The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 28, 1924, Page 16

About Fights land Fighters / mes "TWO PREP BALL CAPTAINS ENT Burrough: Franklin and Queen Anne GORMAN, a veteran seve hundred ring pays Tod Morgan one » finest tributes the young featherweight cham- pion of the Coast has re- ceived in a long time. “He's the fastest thing | ever saw in the ring,” says Gorman, “and during early the OE of rattl of th Crystal Pool the othe night it was practically im-}to pieces by Harry Milbolin wi entirely ne possible to k eep up with him.} 1a few es in the ing assignments make & . me ts | Abuse of Boxers Should Be Stopped or as be n a lot of of the box ne ¢ ring shows ngs at the fighters fro the crowd. A few b’ brave boys who ye heir ears would do elevate the ring game here. out on These birds aren't » but re in the same c mous letter writer and such types of courageous yaps. al fans resent this type of | rooting.” and they would welcome thelr exit a la bounce from the Pool | shows. The Bercot Is Going ] To California Dode Bercot ifornia for a fling game down there, in April, accord: | ing to his manager, Lonnie Aurtin. Bercot, who is starting again here next week in a return bout with Johnny Jordan, has been forced to take a long layoff because of a bro- ken thumb. | Austin figures that Bercot’s ag-| gressive atylo of battling will get| over big in the California rings. | | taken to Cal-| the four-round | | Harper-Mitchell | Fight Uncertain ‘The Bob Harper-Pinky Mitchell, junior welterweight championship fight, originally seheduled for March 5, in Portland, is uncertain of being held. ate Druxman has been informed by the Portland boxing commission | that Mitchell has requested a change | in dates, and wants to box on March | 13, instead of the 5th. Druxman expects to hear definite- ly within a day or two whether or| not the match wilt be held. | | Tacoma Show | On Tonight The weekly Tacoma ring show js| being staged tonight by George! Shanklin for the Eagles, with Len| Malody, the Wyoming featherweight, boxing Mike Dundee, the Chicago | Scrapper. Malody has been coming | along fast lately, but he is tackling & tough proposition in Dundee, who | is experienced and who can sock. | ‘There’s a chance of Dundee box: | ing Tod Morgan here if the Chicago-| an’s terms are satisfactory. | LACROSSE CLUB MEETS TONIGHT A meeting of the Seattle lacrosse clib is being held tonight, at § o'clock, at Douglas hall. It will be & regular business meeting. MONEY LOANED ON DIAMONDS American Jewelry Co, 821 SECOND AYE, Established 1889 B West those | first rounds of our fight at| West Siders yr |Penant mat the West Siders have Dui outfielder. 1 'FROSH MAT MEN _ , [Firpo Will Soudars to Meet Reich Lose Captains to West ' Seattle School QOR BSOUDARS « Montana Is Subject of Big Dis pute JACIFIC Coast Conference schools have been asked by the Uni. versity of Washington thetr opinion rding the eligibility of the Uni versity of Montana. Telegrams have been sent to by Dean John T. Condon, acting as facuity Athletic manager of the local school, yuestioning the right of Conference Wresident W. R, LaPorte to decide ether Montana ia & member of the conference, Con contends e can decide only en the oligt of players, and not on the eligi bility of a team rough, baseba Anne & respect mond during jars, an outfi baseman rhe Ir each school have to m Sook 8 Ia ¢ nd should ing season a “President seems to be overatepping his powers in throwing the Washington Montana game out 1 standings,” Condon tn within his Sigg LaPorte of the confere states, "That not authority © lead ion of « conference race It the Oregon Aggies, the school that is necking to rule the Montana game win from Oregon at Eugene Fri day night, they will be tied with Washington for the lead. Should the A LaPorte will nend out an offical! bal to each school, to learn the opin: regarding the matter Tho dispute arose over the fact that Montana was not a Coast con. ce achool when basketball ton ed Washington at present ts ing the Norther the € rhool * completes the Hat ¢ Besides Burroughs 3 an outfielde Martin's college team, Ron Willts, & brother of Roy Willla, who used outer gardens for the {s a likely looking PHONE FIVE TO PLAY IN FINAL GAME Pacif ba team at 7 o ng on the Broadway high floor for the Commercial league bas kotball title, ‘The game ts expected to draw the largest crowd that has jewed a Commercial league contest is season. | As an added attraction, the crowd will be offered when the Stand: fere the game with Wa: sed. If everything i settled satiefactor for the Huskies, W ngton w Califorr Sou pn mection at Berkeley on Monday and March 3 and 4 was 2 strong lephone Co. wi © Weatern | meet ia, winners Tuesda THRILLS ARE OFFERED IN | MAT BATTLE with the Northwestern Mutual Fire PORtEAND, Feb Insurance at § o'clock. Immediately land tod: after the final gamo, a dance will be| with the th held at the Koni of Columbus | when Ted Thye, hall as a feature of the evening’s| heavyw entertainment & this Port: ! tingling) t night, world light Ore was ure wrestling champion, hold his crown, after of Du wobbled 4 ears for two hours The extra 10 min-| a SEEK MATCHES jutes censary for Referee Fri Coach Jimmy Arbuthnot is trying |!™ser to decide the bout in Thye's | favor, to arrange a meet between his froah| MNO" toe a pa | wrestlers and Renton high sehoo!| A* tt haat pe " wate speed carly in March. Otto Bardarson, | Sinied to Kive is thee anil former varsity man, who is coaching] 070 0nd Hngte stuck to their agree Renton, has agreed to the proposi.| ment for no ong Ror songs Ba tion, and will get his high schoolers | 7"#°r put them back to work again " He and all the spectators probably | rea for the combat. Only one) o Wil ot: the “eptalan tuak tet weight is being challenged in the|*°"® . panion thet the} 2 + 5 |match should be a draw. frosh squad. MoGary, 145-pounder, “ime yea igenth ic aga has ‘three ingle's forte again hye was competitors — Walton, |headlocks, which Thye generally | vd M 'e Learned and Martin. The matches broke with toe holds or wristlocks, | will be wrestled off at an earty dato! Ee ek AY OM liaise bade variety oC Indah Aebtobry TAYLOR SIGNED |" ——___ | UP BY INDIANS FROSH REFUSE Leo Taylor, young Seattle tonser, TO PLAY TILT has been signed by the Seattle In-| dians for a trial. He has been turned} The University of Washington | over to the Indians by the Chicago| Freshmen basketball team last night White Sox. Taylor is a product of| forfeited to the Lakesides in the the local semi-pro game and is a|City league. General disgust by the whale of a fielder, according to all|frosh of the stringent scholastic rul reports. He spent some time in aling and the disqualification of Montana league a year or no ago, but|number of players is «ald to have wns out of the game on account of|been the reason of the players re- iliness last season fusal to take the floor. managed Heine Engle around Th 10 minu | OUR BOARDING HOUSE FRIENDS, ROMANS, COUNTRYMEN, <— GREETINGS [Tu TAM No LoceR WANTED AT MY HEARTHSTONE, SO I WAVE Come-To Joi MY LovAL COMRADES, THE HONORABLE ORDER OF NIGHTINGALESs. AN! BREATHE, IF IT WELCOME !+~ + How's tH’ ot! ug BOAT 2 ~ “TH! BUNCH WAS JES’ ASKING ABOUT You Last NIGHT fe ME I us BY AHERN Roose Hoop! ] ANTH MATOR™ FS qbay yr ® & MISSUS GAVE Nou! BROOM?, WELL, YOU CAN BUNK WITH HANDCUFF 1S MSrtiNe HER SISTER WW HuDsotl THE SEATTL One Shot Made Fame for Player Great Approach Shot in National Open Made Cruickshank Famous U’ shank, w ywhere IAMS HY JOb FROM ¢ thereof Bobby Cru fame came to nationa’ in American golf a wee Boot last summer kshank tied Bobt Atlant the Cru with Jomen amateur, in open ¢ ship and was in the play-off the following af mplon. Inwood. beaten ternoon Cratck shank was not exuct unheard of be fore the Inwe classic, but no dy figured hi CRUICKSHANK riously in championship calculations, It was conceded In advance that the biw ribbon would go to one of these eight players: Hagen, Huteh! son, Kirkwood, Mac Smith or Farrell At the end of the first day's play Hutchison led the fied with great rounds of 70-72. next at 717%, Cruickshank—who ts this, Cruickshank guy? the fans anked—was third at 73-72 HOW THINGS sTOOD The grim fight lengthened out third round totals were posted. J. had gone into the lead with 71-72-76, 220. Cruickshank a bangeup ne ond with 73 3. Hutchison had dropped to third with 70.72-82, Magen, always a fine fighter a odds, had come yp to wi distance with 77-76-73, The final round began, and during this ordeal that Cruickshank’s Kreatness, both as a fine golfer and « rare fighter, made itself manifest Jones played the first nine in 39, two par. Then he started home, 24-3449, and tt seemed as if nothing could him. But on the jast three holes he skidded, taking 5.56 for a finishing total of 296, STARTED FINAL ROUND ERRATICALLY Cruickshank started his final round erratically, but after reaching the sixth tee, he played the next seven holes in these thrilling figures: 2-3 2-43-43, only ONE OVER EVEN HR He had now caught Jones and had only to keep reasonabl to par to wi Cruickshank played the next three holes in 6-5-4. This left him three 4's to take the title. It still looked sim pie enough little war veteran crashed, took three putts and a six ‘This left him needing a 3-4 or a 4.3 to tie. He got hin 4 at the 17th hole, and at the home hole got his 3 and a tle with Jones, but only after execut ing one of the boldest and most sen- sational approach shots in the long Barazen, Barnes, Jones, t was atop history of the game, a 210-yard full| iron blast over a water tricky, fast green. DROPPED EIGHT-FOOT PUTT : The ball stopped eight feet tro: the cup, and Cruickshank dropped it in amid as Justy a shout as ever hazard to a wreeted a halfback scoring the win-| |ning touchdown or a baseball hero lining out the winning hit What if the tiny thistic was beaten the next day in the play-off, 76 to 18? That one tron shot had lifted him from the realm of the unknowns to the nationally farnou: The modern horse doesn't things #0 bad after all least he can sell barnyard golfera. oe eae his old shoes to WEY MAJOR! Youre Just wi TIME = SAM AN! ME ARE HAVIN! aN! ARGUMENT ON GOLF. WE SAYS A CADDIE \S WHAT You HiTtH! BALL WITH, A bg CLAIM ITS A SCOTCH NAME My But at the next tee the/ have | Bill Melhorn, St. Louis, | second with 264, E STAR ER WEST SEATTLE | New Crys tal Coach Uy CEE EE EO ae x 5 a hk > ad “y x 8 hs 8 ak a I rimensiiantnmaeienstenainnhiicenettanmmniadidtidlomntnetiaeeeaiienanmaaeaametenememmaenteatl OS Kay Ray Daughters, pictured abov coach and instructor at th | Daughters, as announced excl | succeeds the veteran Donald Daughters the new swimming e Crystal Pool Natatorium. usively in The Star yesterday, J. Vickers, who has resigned. is The new coach is one of the best known natators on the Pacific Coast, j how to swim at the Naval Tre Photo by P |Action of Ke During the war he taught thousands of gobs zining camp here. co & Carter, Mar Bi ntucky’s Photographers Senate Saves Racing Horse lovers the country over re mutuel bill in the ture, which ¢ anti-part Kentucky jen with It the at thoroughbred mein Fann state definitely, The bill had p house by a comfortable majority, but was killed in the senate, It understood that the bill did not have jthe governor's sympathy in the’ be | sinning. | Kentucky without racing would seem as strange as, well, as strange as the denatured mint juleps must }weem to the Colonels in The sport of the thoroughbred would have a hard time recover jing from tho blow if it were legis- lated out of Kentucky, where it in rich in tradition and replete with |glory. No other turf event in j|American history comes quite #0 jclose to the public as the running of the historic Derby, It is the world neries of turfdom, excites just about as much interest and at- tention, Celebrities © from all parts of the to view the classic and annually thousands aro turned awa NO SUSPICION |AGAINST DERBY One of the fine things to be sata jof the Derby is that the finger of suspicion has never been pointed in its direction. As horses importan industry legisla surance the BI i the iss » days. ne a to stimulus breeding fine Derby occuples a very Place in a very important A Derby winner always jgoes down in history, If a noted thoroughbred lives up tions and comes down the stretch a winner, his value, high as it m be at the time, becomes proportion. | ately greater, If an “outsider” or | lark horse” wins, his value prompt- | ps from nothing to everything. importance goes with the} winnor even into retirement, his “get is eagerly sought and bought at attractive ily This Derby | whe after | prices, DERBY WINNING “MADE” 7 | Zev did not rate so high before | the Derby last year, as was evi. denced by the long odds at whieh he was held, but after winning he Was accepted as a super-horse, It t* quite within | reason that Zev the realm would not ot have | 'JOE KIRKWOOD TEXAS WINNER jplon, won the Houston golf open tournament | Wednesday when card of | | | m- municipal here late he turned in a 269 for the 64 holes, finished BERLENBACH TO MEET FISHER NEW YORK, Feb. 28.—Young Fisher, Syracuse middleweight, has been accepted by the New York box- ing commission ay a “proper oppo- nent,” and he will be permitted to meet Paul Berlenbach, New York in Madison Square Garden tonight eon chosen to face Papyrus in the ted international race at Belmont fall but for the Sinclair entry's ph in the Kentucky Derby, victory focused the attention of the world on Zey and he contin: ued to bask in the spotlight all sew despite the hostile gestures on part of My Own and In Memor tam, Zev went on to beat Papyrus by five lengths and added many | thousands to his owner's purse. A hitter who breaks up a world series game with a home run is never forgotten, Neither is a Derby winner, PREP BASKET RACE NARROWS Four auxiliary tournaments to the University of Washington state prep basketball tourney are being staged er the week end. Ellensbury |Cheney normal, Centralia and Walla Walla are holding the elimination tourneys, As a result of Friday’s and Saturday's games, tho university committee will pick the 16 teams to represent the state Sunday morning. Snoqualmie and Bothell will play | off their section tie Friday, as will | Port Townsend and Granite Falls. riump e pon, o 75 SCHOOLS IN GRAMMAR LOOP Director Neil Ellis of the Seattle mimar schools expects more than chools to enter the baseball league for 1924. A meeting to decide to expecta- | upon classification will be held in the|eyent that no coach is forthcoming school board suite Monday. “Only a few changes will be made in the classification list,” said Ellis Wednesday. “I hope that every-gram- mar school in the city enters a team,” All the grammar school principals are expected to attend Monday's meeting CLOSE RACE IN PIN TOURNEY CHICAGO, Feb. 28.—Samuelson's Arcacles rolled into first place in the American Bowling Congress tourna. ment when they hung up & score of The Hamilton second place, with counell, K, of Cy 2,765; the dien with 2,766, and t cado fifth, with club Reds are in 2,800; Calumet is third, with Tanols fourth, Goldammer Re- 740. TIGER TOSSERS ATTEND MEETING More than a hundred baseball men attended a diamond meeting, held at Broadway Wednesday. Coach Reg: inald Christenson, after a short talk, announced the first turnout for Mon- day. Captain Windy La Brache stressed the fact that Broadway has a moun- tainous job ahead of her if she would become a pennant contender. Other letter men made short talls. FRIEDMAN WINS PROVIDENCE, R, I, Feb. 28.— Abe Friedman, Boston bantam, won from Kid Williams, Baltimore, on a foul in the elghth round, DAY RS % ruiuk 1924 Home Plate BY BILLY EVANS Three Big Net Guns |_ Are Lost *: Johns, Scott and Marion to Be Missing From Competition This Year No"? bis © to Christy Mativewsog movement that he hay 4 to eliminate the giving of g r good work in addition » the usual contract The bonus is aj. based on the batting of, say t better; if a pitcher, the winner f 0 many games. It is @ practice t has been in vogue in the majors re and I suppose gets an equa; y in the minors, HW? ie nen guns for the tournament comp tition, two for wure, and the thir I have seen so many cases where the giving of bonus worked to the disadvantage of the player and team inyolved that 1 am positive it is a bad scheme. veasona ertain of competing the Kant Hare nking players in the Nor 2 Dyke Johne, ¢ t for| the past few years, has moved to the do I recall the case of « pitcher a few years back who 5 to recelve’a bonus of $2,009 jn ition to his ealary if he won 34 games, With about three weeks to 0 the pitcher needed only two mors wins to cinch the money, His next two starts resulted in defeats, despite | the fact that he pitched great ba The margin in each case was one run and the winning tally was the result of a misplay on the part of some ant, and his in the best of | of the| ayers, is out for the year because of Northwest 1 thinking tournaments 1 It is an easy matter to figure the feelings of the pitcher we would have had the extra §2,000 sewed up had he been given per. ve a big gar fect support in the field, in the Northwest f tennis competition the season, A the some rious clubs must 3 efforts to en rage outsiders to come in to perk their entry lists BUD BERCOT FACES REAL GLOVE TEST JUD BEROCOT, junior brother of no bappened that the pitcher hag ther bad disposition. ‘The mis ys peeved him, and instead of pitching and letting the rest of the players do their work, he began te rave at his infield. This stirred up considerable ill-feeling and didn't tend |to help the morale of the club thal [happened to be fighting for a berth in the first division. Briefly, the piteher failed to win a single ster during the last three weeks, due iz Thoda. + get thi rel ot | 4 Measure to the strain he was work, q f | ing under, Ukewise the steain the en, s boxing career when he tangles tire team was playing under. He eorge Ishii at Austin & Salt’s| giant get the bonus. Ne doubt he was peeved all winter and probably lay night. Ishii proved ta: Friday night that he is equally 85! reported: in’ the spring with # éon'y ¢ spirit make strenuoui test good as Bud, when he stood toe to toe with Frankie Marshall of Ana-| cortes, and swapped punches, even |tho he was outweighed five pounds by Marshall. ' Ishii bay 10 amateur} |contests under his belt, and has lost| Ibut one decision. Al Gower of Renton and Clyde Raub of Columbia City will furnish |the thrills in the semlwindup, and} | Kid Wright and Bill Gaines of Mon. é a lA CERTAIN player who alway | batted right around the 20 jroe will entertain in the special Jevent | Ten contests in all and the show | Mark had a salary difference with hi jstarts at 8:30 wharp. A few reserved{ lub. It was a matter of $1008 Thi seats are on eale for those that want | Club owner, in an effort to satiety to be sure to in, |the play ie. the disputed reached the |The player agreed to the gambia When the last week of the season ar rived the player doped out just how many hits he had to make {n somany times at bat to get under the wire FOR COACH) Never in all my life have I seen 4 ITH the disposal of Charles |More disturbed batsman at the plate “Oy “7 Every time at bat was an ordeal for 1 Chuck”) Frankland, as a possi: him and everyone else. When ht bility for track coach at Broadway | high achool, cinder affairs at the Pine | ‘ed to hit safely onshis last trit _gettnirptnber Reape em omnnbere chap seer on of EEE Plate he was downcast, figus st, Institution have taken a decided | had Jost ‘one point, slump. Frankland, a’former Univer-| 28 Be had Jost out by one'po sity of Washington track captain and} star, was being. considered seriously | |by authorities mx a possibility. Frankland, however, would have to| be a member of the Broadway fac- ulty befcro he would become eligible to coach track. By doing this, he| May become coach. Possibilities of | Retting by the school board on this| matter are slim, however, | T AST season a’ certain pitcher wat Principal Linton P, Bennett, of |+/ Promised a bonus of $1,000 if bt Broadway, who will select the track |W0D 15 games. For two months thal | Mentor, stys that the coach must be | Pitcher had the toughest breaks pat a member of the Broadway faculty. | ble. He dropped 11 straight games Luther More, former track coach, |¢t with good support he should hes wan appointed gymnasium director at | WON hale of them. So that with tt) Garfield high school, More, a man Sesser only | one:third over, Ot of real sagacity and track sense, is) Pitehcr had. really lost the big ve fo to try to win. At thal conducting classes at the east end “ve for him institution, at this time, he kept at his work and fell only # Broadway's problem ultimately witt|! hope he 80 be solved by some athletic coach vol- | *°t¥ed Three men, ail of thon formes aik:| OREGON WINS OVER COUGARS letes, were considered as logical pros- pects, but neither of the three seemed to have the slightest inclination to| EUGENE, Ore. Feb, 36—TM coach the cinder sport. A mentor| University of Oregon [will be selected during the next few|team defeated Washington Statt days, as the first turnout Js scheduled | College in a hard, fast game heft |for Monday, Capt. George Norton, |last night, 33 to |half miler, will be in charge in the/Oregon center, was the stat of tht |game. He scored 16 of Oregont tallies. 3 Perhaps nothing affects the general play of a star batsman more than a slump at the plate, When said player sees a bonus slipping away in addition to his batting average, it makes the situation all the worse. INELIGIBLE However, the unofficial aver- ages had been slightly in error as to the times at bat. The official averages gave the player a mark of .301 instead of .299, as he had figured. He got the bonus, also earned it, ’ at that time. If You Don’t See What You Want In Our Windows —come in and let us show you some of tthe new arrivals—in All-year Weights. $50—$55—$60—$65 TAILORED TO YOUR ORDER 25 Years of Sincere Custom-Tailoring Service Latham, tht & A H. Prod 2