The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 22, 1924, Page 12

March Se ee About Fights and Fighters| BY LEO H. LASSEN) Portland to See Harper in Title Go Seattle Boy Is Expected to Meet Pinkey . Mitchell on April 8 BY TOM OLSEN MINAL , ‘ NARDINO, Cal. 21.—Jack Demp-|\ his Willie Meehan; )*¥ Tommy »bons his Harry Greb; Benny Leonard his Johnny Dundee and Pancho Villa has his Frankie Genaro. You'll find that nearly every high-class ring man has some jinx opponent that simply has his fistic goat tied to a post. Villa, ehampior soundly sey had — HARPER IN Tiyweigh' YY! yname EXHIBITION Vita, a human lilile dyn e * a never been able in the strong puneher, fighting with Recording to battles, bul Ge with his rapie by the skit The ¢ geles ot Coast. Ho is few rounds at one of gymnasiums just te flon. All of tx fer on just crack at ( “I'l cate! YN stop him.” saye Vi haye beaten him tefore hhuve stood up and fought.” But can he? You ¢an't that you can’t hit of featherweiniins who hit the elusive T. the du < who } Dufty itt The mar the shert ta hay und other tricks ef the FIRPO WILL MAKETOUR OF AMERICA| Sixteen | pq BIT, Dell hae campatgnell in bare NEW ORK, Maren belt for many seats and'feaany ie dates have been closed for the|and in th ‘ Qxhibition tour Lula Firpo, South | great plays and ; Aimierican heavyweight champion, is| saw was tursca te fonnge skin nen fo make this summer, according to| non shortstop, tn 191) _ Bly McCarney, his New York busi- iz aie agent. he Tigers had Firpo is scheduled to start May 6 | Frat series to Lostancsies ‘nd close around the last week of! med the Angels f Tune. Ho will*visit Baltimore, Ma-| needed ons of the sun Hietta, “Covington, Louisville, Mem. | hile to Anecies ad phis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Mil-; ‘Waukee, St. Paul, Columbus, Pitts-) yernon was ahead by one + urs, Philadelphia and several Can-| ninth with Dell pitching ft pain cities. |The hitter laid’ ene down to's Fred Fulon, Clift Kramer, George | at rirst base and the lateer heave Godfrey and Jack McAuliffe are) ty to third, trring to h ott the flying some of the opponents that have been | rend Pov carpus ayy tego es on selected for him. jumped bleh im th with bh same was ove 8 in Los An trip to tho for a) te now eation working attend, JACK GRIFFIN SBATTLE BOY Few people wel next other night # fought | ror s spot in San F towns on ma ny body Ask have feet Griffin used te the Tailored Ready Co. and was regarded as o best diamond Lincoln playf here knew him as Gay hooks Jabs, gloves. prospects turned o His friend Gritfin. BUDDY BERCOT _ : TO BOX SOON) Buddy Bercot, will again be back | pusiea “in the @t the top of next Friday night's am-| the fancy flelding that Gteur fistic card at the Austin &| Pennants that i 5 Salt gym. His opponent will be) aout years after t George Ishii, the little Japanese who | mn has been stepping along at a fast| The same Johnny Mite Pace. This will be Bercot's first ap-| Peer of sl! Coast league shortstop pped It on id the bag. Th d Vernon had won the are made.” once the pearance since he recently was fore. | 22" eA ee. eae. Wear NATIONALISTA *" FIGHTS SILVA |i Stet ere right. LEAGUERS SAY JIM | Pride of Tacoma Here's hoping Mit-| }Busa B. tit KATILE rAh i Proposed Exchange With Chicago Cubs Is Definitely Off Welsh Will Start Season at First Base, Says Killefer; Sutherland Looks Like Ace of Indian Pitching Corps at Present Time BY LEO H, LASSEN Sporting Editor of The Star AN BERNADINO, Cal., March 22.—Altho to the Chicago Cubs, it’s 1 Killefer grooming him for shipment to the some time t year. This youngst s one of the best looking prospect the Coast league has turned out in year The Indiar sent three fine ball players to the major nee. 1919. Cunningham, Sam Bohne and Elmer Ja but non them held the possibilities that Welsh he tp Cunningham, Bohne and Jacobs were right in their when they were sent up, and at the best have but pastiming majors, iothing no se iF Re majors years of to do in P for $ SUTHERLAND MAY BETTER THAN BE ACE OF STAFF J, O'CONNELL site's we Eddie Roberts, the T weight, shou meets Bobby Harper, the Seattle boy, in a bout billed for the Coast npionship at the Cr Pool here sday night berts has been going good of lat and many of the fans hat Harper will have a tough his hands when they meet. Both boys have. $250 welterwe cha job on Harper and Roberts Box eee en thene coast ter Title xe" Several weeks ago Manager Gorbe' word from the Waverley that that course would not be the 1924 meet, because the greens, revamped luring the winter, would fot be in proper trim for a champlonship test a . So that settled that who would be ier t0| CHINESE CHAMP | “rittstuits ‘ast ciub nas been tre Cahiana."80. | 1S IN AMERICA [tt sv, tne event. out oar |x fs & newcomer, Here for Wel boxing tough here | Tuesday t » opener will ace Hank Ryker Harper and Ea. and Me uxman do. | received wh ere members today, ‘This competition 1 be a best-ball medal play affair which only players whose handi seven xtrokes | ther nis champion of | wheth 5 chi cape to turn over differ na d With the meet pi bined han: be piace early in May, the are from the best-ball scorer. a pre the mailman never giving him even a glance, is it any wonde | Diamond Dust that Arthur Gerbel's smile is'missing Francisco occa bem, LL HANLEY, for profexsional at the Waverley club, resigning from the position three months ago, iv a Seattle vi , dtor. The formerly W ey y ; | been in California for several kx, but the sunny south has no fascina tion for Bil and so he has returned to tho Northwest, where he hopes to land a position with one of ¢ In or around Seattle: 260 that the neveral years the after chases all 1 be ene days? LOR ANGELEM, en Of & 26-day barnet Roberta wot ring much he The strenuous training se: noon, at the Austin & im, and to com t sessions Su’ ESPINOSA professional at Country club a couple will leave for the Ki next few days. t : eK) This broad-shouldered h is one of e whose shot-making won for f the pnat twe 2 and 1 state titl ed by a good The Reds’ | keen critics as the b Manager Hen-| ever hit the prihwest who resigned the Inglewood f weeks ago, within the heir work Fis lay and Mor rolf artist him the sso": FAST SOCCER ine inte shape ee’ face| Strong competition to be had on the TILT BILLED FOR SUNDAY spem (*\! waatern courses, they are predicting |the national crown will soon be| adorning the brow of the former In. REAL spicy morsel ia listed on the bill of fare for local soccer fans ton The main ev the best “naturats” years, will be suppor hh 33 Macari ez, the Filipino return to: the ring he boxes Billy Morrow, the game young Spokane kid, in the six-round semi-windup nt will be between 1 Young Tham © boys are ag aw! should be hard-rock!r EDALE, Cat, 1 one finat lot Friday ther for the Mare and caught the rat- punda. Rlewoodian. pinosa’s first stop on his journey will be at Kansas City, where he poke gens hopes to test his driving ability ning 01 against that of a fellow named | dockers tang o come Inte the Boucher, who lives there, and who| eleven on the Woodland pa See the reputation of being the long: |i, the big match of the season oT est hitter in the world. He won the STOCKTON, ow, When the Todd Dry- of. suspension for te © 19 days after the of avon if they fn have been mailed by the Portland ment to Poole, MeCann, He in the me wereas. Charley Hi Cal, March 22. & pitch Small, Tacoma Hghtt rrle, years of age. While piaying at Bi ted to ny off on account of a severe |iast year for the Med Box he war hit attack of la grippe. soar a Coast writers that he wasn't | che sams p Sige Teddy Silva, Los Angeles fly. |*? “hen he weight, is being mentioned as the | ext opponent of Young Nationalista, Filipino flyweight sensation. tionalista decisively defeated Frankte | x: | OUR BOARDING HOUSE BY AHER vith the driving contest during the recent} With th Texas Open, defeating such well.| race by a two-point margin, the Post known sluggers ax Havers, Sarazan | lads will have to win tomorrow's tilt and Macdonald Smith. | to stand a chance to cop the pennant, After giving this Babo Ruth of |) 00s the hk Grandetta, of Portiand, in his last go. | Ho esahootball ] With the defeat of its strongest op- | iene, namely the Puset Mound, dloce fesin, the strong Idle Hour club has| Glear sauing from now on to the finish | Of the tournament. They have yet to| meet the sAansen Baking team, but as this team wan beaten by the mipposediy weak North West Lead team, It does not weer Ukely that they will afford mucn ition to the Idlers, bp Class B, the fignt for the lead is waxing hotly with none of the teams having © cinch for the firmt place. Five feats are bune: almost together and kath tupset by any of these toamns Is lable to cost them their positions. At present the Shamrocks aro in the iead, but tho | margin between them and the Murphy | Heaity team t2 small. Tho Meallors aro} the better team a they showed when | thiy defeated the Clover men Thursday | evening. All leading teams are meeting | HEE Oppoaition this week and must be in | shape to cling to their present posi- Following is the standing of the teams and the schedule for next week. CLASS | Played Won Loat Pet. | aenreeks ° a a2 i 0} litephy Hoaity team 4 Walworth Mig. « 33. 13 ‘Orlolen 418 Richards Brosh. 33 18. is 18 19 N'KNow WHAT, UN AMOS? —~ IF I HAD | A PAIR OF ROLLER SKATES, I COULD GET “To SCHOOL QUICKER AN! NOT BE LATE FoR “TW LAST BELL! < ALL-TH' KiDS “THAT HAVE ROLLER SKATES WALK A ALWAYS “TH “TARDY ONES Se ae Hotius steel © Wertinghouro Tale Hour ©) ties Hansen Baking Team 15 Puget Bound Northwest Lew Repenedule of aarnen beginning 7 hedule of gamex begin 1: a March 24, Monday Puget Sound Glove va, County-cit opraph ve, Walworth Mfé: March 2, By rocks va. Wink nro tarels 44, W Murphy Pea'ty vs, W Walworth Mfg. vm. fl a Westinghouse t “an Si parce a0 heduled with the vire | tient In have be - | Tat due to sicknoss of members of | ‘thelr teow. this is scheduled xolfdom the once over, Espinosa will | maining effort hie to Chicago, where he will prac jtice up for the qualifying round of | left for the Leafs to finish in a dead- jthe national open to be played on| heat with the present leaders. A the Oak Park iinks of that cits draw or a win for Todd's will settie Then will come the big test—the | the argument, . championship proper—to be decided} Should the Maple Leafs scoro a jat Oakland Hills, Detroit, June 4, 5| victory tomorrow, an extra match jand 6. will be played to decide the champion- This will be the state champion’ | ship, first attempt for national golf honors;} And it is very possi jand those who have had the pleas match will be neces: hata Saha and it is a pleasure—to watch AND HAD TOS him play hereabouts, will be sean: ning the papers during these three June and pulling for him t | win, P game, and tho able r IN A POSITION “TO FULFILL YOuR f-ROLLER SKKTES!~HAW, WHEN JAS YOUR AGE, 1 WAD GEVENTEEN | HOOL f<THINK OF AD — PREGEMTLY, I Be 2) WAS BUT BY —E WAS Gt Sc A FEW MINUTES J =~ MY EXCU QUITE PLAUGIBLE, AST H WY FOOTIN A BEAR TRAD LOG ~To WHICH IT je that such y, as reports from the Shipbuilders’ camp say that Goorgo Buck, tho mainstay of their defense, will not be able to don the lors against the Leafs tomorrow This sterling center-half js still hob- Th months of activo service | ping around as tho irate of as ie in the World War is going to como in| jury rocetved In the game. against mighty handy when he has a large! Renton. last. Sunda Wilk be |Rallery following hin play. A g0lf/ forced to watch the soccer derby army is ple compared with what was | from the side lines ‘edly }lined-up “over there!” | He will bo gr A farowell dinner will be given this | apeen | king of the fairway of his jsolfing friends at the Arctic club, |next Monday. ON STEIN, the state amateur titleholder, 18 planning to take a | ck at the British Columbia ama- jteur championship to be decided on | tho Shaughnessy Heights. Jinks in| 78® Kick-off is set for 2:30, | Vancouver, April 18, 19, 20, 21, | sat | ‘The North End star got as far as'| TAB |tho finaly last year, where ho was | IT SUFFERS defeated by Clark Spelr then a} |member of the Inglewood club, but | now a resident of Los Angeles. Speirs is north to defend his title, Several other Seattle likely to accompany Stel ure days Atly missed, and his 5 ing to make tho going | much easier for the opposition | Aside from this plice there will be }no changes in the lineups that have |donned the respective clubs’ jerseys | during the past few games, | Johnny McLean, for many years a | star player, will officiate as referae, Dy se It develope | erday | Tabit, the tle that Chick weltetweight, jfering from blood poison in his left cracks aréjankle, The infection first developed | and com: | last Tuesday and despite tho faet pete in the British Columbia tourna. | that his foot > wore ho could ment Will also afford them | hardly touch it to the floor, he went a chance to get acquainted with the |on and held tho rigged Johnson to course that will be the arena for this}a draw in Aberdeen, He then had |¥ear'n Pacific Northwest champion. | the Infoction taneod and jumety | ships gathering. Went in and battled Jack Griftin |Thussday night in Tacoms io Is LUD CAPTAIN EDGAR CripER|now under the eat of a bia rt has «4 (woman team match ined and will not be able to box for seve for the Rainter Country club eral weeks was ay thi ) up with the Maple Leaf Shipbuilders leading the BLOOD POISON | not oxpected to como | fought his last two bouts while suf. | WELSH IS BETTER THAN O'CONNELL Hu ler | Coffroth » Might Be Promoter Mystery Shrouds the Pro- posed Dempsey Battle “Out on the Coast” ata CONVINCES JUDGES OF ulled @ most ecently when Goldstein Is Bantam ae Champion z+ "og BY HENRY L, FARRELL —_ that auned c that NEW york farch 2 H tice decision to the much, went but he head the Eu ip of ier ine x. They ‘« evidence, nchman to London of ned for in the believe, does not he has retired be publle pot want to rominence, , been successful danger of bel Be conte r the simple process Cloldalstn'y dactee doing a lot of tatking, getting a lot ; : of cables from. the United States 4 him the other times. | nang ' Young Goldstein fought & coot, cal. {24 Sending a lot back. ulating fight and did just what he was told to do by Willle Le the great middleweight of a few years back, who found the bo: n the ama teurs and made a champion of him. | “We're losing by a mile," fat Eddie | ‘eads, Lynch's mana him after Lynch round won, and SWATTERS WILL HAVE POOR YEAR uth, homerun king of the doesn't look for swatting to nt this year as 1@ past It was but a dying peaten worse in the h than he had been before ‘rouble experiencd in making the weight may have taken too much out of Lynch, but his exhit ; seemed more like that of @ fighter |; who all thru, Babe figures that bytting will ly slump if the umpires are careful about tossing new bails into the last few months of the ue season when the he new champion is 24 years old |U™UPIres were using only about half and is a legitimate bantamweight. He |“ ™any new balls as formerly 7 was born in the slum district on the |£0UNd it far more difficult to get die |lower cast side and bad his first box. |!#nee to my drives,” says Ruth, Jing experience at the ¥, M. H. A For several years baseball in tie where Nat Osk taught him his first |™Jor leagues has been played! al: lessons. most entirely with a new ball, Ho fought for three years as a fly. *lghtest excuse would be ee: lweight i tho amateur class, when | have an old ball thrown out | Wiltie Lewis saw him and took hold | brand new one put in play, of him, Lewis brought him thru the} “The almost constant new ball was |first steps in the professional class |&Teat for, the batters, but mighty land developed him into h very ca-/toush on the pitchers. If the um pable little fighter. |pires Ughten up on the ball question, | batting is sure to slump. 4 | ALLEN OUT AS | HARPER WILL | a eae) BGA FOR Ee Henry T. Allen will not take the| An exhibition boxing bout "he United States Olympic team to Paris|tween Bobby Harper, welterweight jthis summer executive manager. | champion of the Northwest, and his j Aamir al Andrew T. Long, represent-| sparring partner, will be a feature jing the navy, and a representative | of the big entertainment and smoker Jof the army, yet to be appointed, |to be given. by Seattle, Lodge 92 of will have chargo of the team in/the Benevolent and Protective Onler France, of Elks tomorrow (Satunlay) even This change made at General|ing at the Armory, in honor of all Allen's request. Ho will continue to| ex-service men in Seattle and viet: Serve as vice president and member | ity. Jot the Olympic committee and will} Floyd Johnson, one of the best continue as active leader, in waging} heavyweights in the world, who has | the campaign in this country to raise | fought Jess Willard and other cham- funds for defraying expenses of | pions, and who is visiting friends in ending. athletes abroa | this city, will act as referee for sev- | Jeral good, fast boxing matetes that EPINARD ‘COMES | welll precede the exhibition by Bobby Harper. DURING AUTUMN ae 1 going to tho United States | |Moxt fall for a series of three races} SAN DIEGO, Cale. March |e Jat Belmont park, Latonia and Aque-| Miss Edith Cummings, of 1 duct, the horse's trainer, M, Leigh, | champion woman golfer of the : | Announced today, Jed States: today edded Masta 8 Will be sweepstakes for! to her laurels. Defeating Mise Mar jon Hollins of New York, six i four, she won the Southern Gi | fornia erown today at tht San Diego | Country elub, : The three-year-olds and upwards. WILLS TO PLAY AT WIMBLEDON RERKELEY, Cal., March 22.—Aiss Helen Wills, national women's tennis champion, will leave here May 5 for Wimbledon to try for the world's | title, according to her present plans | Tilden, ISho hopes to defeat Milo, Lengten, | inven wilt play then the French star, : | season and will compete fn the Leonard Will Fight Walker YORK, March 22.—Are ticles for ttco open air contests this summer apainst Johnny Dundee, featherweight champion, and Mickey Watker, + wetters chanipion, have been signed tor Benny Le tn TENDLER W Hightu PHILADELPHI Rath J Lew Tendler, Philadelptiliy ported uae jwelaht, knocked out Mareht Yankee dngland in the fourth round world’s champion CITY, March Butler college basketball t tho national A. A. U. baskatball tm here last night when it defeated Kansas City Athletic club, 90 109% in the final game of the tourne New omar ipht champion, tt Friday, The t, are to be baseball otadium, ratches, it the staged in rss