. 19.—Jack Bern stein, former junior lightweight champion, and Rocky Kansas, But. falo lightweight, went 19 rounds to a draw. TO SEE COIN} Feb, 19.—Uniess | he receives a remittance of $50,000 ew York pro- Luis Firpo will consider a Buenos last} thrills} Cardinal, i in Action Idaho Five Plays Here | W ednesday ITH hart!y a breathing space since "the return Sunday from a successful invasion of over the mountains, the University of Wash- lington basketball team will take on |the strong University of Idaho five at the campus gymnasium here Wednesday evening. Washington defeated Idaho atl |to 15 in @ thrilling contest |team-play and close guarding maining games on the home floor, | Washington State College plays jhere Saturday, and the season will | be brought to a close with the cru- [etal series with Oregon here next |Monday and Tuesday. The Idaho game Wednesday will | |probably fill the old gymnasium on | the campus to tho rafters. Vandals have always made jtough for the Huskies in | ball lines, and local fans are anxtous |to see just how good the men from over the mountains are. ly Altho Idaho is without the servi-| ces ef “Oz" ‘Thompson and Keane, | of last year’s Coast champion: five, the Vandals have a brilliint| array of stars in their lineup. | Fitzke, the all-around athlete, and| Telford, guard, are said to be classy ie performers. VANCOUVER IS | WINNER, 3-2) VANCOUVER, B. C., Feb. 19, |The Vancouver Maroons defeated |the Edmonton Eskimos here last night, 3 to 2, in a thrilling over |t me. The winning tally was jmade by Boucher on a pass from] Matte, seven minutes and sec- onds after the opening of the over- | timo session NEPHEW OF “BIG SIX” TO ENTER UNIVERSITY HERE MATHEWSON, nephew of “Big Six Christy’ Mathweson, famous major pitcher, will enter the University of Washington next fall. And what ts more, members of the state prep baseball champions, Shelton, Wash. high school, with him, "Christy" himself, ig a pitcher of real class. “Torchy” Torrance, freshman base- ball coach and assistant graduate manager of the Associated Students, |first discovered the whereabouts of Young “Christy,” Making his way |to Shelton with Matt Hill and Hun ter Miles, decided te “Bix Six” leanings. Without belng asked, Christy an: nounced his determination of com- ing to Washington, and told Tor- rance that every member of the Shelton team intended to come also, to determine*his collegiate leaguo | “Christly” is bringing seven | the carrot topped coach | irop in on the nephew of | on graduation Young Mathewson has somo training from his uncle, in the pitching line. He is 5 foet, § inches tall and weighs | around 165. Baseball is his main} sport. Shelton, described as the best baseball town in Washington, takes most of the credit for Christy's de. | |velopment. ‘The youngster has a good fast ball and a fast-breaking curve. He is said to be adept at |picking up the tricks of the trade Jand should m valuable man for Washington baseball teams. The lumber town boy is not the first relative of a distinguished ma- to enter. Washington, | brothers, Elmer and| are nephews of Jett Tesreau, who was mowing down the big! league sluggers about the same} time that Christy Mathewson was haying his fling at fame. received famous a parent of} |both sides | The Huskies play all of their re The} things t nip | ® | colored heavy woight There’s Money In Pro Golf won't pull down more than $6,000 a year. But the stars of the game get much more. The aver- age for this set is close to $15,009 a year, while the biggest of the lot, the exhibition players lke Kirkwood, Hagen and Sarazen, get closer to $25,000, | STEPHENS TO The | CITY CIRCUIT | game was featured by the excellent} were to be the University of Washington gym last| IN NET TILT T. STEPHENS, veteran tennis « performer, will endeavor to halt’ Leon de Turenne's second march to the Washington National | is slated to meet last year's cham. | pion at 6 o'clock today. A number of other good matches are billed for today. No upsets featured yesterday's play. Yester-| day's results and today's schedule follows: YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Windy Langlie beat Eddie Bauer, 6-1, 3, aut H. Wiel beat John Nau, 4-4, Joe Livengood beat E. C, White, fault b Dykes beat Grant Latzure, default {Lacy Motios beat H. der Las, 6-1, ge Hawley beat M. Fiadmar, de-| do- | “Leon do Tareahe beat Hacela Willlama, “4, 6-0, ©. 7; Stephens beat Jack Scully, 6-2, 4, TODAY'S 00—Windy Lan, HEDULE va, W. H, Beards 2:00—H. Willlama va, Stew Barker. 00--M. Dilatt va. George Howle 45—George Berube va. Joe Swart: 20—R, Joanson va, Fletcher Johnéon. 00—Joe W va. George Rider, @—Col, Grabtree ve. Dick Vander 00—Leon De Turenne va 0, | tephens. 6:30. 1. Paul. 7:00. Lieut, 7:30. Little, WHITE SOX GET TWO CHICAGO, Feb, 19.—Two new) ball players were added to the Chi- cago White Sox payroll. They are “Buzz” Welzer, former Michigan, | Ontario league, hurler, and Dooley | Ferguson, Sherman, Texas, |_Pitcher. | CHICAGO AFTER MEET | CHICAGO, Feb. 19.—The Central! A. A. A. U. track and field cham- | pionship committee will make an/| effort to have the Mid-Western | Olympic trials held in Chicago the | last Saturday in May or the first | Saturday in June. ONCE AGAIN | CHICAGO, Feb, 19.—Ed “Stran- gler” Lewis meets Stanislaus Zbysz- ko here February 26. Lewis has met Zbyszko five Uren, losing twice, Dix, | KID ‘LOSES NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—Jeff Smith, | Bayonne middleweight, won a 12-| round decision from Jamaica ap KANE SAYS s CHICAGO, Feb, 19.—Kadie Kano, manager of Tom Gibbons, confirmed reports that Gibbons is matched to meet Champion Jack Dempsey | The average golf professional | | |state amateur next summer, Welters oi regular weekly boring show is being staged at the Crystal femal tonight by Dam Salt and Lon- | nie Austin, with dom- —- the card. 28 ey) Béla, Raberts, B GARDEAU ter Bily Gardeau | another palr of welterwelghts boxing in the six-round Gardeau has fought here while Davis is a newcomer. Fred Zwickey Cullen and | Schumacker, heavyweights, 1 the four-round Harry Wood and Johi by other heavyweight duet, founds as do Danny Carla & | Young Snyder, lightles. VISITOR HIGH AT GUN SH P, G. Schwager of Dundurs, % atoon, was the high man in Sunday shoot at the Seattle club, Schwager made & score in 50 trials. L. H. Rel professional, and Jack champion, were tied for second place ett a possible 50. baum, Jim P, relay A eon; Svenus}: 1630, Ninth on TUESDAY — ——” a